readx; Yang Huahua was overwhelmed by alcohol, and was helped away by her maids, Li Qingan was still sitting on the table and drinking slowly, with two silver coins and one money in front of him, which Yang Huahua took out just now to show off, and she also got the right to mint coins, it should be said that the Yang family got the right to mint money. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Qing'an only then knew that the day before yesterday, Li Longji suddenly gave five people the right to mint coins, in addition to the Yang family, there were also Gao Xianzhi of Jiannan Jiedu, An Sishun of Shuofang Jiedu, and his sons Eighteen Lang Li Mao and Sixteen Lang Li Lan, It is said that he also planned to give the coinage rights to several of his brothers and other princes and princesses with more than 2,000 households.

Li Qingan stared at the silver coins in front of him, and there was an Anxi silver coin next to him, compared with the two, the Anxi silver coin was thick and white, and the silver content was full, while the Yang family's silver coin was thin and heavy, the color was dark, and the workmanship was not as round and fine as the Anxi silver coin, it was obviously rushed out, of course, the dark color was not the cause of oxidation, and the silver coin had just been launched for a few days, and it was impossible to be oxidized, which could only indicate that the silver content was insufficient.

Li Qing'an put down the wine glass, pulled out the dagger and cut the Yang family's silver coin, there was a bright yellow copper in the interlayer, judging from the naked eye, the silver-copper ratio should be 64 open, Li Qingan threw the silver coin on the table and sighed softly.

It should be said that his promotion of silver coins was a mistake, and in just a few days, the bad coins minted by the Yang family have been listed, what is the difference between this and issuing large coins to plunder the wealth of the people? Originally, he also expected Li Longji to punish those who made silver coins with severe punishment, but Li Longji himself had already let go of the coinage right, of course, he had no intention of accusing Li Longji, he was the emperor, and it was his right to reward his courtiers, but if he did not restrict it, the bad currency would be rampant, and it would definitely bring great disasters to the people of the Tang Dynasty. He wanted to enter the palace immediately and meet Li Longji.

．．．．．．．． Xingqing Palace, Li Longji has already dealt with the affairs of King Qing and King Di, it has only been more than an hour, he feels a little tired, his head hurts, Li Longji was about to go back to the palace, suddenly a eunuch came to report: "Your Majesty, Li Qingan asked to see outside the palace, saying that there is an emergency to report to Your Majesty." ”

Li Longji was slightly stunned, what kind of emergency, could it be that something happened to Anxi? He immediately cheered up and commanded, "Order him to come to the audience." ”

After a while, Li Qing'an hurriedly walked into the side hall of Xingqing Palace under the guidance of a eunuch, and Li Longji was slowly drinking a bowl of ginseng tea.

"Minister Li Qing'an, see Your Majesty!"

"Li Aiqing, what's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, the minister found an abnormal situation today, and the minister felt that the situation was urgent, so he came to report it."

Li Longji put down the ginseng bowl and asked, "What's the matter, tell me!" ”

Li Qing'an took out a few silver coins, put them on the eunuch's plate, and said: "The minister found that there are inferior silver coins on the market today, and he is very worried in his heart, please pay attention to your majesty!" ”

The eunuch brought the plate to Li Longji, he picked up a few silver coins, the silver coins were all cut open, but there was still a little skin, and in front of him were five silver coins, of which the silver coins minted by Anxi and the Shaofu Supervisor were all silver in color and full of workmanship, while the other three imitation silver coins of the Shaofu Eunuch were obviously doped with other metals, copper or lead.

"I thought it was a big deal! The coins circulating in the market are uneven, they have been in ancient times, what is the fuss about this, Aiqing is inevitably a little fuss! ”

Li Longji did not take this matter to heart, he has been an emperor for 40 years, this situation has been seen a lot, because of the shortage of copper materials, a large number of inferior copper coins appeared on the market, he was also extremely nervous, he had strictly ordered all localities not to make private copper coins, and strictly prohibited private mining, but with the passage of time, he also found that these inferior money did not cause much harm, so he gradually resumed the old system of private mining and government taxation.

What's more important is that the government found out that the money came from the manor of the powerful clan, and Li Longji knew that this must be caused by the Chang'an magnates casting money for huge profits.

Now that the silver money is in this situation again, of course he knows very well, whose hands are the gold and silver, and the vast majority of them are not in the hands of those clan magnates? If you want to make bad money, it can only be done by them, what should he do? Is the next decree forbidden? He doesn't know how many decrees he has given not to annex the land, but is it useful?

And it's just bad money and not counterfeit money, but the silver content is a little lower, this can't be helped, Datang's silver production is not high, if the silver content is not reduced, how can it be possible to issue more silver money. In fact, before Li Qing'an proposed to issue silver money, Li Longji was already thinking about issuing a large amount of money, and he was also forced to do so, after the government military system was corrupted, he could only implement the conscription system, and the government had to bear the food and salary, in the early years of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, only 2 million yuan of military spending per year, and by the end of the new century, the military expenditure had increased to 10 million yuan, and last year's military expenditure surged to 15 million yuan, and the annual tax money of the Tang Dynasty was only more than 20 million yuan.

Just when Li Longji was about to issue a large amount of money, Li Qingan proposed to issue gold and silver money, which was exactly in line with Li Longji's thoughts, and could just solve some of the problems of insufficient financial resources for him.

And now that Li Qingan is demanding strict control over the issuance of silver coins, how can Li Longji not get bored, the wealth of the world belongs to his Li family, and the issuance of silver coins can increase the wealth of the imperial court and solve the current predicament, so why not? As long as you don't overdo it, as long as the small people in the world can survive, there will be no big problem.

"Li Aiqing, this is just a trivial matter, I'm a little tired, let's talk to you another day!"

After that, Li Longji got up and was about to leave, Li Qingan hurriedly took two steps forward and said, "Your Majesty, listen to the minister." ”

"What else do you have to say?" Li Longji's tone was already very impatient.

"Your Majesty, silver money is not better than copper money, a copper coin counterfeit coin is not much harm, and there is not much loss to the general public, but the silver money appears counterfeit, no less than the harm of big money, if Your Majesty does not strictly control it, then everyone will compete for silver money, the amount of silver produced in the Tang Dynasty is already small, where is so much silver to make money, it will only cause the silver content to be lower and lower, and the silver money will be flooded, at that time, the official will determine that a silver coin is worth 100 Wen, I am afraid that the people are not worth 10 Wen, which will cause serious chaos in the money system, will cause prices to soar, and the people no longer believe in silver money, which is not only for the imperial court, It is also a great loss to Your Majesty, please think twice. ”

If it was ten years ago, Li Longji might have listened carefully to Li Qingan's suggestion, and then convened the prime ministers to discuss countermeasures, but now he is old and frail, his energy is low, and he is extremely tired of this kind of thing that requires racking his brains, Li Qingan didn't finish speaking, he waved his hand resolutely and said: "You are worrying about the sky, the problem has not come out yet, what do you want to do so much?" I know in my heart that I can't make any waves, and besides, I have agreed to let the emperor's relatives mint money, just to let them jointly maintain the money system, can this kind of thing be blocked by a ban on me? ”

Li Qing'an saw that Li Longji could not listen to his own words and refused to strictly restrain the minting of coins, so he had to retreat and beg for the second, and said: "Your Majesty, Anxi and Dashi are busy in trade, and relying on small silver coins is not enough to meet the needs, Sogdian and Dashi merchants have proposed more than once, hoping that Anxi can cast silver cakes, and the soldiers also hope to cast small silver cakes, which are easy to carry, and the ministers do not dare to mint them without authorization, so they plead with Your Majesty to allow Anxi to mint seven small silver cakes on the basis of silver coins for trade with Dashi and military expenses." ”

Li Longji has lost patience, he did not realize the meaning of the seven-coin silver cake that Li Qing'an was referring to, the Datang silver-producing states all cast silver cakes to pay tribute, generally twenty-five taels for a cake, or fifty taels of silver collars, last year Yang Guozhong also specially ordered Lingnan to pay tribute of 100,000 taels of silver collars, in his opinion, the seven-coin silver cake is just a little smaller, why not? He nodded in agreement.

"I have approved the matter of the seven-dollar silver cake, but the silver you paid tribute to me, I asked for fifty taels of silver, do you understand?" When it comes to his own selfish interests, Li Longji is not ambiguous at all.

"Command!" Finally got Li Longji's permission, and now Li Qingan made up his mind that he wanted to mint a silver dollar that was different from the Datang silver coin.

Maybe he remembered that Li Qingan had to pay himself a tribute of 100,000 catties of silver every year, and 100,000 catties of silver is 1.6 million taels, which is equivalent to 1.6 million yuan, which can greatly improve his predicament. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Return!"

"Go ahead!"

Li Qing'an withdrew from Xingqing Palace, although he could not convince Li Longji to restrain the silver money, but Li Longji agreed to him to cast a 'small silver cake' to pay for military expenses and trade in big food, which can be regarded as a harvest! Decouple from Datang's silver money earlier, so as not to be dragged down by it.

At this moment, it was already afternoon, Li Qingan had just walked out of Xingqing Palace, but a carriage came to him, and a middle-aged man got down from the carriage, Li Qingan recognized it, it was Dugu Mingyue's father, Dugu Haoran.

"It turned out to be Uncle Dugu!" Li Qingan hurriedly stepped forward, and Shi Li smiled: "When did Uncle Dugu come back?" ”

"Huh! It turned out to be Shichiro, and I haven't seen him for a long time. ”

Dugu Haoran was obviously very satisfied with his son-in-law, he smiled and patted Li Qing'an on the shoulder and said, "I just came back last night, and just now a lieutenant came to the mansion and said that the Holy Lord was going to summon him." ”

He looked Li Qingan up and down and said with a smile: "Yes, we will soon become a family, since we have this fate, I hope we will take care of each other in the future." ”

"I heard my aunt say last time that my uncle was reappointed as Sinong Siqing, congratulations to my uncle."

"Hey! This is the emperor's grace, okay, I'm afraid that the saint is in a hurry, I have to go in first. ”

"Okay, I won't delay my uncle."

The two broke up, and Dugu Haoran had just walked a few steps, when he suddenly remembered something and hurriedly stopped Li Qingan.

"Shichiro, I almost forgot, you don't have anything else to do tonight!"

"No, is there anything wrong with my uncle?"

Dugu Haoran said with a smile: "There is a family banquet tonight, all of them are Dugu's family, one is to wash the dust for me, and the other is to meet you and Mingyue, you must come." ”

"Uncle is invited, how can I not go."

Li Qingan said happily: "I will definitely arrive at night!" ”

．．．．．．．． Today's Hugh Dynasty is not only a day for courtiers to relax and vacation at home, but also a day for courtiers to visit each other and look for opportunities and relationships, especially tomorrow that a great court will be held, which is the first court meeting since this year's New Year's Day, it is said that there is a major event announced, and the courtiers have gone from house to house to inquire about the major events that may occur tomorrow.

For the Dugu family, a major event will happen at the court meeting tomorrow, that is, Dugu Haoran will be officially appointed as the secretary of Sinong Temple, which will be a major turning point in Dugu Haoran's career.

Of course, the Dugu family is also nervously preparing for the marriage of Li Qing'an and Mingyue, but Li Qing'an has no elders in the family, although Gao Lishi expressed his willingness to help, but after all, he is not Li Qing'an's elder, and some things are not good to trouble him too much, it can only be some ceremonial help, so most of the things still have to be done by the Dugu family, Mrs. Pei Shi is already busy and dizzy, but fortunately, in the six ceremonies of marriage, the three steps of Nacai, asking for names, and Naji have already been set, so Mingyue officially became Li Qing'an's fiancée.

The second is to accept the levy, that is, the man sent someone to send a dowry to the woman's house, last year, when the concubine celebrated her birthday, Mingyue was named Mrs. Jun, Gao Lishi and his wife on behalf of the man, sent a dowry gift such as pig and sheep wine to the Dugu family, and then the invitation period, that is, to determine the marriage date, which is decided by the woman's family, Mrs. Pei has already set, and last night she got her husband's consent, therefore, today's lonely family invited Li Qingan to the banquet, in fact, it is to inform him of the specific marriage date.

To a certain extent, this is already a family banquet, and it is common sense to invite the prospective uncle to dinner, but in fact, the Dugu family attaches great importance to tonight's banquet, on the one hand, Li Qing'an is of course in a high position, as the envoy of the Anxi Festival, of course, he can't be treated like a nephew in his later life, on the other hand, Dugu Haoran also wants to show off his future son-in-law in the family, so today's dinner is extraordinarily grand.

It was almost dusk, and the dinner party was almost over, and the clansmen from all the rooms of the Dugu family would come one after another, Mrs. Pei was so tired that she straightened up and took a long breath, her prospective son-in-law was coming tonight, and she couldn't prepare too casually.

According to the weekly ceremony, Mingyue can't meet Li Qing'an again before she gets married, but the Tang Dynasty is open, there is no big defense between men and women, it is normal to have dinner together and go to play together, and more importantly, Mrs. Pei also knows that it will be of great help to her husband to encircle Li Qing'an, so she agreed to let her daughter meet Li Qing'an.

At this time, a maid stepped forward and said, "Madam, my lord, please go to the room." ”

"Good! I'll go. ”

Mrs. Pei explained a few more words, and then walked to the inner house.

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(To be continued)