Chapter 38: Coin Restructuring

It's a day to cry, and it's a day to laugh.

Although the poor days are not easy, they are still crazy, but today's announcement of the noon dynasty made the common people all over the world like a thunderbolt from the sky, so that all states, counties, counties, towns, streets and alleys were full of crying.

Liu Xiu's family is the same, his mother, eldest sister, and second sister hugged each other and cried, crying and shouting, how should his family live this year.

What is the message on the announcement?

Why did there be such a big civil unrest?

Liu Xiu listened to the remarks of one person in the family, and the more he listened, the more he felt a little incredible, when the emperor's head was caught by the door or kicked by a donkey, Liu Xiu angrily scolded Wang Mang for being too anxious and sighed at the importance of the 86 articles of the pipe, because if Liu Xiu hadn't read this huge book, he wouldn't have understood the deep meaning of Wang Mang's reform of coins.

Wang Mang reformed the currency in order to solve the problem of the depreciation of the five-baht coin, but he underestimated the creative ability of the nobles, so it led to the looting of the property of the common people.

How could the issuance of new coins by the dynasty turn into looting the property of the common people?

There are university questions in this, such as Wang Mang's first numismatic reform, which issued three kinds of coins. They are: big money is worth fifty, the knife is worth five hundred and the wrong knife is worth five thousand, and the five baht money circulates at the same time but ignores the proportion of raw materials, two and a half five baht coins can be melted to cast a face value of 50 times the wrong knife, plus the anti-counterfeiting technology on the coin is not good, all over the country, the top scholars have poured in, secretly crazy casting, half a year, prices soared, the national economy almost collapsed.

Wang Mang convened ministers to discuss, and many people said that there was a problem with the exchange between big money and five baht money, and only one person raised the issue of the proportion of raw materials for minting coins, and the head of the analysis was Dao.

Although the problem has been discovered, but it is not so easy to deal with it, Wang Mang listened to the minister's advice to abolish the two new knife coins, and at the same time abolish the five baht coins, only keep the large coins and introduce a new smaller coin to slow down the depreciation of the coin, and at the same time ordered a strict investigation of the private coinage of the scholars.

"There are people who do the business of killing heads, but no one does the business of losing money." The strict investigation of the imperial court is not a matter at all for some of the top scholars, they are still crazy about minting money, and the materials are not enough to buy small private money at a high price, and continue to mint large money after melting, which directly leads to the inability of small private transactions, the country's economy is chaotic, Wang Mang was furious, and immediately mobilized the army to investigate, and after a few months, the blood of the states and counties was like a river, and the atmosphere of private coinage was suppressed.

In this storm of reform, the poor ordinary people's property has shrunk countless times, and countless families have been ruined because of this.

Everything except this was settled, who would have expected that three years later, the people had just recovered their breath, and Wang Mang was active again. This time, Wang Mang wanted to carry out a reform once and for all, and he issued six kinds of coins in one go, namely coins, gold coins, silver coins, turtle coins, shell coins and cloth coins, and divided the coins worth one penny to the gold coins worth 10,000 yuan, a total of 28 products.

There is no problem with the calculation method of this exchange, but too many people in the world are illiterate, they have not even learned the basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, where do they remember such a complex conversion relationship, which leads to the common people going to the county government to exchange coins and being squeezed by officials.

As a person who came through time, Liu Xiu still admires Wang Mang very much, he can actually make a set of things that only exist thousands of years later, so the wisdom of the ancients is full of magic.

It stands to reason that if he is not in his position, he will not seek his own government, but Liu Xiu is a man who is determined to rebel, and he imagines what he would do if he changed the law by himself?

In the previous life, the replacement of RMB was often to add new currency without affecting the use of old currency, and set up a unit to store and recycle old currency in a unified manner, adopting the method of pushing through the old and bringing forth the new, so as to avoid market turmoil. Because of this, Liu Xiu also understood that the most fundamental purpose of any policy to change the currency system is to stabilize the country's economy rather than looting the wealth of the people.

The meditation was over, Liu Xiu returned to reality, he ran to the valley, mobilized hundreds of people to take the old currency to the county government to exchange for new currency, during which he repeated, repeated and repeated that each old currency can only be exchanged for a new currency and also wrote the exchange amount in bamboo slips, but the result was that the money was exchanged back, and the soldiers were still yin by the county government.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, the soldiers were indignant, vowing to take revenge, and Liu Xiu couldn't suppress their morale because of this kind of thing, so he had to raise his arms and take them to play big.

Liu Xiu found Yin Zhi and asked him to help him cover his whereabouts, and returned home to pack some change of clothes, and informed his family that he was going to follow the Yin family caravan to Chang'an Imperial City to buy items once.

There is a person named Yang Xiong in the Imperial City of Chang'an, who is one of the four great families of Han Fu, and is a generation of Confucianism in the current dynasty, and he is close friends with Taifu Kongguang.

On this day, Liu Xiu and Wang Sunqing turned into hawkers and entered Yangfu through the back door along with the wood used for the fire.

Yang Xiong was not surprised at all by the appearance of Liu Xiu and Wang Sunqing, because since Kong Guang died, he knew that someone would definitely come to look for him, and he didn't look for him before because the time had not come.

"After Emperor Jing, Liu Xiu and Uncle Liu Wen visited Mr. Yang."

"Sit down and talk." Yang Xiong dropped the brush in his hand, drank so that the maid did not need to be silent, and retreated to prepare tea.

The bearing of this generation of Confucianism is different, the protagonist is so calm, Liu Xiu will naturally not panic, he presented the blood letter of Emperor Ping and Kong Guang's letter from his arms, and waited quietly for a reply.

The sound of "bang" spread, almost startling Liu Xiu and Wang Sunqing, only to see Yangxiong angry, gritting his teeth and saying: "Chaotic ministers and thieves, everyone can be punished, how do you want the old man to help you!" ”

"Frame the Zhen family and cut off one of their arms."

"Wang Mang is the trend of the times, and it is useful to break one of his arms?"

"If you have a heart or not, Wang Mang could take away my Han family back then, and I can naturally take it back."

"It's a good one, but it's not intentional. If you leave your contact information, go back first, and I will send someone to contact you when something happens. ”

"Uncle Wen retired, but please be careful in everything, Mr. Yang, you are a great Confucian, the wealth of the country, and the Han Dynasty will need you to help you in the future." Liu Xiu said that Yang Xiong was very comfortable, so the more he looked at it, the more he felt that Liu Xiu would be the emperor of Dingding, and immediately wrote a letter, so that he could find his protégé Xu Ziwei if he had anything in the future.

In fact, Yang Xiong was afraid that after his failure, Liu Xiu would have no one in the court, so he wrote a letter, Liu Xiu also knew this in his heart, and immediately bent down and saluted, saying: "Uncle Wen bows to Mr. Yang Yang." ”