Chapter 218 The country’s reputation is the most important

When Li Xiuning woke up, it was already bright. Li Xiuning, who was so confused, asked He Yueer while washing up, "Didn't Chen Lang come back yesterday?"

He Yue'er nodded and said, "He's here, but it's too late. Chen Lang said he was carrying too much cold air on his body, afraid that the princess and the fetus in his belly would be frozen, so he rested in the study next door and left before dawn!"

Li Xiuning asked in confusion: "What is he busy with recently?"

He Yueer shook her head and said, "I don't know very well. Chen Lang goes to the Shule River every day, and he doesn't know what to do!"

Li Xiuning frowned, and she was very surprised. She had absent-mindedly and asked He Yueer to prepare a carriage, and she took the carriage out of the city.

However, as soon as she left Shule City Dadu Prefecture, Li Xiuning's carriage stopped. Li Xiuning was closing her eyes to rest. Suddenly she heard the noise of a woman crying in the bustle. Li Xiuning lifted the curtain of the car and found a small group of Tang soldiers arguing fiercely in front of a Hubiao shop, while Hubiao's shopkeeper and his wife and daughter cried loudly.

Li Xiuning didn't understand the Toro Fire Words. She vaguely heard that the man and woman crying bitterly seemed to be using the Toro Fire Words. She asked curiously: "What happened?"

A Lite businessman obviously understood Tang Yan and could speak Tooshi, so he helped Li Xiuning translate: "Oh... a little thing, this team of Tang people's official troops ate 174 Hu cakes and fifty bowls of mutton soup in this Hu cake shop, and did not pay!"

When Li Xiuning heard this, she was furious and said to the guards in front: "Catch them for me!"

Although Li Xiuning was the princess of the Tang Dynasty and a hero among women, when she was in Guanzhong, she hated the government army very much, so she strictly grasped military discipline. Now Shule City is already the Shule of the Tang Dynasty. The people in the city, whether Han and Hu, are subjects of the Tang Dynasty. Now Tang soldiers dare to eat the King's meal, which is great. Don't look at the fact that 174 Hu cakes are only more than 300 yuan, and fifty bowls of mutton soup are only 800 yuan, which is a permanent amount of money.

However, despite the lack of money, the impact of creation is extremely bad.

Li Xiuning looked at the team of Tang soldiers who were escorted over and shouted coldly: "What's your name? Which general is under your command!"

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Li Xiuning shouted with a cold face: "Su Jianwu, do you know your crime?"

Su Jianwu said with a puzzled look: "I don't know!"

Li Xiuning's voice suddenly raised octaves and shouted: "You don't know the crime yet. Which military rule tells you that you can force the people's property and eat the king's meal?"

Su Jianwu said aggrievedly: "Report to Your Highness, how dare you do this? The humble man has already given money. The money only costs 837 cents. The humble man has given him a coin of money and will not let them find change. They are not happy. Isn't this an excuse?"

The soldiers also agreed, but Li Xiuning was stunned. In fact, Su Jianwu would never dare to lie with his eyes open, but now their husbands are right and his mother is right, but Li Xiuning doesn't know how to judge.

At this time, He Yueer, who went to investigate the whole story, returned to Li Xiuning and said, "Your Highness, the matter is clear. Team Su paid the money correctly, but he paid the money ticket from the Tang Tongli Money House, with the face value always, but the store refused to recognize it and even tore the money ticket!"

Although the money tickets in the Tongli Money House of Datang were called money tickets, they were actually like paper money in later generations. They were not named or lost. They could exchange coins of the same denomination in full with the money tickets, but the money tickets that were torn apart by the store naturally lost the opportunity to exchange them.

Under the current circumstances, the Hu Shang mutton shop does not recognize the money in the hands of the soldiers of the Anxi Army. However, the ordinary Tang soldiers paid a limited salary, and the usual money was their monthly salary. Now, the store did not get the real money they wanted and suffered losses. These soldiers were asked to pay the money again because they paid the money, so they naturally quit.

If it weren't for Chen Ying's extremely strict military discipline, I'm afraid they would have already cut people with a knife.

When Li Xiuning learned the whole story, he had no choice but to let someone pay the bill for the soldiers. Li Xiuning, who had boarded the carriage again, was even more confused. He found that as long as the Han people were, they all recognized the money in the hands of the soldiers of the Anxi Army. Only these Hu merchants and people of all ethnic groups naturally did not recognize the money in the Tang Dynasty Tongli Money House.

Li Xiuning was very surprised that why there were such huge differences between Han and Hu. She had no idea even though she thought about it.

When Li Xiuning came to the banks of the Shule River, he found that there were more than a dozen waterwheelers on the banks of the river at some point. Due to the cold weather, thousands of Anxi soldiers stood on the rafts and knocked on the ice on the surface of the Shule River from time to time to prevent the river from freezing.

Under the action of the water flow, these water wheels as high as five or six feet will roar with the water flow.

When I was hundreds of steps away from the workshop on the bank of the west bank of the Shule River, I heard huge golden sounds. These golden sounds were huge iron hammers waved by the ancient giant god, which made me feel very uncomfortable in my eardrums.

At this time, Chen Ying was like an ordinary craftsman, gathering among a group of craftsmen, pointing fingers and pointing.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying, danced and was as excited as a child.

Li Xiuning looked at He Yue'er and asked, "What is Chen Lang doing?"

He Yue'er said in confusion: "It seems like you are minting money!"

"Cast coin?" Even if Li Xiuning had never eaten pork, he had seen pig run. The cold casting method was adopted to cast the mixed copper water into the pre-made copper coin mold. As long as it was condensed, the copper coin would be considered to be cast.

However, there is a problem with this traditional method of minting copper coins, that is, the efficiency is too low. The maximum amount of coins that the Tang Dynasty can mint in a year is about 380 million. It sounds like this is quite large, but it is only 380,000 jin. For a Tang Dynasty with an annual fiscal revenue of more than 6 million jin, the amount of coins of minting is too small.

This also caused the money shortage of the Tang Dynasty. What's more, the Tang Dynasty was not a country without influence, but a regional power, including Goguryeo, Fuyu, Silla, Baekje, Chameng, Lin Lu, and Japan and Luzon. They all used the Tang Dynasty coins, and there was a very bad habit among the people, that is, save money.

Therefore, the Tang Dynasty coins were never enough. There was not enough currency among the people, so most of them adopted the method of bartering. Chen Ying developed leapfrogly and introduced banknotes. However, the storage of banknotes was not as durable as copper coins. Once they were damp or corroded by mice or ants, they would turn into a ball of useless waste paper.

In this case, Chen Ying decided to launch the coins of the Tang Dynasty Tongli Money House. Chen Ying's copper mine resources in the Western Regions were mostly controlled by Chen Ying himself, except for Yang Rong getting a copper mine. Chen Ying decided to create copper coins, silver coins, and gold coins.

However, the efficiency of adopting hot casting was too low. Chen Ying thought of the cold forging process in later generations, and directly used hydraulic impact pressure to stamp the copper coins in one go.

Today, a hydraulic press weighing 64,000 kilograms can impact 600 copper coins at one time. In theory, as long as the raw material pipe is enough, a hydraulic press can stamp out 3,000 coins in a stick of incense (five minutes). In a year, 150,000 coins can be cold-forged 150,000 coins, or the same amount of gold and silver coins.

Looking at the copper coins that were successfully forged coldly, Chen Ying nodded with satisfaction and said, "I did a good job, I will all take double examples this month."

The craftsmen suddenly cheered like thunder. At this moment, Chen Ying accidentally saw Li Xiuning's carriage in a blink of an eye. Chen Ying was shocked. Li Xiuning was already pregnant. In such a high noise environment, Li Xiuning was more dangerous every moment.

Chen Ying hurried towards the carriage, and without saying a word, he asked the coachman to drive the carriage and return to Shule City.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying and asked, "Chen Lang, why do you think of minting coins?"

Chen Ying smiled and said, "Whenever I go to the local market, I personally go to the local market and ask about the prices of various items. Today, the world's people have completely discarded the Wuzhu coins of the Sui Dynasty. More of them are used to barter them in exchange for life's needs."

Li Xiuning nodded thoughtfully and said, "The world's rebellion against the king has begun, wars are constantly coming, and the people are displaced. Naturally, they can eat and drink, and they can hold them in their hands to be at ease.

Chen Ying did not expect that Li Xiuning had some talent for financial management, and he had some appreciation in his eyes and continued: "It's not that the coins are useless, but that the country's credibility is lost, the world is quarrels, frequent dynasties change, and the size of the coins is not unified. The people naturally don't want to use them, and they can't use them."

Li Xiuning gradually frowned and said, "Barance can only make the wealthiest aristocratic family richer, while the people are getting poorer."

"That's true!" Chen Ying was a little excited. He sighed and shook his head and said, "It's not just the people who are poor, but the country is also poor, because those who are always rich will always be rich, and the lifeblood of the country will eventually be controlled by the aristocratic families."

Li Xiuning secretly got into her fist, her breathing became a little heavy, and asked, "Chen Lang, can you change this problem by doing this?"

"In the Tang Dynasty, the world is unified and the wars are gradually subsided. It is the time to turn around, resume production, and pay attention to the livelihood of the people." Chen Ying smiled bitterly: "So, I adopt the ratio of copper and tin to be 8 to 1, and cold forged coins. Only the credit value of the coins is stable. With the support of national reputation, we will take useful things such as food and cloth into the hands of the court and improve the lives of the people. This is the way for the long-term peace and stability of the world. The Western Regions are the western gate of the Tang Dynasty. Here, I will try coins first. As long as the Tang Dynasty is no longer short of money, the merchants who come to the Tang Dynasty will no longer barter! "

Chen Ying's words were actually kept half of them.

Chen Ying wanted to use the Tang Dynasty Tongli Money House to control the economic lifeline of the Tang Dynasty.

The Rothschild family has a famous saying: "Once money sounds, the voices of opposition will stop abruptly!"

Once Chen Ying's commercial empire is built, he will truly have an amulet on him, which is more effective than the iron scroll of the alchemy book. In fact, there are basically few ministers who have obtained the iron scroll of the alchemy book in history who can have a good ending.

Chen Ying did this in fact just to be able to live well!
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