Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 455 Countermeasures

Chapter 455 Countermeasures

Of course, only merchants are sighing at present, because merchants are definitely the most sensitive to changes in currency, there is no doubt about it.

For several consecutive days, the number of customers gradually decreased, and they could immediately feel the panic and crisis.

It will take some time for ordinary people to feel it.

Then again, this is also due to the matter of the clan and Enyin, which has come to an end for the time being, causing many people to focus their attention on the public.

Looking at the situation, many people have also begun to consciously reduce their currency consumption, and they are the main currency consumers in the capital.

They started to tighten, and merchants were able to get feedback right away.

In addition to businessmen, Wang Anshi and Han Jiang also left to feel it, because other states and counties have just begun to collect this exemption tax, and some people are already complaining that they don't have much copper coins in their hands, and whether they can be replaced by other goods.

So Wang Anshi didn't have time to come to Zhang Fei to congratulate him today. In fact, he didn't plan to come if he had nothing to discuss with Zhang Fei. Moving house is not a big event in life. Both he and Sima Guang didn't like this kind of occasion very much.

At this time, Wang Anshi was discussing matters alone with Emperor Zhao Xu in the palace.

Wang Anshi first informed Zhao Xu of this situation.

Zhao Xu already knew about it, and was about to discuss it with Wang Anshi. Now that Wang Anshi mentioned it, he pretended not to know, "What's going on?"

Wang Anshi immediately said: "The minister thinks that nine times out of ten it's because the dignitaries in the court are dissatisfied, so they resorted to this trick in an attempt to arouse public resentment and oppose the exemption tax.

It is conceivable that once the autumn tax is collected, the people must exchange grain for coins, and if the price of coins is relatively high at that time, this will inevitably make the people resentful. "

Zhao Xu immediately said angrily: "It's really unreasonable. After losing the lawsuit, they made another bad plan. There's no end to it."

However, Wang Anshi smiled in a very relaxed tone: "How can a mere lawsuit make them willing to pay so much tax? Moreover, they will definitely worry about how the autumn tax will be calculated, so they will Before the autumn tax, start to fight back, making the officials and ministers afraid."

This kind of trouble was within his expectation, and he really didn't want Zhao Xu to be upset by it, which would shake Zhao Xu's determination.

nothing!

This is all expected.

Zhao Xu asked, "Do you have a solution, sir?"

Wang Anshi said: "In my opinion, with their financial resources, it is not enough to say that they can cause such a storm in just a few days. This is mainly because there is not enough money in the market, so that they have a little Action, there will be a shortage of money phenomenon.

The minister has also been paying attention to the coins of our dynasty, and the lack of coins also makes it difficult for our dynasty to increase its wealth. In this case, as long as the court mints 100 million more coins, the income obtained can reach millions many. "

Zhao Xu asked, "Millions?"

Wang Anshi explained: "For example, some customers want to buy land and become the head household themselves, but because they lack coins in their hands, they only have grain, so they have to buy the grain first and exchange it for coins before they can buy the land. The grain was sold, and the land he was looking for was also bought.

Furthermore, due to the lack of coins, when merchants do business, they can only barter. This difficulty can be imagined. In the Jiangnan area, this situation is very common.

But if there are enough coins, the wealth of both the court and the people will increase. This is what the minister said. "

Zhao Xu nodded, "So Mr. So means to mint more coins to alleviate this crisis."

"Even if this does not happen, the imperial court should increase the minting of coins to improve finances." Wang Anshi added: "However, it will take time to increase the minting of coins and cannot solve the urgent need. I suggest that the imperial court first issue an order to allocate copper coins, and then exchange them The form of coins is put into the workshop first, and when the coins are minted, they can be exchanged for coins.

In fact, buying goods with jiaozi is more convenient than coins, and it can promote private transactions, and at the same time, an additional [-]% can be issued in the middle.In addition, the coins collected by Sinong Temple must be released in time and cannot be hoarded in the warehouse. "

After Zhao Xu thought about it for a while, he nodded and said, "Okay, just as Mr. said."

As Wang Anshi himself said, this is not his countermeasure, but what he has planned a long time ago. If he wants to play financial management, the first thing is to use the money in the hands of the people, so that he can manage financial management.

If they are all goods, this is unreasonable.

In addition, Wang Anshi is from the Jiangnan area, not a northerner. Jiangnan generally lacks coins, which left a deep impression on him, and he also saw the reason for it. If sufficient currency is used, it will benefit Jiangnan's finances, while Jiangnan finance is the top priority of the imperial court's finances.

Sima Guang complained about his saying that the people don't add gifts and the country uses the people. He never thought of using this to refute it. In fact, this is the most powerful rebuttal.

In fact, as long as the currency is played well, business will inevitably become prosperous based on the Northern Song Dynasty system.

Since land transactions are allowed, sufficient currency must be used to support the transaction.

Wang Anshi had long planned to issue additional currency, and he also thought of using paper money, because he believed that the copper in the Northern Song Dynasty was relatively scarce, and it was difficult to support his entire reform system.

Therefore, after this incident, Wang Anshi was not panicked at all. He had already seen the fact that there was a shortage of coins, but you exacerbated this phenomenon, which instead provided him with a reason to issue more coins.

However, this economic downturn has also diluted the joyful atmosphere of Zhang Fei's moving.

There were quite a few people who came, but everyone gathered together and talked about the shortage of coins. The merchants suffered the most from the lack of coins.

The whole new house was full of gloom and gloom.

Fortunately, Zhang Fei is already used to it. Every time he moves, he will encounter some troubles. As long as he doesn't suffer from physical pain, he will be very satisfied.

Lawyers are not afraid of being forced, but they are afraid of getting started directly.

When the other party does not speak the law, the lawyer is a waste material.

At this time Zhang Fei was talking with Li Bao who came to congratulate him on the sofa in the backyard.

Of course, Li Bao didn't bring any good news. Instead, he told him that the other party is now even more frantically using food to suck coins from the hands of the people.

"What's more serious is that the number of copper wares in this workshop is also decreasing rapidly. If there is no accident, they should want to melt copper into coins. When the autumn harvest comes, the people's hands are seriously short of coins, and they may use bad coins to replace the food in the hands of the people. Take it away, and when the exemption tax is collected, you may receive a lot of bad money."

"Do they have the right to mint coins?" Zhang Fei asked.

"Of course there is no power, and this kind of thing rarely happens in the capital, but in the local area, many big families often have coinage. If the people are very short of coins, then coinage can make a fortune at this time."

"Ah."

Zhang Fei put his hands on the pillow, leaned back on the sofa, and crossed his legs. Here, he could finally return to his familiar posture. After thinking for a while, he suddenly asked: "I heard that the price of salt is also rising?"

Li Bao was taken aback for a moment, and then replied immediately: "Although the price of salt has risen sharply at present, it is estimated that it will only be a matter of time. After all, the imperial court is not short of salt, but the sudden stagnation of private salt has caused Kaifeng government to There is a temporary shortage of salt, and those legal salt merchants saw the opportunity and raised the price of salt."

Speaking of this, he added: "But it is also possible that someone will take the opportunity to cause trouble, deliberately drive up the price of salt, and put pressure on the court. After all, the cause of this incident is the last lawsuit."

Zhang Fei asked: "How many private salt dealers do you have in the hands of the tax department?"

Li Bao thought for a while and said, "It seems to be two."

"Only two?"

Zhang Fei frowned slightly.

Li Bao said in a low voice: "We were just trying to scare people back then, so we only investigated one or two aspects in case of emergencies."

Zhang Fei nodded, "Then can you get me the news of all private salt sellers in a short time?"

Li Bao said: "In fact, most of these private salt dealers know each other. We can use those two to find other private salt dealers, but it is very difficult to find their criminal evidence."

Zhang Fei said: "I don't want criminal evidence, I just need to find their people, and it's best to be able to find out how much salt they have in their hands."

Li Bao nodded and said, "There should be no problem."

For the tax department, this person is easy to find, the difficulty lies in the evidence, after all, under the public security law, the evidence is the key.

This is why people are afraid of the tax department.

I don't know where the tax department's evidence was found.

After chatting with Li Bao, Zhang Fei came to the front yard again. The guests had already dispersed. After all, it was an eventful time, and their shop was very busy. It was impossible to stay here all day and pour bitter water on each other. Comparing who was worse, and then went home.

In the huge courtyard, there was only one person sitting at the table, eating the hot pot secretly made by the Zhang family, and there were three or five idlers standing behind him, drooling, watching him eat.

Only Cao Dongdong can have such momentum.

Zhang Fei walked up and sat aside, looking at Cao Dongdong's expressionless face, concentrating on eating meat, and seemed not very happy, he couldn't help asking: "Ya Nei, why are you depressed, are you infected by those businessmen? Say, the pony isn't here?"

Cao Dongdong glanced at him, drank the wine in his glass, and sighed: "Why are you so happy, everyone is afraid of the tax department now, but no one takes our royal police seriously."

It turned out that this kid stole his limelight in the strange office.Only then did Zhang Fei come to his senses, and said with a smile: "The tax department is responsible for collecting taxes. During the tax collection period, if you don't talk about the tax department, what are you talking about?"

Cao Dongdong snorted, "Could it be that the Tax Department is also responsible for arresting Chen Xiaoer?"

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "Then what should we do? You will also catch a wanted criminal and come back."

Cao Dongdong drank another cup, and said aggrievedly: "It's not that we can't catch it, we also have means, but...but we have a father, and we have to look forward and backward in everything we do, which is really boring."

As he said that, he glanced at Zhang Fei again, "I heard that someone recently recommended you to go to the Northwest to build a public security law?"

Zhang Fei said in astonishment, "You know all about it."

Cao Dongdong said: "Can you take us with you?"

Zhang Fei asked with a question mark on his face, "You want to go to the northwest."

"Yes I do!"

Cao Dongdong said: "Here I am always watched by my father. If something happens, a group of uncles will come to my house. They will make me kneel and talk several times. I have not used all my means. If this If we go to the Northwest, then we have the final say, it will be unacceptable by the orders of the emperor, not to mention the orders of the father, we will also do the work of the tax department when the time comes."

You guys are so lazy.Zhang Fei suddenly had an idea, and said: "At present, it's just talk, you take it seriously. Besides, the responsibilities of the police station to the tax department do not overlap. There are actually many things that the police station can be busy with, but you don't want to do them." That's all."

"What's the matter?"

Cao Dongdong asked anxiously.

Zhang Fei said: "For example, the private salt, or the occupation of official land and private land, this is the responsibility of the police station. This is an infringement of other people's interests and is an illegal act, not the duty of the tax department. You should know that these The crimes were all investigated by the procuratorate on its own initiative, not provided by the tax department.

Now that this matter is so big, your police station can give some arrangements to check these salt stores and salt dealers. After all, the tax department only wants money, and you can directly kill you, and people will be afraid of you. "

"That's right! Why didn't I think of that, I was just thinking about catching the wanted criminal." Cao Dongdong's eyes lit up when he heard that, and he stood up immediately, "I won't tell you, I'll go back and deploy now."

"Hey, it's almost time to let go now, have a few drinks with me before leaving!"

"I'll drink it another day."

Cao Dongdong's voice came from outside the door.

"That stinky boy!"

Zhang Fei cursed with a smile, and immediately poured himself another glass of wine, holding the glass, thinking to himself.

"Zhang San. Zhang San."

"what?"

Zhang Fei looked back and saw Xu Zhiqian walking over.

"Why are you alone, what about Ya Nei? He was still here just now."

"Just went back."

Zhang Fei said: "It's just in time for you to come, have a few drinks with me."

"Okay!" Xu Zhiqian sat down and asked again: "By the way, what are you thinking about? You are so engrossed in thinking about it."

"No!"

As soon as Zhang Fei said a word, Zhang Fei suddenly changed his mouth and said: "Zhiqian, if the government really sends me to the northwest, do you agree or not?"

Xu Zhiqian was taken aback, and said: "It depends on you. If you are sure, then of course I agree, but if you are not sure, then you should not go. If there is trouble in the northwest, it is not a trivial matter."

Zhang Fei nodded thoughtfully.

Xu Zhiqian asked again: "Didn't you say before that you definitely wouldn't go? Why? The officials still want you to go?"

"no!"

Zhang Fei shook his head and said, "It's just that the situation has changed a little bit now."

Xu Zhiqian said: "Is it about coins?"

Zhang Fei nodded.

Xu Zhiqian asked curiously, "But what does this coin have to do with the Northwest?"

Zhang Fei thought for a while, and said: "For the time being, I might not be sure, let's see. But if I really want to go, you may suffer with me."

Xu Zhiqian immediately said: "I'm not afraid of this hardship, but I still want to go to other places."

"real or fake?"

"real."

Xu Zhiqian said: "I have been walking around with my father before. Originally, I wanted to go to Dengzhou with my father. It was my father who saw that I was getting old and about to get married, so he refused to let me go and stayed in the capital. Sometimes it's really boring."

Zhang Fei smiled and shook his head: "You children of officials and eunuchs, you just don't know how to be blessed when you are in the blessing!"

(End of this chapter)