In the study room, the smell of tea spreads everywhere.
Li Xuan, Wang Bo, and Yu Ze stood opposite each other, their expressions becoming solemn at the same time.
Li Xuan shook his head and said thoughtfully: "It's not like this, it's definitely not like this. The Shaofu Superintendent is tightly guarded. If something goes wrong with Qian Mo, what secrets can the Shaofu Superintendent have to keep? What secrets can the palace keep?" Shou, aren’t these money models everywhere?”
"Your Majesty doesn't know something." Wang Bo looked at Li Xuan seriously and said: "In the Shaofu Prison, there is not just one money mold. It has been nearly a century since the founding of the country by the great ancestor. The money mold is not eternal. To make a certain number of copper coins, the coin mold will be destroyed naturally.
Therefore, every time money is made, the quantity of money to be made is estimated in advance. After a batch of copper coins is made, the money mold will generally be damaged.
Even if it is not damaged, the court will directly order it to be destroyed. Normally, the money model cannot be retained. "
Li Xuan didn't know much about the mystery involved. He looked at Wang Bo and asked in confusion: "In that case, why are you worried that there is something wrong with the young master's prison?"
Wang Bo said solemnly: "In ancient times, the mother's money was used to make the mother's money in the sand, that is, the mother's money was used to make the child's money, and then the child's money was used as a model, and then the child's money was made using the mother's money.
Our dynasty used the lost wax method, so every time we renovated Kaiyuan Tongbao, we used mother money to make sub-coins, so each batch of sub-coins is exactly the same as the previous one, with the same exquisiteness. According to the system, each coin mold must be destroyed after use.
But if it is not destroyed once, if there is a dollar die that is not destroyed, then the trouble will be big. "
Wang Bo sighed with emotion and said: "If we talk about the ancient money-making method, if there is counterfeit bad money, then we can work backwards from the bad money to determine which batch of molds have problems. But now, because every batch is almost The reason is exactly the same, so it’s impossible to determine when exactly the problem occurred, and it’s very difficult to check.”
Li Xuan took a deep breath and said, "Doesn't this mean that not only have problems occurred in the past, but there will be more similar things happening in the future."
"Bad money will be born in a steady stream." Yu Ze's face turned ugly at the same time.
"The only good news is that the difference in the copper content of these two copper coins should be only a few points. Even if someone benefits, the benefit will not be big." Wang Bo said, putting the bad money in his hand on the table, his expression Feeling a little more relaxed.
"That's not the case." Li Xuan shook his head and said with a solemn expression: "When the imperial court casts money, a large amount of benefits will flow from the people to the imperial court. If someone replaces the imperial court and mints similar evil money, Not only did the benefits that should flow into the treasury not flow into the treasury, but even more benefits were harvested, and what I am most worried about is that this is still the beginning."
Li Xuan and Wang Bo have different identities and different stances, and naturally have different perspectives on things.
Walking to the study window and looking at the hanging willows outside, Li Xuan said softly: "Just like back then, every time the court minted new money, it would slightly reduce the proportion of copper, one by one; now this person is using This was the way the government used to plunder the people's wealth bit by bit.
If the proportion of copper in copper coins is reduced time by time like it was in the past, then it won't be long before the bad money trend will happen again... unless the most murderous people are like the last time. "
Back then, Li Zhi and Empress Wu used this method to relieve the pressure on the court. They did it to plunder the interests of the people. Now some people are following suit, and they are poaching the corners of the court.
Even Li Xuan could see it, but Li Zhi and Empress Wu couldn't. You can imagine the consequences.
None of the people in the court were easy to mess with.
Although the imperial court suffered a severe loss of face due to the Qianfeng Quanbao incident, they immediately found out who was behind the money making. Suddenly, heads rolled and blood flowed like rivers.
""Tang Lv Shu Lun" states that anyone who casts money privately will be beheaded; his family members will be exiled for three thousand miles; those who have prepared the tools and have not cast them will be punished for two years; those who have not prepared the coins will be punished with a hundred sticks." Li Xuan He looked at Wang Bo and whispered: "When the Zhang family in Longxi was wiped out, my husband was in Chang'an, so I should have witnessed it with my own eyes."
The ancestor of the Zhang family in Longxi was the Duke of Yun State, the founder of the country. He had extensive connections. His descendants were involved in Qian Mo's affair, and more than 500 members of his family were exterminated.
All other distant relatives were exiled to Yazhou.
The end was so miserable that no one dared to imitate him for several years.
"However, the evil money will never be eliminated. Although the Zhang family in Longxi is dead, the evil money is becoming more and more prevalent in the areas south of the Huaijiang River. However, the bad money is in a very poor form, so it does not have a greater impact. Now this new one has For bad money, follow the methods of the imperial court. If this continues, it will be okay for a few years, but after more than ten or even decades, all the money in the world will no longer be owned by the Li family."
Li Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly, and there were serious hidden dangers.
Especially now, Li Zhi is planning revenge against Tubo, but now someone is poaching him and obstructing him openly or covertly.
Li Xuan sent a memorial, and within a few days, there would be an immediate response. One mistake would cause a huge disturbance.
Fortunately, it is discovered early and the harm is not great. Even if something happens, it can be controlled within a certain range.
"Your Majesty, where is Dou Changshi?" Yu Ze suddenly mentioned Dou Xuande.
Li Xuan discovered such exquisite bad money in Yangzhou. Dou Xuande, the governor of Yangzhou and the governor of Yangzhou, cannot escape responsibility for this matter in any case.
"We are loyal to His Majesty. Dou Changshi, I believe he will have countermeasures." Li Xuan looked very calm, as if he was not the person who chatted and laughed with Dou Xuande at the Governor's Mansion in the afternoon.
For those who are really in high positions, those who use poles to help others need to be wary the most.
Li Zhi has already taught you this.
If you want to get something, sometimes the right approach is the best way.
Just like this memorial of his.
Wang Bo looked at Li Xuan with a trace of surprise in his eyes, but this surprise quickly disappeared without a trace. Wang Bo looked at Li Xuan seriously: "Your Majesty, is there any good solution to the problem of bad money?" ?"
"Yes!" Li Xuan directly gave an affirmative answer. Not only Wang Bo but also Yu Ze opened their eyes at the same time, and then heard Li Xuan say very calmly: "Copper mine, as long as we can find a large copper Mines, and then mining and minting, can naturally solve the disadvantages of evil money."
The emergence of bad money, in the final analysis, is that copper is too expensive.
The world is scarce, which leads to high copper prices. Even if copper coins are smelted into Buddhist utensils, they are worth more than the copper coins themselves. Therefore, the best way is to make the world more copper, so that the price will naturally come down, and the evil money and bad government can be solved.
This is what many people call the copper shortage.
"Your Majesty is joking. If copper mines could be found so easily, then the imperial court would have already discovered how much there is." Wang Bo and Yu Ze looked at each other with wry smiles on their faces.
"So." Li Xuan took the two copper coins in his hand, looked at them, and said softly: "Just like these two copper coins, although the weight of the fake ones is different, it is not much different, so this made People who have money either have a cabinet shop in their hands, or they have found a big copper mine, or they have great ambitions."
In fact, if you just have a cabinet shop in your hand, although there is a risk of beheading in this matter, in the final analysis, it is just a businessman pursuing profit.
However, they secretly found a large copper mine and then mined it privately, or they collected a large amount of Kaiyuan Tongbao from the world and smelted it.
This method is the least profitable, but it is the most feared because his ambition is too great.
"In this case, we can use this line to investigate directly. It is best to find the money model, and then follow the clues and catch them all." Yu Ze ignored the sensitive words in Li Xuan's English and looked at Wang Bo said: "Sir, why don't you and I go back and write an investigation strategy now? We can't get involved in this matter now in Yangzhou, but in the future we can still show off our skills in Wuzhou."
"That's good, don't you know, Your Majesty?" Wang Bo turned to look at Li Xuan: "Does Your Majesty want to go out today?"
"I'm going out tonight to visit Li Shan and Li Shulu. He has a good relationship with his uncle Guan Ouyang Tong. When I come to Yangzhou this time, my uncle specifically asked me to visit him and learn about the current situation in Jiangnan."
Li Xuan whispered a name, and Wang Bo suddenly felt a little dazed and said softly: "Yes, Li Shan and Li Shulu were also pardoned in the first year of the Yuan Dynasty.'
Li Shan, the son of Li Yuanzhe, the former magistrate of Kuocang County in Kuozhou, was born in the Li family of Jiangxia and originated from the Li family of Zhaojun.
Li Shan started his career as a secretary and was the magistrate of Jingcheng County. He was honest, honest, upright, and had the charm of a gentleman. He was knowledgeable in ancient and modern times, and was known as Shu Jian.
However, in the first year of Qianfeng's reign, Li Shan was recommended by He Lanminzhi as a bachelor of Chongwen Hall, transferred to Lan Tailang, promoted to a direct bachelor of Chongxian Hall, went to Prince Lu's palace to join the army, served as an attendant to King Pei, and taught the prince Li Xian.
Later, the He Lanmin incident occurred, and Li Shan was also implicated, and was eventually exiled to Lingnan.
In the first year of Shangyuan, the emperor changed the Yuan Dynasty and granted amnesty to the world. Li Shande returned the favor, but he no longer got involved in officialdom.
Ouyang was a bachelor of Confucianism and had a lot in common with Li Shan.
Li Shan admired Ouyang Xun's calligraphy and learned from Ouyang Tong. There was still a passionate relationship between the two, so Ouyang Tong asked Li Xuan to come here to take care of him.
As for Wang Bo, he was a text editor in Prince Pei's Mansion back then, and he met Li Shan.
Same demoted, same released.
The most important thing is that Li Shan is a local and knows more about all the forces in Yangzhou and even bad money than Li Xuan and others.
