Prime Minister

Chapter 879
In the Palace of Senior Citizens, there was finally some sense of tit-for-tat.

In the past, Lu Huiqing's biggest opponent in the two governments was Feng Jing, but Feng Jing's attitude was not firm, and he belonged to the category of fighting but not striving.

But Zhang Yue is different.

Lu Huiqing knows that the more Zhang Yue does not fight, the more he fights.

Zhang Yue said to the official family: "Your Majesty, Guan Zi once said that the people are happy when they give, and angry when they are taken away. The people's sentiments are all the same. The former kings knew this, so they saw the form of giving, but did not see the reason for taking away. Therefore, people's love can be compared with the above. also."

This is what Huang Lu and Zhang Yue said back then.

The common people like to give them favors for the ruler, and don't like to tax them. They are happy when they are given, and angry when they are taken away.

Therefore, those who govern the country must publicize the benefits to the common people generously, so that everyone in the world knows.Only in this way will the common people love and respect the ruler.

Guan Zi's words are very straightforward and dark-hearted. Although they are not as naked as Shang Jun's books, they are more willing to listen to the words of Confucian scholars than Confucian scholars who are full of Confucianism and Mencius.

"Just now what Feng Gong said is that the Qin Banliang was changed to five baht coins, Wang Mang's Daquan fifty, Han Zhaolie Emperor's straight hundred and five plants, since they were seized by the Ming Dynasty, they were trapped in the name of making money."

After hearing Zhang Yuezhi's words, all the ministers thought, Zhang Lu and Zhang Lu are going to tear their faces apart?
Lu Huiqing's face darkened.

Zhang Yue then said: "Let the private minting be allowed. Just now, as Lu Gong said, the rich accumulate copper coins at home, but the common people have no copper coins in their hands, so they have to use iron coins and peace coins. This is the origin of the money shortage."

"Private money has been repeatedly banned in this dynasty. If private casting is released, the copper coins in the hands of the rich can be turned into private money. Then all the profits of casting money will belong to the rich, and the common people will suffer even more."

In the Song Dynasty, there was inequality between the rich and the poor. The rich had too many copper coins to spend, so they hoarded them all. The common people had no copper coins. This was one of the reasons for the money shortage.

If you let the rich mint private money again, it will be over, and in the end the common people will be exploited by the rich again.

The right to mint currency must be in the hands of the state, which is beyond doubt.

Lu Huiqing was told by Zhang Yue, and she was silent, wondering if she was planning a counterattack. If Feng Jing and Zeng Bu were to be replaced, he would have gone back face to face.

Lu Huiqing thought to herself, Zhang Yue suddenly showed his sword to himself, did he have a tacit understanding with Feng Jing and Zeng Bu, and today he is attacking himself?
Lu Huiqing glanced at the official's family, making an exception and cautiously did not speak.

After hearing this, Zeng Bu argued: "Tang Prime Minister Yao Chong and Zhang Jiuling both advocate private casting, but both of them have good reputations, and I have never heard of any bad reputation."

Feng Jing also said: "I also think that wealth should be hidden from the people! Guan Zi also has this theory."

All the ministers thought to themselves, is this Zhang Yue's rhetoric again?
Zhang Yue said: "The Tang Dynasty and the present are one time and another time. Since ancient times, there has been no word for coins. The people think it, so they think it. Therefore, it is no different whether it is officially minted or privately minted."

"Since the first emperor unified the currency, it has just begun. However, from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the folks have been privately forging. Is it inferior to Yao Chong?"

According to Zhang Yue’s words, there was no concept of gold and silver as currency at the earliest, but the common people felt that gold and silver were useful, so it was agreed to use gold and silver as currency, so coins minted by officials and privately minted can be used.After that, Qin Shihuang unified the currency and issued Qin Banliang, which was the beginning of the eradication of private casting.

Yao Song is also known as the second prime minister of Kaiyuan. Song Jing offended the powerful because of the ban on making private money, and was finally dismissed. This is a counterattack to Zeng Bu. You can’t just cite Yao Chong’s private money as an example, otherwise you will be suspected of being one-sided .

Zeng Bu was speechless.

Zhang Yue turned around and said: "Mr. Feng just said that wealth should be hidden from the people. The officials thought that wealth should be hidden from the people. If the people are rich, the world will be full. Didn't Sima Gong also say that the money in the world does not belong to the people, but to the officials?"

"But in this world there are not only monarchs, ministers and common people, but also bandits from enemy countries. If the country has no money and the common people have money, how can they raise soldiers, rectify their military equipment, and foreign nations come in. If we hide wealth from the common people, we will be slaughtered as fat sheep."

"Thinking of the prosperity of Kaiyuan, the prosperity of the eastern and western capitals, and then?"

Well, Zhang Yue is fully fired today.

The officials and the ministers thought to themselves, if Zhang Yue doesn't say anything, he will become a blockbuster, and once he speaks, he will slap Lu Huiqing, Feng Jing, and Zeng Bu all over again, tsk tsk, is this going to offend everyone?
Lu Huiqing sneered in her heart, Zhang Yue, are you trying to show off your skills?It's like this even for Hanlin scholars now, but I don't know how rampant it will be when I enter the two prefectures in the future.

Lu Huiqing said without a smile: "Neither official casting nor private casting is used. Do you expect the world to drop money to solve the problem of money shortage?"

Zhang Yue glanced at Lu Huiqing, and then said to the official: "I think it's still the same sentence that 'see the shape of giving, but not the reason of taking away'."

The official nodded, but his heart was overjoyed.

As the Son of Heaven, he was most worried about the harmony of the ministers, so he could only listen to what the ministers played, and then nodded and said yes.When there are arguments and conflicts, only then can I have a choice, and only then can I know which is better.

Zhang Yue continued: "Money doesn't fall from the world. I think that the government still needs to mint money, but it's not copper money, nor iron money, but paper money!"

Lu Huiqing sneered at it, and thought that Zhang Yue had some lofty ideas, and that paper money was even less reliable than discounting two or three or five.

Lu Huiqing thought again, no, what Zhang Yue was talking about was not paper money, but salt money, this guy...

Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, it is true that gold and silver are not inherently currency, but the people have agreed to use gold and silver as currency, so all dynasties have used gold and silver as money."

"And the introduction of Shu land was not done by the imperial court at first, but by the merchants in Sichuan and Shu. After that, the common people also regarded themselves as currency, and the same is true of Yan Yin later."

Zhang Yue's words mean that currency is not worth as much as the court says it is worth.

For example, one hundred and five plants of the Shu Han Dynasty can be exchanged for one hundred five baht coins in China, but they can only be exchanged for ten five baht coins in the country of Wu.So the state of Wu used the one hundred and five plants that it had exchanged for to the territory of the state of Shu, and used it as a money envoy for one hundred and five plants... Later, Soochow went even further and invented the Daquan N thousand series.

Such means can be reluctantly used in troubled times, but in times of peace and prosperity, it is just to seek scolding.

In another time and space history, in order to solve the problem of money shortage, Cai Jing first made ten coins. The exchange prices of ten coins are different among the people. In Shaanxi and other places, one coin can be worth ten coins. Dang San, but in Cai Jing's hometown, it is not allowed to circulate...

It was this incident that led to Cai Jing's first resignation.

Compared with Jiaoyin, which was first born in the folk, not the government, Jiaoyin is the folks who first acquiesce in its currency value, rather than the currency value given to him by the government.

This is the same as Yanyin. The imperial court didn't want it to be used as currency at all, but the common people chose it as currency.

Everyone thought to themselves, did Zhang Yue mean to let the court issue a large number of cross notes and salt notes recognized by the people to alleviate the money shortage among the people?

(End of this chapter)