In the face of Li Shimin's accusation, Li Chengqian was speechless, bad money drives out good money, it is a financial law, even Li Shimin can't escape, and wants to store gold.

When he saw Li Chengqian's plan to exchange high-quality gold for copper coins and even cloth, he was immediately furious and spat at Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian was indignant when he saw Li Shimin at first, and he laughed at Li Shimin's lack of knowledge in his heart.

On the surface, he also smirked, thinking that he should not be as knowledgeable as such an ignorant person.

But then Li Shimin lost his temper endlessly, and he was also angry in his heart.

As soon as Li Shimin stopped, he replied directly: "Datang is now building roads and digging ditches everywhere, and money is needed everywhere, but the imperial court wants to save a lot of gold?

If a large amount of gold is stored in the treasury of the palace and let the officials in charge slowly steal it, why not waste manpower and material resources to dig the gold out of the ground?"

"You-"

Although Li Chengqian replaced his father with the imperial court, why couldn't Li Shimin hear it, this was teaching him a lesson?

"Besides, the imperial court stipulates that one tael of silver is exchanged for one thousand copper coins, and ten taels of silver are exchanged for one tael of gold, and it is obviously ...... for Erchen to exchange one tael of gold for ten thousand and five hundred copper coins."

Li Shimin watched Li Chengqian talk non-stop, his chest continued to rise and fall, and he was obviously angry, but in the end, he just flicked his sleeves and left, and didn't say anything more.

Li Shimin completely calmed down, no matter how annoyed Li Chengqian was, he couldn't have a big dispute with Li Chengqian because of this, after all, he couldn't become a villain who set off Li Chengqian's glorious image.

Many people will make hundreds of thousands of dollars as soon as they come over and do a business casually, and Li Chengqian told everyone that it was impossible with his two-year experience as the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty.

Not to mention that copper ore is scarce in China, even copper mining and smelting also require a lot of manpower and material investment.

Precious metal currency is actually the same as a commodity, and it requires huge manpower and material resources to produce it, so I think that in ancient times, it was only better to give someone a copper mountain so that he could mint coins privately than to reward him with land to plant.

In the later Ming and Qing dynasties, foreign trade with tea, porcelain, silk and other items in exchange for silver, in fact, is equivalent to ceding the power of currency to foreign merchants.

However, it is a pity that this silver did not become the driving force of industrial development at that time, but was hidden by some old wealth, and later it was smoked by not teaching children and grandchildren to buy opium.

Li Chengqian is now doing the opposite, using the money obtained by the imperial court to develop industry.

The current Tang Dynasty is short of both copper and money, and most of the taxes collected are in kind, and the officials who issue Fenglu are also in kind, and even most of the royal rewards are also in kind.

Therefore, it is impossible to ask an official to come up with a few thousand yuan of money, and generally a little money is either used to buy land, or buried deep underground, and there are not many liquid copper coins on the market at all.

In modern society, paper money depreciates every day, and even the foreign exchange stored by the state does not dare to be stored in its own country, either there is a foreign bank to increase the interest, or buy funds, stocks, and bonds to achieve the purpose of fidelity.

The money in the hands of individuals must also be invested in order to maintain its value.

However, in ancient times, gold, silver or copper coins were buried in the ground without fear of depreciation, so there was no inflation unless there was a major disaster or a large amount of money suddenly entered the market.

In some dynasties, deflation often occurred the later they went, and the cheapness of goods was often not because of abundant materials, but because the people had no money in their hands.

Just like when Li Chengqian first crossed over, a bucket of corn in Chang'an Tangcheng only cost a few dollars, but this does not mean that the grain storage cannot be eaten, and a heavy snowfall will cause a huge food crisis in Chang'an City.

In this case, only the imperial court can take the lead in investing in some important industries, which is necessary.

Of course, the Tang Dynasty itself also had some industrial institutions, but these institutions mainly served the royal and imperial courts, such as craftsmen's supervisors, ordnance supervisors, metal smelters, etc., none of which served the people's livelihood.

It is precisely because of this that it is difficult for the Tang Dynasty to get rid of the influence of the Shi clan, because he is far away from the common people.

In fact, business itself is a kind of service, and if the court does a good job, it will be a great plus in the hearts of the people.

But at present, Li Shimin still can't understand these truths, so when he knew that he only wanted to build steel mills in various places by exchanging gold for copper coins, not to prepare for his eastern crusade, the fire in his heart couldn't help but go up.

After Li Shimin left, Li Chengqian thought about these things again, and felt that he had done nothing wrong, and now that he had the ability to extend his hand to the Tang Dynasty, he must do these things well.

Thinking about this, Li Chengqian also left, it is impossible for him to recruit a group of nobles from Chang'an City here and recommend jewelry to them.

Let a group of noble ladies buy the jewelry here in exclamation, and the last one counts the money with a wicked smile.

If he dared to do that, he would definitely be liquidated by the ministers.

Li Chengqian and his entourage walked out of the East Market, and said to Liu Kui lightly: "You go back to the East Palace first and tell the old ghost what Your Majesty has found!" ”

Liu Kui looked at Li Chengqian's gloomy face since the few arithmetic students left in the morning, and at this time, his heart trembled when he heard the words, and he hurriedly bowed down and got out of the car to pass the word.

It has always been Li Chengqian who spies on Li Shimin, but this time Li Shimin suddenly came to him, and obviously arranged for someone to keep an eye on him, which made Li Chengqian very unhappy.

Li Chengqian knew that Li Shimin still let him be in charge of the country after he recovered from his illness, because he wanted to collect all the grain and grass so that he could drive the expedition in person.

The Eastern Crusade was a problem for Li Shimin, and he would not easily teach Li Chengqian a lesson before that, because any disturbance by Li Chengqian here would make the court unstable and not conducive to the imperial expedition.

Li Chengqian took advantage of this to boldly promote his own policies when he was in prison, and he did not have to worry about Li Shimin turning his face and taking him down.

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Li Chengqian and his entourage did not return to the East Palace, but went directly to Shangshu Province in the imperial city.

Now that Gao Shilian and Xu Jingzong's inspection of Shangshu Province is nearing the end, in general, Shangshu Province itself is running quite normally, at least important official documents can be sent in a timely manner, although Li Chengqian is very dissatisfied with this speed, Gao Shilian and Xu Jingzong and others feel that it is already good.

But the official paperwork on the upward side is a mess.

Shangshu Province has neither Shangshu Orders nor left and right servants, and they can't handle some major matters, so the official documents in many places are directly submitted to Zhongshu Province.

Zhongshu Province is nominally the emperor's secretarial body, and the government affairs of the Zhongshu Decree and the Zhongshu Shilang involved in military and political affairs are directly sent to Li Shimin to deal with personally.

But it doesn't have to be put down by the scholars in government affairs, and these government affairs that should have been tracked by the six departments have been transferred to the six books in the past year and a half.

In addition, the number of officials in the six ministries is also seriously insufficient, and even if problems are discovered, they are not able to pursue them to the end.

Local officials often sent their subordinates to Chang'an to handle official business in Chang'an, and in many cases, the six ministries handed over the affairs that should have been tracked by their headquarters to the envoys of various places.

In the absence of a strong chief official, the efficiency of handling government affairs in this way can be imagined, and the localities often deal with things.

When Li Chengqian came to Shangshu Province, Gao Shilian, Xu Jingzong, and Liubu Shangshu and others were there, and when they heard that Li Chengqian was coming, they hurriedly went out to greet him.

"Excuse me!" After entering Shangshu Province, Li Chengqian sat down on the main seat and waved his hand at everyone.

The ministers below looked at Li Chengqian and saw that Li Chengqian had come in person, and their faces were a little natural, and many of them were dissatisfied when Li Chengqian ordered to inspect the six departments of Shangshu Province.

I didn't expect that there would be such a problem after checking, and at this time, I saw that Li Chengqian's face was a little scornful.

After everyone sat down, Li Chengqian said to Gao Shilian: "How is the inspection of the sixth department of Gao Qing's family in recent days?"

"His Royal Highness the Prince, this is a note written by the ministers after the inspection, please ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to take a look."

Gao Shilian now admires Li Chengqian more and more, and when he heard this, he got up and handed over a note.

Li Chengqian took a look and saw that they had used the Spring and Autumn brushwork, but he only said that the people below were not effective, and never mentioned Li Shimin's responsibility for abandoning Shangshu Province.

Li Chengqian looked at the solemn look on his face, and said to Gao Shilian: "This matter is very important to the law of the imperial court, and the Gao Qing family still wants to meet Your Majesty, and ask Your Majesty to make a holy judgment." ”

Gao Shilian also felt that Li Chengqian could not make the decision because of the important matter, so he immediately said to Li Chengqian: "The minister will enter the palace to meet Your Majesty later." ”

Only Xu Jingzong's face showed a different color in the field, and he and Gao Shilian were ordered to inspect the six departments together, and it stands to reason that they should go to see Li Shimin together.

But Li Chengqian just let Gao Shilian go alone, obviously there was something else hidden inside.

Sure enough, Gao Shilian and Li Chengqian entered the palace with their front and back feet, Gao Shilian went to the harem, and Li Chengqian returned to the East Palace.

But before Gao Shilian left the palace, Li Chengqian's order came down.

The first is to announce the inspection of the six departments by Gao Shilian and Xu Jingzong, and issue a decree to reprimand Yang Shidao for taking power and mishandling affairs, and remove Zhongshu Ling from the post of Zhongshu Ling, and replace him with Ma Zhou, the secretary of the Zhongshu and the secretary of the ministry.

After Ma Zhou took over the Zhongshu Order, he dismissed the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu and was replaced by Du Zhenglun, who entered Beijing a few days later.

Then he issued an edict to reprimand the history of the local dynasty and the collection of history, and he must return to his original place within ten days.

In the end, it was ordered to dismiss more than 100 officials and scribes of the six ministries who were derelict in their duties, and those who were corrupt and sold were handed over to the ministry council.

As soon as these wills went, the court was stunned, and everyone knew that Yang Shidao had already written several resignations since his son was killed.

It doesn't matter if he doesn't write the order, but now being dealt with publicly by Li Chengqian is obviously taking the blame for Li Shimin.

Some ministers had insight into Li Chengqian's will after Gao Shilian entered the palace, and they all thought that it was Li Shimin's idea, and their perception of Li Shimin changed a little for a while.

When the news reached Taiji Palace, Li Shimin immediately kicked over the table, which was too much of a slap in the face......