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Chapter 719 Compromise
After becoming king, Li Xia first issued salt coupons on a small scale based on his own understanding of economic currency combined with the introduction system in the early Song Dynasty, in an attempt to gradually establish the currency credit of the Pingling Palace.

He took this step cautiously, for fear of disrupting the weak monetary system in Sichuan and Shaanxi.

The leverage effect of the paper currency cannot be exerted.

It was not until the establishment of the Statistics Department and reasonable planning that he was able to issue an appropriate amount of coupons to stimulate the rapid development of Sichuan and Shaanxi.

For example, with five stones of salt as an anchor, as long as the palace has credibility, it dares to issue salt coupons of twenty stones right now, which is equivalent to "borrowing" the price of fifteen stones of salt out of thin air as capital.

This naturally has a great promotion to commerce and trade.

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 Sichuan-Shaanxi issue of bond quotations began to make great strides forward.

They formulated strict coordination and supervision at the beginning to prevent the soaring prices caused by the excessive issuance of banknotes in the Song and Jin Dynasties.

In mid-June, Li Xia once again called the officials of the Han and Tai shogunate to discuss matters, summed up the achievements of stabilizing the situation and seeking fame in the first half of the year, and determined the revitalization strategy for the second half of the year.After that, there was a discussion with a smaller number of people, and the number of salt, tea, rice, and cloth coupons issued this year was determined.

In today's situation where the entire southeast society is like waste paper, many people are afraid of paper money like a tiger, and Li Xia also feels that this action is quite bold.

The princes were not ordered by the court to mint coins on a large scale without authorization, which was almost equivalent to declaring war on the court economically.

Now that war was declared, he was ready to deal with Song Ting and all kinds of counterattacks.

Counterfeit securities quotes, runs, shorting, boycotts... what the barren Sichuan and Shaanxi have to face is the rich southeast.

In the few short years without war disasters, how far the people's livelihood and economy in Sichuan and Shaanxi can recuperate is the first test.

……

Soon, only on the second day of July, a commercial firm brought spar, copperware, silk, agricultural tools and other goods from Jinghu Lake, and sold two large ships to the Hanzhong Armament Department, and accepted tea coupons with a denomination of 50 catties .

Afterwards, the firm exchanged 20 catties of tea in several counties in Hanzhong, and used the remaining tea coupons to buy medicinal materials, furs, lambs, bamboo utensils and many other goods with merchants in Shu and went south.

Whether this business is big or small.

The coupons issued by Pingling Palace have always been easy to use. It is nothing more than tea, cloth, and rice coupons in addition to salt coupons.

What is more important to the firm is that the ginseng and leather goods smuggled in the north have not been broken, and they can be bought in Hanzhong.

In winter, the price of an old ginseng plant and a piece of fox fur can be more than a hundred times higher in the south of the Yangtze River.

~~
Lin'an is still prosperous, and there are a wide variety of shops on the streets and alleys.

The performances in the Goulan Washing House continued all day long, and the sound of gold, silver and copper coins falling on the plate jingled.

There was an official sedan chair passing by on the imperial street, and Ye Mengding in the sedan chair occasionally lifted the curtain to watch the bustling scene on the street, his eyes filled with contemplation.

The sedan chair entered the Privy Council, and Ye Mengding walked into the public room. Seeing Jia Sidao sitting behind the table, he couldn't help showing contempt, but he still turned around and closed the door.

"Jia Pingzhang is discussing state affairs again?"

"I'm not like you. I only know how to ask for my resignation all day long, and I'm going to lose the face of the official family."

Ye Mengding sighed: "I'm getting old, why don't I just want to go home and become an official?"

"You are the teacher of the emperor, there is no reason for an official to resign six times within two years after he ascended the throne."

"Mr. Pingzhang is so domineering."

"I'm not here to listen to your cynicism. Talking around the bush is meaningless." Jia Sidao rubbed his forehead and said, "Cheng Yuanfeng wants to imitate Wu Qian...do you know what I mean? How dare he force me to do nothing?" That's a big deal."

Ye Mengding didn't speak, leaned on the back of the chair, and slowly sat down on the grand teacher's chair beside him, thinking about everything in recent years...

Wu Qian had always opposed the late emperor's establishment of the current official family, while Cheng Yuanfeng was not interested in the battle for the reserve position at that time.

In a blink of an eye, Wu Qian was demoted to Xunzhou, and he was no longer alive.

Cheng Yuanfeng has changed, he is no longer standing by and watching the battle for the throne.For more than a month, I don't know how many officials have been contacted to prepare to impeach Jia Sidao.

A letter was also sent to express that if Jia Sidao didn't give up, the upright people in the court could only ask the Queen Mother to listen to the government behind the curtain.

This is a tactful rhetoric, meant to target officials.

how so?

The officials are so ridiculous!
This is the Son of Heaven whom he trained himself.

Asking himself, Ye Mengding also feels ashamed of the world...

"You have been scolding me for my reputation, 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 this emperor teacher and this prime minister again."

"Old and fatuous coward, what's the use of not wanting to be the emperor's teacher?"

Jia Sidao sneered, only to be annoyed by Ye Mengding's words, and said: "Don't go around the gate. You know very well what happened the night the late emperor died, and this matter must not be revealed."

"Then why not ask Jia Pingzhang to write a letter to announce his appointment?" Ye Mengding said, "I think that after Jia Pingzhang's appointment, brother Shen Fu will definitely not reveal this matter again."

Jia Sidao laughed out of anger.

"Sure enough, you people are still staring at my authority. So what if I refuse to resign?"

"Maybe Brother Shen Fu will die with you?"

"Burn together?" Jia Sidao asked: "In order to deal with me, he did not hesitate to drag down the officials, can you agree?"

Ye Mengding sighed: "I can't control it."

"Enough! Aren't you just trying to destroy my public land law? Short-sightedness! Come on, let's kill the fish!"

After all, Jia Sidao finally couldn't suppress his anger, got up suddenly, and walked out.

Ye Mengding lowered his head and pondered, gradually becoming a little apprehensive.

After all, he was not Cheng Yuanfeng, so he couldn't make up his mind to attack the emperor.

"Jia Pingzhang stay behind."

Jia Sidao stopped in his tracks.

If he had a choice, he really didn't want to join hands with Ye Mengding again.

This made him feel that the state affairs of the country still cannot get rid of party struggles.

endless...

Ye Mengding said slowly: "The reason why Cheng Yuanfeng is like this is because he is worried that Jia Pingzhang is too hasty in state affairs."

From "Brother Shen Fu" to "Cheng Yuanfeng", a gap between him and Cheng Yuanfeng was finally opened by Jia Sidao.

"Say, what do you want from me?"

Ye Mengding said: "The old man strongly opposes the method of pushing and arranging in the economic circles, please stop Jia Pingzhang."

Jia Sidao hesitated.

This "method of pushing and distributing economic circles" is to abolish the Eighteen Realms Huizi and completely replace the Huizi with Jinyin Guanzi, which is a good strategy for him to stabilize prices.

If this method is not implemented, the imperial court will not be able to stop over-issued meetings.

"Against?" Jia Sidao sneered and said, "The price of rice has doubled in the past six months, and the common people have lost their homes. How dare you object?"

"Who broke the house? Did Jia Pingzhang really visit Lin'an City?"

"Of course the people in the city don't want to use Huizi. Who would be stupid enough to use Huizi? Who is the victim of Huizi? Ordinary people who grow grain in the countryside! Every year they 'buy' their grain with waste paper, and they still use it. How to live? You might as well go to the countryside and have a look, open your eyes and go blind!"

"It's not the time to abolish the club, but you are the one who abolished all the clubs in the Eighteenth Realm, and the farmer holding the club will really go bankrupt!"

"Fool. It's been said too many times. Enough is enough."

Jia Sidao didn't want to talk to Ye Mengding any more, and subconsciously wanted to walk away, only to realize that he came to ask Ye Mengding for help today.

He shook his head helplessly and closed his eyes.

Ye Mengding reminded: "I am not forcing you this time."

"Okay... I'll take a step back."

As soon as these words came out, Jia Sidao's back bent down.

"I'll take a step back." He murmured weakly, "Abolish the Seventeenth World Club, and leave the No. 18 World Club to run alongside the Jinyin Guanzi. What do you think?"

~~
In recent months, the impeachment of Jia Sidao has been like snow.

Looking at the court, there is no senior official who can challenge Jia Sidao.

Even when Cheng Yuanfeng was in court, he did not have such great energy to allow so many people to impeach Jia Sidao at the same time.

Only Jia Sidao himself can push the ministers to this point.

Finally, even Zhao Xuan, who doesn't care about state affairs, panicked.

On the [-]th day of the seventh month, it was rare for Zhao Yu to summon a group of ministers to lead a performance in the Hall of Yanhe.

……

"What... what's going on? Isn't the master doing a good job? The treasury is also rich, why should he be impeached?"

Zhao Yu asked first, but for a long time, he didn't hear any answers from the courtiers.

Standing in the hall, Ma Tingluan, a professor of Yiwangfu and editor of the Privy Council, raised his eyes and glanced at Ye Mengding. Seeing that Ye Mengding was as motionless as a mountain, he nodded slightly.

Soon, admonishers came out.

"Your Majesty, Jia Sidao implemented the public land law. At the beginning, the official products were purchased outside the limited land, with the intention of being jealous of the rich and suppressing the powerful. Then he sent them to buy them. Except for those under [-] mu, they were exempted, and each of them bought one-third of the land. Afterwards, even though it was inevitable for a family of a hundred acres, the landlord embraced it, which has lost its original intention..."

"My minister impeached Jia Sidao for allowing Bao Huixing, the magistrate of Pingjiang, to forcefully buy the land of the people, and tortured the eighty-year-old man until his death.

"My minister reprimanded Jia Sidao for being greedy for ink. Today, every tenth rented in public land will reduce two dou, which is not much. In Piling, Chengjiang and other places, all six or seven dou are made for one stone. When collecting rent, if there is a loss in the total amount, it will be enough Landlord, I thought it would be an endless disaster..."

"The minister impeached Jia Sidao for letting the evil officials fish and flesh the common people. An evil official in Zhenjiang forced his barren land to be replaced by others. The disaster for the landowner is especially disastrous..."

Zhao Xuan was dumbfounded.

Although he couldn't understand what these people were saying one by one, he could already feel that the matter was serious.

Sitting on the imperial couch for a long time, he only felt his mind buzzing, until a shout came to his ears.

"Your Majesty, please dismiss Jia Sidao!"

"Your Majesty, please dismiss Jia Sidao..."

Ma Tingluan also came out, saluted, and said solemnly: "I beg your Majesty to curb evil and promote good to obey the heavens, and act right and wrong to obey the people!"

If it is said that those admonishing ministers were only impeaching Jia Sidao before, once he came out, he was already a threat to the officials.

Today, if Jia Sidao is not dismissed, evil is curbed and good is promoted, then the government will not be "following the sky".

"Your Majesty, I beg your majesty to curb the evil and promote the good to obey the heavens, and to obey the people by doing the right and wrong!"

"..."

Ma Tingluan knew that the officials might not understand.

But this momentum is actually for Ye Mengding and others to see.

Jia Sidao must be dismissed today, otherwise they will invite the Queen Mother to attend the court... Ye Mengding will not fail to understand what this means.

~~
Zhao Yu didn't know how to deal with it.

The admonition ministers were very loud, but the Jia party officials were all silent.

Zhao Yu couldn't help being anxious, thinking that you should say something, otherwise Jia Sidao would have to be dismissed.

After a while, he remembered that he still had a teacher, so he quickly looked at Ye Mengding.

As long as Ye Mengding can stand up... Zhao Yu doesn't care who will be in charge of this important military affairs of Pingzhang.

Jia Sidao, in fact, you can just throw it away.

But Ye Mengding just shook his head at Zhao Yu.

Zhao Yu was taken aback again, so he had to ask Jia Sidao, "Master, what do you think?"

"Minister, beg for bones." Jia Sidao took off his official hat with a calm face.

He didn't know how many times he had experienced such a scene.

Always struggling to deal with criticism from hundreds of officials...

Zhao Yu froze for a moment, but still did not see Ye Mengding willing to come forward to clean up the mess, and became more and more anxious, not knowing what to do.

"Master, you..."

~~
Ma Tingluan saw that Jia Sidao had put his official hat on the ground.

The big event was about to happen, but he was puzzled in his heart, thinking that the reactions of Jia Sidao and Ye Mengding were not quite right.

Sure enough, the next moment, Ye Mengding seemed to sigh, and came out, saying: "Your Majesty, I think Jia Pingzhang is not suitable to resign now. The Privy Council has a report from Lu Wende in Jinghu Lake today. The Mongolian army is very urgent to attack the lower reaches of the Yangtze River..."

With a sound of "dang", the wine glass on the imperial case was pushed down.

Ma Tingluan closed his eyes.

He knew that today's matter failed again, Jia Sidao had already made a deal with Ye Mengding and Lu Wende...

The next moment, an exclamation sounded in my ears.

"Master!"

Ma Tingluan raised his head suddenly, his eyes were full of disbelief.

He actually saw... the official on the imperial couch suddenly rushed out and hugged Jia Sidao's leg.

Then, he bowed his knees and fell to the ground, weeping unceasingly.

"Your Majesty! Don't do this..."

"His Majesty!"

"His Majesty……"

The officials were shocked, and then they were furious and shouted one after another.

"Your Majesty, get up!"

"Your Majesty must not do this..."

However, if Zhao Yu didn't see their anger and surprise, he just hugged Jia Sidao tightly.

"Master! Master... My master, you can't resign... Please don't abandon me! Pity me, master..."

~~
Jia Sidao closed his eyes, feeling no joy of victory in his heart, only frustrated and tired.

This time, it was nothing more than a compromise with Lu Wende, and promised to follow the public land law and calculation method in the future, never involving the Lu family army, and adding the title of Lu Wende Taiwei...

Once against Ye Mengding, once against Lu Wende, two compromises, in exchange for another victory in today's party struggle.

tired.

Even if the emperor prostrated himself on the ground and begged him not to leave, it was hard to dispel the disappointment in his heart.

The method of pushing and arranging, the method of public land, and the method of planning have all been hacked.

This knife also cut Jia Sidao's heart.

"Is this my vigorous innovation?"

~~
Ciyuan Hall.

Quan Jiu has been paying attention to the movements of the front court, anxious and restless.

"If Jia Sidao refuses to compromise, how can Cheng Yuanfeng deal with the officials?"

"Mr. Pingzhang refused to say, but only explained that this time he will be able to keep the official family and stabilize the court situation. Please don't panic the queen."

"Go and investigate, ask Ye Mengding, what can threaten the official family?"

……

After a long time, Gong'e rushed over and whispered in Quan Jiu's ear.

"I'm afraid it will fall at Princess Rui's place. Not long ago, Princess Rui sent someone to She County to meet Cheng Yuanfeng."

Quan Jiu's face immediately turned cold, and she was no longer as dignified as before.

She turned her face sideways, facing the dark place, and said something to herself in her heart.

"No wonder Jia Sidao refuses to say, so it's you, Zhao Jin..."

(End of this chapter)