He sat silently for a long time.

In the end, Xiao He tentatively asked: "Shaofu now, how much money is there, what is the money?" ”

"If the money and money are sufficient, I have to implore Your Majesty to use the money to buy grain in the city for the purpose of the army's conquest......

Hearing Xiao He's words, Yang Chengyan's already distressed face suddenly became even more embarrassed.

"Nowadays, there are tens of thousands of gold in Shaofu, but it is mostly prepared for sacrifice; More than 100,000 dollars, but most of them are three baht......"

"And Qin's half a tael, the Shaofu can't save more than 10,000."

Saying that, Yang Chengyan sighed again.

"Since Your Majesty insisted on going his own way, minting money and three pearls in the city, the price of grain in Guanzhong has skyrocketed, and now it has reached five hundred dollars!"

"What's more, merchants and merchants are in the market, and most of them use Qin money and half a tael; If they see three baht, most of the merchants will close their doors immediately on the grounds that they are 'sold out', and they will not sell grain in the market for three or five days......"

"If you use half a tael of the money saved by Shaofu to buy grain, the income will not be more than 100,000 stones; and three baht, I'm afraid it's ......"

"Alas......"

Speaking of this, Yang Chengyan was speechless for a while, and he couldn't help shaking his head and sighing, and stopped talking.

Seeing this, Xiao He also got up with bitterness, came to the door of the guest hall with his hands in his hands, and sighed.

"Your Majesty, why don't you listen to persuasion......"

Xiao He knew very well in his heart: as long as Chen Xuan raised the flag, the scale of this war would directly affect the vassal states of Yan, Qi, and Liang around Dai and Zhao, as well as Yunzhong County, Shang County, and Beidi County west of Dai Kingdom!

If nothing else, Chen Feng will inevitably learn from Han Wangxin, who caused the first battle of Han-Hun Pingcheng, and lead the Huns to help.

In such a war, if the Han family did not gather 200,000 to 300,000 troops, it would be impossible to completely quell the Chen Feng rebellion within half a year!

According to the minimum standard of the central government to gather 200,000 troops and pacify it within three months, Xiao He had to scrape together at least one million stones of grain in this war to barely be enough!

According to the current price of '1,500 yuan of stone' on the market, and the fact that most grain merchants only recognize half a tael of money and do not recognize three baht money, it will cost at least 150,000 yuan to make up this million stone of grain......

Thinking of this, Xiao He quietly put the plan of 'buying grain from the market' into the column of 'not feasible'.

- Now the Han family, not to mention 150,000 and a half taels, even 150,000 three-baht coins, can't take out at all!

Even if there is......

"Your Majesty won't agree......"

According to Yang Chengyan, there are about 10,000 and a half taels of money in Shaofu now.

But Xiao He is very sure: even if it is 10,000 and a half taels, Liu Bang will not agree to take it all out and buy grain in the market.

- for one tael is equal to twenty-four baht; Qin half two coins, can also be called twelve baht coins.

In other words, in terms of weight alone, one and a half coins and two coins are worth four three-baht coins!

As long as you melt one and a half taels, you don't need to add any impurities, and pour it into the mold intact, you can directly get four three-baht coins!

And now the three-baht coins that Shaofu is minting and issuing are not so much adding lead to copper, but adding a little copper to lead......

According to Xiao He's understanding, now Shaofu can get about eight baht of copper for every one and a half taels of coins melted.

And this eight-baht copper can actually mint hundreds of three-baht coins......

The ratio of half two coins 'copper seven and lead three' is unreasonable, Xiao He is not very clear.

But Xiao He is very sure: the three-baht coin minted by Shaofu is now edicted, and its ratio of 'copper one and lead ninety-nine' is absolutely unreasonable.

- Copper coins and copper coins, at least they have to be a little copper, right?

Three baht coins can be poured, said to be 'copper coins', held in the hand whiter than pearls, the slightest bit of copper unique dark yellow luster.

If it weren't for Liu Bang, the Son of Heaven, ordering: No one is allowed to refuse to accept three baht coins, this kind of '999,000 feet of lead' 'copper' money, I am afraid that on the day of birth, it will be eliminated by the market!

But what made Xiao He helpless was that Liu Bang, who had always been willing to listen to the opinions of his subordinates and improve the plan, did not listen to the persuasion of others at all when it came to casting three baht coins!

Not only did they not listen to persuasion, but they even canceled the ban on private copper coins!

Now the people looked at the half-tael copper coin with a yellow luster on their left hand, and then at the three-baht lead coin with a silver-white luster on their right hand;

Raising his head, it is the announcement of the government: The purchasing power of three baht coins is equivalent to half a tael of coins, and there is a jade seal of the Son of Heaven and the golden seal of the prime minister at the end as proof?

After pondering for a while, the people smiled and said in their hearts, 'You Liu Bang did it, I can't do it?' Then began a vigorous recasting business.

"For ten years, I am only afraid of the world, and I will never see copper coins again......"

With another long sigh, Xiao He could only shake his head and sigh and return to his seat, slightly restraining the bitterness on his face, and looking directly at Xiangyang Chengyan.

"Old man's meaning: Your Majesty, suspend the distribution of Qiu, August and Autumn September to replenish military rations!"

"After the autumn harvest is completed, the taxes from all over the country will be sent to the national treasury and then reissued."

Xiao He knows very well how seriously the 'three baht money', the first set of currencies in the Han Dynasty, has dealt a serious blow to the currency market.

But in this regard, Xiao He had no choice but to put it aside first and solve the matter of military rations first.

Nowadays, the Han family has only two taxes for the people: agricultural tax and oral tax.

The agricultural tax is one-fifteenth of the actual harvest of the people that year, and it is not necessary or can be converted into money, and it must be handed over to the grain harvested in their own fields, and finally handed over to the treasury under the control of the prime minister's office.

The oral endowment is according to the standard of 120 yuan per household per year, and the copper money is handed over, and finally it is included in the Shaofu.

The Shaofu Inner Treasury is the emperor's private treasury, which in principle is only used for court expenses and rewards from the emperor and the queen mother.

And now, Shaofu has 90,000 three-baht lead coins that do not have the ability to circulate, and 10,000 Qin Banliang that are about to be melted into three-baht lead coins.

Shaofu can't count on it, and Xiao He can only start from the treasury under his control; And the grain stored in the state treasury, in addition to being used for the daily use of the armies in various places, is used as an official income.

-- With a big war imminent, we must not deduct military rations from other places and use them as counterinsurgency rations for the central army in order to quell the Chen Feng rebellion.

Naturally, there is only one way left to temporarily default on the officials' salaries.

"That's it......"

After thinking about it for a long time, Yang Chengyan could only nod helplessly, got up with a bitter face, and bowed his hand to Xiao He slightly.

"Xiangguo can be cultivated, and contemptible people should use seals to attach."

Seeing that Yang Chengyan had no intention of throwing the pot, Xiao He also got up from his seat and bowed with gratitude.

Just as he was about to send Yang Chengyan away, he saw a slave sent from outside the classroom, panting and bowing his hand to Xiao Heyi.

"Xiangguo, the prince's chariot, has arrived outside the Prime Minister's Mansion!"