Five years of county magistrate, 100 million catties of grain shocked Li Shimin

Chapter 360 Fang Yuan was finally promoted to Minister of the Household Department
Wang Gui's idea is good.

But his thinking lacks consideration of reality.

Once people are in a state of panic, no matter whether it is Seven Star Banknotes or Datang Banknotes, they will become waste paper in their eyes.

At this time, only copper coins can play a soothing role.

But after a large number of people exchange copper coins, the copper coins of Huaxia Bank will be taken away from you, and the coinage cannot keep up with the speed.

"Your Majesty, Fang Shilang is unwilling to exchange the copper coin reserve!"

Wang Gui complained to Li Shimin.

After learning that all the copper coins in Huaxia Bank had been exchanged, he went to find Fang Yuan.

In the process of exchanging copper coins for banknotes in the Huaxia Bank, part of it was stored in the treasury, and part of it was stored in Fang Yuan.

And Fang Yuan also has money, the investment fees of the major families are in Fang Yuan's hands, although most of them are banknotes, but there are also copper coins.

But Fang Yuan was unwilling to give it, Wang Gui could only complain to Li Shimin.

"It's only been an hour since the imperial court's announcement, so why doesn't Huaxia Bank have any money?"

Li Shimin did not take the initiative to respond to Wang Gui.

He paid attention to the reactions of the people in Chang'an City.

In just an hour, Huaxia Bank's Datang banknotes and copper coins have all been exchanged, leaving only the useless Seven Star banknotes.

With such a fast speed, how much money and copper coins would the imperial court have to print to fill the holes left by the Five Surnames and Seven Wangs?
"Your Majesty, I think that Huaxia Bank did not exchange money on purpose."

"In just one hour, how come all the Tang Dynasty banknotes and copper coins have been exchanged?"

Wang Gui said in a deep voice.

He didn't believe it, he didn't believe that Huaxia Bank was so weak.

"Pass to Fang Yuan!"

Li Shimin was puzzled, so he could only summon Fang Yuan.

"The Huaxia Bank is not my own, Fang Yuan's decision."

"Your Majesty summoned the court's people in Huaxia Bank to know whether Huaxia Bank did it on purpose."

Fang Yuan frowned frivolously.

Dissatisfied with Wang Gui and Li Shimin's suspicion.

Now Huaxia Bank has tens of thousands of people lined up, and riots may break out at any time.

At this time, deliberately not exchanging money, things will become a big deal, and the people in panic are not joking.

"It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that I'm chilled by the actual situation."

"Fang Yuan, first take out the stored Tang treasure banknotes and copper coins, emergency!"

Li Shimin said solemnly.

At present, we can only take out the old books first, and work harder on printing banknotes and making copper coins.

"Your Majesty, in order to promote the Huaxia Bank not long ago, I hardly have Tang Dynasty banknotes and copper coins in my hand."

"And I'm still full of doubts about Wang Xiang's method. Please take out the Tang banknotes and copper coins from the treasury first, and keep the money from me for special circumstances."

Fang Yuan said in a deep voice.

Judging from the current exchange situation, Wang Gui's method is unworkable.

So Fang Yuan is unwilling to take out the money, thinking about the special situation in the future.

"To deal with special circumstances?"

"Money from the treasury can also be used for extraordinary situations."

"Fang Shilang, not only do you feel that the truth's plan is not good, but you also don't cooperate with the imperial court's order. What do you want?"

Wang Gui stared at Fang Yuan with dissatisfaction, said in a deep voice.

Fang Yuan frowned, but did not answer Wang Gui's question.

Seeing this, Wang Gui felt that he was neglected, and his expression became even more dissatisfied.

"Okay, let's withdraw money from the treasury first."

Li Shimin stopped Wang Gui who was about to go into a rage.

Fang Yuan has a better understanding of the economy, it is not impossible for him to keep his money first.

"Yes!"

Wang Gui glanced at Fang Yuan dissatisfied, and said respectfully.

Then he left, and Fang Yuan was left behind by Li Shimin.

"Fang Yuan, tell me honestly, is Wang Gui's method useful?"

Li Shimin said solemnly.

I am eager to know whether the problem of banknotes can be solved.

According to the information sent back from Qingzhou, Henan Road has almost fallen and is controlled by the rebels.

Now, the rebels are likely to control the Henan Road, thus facing the world and bringing about even greater turmoil.

"Isn't His Majesty watching?"

"Useful, but not very useful."

"Don't look at me, I don't have a good solution for now."

Fang Yuan shook his head and said.

Judging from the current situation, there is no chaos in Chang'an City, which shows that the method is useful.

But it has been a long time, and whether there is any chaos outside Chang'an City, it is temporarily uncertain.

But from a long-term point of view, Fang Yuan still felt that Wang Gui's method was not good, and the impact was too great.

"You go down first, think about it and see if there is a good way."

Li Shimin waved his hands weakly and sighed.

He never wanted to break with Wu Xing Qi Wang, because the consequences would be serious.

And this is just the beginning, it will be even more difficult in the future, God knows what terrible things will happen.

"I retire!"

Fang Yuan nodded and said.

After Wang Gui left, he immediately ordered someone to open the treasury.

It is well known that the treasury has no money.

When Wang Gui opened the treasury, he realized the concept of having no money.

Poor!

I don't know if this little money is enough to last for two days.

But the current situation is no longer a matter of thinking about being able to persist for a few days, but ordering the two major institutions that print banknotes and make copper coins to be faster.

This day is almost over.

The next day, Huaxia Bank came to the door as usual and continued all business.

But when the door opened, there was a long queue at the entrance of Huaxia Bank, estimated to be tens of thousands.

The people in front of the queue held heavy bags of seven-star banknotes, and within an hour they exchanged the Huaxia Bank's Datang Banknotes.

This is not serious, what is more serious is that those who have exchanged banknotes will hand over the Tang treasure banknotes to the team that is exchanging copper coins, and exchange the Datang treasure banknotes into copper coins.

From the opening of the Huaxia Bank to the completion of the money exchange, the whole process did not exceed two hours. The speed was unimaginably fast, but the number of people who successfully exchanged did not exceed 200.

"What's going on, are you playing us like monkeys?"

"The exchange was completed just after the door opened, and the imperial court used that little money to trick us?"

"Open the door, open the door, open the door for me, if you don't exchange money for me, I will burn your bank down!"

People were aggrieved and shouted loudly.

I queued up today, and the people at the back didn't even move, so I said the money was exchanged.

Isn't this playing them like monkeys?

People were furious and almost fought in front of Huaxia Bank.

As banknotes are not easy to exchange for copper coins, the situation of shops in Chang'an City refusing to accept banknotes has become more serious.

Even with the imperial court's restrictions and Chang'an City's county government watching over them, many shops still do not accept banknotes.

But they didn't say they didn't accept banknotes, but suspected that the banknotes were fake and refused to accept them. The county government couldn't help them.

This matter soon reached the ears of Wang Gui and others, and Wang Gui was so angry that he went to the Huaxia Bank in person to find out if the people in the bank were behind the scenes.

After reading the exchange records, Wang Gui knew it was broken, and Fang Yuan's worry was true, Wu Xing Qiwang took out a lot of money to exchange for the Tang treasure banknotes, and then exchanged them for copper coins.

As a result, the people in the queue at the back had no chance to redeem them, and they were all redeemed by the people in front.

There was no other way, seeing the crowd about to cause trouble, Wang Gui had no choice but to order someone to go to the treasury to bring a batch of banknotes and copper coins.

Now there is not much money in the treasury, so Wang Gui divided it into five days to provide time for printing and making money.

When the banknotes and copper coins arrived again, people stopped making such a fuss, and Wang Gui promised to watch them personally and not exchange large amounts.

Wang Gui thought that as long as he stayed here and watched, the five surnames and Qiwang would not dare to exchange large amounts.

But the idea is good, but the reality is very cruel. There are still many people who come to exchange with a large number of seven-star banknotes.

They are not people with five surnames and seven Wangs, but they are members of some top families, and they are all worthy of being put on the table.

Wang Gui could refuse one or two, but if he refused too much, he would feel embarrassed and worried that he would offend too many families.

In this way, the banknotes and copper coins that had just arrived, even if Wang Gui was watching them, would be exchanged in less than three hours.

Fortunately, it was getting dark, and no matter how unwilling the people who lined up were, after confirming that Huaxia Bank really had no money, they could only bear with it and go back and wait in line tomorrow.

After dark, Wang Gui entered the palace overnight.

"Your Majesty, I think I'm incompetent!"

After only two days, Wang Gui panicked.

After seeing the number of people changing today, he calculated the speed of printing banknotes and copper coins.

Unless people's hearts can gradually calm down, the number of people who exchange every day can only be more, not less.

And today, many aristocratic families came to exchange them, which made Wang Gui realize that there were too many seven-star banknotes left by the five surnames and Qiwang, and it was difficult for the court to digest them in a short time.

More importantly, Wang Gui wasn't sure if Wu Xing Qiwang would make a move.

"Wang Gui, it's only been two days, and you tell me that you are incompetent?"

Li Shimin's face turned dark.

In the meeting, I swear that I can do it.

Now only two days have passed, and he said that it is difficult to do it.

This change is the same as how serious this matter is.

"Your Majesty, I originally allocated five parts of the treasury's money, which means five days of exchange."

"However, today, tens of thousands of people lined up, but less than 1000 people exchanged them. Some big families hold too many banknotes."

Wang Gui could only explain and exaggerate things.

It's not that I'm incompetent, it's that the situation is not what I thought.

According to the current situation, it would take less than three days for him to be unable to stop him.

It would be better to tell Li Shimin now, so as not to report the problem three days later.

Li Shimin was speechless.

But apart from scolding Wang Gui, there was nothing he could do to him.

Therefore, Li Shimin called Fang Yuan and others to discuss again, discussing a better way.

"Your Majesty, Fang Shilang is more familiar with the paper currency economy than I am. Why don't Fang Shilang take charge of this matter?"

After discussion, everyone still failed to find a better solution.

Therefore, Changsun Wuji proposed to hand over the matter to Fang Yuan.

As soon as the words were spoken, Wang Gui agreed.

"Fang Yuan, what do you think?"

Li Shimin sighed in his heart, but he could only look at Fang Yuan.

He knew that it was just Changsun Wuji and Wang Gui who wanted to blame Fang Yuan.

But now Fang Yuan is more suitable to be in charge, and Fang Yuan is his virtuous minister Ying Meng.

Apart from Fang Yuan, I am afraid that no one else can think of a better way.

"Your Majesty, the stall has been ruined by Wang Xiang, can I support it if I take charge?"

Fang Yuan was dissatisfied.

At the beginning, I said that I would discuss it carefully and refused.

Do you take the blame for the mess now?
"Fang Shilang, can you not speak so harshly?"

"Be honest and work hard, do everything according to the discussion, how can you bring down the stall?"

Wang Gui's face darkened immediately.

His position is higher than Fang Yuan's, so it's fine if Fang Yuan doesn't respect him, but he still loses face like this, which makes him very angry.

"How did you break it, you don't know it yourself?"

Fang Yuan has not been going well recently, he is not in a good mood.

Regarding these matters of the court, I feel more and more wanting to escape.

"You tell the truth clearly!"

Wang Gui was furious.

It feels like a big fight.

"All right!"

"Now is not the time for conflicts, now is the time to solve problems."

"Fang Yuan, you take over the banknotes first, and when the matter is stable, I will give you the Shangshu of the Household Department!"

Li Shimin said solemnly.

When everyone heard this, their faces changed.

They have been staring at the post of Minister of the Household Department.

"Your Majesty, I have no intention of being promoted to Minister of the Household Department."

Fang Yuan shook his head and said.

Last time I put pigeons on myself, now I want to write a blank check.

And how long it will take to get this done, only God knows.

Don't ask me to do things that are not good for taking the blame.

"You don't believe me?"

Li Shimin said with a dark face.

He didn't believe that Fang Yuan was not interested, he just felt that Fang Yuan didn't believe him.

Everyone also looked at Fang Yuan with similar expressions, and also felt that Fang Yuan did not trust Li Shimin.

After all, what happened not long ago is well known, Cui Zhentang was executed later, but Fang Yuan was still the household servant.

Fang Yuan didn't speak, but the meaning was obvious, he just didn't believe Li Shimin.

You bastard, Li Shimin cursed in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, I want to promote Fang Yuan to be the Minister of the Household Department, and try my best to solve the problem of the seven-star banknotes, what do you think?"

After the words fell, everyone's expressions changed again.

Being promoted to Minister of the Household Department at such a young age, shouldn't you be jealous of the dead?
"Your Majesty, I have no objection, but if Fang Shilang doesn't handle it well, I think he needs to be removed from the post of Minister!"

Changsun Wuji said in a deep voice.

"My minister agrees!"

Wang Gui seconded the proposal.

Fang Xuanling and the others looked at each other and followed suit.

You can be promoted to the Minister of the Department of Household Affairs, but you need to be really capable of solving problems.

If things are not done well in the future, the official position will have to be dismissed and the post of Shangshu of the Ministry of Households will be given up.

The position of Minister of the Household Department is too important, second only to the Ministry of Officials among the six departments, and it is the position that countless dignitaries stare at.

"Fang Yuan, what do you think?"

Li Shimin said solemnly.

At the same time, he winked at Fang Yuan, telling Fang Yuan not to be careless.

"I am willing to try!"

Fang Yuan pondered for a moment, said in a deep voice.

If you don't accept it at this time, it will be too much to slap Li Shimin in the face.

"Very well, you and I look forward to your performance."

Li Shimin nodded in satisfaction.

He immediately asked the eunuch Wang De to arrive, and the imperial decree was issued.

Not long after, Fang Yuan's promotion to the Minister of the Household Department was spread, and soon the dignitaries in Chang'an City knew about it.

Some people are happy and some are sad. This night, the Fang Mansion and Du Mansion were singing and dancing, and they were in a sea of ​​joy.

Only then did Fang Yuan, who was deep in the ocean of happiness, realize that he had indeed ascended, but it was not so easy to keep his position.

At dawn tomorrow, tens of thousands of people will have to exchange banknotes and copper coins, which may cause turmoil, which is really a headache.

(End of this chapter)