Li Chengqian was speechless in the face of Li Shimin's accusations. Bad money drives good money is a financial rule, and even Li Shimin can't escape it and wants to store gold.

When he saw Li Chengqian planning to exchange high-quality gold for copper coins or even cloth, he was furious and spit out loud at Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian was indignant when he first saw Li Shimin, and even mocked Li Shimin for his rare knowledge.

On the surface, he also smiled and felt that he should not be as knowledgeable as such a foolish person.

However, Li Shimin lost his temper continuously and became angry in his heart.

As soon as Li Shimin stopped, he directly retorted: "The Tang Dynasty is now building roads everywhere, and digging canals requires money everywhere, but the court wants to save a lot of gold?

If a large amount of gold exists in the palace treasury and let the supervisors stolen it slowly, it would be better not to waste manpower and material resources to dig out the gold from the ground?"

"you--"

Although Li Chengqian used the court to replace his father, how could Li Shimin not hear it? Is this teaching him a lesson?

"Besides, the imperial court stipulates that one tael of silver is exchanged for one thousand copper coins, ten taels of silver is exchanged for one tael of gold. I obviously make a profit if I exchange one tael of gold for ten thousand and five hundred copper coins here..."

Li Shimin looked at Li Chengqian and kept talking, his chest kept rising and falling, and his anger was obviously very angry, but in the end he just shook his sleeves and left without saying anything.

Li Shimin calmed down completely. Even if he annoyed Li Chengqian's prodigal son, he would not have a big dispute with Li Chengqian because of this. After all, he could not become a villain who set off Li Chengqian's glorious image.

Many people get hundreds of thousands of coins when they travel through time and do a random business. Li Chengqian uses his two years of experience as the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty to tell everyone that it is impossible.

Not to mention that China has few copper ores, even if there is copper ore mining, smelting also requires a lot of manpower and material investment.

Precious metal currency is actually the same as commodities. It also requires huge manpower and material resources to produce it. So I think that in ancient times, who could give him a copper mountain to mint coins privately was just a little better than rewarding land for him to make seeds.

The silver exchanged for tea, porcelain, silk and other items in foreign trade in the Ming and Qing dynasties was actually equivalent to giving the power of currency and goods to foreign businessmen.

But unfortunately, these silver did not become the driving force for industrial development at that time, but were hidden by some old wealth, and later they were not taught to buy opium and smoked.

Li Chengqian is now doing the opposite and wants to use the money obtained by the court to develop industry.

The Tang Dynasty today lacks both copper and money. Most of the taxes are collected, and the officials are also gifted to pay the honors. Most of the royal rewards are also gifted to the real thing.

So it is impossible to just ask an official to take out a few thousand guan of money. Generally, some money is either used to buy land or buried deep in the ground. There is not much mobile copper coins on the market at all.

In modern society, paper currency depreciates every day, and even the foreign exchange stored by the state dare not exist in its own country. Either foreign banks have raised interest rates, or buy funds, stocks, and bonds to achieve the purpose of fidelity.

The money in the hands of individuals must also be invested in order to maintain their value.

However, in ancient times, gold, silver or copper coins were buried underground without worrying about depreciation, so there would be no inflation if there was a major disaster or if a large number of currencies suddenly entered the market.

Some dynasties often experience deflation as they go, and cheaper goods are often not because they have abundant supplies, but because the people have no money.

Just like when Li Chengqian just came here, a bucket of corn in Tangcheng, Chang'an only cost a few dollars, but this does not mean that there is no food storage. A heavy snow caused a huge food crisis to break out in Chang'an.

In this case, the court can only take the lead in investing in some important industries.

Of course, the Tang Dynasty itself also had some industrial institutions, but these institutions mainly served the royal family and the court, such as craftsmanship supervisors, military equipment supervisors, metal smelting, etc. None of them served the people's livelihood.

It is precisely because of this that it was difficult for the Tang Dynasty to get rid of the influence of the aristocratic races because it was far away from the common people.

In fact, business itself is a kind of service. If the court does a good job, it will add a lot of points in the hearts of the people.

But Li Shimin cannot understand these principles at present, so when he knew that using gold for copper coins was just to build steel mills everywhere, rather than preparing for his expedition, the fire in his heart couldn't help but rush up.

After Li Shimin left, Li Chengqian thought about these things again and felt that he had done nothing wrong. He now has the ability to extend his hands to the Tang Dynasty, so he must do these things well.

After thinking about this, Li Chengqian left. He could not have attracted a group of noble ladies from Chang'an City to recommend jewelry to them.

A group of noble girls bought the jewelry here in awe of exclamations, and the last person smiled and counted the money.

If he really dares to do that, he will definitely be liquidated by the ministers.

Li Chengqian and his group walked out of the East City and said to Liu Kui lightly: "You go back to the East Palace first and tell the old ghost what His Majesty has found!"

Liu Kui watched Li Chengqian's faces have been gloomy since the students who were counting in the morning. When he heard this, his heart trembled and he quickly bowed and got out of the car to pass the message.

Li Chengqian has always been monitoring Li Shimin. This time, Li Shimin suddenly came to him and obviously arranged someone to stare at him, which made Li Chengqian very unhappy.

Li Chengqian knew that Li Shimin recovered from illness and still asked him to supervise the country, so he wanted to collect all the food and grass before he could facilitate his command in person.

The Eastern Expedition was a heart-wrenching problem of Li Shimin. He would not teach Li Chengqian a lesson easily before this, because any disturbances in Li Chengqian would make the court unstable and not conducive to the imperial commander-in-chief.

Li Chengqian took advantage of this and boldly promoted his policies when he was responsible for the country, so he didn't have to worry about Li Shimin turning against him and taking him down.

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Li Chengqian and his party did not return to the Eastern Palace but went directly to the Shangshu Province in the imperial city.

Now Gao Shilian and Xu Jingzong's inspection of the Shangshu Province is coming to an end. Generally speaking, the Shangshu Province itself is operating normally, and at least important official documents can be issued in time. Although Li Chengqian is very dissatisfied with this speed, Gao Shilian and Xu Jingzong and others think it is already good.

But the upward official documents seem messy.

There is neither the Shangshu Ling nor the left and right Pushe in the Shangshu Province, and they cannot handle some major issues, so many places are directly submitted to the Shangshu Province.

The Secretariat of the Secretariat was nominally the emperor's secretariat, and the Secretariat of the Government Affairs, which were not against the superiors and the subordinates, were directly sent to Li Shimin for handling by himself.

But it is not that necessary for the Secretary of the Government to take a look and let go. These government affairs that should have been tracked by the Six Ministry were often transferred to the Six Ministry’s Secretary’s hands in the past year and a half.

In addition, the number of officials in the six ministries is seriously insufficient. Even if problems are found, they are not able to chase them to the end.

Local officials often send their subordinates to Chang'an to handle official duties. Many times, the six ministries handed over the affairs that should have been tracked by their ministries to the ministerial envoys from all over the country.

It is conceivable that the efficiency of handling government affairs in this way is not a strong chief official, and local governments often deal with the situation.

Li Chengqian came to the Secretariat Province, and Gao Shilian and Xu Jingzong, the Six Ministers and others were there. He heard that Li Chengqian was coming and went out to greet him.

"Everyone is not a gift!" Li Chengqian, who had entered the Shangshu Province, sat down in the main seat, waved his hands to everyone.

The ministers below saw that Li Chengqian had come in person, and his face was a little natural. When Li Chengqian ordered the inspection of the six ministries of the Secretariat, many of them were dissatisfied.

Unexpectedly, after checking, there was such a problem. When he saw Li Chengqian again, his face felt a little embarrassed.

After everyone sat down, Li Chengqian said to Gao Shilian: "How are the six departments of Gao Qing's family patrolling the past few days?"

"I will report to the Crown Prince. This is a memorial written by my ministers and others after inspection. Please check it out."

Gao Shilian is now more and more impressed by Li Chengqian. Hearing this, he got up and handed over a memorial.

When Li Chengqian took it, he saw that they used the Spring and Autumn style of writing, and only said that the people below were not good at doing things well, and never mentioned Li Shimin's responsibility for abandoning the Secretariat.

After seeing this, Li Chengqian made a solemn expression on his face and said to Gao Shilian: "This matter is related to the laws of the court. Gao Qing's family still wants to meet Your Majesty and ask Your Majesty to judge."

Gao Shilian also felt that the matter was serious and Li Chengqian could not make decisions, so he immediately said to Li Chengqian: "I will come to the palace to meet Your Majesty later."

In the field, only Xu Jingzong had a strange look on his face. He and Gao Shilian were ordered to inspect the six ministries. It is logical that they should go to see Li Shimin together.

But Li Chengqian just asked Gao Shilian to go alone, obviously there was something else inside.

Sure enough, Gao Shilian and Li Chengqian entered the palace together, Gao Shilian went to the harem, and Li Chengqian returned to the East Palace.

However, before Gao Shilian left the palace, Li Chengqian's order came down.

The first is to announce the situation of Gao Shilian and Xu Jingzong inspecting the six ministries, and to reprimand the Minister of the Secretariat Yang Shidao for taking power and dismissing the post of Secretariat Ling, and to be replaced by Secretariat Minister Ma Zhou, the Minister of Personnel.

Ma Zhou was dismissed from the Minister of Personnel after he replaced the Minister of the Central Secretariat, and was replaced by Du Zhenglun, who came to Beijing a few days later.

Then I issued an order to rebuke the local dynasties for having to return to their original place within ten days.

Finally, the order was issued to remove more than 100 officials and clerks from the six ministries who were dereliction of duty and inadequate, and those who were corruption and sold were handed over to the Ministry for Discipline.

After these decrees, everyone in the court was confused. Everyone knew that Yang Shidao had submitted several memorials to resign since his son was killed.

It doesn't matter if the Zhongshu Ling is not the case, but now Li Chengqian is dealing with publicly, which is obviously taking the blame for Li Shimin.

Some ministers learned that it was the decree issued by Li Chengqian after Gao Shilian entered the palace, and they all thought it was Li Shimin's idea, and their views on Li Shimin changed a little for a while.

When the news came to Tai Chi Palace, Li Shimin immediately kicked the table over, which was too slap in the face...
Chapter completed!