Once the development direction is set, it must be implemented in earnest, but Mi Zhu stood up and raised the issue of financial difficulties.

"My lord, now the money in our treasury is piling up, and there is a steady stream of tax profits outside, but there is an annoying thing here."

Lu Peng smiled and quipped: "It's not that our God of Wealth lacks a treasury again, if we build it like this, the entire Youzhou City will become a treasury in the future." But don't worry, because we are about to start the large-scale development of the western region, and the money will continue to flow out. ”

The large-scale development of the western region refers to the five and a half counties that have just arrived, which were almost completely eroded by this war, and when Yuan Shao retreated, he burned almost everything, and if he wants to recover, it will require a large amount of investment from the government, and there will be Mi Zhu pain at that time.

Mi Zhu grinned and reported: "Now the subordinates are not talking about this, and the subordinates are going to say more serious than this." ”

"What could be more serious than this, let's hear it and see if I can fix it for you." Lu Peng has absolute confidence in solving the affairs of this era, after all, as a time-traveling person, he has nearly two thousand years of experience to learn from. In the later generations, there is no knowledge, no common sense, no common sense, you can't go on TV, who can leave the Internet smartphone if you don't watch TV, even if you are an idiot, in that environment, you can cultivate an expert in governing the country. At the wine table, for current affairs, which one is not domestic or foreign, is talking about foaming and flying the head is the way? That formation is definitely a brother of Beijing, and his ability to govern the country is definitely higher than that of the prime minister of a big country.

There is a web crawling at the bottom of the previous life, what things in this era cannot be solved?

Mi Zhu reported: "Since the first Qin Shi Huang unified the world's coins, minting the outer circle and the inner square money to the present, up and down for hundreds of years, all dynasties and generations have been casting, and especially in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Gaozu established the country and divided countless close relatives and princes, they are scattered all over the place, but also have to mint coins to take the wealth of the world, when Wang Mang usurped the throne, but also issued coins that can float on the water, in which the copper and lead content is also different——"

"Don't tell me about the history of coins, what do you mean?" Lu Peng frowned, interrupting Mi Zhu's bad conversation.

Since Emperor Wu reused Confucianism, the scribes talked loudly and made empty words, as if one thing did not talk about the three emperors and five emperors, and the earth could not show their university knowledge, and they could not reflect the importance of this small matter, so many things began to be fried, and countless good times were wasted in this nonsense.

Now most of his subordinate officials are from families, and they have also brought the bad habits of the old court into their own groups, this Lu Peng is very disgusted, if this momentum continues, his own council hall will also become an empty teahouse, so he is deliberately boycotting and correcting this bad problem.

Seeing that he had annoyed the lord, Mi Zhu immediately said the right thing: "It is precisely because all the good and bad money of the past dynasties are circulating in the market, so now it has caused a huge confusion in the contrast of copper coins, especially in our place, due to the huge development of industry and commerce, the money flowing in from outside is all kinds and even more chaotic. To give a simple example, take our field rent to calculate, according to the normal price, a stone of wheat should be 400 yuan, after we calculate it into money, that is to say, we have to collect 300 yuan of land rent, but there is a huge chaos here, the money of Taizu Gaozu, in principle, 50 yuan is enough, but Wang Mang's money, 600 yuan is not enough, Dong Zhuo's money, 1,000 yuan, in fact, we all suffer, in this way, let us the officials who collect taxes, dilemma. ”

Xu Jie also stood up: "The confusion caused by the quality of the coins is secondary, the most important thing is that the quality of the coins is so chaotic that some ill-intentioned and greedy businessmen and officials have loopholes to exploit, for example, last month Yuyang was responsible for collecting industrial and commercial taxes, when collecting taxes in an iron factory, he collected half a tael of copper six lead four, but he changed hands to the market in exchange for the small five beads of copper four lead six minted by Emperor Ling at that time, within the normal range, just like this, he exchanged the price difference in the middle, When our Jinyiwei was investigating him, he even had a lot of words. Then he spread his hands: "And our people are indeed speechless, have nothing to say." ”

"You mean, we need a numismatic reform." Regarding the two people's eloquent talk and bitterness, Lu Peng gave a straightforward answer, but everyone also heard that he was already impatient.

Mi Zhu and Xu Jie immediately bowed down and saluted: "That's what subordinates mean." ”

Lu Peng pinched his chin and began to think. Mi Zhu is right, the current popular coins in the world are too chaotic, not only are they minted by the government, but in fact, more of them are inferior coins minted by private individuals.

In fact, the technical threshold for minting copper coins is not high, and counterfeit coins have been manufactured in all dynasties. When the government's coinage power was insufficient, they even acquiesced to the circulation of private money. The technical threshold for private currency production by the people is far higher than that of the imperial court. Because the new copper coins minted by the imperial court can be directly put on the market for circulation, and the private coins minted by the people also need to add an "old" technology.

At that time, the Han court also found such a chaotic situation, several generations of emperors have worked hard to change, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Yuan Ding four years of the order "forbidden counties do not mint money", the right to mint coins back to the central government, at the expense of the production of three officials and five baht. The three official coins are minted by the three institutions of the central government, Zhongguan and Tongtong, and they are also called "Shanglin Sanguan" because the three institutions are located in Shanglin Yuan near Chang'an. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty decreed that "money that is not not the three officials shall not be used", and all the coins minted in the past were invalidated and destroyed, and the copper material was transported to the three officials of Shanglin.

Due to the continuous improvement of coinage technology and the complexity of the production process, the five-baht coins minted by Shanglin Sanguan are of excellent quality, fine and beautiful, standardized writing, neat and uniform, and the level of craftsmanship is quite high. This five-baht coin has been used for six or seven hundred years, and it was not abolished until the fourth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty. But more bad money is in vogue around the world. This creates a huge loophole in the market circulation and directly leads to corruption.

Because of the great development of industry and commerce, his Youzhou has now almost become an exhibition hall of all kinds of currencies in the world, and the value of money is different from each other, which also seriously hinders the operation of its own market, so to sum up, Mi Zhu and Xu Jie mean - re-minting currency.

(End of chapter)