***

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and in distant Siberia, the temperature has dropped below 10 degrees, while in Nanjing, it is still hot during the day.

God seems destined not to let Qin Mu have a comfortable Mid-Autumn Festival, not that the generals who are fighting abroad have lost the battle, but that there is an almost unsolvable problem in the country.

At the court meeting on this day, Qin Mu was about to announce that he would give some benefits to hundreds of officials during the festival, which was the practice of previous dynasties.

Xu Yingjie, the left attendant of the household department, went out of the class first and said: "According to the reports of the branches in various places, the phenomenon of bad money chasing good money in various states and counties is becoming more and more strict, and the ministers are incompetent, and they have no good way to cure the root cause, so they can only play the imperial court, and ask His Majesty to discuss with the ministers, so as to come up with a good plan to solve this problem." ”

The so-called "bad coins" chasing good coins is an almost unavoidable phenomenon in this coinage era: when those coins that are below the legal weight or fineness - "bad coins" enter the circulation field, people tend to collect those full value currencies - "good coins".

Eventually, the good money will be expelled and gradually withdrawn from circulation, leaving only the bad money circulating in the market.

In addition, if two metal currencies are both legal tender, such as silver coins and copper coins, the imperial court stipulates that one silver coin is exchanged for ten copper coins, but due to changes in supply and demand in the market, the price ratio of silver and copper cannot always be maintained at one to ten.

When a large amount of silver poured into the country, silver coins were inevitably regarded as "bad coins", and copper coins were regarded as "good coins", and people would tend to collect good coins, or melt good coins into copper to exchange for more "bad coins".

This phenomenon has appeared in all dynasties and dynasties, and it is a stubborn disease that is difficult to solve. As soon as Xu Yingjie's words fell, the hundred officials in the court couldn't help but be a little restless.

Qin Mu asked slowly, "Xu Qing, you tell me carefully." What is the main reason for the bad money that has appeared today and the good money? ”

Xu Yingjie bowed down and said: "Qi Gong Majesty, the phenomenon of bad money chasing good money today, the causes are multiple, with the increasing volume of maritime trade in Daqin, the amount of gold and silver imported from overseas every year has increased rapidly, and the copper production has not been high, and the silver on the market is cheap and expensive."

Qin Mu couldn't help but interrupt him and said, "Xu Qing, there are not many copper coins issued by my Great Qin, they are just used to assist circulation. Silver and copper are expensive, shouldn't they lead to the problem of zhì strict zhòng? ”

"Your Majesty, this is only secondary, the most important reason is that the silver dragon coin is full of fineness, and after it is circulated in the market, some unscrupulous people will grind some silver dust from the silver coin, as long as it is less polished, it will not be easy to detect, and it can still be used as a sufficient amount of silver coin;

And these outlaws use this method. As long as you grind a hundred dragon coins, you can get one more dragon coin. In the end, you also grind, and I also grind. Over time, all that circulated in the market were worn silver coins, which the people refused to accept and the banks lost money when they recovered. ”

Qin Mu said suspiciously: "In order to prevent such a phenomenon. Didn't you put a vertical tooth on the edge of the silver coin in the first place? ”

"Your Majesty, it's these vertical teeth that have been worn away now. Just grind a little less at a time. It's still hard to detect. ”

"Can those erections on this side be replaced with lead instead of silver?"

"Back to His Majesty, the minister tried, which would not only increase the cost of minting, but also make it difficult to ensure that the minted silver coins would still have a trilling sound when blowing. In addition, now it is two planes, with the same amount of wear. ”

Qin Mu glanced at the ministers in the palace and asked, "Do you ministers have a good plan?" ”

Song Yingxing, the secretary of the Song Dynasty, said: "Your Majesty, the minister has cast the side teeth thinner and shorter, so that as long as the outlaws grind off a little, it will be obvious, and it will be difficult to spend it again, even if there are still people grinding the crumbs, the loss of the court can be minimized." ”

Xu Yingjie replied: "Song Shangshu discussed, and the lower officials also thought about it, although this can reduce some of the losses of the imperial court, it is still a symptomatic rather than a cure. ”

Cabinet Minister Lu Zhenfei said: "Bad money chasing good money, is a stubborn disease that has been difficult to eliminate in the past dynasties, it is not easy to minimize losses, to completely eradicate it, only to fully replace the circulation of silver dragon coins with paper dragon coins, it is possible;

But this matter can only be gradual, if you rashly withdraw all the silver coins, the full issuance of paper money, I am afraid that it will cause a credibility crisis, Chen Jian Yiì or first take the policy of Song Shangshu, first minimize the loss of the imperial court, and when the time is ripe, and then gradually increase the issuance of paper money, in place of silver coins. ”

What Lu Zhenfei said was seconded by many ministers.

Qin Mu also nodded.

In his head, there was a scene in which countless people got the silver coins, and they would sneakily grind a vertex of silver dust first, countless people were grinding, countless intact silver coins were rapidly thinning, and countless silver dusts were falling

Depend on! I am frugal, you don't work hard, and you are unwilling to put all the money I saved into your own purse.

"Ministers, don't you have a better way?"

There was no better way, Marichenkonov could only gather up his 2,000 soldiers and horses, and meet the Arslen blockade, and the two sides had a thrilling bloody battle in the temple of the steppe.

It is said that after Li Ding received a report and learned that Arslen had successfully forced the enemy's main force out of a bloody battle, considering that there were not many defenders in Tyumen City, he immediately sent his general Zhang Yao to lead 2,000 men and horses to bypass the battlefield of fierce battles between the two sides and go straight to Tyumen City.

The city of Tyumen was built in the eighth year of Wanli, there are about 10,000 people in the city at present, and the defenders who remain in the city are only 400 people, the city wall is based on stone strips, the adobe is the wall, the Tobol River, a tributary of the Ob River, flows through the city side, and the Tobol River is the moat when the city is built, and it is as wide as eight zhang.

Wu Shandong led the army to quickly kill outside the city, although it was not snowing at this time, but the weather was already very cold, and if you swam across the moat, I am afraid that many people will be infected with wind cold.

So he had the logs cut down, dragged them with horses, and first tied up a bridge, and the defenders at the head of the city did not dare to attack rashly because of the small number of people, so they could only watch.

After the "boom" wooden bridge was set up, Wu Dongshan gave an order, and ten rockets bombarded the south gate of Tyumen City, and the flames soared into the sky for a while, deafening.

The wooden gate was blown away, and the gate tower on the doorway was blown down, falling down with a clatter, smoke and dust billowing and tiles flying. The defenders near the gate tower were shattered and left dead.

This is an asymmetrical war, and the defending side that should have the advantage is so vulnerable under the powerful firepower of the Qin army.

After the city gate tower was blown to pieces, the smoke of gunpowder did not disperse, and the Qin army outside the city rushed to the moat with a long wooden bridge, shouting bursts, and drove the wooden bridge to the moat.

Malichenkonov, who was fighting a bloody battle with Arslen twenty miles away, saw black smoke rising from the direction of Tyumen, and secretly said that it was not good in his heart, and hurriedly ordered a retreat.

At this time, the two sides have already killed the red eyes, the iron hooves on the grassland are chaotic, earth-shattering, shouts, hissing, swords, intertwined like a tide, there are corpses everywhere, blood pools into streams, both sides are evenly killed, and the casualties are very heavy.

As soon as Marichenkov's retreat order was given, the Cossack cavalry was to leave the battlefield. Arslen shouted in time: "Brothers, rush, the enemy is going to flee, the city of Tyumen has been taken by the general's troops, rush, crush them"

The Cossacks who wanted to retreat had no intention of fighting, and their morale plummeted, but they could not get rid of the entanglement of the Mongol army, and their shape changed dramatically.

Thousands of Mongol cavalry rushed forward like a tidal wave, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became, "Ah! "Ahh Waves of shouts rose up the clouds, and bursts of arrows swept through the sky, obscuring the sky and the sun.

Disheveled! Arslen's massive mace slammed down, shattering the helmet of an enemy and opening his head like a watermelon;

He didn't even look at it, but hurried his horse and rushed towards an enemy in front of him like a hungry tiger.

The Mongolian soldiers beside him were like wolves on the steppe chasing the galloping Huang Ban, biting and killing, fierce and motivating.

Seeing that he could not get rid of Arslen's pursuit, Marichenkov was so anxious that his eyes were on fire, and he understood that he had made a fatal mistake and should not have ordered a retreat

There is no regret in the world, in fact, even if Marichenkonov does not give the order to retreat, and sees the black smoke rising from Tyumen City, the morale of his subordinates will be low, and in the end it will inevitably be defeated

And what does defeat mean? Probably slaughtered

*****************************

PS: Ask for subscription, ask for recommendation (to be continued......)