Chapter 29 Chapter Twenty Nine

The person in charge of the Taifu (referred to as the Taifu Qing) is named Yang Chongli. He has worked in the Taifu for more than 20 years, and no one has ever looked down upon him.However, on a certain day in the 20th year of Kaiyuan, Li Longji asked people to open the Taifu, and everyone saw the mountains of wealth and materials, and everyone began to look at Yang Chongli with admiration. Yang Chongli and Yu Wenrong are different. Yang Chongli was seventy years old when he first took over the Taifu, and now he is in his nineties. He has never searched, but he can still save millions of money for the government. It is a miracle .In the 21st year of Kaiyuan (733 A.D.), Yang Chongli retired (retired as Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs).In order to commend his old man's performance, Li Longji asked the prime minister: "How many children does Chongli have? Who can inherit the father's business?"

Someone replied: "Chongli has three sons, Shenyu, Shenjin, and Shenming. They are all honest and diligent, and the second son, Shenjin, is the best." Li Longji immediately promoted Yang Shenjin to be the supervisory censor, who was also in charge of the cashier of the Taifu; he took Yang Shen's name as the supervisory censor, and managed Hanjiacang to give it to him.In the countless days to come, the two brothers really fulfilled their mission, and they did a very good job in monitoring and cashiering. They were very competent and praised by others.Li Longji is very happy. The weather has been smooth and the weather has been good for the past few years. The year of Wufu is prosperous. An emperor like Li Longji who wakes up at four or five o'clock every day, goes to bed at midnight, works all day and strives hard, can meet such a worry-free official. It's also a beautiful thing.

It's just that the court seems to be missing someone. In the first month of the 22nd year of Kaiyuan (734 A.D.), Li Longji visited Dongdu, and the prime ministers followed him, but Zhang Jiuling was the only one who did not come. Zhang Jiuling didn't show off. He was still watching his mother's funeral at home, and proposed to wait until the funeral was over before returning to court.Li Longji sent someone to urge, everyone is not a person who likes nonsense, Zhang Jiuling came from Shaozhou to meet Li Longji. The first sentence Zhang Jiuling said was: "I came back this time to report, I have to go back, and I will come back after I finish the funeral!" Li Longji was held back by Zhang Jiuling's words. He reacted for a long time, and finally understood Great righteousness, putting state affairs first, let brother Jiuling stop talking nonsense, and hurry back to the court to be prime minister.

"You won't let me down!" Li Longji said. Therefore, Zhang Jiuling went home to pack up a few broken bags, and rushed back to Dongdu to take up his post. Comrade Zhang Jiuling, the new prime minister, the first thing he did was to knock everyone down with a thunderbolt.He pointed out that the most important thing right now is not the Khitan turmoil, nor the Lingnan rebellion, but our economic problems.He pointed out that the proliferation of private money minting has become a big problem. So what to do? Mr. Zhang Jiuling gave his own opinion: Open the money ban and allow private money making!

Everyone has been scorched by Lei Deli, Zhang Jiuling, why do you think so? I have studied the reasons for the proliferation of bad money casting. In the Tang Dynasty, money could only be made by officials, using copper coins from Kaiyuan Tongbao (Brother Kong Fang), but there were very few copper mines at that time, and mining was difficult. I often lose money, and the amount of money simply cannot keep up with the development of the economy. Seeing that private money is profitable, the folks use low-quality copper to make paper money for circulation. Of course, the most important thing is to get something for nothing.Yousi came up with many measures, such as Song Jing's centralized destruction method (the amount of copper is limited), and later came up with a decree, except for bronze mirrors, strictly prohibiting the appearance of all copper products.Because less gold and silver were mined, Yousi never thought of using gold and silver to make currency with larger denominations.There is also silk, which is expensive at first, but it is very inconvenient to carry, and it is impossible to cut a small piece of steamed buns for money, so the rest of the materials have failed.

Several times in the middle, in order to save copper, some companies made a lot of money "one is worth ten", but it also ended in failure. This shows that all measures cannot solve the problem.How to stop the flood of bad money has become the primary issue at present.Therefore, Zhang Jiuling proposed the ultimate solution to kill everything in seconds: allow the private sector to create money, relieve the pressure on currency circulation in the economic field, and ensure the well-being of the people! Everyone continued to focus on the inside and outside, and Zhang Jiuling's good friend Pei Yaoqing took the lead in objecting, "The ban will be lifted, and the villain (people) will abandon farming for profit, and the evil money will be more flooded!"

Cui Mian, the secretary supervisor, also jumped out, "What is money? Money is money, and it is used for circulation, not for profit! What effect will it play if the ban on private money is lifted?" Liu Zhi, the recorder of the right prison gate, joined the army and asked: "When a person is rich, if you praise him, he will not suddenly become kind, but will use the money from the past to do more greedy things; People always have to eat enough to do other things. If private money is allowed to be minted, the poor must be hired by the rich, the rich will get richer, and the poor will get poorer!"

Liu Zhi was ruthless enough. In order to intimidate Li Longji, he added a sentence, "During the time of Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty, King Wu was rich and the emperor, this is the consequence that casting money can bring to us!" Unexpectedly, just as Comrade Zhang Jiuling put forward such a point of view, he was collectively opposed by everyone. It seems that he needs to go back and reflect.Speaking of which, the period when Brother Jiu Ling took office was very strange from the very beginning. As soon as he returned to Luoyang, an earthquake of unknown magnitude on the Richter scale occurred in Qinzhou (Tianshui, Gansu).All I know is that the earthquake caused huge losses. All houses in the entire state were destroyed and more than 4,000 people died.Li Longji was shocked by the disaster and sent Xiao Song to help.

At the same time, Pei Yaoqing became a servant, and the person who was promoted with Pei Yaoqing was transferred from the original servant of the official department to the servant of the Huangmen, and then directly transferred from the servant of the Huangmen to the minister of the Ministry of Rites. Became the prime minister.His name is Li Linfu, and he plays a symmetrical purpose, and he can always guess Li Longji's heart when he speaks. Li Longji thinks he is very virtuous. In this way, Zhang Jiuling, Li Linfu, Zhang Shougui, and An Lushan now have an intersection. The story also begins with Zhang Shougui, a military general with outstanding achievements.

Zhang Shougui, a native of Shanzhou, Hebei (Pinglu, Shanxi), was mighty and robust, generous and righteous, and people liked to associate with him.Because he can ride a good horse and shoot a good arrow, he was promoted all the way in the barracks until he became a general in Pinglefu.His boss was Guo Qianguan, who was guarding Beiting at that time. At that time, the Turks were invading Luntai, and the momentum was fierce. Guo Qianguan was ordered to support him and let Zhang Shougui fight.Thus, the Turks saw the scene where Zhang Shougui killed dozens of people by himself, led the soldiers to behead more than a thousand ranks with boundless strength, and captured Jiejin (the official name of the Turks) alive.

Zhang Shougui killed countless people and was appreciated by the leaders. Lu Qiqing, the governor of Youzhou, once invited him to sit on the same couch and said: "In less than ten years, Zi will go to this state and become a national important general. Our colleagues are just around the corner!" Soon after, Zhang Shougui became the Jiankang army envoy. Ten years later, the Wang Junxi incident happened, and Zhang Shougui became the governor of Guazhou.Li Longji saw that he could guard the people in an arid area like Guazhou, so he moved him to be the governor of Shanzhou, the envoy of Jiedu in Longyou, the governor of Youzhou, the deputy ambassador of Jiedu in Hebei, and the envoy of interview and disposal.Zhang Shougui became prosperous, and when he arrived in Youzhou, his opponents became Khitan and Xi.Need to introduce, before this, Youzhou Governor Shi Zhao Hanzhang and Xue Chuyu (both very talented generals) were powerless against Khitan King Ketugan.According to them, Ke Tugan has three characteristics, scary, outstanding, and capable. He is especially outstanding in terms of invasion and escape.Zhang Shougui laughed loudly and led the army to fight, but Tugan was beaten and dared not go south again. Let me introduce again, the leader of the Khitan, Qu La, the ally of the Khitan King Ke Tugan. On that day, he found Ke Tugan and discussed surrendering to the Tang Dynasty together.Of course, Ke Tugan was still so capable. After some negotiations, the two reached a consensus that it would be most appropriate to seize Youzhou after the false surrender.When Zhang Shougui learned of the situation, he dispatched his right guard cavalry Cao Wanghui to lead the envoys to the Khitan tribe to offer condolences.Originally, Zhang Shougui's news was accurate, but this was most likely the worst thing Zhang Shougui did, because Comrade Wang Hui arrived at the camp, but he didn't find any Khitan camp at all. He was surrounded by Turks captured by Khitan. Soldiers! As for the Khitan tribe, they were moved away by Qula long ago and moved to the northwest. The person Qu Ci hated the most was Zhang Shougui. Since Wang Hui was sent by Zhang Shougui, then he must kill him to vent his anger, so as not to lose money when he fights with that guy.This is a very mentally retarded strategy, but everyone actually agreed.Then, under the command of the Khitan leader, the Turkic captives killed Wang Hui and declared an uprising.Don't be nervous, this strategy is still in the negotiation stage. This situation is really speechless! The steps to kill Wang Hui are under intensive study, the Khitan is handsome Li Guozhe, he is very handsome.Wang Hui fell in love with him, the main reason was that he had a personal enmity with the leader, so he was favored by Wang Hui.Li Guozhe leaked the battle plan, and was angered by Wang Hui's provocative words, and made up his mind to kill Qu Ci and Ke Tugan.It is commendable that although Li Guozhe is very handsome, his action of killing the leader is not handsome, a bit scary and bloody.Moreover, Li Guozhe didn't play his cards according to the routine at all. After he pulled out the knife, he realized that the matter was very serious. Li Guozhe was very excited, and kept asking about the next move. What else could Wang Hui say? "Let's drop!" In Zimengchuan, Zhang Shougui inspected the troops, rewarded the soldiers, and handed down the head (the head of the Khitan king and leader) to the Eastern Capital. At this time, Lu Qiqing's prophecy finally came true, because Li Longji was going to meet Zhang Shougui and let him enter the court as a prime minister and work with Lu Qiqing.But Zhang Shougui was allowed to enter the court, but Zhang Jiuling strongly opposed it.Li Longji looked at this literati with a perfect figure and extraordinary temperament, and asked: "What's wrong with being a prime minister?" Zhang Jiuling replied: "You can be a prime minister if you pacify the Khitan. If you pacify the entire Northeast, what does your majesty want him to be?" ?” Li Longji was frightened into a cold sweat by Zhang Jiuling, so he only held a banquet for Zhang Shougui. In order to show his trust, he wrote a poem to Zhang Shougui at the banquet, and paid homage to General Fuguo and You Yulin The general, bestowed gold, bestowed on the second official, and erected a monument to record his meritorious service. However, not long after this incident, the matter of Niu Xianke, the governor of Liangzhou, popped up again. Niu Xianke, a native of Quail Gu, Jingzhou (Pingliang, Gansu), is a military commander with outstanding military exploits.Li Longji liked this decent official who came from a small official very much, and wanted him to be a minister.Zhang Jiuling objected again, for the same reasons as those who opposed Zhang Shougui.Zhang Jiuling's move made Li Longji very unhappy. He asked back, can't generals be prime ministers?After thinking about it for a long time, Li Longji couldn't figure it out. Suddenly, a prime minister jumped out from the side to comfort him and said, "What does the emperor's housework have to do with outsiders?" The sound is sweet, soft and comfortable to listen to. Li Longji looked at Li Linfu and laughed, "Aiqing knows my heart!" In the autumn of the twenty-fourth year of Kaiyuan (AD 736), the Tang Dynasty was still prosperous, but Li Longji was tired of being the emperor, and he was always running back and forth between Dongdu and Xijing, which was really idle.All the officials were bored and raised objections.Pei Yaoqing remonstrated and said: "The people in Henan and Guanzhong have not harvested their crops. If your majesty wants to go back to Chang'an, then you can come back in winter!" Li Longji asked the prime minister for his opinion, and the prime ministers agreed.Li Longji was still very happy. He also agreed with this statement, and he was ready to settle down and go back in winter after the harvest season was over. The prime minister left after the meeting. Only Li Linfu injured his ankle and walked very slowly with a limp.Li Longji asked thoughtfully and caringly, "Lin Fu, what's wrong with you?" Li Linfu suddenly turned his head sadly, "I'm just pretending, I just have something to play." Seeing that Li Linfu was so sincere, Li Longji did not shed tears of emotion, but he nodded, telling Li Linfu to speak straight and let go of his farts.Li Linfu seemed helpless, "Your Majesty, Erdu was originally the emperor's East Palace and West Palace, and it was my home, right?" Li Longji nodded.Li Linfu said: "Driving back and forth, what time are you waiting? Your Majesty has worked hard for the country. If it really hinders the farming season, Your Majesty will issue an edict to forgive them this year's tax. Why wait for winter?" Li Longji smiled, overjoyed, but also impressed by Li Linfu's intelligence.