After suffering a few losses, Feng Yan has learned a lot of lessons now. After the Fifth Reun announced that he would implement the strategy of "stealing and minting random coins" on Gongsun Shu, Song Hong also frowned and considered whether this behavior was in line with morality. Feng Yan had already started to praise the Fifth Reunion.

"Your Majesty's move can cause the family to collapse without a single soldier. It is comparable to Qi Huan, Guan Zhong, Qi silk and Lu silk, Hengshan's plan!"

Both of these are economic wars recorded in the book "Guanzi". It is nothing more than Guan Zhong's encouragement to wear Lu scribble in Qi and purchase equipment from Zhongshan, which induces a large number of farmers in the two countries to give up arable land and change the scribble to make scribble. In the end, Guan Zhong stopped the trade between the two countries, causing the economy of the two countries to collapse and could only surrender to the affairs of Qi.

After Feng Yan left, Song Hong said seriously to the Fifth Reun: "Your Majesty should not be complacent because of Feng Yan's flattery. The so-called Guan Zhong's strategy of business was fabricated by the Warring States strategists, and it is not credible."

The fifth reunification agrees with Song Hong's judgment. In terms of the trade volume and information dissemination speed in the Spring and Autumn Period, it is undoubtedly a dream to engage in an economic war. It is nothing more than the author of "Guanzi", exaggerating the situation in the Warring States and Han dynasties ten times, and imitating Guan Zhong.

He also heard Song Hong's implicit voice and smiled: "The young mansion means that stealing iron coins into family will not help the overall situation. Please do not want to be so clever?"

Song Hongdao: "That's true! If a country wants to prosper, it must first consolidate its foundation. Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, the pillars of the country. Coins are the source of currency and communicate with the state and county goods. Instead of thinking about how to steal the enemy's coins and make them collapse, your Majesty should set a plan for our dynasty as soon as possible!"

Song Hong was not allowed to be in a hurry. It has been more than four years since the fifth reunion entered Chang'an, but the new imperial court's coin plan has not been decided. Now, the private trade between the people or the former Han Wuzhu coins, more people directly barter. The fifth reunion had not given instructions before, and Song Hong thought that he did not understand coins, but today he commented on the iron coins. Song Hong understood that this emperor probably had a plan in his heart!

"What a good Song Zhongzi." The fifth reun pointed at Song Hong and cursed: "Since ancient times, only the emperor has asked his ministers for advice. The Shaofu controlled the world's wealth and money was your duty. Now I've asked you back."

Song Hongxia bowed and admitted his mistake: "I am helpless. The money and goods in the world have been in the new world since the Han Dynasty, and the problems have accumulated for too long. Wang Mang has repeatedly reformed the system, leaving behind a mess for the Wei Dynasty. Now it is difficult to deal with. I am stupid and thought hard but have no good plans. Since Your Majesty is wise and powerful, I have judged money and goods as much as my family knows. I dare to ask Your Majesty for advice. If it is beneficial to the world, I would rather resign from this position as a young mansion."

The fifth reunification originally planned to delay for a while, and it would not be too late to decide until the world is unified, but after thinking about it, it would be a good thing to plan and implement his monetary reform plan as soon as possible, so he said: "I also know that Song Qing is in trouble. The chaos in the Central Plains is more than ten times more than that in Bashu!"

The situation has developed to the present moment, not only Wang Mang’s fault, but also the root cause of the fifth reunification theory is still in the Han Dynasty. Since Emperor Wu of Han unified the currency and promoted the Wuzhu coins, in order to raise a huge amount of funds to conquer the four barbarians, the Han Dynasty minted coins like crazy.

Wu Lun saw the Han Dynasty bamboo slips presented by Shaofu. The copper collected in one year was converted into later units, with a maximum of more than 2,000 tons, of which more than 700 tons were used to mint coins.

As a result, from Wuhan to Emperor Ping of Han, Shaofu statistics, the Han central government and counties and states cast a total of 28 billion Wuzhu coins. Including the hidden part, 30 billion is definitely a lot.

If it is per capita, at the peak of the Han Dynasty, 60 million households were allocated to a total of 500 yuan, which was not much. However, most of these coins were hoarded in the hands of wealthy merchants, and prices rose year by year, and the Wuzhu coins depreciated seriously. As a result, during the reign of Emperor Yuan of Han, ministers had already suggested that copper coins be abolished and physical goods were used as taxes, rewards, and salaries of officials.

Wang Mang's monetary reform was just to save the situation, but the result was getting worse and worse, leaving a huge mess for the fifth reunion, which had reached a point where it was hard to save it by sages. Although Song Hong was a good official, he could not exceed the limitations of the times. He was at a loss. This honest man actually played a scoundrel with the fifth reunion...

Wu Lun had to teach Song Honglai step by step: "Song Qing, let me tell you, what are the suggestions of the officials of the Shaofu?"

Song Hongdao: "Someone suggested that in the late Mang Dynasty, all coins were not available, and the people had already secretly restored the Wuzhu coins, and now it is the same. Your Majesty did not issue an edict to restore the Wuzhu coins of the Han Dynasty."

The fifth reunion sneered at the nose. Those who put forward this idea were either selfless or were either stupid or bad. Monkeying was a symbol of the regime. No matter how stupid Gongsun Shu was, he knew that he could not recognize the Wuzhu of Han, otherwise his authority would be greatly damaged.

Furthermore, once the legitimacy of the Han Wuzhu is recognized, there are now 100 billion or 20 billion yuan scattered among the people, and this move will inevitably cause officials and people from all prefectures and counties to scatter the leeks of the government.

Song Hongdao: "I also think this is a disaster for the country. The proposer has been demoted. However, some people suggested that the three officials of Shanglin should be ordered to cast Wei Wuzhu."

The fifth reunion still shook his head. He had said before that even the lowest face value of Wuzhu coins is given far more value than the copper coins themselves. You can still make huge profits by stealing money...

"I dare to ask the young mansion, where are the copper and tin in the world located?"

Song Hongdao: "The south is mainly concentrated in Yuzhang, Jiangdong, and Huainan in Yangzhou."

Isn’t this a matter of being broken? The fifth reunion wants to cast copper coins, but most of the copper and tin production areas are in the hands of Liu Xiu.

The fifth reunion asked again: "During the Wenjing period of the Han Dynasty, how did King Liu Bi enrich the country and strengthen the army? He initiated the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms?"

Song Hong sighed: "Liu Bi minted coins in the south, and Wu coins were of excellent quality. Zhou was in the world, and Han coins could not be in the enemy. Wu was so powerful."

Yes, the Wei State made people steal iron coins to stole Gongsun Shu, but Liu Xiu, who had just become emperor, wouldn't dig some pits for them? Even if Liu Xiu was out of reach, the powerful people only needed to thieves the Han Wuzhu, which had been stored for several generations, and stolen them.

Because the Fifth Emperor was afraid that someone would cut leeks, the road to copper coins was basically no chance.

Song Hongfu also delivered a memorial to an official from the Shaofu: "Someone retelled the words of Gong Yu, a great scholar of the Han Dynasty, saying that he would mint coins and collect copper, and one year of time, 100,000 people did not farm, but opened mountains and mined, stole coins and minted coins for profit, and many people were sitting on the stolen coins and stolen coins and caught prisoners. The rich people hid money and piled up the manors, but they were not satisfied. The coins made the people shake their hearts and abandoned the foundation and chased the end. The reason why the world was full of evil was that the source was money! Wang Mang minted money and goods indiscriminately, and then scattered the Jiuzhou."

"Therefore, we should take this opportunity to prohibit the officials who minted money, rent, tax, and salary, all of which are mainly cloth, silk and food, so that the people can focus on agriculture and sericulture."

Song Hongdao: "Half of the officials in the young mansion agreed with this move."

After the fifth reunion was half a day, he said something: "Speak alarmist, and he gave up on his food because of choking!"

"Those who are also very stimulated by the random currency modification in the Xinmang period." Song Hong quickly explained to his subordinates.

In the view of Di Wulun, this group of people cannot be said to be bad, they are just as stupid as Lao Wangmang and have no idea about economics at all.

Wang Mang felt that if he had settled the coins, all problems would be solved. This group of people had the same fate. He pushed all disasters in the world to money, and if they abolished them, they could return to the third generation.

The fifth relationship wants to be more developed in the commodity economy, so how can we return to the era of natural economy that completely barter?

He then asked someone to take the drawings, draw a pyramid-shaped structure on it, divide it into three, and let someone place something at the bottom of the tower: a pile of millet, a piece of silk, a small linen, and even a handful of salt and an iron needle.

The fifth reunion pointed to this foundation and said: "This is the basis of the world's wealth. People regard food as the most important thing, and they also need clothes to cover their bodies and keep them cold. People should not be free of salt for a month, and farmers and women with weaver are also indispensable for hoes and iron needles."

When the world is in chaos and currency loses its value, these physical objects can become hard currency.

Wu Lun put down a piece of gold cake on the top of the tower: "Song Qing now knows why gold is a currency in history, and it is also the only legal currency in our dynasty."

The gold in the hands of the fifth reunion mainly comes from the collection of Wang Mang's treasury, which is as high as 700,000 kilograms, equivalent to more than 170 tons.

In the early stages of entrepreneurship, the Fifth Reunion had an unstable foothold in Guanzhong, and urgently needed to encourage soldiers to fight, and distributed them more than 200,000 kilograms one after another. However, they later changed to land, fields or grain as rewards, and all the remaining 500,000 gold was stored. All the gold items seized by the generals must be handed over to the court.

"As a currency, gold was listed, the value of copper coins in the Han Dynasty fluctuated, but gold remained unchanged."

This has become a bit of the prototype of the gold standard, but the emperors of the Han Dynasty often gave gold to others, and the princes also wanted to be buried with gold cakes. This made the court's gold and folk gold less and less.

Learning from the lessons of the previous dynasty, the Fifth Reunification set the tone for the monetary policy of Wei: "Gold should not be used for circulation and rewards easily, but can only be used as a reserve, and everything is priced based on gold."

No wonder the Fifth Reunion began to exaggerate and declare to the outside world that the emperor owned millions of pounds of gold...

"However, gold is too high. If it is allowed to flow, it will inevitably be lost. If you want to move up and down, you must set up coins between gold and the real thing."

The fifth reunion placed a Wuzhu coin in the blank space in the center of the pyramid. This was the thing that communicated between gold and physical objects during the Qin and Han Dynasties, but it was removed immediately.

"Since the copper coins are not feasible for the time being, Song Qing, our dynasty must find another suitable thing to replace them."

"I dare to ask Your Majesty, what is it?" Song Hong suddenly became alert. There was no way. He had tortoise shells, turtle shells and other objects in the new dynasty. He was really afraid that the fifth reunion would come up with strange things.

The fifth reunion's eyes actually looked at the paper on the table.

The fifth relationship was really moved by using gold as the basic currency and issuing paper money linked to the value of gold as credit currency. In this way, the cost of money is extremely low, and the new papermaking technology mastered by the court has not yet been fully spread. He can crazily cut leeks in northern prefectures and counties...

However, this idea was quickly dispelled by the fifth reunion itself.

A similar credit currency was issued by Emperor Wu of Han, called the White Deer Coin. It collected white deer skin as materials, and used algae as coins, each of which was worth 400,000 yuan. It was stipulated that the royal family members who came to Beijing to pay homage must buy a piece with the court to wrap the jade they presented.

The blind man knew that Emperor Wu of Han had no money in order to fight and was so poor that he blatantly cut off the leeks of kings and princes. Because it was too unauthentic and caused too much rebound, it was cancelled soon.

Later, Wang Mang issued a large denomination currency, which was probably inspired by this.

However, it was also thanks to Wang Mang's blessing. After being squeezed out by sword coins, big cloth and other coins, all the leeks in the world became essence. If the fifth reunion does something similar, it is unknown whether anyone can buy it. Even if he succeeds for a while, the credibility he has accumulated in the past will be exhausted in one go, which is really not worth the loss.

"This matter is too advanced. It is better to be safe to govern a great country." The fifth reunion gave up his crazy thoughts. His eyes actually fell on a piece of silver ingot on the paper...

"Song Qing, you said before that, in addition to Chu, Han Wu also minted silver coins as coins, and I don't know what their value is?"

As expected! When the fifth reunion said that "money is naturally gold and silver", Song Hong had an idea and said now: "Your Majesty, the third platinum minted in the fourth year of Wuyuanshou in the Han Dynasty, using silver-tin alloy as the coin material."

"The first type of 'Baixuan' is a round dragon-patterned coin, weighing eight liang, each worth three thousand coins. The second type is a square horse-patterned coin, weighing six liang, worth five hundred coins. The third type is a turtle-patterned coin, weighing four liang, worth three hundred coins. However, these three silver coins are only minted once, which is extremely rare and has not been circulated in the world."

Wu Lun nodded: "Where is the silver goods cast by Wang Mang?"

Song Hongdao: "There is a second grade, and the best grade is Zhuti silver. A cake weighs eight taels and is worth 1,580 cents; ordinary silver is only worth 1,000 cents of copper coins."

The fifth relationship was calculated slightly: "In the Han Dynasty, eight taels of gold were equivalent to five thousand coins. In this way, only five kilograms of silver could be exchanged for one kilogram of gold?"

Song Hongdao: "Silver is dark, far less than gold. People often use it as a vessel. If you do not use coins, you can only use 11 as one."

The fifth reunion nodded: "How much does the imperial silver reserve?"

Song Hongdao: "It is mainly used for making utensils in Shaofu, which are only less than 100,000 kilograms of silver, and the silverware in the palace is no more than 200,000 kilograms."

Of course, this is far from enough. The fifth reunion spreads his hands: "This is because Yu has been unable to decide on the currency system of our court. Silver is an excellent currency, but the imperial court lacks enough money. How can he issue it? If you are eager to announce this matter, the people's nobles can also stolen silver maker."

The fifth reunion seemed a little impatient and wanted to send Song Hong away in a few words: "This matter is not urgent. Let the people use silk cloth as coins first, and then last for several years. Shaofu secretly purchased private silverware and increased reserves. After five years, ten years later, the world will be settled and the south of silver-producing land will be settled to Wei. I can issue an edict to let silver be used as auxiliary coins and circulate at the same time as gold to revitalize the world's goods."

After listening to the solution of the fifth relationship, Song Hong was a little disappointed. The emperor explained the principle of economic currency clearly, but he was much more cautious than Wang Mang in how to drug it.

After all, the fifth reunion knows that if you don’t do this, you will be successful. Otherwise, you will be shooting yourself in the foot!

Song Hong had no choice but to accept the order and left, but after he left, the eyes of the Fifth Reun shone with his eyes, and he held everyone away and pondered alone.

In fact, only half of the plan of the Fifth Lun to Song Hong Daoming was the truth.

"Whether it is the gold standard, the silver standard, or the composite standard, it is actually not suitable for ancient China."

Nothing else, the production of precious metals is too small, and the huge market of tens of millions of people, even if the natural economy is still dominant, the trade volume is still huge. This is also the reason why the Han Dynasty wanted to cast tens of billions of copper coins in one breath. When the world is stable, the fifth reunion will have to sacrifice copper coins again.

Therefore, the plan of the fifth reunion also hides a longer-term "open plot".

"Since gold is in my hands and not circulated easily, silver will become the main force. Not only will the government cast, but it will be profitable, and the powerful will also cast the robbers into the wind. Tomb robbers will dig up ancient tombs and look for gold and silver."

"But even if all the ancient tombs are dug up, the silver in the court and the country are combined, and all the silverware is not enough to meet the needs of Jiuzhou!"

This is the direction that the fifth ethics deliberately guides. Gold and silver waste will make the Central Plains, which long for precious metals, turn their greedy eyes to the south!

Wu Lun looked at the world mineral map presented by Ling Shaofu. There were only five known large gold mines: Yuzhou Ruhan Land, Yangzhou Yuzhang Poyang, Danyang County; Jingnan Lishui; Yizhou Hanjia, Yongchang.

There is only one place in the north, and the rest are all in a sparsely populated area in the south.

As for silver, it is even more pitiful. The silver mine in the Central Plains is basically mined, and the place where the silver is produced is the only place where the silver is produced the most is Zhuti (Zhaotong) in Jianwei County.

In fact, there are definitely more than a few mineral deposits, but more than those in the south is destined, and most of them are in remote places. This is an objective law.

The fifth reun thought to himself: "When the world is settled, in order to collect gold and silver, the unemployed people in the Central Plains will go to various places to get rich. However, planting beans and melons, arduous journeys, opening mountains and forests and opening up the inner borders in the south is also a wonderful method."

It is conceivable that every pound of gold and silver transported to the north must be covered with blood, from their own people, from local people...

When the gold and silver easily mined in the south were almost dug, and the gold and silver miners could not return home and had no choice but to stay in place. The news of a huge silver mine was found on the island where "mountains and rivers are different, and the wind and moon are the same", just right, spreading wildly in the Central Plains, attracting a new group of gold miners to go overseas without fear of obstacles!

Fifth Lun silently picked up the gold and silver on the table table and looked at their luster: "The former Gong Yu said that gold and silver goods are bad things that devil people's hearts and the source of all evil, but he was not wrong."
To be continued...