Datang Longya

Chapter 598
Although the cold war between the emperor and his ministers continued, the court machine was barely running without malfunctioning.

Feng An from Lingnan deserved Li Shimin's praise, but the Nanban were scattered all over the mountains and plains to resist for half a month, before they were all driven away by Feng An, occupying those mountains containing copper mines.

Now that the copper mine has already been acquired, there is no need to continue mining it.So Feng An sent people to mine copper mines, and at the same time sent people to consolidate the border defense.

Because of his extreme self-confidence, he didn't even conquer some land to buffer the enemy's invasion.

The mined copper ore does not need to be refined, it is transported to the river and on the ship in the sea, and sails to Chang'an by the wind.Chang'an's hydropower smelter can extract them at the fastest speed.

After receiving the copper ore, the smelter and mint worked overtime day and night to make the first batch of copper coins from the copper ore.

The new type of copper coin, which abandons the previous hollow structure, is a round coin with a gear-like edge.The biggest difference from before is that these copper coins are no longer one penny, but are divided into one, five, ten, and twenty coins according to size.

Originally, Leng Feng's proposal included coins of [-] and [-] coins, but civil and military officials did not want to mint copper coins of such a large denomination, considering that the common people would easily lose coins.

Like copper coins, the silver from the treasury, the bank, and the Japanese country were all made into silver coins, with the same denomination as copper coins, except that one silver coin was worth one hundred copper coins.

Both copper and silver coins are printed with complex patterns to prevent counterfeiting.The hydraulic sledgehammer is combined with Tiesheng's exclusive superhard alloy, and ordinary people really can't imitate it.

As for the gold coins
There is only a picture of Li Shimin riding a horse and raising his whip on it, and the currency value is only "one", worth one hundred silver coins.This is the arrangement of Li Shimin's extreme narcissism.

The reform of the currency has announced to the world that from the outflow of the new type of money, the old type of money will be slowly withdrawn. At the same time, silk cloth and silk no longer have the nature of currency, and are degraded into general goods.

Normally, the currency reform may take a generation of emperors to complete. However, with the help of the bank, the currency replacement only needs to be done at the speed of the Mint.

Anyway, what the merchants proposed from the bank was a new type of currency, and the new type of currency would slowly spread with the business activities of the merchants, without the court's deliberate assistance.

The common people did not express anything about the imperial court's currency reform. Anyway, there are several copper coins more than before. It looks like a twenty-denomination copper coin.

For merchants, especially big merchants, the reform of currency can be useful.Previously, gold and silver were only used as a symbol of currency and were not officially recognized.However, in case of large transactions, gold and silver must be used to offset copper coins.

Now that gold and silver are officially recognized and given currency value, it is not too happy for them.In the past, the transactions were gold and silver transactions, or dragging a large cart of copper coins. After the opening of the bank, they no longer had to drag a cart of copper coins across mountains and rivers.But now, they trade with each other, and they can finally pay with one hand and deliver with the other.

No matter how large a transaction is, it is only a few gold coins, just keep it in your wallet.If you are afraid of encountering robbers on the road, you can deposit it in the bank after the transaction and take it out when you are near your home, or simply store it in it and take it out when needed.

Anyway, even if it is a demand deposit, there is interest!
The imperial court's currency reform is proceeding smoothly, and the brochures of commercial and tax laws are also lined up in the printing press of the Wenyuan. Potatoes and corn are quietly growing in various lands around Chang'an.

Everything is ready!It's almost officially implemented!
But at this juncture, the emperor and all the civil and military officials were having an awkward dispute. Both the emperor and all the civil and military officials were muffled to find ways to deal with each other, and no one paid attention to it.

How do civil and military officials deal with the emperor?It's simple, sabotage!It is obviously a very simple matter, but it is given to the emperor to make a decision. It is obviously a very clear matter, but the drawing of a circle makes the emperor confused.

Li Shimin, who obviously felt that his workload had increased, also fought back against the civil and military officials.

Prior to this, the graduates of the Academy of Arts, Imperial College, and Chongwenguan were not enough to satisfy the official vacancies in Datang, and the vacant positions still had to be recommended to fill.

Since the influence of the five surnames has declined in the imperial court, Li Shimin has given these nominations to emerging nobles, such as Fang Xuanling and the others.

However, after that, Li Shimin still gave them these places, but the positions changed in a mess.

The children of the Fang family who were supposed to work in North Jingbei Province were sent to Lingnan by Li Shimin, and the children of the Du family who were supposed to work in Hebei Province were sent to Shannan Road by Li Shimin.

This kind of behavior made Fang Xuanling and others extremely helpless.Arranging the children of these families in those positions must be beneficial to their families, but after Li Shimin's tossing, it was completely messed up.

Especially in Lingnan, the old house has a fart foundation in Lingnan!The son of the Fang family basically became a victim in the struggle between the patriarch and the emperor.

The originally turbulent court has turned into turbulent waves, and the conflict between the emperor and the civil and military officials seems to be getting deeper and deeper.

In such an environment, the cold front is as stable as Mount Tai.

The behavior of dealing with the emperor is not restrained by the official group, so he still handles the affairs of the Ministry of War as usual.Moreover, he didn't have any arrangements from his tribe, and Li Shimin's fire couldn't be spread on him.

The only thing that worries him is his wife and children.

Seeing that Qiu Huo has no strength, the weather is about to turn cold, but the queen of Jiucheng Palace has not yet returned to the palace.

Jiucheng Palace is located at a high altitude, surrounded by mountains, suitable for escaping the summer heat, but not suitable for winter. Although Liu Shuwen went to accompany the queen to relax, it would be bad if they were too cold.

Especially his two cubs, since they have had heating in their home since they were young, they can't help freezing. If they catch a cold, what can they do?

So, after retreating from the court, Leng Feng hurriedly called Lao Yuan to prepare supplies to keep out the cold, and planned to send an engineering team to Jiucheng Palace to install heating.

I'm afraid that the queen really plans to spend the winter there!
As soon as the engineering team left Chang'an, a team of court ladies and eunuchs followed behind, also carrying a lot of supplies.

Looking for the place where the court ladies and eunuchs appeared, Leng Feng saw Li Shimin in an ordinary carriage.

Li Shimin had no intention of avoiding Leng Feng, seeing Leng Feng taking the driver's place in the carriage, he said: "I want to thank you, with Shuwen by my side, the queen should be in a much better mood."

Leng Feng said helplessly: "I really don't know what's going on with you. My wife is so angry that she still insists on her own ideas."

"Wife?"

This was the first time for Li Shimin to hear someone call the queen his wife, but he thought it was true, the queen, isn't the emperor's wife?
Thinking of the state of mind when the queen left, Li Shimin couldn't help but fell into deep self-blame.

In this world, there is probably only the queen who can make Li Shimin blame himself so quickly.

"I also know that the empress is not feeling well, so I let her go, sandwiched between me and her brother, she is the most difficult one."

Lifting the curtain of the carriage completely, Li Shimin said: "Go to Tianxialou, and call Wuji and the others. I intend to hear what you think."

(End of this chapter)