Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 58
When Zhao Kuangyin heard this, he became furious and shouted, so frightened that the storyteller on the stage knelt down and kowtowed.

Empress Dowager Du frowned and said, "If you two brothers quarrel, go and quarrel outside. Don't ruin everyone's interest in watching the show."

Zhao Guangmei hurriedly pulled Zhao Kuangyin's sleeve: "Brother, brother, I'm listening to storytelling. If we have anything to do, let's go home and talk about it. Didn't we go to mother's place for dinner in the evening?"

"What else are you going to eat? Let's go out and talk about it."

Then, Zhao Kuangyin took Zhao Guangmei by the collar and went out.

Zhao Guangmei muttered unhappily: "Brother, what are you doing? You are the founding emperor, why are you still so short-tempered?"

"Look at this money of mine, look at it."

"Ah."

"Tell me, is this pure copper?"

"Yes."

"Are the materials I use solid?"

"solid."

"The patterns on this are exquisite, aren't they?"

"fine."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin excitedly took out another copper coin from the Southern Tang Dynasty and said: "This is the money of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Look, if you put these two coins together, which one is good money and conscience money?"

"That must be our Da Song Tong Bao."

"Yes, so why do you say that I can't do this? Do I, the great Song Dynasty, have to use the coins of his small country in the Southern Tang Dynasty? It's a joke!"

Zhao Guangmei said helplessly: "But it's useless what you say. The most important thing about currency is credit. The credit of Southern Tang Dynasty money is still there, but the credit of our Song Dynasty money has not been established yet. Administrative orders cannot defeat the market economy. ah."

"Joke! It's a big joke. I have never broken trust with others in my life. Could it be that my credibility can't be compared to Li Jing's?"

Zhao Guangmei didn't know what to tell Zhao Kuangyin, so she could only say: "Then if you think you can do it, then you can do it. I don't have any other intention. I just want to take this opportunity to make a little profit."

"You can't make any money. As I said, money from the south of the Yangtze River is not allowed to enter the north of the Yangtze River. Your money is not allowed to be used. After it is collected, you can only melt and sell the copper. Moreover, the money from the Southern Tang Dynasty is mixed with iron. You have to die to pay for it."

"No bet, will I make a profit or lose?"

"I……"

Zhao Kuangyin was really stunned when he heard this, because he had indeed been losing these two bets with Zhao Guangmei, which was a very evil thing.

"I won't bet with you. If you are willing to ruin all the money you finally earned, that's your business, huh."

After saying that, Zhao Kuangyin left angrily, not even watching the show.

Zhao Guangmei shrugged, knowing that this kind of thing would be impossible for him, a founder of the country who was arbitrary and arbitrary, and would not know how to turn around unless he hit the south wall. He could just hit it himself.

I earn a little pocket money myself.

When Zhao Kuangyin returned to the palace, the more he thought about it, the more confused he became and the less at ease he felt. If the person who said this was someone else, it would be fine. He might just laugh and ignore it, but his third brother...then... It's really a bit evil.

He changed the world, established a new dynasty, and issued new currency to express the new trend and new atmosphere. It can be said that this is undoubtedly the most important of his series of political measures this year. Moreover, currency does not matter in Every dynasty has a country-based policy and cannot be careless at all. Therefore, the more Zhao Kuangyin thought about Zhao Guangmei's playful and smiling face, the more irritable he became.

"Call Zhao Pu, Fan Zhi, Xue Juzheng, and our second son, all come to me."

After a while, four people came with the order. Zhao Kuangyin banged his face on the table and cursed: "In the matter of minting coins, is someone taking advantage of power for personal gain? Is someone fooling me? Are you adding iron to the coins?" Already?"

The four people were all baffled when they heard this, and Xue Juzheng was even more frightened. He was the third division commander who had just been appointed after Zhao Kuangyin changed his mind. He had not even become a full-time official yet and was still on probation. He quickly knelt down and shouted his injustice:
"Official, you know what I mean. The founding of the dynasty to mint coins is such a big event. This is also the first big thing I did after taking office as the third minister. No matter how greedy or confused I am, I will never be able to do this. Are you trying to be clever?" "Hmm..."

Zhao Kuangyin nodded when he heard this. He believed in Xue Juzheng. Although this person was a civil servant, he had known him for many years and was considered one of his own. It was indeed impossible for him to be confused on such a big matter.

Zhao Guangyi said in surprise: "Brother, have you heard anything? Why are you so angry?"

"Huh! It's not because of the third child."

"The third one?"

When Zhao Guangyi heard this, a certain string in his mind tightened, and he couldn't help but ask: "What does this matter have to do with Lao San? He has no involvement at all."

"Yes, he was not involved at all, but why is he so sure that I can't do it?"

With that said, Zhao Kuangyin recounted the conversation between him and Zhao Guangmei.

The four of them were completely confused for a moment. Fan Zhi also held the Song and Yuan Tong Bao and the Yong Tong Quan Huo of the Southern Tang Dynasty in his hands for comparison. He frowned and said, "This is impossible. How do you think it is, our Song and Yuan Tong Bao?" It looks better than Yongtong Quan's goods, not to mention that this Yongtong Quan's goods also have iron money. His Highness the King of Qin was not involved in this whole process, could it be... nonsense?"

Zhao Guangyi also said: "Yes, the third brother is still a child after all, he must be talking nonsense."

Zhao Pu frowned and said: "Who in the world today would treat His Highness the King of Qin as a child? Although it is indeed some nonsense, but... that is the King of Qin after all. I always feel that he should not It’s pointless.”

Zhao Kuangyin frowned and said, can you ensure that there are no problems in the entire coin casting process?

When Xue Juzheng heard this, he quickly said that there must be no problem.

"Then my policy...is there no problem?"

When the four of them heard this, you looked at me and I looked at you, and then they all said, it should be fine.

Xue Juzheng couldn't help but asked: "But since the King of Qin said that this policy is not appropriate, how about... or postpone it?"

Zhao Kuangyin hesitated for a moment after hearing this, then shook his head and said: "The four of you are the prime ministers of the country. Since you don't realize there is anything wrong with this policy, how can you delay the country just because a kid with a yellow mouth said something random?" The basic strategy? Fa, I still don’t believe it. Is it true that the Song Dynasty is not as good as the Southern Tang Dynasty?”

After saying that, Zhao Kuangyin waved his hand and let them go.

After the four people went out, they had different expressions. Fan Zhi looked the most relaxed. After all, he was the prime minister of the previous dynasty. Although in name he was still inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people, in fact, this little power in his hand had long been eliminated. Zhao Pu has won everything. Relying on the trust of the officials, Zhao Pu has always been domineering and domineering. To be honest, whether this policy succeeds or fails, it has nothing to do with him, even if the blame is passed to him in the end. Now, the worst he could do was resign and go home to take care of himself. He no longer wanted to be a bad official.

Zhao Kuangyin's reforms were not just for the army. They, the prime ministers, were first forcibly removed from their seats, and then the Taiwan case was abolished. The power of the prime ministers was much smaller than that of the Tang Dynasty.

Zhao Pu frowned. Although this matter seemed to have little to do with him, don't forget that Zhao Guangmei's official official position was a direct bachelor of the Privy Council.

Although Zhao Kuangyin's original intention in assigning him this official position was to let him study under him, Zhao Guangmei himself had never exercised his authority. The documents sent to him wanted to be stamped with his eyes closed, but he was always busy with other things. A mess.

But in any case, the official position of direct bachelor of the Privy Council is indeed enough to check and balance him as the Privy Council envoy. And since Zhao Guangmei won the first prize and was granted the title of king, his reputation and prestige cannot be underestimated, and few people really do it. Dare to treat him as a child.

Zhao Guangmei is a person who looks easy-going but is actually domineering. He is domineering at heart. However, Zhao Pu himself is also an extremely domineering person. He judges others by himself. If this matter turns out to be that he is wrong and Zhao Guangmei is right, will Zhao Guangmei? What about taking this opportunity to reach out and grab the authority of the Privy Council?
Zhao Guangyi felt uneasy, thinking to himself, the third child's control was getting wider and wider now. He could even interfere in things like minting coins in this way. Why did he owe so much?You can't really let him get it right again, can you?

Among the four people, the one who was the most uneasy, the most flustered, and even a little confused was naturally Xue Juzheng.

The more I think about it, the more sinister this thing becomes.

Could it be that there was something that Zhao Guangmei noticed but he didn't?

Even after returning to the public house, Xue Juzheng still felt uneasy.

"Come here, buy me a generous gift. I'm going to visit King Qin."

　In the early Song Dynasty, the official system was very chaotic. It was still unclear who was in charge of the three departments and the household department.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)