Wife's Observation Log

When Xie Zhen didn't realize it, her mind was running through the sad memories that she felt, some memories that she would be angry because she couldn't stop herself from losing her mind and repeating the same mistakes, but holding Lan Wei's Sometimes, there always seems to be another emotion that is better as the main theme to suppress those negative emotions.

But what if the main theme stops abruptly?

Fortunately, Lan Wei was not cruel. She was silent until the end, and finally said, "I'm actually nothing special, so do you know what happened to the first queen mother?"

Xie Zhen didn't want to let her go, and said sullenly, "I know—"

Then a thought suddenly popped up: "Let's drive back to the bedroom."

"Your Highness... Your Majesty can't say anything during the day."

Xie Zhen pushed Lan Wei's shoulders and propped his upper body back. It wasn't a lot of distance but he was able to observe Lan Wei's expression, um...she looked very serious.Because of her seriousness, Xie Zhen felt relaxed, and even wanted to tease her with a joke: "Why? But this time it's time for you to come, the days are long, can you take advantage of it?"

"Not good." Lan Wei had a bottom line.

Although it was to tease her, Xie Zhen really didn't mind dedicating himself, so Lan Wei refused him, Xie Zhen was still a little frustrated, until because of being too close, Xie Zhen heard Lan Wei's throat obviously swallowed.

Well, as long as she really moves, Xie Zhen will be satisfied.That’s right, Xie Zhen already knew that Lan Wei liked her face, and she also knew that she liked to wear court clothes—but after taking office, Lan Wei didn’t seem to prefer court clothes. Xie Zhen suspected that it was a matter of color, which was not important. But—in short, Xie Zhen has always believed in the attractiveness of his appearance to Lan Wei. If he loses this advantage because of Lan Wei's dissatisfaction in the last bridal chamber, Xie Zhen will have a headache.

"Your Majesty, listen to me." Lan Wei was very helpless, "The first queen mother is probably the kind who brought the system or traveled through the space. She is very capable and may have some tasks, but I really just close my eyes and open it inexplicably. My time has come here."

Xie Zhen chewed and didn't quite understand: "What are the two words? I said 'system' and 'space'."

"Uh, how should I put it? The word is not important. The system is a very advanced technology. It can be understood as a magic weapon of a certain god in the sky. Then the god will use it to assign some tasks to you remotely. You can get merit when you complete it." , In the end, you can use merit to exchange for something you want; space is a kind of supernatural ability, generally you can either bring your own future things, or store a lot of immortal panacea or direct medicine field fairy springs."

Xie Zhen was confused: "As far as I know, doesn't Lanlan also not believe in gods and Buddhas?"

"I don't believe it." Lan Wei said, "I'm just talking about the usual rumors. I have nothing to do with these. Maybe I was just sucked away by a black hole in the middle of the night?"

Xie Zhen thought for a while and wanted to ask again, but Lan Wei interrupted quickly: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty...don't discuss with me the scientific principles of black holes, the logic of gods and religions, and whether it is reasonable or not. I really don’t understand, I can only promise—”

"I won't take the initiative to leave your side, can I?"

Xie Zhen was stunned for a moment, and he had already answered "Of course", but his thoughts were like the resonance of the sheng and reeds playing in unison, and he swayed to and fro with the aftershocks of the musical instruments, and put together a "Huan" in the style of a mandarin duck and Yufei for a long time , and then she said, "Yes."

"Your Majesty, what did you say twice?" Lan Wei muttered, but Xie Zhen thought confidently that Lan Wei should know why, and whoever is prepared to fight for the day will not be happy to hear that the other party is actually willing to last forever?If you are happy, you are stupid if you are a little stupid, and it is not shabby.

Xie Zhen tightly hugged Lan Wei's hand this time, it was a bit tiring to hold such a brave general like this, but that's what she wanted.

"Your Majesty, hurry up and approve the memorial..." Lan Wei said, "If Your Majesty can finish the work earlier, I hope His Majesty will give me a long-lasting chance today."

Xie Zhen smiled, is this persuading me, threatening me or seducing me?but--

"Okay."

Lan Wei asked again: "Your Majesty, do you want me to sit here with you, or should I get you some side dishes for dinner?"

Xie Zhen considered whether to pretend to be shy, but there was no need to think about it. She asked Yishui to find Lan Wei to come and accompany her, so she replied frankly: "I want Lan Lan to accompany her today."

The tone was very frank, but when he spoke, Xie Zhen felt that his voice had softened into a puddle of water, oh, so let’s treat it as a coquettish, anyway, Lan Wei took that set, and in order to cooperate with this "follow the plan", Xie Zhen also deliberately added Sentence: "Lanlan, it's a pity that I have a Jinghua accent. I'm really soft and not like Wu Bang. Does Lanlan prefer Wu Nong's soft language like Chengsi? You mentioned it several times when you came back last time... ..”

"No, no," Lan Wei couldn't help rubbing her forehead, "Sister Chengsi is too noisy, no one likes it."

Yao Chengsi is thousands of miles away, yet innocent victims will be killed.Xie Zhen apologized to her in his heart, and then returned to the pile of memorials contentedly.

Probably it’s always bad to say bad things about people. It’s really a sincere letter. In order not to make myself feel guilty, Xie Zhen told Lan Wei about this letter. came in.In this letter, Yao Chengsi reported on the issuance of banknotes by Shanxi merchants. Yao Chengsi asked the Shanxi merchants who issued the banknotes to use the same format and pattern to print the currency as much as possible except for the seal. Then wrote some charter drafts.

"Your Majesty always thought that banknotes were a good idea?" Lan Wei expressed curiosity.

Because of this wording, Xie Zhen subconsciously thought that Lan Wei's question was a tactful denial. After all, the previous monarchs of the Song and Yuan dynasties had failed completely, but she was still confident after thinking about it: "Yes, as long as the court can stop issuing paper money indiscriminately, Collecting people’s wealth in the name of paper money, the convenience of paper money will only help the commerce of the society, and to be honest, there is really not enough copper and silver.”

"I remember His Majesty said that you need to reserve funds."

"Can it be called that too?" Xie Zhen flipped through the folder and found the part of the household department to see if there was any report on the accumulation of gold and silver.

"According to my knowledge, it should be more correct. Your Majesty will issue banknotes according to the reserve gold. In short, Chaoyin will collapse soon." Lan Wei said this but winked several times, telling Xie Zhen to be obedient Swallowed back the investigation of the inner reasons.

Xie Zhen felt that since she had said before that she did not force Lan Wei to tell the future, and she had to emphasize her position to reassure Lan Wei, then she had to show it and tell her that she didn't say anything, Xie Zhen himself knew: " The depreciation of Huizi in the Southern Song Dynasty was because the imperial court used it lightly. The treasury itself wanted real money and didn’t want Huizi when it collected taxes. When it was short of money, it gave paper money to the people and plundered the wealth of the people. .”

Lan Wei couldn't help laughing: "I know His Majesty loves you deeply."

Xie Zhen finally began to seriously consider Yao Chengsi's banknote bill case. In fact, the state guarantee is not difficult. Yao Chengsi wrote some articles on how to establish sufficient regulatory regulations so that successive kings and officials can print money reasonably. The Ministry of Industry and Engineering came in to discuss the refinement. Xie Zhen was considering a different issue now, which was also the reason why she asked Yao Chengsi to leave Beijing in the first place.

How to convince and accept the people?

Among the reasons why Xie Zhen insists on banknotes, the biggest premise is that the current copper and silver production is insufficient. Secondly, she needs to mention another point of view, which is that business cannot be suppressed.Suppressing business is very simple, and it can "cure the root cause", because if people in all places stay in place and stay in the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy, the people's demand for cash will be reduced.

Xie Zhen intends to completely unify Yunnan this year, and as long as she achieves the achievement of directly governing the entire territory of Yunnan for the first time in the Han dynasty, the silver mines in Yunnan will become the main source of metal currency.Then relying on the only province in China that produces a large amount of silver can basically meet the cash needs of ordinary people.

This is very good, but it sacrifices the vitality of business. Xie Zhen believes that the vast land and rich resources, if no one becomes rich and humble, adjusts the surplus and shortage, and measures the distance, then the essence of the so-called "material resources" is a waste.The south is suitable for silkworm breeding and skilled weaving. If the merchants are not allowed to sell silk to the north, but the northerners are required to go to great lengths to take oak leaves and carefully care for the poor young silkworms, it may not be possible to raise a few. Then why should the country care about people's livelihood? All regions are autonomous.

"Anyway, since I was young, I felt that Confucianism and Legalism said that it was inappropriate for businessmen to 'compete with the people'. We have seen many businessmen in the tug-of-war with Zhang Shicheng, right? Don't consider profiteers cheating and abducting. If ordinary businessmen really compete with the people Li, the people are completely free to not buy goods from merchants. If you sell me three gold pieces of brocade per foot, I will go to Suzhou to buy it myself if I think it is too expensive. It is the time and money I spent on going to Suzhou by myself that is worth far more than three gold pieces. , I might buy from you." Xie Zhen explained his "violent theory" to Lan Wei in this way.

Lan Weibiao agrees: "So merchants actually reduce the cost for common people to obtain items that they cannot produce."

It is precisely because of this that Xie Zhen strives to protect business, and the common people deserve better and better life instead of worse. Suppressing business will not make the rich and powerful unable to get rare things, but it will make the people buy one more cotton coat and keep less A catty of grain.

"But then there is a problem - the money saved by merchants by buying and selling comes from the reduced trade costs of large-scale transactions and large-scale transportation. Then such commercial transactions will use much more cash to deliver. This is the current copper Silver cannot last long."

And if there are goods but no money in the future, naturally the goods are cheap and the money is expensive, and the damaged people become the people who produce "goods". If the people are damaged to a certain extent, the tax revenue will not be collected, and it will easily point to the financial collapse of the imperial court. Then the imperial court was unable to fully mobilize domestic resources, and would fall into a disadvantage on issues such as defending against the enemy, and the country would be in danger of subjugation.

Therefore, Xie Zhencai believes that paper money must be promoted.

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The author has something to say:

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In fact, I really want to discuss how to transition from the gold and silver standard to the credit standard, but if Lanlan doesn’t study economics, no matter how smart Ah Zhen is, it’s impossible to discuss it thoroughly. Besides, it’s really unnecessary. If the gold and silver standard is done well, Ah Zhen There should be no problem at all in five or six hundred years from the time of the current era.The external factors of Portugal and America during the Little Ice Age, let the children and grandchildren ask for their own blessings.