"How? What do you learn? Lin Yuzhi met Ma Qiang at his own housing in the academy. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ma Qiang brought another person here today, Ma Qiang stepped forward and introduced, "Young Master, this is Mu Qi, Zhao San's subordinate to collect news, he is clever, and he is literate and hyphenated, and he took someone to sort out the news before." Now these people are also listening to his arrangement, hehe, this is also what the young master taught, what is scientific management, clear rights and responsibilities. ”

"Little Mu Qi has seen the young master!" Mu Qi bowed his hand to Lin Yuzhi, his attitude was neither humble nor arrogant, and he was very calm and restrained.

Lin Yuzhi looked at this person, and he didn't feel like a person who inquired about the news, but a bit like a bodyguard and a dart master.

Lin Yuzhi gossiped curiously, "I look at your standing posture, could it be the legendary martial arts master?" ”

Mu Qi listened to Young Master Lin's question, and said a little embarrassedly, "The small ones are just rough and can do some kung fu, and three or five strong men are not a problem, but they are far from the martial arts masters." ”

"Oh, that's also very powerful, but your news is a bit big and useless."

"No, young master, the little one who inquires about the news, is not afraid of encountering problems, it is difficult to have three or five people, and they run fast, which is very convenient, more than they can probe into." Mu Qi said with some pride.

"Hehe, it's okay! Tell me about the news you found? Only talk about copper and silver coinage-related matters. Lin Yuzhi shook his head and chuckled, this person is very sincere, looks good, and has a very good appetite for himself.

"Hey, young master, I found out that some merchants collect money from the people, and after collecting it, they melt it down and refine it into copperware, and then sell it in the market. In this way, a flip is several times or even more than ten times the profit. There are also greedy officials who also take advantage of the opportunity to make a profit. Do you think this is the reason why money is expensive and money is cheap? Mu Qi said in a clear manner.

"Well, concise, neat, focused, well said. This copper coin is the coinage supervised by the imperial court, the imperial court strictly controls the production and circulation, and the private minting and private destruction are strictly investigated and punished, and the crime is strictly punished according to the law. ”

"Oh, isn't it! There are so many mercenary businessmen and officials who dare to do this, not to mention that they are blatant, and they are also very lawless. "Mu Qi inquired about this matter, and he was also very angry, these people didn't care about the poverty of ordinary people, and they also used the law to exploit the people, which is really hateful and hateful!

Lin Yuzhi thought that it was just because of the payment of taxes, but he didn't expect that there was still this layer! It's really illegal profit-making, and everything is done! Wouldn't this make matters worse, accelerating the cheapness of copper and silver, and increasing the suffering of the people.

The imperial court has a relevant "copper ban", first, except for a few special circumstances, the use of bronze is strictly prohibited; Second, the mined raw copper is forbidden to be purchased by private individuals and can only be used by the imperial court. The purpose of the "copper ban" was to make all copper used in the production of coins as much as possible.

However, the current situation is that the "copper ban" policy has made "copperware" a luxury item. Nowadays, the economic and cultural prosperity has made all kinds of "bronze ware" with exquisite casting have a strong consumption capacity. For dignitaries and wealthy squires, the "copper ban" is harmless to them. For merchants, it was illegal to illegally mint and sell "bronze ware", and it was impossible to produce it in large quantities, so it was inevitable that the scarcity would become expensive, and the use of "bronze ware" became a luxury item. Merchants can't legally buy raw copper, so they set their sights on copper coins in circulation, aren't copper coins also copper?

Therefore, stealing copper coins to mint all kinds of copper utensils can make a profit of five to ten times, not because the value of raw copper is higher than the value of the currency, but because the original copper can only be purchased by the imperial court at a fixed price according to the law for minting money, but because the "copper ban" policy has made "bronze" a special commodity, making it profitable to smuggle coins and mint coins.

It is still unknown whether these smelted copper will flow back into Baoquan and Baoyuan Second Bureau, and it is really a moth that has brought disaster to the country and the people, and it will be eliminated before it can be done quickly!

This trend is a great disadvantage to the country and the people, and it cannot be ignored. Lin Yuzhi didn't want to take into account the second master's worries at all now, and he had to plan this matter.

"Do you have a list of people involved? A list of businessmen and officials involved in the private melting? Or a comptoir, a ticket number? ”

Lin Yuzhi suddenly found that this was also a good breakthrough point, he was worried that the risk of attacking head-on to provoke this matter was too great, and he didn't know what the current emperor thought, it was very difficult to manage this matter by himself! It takes a lot of effort to have no one to help.

I don't want to use this news now, but I can make good use of it, these businessmen and officials privately melt and mint copper coins privately, make huge profits, and seriously damage the interests of the imperial court, which is itself a violation of law and discipline, and this is one of them.

Destroying the imperial court regulations on the exchange of copper coins and silver has caused many complaints among the people and affected social stability.

In the current metallurgical industry, the source of metal minerals used is insufficient, and it is also feasible to directly use copper coins to smelt and manufacture weapons at this time, and this example has been traced from the previous dynasties. Copper can also cast cannons, because the iron cannon technology of this dynasty is backward, and the self-casting cannons are basically better cast copper cannons, so directly use copper coins to cast cannons, omitting most of the steps of copper ore smelting, which is a fairly versatile means. This problem is even bigger, even an emperor can't bear it, and third.

These three points directly refer to the major events that undermine the law and discipline of the imperial court and shake the imperial court.

And starting with individual businessmen and officials, and even privately making weapons, breaking the news, before there is no other outlet barrel, all the spearheads and firepower will be directed at the person who was exposed, which in the eyes of other interests, is "a grain of mouse feces spoils a pot of porridge", and it is a major event that spoils everyone!

I believe that with the above three reasons, if the emperor lets this matter go unchecked, it will really be a faint king, and no one wants to be a faint king.

"Now the small ones are found to be a few firms, including Qianyuan Firm, Caojia Firm, Jinyuan Firm, Lu Kum Kee and so on, and there are several businesses in Beijing that collect copper coins and sell copperware.

The small one used to wonder that they collected copper coins everywhere weird, the small ones stared at the sentry, they had a molten copper casting workshop in Daxing Liugezhuang, and several other melting points were also in Xuanhua, Baoding, Changping, and collected copper coins below, and smelted nearby, which was very rampant and bold, but the small ones had never thought about it before, who would have thought that they would dare to do this!

The officials were all cautious, and only found that there were Zhou Ronghua of Taichang Temple, Qin Lingfang, the head of the household department, and Wang Qichang of Shuntianfu, and several people were connected with them. The rest will have to be examined and explored! ”

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