.Chapter 47 My country

The edict stated that the Qinling Mountains and Huai Rivers were limited to the Qinling Mountains and Huai Rivers, and the north was still moving, but the main grain-producing areas were retained, such as the Huai River, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the Han River and Xiang Rivers underwater areas. This was the result of Pei Yan's careful consideration.

First, I don’t know how large the development scale of this new emperor who is "out of mind" in the future will be for the south of the Yangtze River. Second, the Danshui Canal is formed and can radiate to this area. However, unlike the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, considering the transportation capacity of the Danshui Canal, only the prefectures and counties near several major rivers continue to retain the original rent and mediocre system.

This strategy has also been praised by many ministers. Therefore, Pei Yan is very difficult to deal with. As a prime minister, he does have the talent of a prime minister, and even slightly above Liu Rengui.

However, the result of the edict was issued, which caused great noise.

The first thing that the counter merchants in various places think of is that their interests have been infringed.

Whether it is beneficial to the country or not, their own interests are the most important. Therefore, one thing was done, resist.

Someone came to cash out the copper coins and said that we had no spare money in our hands and would not exchange it. It would be fine if we wanted to exchange it, and exchange it according to the original price. The people were not happy. This was the official exchange price of the court. You also had to earn some handling fees. One tael of money earned 50 and 60 cents, but you could not earn 200 and 300 cents, especially the price of gold cost of 1 tael of money. Some people did not rush to use the money, and said they would not change it. If they liked it, they would change it, but they would not exchange it. However, some people were anxious to use the money, so they were dissatisfied and even went to the yamen to complain.

However, the implementation of this bill is to protect the interests of everyone, including these cabinet owners, who deliberately reduce disputes and have no law to enforce the enforcement. The official way to recover gold and silver is also used by taxation. All officials had to refuse to accept the reporter.

However, at this time, the ugly side of people was not only to continue to exchange gold and silver at a low price, but gold and silver were not monetary units in the end, but their circulation direction was to make utensils and jewelry. The court raised the price of gold and silver, and the cost increased, so we also wanted to increase.

Therefore, many ministers said that the merchants were shameless, but Li Wei asked at the court meeting: "Are you really the merchants behind all the cabinet owners?"

Who can open a cabinet shop, isn’t that rich in wealth? The actual proportion of merchants is very small. In addition to merchants, there are many nobles, and even many royal family members participate in it.

However, this incident caused a lot of hunluàn. Not only that, as Wu Zetian was worried at the time, the issuance of the edict could only bring more benefits to the cabinet owner, but the price of gold and silver did not rise. However, most of the court's salary had to be distributed to the officials and soldiers in the form of gold and silver instead of the original rice and silk, which would make the officials and soldiers dissatisfied again. Especially at the end of the year, the court would issue the year-end bonus, and the problem arises.

Some people yy set up a bank in the Tang Dynasty, which was impossible. Let me ask, the gold and silver of the Tang Dynasty were not currency, and copper coins were seriously insufficient, and there was not enough metal as the basis. How big would a trial issue of paper money cause? The entire country may collapse.

Seeing this situation, Li Zhi felt a little regretful, and thought to himself that he shouldn't have been greedy for the benefits of the millions of dollars. So he called Li Wei over, and Li Wei said: "Father, it's okay. As long as you allocate 200,000 copper coins from the treasury, this situation will automatically disappear."

If not forced, you can guide.

There are not many people who really lack money and want to exchange for cash. The number is not large. More people with a lot of gold and silver in their hands are waiting and watching. If the court can block this wind, they can take gold and silver to various southern prefectures and counties to purchase goods. Not only will they make profits, but the gold and silver in their hands have also increased by several%.

After receiving 200,000 yuan in money, Li Wei summoned Liang Jinzhu's eldest son to the East Palace again.

Liang Jinzhu went to Suzhou to withdraw money with the beast by the river and brought 500,000 taels of silver and stored it in the cabinet in Suzhou. This was used as a deposit. But at this time, the whole country of Japan was looking for gold and silver mines. It turned out that like the Tang Dynasty, it was just a valuable goods. Even if a merchant came to Jiāuyi, the price of gold and silver was very low and he was unwilling to take it off. This time, Japan took out almost all the gold and silver in stock and was not allowed to mine more gold and silver again.

The riverside beasts also heard about this, but their thoughts were different and they might not be able to be implemented. Even if the Tang Dynasty continued to implement it, Japan would have more gold and silver, so it would be beneficial to Japan in the future, and it would not feel a loss. It didn't care too much and immediately took a boat back home.

Then Li Wei asked Liang Jinzhu's eldest son to set up three exchange locations in Luoyang, Chang'an and Bianzhou, and acquired them at a reasonable price, and sent people to make comments. The people did not benefit from it, and the court might not be able to interfere, but it became inevitable for many prefectures and counties to replace taxes with gold, silver and copper coins.

For so many prefectures and counties, how much gold and silver are needed to meet the needs. The amount of gold and silver is bound to be insufficient. However, using gold and silver instead of the original rent and mediocre adjustment is beneficial to the people and merchants, and the government is simple and easy to operate. The Tang Dynasty is vast and has a large population, and the output of gold and silver is very low. What are the consequences? It is possible that the people of each prefecture and county would rather suffer a little loss than pay taxes with gold and silver. In other words, it is very likely that the exchange prices of gold and silver in those prefectures and counties will eventually exceed the exchange prices of the imperial court.

The rumor is very powerful, and Liang Jinzhu's eldest son's public exchange of gold and silver finally calmed down the people's hearts. After all, he was also earning handling fees. Some people gradually calmed down from the beginning, but in the end they stopped changing.

Some businessmen saw the price of gold and silver jewelry soaring, and after seeing it calmed down, they took the initiative to participate in the exchange. It was impossible for all wealthy families to be united with the rich, and it was impossible for all wealthy families to open counters. Merchants are pursuing profits, while wealthy families are also pursuing profits.

The situation finally stopped when it did not spread across the country.

But Li Wei was furious at the meeting on the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month and said, "This trip was to consider the interests of each cabinet. However, the practices of each cabinet made me feel heartbroken. I am the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. I cannot talk about business interests when discussing matters, so I only talked about taxation and salary payment, but not so? Once gold and silver develop the concept of monetary policy in people's minds, it is not only taxation, but especially commercial bulk, I heard that some people used flying money instead for convenience.

However, flying money is ultimately a piece of paper, unlike gold and silver, which are real metals. Then gold and silver will inevitably become the mainstream in the bulk of the jiāoyi. Don’t say it is salary, even if it is this, the gold and silver in our dynasty are far from enough. Jewelry and utensils also require gold and silver. I would like to say boldly that if there is no large amount of gold and silver pouring in from the outside, the price of gold and silver will definitely be higher than the price calculated by the court because of the reduction of transportation costs. The owners of each cabinet do not understand the court’s painstaking efforts. If this is done, they will be heartbroken and heartbroken.”

I was heartbroken after talking three times.

But this is not too much.

The Tang Dynasty had to mint hundreds of thousands of copper coins every year, which was not as large as the Song Dynasty. However, over the years, how much has been accumulated. Although many of them were melted into copperware by merchants, some of which were circulated in foreign countries, there were many minted si coins that continued to circulate in the market. No one could know how much money was. But even this was the case, the coins were still insufficient, which not only hindered the development of business, but also caused serious fees. Sometimes the court even saw that there was not enough coins, and even though it knew that si coins, it had to collect them at a discount. It also caused the market to even move the number of coins of a si coins. One si coins was 1,000 copper coins, which was si coins. The court's copper coins were sometimes only 9800.

However, if you want to meet the Tang Dynasty's money supply, Li Wei estimated that he would have to increase at least 100 million yuan. No matter how business developed, navigation development, or reselling arms, it would not bring about the same amount of gold and silver. Besides, in a few decades, the amount of gold and silver will increase, but the people will also increase. Li Wei also firmly believes that under his leadership, the Tang Dynasty's economy will enter a better development, and the currency will still be insufficient.

He also said: "If it weren't for being ashamed of business profit, I would like to ban all these cabinets and let the court run them. Everyone discuss it."

After saying that, he brushed his sleeves and scattered.

The ministers stared at each other, not knowing what to do.

But if you don't really do this, this is a statement. This statement quickly spread to the public and had an immediate effect. The price of gold and silver rose again. At the end of the year, one or two percent of the good silver in the counter reached between 1,100 and 1,160 cents, and one or two taels of gold reached 5,600 to 5,800 cents. Only then did it stabilize, but it was still rising slowly.

The ministers finally calmed down.

Di Renchen came to the East Palace and couldn't help but complain, "Your Majesty, this matter is urgent."

The emperor's intentions are good, and he wants the country to become stronger as soon as possible. He has also taken many measures and it looks good. However, the repeated changes have made Di Renjie still a little worried.

The last time was a mistake caused by Wu Chengsi, which allowed the emperor to seize the opportunity and caused the two sides to compromise. The three practical things of "Military Juju and Military Affairs Commissioner, the name system, exploration and water conservancy, and popularization of education" were implemented. This time, it was the result of the compromise. There were Turkic bishops outside and the treasury crisis at home. Coupled with the big order from Japan, this was an illusion on the surface, but the promotion of martial arts inside made some ministers in the court uncomfortable. However, the emperor acquiesced to the occurrence of this matter, which made another compromise.

Therefore, it may be for the sake of the country and the people, but after getting the benefits, the Empress Dowager did not make things difficult, and Pei Yan and others did not dare to move, so they tacitly implemented the local tax reform and the promotion of gold and silver monetization.

But we can't do too much. The most important thing for the emperor at this time is that he needs support. This person is not an ordinary person, but a powerful and minister, and the Mén family. He offended too much, which is not good for the emperor. Moreover, the emperor is still very young, and the emperor has not had a few years to live. He can afford to wait, just like the emperor back then, Emperor Taizong did not die, and he is very honest. Once Emperor Taizong died, the empress dowager dared to force the position of the queen and even let the queen be the second saint.

At this time, we should do less to promote the Tang Dynasty. The important thing is to cultivate the power in our hands.

Li Wei shook his head and said, "Di Qing, this is wrong. Why did the edict start to be issued and cause such a big disturbance? However, I only resolved it a little and the wind would calm down immediately? No, I originally planned to be silent in the East Palace, but this matter was beneficial to the interests of all parties. The reason why the owners of the cabinet refused to resist was that they did not understand that once gold and silver were popularized across the country, it would be great for them. So after thinking about this festival, more cabinets appeared, and the owners of each cabinet immediately raised the price of gold and silver. It was this festival."

Not only this benefit, but also changing the Chinese people's thinking about neighboring countries may cause both Japan and Silla to lose and gain a lot of wealth. Moreover, gold and silver can be used as quasi-currency, quasi-currency, not formal currency, and it is an amazing progress. In the past year, there are countless freight, loss, and management costs in warehouses. And it is possible that the commerce in some areas will flourish, and the emergence of a large number of cabinet shops will be equivalent to small banks as long as it is promoted. As for the tax reforms that were unintentionally brought, even Li Wei himself neglected.

This is not only for the country, but also for all major families, as long as they are involved in commerce, and gold and silver can be used as quasi-currency, so when it is easy, it will become safe and safe.

Di Renjie was speechless.

Li Wei said again: "Di Qing, you have good intentions, I will pay attention to it. Pei Qing told me one thing, that is the ultimate... (I didn't say it, and I didn't think much about it). I will also consider the importance of it, but this country is my country in the end..."

Di Renjie was speechless.

At least in name, this country is Li Wei's country, and the people are Li Wei's people. As a good emperor, Your Majesty has done a good job.

"Di Qing, it's snowing outside, we..." Holding Di Renjie's hand, we came to the outdoors. It was the coldest time of the year. It was snowing outside, and heavy snow was flying, falling like a geese. After a while, the ground was snowy white, leaving only the palaces far and near standing in the white feathers all over the sky, standing silently.

"Di Qing, you are getting stronger and stronger in years, and I am still young. In the past, I told you that in the future, a stronger Tang Dynasty will surely be built. Ten thousand years is too long, and I can only compete for the present day. Today, Ruixueden Mén, accompany me to drink and have fun. How about it?"

"Your Majesty..." Di Renjie was also very moved. After hesitating for a while, he finally said: "I dare not obey my orders."

...

This was a raging snow, but a bad news came to the capital.

The Eastern Turkic violence occurred earlier than in history, and the scale seemed to be. However, because he was prepared in advance, he chose the correct strategy. For example, Li Wei's first bookmaking was to let Xiao Siye control the situation and delay its spread. Instead of blindly attacking in history, he then set up a second bookmaking process to use war to support the war and make up for some difficulties brought by food and grass. Therefore, only one month in history, Xiao Siye was defeated because he was not prepared. However, this time, he persisted for three months.

However, outnumbered, the final defeat came. In the winter, heavy snow began to fall in the south of the desert. Unlike history, what the Tang army feared most in history was this cold weather. One was physical factors, and the other was that the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty mostly wore gauze and linen clothes, which were poorly cold-resistant. However, cotton was popular for several years, and finally all the soldiers stationed in the north wore thick cotton coats.

However, physical factors still hinder the combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty soldiers in winter. Even if they wear thick cotton coats, the cold resistance of the people today is stronger than that of later generations. In the low cold temperatures of more than ten degrees below zero or even twenty degrees in the desert, their combat effectiveness is also affected. Moreover, when wearing thick clothes, their actions must be clumsy.

Taking advantage of the low cold temperature and heavy snow, Ashide Wenbo and Ashide Fengzhi launched a large army to attack the Tang army. The Tang army was inconsistent due to the extremely cold weather. At night, the temperature was even lower. Ashide Wenbo and Ashide Fengzhi continued to attack. Xiao Siye was embarrassed and had to transfer the camp and leave. So the Tang army collapsed. The two Ashides immediately let the army pursue it immediately, and the Tang army was defeated. Xiao Siye and Huā Dazhi and Li Jingfu fought and fled, and fled to the Shanyu Protectorate in the north of Yunshuo. There were less than one ten soldiers on board.

Xiao Siye had no choice but to return to Beijing to apologize.

The Tang Dynasty army's first defeat in the desert, coupled with its lack of strength in Qinghai, Silla did not suppress it, which made the other two tribes see hope, one was the Khitan and the other was the Xi tribe. However, these two tribes had just sent troops to respond to the rebellion of the Eastern Turks, and were immediately severely suppressed by Tang Xiujing, the governor of Yingzhou Zhou Daowu. At that time, Zhou Daowu did not expect that he would make a contribution, but sent Tang Xiujing to defend himself and prevent the Khitan and Xi tribe from attacking the city of Yingzhou.

However, Tang Xiujing saw that the two tribes had just planned to rebel but did not command each other, and some tribes were even hesitant, so he defended the two rebels alone and captured a lot of them.

This was the only highlight of the entire defeat. Tang Xiujing finally came into the sight of everyone and immediately became Sima, the important town of Fengzhou, at the foot of the Xiyin Mountain.

Xiao Siye was furious by Li Zhi's rare thunder. Xiao Siye returned to the front, and Li Zhi summoned him to Shangyang Palace and scolded him: "In the past, I would not kill Xue Rengui, so I made you and others timidly fight like this."

Xiao Siye dared not answer.

Li Zhi changed his voice and said, "However, I have a good family with my family. I will forgive you for your death this time."

Not only refers to Concubine Xiao, but the relationship between the Xiao family in Lanling and the Li family in the Tang Dynasty has always been strong, referring to this section. Then he immediately issued an edict, huā Dazhi and Li Jingfu were both dismissed from office, and Xiao Siye moved to Guizhou. An official who had lived in the north for a long time flowed to Guilin. The result can be imagined. However, Li Zhi was furious and Li Wei did not dare to plead for him. Besides, Xiao Siye escaped from defeat, rather than died in the battlefield. No matter what reason he had to cover up the defeat, there were mistakes, and punishment was necessary.

In this matter, although it is very likely that the mother's fear of Concubine Xiao was instigated by her father's ears, Li Zhi did nothing wrong. If the reward and punishment are not clear, he cannot govern the army.

However, Li Zhi issued a series of wrong orders, first let Cao Huaishun be the Right Jinwu General, lead his army to guard Hengzhou, block the well and pass through the pass, and then let Cui Xian, the Right Wu Guard general, lead his army to Jiangzhou, guard the dragon mén, block the river to solidify, and guard the capital.

This edict also proved Li Zhi's ignorance of military affairs.

Conserving Hengzhou and chasing the wells and passes are important, and it can communicate with Hedong and Hebei, but only this is the only one. The army stationed in Hengzhou cannot guarantee the safety of Yunshuo and Taiyuan, nor can it protect the east from Youzhou, and Zhaozhou will not be invaded by the Turks. It is not even more important to defend the enemy outside the country.

It is even more ridiculous to defend Jiangzhou. There are Taiyuan and Yunshuo on Jiangzhou. If the Turks attack Jiangzhou, would the Tang Dynasty want to learn from the Song Dynasty to make a Chanyuan alliance?

But Li Wei saw one thing that his father was not satisfied with the soldiers and his heartbeat for him because of the saying that he was to dispatch troops and generals. Because of the various things in Qinghai, Cao Huaishun had some conflicts with him. This re-opening was to divide his military power. However, what would Cao Huaishun do when he arrived at the front line?

He was about to stand up and persuade his father to cancel the imperial edict, but Di Renjie sat not far away and just kept shaking his head.

Li Wei looked at him, and Di Renjie desperately whined towards the East Palace.

I had to endure it.

After the grand dynasty meeting, shortly after returning to the Eastern Palace, Di Renjie arrived, and Li Wei said unhappily: "Di Qing, why did you stop me? Although the Turks won by chance, Xiao Siye was alone and sniped to the present. He was very nervous and gave them great courage, and did not dare to enter the Central Plains. The deployment of troops like his father was obviously a timid move..."

Di Renjie interrupted him and said, "Yes, the Supreme Emperor is not far from his military service, but the Supreme Emperor recovers and has the Queen Mother's help. Is the power of the great power in the court in His Majesty or in the hands of the Supreme Emperor?"

"The father has more power than I have in my power."

"That's right, today's several edicts, has the Supreme Emperor consulted you? Besides, Pei Yan has already written to impeach you and instigated Xiao Siye to feed the cattle and sheep of the people, forcing the Turks to rebel even more. Why do you need to do it?"

"A joke, if you don't support the enemy's materials, Xiao Siye has been defeated due to food difficulties. How could he support him for so long?"

"How many ministers can understand the key? I will ask Your Majesty again, "The Turkic people, can Your Majesty deal with it?"

Li Wei thought about it and really didn't know the specific history. It seemed that shortly after a few years, the Eastern Turks became truly powerful. Not only did the Tang Dynasty not conquered it, but instead invaded the Tang Dynasty many times, causing great trouble to the Tang Dynasty. Not only were there Turks, but also the Khitans.

However, he looked carefully at the marching map and looked at the arrangement and actions of both sides. Ashdewinbo and Ashdefeng were not very skilled in using troops. Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the Turks was not very strong. They only won because they were crowded and were all cavalry. I don’t know where the problem was, but the Turkish generals and soldiers were now on the expedition by themselves, so I said: “It is probably possible to defeat them.”

"That's it. Not only Your Majesty, but Pei Xingjian is about to return to the capital soon. Although a few days ago, Your Majesty said that the Tang Dynasty was your country, but according to my opinion, it will be your country in the future. Now, most of them are still the country of the Supreme Emperor and the Queen Mother. I am sorry for me. Have you ever heard of the saying that you have a military force and respect yourself?"

Di Renjie did not ask Li Wei to be a military clan with self-respecting troops and to support the Turks to protect themselves. It means letting Li Wei stay the Turks as a military trouble, and Li Zhi did not understand the military. If he had any bad ideas, he would not dare to treat Li Wei because of the Turks.

In addition, it was just right to compare Li Zhi's arrangements with Li Wei. Don't think that everyone would benefit from it and give the Empress Dowager and the Supreme Emperor various political achievements. In the end, they really thought it was their own ability. It was time to let the Emperor make a fool of himself again.

Of course, the premise is that Li Wei must be sure to conquer the Turks. So he asked deliberately.

Wan'er was already happy and said again regardless of her decency: "Yes, yes, your Majesty, Di Shilang's words are reasonable."
Chapter completed!