[Ten months after moving to Shangyang Palace, Emperor Wu Zetian died of illness here.

At the last moment of her life, the old lady may have finally seen it and officially issued the last edict in her life.

The content of this edict is quite simple, and the title of the Great Sage Empress of Zetian is retained, and the rest of the messy emperor titles are actively removed.

The descendants of the Wang and Xiao clans, as well as Chu Suiliang and Han Ming, who were affected by the abolition of Wang Liwu, were pardoned for their old sins and ordered to resume their business.

As the most top-level political struggle in the Gaozong Dynasty, the abolition of Wang Liwu involved the struggle between imperial power and relative power, the struggle between the royal family and the nobles, and the contradiction between the monarchy and the nobles, which fundamentally determined the trend of imperial power politics in the feudal era of ancient China, and was also the beginning of Wu Zetian's rise.

Therefore, Emperor Wu Zetian did indeed do another good thing, after all, these people Li Xian may not be able to remember, and if he does, he may not be pardoned.

In May of the following year, Wu Zetian was buried with Gaozong in the Qianling Tomb as the empress, ending a life that was difficult to evaluate.

Ah Wu collapsed, what we talked about the most before was the old lady's extravagant pomp, so what does the real Wu Zhou look like under the control of an empress?

In a word: civil governance is far stronger than national politics, and national politics is far stronger than martial arts.

In the Awu period, it is worth affirming the attitude of cultural inclusiveness in the society, the unprecedented development of the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and the advancement of scholars and scholars in the first dynasty, and it is also because of the unprecedented emphasis on literary talents that a series of poets of the Tang Dynasty were born in the Kaiyuan Dynasty.

But continuing to uncover the surface of this cultural prosperity, there are still a few acne that are quite eye-catching.

Limited by the innate inadequacy of women's identity in the legal system in the feudal era, Ah Wu chose to support Buddhism to strengthen his own momentum, and after ascending the throne, he increased his efforts to support Buddhism, and finally raised a deformed behemoth.

The most eye-catching thing is the rapid increase in temples: according to Awu's edict on the throne, Dayun Temple must be set up at the state and county level to worship and explain the Dayun Sutra that calls her Maitreya's reincarnation.

Although the construction of the Dayun Temple on the border of the country such as the four towns of Anxi did play a positive role in spreading culture and stabilizing the frontier, the placement of the Dayun Temple in the entire 300 states of the country was still a large expenditure for Wu Zhou's finances.

The public temples of these countries also expanded rapidly in an unprecedented manner during the Wu and Zhou periods, and Di Renjie, who returned to Beijing to serve as the prime minister, once handed over a note and said it more clearly.

Poor and extravagant, painting and hard work...... If you don't harm the people, what will you want? …… Paste the beauty industry, take more from it; The number of water mill manors is not small...... Unknown monks, where there are tens of thousands, have been examined, and thousands have been obtained.

The extremely luxurious temples are definitely not completed by ghosts and gods, and these expenses will eventually fall on the people, and the temple monks have properties and estates, and there are thousands of fugitive monks in Luoyang at will, so the whole country does not dare to think about it.

And during the Wu and Zhou periods, along with the temple economy, there was also the Jianghuai bad money economy.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty for a hundred years, the contradiction between the country's rapid prosperity economy and the productive forces of the money and the crotch has always existed, the Jianghuai region is far away from the central government and the economy is prosperous, since the time of Gaozong, the bad money has been repeatedly banned, and later Gaozong Awu Feng Chan Taishan came back with not enough money and there was a waste of money measures to compete with the people, so that bad money is more popular.

Ah Wu officially took power and made a stupid move, at the beginning he wanted to control the bad money, so he ordered people to hang regular money in the market, and if the coins were not compliant, they were prohibited from trading, and the result was "transaction stagnation".

As a last resort, Ah Wu issued an edict to remedy it again, saying that as long as it is not too excessive, it can be used, and those money with rough workmanship are not allowed to be collected.

As a result, this edict made the bad money get rid of the gray identity and have an official endorsement, and turned it into regular money, and the big Jianghuai even took the minting of money as a livelihood to do, resulting in the flood of bad money to an unprecedented state.

During the entire Wu Zhou period, bad money circulated in all aspects, so that the prosperity of the market had nothing to do with the official state money.

At the time of the opening of the Yuan Dynasty, Xuanzong spent a lot of energy in order to deal with the evil money, and even the prime minister Song Jing lost it with little effect. 】

"I also understand, whether the Tianshu Bronze Pillar has made all nations Xianfu don't know, and it is real to cut himself."

Ma Chao muttered as he ate the fruit.

As one of the former leaders of Yongliang, Ma Chao is no stranger to money.

When I was young, I entered Chang'an and saw the prosperous transactions between the two cities, and I was handsome in my prime, and I also saw Yongliang's bartering.

Even the evil money that the people of the Central Plains look down on is a little clear in Yongliang.

Therefore, at this time, I feel that it is very difficult to evaluate, on the one hand, millions of catties of copper cast dead things, and on the other hand, evil money passes through the world and the poison is endless.

Zhang Fei paid attention to the other side: "This Wenzhi can still be called the best, what kind of martial arts should it be......"

Lu Su also frowned and looked at the light curtain's simple statement, and when he turned his head, he saw Kong Ming looking at him with a smile, and as soon as he opened his mouth, his heart jumped hard:

"Jiangdong's five-baht money is gone, but is it?"

Kong Ming said briefly, but Lu Su also understood in seconds, this positive money should be relative to the bad money, referring to a coin with enough copper in size.

After a deep groan, Lu Su asked rhetorically:

"Jianghuai merchants, all obey the orders of Jiangling?"

In fact, what Kong Ming said was right, it is difficult to find a single positive coin in Jiangdong now.

But I'm afraid what Kong Ming didn't expect was that there was not much bad money left.

Nowadays, the people of Jiangdong still use bad money to live, and the merchants buy and use Shu Jinshu sugar to settle the payment, and these two things are sold to Caodi unimpeded.

In addition, there is also a "golden ticket" that Lu Su has seen with his own eyes, which is said to be made by Liu Bei, which can be used to exchange dozens of boats of baggage in Jiangling official market, which is quite favored by Jiangdong surnames.

At least as far as Lu Su knows, now everyone in Jiangdong Haoyou is trying to imitate the golden ticket, including Sun Hou.

Hearing Lu Su ask him like this, Kong Ming smiled dumbly and said:

"What Zijing said is quite unreasonable, and it is still difficult for Jiangling to make Jiangling merchants, let alone Jianghuai merchants."

Lu Su didn't care about the truth of what Kong Ming said, but continued to ask:

"In Kong Ming's opinion, how to cut off such a flood of evil money?"

For a well-educated person like him, the predicament in front of him is like the best test paper, and he can show his talent by talking about the system.

As for the temple problem, Lu Su disdains to say, it is nothing more than an upward and downward effect, and when this "Awu" goes, as long as the emperor does not worship the Buddha, the danger will be solved, and the thorniness of the two problems is not at the same level.

Kong Ming laughed when he heard this, and even if he was like a few treasures, he said:

"If you want to get rid of bad money, you need to rule the officials, you need to control the copper industry, and you need to make money to cure bad money."

"If you want to cure evil money, you must first govern the border city, and then rectify the Beijing market, and at the same time, you must also severely punish the law, and the illegal mining of copper ore to mint money can be punished by law."

"Regulate and control with the official market, and self-regulate with the private market, and if the positive money is enough, the bad money will not prosper."

Pang Tong on the side looked at Lu Su's stunned face and smiled:

"The matter of money was discussed by Kong Ming and Liu Zichu for a long time in Chengdu."

……

The eldest grandson Wuji in the Ganlu Hall was also making a similar statement, and what he saw was similar to Kong Ming:

“…… Therefore, in the past, the money policy of Emperor Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty was used as a lesson to learn from the fact that if the evil money needed to be severely tortured and extorted, it was also necessary to open copper mines and mint money. ”

"And the minister thinks ......"

Speaking of this, Eldest Sun Wuji carefully worded his words, and said carefully:

"I have set up a righteous warehouse to help the hungry, and if there is a surplus of copper, we may set up a department to regulate the coins."

"If the money is cheap, the money will be collected into the department, and the money will be expensive and the money will be put into the market......"

It's just that the more he talks about the latter words, the more unheard he becomes, and Li Shimin, who listened carefully, also understands that this idea is good at a glance, but when you think about it carefully, there are problems everywhere, in what name do you want to collect money? In what form do you want to release money?

And the biggest problem is "if there is a surplus of copper", he smiled bitterly when he thought of these four words, which is too difficult.

However, when it came to money, Li Shimin couldn't help but turn his head to look at the big map, and the Wa Kingdom, which was across the sea from the Tang Dynasty, was a little more attractive at the moment.

He still clearly remembers that his descendants said that there is a mountain of silver here that can be used by the world.

With such a rich silver mine, what about copper? That...... What about gold?

The breathing involuntarily became a little heavier, but in the end, he put this thought back for the time being, nodded towards the eldest grandson Wuji and said:

"What the right person says, moisten with pen and ink, and make a watch."

The eldest grandson Wuji was overjoyed, and hurriedly nodded and agreed.

[Another significant problem in the Wu and Zhou dynasties was the escape from households.

There is no need to go into detail about how the escapees came about, after all, Di Gong also said that all kinds of lavish expenses during the Wu and Zhou periods, "if they don't harm the people, what will they want"?

At that time, the common people of Qianshou not only had to face the encroachment of the temple on the land, but also had to bear the exploitation of property by large households with bad money as weapons, so it was a normal operation to escape.

However, the problem of running away from the household is a problem that runs through the entire feudal era, and the root of this problem is the problem of land annexation brought about by the rentier class in the feudal era.

Therefore, there is no need to be harsh on Ah Wu on this issue, it can only be said that she handed in a failing grade in the face of escape, but it is much better than Bai Juan.

Regarding the seriousness of Wu Zhou's escape and the negative effects it brings, Wei Sili's writing is very clear.

Today, more than half of the household registration has escaped, the rent has been reduced, and the state is insufficient.

The annexation of land by wealthy landlords led to the flight of the main taxpayers of homesteaders, which directly led to a sharp reduction in rent-regulating taxes.

Therefore, after Ah Wushuang finished becoming an emperor, he also tried to solve this problem, and from 698 it took five years to do a census, which is the "bracket household" mentioned in the history books.

There are two main problems with failing the census.

One is that it is very sloppy, and many people who have been dead for twenty or thirty years are still registered, resulting in a false population in the census.

One is that the fugitives who have been cleared out have all been repatriated to their places of origin regardless of the actual situation, which has caused even greater contradictions. 】

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