Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 62: Self-impression is the most embarrassing thing

The next day, Li Shoujie was as poor as crazy and went around changing money, even exchanging two thousand nan for one tael of silver. Thanks to the deliberate publicity of some thoughtful people, most of the people in Kaifeng City knew about it.

Everyone's first reaction was, crazy.

It used to be that [-] or even [-] coins could be exchanged for one tael of silver, but now it was reduced to [-] coins in one breath. Li Shoujie actually wanted to swallow such a big dumb loss?
He is Li Jun's son!
Li Jun, he was the most tyrannical king in the entire Song Dynasty who had just overthrown the Northern Han Dynasty. Even Zhao Kuangyin had to give him three points, and he was able to withstand the Western Front border defense by himself!
Does he even have no way out?
This represents Taiyuan and the Yanmen Pass defense line. These are all military expenditures. The sky is about to fall. Is it possible for the officials to accept compensation? They would rather have the military expenditures on the Western Front be completely reduced than to die without saving them?
Are officials so cruel?
Are you so determined to ban Nan Qian this time?
Then we ordinary people are still having fun!
Everyone in the world panicked for a while, but even so, even if Li Shoujie accepted the compensation like vomiting blood and exchanged money, he only exchanged less than [-] yuan in two days.

People in this era have no awareness of currency wars at all, and panic is extremely easy to contagious. Everyone feels that Nanqian is really going to be abolished, and from now on they can only melt and sell copper and iron. , if you don’t sell it today, the price will fall even harder tomorrow. No one knows when it will end.

So much so that at first the merchants in Kaifeng City were willing to trade with Li Shoujie, but later no one was willing to trade with him, for fear of getting back a pile of scrap metal.

Even if it is copper, melting the copper still costs money!

Li Shoujie represents the King of Jin, represents Taiyuan, and represents the military expenditure on the Western Front. He has accepted the two thousand dollars. Who among us ordinary people has the ability and face of the King of Jin? If he accepts two thousand dollars as compensation, this money will fall into your hands. Li, can you pay out two thousand?

After a few days, Zhao Kuangyin could no longer sit still and hurriedly summoned Li Shoujie.

"What on earth are you doing? Are you serious about paying two thousand? If it doesn't work, come to me! I'll give you money in exchange. No matter how poor the court is, it can't lack anything but military expenses! What are you thinking in your mind? You What is going on in dad’s head?”

In the early Song Dynasty, the financial power of the border governors was extremely great. After the two-government tax system was implemented, the fiscal and tax revenue of one government was used for the daily expenses of the army, while the taxes of the other government were nominally the private property of the governors themselves.

That is to say, Jieduzhi could spend the money however he wanted. The court did not have any supervision measures and could not control it. Therefore, Li Yun loaned 50 yuan to Zhao Guangmei and Zhao Kuangyin in one breath. There was nothing he could do, so Li Shoujie did nothing. What, Zhao Kuangyin can only be anxious.

Of course, if any military commander really dares to put all this money into his own pocket, it is guaranteed that the tooth soldiers under his command will come to him with swords the next day. These guys are better than the Censor, the Commission for Discipline Inspection, etc. The efficiency is much higher.

Facing Zhao Kuangyin's questioning, Li Shoujie really didn't know how to answer. He could only lower his head and rub his hands with a constipated look on his face.

"say!"

"I...I really don't know what to say."

"What do you mean you don't know what to say? Tell the truth!"

"I...I...I'm wronged, official. This is all what King Qin asked me to do."

"The third one?"

Zhao Kuangyin looked confused.

"Isn't he still accepting money from Nan? I'm still waiting for him to take the initiative to come to me to admit defeat and ask for help. How come... he can't stand it anymore? You guys are just making nonsense! He can't stand it anymore, let him come to me Ah! What are you doing to harm you? How can military and national affairs be such a child's play?"

"No, no, it's not that I can't stand it any longer. Your Highness, he said, Nanqian has fallen too slowly. If we hoard it on a large scale now, it will rise in the future... He dislikes the small profit and asked me to make such a show. In this way, when Nan money rises sharply in the future, he can... earn more. He said that this year he will earn back all the money he will earn in the next ten years..."

The more he spoke, the softer his voice became, the less confident he became, and the less he dared to speak.Because Zhao Kuangyin's face is getting greener and greener.

"That is to say, when Nan Qian fell to this level, Lao San not only didn't pay compensation, but did he do it on purpose?"

"Yes, almost all money below two thousand is collected secretly by him."

Zhao Kuangyin felt as if a team of Khitan cavalry had stepped through his internal organs. The expression on his face could not help but change again and again, and he was extremely uncomfortable.

I thought that I had already won this battle, but Zhao Guangmei was just talking nonsense and was planning to chat with him someday. If he lost a lot of money, he even planned to squeeze some money from the treasury to make up for the loss.

He couldn't help but be moved by himself. Where could he find such a good brother?
He had already thought about what he should say when Zhao Guangmei begged him for mercy and acted like a scoundrel. He had thought about how to beat him lightly. He had even thought about how to act as a role model for brothers and sisters. He had thought about it all. How would he ask for this merit when he arrived in front of Empress Dowager Du?

It ended up causing trouble for a long time. Did he do it on purpose?

I was moved for a long time, but I found out that it was all self-inflicted.

And until now, the third child still firmly believed that he would fail.

After a long time, Zhao Kuangyin finally calmed down, bit his back molars and choked out one word from between his teeth: "Get out!"

Upon hearing this, Li Shoujie kowtowed repeatedly as if he had been granted amnesty, and then ran away in a hurry.

The power of the official family is too scary.

Zhao Kuangyin stayed in the palace and was so angry that he almost went crazy. In the end, he felt so uncomfortable that he simply went to the back garden with his slingshot to shoot birds.

At the same time, Zhao Guangmei once again came to the He Controlling Army to list the money and exchange it for Nan Qian.

"They are all warriors who have fought for the country. Your money is all loyalty money earned by licking the blood of your sword! No matter how poor we are, we can't deprive the army, no matter how miserable we can't suffer the soldiers. Today, I, Zhao Guangmei, have risked my life, even if it means losing money. , I also admitted it, one tael of silver, exchange for one thousand eight hundred Wennan! I want as much as I want, I’ll take it all!”

"But as agreed, each soldier can only exchange for two taels of silver at most. Only the Forbidden Army can exchange it, and no outsiders are allowed to exchange it!"

This price, in the past, was simply a money grab.

However, at this time, the money kept falling, and it was about to fall beyond two thousand. He collected one thousand and eighty. Isn't this a proper compensation for himself and a charity?
This is a benefit for the Forbidden Army!
Others simply felt that the government officials must be behind this, and the officials were also afraid that the money in everyone's hands would be reduced to scrap metal, which would affect morale.

What are you waiting for?Who knew when such a great thing would stop?Who knows how much money His Highness King Qin can exchange for?Even if there is a national treasury behind him, but there is no money in the treasury now, how can anyone still think about it?After the Chenqiao mutiny, didn’t [-]% of the money in the treasury go to them?

Go and change money quickly. There is no such shop after passing this village.

(End of this chapter)