Chapter 302 Don’t spread rumors if you don’t believe them
Author: Muzi Blue
Chapter 302 Don’t spread rumors if you don’t believe them
What girl is not pregnant?
The scandal in the public, coupled with Li Dejiang's reprimand, not only did not make Li Sanniang afraid of giving in, but had the opposite effect. She looked more and more into her heart.
The hazy thoughts became clear.
But when she fearlessly went to Wu Huaiyu again, she was stopped by the disciple again.
"You are not here."
"I have something important to do."
"I'm really not here."
"Get out of the way, I must see him today."
Menzi looked at Li Sanniang, who looked unhappy, and had no choice but to tell her, "You have urgent business and have gone to Lingzhou. You won't be back for a while."
Li Sanniang didn't believe it, so the disciples had no choice but to let her into the Yamen.
After searching around, she found no one, and she didn't pay attention to the strange looks from others.
After it was confirmed that Wu Huaiyu had really gone to Lingzhou, Li Sanniang left without saying a word and rushed to Lingzhou with her people. When Li Dejiang heard about it, he hurried after him, but he couldn't stop him.
"How come the Li family is so stubborn?"
Li Dejiang said helplessly to Chen Sheng beside him. Chen Sheng was born as a slave of the Li family and had been following him in the past. He was also very familiar with the situation of the Li family. The Li family seemed to have such a tradition.
Li Jing came to Chang'an to make a name for himself at night, while Li De was a member of a well-known family, but he always wanted to be a knight-errant.
As for Li Sanniang, who was raised by Li Jing and his wife, she was different from other daughters. She didn't like red makeup and favored weapons, let alone armed. She looked down on many children from famous families who wanted to marry, such as Chai Shao's eldest son.
He is the son of Princess Pingyang, and he has a distinguished status. He is still a thousand-year-old man and has good conditions in all aspects, but Sanniang just doesn't like him.
Now he wants to entangle Wu Huaiyu.
"Maybe it's just an impulse. After all, I'm young, and it's possible that I'm infatuated."
"Forget it, just leave her alone. This is how she was treated since she was little. Nine cows can't take back what she has decided."
Just like last year, when Li Sanniang wanted to go to Huiningguan to save her father and brother, Zhang family imprisoned her in the mansion, but she was able to escape from the mansion and run to the border gate in the end.
When Li Dejiang returned to Baicheng, he could only write a letter to his family to explain the situation in detail, but he couldn't care about anything else.
Only Li Jing and Zhang could take action, but he didn't know how it would end.
"Now our Danyang Fang will become a joke in the An aristocratic circle."
Chen Sheng just laughed and said, "No one dares to laugh at the Li family. Besides, which big family doesn't do such a thing?"
Li Jing and Zhang Chuchen ran into each other at night, which caused a sensation in Chang'an, but so what?
Li Jing didn't marry a girl from a famous family, but married a singer. Isn't he still famous all over the world now?
Besides, you, Li Dejiang, have not worked hard as an official for these years and have been wandering around the world as a knight errant every day. Do you think you have a good reputation?
·······
When Wu Huaiyu arrived in Lingzhou, he found out that there were also scandals about him in Lingzhou. It is true that good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles. This scandalous news is even more rapid.
Xue Wanche also joked a lot when they met.
I haven't seen this dog slave for a while, and he has gained weight around the waist. This guy has been living a very comfortable life recently, and the people around him have surrendered. He, the governor of Lingzhou, has no pressure.
Lingyan's border trade was very prosperous, and he was making a lot of money even while lying down.
Although Wu Huaiyu made a lot of noise in Yanzhou, and even diverted some of Lingzhou's trade due to the popularity of Baicheng border market in Yanzhou, Lingzhou's size is huge, so it doesn't hurt.
What's more, Yanzhou is also the next state governed by his Lingzhou governor.
"Brother Wu, aren't you afraid that your Lady Fan will kill you with a beheaded horse?" Fan Xuanfu's reputation for ferocity is well known throughout Chang'an. Back then, he beheaded seven horses born in the Imperial Academy, scaring the piss out of several of his younger brothers. To this day, all the Imperial Prince's disciples are still...
The name of the female giant insect has also been spread.
There is no one in the Imperial College who dares to provoke the Fan family's children.
"If you don't believe the rumors, don't spread them!" Huaiyu looked serious.
"Hey, I envy you guys for being so young and romantic."
“Mr.
Xue Wanche's eyes widened, "I'm as strong as an ox, how could I not be able to do this?"
Xue Wanche also had a wife and many concubines. Historically, this wife died young. Later Li Shimin married his sister Princess Danyang to him. However, Princess Danyang later said that Xue Wanche was stupid because he did not know how to behave as husband and wife after marriage.
.
This is of course bullshit. After all, Xue Wanche actually had grandchildren before he became the princess. How could he not have a lot of children? It can only be said that either the princess was too strong and domineering, which made old Xue afraid, or the princess disliked his rudeness and refused to touch him.
Later, Li Shimin found Yang Shidao and other brothers-in-law, drank with Xue Wanche, and taught him a lesson, and then the princess became good with him.
"You came back just in time. I was just looking for you. You said it's summer now. Shouldn't we also recruit soldiers and horses to prepare for a raid on Liang Ni? The crops in their fields should also be growing. Let's
Trampled."
Trampling crops is a very inhumane act, especially for Shuofang, who has been in poverty and famine. However, war is inherently cruel, and they will do anything to trap and weaken the enemy.
As for the life and death of the people, who really cares, especially the people of the enemy country.
Wu Huaiyu did not object, nor did he object. This was even the suggestion he made to the emperor at the beginning, and it was a conventional tactical method.
"How about contacting Xiazhou, Qingzhou and Yanzhou and sending troops together?"
Although it is a raid and harassment operation, it would be better if several governor's offices send troops in separate directions at the same time.
Xue Wanche asked the cook to serve Wu Huaiyu and Doulu Huairang with the best craftsmanship. The cook then roasted a camel with a sheep stuffed in the camel's belly, a goose stuffed in the sheep's belly, a pigeon stuffed in the goose's belly, and a pigeon stuffed in the pigeon's belly.
Stuffed quail eggs.
Just bake it.
The cook is very good at cooking, even though the camel is so big and its belly is wrapped in layers, he can still control the heat and roast it well.
Barbeque with Erguotou.
Xue Wanche liked this strong Taozi Shao very much, and this wine was produced by the Wu family's Bingyutang Winery.
"This wine is really good. It suits my taste the most. It's a pity that I don't buy it."
Bingyutang has now opened a branch in Lingyan. As Xue Wanche said, the supply exceeds the demand. Now the Wu family's shochu, black tea bricks, and fire salt bricks are very popular among herdsmen outside the Great Wall and are selling very well.
But production is limited.
Especially this shochu cannot be brewed with grain, but can only be brewed with various fruits, which greatly affects the output.
"We are not short of food in Lingzhou. What do you think about getting some food and brewing shochu here?"
I want to get involved in this shochu market and want to form a partnership with Wu Huaiyu.
But Wu Huaiyu was at most willing to give him some wine for distribution, but was unwilling to blatantly defy the imperial ban and use grain to make wine.
"Commander, although Lingzhou has blocked the grain river, it is now preparing for war. Although there are some reserves of grain, we dare not touch it lightly. Now that the ban on brewing in Chang'an has not been lifted, how can we dare to mess around at the border.
"
Seeing Wu Huaiyu's attitude, Xue Wanche didn't know what to say. He didn't think Wu Huaiyu was abiding by the law. He thought more that Wu Huaiyu didn't want him to join the gang.
It's not easy to force this.
Today's Wu Huaiyu is not someone who can be manipulated casually. He is on an equal footing with him here.
Xue Wanche turned around and mentioned private casting, copper casting and private casting of copper coins and silver coins. Now Lingzhou is very prosperous, with a complete industrial chain, including manufacturing, sales and circulation.
The Persian silver coins minted in Lingzhou even became the main source of coins used by merchants and common people in Hexi and the Western Regions. The Persian silver coins minted by Gaochang State and others were not as many as those minted in Lingzhou.
Regardless of fineness or quantity, the imitation Persian Sassanid silver coins minted in Lingzhou are both abundant and good.
One imitation Persian silver coin can be exchanged for thirty-two Kaiyuan Tongbao. The business of casting silver coins is very profitable. The Turks, Sogdians, etc. who come to trade will basically enter the silver coin workshop in Lingzhou and turn it into exquisite products.
Imitation Persian silver coins.
And these private casting workshops do not belong to any one person, but have formed a scale and organization as early as Li Daozong's hands. From the officials of the Dudu Mansion to the soldiers of the border army, plus many powerful merchants, all of them are here.
There is one copy.
That’s why it has always been so prosperous because everyone from top to bottom participated and provided convenience.
Now Lingzhou is encountering some problems in private casting.
There is a shortage of silver and copper, but the demand is greater. The prosperity of border markets and the Silk Road requires more monetary support.
"I suggest that all copper materials be used to make copper coins and reduce or stop making copper utensils."
Xue Wanche's idea was just the opposite. He planned to stop privately minting copper coins and instead cast copper utensils.
He even wanted to sell money to make pots.
Relatively speaking, Lingzhou's privately minted money is quite exquisite, not too bad, and the materials used are relatively sufficient. However, compared with the imperial court's Kaiyuan Tongbao, it actually cuts corners. This is also the way to make money privately.
The essential.
When the imperial court opened the Yuan Tongbao coins, money supervisors and coin-casting furnaces were set up in various places. They were mainly set up in those copper mine producing areas. The coins were minted nearby with the mined copper materials, and then transported to various places. Because of the nationwide coordination, sufficient materials were used, plus transportation costs.
etc., there are also management costs, so the cost of minting money is quite high. Often, a thousand copper coins are minted and issued, and the final cost is only eight or nine hundred yuan, and sometimes even a loss is incurred.
Private casting is often done in industrial and commercial cities where trade is flourishing, using copper materials on the market, or even directly melting copper coins on the market and recasting them.
There are cases where three hundred official coins were minted into five hundred private coins, and the ratio of materials was even adjusted, which made the profits of the private coins very high.
The profits of privately minted copper coins in Lingzhou can be stabilized at around 80%, relying on the large market of Lingzhou.
But when the money was used to make utensils, and the official money was destroyed and made into bronze utensils, the profit was 36%.
There is a big difference in profits between privately minting money and selling money forging.
There is currently a shortage of copper in Lingzhou, and even the imperial court is well aware that Lingzhou is selling money to make utensils, and the situation of illegally minting money is serious, so now there is an unspoken rule that copper coins are not allowed to leave the country. Wherever the court needs to spend money, silk cloth is used instead of money.
allocated to.
The purpose of the imperial court in doing this is to prevent Lingzhou from harvesting the imperial court's wool. After all, the imperial court is working hard now and can only mint about 300,000 guan a year. The amount of minted coins is too low. Who can eat it if it is minted there or sold here?
remove.
Simply let Shuofang, Longyou, and Hexi areas stop importing official money.
What to do with money?
Private money or old money, combined with silk cloth.
In the emperor's secret letter to Wu Huaiyu, he actually had a purpose on this matter, which was to ask him to find a way to first crack down on the selling of money for casting in the Lingzhou Dudu Mansion, and then to improve the quality of privately minted money, and temporarily let privately cast money take over.
Official money was circulated outside the Great Wall to make up for the shortage of official money minted.
This will is certainly beneficial to the imperial court.
But for everyone with interests in Lingzhou private casting, this is undoubtedly a great loss.
The profit from selling metal castings is 36%, which is high enough to take risks.
But Wu Huaiyu also knew that Lingyan was prospering in industry and commerce. Although it took advantage of the Silk Road and border markets, if the imperial court stopped importing coins and the local government could not match them, there would be a serious shortage of currency, which would inevitably greatly affect industry and commerce.
Insufficient currency will lead to deflation, but if private coinage is too bad, currency depreciation will lead to inflation, which can easily cause market turmoil and chaos.
The emperor hoped that Lingzhou would crack down on the selling of coins and use local coinage to replace the insufficient supply of imperial coins. At the same time, he also hoped that they could maintain the value of privately minted coins and ensure a certain quality.
In fact, this was just a temporary expedient that the imperial court had no choice but to do at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Even if the emperor knew about Lingzhou's private casting and money-selling problems, he would not dare to ban it rashly, otherwise there would be endless troubles. He must have a proper plan and a soft landing step by step.
This is a relatively stable way to govern the country. The emperor also knew that such behavior would cause conflicts among local interest groups, so he also introduced policies such as liberalizing copper mining.
If we can find copper mines in Lingzhou, increase mining volume, and obtain more copper materials, we can also mint more private money, even if the profit of making private money may only be 80%, which is not as good as the sales of several times the profit.
After all, you can make more money than before by casting money, which can be regarded as a kind of compensation.
"There are copper mines in our Lingzhou Dudu Mansion. There are quite a lot of them, but they are lacking in mining. I think we can invite craftsmen and other people to recruit merchants and workers to mine copper mines."
"Then make coins of copper,"
Wu Huaiyu also bluntly said to Xue Wanche and Doulu Huairang that the imperial court could not always allow Lingzhou to mint money privately, let alone tolerate them selling money to mint coins. In the past five years of Wude, the imperial court has recycled old money to mint Kaiyuan coins, but the amount of coins minted has been constant.
less.
If various places continue to spend money like this crazily, then all the money cast by the imperial court will be in vain, and it will all be used to make wedding dresses privately.
In the past, because Lingzhou was on the front line, the court's focus was still on pacifying the world. For the time being, it could not take care of these issues of private casting, and even deliberately turned a blind eye.
But now that Zhenguan is gone, it is impossible for the court to tolerate it forever.
Wu Huaiyu still hopes that everyone can face up to these situations as soon as possible and take advantage of the current opportunity to clean up and go ashore as soon as possible. After the mining is started and the copper is mined, the private castings can be slowly turned into official castings, apply for money supervision, and become official castings.
The right to mint coins and the profits from minting coins were slowly returned to the court, but now those with interests in private minting can also be transferred to copper mining.
Although copper mining may not be as profitable as private casting or casting, at least it is not illegal.
Furthermore, as long as no money is spent to cast the tools, it will be legal to mine copper and cast the tools, but the profit will not be that high.
As the saying goes, you can make some money once, but you can't make it all the time.
Xue Wanche didn't think that far at all. He just stared at how much profit could be made by selling the money to cast the weapon. The profit from privately casting the money was far less than this. Wu Huaiyu's words made him stunned for a moment.
"Is the imperial court going to take action?" Xue Wanche was not stupid and reacted immediately.
"The king of Rencheng has been in Lingzhou for five years, and now he is serving as the minister of Guanglu in Beijing. The former chief minister Sima Ke was dismissed from office, and many officials and generals in Lingzhou were demoted. Although we have just arrived, we still have to learn lessons. We can't wait for the court to come.
Take action, it will be too late by then,
If we don’t want dignity ourselves, then the court won’t give us dignity.
It’s better to make plans in advance. Now I’ll switch from private casting to mining. Although I may not make that much money, it’s legal and safe.”
