With the death of a man surnamed Su, the western steppe is destined to be unpeaceful.

No matter how the Wusun people cleared up and swore loudly, they would never harm the messenger of the Mu Yan clan and the Wuli prince of the Su Yan clan.

The war, like a fuse that has been ignited, began with a bang.

140,000 Hun cavalry, Wu pressed to the territory of the Wusun people, and a big battle broke out between the two sides on the bank of the Ile River.

War, of course, will not be decided in a matter of days.

Especially such a large-scale cavalry battle.

Both sides will cautiously test each other, and use various means to consume and attack each other's living forces.

Although the Huns had an absolute advantage, they did not dare or were arrogant enough to think that they could destroy Wusun in one battle.

This is a typical war between nomads.

Both sides were predominantly cavalry armies.

The vast grasslands give the warring sides enough strategic space.

Often, wars between two nomadic peoples would stretch for thousands of miles, lasting more than a year, or even longer.

Just like when Mao Dun and Lao Shangshan defeated and expelled Donghu and Yue.

And for the vast number of people inside the Great Wall, the unprecedented cavalry battle that took place on the edge of the distant world seemed to be completely non-existent.

It's already August, and autumn is coming.

The vast number of people, from north to south, are preparing for this year's harvest.

Follow the contours of the Great Wall to the south, over the mountains.

On the rich land of Guanzhong, countless old farmers looked at the full ears of grass in the field, and they couldn't close their mouths with smiles.

Under the dew cloth in the pavilion, the joint official documents of the Shaofu and the Great Peasants and the Inner History Yamen have been posted.

Food prices this year. It's higher than last year!

"One stone of corn for forty-three dollars, one stone for wheat, thirty-one dollars, one stone for sorghum and ninety-five dollars, and one stone for beans. Thirty-three bucks! You Gui in the pavilion stood under Lu Bu and shouted loudly at the onlookers, Xiaoyu's official price for this year's grain purchase.

This is the protective line drawn by the Son of Heaven for the people, and any grain below this price can be sent to the nearest official warehouse, and the government will purchase it in unlimited and unlimited quantities at the price set by the Son of Heaven.

When many people heard this, the smiles on their faces became even stronger.

After two years of implementation, the policy of protecting grain prices has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in Guanzhong. And it was unanimously welcomed by the people.

Even, many landlord classes and powerful families no longer resisted this and turned to cooperate.

The reason is simple: although this policy can protect the basic interests of the people from loss, it also discourages and suppresses land annexation to a certain extent.

But, in the final analysis, the landlords and powerful who have the right to speak and public opinion can always eat the most part of this cake.

Anyway. The policy of protecting the price of grain has been implemented for two years, except for the moths that used to parasitize the peasants and village pavilions, and the interests of the sitting dragon have been damaged. Instead of being touched, the interests of others have gained more than before.

Merchants are finding that they are selling more of their products than before.

Officials have found that their performance has steadily improved.

The landlord discovered. There were more and more cuties hidden in the cellar, and his family's wasteland used to be pure fun beans, wheat, and ramie, which could be sold for a good price.

The people think. My life is much better now than before.

And the nobles and nobles realized overnight: the world seems to be a little different.

A new player seems to have joined Game of Thrones.

A new interest group is taking shape, mainly for the examiners.

This brand-new bureaucratic group, which has spread all over the county level of Guanzhong, Tingli, township, and county, has begun to stumble and find its place in the political arena.

It's a little uncomfortable for them.

But, they quickly adapted.

After all, although many of the examiners were born in poor families.

But this so-called humble family is only relative to the old elites.

Almost 90 percent or more of the scholars who were admitted to the examination were from the landlord class or the official and businessman class.

There's always something common ground to talk about.

Just like at this moment, You Jiao under the dew cloth read the proclamation on the dew cloth with a serious face, but he turned a deaf ear to the behavior under the dew cloth and turned a blind eye.

"Father-in-law, father-in-law, a certain is Zhang's grain village, this year, the proprietor of our grain village, in order to respond to the call of the Son of Heaven, is willing to open a stone of corn 60 yuan, a stone of soybean 45 yuan, a stone of wheat 50 yuan of high prices, to the vast number of Guanzhong villagers open to purchase, the old man will harvest wheat corn beans, you can come here, a certain day and night to wait here, the absolute full scale is sufficient, the money and food are both paid, Tong Su is not bullied!" A middle-aged man who is kind to the people, in the crowd, keeps making promises to the onlookers, with a lotus flower in his mouth, and offers all kinds of high prices far beyond the protective price stipulated by the imperial court, tempting one farmer after another.

The farmers were puzzled when they heard this, but under the impact of those high prices, everyone was also distracted.

"Really?" Some people don't seem to be convinced.

"Of course it's true!" The man said categorically: "Go and inquire, the proprietor of our family, but back then, Anguo Wuhou was the old man of the tomb, and he kept his promise the most, and he made a thousand gold!" ”

Xu is the name of Anguo Wuhou, which makes the people feel convinced.

At the beginning, Anguo Wuhou Wang Ling was the prime minister, and continued the ruling policy of Xiao He and Cao Shen, benefiting the people of Guanzhong.

Of course, the most important thing is that Wang Ling has a Beiping Wenhou Zhang Cang who thinks he is his godson.

At the beginning, when Zhang Cang was the prime minister, every time he went down to the court, the first thing he did was not to go home, nor to go back to the official office, but to drive to Anguo Houfu and serve the wife of Wang Ling like a son.

Such a story has been widely praised in Guanzhong and has become a good story that everyone knows.

When Wang Ling was alive, he was also famous for his iron-faced selflessness and upright love for the people.

At the beginning, in order to express his dissatisfaction with Empress Lu, Wang Ling did not hesitate to close the door.

Compared to kneeling and licking Lu Houhou's waiting and waiting, it is much better in reputation.

Therefore, hearing this man's words, coupled with the above You Xuan, it seems that he did not stand up to accuse the other party, but smiled at the other party intentionally or unintentionally.

This convinced the people at once.

So, everyone said, "If that's the case." Then after my family's harvest this autumn, the corn and beans will be sold to you! ”

Some of the simple people have even begun to calculate, after selling the grain at a high price, they should be able to buy a few more sets of new clothes for their children and fine gentlemen this year, and even buy a livestock next year. Go home and help with the work.

Mules and donkeys, both are good options.

That is, it is not expensive, it is easy to maintain, and it is durable.

Such scenes have occurred in many places in Guanzhong.

There are even some places, where the tour and even the pavilion chief endorses people like this, patting his chest and guaranteeing.

A terrible financial maelstrom is taking shape.

The embroidered guards who smelled the uneasy breath and the imperial historians of the imperial history yamen quickly fed back this information to Weiyang Palace.

"Have you found out?" Liu Che asked Wang Dao. Although Wang Dao has relieved the work of the embroidered guard, he is still responsible for feeding back the matter of the embroidered guard to Liu Che.

"Your Majesty, we have found out ......" Wang Dao lowered his head and said: "The people involved are all over the lieges and two thousand stones, although they are only their retainers or second sons, however, the facts are irrefutable. They're laundering money! ”

Money laundering is a good word!

Liu Che gave Wang Dao a thumbs up in his heart.

But, speaking of which. This term is not a royal invention either.

To be precise, the old Liu family is the pioneer of the technology of money laundering.

Back then, Liu Bang, a financial novice, played a strange three-baht coin, also known as cheek money.

The three-baht coin minted by Liu Bang. Not only small and thin, but also all kinds of cutting corners, shoddy.

At the time of circulation, there was a strange deed that the new money had been broken into countless pieces in less than half a month after circulation.

This triggered the first economic crisis in China's history.

After Empress Lu came to power. First of all, the three-baht coin was abolished, and at the same time, the money law was promulgated, prohibiting private money, and then the eight-baht coin was minted.

Lu Hou's eight-baht coin, compared to Liu Bang's three-baht coin, that conscience is like the difference between gold and brass.

In terms of weight, quality, fineness and copper content, the new money crushed Liu Bang's three-baht coin.

Do you think Empress Lu really has such a conscience?

Then you would be very wrong.

With the circulation of new money, in order to prevent everyone from using the old money before, or replacing the old money with new money.

Lv Hou stipulated: The diameter is more than ten inches and eight, although it is lacking, the article is quite wise (known), and it is not a special fold and lead money, all of which are line money. Those who are not green and red are gold. Those who dare not to take money or gold will be fined four taels.

It means that as long as this money meets the standard (ten eight inches), even if it is missing, but as long as the handwriting on the money can still be seen, and it is not all lead or completely broken, it is a qualified coin, and anyone who dares to refuse to use it will be fined four taels.

This is tantamount to completely passing on the loss caused by Liu Bang's three baht coins to the people.

The government and the imperial court took the opportunity to spend a large amount of inventory and unused cheek money as currency for the purchase of goods for the common people.

And these inferior cheek money, in the hands of the people, can rarely be recycled by the government - the officials have two mouths, and they like to say whatever they want.

So much so that to this day, many places do not recognize any copper coins at all.

The local people traded only silk cloth or bartered it entirely.

Lao Liu's family played so beautifully that many people after him followed suit.

Taizong issued new money, called four-baht money, and opened a money ban.

Then, people all over the world learned from Liu's old wisdom.

Use the privately minted four-baht coin, exchange a large number of eight-baht coins in the market, and then melt back to make private money.

Wu Wang, Liu Bi and Deng Tong made a lot of money because of this.

In the people, the people's image of this kind of government and court through the left hand to the right hand is called money laundering.

This kind of covert financial means became the best means for the magnates and merchants to shear the wool of the common people for a certain time.

But the people are not fools.

I have been cheated a lot, and I know that I have been fooled.

As a result, the people no longer accepted any kind of money stupidly.

Nowadays in the Kanto region, an eight-baht coin minted by Empress Lu is equal to three four-baht coins or five private coins, as for the three-baht coin...... No one wants it at all!

As for Guanzhong, in addition to the eight baht coins and Qin's half two coins, there can also be a bit of a circulating market.

The other four-baht coins and three-baht coins, whether they were made officially or privately, were all thrown into the trash.

Good quality coins, but it's nothing.

It's a big deal to melt and cast into other utensils, at least not at a loss.

But all kinds of inferior money that was forced on the horse in the first place in order to make money and shear sheep is very embarrassing.

If you put money in your hand and can't spend it, you're losing money!

However, the Shaofu and the Inner History Yamen announced that the exchange ratio between the old money and the five-baht money was based on the copper content, and after melting, one pound of copper would be produced, and fifty five-baht coins would be given.

But the problem is that there are 288 baht per catty of copper (Han system, 12 taels per catty, 124 baht), at least 65 new 5 baht coins, and 70 coins are enough (after adding lead and iron).

How can those guys accept such an exchange ratio?

You know, in the past, they could easily mint a hundred or even one hundred or thirty coins for a pound of copper.

The feeling that wealth has shrunk by more than half in an instant, and no one wants to accept it.

So, it is understandable that they hit the people with their ideas.

Isn't this how the elites have played since ancient times in China?

Whether it is the stock market, the property market, or even option bonds, under the guise of seeking benefits for the people, they are actually enriching their own pockets.

There is no need for Wall Street or Westerners to teach such things.

Everyone is born to be.

Anyway, the silent majority, except for humming twice and whining, how can they drop?

There is no doubt that no one even needs to be reminded, even eunuchs like Wang Dao know what these guys are calculating.

But unfortunately, the majority of people do not know at all.

Limited by knowledge and experience, many of them do not even have basic mathematical knowledge, and they cannot even understand the crosshair on the scale. Where can they figure out such a complex thing?

Even if they have suffered similar losses before.

But alas, the people are forgetful.

As long as you don't play a game once a year, you're guaranteed to be fooled as many people as you do in the fall.

Of course, there are not no smart people among the people, but the question is how do you convince a neighbor who has already been Amway to believe you?

"Your Majesty, what shall we do?" Wang Dao asked.

The Lantai Shangshu and the imperial historians below also looked at the Son of Heaven with burning eyes.

This time, in the eyes of many, the problem is undoubtedly very tricky.

Most of the grassroots officials and aristocratic classes and powerful families in Guanzhong have already entered, while others are preparing to enter.

The players in the field include relatives like the Dou family and the Chen family, as well as old families like Cao, Wang, and Guan, and even generals with outstanding military achievements.

These people intentionally or unintentionally chose the opportunity before the autumn harvest, taking advantage of the people's profit-seeking psychology, wanting to play money laundering, throwing the coins in their pockets that are rapidly depreciating to the common people, so that the people can take over.

But what will be damaged is undoubtedly the court and the people in the end, and it is even likely to cause a popular uprising.

Of course, similar to the popular uprising, the imperial court and the government have long had experience in dealing with it.

There was no need to even send in the army, and the county officials and militia could easily suppress it.

Therefore, many people feel in their hearts that this time the Son of Heaven is probably going to bow his head.

Yes, a wise ruler, at this time, between the common people and the princes and ministers, will pretend not to see such things.

At most, after the incident, punish a few guys who are too ugly and marginalized, use them as scapegoats, and take them out to vent their anger to the people. (To be continued......)