"Immediately send this memorial three hundred miles to the capital of God."
Li Xuan walked out of the study and handed over a sealed memorial.
Qiu Zhenmu, who had been waiting outside, quickly took it and then quickly went to find Yi Cheng with a serious face.
In addition to receiving officials, the post station was also responsible for delivering letters.
At this moment, Wang Bo, wearing a blue rippled robe, walked over from the opposite side. Qiu Zhenmu just greeted him briefly and left the courtyard.
"Sir!" Li Xuan's expression suddenly softened a lot, and she asked Wang Bo kindly, "Is everything arranged properly?"
"Not bad!" Wang Bo nodded calmly. He came from a wealthy family. Although the building in front of him was luxurious, he didn't take it seriously.
Post buildings are divided into different levels of buildings, and Yangzhou Post is even more comprehensive.
Li Xuan lives in a second-class mansion after the prince's travel, which is for the royal family and third-rank and above royal family.
Even the other children of the fifth surnamed family and the fourth grade can only live in first-class houses. Z.br>
There is no way to go beyond this point, otherwise you will overstep the limit accidentally.
The last person who exceeded the legal limit and was demoted and exiled to death was Li Yifu. The crime involved was to ask a magician to look at the Qi.
"I wonder what the result will be of Your Majesty's visit to Dou Changshi?" Wang Bo asked with some concern.
Wang Bo was willing to go to Wuzhou with Li Xuan this time mainly because of the persuasion of Prince Li Xian.
Since the Hongnong incident, although Wang Bo was afraid of the official career, Li Xian's repeated persuasion still moved him.
In addition, Li Xian was now promoted to the crown prince, which made him feel a lot less worried.
Even so, Wang Bo was unwilling to serve in Chang'an and Luoyang anymore.
The central hub is particularly turbulent.
After Li Xian asked him to go south with Li Xuan, Wang Bo hesitated for a while, but finally agreed.
Li Xuan is the king of Nanchang. If Wang Bo wants to go to Jiaozhi, Nanchang is the place he must pass through.
Along the way, Li Xuan only let Yu Ze and Wang Bo chat, write and play chess, and had little other contact with Wang Bo.
However, he would always serve under Li Xuan in the future, so Wang Bo still wanted to express his concern for Li Xuan's trip to Yangzhou Governor's Mansion.
"Sir, please come in!" Li Xuan slightly opened the study door, let Wang Bo into the room, and said at the same time: "I am waiting in Yangzhou to act. Chief Dou Shi promised that the Governor's Mansion will not interfere and will help, but there are some things. It’s inconvenient for the Governor’s Office to know about it.”
Li Xuan served as the governor of Wuzhou. When the governor Wang Fanglin suffered a heavy blow, Li Xuan was the governor of Wuzhou. He had enough weight to deal with Dou Xuande and Duan Baoxuan.
In other words, jumping repeatedly between the two.
As for which party we end up cooperating with, it all depends on who offers the most benefits.
Duan Bao It's a taboo.
As the governor-general of Yangzhou, Dou Xuande had four troops from the Zhechong Prefecture. Even a quarter of them would be very useful to Wuzhou.
It's just that Yangzhou is far away from Wuzhou, and Yangzhou's troops traveled a long distance to get there, making it difficult to cover people's ears and eyes.
What's more, it also involves the issue of scope of authority and responsibilities.
The only good news is that Yangzhou, as the only metropolitan governorate in the southeast, has broad powers that are difficult to limit.
If you want to dig deeper, even the Yuezhou Governor's Mansion is under his jurisdiction.
Especially when it comes to treason and treason, the imperial power charter, everything in the southeast is included.
It was for this reason that Fang Renyu rushed to Wuzhou to quell the chaos, and then rose through the ranks.
However, now the imperial court is increasingly downplaying the powers of the Governor's Mansion. In addition to controlling the government soldiers, local governors, and some religious affairs, it is difficult for him to intervene in other places.
Unless the Tianyin Sect officially raises its troops again, the involvement will be very troublesome.
Li Xuan was a member of the Wuzhou Prefecture, and when the governor Wang Fanglin was severely injured, if he refused forcefully, no one from the other parties would be able to enter.
Wuzhou, this is his trump card.
However, the Tianyin Sect General Altar is located deep in the mountains. Wuzhou is not the only state around it, and Wuzhou is not the only place where others can reach out. This is his disadvantage.
Li Xuan was weighing again and again, and Dou Xuande was weighing again and again.
No one knows anyone, how can they make decisions easily now.
Wang Bo has not thought deeply about the entanglement involved. He is a very simple person. Although he has gone through many twists and turns over the years and thinks he has seen through many things, in Li Xuan's view, he is still very immature.
Even though he is nearly ten years older than Li Xuan, in Li Xuan's eyes, he is still simply terrifying.
"Is Your Majesty writing a report to the Crown Prince?" Wang Bo's eyes fell on the desk, where there were several pieces of paper written about Yangzhou's bad money.
Li Xuan walked up from behind and her eyes fell on the papers.
When he was writing the report just now, he discussed it a lot with Yu Ze, considered it over and over, and wrote several drafts. Wang Bo came too quickly, and he didn't have time to burn all these things.
"Yes, sir." Li Xuan answered naturally. At the same time, he handed the cards to Wang Bo and said, "Today in Yangzhou City, Xiao Wang encountered a strange thing. A butcher who sold meat said that the copper coins he received were The other neighbors couldn't believe the bad money because they couldn't tell what was bad money and what was real money."
With that said, Li Xuan took out two exquisite Kaiyuan Tongbao that looked exactly the same from now on.
"The other three were sent to the capital of the gods, and there are only two left here, one real and one fake. Sir, please tell the difference..."
"This one is fake, this one is real." Wang Bo could distinguish the authenticity of the two copper coins almost instantly, and there was no mistake.
Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, but in a blink of an eye he understood the reason and said suddenly: "It depends on the words. How could I forget? I just thought about using salt water to distinguish the authenticity of copper coins, but I forgot to start with the words. .”
"Can salt water tell the difference between genuine and fake copper coins?" Wang Bo was surprised. He picked up two copper coins and didn't understand how to use salt water to tell whether the coins were genuine or fake.
"Although these two copper coins look very similar, there is still a big difference in weight. A butcher who sells meat all year round can tell the authenticity of the copper coins by the feel of his hand, so as long as he handles it skillfully , you can still tell the authenticity of copper coins."
As she spoke, Li Xuan picked up the wooden basin that had been placed on the ground, placed it on the table, and then placed it flat on the water.
At first, the two copper coins were floating on the water, but after just three or five breaths, one of the copper coins quickly fell into the water.
Another copper coin also began to move towards the water at this time, but its falling speed was much slower.
"The one that falls quickly is bad money, and the one that falls slowly is naturally real money." Wang Bo quickly understood and said at the same time: "Cao Chong weighed the elephant."
"Indeed." Li Xuan nodded and said, "Sir is older and must have experienced the Qianfeng Quanbao incident."
Wang Bo's face quickly darkened and he nodded heavily: "That was indeed a disaster."
Starting from Emperor Taizong to Gaozong Li Zhi, the Tang Dynasty continued to launch foreign wars for many years.
Although the imperial court's taxes could still support the expenses of the war, these taxes were obtained by plundering the people's wealth. Coupled with the increasingly serious land annexation, the annual taxes were reduced visibly.
Under such circumstances, I don't know who came up with a bad idea, resulting in the proportion of copper in the Kaiyuan Tongbao cast by the imperial court every year becoming less and less.
Through this method, the imperial court began to plunder the people's wealth and anointing on a large scale, but because of this, private casting incidents also began to occur on a large scale.
The earliest Kaiyuan Tongbao made by the imperial court was not only exquisitely made, but also had a high proportion of copper. But now the proportion of copper began to decrease rapidly, resulting in a rapid decrease in the threshold for making copper coins. A large amount of bad money soon appeared among the people.
In this case, Li Zhi was forced to issue an edict to collect the bad money.
One penny of good money is used to buy five pence of bad money. However, the people hate the low price of the money and hide it in their homes.
Unwilling to exchange with the court.
Soon, the imperial court was forced to change the edict and use one penny of good money to buy two pence of bad money. However, there were still very few people who responded.
In desperation, in the first year of Qianfeng, the emperor minted new coins with the inscription "Qianfeng Quanbao" and circulated them in parallel with the old coins Kaiyuan Tongbao. However, all the old coins would be invalidated after one year.
The weight of new money is about the same as that of old money, but the legal exchange rate is one for ten. It is a typical large amount of virtual money.
At this time, exquisite Qianfeng Quanbao, which was cast on a large scale, appeared on the market and was exchanged for old money in the hands of the people.
For a time, people's property shrank rapidly.
"They are all of the same weight of copper. Private workshops use a higher exchange rate than the imperial court to exchange old money, and then melt the old money to cast new money. Naturally, they make a lot of profits. In addition, there is a problem with the Qianfengquan Bao Shu. Yi It is regarded as a Qianquan seal treasure, so His Majesty abolished the Qianfeng spring treasure and restored the circulation of Kaiyuan Tong treasure."
Li Xuan shook his head, he was quite disapproving of Li Zhi's approach.
Because in this case, the victims will always be ordinary people, so why bother.
Wang Bo was still in Chang'an at that time, serving as the editor of King Pei Li Xian's mansion and witnessed all that with his own eyes.
Knowing that it was a huge defeat for the imperial court, I feel quite emotional when I think about it now.
He spread out the two copper coins and placed them on his palms, frowned and said: "The two copper coins are very similar now, and the characters don't seem to be imitations. It's like they were molded directly with real money. , and then used the mold to cast bad money, or directly obtained the mold of the Shaofujian..."
Mold, in one word, the expressions of everyone present could not help but change.
The expressions are different.
