imprinted you in my heart

The bustling city, shrouded by the cold wind in early winter, is still bustling. There is a constant stream of pedestrians coming and going. Ordinary or luxuriously decorated carriages and sedan chairs can be seen everywhere. A teahouse in a prime location is full of seats. The storyteller in the hall is speaking impassioned.

Shi Min, who was sitting not far from the storyteller, listened with great interest, and didn't know where the storyteller heard it, but he actually described the salt case in a decent way, as if he had experienced it himself.

Although most of what this storyteller said was wrong, he established a good image of the court officials, and even praised her as the emperor in the direction of the palace many times. Since it was such a positive propaganda, how could she stop it.

There were men, women, old and young in the entire lobby. Although there were many people, they all kept quiet in a tacit understanding. In order to hear the voice of the storyteller, they had no choice. Shi Min also took a shallow look at the audience present.

Some are wearing round-neck gowns with fame and fame, some are ordinary people wearing right lapels, some are students wearing scholarly uniforms, and even coolies are wearing bunts. There is also a silk and satin swaggering past them upstairs. Go to Xungui in the private room.

This is not the first time for her to come to this teahouse. Naturally, she knows that the private rooms upstairs can be either rich or expensive, and the number is limited. She has lost interest after going there once. Compared with the private rooms, she prefers to watch the people in the lobby .

Shi Min didn't know the nobleman who just passed by, and the other party didn't seem to know her either. Thinking of today's dinner, he could guess a thing or two.

Having said that, teahouse listening to books is a very popular public entertainment item in Huaguo.

Although the tea house is called a tea house, it is actually a restaurant. It provides catering services in the morning, middle and evening. The spare time in the afternoon becomes the exclusive time for listening to books and drinking tea. It usually takes about an hour. What you say depends on the storyteller’s pleasure, but usually it will be in advance. The sign was put up one day, so it was all decided the day before yesterday.

She is not very interested in the salt case. The second thing she is interested in is the disturbance caused by scholars in Xinlan Province. This case was settled only a week ago. It took less than a month to find out the whole story.

It was indeed what she thought. It was far from being as simple as scholars making trouble, but someone was manipulating behind the scenes to try to prevent the implementation of the New Deal. Scholars were just foolish and sweet beings instigated and used by them. Even so, she would not forgive them lightly.

The behind-the-scenes manipulator was the provincial head of Xinlan Province and a local marquis who lived in his ancestral home. They were all brought back by Yan Yinuo. She rarely found time to see them, so she dismissed them from their jobs and confiscated their homes and dispatched them to Xishan. As for those troubled scholars, Yan Yinuo directly punished her according to her will. Those who deserved to be exonerated from their merits, those who deserved to be punished, were not lenient at all.

She also knew that this was just a joint manipulation of the gentry and nobles to prevent the implementation of the New Deal, but they didn't expect that they would be so tough, and in the end they had to abandon the car to protect the commander as they planned, and as a condition, they would settle down and be punished. family members of those arrested and guaranteed their lives.

How do you know?It was thanks to her tasteless mind-reading skills that she discovered it when she summoned Yan Yinuo to inquire about the case.

Yan Yinuo found out the biggest shady scene, but she couldn't sleep or eat. After much hesitation, she chose to hide it and reached an agreement with the people who came to contact secretly. I don't want to make His Majesty sad and embarrassed.

Although His Majesty is tough and decisive in killing, he is not a bloodthirsty person. If it is reported to His Majesty, she will be so sad to know that most of the honored nobles in the world oppose her new policy!What is even more difficult is whether these opponents should be killed or not?

If they are killed, the nobles and gentry who oppose the entire Hua Kingdom will definitely fight together to fight to the death. Even if His Majesty can calm down in the end, there will be a fault in the foundation of the rule, and it will be the people all over the world who will suffer. A vassal state will also give rise to wolfish ambitions.

If you don't kill him, His Majesty already knows about it, and the honored nobles also know that she knows, then it is equivalent to compromise with the honored nobles in disguise, which is the last thing she wants to see!

So she secretly reached an agreement with them, they will no longer prevent the implementation of the New Deal, and she will never mention it to anyone, including His Majesty.But because he was ashamed, Yan Yinuo went through the matter again in his heart after the report, and expressed a deep apology to His Majesty in his heart.

This is also the fundamental reason why Shi Min did not take any action after knowing about it. She knew that the implementation of the New Deal would definitely be hindered, and she was ready for everything. .

Most of Yan Yinuo's concerns were right, and a small part looked down on her too much. Not to mention most of the honored nobles objected, even if the honored nobles all over the world opposed her, they would not be sad, and there was a way to make them dare not speak out. There is no rebellion.

Huaguo is a vast country with thousands of miles of fertile land and a population of over [-] million. The most important thing is people. As long as she is willing, there will be a sea of ​​scholars, capable people and strangers in the world who are willing to be officials and nobles. She only needs to set aside a few years. Complete the replacement without any major problems.

But since she can achieve her goal more easily, she is also happy and relaxed, and she can keep her reputation, so why not do it, so not only did she not do Yan Yinuo, but she was also promoted to be a cabinet minister and crown prince Taibao.

As for Xing Boen, Yang □□ and the other six attendants, they have been put in place for three years and practiced for three years. The fast ones have been promoted to two levels, and the slow ones are still standing still. She has given them the platform, can they play well? Well, it's up to them how capable they are. She won't be partial now, and she won't be partial in the future.

Just like the court, she doesn't care about mutual attacks and strife, as long as she presents evidence, she will deal with it strictly, and she will never allow the imagination of forming cliques, even in previous dynasties.

She prefers the king's overbearing compared to the emperor's balance technique that may overturn the ship at any time, so she will not deliberately praise anyone or weigh anyone. Those who are loyal to her will always be loyal to her, and those who are not loyal will respect her and be afraid of her. Anyone who dares to form cliques and play in small circles, as soon as there is a sign, she will directly summon for a conversation.

If you don't listen to the warning, then I'm sorry, you will either be dismissed or demoted, and relegated to a place where no shit, see how you form gangs!

In addition, the purge before enthronement laid a solid foundation for her to purge the court, and she achieved the result she wanted with little effort.

She suppressed corrupt officials and small cliques, and vigorously promoted capable, honest and self-disciplined officials to establish a kind of value for officials all over the world-as long as they don't commit crimes, they will be fine, and as long as they are willing to do well, they will be reused.

I can't see the effect now, but the effect will be obvious in ten or twenty years. As long as her offspring don't play tricks, even if they are incapable, after her new policy is thoroughly implemented, they can still be a conservative king.

In less than a week, the troubles caused by the scholars in Xinlan Province have become the material of storytelling, making it difficult for her not to be curious.

The storyteller took a short break in the middle, and then began to talk about the case of a scholar in Xinlan Province that she was curious about. It was similar to the Yan case, half-truth and half-false, and it was intended to be a compliment to the court and officials.

After listening to half of it, she felt bored and left. At first, she wondered if the storyteller might be the person who whispered. After all, she was talking too much for her, the emperor, and the court. But after she came out, she thought again. He dared to belittle the emperor and the court in front of so many people with great fanfare, he should be a fool, how could he become a storyteller.

Lu Guanchu and Zuo Xuan who accompanied them out of the teahouse were also relieved. There were so many people in the lobby, and there were too many people talking. If an assassin or something suddenly appeared, they would be miserable, even if the assassin might not be able to hurt His Majesty.

If Shi Min knew what they were thinking, he couldn't help but sneer, assassin?Now that the nobles and the gentry have compromised, where are the assassins?

Seeing that it was still early and it was relatively close to Dongshi, Shi Min went to Dongshi again and asked about the prices of a lot of things, such as rice, noodles, etc. What changed is that I didn't buy anything.

The merchants will not recognize it, because she is not idle and can go out of the palace every now and then, and she only asks one or two questions every time, and it has been several months since she asked the same one, and there are so many customers every day. How could the business owner remember her?

The effect of the recuperation policy since she took the throne has been well reflected in the price of rice, which has dropped from about 78 ren per bucket when she first took the throne to the current 46 ren per bucket. This is the average price, and the price of rice with better quality will be higher Some, low-quality ones are relatively cheaper.

But it's still a bit expensive, far worse than the "Reign of the Four Emperors", and it's not the price of rice in her mind. Of course, she won't foolishly think that it's all due to recuperation, because there are tax and currency reforms in it s reason.

With the implementation of the New Deal, the local coinage rights were all taken back by the imperial court, and the coinage office under the Ministry of Household Affairs was fully responsible for coinage matters.

She has never used copper coins, even if she learned the exchange rate of copper coins, silver and gold from her teacher, she did not know that copper coins were different from what she had imagined until she was enthroned. Heavier and rougher in design.

After each emperor ascends the throne, he will mint new coins engraved with his own year, including some porcelain in the palace and other things engraved with the year. The previous coins will be re-minted after tax collection, and the confiscated ones can continue to circulate. , but only the currency of the Hua Dynasty, the currency of the previous dynasty is not allowed to circulate, and some of the porcelain and other things will be buried with them and some will be kept in the warehouse.

Since it was a custom and a form of maintaining imperial power, she didn't need to abolish it, so she redesigned it according to the style of copper coins she had seen in modern times in her memory. The weight was no longer used to determine the value, and the weight was lighter than before. The quality is better than before.

Both the style, the level of craftsmanship and the color are better than before. She changed the four characters of five baht coins and treasures originally engraved on the front into Tianfu Tongbao, and the original Tianfu engraved on the back in a certain year was changed by her to be cast by order.Originally, there were only five taels or ten taels of silver and gold, but she added one or two taels to avoid too much effort in changing the money.

It completely changed the currency unit that weighed several plants in the past, and opened the Tongbao era of currency. This currency system has been used continuously until the end of the feudal era.Of course, this is all for later, Shi Min doesn't know.

She is a science student majoring in mechanics, and she has no interest in currency and finance. If she hadn't come here to study history for many years, she would still be completely obsolete. Redesigning the style and weight of copper coins was completely on a whim. She never thought that she would be in currency. A legacy in history.

She does know the terms currency circulation and inflation, but if you ask her what is the relationship, sorry, I don’t know!About the words translated here, I asked Moto Naoki, Minister of the Ministry of Accountancy, to get a rough idea.If you don't know, just ask, what is face?It can't be eaten as a meal!

Moto Naoki also explained to her very carefully, and finally she understood, meaning that because copper coins, silver and gold are valuable in themselves, coupled with the limited domestic mining capacity and technology, the circulation is also limited, so there is no need to worry about the currency in circulation wide-ranging depreciation.

Shi Min, who has personally experienced modern inflation, is relieved. If the money is worthless, it should still have a great impact on the country's economy. She doesn't want such a thing to happen.

Yuan Naoki was single-handedly selected by her as Minister of the Household Department. She is really good at managing money, and she doesn't care about face at all. When she has no money, she cries worse in front of her than anyone else. Except for the most difficult times, financial affairs are rare Let her worry.

Now that the right to mint money has been taken back by the court, if it is discovered that mint money privately, it will be punished as treason. There has been no similar incident so far. If there is, she would not mind killing the chicken for the monkey to see.

Compared with the obvious drop in the price of rice, the drop in the price of salt was even greater. Less than a month after the salt incident, it fell by half. It's a typical high.

Under the advice of cabinet ministers, Moto Naoki, Jiang Hechang and other household officials, salt and iron resources will prohibit the involvement of private capital starting from the fifth year of Tianfu, and set up salt officials and iron officials in the places where salt and iron are produced and sold, respectively. Unified production and sales, profits go to the treasury.And developed a complete set of salt and iron management system and operation system.

Although tea and silk are also high-profit products, and are very popular with vassal states and other countries, she will not be included in the official camp, because the inclusion of salt and iron in the official camp is still for the sake of the country and the people, and it is true that tea is also included. The most important thing is to compete with the people for benefits, which will do more harm than good to social development and economic development.

Not being included on the surface doesn't mean she can't do it in private. Money, who would think too much, especially when she was so poor that she had to put down her face and ask for money from the emperor's grandma and the queen mother.

She definitely couldn't do it by herself, not only because of her status, but also because she knew how much she had, so the job of helping her earn money in private fell on the second speaker, Guo Fanqiu.

What can Guo Fanqiu do?I had no choice but to bite the bullet. Fortunately, before I started, I knew to ask someone capable in this area, and after thinking about it for a few days, I finally came up with a plan to make money.

Shi Min couldn't help feeling that Guo Fanqiu was more talented in economics than her after seeing it. The plan was very simple, called Ping Zhun, which was to buy a large amount of certain goods when the price was relatively cheap, and wait until the price of this kind of goods was lower. When it is high, selling at a price lower than the market price and higher than the original cost price can not only stabilize prices and combat hoarding merchants, but also make money. It really kills two birds with one stone.

This year's taxes have all been collected, a total of more than 4000 million taels, of which land tax accounts for 80.00%, and other various taxes are less than 20.00%. With the prosperity of the market in the prosperous capital, no matter how poor other places are, other places Taxes should not only have this amount of money, especially commercial taxes.

It seems that these big businessmen are dishonest, tax evasion is probably the norm, don't worry, sooner or later she will make them regret it!

Coupled with the income from the search of officials, the current national treasury is twice as much as when she became the throne, and finally I feel that I am not short of money, but the money is all from the national treasury, not her private money. Most of her money was donated before. It was given to the state treasury, and a lot of rewards have been given in this year. Now her private treasury has a total of 24 taels of gold and 1000 taels of silver. The rare treasures can be seen but cannot be moved, just like collectibles.

In the end, she only kept four taels of gold for private treasury, and gave all the rest to Guo Fanqiu for business. Guo Fanqiu’s plan was very good, and she had no reason not to support it. Selling intelligence is estimated to be able to make a lot of money every day, well, she is looking forward to this day coming soon.

Before the night fell, many gorgeous carriages drove towards the palace one after another. Tonight, His Majesty hosted a banquet to entertain the kings who migrated from various places to settle in Fandu, which made Dachengmen, which hadn't been so lively for a long time at night, lively. ?