Chapter 155: The Remnants of the Chu Party?

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The monetary reform is gradually getting better, and under the mobilization of the Inner History Office, the people of Guanzhong have turned out a lot of miscellaneous money from their own cellars, many of which are yuan money, knives and cloth and other currencies from the pre-Qin era.

The counties of Kanto have long heard the turmoil of the Jingshi, and even the powerful and wealthy merchants in the Jingshi were defeated, and only two or three big cats and kittens were left in the Kanto by Lingyi, and they had no courage to resist the prestige of the Shaofu head-on, and under the almost semi-forced persuasion of the county order township, they reluctantly took out the currency of each family and exchanged it into five baht.

Unexpectedly, the folk copper money storage is unimaginable, since the rise of bronze smelting in the late Xia Dynasty, so far more than 1,600 years of history, all kinds of copper copper copper coins are immeasurable, so many currencies in addition to following their owners into the tomb, all hidden in the courtyard of the people of the world.

After the abolition of Qin Shi Huang, some of the waste money was recycled and smelted into half a tael of the Qin Dynasty, and most of it was hidden in a corner that the world could not know, slowly waiting for their holders to smelt into pod money.

The people's smelting technology is not up to standard, and the degree is slow and inefficient, and they are troubled by miscellaneous things such as farming, service, military training, and family shortcomings. Therefore, although there is a trend of every household making copper coins, the scrap copper waste money stored by the people is not immediately refined, but turned into strategic materials in their hands, and slowly melted into pod money bit by bit. The people of Kanto didn't expect the five baht money to come so quickly, and they didn't expect Shaofu to have the confidence to make a price comparison to exchange huàn.

For example, in modern times, you can see the copper coins of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty can see the copper coins of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty can see the copper coins of the Song Dynasty, no matter how many currencies you launch. There will always be a large amount of money left quietly in existence.

The times were different, and pod money was used as legal tender in the poor era of the early Han Dynasty. It is gradually losing its significance and role in depositing, the people's savings have increased several times compared with the early Han Dynasty, and the people's demand for better fiat currency is increasing. It's just that Gao Hou Lu Pheasant's economic mind is really not good, and he has been tinkering for a long time to make a heavy and terrible eight-baht coin, which is only half equal to half a tael of heavy money, and it is conceivable that the market cannot bear this kind of heavy money.

At that time, the most secure way was to introduce two baht coins, or slightly higher three baht coins as the best policy, and eight baht coins were the result of Lu Hou's decision regardless of market demand, and it was mercilessly rejected by the market.

It turns out that the market does not deceive.

More than 30 years ago, at the beginning of the reign of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the most popular currency had become the three baht.

More than ten years ago, in the early days of the reign of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, the most popular currency became the four-baht coin.

The current trend is the five-baht coin.

This proves that the people of Guizhou are getting richer and richer. It also proves that the direction of currency reform is very correct, and it is the general trend to gradually eliminate waste money with lower currency value and replace it with new money with more valuable money. As long as the wind and rain are smooth and the country and the people are safe for five years, I am confident that the currency circulating in the market will become half a big dollar, and the income of the people of Guizhou will increase by 30%! ”

Every five days of court meetings, Cao Shi's impassioned voice was loud.

Liu Che, the Son of Heaven, listened with relish, and the officials and ministers either pondered or stared, maintaining a silent listening posture.

In the field of the economy. No one is the opponent of Shaofu Cao Shi, and all those who don't believe in evil are slapped in the face by the economic number of Hongguoguo. The cumulative amount of currency collected and stored by Shaofu every month is appalling, and the total amount of five baht coins released is also amazing.

Just a month ago, Shaofu saved more than 3ooo billion yuan, exceeded 4ooo billion yuan last month, and charged 5ooo billion yuan step by step at the beginning of this month.

"It's a good thing to have money, but if you have money, you have to take it out for investment, and only when money makes money can the Han family's financial system be more stable." Cao Shi said eloquently.

Looking at the expressions of the hundreds of officials in the DPRK and China, most of them disagreed with his suggestion, and the saying that money makes money is very novel, but the officials who are old in political affairs are very disdainful of it.

"Money makes money means that the government is usury? Who do you lend to? The layers of superposition are not meant to be pressed on the heads of the people of Guizhou. ”

"A few days ago, Shaofu kept saying that it would crack down on usury, and today it has changed to Shaofu lending by itself, which is a bit inappropriate."

Baiguan Gongqing, you said a word, staring at Cao Shi and chasing hard.

Prime Minister Wei Juan smiled, since Emperor Liu Che made compromises and concessions to the Empress Dowager in order to protect the new policy of Jianyuan, and gradually released the personnel appointment and dismissal power of Shangqing, the personnel power of the court gradually fell into his hands.

The proportion of meritorious princes serving as ministers has shrunk greatly, and a few days ago, the great farmer ordered Ding Wuke to retire, which greatly increased his influence in the court, and Wei Juan felt that he was more like a prime minister than before.

In the face of everyone's doubts, Cao Shi looked normal and did not flinch: "If I dare to do it, there will be no difference, whether it falls on the heads of the people, you and I don't count." ”

The demand for currency weight increase is very strong, assuming that Liu Che did not immediately fight the idea of the Huns, the market demand will unswervingly move towards the six-baht coin after ten years, and after 30 years, it will slowly force into the eight-baht coin standard formulated by Lu Pheasant after Gaohou, which is basically equivalent to the weight of the Tongbao coin in the later dynasties.

There is a demand for five baht money in the market, and the quality of the new five baht money is really good, many people are very optimistic about the liquidity of the five baht money, even if Shaofu is under the banner of the imperial court to force that within three years, the tax payment is changed to five baht money instead of other copper money, five years later, the currency circulating in the market must all be replaced with five baht money, and the rebound in the market is far less than expected.

"What do you need to do with waste money? All the waste money left behind is useless and destroyed. Smelting into five baht is the right thing, we must ensure that we do not be pitted by corrupt officials, profiteers and people, and we must be cautious when reconciling accounts. Now even the slightest problem must be deducted in time, who received it, when it was received, who received it from whom, all of them are recorded in detail, and if there is a problem, he will find out the person according to the map, and Miki is not afraid that he will not recruit! Zhang Tang scolded his subordinate officials sharply. The officials hung their heads and bowed their heads to listen to the training, not daring to raise their heads to defend themselves at all.

The difference between the five baht coins and the envoy did a great job. Zhang Tang is a meritorious minister and should be promoted, from the original Fu Jielang to Shang Shucheng, Shang Shuling on the top of his head is an old man who does nothing, and he is not promoted on both sides of the Shaofu commander. Just guarding the rank of a thousand stones, Yu Lu was a monk for a day and hit the clock for a day, and the left and right were just petty officials under the Shaofu, not only with the Shaofu on his head, but also with the higher prime minister and the imperial historian holding power, and there was no chance for Shangshu to move around.

Zhang Tang said sternly: "Remember to know in your heart, Shaofu is kind and good at doing things, but it is not allowed to be half a point difference, the requirements of Shaofu must be strictly implemented, there can be no slightest omission, and there are ten newly established palace officials must also be carefully watched." In particular, the iron mine vacant in Guanzhong where the Linqiong Zhuo family moved must not be taken advantage of by those unscrupulous profiteers. ”

"Yes!"

"The palace officials rotate every three years, and the rank ratio is six hundred stones. If you can do a good job, I will ask for a reward from the Shaofu for you. ”

The subordinate officials were overjoyed and said, "Thank you Shang Shucheng for your recommendation!" ”

Zhang Tang made a straight face: "You guys are wrong again!" Our Han officials are serving the Son of Heaven, not serving myself or Shaofu, Shaofu has the best opportunity to win people's hearts with public and private use, if you want to thank the Son of Heaven and Tai Yishen's grace! ”

"Yes!" The subordinates were busy changing their words, and retreated with shame on their faces.

Zhang Tang breathed a sigh of relief. Secretly sighing that Shang Shucheng's work is far from being as simple as imagined, Shaofu is the royal housekeeper. In charge of the benefits of the mountains and seas and ponds to support the Son of Heaven, there are six Shaofu Cheng with a rank of 1,000 stones, plus three Changcheng and 24 official orders.

The 24 Lingcheng covers the big and small things of the imperial palace, including Shangshu, Fujie, Taiyi, Yuefu, Tangguan, Kaogong, Weaving, Sikong, Zhongshu Confessor, Yellow Gate, Hook Shield, Shangfang, Imperial Palace, Yongxiang, Nei, and Eunuch.

Yongxiang is the so-called forbidden province, also known as the court, commonly known as the secret of the palace, the insider, the eunuch is the inner servants and the palace maids, which are all in charge of the Shaofu.

Not to mention that the Shaofu is in charge of the royal treasury, and the mineral taxes of the Huangzhuang in his hands are innumerable, and the power is not as good as the other powerful Jiuqing who hold military power, but it is also incredibly strong.

Ascending to Jiuqing means touching the true face of power, but the powerful laws and the complex and sophisticated system of cultivating and fighting military merits can ensure that Jiuqing cannot move at will, such a large institutional plate, only a few hundred people supervise, and the power is too big to describe in words, it is impossible to achieve it in any era after the Qin and Han dynasties.

This is one of the biggest characteristics of the Qin and Han systems, because it is incredible, so it is more powerful, the Qin and Han systems can hold the power is not afraid of the collapse of the system and the power of the ministers to get power, do the trick of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, Zhou Bo Chen Ping killed the Han Shaodi is the power of the princes, there will never be Wang Mang to kill the Han Emperor, Liang Ji to kill the Han Emperor trick.

At least not before the collapse of the Han system, no one can do it.

Zhang Tang turned his head and saw Shaofu Cao Shi standing not far away, holding his arms and smiling, his heart was slightly shocked, and he immediately put down his mind and saluted.

"Your cousin is in my eyes, you use your ability to prove that you can be qualified for this position, read less "Shang Junshu" and "Han Feizi", and more "Guanzi" and "Lao Tzu" The statecraft, your talent is not limited by a mere court lieutenant, and you also understand the truth that if you listen to it, you will be clear and biased, and you will be good for your future career." Cao Shi knew that this guy had made up for the Six Classics of Confucianism in history, and as long as there was a need, the officials were happy to learn any scholarship, they were pure pragmatists, and they rarely cared about the views of the portal.

Zhang Tang frowned and said with a sad face: "In the past few months, I have been making up for the five thousand words of "Lao Tzu", and I dare not agree with many of them. ”

"It doesn't matter, I also think that many of the sayings in "Lao Tzu" are out of place, let you read more and watch more to think about it in order to wash away the anger on your body, killing people has a murderous spirit, using torture to use anger, and the anger in your body is too strong will affect your career exhibition."

"In the lower provinces, we will definitely step up the study of Huang Lao's theory." Zhang Tang's expression was awe-inspiring. He would never question the correctness of his boss's views, and Cao Shi's statement itself was a kind of political tendency, telling him that he must do things according to his own thoughts. In this way, it can be promoted and reused.

Zhang Tang is many years older than Cao Shi, but the status gap between the two sides is like an insurmountable gap, and if he doesn't mention Cao Shi's kindness to him, he will say that Zhang Tang is just a petty official who has just been promoted to a rank of 600 stones, and there are thousands of petty officials like him in the court. Shaofu asked him to go east, but he would never dare to go west.

Cao Shi said: "It's time for the third batch of migrating Haoqiang to come, right? Another 100,000 people, and the fourth and last group of 100,000 people after this group were all thorns. When leading the troops to escort them, they must be cautious and cautious, and do not let those thorns pick quarrels and provoke troubles to take the opportunity to make trouble. ”

"I heard that there are some remnants of the old people in the last group."

Cao Shi looked ridiculous: "You say the old Chu? The origin of the royal family of the Mi family? Isn't that family already over, how can there still be remnants? ”

"No, the minister is talking about the remnants of the old Western Chu."

"You mean the remnants of Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu? You're thinking too much! How many of those people have survived to this day? All of them are old men in their seventies, eighties, or even nineties. What else can that old bone do? Hehehe......"

How could Cao Shi believe this kind of rumor, he had never heard of any so-called remnants in Western Chu, it was not mentioned in the historical records, and there was no appearance in what he saw and heard, unless those old immortals had the great ability to go to heaven and earth, they would have been wiped out by the powerful Han Empire.

Han inherited the Qin system, and Han was stronger than Qin.

The consensus of the Han people is so simple, the Great Qin system was strict to the point of fingering, and in the hands of the Han family, the Qin system became softer. Even the old Qin people in Guanzhong expressed their admiration.

Since ancient times, it has always been a grand principle to become a king and defeat a king.

Xia Wei was not brutal, but he was defeated by Shang Tang. and he became a cruel and vicious king.

Emperor Xin was wise and brave, but when he died in the Battle of Makino, he became a mediocre tyrant.

Xiang Yuyong, the overlord of Western Chu, was brave, but his brutality was well known to the world, killing 200,000 Qin troops who surrendered, attacking and plundering cities, and slaughtering cities at every turn. The fire burned Xianyang and plundered countless treasures, and its fame went down in history. His sins are too numerous to mention.

Such a brutal loser has been dead for more than sixty years, even if there is a remnant party of Xichu, what is it! How dare the generals of the defeated army speak bravely, they are destined to be able to block the iron hooves of the Han army.

Cao Shi had an instinctive self-confidence in the Han Empire, which made him believe that the so-called remnants of Western Chu had suddenly revived, and it was as difficult as climbing to the sky.

Zhang Tang was worried and didn't know how to persuade him.

He always felt that the old bones of those Western Chu were not simple, which one of them could escape the pursuit of the Han army and hide in the reckless mountains and forests? You must know that the Han army in the early Han Dynasty was incredibly strong, in addition to the invincible Western Chu overlord Xiang Yu, the Han army can really be said to see the gods and kill the Buddha, even the overlord Xiang Yu of the Wu Emperor was also defeated by the Han army twice in the Battle of Jingsuo and the Battle of Qixia.

Such a strong Han army could not find the remnants of the old Western Chu, and even planned to go to South Vietnam to search for the remnants of Western Chu, but with the rebellion of the princes and kings, Liu Bang gave up the plan to continue to pursue and kill the remnants of Western Chu, and focused on quelling the rebellion until he died, and the remnants of Western Chu were freed from fear.

More than 60 years have passed, and the young people in their early twenties, the young people of the year have become octogenarians, and it stands to reason that they should not be a threat, but no one dares to guarantee that the old things are really not in the way, in case they don't pretend to be dead and jump up to fight each other to the death, they really don't know how to deal with it.

Cao Shi is very busy, Yu Lin Cavalry accepted the review of the official formation of the army, that is, in the last few days, take this opportunity to deal with all the government affairs that have fallen, he does not have the habit of procrastination, but has a little obsessive-compulsive disorder, and does not like the habit of losing everything.

The degree of copper coin recovery is very fast, the average monthly profit in these months is more than 6o billion yuan, and the net profit of three months of coinage is enough to have 1.8o billion yuan, according to this degree of work for half a year at most, since the end of the Great Xia Dynasty to the present, all the waste money accumulated in the world in the past 16oo years will be returned to the furnace and cast into a new type of five-baht money.

As for the various currencies accumulated in the past 16oo years, only the best ones are selected as collectibles, and the rest are all recycled without reservation.

Many unheard of bronze coins were mostly thrown into red furnaces and melted into molten copper. Currencies that are comparable to rare treasures are just a bunch of symbols in the eyes of those in charge of the economy.

Many craftsmen offered to exchange their own five-baht coins for huàn ancient coins, but Zhang Tang was embarrassed and didn't know what to do, and he also felt very sorry for those unheard of ancient coins in his heart.

"What is there to be sorry for. The currency was created for the convenience of circulation, and it is enough to keep a small part of it as a collection for exhibition, and it is the right way to meet the world's demand for copper coins. Cao Shi said so, but when it came to the specific operation, he still opened up the mouth a little and allowed the craftsmen, officials, and princes from all walks of life to exchange five baht coins for huàn ancient coins.

Since it is a huàn, it has to be calculated according to the market price. There are no more than a dozen five-baht coins of huàn weight, and the price of ancient coins varies according to the market value. Even the least ones are worth 3o dollars, and the most expensive ones are worth 6ooo dollars.

The prices are staggering, but buyers are happy to do so, and the buyer's market is aware of the fluctuations in the market for ancient coins. If you want to buy it, please go away if you don't buy it, and they don't have to complain.

Besides, the fool also knows that Shaofu is the last hammer of copper money trading, all the good quality is taken out in exchange for the deposit in the hands of the rich, the day of the end of the transaction is when the furnace is reopened, the remaining ancient coins are all melted into copper water, and the ancient coins on the market naturally become out of print.

Unless those who have private ancient coins jump out and are willing to take out the remaining ancient coins to trade, or the bold and fat strong beams go to steal and dig up the ancient tombs of the pre-Qin Dynasty. Otherwise, you don't want to see another ancient coin.

Cao Shi also has his own ideas in doing this, according to the direction of the history exhibition, the ancient coins preserved on the market will be used by the small people of Shengdou to mint money sooner or later. The reason is that no matter how good the ancient coins are, they cannot be exchanged for the necessities of food, clothing, housing and transportation as orthodox currency, and they must be bought by the group of idle nobles and rich people who are idle and have a pain, but the people have no ability to make the nobles condescend to buy the coins they have.

In the end, ancient coins still have to be melted into copper, whether it is minted pods or bronze objects, they will eventually become one of the sources of currency in the market. Instead of letting the people dispose of the ancient coins as scrap money, it is better for him to exchange them at a fair price. Then select the ones with excellent quality and sell them in the name of Shaofu.

In this way, Shaofu can make a lot of money, and the aristocratic rich people who buy ancient coins are also very satisfied, and the people who seem to lose the most are only nominally losing a huge amount of wealth, and when they are unable to realize the expected wealth into actual wealth, it is a better choice to hand it over to the Shaofu who has the ability to realize it, for example, the coal mountains in Hedong County, the fire oil buried in the ground of the Western Regions, these good things The people are unable to realize real wealth, so they have to rely on the powerful Han court to realize it, and they can not only be compensated, You can also get a lot of benefits from the side.

Therefore, the people who have lost the most nominally do not have too much loss, but the discarded ancient coins they keep in their hands will become very valuable, and those ancient coins will become sky-high collectibles from worthless waste money, which will create a small extra money for the people.

The trend of exchanging huàn ancient coins lasted for a few days, and a large number of ancient coins accumulated in Shaofu's hands were exchanged for 500 million pieces, and the total transaction price was as high as more than 3.7o billion yuan.

In addition to playing a hand to increase the income of Shaofu, Cao Shi was not idle in the palace.

Under the advocacy of Cao Shi, in addition to a few nobles such as the emperor, the empress, the empress dowager, and the empress dowager, there are still a small number of copper utensils, and the bronzes of Changle Palace and Weiyang Palace have been gradually replaced with white stainless iron, together with the bronzes in Shaofu's inventory are about 12o million catties of pure copper.

The princes and nobles of Chang'an have also taken out the bronze in their hands, in exchange for the iron produced by Shaofu, the iron-smelting technology of Pingyang Houfu is a symbol of quality and quantity, the supply of stainless iron on the market has always been in short supply, and no one imitates the technology monopoly in the hands of Shaofu.

At this time, the melting and casting money workshop outside Chang'an City could not meet the mountain of Qianshan copper sea, one of the six Shaofu Cheng in Luoyang was in place early, he was ordered to prepare a new copper melting money workshop, after several months of preparation like a baton to take over the pressure of the six countries in the Kanto, the new five-baht coin, each Shaofu Cheng supervisor can return to Beijing to rest for half a month in a month, and the generous treatment makes them unable to refuse.

"Within three months, the minting of five baht coins will be gradually stopped, and each money workshop will be recast to copper and half a tael." Zhang Tang was slightly stunned. (To be continued)

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