Liu Wei looked at Bi Lan's chubby fat face with a smile, and took the tea and saluted Bi Lan.

Bi Lan was also busy picking up the teacup and said with a smile: "I wish Your Highness a long and blessed life." ”

"Bi Gong, I won't beat around the bush, I'm here just for this rollover drawing."

"Oh?" Bi Lan didn't understand, why a small instrument could make Liu Wei so fanfare?

"Bi Gong, think about it, what would happen if this thing was used for irrigation in the field?"

Liu Wei's words were like piercing a layer of window paper, and Bi Lan immediately understood that his small invention was definitely a merit and a benefit to the present.

"Bi Gong." Liu Wei said sincerely: "Now it's spring and summer, but it has rained less than three times in our Guanzhong!" If not handled properly, it will be another drought! If there is another locust plague, what will the people eat? What does Guanzhong eat, what does the world eat? ”

Bi Lan opened her mouth, a little bitter. He was a little helpless and said: "Actually, if Your Highness doesn't come to our family, our family will definitely look for Your Highness......"

"I don't know which rabbit cub gossips in front of His Majesty. I actually have to make four pieces of money! This must be a policy to bring disaster to the country and the people! Bi Lan gritted her teeth excitedly.

"What!" Liu Wei was also shocked, the early Han Dynasty currency system was chaotic, although the Qin Dynasty coin system was maintained, but allowed private coinage, laissez-faire policy, private minting was allowed, this kind of policy was not stained by the common people, and could only benefit the nobles, the powerful and the wealthy. The powerful and wealthy businessmen not only own the mines (copper) mountains, but also have labor, as well as abundant capital and specialized technology, and open up private farming, making them direct beneficiaries.

But the powerful and wealthy businessmen have no urine, since they can mint their own coins, in order to make profits, they will desperately save copper, mix iron into it, and mix all kinds of other impurities. The result is that the coin is rough and of low quality, which is outrageous. The indiscriminate issuance of currency also caused serious inflation and social and economic collapse in the early Han Dynasty, and the imperial court could not even make up the horses to pull the cart for the prime minister.

It wasn't until Empress Lu carried out reforms that it got better, but there was a but, after the death of Emperor Hui, the hero was the right side of the Liu family and destroyed Zhu Lu.

Chinese civilization is like this, if it hits a person, then everything he did during his lifetime will be denied and will be wantonly smeared.

But history will always give us a glimpse of the corner, the Ming Dynasty Taicang Lu Rong's "Shuyuan Miscellaneous" recorded: "Emperor Gao (Zhu Yuanzhang) tasted the micro to Sanshan Street, saw that the old woman had a couch, and when the fake sat down, he asked the woman why she was allowed to do so?" Lady to Sioux people. He asked again: 'How is Zhang Shicheng in Su?' 'Yuyun: 'When the Ming Emperor started, King Zhang knew that he was not the true son of heaven, and the whole city was attached. The Sioux people have not suffered from the soldiers, and they are still grateful.

More than ten years later, even after Zhang Shicheng's Great Zhou regime was destroyed by Zhu Yuanzhang, the people of Suzhou were still grateful for Zhang Shicheng's kindness, and a good ruler would not only live on words, but also in the hearts of the people.

It is no wonder that Shi Nai'an, Luo Guanzhong, Chen Ji, Chen Weixian and other famous people in the late Yuan Dynasty have served under Zhang Shicheng's account, giving advice to him.

By the time of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the chaotic currency system was restored, but the bulk of its coinage belonged to the great eunuch Deng Tong, who was favored by Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty. Deng Tong became rich by coinage, but offended the crown prince Emperor Jing of Han and was finally starved to death.

By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a total of five currency reforms were carried out, and all the coinage rights in various places were collected in the center, and finally laid the foundation of the five-baht coin.

"Four out of the money" is also known as "dime". There are four diagonal lines connecting the outer Guo at the four corners of the inner Guo on the back of the money, such as four roads out, so it is called "four out of five baht". This reduced the weight of the pattern and the coin itself, which was undoubtedly a vicious act of the imperial court to loot the people's wealth.

Later, due to years of war and financial emptiness, in 190 AD, Dong Zhuo "broke the five-baht coin, and minted a small coin". The bronze men and copper horses in Luoyang City were all destroyed by him and minted a small amount of money. This kind of small money is of low quality, and it is not even clear to read the text, so it is called unwritten small money.

After Dong Zhuo's small money was minted and issued, prices soared, "Gu Yihu reached hundreds of thousands, and since then money and goods have not worked", which caused a devastating blow to the economy. With the decline in the circulation of the five-baht coin, the trade in goods shifted to barter.

We can also see from the museum in Luoyang that a lot of Eastern Han Dynasty five-baht coins and Dong Zhuo's small coins are compared, and we know how hateful it is to plunder people's wealth in such a way. Han Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang, overthrew the Eastern Han Dynasty, and became infamous for thousands of years. Today, from a point of view, the bad head of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty and the subsequent Dong Zhuo's small money, aren't they an elegy for the Eastern Han Dynasty?

"I'm going to advise my father!" Liu Wei stood up and was about to walk out.

"Your Highness, don't!" Bi Lan nervously pulled Liu Wei's sleeve robe. "Our family knelt outside the West Garden for a day yesterday, and was only reprimanded by His Majesty, and it was useless and ......"

"What then? The people's livelihood is already difficult, isn't this kind of looting of people's wealth just a matter of officials forcing the people to rebel! Liu Wei wanted to win over the people from all over Guanzhong first, and plan the world with the plan of stabilizing the world and first stabilizing the foot of Guanzhong. This law will inevitably lead to the boiling of public resentment in the world, and the people of Guanzhong will bear the brunt.

"Hehe, Your Highness, Your Highness, dissipate your anger." Bi Lan persuaded the indignant Liu Wei.

"It's not possible to do it openly, but it can be done secretly, and our family also wants to know which kid is in our family. If this matter is really settled, Shaofu will be scolded to death by the people of the world! ”

"Oh?" Liu Wei looked at this chubby eunuch boss curiously.

"Those people are just fooling Your Majesty, words can save copper to make more coins with this method, our family is in charge of Shaofu, can we save copper we don't know?"

Liu Wei couldn't laugh or cry after hearing this, isn't this the version of "there are policies above, and there are countermeasures below" thousands of years ago?

"Then Bi Gong must be careful."

"Hahaga," Bi Lan's male duck voice was not very comfortable to hear, he waved his hand and said: "Direction, our family has also been in the court order for eight or nine years, and our family still has this bit of proportion." ”

"What about overturning?"

"Where does Your Highness want to put the overturned car? This one rollover is not something that can be made for one or two thousand dollars. ”

"Put it in Mengjin first." Liu Wei was thoughtful, he unfolded a map from the carriage, and the map clearly marked the entire Sili Lieutenant Department, and the scope of the Guanzhong area was accurate to the village. The population, hydrology, properties and governance of the area are carefully marked.

Bi Lan was surprised and shocked when he saw this map! Shaofu also had craftsmen and duties to make maps for the emperor, but Bi Lan had never seen such an accurate map, and the time and money spent on making this map was definitely not something that could be done in a year and a half.

Liu Wei pointed to the scope of Mengjin County on the map and said carefully: "Mengjin is located near the big river (Yellow River), and most of the land that can be irrigated is gathered in Qinghe Township. Along the first line of Qinghe Township, Songjia Village, Lijiawan and other places close to the water of the big river, it is most appropriate to try a few overturns from here. ”

"What about the money?" Bi Lan will not suffer a loss just because he is Liu Wei.

Liu Wei waved his hand and said magnificently: "Tongfu Commercial Bank will provide interest-free loans to Mengjin County, no interest is needed, how much to borrow, how much to repay at the end of the year!" ”

The left hand was poured into the right hand, Bi Lan smiled on his face, but he pursed his lips in his heart, who didn't know that now Mengjin County Ling Zhong Xuan was personally invited by Liu Wei from Shangshutai? Proper Liu Bian's party, he lent himself money, and then poured the hands of the official family, his belly was black, but I liked it.

"That's good, that's good." Bi Lan can also get a benefit from it, and he is naturally happy. As long as someone pays. The Shaofu is a specialized institution set up to support the royal family. Now Liu Hong likes pleasure more and more, and the money spent is like flowing water, Shaofu can't hold it anymore, if Bi Lan can't make money, he can't sit in the position of Shaofu.

So Shaofu is now hungry and devouring everything that can make money. The two hit it off, and Liu Wei said to Bi Lan with a smile: "Bi Gong, if the overturned car can be promoted in the world, Bi Gong's contribution in the world is no less than that of Cai Hou." ”

Cai Hou, Cai Lun. Liu Wei talked about this well-known figure, but Bi Lan's thoughts flew away.

(End of chapter)