In June of the third year of the Dao, Zhenzong Zhao Heng has succeeded to the throne for nearly three months, although he has not officially changed the name of the year, but after these three months, he finally sat on the emperor's throne temporarily.

However, in the past May, Zhenzong Zhao Heng discovered a strange phenomenon, that is, in the ten days after the post-confession, it seemed that many ministers were extremely happy, and they didn't know why.

Although Zhenzong has not been on the throne for too long, he has participated in politics as a prince for a long time, and he has also experienced a lot of days of distributing money during his time as a prince.

On that day, although the ministers were also very happy, they had never shown such joyful expressions, and even many ministers would be mixed with a trace of distress in addition to being happy.

The reason why this is the case has to start from the ancient system of Yulu, and the basic taxation in ancient China before reaching the Ming and Qing dynasties was carried out in the form of collecting goods.

Since it was to collect rent in kind, the imperial court also mainly used in-kind when distributing money to officials, mainly silk and corn.

Physical goods accounted for about two-thirds of the officials' salaries, and the remaining one-third was money. However, since the main goods in kind were silk and corn, officials had to exchange the rest in the market for money after keeping enough for their own needs, and then use the money to buy other necessities for life.

However, this process of exchanging money became a problem for officials at all levels, because all officials at all levels basically distributed the money at the same time, so that a large amount of silk cloth or corn would rush to the market in a short period of time, so it was often impossible to sell it at a high price during this period, resulting in officials often suffering some losses in terms of physical money.

This also leads to the fact that officials at all levels are often in pain and happy in the days when they are enshrined.

However, this phenomenon did not occur in the past May, and in the days after the May ceremony, every official of the court was unusually happy, and everyone was red-faced, not knowing what good things had happened.

In this way, Zhenzong had a huge curiosity about what kind of good things happened in the court, but he, the emperor, did not know.

So he found Zhang Zhibai, his confidant when he was King Xiang and now has an important position in the court.

"Zhibai, tell me about it, what good things have happened recently, why are the ministers so happy?"

"Back to Your Majesty, I think my colleagues are happy because of one reason, that is, recently, several trading houses have taken the initiative to buy the money we have exchanged for money at a more reasonable price, and they not only have a fair price, but they are not only used to pay for copper coins, but a kind of gold coins that are very good in terms of fineness, quality and minting."

After Zhang Zhibai heard Zhenzong's question, he didn't even think about it.

Gold? As soon as Zhenzong heard this, his curiosity became even stronger. What kind of person is so wealthy that he actually uses gold coins to pay, which even the imperial court has not been able to do.

Thinking of this, Zhenzong wanted to see this kind of gold coin, "Does Zhibai have this kind of gold coin on his body now?" Can you take a look at it? ”

For the emperor's request, Zhang Zhibai had no reason not to agree, besides, it was not a big deal, and he happened to have a few such gold coins on him, so he took out one from his cuff and respectfully handed it to the emperor.

After Zhenzong got this gold coin, he looked at it repeatedly, and bit it between his teeth a little rudely, and then Zhenzong was surprised to find that what Zhang Zhibai said was true, these gold coins were all excellent in terms of color and quality.

Moreover, the inscription on the top is quite exquisite and unique, and the gold coin does not have a square space in the middle like the copper coin, but a perfect whole. The gold coin has two sides, one side is printed with one character, and the other side is the four big characters of the Great Song Tongbao.

In this way, there is already a huge difference with the copper coin with the year name plus Tongbao, but it is not limited to this, the font of this one and the five characters of the Great Song Tongbao on the gold coin is also extremely unique, Zhenzong himself can write a good hand, and his father Taizong is good at grass, Li, line, seal, eight points, flying white six fonts. However, Zhenzong had never seen the font used for these five characters on this gold coin.

The font used on the gold coin is horizontal and vertical, horizontal and vertical, horizontal and vertical, the pen is angular and angular, the glyph is square, and the strokes are stiff. There is a strong smell of carving on the engraving with a carving knife, which makes Shinshu feel novel.

In fact, it is no wonder that the novelty of Zhenzong, in order to prevent counterfeiting, Zhao Weiji specially took out the Song font that was used as the font for these five characters in the computer of later generations.

Because of the lack of variation, the Song script was easily able to shrink, so it was greatly developed when a large number of books were printed in the Ming Dynasty, so it was a font suitable for engraving.

In addition, because Zhao Weiji was a superb otaku in his previous life and faced the computer for a long time, he was most familiar with this font, so he directly quoted it.

However, it is said that the Song style was created by Qin Hui, and there is also a font derived from the thin gold body of Huizong, but no matter what kind of statement it is, the person who created it has not yet been born, so Zhenzong naturally did not talk about this font.

Although I have never seen this font, as a master of calligraphy, Zhenzong can naturally feel the beauty of this font, coupled with the appropriate size of the entire gold coin, the tight texture, and the superior color have given Zhenzong a considerable impact.

In front of this gold coin, he suddenly had a sense of crisis, and he didn't know why.

In fact, Zhenzong didn't understand, it was his political sensitivity that subconsciously reminded him that the appearance of this kind of gold coin might cause something bad.

However, due to the limitations of knowledge in this era, the True Sect was not able to perceive what was a bad thing.

This is because there are too many things to mint privately in the history of China, sometimes the imperial court can't control it, if the proportion of copper in the private currency is low, it is easy to find out, if the quality is almost the same as the official one, there is no way to prohibit it.

What's more, what is now in front of Zhenzong is a gold coin, a gold coin of high quality. Gold and silver have always been used as currency in China, but due to the small production of gold and silver in China, it is more often used to make jewelry. As a result, there is relatively little gold and silver in circulation in the market, which cannot meet the circulation of currency, so that copper coins with a larger output have to be used as currency.

However, no emperor in all dynasties has forbidden the use of gold and silver as currency, not because he can't, but because he doesn't dare. After all, no one can guarantee whether there will be any problems with this copper coin, once the day comes, gold and silver will be king.

So as the old saying goes, good antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times. Once in troubled times, gold is still more able to retain its value.

Even so, no emperor ever thought that gold could replace copper coins as the main currency, because all emperors knew that there was too little gold that could actually circulate among the people.

It was for this reason that although Zhenzong felt a little uneasy, he did not delve into it, but allowed the gold coin to continue to circulate. He didn't think anyone could be rich enough to rival the country.

But there is such a person who is simply based on the amount of gold, and it is no problem to disturb the major cities of the Great Song Dynasty, and that person is Zhao Weiji.

Although it did not establish much trade ties with the Great Song Dynasty in recent years, Xinhua City established good trade routes with other regions, especially the Arabs. This group of big financiers who had gold in this era and oil in the future were the main big customers of Xinhua City.

Due to the low tax rate in Xinhua City, some of the goods that competed with the goods of the Great Song Dynasty in Arab merchants became more competitive. And because the ships of Xinhua City were larger and more advanced, and Xinhua City paid more attention to the development of commerce, so more and more Arab merchants, and even more European merchants began to trade with Xinhua City.

These merchants are not like these countries in the Central Plains and its surroundings, which use copper coins, and those places use real money and silver. Coupled with Zhao Weiji's sinicization and "plundering" of the surrounding Indians, he now has accumulated huge reserves of gold in addition to digging gold in the mines around Xinhua City.

These gold can not only be completely satisfied with the circulation and use within Xinhua City, but also make Zhao Weiji have the strength to leverage the Central Plains monetary system.

In addition, due to the existence of the exchange and paper money, Zhao Weiji can do some other things with the gold stored in the exchange like a modern bank, which makes his strength in gold even more powerful.

In this way, without Zhenzong's knowledge, a "financial giant" with rich economic knowledge in later generations took advantage of the opportunity of the Central Plains to change the emperor and let his men enter this land with a large amount of gold, hoping to do something.

And behind this "financial giant", there is now the largest business alliance in the entire Central Plains, Zhao Guangyi looks down on businessmen, and Zhao Weiji doesn't know what kind of power businessmen have.

The thousand-year-old policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce has still never been able to put an end to the birth of generation after generation of legendary businessmen.

Not only that, due to the early intervention of Zhao Weiji, who traveled through the public, the Chamber of Commerce, which would only be born in hundreds of years, came out of the line ahead of schedule In this era, the emergence of the Chamber of Commerce has integrated the power of a large part of today's businessmen.

And the emperor's lack of attention made the chamber of commerce develop in an orderly manner towards Zhao Weiji's expectations, so today, businessmen have been able to have enough energy.

When these two forces are combined here again, Zhao Heng's headache is about to come.