Daxingshan Temple.

Cui Pingzhong was wrapped in a wool coat and sat cross-legged on the carpet of animal skin, with his hair disheveled, and was lying on the low table, looking at the white cloth on the table with a dull look at the white cloth on it. He saw circles after circles were drawn on it, with dense small characters written in the circles, and there were black lines between the two circles.

Han Yi would be shocked if he saw this white cloth, because it almost records his life. Even he first settled in Fengfei Tower and burned the contract of Si Meng's slaves, which were all recorded.

"War? No, he will not start a war easily, otherwise, why would he spend so much energy to establish all this? If the war is launched, workshops inside and outside Chang'an may be destroyed. Although he is still young, he does not have time to push it back. However, if his policies continue, it will inevitably threaten the imperial power. With his current power, it is undoubtedly a fantasy. Moreover, he does not have this layout. How will he avoid the contradictions with the imperial power and use non-war means to limit the imperial power? Han Yi, what is your last move?"

Cui Pingzhong frowned and murmured to himself. Suddenly, he shook his head and said, "There is no perfect plan in this world, and Han Yi will be no exception. There must be clues on it."

He couldn't help but sit up straight, and he looked down step by step from the top circle without getting tired of it, but as before, he looked back and forth three or four times, but found no clues.

This made him a little discouraged. He leaned his back on the couch and rubbed his eyes exhaustedly. Suddenly, he frowned and said, "After all, I am not him. I cannot know everything he thinks. But as long as he is sure of what his ultimate goal is, then what is his last step? If you want to not start a war and avoid conflicts with the imperial power, then there is only one way, which is to find a way to convince the emperor to support his policy. This is impossible. Will the emperor be willing to be bound by his last move? Is it impossible. Although the prince is young, His Majesty is still there. Although His Majesty is in good health, His Majesty is not so easy to fool now. If you are not careful, it will cause death. When the prince becomes an adult, he will definitely concentrate all his power in his own hands like his father. This is what every emperor will do.

In this way, Han Yi still has to devote a lot of energy to the battle with the imperial power, but a person's life is limited, and everything is supported by him now. If he has not completed it before he dies, then everything will be wasted. This is really difficult. Who can help him complete all this?"

Speaking of this, his eyes swept back and forth on the white cloth. Suddenly, his eyes were attracted by a circle. He blinked, suddenly sat up, his eyes focused on the circle, and couldn't help swallowing, feeling his hair standing up, "Is it possible - can't be like this? This is really incredible!"

He hurriedly picked up the pen and reconnected each circle.

When he put down his pen, his eyes swept back and forth on the white cloth and said excitedly: "By the way, by the way, that's it. If you do this, you can avoid conflicts with the royal family and speed up your policies. And you create this crisis for this step. Now the time is ripe, you just need to wait quietly.

Haha, it turns out that you have already told the answer, it is not a lie at all, but a fact, a huge fact. You are so smart that you dress up a fact as a lie that I can never guess your last step. It turns out that I was wrong from the beginning. Hahahaha!"

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At the junction of Chang'an and Luoyang, there is a canyon surrounded by mountains. There is only a small path that leads to the valley, and the surrounding area is even more uninhabited, because this entire mountain is in the royal realm.

Because the royal family had planned to build a tomb here a long time ago, but later they did not choose this place, so the place is convenient here.

But if you look closely, this road leading to the valley is narrow, but very flat, and there are two tracks, so people are obviously often in and out of here.

Today, two guests were welcomed here.

When I arrived at the entrance of the valley, I saw a fence here, and a group of imperial guards guarded the entrance of the valley.

When they saw the two of them coming, they immediately bowed their fists.

"See the Secretary of State for the humble position."

The visitors were Han Yi and Ono.

"No gift!"

Han Yi got off the Malay and asked, "I heard that the copper mine in Lelangzhou has arrived in Luoyang, so it should be transported here now."

"Reporting to the Shangshu Ling, it was shipped here yesterday."

"Um."

Han Yi nodded and walked inside.

The valley was completely beyond people's imagination. The coal mines and firewood were piled up like mountains, and there was a very large smelter in the middle. The smoke was rolling. Fortunately, the surrounding area was full of mountains, clouds and mist, and there were no people around. Therefore, it was difficult to find that there were hundreds of craftsmen busy inside. Now it was the cold winter, but I felt extremely warm in this valley. Not only that, there were imperial guards guarding them all over the mountain, and the guard was quite strict.

"Secretary of the lower officials will meet with the Secretary of State."

But I saw a middle-aged man wearing an official uniform walking quickly to Han Yi and bowing.

Han Yi smiled and said, "Mr. Wang, thank you for your hard work!"

The General Manager Wang hurriedly said, "The Secretary of State has made great statements, and this is the duty of the subordinate officials."

"If you can do your part well, it will be a great achievement." Han Yi habitually patted his shoulder and said, "However, this plan will be over soon. You don't need to hide anymore. You can wait patiently for a while. If this matter is done well, you will be the young master in the future."

The General Manager Wang was ecstatic when he heard this.

Han Yi smiled slightly and said, "Take me to have a look."

"Affect the order."

Manager Wang took Han Yi directly to the warehouse and saw a large number of copperware and copper ore inside, all of which were all copper.

Han Yi said: "How much currency can we mint now?"

The General Manager Wang was excited and said, "If we count the amount of copper reserves in Jiangnan, we can almost mint 20 million coins. Moreover, according to the instructions of the Shangshu Ling, we have been constantly improving the coin minting technology, reducing the loss of coin minting, and making great improvements. Shangshu Ling, please wait a moment."

As he said that, he took out a purse from his arms and poured out several copper coins from it, of varying sizes. "Please read the Shangshu Ling, this is our latest currency."

Han Yi took it and looked at it. The production was very well done, but it continued the usual style of the Tang Dynasty.

The craftsmen in the early Tang Dynasty were really nothing to say, full of craftsman spirit, whether it was weapons or currency, they were all excellent. This was actually closely related to the system of the government soldiers. Because the government soldiers built their own weapons, and these weapons were used to make contributions and save their lives. Who dared to make a second-class weapon to go to the battlefield? This is a joke about their lives, and the same is true for horse harnesses. Since there are requirements in this regard, the craftsmen naturally dare not neglect. If they are not done well, they will harm the soldiers. Over time, a tradition has been formed. The weapons in the late Tang Dynasty were very garbage, and copper coins were also very timely. In the later period, they were made by the government. Officials peeled one layer from it, and the knife was thinner.

“Not bad, not bad.”

Han Yi nodded with satisfaction and said, "I need to mint three million guan next year. Is there any problem?"

"Of course there is no problem." General Manager Wang wondered again: "But only three million coins?"

Han Yi smiled and said, "No hurry, let's take your time."

In fact, everyone here is Li Zhi's, including this General Manager Wang, who is an official of the Shaofu, but Li Zhi probably can't remember the arrival of this valley.

This is a forgotten plan.

Before Wu Meiniang's new policy, there was actually a debate on salt tax. When the court was preparing to buy salt from Tuyuhun on a large scale in order to support Tuyuhun, Li Yifu and others asked for salt tax to be imposed and monopolized it. However, Han Yi firmly opposed it. Li Zhi finally adopted Han Yi's suggestion, but Li Zhi was not stupid. Monopolying salt can bring income to the court. Why does Han Yi impress Li Zhi? This is the plan!

Currency Plan!

Han Yi told Li Zhi that with the development of business, copper coins will become more and more important and their value will become higher and higher. However, at that time, copper coins were still relatively rare, but they were valued in a very small city because business was just getting better and everyone was still self-sufficient. Generally, they did not need money. They used silk as currency. Han Yi proposed to secretly monopolize copper mines, and secretly lower copper prices and increase silk, because the Northwest trade was just emerging, and silk was a hard currency, so they used silk and grain to purchase copper ware.

But he had to hold on and not issue it first, and wait until the currency price rose before talking about it. Of course, he fooled Li Zhi. Han Yi knew that there was a crisis, so he planned to wait for this crisis to happen before it was released.

Because this is shameless, the court is just a speculative businessman. If you say it out, first of all, you will not be able to lower the copper price. Secondly, you will be scolded to death. This will definitely be carried out in secret.

Li Zhi handed over the entire plan to Han Yi and sent some people from the imperial guards to Han Yi to be responsible for the plan. No one except them knew, including Wu Meiniang, Li Yifu and others, and even this General Manager Wang didn't know what he was doing.

Because this was a long-term plan, and it didn't work at the beginning, it required accumulation. Over time, Li Zhi himself forgot about this matter. Han Yi was in charge, and it was all in existence every year, and it was little by little. Later, the copper mines were mined, and several large copper mines were built in Lelangzhou, and the amount of copper increased sharply. (For details, please see Chapter 1,431. There is a person who guards the country's wealth and has no worries)

Han Yi never fought unprepared battles. For example, today someone told him that the market lacks copper coins and the imperial court had to increase the circulation. He himself knew that if he was not prepared, he would not be so calm. Even if he had today, he had today n years ago, but the copper mining technology was limited, and this was a speculative transaction. He had to take it slowly and he must not be anxious. He must wait until the market could not be maintained before issuing additional copper coins.
Chapter completed!