"Commander Zhang, can you understand what the court said during the day?" Empress Dowager Yang asked a little unconfidently.

Now that the Queen Mother is already in the court, Zhang Shijie, as the commander of the Imperial Forest Army, is naturally also guarding the Queen Mother in the court. Now escorting the Queen Mother back to the palace, and hearing the Queen Mother's question, Zhang Shijie can only rack his brains to think about how to explain.

During the day, Zhao Jiaren talked about the latest banknote method, but there were too many contents in it, and Zhang Shijie couldn't string it together. After thinking about it, Zhang Shijie replied: "Queen Mother, it's better to ask Mrs. Zhao to tell the Queen Mother again tomorrow." ”

When Empress Dowager Yang heard this, she didn't speak for the time being. She thought that the dynasty was a very majestic thing, and whether it was big or small, it was up to her, the queen mother, to make the final decision. However, on the first day of going to the court, Empress Dowager Yang found that if she wanted to make a decision, she had to understand what the court was talking about. Those lengthy speeches, those completely incomprehensible contents, Empress Dowager Yang didn't know what those people were talking about, let alone what she should say.

Watching the Queen Mother enter the dormitory, Zhang Shijie took out a cigar and lit it and smoked it. Before, Empress Dowager Yang was most worried about the Mongols sending back the captured officials and the Empress Dowager, and after the content of the Bianliang Peace Conference was announced, the 'return' proposed by the Mongol envoys was not mentioned at all.

Empress Dowager Yang's attention was all on this matter, she repeatedly read the peace agreement, repeatedly looked for Li Tingzhi and others, and tried to find out whether Zhao Jiaren had reached some secret treaty with the Mongols. In the end, Empress Dowager Yang dared to believe that the so-called 'return' was just a small trick played by the Mongols.

The Empress Dowager Yang, who was completely mobilized by that little trick, finally came to the court, but the Empress Dowager didn't understand political issues at all, Zhang Shijie now felt that it would be good if the Empress Dowager could hide it.

Empress Dowager Yang and Zhang Shijie have their ideas. Those ministers in the court were actually able to understand what Zhao Taiwei said. After the next dynasty, these officials began to connect in series, and Li Tingzhi joined one of them. At this time, they were not in the mood to find a sister paper to play the guitar and sing, and the officials began to discuss the problems during the day.

As Zhao Taiwei said, the banknote law of the Great Song Dynasty was purposeful to keep the banknotes in the hands of the people. For example, if you pay taxes, you can only pay half of the tax when you pay money, and the other half has to be paid with copper coins. For example, when the banknotes are handed over every two years, when the new banknotes are issued, the old banknotes must be exchanged for new banknotes, and when Jia Rudao was in power, he refused to exchange the banknotes of the previous term and directly issued new banknotes. As a result, the number of banknotes handed over in the market has skyrocketed, the price of banknotes has plummeted, and the people have drawn the banknotes almost regardless of the cost. The price of bills in the market has skyrocketed, and the bills themselves are becoming less and less valuable.

Taiwei Zhao had already put a large amount of grain and cloth in the places he passed through, and absorbed a large amount of money. Now it is even decreed that in the future, taxes can be paid in full with payable money, and only money, can be used to buy grain, cloth, salt, and iron tools in the city. These policies have never been seen before, and the officials are confused.

"Li Zhizhou, if this is the case, won't all the money collected by the imperial court in the future be handed over!" As soon as an official sat down, he hurriedly said.

Li Tingzhi showed a very good skill when governing Yangzhou, so after listening to this question, he found that he couldn't answer it immediately. At this moment, I heard Xiong Sheng say: "There should be a reserve for the issuance of banknotes, and raw silk, gold and silver, and silk were used in the past, but this time I didn't expect Taiwei Zhao to use food." ”

Although Xiong Sheng has always been arrogant, but at this time he was able to put forward a seemingly completely insightful statement, and everyone had to come over and ask, "What's going on with this grain?" ”

Xiong Sheng was also thinking about it in his heart at this time, so he completely lost his arrogant appearance on weekdays, and he said while thinking: "Taiwei Zhao wants to rebuild Chang Ping." No, ......, he has already rebuilt. Therefore, he built a grain shop directly managed by the government, and the price of grain was fixed, and all grain had to be bought with money. That is to say, if you want to buy grain from the government grain store, you can only use money. In the past, the people had to accept the money paid to them by the government, but now they have to find a way to earn the money. ”

Xiong Sheng explained clearly, and the officials who had seen the big inflation couldn't help but ridicule Zhao Jiaren's policy, "There are so many banknotes on the market, what is the use of that little food!" ”

"It's not just food, haven't you seen Taiwei Zhao take out the cloth, salt, iron, and spices?" Xiong Shang continued to explain.

"That's not enough, it's not enough." Officials with ample inflation experience shook their heads in disapproval.

Xiong Shang is a little unhappy now. He said to these opponents in a serious tone: "Ladies and gentlemen, the meal ticket we use in the canteen is actually a kind of money. There are also cloth stamps, and food stamps are similar. Although there is less money, my life is no worse than before......"

Xiong Shang's words were immediately countered by the officials, "We are officials, and it should be so." Now what Zhao Taiwei is facing is tens of millions of people in the Great Song Dynasty. Where can he do it! ”

Li Tingzhi listened to everyone's disputes, and he was actually very happy to have a guy like Xiong Sheng who could temporarily resist him for a while, so that he could have time to sort out his thoughts. After listening to everyone's discussion, Li Tingzhi confirmed his opinion, Zhao Taiwei was afraid that there were not so many things in his hands that could be exchanged for the money in the hands of the people. In addition, it is useless for Taiwei Zhao to fill the treasury with money.

After determining his thoughts, Li Tingzhi began to wonder. In the past, when Zhao Jiaren was doing cotton work, he also knew the importance of copper coins, and at that time he gave the court 125,000 copper coins every month, which really solved the financial and tax problems of the imperial court. How could he wait for Zhao Jiaren to come to power himself, and he immediately restored the old tradition. Could it be because Taiwei Zhao's subordinates did not have Zhao Jiaren's ability to support him?

While thinking about it, the guy has already started to deliver the dishes. When all the meals were served, he said, "A few officials, buy one get one free for the rice fish in our store today." In addition, the store collects money. ”

If it had been before, officials would probably have been happy that rice fish was cheap. But what everyone was discussing just now was to pay money, and the restaurant had not taken the initiative to accept and pay money for a long time. Waiting for the hall to go down, Xiong Sheng sneered: "Hmph! Since the grain in the government grain store is cheap, of course these people have to get the money! Our money is also the day of the payment of banknotes, but I am afraid that it will not be long. ”

Hearing such an ominous prophecy, the officials at the dinner table did not look good. However, the rice fish in the hot and sour soup has an attractive aroma, which makes everyone can't help but swallow their saliva in winter. In the end, Li Tingzhi smiled: "Don't care about him so much, let's eat first!" Such a pragmatic statement was immediately echoed by the officials, and everyone moved their chopsticks and ate happily.

Since the rice fish buy one get one free, it was quickly settled that a large portion of the rice fish was quickly solved, and the official asked for two more copies. Rantang smiled: "Please wait a minute, officials, there are many people eating fish today, and our kitchen is not so fast." ”

While he was talking, Li Tingzhi suddenly shouted outside the door: "Isn't that Brother Liu?" ”

The person who walked by outside the door of the private room heard the shouting and turned his head, and it was Liu Jingwen. Li Tingzhi wanted to invite Liu Jingwen to come in for dinner when he went out, but he didn't expect Liu Jingwen to take his wife and a pair of children to finish eating. Seeing that Li Tingzhi's invitation was very sincere, Liu Jingwen asked his wife and children to go home first. He, a former official, joins the ranks of current officials.

"I don't know what Brother Liu is doing now?" Some guys who knew that Liu Jingwen had lost his official position asked.

Liu Jingwen replied: "I found an errand in the Museum of Culture and History, and specially opened it to Zhao Taiwei to find information on the two Han Dynasty. ”

"Oh! Isn't Han history Brother Liu's forte! The official who knew Liu Jingwen well said in surprise.

The Jinshi of the Great Song Dynasty all hoped that they would one day become 'storytellers', and if they wanted to become storytellers, they had to be very accomplished in a certain aspect. China has such a long history that everyone in the Great Song Dynasty can only conduct special research in a certain aspect. Even if the Museum of Culture and History is not the work of officials at all, Liu Jingwen, an 'irresolute element', actually relied on his own ability to have an errand again, so that many officials can see that their family members or friends of the 'irresolute elements' may have the possibility of making a comeback.

In the face of everyone's inquiries. Liu Jingwen smiled bitterly: "Everyone, this kind of thing is just fate. When I went to ask for an official position, I was disgraced. I never expected that when I was discouraged, I would rely on Han Shi to eat again. ”

"Then Taiwei Zhao uses those contents in the history of the Han Dynasty." The jinshi immediately went straight to the topic that the jinshi cared about.

"Agriculture, forestry and fishing." Liu Jingwen briefly introduced. It turned out that in the Han Dynasty, especially in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the country was very successful in fish fry cultivation and forestry cultivation. However, at that time, the fish fry were stocked in rivers and lakes. It is possible to catch a large number of fish during the fishing season. As for forests, the country also has vast areas for forestry.

After hearing this, Xiong Sheng said: "Isn't this the Han Dynasty material used by Taiwei Zhao when he recently wanted to implement the land state ownership system in Jiangnan!" As the saying goes, all dynasties died with weakness, and only the Han dynasty died with strength. Without him, just because the Han state has a strong economy! ”

Seeing that Liu Jingwen actually became an accomplice of Zhao Jiaren's land state-ownership policy, at least half of the officials at the table did not look good. Liu Jingwen found that his academic attainments were faintly 'misunderstood', and he instinctively retorted. "The operation of the two Han Dynasty governments is already strong, not to mention anything else, just this fish fry. As far as I know, Taiwei Zhao worked hard to build fish fry factories in various places, and wherever there were fish fry factories, rice fish were raised in the paddy fields. In addition to the increase in rice yield, the people who grow rice still have hundreds of catties of fish in one mu. The government sells fish fry, so it's good not to lose money. If they sell fish fry privately, they don't know how they can calculate the money for selling fish fry with the people. ”

Hey, hey! Li Tingzhi felt that he couldn't listen to it. Is this what a person who has been stripped of his official position by Zhao Jiaren should say?