I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 246 Dou Fang, What Do You Think?

Uncle Biao and Doctor Yuan, are you all right?
With just such a light question, the two of them were stunned on the spot, unable to recover for a long time.

haven't seen you for a long time?

——I just saw it this morning! !

This morning, Liu Sheng went to Beiying...
"Um······"

"The meaning of this sentence..."

Dou Ying murmured hesitantly, causing Yuan An to nod with a complicated complexion, and pressed back the second half of Dou Ying's words again.

After a while, Yuan An was the first to react, and hurriedly with a natural smile, stood up and bowed to Liu Sheng.

"Thanks to His Majesty's concern;"

"—Since the incident with King Liang happened in the past, I seldom go out and walk around."

"I stayed at home all day, although I was a little depressed, but I was living a steady life."

"As for Wei Qihou..."

Smiling and saying "I haven't gone out for a long time", Yuan Ang looked meaningfully at Dou Ying, who was still a little astonished.

Being stared at by Yuan Ang's eyes full of deep meaning, Dou Ying will gradually feel better;

After Liu Sheng also followed Yuan Ang's gaze and looked at him with concern, Dou Ying, who finally understood the situation, hurriedly bowed to Liu Sheng.

"Since becoming the crown prince and Taifu, I seldom go out;"

"What kind of knowledge should be used to teach His Highness, it really makes me very distressed."

"In the past few days, I have become sick from anxiety, so I rested at home..."

Following Yuan An's rhetoric and expressing that she 'hasn't gone out recently', Dou Ying subconsciously looked at Yuan An next to her;

But in the first position, I heard that my cousin Dou Ying was "sick of worries" because of worrying about "how to teach the prince", but Liu Sheng just laughed and lowered his head;

That is to say, he did not express concern about Dou Ying's 'illness', nor did he say something like 'you can teach anything you want' to relieve Dou Ying of this layer of worry.

——The three people in the hall are clear: Dou Ying's remarks are probably not even half a word of the truth.

Even if it is true, Dou Ying will soon no longer have to worry about it...
"So, the two of you who came to the door today also heard that the emperor entrusted me with the money, so you came to advise me?"

After a brief silence, Liu Sheng asked with a cheerful expression, not forgetting to lean his upper body forward with great interest;
Such a move caused Dou Ying and Yuan An to fall into a brief period of astonishment again.

"Uh······"

"Yes, indeed."

"I heard that His Majesty has left the matter of money to His Highness, we were worried that His Highness has no good plan, so we went together;"

"I don't want to be able to advise His Highness, but I just hope that I can do something for His Highness when His Highness needs..."

After saying this with a stiff smile, Yuan An lowered his head a little, and quickly thought about the coin.

But beside Yuan Ang, seeing that his rhetoric of "accumulating worries and becoming sick" could not even get Liu Sheng's minimum concern, Dou Ying just lowered his head with a distressed face.

——Dou Ying certainly knows that she is about to lose the position of Prince and Taifu;
But Dou Ying never expected that her cousin Liu Sheng turned her face so quickly...
"I haven't resigned yet, Your Highness..."

"Ugh······"

Liu Sheng obviously knew nothing about Dou Ying's thoughts, or complaints.

If he knew, Liu Sheng would definitely remind him in good faith: No way?
Cousin wouldn't really think that I hadn't been to Beiying or seen him in Zhou Yafu's Chinese army tent this morning, right?
Cousin doesn't really think that I'm a broad-minded person like the first emperor, does he? ?
Obviously: what happened in Beiying today created an irreparable gap between Liu Sheng and Dou Ying, uncle and nephew.

Regarding Dou Ying's attitude of "obviously becoming the crown prince as he wished, but still thinking about Liu Rong, the eldest son of the emperor", Liu Sheng's last trace of patience has been completely exhausted today in the tent of the Chinese army in the northern camp.

If it wasn't for Dou Ying's surname 'Dou' and his elder, Liu Sheng wished he could just kick Dou Ying to Kanto and serve as Linjiang Wang Taifu to his elder brother Liu Rong.

——Don’t you want to be the tutor of the eldest son of the emperor?
——Then go, I will satisfy you!

Although he had such thoughts in his heart, on the surface, Liu Sheng still looked at Dou Ying with a smile, as if "the cousin gave me an idea".

The reason is simple: Dou Ying, whose surname is 'Dou';
He is the most promising person among the contemporary children of Dou's relatives in the family of Empress Dowager Dou.

As the crown prince who had just been conferred with almost no foundation and no wings at all, Liu Sheng could not save face for Dou Ying, or his cousin Wei Qihou of the Han family;

You don't even have to save face for your teacher, your prince and Taifu!
But the only thing is, we have to save face for Dou Ying, who represents Dou's relatives and Empress Dowager...
"From now on, just be an Anlehou..."

"Hello to everyone..."

Looking at his cousin Dou Ying with a smile, he let out a sigh in his heart, and Liu Sheng finally let out a soft sigh.

When the sigh drew the attention of Dou Ying and Yuan An to himself, Liu Sheng shook his head naturally, and gave a wry smile inexplicably.

"The money thing really bothers me..."

"Don't say you did it, even if you say it, you don't know where to start..."

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"Cousin and Doctor Zhong, since they are all visiting for this matter, they must have already made up their minds?"

"I wonder if it's possible...?"

Pretending to be distressed, the phrase 'won't you tell me? ', and then politely glanced at his cousin Dou Ying, Liu Sheng's gaze quickly locked on Yuan Ang.

——Dou Ying, is a relative of Xun;
Even before the outbreak of the Wu-Chu Rebellion, Dou Ying was also a relative who grew up with a golden key in his mouth before he was named Wei Qihou, appointed as a general, or even became a prince and a prince.

It is obviously too difficult to expect a relative, especially a Confucian-learned relative like Dou Ying, to put forward a specific point of view on a national event that is actually related to people's livelihood.

On the contrary, Yuan Ang, an evergreen tree who has been active in the court and the field for the past 30 to [-] years, made Liu Sheng have some expectations.

And Yuan An's next words are enough to show that Liu Sheng's expectations were not applied to the wrong person.

"The two of us came to the door for this purpose."

"Since His Royal Highness also took the initiative to ask about this matter, then I will boldly test my words..."

He smiled politely, and when Liu Sheng also smiled warmly, and made a gesture of "please", Yuan Ang's figure straightened, and his face suddenly became a little serious.

"My Han family's money system is indeed as His Highness said: messy and chaotic."

"—Qin Banliang, pod three baht, Empress Dowager Lu eight baht, Emperor Taizong four baht, and even the coins of the old countries, such as knife coins, are now circulated all over the world."

"Even for Qin Banliang, Empress Dowager Lu's eight baht, and Emperor Taizong's four baht, which are mainly in circulation, there is a new exchange ratio every county, or even every county or township..."

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"Although it is said that King Yingzheng of Qin was tyrannical and made people in the world suffer from Qin's tyranny, but for Yingzheng's move to mint half and two coins and unify the world's currency system, even Emperor Taizu Gao recognized it."

"It is precisely because of this that the Taizu Emperor Gao ordered the Shaofu to cast the Han Banliang line in the world;"

"Unfortunately, things backfired—Emperor Taizu Gao originally wanted to unify the currency system and replace Qin Banliang with Han Banliang, but he failed to achieve his ideals because of private minting of insufficient and insignificant three-baht coins. Effect."

"Later, Empress Dowager Lu issued eight baht coins, and Emperor Taizong Xiaowen issued four baht coins. This was intended to eliminate the disadvantages of three baht coins. Miserable..."

Following Yuan Ang's words full of sentimentality and a hint of opportunity, Liu Sheng's expression gradually became serious.

Regarding Yuan An's "modification" of Taizu's three baht coins, Liu Sheng did not show any abnormalities.

As the founding king of the Han family, Emperor Taizu Gao, Liu Bang, would order the Shaofu to mint low-quality coins with a weight of three baht, but a face value of twelve baht, and with impressive copper content?
impossible!
Absolutely impossible! ! !
But if Emperor Taizu Gao "loved the people with benevolence" and allowed the people to mint money privately, did this lead to the appearance of such low-quality money?

hmm~
It's possible to happen...

In fact, Liu Sheng certainly knows what the real situation is;

Yuan Ang also understood in his heart;
Dou Ying on the side, as well as the people in the whole world, are even more clear about it.

But what you know is what you know. How to say this is a science.

Apparently, Yuan Ang has a profound attainment in this subject called 'the art of language'...
"What Doctor Zhong said is true."

"Emperor Taizu Gao originally wanted to replace the original Qin Banliang with the Han Banliang;"

"However, because of the benevolence of Emperor Taizu Gao, he allowed the private minting of money by the people, which led to the popularity of a lot of worthless and worthless pod money."

"It was these privately minted pod money that prevented Emperor Taizu Gao's good governance from achieving the good results it should have had."

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"At the time of the first emperor, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, who was also benevolent to the world, also ordered that the private minting of money by the people should no longer be prohibited;"

"But this time, another king of Wu, Liu Bi, came out. Relying on the "Xu Min Chi Shan Ze" order of the late emperor, he exploited copper mines in Fengguo, and then used copper to cast coins, accumulating extremely huge wealth."

"—It is also by virtue of these wealth that Liu Bi was able to exempt all the taxes and taxes of the people of Wu State in order to buy people's hearts, and he raised hundreds of thousands of troops, and finally accumulated enough power to destroy the ancestral temple and the community."

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"Father has already made plans for this matter;"

"The court is also planning to once again prohibit the private casting of money, and return the power of casting money to the court again."

"—Only in this way can we avoid the next Liu Bi, Liu Wu and his ilk. With the benefit of casting money, we can accumulate enough power to cholera the world."

"And what my father told me to do is to unify the world's currency system, so that my Han family will be the same as Qin when Yingzheng was in power. Only one kind of money will circulate in the market."

"This is exactly what I am troubled by now, and I don't know where to start..."

When he said this with a solemn expression, Liu Sheng couldn't help but sighed bitterly and shook his head, his brows also frowned slightly.

After Yuan Ang also nodded his head slowly with a thoughtful face, Liu Shengcai continued: "Compared to stabilizing grain prices, this unified currency system is really too complicated."

"Especially on the basis of the unified currency system, it is also necessary to prohibit the private minting of money;"

"——This means that in the future, after the Emperor Father issued an edict to unify the currency system, and only allow a certain type of money to circulate, all other types of coins will need to be returned to the Shaofu for melting."

"Whether the Shaofu can undertake this huge amount of work and how long it will take to complete it is the next thing;"

"How to take back the money that is no longer allowed to circulate in the Shaofu from the hands of the people, so as to melt it into new money that can be circulated, is what really makes me feel headache..."

Having said that, Liu Sheng shook his head and sighed again, then he cast his sorrowful eyes on Yuan Ang who was not far away.

And after Liu Sheng said these words, especially the last sentence "how to get the money back to the Shaofu", Yuan An's face, which was still full of dignity, suddenly showed a look of surprise!
"Collect money into the Shaofu!"

"——Previously, His Highness sold cheap food to Duke Chang'an..."

"There is also Ziqian Merchant Wuyan's..."

"Sigh~~~"

At this moment, the scattered memories that were originally scattered in Yuan An's mind were finally connected together.

——Liu Sheng has been doing this for a long time!

Think about last year's autumn harvest, Liu Sheng was ordered to preside over the stabilization of grain prices in Guanzhong, and what did he do when he opened Taicang to sell cheap grain?

Selling grain to princes, money and gold are collected;

When buying food from the princes, they gave gold without exception!
Why is that?
Is it because gold is not as valuable as copper coins?

Or did Liu Sheng really have such good intentions, and couldn't bear to make those thirty or so princes miserable?
- Don't say it!

Don't tell me!
Yuan Ang also thought so before!
Knowing that Liu Sheng bought back the grain of the dukes and paid for it in gold, Yuan An simply thought that Liu Sheng didn't want to do everything wrong, but wanted to leave some leeway for the dukes' coffins. ;

Until now, when Liu Sheng mentioned the matter of money, Yuan Ang realized belatedly: the truth is not as simple as it seems on the surface.

Selling grain to the princes, and then buying the grain back, what Liu Sheng received was copper coins, but what he gave was all gold;
After the matter of stabilizing grain prices was over, those grain merchants who originally wanted to drive up grain prices were not liquidated by Liu Sheng.

As for the Wuyan family, Yuan An also took it for granted that Liu Sheng was excluding dissidents, and he cut off the dog legs of Wang Meiren's mother clan, the Changlingtian family, through the use of food.

But now, Yuan Ang understands...
"As early as when Taicang was opened to sell cheap food to the princes, His Highness was already collecting copper coins for the Shaofu;"

"Afterwards, Wuyan's family was confiscated, and it was only for the tens of millions of copper coins that Wuyan's family had accumulated over the past few years."

"—As early as the beginning of the matter of stabilizing food prices, Your Highness, you have already been preparing for the matter of money..."

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"14 years old..."

"I'm only 14..."

"When Your Majesty was 14 years old..."

Looking in front of him, sitting on the head with a sad face, he started planning the layout early in the morning, but at this moment he put on a posture of "I'm so sad", and even waited for Liu Sheng to give him an "advice". Yuan An suddenly shook his head;
Yuan Ang remembered that more than 20 years ago, when Prince Qi was 14 years old, Liu Xian, the beloved Prince of Wu Wang Liu Bi, had just been crushed to death by a chessboard from the sky...
"Mr. Yuan;"

"Doctor Yuan?"

When his mind was flying away, a few low calls came from his ears, pulling Yuan An's mind back to his eyes;

Xun Sheng raised his head and saw Liu Sheng sitting on the head, looking at him with some doubts, as if he was waiting for his "suggestion", Yuan An was slightly taken aback.

After a long time, Yuan Ang finally regained his scattered thoughts;

But even Yuan An didn't realize that there was something extra inexplicably in the way he looked at Liu Sheng.

Liu Sheng didn't know what that thing was.

But Liu Sheng vaguely remembers: In front of his father Liu Qi, most people will have this thing in their eyes...
"For money, I don't have a good idea."

"—Originally thought that what His Majesty told His Highness was just to mint new money, and then let His Highness mint new money, and all kinds of old money in parallel in the market;"

"I never thought that His Majesty has decided to prohibit the private minting of money, and let His Highness start to unify all kinds of miscellaneous money that are currently circulating in the world into a certain kind of coin..."

···
"It is indeed as His Highness said: this matter is very complicated and requires great care."

"If there is a slight mistake, it will have a very long-term and bad influence on the whole world, just like the three baht pod coins in Emperor Taizu Gao's reign."

"Maybe His Highness should discuss this matter with someone who is proficient in this field, especially someone who is familiar with the pros and cons of money-related matters—people like the Shaofu."

"In addition, we should send more requests to the Queen Mother and His Majesty..."

After confirming that Liu Sheng had a plan and even started to do this, Yuan An naturally didn't get too entangled, and said openly, "Your Highness should talk to a professional about this matter."

——Anyway, Yuan An and Dou Ying came to the door today, and it was not really for this matter;
Therefore, Yuan Ang added another sentence at the end: Ask the Queen Mother and Your Majesty for more instructions, to show his attitude of "following the Queen Mother and Your Majesty's orders".

Liu Sheng also knew the intention of Yuan An's statement;

He only pretended to sigh regretfully, put on a posture of 'it's a pity that the Chinese doctor has no good plan', and turned his head slightly.

"Where's my cousin?"

"For money, does my cousin have any good solutions?"

"Or does it mean that I'm the same as Doctor Yuan—I also think that I should discuss this matter more with the emperor's grandmother and father?"

Previously, watching Liu Sheng and Yuan An's conversation with you and me, Dou Ying felt uncomfortable for a while;
When Liu Sheng's question came into his ears without warning, Dou Ying was taken aback for a moment, and blinked with astonishment.

Looking at Yuan Ang next to him for a while, recalling what Liu Sheng said just now, Dou Ying, who finally remembered, could only lower her head with a stiff expression, and bowed her hands to Liu Sheng.

"I have the same opinion as Doctor Yuan..."

"It's better for Your Highness to ask the Queen Mother and Your Majesty more about this matter."

"As long as it is the method that the Queen Mother and Your Majesty think is feasible, there will be no problem...

　The fever subsided and the voice became hoarse.

　　But as we all know: codewords do not need a voice.

　　So ~ two updates today (dog head)
　　But if you can write it, you can write it, but it is still a bit slow. This chapter may have been written for five hours...
　　The next chapter should be in the middle of the night, please understand.

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　　Latest news: I stayed up late to write half a chapter, and my body was a little bit unbearable, so I went to bed first.

　　Should be able to update sooner tomorrow

　　
　
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