Qianyuan Palace.

As the proposal to abolish the right to mint coins in prefectures and counties was proposed, the hall immediately became noisy, and the ministers stepped forward to admonish them.

"Your Majesty, the right to mint coins is the edict of the First Emperor, and for decades, this policy has enriched the world with money, so that the people do not have to barter, and the people do not need to sell grain at a low price to obtain coins."

"Doesn't this prove the sanctity of the First Emperor? Jia Yi, you are questioning His Majesty the First Emperor, you are bold! ”

"Your Majesty, you are resolute, please kill the traitor of this troubled dynasty, to show that you are listening!" An old minister's beard was all over, and he glared angrily at Jia Yi, who had just made this advice, and looked like he wanted to kill him.

Jia Yi was not afraid at all and turned a blind eye to it.

"Since the first emperor, the Great Qian Imperial Court has never had the crime of admonishing you, what is Zhou Yan's intention for your majesty to make this case?" Wang Ce, the minister who was sitting in a wheelchair next to him, said coldly.

The old man just now immediately broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly bowed down and said, "Your Majesty forgives your sins, and the minister broke his promise because of the court's anger!" ”

"Stand down!" Wang Jing waved his hand.

Just now, this old man brought out His Majesty the First Emperor, just to rely on his influence to suppress this matter, but it was directly resolved by Wang Ce in a few words.

It's just that Wang Jing didn't care about what he said just now, but others cared.

Wei Wei Xu Zhao immediately came out of the ranks and said loudly: "Above the court, speak freely, this dynasty does not punish crimes with speech, but it is the rule set by King Hao Tianwen back then, you shout and kill like this, I am afraid that you don't care about the court, I see that you are minting money yourself to obtain huge profits, so you are obstructing the court to take back the right to mint coins!" ”

As a son of the Gong family, Xu Zhao has assisted the royal family in successive dynasties, so he naturally represents the interests of the royal family, and the right to mint coins should be withdrawn.

As for the coinage right, in the past, because the copper mines controlled by the imperial court were insufficient, the coinage power was decentralized, and it was wanted to use the power of the state and county to obtain more coins in circulation and prosper the economy.

By now, the market is full of coins, and the imperial court has enough copper mines, so naturally it does not want to hand over the coinage rights to the prefectures and counties.

Coinage is a huge profit, according to the current imperial court coinage, minting a hundred copper coins, excluding the raw materials copper, tin, lead, manpower and fire consumption, in the end can still get 30% of the income.

The coins minted by the local states and counties were of slightly inferior quality, the labor costs were lower, and the income obtained was higher than that of the imperial court, so how could they be willing to give up the money?

The imperial court was short of money, and the stable income of coinage naturally had to be in the hands of it. It can be said that from beginning to end, no matter how the court discussed today, Wang Jing decided to withdraw the right to mint coinage.

The courtiers were constantly arguing about the right to mint coinage, among which the Legalists were in favor of recovering the right to mint coinage, the Confucians were half in favor of it, and the other schools of thought were all against the repossession of the right to mint money.

Among them, the Huang Lao school believes that after the right to mint money is recovered, because of the high interest rate of coinage, the powerful people in various places will definitely risk death to steal the coinage, or mint some inferior money, and obtain benefits in various ways.

Trimming coins, scraping copper coins, and even some people re-smelt copper coins and cast them into bronze for sale.

"Your Majesty, if it is forbidden to mint copper coins in various places, I am afraid that those powerful officials and clans will melt money to cast bronze, and even if the imperial court mints coins every year, it will not be able to compare with the speed of those people melting copper casters. Please do not take back the right to mint coins! ”

Originally, many officials in the imperial court worked together with state and county officials to mint copper coins in the local area, which made a lot of profits, and they were unwilling to hand over the coinage rights.

Wang Jing is well aware of this, and even the pros and cons of the recovery and decentralization of coinage. In the economic art left by Zijue back then, there was talk of coinage.

"Whether the right to mint money is delegated or withdrawn depends on the pros and cons of the country and the imperial court. Just like governance, every time the court governs, there is no only benefit but no harm, and the person who governs has to weigh the pros and cons every time he governs. ”

"We must do the advantages more than the disadvantages, and do our best to expand the advantages and reduce the disadvantages."

"In the past, the coinage power was decentralized because the imperial court did not have enough copper materials and could not mint a large number of coins for the world's use, but now the coinage rights are harvested because the imperial court is short of money, and there is also enough copper for coinage, so it is natural to take back the coinage rights."

Both Wang Jing and Wang Ce understood this, as for the recovering of the coinage right, it would lead to a flood of bad money, and Haoqiang would privately melt down the coin maker.

In fact, these situations and the right to mint coins are completely two different things, privately minting inferior money, damaging numismatic vessels, and having their own inspection of the imperial history and embroidery to solve the problem.

Wang Ce watched everyone arguing, and immediately came to the copper chime next to him, picked up a small copper hammer and knocked it three times.

Only the crisp chime sound was heard, and the secretaries, who were still arguing, immediately stopped.

"Above the court, in front of Your Majesty, how can you be so rude?" Wang Ce said coldly.

"Your Majesty forgives you for being rude!" In the main hall, all the ministers bowed down one after another.

"Get up!" Wang Jing waved his hand.

After Wang Ce's interruption, the court finally restored order, Wang Ce ordered someone to push his wheelchair forward, and then said: "I also listened to the debate of the ministers just now, and I am just worried that because of the withdrawal of the coinage right, it will lead to all kinds of problems. ”

"But because of these difficulties, don't we do things? Would the imperial court not fight the Huns if they were afraid of losing the battle? Are there people in the world who don't eat food because they are afraid of choking? Are there people who are worried that they won't be able to draw water if they drown? ”

"I don't think there should be anyone like that."

"Your Majesty will take back the right to mint coins, and there may be these things that you said, but since we know, then we can find a solution, if someone dares to mint privately, we will send inspectors to inspect the imperial history and embroidered clothes to inspect the world, and severely punish those who dare to mint privately, and I believe that private minting will be controlled."

"As for deliberately melting copper coins to make copper objects, then the imperial court ordered to reduce the price of copper objects, so that the profits of copper objects were reduced, and at the same time, those who were found to have melted copper coins were severely punished. If the embroidered envoy and the inspector did not find it, then an order was issued to the people to report the illegal minting and melting of copper coins and gave a heavy reward. ”

"The coinage power was delegated to the first emperor of the year, but the first emperor also said that he would wait for the world to be full of coins, and then take back the right to mint coins, and at the same time, since the first Huai State, the Huai State has changed the law several times, so that it is now unified in the world, and things change with the country, is it possible that the rules of the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods will continue until now?"

"The law has been changed in the past because the old law is no longer out of date, how can there be people who hold on to the old law and refuse to reform it now?"

"Isn't it something that courtiers should find a way to solve when there are shortcomings in the administration of the imperial court? Is it the duty of a courtier to argue about the gains and losses of the imperial court's governance here, and not to solve them? ”

Wang Ce directly bypassed the pros and cons of the argument between the two sides, found out the disadvantages, and let the courtiers solve them. If these shortcomings are controlled and solved, won't there be no problems in the administration of the imperial court?

On the top of the main hall, the ministers were directly shocked by Wang Ce's words, and the ministers who supported the recovery of the right to mint coins suddenly became happy and offered advice to solve the problems caused by the recovery of the right to mint coins.

As for the ministers who had just opposed the revocation of the coinage, they had no choice but to start making suggestions.

Wang Jing was very happy to see that the right to mint coinage was withdrawn. But the revocation of the right to mint coins was not something that could be solved by the next edict of the imperial court.

If an edict is issued and the whole world earnestly implements it, then there will not be so many things in the world.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Wang Jing summoned some ministers in the inner hall.

"Your Majesty, although the right to take back the coinage has been passed today, after the implementation of this decree, there will definitely be a large number of people in the world who are hungry for profit and will take risks."

"Since ancient times, money has been charming, and the windfall profits of coinage have been enjoyed by these people for decades, and it is too difficult to take it back at once!"

"Jia Qing, Your Majesty naturally knows these things." Xu Zhao, the guard next to him, said: "Those powerful and powerful officials are acting recklessly in the locality, and when the time comes, there will be a time to rectify them!" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister suggests sending embroidered clothes envoys to investigate in detail, as long as those local heroes, big officials, and nobles dare to do it, then directly issue an edict to send them all to the Western Regions."

"Now that there is a lack of a large number of cadres in the Western Regions, the exile of these people in the Western Regions can just enrich the population of the Western Regions!" Wang Ce said coldly beside him.

The royal family has always been very disgusted with local tyrants, big officials, and lawless nobles, and they know very well that if these people in the local area become bigger, they will squeeze the living space of the small people.

And these small people are the foundation of the Great Qian's court, these small people provide food, taxes, and soldiers for the Daqian, without them, the imperial court would not be able to control the world at all.

Wang Jing also had this plan, he always wanted to divide the princes and go to the Western Regions, but because of the lack of money and food, he thought of recovering the right to mint coins. The recovering of the right to mint money will inevitably have a large number of powerful and large officials who are dissatisfied.

When the time comes, they will be copied and distributed, and these big families are all very rich, and when the time comes, some will be confiscated, and the money used to divide the countries of the Western Regions will come?

If you have the money and the people, you can recruit some good people, and then you will be able to go to the Western Regions to build a state.

"Your Majesty, please ask Your Majesty to mobilize troops and garrison them in various places, and then order the resumption of the right to mint coins, so as to prevent some local tyrants and big officials from taking risks!" Zhang Liang suggested.

"Accurate!" Wang Jing directly agreed.

Although even those powerful and powerful officials rebelled, Wang Jing was completely sure to suppress them, but in this way, a large number of casualties would be caused, and even if it was quelled, the local people would suffer heavy casualties.

Wang Jing naturally didn't want to see this situation.

With Wang Jing's order, a large number of heralds set out from Luoyang to various places, and a large number of troops began to move.

Wang Jing's will was soon carried out.

(End of chapter)