"Liu Xuan, ......" Dong Zhuo pondered for a while when he heard this, then nodded and said, "Just do what Wen You said." Dong Zhuo had never heard of Liu Xiang at all, but he believed that Li Ru would be the most suitable person since he recommended Liu Xuan.

Subsequently, Li Ru and Jia Xu began to report on their daily affairs, in fact, Dong Zhuo basically doesn't go to court much now, but just let the hundred officials report the matter to Li Ru, Jia Xu and others, and after they deal with it, the rest of the things that cannot be decided will be reported to themselves.

"Huh? The court has no money? When Dong Zhuo heard Li Ru's words, his brows immediately furrowed.

"Yes, in order to guard against Li Yi and many Kwantung forces, the two counties of Hedong and Hongnong have been expanding their troops. In Sanfu, there are more than 100,000 troops, which require a lot of money. In addition, the dock fort built by the lord in Yixian County, and the palace built in Chang'an after the capital was moved, all cost countless money. Li Ru said respectfully.

In fact, Li Ru didn't say a word, that is, although Dong Zhuo scavenged a lot of money from Luoyang when he moved the capital to Chang'an, most of that money was sent by Dong Zhuo to the dock fort being built in Yixian. In addition, Dong Zhuo has always used the money of the imperial court to live a luxurious life, which has made the finances of the imperial court always in a situation where they cannot make ends meet.

By the way, most of the money collected by the emperors of Liu Zhi and Liu Hong through selling officials was also in the dock fort in Yixian.

Hearing this, Dong Zhuo suddenly fell silent, although he no longer likes to use his brain, but he has not really become stupid. He could hear that Li Ru was asking him for money, but although there were hundreds of millions of dollars in the dock fort in Yixian, how could Dong Zhuo be willing to take it?

After a long while, Dong Zhuocai frowned and said, "Why don't you mint some new money?" ”

Hearing this, Li Ru's heart sank suddenly, and he could hear that Dong Zhuo didn't plan to take out the money. Although he didn't blame Dong Zhuo for this choice, and he had already guessed it, when he really heard it, he couldn't help but be a little disappointed, "It seems that the lord will never be able to return to the way he used to be." ”

In the past, although Dong Zhuo was also greedy for money, he was not stingy with his subordinates, and he would reward his subordinates every time he got any benefits, but now, ......

However, Li Ru did not complain about anything, because his loyalty to Dong Zhuo was not because of Dong Zhuo's original character. Even if Dong Zhuo immediately gave up all his choices in Chang'an and returned to the Qiang people to live a free and easy life, he, Li Ru, would not hesitate to follow.

"My lord, if you want to mint new money, I'm afraid that the copper mines in Sili and Liangzhou alone are not enough, why don't you collect copper products from the imperial court and even the people, and at the same time reduce the amount of coins and increase the amount ......," Li Ru said with his own idea.

"Yes, yes, yes! That's it! Hearing this, Dong Zhuo quickly agreed, as long as he didn't have to spend the money he hid, everything else was easy to say.

"In addition, the subordinates thought that they could let Captain Liu arrest those who were unfilial to their sons, disloyal to their ministers, unclear officials, and disobedient to their younger brothers, and confiscate their family property according to their crimes to fill the treasury." When Li Ru heard this, he put forward a new proposal.

"Haha! I have Wenyou, I can really sit back and relax! Dong Zhuo laughed when he heard this.

With Dong Zhuo's order, the imperial court began to make new money while purchasing various copper products on a large scale. However, the problem of this new money is very big, for example, the weight of the new money is much lighter than the original five-baht money, and some are even more than several times lighter.

It is important to know that the copper coins used in this era were not just simple currency, because even copper coins of the same weight were often worth more than their denominations. After all, in this day and age, copper is very expensive.

But when the new money does this, the value of the copper coin itself will decline endlessly, not to mention that it is higher than the denomination, and many new coins are far inferior to the value of the denomination. This situation naturally makes it difficult for the new money to be accepted by the people.

Moreover, not only is the value of the new money itself reduced, but the production of the new money is very crude, and some of the new money does not even have outlines and words. If it doesn't still look like a copper coin, it's just an ordinary copper sheet.

Refuse? When the imperial court used this kind of inferior new money to buy items in the hands of the people, which people dared to refuse? Not to mention that after the new money appeared, the money and bounties issued by the imperial court to the officials could be replaced with new money, and all the new money would be used.

In this case, the new money has completely become the mainstream currency in the hands of the people in Sili in a short period of time. It's just that although it has become the mainstream, with so many shortcomings of new money, prices have begun to rise rapidly, and this influence is gradually spreading to the surrounding states and counties.

After all, Si Li, as the location of the Great Han Jingshi, can easily affect the entire world with his every move, even if he has moved to Chang'an now.

Well? Doesn't anyone see the drawbacks of this kind of behavior? Of course there are, such as those ordinary people and businessmen who have no right to speak. As for the scholars, they didn't care much about this kind of thing. After all, this kind of thing of minting new money from the imperial court to plunder wealth from the people has been common since ancient times, but the size of the influence and the subsequent development are slightly different.

At the same time, Yunwu County, Jincheng County, Liangzhou.

"Yuan Wu, I know that you want to be able to make achievements, so that the foundation laid by Brother Han will not be taken away by that Dong Zhuo. But everything is too much, you are so busy with government affairs, where can your body stand it? Zhang Ning walked to the bed with a bowl of medicinal soup, looked at Han Qian, who was a little pale, and sighed.

"Let my aunt worry, Qian is guilty......" Han Qian said with a weak breath.

"What is not guilty, you men......" Zhang Ning shook his head and sighed when he heard this, and then said helplessly while feeding Han Qian to drink medicine, "Your father and my gentleman are brothers in life and death, you are like a child to me, isn't it normal to be a mother's worry about children?" ”

Hearing this, Han Qian's face suddenly flushed, "Auntie...... Can you really treat Qian as a child...... Ahem!! Han Qian looked at Zhang Ning very excitedly, with a hint of expectation in his eyes.

Since Han Sui's death, he was sent to Liangzhou, and his biological mother remained in Chang'an as a hostage. Although Yan Xing and the others helped, it was obviously a very difficult thing for such a young person to suddenly take charge of the land of the two counties, not to mention that he had to beware of those old ministers.

At such a time, it was Zhang Ning who constantly helped him and encouraged him as an aunt, how could this not move Han Qian?