In the Bingzhou Prefecture, Xia Feng and Tongzong Wang Kechen sat opposite each other. Since Du Zhongxiao left, Xia Feng immediately attacked the merchants who threatened to report the government's price of incense and medicine. Although they were unable to find everyone, it was not difficult for Xia Feng to find a few typical examples. After finding people, Xia Feng ordered each guild to kick these people out, and then asked the government to ban their qualifications for business. After several troubles, these people suffered a lot.

This incident reached the ears of the Transportation Commissioner, and Shi Changyan was extremely dissatisfied. He first wrote a letter to ask questions, and then sent Deputy Envoy Chen Shi to Bingzhou to establish a branch office of the Transportation Commissioner to supervise.

Xia Shu was also the governor of Bingzhou as the commander of the Strategic Commander, and was in charge of the Transshipment Commander, and ignored Shi Changyan at all. These days, the Transshipment Commander and Xia Shu blamed each other, and the memorials continued, causing a storm in the court.

Wang Kechen was ordered to deal with these things and was in a state of great difficulty. Fortunately, the prices in the fur yard gradually stabilized and the business was booming. Everyone's attention turned to doing business again, and the storm gradually began to calm down.

Listening to Wang Kechen's recent changes, Xia Xun said: "But several merchants lost their capital and used their connections in the court to stir up a huge internal wave. If they do not punish them heavily, they are afraid that people will be confused and frequent. It is always good that things will slowly calm down. Just Chen Shi, deputy envoy of Transportation, builds a yamen in the city. You tell the officials in the state to be careful and not to be held by him."

Wang Kechen bowed and said yes.

Xia Xu nodded, picked up a small box on the table, opened the lid, and handed it to Wang Kechen: "Du Zhongxiao, since he arrived at the Datong Prison, has devoted himself to his work and made his tricks to make new iron coins. How do you see?"

Wang Kechen bowed and took it, and saw that there were dozens of iron coins in the box, all of which were silver-white, which was very different from the previous iron coins. He took out the coins and saw that the pattern was clear, the outline was clear, and it was extremely exquisite. If you look closely, you can see that the marks were obviously not cast.

After watching for a long time, Wang Kechen said, "My husband, is this iron coin? It is definitely different from the money cast in the past. This coin is extremely exquisite and full of weight. Not to mention the private cast iron coins among the people, even the official cast iron coins in the past are far inferior."

Xia Xun nodded: "No, it's hard to cast iron coins. Most of the coins minted in the past are vague and it's hard to have high-quality products. Du Qianqian's new iron coins are not inferior to the copper coins on the market, and are extremely exquisite. If they are popular among the people, they will definitely be loved by the military and civilians."

Wang Kechen pondered for a while and said, "There are two things that the official minted money most feared. One is that the capital is too high, and the loss is lost. No matter how good the money is, the more the government minted, the more it loses, and it will be difficult to last. Another private minted money among the people is difficult to prevent. I don't know that this money-"

Xia Feng smiled: "The letter Du Zhao ordered specifically mentioned two benefits of this money, which are exactly what you are worried about. First, although this money looks exquisite, its cost is not high, and it is not much different from the cost of cast iron coins in the past. Another thing is that the material of this money is rare and it is even more difficult to make, and it is definitely not something that the people can imitate. With these two benefits, this iron coins are feasible."

Wang Kechenqi said: "How is this possible! This money is so exquisite, how can the capital be low?"

Xia Feng asked with a smile: "Prime Minister Tong, although this is iron coins, it is as white as silver. Do you know why?"

Wang Kechen shook his head: "I really don't know. If my husband hadn't said it was a iron coin, who could have guessed it?"

"The coins are plated with tin. If you look carefully, is it somewhat similar to tinware? Iron is tin plated, and this is not something that ordinary people can make. Iron coins made in this way cannot be cast and must be suppressed. This is not something that people can make. This money is all good, but the value of the money is a little low. I have ordered Du Zhao to make a judgment and change the text above to three-word and make some more."

Wang Kechen nodded: "Young Master said it well. If the people cannot steal the cast, it will be appropriate to change it to Sanwen. However, in this way, it is still difficult to avoid iron coins used by the people. Be careful that the people will collect the money and hide it without using it, and still use old iron coins."

Xia Xu nodded, pondered for a while, and said, "What you said is very true. We sent new money. If we still collected old money, the people will definitely pay the old money and are reluctant to use the new money. It is not difficult to prevent this. The yamen collects taxes and don't just pay the old money. Just send new money and let the people exchange it themselves."

Wang Kechen smiled bitterly: "My husband, this matter must not be done. In this way, wouldn't the old iron coins in the people be destroyed? Now there are more than tens of millions of iron coins in the people, and they will inevitably be filled with grievances. The Transportation Commission set up a new yamen in the city, which is great!"

Xia Feng closed his eyes and after a long time, he said lightly: "Prime Minister thinks, what should I do?"

Wang Kechen bowed: "The safest way is to ask Du Qian to make more money, and spend half a year or several months to let the people exchange old money for new money. After the time limit, it will not be too late to scrap the old money. In this way, even if you start to lose some money, you cannot steal it. This is a long-term solution."

Xia Shu shook his head: "Have you ever thought about how much money the yamen will lose by doing this? There are many troops stationed in Hedong, and they need money and food everywhere. They can't stand such a sprinkling of money. It's better to do this. Within half a year, you can use old and new money together. After the deadline, you can use all the new money."

Wang Kechen remained silent and did not dare to answer rashly. In half a year, the iron money among the people must not be exchanged. At the time, I don’t know how many households will be in trouble. The most likely situation is that the old iron money is used by the people, but the yamen will not collect it. There will be no losses in doing so, but some people will inevitably lose a lot of property because of the use of the old and the new ones.

Seeing that Wang Kechen did not speak, Xia Xun said again: "Du Qiang's letter came to the verdict, he only said one thing about the business of using new iron coins. That is, if the government exchanges new iron coins for old iron coins, beware of the public's large amount of old coins and use them to make trouble."

"This is difficult to prevent." Wang Kechen sighed. This kind of thing will inevitably happen. As long as the yamen dares to exchange it, some people will definitely take the opportunity to cast a large amount of old coins. Because of exchange, there is less trouble that it was difficult to spend in the past.

Xia Xu nodded and said, "So, it is impossible to exchange old money for new money. At most, the old and new will go hand in hand. If the damaged households have to admit that they are unlucky. Take half of the new iron money in the box and give it to the officials in the state to see what the new money is insufficient. Three days later, report to me."

Wang Kechen bowed and said that this was a new thing. Although Xia Shu felt it was good, he was unsure and asked officials from the state to give their opinions together.

Xia Xun said again: "This matter is not small. If you continue to give me instructions, you must not disclose the news. We must prevent the yamen from reporting before it is released and someone will use the iron coins in his hand to buy goods in advance and exchange them for gold, silver and copper coins, which will cause public material discussions."

Wang Kechen said yes, but he knew in his heart that this was difficult to prevent. The officials were all from outside, and they might be able to keep their mouths tight, but they all had family servants and public servants, so how could they be eliminated? Not to mention, the salary used to be mostly iron coins, and officials already had a lot of them, so they would definitely use the old iron coins in their hands as soon as possible.
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