Seeing Xu Ping stunned and said without saying anything, Kou Ying smiled and said, "Okay, Deputy Xu doesn't have to worry anymore. Since you have such a wonderful method, how can you use it as an ordinary iron coin? Which minister in Ren Chaoli should at least replace one copper coin. n∈ However, with the lesson that Xu Shen failed to mint money before, this time you can't be careless. When will you preside over it? Let's watch it together and then report it."

Xu Ping thought for a while and said, "Of course there is no problem in trying to cast, just set a date. However, if one is used to mix iron coins with copper coins, what should I do if the copper coins that were originally distributed among the people?"

"It's all for mixed use, what's the point!" Kou said with a smile.

Xu Ping shook his head: "I'm afraid it's not that simple. Iron is cheap and copper is expensive. After all, the people are not fools. They are afraid that they will put away the copper coins in their hands and trade them with only iron coins. Over time, the only thing that is spread on the market will inevitably be iron coins, and copper coins will inevitably be stored in the cellar. At that time, is there any meaning to compare the price between iron coins and copper coins?"

"How could this happen?" Li Hong was the deputy envoy of the Ministry of Justice, so there were naturally some ways. "The government collected taxes and just collected copper coins and not iron coins. Otherwise, we would set the score, lose a few cents of copper coins, and what kind of iron coins are you afraid of hiding the copper coins!"

Here comes, here, Xu Ping thought to himself that this is what he is afraid of. It has nothing to do with the ratio of iron coins to copper coins. The key is that if the ratio to copper coins is distorted, the newly minted iron coins will become credit currency, unlike the copper coins in the past that had real value. If the credit currency is to be stable, the regime must maintain credit. As a result, it cannot even pay taxes, and the government that issued the currency itself does not collect it. How can the public recognize this currency? How to maintain credit?

How did the money shortage come about in this era? It is really because there are fewer copper coins circulating on the market? It is not because of seasonal taxation. People who pay taxes lack copper coins. People with copper coins hide their fake money shortages that show!

According to Li Hong, the final result may be that iron coins will not last long, credit will collapse, and the people spontaneously resume the use of copper coins. If the government does not cast copper coins, naturally, some people will cast them themselves, and physical currency will be circulated.

Sichuan has been using iron coins. Although it has gradually depreciated to a level of 5 to 1 with copper coins, there has been no major economic turmoil because it is not allowed to flow in from external copper coins. The key is that in Sichuan, the government collects iron coins, and whether it is tax or sales, it can use iron coins without restrictions. The government maintains the credit of iron coins.

What I fear most is to mix physical currency and credit currency together to circulate. The government overdraws its own credit and uses forceful means to plunder the physical currency of the people, which eventually leads to the collapse of the money law. For the Song Dynasty court, which is facing financial crisis at all times, this prospect is almost inevitable, just to see the extent.

But how can we explain this principle clearly? Not to mention facing two officials who studied Jinshi in poetry and books, even facing many people who studied political economy in Xu Ping's previous life, this principle is difficult to understand for a while.

Fortunately, the iron case is in charge of minerals such as gold, silver, copper, and limestone, and drum casting. This matter is still under Xu Ping's control. The reason is not clear for a while, so I will explain it slowly. It just happened to take this opportunity to sort out the money methods of the past and present, plus the understanding of the past life, and sort it out, which can be considered a contribution to this era.

After thinking through this, Xu Ping no longer struggled with this issue and said to Kou and Li Hong: "How should new cast iron coins be circulated? I should think about it again, try to think carefully and not leave hidden dangers. As for trial casting, there must be some secret medicines used last time. Let's set a date and everyone can go to the coin metering monitor to watch."

Seeing that Xu Ping was still confused about the ratio of iron coins to copper coins, Kou and Li Hong looked at each other and smiled, thinking that Xu Ping was young and stubborn and used to being a habit. It was better to be stupid than being cunning, Kou and he stopped talking about this matter.

Several people sat down again, and the mistress came in to serve tea and talked some gossip together.

When Li Hongxin returned from the Khitan envoy, he naturally had to tell him what he saw when he went to the Khitan.

In Xu Ping's previous life, the Khitan was generally called Liao, as if calling them Khitan was a discrimination against ethnic minority regimes. In fact, in this era, their national names were volatile between Liao and Khitan. Generally speaking, whether they were their own self-proclaimed or the titles of the Song people to them were mainly Khitan, and there were very few people when they called Liao.

To be serious, the Khitan was founded much earlier than the Song Dynasty, but Song was orthodox in the Central Plains and inherited the world of the Central Plains dynasty, while the Khitan was a foreign country in the border areas. No matter from any aspect, this is undoubtedly.

During the two dynasties of Taizu and Taizong, Song and his spirit of unifying the world were bound to win against the sixteen states of Yanyun. Basically, Song was the main attacker and Khitan was the main defense. The offensive was not favorable, especially the defeats of the Taizong Dynasty in several northern expeditions, and the offensive and defensive trend reversed. When the battle of Chanzhou in Zhenzong Dynasty was in Zhenzong Dynasty, Song could basically be on the defensive.

By now, the two countries have been reconciled for decades and the border has been stable for decades. Every year, envoys exchange at least etiquette respect for each other and look peaceful.

Of course, it is another matter in private. The Song Dynasty court has always regarded the Khitan in the north as the biggest threat, and the deployment of troops has always been the most important thing in the north. Although officials have been reminding the attention of Dangxiang in the northwest in the past two years, at the court level, they have not taken Dangxiang's rise seriously, and their energy is still focused on preventing the Liao army from moving south.

In this context, when officials went to Khitan for missions, the priority was to pay attention to military and political affairs in the north.

Li Hong's words mostly talk about the military deployment of both sides, and pay special attention to the situation on Hebei Road.

After finishing the general brief of his experiences and experiences in this industry, Li Hong suddenly remembered and said to Xu Ping: "Deputy Envoy Xu was in Yongzhou for six years and traveled to the border areas for a long time. He even led his troops to defeat Jiaozhi. I don't know what he thinks about the Khitan? The next time he goes on an envoy, he may send Deputy Envoy Xu. Although Deputy Envoy Xu is a young hero, you still need to know more about the Khitan."

I don’t know what the reason is, but several deputy envoys from the Third Division often serve as envoys to Khitan, perhaps because their official positions are just right? However, Xu Ping was not interested in the mission. Is the Khitan an enemy country or is it better to meet on the battlefield.

Li Hong asked, Xu Ping said: "Jiazhi is in Tiannan and is a small country, so naturally it cannot be compared with the Khitan. I am a casual person and I am not familiar with the Khitan, but I can't be an envoy."

Li Hong sighed: "Oh, it's really not a good job to go to the Khitan. Although it was a foreign country, it attaches great importance to poetry and articles. When Li Wei sent the Khitan to write "The Long-standing Poems of Two Dynasties", he was highly valued by the Khitan masters. The two countries had a good relationship, and Li Wei made a lot of efforts. But after all, it was a foreign country, and Hu Feng could not change it, and he also valued martial arts. He often used archery and fishing as a means of emissary. How many people could do it? Only Wang Shu, whose literary reputation was everywhere, made the Khitan break with one arrow, and the people there still talked about it from time to time."

Wang once was a weak scholar. Now he is old, his face is still beautiful and his eyes are full of kindness from the inside out. It is said that when he was young, people used words to describe his appearance as picturesque eyebrows and eyes, and women who are more beautiful than him are rarely seen.

It was such a person who was on a mission to Khitan. Those martial artists knew that he won three yuan in a row, and his writings and poems would never be able to test him. He actually competed with Wang Zeng to shoot arrows. Wang Zeng held a bow in his hand and broke it with an arrow, which shocked the eyes all over the floor. From then on, no one dared to underestimate him again.

This story is very picturesque. Every time Xu Ping listens to people, he feels like he sees it with his own eyes. A scholar who is more beautiful than a woman, draws his bow like a full moon in the grassland desert. An arrow shoots out the center of the red heart, and an arrow shoots out of the target. It is simply the plot of Xu Ping's martial arts in his previous life.

Xu Ping thought about it himself. In fact, these envoys who created legends in the Khitan were actually relying on their own literary talent. On this basis, if you show your martial arts skills, you will have special effects. Your literary talent is really unavailable in this era, so there is no need to go to a foreign land to find it uncomfortable.

Moreover, when the Khitan mission is on the Khitan, there must be people from the Imperial City Division. These people are the emperor's spies, who monitor the envoys' every move at any time. If they accidentally offend them, they may suffer some luck. Although with Xu Ping's background, no one in the Imperial City Division dares to cause trouble for him, who can tell such a thing very well?

When Li Hong comes back, a very important thing is to rehabilitate Liu Sui, who was falsely accused by the Imperial City Inspector last time. However, although the evidence is conclusive, the case still cannot be turned over.

After saying some gossip, Li Hong suddenly said: "Since I returned to the capital, I often heard that Deputy Envoy Xu is very proficient in farming. In Yongzhou, he not only started sugar services, but also repaired the farmland, so that the entire Yongliang Road would be in short supply. This time, I went to the Khitan border and brought some seeds from the crops there. Each had miraculous effects. I wonder if I could plant them in our Han area."

Xu Ping asked casually: "I wonder what seeds are there? The Khitan is geographically similar to our Song Dynasty. It has trade and exchanges all year round. What crops do they have and we don't have?"

"You can't say that. The climate in Khitan is very cold and is close to the Western Regions. There are some crops that I don't have in the Song Dynasty." Li Hong said, and took out two small bags from his sleeve. "I happened to bring two kinds of them on my body. One bag is the Uighur beans introduced by the Khitans from the Western Regions, and the other is the fruits and melons called watermelons."

"Watermelon? Why did I forget this!" Xu Ping quickly held the two bags in his hand, opened them and nodded repeatedly. "No, not bad, it's indeed the seeds of watermelon, this is a good thing!"

Li Hong asked with a smile, "Oh, it turns out that Deputy Envoy Xu also knows it? I heard that watermelon is huge and extremely sweet. Unfortunately, it was already winter when I went there, and I couldn't taste it. I just don't know if we can grow it in Central Plains?"

"Yes, of course!" Xu Ping couldn't let go of the bag. This was the most popular fruit and fruit in summer in his previous life. The watermelons in Kaifeng are still very famous, so why can't they be planted?
Chapter completed!