At the lunchtime banquet, Wang Anshi was in a surprising spirit.

Although he stared at the dish in front of him as usual, he fell into deep thought from time to time. But he looks much more energetic than before, and his words and eyes are terrifying.

This made the children of the Wu family and the Wang family wonder in their hearts, and they went to see Han Gang from time to time, and they didn't know how he stimulated Wang Anshi to cheer up.

But Wang Anshi didn't ask Han Gang about the source of that sentence—only Wang Bian glanced over from time to time—and didn't even say anything. If he asked, he would have to push it to Anonymous with a lot of words.

However, when sending Han Gang, Wang Anshi threw a sentence to Han Gang: "Yukun, your sentence of vicissitudes, the old man wrote it down." ”

"What vicissitudes?" When Han Gang went home, Wang Yi couldn't help but ask.

Han Gang didn't hide it, and told Wang Yi about the things in the study, which solved her doubts. It's just that she looked at Han Gang in a daze for a long time, and her eyes were full of surprise.

"What's wrong?" Han Gang was puzzled.

"It's nothing, it's nothing." Wang Yi hurriedly shook his head and asked Han Gang, "What about the whole article?" ”

"What's the whole story?"

"It's clearly not a couplet, it can only be a conclusion."

"Sort of." Han Gang replied casually.

Wang Yi was in high spirits: "The couplet is good, but the conclusion is rare." Now that the official's sentence has come out, no one dares to borrow Li Changji's 'Heavenly Love'...... The weather is different! ”

The quality of a poem can only be correctly evaluated when it is placed in the whole text. A little ink, only when it is directly in the eye socket, can have the finishing touch. Instead, it was a black spot on a lime-powdered wall, a sneeze when holding a pen, and accidentally pressing the tip of the pen against the wall—the wall of the study room where the children were studying at home were all such black blobs.

However, Han Gang's sentence is not the lower couplet of the couplet, nor is it the neck couplet and jaw couplet that need to be neatly coupled, it looks like the tail couplet of a rhythmic poem. Regardless of whether it is good or bad, it has raised the artistic conception of 'if the sky is loved, the sky is old'. As Wang Yi said, the weather is different. The original poem and Yigan borrowed from self-pity and emotion, but the current sentence is thick and big. Poetry and words, as for this, there is nothing to do.

"The lady thinks too highly of her husband." Han Gang shook his head, it was too far away, and it was all-round, "It's not the whole story." Just this sentence, it should be timely. Hearing Zhong Yuan mention it, he suddenly remembered. ”

Wang Yi stared at Han Gang for a long time, and realized that he really didn't want to say it, so he let out a long sigh and returned to the topic: "Daddy is stubborn." If you don't say that, official, maybe everything will really be put down. ”

"Oh, it seems that the husband has done a good thing." Han Gang said with a smile: "My father-in-law, like my husband, is hard work and can't be idle. ”

Wang Yi became unhappy: "Since the officials claim to be working, I don't know why they are working? ”

"Edify all nations. The greatest wish of a husband is that everyone can read and write. If there is not one talent out of a hundred people, then there are 1,000 people, and if there is not one out of 1,000 people, then there are 10,000 people. The more people who go to school, the more talent there will be. And those who can make their disciples green and blue can be called good teachers. Those who are like masters can be said to be the most holy teachers. ”

"'I and my daughter [you] Furuya'? But there is only one Yanzi. Wang Yi grasped the problem at once. In the Analects, Confucius admits that he is inferior to Yan Hui, but the resurrection is just that. Besides, how do you know that you are not a saint who is humble? Only one disciple surpassed himself, according to Han Gang, how could he be the Holy Ancestor?

"The origin of the lady's family."

"I haven't read the Analects, how can I be counted as having gone to school?"

"Then 'threesomes, there must be my teacher'. Of the Master's 3,000 disciples, 1,000 of them can be Master's teachers, is this considered a blue outfit? Han Gang was half-joking, "The ancestors are just one step to the avenue. Let future generations take advantage of the strength to go up and be able to get closer to the avenue. ”

He went one step further than Han Yu. The teacher does not have to be better than the disciple, but Han Gang simply said that the master is the stepping stone of the disciple, which can bring future generations closer to the avenue.

Wang Yi shook her head, it was really difficult for her to understand Han Gang's thoughts, and she shouldn't say anything good.

Han Gang didn't want to say any more.

He didn't even care about Lu Huiqing. Above the court, there are Cai Qu and Zeng Zixuan fighting with him in the ring, don't think about having a quiet time.

And his own attitude, this privy deputy envoy does not do it, throws the target hanging on his body to the side to attract arrows, and he can easily go into battle.

The real fight is on the prince's side. Everyone wants an emperor student who teaches the Great Dao. But at Zishantang, there is also Cheng Hao, who is almost forgotten these days.

Half of Han Gang's teacher seems to be better than Wang Anshi now. Wang Anshi still has to be distracted from political affairs, and Cheng Hao's mental strength is all on teaching. The spring breeze-like teaching not only gradually gained respect in Beijing Sergeant Lin, but also made the prince Zhao maid and his companion Wang Yi, the only son of Wang Shu and the princess of Shu, happy to attend Cheng Hao's class.

That's the big problem.

……………………

Not long after Han Gang and Wang Yi arrived home with their children, Feng Congyi ran over.

Han Gang only arrived in Beijing yesterday, and he didn't have time to talk to Feng Congyi in depth. During this time, the coins of the capital fluctuated greatly, and Feng Congyi presided over the silver trumpet, which was inevitably implicated.

Until Han Gang sent an article from Hedong and published it in the newspaper.

Feng Congyi watched Han Gang's "Money Source" over and over again, and it was like a five-body throw.

According to Han Gang, as long as the currency maintains credit, it can be used in the market. But now the confidence of the people in the capital in big money has plummeted, and unless Han Gang can continue to be reused, it will be difficult to continue to issue five big coins.

"The current discount of five dollars is about to catch up with the Jiaozi issued by Shaanxi back then." In front of Han Gang, Feng Congyi sighed, the depreciation of coins had a great impact on his business, and he couldn't help but complain when he thought about it. I thought that Han Gang would change after he came back, but what expected. The changes in the court directly dashed his hopes.

"Jiaozi can't be sent now. Shaanxi and Shuzhong are all for a reason. But Jingshi is heartwarmed, where can he send paper money casually? ”

"It's a pity that it's not Shaanxi and Shuzhong. Otherwise, there won't be so much trouble. ”

"Because the credit of the imperial court can't hold up."

Han Gang knows very well that the most taboo thing in power is to challenge the people's bottom limit. The people's confidence in the imperial court has always been insufficient, at least now is not the time to use paper money, it must be hard currency. The reason why Han Gang did not move his mind was that he was afraid that when the imperial court rose, he would start issuing paper money in the Central Plains and Jiangnan.

After all, Shuzhong and Kansai are special currency areas, and they have long been used to it, but the hinterland of the Central Plains can't play like this, at least not now. Take a piece of paper out, credit is difficult to maintain no matter what, and once it depreciates, there will be no floor.

In fact, there is already a clear credit system in this era. The most typical example is Jiaozi.

During the Qingli period, in order to cope with the expanding logistical needs on the northwest border, the imperial court, which was trapped in the transportation of grain and grass, expanded the system of entering the central government. And for this purpose, 600,000 Jiaozi were issued, and if the grain was sent to the front line, the Jiaozi could be received as a voucher. And the money for Jiaozi to arrive at the dynasty is to let the transfer envoys return it to the military states under their jurisdiction. Although according to the requirements of the imperial court, it was 'to be printed according to the amount of cash owned by the officials', and if there was a reserve, it was only used for exchange purposes, eliminating the cost of transporting coins to the front. But in fact, the amount of Jiaozi printed is far above the reserves.

After the war in the northwest continued, the policy of entering the central and Nasu had to be continued, and Shaanxi Jiaozi also followed the issuance, and so far more than 20 [general sessions] have been issued. Shaanxi's Jiaozi takes two years as a boundary, and when each boundary expires, the people will exchange the old Jiaozi in their hands for a new Jiaozi, because there is a handling fee called Guantou money, and there is no way to exchange the Jiaozi that was forcibly invalidated, the imperial court can have an additional income of two or three hundred thousand yuan every year, which is not counting the excess part. And the Jiaozi that Shuzhong has been issuing are much larger than Shaanxi in terms of time and scale, so the benefits of the imperial court from it are even greater.

In the process of the issuance of Jiaozi, the benefits obtained by the imperial court made it difficult for several emperors to give up, and it was a huge supplement to the imperial court's financial planning. Therefore, it will also maintain the credibility of Jiaozi. When the value of the Jiaozi depreciates, the local yamen will pay to buy back some of the Jiaozi and destroy them - even if they do not know the essence of the monetary credit, but the action is reasonable.

In addition to Jiaozi, there are also salt money. The same can be counted as money. Jiaozi uses cash as a reserve, while salt banknotes are a currency issued with salt as a reserve, and merchants can exchange salt banknotes for a corresponding amount of salt. There is a cash receipt, similar to salt banknotes, but it is changed to exchange coins in Beijing, similar to the cheques of the market, and the imperial court directly uses them to buy grain and grass in Shaanxi.

But these have the property of the currency of the paper, can not get people's trust, Shaanxi businessmen as soon as they get their hands, often in the local to sell the money, in exchange for cash pockets. And the people who bought these bills were the clan and Qi Li, who returned to the Jingshi's Jiaoyin shop to exchange them in full.

"It would be nice if the credit of the imperial court could be maintained. Carrying a stack of banknotes is more reassuring than carrying two carts full of money. ”

In distance commerce, smart merchants take the form of round-trip trafficking. Currency is not shipped back directly, but specialty products are purchased locally, which is called 'return goods'. In the past, when tea was not sold by the government, Sichuan salt and Shaanxi tea were often sold back to each other.

Another example is Chengdu Fulu, which transports Shu brocade to the Central Plains and exchanges it for silver back to Sichuan. Although iron money can be used in Shaanxi and Sichuan, it is quite difficult to transport, so silver silk is often used.

The tax collected in Shu is half of the silver silk, and there is a provision for half losing the silver silk, and the supply is mostly silk. Silver and silk of the same value are far lighter than copper and iron coins and are easy to transport, which makes up for the shortcomings of the small value of Shu subway money and the inconvenience of transportation.

In today's Shaanxi, the situation is similar. In particular, Qin Feng transferred the road, and the taxes paid were cotton cloth instead of silk silk, half of which was cash, and the remaining half was silver and cloth.