Yan Rou held a few gold coins and silver coins in her hand, and then kept comparing them.

The more they compared, the more ugly their faces became, which made Liu Bei and Zhang Fei even more confused.

"Strategist, there won't be any problem with this gold coin and silver coin, right?" Zhang Fei rubbed his hands and asked a little nervously.

"Questions?" Yan Rou raised her head and said, "This is a big problem, very big. ”

Liu Bei also became nervous when he heard this, and hurriedly asked: "Strategist, this is just gold coins and silver coins, noble utensils, what's the big problem?" ”

"Second General, let me ask you, are there really a lot of these things on the market?" Yan Rou did not answer Liu Bei's question, but asked Zhang Fei to say.

Zhang Fei was stunned for a moment, organized the language and said: "That's right, a lot, I just went out and saw someone using it, so I inquired, this thing is now very popular with the family, because it is not only exquisite, but also much more convenient to use, and you don't need to go out with a big bag of copper coins." ”

After Zhang Fei finished speaking, he added: "Strategist, is there anything wrong with this?" ”

Yan Rou looked at Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, and then said: "Lord, second general, you see, these coins, regardless of the specifications or patterns, are all exactly the same, what does this mean?" ”

Zhang Fei touched his head and asked, "What does it mean?" ”

"It means that someone has made a special template and is casting this thing on a large scale." Yan Rou said loudly.

Zhang Fei still didn't understand, patted his head and said: "Yes, this shows that this thing has no collection value, people want as many as they want, but this thing is convenient to use, and you don't need to carry a big bag of copper coins when you go out to eat and drink." ”

Yan Rou ignored Zhang Fei and said to Liu Bei: "Lord, this is coinage, this coinage can only be done by the imperial court, and now someone is openly minting coins and starting to issue them, this is challenging the imperial court and your majesty." ”

As soon as Yan Rou explained, Liu Bei immediately reacted, and he said excitedly: "Collect, collect, collect all these things for me." ”

Liu Bei was a little crazy, he had realized the seriousness of this matter, it was serious enough to threaten him, so he lost his square inch.

But fortunately, Yan Rou was calmer, and he said to Liu Bei: "My lord, the top priority is to quickly find out the source of these coins and find out the scope of influence. ”

"Okay, I'll send someone to check it out immediately." Zhang Fei had already heard that this matter was very serious, so he didn't dare to delay it, so he went to arrange it immediately.

In the evening, Liu Bei and Yan Rou were still waiting, and the two of them sat in Liu Bei's study with serious expressions.

It was close to midnight before Zhang Fei came back.

"Second brother, how is it?" Zhang Fei came back, and Liu Bei quickly stood up and asked.

Zhang Fei first picked up Liu Bei's teacup, poured it hard, and then scolded: "Grandma, this is another good thing that Ye Chen did, this thing was obtained from him, and now it is everywhere." ”

Liu Bei and Yan Rou were stunned, and this was related to Ye Chen again.

"Second General, what's going on, quick, sit down and talk about it." Yan Rou realized that the situation was more complicated, so she asked Zhang Fei to sit down and speak.

Zhang Fei didn't say a word, took off a package from behind his back, and then put it on the table and said: "These are all gold and silver coins that I exchanged for from a few money banks, and I went to someone to ask for some, you see, if they are all the same." ”

Liu Bei opened the package, which was full of gold and silver coins, the total number of which was hundreds, and hundreds of gold coins were piled up with silver coins, which had a much greater impact on the vision.

Liu Bei and Yan Rou hurriedly picked up the gold coins and compared them with the silver coins, and after some comparison, they found that all the gold coins and silver coins were of the same specifications.

"Sure enough." After reading the coin, Yan Rou said in a deep voice.

This was the same as he had guessed, and there were people who minted coins on a large scale to challenge the authority of the imperial court.

"Second brother, are these coins really minted by Ye Chen?" Liu Bei asked.

"That's still fake." Zhang Fei replied.

Yan Rou thought for a moment, and then asked, "Second General, how did you find out?" ”

Yan Rou thought that this matter should be kept secret, and this Zhang Fei found out in just over half a day, a little too fast.

"Still need to check? Go out and ask all about it, and the Ye family money village is not shy about selling this gold and silver coins to the major families, and now it is a bit exaggerated to say that everyone on the street knows that this gold and silver coins were minted by Ye Chen, but you go and ask those families, which one doesn't know. ”

Yan Rou and Liu Bei are a little incredible, this private coinage, can be described as rebellion, although the things that the major princes do today are no different from rebellion, but no one will admit it, and they don't have such obvious and direct evidence of guilt for others to arrest.

"This Ye Chen actually dares to openly create a law, I want Your Majesty to immediately issue an edict of rebellion, and raise the world's soldiers and horses to crusade against Ye Chen." When Liu Bei heard this, he immediately became angry.

"Big brother, I also got a piece of news, that is, Ye Chen went through all the laws of the Han Dynasty, and there was no crime in minting gold and silver coins, and Ye Chen said that he had not minted copper coins." Zhang Fei tilted his head and said angrily.

Liu Bei and Yan Rou were stunned, obviously Ye Chen explained the law of the Han Dynasty, he said no, no one is more authoritative than him.

The reason is very simple, Ye Chen secretly changed the concept, and only Liaodong has a complete Han law.

Because Ye Chen copied all the books in the palace to Liaodong, and they were all lost in the fire.

In this way, Ye Chen obtained the right to interpret the law, in fact, he could also change the concept.

As long as the law of the Han Dynasty does not clearly stipulate that gold and silver coins cannot be minted, then Ye Chen'an cannot be directly charged with law-making.

"This Ye Chen is extremely shameless." Liu Bei scolded.

Yan Rou was silent, Ye Chen did a clever job, minting gold and silver coins, Dahan really didn't have a clear rule before.

However, now that the emperor is still there, and the nominal court is still there, the emperor can re-issue a decree prohibiting the minting of gold and silver coins, otherwise it will be tantamount to rebellion.

But today's Liu Xie, where is there much deterrence, his holy decree can be occupied in name, and no prince will abide by it.

Even if he ordered Ye Chen to stop minting coins at this time, it would be too late, Ye Chen could say that these coins had been minted before, and it was useless to make an order to prohibit him from circulating, the imperial power was already out of control, there was no way to supervise, and there was no way to catch him.

In short, the royal majesty of the Han Dynasty was trampled on again, and Liu Bei could only sigh.

"Strategist, isn't there any other way?" Liu Bei is unwilling, he is now a member of the Han royal family, and he will never allow the imperial power to be trampled on like this.

Yan Rou shook his head and said: "The imperial power has fallen to such an extent, this Ye Chen does not use these gold coins and silver coins in other places except Youzhou, he is coming for His Majesty, if we give him an order, we can't stop him, but it will make this imperial power be weakened at an accelerated pace, until it is completely useless." ”