Gao Yue has always had the illusion that his relationship with Xue Yaoying, and even with Yang Yan and Yuan Zai, can be well hidden in this huge city, and Liu Yan, who has to work hard in every detail, will not notice such a trivial matter.

But he was wrong, when Liu Yan was in charge of the entire southeast Cao Yun and salt administration, what he was best at was to establish an intelligence system, and he hired a large number of people who were good at walking, and he could gather the market prices of hundreds of cities and towns within a radius of thousands of miles in his hands without any mistakes or omissions - people were surprised to say that Liu Yan had a special function, that is, his eyes, he could see where the money was flying from and where it was flowing on the flat land - this is true for money, and it is also true for talents.

Obviously, the paper failed to wrap the fire, Liu Yan asked Liu Changqing to get acquainted with him, but he easily saw through it, and he also backhanded Liu Changqing, not only raised his literary name, but also earned Changqing's poetry gift. But I don't know that the triumphant self, in Liu Yan's eyes, is not a praying mantis under the claws of the yellow finch!

At this time, in front of Liu Yan, do you still have to deny anything?

No, no.

Gao Yue quickly recovered from the panic and sat still, he saw Liu Yan's slave Wanda sitting under the hook railing, dragging a pot in his hand, drunkenly leaning on the big basket, which contained several bamboo curtains wet by the rain, and then slowly got up, through the burning candle flame, and said to Liu Yan, "The servant only wants to take the first step on the ladder of the hundred thousands, and everything he does can withstand the inspection of the officials." So dare to ask the officials, what is the original intention of the state to set up the Spring Festival of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials? ”

"Selecting the best." Liu Yan didn't think about it, and then he seemed to understand what Gao Yue wanted to say next, so he was interested to see how Gao Yue defended.

Gao Yue pointed to the bamboo curtain (Liu Yan had always wanted to give it to Li Xuan but didn't give it away), and asked Liu Yan, "May I ask the official, where is this bamboo curtain going to be used for?" ”

"Brother Li Zuocheng has always been in Qingde, and the family is broken, and this bamboo curtain is to be given to him."

"If you dare to ask the officials again, do you know that the bamboo that weaves the curtain comes from Donggao, or Xiling, or Beiyuan, or Nanshan?"

"Bamboo is bamboo." Liu Yan laughed.

"Officials, orange is divided into Huainan and Huaibei, and bamboo is not divided into Donggao and Xiling." Gao Yue replied.

"What a big breath, how do you know if you are an orange or a bamboo!?"

"I don't know Yuan Zai, but I have received funding from Master Xue; The servant heard that the people of Xiaoyangshan went on the road alone, and his wife was sick in bed and could not accompany him, so out of righteousness, he gave him fifty yuan at Baqiaoyi. ”

"Before the spring of this year, I saw Lang Jun again at the steaming stall, at that time Lang Jun was not a penny, why did he actually spend a lot of money when he said goodbye to Xiaoyangshan people, and gave out fifty yuan at once?"

"It was given by Master Xue Lian, if the official still wants to ask the reason, that is, he didn't want to die in the ditch under the fang wall before he flapped his wings and flew hard!"

"Then if I give Lang Jun the money worth of Qishui's other business in advance, then Lang Jun won't have a relationship with Xiaoyangshan and Xue Yaoying?"

Gao Yue thought for a moment and said, "Yes!" ”

"Gao Langjun is a big frank person."

"You can be frank in your life, but you can't be frank in poetry" (1)." Gao Yueling's teeth are sharp.

Liu Yan didn't know what to say now, but his original idea was not to reprimand or even depose Gao Yue in advance, that was not his Liu Shi'an's style of acting at all.

"You may be seated." Gao Yue actually took the initiative to pour a glass of wine at this time and asked Liu Yan to sit down again.

What does this mean.......

Liu Yan sat back on the bench in Jiafang, twisted his sparse beard a few times, and then said to Gao Yue, "Lang Jun's Qishui Farewell Business has been sold, and the envoy of the Weizhou Dynasty sent the two hundred yuan obtained to the capital, and now I am here." ”

"Yan Xiang, these two hundred times are too much, could it be that Yan Xiang is trying to buy horse bones?"

Liu Yan shook his head, "I, Liu Shi'an, have never done such a thing, and if I want to buy it, I can only buy a real Qianli horse." ”

Then Liu Yan took out the scroll from the bookpiece on the table very lightly, placed it on the table, and faced Gao Yue, "Gao Langjun, it is still not clear whether you are an orange or a bamboo yes?" Is it a rotten horse bone, or a thousand miles of horses? Can you draw up five questions and two judgments? ”

"Yes." Gao Yue took a deep breath and said.

The test is coming.

He understood that Liu Yan was not interested in his work papers, but more interested in his questions.

"Gao Langjun doesn't have to write by hand, I only propose the question, and I can use my mouth to do it." After speaking, Liu Yan picked up the pen and brushed the scroll with a sound, "Q, since the beginning of the sky, the currency system has been disordered, and the people are not divided into north and south, and the private casting is endless, that is, it is impossible to ban it by beating the spine and killing it." If I want to play, I can't help but mint money, public-private cooperation, is it okay? ”

"No, money is currency, there is the right of the country, if you can't help but mint money, not only the people give up the farmers for profit, but also make the minting of money more evil, as the saying goes, the grain hurts the peasants, the money hurts the Jia, this move can be said to hurt both. The prohibition of the past dynasties is actually a ban on treachery, and Yan Xiang must not ignore it, and he is right. ”

Gao Yue's words, in fact, when he studied historical economics before, he paid attention to Grechen's law, that is, the commonly said bad money drives out good money, in the early and middle Tang Dynasty, the folk piracy was repeatedly banned, the people of Jianghuai abandoned agriculture, relied on the slopes of the mountain, set up a private casting furnace, and made great profits, in order to chase more profits, it was inevitable to mix a large amount of lead and iron in the private coinage to shoddy, which is the so-called "bad money" is also "bad money", and once this bad money poured into the market, the people will consciously keep the good money, Using bad money to pay taxes will only cause more and more bad money in the market, causing huge losses to the government. So much so that during the reign of Tang Xuanzong, he directly issued an edict and asked, "Why don't we simply open the ban on minting money." After the Anshi Rebellion, the currency system was disordered again, and even the government began to use shoddy products and make bad money, so Liu Yan once again raised the issue of "not banting money".

After listening to Gao Yue's first answer, Liu Yan nodded, "Second question, since it is forbidden to cast privately, the power belongs to the government, but now that the money is too profitable, how to solve it?" ”

Gao Yue thought about it, and then replied: "The foundation of the government's coinage, about the four items of materials, labor, transshipment, and materials, on the day of the opening of the sky (Kaiyuan Tianbao), the cost of casting consistent money is 750, then you can get 250 yuan, and each state has a total of 99 furnaces, and the annual coinage is 327,000 yuan, and if it is stored in the treasury, it will make a profit of 81,750 yuan; However, after the funeral, the furnace in the hands of the state, only less than 30 remained, more in the southeast of Yan Xiang's hands, if sent to Kyoto, plus the labor, transport, and supervision of the officials' materials, each casting is consistent, the cost is two, it can be said that this is twice the profit. According to the view of the late students, the top priority at the moment is to increase the mining and metallurgical and casting furnaces in Jiannan, Ulzhou, Runzhou, Yangzhou, Xuanzhou and other places, and to pay taxes from Lingnan and exchange gold, silver, copper and tin from various localities and cities. Respectfully. ”

"Then the third question, the furnace can cut the capital of the money, but if the villain people change to private casting, what should they do?"