Since Liu Jun sat on the throne, reform has become his main task, and from time to time there will be a new round of changes within Liu Song.
This time Liu Jun targeted border defense affairs, and Liu Jun believed that Licheng (present-day Jinan) was a military stronghold, so he planned to move the rule of Qingzhou from the original Dongyang City to Licheng on the first line, and then merge with Jizhou to consolidate border defenses. But most of the ministers involved in the discussion were opposed to this.
At this time, Qingzhou and Jizhou, who had been stationed at the front for a long time, stood up and expressed their opinions, saying: "There are Yellow Rivers and Jishui rivers in the north of Qingzhou, and there are many rivers and lakes, which is not the place where Hu Yu wants to go. Every time a thief came to invade, they would definitely attack Licheng first. The capital of the two states is located in Licheng at the same time, which is indeed a long-term plan. Moreover, it was also close to the Yellow River in the north, and the Wei people who came to surrender were easy to appease. From a close perspective, this can eliminate the worries of the common people, and from a distance, it is the best strategy for promoting national prestige and stabilizing the frontier. Liu Jun was very happy with these words, so he tried his best to defy the public opinion and ordered the transfer of the rule of Qingzhou Prefecture from Dongyang, far from the front line, to Licheng and Jizhou on the first line.
After the border affairs were temporarily put to an end, the issue of currency was placed in front of Liu Jun again. As early as the Liu Yilong period, there was a discussion on this, the final plan is to issue four baht money, Liu Yilong period four baht money contour, shape, style and the same as the previous five baht money, minting this kind of money is not profitable, therefore, the people have no one secretly imitate this kind of money.
However, after Liu Jun took the throne, the situation changed again, and Liu Jun issued a new four-baht coin after taking the throne, but the shape of the coin was thin and small, and the outline was not clear and obvious. This has attracted many imitations, resulting in the resurgence of the theft of coins from ancient coins, and for this reason, the execution or dismissal of officials has occurred one after another. However, more and more coins were being minted, and prices soared, causing the Liu Song court to be deeply worried.
In fact, in the spring of the second year of Xiao Jian (455 AD) last year, Liu Jun issued an edict saying that the money was too thin and too small and ill-defined to be used, which caused a commotion in the people. Immediately caused a commotion in the folk. In this year, in the third year of Xiao Jian (456 AD), Shen Qingzhi, the Duke of Sixing County, who had resigned from all official positions, made a suggestion: "The common people should be allowed to mint coins themselves, and then a money bureau should be set up in each county, and all the families who were willing to mint coins should be arranged in the money office, and the imperial court would formulate a set of minting standards, and they should not be allowed to mix with the money." As for the newly minted coins that were banned last spring, they were also taken out and allowed to continue to be used for a period of time, and from then on, all the minted coins were carried out in accordance with the newly formulated specifications and standards, and the ten thousand dollars were taxed three thousand, and it was strictly checked whether there were any families who secretly minted coins. ”
However, Shen Qingzhi's plan was opposed by the then Danyang Yin Yanjun, who reasoned: "The weight of the five-baht coin was the standard set since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, and after the Wei and Jin dynasties, no one could change it." This is because the value of the coin and the value of the goods are already equal, and if it is changed arbitrarily, adulterated coins will appear. It is now said that the coins that were forbidden to be used last spring can continue to be used, and if these coins of uneven size and thickness are allowed to circulate in public without the supervision of the imperial court, it can be said that this is of great benefit to individuals, and under the heavy profits, there will be no end to the adulterers, and those who mint coins privately and secretly cut old coins will never be forbidden. In this way, the goods have not increased, but the big money has been exhausted, and in a few years, all four baht will turn into dust. ”
After analyzing the drawbacks, Yan Jun continued: "Now, the new ban has just begun to be implemented, and the style standards of coins circulating in the market have not yet been unified. The commotion and noise of the common people will naturally stop soon, which is not enough to worry the emperor. The deficit in the treasury is the most worrying thing. Today, even when small amounts of money were allowed, the imperial court did not increase taxes. Even if the common people became rich, they could not solve the shortage of financial and material resources in the imperial court. Now, we only have to advocate frugality, oppose waste of luxury, spend our minds on thrift and thrift, and seek the road to prosperity, and there is nothing better than this. ”
At this time, among the people who participated in the discussion, some people put forward the idea of sour: "Copper mines are not easy to find, and two baht money should be recast." Yan Jun immediately retorted: "The people who made this suggestion believe that the treasury is now lacking in property and should be minted instead. There is very little copper in the world, so the weight of the coins should be reduced, so as to stop the vicious circle of the situation, so that the country is rich and the people are rich. I don't think these ideas are a good idea. Now if you mint two baht money and just blindly use small money to thin money, this will not solve the difficulties of the imperial court, and the people will have more adulterous crimes, and all the goods under the world will be preemptively exhausted by people. It is only empty that it should be strictly prohibited, but it is difficult to prohibit it if the profit is large. ”
Then Yan Jun further said: "In a year or two, this ill will reach the point of being irreparable." Ordinary people have sensed that we are going to change big money to small money, and they are afraid that the new ban recently issued will definitely cause chaos and disputes in the streets and alleys of the city. We have not yet seen the long-term benefits, and the ills of urgency are already revealed. As a result, the rich and wealthy merchants are getting richer and richer, and they are becoming more and more satisfied, while the lives of the poor people are getting poorer and more difficult. ”
The result of the discussion was that Shen Qingzhi's plan was not approved, and the second plant of money was not issued for the time being. The xiaojian four baht continued to be issued, but the problem of private casting was also repeatedly prohibited, but compared with the situation encountered after Liu Song, the problems in Liu Jun's period were not the most serious.