readx; The sudden knock on the door made the lobby quiet for a moment, everyone looked at each other, and their hearts were so nervous that they wanted to jump out, and the big shopkeeper hurriedly whispered: "Proprietor, what should I do?" ”

"Ignore them and get the money away at once. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info" Yang Huahua said decisively.

"The proprietor, I'm afraid it's too late, six hundred big boxes!"

Tonight they will transport away 40,000 yuan, 40,000 yuan is more than 240,000 catties, according to one bite of 400 catties, then it will take 600 boxes, and it will take more than a dozen ships to transport them all, and now they have just loaded more than 100 boxes, where is the time.

"Open the door!"

The sound of slamming the door outside intensified again, the door was smashed, almost smashed, Yang Huahua secretly hated in her heart, if Li Longji was still in power, who would dare to be rude to the Yang family like this, she had to say to everyone: "You find something to cover up the money, I'll deal with it." ”

Accompanied by a few fellows, she came to the gate and said to the fellows, "Open the side door!" ”

The two guys opened the side door and said, 'Boom! There was a loud bang, the side door was kicked open, and a fire came in from outside, and a lieutenant officer raised his leg and kicked the guy who opened the door, scolding: "Damn, you actually neglected Lao Tzu!" ”

"Presumptuous!"

Yang Huahua was furious, walked over quickly, and glared at the officer angrily: "You have eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall, this is the cabinet of the Yang family, do you dare to be so rude?" ”

"Regardless of your sheep and cows, you must all be inspected!"

When the officer saw that there was a gorgeous young woman in front of him, his eyes immediately narrowed with a smile, he reached out to pinch her face, and said with a smile: "Little lady, you look good!" It's better to follow the military master...."

Before his words fell, Yang Huahua was furious, 'Smack! He slapped him in the face, pointed at his nose and scolded, "Blind your dog eyes, you dare to tease the old lady." ”

The lieutenant officer was beaten to the ground, and he lost face in front of his sergeants, and he couldn't help but be furious, drew his sword and shouted: "It's the opposite, it's the opposite, those who resist will be killed, someone is coming!" Take this woman away for me. ”

At this time, another officer behind him knew Yang Huahua, and hurriedly pulled the lieutenant officer over and whispered in his ear: "This woman is Mrs. Qiuguo." ”

At that time, Yang Huahua's power was very strong, and even Li Linfu had to give way when he saw her carriage, although it has declined now, but she is still Mrs. Yipin after all, Yang Guozhong is still the right Xiangguo, Yu Wei is still there, the lieutenant officer didn't expect Yang Huahua to be here, thinking that it was just the shopkeeper's concubine or something, knowing Yang Huahua's true identity, he was frightened, although Mrs. Qiuguo has no power, she can sue the saint, and he will lose his head.

"Husband... Madam, the lower official is rude! ”

He hurriedly bowed, and his face was hot.

Yang Huahua pointed outside, "Get out of here!" ”

The lieutenant officers were very embarrassed, they received an order, no matter who they were, they had to investigate, but they really encountered a powerful person like Mrs. Qiuguo, they didn't dare to be presumptuous, but they didn't investigate, and they couldn't explain to the above, at this time, the officer behind hurriedly said: "Let's go, let's go!" ”

He pulled the lieutenant officer and walked out of the side door, and the side door immediately 'boom!' The ground slammed shut, and the lieutenant officer couldn't help complaining to his companions: "How can we explain to the higher authorities if we don't check?" ”

The officer said in a low voice: "Since Mrs. Qiu Guo is here, there must be something in the cabinet, and it is not good to tear your face, so we just surround the cabinet and prevent them from transporting it, and then report to General Changsun." ”

"Hmmm! That's a good idea, let's do it. ”

The lieutenant officer waved his hand, "Fence up!" ”

Hundreds of soldiers ran briskly, surrounding the cabinet, especially the back door next to a small river, and a dozen or so small boats waiting to carry money in the river saw that the situation was not good, and immediately sailed away.

The door of the cabinet shop was closed, and dozens of guys were waiting for Yang Huahua's order, when a man ran to report in panic: "Madam, those soldiers have surrounded the cabinet shop, and the boats in the river have also left, what should I do?" ”

"These bastards!"

Yang Huahua gritted her silver teeth, she had nothing to do, so she had to say: "Move all the money back to the warehouse, and I'll go to Yang Xiangguo." ”

The guys began to move the money, Yang Huahua hurriedly walked out, and in the night, her carriage drove towards Yang Guozhong's mansion.

Yang Huahua didn't know that as soon as she left, the East and West markets began to implement curfews, and the eldest grandson Quanxu also rushed to her cabinet, he ordered to smash open the door of Yang's cabinet, and the soldiers poured in, drove all the men and shopkeepers to the black room and locked them up, and packed her 40,000 copper coins and moved them away, which was the biggest harvest in the night's operation.

．．．．．．．． The sky gradually brightened, the East Market and the West Market, which had been disturbed all night, finally calmed down, but the curfew was still not lifted, the gates of the two cities were closed, only soldiers patrolled back and forth on the streets in the market, and no one was allowed to come out of the shopsAfter the silver money is shipped, it will be exchanged for silver money at the ratio of one to thirty and returned to everyone, which is a forced exchange.

At this time, the fifth Qi, accompanied by several officials, came to the city office, he found the eldest grandson Quanxu, and arched his hand: "The saint ordered me to check the situation, I want to know, how many copper coins have been collected now?" ”

The eldest grandson Quanxu looked at a preliminary list in his hand and said, "A total of 240,000 copper coins have been collected. ”

Fifth Qi frowned, only 240,000 guan, today to issue 20,000 guan of silver, according to one to 30, should be 600,000 guan copper coin is enough, according to the previous data, including the cabinet of the two cities of copper coin stock should be more than 3 million guan, why is it now only less than 10%.

The eldest grandson Quanxu seemed to know his thoughts, and sighed and said: "We are still one step late, most of the shops have already transferred the money, Wang Baoji Cabinet Workshop only has two hundred yuan of money, Anxi Cabinet Workshop is closed, there is not a single piece of paper left, but Yang's Cabinet Workshop got 40,000 copper coins, it is estimated that Mrs. Qiu Guo will not agree." ”

"What about the silver dollar? Did you find some? ”

The eldest grandson Quanxu shook his head and said: "The silver dollars are easy to carry, and they are even less pitiful, so they are basically all transferred, and only six thousand pieces have been found." ”

"This ......"

Fifth Qi was stunned, only 240,000 runs, not even half of it, how can this be explained to the saint?

At this time, a household official next to him was dissatisfied: "I think there are too many favors, and General Changsun is not dedicated!" ”

"!" The eldest grandson Quanxu was furious, pointed at the officials and scolded: "The brothers have not slept all night, and they have been porters and robbers for you, and your backbones are about to be broken. ”

Fifth Qi was also a little unhappy, and said in a long voice: "General Changsun, the main reason is that the money is too small to explain!" ”

"That's because you are too slow, and everyone has been on the run for two days before you react, what do you have to do with me."

The eldest grandson Quanxu was extremely disgusted with the Fifth Qi in front of him, and he thought that this was not actually the meaning of the Holy Lord, but the result of the Fifth Qi's instigation of the ministers, which ruined the reputation of the Holy Lord.

The eldest grandson Quanxu restrained the annoyance in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "Fifth Langzhong, please forgive me for saying bluntly, this kind of overnight forced search of the shop is tantamount to a banditry, it can only be done occasionally, please Fifth Lang Zhong to tell the saint, this move will not only lose the hearts of the people, the merchants will move away from Jianghuai Bashu, in the long run, Chang'an will have no business at all, who is willing to transport grain, rice, oil and tea to Chang'an, which is tantamount to killing chickens and taking eggs." ”

Fifth Qi thought that the issuance of silver coins was almost a failure, so he had to say helplessly: "It's not interesting to talk about these now, the silver money will arrive immediately, let's exchange it first!" Let's see what happens after the exchange and then return to the saint. ”

He sighed, turned around and left, and the eldest grandson Quanxu looked at his back and walked away, and couldn't help but spit fiercely, "Phew! Shechen. ”

．．．．．．．．．． More than a dozen carriages finally slowly drove into the gate of the West Market, all covered with tarpaulins, and dozens of guards followed each carriage left and right, and the guards were extremely tight.

About 100 steps away from the gate of the West Market, a large group of people who heard the news are huddled together to watch the excitement, and there are also many businessmen gathered in one place to whisper, about a few hundred people, most of them are shop owners who live outside, I heard that last night the curfew of the two cities searched, they all rushed to check the situation, some were anxious, some were secretly happy, the anxious ones were because the money had not been completely withdrawn from the store, and the fortunate ones had naturally transferred the money first.

At this time, more than a dozen soldiers walked briskly with the notice in their hands, and they walked to the side of a restaurant on the side of the road, which was a special place for posters, and the soldiers painted paste on the wall, and pasted a notice covered with a bright red seal on the wall, and the merchants rushed up to look up at the poster that was related to their family and surname.

Sure enough, it was a notice for the issuance of silver coins, and someone read: "The country is not enough, and the currency is heavy and light, so please mint the silver coins of the Great Calendar, and the Kaiyuan Tongbao money in parallel, and use it as one for thirty lines........"

"One is thirty!" Someone exclaimed.

"Damn, they must have been forcing money last night!"

Someone shouted and scolded, the crowd was agitated, hundreds of merchants turned around and ran towards the West Market, just a few steps away, dozens of horseback galloped up, the leader of the officer said to the merchants in a loud voice: "You all go back for the time being, the curfew will be lifted at noon, come back at noon!" ”

A businessman boldly asked, "May I ask Master Jun, is our money safe now?" ”

"Your money is safe, and we won't take your money."

The officer paused for a moment and said, "Don't worry! The money will be returned to you in a fraction of the money. ”

As soon as this sentence came out, the merchants were a little moved, the officer's implication was that their money had been taken away, and their fears were fulfilled, the imperial court was going to issue silver coins compulsorily, and they took away their copper coins, and the silver coins must be returned, and the dozen or so carriages must be filled with silver money, and the merchants immediately scolded, but the officers ignored them, turned their horses' heads and left.

At this time, someone behind him suddenly shouted: "Don't worry, everyone, Anthy will compensate you for your losses." ”

All eyes looked back, only to see several men dressed in black riding over, and one man continued: "This time, the imperial court used coercive means to exchange everyone's copper coins, causing many people to suffer losses, so this time Anxi will exchange Anxi silver dollars at an appropriate price for the silver money you are forced to get, so as to reduce your losses, but only this time." ”

Despite the skepticism, most people couldn't help but cheer, and one asked, "What price do we get in exchange for our money?" ”

The leader of the several men in black was Hu Peiyun, who had just received a flying pigeon from Li Qing'an last night, and his task had been increased, not only to sabotage the imperial court's issuance of silver coins, but also to prevent the Dali silver coins from circulating in the market, so it was an excellent way to buy the silver coins in the hands of merchants.

Hearing someone asking about the purchase price, Hu Peiyun stepped forward and said: "We can't recover it at the original price, you also know that the issue price is one when thirty, then we can only recover it at the price of one when twenty, of course, if you think the price is low, you can also not sell, we will not be reluctant, and we only accept five days, expired do not wait, starting this afternoon, Anxi cabinet will officially collect cashier." ”

Everyone was disappointed again, that is to say, they will have a loss of ten Wen, everyone sighs, there are those who stomp their feet and scold their mothers, and the eighteen generations of the ancestors of the Fifth Qi are scolded.

．．．．．．．． In the Xiling Lane next to the West Market, the Atami Ju wine shop still exists, but the business is colder, and it is rare to have a few guests to eat all day long, this is still one of the strongholds of the Han and Tang Dynasty in Chang'an, at this time, a young man hurriedly walked into the wine shop, he shook a silver medal, went straight into the inner courtyard, and said a few words to a man who looked like a man, and the man immediately took him to a room in the inner courtyard and knocked on the door.

"Mr. Hu, he's here."

"Come in!"

The man opened the door and said to the young man, "Come in!" ”

The young man flashed in, the door closed gently, the room had no windows, the light was dim, although it was morning, the room was still lit, there were more than a dozen people sitting, and the person sitting in the middle was Hu Peiyun, he had just received the news that the first batch of silver dollars scattered from Shuofang had arrived in Fengtian County, and he immediately gathered the backbone and was discussing how to transport the silver dollars into Beijing.

In fact, there are many ways to transport silver dollars into Beijing, and the key is to use the most secure method, in fact, the safest way is to buy the city defense army, most of the city defense army is 20,000 soldiers recruited by Li Qing'an at the beginning of the year, although Li Yu took away the military power, but many middle-level officers are interested in Anxi, easy to be bought, now the gate is not closed at night, as long as the city defense army is bought, the silver dollar is transported into the city at night, almost a gesture.

The plan had been finalized, and at this time, the young man walked in, saluted Hu Peiyun, took out a cloth bag from his arms, and respectfully handed it to him, "Please see the main hall!" ”

The main hall is the name of the former Han and Tang Dynasties, Hu Peiyun is the head of the Luoyang General Hall, so everyone is used to calling him Hu Zongtang, Hu Peiyun took the cloth bag, spread it out on the table, and said with a smile: "Let's take a look!" ”

Everyone gathered around, and under the light, they saw more than a dozen silver coins in the cloth bag, and the words 'Great Calendar' were cast on the face of the money, "Great Calendar Silver Coins!" Someone exclaimed.

The Great Calendar Silver Coin is the new silver coin to be issued today, and this has not yet been issued! Here they are.

"This is the silver coin we minted, everyone looks like it."

As he spoke, Hu Yunpei took out a small box and opened it, and there were also two Dali silver coins inside, but this was real money, and it was a sample that Zheng Shaoyou of the Metallurgical Administration secretly brought out to them.

Hu Yunpei took a fake money and put it together with the real money, and said with a smile: "Let's see what's the difference?" ”

Everyone looked carefully, the size of the two silver coins is exactly the same, the front is the pattern of the Yuan Palace, the back is the four words of "Great Calendar Tongbao", and the middle is engraved with the word "silver", indicating that it is a silver coin, and there is no difference between the two coins in these patterns.

"What a look! I can't tell the difference. ”

"It's still a little different, you look at the color."

Only then did everyone notice that the color of the real money was darker, and the fake money was slightly newer, but it was estimated that this was a different time of minting, and if the time was longer, it would be impossible to distinguish it.

Hu Yunpei smiled and said: "In fact, the weight is also different, the real money is silver, one copper, six lead, three, and there is a little silver, while our fake money is half copper and half white lead, without a little silver, it is relatively heavy, but it is plated with a layer of silver on the surface, and it will be worn off after a long time." ”

He asked the young man again, "How much has been minted now?" ”

"Back to the main hall, we have minted a hundred guan now, and we will strive to mint another two thousand guan in ten days, and now a hundred guan fake silver coins are outside the city."

"No more casting." Hu Yunpei smiled slightly: "A hundred fake money is enough, in fact, just a small stone is enough to stir up thousands of waves, go ahead!" Just bring a hundred dollars into the city. ”

"Yes!" The young man saluted, and hurried away.

Hu Yunpei stood up and said to everyone: "Now I will start to assign tasks. ”

Everyone immediately sat up straight, Hu Yunpei slowly glanced at the crowd: "Starting today, the Dali silver money will be available, but we have taken measures, it is estimated that most of the silver money will come to exchange with us, and only a small part will flow into the market, now we need to do two things, first, all the 100 fake Dali silver coins will be pushed to the market, no matter what way is used, whether it is given away or scattered, in short, fake money must appear in every corner of Chang'an; Then, we began to vigorously promote, saying that the silver money of the Great Calendar is half copper and half white lead, and it does not contain silver at all, which is the inferior money issued by the imperial court under the pretext of silver money, in order to rob the people of the people, we must make the people of Chang'an believe that this kind of money is not as high as the copper content of ordinary Kaiyuan Tongbao money, and it is worthless at all, do you understand? ”

Everyone got up and agreed, Hu Yunpei nodded and smiled: "Okay! You can go back, I will immediately divide the money into everyone's hands, it is the hour later, that is, at the beginning of the afternoon, everyone will start at the same time in their respective territories! ”

．．．．．．．．． Less than noon, the curfew was finally lifted, and the Dali silver coins sent from the municipal bureau were also sent to the shops one after another, and they were sent together, and there was a document similar to the exchange list, the tone on it was very polite, how much money was borrowed, according to one when thirty, exchanged for new silver money, how much silver money should be returned, written clearly, but what is the use of writing clearly, the merchants were so angry that there was no difference between these Dali silver coins and the original Tianbao silver coins, and even the color was darker, and the casting was rougher, This is simply a blatant robbery of money!

Some people still have a little fantasy, if the silver content is a little higher, there is no need to sell it to Anxi Cabinet Workshop at a loss, maybe it can really be used for one when thirty, but they judge from experience, this silver coin contains a maximum of one percent of silver, one when ten is about the same, more importantly, once the fake money is flooded, I am afraid that there is not even one when ten, just like the original Tianbao silver money, no one wants it at all, it is based on this worry, the vast majority of businessmen have decided to rather lose ten cents, but also to resell it to Anxi Cabinet Factory, Or go and exchange for the Anxi silver dollar that can blow loudly, that is real money. The merchants have put away the silver money, just like that, the silver money has not been circulated, but at the same time, Chang'an's various fangs of wine shops, teahouses, green buildings, inns, casinos and various squares of the fang market and other public places have appeared at the same time just issued calendar silver coins, a news is spreading wildly, this kind of silver money does not contain silver at all, just plated with a layer of silver, half copper and half white lead, not even a penny is worth, this is a scam of the imperial court.

There are good things in each workshop do not believe, on the spot with a knife to open the verification, inside is really copper and white lead, for a time Chang'an boiled, Chang'an people were terrified, all rushed to the rice shop to grab rice, the price of rice rose in response, only half an hour, Huzhou rice just dropped from 700 to 600 Wen from dou rice, and suddenly rose to 750 Wen, and the price of Longyou wheat also rose to 500 Wen per bucket.

Seeing that the situation is getting more and more serious, the officials have written to Li Yu, the son of heaven, strongly demanding that the issuance of new silver coins be stopped immediately, and impeaching the Fifth Qi for causing disaster to the country and the people, demanding that his crimes be severely punished, Pei Min even raised his arms in front of the Danfeng Gate and shouted to hundreds of officials in a sad voice: "Bad money will ruin the reputation of the imperial court, so you will follow me to advise the saints, recover the silver money, and severely punish the Fifth Qi!" ”

The ministers were moved, especially the middle and low-level officials, who were even more worried that Li Yu would use this kind of inferior money to offset the two years owed to them, and they were enthusiastic and followed Pei Min to Zichen Pavilion to petition.

In the imperial study, Fifth Qi knelt on the ground, waiting for Li Yu's fall, Li Yu sat on the dragon chair in a daze, and there were three dissected inferior fake silver coins on the imperial case in front of him, exactly the same as his silver coins, but what made him feel more complicated was that he had just received a notebook, which was a handwritten letter written by Li Qing'an to him, and pasted the pigeon letter on the notebook.

In the letter, Li Qing'an earnestly advised Li Yu that those who fool the people are foolish, and the only way out for him now is to use the Fifth Qi as a scapegoat, otherwise he Li Yu will lose his trust in the world, and the letter was sent with a glittering Anxi money.

"If Your Majesty doesn't like the Anxi silver dollar, then the minister replaces it with money, how about it?"

This is a kind of naked threat, if Li Yu does not recognize the Anxi silver dollar as a Datang coin, then Anxi will issue money.

Li Yu's heart is full of bitterness, he is now desperate, the failure to issue silver money, not only the failure of silver money, but also his reputation was completely ruined, and was ruined by Li Qing'an with the most vicious means, yes, he already knew that this was done by Li Qing'an, the fastest speed of the pigeon letter from Anxi to here is seven days, Li Qing'an is still breaking leaves, that is ten days, that is to say, Li Qing'an knew that this result was ten days ago, so this bureau was not set up by him, who else would do it?

Step by step, he was forced to a dead end, this was revenge for his treachery, at this time, Li Yu faintly heard the petition of the minister outside, "Your Majesty, please severely punish the fifth Qi!" ”

Including the military, the eldest grandson Quanxu also wrote to ask for the execution of the fifth Qi, and he was almost alone.

Li Yu glanced at Fifth Qi, sighed softly and said, "Fifth Aiqing, it was my foolishness that hurt you!" ”

Fifth Qi was shocked, Li Yu said this, he was going to attack him, he also felt sad in his heart, the rabbit died and the fox was sad, he didn't die, how could Li Yu be sad, Fifth Qi kowtowed, and said in a trembling voice: "The minister is willing to accept the guilt!" ”

"Whether you are guilty or not, I know very well, but I have to punish you, go to Chungju to serve as the governor! Do a good job for the benefit of the people. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty for your forgiveness!" Tears welled up in Fifth Qi's eyes.

．．．．．．．．． Outside the Zichen Pavilion, Pei Min led hundreds of ministers who were still shouting persistently, "Your Majesty is not guilty!" The crime is in the fifth Qi, please punish it severely! ”

At this time, a eunuch came out, holding a handwritten edict written by Li Yu in his hand, and he unfolded the edict and said: "Your Majesty has a decree, please listen to the ministers!" ”

Everyone fell silent all of a sudden, and only heard the eunuch read aloud: "I have been deceived by the words of the Fifth Qi, so that I have made a great mistake, and now I have woken up, and I have made the following corrections, degrading the Fifth Qi to the history of the Governor of Zhongzhou, removing the post of the middle of the Zhilang, and replacing it with Pei Min, the head of the household department; The silver money of the Great Calendar was abolished, and the imperial court no longer issued silver coins or large coins, and ordered Chang Ping to issue 100,000 stones of rice to calm the price of grain; Anxi silver dollar was renamed Tianbao silver dollar, and it was allowed to circulate in the Tang Dynasty, in parallel with Kaiyuan Tongbao money, and Qin this! ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

．．．．．．．． A currency war that occurred in November of the first year of the Great Calendar ended in Li Yu's fiasco, just issued less than a day of 20,000 pieces of silver coins were all purchased by Anxi Cabinet Fang, Li Yu planned nearly two months of new money law almost became a farce, because there is not enough gold and silver guarantee, which is destined to be unable to compete with Anxi Silver Dollar, the failure of this currency war, so that Li Yu had to admit that Anxi Silver Dollar is the legal tender of the Tang Dynasty, because it appeared in the Tianbao period, so it was renamed Tianbao Silver Dollar, so far, Tianbao silver dollar and Kaiyuan Tongbao copper coin together became the legal tender of the Tang Dynasty, but Li Qingan did not stop there, two months later, there was a pentagonal Anxi sterling silver slot in the Chang'an market, a total of two specifications, one weighs half a penny, when fifty money, one is lighter than half, when twenty money.

This kind of silver horn is extremely lightweight, easy to distinguish, difficult to counterfeit, its appearance brought great convenience to the Tang Dynasty currency, immediately swept Chang'an, was widely accepted by all strata of the Tang Dynasty, became the third currency of the Tang Dynasty, although this time the imperial court did not recognize it as legal tender, but it was recognized by the people.

(To be continued)