After becoming the king, Li Xia first issued salt coupons on a small scale based on his own understanding of economic currency and the cross-quotation system of the early Song Dynasty, trying to gradually establish the monetary credit of the Pingling Palace.
He took this step cautiously, lest he disrupt the weak monetary system of Sichuan and Shaanxi.
Then the leverage effect of paper money cannot be exerted.
It was not until the Statistics Department was established and after reasonable planning that he was able to issue an appropriate amount of bonds and stimulate the rapid development of Sichuan and Shaanxi.
For example, with five stones of salt as the anchor, as long as the palace has credibility, it now dares to issue salt coupons worth twenty stones, which is equivalent to "borrowing" the salt price of fifteen stones out of thin air as capital.
This naturally greatly promoted commerce.
Li Xia understands theory, Li Ye is good at planning, and Yan Yunyun is shrewd and resourceful. After the formation of such a grassroots team, the issue of bond issuance in Sichuan and Shaanxi began to move forward in great strides.
They formulated strict coordination and supervision from the beginning to prevent the recurrence of skyrocketing prices caused by the excessive issuance of banknotes in the Song and Jin Dynasties.
In mid-June, Li Xia once again summoned the ministers of the Hantai shogunate for discussion, summed up the results of stabilizing the situation in the first half of the year, seeking status, and determined the revitalization strategy for the second half of the year. After that, there was a discussion with a smaller number of people to determine
The number of salt, tea, rice, and cloth coupons issued this year.
In today's situation where the entire Southeast Association is like a waste of paper, many people are afraid of paper money, and Li Xia also feels that his move is quite bold.
The princes were not allowed to mint coins on a large scale without permission from the court, which was almost equivalent to declaring economic war on the court.
Since he declared war, he was ready to deal with the counterattack from Song Ting and all kinds of monsters and monsters.
Counterfeiting of bonds, bank runs, short selling, boycotts... The barren Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces have to face the rich southeast.
The first test is how far the people's livelihood and economy of Sichuan and Shaanxi can recover in the rare few years without the scourge of war.
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Soon, on the second day of July alone, a trading firm transported crystals, bronzes, silk, agricultural tools and other goods from Jinghu Lake, sold two large ships to the Hanzhong Ordnance Department, and accepted tea with a face value of 500,000 catties.
Voucher.
Afterwards, this trading company exchanged 200,000 kilograms of tea leaves at several county offices in Hanzhong, and used the remaining tea coupons to buy medicinal materials, furs, lambs, bamboo utensils and many other goods with Shu merchants to go south.
This business is either big or small.
The coupons issued by the Pingling Palace have always been easy to use. In addition to the salt coupons, they also have tea, cloth and rice coupons.
What is more important to the trading company is that the ginseng originally smuggled from the north has not yet been cut off from the fur trade route and can be purchased in Hanzhong.
In winter, the price of an old ginseng or a piece of fox fur in Jiangnan can be more than a hundred times higher.
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Lin'an is still prosperous, with a dazzling array of shops on the streets and alleys.
The performance in the Goulan tile house goes on all day long, and the sound of gold, silver and copper coins falling on the plate is heard.
An official sedan was passing by on the imperial street. Ye Mengding in the sedan occasionally opened the curtains and looked at the lively scene on the street, his eyes filled with contemplation.
After the sedan entered the Privy Council, Ye Mengding walked into the public room and saw Jia Sidao sitting behind the table. He couldn't help showing contempt, but he turned around and closed the door.
"Jia Pingzhang has another state affairs discussion?"
"I'm not like you. I only go to court to ask for resignation all day long, just to show off the official's face."
Ye Mengding sighed: "I'm old. I just want to go home and become an official. Isn't that allowed?"
"You are the emperor's master. There is no reason for an official to resign six times within two years of taking the throne."
"Mr. Pingzhang is very domineering."
"I'm not here to listen to your sarcasm. Talking in a roundabout way is not interesting." Jia Sidao rubbed his forehead and said: "Cheng Yuanfeng wants to imitate Wu Qian... Do you know what I mean? He dares to force me to abolish it and establish it.
What a big courage."
Ye Mengding didn't say anything. He held the back of the chair and slowly sat down on the Grand Master's chair beside him, thinking about all the events in recent years...
Wu Qian had always opposed the late emperor's establishment of the current official family, but Cheng Yuanfeng was not interested in the battle for the reserve at that time.
In the blink of an eye, Wu Qian was demoted to Xunzhou and no longer alive.
Cheng Yuanfeng changed and no longer stood idly by in the struggle for the throne. For more than a month, he contacted countless officials to prepare for the impeachment of Jia Sidao.
A letter was also sent to express that if Jia Sidao did not resign as prime minister, the upright people in the court would have no choice but to ask the Queen Mother to listen to politics behind the curtain.
This is a euphemistic way of saying it, and it is meant to be directed at officials.
how so?
The official family is so ridiculous!
This is the emperor who was trained by himself.
We ask ourselves, Ye Mengding also feels ashamed to live in the world...
"You have been scolding me for seeking fame and reputation, and saying that I resigned many times because I cherish my feathers." Ye Mengding said: "I will tell you the truth today, I really don't want to be the emperor's master or the prime minister anymore."
"You are an old and fatuous coward. Now that things have happened, what's the use of not wanting to be the emperor's master?"
Jia Sidao sneered, feeling annoyed just to hear Ye Mengding say a word, and said: "Don't go around the bush. You know very well what happened the night the late emperor died, and this matter cannot be revealed."
"Then why not ask Jia Pingzhang to submit a letter to become an official?" Ye Mengding said: "Presumably, when Jia Pingzhang becomes an official, Brother Shen Fu will not reveal this matter again."
Jia Sidao was so angry that he laughed instead.
"Sure enough, you people still keep an eye on my authority. So what if I refuse to resign?"
"Perhaps Brother Shenfu will die with you?"
"Both the jade and the stone will be destroyed?" Jia Sidao asked: "In order to deal with me, he will not hesitate to drag down the official family. Can you agree?"
Ye Mengding sighed: "I can't control it."
"That's enough! Don't you just want to destroy my public land law? You are short-sighted! Come on, the fish will die and the net will be broken!"
After saying that, Jia Sidao finally couldn't suppress his anger, stood up suddenly and walked out.
Ye Mengding lowered his head and pondered, gradually becoming a little worried.
After all, he is not Cheng Yuanfeng, and he cannot be ruthless enough to attack the emperor.
"Jia Pingzhang stays."
Jia Sidao stopped.
If he had a choice, he really didn't want to join forces with Ye Mengding again.
This made him feel that Pingzhang's state affairs were still unable to escape party strife.
Endless...
Ye Mengding said slowly: "The reason Cheng Yuanfeng is like this is because he is worried that Jia Pingzhang will be too hasty in state affairs."
From "Brother Shen Fu" to "Cheng Yuanfeng", Jia Sidao finally opened a gap between him and Cheng Yuanfeng.
"Tell me, what do you want from me?"
Ye Mengding said: "The Jingjie push method, I strongly oppose it, please stop Jia Pingzhang."
Jia Sidao hesitated.
This "Method of Extrapolation by Jingjie" is to abolish the Eighteen Realm Huizi and completely replace it with gold and silver Guanzi. This is his best strategy to stabilize prices.
If this method is not implemented, the imperial court will not be able to stop issuing excessive orders.
"Objection?" Jia Sidao sneered: "The price of rice has tripled in the past six months, and people have lost their homes countless times. How dare you oppose it?"
"Who broke the family? Did Jia Pingzhang really visit Lin'an City?"
"Of course the people in the city refuse to use Huizi. Who would be stupid enough to still use Huizi? Who are the people who are harmed by Huizi? The ordinary people who grow grain in the countryside! They 'buy' their grain with waste paper every year, and they still pay
How to live? Why don't you go to the countryside and take a look, you will be blind!"
"The time has not yet come when we have to abolish the huizi. Instead, if you abolish all the huizi in the eighteen realms, the farmers holding the huizi will really go bankrupt!"
"Idiot. We've talked about it too many times, that's enough."
Jia Sidao didn't want to talk to Ye Mengding any more, and subconsciously wanted to walk away, only to realize that he was here to ask Ye Mengding for help today.
He shook his head helplessly and closed his eyes.
Ye Mengding reminded: "I'm not forcing you this time."
"Okay...I'll take a step back."
As soon as these words came out, Jia Sidao's back bent.
"I'll take a step back." He murmured feebly: "Abolish the Seventeenth Realm Huizi and leave the Eighteenth Realm Huizi in parallel with the Gold and Silver Guanzi. What do you think?"
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In recent months, there has been a steady stream of memorials to impeach Jia Sidao.
Looking around the court, there is no high-ranking official who can challenge Jia Sidao.
Even when Cheng Yuanfeng was in power, he did not have the energy to allow so many people to impeach Jia Sidao at the same time.
Only Jia Sidao himself could force the ministers to this point.
Finally, even Zhao Yu, who had no interest in state affairs, felt panicked.
On July 16, Zhao Yu summoned a group of ministers to the Yanhe Hall to introduce matters.
…
"What...what's going on? Didn't the prime minister do a good job? The national treasury also has money, why should he be impeached?"
Zhao Fu asked first, but for a long time, he didn't hear any answers from his ministers.
Ma Tingluan, a professor at Prince Yi's Palace and editor of the Privy Council, stood in the hall. He raised his eyes and glanced at Ye Mengding. Seeing that Ye Mengding was as motionless as a mountain, he nodded slightly.
Soon, remonstrators came out.
"Your Majesty, under the public land law implemented by Jia Sidao, at first the official property was used to buy the land beyond the limit. He was jealous of the wealth and suppressed the power. Then he sent people to buy it. Except for those with less than 200 acres, they were exempted, and the rest each bought one-third.
.After that, even if the house is a hundred acres, it is inevitable that the landowner will accept it, but the original intention has been lost..."
"I impeached Jia Sidao for conniving with Pingjiang prefect Bao Huixing to forcefully buy people's land with drastic measures, and subject an eighty-year-old man to corporal torture until his death. Pingjiang was in turmoil and people were dissatisfied..."
"I have impeached Jia Sidao for his corruption. Today, every one stone rented from the public land is clearly reduced by two dou, and there is not much to be collected. However, in Piling, Chengjiang and other places, every six or seven dou is equivalent to one stone. When the rent is collected, if there is a deficit in the total amount, the full amount will be taken.
Landowners think that there will be endless disasters..."
"I impeached Jia Sidao for allowing evil officials to prey on the people. An evil official in Zhenjiang forced his barren land to be replaced by others. The disaster was especially terrible for the landowners..."
Zhao Fu was stunned.
Although he couldn't understand what these people were saying one by one, he could already feel that the matter was serious.
After sitting on the imperial couch for a long time, he felt his head buzzing until a shout came into his ears.
"I ask your Majesty to remove Jia Sidao!"
"My lord, please remove Jia Sidao..."
Ma Tingluan also came out, saluted, and solemnly said: "I beg your Majesty to curb evil and promote good in order to obey the heavens, and to serve the people by upholding the right and doing wrong!"
If the remonstrators before were only impeaching Jia Sidao, once he came out, he was already threatening the officials.
Today, if Jia Sidao is not dismissed, evildoers are curbed and good deeds are promoted, then the official family will not be "successful to heaven".
"O ministers, I beg your majesty to curb evil and promote good in order to obey heaven, and to serve the people by upholding the right and doing wrong!"
"..."
Ma Tingluan knew that the officials might not understand.
But this momentum was actually for Ye Mengding and others to see.
Jia Sidao must be dismissed today, otherwise they will ask the Queen Mother to attend the court... Ye Mengding will not understand what this means.
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Zhao Yu increasingly didn't know how to deal with it.
The remonstrance ministers were very vocal, but the Jia Party officials were all silent.
Zhao Fu couldn't help but feel anxious, thinking that you should say something, otherwise he would have no choice but to dismiss Jia Sidao.
After a while, he remembered that he still had a teacher, and quickly looked at Ye Mengding.
As long as Ye Mengding can stand up... Zhao Fu doesn't care who takes charge of this important military and national affairs matter.
Jia Sidao, in fact, you can just throw it away.
But Ye Mengding just shook his head at Zhao Yu.
Zhao Fu was stunned again and had to ask Jia Sidao: "Master, what do you think?"
"I beg for the bones." Jia Sidao looked calm and took off his official hat.
He didn't know how many times he had experienced such a scene.
Always tired of dealing with criticism from hundreds of officials...
Zhao Fu was stunned for a moment. He still didn't see Ye Mengding showing any willingness to step in to clean up the mess. He became more and more anxious and didn't know what to do.
"Master, you..."
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Ma Tingluan saw that Jia Sidao had put his official hat on the ground.
Something big was about to happen, but he began to have doubts in his heart, thinking that Jia Sidao and Ye Mengding's reactions were not quite right.
Sure enough, at the next moment, Ye Mengding seemed to sigh, stepped out of the queue, and said: "Your Majesty, I think it is not appropriate for Jia Pingzhang to resign now. The Privy Council received a report from Lu Wende in Jinghu today that the Mongolian troops are urgently attacking the lower reaches of the Yangtze River..."
With a "dang" sound, the wine glass on the royal eucalyptus was pushed down.
Ma Tingluan closed his eyes.
He knew that things had failed again today. Jia Sidao had already made a deal with Ye Mengding and Lu Wende...
The next moment, an exclamation came into my ears.
"Master!"
Ma Tingluan suddenly raised his head, his eyes filled with disbelief.
He actually saw... the official on the imperial couch suddenly jumped out and hugged Jia Sidao's leg.
Then, he prostrated himself on the ground and cried profusely.
"Your Majesty! You can't do this..."
"His Majesty!"
"His Majesty……"
The ministers were shocked and turned pale, then became furious and shouted one after another.
"Your Majesty, get up quickly!"
"Your Majesty must not do this..."
Zhao Fu, however, seemed not to notice their anger and surprise, and just hugged Jia Sidao tightly.
"Master! Master... My Master, you can't resign... Please don't abandon me! Have mercy on me, Master..."
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Jia Sidao closed his eyes, feeling no joy of victory, only frustration and fatigue.
This time, it was nothing more than a compromise with Lu Wende, promising to implement public land laws in the future, planning the law, and never involving the Lu family army, and adding the title of Lieutenant Lu Wende...
One was with Ye Mengding, and the other was with Lu Wende. The two compromises resulted in another victory in the party struggle today.
tired.
Even if the emperor prostrates himself on the ground and begs him not to leave, he can hardly get rid of the disappointment in his heart.
The planning method, the public land method, and the planning method were all hacked.
This knife also struck Jia Sidao's heart.
"Is this my great innovation?"
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Ciyuan Hall.
Quan Jiu has been paying attention to the movements in the front court, anxiously.
"If Jia Sidao refuses to compromise, what means does Cheng Yuanfeng have to deal with the officials?"
"Ping Zhanggong refused to say anything. He only said that this time he will be able to keep his official family and stabilize the government. Please don't panic, Queen."
"Go and investigate and ask Ye Mengding, what could threaten the official family?"
…
After a long time, a palace maid hurried over and whispered in Quanjiu's ear.
"I'm afraid it may have fallen into the hands of Princess Rui. Not long ago, Princess Rui sent someone to meet Cheng Yuanfeng in She County."
Quan Jiu's face immediately turned cold, and he was no longer as dignified as before.
She turned her face to the dark place and muttered to herself.
"No wonder Jia Sidao refused to say, it turned out to be you, Zhao Jin..."