A year ago, a plan was set to conquer Murong Xianbei in the spring, and Liaodong began to prepare for war just after the New Year: a large number of ordnance, grain and grass and other materials were hoarded to the front line; Under the arrangement of the school captain's office, the soldiers and soldiers of various prefectures and chambers launched intense pre-war training.

In the third year of Jianxing, the first joint military and political meeting of Liaodong was held in the county guard's mansion, except for some of them who were not suitable to leave their posts lightly because of their duties, the rest of the civil and military dignitaries of Liaodong gathered in Xiangping.

"Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, a year has passed. Over the past year, Liaodong has achieved great victories in all aspects. First of all, militarily, he successfully recovered the six counties of Youzhou, and assisted Lord Shao to defeat Shihu's army and stabilize the situation; ”

"Secondly, in terms of economy, in addition to continuing to make steady progress in traditional agriculture, Liaodong has also made brilliant achievements in the emerging industrial and commercial fields. With the rise of overseas trade, Liaodong has made great progress in commerce compared with last year, and at the same time, large, medium and small workshops have blossomed everywhere, which has become the largest source of tax revenue under Liaodong's current rule! ”

Finally, politically, on the premise of continuing to maintain cooperation with Jiangzuo, Liaodong successfully connected with the Guanzhong court through Liu Kun. Liu Sikong has already intended to show the court that the lord is the pastor of Youzhou, and clears the last obstacle for the lord to enter Youzhou. ”

"In fact, whether there is the title of Youzhou Mu or not, Liaodong doesn't care, the key is that cooperating with Liu Kun will be conducive to expanding Liaodong's political influence in the court!"

"Although we have made brilliant achievements in Liaodong last year, our situation is still not optimistic. In the south, Shile is still the mortal enemy of Liaodong, and in two or three years at most, Liaodong will have a direct confrontation with Shile. This duel will have a direct impact on the situation in the north in the future, and the winner is likely to become the hegemon of the north, while the loser will die without a place to be buried. ”

"In addition to the sworn enemy Shile, because Liaodong extended its tentacles to Bingzhou. And because Liu Kun was weak, in order to avoid his destruction by Liu Cong, Liaodong was likely to have a conflict with the Xiongnu Han Kingdom. ”

"However, Shile and Liu Cong are not my Liaodong's constraints at the moment, and Murong Diao, who is entrenched in Changli County, is really a threat to Liaodong. It blocked the road between the two states of Youping, seriously hindered the economic exchanges between the two states, and brought inconvenience to the integration of the two states in Liaodong! ”

Speaking of which. Feng Yi, the new secretary and supervisor, glanced at Wei Shuo on the throne, and then said: "According to the intention of the lord, I, Liaodong, am determined to send troops to Murong Diao after the beginning of spring, and strive to encircle and annihilate the Murong tribe and recover Changli County before May. ”

Looking at the high-spirited Feng Yi on the stage, Wei Shuo expressed satisfaction with the first appearance of the secretary and supervisor.

Since entering Jicheng, as the territory under the rule of Liaodong has become larger and larger, Wei Shuo has become more and more unable to deal with daily government affairs.

After returning to Xiangping a year ago, Wei Shuo took the opportunity to propose the establishment of an organization directly under him, which was equivalent to the personal staff of the superior. It's pretty much the same as modern secretarial duties. He is responsible for assisting Wei Shuo in some daily work, such as drafting some documents according to Wei Shuo's wishes, and acting as a bridge between Wei Shuo and the county guard's office and the school governor's office.

Pei Wei and the others obviously realized that the burden on Wei Shuo was too heavy, and they all agreed with Wei Shuo's opinion on setting up a secretary and supervisor. With the secretary and Wei Shuo, he can leave the daily chores to the secretaries, while he focuses on some important matters related to the overall situation.

The secretarial supervisor set up by Wei Shuo is different from the existing secretarial supervisor functions of the imperial court, in fact, the secretary-supervisor is not a new official name, it existed as early as the second year of Yanxi in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Its main function is to be responsible for the management and editing of the imperial court collection, and it is directly under the jurisdiction of Taichang Temple. Later, the secretary and superintendent were abolished several times. The most recent one was set up during the Yongping period of the Jin Dynasty, and it was mainly responsible for the Three Pavilion Books.

However, the secretary and supervisor set up in Liaodong have greater powers and powers. In order to manage the secretary and supervisor well, Wei Shuo appointed Feng Yi, who was idle after the opening of the government, as the secretary and supervisor. The reason why Feng Yi was idle at the beginning was mainly to balance the interests of all parties. Now as the Liaodong stall is getting bigger and bigger, Feng Yi has no need to avoid suspicion.

Don't look at Feng Yi's young age, but he is an older courtier in Liaodong, except for the group of people from Laoshan. He was the first batch of scholars to join Wei Shuo's command, earlier than Pei Wei. It's just that when he opened the mansion to govern affairs, in order to let his uncle be promoted to the throne, he had to be temporarily wronged.

However, two years of idleness did not knock down Feng Yi, but gave him the opportunity to enrich himself. After a period of study. Feng Yi's comeback this time can be described as full of ambition and plans to do a big job. Although the secretary and superintendent seem to be only Wei Shuo's personal staff, it is an extremely important department, and its head cannot be held by someone who is not trusted by the king.

After Feng Yi introduced the general situation, Wei Shuo cleared his throat and said: "Everyone, in addition to setting a plan to conquer Murong Diao, the most important thing is to issue five baht coins for Qianzhuang. ”

Hearing Wei Shuo say this, except for a few people, most of the people present were caught off guard. Many people muttered to themselves: Didn't you discuss the matter of going to Changli, why did you talk about currency issuance?

Wei Shuo didn't explain much, and with a wave of his hand, he saw Feng Yi bring out a silk-covered plate from the inside, and everyone stretched their necks curiously to find out.

"Shirong, don't sit there all the time, this is your stage, come and tell everyone!"

Mo Han stood up and saluted Wei Shuo first, and then arched his hand to his colleagues around him and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, since the end of the Han Dynasty, due to the continuous disputes, the finances have become increasingly embarrassing, so that the princes in various places have set up bureaus and furnaces to increase the minting of currency, but the currency in various places is uneven, and the minting of money is inferior to the inferior, and finally the price of money has plummeted. ”

"When our dynasty was newly established, the imperial court was unable to solve the problem of currency unification, so that bad money became more and more rampant! Today, the lord obtained a large amount of high-quality copper materials from overseas, laying a solid foundation for Liaodong to mint currency on its own. In accordance with the requirements of the lord to have a limited casting, heavy coinage, and finishing, the first batch of five-baht coins were minted by the joint workers of the money village. ”

After that, Mo Han lifted the silk on the plate, and the yellow and clear copper coins suddenly appeared in front of everyone. Mo Han made a gesture of invitation, and the others reached out and picked up the copper coin to observe the color.

The color of Liaodong five-baht coin is golden and bright, and its front and back sides are cast with the words "Yiwen" and "Jianxing". The Liaodong civil and military forces led by Pei Wei weighed the weight of the new coins lightly and found that the texture of the newly minted five-baht coins was indeed excellent. This has given a lot of confidence in the issue of money.

Pei Wei swept the copper coin in his hand and asked, "Master Mo, I don't know how the money bank will issue the new five-baht coin?" How to exchange the new 5 baht money with the old money in circulation? ”

"Starting from this year, Liaodong will completely ban the circulation of other five-baht coins, and people can go to various money banks to exchange old money for new money. Because the lord ordered not to harm the interests of ordinary people, in the exchange process, the money bank will give up part of the benefits. ”

"Considering that the five baht coins of the former Han and Cao Wei dynasties were of good quality, the money bank adopted a one-to-one exchange. As for all kinds of private money and bad money since the end of the Han Dynasty, except for the old money in the hands of ordinary people who can be exchanged for new money in the money bank according to the method of two to one, the old money in the hands of the family can only be exchanged at the ratio of twenty to one. ”

Hearing about the two vastly different exchange ratios, many people were petrified on the spot.

At this time, Wei Shuo stood up and said unhurriedly: "Once Liaodong Qianzhuang issues new coins, all old coins will be completely banned from circulating in Liaodong, and strive to achieve currency unification by the end of the year." Moreover, in the future, the merchants of Liaodong who did business in various places no longer received old money from all over the world. If the outside world wants to buy my Liaodong goods, they can either exchange it for my Liaodong new money, or directly exchange it for precious metals such as gold and silver! ”

Wei Shuo's move was clearly to wipe out all the bad money in various places, and with the influence of the Laoshan trading company in various places, once it refused to collect the old money, it would definitely make the families engaged in private money minting in various places suffer heavy losses, so that Liaodong would make a windfall from it.

It is conceivable that as long as the high-quality new currency of Liaodong is listed, a large number of shoddy and inferior currency will gradually withdraw from the market in the future, and the general of Liaodong will win this economic war without blood, which is a typical phenomenon of using good money to drive out bad money. (To be continued.) )