[Third Update.] 】

Someone sent a post to Wang Anshi, and Han Gang was making a draft of the chapter.

Of course, he didn't think it was enough to write a post to Wang Anshi.

That's just a notice, ventilate in advance, so as not to hurt the harmony - although it is unlikely that it will not hurt the harmony, but the scene must be done well.

The next step is how to give the minting power to the general manager.

With Han Gang's say in the minting and issuance, if he wants to snatch any position he wants from the hands of the three envoys, he doesn't need to inform anyone at all, just the table.

Even Lu Jiawen, who regards Han Gang as an enemy, admits that Han Gang's proposal to change the money law is effective and ready to be implemented, so who else will have an objection?

Beside him, Yun Niang was holding a piece of ink, carefully grinding it on an inkstone with an ancient shape.

Holding the Yanzhou ink in one hand and holding the Taohe inkstone with the other, the white and slender fingers were slightly forced, and Yun Niang, who was usually a little out of the way, was calm and focused at this time.

Yanzhou ink is a product of misunderstanding. Han Gang wanted to popularize simpler printing techniques and needed inks that were more suitable for printing, but he wrote a letter to ask his family to recruit craftsmen to make them, but he didn't write them clearly, so what he got out of the last thing was the ink block made by burning the Yanzhou stone liquid, that is, Yan'an's oil, by burning charcoal, and named it Yanzhou ink. It has become another product with local characteristics in the Yongqin Chamber of Commerce.

Taohe inkstone is one of the most famous specialties of Taozhou today, the color is dark green, the texture is dense, it is famous all over the world in the Tang Dynasty, and the end inkstone, she inkstone is called together. Liu Gongquan also said in his "On the Inkstone" that 'the storage of inkstone is the first in Qingzhou, followed by Jiangzhou, and the latter is the beginning, She, and Lintao'. In the late Tang Dynasty, the Tao River was lost, and the Lintao Yan also lost its source. But since Xining recovered the Xihe River in five years, the greenstone at the bottom of the Taohe River has been rediscovered, and many famous inkstone craftsmen have been recruited to go to Taozhou to make inkstones.

The building near the water gets the moon first, and all the ink and inkstones in Han Gang's house are these two things.

Han Gang doesn't like to have irrelevant outsiders around him when he writes, even the maids and servants in the family. If you write in the small study in the inner courtyard, you will only ask your wife and concubine to come and help.

Yun Niang helped lay out the manuscript paper, polished the thick ink, and then sat on the side, quietly watching Han Gang write concentrating in front of the desk.

Holding the cheeks in his hand, the slightly brown sheared eyes are like two deep pools, reflecting Han Gang's tall figure. It's her favorite thing to do. Just looking at her third brother, there was peace and joy in her heart.

Han Gang was contemplating the words he had written.

It is a bit taboo to write a book for state affairs when he resigns behind closed doors, but he is not talking about military affairs, and no one will take it too seriously.

The matter of pit smelting and coinage, as well as the state coinage and money supervisors, are in charge of the three divisions of the iron case.

Han Gang's plan was to follow the story of the case of the three divisions of salt and iron division to be upgraded to the ordnance supervisor, and to separate the part of the case related to the minting of coins in the case of the three divisions of salt and iron division and upgrade it to the mint bureau. Then arrange competent people to manage it.

The so-called three divisions. It is the collective name of the Salt and Iron Division, the Household Division and the Degree Branch. The three divisions are the consul general of the three divisions and 21 cases, and the managers of the state finances, civil engineering and hundreds of officials. It is the most important executive agency under the two governments, and there is no one.

Under the three envoys, there are deputy envoys in charge of each division. The deputy envoy of the three divisions of salt and iron, the deputy envoy of the three divisions of the household department and the deputy envoy of the three divisions of the degree branch are in charge of the affairs of the imperial court.

The Department of Household Affairs has jurisdiction over five cases, namely two taxes, qu, tribute, repair, and clothing and food, that is, five departments, which are in charge of household registration, taxes, and books in the world. In addition, there is also a liquor monopoly, a hundred crafts and a reserve of official uniforms and military uniforms.

The degree branch division, under the jurisdiction of the reward, money, shipping, fighting, riding, hundred officials, grain and Changping eight cases. The total amount of wealth sent on the road is measured every year to plan the use of the imperial court. From the rations of war horses, to the salaries of officials, and the transportation of taxes, they are all among them.

The Salt and Iron Division has jurisdiction over eight cases: military punishment, military punishment, iron, commercial tax, tea, installation, salt and final salt. It was mainly industrial and commercial taxes, including salt, iron, and tea, which were monopolized by the imperial court. One of the salts is the well salt and pond salt of Shaanxi and Sichuan, and the last salt is sea salt. However, the case has long been changed to the Ordnance Supervisor, from the three divisions. Stand out. There are only seven cases in which it has been realized.

What Han Gang wanted was only the iron case under the jurisdiction of the Salt and Iron Division, the mining and smelting of hardware, cinnabar, alum, green alum and coal, as well as the iron case for minting money. In the short note he gave to Wang Anshi, he only mentioned the minting of money. However, there are their own mines under the money prisons in various places, and mining and metallurgy will still be involved after all.

The Mint Bureau in Hangang's Planning. I want to be independent from the iron case. It is best to separate the casting of copper and iron from mining and smelting. Otherwise, the personnel management of the pit and the pit and the prison will not be able to get out of the old trap at all. Arrange it however you want.

Only now, the mining, smelting and casting of minerals - mainly coinage, are all in one and second hands. A lot of money supervisors are managing the mines, otherwise these large and small affairs of mining and casting would not all be under the management of a third-level yamen [Three Divisions - Salt and Iron - Iron Case]. If mining and metallurgy are abandoned and become independent, then the raw materials for minting coins will have to be purchased in separate accounts, and the procedures will be troublesome.

This is also the dilemma that Han Gang has to face. The bureaucracy of this era constrained the development of the country, and in many cases, it was even counterproductive.

The vast majority of the country's mines are state-owned, but they are contracted to private individuals. Divided into a pit household, each smelting. The mineral products needed by the government are purchased from the pit households. Collect 20% as a tax in kind, and pay for the rest to buy. After the ore is transported from the pit, it is handed over to the pit farmers for smelting, and then the government collects the finished product. Therefore, in the old years, there were 100,000 smelters in Xuzhou, and the copper mines in Jiangxi were also in 10,000 units.

However, with the development of the iron and steel industry and the emergence of the coal and iron community, Xuzhou's iron and steel smelting has long been nationalized, and miners and smelters all receive wages from the government. The cost reduction caused by large-scale production has bankrupted iron ore pit households in many places, but in some places, the big ones among the pit households - so-called - have built their own blast furnaces, and some have gone bankrupt and some have succeeded.

Due to poor management ability, the actual annual output of steel in the Great Song Dynasty could not be counted at all, and the imperial court could only count the figures in the hands of officials at all levels. But even if it is that number, it is also the level that if Yelu Yixin is told, the face of Da Liao Shangfu will probably turn blue.

Several large iron yards, which were entirely hired laborers, had been separated from the iron case and placed under the jurisdiction of the general as a superintendent. But the mining and smelting of the rest of the minerals is still within the iron case, and the same is true of the coin minting that Han Gang is now interested in.

Such a subordination may seem chaotic, but it is actually very much in line with the status of industry in this era.

The major affairs of the country are in Rong.

For thousands of years, this concept has been maintained, and the understanding of workers and peasants, in addition to hukou, is taxes. What matters is the etiquette, the bureaucracy and the military. They don't care about production and development - they care about production, just because of the stability of the rule and the taxation of the state, and nothing else.

Without sufficient guidance and demand, the progress of the process is like a snail crawling.

But once you have the right guidance and needs, the speed of technical progress will be unimaginable.

The best example is the steel industry, since there is a huge demand for plate armor, it has only been a few years, from the track of transporting ore out of the pit to the blast furnace for smelting steel, all of which have appeared in front of us one by one, these are unimaginable developments in the past. If you expand outward, the speed of progress may be faster, and maybe it will become a sea of ups and downs in the blink of an eye.

If the Mint develops, the money and interest in it will be a large part of the country's revenue. After all, in this era, the coins of the Great Song Dynasty were the currency used in the surrounding countries. There are so many pits that can be filled with water, and it is normal for so many mints to release water. The more you make, the more the mint earns. In particular, the higher the face value of a high-priced coin, the higher the profit contained in it, and the more profitable the mint becomes

Those in the court are realists, and if there are benefits, no one will throw them aside. If you have that need, you will keep it at hand.

Just like the several major iron yards led by Jingshi and Xuzhou, the reason why they were able to be separated from the iron case of the Three Divisions of Salt and Iron Division and included in the general supervisor directly under the Zhongshu Sect is precisely because the status of the steel industry has risen, which can bring more income and benefits to the imperial court. And the ordnance supervisor was separated from the case. It is also because the country began to attach importance to the manufacture of weapons.

As long as the currency reform can bring more benefits to the imperial court, then it is logical for the Mint Bureau to transfer from the Third Division to the Political Affairs Hall. There is no need for Han Gang to say anything, when the time comes, some people will take the initiative to grab it.

So now, Han Gang only plans to separate property and personnel, and he is not ready to separate it from the Third Division, so that there will be a lot less resistance. When the results came out, everyone scrambled, and when the time came, the three divisions didn't have time to regret it.

After so many years of contact, Han Gang's level in writing official documents is already first-class, even if the literary style is not high, the precise words and concise sentences are all valued by official documents.

After making some slight revisions, Han Gang immediately copied it. After copying and rechecking whether there were any mistakes, typos and incoherent sentences, Han Gang immediately signed his name.

However, putting away this piece of music, Han Gang did not leave the desk.

asked Han Yunniang to spread out a piece of manuscript paper again, and Han Gang picked up the pen again.

But his pen paused for a long time, as if hesitating. Just facing the blank manuscript paper, after a long time, Han Gang picked up the pen and wrote two words on the paper:

National debt.