Bai Liyan's reply was ambiguous, giving people the feeling that he would never use too much of the small treasury, but when Jiang Yu returned to the prince's mansion and brought the news to Xihuan, Xihuan's understanding was diametrically opposite:

"How is this possible, with the gold and silver raised, continue to mint money, then the treasure of the father's inner palace will not be moved, where will the treasury get so much money."

Xihuan asked, and the prince said truthfully:

"This is not true, listening to the meaning of Yongxing Hou, it is definitely necessary to use the treasure, but not too much, and after the money shop raises gold and silver, it will be deposited with gold and silver to mint new coins."

"Where does the money come from, and it comes from the inner government?"

"Yongxing Hou said that after raising gold and silver to mint money, it will be used to build water conservancy, expand agriculture, revitalize industry and commerce, and boost commercial goods in the country.

"It's been a long time, isn't this borrowing chickens to lay eggs?"

Xihuan suddenly realized that Baili Yan was throwing bricks and attracting jade first, and then borrowing chickens to lay eggs, and all the money used was other people's money.

"This Gongzi Yan really has a hand!" Xihuan's tone was full of approval, but his face was silent, and the fear in his heart was even worse.

At this time, the prince hugged Xihuan, leaned close to his ear and said softly:

"Feng'er, it's good for your husband to spend the night at Ying'er's tonight."

"Okay, it's good if the prince is happy, and the concubine immediately arranges for Ying'er to serve the prince overnight."

Xihuan agreed, but he was extremely unhappy. When he was young, Ying'er was arranged to serve Jiang Yu, and Xihuan took the time to go to Gu Chen's residence:

"Gu Chen, can you try out the gold and silver compatibility required to mint new coins?"

"Back to Her Royal Highness the Princess, I already have it, but I don't know if it is a mixed cast of gold, silver, copper and lead, or a mixed cast of gold, copper, lead, silver, copper and lead."

"Is there any mystery in the different compatibility?" Xihuan asked.

"Your Highness doesn't know, although the Xianguo is not big, but the copper coins required are still very much, and the subordinates roughly estimate that the total amount of the current Xianguo is roughly converted into gold, silver and copper coins, at least more than four million inches of silver, and up to six or seven million inches of silver minted copper coins can be replaced, if there is new money flowing into other vassal states, then 10 million inches of silver can't stop it."

"So much!" Xihuan was taken aback, and hurriedly asked: "In your opinion, what kind of compatibility will it be?" ”

"The most economical way is to add gold and silver to the copper coins, so that not only can you save an inch of silver, but after using gold, the price comparison will not change with only silver."

"Then according to what you say, how much treasure can Baili Yannan bring back, and how much coinage will be taken out?"

It was hard to say, but he was so sure that the total value of the treasure would not be less than four million inches of silver. In other words, 20 years ago, Xianguo did not eat or drink for a hundred years, and he could not save such a huge amount of silver. I heard that Bailiyan once made a big statement at the celebration banquet that it was more than enough for Xianguo to sit and eat for a hundred years, so it was six or seven million inches of silver. ”

"Huh...... Hehehaha......" Xihuan suddenly laughed, and a hideous look jumped on his face: "Okay...... The bottom still let this princess find out the details. Gu Chen, can you and General Ji discuss countermeasures? ”

"There are three countermeasures, one can be after the Xian country coinage, it will be included in the Jin country, and then smelt the money to smelt gold, silver and copper to take it, although it consumes some fireworks, but it is the most simple method. Second, the currency can be hidden, forcing the Xianguo to exchange the new currency for the copper coins of our Jin country, and all the new coins will fall into the hands of our country, but this needs to mint the Jin money is huge, and it is a little careless. It could backfire.

Third, prevent the Xianguo from minting new coins, move our northern army to the Lingling, and let the king force the Xianguo to pay tribute to gold and silver, and slowly turn the gold and silver in his hands into our own. ”

"Now Bailiyan's momentum is flourishing, there are more than 200,000 soldiers in this batch of new vassals, at this time, the Xianguo is forced to pay tribute again, and if you don't say that the name is not right, the king of Xian will not agree, how can Bailiyan agree, let the princess of this palace do.

It is impossible to stop the new money, Baili Yan is also the great Si Nong and the internal history of Su Zhi, the tax department exists in name only, and the long history Gao Xun is also the person of the King of Xian, if the King of Xian does not object, no one in the court can oppose it now, and the third strategy will not work. ”

"And what does the prince mean?" Gu Chen asked.

"He is still indecisive and can't make up his mind, but most of the time he won't dare to contradict King Xian."

"Then there is no way, only to collect its new coins, melt them and take out the gold and silver, and at the same time use my Jin country copper coins to force their new coins. If the news is not reported to the king immediately, Prime Minister Fan may have a more clever strategy. ”

"This princess will send a letter to Brother Wang tomorrow to inform her of everything. In addition, this time, Bailiyan has thousands of healthy BMWs, can he find a way to steal some back, so that the news of Xianguo can spread faster. ”

"This ...... The subordinates thought that it was best to let Xianguo give this horse willingly, if it was stolen, Bailiyan was the only disciple of Yuke Saiqian, and this time he had formed a life-and-death friendship with Yuke, in case it was revealed, this was not a good thing, and he had to discuss it with General Ji before making up his mind. ”

"Then as soon as possible."

"No!"

……

The next day, Baili Yan did not enter the palace and went to Yongxing City to avoid the disaster, far away from the center of the storm.

On the third day, King Xian was not yet in the court, and the crown prince and Changshi Gaoxun presided over the court meeting, and the tax department was instructed by the tax undertaking department, and the officials at all levels of the tax department did not have any objection.

On the contrary, the biggest opposition came from the subordinate officials under the command of Dasi Nong and Shi Baili Yan of Zhisu Nei, as well as the imperial history that would never stop, and Taiwei Zhang Jun also objected, the reason was nothing more than that Baili Yan was proud of his achievements and spent national funds, so he was happy to seek personal gains.

Taiwei Zhang Jun is even more direct, and he opposes it purely for the sake of opposition, but if Zhao Xun and Bailiyan's faction approves, they must oppose it, but everything that opposes it must be approved.

So the coinage quietly unfolded in a voice of opposition, the money pattern changed the style of the bronze turtle coin that had remained unchanged for hundreds of years in the Xianguo country, and for the first time the inner and outer round money patterns were adopted, and the four characters of "gold and silver Tongbao" were cast on the obverse. There are two kinds of currency values, one is about 100 yuan, and 1,000 and 10 are consistent.

The new coin adopts the boiling smelting method, graphite mold, and uses white copper as copper, the texture of the new coin is lubricated and delicate, the color is dark gold, and there are hidden color lines under the light, which can change the authenticity.

Preparations began in late September and ended in October, and the pattern was approved by King Xian and officially put into production in late October.

The main components of cupronickel are zinc, nickel and copper, produced from natural cupronickel ore, strong corrosion resistance, not easy to oxidize, due to the similar density of the three, can not be separated by a simple smelting process, by density method, need to add smelter, catalyst, or electrolysis, in order to separate copper, nickel and zinc, otherwise nickel and zinc and gold and silver dissolve, can not be separated by density method.

At the beginning of November, the opposition between the court and China was still the same, and at the same time, all the officials of the capital, regardless of their official rank or whether they were knighted or not, in October they were no longer distributed in rice or gold and silver, but were replaced by copper coins in old currency, and only a lot more.

So a few days later, the opposition was cut in half, and half a month later, there were almost few opponents, and the rest were all guys who were full of food and held back in a panic.

The reason is very simple, not all officials are rich, middle- and lower-level officials still need to rely on money to support their families, today the price of rice is three yuan, tomorrow it will become three yuan of 100 yuan, the day after tomorrow it will rise, the reality is obviously more convincing than lip service.

In mid-November, Sikong Nan, Jiao Muhua, Bai He and others led the new vassals and foreign troops to enter the city one after another, and 200,000 people were resettled in Zhongxing City, and in the north and east of Zhongxing, the two cities of Tailai and Longsheng were newly placed, and the remaining more than 400,000 people were resettled.

King Xian proposed to reorganize the new annexed army and the foreign army, transfer it to the front line, and withdraw part of the Xian army to preserve its strength, but Bailiyan did not agree.

First, the cultural identity of the new vassals is extremely low, and he said that after returning to the Central Plains, he would give them a stable life, and if he went back on his word, he would suffer a backlash from the new vassals and foreign armies, and the gains outweighed the losses.

Second, the foreign army of the new vassals had a large amount of gold and silver treasures and a body of labor, and it was more cost-effective to use their people and funds to participate in economic activities than to simply engage in war.

Although she finally persuaded Queen Xian, Bai Liyan also felt a subtle change in King Xian's attitude.

First of all, the list of promotions and rewards, the king of Xian should be approved, but except for Jiao Muhua and other forbidden army backgrounds, no one else has been assigned a real position, whether it is a Xian countryman, a foreign army, or a backbone of the new attached army such as Fang Liang and Tian Peng.

Then immediately after the removal of all the military attaches above the middle level of the Foreign Army, and 20,000 elite veterans of the Xian Army were withdrawn from the front line to be filled in the Foreign Army, which was replaced by Lu Gao and stationed in Zhongxing. Bai Liyan knew very well that King Xian was weakening his influence in the army.

In this regard, Bai Liyan chose to acquiesce, he was also tired of the war, but the military battalion was still firmly in his hands. Sikong Nan, Bai He, Su Hong, Jiang Jie, Tian Peng, Fang Liang and others had to be transferred to the armed camp for resettlement.

Lu Zhao was disabled in his right leg, and Bailiyan transferred him to serve as the county lieutenant of Yongxingcheng, but he still retained the military post of lieutenant of the left capital, and Xu Yu allowed him to return to Guangxin on vacation.

At this point, the four battalions of the pioneer battalion Leopard Tao, Xiao Cai, Weiwu, and Yu Arrow were all wiped out, and there was not much left, and the four battalions completely collapsed.

In the past few years, the military battalion has trained a large number of elite and middle- and lower-level military attaches of the Xian army, and a large number of steel weapons have been installed in Yongxing City.

However, in the final analysis, the present situation is still a state of war, and after the transition to a period of peace, maintaining the manpower and land area of the Xianguo and maintaining an army of more than 400,000 people is tantamount to reckless military force, and in terms of overall economic and national strength, the Xianguo is still at the bottom.

The resettlement of the new dependents and foreign soldiers lasted until the end of the year, and it took two months to allocate farm tools, growing grain, ploughing cattle, rations, and ready-to-wear clothing, and in the following years, nearly 200,000 women were relocated from all parts of the Xianguo country one after another, so as to solve the problem of the imbalance between men and women in the new subjects and foreign soldiers, and at the same time solve the problem of many boys and girls caused by the perennial war in the country.

Around 635 in the Shengyuan Dynasty, there were bad incidents in Zhongxing, Longsheng, and Tailai, and gambling houses and brothels suddenly appeared in the three places, taking advantage of the cultural and language barriers of the Central Plains that the new vassals were not familiar with, gambling and prostitution, and even defrauding and looting the money of the new vassals, and dozens of cases of people gathering and killing people by the new vassals occurred.

The powerful people of the DPRK and China demanded severe punishment for killing the new dependents, but they were pressed by the joint efforts of Bai Liyan and Lu Gao, and strictly ordered that all activities such as opening gambling houses, brothels, and money lending in the newly attached people's settlements should be strictly prohibited, and violators would be severely punished.

It's not that Bailiyan protects the new vassals, but these nobles are really hateful, and at the same time, Bailiyan began to solve the problem of money in the hands of the new vassals and foreign soldiers.