After eating the cold noodles in the bowl with Xiqing, Sun Erlang looked at the sky and took a big breath: "It's delicious!" ”

"Then next time you come, I'll treat you to eat again! Let me tell you, there is no taste of this good thing in the capital! ”

While festive, he stood up, took out a few copper plates, and gave them to the owner of the shop. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The two of them held hands, jumped up, and said happily: "Let's go to see the Tianjin Bridge, sometimes we can see fish in the river under the bridge!" Tianjin Xiaoyue is a famous scenery in Xijing City, but unfortunately you didn't come right when you came, and you couldn't see it. ”

When they arrived at the bridge, the two of them lay on the railing of the bridge and looked at the Luo River below. By this time, it was late autumn, and the river seemed clearer, colder, and less lively.

Sun Erlang suddenly remembered something, and took out two big pomegranates from his pocket and stuffed them into Xiqing's hands: "Here you go, taste the big pomegranates in our Heyin County." It's a tribute, but it's delicious! ”

Xiqing took it, put it away carefully, and wanted to take it back to Director Zheng, and slowly peeled it off with one himself.

Sun Erlang sighed: "The shop of the third division collects local products, but unfortunately it doesn't accept pomegranates and these fruits or something." If we do, we can pick a lot of them every year! Now there are many that can't be sold, and they are rotten if they can't be eaten. ”

Xiqing tasted the sweetness of the pomegranate seeds in his mouth, and said to Sun Erlang vaguely: "What are you anxious about?" I heard that it is possible to harvest some fresh fruits and vegetables next year, but they are not easy to rot, such as bamboo shoots and lotus roots. Pomegranates are no worse than those, so I think I will collect them. ”

"It would be nice if you took it, you don't know, the countrymen don't have anything to sell for money. Raise a few chickens, and save them one by one, in exchange for some salt needles and threads or something. Our small shop that sells things would not have been able to do it if it didn't make our own people's money. If you want to save a few copper coins in the countryside, it is very difficult. ”

He smiled festively and said, "You can sell food!" I don't believe it, but you eat all the grain you harvest every year, and there is always something left. If you sell the surplus grain, won't you be able to get money? ”

"What are you talking about? If it weren't for the time when he couldn't live, who would be willing to sell food! You don't know that grain is the lifeblood of farmers, and it can't be sold no matter what! In the countryside, when there are floods and droughts, insect plagues and hail plagues, and there is a shortage of green and yellow, they all rely on that little food to survive. The countryside is not as good as the city, you city people are really hungry, you can do odd jobs and buy some rice to cook. In the years of famine, the countryside is only waiting to starve to death, and you can neither find a place to earn two copper coins, nor a place to buy rice. Alas, who can live without food? My family is frugal, but this year's drought is not the same as fleeing the famine? ”

Xiqing is a city person, and the impression is that when there is no money, they will find a way to make money, and when they earn money, they can buy food, they can buy everything they want, and they can buy anything with money. What is the countryside? In his mind, there was food all over the land, and there were rivers and ponds where he could fish and play, but he knew nothing about what food, clothing, shelter and transportation were like. He didn't know that when it was really fatal, money was useless in the countryside, and food was everything.

The two of them played on the Tianjin Bridge for a while, and then returned to the shop of the third division.

Seeing the goods piled up on the donkey cart next to him, he said in surprise: "Why did you buy so many goods this time?" What happened? Erlang, is there a sudden increase in the number of people on your side? ”

"Of course it is! You still don't know? In a month or two, the waterway leading to Luo into Bian will be excavated, and we will have a lot of workers there. They always have to buy things, so naturally we have to have a little more on them. Festive, if we do well this time, we people there can have a good year. When you wait until the New Year's Festival, you have money in your hands and you can buy a lot of things that you didn't dare to buy before. My dad said that as long as you have more money at the end of the year, you will make me a new dress! ”

"Okay, good, good, Erlang, you're still the same clothes we wore when we met a few months ago, they're worn out, and you should have changed them a long time ago!"

At this time, the sun has begun to slide towards the West Mountain, the red glow envelops the Xijing City, and the Luohe River under the Tianjin Bridge is glowing with golden light. Autumn has come, but the world is still warm.

From October, the construction of the waterway leading from Luo to Bian will be officially started. A large number of Xiang soldiers and civilians will be transferred to the banks of the Yellow River to dig a waterway between Guangwu Mountain and the river. The sudden gathering of a large number of people, if not well managed, is a disaster for the local area, and if it is well managed, it is an opportunity.

Xu Ping allocated a large amount of cash to Chen Yaozuo, and when he should spend it, he used all the cash money, and he was not allowed to use it for discounts. There are also sporadic copper mines on Jingxi Road, but there are not many of them, and there is no coinage supervisor. Xu Ping is sending people to survey the gold, silver, and copper resources in the territory to see if there is any possibility of building a coinage prison. Although it is said that these mountains and rivers are the private property of the Son of Heaven, and theoretically they should be stored in the inner treasury, there is always a compromise method. For example, replace it with something else and keep the money.

If a supervisor can be built to mint copper coins, plus small iron coins, the cash in the hands of the transfer division will be abundant. With cash, you can do a lot of things, and you can't always do without money.

In the era when the commodity economy was underdeveloped, paper money could only be supplemented, and the vast area should still be dominated by real money. In particular, it is impossible for small transactions in the private sector to transition to paper money all at once. And the real money is too heavy, the level of transportation in this era, the transportation cost is very high. The more money minted locally, the more prosperous the commodity economy will be.

Due to the lack of cash in the circulation process, both official and non-governmental use of practical conversions. Conversion increases the exchange cost once, which is very uneconomical for business, so whenever possible, Xu Ping requires the use of real money under his rule to avoid transformation. This is good, but it will lead to a large outflow of coins in the hands of the government, and if there is a lack of means to return them, it will cause a shortage of cash. This shortage is a relative shortage, not necessarily a real lack of money among the people. However, since the government is the largest trading entity in market behavior, the lack of money in hand will cause economic depression.

The most convenient way for the government to recover money is naturally to collect taxes, but on the one hand, the two taxes are overcharged in kind, and on the other hand, they belong to the central court of the imperial court, and only local commercial taxes can effectively supplement the cash. However, Henan Province is not a particularly developed place with a commodity economy, and the commercial tax collected is not much, and it is less than Xiangzhou, an important town in the south, in Jingxi Road. If Xu Ping wants to make a big project, he must first find ways to supplement the cash in his hand, and with the money, the project can progress smoothly.

At this time, the money Xu Ping needs is real money, not equal to the wealth in his hands, no matter how much gold and silver satin he has, it is useless if he can't exchange it for cash, and he can't enter the circulation field. And to replenish money, the fast is naturally to minting, and it is too late to earn.

To the south of Henan Province, between it and Dengzhou is a large area of continuous mountainous area, although Funiu Mountain and Tongbai Mountain are not high, they are the watershed of Huai River and Han River, and there are many mineral resources. At this time, the population was sparse and incomplete, and only sporadic gold and silver were produced. In Xu Ping's previous life, the main mineral there was molybdenum, which was basically useless in this era. However, there are also copper mines, with the most in Neixiang County, Dengzhou. When Zhao He, the governor of Dengzhou, went back, Xu Ping sent Lu Fang's men from the Qiaodao Xiang Army to go there with him to investigate whether the copper mines in the inner countryside could be mined. These people followed Xu Ping to check the local minerals in Yongzhou in his early years, although they are not very professional talents, they are still much more reliable than Mr. Kanyu in this era.

Relying on the connections in the third division, Xu Ping can borrow money to use it in the early stage, but there must be a way to repay it in the future. If there is a decent copper mine in the territory, all difficulties will be solved.

In the Henan Mansion, Zhu signed the judgment and said to Li Ruogu, who was sitting on a chair with his eyes closed: "Prefect, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow at the latest, the new general judge Wang Yaochen will arrive." He is the champion of the five years of the Heavenly Sage, and the government and the opposition are in suspense, so it is not good to slack off. ”

Li Ruogu said lightly: "All the imperial courts have their own laws, he is here, just take care of the affairs of Henan Mansion." As long as you do things as usual, you don't need to panic, and you don't need to speculate about the thoughts of the new officials. ”

Zhu signed the judgment and asked again: "Prefect, I wonder if the lower officials are going to go out of the city with Liu Lushen?" ”

"Let's welcome it, don't let people say that our Henan government doesn't take the new officials seriously."

Zhu Zhu was relieved and hurriedly agreed.

Originally, Henan Mansion was sentenced to leave the official and keep filial piety, and the affairs should be the agent of the Zhu Signing Judgment, but I didn't expect that the power in Sun Wei's hand was taken away by Sun Wei for some reason, and the boss in my heart was not happy. When Wang Yaochen's new sentence comes, he can finally be free from Sun Wei's idleness.

Sun Wei is a Jinshi in the third year of Tianxi, he is old, he has the means, and he acts domineeringly, and it is not a good errand to do things under him. Not only did he wish to sign the verdict, but the officials of Henan Mansion all complained. If you change officials, you can always get older.

Li Ruogu has been lazy recently, so he naturally decided to hand over the matter of repairing the river to the transfer envoy, and basically didn't care about political affairs. Sun Wei also has it, and the other officials under him are also there, so they can make trouble, each with their own ability.

A few days ago, he fought with Xu Ping for control of Luoyang City, and he has caused a lot of trouble. Son Li Shu is now in charge of the court, is one of the closest people around the emperor, two days ago to Li Ruogu letter, saying that Zhao Zhen because of the struggle for power with Xu Ping, there is a private intention to replace Li Ruo, but there is no suitable candidate for a while.

In this way, what else is Li Ruogu fighting for? It's not that he's afraid that Zhao Zhen will really replace himself, it's not so easy, his old friend Han Yi has also done it, and he will definitely speak for himself, and he will be old again, it seems that there is no hope of being promoted to Zaizhi in this life, and it is good to have a place to retire. But it doesn't matter if you think about yourself, but the future of her son Li Shu has to be considered. If it affects his son's career because he has lost his holy will, it will be too worthwhile.

Therefore, the current Li Ruogu is in Henan Mansion to retire with peace of mind, "Henan Dayin's head is like snow", is this a place for the elderly. As for the following government affairs, all of them were handed over to the general judge. Now it's Sun Wei, and when Wang Yaochen comes, it will be the two of them who will share power. As for whether the two of them will fight, how to fight, Li Ruogu will not worry about that.

Although in terms of division of labor, the left-behind Si Tong Judgment and the Henan Fu General Judgment are in charge of each other and do not interfere with each other, and the real power of the Henan Fu General Judgment is greater. But in the same city, there are always a lot of overlapping powers, and the real power still depends on the fighting method of the two.