Seeing that Fan Zhen said so seriously, Ma Yun couldn't help but be interested, urging Fan Zhen to hurry up.

Fan Zhen paused slightly, sorted out his thoughts, and said: "I have millions of Chinese people, among whom there are many small people, and most of these people use copper coins in their hands, rather than precious silk and silver. And the imperial court has always used copper as money, which is a lot of money to mint copper money, and there has always been a saying of 'four to one', and the price of copper products is extremely high, so unscrupulous merchants often converge copper coins and cast them for copper. The imperial court has repeatedly banned this. ”

Ma Yun was stunned, grandma's, these ancestors are really strong, there are talents in all walks of life, and they can think of anything.

Fan Zhen continued: "As soon as these unscrupulous businessmen do this, the copper coins circulating in the world will become less and more expensive. Seeing that Ma Yun didn't understand a little, Fan Zhen continued: "For example, a piece of cloth used to cost 1,000 copper coins, but now that there are fewer copper coins, a piece of cloth may only be worth six or seven hundred copper coins." ”

If there is less copper money, the price will definitely rise.

Fan Zhen looked at Ma Yun and continued: "But the drawbacks of the increase in the price of copper coins are not here, if it only leads to the appreciation of copper coins, it is not a big deal." However, some businessmen, or local officials, actually make money privately, and these copper coins, compared with the official copper coins, have too low copper content, resulting in blurred handwriting and undurable, and the result is often the common people, which is okay. For example, one tael of silver is equal to 700 copper coins according to the market price, and 1000 copper coins according to the official price. More than half of the officials are privately owned. How can he not be poor among the people? ”

Ma Yun was surprised, he wasn't surprised that the ancients would actually calculate this kind of economic account, he was surprised that these officials were so greedy for ink, and it was really so difficult for officials to govern Qingming?

Ma Yun was stunned for a long time before he said, "Mr. Fan, what's the matter with this iron money?" ”

Fan Zhen said with a smile: "This iron money, in fact, is just a variant of copper money, since the late Tang Dynasty, the world is in turmoil, the output of this copper is far from meeting the needs of the market, therefore, the imperial court often turns a blind eye to the money with low copper content of private casting, and the emperor even openly allows private copper coins." However, the copper coin contains low copper, the handwriting is blurred, and it is easy to be damaged, which is not a small harm to the people. In view of this, King Wumu simply abolished the copper money and switched to iron money, the price of which was extremely low and unprofitable, so iron money became practiced. ”

Ma Yun smiled: "Why don't you all cast iron money." ”

Fan Zhen said with a smile: "Lord Wang, if you just want to govern Chudi, then iron money will do, and if it is beneficial to the world, then iron money will never work." ”

Jack Ma asked, "Why is this?" ”

Fan Zhen said: "The first iron coin is very easy to be damaged, easy to rust after being wet, second, the handwriting of the iron coin is very blurry, it is not suitable for circulation as a coin, and the third is that the price of iron money is very low, a Kaiyuan Tongbao can be exchanged for 100 iron coins, and the iron money can not mint big money, and it is also inconvenient for circulation." Moreover, money is also the face of a country, and if Da Chu wants to last forever, it needs to have a currency that will never fade. ”

These two sentences are extremely encouraging, and Ma Yun who said it was also a little heartbroken, and he couldn't stop nodding. Ma Yun asked: "Now that my father is under the rule, this iron money still needs to be used, so how should this iron money be exchanged with copper money?" ”

Seeing that Ma Yun asked a substantive question, Fan Zhen didn't dare to slap his ass at the moment, and said cautiously: "In this way, it looks like whether the prince values the people or the rich." ”

Ma Yun listened to it for a long time, and of course understood what Fan Zhen meant, so he said: "The people are valuable, of course, the people are important, then we will directly link the iron money with the copper money and exchange it." ”

Fan Zhen nodded, and said: "The sixth opinion of the minister is to ask the prince to carefully select the officials of the Nanping Palace, the king of Nanping is tyrannical because of his greedy nature, and the other is forced by the situation, so he has to do it, and all the officials under him cannot be expelled, it is best to reward the virtuous and use their energy, so that the situation in Nanping is not difficult to stabilize." ”

Ma Yun nodded and said, "What Mr. said is very true. "The officials of the king of Nanping must be used, and Ma Yun has his own ideas about this, but it is not easy to say it clearly.

Fan Zhen said again: "The minister thinks that the Gao family should also be treated differently, the Gao father and son have been here for thirty or forty years, and there is still a certain amount of popularity, so the minister asks the prince to consider treating them differently." ”

is worthy of being an official, the consideration of the problem is different, originally Ma Yun and they discussed to completely defeat the king of Nanping, but there was Bao Tang who killed himself before, and Liang Zhen hanged himself, so the handling of the king of Nanping is really cautious. Ma Yun nodded and said: "What Mr. said is very true, the defeat of Jiangling lies in the fact that Gao Congzhi is loyal and treacherous, and he is tyrannical. For the old prince of Nanping, Xiao Wang has always admired it very much. ”

Fan Zhen smiled and continued: "The minister's last opinion is to pay tribute to the Central Plains Imperial Court and ask for the title of Jingnan Jiedu envoy to come back. If the words are not right, the name is not good. ”

Ma Yun's eyes were raised, he hesitated, and said: "Xiao Wang is in the name of his father and crusades against Nanping, even if he wants to ask for the title, he should ask his father for it." ”

Fan Zhen walked to the door, closed the door, and said in a low voice: "If the king calls himself the emperor of Chu, then the title of the envoy of Jingnan Jiedu will have to be obtained from the king, but now the king nominally claims to be a feudal town, so the order from the Central Plains court is very influential in Great Chu." Otherwise, the king would not have given in, and went around so much from Langzhou to Changsha. Jingnan Jiedu made the jurisdiction very large, including not only Xiangzhou, Suizhou and other places with the imperial court, but also Langzhou and other places in Dachu, with this title. ”

Fan Zhen paused and said: "With this title, if the king of Chu passes the throne to someone else in the future, the prince can transfer Langzhou in the name of Jingnan Jiedu envoy, if Langzhou is not as good, you can directly crusade and capture Langzhou, and Changsha will not be in danger." ”

"Lord, now that there is a big chaos today, the news in various places is blocked, even if the prince writes to the court and obtains the edict of appointment from the court, Changsha may not know. Even if you know, how do you know that this is not a person with ulterior motives, and you can't see that the prince has made great achievements and deliberately spread rumors and slander? ”

The sunlight shines through the wooden lattice of the window, mottled in the quiet and slightly dim conference hall, and reflects on the young and silent face of the fifth prince of Dachu, the eyes are unpredictable, like joy and sorrow, and suddenly a smile flashes from the corner of his mouth.

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There have been many controversies in history about the six prime ministers and deputy prime ministers of the Ma Chu Shengzu Dynasty, and these six people have always been criticized compared with Ma Chu's later names for their virtues and political achievements. Regarding Fan Qian, the only person in the Holy Ancestor Dynasty who has only served as a vice minister and has never been a prime minister, historians commented: "Outstanding talent, because of people." ”