Chapter 173 The Holy Emperor's Judgment!

Chapter 173

Sun Qian came prepared. He was carrying paper and pen, and someone beside him was holding ink and inkstone, as if waiting for Wang Chong's explanation.

Wang Chong looked at Sun Qian in front of him, and suddenly felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.

The golden coupon was a question he mentioned incidentally at the end of the note he handed to the Holy Emperor. When Wang Chong bought and sold Hyderabad ore and auctioned Uzi steel swords, he discovered that in many cases, the price of buying and selling reached hundreds of thousands of taels of gold. In conversion, the weight has reached more than 100,000 catties.

Although the density of gold is very high, even if it is hundreds of thousands of catties of gold, the volume is not very large. But it's not very convenient after all.

Once a large-scale and large-volume transaction is involved, it will seriously affect the economy.

Not only that, relying on the advantages of future people, Wang Chong is keenly aware of the crises and problems behind this "gold standard".

Gold is finite.

If the amount of gold mining cannot keep up with the development of the economy, it will seriously restrict the economy. In other words, "money" is not enough. In Wang Chong's memories of another time and space, when there was not enough gold and silver in the past dynasties, and there was nowhere to mine them, they would dig a lot of iron ore and copper ore and mint a lot of copper coins.

The amount of gold, silver, and copper coins is not equal, and the result is the confusion of the currency system. Today one tael of silver can be exchanged for one hundred copper coins, but tomorrow it may become one hundred and ten, one hundred and twenty, or even more.

This in turn contributed to social instability.

In some dynasties, because of "insufficient money", it even happened that the central and central governments only handed over the currency minting to the localities, and the local private minting currency was outrageous.

In addition, not only Shenzhou, currency problems exist everywhere. In another time and space where Wang Chong was born, even if it was as powerful and developed as "Sam Country", it would inevitably call on the world to establish the "Bretton Woods System".

And in the end, it was even more in place in one step, directly decoupling the currency from gold.

The main reason for this is that the gold standard will severely restrict the economy.

Even a country as powerful as "Sam's country" will be constrained by the "gold standard", let alone other countries.

The Middle Earth Divine Continent is now ushering in the most powerful time in history, and the Tang Dynasty is also in its rich and prosperous time. After Wang Chong contacted and participated in such a large transaction,

Almost immediately, he keenly sensed the crisis hidden under Datang's calm surface.

That's why Wang Chong mentioned this "currency issue" incidentally in the memorial.

Guaranteed by the country's reputation, gold round coupons are issued, and the gold round coupons are linked to gold. The first step can be freely exchanged. In this way, once the public's confidence is initially established, gold round coupons can be issued on a large scale to completely replace gold.

In the future, it is possible to plan to dilute the gold content in the gold coupons step by step. And when everyone gets used to the gold circle coupons, they can release the bottom-line prohibition of gold circle coupons from being exchanged for gold.

Completely withdraw gold from the economic activities of the society and transfer it to the custody of the empire. In this way, in name, gold round coupons can still buy gold, and the price remains unchanged.

Through this method, large transactions involving gold are more convenient. Secondly, the empire can also completely get rid of the shackles of "gold mining" and promote the economy to become more developed.

The "currency system" is the foundation of social stability, and only when the currency is stable can the society be stable. This is Wang Chong's suggestion.

Wang Chong just mentioned it in passing, and didn't expect the Holy Emperor to really care. After all, in feudal society, it was basically impossible for such advanced ideas to be accepted, let alone implemented.

It's just that Wang Chong didn't expect that the Holy Emperor not only listened to it, but also sent Sun Qiansun, a prominent and important person in the court to manage the finances, to come to the prison in person to question him.

"It turns out that this is the real purpose of that Eunuch Gao's trip."

Wang Chong looked at Sun Qian in front of him, and his heart went up and down. At this moment, he vaguely understood something.

"Your Excellency, if you want to ask anything, just say it. I will fully cooperate."

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Wang Chong said seriously.

Sun Qian nodded, and immediately began to ask in detail about everything. He asked very carefully, how to make gold round coupons, what materials to use, how to issue, where to issue, how much to issue... and many miscellaneous questions, some of which even Wang Chong hadn't thought about.

This made Wang Chong feel that these ministers were indeed very delicate. They may not be thinking well, but when dealing with specific matters, they are quite cautious and delicate.

For a simple question about "golden coupons", Wang Chong wrote hundreds of words on the memorial. But Sun Qian asked for more than two hours, and wrote more than two hundred pages, seven to eight thousand words.

"My lord, thank you very much. I will bring this matter to the court and discuss it with other ministers."

Sun Qian still had the same "dead face" as when he came in, but Wang Chong keenly noticed that his tone of voice was much more polite than when he came in, and his eyes were much softer.

"Your Majesty Sun is too polite!"

Wang Chong laughed.

Sun Qian nodded, and quickly left the prison with a thick stack of papers.

...

In the dead of night, in the Sifang Pavilion, a light was on.

"Father!"

Wang Gen saluted respectfully. These days, this was the first time he saw his old man.

"sit down!"

The old man stretched out his hand and knocked on the seat beside him. Wang Gen understood, and sat down beside him.

"Still thinking about Chong'er?"

The old man said lightly.

"Yes! It's time for the sentencing tomorrow, and I can't sleep all the time."

Wang Gen said.

Unlike the last time when he robbed a civilian girl, what Wang Chong provoked this time was not a trivial matter. With so many generals demanding Wang Chong's death, even Wang Gen felt that he had more than enough heart and power.

"Hehe, don't worry. That kid Chong'er will be fine."

The old man smiled slightly, but his expression was not as nervous as Wang Gen's.

"what!"

Tomorrow would be the time for the sentencing, and Wang Gen originally wanted to get his old man to write a letter to persuade the Holy Emperor during this trip. He is the only one in the Wang family who has this ability.

But hearing the old man's words, Wang Gen was speechless for a while.

"Father, are you serious?"

Wang Gen said excitedly, and subconsciously grabbed his father's palm.

"Hehe, you don't have to worry about his affairs. It is his good fortune that this child can be favored by the Holy Emperor. In the future, with this opportunity, even if I am gone. Our royal family doesn't have to worry about the absence of the Holy Family." Problem."

Jiugong smiled slightly.

"what?"

Wang Gen stared blankly at his father, completely unable to react in his mind. Wang Chong was imprisoned in the sky prison, and his life and death were unknown.

Moreover, so many barbarian generals opposed him and demanded that he be executed. It was unknown whether Wang Chong would be safe tomorrow. But the old man actually said that this was Wang Chong's good fortune?

How is this going?

Even though Wang Gen had been struggling in the court for so many years, he couldn't react to Jiu Gong's remark.

"Don't you understand? Your Majesty put Chong'er in the sky prison to protect him, not to punish him. Think about it carefully, when was Wang Chong imprisoned? It was Chong'er's story that caused Hu People are dissatisfied, but it hasn't reached its peak yet."

"Besides, if His Majesty hadn't put Chong'er in the prison, do you think you can still sit here quietly?"

Jiu Gong said indifferently, his eyes revealed a kind of wisdom and insight to see through the world and human feelings.

Sitting in his seat, Wang Gen was stunned for a moment.

Wang Chong was caught in the prison, he just wanted to run around and find a way to rescue him. But I didn't expect such a turning point.

It was purely an intuition, Wang Gen felt that what his father said was not unreasonable.

On the second day after Wang Chong was arrested, things got out of hand. If Wang Chong hadn't been caught in the prison, then the Wang family would have been out of control long ago.

No one knows how many people have stepped through the gate of Wang's house every day and questioned them.

But it was precisely because Wang Chong was caught in the sky prison that the Wang family escaped from the center of the vortex. Moreover, it also made the government and the opposition full of sympathy for Wang Chong.

One of the reasons why there are so many Han generals fighting for Wang Chong is because of this. If Wang Chong hadn't been caught, it would be impossible to achieve this effect.

The situation might be extremely unfavorable to Wang Chong, even worse than it is now.

"That kid Chong'er was imprisoned in the sky prison. It's a blessing, not a commodity. It will be of great benefit to him in the future. To be favored by the Holy Grace is something that many people can't ask for in a lifetime. It's just this kind of thing, you know. There should not be too many people, otherwise, it would be a disaster instead of a blessing. That's why I have kept the door behind you for the past few days."

Jiu Gong said lightly.

"I see."

Wang Chong let out a long breath, and the doubts he had been having for the past few days were finally resolved. No wonder his father kept avoiding him, no wonder Zhu Hu asked Wang Chong to be executed, but his father remained silent on such a big matter.

Although it felt unbelievable, Wang Gen knew deeply that his father would not lie about this kind of matter.

"Hehe, go back and sleep well. Tomorrow will be the time for the Holy Emperor to pronounce the sentence. If I'm not wrong, the Yao family should write a letter to support Chong'er tomorrow morning."

Jiu Gong stroked his beard and smiled.

"Ah! How come?"

Wang Gen suddenly raised his head, truly astonished.

Jiugong smiled, but this time he didn't explain.

...

The moon sets and the sun rises, and finally it's the moment that everyone is looking forward to.

No matter if it was the barbarians from the frontier, the Han generals of the Tang Dynasty, or the civil and military officials in the court, everyone was looking forward to the Holy Emperor's ruling.

For many people, this was no longer a simple matter of Wang Chong's life and death alone, but also involved the rights and status of Hu and Han generals in the Tang Dynasty.

"Following the order of heaven, the emperor ordered:

The Jiedushi system continues to be implemented, regardless of Hu Han, can be in charge. After being agreed by the imperial court, it will be officially implemented! As for Wang Chong, although the memorial he wrote was biased, it was by no means completely useless. The proposal of the golden round coupon is beneficial to the country and the common people. Therefore, the death penalty is exempted.

However, to serve as a warning to others, he was sentenced to three months in prison! This is it. "

When the disappearance was reported, the whole world was shaken, no matter if it was Hu people or Han people, everyone was jubilant. For Hu people, the Jiedushi system has not been abolished, and Hu people can serve as Jiedushi, which is definitely a great improvement.

It also shows that the court attaches great importance to General Hu.

As for the Han generals, so many Hu people demanded that Wang Chong be executed, but in the end they were only punished with three months in prison. This is definitely a huge win.

More importantly, the "Jiedushi system" and the strategy of "reusing Huren" left only the "Jiedushi system" and the strategy of "reusing Huren" was removed.

For the Han generals, this is undoubtedly a huge victory!

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