Li Yuanxing had a slight headache. When he was reading history books, Li Yuanxing already knew from the books that in many ancient times, soldiers were as low as slaves.
Sometimes, soldiers are also bandits. It is not the fault of the soldiers, but the result of the social environment at that time.
Just imagine, who is born to be a villain.
So, where is the root cause?
But the locust plague had to be cured. Li Yuanxing knocked on the table lightly and said to Yuanchun: "Go back to the study and transfer the information on the prefectures and counties of Hedong Road, Hebei Road, Henan Road, and Gyeonggi Province."
After Li Yuanxing finished speaking, he walked straight to the study.
Yuan Chun went to retrieve the information, and Li Liyuan and her two maids rushed to Li Yuanxing's study after hearing the news. Her two maids were not enough to serve as secretaries, but they could still organize the information. After all, they knew how to read.
In the Tang Dynasty, knowing Chinese characters was already a very remarkable skill.
You must know that the literacy rate in Datang was less than one percent.
Li Yuanxing picked up a policy and opened it. It was a small county in the south of Hedong Road with a very unfamiliar name. Li Liyuan said next to him: "Your Highness, Liyuan has brought the map." Li Liyuan opened the map and ran as fast as possible.
It took time to find the location of that county.
Judging from the map, it should be the location of Yuncheng, Shanxi, north of Weinan in later generations.
"Yes!" Li Yuanxing nodded, indicating that he understood.
Looking at the information, it says that 1,700 households own 3,100 acres of paddy fields and 6,600 acres of dry fields. Apart from agriculture, there is no other handicraft industry, and there are no special products. There are not many.
Passing merchants.
I checked again on the map and found that merchants from Hebei Province would cross the Yellow River in Fengling, or go directly to Luoyang, or go to Chang'an via Huazhou. There is no need to go to this county because there is no good location to cross the Yellow River.
, if you take a detour around Yaozhou, you don’t need to pass through this county.
"The annual tax revenue is only four thousand buckets of food!"
Seeing this number, Li Yuanxing felt a chill. Calculated at ten cents per dou, this was only 40,000 cents, or 40 guan.
What is enough money for forty dollars?
Even if there was no food or drink in the county all year round, four thousand bushels of grain would not be enough to mobilize the soldiers to repair the river for a few days.
Poor! It seems that the rejection of these states and counties is not completely unreasonable.
"Send someone to the Ministry of Household Affairs. I want to see the taxation situation of these three states and counties in previous years." Li Yuanxing said, and wrote a document himself. Not everyone is qualified to check such information when the Ministry of Household Affairs wants to check it. Li Yuanxing
It is also necessary to write down a formal document and keep it for the record, and then send it to the corresponding clerk of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and then take it back after Li Yuanxing checks it.
Transcribing is absolutely not allowed.
Li Yuanxing wrote half of the manuscript and revised it again.
"Forget it, tell them to be prepared. I will go to Chang'an tomorrow to check it out for myself."
Yuanchun took Li Yuanxing's document and went out to send someone to deliver the letter.
"Let's sort out all the information first. I will check the information in the transfer department tomorrow and then think about it."
Li Yuanxing is a human being, not a god. What he possesses is the experience and knowledge of future generations.
But the Tang Dynasty was a huge country, and it was an empire that was full of waste. Li Yuanxing also thought that he was too impatient about many things. It seemed that it was time to clean up his mood and start over from a different angle.
After Li Liyuan's two maids arranged the information on the three prefectures and counties on the shelves, Li Yuanxing took out a very beautiful aluminum alloy case with a password box from under his desk.
"Pure silver box, Your Highness, this is so beautiful!"
"This is not silver, this is called aluminum. It is a good thing, but it cannot be refined in the Tang Dynasty. Remember, the box is only used to hold things, and the precious things are always the things in the box!" Li Yuanxing smiled at Li Liyuan.
said.
Li Liyuan nodded vigorously: "Your Highness, Liyuan knows. There is an ancient allusion of buying a coffin and returning a pearl!"
Li Yuanxing did not answer any more, but opened the box in front of him, which contained a sample of commemorative coins. Of course, to modern people, this is the commemorative coin of the TV series. But in the Tang Dynasty, this was the real currency.
The coins in Li Yuanxing's hand are divided into three types: gold, silver and copper.
It's definitely not 100% pure, it has more or less alloy components.
There are two types of copper coins. One is the standard one-money copper coin. On the front is an old farmer, which is actually the head of Lao Li, and on the back is the word "一" held by wheat ears. The other is five-money coins.
For the copper coin, I used the portrait of a sergeant, and chose the portrait of Li Er's personal guard, the master of the imperial army.
There are three types of silver coins. One is a one-money silver coin, which is equivalent to one hundred copper coins. The front side shows the image of Changsun Wuji.
The five-money silver coin is equivalent to five hundred copper coins, with Li Jing's portrait on the front.
The one-tael silver coin has Wu Zhao's portrait on the front.
Holding the silver coin with Wu Zhao's face printed on it, Li Yuanxing was still thinking about how to talk about Wu Zhao's face. After all, he didn't even have his face printed on the coin. Now that Wu Zhao was printed on the coin, and it was a woman, this matter
I'm afraid I'm going to have to spend a lot of time talking.
Li Liyuan said at this time: "Your Highness, Liyuan understands."
"What do you understand?" Li Yuanxing asked.
Li Liyuan covered it with silk, picked up a five-cent copper coin and said: "Your Highness, the foundation of the Tang Dynasty is firstly agriculture and secondly the army. This is also your Highness's theory. There are farmers and land, and the people have food and clothing. There is the army.
General, the Tang Dynasty welcomes all nations to come to the dynasty, and no foreign nation will be rude to our country, the Tang Dynasty."
"Okay, that's very well said!" Li Yuanxing praised loudly.
As for his thoughts, Li Yuanxing initially thought that the lowest level of money should be spent on agriculture and the military, but he was not as thorough as Li Liyuan thought. Sure enough, Confucian education is still first-class, and it is naturally first-class in beautifying some affairs.
"Your Highness, this is the eldest grandson Pushe. Since the rise of Longxing in Taiyuan, the eldest grandson Pushe has devoted all his energy to follow the current emperor and launched an army in Taiyuan, regardless of the opposition of his family. He has made great contributions and deserves this honor." After saying that, Li Liyuan picked up Li Jingna again.
One: "Although Li Shangshu is a surrendered general, he can conquer the east and west for the Tang Dynasty. He deserves the name of His Highness, the God of War, and deserves this honor!"
Finally, Li Liyuan picked up Wu Zhao's one.
"Princess Mingyue is a member of the Wu family. Her father, the warrior Yu, funded the army and it can be said that he has squandered all the family wealth." At this point, Li Liyuan grinned and made a face at Li Yuanxing: "Liyuan believes that,
Among them is His Highness’ love for Princess Mingyue!”
"Ah, this..." Li Yuanxing was speechless and asked him how to explain.
In front of a woman, do you say that you love another woman?
Fortunately, Li Liyuan knew how to point it out, and the topic immediately turned to gold coins.
"Your Highness, the Emperor only has one of these gold coins. I'm afraid it just makes the Emperor happy and is not really intended to be used. Because now in the Zhenguan Dynasty, a one-tael gold coin with the image of the Holy One is extremely noble, and a five-coin gold coin with the image of the Emperor is extremely noble, and so is the five-coin gold coin with the image of the Emperor.
Excellent, His Highness should use Princess Pingyang for this money, but Liyuan thinks this is not good."
"Why?" Li Yuanxing didn't understand.
"We women originally followed our husbands, but His Highness used Princess Pingyang's avatar, so what if we just follow our husbands? I wonder if that man is willing to live in the shadow of his wife." Li Liyuan's words are quite true.
Then, Li Liyuan suddenly said: "His Royal Highness is the King of Qin of the Tang Dynasty, and is already extremely noble. Therefore, no matter how strong Princess Mingyue is, she will only be under the light of His Highness."
"What a clever girl!" Li Yuanxing smiled and gently caressed Li Liyuan's face, then took out a small box from the box: "Fortunately, Ben Wu was prepared, and he also prepared this amount of gold coins.
The other is the portrait of the prince. No one in the world can imitate this coin except the Palace of the Prince of Qin."
Li Liyuan was puzzled.
"Your Highness, why is this?"
"Such a coin would need to weigh half a million kilograms and be struck heavily in the mold. Who can make it except our Qin Prince's Mansion, not even the Ministry of Household Affairs. Set the rules, my king's mint,
It is strictly forbidden to approach casually. All craftsmen in the workshop must be absolutely reliable!"
Hearing what Li Yuanxing said, Li Liyuan looked excited.
"Whoever dares to come near, his whole family will be killed!"
"Don't talk casually about beating or killing. As a woman, you naturally have to be more reserved."
Knowing that Li Yuanxing was not really reprimanding herself, Li Liyuan stuck out her tongue and said: "Your Highness, will our Qin Palace use this money in the future? However, Liyuan feels that this gold is not pure gold. When outsiders collect the money, will there be any
Opinion."
"No, gold can't be red gold, red gold is too soft. But one tael of my king's gold coins is definitely worth one tael. Don't forget, what the world can't imitate, the Qin Palace itself is trustworthy. People in the Tang Dynasty will believe it.
I, the King, will believe that the Qin Palace, even if I know it is not pure gold, will still believe that it is worth one tael of gold. What's more, if the real one tael of pure gold is taken and turned into gold water, we will also lose the cost of the workshop.
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Li Liyuan nodded in understanding.
The next day, after the morning court, Li Yuanxing submitted a formal application in front of Li Er and other ministers, and submitted it with a formal seal.
I wrote a chapter of five hundred words, meaning only one sentence.
My younger brother wants to mint his own money, and the Qin Palace will use its own money in the future.
"Wu Lang still wrote so much nonsense about something the size of a toothpick." Li Er looked at the seal on the watch and cursed when he saw it halfway: "Wu Lang even had the seal on the watch written by others, you might as well just use paper to write it.
In one sentence, just say that you have to mint your own money, and do this!"
Because there were no outsiders present, Li Er spoke more casually.
"The king cast money in his fiefdom, which is allowed by Tang law." Cui Junsu said this when he came out.
What this sentence means is that this trivial matter is really unnecessary. If your Highness, King Qin, wants to make money, just go ahead and make money. You can make as much money as you want. No one will care about it, and no one dares to care about it.
But when Li Yuanxing opened the box, everyone was shocked! (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)