Qian Yin This matter, Huang Jie felt inappropriate early in the morning, but he didn't expect it to break out in such a way.

When he borrowed money from Wushan County, he heard Wu Xian mention that the money in the county treasury was mainly money, and there were more than 8 million yuan. It's just that at that time, he was eager to promote the construction of "Kuiba Road", but he didn't use any brains carefully. Now that I think about it, I'm afraid that Wu Xian and Cheng Zhun already have a deep grudge over the issue of Qian Yin, but now they have only reached a breaking point.

It was also when a room full of miserable clouds and mist was thinking about countermeasures, but Fu Shou told Zhan Chao to come to see, and after Huang Jie allowed him to enter the courtesy, he listened to him: "My lord, the inquiry has come out, after Wushan County ordered Lord Wu to hang up the seal this morning, he hired a fast car in the city, and went to Chengdu Mansion with two aunts and an old servant, and when he went out of the city, he also deliberately told the doorman his whereabouts, I am afraid that he has other plans, not just with Kuizhou Zhizhou." ”

Huang Jie nodded, saying that he knew, he also calculated that Wu Xian must have other plans to hang a seal like this, like him, he suddenly came to Cheng Zhun's army with a clear carriage and horse and caught off guard, saying that he didn't have other plans, even if he was a fool, he didn't believe it!

Huang Jie also asked, "What else is the news?" ”

Zhan Chao also smiled and said: "Also, even the big and small priests of the Wushan County Yamen and the clerks of the various divisions also sealed the files and went home on leave, but the three classes of officials did not leave, but they all gathered in front of the yamen signing room, shouting that they were unhappy for Lord Wu. The subordinates went to inquire, and only then did they know that in the four years of Daguan, the summer and autumn Fukuizhou had to pay more money in kind, and the court routines, feeds, river workers, two respects and Pingku fire consumption in the spring and winter seasons were more money to induce, and it was only a few years, and Wushan County had accumulated more than 8 million yuan, half of which have now expired. ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and Huang Jie also nodded and said, "In this way, Master Wu is also a good official!" ”

said that Wu Xian was a good official. It's also the highest evaluation Huang Jie can give, if Wu Xian is not a good official, these expired and greatly depreciated money should now be in the hands of the people and merchants in Wushan County, I don't know how many people will be harmed to return to poverty because of money, and how many people will be ruined because of money!

In the first year of Song Renzong's Tiansheng (1023), the Song Dynasty set up "Yizhou Jiaoziwu" (Yizhou is also Chengdu Mansion). And in February of the following year, the first book was released. Since then, Jiaozi has become the legal tender of the four roads of the Sichuan Gorge in the Song Dynasty, and it has the right to go hand in hand with iron money.

Before and after the establishment of Jiaozi affairs, Xue Tian, the official in charge, formulated a number of measures for the government-run Jiaozi, among which he first formulated the time limit for redeeming the boundary, with two years as a boundary, and after the boundary was full, the new Jiaozi was changed to the upper boundary, and each of them needed to enter the official with 30 Wen, which was called "paper and ink fees". Boundaries and costs are also set. Each realm has a quota of 1,256,340 yuan, and reserves 360,000 yuan (i.e., the current reserve), and strictly implements the exchange system, allowing the people to buy freely.

Therefore, in the more than 40 years from the first year of Tiansheng to the first year of Xining (1023~1068), the issuance and circulation of Jiaozi were quite normal. Even in the Zhao Zhen Dynasty of Song Renzong, although he borrowed 600,000 yuan twice to Qinzhou, the amount was not large and did not cause depreciation.

Even in Su Zhe's anthology, it is recorded that in the seventh year of Xining (1074). Before the dismissal of Wang Anshi and the ban on Shu tea. The exchange rate of Sichuan Jiaozi once reached "one hundred people who have been sold consistently", which shows how stable the currency value of Jiaozi was at that time.

However, during the Xining period, due to the Song Dynasty's vast use in the northwest and repeated defeats, a large number of indemnity coins were sent to the north. Therefore, the Song court tried to promote Jiaozi with Shaanxi in the Hedong region. Although the rotation is stopped, Sichuan Jiaozi has entered Shaanxi and other supports, the front boundary is not full, and the back boundary has been used a lot.

In the fifth year of Xining, it was changed to four years for each realm. The two realms are parallel, and the people have no objections.

However, after the reign of Emperor Zhezong of the Song Dynasty (1094-1098), the amount of money given by the imperial court became larger and larger, so that "the boundary rate increased", and "there was no fixed number of books per year", and finally in the Chongning period (1102-1106) when the official Zhao Ji was in power, Sichuan Jiaozi was malignantly inflated, and Cai Jing also forced Jiaozi to be on the roads north of the Yangtze River at this time, and renamed it "Qian Yin".

Finally, in the first year of Daguan (1107), Sichuan's Jiaozi also overissued because of the annual increase in issuance, and finally made the value of the money like a landslide, falling rapidly. To lead a line, when the money is ten. ”

There was no way, Song Ting dismissed Cai Jing, changed Jiaozi to Qian Yin, and renamed Jiaozi Wu as Qian Yinwu, and changed the set of vests to start all over again.

As mentioned above, the reason why Cai Jing did this was because he came up with the theory of "Feng, Heng, Yu, and Da", and how did he bring down Qian Yin after he broke Jiaozi?

In the first year of Chongning (1102), Cai Jing was the first prime minister, and he came up with the first means of collecting money - currency reform!

Shenzong Dynasty and Zhezong Dynasty are the most coinage in the Northern Song Dynasty, when the new party made money no matter how brave did not start on the currency, and did not prohibit private minting, the popular currency on the market is copper square hole money, also known as "small flat money", the weight is about three grams, similar to the five baht of the Sui Dynasty.

In the first year of Chongning, Cai Jing just paid a visit to the prime minister and cast "five big coins" on Shaanxi Road, weighing about ten to twelve grams, which means that this copper coin can be used as five small flat coins. Judging from the situation at that time, the implementation of "when the five big money" is indeed excusable, Shaanxi Road has always been a battlefield with the Western Xia, the business here is basically the Western Xia people and the Northern Song Dynasty officials and businessmen, the "when the five big money" issuance area is in the Song Dynasty and the Western Xia border, the main goal and purpose is to use this money to buy materials in the Western Xia, in short, to launch a "currency war" against the Western Xia!

That's right, it's a currency war!

Speaking of which, for the Western Xia and the Dangxiang people, it is understandable that the Great Song Dynasty used the means of currency warfare, and the circulation of the "Five Great Coins" at that time was very small, and they were collected when they were occasionally circulated into the mainland, and there was no objective large-scale currency devaluation.

But in the second year of Chongning (1103), Cai Jing and Zhao Guanjia, who had tasted the sweetness, felt that such a small fight was boring, so in November of that year, Cai Jing also ordered to imitate the shape of "when the five big coins" to mint the "ten big coins" nationwide, and added tin to the official minted small flat money (the small flat money in this era is also called "tin money"), and at the same time ordered a nationwide ban on private coinage, and deposed all previous unofficial currencies within a year.

At that time, the weight of the new version of the ten coins was about 25 grams, but the copper content did not exceed 15 grams.

However, soon after the launch, it caused the anger of the people all over the world, and Cai Jing had to make a strange move to formulate a strange exchange standard, in Shaanxi Road, Hebei Road, Hedong Road and other five roads with the strongest control of the imperial court, "when ten coins" must be used as ten small flat coins.

In Huainan, Jinghu Road and other four roads, it can be used as five small flat coins, as for the two Zhejiang Road and other areas where the merchant is stronger, it can only be "three", that is, the original value of the actual copper content of "when ten coins".

In addition, there is another place in the Great Song Dynasty that does not allow circulation as ten major coins, that is, Cai Jing's hometown, Xinghua Junxianyou County in the Northern Song Dynasty! (To be continued.) )