The promotion of Quyuan plough went smoothly, but the problem faced by Li Jiancheng was more than as simple as a plough plow! Li Jiancheng repeatedly urged officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs:

"Why have I already issued a decree to exchange all the gold and silver in the treasury of the inner government for grain, but why have I only raised a little bit now, how can there be enough food shortage in Guanzhong? In addition, why didn't the money, food, and materials in the Luoyang area be transported quickly, did they have to wait until the people in Chang'an were all dead? Xue Lin, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Pei Kuan, the squire of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, endured the anger of Li Jiancheng. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info didn't dare to say a word.

"Say, you speak to me!" Xue Lin said timidly:

"Your Majesty! It's not that the ministers don't work hard, it's really ...... It's really ......" Xue Lin slurred, unable to say a complete sentence.

"What is it? Say it! Xue Lin saw that Li Jiancheng was angry, and immediately quickened his tone and said:

"Your Majesty, it's not that the ministers don't work hard! There are really a lot of joints in the middle, first of all, the major clans in Guanzhong are hoarding food, we have limited gold and silver in our hands, and, there is another point, that is, the grain mobilized from Jiangnan and Luoyang, due to years of war, the value of the currency is different, for example, our dynasty is still using the coins of the former Sui, but the coins of the Sui Dynasty are divided into five baht and five baht white money, and the two sides have different weights. In addition to the circulation of the Luoyang area, there are also the original Wang Shichong's enlightened five pearls, and the king of Qin also secretly minted coins to raise military supplies, as well as the south of the Qilu region, with the help of the former Sui perishing, Qilu began to circulate the Changping five baht and privately minted Changping money in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the Jiangnan area began to circulate the Chen five baht of the Southern Dynasty, the six baht of Tai goods, and even the goose eye money of Liu Song, Xiao Liang's trimming money, etc., which continued to be mixed in circulation in the commercial field. And the period of our dynasty's unification of the Central Plains is still short, and new money has not yet been minted, so the ministers are also in a hurry now! In fact, Li Jiancheng also knew that Xue Lin was telling the truth - the five baht of the opening of the emperor, also known as the five baht of the sample, was cast during the opening of Emperor Wen. In order to ensure the quality of the new money and promote the new money, the government clearly stipulates that every thousand coins weigh four catties and two taels, and orders each to close the 100 coins as a sample, and only enter the customs if it meets the standard, otherwise it will be destroyed and re-minted. The standard money is generally 2.5 cm and weighs about 3.0-3.4 grams, and the small money has a diameter of 2.3 cm and weighs about 2.0 grams. "Five baht" face text for the seal, horizontal reading, "five" cross pen oblique straight (there is also slightly bent), perforated right cast a vertical line, the back of all have a profile, the side profile and wider, the accumulation of eighty or ninety thousand pieces is full of rice Hu, can be described as lightweight. It is a kind of copper coin with beautiful appearance and intact credit, but it was in the period of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty due to the conquest of Goguryeo, after the overhaul of the canal, coupled with natural disasters caused a large-scale financial crisis in the Sui Dynasty, in order to alleviate the financial crisis, the crisis was passed on to the common people, Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty opened a furnace in Yangzhou to cast five baht of tin, the copper color was white, and the world was called "white money". , "New Tang Dynasty Book Food and Goods Chronicles>: "At the end of the Sui Dynasty, five baht white money was stolen from the world, and money was minted privately." The first weight of a thousand coins is two catties, and then the lighter it becomes, less than one catty." This money, due to the increase in the amount of tin and lead in the coin material, the color of the money is white, so it is called "white money". Subsequently, Wang Shichong deposed Emperor Gong of the Sui Dynasty, and was appointed as the enlightened emperor by Chan, and minted the enlightened five baht. The Changping five baht was used by Emperor Gao Yang of the Northern Qi Dynasty for the fourth year of Tianbao, or was it mainly the five baht coins of Yongan of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and other coins were mixed. New coins were minted. But instead of using his era name, this money was named "Changping Five Baht". It turned out that the money was borrowed from the name of the warehouse that hoarded grain at that time. Changping originated from the Pingbian practice of Li Kui in Wei during the Warring States Period, that is, the government purchased grain storage in the harvest year to prevent the grain from hurting the peasants, and sold the stored grain in the year of the harvest to stabilize the grain price. Gao Yang named the coins he minted as "Chang Ping", that is, he hoped to regulate the market as well as Chang Ping. The coins are made of bronze, with diameters ranging from 2.4 cm to 2.5 cm and weighing between 3.5 and 4.2 grams. Due to the high value of the currency, the private casting in the later period was serious, and there were names such as red ripe, green ripe, and thin eyebrows; In the late Qi period, it was mixed with lead and tin thin money. The five elements of the big cloth is the Northern Zhou Dynasty Wu Emperor Yuwen Yong, Jiande three years to one as ten, and Buquan, five baht parallel. The face text "Five Elements of Big Cloth" jade seal, money and production are extremely exquisite, one of the famous "North Three Products". The six baht of Tai goods is the six baht money cast by Emperor Chen Xuan of the Southern Dynasty in the eleventh year of Taijian, the face text "six baht of Tai goods", the jade chopsticks seal body is well-proportioned and fit, stretching and powerful, the inner and outer contours of the face and back are fine and straight, and the production is excellent. These coins are so well made that they are highly valued among the people. On the other hand, the Central Plains was still being divided, and Li Yuan had no intention of re-minting coins, coupled with the abundance of gold and silver in the treasury of Chang'an, Tang Jian only knew that he catered to Li Yuan and supported Li Shimin's plan to seize the reserve, and was indifferent to the currency reform and raising the people's livelihood. In addition, because Li Shimin was fighting outside, it was very inconvenient for military supplies to be dispatched from Chang'an, so Li Yuan allowed Li Shimin to privately mint coins in Luoyang to supply military supplies. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty currency system is chaotic, because the coins are different, so the weight of the coins is the price, but there are also places to the Tang Dynasty currency system when the confusion, and some families, treacherous merchants also privately mint coins to earn the difference. Nowadays, the currency reform of Datang cannot be delayed.

"Then why don't you hurry up and make new money? When to wait? Xue Lin and Pei Kuan moved their lips and stopped again.

"What else?" Xue Lin and Pei Kuan glanced at each other, and both motioned for each other to answer, and Li Jiancheng shouted angrily:

"Xue Lin, Pei Kuan, what are you muttering? Speak up! Xue Lin, you are the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, you speak first. Xue Lin replied to Li Jiancheng:

"Your Majesty! In the past, the casting of new money is mostly recycled with old money, and then it is to dig new copper mines, this copper mining is not difficult, the difficulty is that now the old copper mines have been mined, to find new mines, I am afraid it is difficult to find in the short term, and the other is to recycle the old money, cast new money, but now the copper juice in the old money is scarce, many of them contain miscellaneous lead, if the recycling and casting of new money, I am afraid it is useless! After listening to Xue Lin's words, Li Jiancheng nodded, Xue Lin's words were not wrong.

"Humph! As officials of the Ministry of the People, do you want me to teach you how to do it? Won't you figure it out for yourself? At this time, Pei Kuan said:

"Your Majesty! The minister thought of a solution. It just depends on whether His Majesty is willing or not? Li Jiancheng said:

"Pei Kuan! Tell me about it! Pei Kuan replied:

"Your Majesty! You might as well try the strategy of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty to destroy Buddhism. After Li Jiancheng listened to Pei Kuan's words, he fell into contemplation - Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yuwen Yong, was a member of the Xianbei tribe, the fourth son of Yuwentai, the Taizu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the half-brother of Emperor Yuwenjue of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Xiaomin Emperor and Emperor Yuwenyu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and his mother was the Empress Wenxuan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. After the killing of the Northern Zhou Dynasty's powerful minister Yuwen Hu, it was found that the Northern Zhou Dynasty was in short financial supply, and later it was discovered that the number of monks under the Northern Zhou Dynasty accounted for one-tenth of the country's population. In addition, the monks not only did not pay taxes to the state, but also owned a large amount of land. In addition, the people also donated a large amount of money to the temple. After Yu Wenyong discovered, in the second year of Jiande, he ordered the establishment of the three religions, first Confucianism and then Taoism and then Buddha, and then the temple Taoist Buddha statue was completely destroyed, and the monks and Taoist priests returned to the vulgar, all of which were classified as private households. After conquering the Northern Qi Dynasty, he continued to implement the policy of exterminating Buddhism, liberating a total of about three million monks and monks. And the statues of Buddha and gods were cast into copper coins. It alleviated the financial crisis at that time. I have to say that Yu Wenyong's approach is indeed a good way. You know, China has not lacked copper since ancient times, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the princes and countries competed for hegemony, and the chariots dispatched were thousands of times at every turn, and the people and horses were tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of big melees, these chariots and the armor and armor of the people and horses, and the weapons were made of bronze, and from the Warring States Period to the Qin and Han dynasties, the farmers' farm tools were made of bronze, until the period of Emperor Han Zhao, iron farm tools were slowly promoted, and during the period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, iron farm tools were completely withdrawn from the historical stage. Turning to the manufacture of utensils, then, during the reign of Emperor Yongping of the Ming Dynasty of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Buddhism was introduced to Middle-earth, and slowly, China's copper ore began to be in short supply. Because all kinds of Buddha statues and ritual utensils are made of brass, and with the addition of the Wuhu Rebellion period, the northern Han scholars were slaughtered by the Hu people, and after the Sui Dynasty, Ran Min issued an order to kill Hu, which made the Hu and Han contradictions acute. In order to alleviate the contradictions, the Hu rulers began to vigorously support Buddhism, and the common people also emphasized the past and present lives because of Buddhism, and the reincarnation of the next life. So, the more Buddhism flourished, the higher the demand for copper. Slowly, there is a shortage of copper. Xue Lin and Pei Kuan both looked at Li Jiancheng and waited for Li Jiancheng's instructions. Before Xue Lin and Pei Kuan came to Li Jiancheng, the national teacher Qihui Daoist came to Xue Lin and Pei Kuan:

"Ahh Lord Xue, Master Pei. ”

"Ahh It's a national teacher! ”

"Congratulations to Lord Xue on his promotion to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. In addition, congratulations to Master Pei on being promoted to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. One of the two adults was originally recommended by the emperor when he was the crown prince, and now after ascending the throne, he personally appointed the court officials. The other is the old minister of the East Palace when the emperor was in the East Palace. Now that His Majesty has ascended the throne, and it can be seen that he relies on the two lords very much, it is really gratifying! Xue Lin and Pei Kuan, who said what Daoist Qihui said, were full of flowers. Every time the two of them think of their original choice, they are secretly glad - God really has eyes. Fortunately, we have a great fortune and a great life, and the crown prince successfully ascended the throne, if Li Shimin, the king of Qin, was allowed to sit in the country, I am afraid that by now, I would have become a dry bone in a grave. How can there be today's scenery. However, Xue Lin and Pei Kuan are both smart people, and when they saw Daoist Qihui coming with heavy gifts, they knew in their hearts that Daoist Qihui must have asked for himself. Immediately straight to the point:

"I don't know what the hell is going on with the national teacher coming here? Speak up. After the national teacher Qihui Dao Chang told his intentions, Xue Lin and Pei Kuan were shocked when they heard it.