Chapter 394: The news is revealed

Broken leaves, night has already fallen, Li Qing'an's inner study is brightly lit, a basin of charcoal is burning vigorously, and a series of sparks burst out from time to time, crackling, and a wisp of white smoke appeared in a copper stove at the corner of the room, and a faint sandalwood filled the room.

Li Qing'an was sitting under the lamp reading a book intently. He reached out to pick up the teacup and slowly brought it to his lips, but suddenly realized that the teacup was empty.

At this time, the door opened, and his side concubine Ruhua brought a cup of tea and walked in. Seeing Li Qing'an holding the cup of tea, she couldn't help but smile and said, "I'm here just right!"

She knelt down, put the tea tray on the table, and replaced a cup of hot tea with him. Li Qing'an frowned, "Is it ginseng tea?"

Ruhua smiled and said, "This is what my elder sister told me, you must drink it."

Li Qing'an put down the book and smiled and pushed the teacup to her, "You know I don't like drinking ginseng tea, this thing is easy to get angry. Go and change me a cup of Mengding tea or white water."

Ruhua put her hand behind her back, shook her head and smiled, "I won't do it. My sister knows. She will say that I can't even do this little thing. Otherwise, you drink the ginseng tea first and I'll cook Mengding tea for you."

"You just listen to my elder sister, but don't listen to me? I've told you that I'll get angry when I drink ginseng tea."

Li Qingan pinched her tender face and smiled and said, "Go quickly! Listen to me this time, I will reward you well tonight."

Ruhua glanced at him gently, "Hey! It's hard for you to serve, so wait a moment."

Ruhua's waist was gently swaying and she went out in a charming way. After a moment, she brought another cup of tea in, knelt down and handed the tea cup to Li Qing'an, "Brother, Mengding tea has actually been cooked for you."

While drinking tea, Li Qing'an hugged Ruhua and gently groped on her body. Ruhua snuggled in his arms, playing with a silver dollar on the table in her hand. At this time, she suddenly remembered something and quickly sat up straight and smiled, "I've given it to you during the meal. I have a suggestion about silver dollar. Do you listen?"

"What is the suggestion, please tell me."

Ruhua held the silver dollar in her palm and smiled and said, "Your Anxi silver dollar is good, but the currency is too big. A silver dollar is worth a lot of money. It's okay to buy a big thing, but if you buy some small things, such as two or three hundred pens, pens, inkstones, paper and inkstones, you can take two or three hundred pens and get out with two or three hundred pens, it's too heavy. Others ask you for seven hundred pens, which is even heavier. So we're talking about whether you can make some small silver dollars, such as a silver dollar worth about fifty pens, between silver dollars and copper coins, which is more convenient."

In fact, some officials have proposed the issuance of small silver coins, but considering that the counterfeit money will damage Anxi's reputation, it was rejected by everyone. Li Qing'an smiled and said, "Issuing small silver coins is easy to be counterfeited. Just like the imperial court issuing silver coins, if the imperial court issues one silver coins, ten same silver coins will come out outside. It is difficult to distinguish the true or false, and it will be despised in the end. This problem cannot be solved, so it is meaningless to issue silver coins."

"You can use other methods, too!"

Ruhua smiled and said, "For example, you can issue small silver horns, which are as big as a little finger, or square or in a pentagonal shape, small and exquisite, and you can tell that it is pure silver at a glance. You can't pretend to be faked, but you can't weigh it. It's different in weight! Or you can use a hole in the middle so that you can see that a silver horn is worth fifty or thirty cents at a glance. In this way, there will be a transitional coin between the copper coins and the silver dollar. Isn't that better?"

Li Qingan was a little stunned. Ruhua's suggestion was amazing! Using silver horns, why didn't he expect that it was difficult to be faked like broken silver later, and it was made into standard shape and weight, making it more convenient. This was simply a wonderful suggestion. He hugged Ruhua and kissed her in the face happily, "You are simply the goddess of wealth, I have adopted your suggestion."

Ruhua's eyes are as charming as silk, she stretched out her snow-white arms and wrapped them around Li Qing'an's neck, blew Ru Lan in his ear and said, "Brother, how do you want to thank him?"

"Little Goblin, what do you want!"

"I want you..."

Two fingers that were like jade onions were stretched out like a painting, and gently pinched the lamp flower, and the study room suddenly turned black.

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In Chang'an, a news spread quickly in the streets and alleys. The court was about to issue new silver coins, one silver, six lead, and three silver, one penny as thirty penny, and forced copper coins from various cabinets and shops were exchanged. The news spread like the wind to every corner of Chang'an City, and soon spread to the prefectures and counties in Guanzhong. For a while, Chang'an people were panicked, and various news spread in various public places such as wine shops, teahouses, etc.

‘The imperial court declared that the Anxi silver dollar illegal was to issue new silver dollars.

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‘This time the court will issue silver and money worth three million knots. If the people refuse to exchange it, the court will purchase grain to exchange it.’

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Various news quickly triggered a series of serious consequences. First, the run-off of various cabinet shops broke out. Not only merchants, but ordinary families who saved money in the cabinet shop also went crazy to exchange money, fearing that the copper coins they saved would become silver coins. In just one day, the Xu family cabinet shop, ranked fourth in the capital, was taken away 300,000 guan of copper coins. The copper coins in the inventory were swept away and had to close the door. The one million copper coins in Wang Baoji cabinet shop had already been exchanged, and they received an IOU of 400,000 silver dollars and 600,000 silver dollars. In this money withdrawal trend, Wang Baoji cabinet shop made a lot of money. Within two days, all 400,000 silver dollars were taken away. It made a net profit of 120,000 guan in two days. In the end, the money was taken away and had to close the door.

Secondly, Anxi silver dollar once again became the target of being chased by madness. Every household was scrambling to exchange copper coins for Anxi silver dollar, especially merchant shops, who were even more afraid of being forced to exchange by the court, and were trying every means to hide the copper coins into silver dollars. For a time, the price of Anxi silver dollar soared, and the black market price had risen to 100 to 500 yuan, and it was difficult to exchange. In this case, whether it was the counter or the shop, in order to protect themselves, they transported or hid the copper coins.

But the biggest impact was the price of grain. The consequence of the imperial court's issuance of silver in the past two years was that the price of grain doubled. People still remember it freshly. Inspired by the news that the new silver was about to be issued, a wave of rice robbery broke out in Chang'an, and every household went to buy rice. The rice price rose sharply. The most expensive Huzhou rice rose from 400 cigarettes per dou to 700 cigarettes in just one afternoon.

In the evening, the lobby of Guima Laixi's restaurant was quarreling. Nearly a hundred merchants eating here were clamoring for the new money law that the court was about to launch.

"Damn it, if you want money, you can cast copper coins. If you don't have money, you have to issue silver coins. I think they are crazy about money."

"Qin Dalang, you don't understand how many copper coins can be cast? How much is it like silver coins? One is fifty or one is one hundred. Isn't this money rolling in? How fast, do you think they are stupid?"

"You are wrong. Isn't this just issuing big money? It's better to issue big money directly. What is the Dali Chongbao? Isn't it faster to get fifty?"

"If you say you are stupid, just be stupid! They are shameless people, silver coins, do you understand? They are money minted from silver. In the future, the historian will write books and issue silver coins on a certain year, month and day. I heard clearly that it is silver coins, not big money."

"Lao Wu, don't talk nonsense, be careful of being arrested by the government."

"I'm afraid of nothing. If he dares to issue money, I dare to scold me!"

"Alas! The world is getting worse and the people's hearts are not old. I'm not sure that I don't understand these things for a while. I guess it's because of the slanderous ministers who are deceived will lead to using silver and money as big money."

"That's right! Didn't that Duzhi doctor named Diwuqi always advocate the issuance of big money? It must be this traitor who encouraged him."

"Riege!"

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There were shouting and cursing in the wine shop. Sitting in front of the window, a middle-aged man in his forties was sitting down and drinking with a slutty face. When he heard everyone's yelling, he was furious several times, but in the end he couldn't help it.

This middle-aged man was the traitor Di Wuqi who was scolded by everyone. Di Wuqi was a famous minister of finance in the middle Tang Dynasty. In history, he did two things to make him famous in history. One was to issue large money to plunder people's wealth. Of course, he just took the blame. The real motivation for issuing large money is that the superiors need to raise military expenses. The second was to promote the salt method, which is still in use today.

However, although his salt method was well thought out, it was a bit difficult to implement. The key was that the salt field was not under the absolute control of the court. The Jianghuai Salt Field was under the hands of King Li Lin of Wu, and the Bashu well salt was under the control of King Shu. Although the South China Sea area was under the jurisdiction of the court, the Jingxiang route was blocked by Li Mao, which made his salt method have a wonderful prospect, but it was difficult to implement.

Wu Qi's focus naturally shifted to issuing silver coins. This was something he was committed to promoting. Tomorrow is the day when the silver coins were officially promoted. However, the huge public boycott of the new silver coins movement made him extremely frustrated, and then he was extremely angry. The emperor strictly prohibited the disclosure of this matter repeatedly, but the news was still leaked. Who did this good thing?

While drinking a slutty wine, Wuqi listened to the angry scolding of the merchants, but various thoughts flashed quickly in his mind. At this time, a line began to become clear.

The emperor took one and a half months from considering minting silver coins to discussing and making decisions to preparing to formally promote silver coins. It took one and a half months. There was no news on the market in the past one and a half months. Although Anxi Guifang was closed three days ago, Di Wuqi believed that it was because the source of silver coins was cut off and had nothing to do with issuing silver coins. The news of issuing silver coins suddenly spread yesterday, which shows that someone deliberately destroyed it, and the time was very accurate, just two days before the official issuing silver coins, which also shows that this person knows the specific day of issuing silver coins.

There are only six people who know the issuance date. The emperor, Yang Guozhong, he, Pei Min, Yang Shenyu, and Li Mi. In other words, one of these six people revealed it. Who will this person be? The fifth Qi used the exclusion method to exclude one by one. The emperor cannot be, and he himself cannot, and Li Mi cannot. Then there are three more people, Yang Guozhong, Pei Min and Yang Shenyu. It should be said that they are all possible. Yang Guozhong's clan lady Yang Huahua is the main owner of the Yang Family Cabinet House of Chang'an's third largest cabin, and has a personal interest. The Shaofu Supervisor Yang Shenyu is the brother of Yang Shenjin, the Minister of Rites, and Yang Shenjin is the party of Zhang Yun. It is also possible that Zhang Yunshi Shi Lengjian, but the most suspected is Pei Min. Pei Min is Li Qing'an's wife's uncle. The issuance of silver will directly have a direct conflict of interest with Anxi silver dollar. If it was done by Li Qing'an, then Pei Min must have disclosed the news.

"Pei Min!"

Wu Qi gritted his teeth in hatred. He knew that Pei Min was a firm opposition to the issuance of money. If he could not oppose it, would he use this method to destroy it?

Wuqi could no longer sit still. He pushed the table away and stood up. He had already noticed that his friend ran up immediately, "Customer, do you want to check out?"

"Checkout?" Di Wuqi was stunned for a moment, and said unhappy: "How much does it cost?"

The guy held a list in his hand and said respectfully: "This man, I have two pots of ten-li fragrant wine, half a roast lamb leg, a stewed carp, a beef patty, a plate of seasonal fruits and vegetables, and a fragrant soup, a total of two jin and fifty cents."
To be continued...