Li Yuanxing did not stipulate the length, thickness, and wood of the bat. He only stipulated the requirements for the ball used in the game. In the actual game, the ball must be made by Qinwangzhuang.
Li Yuanxing used the King of Qin's money to pay the army.
The sergeants who received the coins were a little surprised. The coins were copper coins, bronze coins mixed with tin.
The style is exquisite, but no one has ever seen it before.
"This is King Qin's money. It can buy more things than miscellaneous money." An officer seemed to have heard some news and quickly spread the news: "Qin King's money, one or two silver coins can be exchanged for 1,300 wen.
More can be exchanged on the black market. Anyone who has received silver coins had better keep them."
In the Tang Dynasty, especially in the early Tang Dynasty, soldiers in the government did not receive military pay, but were exempted from family taxes.
Moreover, the soldiers have to prepare their own weapons, and of course they get extra income from the spoils of war.
This is also one of the main reasons why Li Daozong borrowed troops and extorted wealthy people when he was in Liangzhou, because he needed to distribute trophies to the soldiers. Now that he thinks about it, he did not let the soldiers rob the people, which is already considered a good thing.
In the early Tang Dynasty, the only people with military pay were Qianniu Guards and Prison Guards, but their numbers were not high.
In the early Tang Dynasty, money was not used for calculation, but grain was used for calculation. A soldier needed about fifteen shi of grain per year, which is now 1,800 kilograms of grain. In the early Tang Dynasty, when converted into silver money, it was usually several hundred pence.
As for the Forbidden Army, they can only make a few quid of money every year. Of course, this is after paying for food and accommodation, so this is what they have in their hands, and it can be considered as savings.
Li Yuanxing does not give out food, but pays him monthly wages.
For these standing soldiers, the levels set by Li Yuanxing have not yet been implemented. The unified level is twenty five-cent copper coins for each person, and then fifty one-cent copper coins.
That’s one hundred and fifty texts.
Don't underestimate this one hundred and fifty coins. In a good harvest year, you can buy about two hundred kilograms of refined grains.
When you reach the ninth rank minor official, even the lowest one, there is a qualitative difference in income. First is Lumi, which is thirty shi per year. Then there is Yongye Field, the standard for the ninth rank is two hectares and another
Fifty acres, of course, this is farmed by his family, not necessarily paddy fields, but the quantity will definitely not be small.
(One hectare is one hundred acres)
According to the primitive agriculture of the Tang Dynasty, the annual income of Yongyetian, a ninth-grade civil servant, was about three hundred shi.
Then, the income of the Tang Dynasty also included stipends, including food, useful things, and servants.
However, if you were a county magistrate in a particularly poor place, you would really starve to death. For example, in the four counties of Li Yuanxing, the county magistrates are all seventh-rank officials. Although each person has 400 acres of land, there is no water and no one is farming.
, the output of these 400 acres of land is less than ten shi of grain, and is not even as good as the output of one acre of Qin Wangzhuang in Li Yuanxing.
What Li Yuanxing made was money, and he just wanted to change the complicated wage system of the Tang Dynasty.
After distributing the money, he returned to Qinwangzhuang. The next day, Li Yuanxing was preparing to hold a meeting with Li Jing and others to discuss the reform of the military system. Thick reports were piled on his desk.
"Wulang, the price of lumber in Chang'an City has skyrocketed, almost doubling!"
In the Tang Dynasty, approval was required for cutting down trees. You can't just cut down trees casually and sell them in Chang'an. All the trees in the world belong to the royal family, and so do the trees in the mountains, so you can never cut them down casually.
"Your Highness, because the Twelve Guards are crazy about buying lumber, the price of lumber has skyrocketed. Your Majesty knows that the Left Guards already have 30,000 bats. They go out to exercise in the early morning, running ten miles with a load, and then arraying themselves to swing the bats three hundred times.
"
Cui Dunli was reporting from the side with a smile on his face.
Li Yuanxing shook his head: "They should have some blood. Does Chang'an City have the reaction of King Qin Qian?"
"Your Highness, not yet. Because this is the money from the Twelve Guards, the money from the sergeant's hands has not flowed out yet. Tomorrow is the tenth day, and I will send someone to pay attention to see the reaction of the people in Chang'an City after receiving the money from King Qin.
, it is estimated that a detailed report will be sent tomorrow evening!"
Cui Dunli answered orthodoxly.
Li Jing said at this time: "The military system cannot be finalized in a few days. Why not take a look at Chang'an City tomorrow?"
"Take some money and go to the two cities?" Li Yuanxing asked rhetorically, agreeing with Li Jing's suggestion.
"Wu Lang better not go, there is no one who recognizes the King of Qin in Chang'an City!" Li Jing said the truth, and Li Yuanxing was so depressed that he didn't know what to say. He could only watch Li Jing take a bag of money and go out.
After Li Jing and other generals left, Yuan Chuncai asked in a low voice: "Your Highness is close to the people, so the people of Chang'an City will naturally recognize His Highness!"
"Nonsense. As soon as I went out, there were at least one or two hundred guards around me. As soon as I arrived in Chang'an, Jing Zhaoyin was so nervous that he could not even sit still. I don't know how many people were following him around. He really looked like the common people.
Silly, I really think I am stupid, those who did not recognize me are either people who arranged it in advance, or they are just pretending!"
Yuanchun naturally knew this, but she didn't dare to say it.
Li Yuanxing did not intend to have a real private visit incognito, which would cause great trouble to the guards of Prince Qin's Mansion.
At least, these people will definitely feel uneasy if they find that they are not in their sight.
What Li Yuanxing didn't know was that at this time, someone was already using his Qin King's money in Chang'an City. Even if it was not the first to use it, the people of Chang'an were still caught off guard by using real copper pieces as money!
Those in the court naturally knew about King Qin's money.
But the people didn't know that when there was no information explosion in the Tang Dynasty, even if there were newspapers, the speed of spreading information was not fast, not to mention that Li Yuanxing's King Qin Qian did not appear in the newspapers.
The first person to get King Qin's money and use it was a grocer.
He sent eight thousand spools of thread to Qin Wangzhuang. These eight thousand spools were worthless, and they were only exchanged for three strings of five hundred coins.
Zheng He gave him thirty one-cent silver coins. The first batch of one-cent silver coins were all printed with Qin Qiong's image. This was what Li Er meant, and what Li Yuanxing meant. After all, Qin Qiong had saved Li Er several times.
, and it was Qin Qiong who Li Yuanxing came into contact with when he first arrived in Datang.
Therefore, Qin Qiong’s image was chosen for the first batch of one-cent silver coins.
Then he gave ninety five-cent copper coins and ten one-cent military coins.
The reputation of Prince Qin's Mansion was not mentioned. The grocer didn't even ask a question. He took the money bag and left. He didn't even count it. He just glanced at it casually and didn't pay much attention to it.
I just know that there are some small silver cakes and some copper coins here.
After I got home and was about to enter my account, I realized that the coins were very different. They were exquisite and looked like jewelry, but they no longer looked like money.
His eldest son was a commoner scholar. He wanted to buy some paper and pens at noon that day. He grabbed a few silver coins and a few copper coins. He also said: "This is the money given by the Prince of Qin's palace. It's the first time I've seen him. It should be
You can buy pen and paper."
"Big! With the money from Prince Qin's Palace, it's not that I should be able to buy it, but I can definitely buy it!"
In terms of time, just when Li Yuanxing was in the military camp and before the soldiers were paid, the first Qin King's money had already entered the market in Chang'an and started to circulate.
"Brother, this money..." The shopkeeper of the bookstore looked a little dumbfounded after getting the money.
"Money from Prince Qin's Palace!"
"No, no!" The shopkeeper shook his head: "It's not that you can't talk about the money, it's just that it's novel when you see it for the first time." I don't know what the shopkeeper thought at first, but at least after he spoke, his attitude was very approving.
This money. The shopkeeper said to the waiter: "Give this guy one more piece of paper. There is a number behind this silver coin. It is one denarius, and the top is one hundred and twenty denarii!"
Scholars are scholars, even if they are not nerds, they are still very old-fashioned.
If it were another idle guy on the street, I'm afraid he would have taken advantage and left with his stuff.
"My father delivers goods for Qinwangzhuang. The steward of Qinwangzhuang called this one silver coin and gave it to my father as a hundred cents. So I can't buy your paper for one hundred and twenty cents!"
"Brother, do you still have any copper coins?" the shopkeeper asked.
The scholar took out his money bag from his arms and found a five-cent coin and a one-cent coin.
The shopkeeper smiled and said: "His Royal Highness the King of Qin is kind, and everyone in the Qin Palace is very fair. What the steward said is right, one silver coin is worth a hundred coins, but the copper coins you are paying are the copper coins of the Qin Palace, not this miscellaneous money."
Then, the shopkeeper took out an old copper coin and put it together.
If there is no comparison, there will be a natural difference between the two.
Let’s not talk about whether the copper is good or not, but the level of sophistication immediately stands out.
"Good money and bad money can naturally be exchanged for bad money. You should know the history when you study. During the Han Dynasty, there was a lot of difference between high-grade copper coins and low-grade copper coins. Take more of this knife and paper for peace of mind. In terms of integrity as a person, as a businessman
Also honest!”
The scholar bowed to the end, took the paper he bought, and a few new pens and left the store.
The shops in the West Market, especially these small shops, are naturally one after another. Shopkeepers from several nearby shops also came over. It was the first time they saw such exquisite money, so they naturally wanted to watch the excitement.
"This money is hard money!" said a shopkeeper.
Hard goods can be understood as preservation of value, or money is high quality, or it can also be understood as money that can be used all over the world. You must know that some states and counties only recognize the exchange of goods for goods. If you go outside, you may encounter foreign countries and small countries.
I will also recognize this money.
"This handicraft costs more than one denarius!" another shopkeeper said.
"His Royal Highness the King of Qin will definitely not post wages, but we people don't understand. This silver seems to be eight cents of silver. With the work done, one penny of silver is not much. This copper seems to be seven cents of bronze. It is measured in money.
This is already high-quality money. If Qin Wangzhuang is willing to exchange bad money for these high-quality money, my family would be willing to keep such coins!"
Several shopkeepers were discussing, and they liked this kind of coins very much.
Because it is beautiful, because it is exquisite.
"I don't know if there will be any articles about these money in the Chang'an newspaper. Thinking about it, twelve coins for ten King Qin coins should be the right market price."
The news circulation speed in Chang'an is too slow.
By the time Li Jing and others arrived in Chang'an, the money had been flowing out for two days, and only half of the shops in the east and west cities knew that King Qin's new money had appeared. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)