In Chongwen Academy, the staff who worked in the museum gathered in the hall to drink tea. Their main task now is to proofread books, compare various versions, and determine the most suitable proofreading version. Although there are quantity requirements, the task is not heavy. The ministers who recommended the book to compile the book mainly demand quality. If the proofreading books have obvious fallacies, the responsible officials will be punished.

According to Xu Ping's previous life, these people worked in the National Library, proofreading books while supplementing various knowledge. Because Chongwen Academy collected all kinds of books from all over the world, including many invisible outside, many ministers, and their knowledge was complete when they were in the library and pavilion.

There are also a large number of astronomical books in the Pavilion, and these banned knowledge outside are open to them. It is precisely because of this that whenever there is a change of heaven, literati and poets can intervene in the Pavilion. They have been exposed to these contents in the Pavilion.

The matter of glass affairs in the imperial court making telescopes has spread on a small scale, and everyone speculated that using such a thing to see what the sky would look like.

Nearly noon, Wang Gongchen came in and said goodbye to everyone one by one.

In the past, I worked in the editorial office of the Sansi, but was only temporarily assigned, and my official position was still in the Pavilion. Now I have been transferred to the outside to serve as a landlord, and the position of the Pavilion has completely become a post. What's more, the Yingtian Affairs Office is located in Dongming County, east of Kaifeng City, and it is more than 100 miles away from the capital, so I have fewer opportunities to meet in the future.

Hu Su smiled at Wang Gongchen, the proofreader of the Pavilion, and said, "You only opened a store two days ago. Everyone was talking about when to buy a pig and sheep to celebrate, but they went out of the city before they had time. How could this be good?"

Wang Gongchen said: "You are interested. When will I go back to Beijing to do business? Let's invite everyone. The business in the store is all about craftsmen and officials in the Sansi Farm Service. It is noisy and cannot catch your eyes. However, there are fruit wine and barbecue at night, and various stir-fried dishes, which have a unique flavor and can barely be eaten."

Everyone laughed and said, "Then I'll wait for you to come back!"

Song Qi from the Zhishi Museum looked at Ouyang Xiu, then Wang Gongchen and said, "I'm afraid I'll be a new officer when I come back next time. Xue Shilang's office is Ji Da, and maybe two girls will marry together. You and Uncle Yong will be married on the same day."

Wang Gongchen bowed repeatedly: "Just, joke!"

Hu Su, Song Qi and others were ordered to proofread the history of the north and south, and stayed in Chongwen Academy every day, feeling a little frustrated. I heard that Wang Gongchen had opened a shop and wanted to go lively, but he didn't expect that he would leave Beijing all at once.

After saying a few gossips, everyone pulled Wang Gongchen and sat down. The miscellaneous officials in the courtyard served tea.

After drinking tea for a while and talking for a while, Ouyang Xiu picked up a new Coin Art Book published by Sansi on the table and said, "Why did Sansi start to discuss what money is again these days? Isn't this a thing that women and women know? Since ancient times, our ancestors used cloth shells as coins and thought it was a spring and goods, and they were connected with each other. To this day, they used copper and iron to cast coins, and they were found in history books and spread to the population. The evidence is solid, so what is there to discuss!"

Wang Gongchen knew that Ouyang Xiu had not been highly praised for writing articles for the Sansi's money and law several times, and he had a lot of opinions. He didn't know how to tell this future brother-in-law, but said, "I have been preparing to serve in the field affairs these days, and I don't know much about this. However, according to what I saw, Deputy Envoy Xu talked about this issue, I was afraid that it was not about what money looked like, but what it was used for. I heard Liu Wen say a few days ago that because the Sansi shop had been doing so well recently, the three-stic shop had received thousands of copper coins. Deputy Envoy Xu was worried and drafted this issue."

"What? Sansi is actually afraid of having too much money! Oh my, but I'm so stunning!"

Ye Qingchen, who had not spoken, heard Wang Gongchen's words, looked at Song Qi and laughed together.

Yin Zhu, who was sitting on the side, shook his head: "Since the three corpses have a lot of money, why don't we lose the money of our salary? Let us all give yellow copper coins together! Don't pay the salary every time, let us small officials run around and get angry with the officials for nothing!"

"Shh" Wang Gongchen became nervous when he heard this and signaled everyone to speak in a low voice. "I heard Deputy Envoy Xu say privately. He is sorting out his accounts and calculating carefully. He really wants to get rid of the money and pay real money!"

"Really? Are you not talking lies?"

After hearing Wang Gongchen's words, everyone stood up and surrounded Wang Gongchen.

Official salaries are mainly divided into two parts.

Part of it is money, including the basic salary, additional expenses, materials, meals and clothes. No matter what it is, it is not distributed according to the nominal status. Instead, it is sold in each month according to the situation of the materials in the three warehouses, and only a small part is paid for the actual money, which is called a discount. Sometimes the salary paid cannot be grasped in real time, and even if the payment is paid once, it cannot be paid for it once and then it is paid for it to other things, which is as much as seven or eight times. In this process, not only the officials who receive the salary will be discredited by the minor officials, but also the losses will be lost once. In fact, only 60 or 70% of the nominal results will be obtained.

Only ministers with or above the two provinces and major will pay real money according to the Lu grid every month. Only officials below can receive this treatment only for special orders, which is equivalent to a disguised gift of increasing their salary.

The other part is Lumi, which also has a fold. Folding rice with millet and millet with wheat noodles, and finally it may be broken into something. Anyway, the more times you fold, the lower the actual value it reaches the official.

As for the others, such as charcoal in winter and firewood burning on weekdays, although it is troublesome, it is the most affordable.

Seeing everyone looking at their eyes shining, Wang Gongchen said carefully: "I have leaked news to you in private, and Deputy Envoy Xu has found out that it is amazing. And now it is just a plan. It is hard to say whether it will be successful in the end and when it will be successful. However, according to Deputy Envoy Xu's temperament, as long as it is proposed, it will be ten."

Everyone took a breath, their faces full of ecstasy.

Scrap the money and pay real money is equivalent to general increase in salary for middle and lower-level officials, and it will be a few percent more. Such a large amount of money has not been done since the founding of the Song Dynasty. In this way, officials get more salary, and they also have less troubles of receiving discounted supplies every month, and selling prices in stores. The more benefits the officials at the lower level feels.

Wang Gongchen immediately left Beijing to serve. He had money from the government and the vast land in the business. He no longer had to worry about the monthly salary in the future. He could no longer feel the joy of paying real money. Seeing everyone's appearance, he couldn't help but evoke his tragic memories of walking around the various yards of the Sansi every month, and he couldn't help but sigh.

In fact, Ouyang Xiu is the poorest among these people, but he has always been indifferent to these things. He eats friends and drinks friends when he has no money. It was not until these days that he got married to the Xue family and his mother took him to him, and he felt that it was difficult to live in the capital. After hearing Wang Gongchen's words, he was infected by everyone and patted Wang Gongchen on the shoulder: "It's a waste of the branch, this is a great virtue! Unexpectedly, Deputy Envoy Xu didn't seem to speak much, and he didn't have a banquet with everyone, but he could still make such an idea in his heart!"

Seeing everyone surrounding him excitedly, Wang Gongchen suddenly woke up and said hurriedly: "This matter is not yet finalized. You must not tell me, otherwise I will not be able to redeem it if Deputy Envoy Xu cannot come to Taiwan!"

Ouyang Xiu said: "Don't worry, there are only a few of us here today. They are all people who read the books of sages and do great things. How could they go out and spread such gossip like a tongue-in-law?"

Wang Gongchen read everyone, but he was not at ease. Those who read the books of sages stopped talking? He had never heard of this. Whenever there was something in the court, the city was full of storms before he could be mentioned. Wasn’t it all the people who read the books of sages spread by them? Besides, he was still the top scholar, so he went to Chongwen Academy to spread it all over the world today.

With this little episode, the atmosphere immediately became lively. Some even sat on chairs and closed their eyes and smiled, thinking about getting real money next month, which would increase a lot of income in vain. How to spend it? His wife took a fancy to the glass mirror in Sansi Shop and had to buy it this time. Some were thinking about the newly-conceived concubine, and no matter how she wanted to coax her to wear a thorny hairpin and cloth skirt at home, and could also make two new clothes. As for Yu Ouyang Xiu, he was planning to save money to get a wife. He had two wives who died at a young age. Life at home will be better in the future. This kind of tragedy cannot happen again.

Wang Gongchen stood up from his seat, shook his sleeves, and said to everyone: "It's not too early, I'll go first. Today I'm going home to clean up and set off tomorrow morning. Dongming County is more than a hundred miles away from the capital, but it's not close."

At this time, Dongming County was actually located in the territory of Lankao County in later generations, under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture. It was located between the Wuzhang River and the Gubian Canal. It was not maintained during the Five Dynasties, with swamps everywhere and wastelands. The land was mainly occupied by that area.

Ouyang Xiu came to his senses and said to Wang Gongchen: "Wait, I just asked you about the Three Sessions's Money Method. If you were distracted by the fact that the real money was given, you haven't explained it yet!"

"Oh, let me tell you this. Deputy Envoy Xu believes that whether the money is not cast with iron or copper is the key to its use. Putting aside the illegal things like hiding at home, just talking about the money, no matter whether the money is copper, iron, gold or silver, he can buy whatever he wants to buy if he pays it. Those who spend money should care about the money they are worth buying, and they will not be cheated of in vain. The price of the money is not different from the price of the money he collects, and the price of the money itself. As long as this is paid, no matter what the money is made of, even if it is paper or cloth, it will be enough."

In this sense, money can no longer be called money, because money has a fixed value and a fixed weight, but should be called money, which exceeds the meaning of physical copper coins. The commercial development speed of Sansi exceeded Xu Ping's expectations, and copper coins have become a burden, and the public opinion of paper money has to be built in advance. To be continued.
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