When Yang Bo walked into the main hall, he saw Zheng Wen and Yang Bo looking at each other speechlessly, their faces were heavy and contemplative. And the brocade guard in the main hall was dressed in a bright flying fish suit, holding the handle of the embroidered spring knife, standing upright, but his face was a little pale, and the usual tall and mighty, but there was an unusual difference, such a strange scene, so that Yang Bo's heart couldn't help but feel a little heavier!

As soon as Zheng Wen saw Yang Bo, he didn't wait for him to salute, so he said to him expressionlessly: "Yang Qing, you are here, great, come and see why this Taicang Ling Li Dou died?" ”

"This is indeed a little too weird, I just arrived in Taicang for a while, this Li Dou was in front of everyone, talking, and smiling, and died for no reason, which made people's scalp tingle! Yang Qing, you are a master of solving cases after all, take a look! ”

Zheng Wen couldn't wait to say, and there was a sense of anxiety in his tone.

Yang Bo listened to Zheng Wen's words, and bowed to Zheng Wen and Yang Bo without hurry, before he spoke: "No! ”

After speaking, Yang Bo stopped talking, and in front of Zheng Wen, he took out a sackcloth from his baggage, put it on top of his official uniform, and put on a pair of white gloves, only to show a serious look, and his eyes shot a sharp arrow, dazzling and straight into people's hearts.

I saw that he breathed a long sigh of relief, and then he took a small step and walked towards Li Dou's corpse unhurriedly.

At this time, Yang Bo was extremely serious, engrossed, and excluded all the chaotic thoughts in his mind, which was the most serious time in his life.

On the way here, he had already heard Huang An tell him about the case, and roughly understood the beginning and end of this matter, Taicang had a million taels of gold disappeared for no reason, and was just noticed by the court, and Taicang's chief official Taicang Ling Li Dou died strangely at this time, so confusing, so mysterious!

Was it artificially arranged? Or is it just a coincidence?

Nothing can be done!

But he knew that the stakes were high and that the truth must be found out as soon as possible. As a high-ranking official of the court, he knew in his heart that the court at this time was an eventful time, rectifying the rule of the big cadres, checking the granary of the big cadres, and cleaning up the local officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River, which one was not a major matter, but these three major events collided together, the court situation at this time, it was the sea before the tsunami, everything was so calm, as long as there was such an introduction, it would be a thousand waves immediately!

And this introduction, for the court at this time, is the one million taels of gold that Taicang disappeared for no reason, and the strange death of Taicang Ling in front of everyone's eyes led this matter to a more bizarre development, as long as there is a little guidance from the heart, it will even develop in the direction of ghosts and gods, and the court will be more treacherous and changeable, which is not a good thing for the court at this time.

And as the chief official of Dali Temple, he is duty-bound to investigate this case and recover the lost gold!

At this time, Yang Bo walked towards Li Dou's corpse step by step, serious and serious, as if he was holding a ceremony.

Closer, closer, closer, he approached Li Dou's corpse, stopped half a foot away, he bent down, carefully observed, observed his feet from head to head, he observed silently, frowned, paused, and with his own hands, turned over Li Dou's already stiff corpse, looked at it, and touched Li Dou's face, Li Dou was still smiling like that, as if laughing at his ignorance...... He still frowned, and after a long time, he shook his head and began to observe again.

As soon as Zheng Wen saw this, he knew that this Yang Bo would not end in a short time, in fact, he didn't know very well what the process of handling the case was, so he beckoned Yang Bo to leave the main hall, after all, staying in the same room with the dead for a long time was still uncomfortable, and it was good to leave this space to Yang Bo to facilitate his play, so he left the main hall of Taicang without a sound.

Out of the main hall of Taicang, Zheng Wen and Yang Bo were surrounded by everyone in a small garden in Taicang.

In this small garden, there are some unknown small trees planted, the greenery of a garden, in this late autumn, it has a unique style, only mixed with the unknown chrysanthemums planted, there is a little autumn.

Zheng Wen stood in the small garden, looking at the vitality of the garden, and asked Yang Bo, the head of the household department on the side, "Yang Qing, you have checked this Taicang, how much silver is there in total?" ”

In fact, Zheng Wen has also read the relevant information of Taicang, and he also knows the situation of silver storage in Taicang, but he still asked, obviously looking for something to do.

Yang Bo listened, organized the language, and said in a serious tone: "Your Majesty, the minister has just organized the household department to check this warehouse, and now there are 83.27 million taels of silver in the warehouse, 15.61 million taels of gold in reserves, of course, the one million taels of gold that disappeared does not count, and as for the copper coins, it is only two million yuan. ”

Zheng Wen listened, nodded, and then asked, "Yang Qing, how much silver does your household department have now?" ”

As for how much money the household department has, Zheng Wen has still read the relevant information of the household department, but after all, it is only on paper, and he still wants to hear the words of Yang Bo, the head of the household department.

Yang Bo listened, was silent for a while, and then spoke: "Your Majesty, the minister has just taken office as the secretary of the household department, and it is too late to conduct a thorough investigation of the silver money of the household department, on paper, in addition to Taicang, there are twenty-three silver vaults, eighteen are in the capital, with a total of 54.48 million taels of silver, 2.79 million taels of gold, a silver treasury in Taiyuan, 2.2 million taels of silver, 184,000 taels of gold, a silver treasury in Jinling, 4.22 million taels of silver, 376,000 taels of gold, and a silver treasury in Hangzhou. There are 3,970,000 taels of silver and 28,000 taels of gold, there is a silver treasury in Jinan, 6.6 million taels of silver, 470,000 taels of gold, and there is a silver treasury in Luoyang, with 3,700,000 taels of silver and 174,000 taels of gold. ”

"The minister consulted the relevant information of the Ministry of Households, since the founding of the country, the copper materials mined by the court have increased year by year, most of them have been used for copper coin casting, and the Great Cadre should not lack copper coins, but the records of the household department for a hundred years, the amount of copper coins required by the people has greatly increased, and in the past 30 years, the court has put 50 million new copper coins into the people every year, but it is still not enough, and there is even a shortage of money among the people, since the ten years, the relevant information of the Ministry of Households has recorded that more than 10 million copper coins have disappeared every year, and they have withdrawn from the market ......circulation."

When Zheng Wen heard this, he was shocked, but he was also very curious, he really didn't know about this, and it was the first time he heard about it, so he asked: "Yang Qing, you said, this big Qian, in the past ten years, 100 million copper coins have disappeared from the market, this is too much, how is this possible?" What's going on here? ”

Yang Bo listened, was silent for a while, and then spoke: "Your Majesty, since the founding of the country, more than 300 years, the country has been peaceful, people breed, people have the habit of hiding money, and the most they come into contact with is copper coins, and the copper coins that are not usually used are stored, this is on the one hand, not circulating means disappearing." ”

"Of course, on the other hand, it is an illegal businessman, secretly collecting copper coins, casting bronze utensils, this is a huge profit, the court in recent years, the crackdown is not very strict, many people take risks, illegal profiteering, many copper coins have been artificially disappeared, of course, this is only a small part, after all, this is only a small part, the minister in Kaifeng as an official, has captured this kind of lawbreaker."

"Of course, the most important aspect is that it has flowed outside the Great Qian, more than ten years of Chengping, the Great Qian's trade has become increasingly developed, and it has spread to the surrounding areas of the Great Qian, and many countries around the Great Qian, including the Wa Kingdom, Annam, etc., in fact, they use the copper coins cast by the Great Qian, because the copper coins have the words Daqian, and the casting is excellent, they are recognized, and many places around the Great Qian are cheap and expensive, as long as the copper money is transported to these places, a large amount of silver, and then these silver are transported back to the Great Qian, that is huge profits. This also caused a large outflow of copper coins. ”

"Therefore, the amount of copper coins needed by the people is increasing day by day, and the additional copper coins issued by the court are far less than the needs of the people, which has caused a money shortage.

As soon as Zheng Wen heard Yang Bo's words, especially in the many countries around Daqian, the circulation of Daqian copper coins is not the most basic financial hegemony? Of course, this is just a spontaneous act of the people.

Zheng Wen just thought about it, after all, in these years, the transportation is still too backward, the circulation is too slow, how difficult is it to achieve financial hegemony? At present, the most important thing is to solve the problem of the shortage of money in the big cadres.

So, Zheng Wen asked again: "Yang Qing, then what good can you do?" It is unrealistic to increase copper mining in a short period of time, but in fact, for the entire Daqian, our Daqian is still short of copper. As for what hinders the outflow of copper coins, it is even more unrealistic, there are too many interests in it. ”

Yang Bo listened, nodded, and then said with a serious face: "Indeed, as Your Majesty said, what the court can do at this stage is to severely crack down on lawbreakers who cast money as tools, but this is obviously a drop in the bucket, and it is still difficult to solve the problem of money shortage in Daqian, and the minister can't think of a specific solution for the time being." ”

When Zheng Wen heard this, he wanted to tell Yang Bo about his idea of minting gold and silver coins, and wanted to hear his opinion.

And at this time, I saw Yang Bo of Dali Temple coming from a distance, as soon as Zheng Wen saw Yang Bo, he immediately swallowed the words in his mouth, after all, no matter how serious the money shortage is, it can also be solved slowly, but the one million taels of gold that disappeared in Taicang, Li Dou such a strange cause of death, but it must be solved immediately, otherwise I don't know what kind of storm will happen.

When Yang Bo approached, Zheng Wen couldn't wait to speak: "Yang Qing, you are here, what is the cause of Li Dou's death?" ”