readx; Li Qing'an understood, inflation, Tang Dynasty-style inflation, there were not many silver dollars before, and I couldn't feel it, but since he annihilated the Tubo army in Tocharo, hundreds of thousands of Tibetan prisoners of war worked as laborers in the silver mines, so that Anxi's original only five silver mines expanded to thirteen silver mines, and the silver dollars minted doubled and flowed into the Central Plains continuously, at the same time, Wu Wang Li Lan occupied Jiangnan, so that the materials in Jiangnan could not be transported to Chang'an, and a large number of commodities were transported to the West through trade, although in exchange for real money and silver, but there was more money, but there was less physical goods, How can it not be inflationary?

In fact, he had thought about this problem before, but he had not experienced it personally and could not feel it, and now he began to realize the seriousness of the problem. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li Qingan thought about it, then pulled the shopkeeper to the next room, the guy broke free of his hand, rubbed his wrist and complained: "Merchant, you have time to hurry up and buy rice!" Our shopkeeper said that in a few days we will start preparing for the New Year, and the price of rice will rise by at least another 200 Wen, and smart businessmen are rushing to buy it! ”

Li Qingan took out a money bag, took out a stack of silver dollars from it, at least seven or eight yuan, held it in the palm of his hand and said with a smile: "Let me ask you a few words, if you tell the truth, the money will belong to you." ”

The man was tempted, now that the prices are soaring, his son is also sad, these seven or eight silver dollars are enough for him to live a good life, he immediately smiled on his face, and said: "Even if the merchant asks, I will tell the truth." ”

"Good! Let me ask you first, how much do you earn a month? ”

"Yakan!"

The guy didn't blink his eyes, so he blurted out, "Last year, I earned six times, because of all the price increases, the shopkeeper saw that I was working hard, so he added two more times." ”

"Is it enough?"

"I'm enough for one person, but I still have to raise a family, the old and the young, and there is no land at home, a family of seven people are counting on me to spend eight yuan on the day, eight dollars can buy two stone rice, and two stone rice can not be bought during the New Year, but our family only needs five buckets of rice per month, and the rest is enough to buy cloth to make clothes, firewood, rice, oil and salt, and eat meat a month, which is tight."

Li Qing'an secretly calculated, a nine-grade official, a month's monthly salary, food, miscellaneous uses, etc., added up, is only eight yuan, they also have to support their families, but also have to exchange courtesies between colleagues, the money is not enough at all, fortunately, at the beginning of this year, he made up for a few years of arrears of Lu rice, officials can still support it, I am afraid that by next year, most of the low-grade officials will be overwhelmed, if An Lushan also follows his example back then, and gives these officials additional money, it is estimated that half of them will say good things about An Lushan, These are just officials, there are a large number of officials, there is no rice, and the monthly salary is about five or six yuan, and the difficulties of their lives can be imagined.

Li Qing'an began to realize the seriousness of the problem, and he asked again: "I heard that you Li Qing'an are not quite capable?" How did you get so embarrassed? ”

"Competent?"

The guy sneered, "Yes, he is too capable, he can do it so that the people's resentment is boiling, and no one in Chang'an does not scold him." ”

"Hey! Don't talk nonsense! Li Rong next to him glared at him fiercely and said.

"Delis!"

Li Qing'an dragged out his voice and glanced at her dissatisfied, Li Rong didn't dare to say anything, Li Qing'an smiled and comforted the guy: "My woman just came from Anxi, and the people of Anxi are grateful to Li Qing'an, so she doesn't like others to say bad things about Li Qing'an, don't care, keep talking." ”

As he spoke, he put the four silver dollars into the man's hand, and the silver dollar was in his hands, and the man was at ease, and continued: "Actually, I didn't mean to speak ill of him, I just told the truth, do you know what the people of Chang'an call Li Qing'an are?" ”

"What?"

"Li Qiandou!"

"What..... Li Qiandou? Li Qingan didn't quite understand.

"That is to say, if he ascends the throne and becomes the emperor, it will be a thousand dollars of rice, so it is called Li Qiandou, and there are nursery rhymes, saying, Li Shidou, Li Baidou, go all the way up with Dou, and next year I will change Li Qiandou, and every household will not drink."

Li Qingan was silent, he felt a little sad in his heart, he never thought that the people of Datang would hate themselves so much, and it is not so simple to govern the world!

At this time, Mingzhu stepped forward and said: "I don't think this is fair, if there was no General Li, An Lushan would have entered Beijing a long time ago, the people of Hebei don't know how many people would die, and Tubo, our century-old henchmen of the Tang Dynasty have also been solved by General Li, why don't you miss it at all!" ”

Mingzhu lives in the upper class and has never been in contact with the people at the bottom, and when she heard her guy say this, she couldn't help but feel sorry for Li Qingan.

The guy also smiled bitterly and said: "Girl, General Li is actually good, everyone knows it, but the price has risen so fiercely, everyone's wages have only risen a little, of course the rich don't care, to praise him, but we ordinary people can't even afford to eat now, last year was rich, this year it has become extremely poor, last year was poor, this year you have to eat, you go to the street at night to see, there are more and more people doing night market stalls, isn't it that every household is sad?" As long as we small people can afford to eat, nothing else matters, but some people say that the price of food in Youzhou is only 80 wen per bucket, what do you make everyone think? ”

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Leaving the 'Huhang Old Store', Li Qing'an went to other rice shops and meat shops next to him to take a turn, the situation is completely true, as the guys and businessmen said, the price of grain has risen, and the price of meat has also risen, it was originally eighty Wen, and now it is two hundred Wen, this is still because Anxi has transported a large amount of beef and mutton, otherwise the price of meat would have risen to the sky, and these are still wholesale prices, to the market, to the dining table, and I don't know what the price is, no wonder the people scolded him Li Qiandou.

At this time, Li Qingan had no intention of continuing to shop, so he said to Mingzhu: "You can help me buy a gift for the flowers!" I'm not going. ”

He said to Li Rong again: "You accompany Mingzhu!" I want to enter the court at once. ”

Mingzhu could understand Li Qingan's mood, so he nodded and said, "Brother-in-law, go back!" I buy things for Duoduo, I know what she likes, and I will ask you more about the prices of the necessities of life, and make a list for you. ”

Li Qingan saw that she was empathetic and liked it in his heart, so he patted her hand and smiled: "Okay!" Thank you very much. ”

Li Qing'an said goodbye to them, turned over a horse, and under the escort of eighteen henchmen, he galloped towards Atamiju.

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An hour later, the political hall convened an emergency meeting at the request of Li Qing'an, including the six ministers of the political hall and the five important ministers of the privy council, as well as the servants and langzhong of various ministries, the secretary and the young secretary of the temple supervisors, and the imperial history Zhongcheng, etc., nearly 100 people gathered at the Zhongshu Provincial Conference to attend the meeting.

Yesterday, the new right minister was just elected here, and today an enlarged meeting was held again, except for Zhang Yun and a very small number of other ministers who received Li Qing'an's prior notice, the rest of the people were confused, and there was a lot of discussion in the conference hall, and everyone speculated that Li Qing'an was going to launch a full-scale war against An Lushan, and it was very likely that although Guo Ziyi lost, Li Guangbi's army entered Hebei, and I heard that An Lushan's forage depot was burned, and the cavalry suffered huge losses, which was a good opportunity to exterminate An Lushan.

At this time, Li Qing'an, Zhang Yun and Cui Ning walked quickly into the conference hall from the side door, Li Qing'an did not wear a military uniform, but wore a first-class python suit, wearing a gauze hat, and the ministers were dressed the same, Pei Min picked up the small iron mallet on the table and knocked the bell gently, "Dang!" There was a crisp sound, and the hall fell silent.

The conference hall is in a fan-shaped structure, and the ministers gradually sit back according to their ranks, and at the front are the six ministers of the political hall, and Li Qingan stands at the front, a bit like a lecture platform in later generations, this is a temporary arrangement, and he has important things to announce to everyone today.

The conference hall was very quiet, Li Qingan walked up to the front desk, glanced at everyone, and said slowly: "This morning, I went to the West Market, this is the first time I have been to the West Market in the past year, the reason is very simple, because I want to buy a gift for my daughter, I want to buy it in person, but I went to the rice store in the West Market, and I know some facts that I can't believe." ”

Li Qingan held up a bag of rice high, "This is a bucket of rice, a family of five can eat it for about eight days, can anyone tell me how much this bucket of rice is now?" ”

The ministers looked at each other, they all had rice, and they generally didn't go to the market to buy rice, at this time, Yan Zhenqing got up and said: "I asked the domestic servants for two months, about three hundred yuan, but now I don't know." ”

"Yan Shilang is roughly right, two months ago it was indeed three hundred texts."

Speaking of this, Li Qingan's voice suddenly became higher, and he said loudly: "But not now, now it is 400 Wen, a bucket of rice is 400 Wen, and in a few days it will enter the period of purchasing New Year's goods, when a bucket of rice will be sold for 600 Wen, and it was only 80 Wen at the beginning of the year, but now the price of rice is already high, I don't know if any of the ministers can afford to eat?" ”

The hall was silent and very quiet, at this time everyone understood that Li Qing'an held a meeting not to fight An Lushan, but to ask about prices, in fact, everyone knew that prices had risen sharply, but correspondingly, everyone had more money in their hands, more money, of course prices rose, this is normal, ten days ago, the political hall also held a special meeting to discuss the salary increase for officials and officials, and before the results were discussed, Pei Zunqing was assassinated.

At this time, Yan Zhenqing stood up and said, "Your Highness! The rise in prices mainly began in April, when the imperial court made up for the debts owed to all officials for several years, which caused a sharp rise in prices, but we believe that this is just an inducement, and the real reason is the large influx of silver dollars in Anxi, coupled with the fact that King Wu seized Jianghuai, which made Jiangnan Caoyun stagnate, and the goods imported into Chang'an were greatly reduced, and there was more money and less goods, so of course prices would rise sharply......"

Yan Zhenqing talked eloquently, said very sharply, every sentence to the root, many people sweated for him, everyone knew that the large import of silver in Anxi was the main reason, and the suspension of Jiangnan Caoyun was also related to Li Qingan's delay in disposing of King Wu, speaking of which Li Qingan was responsible, but no one dared to say this, but Yan Zhenqing dared to speak out.

Yan Zhenqing said in the end: "Zhang Shangshu and I have been jointly playing ten days ago, and we want to close the position to stabilize the grain price before the purchase of New Year's goods, but unfortunately Pei Xiangguo was assassinated, and this matter has been delayed, and the political hall has not discussed it so far." ”

Li Qing'an sighed and said: "I didn't know until today, the people of the Tang Dynasty call me Li Qiandou, and I only have three things to announce when I hold an emergency meeting today, first, immediately open a regular position to close the grain price and suppress the grain price, Taifu Temple must reduce the grain price to 100 Wen within three days, and the amount of grain is not allowed to set an upper limit. Second, I suggest that the Political Affairs Hall appoint Cui Ning, a squire of the Criminal Department, as the Jianghuai Cao Yun envoy and the Jiangnan Dongdao Observation Envoy, with full responsibility for the river Cao Yun; Third, I will personally lead an army of 100,000 to attack Li Lan in the south of the Yangtze River and end the Jianghuai Campaign before the beginning of spring tomorrow. ”

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(To be continued)