The emperor read the letter carefully, got up excitedly and walked around twice. Feeling a little worried, he took out the letter and read it carefully again.
He licked his lips nervously, wanting to recruit people to discuss it now, but thinking of the hardships he had endured over the years, he endured it.
Zhao Hanzhang is right, this matter should be dealt with slowly.
The emperor calmed down and waited until the next day before summoning several of his confidants and Zhao Zhongyu.
He quietly asked them, "Yan Heng was killed by General Gou. Did many people around him go to express condolences?"
Several ministers didn't understand why the emperor mentioned this matter. Several days had passed and Yan Heng was reduced to ashes. However, someone still said: "There should be quite a few. Didn't Zhao Shangshu go there that day?"
Yan Heng died in the hands of Gou Xi. Except for the generals who were close to him, no one went to express condolences. The only one who went to express his condolences was Zhao Zhongyu, a minister in the court.
They were not familiar with Yan Heng.
The emperor immediately looked at Zhao Zhongyu and asked with concern: "I wonder who is there and what is their condition?"
Zhao Zhongyu also felt strange and didn't understand why the emperor was interested in this matter, but he still said seriously: "The funeral was presided over in advance. General Wen, General Pei and General Wang all came to express their condolences. Fu, who was unable to come back,
The generals also sent their lieutenants to express their condolences."
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Seeing that the emperor listened attentively, Zhao Zhongyu described it in detail, mainly what they said when they expressed condolences, including many complaints against Gou Xi.
As he spoke, Zhao Zhongyu seemed to have some idea and vaguely guessed the emperor's original intention.
Several other ministers who were listening also realized this. They looked at each other and sat up straight, thinking about the feasibility of this matter.
"Does Your Majesty also think that General Gou did something wrong?"
The emperor glanced at Zhao Zhongyu and sighed: "When Yan Heng was taken to the general's mansion, I had issued an order to let General Gou spare his life because of our old friendship. Unexpectedly, it was too late to go."
Zhao Zhongyu immediately said: "Yes, Yan Heng has followed General Gou for many years, and he has worked hard without any merit. What's more, this time is for admonishment and for General Gou's good. General Gou really shouldn't kill him for this."
There is no need to make the next words obvious. The emperor said: "I heard that Mr. Ming is seriously ill and is in bed because of this. Gu Qing, please take an imperial doctor to see Mr. Ming and persuade him to be more cheerful."
Mingyu was a staff member and relied on Gou Xi, who had no military power. Naturally, the emperor did not want to compete with Gou Xi for Mingyu, but to give Gou Xi's subordinates an attitude and show them.
After seeing the warning, he can send people to comfort the generals who feel sad this time.
The emperor worked hard and quietly to dig into Gou Xi's corner, while Zhao Hanzhang openly and openly announced his new money.
Her new money was printed in large quantities.
Baskets of copper coins were sent into the treasury, and then they traded with themselves. They took out the pearls, gems, porcelain, etc. that were almost dusty in the treasury, roughly calculated the prices, and exchanged them for copper coins.
These items will be divided into several portions and handed over to the caravans for them to take to other places for trading.
In addition, Zhao Ji's pawnshop officially opened.
Zhao Hanzhang directly occupied three shops. Oh, these three shops originally belonged to the Zhao family. They were the dowry left to her by Zhao Changyu. Later, she changed them to Zhao Zhongyu, and they went round and round. Now they are back to her.
On hand.
The reason why the three pawnshops connected together are so big is because there is little money in Luoyang and there are many people who need to exchange money.
Zhao Hanzhang had someone post a notice saying that starting from today, the transactions in the market will be mainly copper coins. Those who don't have money can take things to pawnshops and pledge them for money.
In the process of bartering, merchants may suffer losses, and individuals may also suffer losses. Everyone feels that they have suffered a loss, and even if they exchange things, they will probably be in a bad mood.
In the past, because he had no money and wanted copper coins, Zhao Hanzhang had to send his caravan to go far away and sell the goods in exchange for money.
But the return trip only brought money and lost money, so the caravan would only keep a small part of the money, and most of the rest would be converted into grain and cloth and then sold back.
But because there is little money in Luoyang, in addition to money, they can always receive all kinds of things that they want to barter for.
As long as the caravan is a pure caravan, that's all. They can be so domineering that they don't want to change, they just want money.
But they were not. These caravans were all organized by Ji Yuan and carried the name of Zhao Hanzhang, so they also had a somewhat public character.
If even Zhao Hanzhang was not willing to barter food for the people, then they would have no way to survive.
Therefore, the caravan can always get back a bunch of messy things that may or may not be useful.
Things that are no longer needed have to be shipped out again, but it takes at least twenty days to get back the money, so the funds are extremely slow to come back.
Now that Zhao Hanzhang makes his own money, he has omitted the intermediate links, and even caravans don't have to suffer so much.
When they left this time, in addition to taking various commodities with them, they were also able to bring two carloads of new money with them to purchase goods in other places.
After the new money was exchanged, there was more money in the market. When Zhao Hanzhang walked to the street again, there were fewer quarrels due to disagreements over bartering.
Zhao Kuan's workload has dropped sharply, and he no longer has to work overtime until late at night every day.
So on this day, he had time to have dinner with Zhao Hanzhang, Zhao Erlang, and Zhao Yunxin.
There were brothers and sisters at the dinner table instead of the governor and the county magistrate, so he took a breath and said to Zhao Hanzhang in a carefree manner: "Because of the new money, all the people who have been brought to the county government due to transaction disputes recently are gone."
He said: "If I had known that money could solve things, I should have made money earlier."
Zhao Hanzhang: "Eighty percent of the things in this world can be solved with money. When you say this, you think there is so much money out there."
Zhao Kuan said relaxedly: "We didn't have it before, but now we have it? Let Ting Han cast more."
"How can money be minted casually?" Zhao Hanzhang said: "How much money is minted must be calculated. If money is minted without restraint, the market will collapse."
Zhao Erlang didn't understand this, so he just asked, "Sister, you are rich now, can you get military pay?"
"No," Zhao Hanzhang said depressedly: "The money in the money shop is not mine, I only have the money in the treasury."
Zhao Erlang looked at Fu Tinghan and said, "Brother-in-law, can you lend me money to my sister and give us military pay first?"
Fu Tinghan smiled and said: "That money is not mine either."
Zhao Erlang glared, "Why isn't it yours? You clearly made it."
Zhao Hanzhang felt that he would not be able to eat tonight if he had to explain the ownership of the money, so he simply asked: "Why do you want military pay?"
Apart from his love for shiny jewelry, Zhao Erlang didn't have much desire for money. The army provided food and accommodation, and occasionally he would come back to her to have a tooth ceremony, so he didn't want money at all.