Gao Yue has always had an illusion that his relationship with Xue Yaoying, and even Yang Yan and Yuanzai can be well hidden in this huge city. Liu Yan, who has to work hard in everything, will not notice such trivial matters.

But he was wrong. When Liu Yan was in charge of the entire Southeast canal transportation. When the salt administration was in charge, he was the best at establishing an intelligence system. He hired a large number of people who were good at traveling, and could gather the market prices in various places in thousands of miles and hundreds of towns in his hands without any mistakes. People were surprised to say that Liu Yan had a special function, that is, his eyes could see where money flew from and where it flowed on the flat ground - this was true for money and talents.

It is obvious that the paper failed to cover the fire. When Liu Yan asked Liu Changqing to meet him, he easily saw through it. He also grabbed Liu Changqing with his backhand, not only lifting his literary name, but also earning Changqing's poems and essays. But he didn't know that in Liu Yan's eyes, he was also a mantis under the claws of the oriole!

At this time, should I deny anything in front of Liu Yan?

No, no.

Gao Yue quickly recovered from panic and stood still. He saw Liu Yan's servant Wanda sitting under the railing, holding a pot in his hand, leaning drunkenly against the big basket, containing several bamboo curtains wet by the rain. Then he slowly stood up and said to Liu Yan through the burning candlelight, "I just want to take the first step on the 100-foot ladder, and everything I do can withstand the inspection of Li Shang. So how dare I ask Li Shang, what is the original intention of the State to set up the Spring Examination of the Ministry of Rites and the Inspection Examination of the Ministry of Personnel?"

"Select a virtuous person." Liu Yan did not think about it, and then he seemed to understand what Gao Yue wanted to say next, so he was interested in seeing how Gao Yue defended him.

Gao Yue pointed to the bamboo curtain (Liu Yan had always wanted to give it to Li Yi but he didn't give it away) and asked Liu Yan, "Li Shang, where is this bamboo curtain used?"

"My righteous brother Li Zuocheng has always been a purity. The house is broken and the bamboo curtain is to be given to him."

"I dare to ask the official again, can I tell that the bamboo that weaved the curtains came from Donggao, Xiling, Beiyuan, or Nanshan?"

"Bamboo is bamboo." Liu Yan laughed.

"The official is still there, the oranges are divided into Huainan and Huainan, and the bamboos are not divided into Donggao and Xiling." Gao Yue bowed and replied.

"What a big tone, how can I know if you are orange or bamboo?"

"I don't know Yuan Zai, but I just received the support of Master Xue Lian. I heard that Xiao Yangshan people were alone and his wife was ill and could not accompany her. Out of righteousness, I gave him fifty coins at Baqiao Post."

"Before this spring exam, I saw Mr. Langjun again at the steamed Hu stall. At that time, the man was not worth a penny. Why did he pay a lot of money when he bid farewell to Xiao Yangshan people and gave him fifty cents of money at once?"

"That was given by Master Xue Lian. If the official asked why, it was that Wansheng didn't want to die in the ditch under the wall before flapping his wings and flying!"

"If I were to give the money worth the Qishui No. 1 to Langjun in advance, wouldn't Langjun be involved in Xiao Yangshan people and Xue Yaoying?"

Gao Yue thought about it and said, "Yes!"

"Gao Langjun is a very frank person."

"You can be very frank, but you should not be frank in writing poetry (1)." Gao Yue was eloquent.

Now Liu Yan didn't know what to say, but his original idea was not to criticize or even depose Gao Yue in advance, that was not his Liu Shi'an's style of conduct.

"Person, please sit down." Gao Yue took the initiative to pour a cup of wine and asked Liu Yan to sit down again.

This means...

Liu Yan sat back on the bench of Jiache, twisted his sparse beard a few times, and then said to Gao Yue, "Mr.'s Qishui business has been sold out. The Weizhou Chaoji envoy sent the 200 stagnant of money he earned to the capital. Now I am here."

"Yan Xiang, these 200 stakes are already too much. Could it be that Yan Xiang's plan is to buy horse bones for a thousand gold coins?"

Liu Yan shook his head, "I, Liu Shi'an, never do such a thing. If you want to buy it, you can only buy the real Qianlijiao."

Then Liu Yan quickly pulled out the scroll from the book on the desk, and stood on the table, looking at Gao Yue, "Mr. Gao Lang, I still don't know whether you are an orange or a bamboo? Is it a rotten horse bone or a thousand miles a horse? Can you plan to ask the five ways and judge the two ways?"

"As for the order." Gao Yue calmed down and said.

The test is here.

He understood that Liu Yan was not interested in his writings, but more interested in his advice.

"Gao Langjun does not have to write by hand. I only write the title, and I can only use the mouth to answer it." After saying that, Liu Yan picked up his pen and brushed it on the book with a sound. "Ask, since the beginning of the sky, the currency system has been disordered, and the people have no distinction between the north and the south, and private castings are endless, that is, I can't stop killing the spine. I want to ask for it to be minted, and I can't help but use it together with public and private, can I?"

"No, money is currency and has the power of the country. If you cannot mint money, not only will the people slap farmers and seek profits, but it will also make money worse. As the saying goes, low grains harm farmers, and low money harms merchants. This move can be said to be both harmful. In fact, the ban on all dynasties has been used to stop traitors and abuses. Yan Prime Minister must observe it and be careful to deal with it."

Gao Yue's words are actually the Greshin rule that he paid attention to when he was studying historical economics, which is what is commonly said to be bad money driving out good money. In the early and mid-Tang Dynasty, the trend of stolen trumpets among the people was repeatedly banned. The people of Jianghuai abandoned agriculture, rely on the big hillsides and set up trumpets to make great profits. In order to pursue more interests, they inevitably mixed a large amount of lead and iron into the private trumpets to serve inferior coins. This is what is called "evil money" or "evil money", and this evil

Once money pours into the market, the people will consciously retain good coins and use bad coins to pay taxes. As a result, there will only be more and more bad coins on the market, causing huge losses to the government. So during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, an edict was issued directly to inquire, "Or we might as well open the ban on minting money." After the Anshi Rebellion, the currency system was once again chaotic, and even the government began to use inferior coins as good coins and create bad coins indiscriminately. Therefore, Liu Yan once again raised the question of "can't help but minting money".

After hearing Gao Yue's first answer, Liu Yan nodded, "Second questions, since private casting is prohibited, the power belongs to the government. However, now that minting money is too profitable, how should we solve it?"

Gao Yue thought about it and replied, "The basis of the government's minting coins is about the material, employment, transportation, and salary. On the day of Kaitian (Kaiyuan Tianbao), the cost of minced coins is 750, which can make 250 cents of profits. Each state has a total of 99 furnaces, which can make 327,000 cents of coins a year, and stored in the warehouse, which can make 81,750 cents of money. However, after the chaos, the furnaces held by the state are less than 30, and most of them are in the southeast of Yan Xiang's command. If you send them to Kyoto, and add labor, transportation, and supervision of officials' salary, each minced coins is spent twice as much as the profit. According to the view of late-life, the most urgent thing is to add mining and smelting furnaces to Jiannan, Weizhou, Runzhou, Yangzhou, Xuanzhou and other places, and taxes can be paid from Lingnan, and all regions and cities will be exchanged for gold, silver, copper and tin. Once the output increases, the cost will be low. Please be careful."
Chapter completed!