Wei and Jin Cooks

   Chapter 617 Intercession

   Zhao Hanzhang picked up a copper coin and looked closely. It was designed by her and Fu Tinghan. It is roughly the same as the current five baht coin, but there are many differences in details.

  It has a small "Zhao" character in the lower left corner of the back, and the borders are neat and all the money is the same weight, about 2.3 baht, which is the average value of new money in Xiliang.

  Zhao Hanzhang sighed after flipping his weight, "Wait later... I must make the five baht money worthy of the name five baht."

  Since the war, although the five baht money is still called five baht money, its weight has dropped from five baht to three baht, and it has dropped a lot.

   Fu Tinghan didn't understand, "Why do you have to weigh five baht? When you really have the ability to issue a new currency nationwide, just change the name and make a new one."

   He said: "The new coins we make now weigh two baht and three silks, that is, ten and a half copper coins weigh one tael. Do you know how much a thousand copper coins weigh?"

Zhao Hanzhang didn't speak, but Fu Tinghan said, "I originally disliked the fact that copper coins are too heavy. Every time we want to go out to buy some valuable things, Fu An has to go out with a shackle on his back, and there are more than a dozen coins in it. It's heavy."

   He said: "There are still few commercial activities now. If the situation stabilizes in the future and there are more commercial activities, it is actually more convenient to use paper money."

   Zhao Hanzhang: "Then the country must have enough prestige. Otherwise, the current Dajin should not mention issuing paper money. If he prints a copper coin that is lighter than us, would you dare to use it?"

   That is really not dare.

   Shen Ruhui and the four arrived safely in Luoyang, holding Zhao Zhongyu's letter, Zhao Hanzhang valued them very much, not only met them in person, but also arranged a house for the four.

   It can be seen from the arranged house that Zhao Hanzhang is very interested in them. The house of the four is their former residence in Luoyang.

   It’s just that their family income is average, so the house was rented back then.

   But the landlord ran away early, and now he doesn't know his life or death, so the house is now owned by Zhao Hanzhang, and she gave it to them directly.

   Zhao Hanzhang has always been generous in this regard for talents with real skills (you don’t need to spend your own money anyway).

In addition to the house, Zhao Hanzhang's Ministry of Works was also quietly established. The Ministry of Works has departments such as Tian Cao and the Ministry of Water. Shen Ruhui not only served in the Sinong Temple, but also served as the history of Tian Cao, while Cao Ping was still in the Ministry of Water. Assist Fu Tinghan together.

   But now Fu Tinghan still feels that there are not enough manpower, especially the Ministry of Industry needs to calculate too many things, so he said: "Next time, I want to take a single math test and focus on screening talents in this area."

   Zhao Hanzhang: "Then I will let people announce it now, and let those who are good at this aspect prepare early."

   This is an accurate selection, but these talents need to be taught by Fu Tinghan. Zhao Hanzhang glanced at him sympathetically, "You are really in a hurry to ask for someone, you can go to Taixue to have a look."

   This year, Taixue has recruited more than 90 students, all of them are quite old, from a good background, and also from elementary school in mathematics, there may be suitable people.

   Fu Tinghan nodded, "I will go."

   Zhao Hanzhang also felt that there was not enough manpower. She turned to look at the moon in the sky outside the window, and murmured, "I don't know what happened to Yan Heng."

  I don't know, I thought Yan Heng was familiar with her, but in fact, the two of them have only met a few times, and even exchanged hands back and forth across Gou Xi.

   But Zhao Hanzhang is very worried about Yan Heng now. This worry is sincere, "There has been no news..."

  Fu Tinghan said: "No news is good news. If Gou Xi kills his closest staff, the news will not be concealed."

   "Yes." Zhao Hanzhang was relieved.

   But at this time, Yan Heng's situation was not very good.

   The remonstrance he asked General Pei to hand over a few days ago was handed in today.

   General Pei and Yan Heng have a good relationship. Knowing that he has had a tense relationship with the general recently, although he did not open the letter to read, he knew that it would not be a very pleasant word after entering Yan Heng's temper.

So he has been looking for an opportunity to turn it in at a moment when the general is in a good mood and relaxed. That day he went to accompany the general to enjoy singing and dancing, but in the middle of it, a servant from the general's mansion broke a bowl, so the general was not very good. Happy, at that time General Pei stuffed back the letters that had been taken out;

   After going back two days later, the general was in a very bad mood. He heard that there was trouble in the two counties on the border with Yuzhou. Even the emperor heard about it and sent the general to the palace to inquire;

  General Pei could only rest his mind again, and the general was in a bad mood for the next three days.

  Today is the best day for him. He got two new concubines and they are very beautiful, so he called everyone to drink together.

At the table, General Pei saw that he was in a good mood, so he handed the remonstrance book that he had been covering.

   Then Gou Xi turned from sunny to cloudy in an instant. He didn't say anything to General Pei, but when he turned around, someone took Yan Heng and wanted to kill him.

   General Pei and several other generals hurriedly asked for mercy, but Gou Xi was furious and drove him out of the General's Mansion.

  Ming Yu, who was sick, heard that he didn't care that he was still sick, so he immediately got up and rushed to the General's Mansion to stop him.

   Zhao Zhongyu, who was already lying down, received the news and immediately got up from the bed, and quickly asked, "Has anyone been killed?"

   "People are in the general's mansion, and I can't find any news, but it has been an hour since they were arrested and brought into the mansion.

When Zhao Zhongyu heard this, he didn't care that it was getting dark, so he quickly put on his clothes and went to the palace.

  Because he is Zhao Hanzhang's great-uncle, so although he and Gou Xi are officials in the same dynasty, they are not far from each other, they are just peaceful on the face, they really don't have much friendship.

   If he goes to intercede, it will make him determined to kill, and he can only ask the emperor for this matter.

   Of course, Zhao Zhongyu couldn't tell the emperor that I wanted to recruit talents for my grand-niece, so I asked him to save me.

Zhao Zhongyu met the emperor overnight, and quietly told him that Gou Xi was going to execute Yan Heng, he said: "Your Majesty, Gou Xi was upright and honest from the front, but now he is extravagant. He has followed him since his waning days, and he is very close to the generals around him, once he is killed, I am afraid that the generals will turn against him."

  Zhao Zhongyu said: "Now Your Majesty has to rely on Gou Xi, his stability is Yuncheng's stability, and His Majesty's stability, so please Your Majesty to come forward to stop this disaster."

During this period of time, the emperor and Gou Xi got along pretty well. Although he was a little greedy, he was not the same as the emperor's understanding of him, but he was still attentive. Many government affairs would ask the emperor's intentions. Jiangdong and Jiangnan areas began to slowly return to their hearts. He believed that as long as he was given time, he would be able to gather power and regain the lost territory.

   So he didn't want to mess up either.

   He agreed after thinking about what Zhao Zhongyu meant, and immediately called the most trusted Huangmen around him and asked him to go to the General's Mansion to save people with the imperial edict.

   Zhao Zhongyu breathed a sigh of relief, only hoping that it would be too late.

Alas, after receiving the letter from Zhao Hanzhang, he quietly went to Yan Heng, trying to persuade him to go to Luoyang, but he still had hope in Gou Xi, and he would not say anything before he read the remonstrance. .

   (end of this chapter)