At the end of July and the beginning of August, the imperial court was busy with a pot of porridge, and the taxation inside and outside Chang'an City almost made the subordinate officials of the Great Agricultural Order busy and stupid, and the subordinate officials of the Shaofu did not have time to read jokes.

At least the 200 billion money accumulated by Shaofu has been re-checked, and the copper coins of different quality and quality are strung together in different categories, and then wrapped in kraft paper coated with tung oil to dry, 1,000 yuan is a thread, 100 yuan is wrapped into a ball is exactly 10,000 yuan, 100 oil paper is packed into a bamboo box, and 100 boxes are exactly 100 million yuan.

Shaofu's warehouse stores 200,000 boxes of copper coins, after weighing and distinguishing the quality of the storage, from the Shaofu craftsmen's hands of multi-layer iron shelves appeared, reducing the threat of collapse caused by the accumulation of too many bamboo boxes, the herringbone ladder makes it very convenient for warehouse managers to check up and down, and the storage and management efficiency of the treasury has been greatly improved.

The three gates inside and outside can be opened with six keys to open the vault The defense measures are very appropriate, the cost of self-theft by the guards has changed from one person to at least six people, and the day and night shift system has changed so that the six keys do not appear together at the same time, except for opening every five days when the inventory is carried out, the door of the treasury is always closed.

The management system and code of conduct that I have never seen before are refreshing, and the subordinate officials of the Shaofu are dazzled and fascinated. No one dares to continue to say behind his back that he is a noble son who has come to gild his life.

"The money law is too confusing."

In front of Cao Shi there was a large stack of copper coins, of different sizes, specifications, shapes, and even different grades, and the lightest pods that could float on the water were not even accepted by Shaofu. It is much heavier than the treasure money of the later generations, and there are various specifications such as three baht coins, five baht coins, and eight baht coins during the period.

The chaotic monetary system is related to the lack of copper, and it is also directly related to the poor economic foundation in the early Han Dynasty, and the emperor allowed private construction in order to stimulate the economy. Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, copper coins have become increasingly popular as currency, and copper coins can be used as currency in any shape. Qin unified the six kingdoms and then implemented a new money law, that is, these copper coins with square holes and round holes in front of them.

After the destruction of Qin, the Qin system was implemented in the early Han Dynasty, but since the Warring States Period, the practice of private minting of copper coins has been repeatedly prohibited, and the copper coins circulated by the people are of poor quality. However, it is better to have a wide range of sources and low prices, and in the early Han Dynasty, when all social strata of the early Han Dynasty needed copper coins to circulate as legal tender, even if they were so rotten that they could float on the water, some people wanted them.

Zhang Tang's eyes flashed: "Shaofu wants to move the money method?" ”

"It's not that you want to move, but you have to move, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is determined to destroy the Huns, Pingnanyue, Weijiahai, if you don't move the money law, where will there be endless grain and military salaries for the Han army? The current money law can ensure the healthy operation of the economic order in non-war times, but it is absolutely impossible to face the long war against the Xiongnu. ”

"What Shaofu means is that it takes a long time to fight the Huns?"

Cao Shi glanced at it and nodded silently.

Zhang Tang chuckled in his heart. As a lawyer, he knew very well that the so-called Han Cheng Qin system meant to inherit the strict military organization system of the Great Qin, and the original intention of the Qin and Han strict punishment laws was to manage the country as an army. A classical military state system.

The people of Guizhou make a living by farming and warfare, and they are farmers when they put down their weapons, and they are soldiers when they take up arms. Good fighting, happy fighting.

Fighting a war was not such a terrible thing for Hermes-Epitek. On the contrary, it is the most desired action of the military empire, there is war to have military merits, there are countless rewards, knighthood and land, glory to the ancestors, and the name is found in the war through the ages.

But the Han people did not have a bottom in their hearts to fight the Huns, the Huns galloped back and forth on the grassland like the wind, the vast desert grassland is different from the hinterland of the Central Plains, and it is very difficult to find the main force of the Huns to gather and annihilate in a war, not to mention that it took a long time to force the Huns to surrender and move inward, when King Qin Hui destroyed the righteous canal and assimilated into the Qin people for more than 30 years, the Xiongnu such a vast land may take several thirty years to complete.

Cao Shi muttered: "Sima Fa said, although the country is warlike and will die, although the world forgets to fight and will be dangerous, I think Tian Sui Tho's sentence is not right, it should be that although the country forgets the war and will die, although the world is safe and warlike, it will be dangerous, you don't see Qin Xiao's public Shang martingale changed the rule of law and Qin destroyed the six countries, it took up to a hundred years before and after, and the Xiongnu could not be broken overnight, if there is no reasonable fiscal and taxation system, it is still a big problem whether it can support the Hundred Years War, not to mention that most of the three princes and nine kings in the court are against the Xiongnu. ”

Even if the tribe of King Zuo Xian attacked Yanmen County this spring and forced Feng Jing, the Taishou of Yanmen, to raise fire in Shanwu County, the court and China still did not agree with large-scale ambitions for the Xiongnu, the reason is that now is not the best time to tear their faces, and the Huns also think that it is very inappropriate to provoke the Han people too much, so the border counties have been very peaceful in recent months.

According to the urine nature of the Huns, they did not dare to approach the border counties to plunder within three years, and after three years, those small tribes forgot the pain after the scars, and it is difficult to guarantee that they will come south to plunder again, and it is not known whether they will fight or not to fight at that time, but it is certain that the contradiction between the prince and the ministers will become bigger and bigger, until the contradiction between the two sides rises to the peak, and the collision between the imperial power and the relative power is ended with power.

Cao Shi knows Liu Che's character better than anyone in this era, once the prince who is eager for quick success is called the emperor, for example, please prepare to fight the Huns with great fanfare, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military will suppress him for a few years at most, and this will also require the Empress Dowager Dou to help suppress one or two, he must make sufficient preparations for fighting the Huns from now on, and Liu Che cannot be allowed to fight alone, and people who are used to acting alone will gradually become a lone husband.

"Since Hanxing, there have been several changes in the money law, and the eight baht money is not liked by the world, and it has not been long before the pass has changed back to the system of three baht money and pod money, and it is not easy to change the money law." Zhang Tang reminded worriedly.

Since Emperor Taizu Gao, Emperor Xiaohui, and Empress Gao Lu Pheasant to Emperor Taizongwen, the imperial court has repeatedly forbidden the people to mint money privately, but the atmosphere of private coinage has been repeatedly prohibited, up to the princes, kings, princes, middle to hundreds of officials and ministers in the court, down to the peddlers and pawns of the common people are privately minting money to make profits, after all, the fierce demand for copper coins in the whole society cannot be solved by severe punishment.

Therefore, in the early Han Dynasty, the emperor forbade the private minting of money, and in the period of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, he simply opened the money law completely, and the people of the empire Li Shu could mint money by their own ability, as for the quality of non-official coinage, it all depends on the businessmen and the market themselves.

The people of Pingtou will also find a way to get some copper to burn the fire and melt copper, make a clay money fan embryo to cast inferior copper coins, and the people of the world will make a lot of profits before they sincerely praise Emperor Wen of Han as a virtuous monarch, so that the tomb where Emperor Taizongwen was buried has become a famous place in the world, and after hundreds of years, the rebels in the green forest and red eyebrows dug up several emperors' tombs and did not dare to touch the tomb, which is the power of prestige.

There are advantages and disadvantages, and the direct disadvantage is that it causes such as the king of Qi and the king of Wu to make money and sell salt to enrich the world, and accumulate enough capital for them to rebel, and the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu is difficult to start without this money.

The indirect disadvantage is that the market is flooded with bad money and it is difficult to manage, relying on the self-regulation of the people brings many management inconveniences, and the annual tax collection has become the most troublesome thing.

The valuation of each official is slightly different, the high valuation will make the court suffer, the low valuation will make the people of Guizhou suffer, if it is placed in the later generations, it may become the fat shortage of the officials to make money, but in the early Han Dynasty it was a first-class troublesome errand, the officials of the young government and the county officials in charge of local taxes often quarreled over the valuation of a certain tax, one side was for the public and the other party was for the people, and the two sides insisted on quarreling with each other.

The premature deviation of manual assessment can only rely on the high prestige and fairness of the old officials to personally go out and repeat the valuation to obtain a monetary valuation acceptable to both parties, so that the situation recurs several times almost every day, which not only greatly reduces the administrative efficiency, but also affects the work of the subordinate officials, and the negative feelings accumulated by the negative work will be brought to the next conflict, but will affect the enthusiasm of the officials to cooperate and pay taxes.

Cao Shi said sternly: "If you don't change it, you can't use it, the Shaofu has accumulated 2ooo billion yuan and can't use it, it is a huge mistake to let this huge wealth remain in the treasury and rot, and it is a crime to keep the currency out of circulation for a long time!" ”

"What Shaofu said is very reasonable, those who are good at planning must know how to plan ahead, but how to change the money law?"

"That's right! Where do you start? Cao Shi was also distressed.

Zhang Tang shook his head and said that he didn't know, the instinct of the lawyer first thought of using the harsh law to restrain him, and after thinking about it carefully, he knew that the construction of the harsh law was not feasible, and if the harsh law was effective, there would be no problem of repeated prohibitions, and the intensity of law enforcement in the early Han Dynasty was not inferior to that now.

Since the founding of the Han Dynasty, pure legal officials have not had the opportunity to come to power, Shusun Tong and Chao Cuo are wearing the hat of Confucianism or Huang Lao, and even he himself is frantically supplementing "Guanzi" to enhance theoretical knowledge, because his benefactor Jian Boss Cao Shi is a staunch supporter of Guan Zhong.

"Allowing the money law to act arbitrarily is not conducive to the country, Huang Lao's inaction does not mean that he is free to do it, since it is not prohibited by the law, then I will legislate to restrain the money law to change the currency system." Cao Shi immediately made a decision on the charter, and wrote down a thousand words in a few moments, with the title of "Theory of Money" three big words.

"Monetarism!" Zhang Tang's eyes widened for a moment, for fear of missing every word in the book. (To be continued)

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