At night, a wide carriage stopped in front of Du's mansion, Zhang Qianyi came out of the carriage, and Du You's fourth son, Du Xianxiang, hurriedly greeted him and helped Zhang Qianyi out of the carriage.

"Thank you! Thanks a lot! ”

Zhang Qianyi stepped out of the carriage and said with a smile: "Is your father here?" ”

"Father is waiting for Sangkook in the study!"

"I'm bothering your father tonight."

"Where! My father was very happy and was looking forward to Sangkook after dinner. ”

Du Xianxiang led Zhang Qianyi into Du's mansion and came to his father's outer study, Du You wore a loose Zen robe and was already waiting in front of the courtyard gate.

Zhang Qianyi hurriedly clenched his fists and said apologetically: "I disturbed Brother Du's rest late at night." ”

Du You smiled, "I'm bored, I didn't expect the virtuous brother to take the initiative to chat with me, isn't it a good idea?" ”

The two exchanged a few words, Du You invited Zhang Qianyi into the study, the two sat down, a maid came in and served tea, Zhang Qianyi glanced at it, but saw a newspaper on the table, and on the side facing up, it was the article that caused a big wave.

"What does Brother Du think of this article?" Zhang Qianyi pointed to the newspaper on the table.

Du You knew that Zhang Qianyi was here for this matter, and this morning the Zhizheng Hall discussed this matter, and four of the seven ministers were in favor, Cao Wannian and Cui Yuanfeng expressed reservations, but Zhang Qianyi clearly objected.

Under Zhang Qianyi's guidance, most of the officials in the household department did not approve, so when Zhang Qianyi said that he was coming to visit him, Du You knew why he was coming.

Du You smiled faintly and said: "Whose handwriting do you think this article is being written?" ”

Zhang Qianyi was slightly stunned, he picked up the newspaper again and read it again, he was the first secretary of Guo Song to join the army, and he was very familiar with the style of Guo Song's articles, he felt like the articles of King Jin, but he felt a little different.

"It's a bit like King Jin's handwriting, but the writing is a little immature, and I'm a little confused."

Du You smiled: "This is an article by His Royal Highness the King of Jin, but it was slightly modified by the prince and added some content, and the part that feels a little immature is added by the prince." ”

Zhang Qianyi pondered for a moment and said, "How could His Highness think of using paper instead of money?" After all, copper and silver are limited, but if you use paper to print money, there will be no bottom, and now you may be able to control the amount, but after a few hundred years, the imperial court's finances are tight, and war breaks out, and the printing of paper money will definitely be uncontrolled, that is, the disaster of the people, the catastrophe of the people's livelihood, and then these paper money will become waste paper, and the reputation of the court will be completely finished! ”

Du You shook his head and said, "Brother Xian is a little choked, who knows what will happen in a few hundred years?" Maybe if you find a big gold mine and a big silver mine, paper money will be abolished a long time ago, and besides, if there is no paper money, there will be no indiscriminate issuance of coins? Emperor Liang Yuan's ten iron coins, the five elements of the Northern Zhou Dynasty's big cloth money, one as ten, a little closer, twenty years ago the fifth Qi cast Qianyuan heavy treasure, also with one as ten, no paper money, not the same money and goods flooded?

Brother Xian, the decline of the imperial court has nothing to do with whether paper money is printed or not, anyway, it is not like this, it is like that, we have to focus on the present, if the silver ticket and money ticket are beneficial to the present, we must support it! ”

Zhang Qianyi was silent, and he said for a while: "I still think it's too hasty, this matter shouldn't be rushed out, it should be done step by step." ”

Du You didn't want to lose his face too much, but just smiled and said: "There will be a small court meeting the day after tomorrow to discuss this matter, and everyone will discuss it together when the time comes!" ”

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At present, in addition to the annual New Year's court, there is no big court, but every fifth and tenth of the month there will be a small court, the small court will generally be held in the crape myrtle hall, all officials from the fourth rank or above must participate, military generals do not need to participate, mainly civil officials.

Before dawn, Guo Song set off, he rode in a wide carriage, in front of the carriage hung a red lantern, on which there were five black characters of 'Regent of the Prison State', which was particularly clear in the night, and the carriage was surrounded by three hundred heavily armored cavalry, holding spears and huge shields, and there were two personal female guards in the carriage.

The carriages of other officials can be seen on the street from time to time, and there are more than 100 officials from the fourth rank and above, almost all of whom set off at the same time.

In the carriage, Guo Song was thinking about the matter of Quanzhou, he received information from Quanzhou yesterday, after Yao Guangping was assassinated, his six sons showed signs of competing for the throne, Yao Guangping is still young, and has not yet established a son, mainly because his six sons are all concubines, and two sons-in-law have died of illness.

It is said that Yao Guangping's six sons are relatively mediocre and have no outstanding people, so it also caused Yao Guangping to delay in determining the heir.

Of course, Guo Song knew that now was a good opportunity to attack Quanzhou, but the warships in Guangzhou had not yet been repaired, and the prefectures in Lingnan had not yet stabilized, so he could not take advantage of this opportunity for the time being.

The carriage soon drove into the Danfeng Gate, until it stopped in front of the square on the side of the Ziwei Palace, Guo Song got off the carriage and entered the Ziwei Hall through the side door.

As early as a few days ago, everyone knew the content of today's court meeting, and the corresponding article was published in the newspaper the day before yesterday, which was described in great detail, so that everyone understood what the silver ticket and the money ticket meant.

In fact, there are two things, one is to issue large silver bills and money bills, and the other is to issue small money bills, which slowly replace copper coins.

The first thing is understandable, but it's the second thing that really causes controversy.

"When—"

The cloud board in the main hall knocked, and the time for the court was up, and then Guo Song walked out, his seat was not on the jade steps, but sitting with everyone, but he was alone in front of him, and there was a wide table in front of him.

Everyone stood up and saluted, "See His Royal Highness the Regent of the Prison Country!" ”

"Excuse me, ministers, please sit down!"

Everyone sat down one after another, Guo Song also sat down on the front seat, the person who presided over the small court meeting today was Pan Liao, the right minister, Pan Liao got up and said: "His Royal Highness the King of Jin, colleagues, the topic of today's court meeting is about the implementation of money and silver tickets, in fact, a few days ago, after several discussions, the political hall passed the implementation plan of money and silver votes with four votes in favor, one vote against and two abstentions, before the final signing of the regent, His Royal Highness believes that it is necessary to discuss at the court meeting, listen to the opinions of more people, I hope everyone can speak freely!" ”

After Pan Liao finished speaking, he sat down, and the hall was very quiet, at this time, Du Gu Qiu got up and said: "Your Highness, please Rong Weichen say a few words first, and throw bricks to attract jade!" ”

Guo Song nodded, "Dugu Xiangguo, please speak!" ”

Du Isolate Qiu said: "First of all, silver tickets and money tickets are not a new thing, each cabinet has launched flying money, for example, the merchant will deposit 100,000 yuan in Chang'an Baosheng cabinet first, and then the cabinet will issue a certificate of deposit, this certificate is what we often call flying money, and then assist a secret order, the merchant will take this flying money to Yangzhou, in Yangzhou Baosheng cabinet can withdraw 100,000 yuan, but under normal circumstances, you need to wait for a few days.

It is mainly necessary to wait for Chang'an Cabinet to send another copy of the bottom sheet and the secret order to Yangzhou, and then you can take out the money, this way is very convenient, you don't need to carry heavy copper coins, you must know that 100,000 copper coins weigh 640,000 catties, at least dozens of ships are used to transport copper coins, so the appearance of flying money is very convenient for businessmen.

But there are also inconveniences in flying money, first of all, the place where the businessman wants to go must also have the corresponding cabinet, if there is no it is very troublesome, you have to go to the nearest county to withdraw money, and you have to find a ship to transport money, secondly, the other party can not come up with so much money, third, after arriving in Yangzhou, you have to wait, wait for the certificate of the Beijing cabinet to come, fourth, each cabinet can only be separated, and the flying money can not be universal. ”

Dugu Qiu's narration made everyone listen very attentively, everyone knew that Dugu Qiu founded the second largest cabinet shop in the world, his persuasiveness was very strong, Guo Song nodded and smiled: "Dugu Xiangguo, please continue!" ”

Du Gu Qiu continued: "The large amount of silver tickets and money shops are actually flying money issued by the imperial court, and we do not need to advance copper coins and silver, nor do we need to take out more silver coins, but only use the reputation of the imperial court as a guarantee, and the imperial court will make silver tickets and money tickets.

Then entrust the major cabinets to operate, do not need any secret orders, each cabinet to see the ticket that is exchanged, the risk is borne by the imperial court, so the imperial court's silver tickets and money tickets not only have the same advantages as flying money, but also completely avoid all kinds of shortcomings of flying money, I think this is a very clever measure, can greatly promote commercial prosperity and material circulation, I suggest immediate implementation. ”

After Du Qiu finished speaking, there was a round of applause in the hall.