Ancestor Bless: I built a thousand-year-old family

Chapter 341 Disadvantages
When the sun was shining in the palace, the courtiers thought it was just a normal court meeting, unaware that Liu Heng was planning to surprise everyone.

Luo Jing naturally wanted to go to court.

After Liu Heng came to the palace, the court meeting began to go through the process. After the official process was completed, Liu Heng asked, "Do you have a performance?"

This kind of performance at the Dachao Conference is basically a process, and generally there is nothing really to be discussed here, and it is usually used for testing occasions.

But today is special. A small official in charge of money and food arranged by Jia Yi got up from the back and walked to the hall and said, "Your Majesty, I have an answer."

This scene made all the officials look sideways. Many people here don't even know this person. They don't know what such a small person can do to win the emperor. Smart people have already started to figure out who pushed this pawn.

Liu Heng smiled and asked, "What's the matter, Qing?"

"Your Majesty, my minister remonstrates.

In the past, because the world needed a lot of coins, and because the counterfeit coins were rampant, the court could not stop them, so Empress Gao allowed private minting of coins.

The right to mint coins is related to the fundamental safety of the imperial court, so it should be taken back to the imperial court as soon as possible, private minting of coins by the people is prohibited, and it should be handed over to the imperial court for unified casting. "

As soon as these words came out, many people looked directly at Liu Heng, the leader above.

This is not the person the emperor is looking for directly, is it?

In fact, people of insight in the world have long seen that the court will take back the right to mint coins sooner or later. Not to mention the benefits to the court, it is only from the perspective of greedy human nature. How can it be possible to make such a large profit from coin minting? Have you been letting princes and powerful people earn money?

Although the mainstream public opinion is that righteousness lies in profit, are there really people in this world who don't love money?
Even if the emperor wants to do something, it still needs money. The emperor has the greatest power in the world. No matter how he thinks about it, it is impossible to give up the continuous production of gold coins.

There was an uproar in the relatively quiet court just now, and some courtiers even came out and shouted angrily: "What nonsense!

Allowing private coinage was the initiative of Queen Gao and King Lowen.

For decades, under this policy, the world has become more and more prosperous, and the quality of the coins of this dynasty is the highest in history, and now the people do not even use the old coins of the previous dynasty.

Doesn't this prove the foresight of King Luowen?
Are you questioning Queen Gao and King Luowen?

What a big dog!
I see that you are a treacherous minister who wants to rule over cholera. You must die to confuse His Majesty by saying these treacherous words.

Your Majesty, please kill this thief to set the record straight. "

He even directly moved Queen Gao and King Luo Wen out, and what he said made many people agree, especially Luo Xin's status and influence were too high for these people.

Many people know this person, not only the courtiers, but also one of the leaders of the Confucian school, a great Confucianist in the world, and now he is full of anger. Holding the sword, he stabbed the courtier who spoke just now to the point of chilling.

Let him know the power of Confucianism, let him know why Confucianism and Mohism were the two major schools in the first place, because other people can't beat Mohism, but Confucianism can!
Of course, the others would not let him go, and also came out and shouted: "The court can speak freely, this is also the rule set by Empress Gao and King Luo Wen, what are you trying to do by shouting like this?
In my opinion, it is because you minted coins yourself and gained great profits, so you prevented the court from taking back the right to mint coins. "

This time it was a direct personal attack, and there was a mess in the hall. These people pointed their noses and cursed, and even those who were close to him directly raised their hands.

Luo Jing watched from a distance, his face was full of smiles, it was really a lively court.

Liu Heng was sitting at the top, with a helpless expression on his face. This trend started from the time of Emperor Gao. He glanced at Luo Jing, and even smiled when he saw this kid, and said, "Ah Jing, let them be quiet."

Luo Jing smiled and held the copper hammer in his hand, and then struck it heavily. Such a heavy sound resounded in the hall, and the group of officials stopped their friendly exchanges out of breath.

Liu Heng rubbed his head lightly, and he guessed that there must be arguments, after all, it is more difficult to touch the interests than to touch the soul.

However, the controversy caused by the court was beyond Liu Heng's expectations, and it was a completely chaotic battle. Of course, those who benefited from it needless to say, Liu Heng didn't care about their opinions.

But the problem is that there are also many objections among those who have nothing to do with the mint.

Seeing this situation, Liu Heng temporarily stopped the meeting.

"Your family's opinions, I know their opinions. If this is the case, then I will take the time to have you discuss it together to see which side is more reasonable."

Liu Heng is ready to discuss it carefully. After all, it is rare to see both supporters and opponents plausible.

Although he has already determined in his heart that he must return to the imperial court, he may be able to make some supplements for the follow-up matters after listening to the opinions of the opposition. After all, the formulation of policies has never been perfect.

In Changle Palace, Liu Heng looked at the memorial presented like snowflakes in front of him, and said with some emotion: "Ah Jing, why do you think there are so many people objecting?"

Luo Jing flipped through the memorials, and pondered: "It's not unreasonable what these people said, but there is no such thing as nothing in this world. Now you need to take back the minting rights, there is nothing worth discussing."

Liu Heng laughed softly and said: "That's the case, but my uncle taught me in the past that I must listen to the advice of my courtiers, open up the way of speaking, and be good at accepting advice. As long as you listen, no matter whether you follow the advice or not, the courtiers will do their best. , so I want to hear what they can say."

The transfer of coinage rights to the imperial court sparked a great controversy, and the storm of controversy even directly swept all schools of thought.

Huang-Lao Taoism opposed the withdrawal of coinage rights, while Confucianism opposed and some supported it. After all, there were too many schools of Confucianism. On the contrary, Legalists basically agreed to withdraw coinage rights.

Here we must first explain that although Luoling practiced the law, the Legalists have not been eliminated.

Because Luoling practiced the law and did not beat the legalists to death, but criticized some of their ideas.

The Legalists are interested in profit, and they seek prosperity and wealth. They kneel down quickly in the face of power, not only in the face of the monarch, but also in the face of the Luo family.

After they removed those techniques of controlling the people from the classics of thought, they neutralized some less extreme thoughts, reformed their own theories, and then accepted the supervision of Rockwell.

Therefore, there are still quite a few legalist students who have become officials. When Luo Xin was the regent, although he was close to Confucianism and the Huang-Lao School, he was also willing to use legalist students as long as they had both ability and political integrity.

However, among the Legalists, there are many talented students, but not many virtuous ones. The legalist education thought that benevolence, righteousness and virtue are completely useless is still a bit too extreme.

Over the years, I have continued to change theories, learn the practices of Confucianism, and absorb a lot of good-sounding and beautiful words from Confucianism and Huang's family to cover up myself.

Liu Heng's speed was very fast, and a side hall of Changle Palace was quickly filled with bigwigs from all sides, and most of those who had interests did not come here, because Liu Heng wanted to hear some news about the recovery of the right to mint coins. disadvantages, and thus repair their own policies.

At the beginning, a doctor from the Huang Lao School directly said: "The imperial court's withdrawal of the power to mint coins is an act of remnants and abuse of the people. The suffering of the people of the world will begin from this point. I hope that your majesty will think deeply."

Liu Heng didn't speak, Luo Jing asked: "Please explain in detail, doctor."

The doctor said: "When the Qin Dynasty was tyrannized in the past, the first emperor unified the coins of all countries and distributed them uniformly by the court, but soon the people began to counterfeit them.

The same is true for Dahan.

Don't you think that only princes and powerful people can make fakes?
The trend of counterfeiting is from top to bottom, and almost everyone is involved, because the cost is too low and the means are too many.

According to my understanding, the most low-level method is to grind copper powder on the edge of copper coins. There will be no obvious change at all when grinding such a large coin. These copper powders are accumulated over time, and then they can be minted into new coins. profit.

What's more, copper coins are melted directly and mixed with other metals to make that kind of worthless little money, which almost has no copper in it. The folks call it "leaf money", which means as light as a leaf. money.

There are countless such methods, and the Mohists must know the most clearly. After all, many workshops for minting coins were built by them.

This kind of situation will not be over until the imperial court decentralizes the right to mint coins, and the world's tyrants compete to improve the quality of coins. I can say with certainty that the decades from Queen Gao to King Luowen have been in power since the existence of copper coins. ten years.

Once you start to take back the right to mint coins, you will definitely force the people to accept this kind of money. After all, there is no reason why the government mints money but the people don't accept it. That is contempt for the majesty of the court.

I really don't want to see the hard-won scene destroyed once, so I advise you that you must never take back the coins. "

These words made Liu Heng frowned slightly, because in a certain aspect it was indeed very reasonable, and it was also because of this reason that Luoxin let go of the control over coins.

Hearing these words, Luo Jing somewhat agreed, but he also had different opinions. However, on such an occasion, he would naturally not end in person, and naturally countless people would charge forward for him.

Sure enough, some people voiced their opposition very quickly, and it was from a completely different aspect.

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During the period of Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty, regarding the ownership of the right to mint coins, there was a fierce debate in the court. Emperor Wenwen of Han specially convened a meeting, which was known as the "Discussion of Mint Coins" in history. The speeches of both parties in this meeting were completely recorded. The author will translate and interpret the historical materials in detail, and strive to make every reader understand both sides of this debate. ——"History of the Rise and Fall of the Han Dynasty"

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