Chapter 68: Money Makes Money (Double Shift No. 1)
Xiao Zheng put the box containing the coins on Jin'er's car, and rode home exhausted, sleeping without changing his clothes. When I woke up, I found that it was time to get up, and Jin'er was holding a few coins in her hand under the light and looking over and over, laughing while watching.
"In the middle of the night, you see what it does, and it doesn't sleep."
Jin'er lay on him and said happily: "Husband, these coins are really beautiful, the concubine likes it very much, I have seen these two commemorative coins just now, and when I came back today from Fang Xiang's side, Fang Xiang praised your Ministry of Civil Affairs for doing two great things, one is the promotion of agricultural tools, and the other is the issuance of new coins, and my husband is a disaster."
I took it and looked at the number on the gold coin as "007", and I got a spy number! Anyway, it seems that Li Shimin is still good to himself, patting Jin'er and sleeping with her in his arms.
The next day, my hands were numb and my arms hurt, and by the time I got up from bed and arrived at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, it was already three poles in the morning.
Du Ruhui looked at him helplessly and said, "Master Xiao, since you arrived at work, you have said you, when are you on time?" I don't know what the saint thinks of you, if your boss participates in your lazy political affairs, it is enough for you to roll up and go home."
"Old Duwa, if you join me and let me go home, I will definitely go to Yingtai Pavilion to feast on you for three days. You just said that yesterday, I thought that this pro-cultivator went through the motions, who would have thought that the saint had moved his real character, and now you see, the bubbles on my hands are still peeling, this is the whole of us going to the princes to carry the long-term work of his family as a tenant, and I have suffered this sin."
"Do you want to roll up and go home? Think beautifully! Come, Lord Xiao, this official asked you to do something, and the matter of the new currency issuance will be yours, hey, why are you asleep again? ”。
After the spring ploughing, the yamen who went to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to receive money found that all they received were new money, and the good-looking coins were put in a small crate, and each hundred was a box, and there was no need to wear hemp rope anymore, and it made people like it from the heart.
Soon there was a new currency on the city of Chang'an, and the people slowly found that the new currency was not only good and beautiful, and there was a good thing to compare the old currency with the new currency of 100 yuan, and found that the new currency was nearly half a percent heavier than the old copper coin, and the new currency was very popular in the transaction, and also made the people in the neighborhood recognize the existence of the new coin. Some traders prefer to offer some discounts rather than new coins.
The silver coin is mainly used in the circulation of large transactions between large merchants, and slowly everyone finds that this silver coin is really easy to use, a small box is loaded into the carriage by itself, and the money is taken away, and there is no need to find a helper to take care of the home and pull a cart full of copper coins to run around. Now in the Yingzhou Pavilion, a guest took out a few silver coins from his arms and slapped them on the table, and the guy was very bullish and blew on his mouth, and shouted after listening to it: "Uncle Xie reward!" "The chest of the paying guest will be straightened.
Due to the popularity of these two coins, a hundred new copper coins on the black market could be exchanged for one hundred and thirty old coins, and the silver coins sent to Luoyang were even more terrifying to be exchanged for one and a half times the same weight.
The imitation that Xiao Zheng was worried about did not appear at all, firstly, these kinds of coin production industry have represented the current top level of Datang, and it is extremely difficult to imitate them with excellent production technology. The second is that it involves imperial power, after all, Li Shimin's big head is in the middle of the coin, that is, there is no legal provision, out of fear of imperial power, ordinary people do not dare to fake, and counterfeiting copper coins is also a felony, there is no need.
Du Ruhui was a little stupid when he stood in the treasury, and released 200,000 yuan of coins in a month, and returned 25 yuan of old money, and the weight of the silver was one and a half times more than the original one and a half times that of the original warehouse. He really couldn't understand where the extra money came from, although Xiao Zheng put a lot of money out of the black market. No matter how ugly the copper and silver are, his weight will not change, and it is also money.
Xiao Zheng didn't bother to explain to him, and just after pulling him out of the warehouse and sitting down in the room, an attendant walked in and handed over two invitations, and opened it to see that it was sent by Du Yiti, saying that he was going to Yingzhou Pavilion to invite the two adults to dinner tomorrow night.
"He is a businessman and a Hu businessman, he swallows a leopard and has the guts to invite me to dinner, if it weren't for the fact that he sent so much money to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, I would have to treat him for being rude and offensive", it seems that Du Ruhui despises Shangjia very much, and he is not to blame, the whole society is like this.
"Lao Du, you have to change this concept, it stands to reason that I am also a businessman, haven't you always been kind to me, besides, people sent you so much money in, and if you don't reach out and give gifts, people also see that you can get along with your Ministry of Civil Affairs, otherwise they won't give you this invitation. If it weren't for these rich businessmen supporting our treasury, the sage would have given us the authority to increase the amount of taxes, I guess the two of us would have been cold, as long as we could make the treasury have more copper coins, go and go, you should do it", Xiao Zheng persuaded Lao Du to say.
"You are different from him, you are worried about increasing the treasury to fight for your life to share your worries, instead of selfish interests, he is different, anyway, I want to go to you, my Lao Du can't afford to lose that person", casually threw the invitation aside.
"Brainless, I'm definitely going to go" Xiao Zheng shook his head with a wry smile.
After returning home and lying on the kang after dinner, Jin'er turned her face over with a gossipy face, Xiao Zheng looked at her very strangely and said, "What's wrong?" ”
"Husband, has the saint ever looked for you?".
"No, what is he looking for me?"
"Then have you heard about Mrs. Fang Xiang yesterday?"
"No, I really haven't paid attention, where do I gossip all day long like you, it's not better to go to the medicine hall to sit for a consultation than to chew the root of your tongue."
Jin'er pinched Xiao Zheng's arm and said, "I just heard it in the medicine hall, Your Majesty has often given palace maids to some ministers in the past few days."
"Well, and that's a good thing?" Xiao Zheng became interested as soon as he heard it.
As soon as I heard what Jin'er said, I realized that Li Shimin began to send the palace maids to the ministers of the court one after another, first to Yu Chi Lao Hei, who knelt on the ground at that time and said that his wife would not go down to the court to give it back. wanted to send a few to Wei Zheng, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was pouted back by Wei Zheng, his head could be broken and bleeding, and the beauty would not be accepted if he was killed.
One like this, two like this, Li Shimin couldn't get off the stage a little, the persimmon picked up and pinched softly, called Fang Xuanling over, and the five palace maids lined up to stand up for the old house to take home. Li Shimin also knew that Fang Xuanling was afraid of his wife at home, and let me go out to support you as the emperor, if she really bothered you and asked her to come to me, I don't believe that I can't cure her.
The old house didn't say anything at the time, and brought back a few beauties with a bitter face, and before the people in the house sat down, Mrs. Fang went away, and almost set the Prime Minister's Mansion on fire, and heard the people in the neighborhood outside say that Mrs. Fang grabbed the back of the old house's neck and took a few palace maids back to the harem.
Li Shimin was really not ambiguous, just waiting in the palace, Mrs. Fang choked Li Shimin when she met, the most unwise thing for a man is to quarrel with a woman, and even more unwise is to quarrel with a woman like Mrs. Fang.
Both Li Shimin committed it, no matter what, Li Shimin is also the Ninety-Five, choked for a while and the fire came up, and then asked the eunuch to bring a bottle over, pointed to the bottle and said Either you drink poisonous wine, or let the prime minister marry these palace maids back, choose one of the two.
How do you know that before the words fell, Lu took the bottle over, pulled out the lid and came twice, Lao Fang was also anxious when he saw it, hugged Lu Shi and poured two sips, it seemed that he was going to be martyred, and he found that the taste was very familiar and there was no adverse reaction when he drank it.
Li Shimin laughed and said that it was vinegar and turned his head and left, and he threw the eldest grandson queen in place to extinguish the fire, and only said goodbye to the eldest grandson afterwards and said that the old house was afraid of her, I am afraid of such a person, fortunately she is a woman, otherwise she is a headache than Wei Zheng.
How did the five palace maids send it out and return it?