"General Zhang, do you understand what was said in the court in Baitian?" Empress Dowager Yang asked with some disconfidence.

Since the empress dowager has arrived in the court, Zhang Shijie, as the commander of the Imperial Guard, naturally also guarded the empress dowager in the court. Now that he escorted the empress dowager back to the palace, and when he heard the empress dowager's question, Zhang Shijie could only rack his brains to think about how to explain.

During the day, Zhao Jiaren talked about the latest money method, but there was too much content in it, so Zhang Shijie couldn't string it up. After thinking about it, Zhang Shijie replied: "Empress Dowager, why not ask the Empress Dowager Zhao to tell me about it tomorrow."

After hearing this, Empress Dowager Yang stopped talking for the time being. She thought that the arrival of the court was a very powerful thing, and no matter how big or small it was, the empress dowager, had to decide the final decision. However, when she went to court on the first day, she found that if she wanted to make a decision, she had to understand what was being said in the court. For those lengthy speeches and those contents that were completely incomprehensible, Empress Dowager Yang did not know what those people were saying, let alone what she should say.

Seeing the Empress Dowager enter the bedroom, Zhang Shijie took out a small cigar and started smoking. Before, Empress Dowager Yang was most worried about the Mongols was the Mongols who sent back the captured official family and Empress Dowager Quan. After the content of the Bianliang peace talks was announced, the Mongolian envoys proposed the "repayment" before was not mentioned at all.

Empress Dowager Yang focused all on this matter. She repeatedly looked at the peace agreement and repeatedly looked for Li Tingzhi and others, trying to figure out whether Zhao Jiaren had reached a secret treaty with the Mongols. In the end, Empress Dowager Yang dared to believe it slightly, and the so-called "repaying back" was just a trick played by the Mongols.

Empress Dowager Yang, who was completely mobilized by that trick, finally came to the court, but the empress dowager could not understand the political issues at all. Zhang Shijie now felt that it would be great if the empress dowager could hide her weakness.

Empress Dowager Yang and Zhang Shijie had their ideas. The ministers in the court were actually able to understand what Zhao Taiwei said. After the court came, these officials began to connect and Li Tingzhi participated in one of them. At this time, they were not in the mood to find girls to play guitar and sing, so the officials began to discuss the issue during the day.

As Zhao Taiwei said, the method of the Song Dynasty was intended to keep the money in the hands of the people. For example, if you pay taxes, you can only pay half of the money and the other half of the money must be used for copper coins. For example, when you issue a new money, you have to exchange old money for new money. When Jia Sidao was in power, he refused to exchange the money for the previous money and directly issued new money. The result of this is that the number of money on the market increased sharply, the price of money on the market plummeted, and the people almost did not care about the cost. The prices calculated on the money on the market soared, and money on the market became less and less valuable.

Taiwei Zhao had already put a large amount of grain and cloth in various places he passed by, absorbing a large amount of money payment. Now he has ordered that taxes can be paid in full in the future, and to purchase grain, cloth, salt, and iron in the city, and only money payment is used. These policies have never been seen before, and officials were confused.

"Li Zhizhou, if this happens, will the court receives money in the future be paid?" An official said hurriedly as soon as he sat down.

Li Tingzhi showed a very good skill when governing Yangzhou, so after hearing this question, he found that he could not answer immediately. At this moment, Xiong Shang said: "There should be reserves for issuing money. In the past, he used to use raw silk, gold, silver, and silk. This time, he didn't expect that Zhao Taiwei actually used food."

Although Xiong Shang has always been arrogant, he was able to make a seemingly insightful statement at this time, and everyone could come over and ask for advice, "What's going on with this food?"

Xiong Shang was also thinking about it at this time, so he lost his usual arrogant appearance. He thought, "Taiwei Zhao wants to rebuild Changping Warehouse. No..., he has rebuilt it. So he built a grain shop directly managed by the government. The price of grain is fixed, and all the grain has to be bought with money. That is to say, if you want to buy food from the government grain shop, you can only use money. In the past, the people had to accept money from the government, but now they have to find a way to earn money."

Xiong Shang explained clearly that officials who had seen the big inflation could not help but mock Zhao Jiaren's policy, "There is so much money on the market, what's the use of that little food!"

"It's not just food, but did you see Taiwei Zhao take out all the cloth, salt, iron and spices?" Xiong Shang continued to explain.

"That's not enough, it's not enough at all." Officials with sufficient inflation experience shook their heads and expressed disagreement.

Xiong Shang was a little unhappy now. He said to these opponents in a serious tone: "Everyone, the meal tickets we use in the cafeteria are actually a kind of payment money. There are also cloth tickets, and food tickets are similar. Although the salary is small, my life is not worse than before..."

Xiong Shang's words were immediately counterattacked by the officials, "We are officials, so it should be. Now the Taiwei Zhao is dealing with tens of millions of people in the Song Dynasty. How could he do it!"

Li Tingzhi listened to everyone's dispute, and he was actually very happy that a guy like Xiong Shang could temporarily resist him so that he could have time to make up his ideas. After listening to everyone's discussion, Li Tingzhi confirmed his opinion. Only Taiwei Zhao's hands were afraid that there were not so many things to exchange for the money handed in the hands of the people. In addition, it was useless for Taiwei Zhao to make the treasury full of money handed in the treasury.

After confirming his own thoughts, Li Tingzhi began to wonder. When Zhao Jiaren was doing cotton chores, he knew the importance of copper coins. At that time, he gave the court 125,000 jin of copper coins every month, which really solved the court's financial and taxation problems. How could Zhao Jiaren immediately restore the old traditions when he was in power? Could it be that Zhao Jiaren was not under his command to support him?

While thinking about it, the guy had already started to deliver the dishes. When the food was served, the waiter said, "Several officials, buy one free rice and flower fish in our store today. In addition, the store will receive the money."

If it were before, officials would probably be happy because the rice and fish were cheap. But what everyone had just discussed was paying money. The restaurant shop had not actively expressed its willingness to collect money. When the hall went down, Xiong Shang sneered: "Hmph! Since the food in the official grain shop is cheap, of course these people have to get money! Our salary is also the day to pay money, but I am afraid it won't take long."

Hearing such an ominous prophecy, the officials at the dinner table looked bad. However, the rice and flower fish in the sour and sour soup had an attractive aroma, which made everyone swallow their saliva in winter. Finally, Li Tingzhi smiled and said, "Don't worry about it, let's eat it first!" Such a pragmatic speech immediately received response from the officials, and everyone moved their chopsticks and ate happily.

Since one get one free of rice-flower fish, the official who quickly solved a large portion of rice-flower fish asked for two more portions. The waiter smiled and said, "Please wait. There are many people eating fish today, so our kitchen is not that fast."

While he was talking, Li Tingzhi suddenly shouted to the outside of the door: "Isn't that Brother Liu?"

The person who walked past the private room heard the shouts and turned around. It turned out that Liu Jingwen. Li Tingzhi wanted to invite Liu Jingwen to come in for dinner with him, but he didn't expect that Liu Jingwen had finished the meal with his wife and a pair of children. Seeing that Li Tingzhi was very sincere in invitation, Liu Jingwen asked his wife and children to go home first. He, a former official, joined the ranks of current officials.

"I wonder what business Brother Liu is doing now?" asked some guys who knew that Liu Jingwen had lost his official position.

Liu Jingwen replied: "I found an errand in the Museum of Literature and History, and I specially found information for Taiwei Zhao for the Han Dynasty."

"Oh! Isn't Han Shi Brother Liu's strength?" said in surprise by the official who knew Liu Jingwen better.

The Jinshi of the Song Dynasty all hoped that one day they could become a "storyteller". If they wanted to become a storyteller, they had to be very accomplished in some aspects. China's history is so long that everyone in the Song Dynasty could only conduct special research in one aspect. Even though the Museum of Literature and History is not the job of an official at all, Liu Jingwen, a "unstable person", actually had a job again with his own ability, allowing many officials to see that their "unstable person" family members or friends may have the possibility of making a comeback.

Facing everyone's inquiries, Liu Jingwen smiled bitterly and said, "Everyone, this kind of thing is just fate. When I went to ask for an official position, I was covered in dust. I never expected that when I was discouraged, I would make a living by relying on the Han History again."

"Then the Taiwei Zhao used the contents of the history of Han." The Jinshi immediately went straight to the topics that the Jinshi cared about.

"Agriculture, forestry and fishery." Liu Jingwen briefly introduced it. It turned out that in the Han Dynasty, especially in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the country had great achievements in fish fry cultivation and forestry cultivation. However, the fry cultivated at that time was stocked in rivers and lakes, allowing people to catch a large amount of fishing during the fishing season. As for forests, the country also had a vast forest cultivation area.

After hearing this, Xiong Shang said, "Isn't this the Han Dynasty materials used by Taiwei Zhao when he was about to implement the state-owned land in Jiangnan recently? As the saying goes, all dynasties are weak, but only the Han Dynasty is strong. It's nothing else, because the Han Dynasty is strong in its state-owned economy!"

Seeing that Liu Jingwen became an accomplice of Zhao Jiaren's state-owned land policy, at least half of the officials at the table looked bad. Liu Jingwen found that his academic achievement was vaguely misunderstood, so he instinctively refuted. "The governments in the Han Dynasty were already strong, not to mention anything else, just the fish fry. As far as I know, Zhao Taiwei worked hard to build fish fry factories in various places. In the paddy fields, rice and flower fish were raised in the paddy fields. In addition to the increase in rice yield by 10%, the people who planted rice also produced hundreds of kilograms of fish in a mu. The government sold fish fry, so it would be better if they didn't lose money. If they sold fish fry privately, they still didn't know how they calculated the money for fish fry with the people."
Chapter completed!