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Chapter 160 Money shortage
Gengxu ([-]th) in May of the eighth year of Yuanfeng.

Quanzhi Cai Jing of Kaifeng Prefecture, Hu Ji, the magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture, and Li Shiliang, the Tuiguan, were fined eight catties of copper for a fire in the tribute courtyard and failed to put out the fire; First level, special punishment for fire in the Gongyuan.

Li Ding, the doctor of Zhengyi and the minister of the Ministry of rites, was demoted five levels in a row.

It is equivalent to the official rank of Wen San in the past, from the minister of six departments to the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, the Shaoqing of Sinong Temple, or the left and right ministers of Shangshu.

For civil servants and scholar-bureaucrats, this has already been severely demoted!
But it's not over yet!

Yushitai immediately played a large number of chapters, digging up black material for so long.

Li Ding, who was locked in Yushitai, also thought clearly.

Cleanly admitted and confessed a large number of crimes.

The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Households are in high spirits, just like celebrating the New Year.

Because Li Ding admitted that during his tenure in the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Household Affairs, he embezzled a large amount of ministerial money.

You ask him how much he misappropriated and embezzled?He couldn't tell himself.

Anyway, it is misappropriation and embezzlement.

So the Ministry of Rites reported that although the thief minister Li Ding had only worked in the Ministry of Rites for five days, he had misappropriated and embezzled more than 1 guan in a frenzied way!
And the household department happily reported a figure of [-].

The shortfall in the Ministry of Accounts Minister's money was filled in one go.

At the same time, Li Ding also admitted almost all the crimes of fabricating, framing, and slandering the minister during the Wutai poetry case.

All those crimes that he can bear, he has now shouldered them all by himself.

If he couldn't memorize it, he blamed it on the dead Wang Gui.

It is said that Wang Gui coerced him and ordered him to do it.

Except for the Wutai Poetry case, he also pleaded guilty to all the other major cases he participated in in the Yuanfeng era, and by the way, threw the responsibility to Wang Gui—all Wang Gui forced me to do!
Li Ding is so sensible, Yousi naturally held his hands high.

Therefore, in the end, it was reported to the court, and the result of the discussion among the chief executives was that Li Ding, the court councilor, should be charged with corruption, framed and other crimes, and be in charge of living in a certain state.

Since Renmiao came to power, there have been no important officials at the waiting list level who have been stripped, and there are even very few editors.

For important ministers at the waiting level, the highest punishment is generally resettlement.

The chief ministers of the Dutang reported this, naturally they put on a gesture.

At the same time, it is also an opportunity for the two palaces to tweet their favor.

Otherwise, how can the two palaces show mercy outside the law if they directly report for resettlement or expulsion?And how to show the benevolence of the two palaces?
And it's not the time for the two palaces to just listen to politics.

Each of them has a Hanlin scholar who can serve as an assistant to introduce national stories and allusions to them.

Therefore, as soon as this matter was reported, they probably understood.

Then, he asked Zhao Xu for his opinion, and finally came up with a final solution.

Li Ding, a court official, embezzled, dereliction of duty, framed ministers, and slandered the emperor's benevolent government. He committed a heinous crime!
However, Li Ding, the doctor of Gu Nian Dynasty, still has a trace of conscience. He pleaded guilty and repented, and was leniently punished.

Therefore, Li Ding was escorted by the dispatched officials amidst his gratitude, and embarked on the road to Yingzhou.

If he is lucky, he may be pardoned by Enzhao a few years later and live in a place with better conditions.

Besides, he retained a certain decency.

For example, he was allowed to submit a letter to the imperial court, and he was allowed to live with his family. Although his salary was halved, he was allowed to cultivate land in Yingzhou, and he was allowed to give lectures in Yingzhou.

In other words, Zhao Xu made an opening here.

Give him a chance to be a dog in the future!

At the same time, he also retained the possibility of accumulating fame through lectures and then being pardoned by Enzhao.

After all, Li Ding still has something.

Can't be wasted!

However, that is at least several years later.

……

After dealing with Li Ding's affairs.

The two palaces embraced Zhao Xu in the hall of Yanhe Hall, and received the elder Han Wei who wanted to return to Xuzhou with his majesty's resignation.

In Han Wei's speech this time, he did not attack the New Party and Wang Anshi indiscriminately like Zhao Xu did in his previous life.

He didn't sing praises to Sima Guang, and even took the lead in attacking the edict of "seeking frankness" drafted by Zhang Dun.

On the contrary, he hardly mentioned any political affairs of the country.

He just followed the procedures, talked about the affairs of the Xuzhou government, and asked for some preferential treatment and special policies from the two palaces—for example, he was allowed to adjust the Young Crop Law, the Exemption Law, and the Baojia Law in Xuzhou without reporting to the Dutang. power of law.

For these requests and preferential treatment, the two palaces naturally agreed one by one - this is the privilege of the elders!
When Xining reformed, Han Jiang, Fu Bi, and Wen Yanbo all had these privileges when they were out of the know.

When the etiquette of the majesty's speech was about to end, the Empress Dowager asked as usual: "I don't know my love, do you have any advice on state affairs?"

Han Wei immediately played: "The sages of the two palaces bless and support His Majesty the Emperor, and thank the world..."

As he spoke, he looked at the young master who had remained silent from the beginning to the end, and said: "Your Majesty the Emperor will carry out the Emperor's will..."

"Abolish the evil law, chase the villains, reform with the people, rest, the world is happy, overjoyed... the old minister has nothing to say..."

"However, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager don't regard the old officials as old, so they consult the old officials in the palace... The old officials are terrified..."

"Begging for an edict to ban the export of Chinese copper coins..."

The two palaces looked at each other in the curtain, and then the Empress Dowager said: "Han Qing's intentions are very kind!"

"I'm expensive towards money, just right!"

Nai ordered people to invite Han Weizuo to Yousi, within half a month, to restore Jiayou's money ban-those who leave the customs with copper coins privately will be executed for more than five pennies!Five piercings or less are exiled.

Zhao Xu still didn't say a word.

He knew that since the founding of the Song Dynasty, although they have tried their best to increase copper mining, even in Sichuan and Shaanxi, iron coins have been cast and circulated.

However, money shortage is still a chronic disease of the Song Dynasty!

Even since Xining, Zhao Xu's father, the emperor, has increased the number of money supervisors in various parts of the world.

This makes the number of coins minted each year exceed 500 million guan.

However, the speed of the development of the commodity economy in the Song Dynasty, as well as the popularity and acceptance of the copper coins of the Song Dynasty in the entire known world, still caused the Song Dynasty to fall into a money shortage, which is what modern economics calls: insufficient money supply.

Before the reform in Xining, the Song Dynasty could only forcibly implement a ban on copper coins.

But to no avail.

That's why Xining reformed the law, opened the money ban, and changed it to copper coins for taxation.

For every copper coin that goes out of the customs, the state collects a tax of fifty cash.

Wang Anshi's idea is that it cannot be stopped, and the profits of the copper coin trade should be earned by the country rather than by smugglers.

However, there is no doubt that this exacerbated Song's own money shortage.

In the case of insufficient money supply, deflation has become a nightmare for the Song Dynasty economy.

Everyone up and down also knew that money shortage was poisoning Da Song.

Although they don't know what deflation is, they can feel from their side that the lack of copper coins hurts the commodity economy.

Naturally, voices wanting to restore the money ban are endless.

But the problem is that the Great Song Dynasty can't even eradicate the smuggling of salt, and still wants to eradicate the smuggling of copper coins with higher profits and more profit channels?
Dream it!
Why do the people fear death if they are not afraid of death!
If you carry a bag of copper coins and go to the other side of the border, you can buy livestock, spices, ivory or other high-margin commodities at a price much lower than that in Song Dynasty.

Any fool would gamble.

Therefore, Zhao Xu knew that Han Wei was doing useless work.

There is only one way to solve the money shortage - to continue to increase the money supply.

At least double the amount of money minted each year to reach the level of 1000 million.

In order to barely meet the needs of the Song Dynasty's own commodity economy.

As for wanting to act as the World Bank and provide financial lubrication for the whole world?
The annual coinage of 2000 million coins may be barely enough.

is it possible?

impossible!
Mining and smelting technology has almost reached the ceiling.

We can only wait for a technological breakthrough, especially a breakthrough in mining technology.

Fortunately, Zhao Xu knew that in Shen Kuo's hands, there was a technology that could temporarily alleviate the money shortage.

"Do you want to remind me?" Zhao Xu thought for a while, then gave up this plan.

If Shen Kuo needs him to remind even this kind of thing.

Then what do you want Shen Kuo to do?
……

"Shen Tiju..."

Shen Kuo was writing something at his desk when he heard Yan Shouqin's voice outside the yard.

He got up quickly and walked out the door.

The servant he hired has already invited Yan Shouqin in.

"A little bit more..." Shen Kuo looked at the young courtiers behind Yan Shouqin and asked, "This is?"

Yan Shouqin smiled and said, "Congratulations to Shen Tiju..."

"The empress dowager deeply agrees with what the letter said in the letter to focus on manufacturing military bureaus, and everyone has even personally written instructions..."

As he spoke, he handed over the emperor's instructions brought from the palace to Shen Kuo.

"After the promotion, you can do things cheaply in the bureau specializing in the manufacture of weapons..."

Shen Kuo hastily bowed and took the young master's instructions from Yan Shouqin in his written letter.

He read it carefully, and looked at the document, the correct regular script of the imperial pen for instructions: Yes, order Shen Kuo, who specializes in the manufacture of military weapons, to act cheaply!With Tong Jiansi, from now on, Shen Kuo will write a letter and send it directly to the emperor!
This made Shen Kuo feel relieved.

He looked at the courtiers who followed Yan Shouqin, and asked, "Then what about these?"

Yan Shouqin smiled: "Everyone was worried that it would be too much work to promote one person, so they let these little yellow men go to the Tiju gate to obey the urging..."

Shen Kuo understood in seconds!

So he immediately stated his position, and cupped his hands in the direction of the imperial city: "Heaven's grace is mighty, and I can't repay you!"

Yan Shouqin waved his hand, and said to the courtiers who followed him, "Everyone, come forward and give Shen Ti a salute!"

"From now on, you will listen to orders and work carefully in the bureau that specializes in manufacturing weapons!"

"Wei!" The courtiers replied in unison, and then they came to Shen Kuo and bowed one after another: "Your official, when you have seen Shen Tiju, in the future, please drive Tiju as you like, and give you whatever you want... I will do whatever I want. !"

Shen Kuo hurriedly said: "Quickly please...quickly please..."

He knew that even if these people were sent by the young master to help him, they were just eyeliners placed by his side, and it was the young master who asked him to train and teach them.

And it just so happened that he also needed a way to let the two palaces and the emperor, who lived deep in the palace, know that Shen Cunzhong was a capable, motivated, and obedient minister!
　This chapter has been deleted a lot~
　　The main reason is that most of the history of money shortage and currency in the Northern Song Dynasty has been deleted.

　　Well, after today's update is over, I will publish a single chapter to talk about it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)