There was finally some tit-for-tat in the Zizheng Palace.
In the past, Lu Huiqing's biggest opponent in the two houses was Feng Jing, but Feng Jing's attitude was not firm, and he was fighting but not fighting hard.
But Zhang Yue is different.
Lu Huiqing knew that Zhang Yue would do well if he didn't fight, and he would fight hard if he fought.
Zhang Yue said to the officials: "Your Majesty, Guanzi once said that the people are happy when they are given, and angry when they are taken away. The people's sentiments are all the same. The king knew this, so he saw the form of giving and did not see the reason for taking away. Therefore, the love of the people can be consistent with the above.
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This was what Huang Lu and Zhang Yue said back then.
The common people like the king to give them favors, but don't like to tax them. They are happy when they are given, and angry when they are taken away.
Therefore, when a ruler provides benefits to the people, he must openly and openly announce them so that everyone in the world knows about them. When he wants to collect taxes from the people, he must do so quietly and subtly. Only in this way will the people love the ruler.
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Guanzi's words are very straightforward and very sinister. Although they are not as naked as Shang Jun's book, they are more willing to be listened to by the rulers than those of Confucian scholars who talk about Confucius and Mencius.
"Just now, the Qin half liang mentioned by Feng Gong was changed to five baht coins, Wang Mang's large spring was fifty, and Han Zhaolie Emperor's hundred and five straight trees were taken. They were captured in the name of amassing wealth."
After hearing Zhang Yue's words, the chief ministers thought to themselves, are Zhang and Lu about to quarrel?
Lu Huiqing's face darkened.
Zhang Yue then added: "It is not allowed to allow private coinage among the people. Just now Lu Gong said that the rich accumulated copper coins at home, but the common people did not have copper coins in their hands, so they had to use iron coins and flat coins. This is the origin of the money shortage."
"Private money has been banned repeatedly in this dynasty. If private coinage is allowed, the copper coins in the hands of the rich will be turned into private money. Then all the benefits of coining money will belong to the rich, and the common people will suffer even more."
In the Song Dynasty, there was inherent inequality between rich and poor. The rich had too much copper coins to spend, so they hoarded them all. The common people had no copper coins, which was one of the reasons for the money shortage.
If you let the rich mint private money again, it will be over. In the end, the people will be exploited by the rich again.
There is no doubt that the right to mint currency must be in the hands of the state.
Lu Huiqing was scolded by Zhang Yue and remained silent, wondering if he was planning a counterattack. If Feng Jing and Zeng Bu were to be replaced, he would have retorted in person.
Lu Huiqing thought to herself, Zhang Yue suddenly showed his sword to him, did he have some tacit understanding with Feng Jing and Zeng Bu, and did he attack him today?
Lu Huiqing glanced at the official family and cautiously said nothing.
After Zeng Bu heard this, he argued: "Yao Chong, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, and Zhang Jiuling both advocated private casting, but both of them have good reputations but have not been known to have any bad reputations."
Feng Jing also said: "I also believe that wealth should be hidden among the people! Guanzi also had this view."
The chief ministers thought to themselves, is Zhang Yue's rhetoric going both ways?
Zhang Yue said: "The Tang Dynasty and today are one and the same time. Since ancient times, there has been no word for coins. People think of them as such, so there is no difference whether they are made by officials or privately."
"Since the first emperor unified currency, it has been privately minted from the Han to the Tang Dynasty. After Yao Chong, Song Jing became the prime minister. He once banned the minting of private money and banned evil money. As a result, he angered the powerful and dismissed the prime minister. However, Song Jing was a wise man.
Is it inferior to Yao Chong?"
What Zhang Yue said means that there was no concept of gold and silver as currency at first, but the common people thought gold and silver were easy to use, so they agreed to use gold and silver as currency, so official and private coins could be used. Later, Qin Shihuang unified the currency and issued Qin Banliang,
Forget about the currencies of the six countries, this is the beginning of the end of private coinage.
Yao and Song were both known as the two prime ministers of the Kaiyuan Dynasty. Song Jing offended the powerful because of the ban on private money, and was finally dismissed. This is a counterattack against Zeng Bu. You can't just cite the example of Yao Chong who was not allowed to make private money, otherwise there will be suspicion of one-sidedness.
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Zeng Bu heard this and was speechless.
Zhang Yue turned around and said: "Feng Gong just said that wealth should be hidden among the people. I thought that wealth should be hidden among the people. If the people are rich, the world will be rich. Didn't Sima Gong also say at the beginning that the money in the world does not belong to the people but to the officials."
"But this world is not only composed of monarchs, ministers and people, there are also enemy countries, thieves and bandits. If the country has no money and the people have money, how can they raise troops and rectify their armaments? If foreigners come in, we who hide our wealth among the people will not be slaughtered as fat sheep."
"Thinking back to the prosperous days of Kaiyuan and the prosperity of the two capitals in the east and west, what happens next?"
Well, Zhang Yue is on full fire today.
The officials and ministers thought to themselves, Zhang Yue just kept silent, and became a blockbuster. When he spoke, he attacked Lu Huiqing, Feng Jing, and Zeng Bu all over again. Gee, did he want to offend everyone?
Lu Huiqing sneered from the bottom of her heart, Zhang Yue, are you trying to show off your skills? Even those who are Hanlin bachelors are like this now, but in the future you will be more arrogant when you join the two palaces.
Lu Huiqing said without a smile: "With neither official casting nor private casting, how can we expect money from the world to solve the money shortage problem?"
Zhang Yue glanced at Lu Huiqing, and then said to the official: "I think it comes down to the saying 'seeing the form of giving, but not the principle of taking'."
The official nodded, but he was very happy in his heart.
As the emperor, what worries me the most is that all the ministers are harmonious. In this way, I can only listen to what the ministers play, and then nod and say yes. Only when there are arguments and conflicts, can I have a choice, and only then can I know which one is better. This is the ancestor.
The true meaning of conflicting opinions.
Zhang Yue continued: "Money is not falling from the world. I thought it was better for officials to mint currency, but this is not copper money or iron money, but paper money!"
Lu Huiqing was shocked. She thought that Zhang Yue had some great opinions. Paper money was simply not as reliable as 20% off, 30% off and 50% off.
Lu Huiqing thought again, no, Zhang Yue was not talking about paper money, but salt banknotes. This guy...
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, gold and silver are not inherently currencies, but people have agreed to use gold and silver as currency, so gold and silver have been used as money in all dynasties."
"And the exchange of money between Shu and Shu was not initiated by the imperial court at first, but by the merchants of Sichuan and Shu. Later, the people also regarded it as currency, and the same was true for the subsequent salt exchange."
What Zhang Yue means by this is that currency is not worth whatever the court says it is worth.
For example, a hundred and five branches of the Shu Han Dynasty could be exchanged for one hundred five-baht coins in China, but they could only be exchanged for ten five-baht coins in the State of Wu. So the Wu State used the exchanged hundred and five bamboo plants to be exchanged for one hundred five-baht coins in the Kingdom of Shu.
Five money plants... Later, Soochow Wu went even further and invented the Daquan N Thousand series.
Such methods can be done reluctantly in troubled times, but doing them in peaceful times is just to get scolded.
In another history of time and space, Cai Jing first minted ten coins in order to solve the problem of money shortage. The exchange prices of ten coins among the people were different. In Shaanxi and other places, one coin could be used as ten coins, in Jinghu and Huainan, it could be used as five coins, but in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it could only be used as ten coins.
It’s three, but it’s not allowed to be circulated in Cai Jing’s hometown...
It was this incident that led to Cai Jing's first resignation.
In comparison, Jiaoyin was first born among the people, not the official. In Jiaoyin, the people first acquiesced in its monetary value, rather than the monetary value assigned to it by the official.
This is the same as salt. The imperial court did not want it to be used as currency at all, but the common people chose it as currency.
Everyone was wondering, could Zhang Yue mean to have the court issue a large number of Jiaoyin and salt banknotes recognized by the people to alleviate the money shortage among the people?