The sky is clear and clean, the cold wind is slightly cold, on the spacious street, the young man pinched the copper coin with a black color, there was no smile in his eyes, with the awe-inspiring winter color, everyone was stunned, Zu Ting carefully took the copper coin, and the color changed a little, arched his hand towards the emperor, and said: "Your Majesty, this is fake money, not the Changping five-baht coin created by my Daqi......

The Taifu official also hurriedly said: "My Daqi's Changping five-baht coin is ordered by Emperor Wenxuan to be cast. It is very expensive and very well made. Between the Qianming and the Imperial Building, it is often privately cast. The money used in Yezhong is different from being ripe, green, thin, and naked. Used in Henan, there is a difference between green and thin lead and tin. Qing, Qi, Xu, Yan, Liang, Yuzhou, different generations......

And the authentic Changping five-baht coin...... It adopts the copper mother fan stacking casting technology at that time, the casting is very sophisticated, the text is smooth and beautiful, the layout is uniform, and the jade chopsticks are well-proportioned and the strokes are rounded. The word "flat" is one with the face and the lower Guo, and the design and casting are extremely exquisite! He took the coin and showed it to the crowd, "and this coin has obvious scratches on it, and the handwriting is not clear, and there are ...... Everyone has also noticed, this scratch has a distinct brownish black color! ”

"This is rust ......," Gao Wei said lightly: "This copper coin is mixed with iron, and the weight is not small." ”

"Your Majesty is wise......" Taifu officials straightened their waists, took out a copper coin hanging on their belts, the weight is heavy, the handwriting is round and exquisite, the style is clear and beautiful, this is the real Changping five baht coin, throughout the entire history of Chinese currency, the Northern Qi Changping five baht money is a rare US currency, and because the money is called Changping, there is the meaning of "peace is always there", and it is often carried as a mascot ornament. He held up the two coins, contrasted them, and said:

"After looking at the appearance, and then weighing the weight, this is obviously a private cast...... That is, the commonly known pod money, roughly that is, the bad coin is as thin as an elm pod, the wind floats in the water, although this copper coin is not so exaggerated, but it is also a bad coin Undoubtedly, it is a currency that is not recognized by the imperial court! ”

Zu Ting was erudite, pinched his beard and said: "Minting bad coins is really competing with the country for profit, and sooner or later it will make a big mess...... At the end of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo coerced the emperor into Chang'an, issued a small money, in addition to the melting of five baht, but also destroyed all the bronze in Chang'an City, it is said that it also includes the twelve gold figures cast by Qin Shi Huang, hehe...... All of them are used to mint small money, commonly known as Dong Qian, Dong Qian is extremely light and small, it does not sink into the water, it is broken casually, and then it is thinner, it will turn into powder, and the people ridicule it as nameless little money......

Again, Shen Lang Qian, who joined the army under the command of the Eastern Jin Dynasty General Shen Chong, since the Central Plains Funeral, Shen Chong raised troops to rebel and cast Shen Lang Qian, the money weighed only three and a half baht, but it was known as five baht, so accumulated, no wonder he was finally defeated and died...... The consequence of the passage of such bad money in the world is that the country's finances are corrupted, prices are rising, and people's livelihood is becoming more and more difficult......"

Cushman asked, "Is this kind of bad money widely circulated in the market?" ”

"Your Majesty, more than half of the people on the market use such inferior coins for trading, and those who really use my Changping five baht are in a few, and the rest are privately minted inferior coins......"

After hearing this, Gao Wei took a deep breath and suppressed his majestic anger, "Although I have long heard that my currency system is corrupt, I didn't expect that the situation would be so bad...... Bad money drives out good money and becomes the mainstream of the market, which is simply ...... Outrageous! ”

"In this way, most of the money collected in my government treasury is this kind of money?"

"Yes......"

Gao Wei was already slightly angry, and said, "How can this be? Emperor Wenxiang and Emperor Wenxuan both paid attention to the reform of the currency system, and Wenxuan even created the Changping five-baht coin, how to circulate this kind of bad currency on the market? ”

"Your Majesty, it's not that the imperial court hasn't taken action, but it's really a private style that prevails, and it's powerless to shake it...... This situation has been going on for a long time, as early as the period of confrontation between the north and the south of the former Wei Dynasty, there were many coins, the value of the currency was chaotic, and private minting was prevalent. In the fourth year of my Chaotianbao, I still used the five baht coins of Yongan in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and mixed with other coins. Emperor Wen Xuan wanted to put an end to this situation, so he began to mint new coins. But instead of using his era name, this money was named "Changping Five Baht". This money was borrowed from the name of the warehouse where grain was hoarded at that time. That is, the government buys grain storage in the harvest year, so as not to hurt the peasants, and sells the stored grain in the poor harvest year to stabilize the grain price, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty...... In the first four years of Thailand, the position is always closed, the harvest year is the year, and the year is thrifty. Emperor Wen Xuan took the name of "Changping" for the coin, that is, he hoped to regulate the market as well as Changping......"

Zu Ting shook his head, "But most of the private coinage is run by the powerful and nobles, and the imperial court has a lot of constraints and is powerless to suppress it, and over time, the people have also regarded these bad coins as legal currency...... This situation is not unique to my Great Qi, but also the Pseudo-Zhou, both of which followed the former Wei Juntian system, and our Great Qi paid attention to the differences between households, while the Pseudo-Zhou attached importance to the adjustment of abundance and famine. The officials of Daqi and Pseudo-Zhou respectively used the food dry system and the food yi system. They also tried to make up for the fiscal deficit through expansionary monetary policy, and as a result, the chaos in the economic order was more serious than before, and the practice of private coinage of bad money became more prevalent......"

"Dr. Zu is right, from the Qing year of the first emperor to the Wuping period of our dynasty, private casting has turned to a very high level, or pig iron and copper, or lead and copper, has gradually become a state of great difficulty...... In the early years, there was nothing, but in recent years, these drawbacks have become more and more obvious, prices are rising, and the livelihood of the people is becoming more and more difficult. ”

"The heavier and the greater are the mothers, and the lighter and the smaller are the sons. The currency is light and expensive, and the implementation of heavy currency is expensive in the city, and it is called the mother and the son; The currency is heavy and light, and the implementation of light currency is cheap, and it is not wasted, and it is called the mother of power. The minting of light and large coins should be adapted to the circulation of commodities and the price level, heavy coins are used for precious things, light coins are used for cheap things, and the mother and child coins are in power. Now it is difficult to distinguish between the severity and the severity, which has caused the disorder of the economy and people's livelihood...... Zheng Yu bowed and saluted: "Your Majesty, it has come time to change...... the minister implores Your Majesty to issue an order to check the bad currency and not allow it to circulate in the world!" ”

It was almost the middle of the day, the sun was blazing, the sun was shining on the face, warm, and everyone's hearts were holding up. After a long time, the emperor shook his head and vetoed the proposal of a group of officials, "As you said, now that bad money has been passed in the market, more than half of the currency of our dynasty is this kind of bad money, and the currency used by the people also has this kind of bad money...... Inappropriate ......"

He said, "But it can't all be left to chance...... The passage of bad currency is not good for the country after all...... Spread my will......" A Lantai official hurriedly knelt down to transcribe, but was held up by Gao Wei, "I'll read it first, you can just remember it, and then ......write it when you go back."

"First, outside of the Taifu, no one or any organization is allowed to mint coins privately, and violators are ...... confiscated family property and punished ...... for rebellion"

Dig out the root cause of bad money from the source.

"Second, it is not allowed to recast and melt Changping five-baht coins and other currencies, and it is not allowed to privately cast copper and iron utensils, nor are ...... allowed to privately melt copper and iron utensils."

Wealthy families like to hoard their possessions in this way.

"Third, the imperial court issued an official document to make it mandatory to set an exchange rate, one Changping five baht coin, worth two bad coins, prices, markets, are circulated according to this, otherwise they will be expelled from the market, punished as a crime, and at the same time ...... The imperial court levied bad coins, and also levied them according to one Changping five baht coins and two bad coins, and the recovered bad coins were re-forged ......"

"Fourth, this is the key...... This year, Taifu must mint a sufficient amount of new coins according to market demand, Taifu ...... Is it possible? ”

Taifu officials arched their hands and said: "Your Majesty, in the past, Taifu coinage was used in the Fan casting method, after the engraving template was poured with copper water, not to mention the low efficiency, and easy to imitate, Taifu Temple craftsmen have newly developed a new coinage method, called the sand turning method, the advantage is to control the number of single coins, the loss rate is greatly reduced, the cost is also greatly reduced, and it is not easy to imitate for the time being, according to this law, the ministers will be able to hand over a sufficient amount of Changping five baht money at the end of the year, please rest assured!" ”