Hearing Liu Ying's question, Xiao He and Yang Chengyan were both stunned.

Does Shaofu have any money?

Actually, there is.

——In the seventh year of the Han Dynasty, that is, three years ago, Liu Bang, the Son of Heaven, officially issued an edict to allow the people to mint money privately and endorse the legitimacy of the three-baht coin!

Since then, in just two years, Shaofu has used the original inventory and the annual collection of oral gifts to melt millions of three-baht coins.

At the very beginning, the Shaofu did greatly improve the financial situation of the central Han family in this coinage model of 'two in one life, two in three, and three in everything'.

At the beginning of the eighth year of the Han Dynasty, after the previous year's oral endowment was sent to Shaofu, in just half a year, the 30,000 Qin and a half taels were melted into nearly 700,000 three baht coins!

With that huge amount of money to buy food and other materials from the market, Shaofu was able to sweep away the previous decline and accumulate the original family foundation.

But soon, the destructiveness of the three-baht coin was revealed in the Han Dynasty.

Because of the three-baht coin, not only Shaofu can be cast!

——After Liu Bang issued the edict of the Son of Heaven to endorse the legitimacy of the private minting of three baht coins, the people of the people set up their own stoves, and they could also use Qin half taels to melt and cast Han three baht!

It can be said that since Liu Bang, the son of heaven, allowed the people to privately mint three baht coins, the value of the money in the hands of almost every Han person has become 30-50 times the original.

There is more money in the market, but the number of goods in the market is still as large as before, and there are no objective conditions for natural inflation.

Naturally, in order to cope with the increase in the value of money, the market price will naturally rise by more than 30 times.

To put it simply: if you take one and a half taels, you could have bought a pound of grain from me;

But now if you take one and a half taels, you will melt and cast dozens of three-baht coins, and these dozens of three-baht coins can still only buy one pound of grain.

After all, no matter how you say it, whether it is a Qin and a half tael, or thirty or fifty Han and three baht, its copper content is there: it adds up to about seven to eight baht.

Copper coins are not paper money of later generations, but metal coins with their own precious metal properties as their own value.

Under the laws of the market, the only factor that determines the value of a copper coin is the copper content of the coin itself.

Even if Liu Bang, the son of heaven, stipulates that 'a three-baht coin is worth one Qin and a half tael', it cannot change this reality at all.

Of course, if it's just like this, then Shaofu will still make money.

After all, at the very beginning, Shaofu took the 'three baht money with a face value of half a tael' and bought a lot of things back from the market.

Even if prices rise now and the exchange ratio of money and goods is automatically balanced by the market, it is just that there is no money to be made in the future, and the part that was earned at the beginning has been taken into the pocket of the Shaofu.

But the problem is that today's three-baht coin no longer has the purchasing power of 'thirty-tenths of a one-and-a-half-tael'······

"This ······"

looked at Liu Ying without saying anything, but didn't see Liu Ying having the slightest intention of 'just give up', Xiao He and Yang Chengyan couldn't help but look at the queen Lu Pheasant behind Liu Ying with their eyes asking for help.

The vivid eyes of the two seemed to be eagerly pleading with Lu Pheasant: Queen, tell your stupid son what the hell is going on!

Unexpectedly, when Lu Pheasant saw this, he only looked at Xiao He with a light smile, and there was a little banter in his tone.

"Some time ago, Your Majesty planned to hold a court discussion with the 'prince supervising the country', I want to go with the prince, didn't Xiao Xiang say: The queen is the mother of the world, the main affairs of the harem, and should not interfere in the affairs of foreign courts?"

"I think what Xiao Xiang said is indeed reasonable."

As he spoke, Lu Pheasant couldn't help but glance at Yang Chengyan beside Xiao He, and then looked at Liu Ying on his side before raising his head again.

"The Hou and Shaofu can speak out, so you don't have to worry about me."

"If it weren't for the prince's insistence that my relatives come here, I would have wanted to make the prince alone and discuss with the two."

"Even if I'm here, I'm just listening."

With a light smile and saying this, Lu Pheasant lowered his head, picked up a roll of bamboo slips from the small table in front of him, and muttered: "Before Your Majesty left, he said that the crown prince was in charge of the country, not the queen······

After saying that, Lu Pheasant seemed to read the bamboo slips in his hand very seriously, and really put on a posture of 'I am a transparent person'.

Seeing Lu Pheasant's posture, Xiao He was only stunned for a moment, and then lowered his head thoughtfully.

Yang Chengyan, who was on the side, saw that Lu Pheasant was reluctant to speak, cold sweat immediately flowed down from the corners of his forehead, and he looked at Liu Ying with a panicked face.

"Minister, minister······"

humming and chirping for a long time, the word 'confession' was finally not able to be exported by Yangcheng Yandao.

After a moment like this, Xiao He finally turned his head sideways, looked at Yang Chengyan sympathetically, and shook his head secretly.

"Alas·······"

"It's also difficult to ······ for Shaofu"

Sighing in his heart, Xiao He straightened up slightly and bowed his hand to Liu Ying.

"I don't know anything at home."

"Today's Shaofu, but there are tens of thousands of three baht money; And the money makers of Shaofu are still working day and night to mint three baht. ”

"However, now, whether it is minted by the Shaofu or the three baht coins minted by the people, it is difficult for the people to believe it······"

This is the reason why Xiao He and Yang Chengyan ignored the tens of thousands of three baht coins saved by Shaofu before, and subconsciously said 'The treasury is empty'.

- The purchasing power of three baht is no longer a question of high or low, but a question of having or not!

Chang'an and the surrounding areas are better, with Liu Bang's golden mouth rule that 'three baht is equal to half a tael', and no one dares to refuse to accept three baht in an open manner; when merchants see three baht, they can only find other excuses, such as selling out, closing their doors, or 'I don't want to sell'.

But in some remote places, even in Guanzhong, as long as it is far enough away from Chang'an, there has already been a situation of 'bartering as the default means of trading'!

As for the cheapness that Shaofu earned back then, it was also spit out little by little with the three baht money that Shaofu was handed over in the name of 'oral endowment' every year.

To put it bluntly, today's three baht coins, let alone thirty pieces for one Qin and a half tael, even if they are piled up into a small mountain, no one wants to regard it as 'money'!

The three baht money lost all its purchasing power, which naturally made the hundreds of thousands of three baht money in Shaofu become lead grain storage.

And when Liu Ying heard Xiao He's words, she was overjoyed!

"That's what I'm waiting for!"

Secretly excited, Liu Ying barely suppressed the joy in her heart, and looked at Xiao He with a pretended doubt.

"What Xiao Xiang means, is that Shaofu has tens of thousands of dollars today, but he can't do it in the city?"

Seeing Xiao Heman's vague and almost invisible nod, Liu Ying finally saw the dagger, and looked at Yang Chengyan with a puzzled face.

"Since the money of the Shaofu is not able to be used in the private market, why does the Shaofu want to melt half a tael of money and mint three baht?"

"Why, with the money available, can you cast nothing?"