Chapter 234 The Prospective Daughter-in-law

This teahouse is located in a very good location and has a rare view.

But King Rui had already booked it.

The entire second floor is very quiet.

There are five elegant seats in total. The middle elegant seat is extremely large, which can accommodate twenty or thirty students to gather, compete for poetry or have tea and chat; there are two elegant rooms in front and back, and can only accommodate one table, which is a place of purity.

For the Dragon Boat Race during the Dragon Boat Festival, the store set up several tables in the Daya Room.

Empress Dowager Qi came out this time and couldn't really watch the dragon boat race. She also had some political purposes.

There is a major event in the court recently.

The prime minister disagrees with local governments to pay taxes with copper coins, and they need to be exchanged for all of them for silver and handed over to the treasury. However, there is a huge difference between exchange of silver and money, which can easily lead to losses for the people and corrupt officials to fill their pockets.

Empress Dowager Qi wanted to meet the Prime Minister's wife and the wives of the heads of the family members supported by the Prime Minister, and then make some blows; then make a profit; and even make some provocations among them to make these families suspicious of each other.

Nowadays, there are many clans, and the emperor wants to implement a policy, but encounters many obstacles.

You can't kill all the officials, there must be someone doing things.

However, the officials respect the prominent clan more than the emperor's orders. When the interests of the prominent clan conflict with the prominent clan, the officials will disobey the emperor's slander.

The emperor must also be controlled by others.

Not to mention other wealthy families, even the Qi family of Empress Dowager Qi's mother family is also behind it.

The exchange of silver and money between the two currencies has a huge amount of oil and water, and the gentry will not miss this opportunity.

Some prominent families with huge power can even compare with the private warehouses of the United States.

Why did the emperor repeatedly attack prominent families and promote poor generals? This is how the imperial power is almost lost.

When Xue Mei arrived in front of the Empress Dowager, she saw that someone came in one after another, so she stood up and saluted.

Empress Dowager Qi introduced: "This is the lord of Chengyang County, and the Ai family looks like their own family."

Who is the wife of the noble family? The empress dowager sighed, and they could all hear the joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, let alone the empress dowager's suggestion was so obvious.

This county lord of Chengyang is likely to be the queen mother's prospective daughter-in-law and the future Prince Rui's official concubine.

The ladies were surprised.

I thought about it carefully: Oh, it was the Chengyang County Lord who created his own abacus and oil-paper umbrella.

No wonder.

As more and more people came, Xue Mei said to Empress Dowager Qi: "Empress, I want to watch the fun everywhere."

The queen mother smiled and said, "Go."

Xue Mei withdrew from the Daya, and Xiao Jingcheng knew something about it immediately.

After entering the teahouse, he disappeared. It turned out that he was in the last elegant hall.

He walked out and nodded at Xue Mei.

Xue Mei walked over.

"What are you doing when my mother keeps you?" Xiao Jingcheng asked her.

Xue Mei: "It's nothing. There are just a lot of people coming. I saw that the Empress Dowager had a lot of rules to treat people and was watching and studying."

Xiao Jingcheng: "My mother was born into a family and was taught by Liu Gao since she was a child, so she was not inferior to men."

However, she is always a little indifferent to her only son.

Xiao Jingcheng and Empress Dowager Qi have a complicated relationship.

He minded her unclearity with the emperor, and hated her coldness towards herself, but at the same time he wanted to get her some care.

However, Empress Dowager Qi is very capable.

When she was in her parents' home, Mr. Liu Gao, who was famous all over the world, was her teacher.

Liu Gao was from Qi and had made Qi change its ownership three times within 20 years. Every emperor was grateful to him, but he was very afraid of him.

He moved the power of Qi's clans and was not tolerated by Qi, so he came to Liang.

The old emperor looked for him everywhere, but he hid in the Qi family for twenty years.

He refused to teach anything until Empress Dowager Qi moved him and he accepted her as a closed disciple.

"...This time it was mainly taxed money and silver, and the prominent families were mixed up in the middle." Xiao Jingcheng said, "The emperor was not good for him to come forward in person, which damaged his majesty; Queen Yun had a weak personality, and Yun was involved in it, and had a deep relationship with the prime minister, so he had to let my mother come forward."

Xue Mei: "Is it because money is more expensive than silver?"

"yes."

Money is more expensive than silver, and it has always been a big problem. Unless paper money is issued or virtual currency is issued, there is no way to cut it off.

Even in the Qing Dynasty, this problem became a great help to the corruption of the administration - who can resist the fat meat at the mouth without biting it?

The so-called money is more expensive than silver, which means that in the exchange of copper coins and silver, one or two taels of silver should have been exchanged for one or two taels of silver; or one or two hundred coins, one or two taels of silver, but in fact it is more than one tael.

The copper plate circulated from the treasury contains copper itself.

And metals like copper are more expensive to support copper.

Gradually, the money was melted, and the copper coins on the market became smaller, and it might be possible that eight hundred copper coins could be exchanged for one tael of silver.

People usually use copper coins to buy things, but they have to pay the tax.

There was no choice but to exchange it.

However, the local money houses and wealthy families colluded with each other and insisted on you to exchange one thousand copper coins for one tael of silver; when they went to the court to exchange silver, they only had to give 800 copper coins.

Invisibly, two hundred copper plates fell into their own pockets.

In this way, the treasury harvest will be greatly reduced and the family will be able to fill their personal pockets.

"This is difficult to deal with." Xue Mei smiled, "unless the ratio of copper and lead to minting coins is changed, of course, it is still a treatment of symptoms but not the root cause.

The main reason for this is that the administration of officials is corrupt, and the royal family is not as binding as that of the prominent family. Therefore, changing the official selection system is an urgent task."

The imperial examination system should have come into being at this time.

Xiao Jingcheng looked at her.

His eyes were so focused that they looked very bright: "You know everything."

"In our era, these are history." Xue Mei smiled, "What's wrong with history?"

Xiao Jingcheng: “…”

At this moment, he suddenly became a little scared.

Afraid that Xue Mei would come suddenly, she would leave suddenly.

She doesn't seem to have much concern for her here. She used to have a cat. Now she doesn't care much about that one.

"Put your hand on my forehead." Xiao Jingcheng said suddenly.

Xue Mei: "??"

"I want to try it out, can I go in as I used to?" Xiao Jingcheng said.

Xue Mei: "..."

This is not very likely.

She hesitated for a while and tried.

She put her right hand on Xiao Jingcheng's forehead and tried it, but it didn't work; then it was between his eyebrows, but it didn't work either.

Unless he was in the state of being neither born nor dead, he could not enter Xue Mei's space at all.

Xiao Jingcheng felt very disappointed.

The two of them sat down, and Xiao Jingcheng was about to say something, but someone knocked on the door of the elegant seat.

Xue Mei glanced at him and saw Xiao Mingyu, Prince Ancheng.

Xiao Jingcheng immediately sank his face.

Xiao Mingyu's expression was faint: "Uncle Ruiwang, it's not that my nephew insists on disturbing you, but someone wants to come over and sit together."

Xue Mei: "Come in."

Xiao Jingcheng had already stood up and blocked the door: "No. You can change the place!"

Then, he saw the person outside the door and was stunned.

After pondering for a moment, Xiao Jingcheng finally got out of the way.

Xue Mei was behind her, curiously watching this scene, thinking that there was someone who could make Xiao Jingcheng give in?

Although this prince is not a fool, he is extremely arrogant and cold. No one's face is easy to use. He has been a person who is extremely proud since childhood.
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