 This declined to 210,000 strings by the beginning of the Qingli period (1041).At this time, the mints were ordered to cast 3 million strings of iron cash to meet military expenses in Shaanxi.However, by 1056, casting was down to 100,000 strings a year, and in 1059 minting was halted for 10 years in Jiazhou and Qiongzhou, leaving only Xingzhou producing 30,000 strings a year.