C200 Fake Money
C200 Fake Money
If it was anyone else who did such a thing, they would be dead for sure.
It should be Xiao Yun's words that quietly helped him correct those mistakes, which moved His Majesty.
Or perhaps His Majesty was curious about what Xiao Yun wanted to do, which was why he was so relaxed.
Of course, it could also be that His Majesty was in a good mood because of the new currency policy.
How was it? Who could say for sure?
Perhaps even His Majesty himself doesn't understand.
In any case, Xiao Yun, who should have been punished, was completely fine now!
It was as if nothing had happened.
Even the Imperial Prison didn't send any new members immediately. There were only so many people left.
As for the person in charge of the Imperial Prison, it naturally fell on Xiao Yun. After all, everyone was afraid of him.
Regarding this, not to mention the eunuch, even Shangguan Qing'er felt extremely surprised.
She said to Xiao Yun in a daze, "Young Master, are we really alright now? We did such a big thing, but His Majesty did not react at all?"
Xiao Yun smiled and said, "He should be angry, but just like I said, as long as others don't know what happened here, it won't affect His Majesty's reputation much. He can tolerate anything. After all, His Majesty is also a very curious person."
"The others don't know?"
"That's right. Up until now, who knows what we've done in the Imperial Prison? Those who died naturally wouldn't speak, and those who were alive also knew what to say and what not to say. It was simply perfect. "
"Is that so..."
Shangguan Qing'er did not quite understand, but it did not affect her from believing Xiao Yun's words.
As for the Imperial Prison, it did not change because there were fewer people and even fewer people in the prison.
Furthermore, during this period of time, the Imperial Prison had taken in a few more serious offenders. Everything was still the same, and nothing unusual had happened.
Perhaps the only change was that the prisoners' food had clearly improved. These few days, those who had used silver to come in to see their relatives were not few. Their money had also become delicious and delicious. They were given to all the prisoners and the prison guards.
In other words, the prison guards' income had decreased.
But they were happy because compared to those dead people, they were really lucky.
Time slipped away from the fingers of people's fingers bit by bit, not because of any external interference.
Everything in Great Qin Country seemed to be developing in a positive direction.
What Xiao Yun had said in the past had become like fart.
As for Zhao Wuji, he was in the limelight now! He was even more powerful than before.
There was no one in the Imperial Court who did not give him face. Even those who were on equal footing with him subconsciously lowered their heads.
The first to bear the brunt was the Cabinet.
In less than a month, many of the officials in the Cabinet had been removed and replaced by Imperial Tutor Zhao.
Although the power of the Imperial Court was explicitly prohibited, they hoped to stop forming parties.
However, with the system in the middle of the Rank-9 here, the relationship between the teachers was extremely important! It was even beyond one's imagination.
For example, if a talent was elected after a good evaluation... Even if he had surpassed the Grand Middle Ranking, to outsiders, he had gained influence. He would have to acknowledge his master, if not... If that was the case, then his reputation would be tarnished, and his family's reputation would also be tarnished. When his children and grandchildren wanted to judge him again... No matter how much it costs... No one would give them a good evaluation no matter how much it cost!
Thus, respecting one's master was actually also for the future of the clan.
If a teacher had a good teacher, there would naturally be factions. Out of the five people in the Cabinet, three of them were righteous and had countless disciples. They spread throughout the Imperial Court and even reached 30%!
Especially some of the local officials, there were even more people in the Cabinet.
It could be said that in some places, the Cabinet could take control of the military and politics.
Now, Zhao Wuji took over the limelight that he was currently in and directly seized dozens of local officials' positions. This could be considered a huge victory in the contest between the three parties!
The Cabinet was extremely annoyed by this. They even vented their anger on Wu Xi. The meaning of the hidden lines was that he was too close to Xiao Yun, which caused Zhao Wuji to vent his anger on the Cabinet.
This made Wu Xi feel very innocent, but he could not do anything about it.
He was also very worried. He had been waiting for Xiao Yun to make a move, but Xiao Yun did not make a move at all. He was so anxious that he wanted to die.
However, even though there were undercurrents in the dark, the surface of the world was calm and peaceful.
When the new currency was released, the people were overjoyed, and everything was flourishing.
However, just as everyone felt that the future would definitely be good and that it would be bright.
Darkness suddenly descended, and everyone was caught off guard!
That day, His Majesty continued to brag about his decisiveness in the Imperial Court, affirming his ability to recruit people.
Prime Minister Lee, who had clearly taken leave that day, did not care about the guards' obstruction and rushed into the Imperial Palace in a hurry.
The first thing he said when he saw His Majesty was, "Bad news!"
Prime Minister Lee had been an official for so many years. What kind of storm had he not seen? In the previous dynasty, when he was still young, he had experienced three ups and downs. He had even almost died because of it. But even so, no one had ever seen the slightest bit of panic on his face.
Today, however, his clothes were untidy, and his face was flushed red from excitement. In fact, his originally sickly pale face had even been covered up by his flushed cheeks.
It was clear that he had heard some news. He immediately ran out of the hospital bed, and then rushed into the imperial palace without stopping.
What exactly was it that made Prime Minister Lee so excited?
Regarding this, even His Majesty could not sit still. He hurriedly asked, "Dear Minister Li, what exactly happened to make you lose your composure like this? "
Prime Minister Lee took a deep breath, and because of his sickly weakness, he made two gestures.
He gritted his teeth and said word by word, "Your majesty, after the New Currency was released, there were profiteers who secretly made fake coins!"
The word fake was shocking, but not shocking enough.
They did not have any feelings towards the word.
In fact, there had indeed been counterfeit money in Great Qin Country for decades. It was not that there were no people who privately forged money.
However, the previous emperor did not take this matter seriously. In fact, it was not even the same!
When you forged counterfeits, you first had to have copper. Then, you had to spend manpower and material resources to forge them. When these counterfeits flowed into the market, it should have had a huge impact on the market, but in reality, it was not.
Because at that time, the Imperial Court needed "half the cost" to forge copper coins!
In other words, if one wanted to forge a counterfeit coin, the cost price would be 500 dollars.
Of course, after this currency was forged, it would be circulated on the market for a long time. Hence, the value of this currency was definitely not something that could be used for money.
However, with artificial counterfeits and the method to manufacture them was very high, then... the Imperial Court only needed to forge a few copper coins less to allow counterfeits to enter the market. It was equivalent to them forging money for the Imperial Court!
Indeed, there would be some illegal merchants who would make a fortune from forging counterfeits, but what could they do? To the other citizens, it actually had no effect at all.
In the court, after the new emperor registered, he would naturally change the style of the copper coin. At that time, the emperor chose a more complicated style to forge it.
As a result, the cost of forging the coin was almost equal to the value of the copper coin itself!
And the imperial court's copper mines were mined, so it could be considered to be a considerable cost price.
As for those profiteers who wanted to forge fake coins, their copper was sold at a high price.
As a result, forging copper coins was a real money-losing transaction!
Who would do it?
If it wasn't for this investment, then the copper coins that were forged were completely fake. It was even to the extent that one didn't even need to look at it, and it could be seen through with a single touch.
The meaning of this counterfeit coin no longer existed.
Therefore, counterfeit coins had not appeared in the Great Qin Country for several decades.
When they heard the word counterfeit, everyone was at a loss. They had no idea why such a thing seemed to have become a big deal in Prime Minister Lee's eyes.
Prime Minister Lee naturally saw the meaning behind their expressions.
He let out a long sigh and said, "Nowadays, counterfeit money has become extremely common in some places. When this lowly subject received the news, this counterfeit coin had already flowed into the Thirteen Regions of the Nine States! Your Majesty... I'm afraid that Great Qin Country is currently in grave danger!"