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Chapter 1429: Difficult Report
The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, then asked with a smile, "Sogdian silver coins?"

"No, it's the silver coins that the imperial court has just issued!"

"I understand. Of course I'll take silver coins, but this costs one thousand silver coins!"

Li Ye winked at the guard, who stepped forward and placed a string of silver coins on the table.

The shopkeeper was a little surprised. He looked at the money carefully for a while and nodded. "Okay, I'll take it!"

At this time, Wei Jiansu smiled and asked, "I'm a little confused, why doesn't the shopkeeper suspect that this is fake?"

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "First of all, it's silver. I can tell whether it's real or fake at a glance. Secondly, the Tang Dynasty has internal guards. Who dares to be so reckless as to forge silver and money? If they are found out, the whole family will be executed."

Li Ye and Wei Jiansu looked at each other and realized it was because of the internal guards.

Li Ye picked a jade pendant and asked with a smile: "I am an official of the Ministry of Revenue and I also have a mission. I want to ask the shopkeeper, what if it is an ordinary person who is not familiar with silver?"

The shopkeeper thought for a moment and said, "This is indeed a problem. It will probably take time to get used to it, maybe one or two years! After a while, everyone will naturally get familiar with it. I suggest that the counters can exchange it at any time. Some people who are not familiar with it and feel uneasy can go to the counters to exchange it for copper coins, and if there is a problem, they can find it immediately."

Li Ye nodded, this was a good suggestion.

He smiled and asked again, "Boss, do you think it will be collected by a wealthy family?"

The shopkeeper shook his head. "Personally, I think that unless a war breaks out, ordinary wealthy people will not collect it anymore. My boss used the price of 1:50 and tried every means to exchange it for 1,000 taels of gold. It cost him 50,000 strings of money. Now it's still 1,000 taels of gold, but it's only worth 30,000 strings of money. He lost 20,000 strings of money without doing anything. The same is true for silver. When it was the most expensive, it was 1:7. Now it's only 1:3. It may return to the 1:1 during the Tianbao period. Who is crazy enough to collect it now?"

"I understand, thank you, shopkeeper!"

Li Ye accepted the beautiful jade, and the shopkeeper escorted them out the door, "Welcome to come again, sir!"

Li Ye waved his hand, crossed another street, went to another colorful satin shop, and bought two rolls of colorful satin using sixty silver coins.

He went into five or six shops in a row and spent a lot of money to buy things. Everything went smoothly. But Li Ye saw a vendor selling candied haws on the road. He took out a silver coin and wanted to buy a string of candied haws, but the vendor refused to take it.

Firstly, he didn't know what the money was, and secondly, he had to give the other party a change of 290 cents, so he wouldn't do it!

On the carriage back to the palace, Wei Jiansu sighed, "I never thought that the internal guards, who have always been criticized, have become the guardian gods in the hearts of the people!"

Li Ye smiled faintly and said: "This is the two sides of the same coin. Everything has its pros and cons. It is not easy to cut it off in one size fits all. The most important thing is that the system must keep up.

They spent a lot of money today and it went very smoothly. He realized that gold and silver would be used by the middle and upper classes, and the lower-class people would need time to slowly adapt.

Moreover, the phenomenon of bad money driving out good money that Li Ye is worried about will not happen for the time being. The fundamental reason is that gold and silver are expected to depreciate. They can be used as currency, but it is unwise to store them as wealth.

This was what Xiao Hua had expected before, and he guessed it right.

At the same time, after issuing silver coins, the Ministry of Revenue also sent a large number of officials to conduct market surveys. The response was generally good, so the Ministry of Revenue decided to start minting gold and silver coins on a large scale, while gradually recovering rotten money on the market.

At the same time, the Ministry of Revenue listened to the emperor's advice and set up special exchange counters in local shops so that gold and silver coins could be exchanged for copper coins at any time.

In a blink of an eye, it was the day for Bai Xiaode to report on his work. Currently, the court had two types of military governor's offices in various places. One was a military governor's office, which was the mainstream. Li Ye and the court had learned the lessons of the Anshi Rebellion and the separatist rule of the feudal lords, and completely separated the military and politics.

The biggest advantage of this is that the governor has no financial resources, cannot expand his military forces, and has no financial resources to launch a war.

The army was only responsible for garrisoning troops, and the military expenses were borne by the court. The army was not allowed to interfere in local government affairs. Any conflicts were reported to the Privy Council, which was responsible for coordinating and resolving them. This was the normal way of managing the army. The Jiedushi system implemented during the Tianbao period gave the Jiedushi too much power, which had major hidden dangers.

The reason why Bai Xiaode's report is important is that he and the Hezhong Military Governor's Office are the only two military governor's offices of the strategic type. The military governor's office of the strategic type is somewhat equivalent to the former Jiedufu, which is in charge of both military and political affairs and has great power.

However, this is only a transition. After the end of the Western Region War, both the Anxi Military Governorate and the Hezhong Military Governorate will be changed into Military Military Governorate. The court will establish six administrative states and thirteen counties in Anxi and Hezhong, and appoint state and county officials.

Once the reform of Anxi and Hezhong is completed, the Tang Dynasty will have 16 military governorships, including Jiuzhou, Xiongjin, Liaodong, Liaoxi, Yunzhong, Shuofang, Longyou, Hetao, Ganliang, Shasu, Anxi, Beiting, Hezhong, Jiannan, Jiaozhou, and Nanyang, with a garrison of more than 300,000 troops.

All governors were appointed and dismissed by the emperor, the middle-level civil and military officers below them were appointed and dismissed by the Privy Council, and the governors were appointed and dismissed below the middle-level. At the same time, the imperial court sent imperial censors to supervise the army. In this way, the system was very strict.

The report was held in the Privy Council, presided over by Guo Ziyi, and attended by Emperor Li Ye and nine prime ministers and assistant prime ministers from the Council of State.

There are two things to be reported today, which were told to Bai Xiaode many days in advance, and he and his subordinates were responsible for preparing them.

One is the difficulty of implementing the county system in Anxi, and the second is Big and Small Bolü, which is an aspect that Li Ye pays special attention to.

Li Ye has decided to send troops to stop Tubo's westward expansion, but he needs to understand the situation.

But the first part of the report was not very smooth, as it was not so easy to implement the county system in Anxi.

Bai Xiaode said slowly: "It is feasible to set up counties in Anxi, but the biggest difficulty here is the balance issue. The small countries in Anxi are willing to become subjects of the Tang Dynasty, but they also hope that the court will give them some autonomy. The key is how to balance the two."

Liu Yan, the Minister of Personnel, asked frankly, "Excuse me, Governor Bai, if we implement Beiting's plan, what will go wrong?"

Beiting mainly involved Gaochang Kingdom and Yiwu Kingdom. The imperial court established Xizhou in Gaochang Kingdom and Yizhou in Yiwu Kingdom. The key here is the issue of property and governance of the people. The king of Gaochang had a palace and his own land. He was also the spiritual leader of the local people, and the people also had their own land.

Except for private land, all other land belongs to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, including snow-capped mountains, Gobi Desert and official fields.

In addition, Gaochang and Yiwu no longer had their own armies or subordinate officials.

If a conflict occurs on one's own private territory, the people generally do not file a complaint and the officials do not investigate. However, if a conflict occurs in a public place, the government will intervene, regardless of the ethnicity of the people.

Now that the imperial court has taken control of Hezhong, it is imperative to resolve the issues left over from Anxi.

The court's attitude was very clear, which was to govern Anxi according to the Beiting model. There were four issues involved: the king's authority, land ownership, local military, and the jurisdiction of the people.

To abolish local armies, officials, and the king's right to govern, the king is just a symbol. This simply touches the soul of all countries.

Bai Xiaode pondered for a long time and said, "There are definitely difficulties. This involves the vital interests of the nobles. What I am most worried about is that riots will occur and some kings will instigate local people to expel the Tang army. It would be best if we can resolve it through negotiation. If the negotiation fails, I hope the court will be mentally prepared to quell the riot."

Li Ye said slowly: "Even Bukhara has been annexed by the Tang Dynasty and renamed Wanzhou. Governor Bai should understand the will of the court and can negotiate. In terms of personal interests, the Tang Dynasty can make moderate concessions, but not in terms of principles. The county system must be implemented. The court has decided to implement it according to Beiting's plan. If Governor Bai feels that his identity is inconvenient, then Governor Bai can be transferred, such as coming to the court to serve as the Minister of War. This position is still vacant."

Bai Xiaode is currently the uncle of the King of Kucha, his brother is the King of Kucha, and Kucha is currently the largest country in Anxi.

Li Ye hoped that by first reforming the system in Kucha, other small countries would follow suit, but he also knew Bai Xiaode's difficulties, so he gave Bai Xiaode a choice.

Bai Xiaode nodded, "Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty. I will consider it again."

Li Ye smiled and said, "Let's put the first report aside for now and talk about it in two days. Let's talk about the issue of Bolor. Does Governor Bai know about the situation there?"

(End of this chapter)