Of course, at present, only businessmen are sighing, because there is no doubt that businessmen are the most sensitive to changes in currency.

After several days, the number of customers gradually decreased, and they could immediately feel the panic and crisis.

It will take some time for ordinary people to feel the effects.

Then again, this is also due to the fact that the matter of royal family and imperial favor has come to an end for the time being, causing many people to turn their attention to the public.

Seeing this situation, many people began to consciously reduce their monetary consumption, and these people were the main consumers of money in the capital.

They start tightening up and merchants are able to get immediate feedback.

In addition to the merchants, Wang Anshi and Han Jiang also felt that because other states and counties had just begun to levy the exemption tax, some people had already complained that they did not have many copper coins and wondered if other goods could be used as a substitute.

So Wang Anshi didn't have time to come to Zhang Fei to congratulate him today. In fact, if he didn't have something important to discuss with Zhang Fei, he wouldn't have planned to come. Moving is not a big event in life, and he and Sima Guang both disliked such occasions very much.

At this time, Wang Anshi was discussing matters alone with Emperor Zhao Xu in the palace.

Wang Anshi first informed Zhao Xu of this situation.

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Zhao Xu already knew about it and was about to discuss it with Wang Anshi. Now that Wang Anshi took the initiative to mention it, he pretended not to know, "What's going on?"

Wang Anshi immediately said: "I think it is most likely that the powerful officials in the court are dissatisfied, so they have resorted to this trick in an attempt to stir up public resentment and oppose the exemption of labor service tax.

It is conceivable that when the autumn tax is collected, the people must exchange grain for money, and if the price of money is relatively high at that time, this will inevitably make the people resentful. "

Zhao Xu was immediately furious and said, "This is outrageous. They lost the lawsuit and now they are resorting to this desperate tactic. Is this the end of it?"

Wang Anshi smiled and said in a very relaxed tone: "How can a mere lawsuit make them willingly pay so much tax? Moreover, they will definitely worry about how the autumn tax will be calculated. That is why they will start to fight back before the autumn tax to make the government and the ministers afraid."

This kind of trouble was within his expectations, and he really didn't want Zhao Xu to be upset about it and waver in his determination.

It's fine!

This was all expected.

Zhao Xu asked, "Sir, do you have any solution?"

Wang Anshi said: "In my opinion, with their financial resources, they are not able to stir up such a storm in just a few days. This is mainly because there is a shortage of money in the market, so if they make a move, there will be a shortage of money.

I have also been paying attention to the currency of our dynasty, and the lack of currency has made it difficult for our dynasty to increase its wealth. In this case, as long as the court mints an additional one million coins, the profit can reach millions. "

Zhao Xu asked, "Millions?"

Wang Anshi explained: "For example, some customers want to buy land and become the head of the household, but because they lack money, they only have grain. They have to buy the grain first and exchange it for money before they can buy the land. But in the end, after selling the grain with great difficulty, the land they like is also bought by someone else.

Furthermore, due to the lack of currency, merchants could only barter when doing business with each other. It is conceivable how difficult this was. In the Jiangnan region, this situation was very common.

But if there is enough money, the wealth of both the court and the people will increase, which is what I mean by "the people are not taxed more and the country has more money."

Zhao Xu nodded, "So what you mean is to mint more coins to alleviate this crisis."

"Even if this incident had not happened, the court should have increased the minting of coins to improve the finances." Wang Anshi added, "But it would take time to increase the minting of coins and it would not solve the immediate problem. I suggest that the court first issue an order to allocate copper to mint coins, and then release them to the market in the form of Jiaozi. When the coins are minted, the Jiaozi can be exchanged for coins.

In fact, using Jiaozi to buy goods is more convenient than using coins, and it can promote private transactions. At the same time, it can increase the issuance by 10%. In addition, the coins collected by the Sinong Temple must be released in time and cannot be hoarded in the warehouse. "

After a little consideration, Zhao Xu nodded and said, "Okay, I'll do as you say."

As Wang Anshi himself said, this was not his response strategy, but something he had planned long ago. If he wanted to manage finances, the first thing he had to do was to get the money in the hands of the people so that he could manage the finances.

If they are all goods, then there is no legal basis for this.

In addition, Wang Anshi was from the Jiangnan region, not from the north. There was a general lack of currency in Jiangnan, which left a deep impression on him. He also saw the reason. If there was sufficient currency, it would be beneficial to the finances of Jiangnan, and the finances of Jiangnan were the top priority of the court's finances.

Sima Guang retorted that the people were not taxed more and the country had abundant finances, but he never thought of using this point to refute it. In fact, this is the most powerful rebuttal.

In fact, as long as the currency is handled well, based on the Northern Song Dynasty system, business will inevitably prosper.

Since land transactions are allowed, sufficient currency must be used to support the transaction.

Wang Anshi had long planned to issue more currency, and had also thought of using paper money, because he believed that copper was relatively scarce in the Northern Song Dynasty and could not support his entire reform system.

Therefore, after this incident happened, Wang Anshi was not panicked at all. He had long seen the fact that there was a shortage of currency, but you just exacerbated this phenomenon, which in turn provided him with a reason to issue more currency.

However, the economic downturn has also diluted the joy of Zhang Fei's move.

There were quite a few people coming, but everyone gathered together to talk about the shortage of currency. The merchants suffered the most from the shortage of currency.

The whole new house was filled with gloom and sadness.

Fortunately, Zhang Fei has gotten used to it. Every time he moves, he always encounters some trouble. As long as he doesn't suffer physical pain, he is very satisfied.

Lawyers are not afraid of being forced, but they are afraid of taking action directly.

When the other party does not abide by the law, the lawyer is useless.

At this time, Zhang Fei was talking with Li Bao who came to congratulate him on the sofa in the backyard.

Li Bao certainly did not bring any good news. Instead, he told him that the other party was now using food to suck the money from the people even more frantically.

"What's more serious is that the number of copperware in the market is also decreasing rapidly. If nothing unexpected happens, they should try to melt the copper into coins. When the autumn harvest comes, the people will be seriously short of money. They may use bad money to take away the food from the people. When they collect the exemption tax, they may receive a lot of bad money."

"Do they have the power to mint coins?" Zhang Fei asked.

"Of course, there is no power, and this kind of thing rarely happens in the capital, but in the local areas, many wealthy families often mint coins. If the people are very short of coins, minting coins can make a fortune."

"Um."

Zhang Fei rested his hands on the pillow, leaned back on the sofa, and crossed his legs. Here, he could finally return to his familiar posture. After thinking for a while, he suddenly asked, "I heard that the price of salt is also rising?"

Li Bao was slightly stunned, and then replied: "Although the price of salt has risen sharply at present, it is estimated that it will only be for a while. After all, the court is not actually short of salt. It is just that the private salt production has suddenly stopped, causing Kaifeng Prefecture to be temporarily short of salt, and those legal salt merchants have taken the opportunity to raise the price of salt."

At this point, he added: "But it is also possible that someone will take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble and deliberately raise the price of salt to put pressure on the court. After all, this matter was caused by the last lawsuit."

Zhang Fei asked, "How much information do the tax commissioners have about private salt dealers?"

Li Bao thought for a moment and said, "It seems to be two."

"Only two?"

Zhang Fei frowned slightly.

Li Bao whispered, "We just wanted to scare people at the time, so we only investigated one or two in all aspects, just in case."

Zhang Fei nodded. "Then can you get me the information about all the private salt dealers in a short time?"

Li Bao said: "In fact, most of these salt smugglers know each other. We can use those two to track down other salt smugglers, but it will be very difficult to find evidence of their crimes."

Zhang Fei said: "I don't need evidence. I just want to find them. It would be best if I could find out how much salt they have."

Li Bao nodded and said, "That shouldn't be a problem."

For the tax commissioner, this person is easy to find, but the difficulty lies in the evidence. After all, evidence is the key in public security, procuratorial and judicial departments.

This is also the reason why people are afraid of the tax commissioner.

I don't know where the Tax Commissioner got the evidence.

After talking with Li Bao, Zhang Fei came to the front yard again. At this time, the guests had already dispersed. After all, it was a turbulent time now and they were all very busy in the store. It was impossible for them to stay here for the whole day, pour out their grievances to each other, and compare who was more miserable, and then go home.

In the huge courtyard, there was only one person sitting at the table, eating Zhang family's secret hot pot. Behind him stood three or five idle men, drooling as they watched him eat.

The only one who can have such momentum is Cao Dongdong.

Zhang Fei walked over and sat aside. Looking at Cao Dongdong, who had no expression on his face and was concentrating on eating meat, he didn't seem very happy either. He couldn't help but ask, "Yanei, why are you so depressed? Did you get infected by those merchants? Or is it because Xiao Ma is not here?"

Cao Dongdong glanced at him, drank the wine in his glass, and sighed, "What's there to be happy about? Nowadays, everyone is afraid of the tax commissioner, but no one takes us, the Royal Police, seriously anymore."

It turned out that this guy was blaming the firm for stealing his limelight. Zhang Fei finally reacted and said with a smile: "The tax commissioner is responsible for collecting taxes. During the tax collection period, if we don't talk about the tax commissioner, what else can we talk about?"

Cao Dongdong snorted, "Is it the responsibility of the Taxation Department to arrest Chen Xiaoer?"

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "What should we do? You should also go and catch a wanted criminal."

Cao Dongdong drank another cup and said aggrievedly: "It's not that we can't catch him. We have the means, but...but we have a father. We have to be cautious about everything we do. It's really boring."

As he spoke, he glanced at Zhang Fei again, "I heard that someone recently recommended you to go to the northwest to build the public security, procuratorial and judicial system?"

Zhang Fei was surprised and said, "You already know everything."

Cao Dongdong asked: "Can you take us with you?"

Zhang Fei asked with a question mark on his face: "You want to go to the northwest."

“Yes!”

Cao Dongdong said, "I am always being watched by my father here. If something goes wrong, a bunch of uncles and aunts will come to my house. Many times, they asked me to kneel down and talk to them. I have no chance to use all my tricks. If I go to the northwest, I will have the final say. I am not subject to the orders of the emperor when I am away, let alone my father. I will do the job of the tax commissioner by then."

You are such a bored guy. Zhang Fei suddenly had an idea and said, "It's just talk at the moment, why do you take it seriously? Besides, the duties given by the police station to the tax commissioner are not overlapping. The police station actually has a lot of things to do, but you just don't do them."

"What is it?"

Cao Dongdong asked anxiously.

Zhang Fei said: "For example, smuggling salt and occupying government and private fields are the responsibilities of the police station. They are violations of other people's interests and are illegal, not the responsibility of the tax commissioner. You should know that these charges were investigated by the procuratorate on its own initiative, not by the tax commissioner.

Now that this matter has become such a big deal, your police station can make some arrangements to check these salt shops and salt dealers. After all, the tax commissioner only wants money, but you can directly take people’s lives, and people will be afraid of you.”

"Right! How could I not have thought of that? I was just thinking about catching the wanted criminal." Cao Dongdong's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he immediately stood up and said, "I won't talk to you anymore. I'll go back and make arrangements now."

"Hey, it's almost time to get off work, come and have a few drinks with me before you leave!"

"We'll drink it another day."

Cao Dongdong's voice came from outside the door.

"This brat!"

Zhang Fei cursed with a smile, then poured himself another glass of wine. Holding the glass, he thought to himself.

"Zhang San. Zhang San."

"ah?"

Zhang Fei looked back and saw Xu Zhiqian walking towards him.

"Why are you alone? Where is Yanei? He was here just now."

"Just got back."

Zhang Fei said: "You came at the right time, have a few drinks with me."

"Okay!" Xu Zhiqian sat down and asked, "By the way, what are you thinking about? Why are you thinking so intently?"

"without!"

Just after saying one word, Zhang Fei suddenly changed the subject and said, "Zhiqian, if the government really sends me to the northwest, do you agree?"

Xu Zhiqian was stunned and said, "That depends on you. If you are sure, then of course I agree. But if you are not sure, then you'd better not go. If there is trouble in the northwest, it will not be a small matter."

Zhang Fei nodded thoughtfully.

Xu Zhiqian asked again: "Didn't you say before that you definitely wouldn't go? Why? The government still wants you to go?"

"no!"

Zhang Fei shook his head and said, "It's just that the situation has changed a little now."

Xu Zhiqian asked: "Is it about money?"

Zhang Fei nodded.

Xu Zhiqian asked curiously, "But what does this coin have to do with the Northwest?"

Zhang Fei thought for a moment and said, "I can't say for now, let's wait and see. But if I really go, you might suffer with me."

Xu Zhiqian immediately said: "I am not afraid of this hardship, I still want to go to other places."

“Is this true or false?”

"real."

Xu Zhiqian said, "I used to follow my father everywhere. I wanted to go to Dengzhou with him, but he told me not to go because I was getting old and was going to get married. It was really boring to stay in the capital."

Zhang Fei smiled and shook his head: "You officials' children are so blessed that you don't know how to appreciate it!"

(End of this chapter)