Runzhou City, Han Mansion!

In the study, the lights were bright. Han Xizai and a literati in green were drinking tea while communicating about the affairs in the court, which could be considered as a candle-holding night talk.

This man in the blue shirt was about 36 or 37 years old. He was the leader of the Jinling Imperial Envoy's Envoy in the National Palace during the day and was in charge of the imperial envoy. He was all transferred to Gao Yuan.

Gao Yuan was both the Ministry of Revenue Transfer and the Ministry of Revenue. Before Han Xizai was dismissed from office, he was the Minister of Revenue and the boss of Gao Yuan's immediate superior.

In addition to the subordinate relationship between the Ministry of Revenue, Gao Yuan and Han Xizai are both from the Sun Party camp.

As the saying goes, "The Han Dynasty was defeated by the party, and the Tang Dynasty was destroyed by the fact that the prosperous Han and Tang dynasties were finally due to the struggle between the two major literati groups, which caused the imperial officials to fight each other, and internally chaotic politics, causing the country to fall apart, and to decline and demise.

In the court of Southern Tang, cliques also existed and fought for many years. These two major party forces are the Sun Party and the Song Party.

The leader of the Sun Party was Sun Sheng, a native of Mizhou in the north. He liked to study and was particularly good at poetry. He was a staff member of Zhu Shouyin in the Later Tang Dynasty. Soon Zhu Shouyin rebelled and was executed. He defected to the Southern Tang Dynasty and became Sikong.

Eight years ago, Emperor Shizong of Zhou attacked Huainan. Sun Sheng was ordered by Emperor Tang, Li Jing, to envoy the Later Zhou Dynasty. Because he refused to provide the situation in Jiangnan, he was killed by Emperor Shizong. The news came back to the Southern Tang Dynasty. When Emperor Yuanzong Li Jing heard this, he was given the title of Grand Tutor and posthumously named Duke of Lu.

The rest of the Sun Party are Han Xizai, Chang Mengxi, Xiao Yan, Jiang Wenmo, Li Deming, Xu Xuan and Xu Kai, Gao Yue and Gao Yuan, etc. These people have one thing in common, most of them come from the northern part of the Central Plains. They defected to Yang Wu and Li Tang's overseas residence because of the chaos in the Central Plains.

The leader of the Song Party was Song Qiqiu, who was knowledgeable and assisted the Wu Kingdom. During the thirty years of the Southern Tang Dynasty, he was a prime minister who matched the truth. However, this person was greedy for power and was vain and treacherous, and he only considered his own interests. When the martyr Li Bing planned to seize power and establish a country, Song Qiqiu actually considered whether he was the most important thing and deliberately delayed Li Bing's major affairs, which made Li Sheng very dissatisfied.

Later, Song Qiqiu interfered in the royal struggle for the throne, supported Li Jingsui, opposed Li Jingcheng's crown prince, and was hated by Li Jing. Six years ago, Song Qiqiu dominated the anti-Zhou incident in Jianghuai, but was defeated and lost all the territory of Huainan. Li Jing was furious and dismissed Song Qiqiu, causing him to return to his hometown to live for a long time.

The people of the Song Party include Li Zhenggu, Chen Jue, Feng Yansi, Feng Yanlu, Wei Cen, and Cha Wenhui is one party. Among them, the last five people were rated as five people of the Southern Tang Dynasty's Five Ghosts by the Southern Tang History Book because of their treacherous and treacherous misunderstandings. The people of the Song Party are also very obvious, all of which are natives in the Jianghuai and Jiangnan, representing the power of officials in the south.

The dispute between the two parties lasted for more than 20 or 30 years. After conquering Huainan in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Li Jing was very dissatisfied with the Song Party at the end of his reign and began a round of purges. For example, he gave up the position of Song Qiqiu and removed the officials from the people. He issued an edict to kill Chen Jue and Li Zhenggu, and exiled Cha Wenhui, who was sick, to Xuanzhou, and the Song Party was greatly weakened.

However, after Li Yu ascended the throne, he changed his course and created a new situation in the Jiangnan dynasty.

Han Xizai poured Gao Yuan a bowl of tea and said with a smile: "Don't be reserved, you are a guest from afar. Today, there are no official titles and no friends. We are just friends who have forgotten their age."

Gao Yuan bowed and said, "Thank you, Lord Mr.!"

Han Xizai waved his hand and said, "I am idle at home, so I am not a minister."

Gao Yuan said respectfully: "Then the official title is Mr. Han! Over the past few months, the official family has been obsessed with you, and has mentioned it several times, intending to restore Mr. Han's official position, and even intending to choose six officials on your own. Whether it is a minister or a minister, you can discuss it."

Han Xizai moved his eyebrows and looked up and asked, "What does our official family really say that?"

Gao Yuan said awkwardly: "It's not the original words, but the meaning is the same. Last time, Mr. Han, you proposed to cast iron coins because of being the Minister of Revenue, and quarreled with Feng Yanlu and others in court. At that time, Mr. Han, you did not control your temper and became furious in the palace, pointing at the Song Party people, cursing, and being impeached by the Censor of the Palace, and losing your official position. Afterwards, the official family regretted the dismissal of Mr. Han. Even since last month, a new iron coins policy has been implemented, which is the currency policy that Mr. Han proposed!"

After hearing this, Han Xizai's face relaxed a little, took a sip of tea, and then slowly said: "After the Huainan Battle, we lost the rich Jianghuai area, and the taxes were reduced by half. In addition, the war several years ago was consumed, the national treasury was empty, and the financial constraints were tight. After I took over the Ministry of Revenue, I discovered that there was a shortage of money in our Tang Kingdom. Because of the huge annual monies every year, copper coins flowed into the Song Kingdom, which made our Jiangnan area produce a lot of copper, but it was not enough to use copper coins."

Gao Yuan nodded and said, "The Xiaguan is in the Ministry of Revenue and is deeply touched by this."

Han Xizai continued: "Mr. Zhong Mo and Zhong had proposed to cast big coins, one as Kaiyuan Tongbao, named Yongtongquanbao; and also cast small coins, two as one as one as Tang Guotongbao. These two new coins were not planned properly and had been in trouble for several months. The people stole the stolen money, which was extremely small, and were inferior as good, and finally failed. However, if the money shortage was not resolved, the commerce and trade in Jiangnan would be stopped, and the lives of the people would be affected."

"That's why I proposed to cast iron coins. Every ten coins are mixed with the ratio of six and four copper coins to reduce the use of copper. After this trial, when this new Kaiyuan Tongbao iron and copper coins are fully circulated, it can replace the previous copper coins and use pure copper coins as annual coins. The new iron and copper coins are circulated in the south of the Yangtze River, which can alleviate the copper abundance and ensure the circulation of commodities and coins. Unexpectedly, Feng Yanlu, Pan You and others actually brought out the ancient Zhou Li system to rebuke me for being cunning and competing for the benefit of the people. It is really ridiculous and extremely pedantic!"

Gao Yuanshen agreed and said: "That's true. They turned a blind eye to the current situation and just said some metaphysical empty words, stubbornly, and misled the country and the people!"

After the indignation, Gao Yuan continued: "However, the reason why they opposed Mr. Han so much last time was that according to the analysis of Lord Xu and others, it is very likely that the Jianghuai Song Party and the Jiangnan upstart forces have reached an alliance this time, and we must take the opportunity to exclude our overseas Chinese people."

"Newbie!" Han Xizai murmured for a few words and became silent.

The so-called upstart forces are actually that after the loss of Jianghuai, Li Tang lost half of his country and could only rely entirely on the power of Jiangnan. Therefore, after Li Yu ascended the throne, he did not pay much attention to overseas Chinese people from the north and Song Party members from the Jianghuai. Instead, he strongly supported Jinling and Jiangnan natives, such as Pan You, Li Ping, Chen Qiao, Zhu Kuangye, Zhang Shi and others.

Han Xizai was a little depressed and sighed and said, "I won't mention this matter anymore. Let's talk about what will happen to the Bai family today, how is the Bai family...?"

"Bai family? It's so good!" Gao Yuan had a good impression of the Bai family and immediately praised a few words.

Han Xizai was a little stunned. Isn’t the Bai family in a dilemma and being suppressed by the Ding family and on the verge of decline? Why is it so good?
Chapter completed!