Shen Chongqian, as the name suggests, is the money minted by Shen Chong, the grandfather of Police Officer Shen, who was determined not to betray Wang Dun.
Don’t underestimate Shen Chongqian. The Shen family of Wu Xing is a famous indigenous wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River. They have a lot of money and slaves everywhere. They are the richest people.
The financial resources of the orthodox Jin Dynasty may not be as good as those of the Shen family. At that time, the Jin Dynasty had not yet established its foothold in Jiangzuo for a few years, the treasury was empty, and the royal family was in poverty from top to bottom.
The most obvious evidence is coining money.
Although the old Sima family fled all the way from the north to the south, which was quite embarrassing and disgraceful, it could be regarded as a new imperial court and needs to be commemorated.
How to commemorate?
The general operation is to issue new money and tell the people in the territory that the owner of this place has changed. It is my old Sima family who has the final say.
This is also the best opportunity to demonstrate the strength of the new dynasty.
Because casting new money requires a lot of copper materials, and copper was an expensive metal in ancient times, and mining and casting required a huge amount of money.
The larger the scale of minting new money and the better the quality of the new money minted, the more it proves that this new dynasty has strong financial resources.
However, when the task of minting new money fell on the shoulders of the old Sima family... then...
Eh!
It’s hard to describe in one word!
After the Sima family established a foothold in Jiangzuo, they immediately announced that coins minted by various dynasties in the past, including the five-baht coin from the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, could be circulated in our territory of Jin Dynasty, and the old Sima family would never care.
Then what?
There's no after that.
The old Sima family was really in trouble and did not have the strength to mint new coins. After the chaos in the late Han Dynasty, for a hundred years, the most widely circulated currency in China was the five-baht coins minted during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Although in the last years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, people who sold their official positions and conferred nobility spared no effort in order to collect money, the national power of the Han Dynasty also reached its peak during his reign.
As a result, the five-baht coins minted by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty were elegant in shape, unified in regulations, and of high-quality copper. They were worth two pounds. Not only in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but also in the subsequent Northern and Southern Dynasties, the five-baht coins were still from the Southern Dynasties. Hard currency has strong purchasing power.
In this historical background, when the brain-dead Wang Dun started a rebellion, his aide Shen Chong also mined copper and minted new money in order to expand the armaments of Jingzhou.
This disaster was originally caused by the Sima family themselves. In order to appease Wang Dun, the imperial court specially rewarded Wang Dun with several money-making furnaces and tacitly acknowledged that he would become the local emperor in Jingzhou.
Shen Chong made full use of the money-making furnace, opened a large workshop in Jingzhou, and worked hard to mint money. He did this for Wang Dun's ambition to dominate, but he did not expect that a few years after he was exterminated, he secretly The coins minted were actually named after him, and Shen Zhongqian became popular in the Jin Dynasty.
With the development of commerce, the currency circulation in the Jin Dynasty has become increasingly tight. People need more currency. It is impossible to expect the Jin Dynasty to mint money themselves. The emperors of the Sima family are all lovers of lying down.
If one person has enough to eat, the whole family will have no worries.
How can you still have the energy to take care of the lives of people in the market?
As a result, the private money minted by Shen Chong was of good quality and was allowed to be widely used and became one of the currencies in circulation.
Huan Chong could not understand the meaning behind the act of minting coins, but he did not take it seriously. Xie Xuan suddenly became wary.
For the Jin Dynasty, the old problem resurfaced again. Compared with the powerful Di Qin, the civil strife of Jingzhou soldiers caused them more headaches.
Could it be that Xie Xuan actually misjudged the wrong person, and Huan Chong could not escape the curse of the Huan family after all, and followed the same path of Huan Wen to usurp the throne?
Wang Mi's heart was in his throat. The act of casting money was too sensitive. Ever since he mentioned this matter, the atmosphere in the hall was no different from the storm outside the window.
That’s what’s brewing before darkness.
The stalemate continued and the atmosphere became cooler and cooler. Wang Mi felt that it was time for him to step out and maintain order.
He rolled his eyes and immediately found someone who could break the deadlock.
“Captain Jiang, what’s the situation outside?”
“Are there really people making trouble?”
In any case, we must first confirm this point before we can be serious about it. This old man Huan Chong is a big mouth. What if he is talking nonsense?
Captain Jiang’s face froze, as if he was facing a formidable enemy.
Secretary Wang, what are you doing?
Don’t harm me!
The two people's eyes met. Wang Mi was looking at him with a particularly kind and kind look. At this time, Xie Xuan also noticed this problem.
After asking further, Team Leader Jiang had no choice but to take a few steps and tell the truth.
“Thank you, General, not only are there those who are making trouble, but there are quite a few of them.”
“General Liu Chun is already outside to deal with the troublemakers. Perhaps the villagers will disperse soon.”
Wang Mi felt that when Captain Jiang said these words, his back molars were clenched, and the expression on his face looked like he had eaten shit.
Xie Xuan was shocked and started to slap the case: "It's broken up?"
"How can this be!"
He looked up at the sky. The violent storm was still continuing with no signs of weakening. In such bad weather, how could the people who still insisted on going out to make troubles to go home honestly?
Xie Xuan is quite thoughtful in this matter.
“Lead the way!”
"I gonna go see!"
Xie Xuan is not convinced. Huan Chong can solve the problem even if he is a fool. How can Xie Xuan, the resourceful person, solve it?
String away, he has been at a high position, and Xie Youdu, the top family children of Jiangshan, will immediately start his life for the first time.
Facing the anger of ordinary people for the first time!
The confused old man Huan Chong followed Xie Xuan and others and walked out swaggeringly. Although the rain was heavy, it could not dampen his determination to watch the show.
"Youdu this time... tsk tsk... it's a bit confusing."
“Why did General Huan say this?”
Huan Chong was stunned. He didn't expect that Wang Mi, who had always been Xie Xuan's weakest partner, would actually come to his side at this time.
What is this doing?
unusual!
However, Huan Chong welcomed young people who were willing to seek advice from him.
He curled his lips and sneered: "Think about it, food is so scarce now. It is absolutely impossible for Youdu to let go of this batch of food."
“However, the grain collected by Liu Chun has obviously been used as food rations for the people in the garrison.”
"Now Liu Chun has snatched them away. If the people can accept their fate, they don't have to live anymore."
"Xie Youdu asked Liu Chun to go out to grab food under the banner of my Jingzhou soldiers. What he did was really unethical. However, if there is trouble now, it is impossible for him to push me out to solve it."
“In the end, he has to face it himself. Even though Xie Youdu has been in the army for many years, I dare to conclude that he has never had direct contact with the people in the village.”
Huan Chong was stroking his beard and was full of confidence. Wang Mi looked at him and looked quite proud.
"This time, it can be regarded as giving him a long experience. If he wants to be a powerful minister, he is still far away."
Wang Mi did not respond. After many days of garrisoning in Yuanjiang, he felt for the first time that this cowardly and courageless general actually had a point in what he said.