Your majesty frowned and thought for a moment, Then he laughed: "Li Aiqing, are you worried too much? There have been incidents of forging counterfeit coins, but they were caught by local officials in time, which did not cause any harm. They could be caught in those years, but now they can be caught more naturally! So Li Aiqing doesn''t have to worry. With my order, those clowns can''t form a climate. I''m afraid they''re too dangerous."
Li Guofu sighed again. Just as he wanted to speak, he shook his body and nearly fell to the ground.
His majesty hurriedly ordered someone to send a chair and let him sit down and rest for a while.
As soon as Li Guofu sat down, he said in a loud voice, "Your Majesty, I''ve experienced the case of tracking down counterfeit money before. In fact, it''s not the ability of officials, but because counterfeit money had no profit in those years, especially after your majesty changed the currency" Wande ". But now it''s different, because the new currency... Is too involved!"
His Majesty was stunned for a moment, thought about this sentence carefully, suddenly thought of some possibility, and hurriedly asked, "Li Aiqing, please speak clearly!"
Li Guofu said: "Your Majesty, in fact, the biggest role of the new currency as the imperial court is to save copper materials and reduce process costs, so as to facilitate the issuance."
"Of course."
Your majesty nodded.
Li Guofu also said: "in those years, when they forged counterfeit coins, they failed to break through and no longer formed a climate. Is it because the copper material is expensive and the process cost is also expensive, resulting in no profit or even loss in forging counterfeit coins?"
Your majesty nodded slowly and said, "I thought about it carefully. There were indeed reasons for the recovery of counterfeit money in those years."
Li Guofu sighed, "Your Majesty, as soon as this new coin is issued, isn''t it the person who mints counterfeit coins and doesn''t have the worry of losing money anymore?"
"Ah, this!"
His Majesty was startled and his eyes widened in an instant.
Li Guofu continued: "Wei Chen knew about this. He was still an official at the bottom. He risked his life and traveled eight hundred miles day and night. He personally ran to Wei Chen''s house and informed him of this... And Wei Chen also knew that there were such murders! And because of the great interests, officials even colluded with each other and deliberately concealed it!"
"What else?!"
"Your Majesty, let''s not talk about the collusion between officials and businessmen, but the harm of counterfeit money." Li Guofu gritted his teeth and said, "according to the official, there are some local vendors who directly exchange physical goods for a large amount of copper money. Then they melt all the copper money and directly use molds to cast it into new money and big money! One of them is huge!"
One is the name of the copper coin with consistent value.
Your Majesty was stunned and his face became more and more ugly.
Li Guofu did not stop, but continued: "the weight of a piece of money is three times that of copper coins, that is, three ordinary copper coins are used in terms of raw materials. Even if seven copper coins are needed, the total price is ten copper coins, and the value of the finished product is already one thousand copper coins, which has doubled a hundred times!"
He took a deep breath, say: "In the area where counterfeit coins are made, copper money is no longer suitable for money. The price of rice changes three times a day, from two dollars a kilogram to fifty dollars a kilogram! The price is still rising. People''s life savings are nothing in front of high prices. The key is that this price rise can''t be controlled. No one can judge the authenticity of counterfeit coins, so all vendors can only treat real coins as counterfeit coins At the beginning, they thought of the way to collect counterfeit money is to only collect ordinary copper money instead of Zhu coins, but the policies and orders for the issuance of new coins are there. If a single coin can not be exchanged for 1000 Wen, the merchant will be considered to have violated the national law! They can only exchange, but they exchange out the copper money. When the copper money comes back, they can only raise the price of the goods so that the merchants will not lose their lives. In this way, it is the ordinary people who have accumulated wealth for many years. The copper coins hidden in their homes are more than a hundred times cheaper in an instant... Your majesty, the local people are full of grief and suffering. The people are worried and want to die, and they don''t know how to live in the future, especially those who have changed their grain reserves into copper coins early, hoping that the value of copper coins will rise and the price of grain will fall, They are even more precarious now... Once the people are hungry, their minds will change. Your majesty, all the local officials can do now is blindly suppress, but only suppress is not a head, and the minister only said that it happened in less than one place, and this kind of thing now happens all over the world! "
When Li Guofu said this, all civil and military officials finally understood what was going on.
One by one, their faces didn''t look good.
Green purple, purple through black, some dare not breathe loudly, and almost suffocate themselves.
As for Zhao Wuji, the whole person was stupid.
Although this thing sounds like a fantasy, but... In fact, this kind of thing is a layer of window paper. When I didn''t think of it, I couldn''t think of it. Once I thought of it, I found it easy to understand and inevitable.
The most indispensable thing in the world is those who are skilled in professional research and looking for legal loopholes.
There is no shortage of people willing to take risks.
And in the face of a hundred times the profit... Anyone can be crazy!
Your majesty suddenly stood up and then sat down powerlessly.
He stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyebrows.
After a while, he said, "make an order and send someone to investigate the matter immediately..."
He was startled by what he said, and the hoarse voice seemed not to come from his mouth!
The big eunuch''s eyes twitched violently.
Only he knew the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, and only he heard Xiao Yun say that a major event would happen in the future, a thing that could threaten the foundation of the Qin state.
This... Happened!
"Dear Aiqing, do you have any good ideas on this matter?"
Good idea?
Are you kidding?
Now everyone''s head is confused.
I hate those profiteers so much that I can''t help thinking about how long the copper money at home can last.
In fact, it was the one before this policy came out that was even more deadly.
Storage restriction order!
On the one hand, everyone is restricted from storing copper coins, which makes the stock of copper coins in each family small. Then, new coins are issued, allowing many people to exchange goods or coins for new coins.
The result is the proliferation of counterfeit money!
This is closely linked. If there were no previous laws and regulations, the harm would not be so great.
But... It''s such a "coincidence" and so helpless.
Now these officials have even begun to think about their future survival.
How can you come up with a response right away?
Even Li Guofu, who always comes up with Countermeasures before asking questions, has no way at this time.
This matter can''t be hidden. He must say it at the first time, but he really doesn''t have any solution.
So he was silent.
Even he was silent, and no one really spoke.
His Majesty''s face turned completely pale.
From the initial complacency to the present despair, it is only a quarter of an hour.
It''s too fast!
It''s too sudden.
Suddenly, an unknown fire rushed down his throat, and an old sputum stuck in his throat and eyes. He couldn''t go up or down, which made his lips purple. There was also a surge of hot blood surging up, his eyes were swollen, his cheeks were painful, and his brain was buzzing.
A little movement, almost breathless!
The eunuch rushed over immediately, hurriedly blocked his majesty with his own body, slipped a "Tongxi Huoluo pill" into his mouth, rubbed his cheeks with his hands, and then smoothed his chest.
Your majesty only felt a cold breath coming from his chest and abdomen. In an instant, his nose was smooth, his eyes and ears were clear. After coughing, he was a mouthful of old phlegm. It was sticky and black, bigger than his thumb belly!
He was stunned for a while.
He looked up at the eunuch. The eunuch quickly withdrew and continued to bow.
His majesty took a breath and shook his neck. His spine clicked and he felt that the back of his head was unobstructed.
Coldly looked at the ministers and found that everyone lowered their heads and didn''t dare to look up at him.
Then he whispered to the eunuch, "what did you give me just now?"
"Your Majesty, the old slave gave his majesty Tongxi Huoluo pill."
"Well? I haven''t heard of it."
The eunuch smiled bitterly and said, "it''s normal for your majesty not to have heard of it, because this medicine was given to the old slave by childe Xiao, and it was also his temporary name."
"Well?"
Your majesty frowned.
He naturally knows that Xiao Yun is proficient in medicine. At least, he must have several excellent prescriptions in his hand!
Not to mention the prescription that solved the poison of locust plague and made the eldest princess loved by the people, just the previous Jingu medicine has moved the people of the sun and moon country, which shows the magic of the prescription!
Now it is not a miracle to make this Tongxi Huoluo pill.
Thinking of this, your Majesty was stunned again!
Yes, and Xiao Yun!