As a result, it caused a lot of resentment. (Frankly speaking, Song Jing did this because it was strictly against the justice of the judicial process)

They are dissatisfied, but cannot be expressed under normal channels. It happened that there was a drought at this time, and folklore has it that because of the appearance of drought, and the appearance of drought, it often means that there is a wrongful imprisonment, so someone came up with such an idea to let the emperor know.

One day, when Li Longji was watching the play, the actors in the play suddenly came out dressed as drought, and then I saw the harlequin in the play ask him:

"Why did you get out?"

"It's because of Xianggong (Tang called the prime minister Xianggong)!" The actor who played the role of the Dry Devil replied.

"What's going on? You make it clear to me! Harlequin asked again.

"Now there are more than 300 people detained in prison, and it is difficult to redress grievances, and I have to come out!"

When Li Longji heard this, his heart moved, and he called someone to investigate, there was indeed such a thing, so he was not very satisfied with Song Jing at first.

Soon after, Song Jing and Su Ying asked for a strict ban on the circulation of bad money. Because the evil money in the Jianghuai area is the most rampant, Song Jing sent the inspector Xiao Yinzhi to the imperial history to strictly ban the evil money and ask that it not be used. After Xiao Yinzhi went, he vigorously cracked down on the use of bad money, and as a result, the business in the local market almost stopped operating, not only cracking down on the wealthy merchants, but also the small people in the market felt deeply inconvenienced, causing an uproar in the DPRK and China, and the voices of opposition were endless. Li Longji belittled Xiao Wangzhi and asked Song Jing and Su Ying to step down, Song Jing was transferred to the three divisions of Kaifu Yitong, and Su Ying was transferred to the Ministry of Rites.

In fact, the evil money in the past dynasties where there is a coinage will happen, the Western Han Dynasty's five-baht money is said to be as thin as paper, is jokingly called "pod money" (meaning as light as a bean shell), but the Tang Dynasty is indeed particularly strict. How did the bad money come about?

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There is a passage in the biography of Sima Qian's goods colony, which can illustrate the essence of the commercial market:

"Every man is left to his own ability, and to every man he is able to do what he wants. Therefore, the cheap things are expensive, and the expensive ones are cheap, and each advises them to do their jobs and enjoy their work. If the water tends to go down, day and night, it will come without calling, and the people will come out without asking. Isn't it the way of the word? And the test of nature? “

This passage is actually very similar to Adam Smith's argument in The Wealth of Nations, that the market is an invisible hand, and through "it" the natural operation of the economy can make the economy most efficient; When everyone pursues the maximization of their own interests, society also achieves the maximization of interests.

The reason why bad money arises is because the right to mint money is nationalized. Since it is illegal for the people to mint money on their own, it is more profitable to simply cut corners and steal coins with insufficient composition (insufficient copper content).

Secondly, nearly 100 years after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the long-term peace accelerated economic development, convenient transportation and substantial development south of the Yangtze River, which greatly developed the commodity economy and greatly increased the demand for trade. According to monetary theory, in the case of constant flow velocity. The amount of money issued is directly proportional to the total number of transactions, and when commodity transactions rise sharply, there will be a shortage of money, and if there is not enough money, bad money will be easily accepted and used together with normal money.

According to the theory of "bad money drives out good money", people who get good money will collect good money and only take out bad money to use, so after a period of time, there will be bad money circulating in the market, so what should I do? Never mind. After a period of time, the people know that bad money is relatively worthless, good money is more valuable, and good money and bad money will produce a certain exchange. Therefore, the impact of bad money on the people is not so great, and after a long time, the benefits of stealing bad money will decline, and finally it will converge with the cost of materials + casting, and there is not much profit to be made.

From a national perspective, dealing with bad money should be two-pronged: on the one hand, it should increase the supply of government coins. On the one hand, the state will come forward to manage copper mines, increase the market price of copper, and reduce the profit margin of privately minted copper coins; If the above two points can be achieved, and then strengthen the heavy punishment of private copper coins, and for the bad money that has been circulated, we should adopt the attitude of separation of public and private, that is, in public places (when government departments collect taxes and expenditures) must use positive money (Kaiyuan Tongbao), but if the people use bad money in private transactions, they will adopt an attitude of turning a blind eye and closing one eye. In this way, the value of bad money will gradually decrease, if not greatly reduced, and people will be reluctant to collect bad money, and the government, at the appropriate time, will adopt a certain percentage of the bad money to be recycled and reminted, and the bad money will be reduced.

In fact, in the sixth year of Kaiyuan, Li Longji also ordered the prohibition of evil money, and at the same time collected the evil money of the people and melted it. The main place of enforcement of the money ban was the two capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang, which also caused great turmoil. The market was in turmoil, and business came to an almost complete halt. At that time, it was Song Jing and Su Ying who built a 20,000 string of deposits in Taifu Temple to buy goods that the people could not sell but could be used by the government, and at the same time let the civil and military officials in the two capitals borrow salaries in advance (it can be seen that Luoyang, Chang'an is a city that relies on government consumption, exactly the same as the current Beijing), and the money flowed into the market early, and the crisis was resolved.

But this time the main place of prohibition is the Jianghuai area, after the bad money is not allowed to flow, the new money can not be effectively flowed in, resulting in a shortage of money, goods can not be effectively traded, merchants suffer a lot of losses (money can not be recovered, goods can not be sold, funds can not be turnover), the people have no money in hand (Kaiyuan Tongbao), can not buy goods, very inconvenient.

After causing the problem, the emperor had no choice but to make a scapegoat for the lamb, and the matter of bad money was still forbidden on the surface, but in fact it was greatly relaxed, and of course the bad money circulated in the market again.

After Song and Su moved their nests, Li Longji selected Jingzhao Yin Yuan Qianyao as the Huangmen squire, and Zhang Jiazhen, the governor of Bingzhou (Taiyuan City, Shanxi), was the Zhongshu Shilang, both of whom were also in the same Zhongshu Sect.

Yuan Qianyao is an old friend to us, so I won't introduce much; And Zhang Jiazhen can return to the central government as prime minister from the position of governor of the governor's history, which is a great improvement, why can he be promoted so quickly? Mainly in the sixth year of Kaiyuan, Zhang Jiazhen served as the commander of the Heavenly Soldier Army (commander of the Heavenly Soldier Legion, stationed in the state, but the name of the Heavenly Soldier is too funny...... ), he was accused of being corrupt in the army; The government sent someone to investigate, and when it was found that it was not true, the emperor was angry and planned to order the false accuser to sit back (the false accuser accepted the criminal law for the crime of false accusation). Zhang Jiazhen said: "Although his behavior is misconductful, if he is punished now, I am afraid that it will block the channel of speech, so that the affairs of the world cannot reach His Majesty's ears, and I will build a special pardon." The man was then exempted from beheading, and his sentence was reduced by one degree. Li Longji appreciated Zhang Jiazhen's loyalty, so he promoted him to be the prime minister during this position adjustment. Let's be honest. This kind of trick is too old-fashioned, I didn't expect Li Longji to eat this set, speechless!

At the beginning of the ninth year of Kaiyuan (721 AD), when the prime minister was still Yuan Zhang. A minor official (Zheng Bapin), who served as the overseer of the imperial history, wrote a book about an incident that triggered the largest economic reform movement in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, which lasted for nearly a decade, and one of his political allies manipulated the government for more than 20 years during the Kaiyuan Tianbao period. This petty official's name is Yu Wenrong, and his political ally is the famous Li Linfu.

Yu Wenrong was born in a family. His paternal family comes from the descendants of Yuwentai, the founder of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the maternal family is Jingzhao Wei, maternal grandfather and two uncles have been prime ministers, and the history books record: "For more than ten years, a three-phase family, the beauty of the clothes, the ancient is difficult to rejuvenate." His grandfather Yuwenjie also served as the prime minister during the reign of Tang Gaozong and Li Zhi, but unfortunately because he was involved in the rebellion case of Fang Yuai, he was demoted to Guizhou (Guilin City, Guangxi), so Yuwenrong's father Yuwenqiao only became the governor of Laizhou. And there is almost no record of Yuwenqiao in history.

Yuwenrong teenager doesn't like to read very much, especially he doesn't have much interest in poetry and songs. In the school, when the master was teaching ancient Chinese, he was just a crowd and had no special talent.

As an adult, Yu Wenrong took the imperial examination, but was not admitted, so he could only take the route of Menyin. Originally, according to the regulations, his grandfather once added a silver Qingguanglu doctor, and he could shade a son from the seventh grade. Yin Yisun from the eighth grade. But because Yuwen Festival was once mismatched, Yuwen Rong was inevitably affected when he came out, so it was not too smooth, and after a period of accumulation of qualifications. In the early days of Kaiyuan, when he arrived at the main book of Fuping County (Zheng Jiupin), according to this situation, Yu Wenrong had no chance to climb to a too high position.

But Yu Wenrong did not give up on himself because he was a small official, he seemed to be born with a talent for managing finances, and he was appointed as the chief secretary of Fuping County. The number of households, the taxes to be paid, and the accounts of the number of fields in the whole county are all clear. Fuping County belongs to Jingzhao Prefecture, and among the counties of Jingzhao Prefecture, Fuping County always pays all the taxes due at the earliest, and the financial accounts are clear, and the Fuping County Commander feels that he is very lucky to have this subordinate.

One day, Yuan Qianyao, who was then the Yin of Jingzhao Prefecture, went to Fuping County to inspect, and the county order was to report the situation of the county to Fu Yin as usual, but the county order report was scattered, and when Fu Yin asked some detailed questions, the county order was even more ignorant, Yuan Qianyao felt very strange, because Fuping County usually has the best table among the counties under its jurisdiction, why is the county order table Xiàn so bad?

Seeing that the county order could not be parried, Yu Wenrong decided to come forward, and he sued Sù Yuan Qianyao, because the county order was not in good health a while ago, these local affairs were handled by him, can he answer the question of Lord Yin instead of the county order?

Yuan Qianyao took a look at the master book in his thirties, and his appearance was not special, but after facing his gaze, the other party's pair of eyes revealed a shrewd and capable aura, which made people dare not underestimate it, and couldn't help but be a little moved.

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Yuan Qianyao casually asked about the situation in some counties, such as the local agricultural situation, the livelihood of farmers, the taxation situation, etc., but the chief bookkeeper talked eloquently, and what surprised him the most was that the chief bookkeeper not only fully understood the situation on these issues, but also had his own unique opinions.

"My lord, as you know, Fuping County is a relatively fertile place near Jingzhao, and in addition to its proximity to the capital, the local tycoons and powerful people combined with the officials of the DPRK and the central government or the imperial family, there are many cases where the land occupied here exceeds the government's regulations, and most of them are relatively fertile areas. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there have been no wars in recent years, the population has increased rapidly, the land is not enough to distribute, and there are many people who cannot pay the rent in the famine year (the tax policy of the Tang Dynasty is the rent adjustment; To put it simply, rent is to pay grain, Yong is to serve labor, and transfer is to pay cloth), and the land is transferred to the local Haoqiang. As a result, the poor became poorer and poorer, and finally had to go into exile, so the population of the county has declined rapidly in recent years. ”

In addition, in order to avoid rent, there are many people in the county who use their connections to obtain monk status, so that they do not have to pay taxes. These people not only rented out their original land to others to collect land rent, but also married wives and had children, or ate meat and drank wine, and did not abide by the rules. ”

In the past few years that Yuan Qianyao has been Jing Zhaoyin, he has also learned a little about these subordinate counties, and as far as the news he has heard from other counties, what this master has said is probably the truth, but no one has said it so clearly and thoroughly in the past. Yuan Qianyao couldn't help but wonder if there was any solution to these problems.

"Then what do you think the imperial court should do?"

"The villain is just a nine-grade master book, and the questions asked by the adults are too big, and they should be discussed by the important ministers of the court, and non-villains can put their beaks on it."

"But it's okay to say it, and the right to treat it as a piece of paper, how about it?"

"Since the adults say so, the little ones dare to say a few words"

At this time, Yuan Qianyao saw that the little official in front of him seemed to have become much taller all of a sudden, and his face was full of confidence and brilliance, he couldn't help but concentrate and listened to the little official talking there:

The villain believes that the first priority today is to check the household registration. Nowadays, there are many population movements and migrations in various states and counties, but due to their own reasons, the states and counties that have increased their populations are reluctant to take the initiative to report, so as not to increase the burden of rent adjustment; In the declining states and counties, a small number of people are actually reporting to reduce the burden, and even worse, they are worried that the reduction of household registration will make the evaluation of the evaluation inferior, so they do not report it, so that the increased rent adjustment needs to have a source, and it will be apportioned to the people who have no power, increasing their burden. ”

"If the household is included, the imperial court can know the actual number of households in each prefecture and county. For the household registration of exile, I recommend that those who already occupy land in the local area should be ordered to adjust their household registration and put it into the household registration of the prefecture or county where the exile is located; As for those who do not occupy land, the government can subsidize their travel expenses and order them to go to places with fewer household registrations, such as Jiangnan/Lingnan, etc., to reclaim wasteland. In addition, if there are those who are willing to return to their hometowns, the prefectures and counties should assist them in retrieving the land that has been usurped, or adjust the fields (land granted to officials by the imperial court) and the fields occupied by the temples, and these fields can also be granted to the displaced people who have returned to their hometowns, so that the displaced people can be resettled and the imperial court has some control over the rent adjustment. In addition, the number of registered households will inevitably increase, and the imperial court's finances can also get a respite, and in the event of natural disasters or wars on the border, there will be a surplus to deal with it, which is a good governance that kills multiple birds with one stone. ”

Although Yuan Qianyao was quiet on the surface, he was very impressed in his heart. After listening, he asked:

"What's your name, young man?"

"Yu Wenrong!"

"Does the Pyeongchang County Gongyu Cultural Festival have anything to do with you?"

"It's my grandfather!"

"Okay, Yu Wenrong, I remember you! Hahaha...... "After saying that, he left without looking back." (To be continued.) )