Daheungzenji Temple.

Cui Pingzhong was wrapped in a woolen coat, sitting cross-legged on the carpet of animal skins, his hair was scattered, and the whole person was lying on the low table, looking at the white cloth on the table with dull eyes, only to see that there were circles painted on it one after another, and dense small characters were written in the circles, and there were black lines connected between the two circles.

If Han Yi saw this white cloth, he would be surprised, because it almost recorded his life, and even he was the first to settle in Fengfei Tower and burn the slave contract of Simeng, which was recorded.

"War? No, he won't start a war easily, otherwise, why would he spend so much energy to build all this, if he starts a war, the workshops inside and outside Chang'an may be destroyed, although he is still young, but he has no time to tear down and start over. However, if his policy continues, it will inevitably threaten the imperial power, and with his current power, he wants to limit the imperial power, which is undoubtedly a fantasy, and he has no layout in this regard, how will he avoid the contradiction with the imperial power, and be able to use non-war means to limit the imperial power? Han Yi, what is your last move? ”

Cui Pingzhong frowned and muttered to himself, and suddenly, he shook his head and said, "There is no perfect plan in this world, and Han Yi will not be an exception, there must be clues on this." ”

He couldn't help but sit up straight, and took the trouble to look down step by step from the top circle, but as before, he looked back and forth three or four times, and found no clues.

This discouraged him, he leaned back on the low couch, rubbed his eyes tiredly, and suddenly, he frowned, and said, "After all, I am not him, I can't know everything he thinks, but as long as you are sure what his ultimate goal is, then what should be his last step?" If he wanted to avoid going to war and at the same time avoid contradictions with the imperial power, then there was only one way, and that was to find a way to persuade the emperor to support his policies..... This is impossible, how can the emperor be willing to be bound..... Could it be that his last move was the crown prince? This is impossible, although the prince is young now, but His Majesty is still there, although His Majesty is in poor health, but His Majesty is not so easy to fool now, and if he is not careful, he will lead to death. When the crown prince comes of age, he will definitely be like his father, concentrating all the power in his own hands, which is what every emperor does.

In this way, Han Yi still has to devote a lot of energy to the struggle with the imperial power, but a person's life is limited, and everything now is supported by him, if it is not completed before his death, then everything will be wasted, this is really too difficult, who can help him complete all this? ”

Speaking of this, his eyes swept back and forth on the white cloth, and suddenly, his gaze was attracted by a circle, he blinked, suddenly sat up, his eyes were focused on the circle, he couldn't help but swallow, only to feel the hairs stand on end, "Could it be --- --- can't be like this, this is really incredible!" ”

He hurriedly picked up the pen and reconnected each loop.

When he put down the pen, his eyes swept back and forth over the white cloth, and he said excitedly: "That's right, that's it, if you do this, then you can avoid the conflict with the royal family, and speed up your policy, and you created this crisis just for this step, now the time is ripe, just wait quietly."

Hehe, it turns out that you have already told the answer, it is not a lie at all, but a fact, a big fact. You're so clever at dressing up a fact as a lie that I can't always guess your last step, because I was wrong from the beginning. Ha ha... Ha ha....! ”

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At the junction of Chang'an and Luoyang there is a canyon, surrounded by mountains, and there is only one path leading to the valley, and the surrounding area is even more uninhabited, because this whole mountain area is the royal domain.

Because the royal family had planned to build a mausoleum here a long time ago, but later did not choose this place, and this place is convenient and empty.

But if you look closely, the road leading to the valley is narrow but very smooth, and there are two tracks, so it is clear that people often enter and exit the area.

Today, we welcomed two guests.

When I came to the mouth of the valley, I saw that there was a fence here, and a bunch of forbidden soldiers were guarding the mouth of the valley.

When they saw the two men coming, they immediately clasped their fists and saluted.

"See Shang Shuling."

The people who came were Han Yi and Ono.

"Excuse me!"

Han Yi got off the horse and asked, "I heard that the copper mine in Lelang Prefecture has arrived in Luoyang, and now it should be transported over." ”

"Back to the Shang Shu Order, it was already shipped here yesterday."

"Hmm."

Han Yi nodded, and then walked inside.

I saw that the valley is completely beyond people's imagination, coal mines, firewood piled up like a mountain, there is a very large smelter in the middle, thick smoke billowing, fortunately the surrounding are all high mountains, clouds and mist, and there are no people around, so it is difficult to find, there are hundreds of craftsmen busy in it, now it is a cold winter, but in this valley it feels unusually warm, not only that, there are forbidden troops in the mountains and valleys are guarded by the forbidden army, and the guard is quite strict.

"The lower officials see Shang Shuling."

But I saw a middle-aged man in an official uniform walking up to Han Yi quickly and bowed.

Han Yi said with a smile: "Manager Wang, it's hard work!" ”

The chief steward of the king hurriedly said: "Shang Shuling's words are serious, this is a matter within the duties of the lower officials." ”

"If you can do your job well, it's also a great achievement." Han Yi habitually patted him on the shoulder and said, "However, this plan will end soon, there is no need to hide anymore, you can wait patiently for some time, if this thing is done, you will be the future young eunuch of the Shaofu." ”

The ruler of the king was overjoyed when he heard this.

Han Yi smiled slightly and said, "Take me to have a look." ”

"Yes."

The manager Wang took Han Yi directly to the warehouse, only to see that there were a large number of copper utensils and copper ores inside, in short, all copper.

Han Yi said: "How much currency can we mint now?" ”

The chief manager Wang said excitedly: "If you count the copper reserves in Jiangnan, we can mint almost 20 million yuan, and in accordance with Shang Shuling's instructions, we have been continuously improving the coinage technology to reduce the loss of coinage, and have made great improvements." Shang Shuling, you wait a minute. ”

As he spoke, he took out a money bag from his bosom and poured out several copper coins of different sizes, "Shang Shuling, please see, this is our latest coin." ”

Han Yi took it and looked at it, the production was very well-made, and it still continued the consistent style of the early Tang Dynasty.

The craftsmen of the early Tang Dynasty, that is really nothing to say, full of craftsman spirit, whether it is a weapon, or currency, it is all sophisticated, which is actually closely related to the government soldier system, because the government soldiers are their own weapons, and this weapon is used to make meritorious service and save life, who dares to get a second-class weapon on the battlefield, this is a joke with their own lives, the same is true of horse harness, then since there are requirements in this regard, the craftsman naturally does not dare to slack off, if it is not done well, it is to harm those soldiers, which over time, it has formed a tradition, The quality of weapons in the late Tang Dynasty was very rubbish, and the copper coins were also very inferior, and they were all made by the government in the later period, and the officials peeled off a layer from them, and the knife was thin.

"Not bad, not bad."

Han Yi nodded with great satisfaction and said, "I need to mint three million yuan of currency next year, is there a problem?" ”

"Of course, there is no problem." Manager Wang was puzzled again: "But it's only three million? ”

Han Yi smiled: "Don't worry, let's take our time." ”

In fact, the people here are all Li Zhi's people, including this Wang Governor, who was originally an official of Shaofu, but Li Zhi probably can't remember this valley.

It's a forgotten plan.

Before Wu Meiniang's new policy, there was actually a debate about the salt tax, that is, when the imperial court was preparing to buy Tuyuhun's salt on a large scale in order to support Tuyuhun, Li Yifu asked for a salt tax and monopolized it, but Han Yi was resolutely opposed, and Li Zhi finally adopted Han Yi's suggestion, but Li Zhi was not stupid, monopolizing salt can bring income to the imperial court, why did Han Yi impress Li Zhi, this is the plan!

Monetary Plan!

Han Yi told Li Zhi that with the development of commerce, copper coins will become more and more important and their value will become higher and higher. However, at that time, copper coins were still relatively scarce, and they were only valued in a few cities, because at that time, commerce was still just improving, and everyone was still self-sufficient, and generally did not need money, and more used silk as currency. Han Yi proposed to secretly monopolize all copper mines, and secretly speculated low copper prices and high silk, because at that time, the northwest trade had just risen, and silk was a hard currency, so he used silk and grain to buy copperware.

But you have to hold on to it first, and wait for the price of the currency to rise, of course it is to fool Li Zhi, Han Yi knows that there is a crisis, and he plans to wait for this crisis to happen again.

Because this is more shameless, the court is equivalent to a speculative businessman, if you say it, first of all, you will not be able to lower the price of copper, and secondly, you will be scolded to death, which must be done in secret.

Li Zhi handed over the entire plan to Han Yi, and also sent some people from the forbidden army to Han Yi to be in charge of this plan, except for the two of them, no one knew, including Wu Meiniang, Li Yifu and them, and even this Wang Guan didn't know what he was doing.

Because this is a long-term plan, and it has no effect at the beginning, this needs to be accumulated, and over time, Li Zhi himself has forgotten about it, it is all in the management of Han Yi, and it is saved every year, little by little, and later, the copper mines have been mined, and there are several large copper mines in Lelang Prefecture, and the amount of copper has skyrocketed. (For details, please see, Chapter 1431 Youqing guards the country's wealth and is worry-free)

Han Yi never fights unprepared battles, such as someone told him today that there is a shortage of copper coins in the market, and the imperial court has to increase the issuance, and he himself knows that if he is not prepared, how can he be so calm, he N years ago even if he has today, but the copper mining technology is limited, and this is a speculative transaction, he has to take his time, he can't be in a hurry, he must wait until he can't maintain the operation of the market before issuing more copper coins.

Next year, we will definitely increase the amount of currency issued, because it has reached a critical point, and if it is not issued, it may trigger a currency crisis.