Although the cold war between the emperor and his ministers continued, the imperial court machinery was barely functioning and did not fail.

Feng Ang in Lingnan was worthy of Li Shimin's praise, and the Nanban was only distributed to the mountains and fields to resist for half a month, and was driven away by Feng Ang and occupied those mountains containing copper ore.

Now that the copper mine has been started, there is no need to continue fighting. So Feng Ang sent people to mine copper ore while sending people to consolidate border defense.

Because of his extreme self-confidence, he didn't even raid more land as a buffer against enemy invasions.

The mined copper ore does not need to be refined, it is transported to the river and the sea on a ship, and with the help of the wind, it sails to Chang'an. The hydro smelter in Chang'an is able to refine them as quickly as possible.

After receiving the copper mine, the smelter and the mint worked overtime day and night to make the first batch of copper coins from the copper mine.

The new copper coin, which has abandoned the previous hollow structure, is a round coin with a gear-like edge. The biggest difference from before is that these copper coins are no longer one penny, but are divided into one, five, ten, and twenty wens according to their size.

Originally, Leng Feng's proposal still had a currency value of 50 Wen and 100 Wen, but the civil and military officials did not want to mint such a large denomination of copper coins considering that the people were prone to losing coins.

Like copper coins, the silver of the National Treasury Bank and the Wa Kingdom was made into silver coins, and the denomination was the same as copper coins, except that one copper coin was worth 100 copper coins.

Both copper and silver coins are printed with intricate patterns to prevent counterfeiting. The hydraulic giant hammer and Tiesheng's exclusive cemented carbide are really impossible for ordinary people to imitate.

As for the gold coins

There is only one pattern of Li Shimin riding a horse and whipping on it, and the value of the coin is only "one", and the top is a hundred silver coins. This is Li Shimin's arrangement under extreme narcissism.

The monetary reform announced to the world that starting from the outflow of new coins, the old coins would be slowly withdrawn, and at the same time, silk cloth and silk would no longer have the nature of money, and would be reduced to ordinary goods.

Normally, the reform of the currency may have lasted for a generation of emperors, but with the help of the banks, the currency could be replaced at the speed of the Mint.

Anyway, what the merchants put out from the bank was the new currency, and the new currency would slowly spread along with the merchants' business activities, and there was no need for the imperial court to deliberately help.

For the monetary reform of the imperial court, the common people did not say anything, anyway, there was one more copper coin than before, one look, it was a copper coin of twenty denominations, which could not be kept by a rope, and people couldn't help but be afraid that they would be lost.

For merchants, especially big businessmen, monetary reform can be useful. Previously, gold and silver were only used as a symbol of currency and were not officially recognized. However, in the case of large transactions, it is still necessary to use gold and silver to exchange copper coins.

Now that gold and silver are officially recognized, and money is given, it is simply not too happy for them. Before, the trade was gold and silver trading, or dragging a large wagon of copper coins, but after the bank opened, they no longer had to drag a cart of copper coins across mountains and rivers. And now, they trade with each other and can finally pay for it with one hand and deliver it with the other.

No matter how large the transaction is, it is only a few gold coins, and you can just carry it in your money bag. If you are afraid of robbers on the road, you can deposit it in the bank after the transaction is completed, and then withdraw it when you get close to your home, or simply store it in it and take it when you need it.

Anyway, even if it's a demand deposit, there is interest!

The currency reform of the imperial court was proceeding smoothly, and the propaganda brochure of the commercial tax law was also lined up in the printing workshop of the Literary Academy, and potatoes and corn were growing quietly in the land around Chang'an.

Everything is ready! It's almost officially implemented!

But at this juncture, the emperor and the civil and military officials are making trouble, whether it is the emperor or the civil and military officials, they are all trying to deal with each other in a muffled voice, and no one pays attention to these at all.

How did the civil and military officials deal with the emperor? It's simple, passive slacking! It's obviously a very simple thing, but it was given to the emperor to make a decision, and it was obviously a very clear and clear thing, but it drew a circle of twists and turns to make the emperor confused.

Li Shimin, who obviously felt that his workload had increased, also fought back against the civil and military officials.

Before this, the graduates of the Chongwenguan of the Academy of Literature were not enough to meet the official vacancies in the Tang Dynasty, and the vacant positions still had to be filled by recommendation.

Since the influence of the five surnames declined in the court, these recommended places were given by Li Shimin to emerging nobles, such as Fang Xuanling.

However, after that, Li Shimin still gave them these places, but the position changed messily.

The children of the Fang family, who were supposed to serve in Jingbei Province, were brought to Lingnan by Li Shimin, and the children of the Du family, who were supposed to serve in Hebei Province, were brought to Shannan Province by Li Shimin.

This kind of behavior made Fang Xuanling and others extremely helpless. Arranging the children of these families in those positions must be beneficial to their families, but after Li Shimin's tossing, it was completely messed up.

Especially in Lingnan, the old house has a fart foundation in Lingnan! That child of the Fang family simply became a victim in the confrontation between the head of the family and the emperor.

The original surging court has become turbulent, and the contradiction between the emperor and the civil and military officials seems to be getting deeper and deeper.

In such an environment, Leng Feng is as steady as Mount Tai.

The behavior of dealing with the emperor was not constrained by the official group, so he still handled the affairs of the military department as usual. And he 1 didn't have any clan arrangements, and Li Shimin's fire couldn't spread on him.

The only thing that worries him is his wife and children.

Seeing that the autumn tiger has no strength, the weather is about to turn cooler, but the queen of Jiucheng Palace has no sign of returning to the palace.

Jiucheng Palace is very high in altitude and surrounded by mountains, suitable for summer vacation, but it is not suitable for winter, although Liu Shuwen is to accompany the queen to relax, but it is not good to freeze them.

Especially his two cubs, because they have been heated at home since they were children, they can't help freezing, if they catch a cold, how can they get it.

So, after retreating from the court, Leng Feng hurriedly beckoned Lao Yuan to prepare materials to protect against the cold, and planned to send an engineering team to Jiucheng Palace to install heating.

I'm afraid that the queen really plans to spend the winter there!

As soon as the engineering team left Chang'an, they followed a team of palace maids and eunuchs, carrying a lot of supplies.

Following the place where the palace maid and eunuch appeared, Leng Feng saw Li Shimin in an ordinary carriage.

Li Shimin had no intention of avoiding Leng Feng, and when he saw Leng Feng sitting in the carriage instead of the coachman, he said, "I want to thank you, with Shuwen by her side, the queen's mood should be much better." ”

Leng Feng said helplessly, "I really don't know what's going on with you, my wife is angry and left, and she still insists on her own ideas." ”

"Wife?"

It's the first time Li Shimin has heard someone call the queen his wife, but it's also the same when he thinks about it, isn't the queen the emperor's wife?

Thinking of the queen's state of mind when she left, Li Shimin couldn't help but fall into deep self-blame.

In this world, there is probably only the queen who can make Li Shimin blame himself so quickly.

"I also knew that the queen was uncomfortable, so I let her go, sandwiched between me and her brother, she was the most difficult one to do."

Completely lifting the curtain of the carriage, Li Shimin said, "Go downstairs, call Wuji and them, I plan to hear what you think." ”

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