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This summer's Chang'an has become extraordinarily long, and the condition of the Son of Heaven has been repeated several times, just like the long rainy season, which makes people haggard and haggard, until the summer heat gradually dissipates in September, and the Weiyang Palace, which has been closed for many days, suddenly opens its four doors, and there is amazing news in the palace that the Son of Heaven wants to summon hundreds of officials.

Cao Shi stood outside the hall and waited, glancing left and right at the current hundred officials without noticing him, so he asked in a low voice, "How is Your Majesty's physical condition?" ”

Zhao Junyu frowned slightly, shook his head slightly.

"Almost gone?"

"It's just the last breath left, and the light is back."

Cao Shi was uneasy, and the news that the emperor was not in good health could not be hidden, but he did not want the emperor to die at this time, because he knew very well that the current Han Empire was still the word of the terminally ill person.

This sick emperor has a breath, the world's heroes will lie on the ground and dare not move, once the emperor dies, people's hearts will be chaotic every minute, such as the two families of the Dou family and Tian Wang, who are dead from the flag.

If the crown prince hastily ascended the throne and became the emperor, the Empress Dowager Dou would 100% interfere in politics, Liu Qi, the son of heaven, was already in her thirties when she became the emperor, so she had no chance to interfere in the government, but now it is different.

Let the old lady who took Empress Lu as an example hold the power, even if the system remains unchanged, the personnel changes are very small, but that is enough to disgust Liu Che to death.

After all, Liu Che's desire for power was no worse than that of his grandmother, Empress Dowager Dou.

For Cao Shi. Once Empress Dowager Dou intervenes in the government, I am afraid his life will not be very good.

"Xuan, Pingyang Hou, when you enter the Shaofu, you will enter the house to see the Son of Heaven!"

The confessor led Cao Shi into the main hall. When the door of the main hall slowly closed, I saw from a distance that an old man was dying lying on the dragon couch surrounded by a circle of lights.

It was a frail old man, he was only forty-seven years old, his head was gray and his body was weak, and he had changed his appearance in less than two months.

He instantly thought of an allusion in the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Zixu passed the Zhaoguan and was sad all night.

"Shaofu, come here. Father has something to say to you. ”

Liu Che stood quietly beside the dragon couch, and on the other side, the queen Wang Wan held the hand of the Son of Heaven and whispered comfort. Several palace ladies knelt beside them, their eyes were red, and it seemed that the emperor had said something to them just now.

"Minister Cao Shi paid a visit to His Majesty, and wished His Majesty a speedy recovery."

The Son of Heaven slowly opened his eyes, his eyes showing tiredness and helplessness. There was no glimmer of hope or despair in sight, perhaps he had given up his futile resistance to the disease.

"I just summoned the Three Princes and Nine Secretaries, and asked Wei Juan how to govern the country and assist the government, how to supervise the hundred officials, and how Ning Cheng to pacify Guanzhong...... Now I also want to ask you how you are in charge of the royal treasury and keep my money bag for the crown prince."

Cao Shi lowered his head and couldn't see his gaze, but he could feel the invisible pressure and had been the prince for more than 20 years. The momentum of the emperor who has been in court for fifteen years is cultivated by commanding the world, and no one can imitate it.

Suddenly I felt that I was distracted. Hurriedly gathered his thoughts and said: "The short-term goal set by the minister for the Shaofu is to double the income of the domestic government. ”

"Doubling the budget? Let's talk about it. "Not only did the Son of Heaven mention the spirit, but the crown prince Liu Che and the queen Wang Wan also raised their heads, and the Shaofu paid more than 4o billion yuan in a year, fluctuating between 2 and 300 million, which is a fixed number that has hardly changed in 30 years, and doubling the internal money means that there is at least 8o billion yuan of annual income. Anyone who hears it will be moved.

"Take back the coinage rights and re-mint the five-baht coin. Half a tael, the use of platinum (silver) as the auxiliary currency, the use of new smelting technology to improve the efficiency of copper smelting, conservative estimates can at least double the domestic money every year, more dare not say. ”

Cao Shi took out a few exquisite copper coins from his pocket, the five baht coins are ordinary square hole ring coins, and the half two coins are red gold (brass) coins forged by stamping, the obverse is a miniature crown portrait of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, and the back is the words "worth half a tael, the second year after the Han Empire, supervised by Shaofu".

The Son of Heaven knew that the second year of the Later Yuan was the last symbol set for him, and there would be no next change of the Yuan year number, so he sighed and took half a tael of coins in his hand.

"This is a new weights and measures reset by the minister, the weight of the Han Jin is doubled to the city catty, the one catty sixteen taels become one catty and ten taels, the decimal system is the same as other units such as length, and the calculation and sorting are more neat and convenient, stipulating that 500 percent of 1 city jin is 1 gram, 1 city jin is 5oo grams, one tael is equal to 5o grams, and half a tael is a big money of 25 grams."

Queen Wang took the new half and two coins and looked at them very much for a while, but this does not mean that she agrees with the release of this new set of currency: "The new money style is exquisite, and the bust of His Majesty is lifelike, presumably from the Shaofu's handwriting, but Shaofu has not considered that the people do not accept big money, and when Gao Hou (Lu Pheasant) cast eight baht coins, it was not accepted by the people, because the big money was too heavy." ”

"So the minister used the old system to cast five baht money, in order to give the people of Guizhou a degree, the lack of copper in the Han family is not overnight can be solved, five baht money can be used as an excessive currency first, the weight of a half two coins is about equal to 8 five baht coins, but half two coins are made of bronze as the mother red copper for the film, the workmanship is excellent and there is no square hole, the official price is one and a half two coins equal to ten five baht coins, half two coins are intended to be easy to carry by businessmen."

In front of the Son of Heaven were gold, silver, brass, and bronze five-baht coins.

Gold uses the new weights and measures set by Cao Shi, the gold half two 25 grams, because it is gold, so the shape is the most beautiful, the use of the anti-counterfeiting mark with a zigzag edge, the inscription on the back of the currency is the same, the front is a front bust of the Son of Heaven, the emperor's majestic momentum is depicted in the slightest.

Silver was not originally a currency, and Cao Shi felt that it would be a waste to let the silver reserves of the society not circulate, so he decided to make silver into half taels, and the weight specification of 25 grams was the same as that of gold coins.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that 10,000 copper coins are too cost-effective to exchange for a pound of gold. Gold reserves are much lower than copper ore reserves, and platinum (silver) is a derivative of gold, and as a precious commodity reserves and mining volumes are always stable. Therefore, the minister's intention is to use the reserve currency of Shaofu and Dasi Nong to smelt and purify it once in the near future, and then make five baht coins according to the ratio of copper and lead, first take back all the gold and silver in the market, and then use red gold and half a tael as auxiliary currency, and wait until the market accepts it, and then make gold and silver currency, and strive not to trade with whole catties of gold in the future, which will greatly increase the price of gold. It can not only increase the value of national and domestic funds invisibly, but also put a large amount of money in the market. Reduce the double difficulties of economic taxation caused by the lack of currency. ”

In his position, Cao Shi carefully prepared a two-month big move, and the three-level currency of gold, silver and copper was established, and the whole catty of gold was directly expelled from the currency. Half a tael of money is commonly known as big money, and the big money is used as the main currency of transactions, which has a positive effect on promoting economic circulation, paying taxes and managing money.

One copper coin is equal to ten five-baht coins, one more valuable silver coin is equal to 15 copper coins, and the most valuable gold coin is equal to 15 silver coins, and twenty gold coins are equal to one city jin or two Han catties.

Conversely, one pound of gold is equal to twenty gold coins, three hundred silver coins, four thousand five hundred large coins, and forty-five thousand five-baht coins. If you use the previous Han Jin calculation, one Han Jin is equal to 225oo five baht coins, and the price of gold has virtually doubled.

It looks like cutting the flesh of a powerful landlord. But this is not a move to facilitate and benefit the people, the loss and cost of the coinage process are all in this double price difference, in Cao Shi's words, this is called seigniorage.

Paper money could not be used for the time being, so he had to use silver as a buffer currency in the middle, with the abundant reserves of silver owned by the people far more than gold, as long as every household had a little heart to keep some silver. It will increase assets in an instant, and the bubble brought about by monetary inflation will be digested almost instantly in the era of small-scale peasant economy.

What the Han Empire lacked most was currency. Far less than a thousand years later, the lack of the total amount of copper money about ten times, the Han Empire's annual tax revenue is about 4o billion yuan, counting the income of the Shaofu 4o billion yuan, which adds up to about 8o billion yuan, according to the standard of 1ooo money for consistent money, the imperial court and the royal family are only 8oo million yuan.

Compared with a weak dynasty with an annual income of 100 million yuan, the total economic volume of the Han Empire is really pitiful, and the solution to the financial difficulties lies in the currency, which is to use the current monetary aggregate to double the total value of the currency with gold, silver and copper three-color currency, and then use the copper coins mined and smelted to gradually supplement the new market demand.

Hearing that the currency doubled instantly, it was even faster than grabbing the money now, Liu Che's eyes lit up with golden light when he listened, and the doubling of the value of the currency meant that the treasury and the inner treasury instantly became a big treasury, which had immeasurable benefits for his plan to fight the Huns, and the queen was short-sighted, and she only felt that she had heard a bunch of unheard of things, and suddenly had a feeling of incomprehension.

The Son of Heaven nodded noncommittally, he knew that the crown prince and the empress had been convinced, even if he opposed it now, it would be useless, Liu Che would implement this strategy sooner or later.

"You're wonderful, but I suspect there will be unpredictable side effects."

Cao Shi said: "Your Majesty xià don't worry, when Emperor Taizu Gao for the convenience of the people and a baht pod money, Gao Hou (Lu Pheasant) thought that the pod money was unbearable and recast eight baht money, the people did not agree with the precious currency, the reason is that the people lack money Yan zhòng, pod money is enough for the common people to use, but as the sixty years of Chengping today and the beginning of the Han Dynasty are not the same, the amount of currency in the world has increased at least more than doubled, and the most circulating on the market is now three baht and four baht money, indicating that the weight of money and goods is growing, According to this trend, it will be easy for the people to mint five baht coins in advance, and as for the large money, some can be appropriately released, and the direct circulation channels of gold will be slowly narrowed, so that the big money will gradually replace gold as the main currency for medium trading. ”

The Son of Heaven couldn't help nodding while listening, a few days ago, when he was sober, he listened to the waiter read the "Theory of Money" intermittently, and roughly understood the trend of monetary growth and change.

Queen Wang didn't understand it at all, and looked at Cao Shi with a blank face and talked eloquently, only thinking that the person who could write "The Theory of Money" was really powerful, and continued to be unconscious.

The two monarchs and ministers exchanged views on monetary reform, and on the whole, the views of the Son of Heaven still tended to be conservative monetary policy, and tried to use a small amount of intervention by the imperial court to allow the private market to regulate itself, which is typical of the Huang Lao School's non-intervention in the political and economic views. It's very similar to what he knows about liberal economics.

After a while, the Son of Heaven closed his eyes tiredly and lay down for a while, and Cao Shi planned to get up and leave. Suddenly, I heard: "I ask you one last question, if you are asked to assist the Son of Heaven in governing the country, how should you act?" ”

Queen Wang looked surprised, she didn't expect the Son of Heaven to ask this question, according to his ideas, at least twenty years without considering the possibility of Cao Shi as the prime minister, governing the country is by no means talented and capable, everything is fine, and the experience of governing is a hard indicator. None of the people who became prime ministers had more than 20 years of political experience.

There are a large number of people in front of Cao Shi's head, and he doesn't know how long he will be in line for this sixteen-year-old child. Twenty years of exploration is already a small number, even if he is made the prime minister of the empire thirty years later, he will only be forty-six years old at that time, according to the longevity of Cao Shen and Cao Yuan, he is also considered to be in the prime of life.

It's not completely unreasonable to talk about seniority. After all, many people's governing resumes, governing achievements, exploration experience, age and governing tendencies are very good-looking, at least three hundred people have the high position of competing for Jiuqing, and at least thirty people can be promoted to the third duke, and everyone is staring at those positions vacantly.

Empress Wang persuaded without worry: "Your Majesty, the Marquis of Pingyang has broken the record since the Han Dynasty at the age of sixteen. I'm afraid I'll lead a good child astray! ”

It is true that she is a woman, but she still knows the importance of the Three Princes and the Nine Secretaries when she is only sixteen years old. Directly crossed the threshold of the three ghost gates of 2,000 stones, 2,000 stones, and 2,000 stones, and these three thresholds blocked the way of at least a thousand people.

Two months ago, when the Son of Heaven suddenly promoted him as Jiuqing. Many people inside and outside the DPRK complained and expressed their dissatisfaction, but Pingyang Hou's family background was too scary. Moving out of the ancestor Cao Shen can suppress the criticism of most of the world, and there is a little dissatisfaction and grumbling left, and there is nothing to say when I see the new Chang'an City and the Taiyi Temple where millions of believers gather.

Said to move the emperor to make the prince supervise, he personally drew and designed the three princes and nine qing, used the treasury and all walks of life to donate tens of billions of money, and conscripted one million people to wipe the most colorful stroke for his ideal map, Cao Shi's three-inch tongue is really powerful, from the emperor to the three princes and nine kings to the military merit and even the merchants and the people who served the service, all were fooled and stunned, this fool people to pull investment from the three emperors and five emperors down to the contemporary, 2,500 years unique.

The honest 2,000 stones feel that they don't have that brain, they really can't play that set of means, and they don't have the ability to use half a year to renovate Chang'an City into a first-class city, this is by no means as simple as a shock to the mouth of the tiger, even the most ruthless Confucianism who criticized Cao Shi can't say anything, and it is not appropriate to scold people for working hard and hurting money, and the people eat and live in the pockets of the state, and they are afraid that they will be killed by the rotten eggs of the people of Chang'an, and all the national funds from the treasury are used to repair people's houses, dig sewers, and rebuild temples and temples.

This is a serious building of the old Liu family, and the money spent on the unified procurement of engineering materials is hundreds of millions of dollars, compared with the total investment of the new Chang'an of almost 2oo0 million, this money is just a fraction, Confucianism can't find a sharp angle of entry, so he has to curse Cao Shi in a sullen voice and curse Cao Shi for being cunning.

Jiuqing's criticism was suppressed a lot, but everyone's upset was not so lightly erased, a few days ago, Cao Shi's new officials took office three times to suppress those subordinate officials, and Zhang Tang was transferred to be a strong assistant to do it, but if he wants to make some achievements for the world to see, he has to wait for his currency doubling and doubling the internal money, and no one will be unconvinced if he does these two things well.

But this is just the beginning, it has been preliminarily proved that he can do Jiuqing well, and if he wants to be the most outstanding Shaofu in history, he still needs to continue to work hard, and he will work hard to move officials to other Jiuqing for a few years, and it has been three years and five years, and almost twenty years have passed since he rotated several times, and at this time, no one in the world has doubts about his qualifications and prestige, and this is the best time to step into the Three Princes.

If you can't wait to be the third prince in advance, it's not impossible, the current prime minister Wei Juan and Yu Shi Dafu are undoubtedly forcibly promoted by the Son of Heaven at the beginning, the reason is naturally to kick the liehou down and replace his own people to take control of the government, but the two of them are too shallow in terms of qualifications, and they can't suppress those old bureaucrats who have been the secretary for more than ten years, not to mention how unconvinced those liehous are.

Wei Juan and the three dukes who are unsuspicious are very hard, the government can't hold it and don't say it, it is a problem to command Jiuqing, and people don't tell the two of them if they have something, which often causes the emperor to ask the two about state affairs, and the two of them don't know anything with a black eye, and the emperor has to ask Jiuqing about the specific situation to get a satisfactory answer.

In this case, it is difficult to say how happy the emperor can be, but after all, he is a confidant promoted by himself, even if he can't hold the scene, he must grit his teeth and hold on, but he didn't hold the emperor himself and fell ill first.

"Queen Mother!"

Queen Wang glanced at Liu Che, her son grew up and gradually became less close to herself, she just said a few words and stopped her from saying, originally out of public heart to say a few words suddenly became unhappy in her heart, how to say that she is also the master of the harem, and she will be the queen mother in the future, and she is a little unbearable to be called by her son in person.

The tone that was originally very good suddenly dropped two tones, and Queen Wang stretched her face and said coldly: "The concubine thinks that Shaofu is doing very well, and there is no need to consider it as a matter of complementarity for the time being." ”

Liu Che also realized that he seemed to have done something wrong, and self-defeating made his mother have a prejudice against Cao Shi, and secretly scolded himself for being too anxious, and wanted to intervene to help Cao Shi, but he was afraid that it would be self-defeating, so he hesitated for a long time and didn't dare to move.

The Son of Heaven ignored the queen and said in a flat tone: "You don't have to be afraid, you can say whatever you want, I am a dying person, I want to hear your truth." (To be continued)

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