"Spinach, rapeseed, cucumber, eggplant, cowpea, cabbage, celery … I want them all. Charge me."
Xi City, early in the morning. In front of a stall, a group of people surrounded a very stout man.
The stout man bought all the vegetables in the greenhouse and bought them all at once.
The people around the stall looked envious. He sold them all early in the morning? If they were nearby, they could go back to pick more vegetables and come back to sell them again.
The vegetables in the greenhouse were profitable, but they needed to be consumed. The vegetables that didn't look good would take an entire day to sell.
Fortunately, everyone had reached an agreement. No one was allowed to lower the price.
While the people around were envious, the stout man waved his hand, and a group of people carried a bag over.
The opening of the bag loosened, and with a clatter, countless coins piled up.
"Count them. There's a total of 121 coins. See if it's enough." The stout man looked up at the sky.
The people selling vegetables were dumbfounded. It wasn't coupons? It was copper coins?
How were they supposed to count? They couldn't wear it.
"Why, can't we use the money?" The stout man stared.
Then he said, "Do you want to change it to silk? 550 coins per bolt? "
"How can silk be worth that price now?"
"Are you looking for trouble?"
"Look at those copper coins. They're obviously inferior coins."
"There's even tin coins inside."
"Don't we all use coupons?"
"They're bullying us."
The people who were envious just now started to complain. They had a common enemy, and thought that if they encountered the same situation, they would be sad.
"Everyone, are you from the Jiang family?" Someone came over. It was Zhou Gui. He looked at the money. Inferior coins, also known as evil money.
The quantity was small, and some were replaced with tin.
"Stop talking nonsense. The imperial court didn't say that this money can't be used. If you don't want it, go see the officials." The stout man sneered.
As soon as he said that, it meant that he was from the Jiang family.
Zhou Gui clenched his fists and then loosened them, "Counting money, the imperial court forbids it. We're just abiding by the law."
He didn't say that more than one had to be replaced with silk. If he said that, the stout man would probably take out silk of poor quality.
The two people who had set up the stall cried as they squatted there and counted the money.
"No need to count, it's enough." Zhou Gui suddenly smiled and waved his hand.
He knew that since the Jiang family had made a move, there was no point in counting. It was only right for him to hurry back and think of a countermeasure.
He didn't care about the money. The big mirror, the boxes of kerosene lamps, and the thermos bottles were the real deal.
The two hired men wiped their tears with their sleeves and struggled to lift the money up and put it on the cart. Tears flowed down their faces again.
They had already treated Zhuangzi as their place to eat. When Zhuangzi was at a disadvantage, they didn't feel good either.
"Let's go back." Zhou Gui cupped his fists at the stout man, the smile on his face unchanged.
"Some things are not as simple as you think. This is just the beginning," the stout man said arrogantly.
"Thank you for the information!" Zhou Gui cupped his fists again.
The cart pushed a pile of evil money back, and Zhou Gui also helped to push it.
… …
"Dongzhu, Jiang Hui has made a move. He used 121 tin coins to buy the vegetables from Xiao Lan Village."
Song De received the news 15 minutes later and quickly reported.
The ones who passed on the message were the underground forces of Chang 'an. They ran to deliver the message, and in fifteen minutes, they traveled from Xi City to the Li family's manor.
Li Yi pursed his lips: "I thought he was very capable, but it's just evil money. I look down on him."
"Dongzhu, are you saying that we don't need to care?" Song De didn't think it was a big deal.
"No, the amount of money is not important. What's important is that they provoked us. Have you found out about their business?" Li Yi shook his head.
He doesn't care about money, but he wants face. How dare you touch anyone? Chang 'an City doesn't have any rules?
Song De nodded: "There is a grocery store in East City called Sheng Xu. They sell daily necessities like pottery, kitchen knives, wooden bowls, toilet bowls, chamber pots, scissors, needles, and bags. At the same time, they also pawn things. "
"How boring. Grocery store? If you want to attack him, just attack him. At the same time, the other stores will not be affected. Pawn things? Haha! I can't kill him. "
Li Yi suddenly felt bored. His opponent was too weak.
Song De was dumbfounded. Dongzhu, what do you mean? Are you going to attack or not?
"Evil money is actually quite interesting. But it's not applicable to the current Chang 'an City. Evil money in circulation cannot be banned directly. "
Li Yi did not mention revenge. He was thinking about the bigger picture.
Evil money had always existed. Some people forged it privately.
The quantity was not enough, and the difference was too big. Many people bartered for it.
When people saw copper coins, they couldn't differentiate them. Evil money entered circulation.
Just like the fake money in Feng Yu's era. When people received fake money and went to the bank, the bank would not accept it. Some people would leave a mark on the money to prove that it was fake.
The losses were naturally borne by the people. What can the people do? They can only bear with it.
This was not the case in the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, the previous Emperor had banned people from going to the ships to forge evil money.
Later, when they collected it, they used a normal Kaiyuan Tongbao to exchange for five pieces of evil money. The people were not willing to exchange.
Even if the people knew that it was evil money, they still accepted it when they sold things and lowered the price. Normal Kaiyuan Tongbao could buy things with one coin, but evil money could only buy things with three to four coins.
Then, they used evil money to circulate and formed two circulation channels.
When they saw evil money, they exchanged it for money and continued to trade.
If there was no Li Family Zhuangzi's exchange coupons, evil money would explode next year. The Imperial Court first restricted it, but once the restrictions were placed, the transactions in the East and West cities would stop.
There was too much evil money. If the Imperial Court did not allow it, no one could trade it.
The Imperial Court released 100,000 coins of Kaiyuan Tongbao and allowed officials to borrow the Imperial Court's money to trade. Only then did the East and West cities come back to life.
In the end, the Imperial Court had no choice but to allow evil money to be used for local exchange. The Imperial Court took it back, and the Imperial Court suffered a loss.
The Imperial Court did not dare to touch it.
Now, with the Li Family Zhuangzi's exchange coupons, the evil money had no place to go. Most of it was accumulated. Most of it was the wrong weight. Some of it was using tin to replace copper.
In such a situation, the Prime Minister, Minister, Physician, Assistant Minister, and other officials in the Imperial Court were all numb.
In front of Li Yi, he really did not care.
He did not care about the development of evil money, but it did not mean that he did not have a temper.
"Go and tell Xiao Lan Zhuangzi to continue to increase the sales of greenhouse vegetables. Find more people to pick them. If you sell them, take their evil money."
Li Yi said to Song De with a smile.
"Got it, Dongzhu." Song De began to mourn for the Jiang family. Dongzhu was angry. He could see it.
Song De ran to make arrangements and reported to Xiao Lan Zhuangzi.
At the same time, in Xingqing Palace.
"They've gone too far. How dare they bully my eldest princess? Li Linfu, Jiang Jiao, you two are really something. "Li Longji was the first to receive the news. He was so angry that he laughed.
"San Lang, our Yuanshu is such an obedient daughter. How can she be bullied like this?"
Empress Wang wanted to kill someone with a knife. She had the ability to do so.
"I don't care. Li Yi's side should be doing something. I'll watch." Li Longji was angry, but he did not intend to do anything.
Empress Wang nodded. "Yes, ask uncle to do it. Teach them a lesson."
Now, she had infinite respect for Li Yi. Last time, she acted too early in the matter in Lantian County. She did not have the chance to do it properly. This time, she could not miss it.
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