After a while, two small yellow doors carried a few large wooden boards and laid them in front of everyone. The other one came in with a pile of paper, holding a small wooden box in his hand, and put them together on His Royal Highness’s desk.

These wooden boards were made by Xu Ping earlier. They were made from the Three Divisions. They were all made by skilled craftsmen and were shiny. Xu Ping often used these blackboards when he was recruiting his subordinates to hold meetings at the Salt and Iron Division and the editorial institute. The data were listed on it and you could understand it at a glance. The matters in the palace were reported and these large blackboards were brought.

When he arrived at the blackboard, Xu Ping bowed and bowed: "Your Majesty, all the ministers, before the report, I would like to talk about the disadvantages of the 'cash law' that Deputy Shu Li didn't mention just now."

"If you have something to say, just say it."

Zhao Zhen allowed it decisively. To be honest, Zhao Zhen was not a diligent emperor. Although he forced himself to be a good emperor, a good emperor would have to be diligent, and even showed it to Lu Yijian, it was really tiring. The memorials every day made Zhao Zhen want to vomit, especially the memorials were also listed in four or six, and citing classics according to classics, which seemed particularly brain-consuming. Xu Ping's memorials were different. They always had something to say and were clear at a glance. Moreover, the various information and data inside were detailed, so there was no need to worry about what this sentence meant.

Zhao Zhen likes to read Xu Ping's memorials and also likes to listen to Xu Ping talking about things. He has never been fancy, and he often hits the nail on the head and points to the point, so he won't make you dizzy in the clouds.

Xu Ping looked at Li Zi's expression in front of him, and saw that he was not angry, but was a little curious, and looked at him with a scrupulous look. He sighed in his heart. This is a good official, but unfortunately, he is often someone else's stepping stone.

"The tea method in the first year of Tiansheng, and various disadvantages of the tea method, Li Shu has basically mentioned that one of them is that the copper coins entered the Zhongjing in the 'Cash Method' decreased. Li Shu believes that it is because of the use of cash to buy grain along the border, which leads to copper coins entering the border and not staying in the 'Caremont', so he encourages tea merchants to bring copper coins from other places to the 'Cash Method'. In the middle, the copper coins are on the merchants, which is not related to cash than before, which increases the demand for copper coins. This amount is not small, and tea money costs a million guan every year, which means that the 'Cash Method' line directly adds a gap of millions of coins."

To put it in plain language, the demand for coins is related to the circulation link and circulation speed. Although the "cash method" reduces the false estimate of tea prices, it also increases the circulation link of copper coins out of thin air, slowing down the circulation speed. In this way, demand increases and supply remains unchanged, which is directly reflected in the shortage of copper coins in the capital and along the border.

The ministers here do not have this understanding of currency. After listening to Xu Ping's words, it seems to make sense, but they can't figure out what the reason is. The money is still so much, why do you feel that it is less out of thin air?

Because of his uncle Zhang Pin, Zhang Dexiang was relatively close to Xu Ping and asked, "Deputy Envoy Xu, what he said before seems to make some sense, but I still don't know. There are fixed numbers of copper coins, whether in the hands of merchants or in the hands of government officials, there are still so many, so why is it less?"

Xu Ping said: "Please read when participating in politics."

I picked up a piece of chalk and drew two large circles on the blackboard, with five hundred written in each circle.

"If the fixed amount of money is one thousand, if it is five hundred in the capital, five hundred along the border. The middle merchants enter the food and grass along the border and have to transfer it. When they go to the capital or go to the tea farm to exchange tea, they have nothing to do with cash."

I drew two large circles on the blackboard, one small circle, and four hundred in the two large circles, and two hundred in the small circle.

"The total number is still one thousand. Because of the 'cash money law', merchants want to use cash, and two hundred will come to the merchants, and one hundred will be missing along the border and the capital, so naturally there will be a shortage of copper coins."

Zhang Shixun laughed out loud: "What's the reason? Whether the merchant's cash is to buy tea or buy gifts, he still has to spend it. Could it be that he will always carry it with him?"

Xu Ping looked at Zhang Shixun and shook his head slightly: "My husband, the businessman just sells tea once. The business must be carried out all the time, otherwise where can they have food? Some people bought tea with copper coins, and some people exchanged grain for cash. In combination, the businessman has always had so many copper coins. Isn't this obvious?"

All of you here are a heroes for a while. They just didn't think in this direction before, but now Xu Ping suddenly opened his words and understood immediately. Even Zhang Shixun just didn't like Xu Ping's eyes, and his words came out casually without passing through his mind. Before Xu Ping could reply, he could already understand it in his heart and couldn't help but blush.

Zhao Zhen nodded secretly when he saw it, but Xu Ping's method was easy to explain the truth clearly. Draw a few circles and everyone will understand it immediately. If you just say it in words, you don't know when to go.

But this made the daily negotiating officials recorded next to him, and they could remember the daily negotiating officials no matter what they said. How could they remember the drawings and notes? Xu Ping seemed to have left the court for a while, and this job was becoming increasingly difficult.

Li Zi bowed to Xu Ping: "Mr. Xu said it well, it is indeed the case. I was negligent."

"Your in politeness, deputy."

This is not Li Zi’s negligence, but the development of the times has not yet reached that point, so everyone will not think about it in that direction.

The reason why Xu Ping mentioned this before the official speech was to remind everyone that he was the deputy envoy of salt and iron who was in charge of the tea case now. No matter what position the people here have had before, even if they have served as the deputy envoy of salt and iron, the envoy of the Three Divisions, and presided over the reform of the tea law, he is the most clear about the current situation of the tea law or the current deputy envoy of salt and iron, which is beyond the reach of it.

Take out a special blackboard eraser from the wooden box, Xu Ping wipes off the circles he just drew, and formally talks about the tea method.

Xu Ping picked up a long wooden ruler and drew a table on the blackboard, marking the amount of grain and grass entered along the Shaanxi roadside, the amount of grain and grass transferred out of each surrounding line, the tea entries issued by the government, the tea entries received by the tea farm, and the price of the tea entries listed above, which are actually based on the market value. Finally, the number of tea produced by the tea farm every year, the tax money that the government deserves, and the actual tax money.

Finally, starting from Shaanxi Road, the implementation of the entry of the middle and entering the middle along the border, and fill in the form year by year.

At this time, several experienced people here have seen the problem, such as Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng, especially Cai Qi and Li Zi. They have been officials in the Sansi system for many years, and this sensitivity is obvious.

But no one said anything. Seeing Xu Ping pushing the blackboard aside and pulling another blackboard over.

This time, Xu Ping had a fancy game. He drew coordinates on this blackboard, drew a bar chart, and then connected a fluctuation curve.

After finishing these, Xu Ping put the two blackboards together and bowed to Zhao Zhen: "Your Majesty, all the ministers must have seen the clues. Since the grain and military supplies in Shaanxi entered the border, the tea method has been changed repeatedly. Every time the tea method changes, the government's money has increased sharply that year, and it has been less in the second year. By the third year, it is basically the same as the tea method before it was not changed. From the third year, the effect of the new and old tea methods has been no different."

Speaking of this, Xu Ping said in a slow tone: "After all the time, the new tea method has various disadvantages. After it is modified, it will inevitably be able to eliminate the old disadvantages, and even establish a method that is not easy for thousands of years. As a result, the new tea method has come out in just a few years. If the same words support the old tea method, the result is still the same. Why is this happening again and again? Obviously, it is because no matter which tea method is changed, the court can make huge profits and even eliminate the old disadvantages when it is first changed, so it is repeated like this."

At this time, the "three statements" that have been implemented in Shaanxi for the longest time were the "three statements". The "cash method" was first started from Li Di, and Li Zi's complete and formal implementation in the first year of Tiansheng, and has changed two or three times. From the data, it can be clearly seen that the two tea methods have no essential advantages and disadvantages at all, and they are just a temporary urgent matter.

Just when everyone was silent, the Privy Councilor Wang once said: "Deputy Envoy Xu, the change of tea method does indeed seem to be as you said. However, every time the tea method is changed, the court has made huge profits. Where does this profit come from?"

"There are three sources of benefits when returning to the Shu prime minister. One is that the garden households will reward them every time they change the tea method. If they have the benefits, they will work hard to grow tea in the first year, and the benefits will disappear in the second year. The second is that merchants will change the tea method, replace the old and new, and all kinds of discounts. The benefits that merchants get in the past few years will be spit out into the hands of the government. Another one comes from the government. No matter which tea method is implemented for a few years, the old tea in the officialdom will accumulate like a mountain. It would be a lot of money to suppress these old teas."

Xu Ping didn't say the rest, so there was no need to say anything else. For example, Chen Cha Yipeng, the money was entered into the government, but where did the money come from? Naturally, it came from the people, and a small part came from the tea merchants. Except for Sun Zude, the Zhijianyuan, all started from practical officials, and naturally understood these principles.

To put it bluntly, the officials have to use the power of merchants to supply food and grass to the border, and in order to attract merchants, they have to give in to them. Due to various disadvantages, the amount of this concession will become larger and larger. When the government can't bear it, they will reform the tea method and use this opportunity to recover part of the benefits given out.

This process has been repeated over and over again. In the past tea law reforms, the officials who have worked hard to establish a law that can prevent various disadvantages. In fact, it is useless. It is just a tool for repetitive processes.

The court, every time the tea law was changed, the king attached great importance to it, and chose the ministers whom they trusted the most and believed to be the most capable one to do it, and was very cautious. In fact, it was just a meaningless game.
Chapter completed!