Chapter 12: The Flood of Bad Money
Li Chengqian finally found the direction, and after thinking about the truth, he immediately threw himself into the vigorous real estate development.
This is what Zhao Chen is happy to see, counting on those people to build the house by themselves, then I don't know if the Year of the Ox has gone.
And with the intervention of Li Chengqian's bank, once it is completed, the people can get a house for free, and Li Chengqian can also make a lot of money from it, the best of both worlds, so why not do it!
When the court arrived, after the people from the household department once again proposed those houses in Wannian County, Li Chengqian stood up and took the initiative to ask for help to build houses for those people, which made the houses of the household department very happy.
This problem has been plagued for a whole year, but it has not been solved, there is no money in the treasury, and the household department naturally can't get the money, and now, since the prince's money bank has taken over, Fang Xuanling suddenly unloaded a big stone and breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Chengqian is in charge of the operation of the bank, but the supervision power lies in the court. Li Chengqian's proposal to take over this stall in Wannian County immediately caused a dispute in the court, and Li Chengqian had no choice but to repeatedly promise that in the end, the money bank would only make money, not lose money.
So, the next thing is that the people in the court are stupid, no matter how they think about breaking their heads, they can't think of Li Chengqian still making money from it. But the prince's words are conclusive, and it is clear that he is completely sure, and they can't doubt it.
"Brother Chen, I suddenly feel a little sad!" In the money village, Li Chengqian sat there listlessly, looking up at the roof of the money village, and said with a look of extreme disappointment: "There are so many people in the court, but no one can see it!" ”
"That's not good!" Zhao Chen took a sip of tea indifferently, slowly savoring the faint fragrance of tea in his mouth. Without looking back, he said: "Before they react, you will earn a lot of money!" ”
"That's the way it is!" Li Chengqian suddenly turned over and sat up. looked at Zhao Chen with a sad face and said, "But you know, when I go to the household department to stamp it." When Fang Xiang actually made up 50 yuan for me, did he have that expression? ”
"Fang Xiang is the prime minister of the Tang Empire!" Li Chengqian said with a bitter face: "Obviously, the money bank should make up for it, but in the end, it was the household department that made up the money, and it looked like he had finally unloaded his burden!" ”
"This kind of cheap thing, you are this time!" Zhao Chen looked at Li Chengqian, who was in pain, and said, "I dare to promise that as long as you build these houses, you won't wait for them to be bought out." Someone will snatch food from you right away! ”
"Chang'an is so big, in addition to Chang'an, there is Luoyang and so on!" Li Chengqian sat there, imitated Zhao Chen's appearance, took a sip of tea comfortably, and said slowly: "In that case, I am happy to see it!" ”
"Hahaha, okay, it's black enough!" Zhao Chen heard this. immediately gave Li Chengqian a thumbs up, laughed and said, "That's it, you continue to dream of making a fortune!" ”
As soon as the words fell, Zhao Chen stood up from his chair. He stretched his waist and walked out of the money house and got into the carriage of the wooden hill. Go straight to the Hou Mansion.
The day of spring ploughing is approaching day by day. Because of the emergence of the flour grinder, the wheat that was not much to be seen. Suddenly, the tide has risen, and the price has been repeated.
As a result, in this year's spring ploughing, both the family and the common people have taken a fancy to Zhao Chen's high-yield wheat.
The inch-long ears of wheat are a few more than Datang's wheat today, and what is even more rare is that the flour ground is also more refined than Datang's wheat flour today.
In fact, as early as after the Spring Festival, Hu Lu took a whole shipload of high-yield crops to all parts of Datang. However, when I got there, I was not in a hurry to sell, but stuck.
Spring ploughing is imminent, and the spring ploughing is delayed, that is a matter of a year, and the officials from all over the country are sparse, flying to Chang'an like snowflakes, all of which are to state this matter to Li Er.
In the court, there was also a large number of doubts, which had obviously been transported over, but why did they just suppress it. So, in a large number of doubts, Li Er had to summon Zhao Chen, who had not been in court for a long time, back.
"Your Majesty, there is so much food, you can't let Weichen send it for nothing, right?" Still in the court, Zhao Chen stood in the middle of the hall, looked at Li Er above the hall helplessly, and said with a wry smile.
"What did the Marquis of Chang'an say?" Hearing Zhao Chen's words, Fang Xuanling stood up very puzzled, looked at Zhao Chen and said: "From beginning to end, I didn't let Chang'an Hou take out food for nothing, he took money in exchange, how can I say that it was given away for nothing?" ”
Hearing Fang Xuanling's words in the main hall, they naturally echoed it, and from the notes sent to Chang'an by officials from all over the country, it had already been explained that it was Hu Lu who was unwilling to sell to them, not that they were unwilling to take money.
"It's useless to talk too much!" Zhao Chen smiled when he heard the gossip in the hall, and then, leaving the Taiji Palace, under the puzzled eyes of everyone, he sent two attendants to lift a box from the outside, open it in front of everyone, and then said: "Everyone come and see!" ”
"Bad money!" When Fang Xuanling heard this, he frowned suspiciously, and when he looked at the open box, he couldn't help but be surprised.
Bad money, bad money, refers to those shoddy, unofficially minted coins, with scribbled and blurred handwriting, and extremely irregular.
Bad money has always been disgusted by the imperial court, during the Wude period, because of the flood of bad money, Li Yuan ordered the abolition of the previous five coins, and instead minted the new coins of the Tang Dynasty, which is now circulating in the market Kaiyuan Tongbao.
Compared with the five plants in the past, Kaiyuan Tongbao is much larger, and its appearance is also exquisite. Coin minting, the proportion of the material contained in the copper is seven cents and three cents, and the original five coins are mostly made of money, which is light and easy to manufacture, so the whole flood is a disaster.
Later, during the Wude period, it was ordered to mint new coins, and the composition of new coins was strictly required to be in the ratio of seven cents of copper and three cents, but before the new coins were in circulation, the market began to flood with bad money.
Because copper is expensive, the people who minted the bad money privately got the new coins back, and then re-smelted them to extract the copper inside, and then added the ingredients of the money.
In the end, a penny at the good end becomes ten cents or more, and it is the market and the people who are harmed, and those who make profits are naturally those who mint coins privately.
Of course, the private casting of bad money will naturally not be the ordinary people, the people do not have such a great ability, take back the good money, and then mint it into bad money, not to mention, and circulate it on the market.
"Fang Xiang also saw it!" Zhao Chen stood on the edge of the box, looked at Fang Xuanling, who was extremely surprised, and said: "All this money has been collected one after another during this time, more than fifty times, and a few days ago, the shopkeeper Hu came back with a letter, only saying that the evil money outside is only a lot more than Chang'an!" ”
Speaking of this, Zhao Chen looked at everyone present with a smile: "I will take the grain out, you can't let me collect this kind of bad money!" ”
"No, it's all bad money!" A middle-aged man sitting in the middle of Wenchen suddenly stood up, glanced at the evil money in the box, listened to Zhao Chen's words, and spoke.
"Well said!" Zhao Chen didn't know the guy in front of him, but he noticed that when this guy came out, the representatives of the previous families all sat down at once, and couldn't help but smile in his heart, looked at the guy in front of him, and said: "There is a lot of good money, and besides, it's still a large part!" ”
"But!" Zhao Chen's voice fell, and without waiting for the person in front of him to speak, he continued: "Even if it is ten percent of the money, only one percent of the money is bad money, then this percent of the money is also a lot of money, why should I suffer such a big loss?" ”
"Bad money is repeatedly banned!" Zhao Chen's voice fell, and the guy in front of him suddenly looked at Zhao Chen and said: "It's not you Chang'an Hou alone, the businessmen in the east and west cities, who hasn't suffered from bad money!" ”
"It means that if others have received it, then I should have it too?" Zhao Chen was a little speechless by this guy's powerful reason, looked at the guy in front of him, and said, "Then I won't buy it, can I?" ”
As soon as these words came out, the guy in front of him was immediately stunned, stunned for a long time, and couldn't speak.
"Don't be annoyed, Chang'anhou!" Fang Xuanling on the side, seeing that Zhao Chen's face was angry, he glanced at the guy in front of him with dissatisfaction, and when he turned to look at Zhao Chen, he put on a smiling face and said in a consultative tone: "The local government will come forward and be responsible for counting the money, so that the Marquis of Chang'an can only collect the money!" ”
This method is not a good solution, Fang Xuanling's voice fell, and everyone in the hall immediately nodded in agreement, looking at Zhao Chen, waiting for Zhao Chen to nod.
Feudal official! Zhao Chen sneered in his heart, there are a few people in the official mansion who are from the Han clan, not all of them are from families, if the official government is reliable, why not so much bad money on the market.
"Naturally, there is nothing that cannot be done!" When Zhao Chen heard this, he looked at Fang Xuanling, and said with kindness: "However, before that, can Fang Xiang make a guarantee first?" ”
"Huh?" Fang Xuanling couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard Zhao Chen's promise before, but when he heard Zhao Chen's words, he immediately looked at Zhao Chen vigilantly and said, "Chang'an Hou might as well talk about it first!" ”
As soon as Fang Xuanling's words came out, everyone in the hall couldn't help but look at Zhao Chen, wanting to hear what Zhao Chen would say.
Subsequently, under the gaze of everyone, Zhao Chen, who listened, said: "If there is still bad money to be collected, no matter how much, the prime minister has to promise to exchange these bad money for good money!" ”
"How does this work!" When Fang Xuanling heard this, he almost didn't think about it, so he opened his mouth and refused: "So much bad money, let Fang Mou change it!" ”
It's just that as soon as the words came out, he saw Zhao Chen looking at him with a smile, and when Fang Xuanling saw Zhao Chen's gaze, his face was suddenly embarrassed, and he couldn't speak for a long time.
The hall fell silent for a while, and the matter of bad money seemed to have entered a dead end and became an unsolvable problem.
Li Er's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, in fact, everyone knew in their hearts how the evil money came from, but there was no conclusive evidence, and no one could do anything to bring him to justice.
"Let's think of a good plan!" After waiting for a long time, Li Er, who was sitting on the top of the main hall, finally broke the silence in the main hall with some impatience. (To be continued......)