Director Wang gently stroked Gao Fei's head, and said slowly: "Although my father is the prime minister of the dynasty, there are many things that I can't help myself, in short, my father knows all the problems you said, but he has never thought of a perfect solution." Once www.biquge.info father has a perfect plan, he will definitely solve all these problems with lightning speed. ”

Gao Fei said: "Father, although the child doesn't know your difficulties, but the child knows that a rat poop will spoil a pot of soup, and now the flood of private money and rampant private salt is no longer a matter of rat, if the father lets it go, these problems will be like a snowball, will get bigger and bigger, and when it is big enough to take care of it, I am afraid it will be even more difficult." ”

"Prime Minister, the lower official thinks what the son said is reasonable!" Gan Bao, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke.

Guo Pu also echoed: "Xiaguan also has the same opinion as Gongzi. ”

Director Wang frowned, fell into deep thought, and only spoke after a long time: "Alas! It is not easy to ban private money, unless a drastic reform is brought to the imperial court. ”

Guo Pu said: "Prime Minister, as far as the lower officials know, since Emperor Wu established our dynasty, after several emperors, it seems that the imperial court has never had a single act of minting money, right?" ”

After hearing this, Gao Fei was immediately shocked and asked, "Master Guo, is what you said true?" ”

Guo Pu said: "It's true, even if it's Your Majesty today, I'm afraid that I don't have any intention of minting money, right?" ”

Gao Feihu asked suspiciously, "Father, why is this?" ”

Wang Dao said: "You are all too young to know much about the history of our dynasty, so let me tell you the real reason why my dynasty does not mint money today!" ”

Gao Fei, Guo Pu, and Gan Bao all looked at Director Wang intently, pricking up their ears one by one, and listening attentively.

Wang Dao said slowly: "You should all know that the Jin Dynasty was established on the basis of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, and at the beginning of the establishment of the Jin Dynasty, everything was basically inherited from Cao Wei, which also inherited the atmosphere of metaphysical and Qing talk in the first years of Cao Wei. The metaphysical talk is to advocate Lao Zhuang and talk about the metaphysical style, which has been inherited since the establishment of the Jin Dynasty, and my dynasty is simply better than the previous dynasty. All of a sudden, I went up to the princes and nobles, down to the common people, peddlers and pawns, and there was no shortage of their supporters. As a result, Lao Zhuang's ideas began to permeate all corners of the court, Taoism preached the rule of inaction, and the whole society admired Huang Lao's nihilistic laissez-faire thoughts. Those in power follow the rules and let their feelings be debauched; Those in the opposition talk about fantasy and escape from reality. This kind of social thinking is also reflected in the currency system, which is manifested in the inaction of the imperial court, allowing old money to circulate, and not prohibiting the minting of private money. Therefore, from Emperor Wu to today, the government has never minted money, and the people use most of the old money of Cao Wei, and later due to the war in the north, the court betrayed and moved south, and then used the old money of the Eastern Wu period, but the court never planned to mint money. ”

After a pause, Director Wang continued: "Whether I mint money or not, in addition to being subjectively influenced by the idea of inaction, is also objectively related to the actual economic situation in the north at that time. Since the Yellow Turban Uprising, the North has been in a state of monetary economic contraction. The countryside barters, the good money in the market is hidden, and the bad money is rampant. After Cao Cao implemented the Tuntian policy, the salaries of officers and soldiers were all paid in kind, and the distribution of salaries by officials in the DPRK and China and the payment of hundreds of workers in society were also made in grain, and the scope of use of currency was greatly reduced. Later, Cao Cao, Cao Pi, and Cao Rui began to implement the currency system, but they were all unsuccessful, so that the future rulers regarded the currency system as a daunting path, and no one was willing to try it easily. In Wu and Shu, they used a lot of money and bad money to fill the people. After Emperor Wu unified the Three Kingdoms, those in power competed for extravagance, implemented a policy of inaction, and resigned themselves to the currencies of Wu and Shu. Soon after, the Eight Kings Rebellion broke out, and there was no idea of issuing new coins to rectify it. Therefore, before and after the reunification of our dynasty, no currency was minted, except for a few areas that continued to use old money, the main use of grain silk in social life, the use of money was extremely shrinking, and the physical economy still occupied an extremely important position. It is precisely because of these specific reasons that the Prime Minister did not dare to rashly implement the currency system without thinking of a foolproof solution, otherwise it would backfire and cause social unrest. ”

After Gao Fei, Guo Pu, Gan Bao and the others listened, they only felt that they had increased their knowledge, if it weren't for Director Wang personally saying the reason, it is estimated that they would not have imagined that it would have such a far-reaching impact.

"The problem of rampant illegal salt is better solved than the flood of private money, right?" Goofy asked.

Wang Daodao: "Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, salt and iron have always been operated by the government, and private salt cannot exist under any circumstances. However, there is also a reason why illegal salt has been rampant recently. A month ago, the government's salt works were damaged, and in a short period of time, it could not supply the huge demand for salt under its jurisdiction, so it gave the opportunity for private salt to take advantage of in the near future. Once the government's salt farms resume production, the government will eradicate the illegal salt, and then the illegal salt will definitely disappear completely. ”

Gao Fei said: "Father, in fact, the child has caught a private salt dealer here, this person claims to be the leader of the salt gang, now the salt shops of all sizes in the capital are taking goods from the hands of the salt gang, the salt gang has monopolized the salt market near Gyeonggi, in order to facilitate the manipulation of the salt market, now a pound of refined salt has risen to 300 dollars a pound, if it continues like this, I am afraid that the people will no longer be able to survive." ”

Director Wang suddenly became interested and asked, "Where is the smuggler you are talking about?" ”

"Now I'm locked up in the firewood room." High Flying Road.

Wang Dao asked again, "How did you catch a smuggler of salt?" ”

Gao Fei said: "This matter is a long story, I will tell my father later." If my father sees that smuggler now, I'll take him with me!" ”

Wang Daodao: "No need! Just tell me the results. Did you get something out of the mouth of that smuggler? ”

Gao Fei shook his head and said, "That person doesn't eat hard and soft, stubborn, very annoying!" However, even if the child didn't ask anything, he still had a way to find out the details of the salt gang. ”

So, Gao Fei concisely told Mao Bao how he caught Feng Batian last night, and mentioned the people behind Feng Batian by the way.

After hearing this, Director Wang stroked his long beard and said happily: "Yu'er, you are really unusual, you can think about the problem so thoroughly, you don't know what to say for your father." ”