Cui Junsu was dedicated to serving the public, which surprised Li Er twice.
Originally, Li Er thought that Cui Junsu would consider the interests of the Seventh Family when it came to such a major matter as casting money.
So Cui Junsu's reaction made Li Er very happy.
Cui Junsu, as the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, naturally had to consider official duties because of his character. However, he also had a small calculation. He had asked Li Er for permission before, so that the family would exchange copper, silver, and gold for Li Yuanxing's coins.
Therefore, the Aristocratic Family is not affected, but it is necessary to negotiate an exchange ratio during the currency exchange process.
Similarly, now Cui Junsu still has to bargain with the Ministry of Household Affairs and Qin Wangzhuang over the money-making fees.
In Qinwangzhuang, Li Yuanxing was preparing to have dinner. Just as he walked to the door of the backyard, he heard Lu Maofeng's report: "Your Highness, Fang and Du have arrived at the gate of Qinwangzhuang, and Cui Shangshu of the Ministry of Revenue has just left the train station. Cui Shangshu said,
After the train started, he saw Li Shangshu of the Ministry of War coming to the station!"
"I'm afraid they haven't eaten!" Li Yuanxing asked with a smile.
"At this hour, of course I haven't eaten yet!" Lu Maofeng replied with a smile.
Li Yuanxing shook his head helplessly and said to Yuanchun: "Go and give it to the princesses. I won't use the dinner in the backyard. Come back as early as possible in the evening and ask Princess Ying to go to the king's storehouse to get some iced food for the backyard, and prepare a box
Ice, I will bring some ice cream to the front hall later!"
Yuanchun responded and went back to the backyard to deliver the message.
The ice food Li Yuanxing refers to is things like ice cream and ice cream that were packaged in later generations.
In the Tang Dynasty, this thing was more valuable than imagined. Cui Yingying called two cooks and four pastry chefs. After studying for many days, she used milk powder, refined sugar, and fruit juice to barely get close to the taste of ice cream, but it was still very bad.
Far. Still working hard.
Freezing point is naturally something made through hard experiments.
It is a snack made from ice. This kind of snack is reserved for distinguished guests in Qinwangzhuang, because the small machine supported by electricity brought by Li Yuanxing only has a split freezer, an ice machine, and another set of industrial ice machines. In a short time
It can't be used inside either.
It's not that Li Yuanxing can't bring more. It's that the power supply in Qinwangzhuang is a bottleneck, and too much of this kind of thing may not be good.
Li Yuanxing did not take the soft sedan, but walked by himself.
When Li Yuanxing walked to the small living room in the front yard, even Cui Junsu had arrived.
Entering the small living room, Li Yuanxing said: "Unified currency is the foundation of commerce. One tael of silver in the Tang Dynasty. The most can be exchanged for one thousand four hundred yuan, and the least can be exchanged for eight hundred yuan. This difference
It’s just too big.”
Cui Junsu guessed Li Yuanxing's purpose when he saw him. He also said hurriedly: "The main reason is that the quality of the money has too much to do with it. The better copper coins are seven cents of copper, and the worse ones are four cents of copper. But there are still some coins made of copper.
It's less than a penny, and it's mostly lead, tin, etc., so naturally it can't be exchanged for much silver."
"Everyone, please take a seat. I have ordered the kitchen to prepare some good dishes!"
When everyone sat down, Cui Junsu said again: "One businessman sold goods, and another businessman brought a cart of money. The price of a cart was only a few hundred guan. But among these hundreds of guan, there were good money, bad money, and so on.
There’s all that bad money.”
By the time I got to this point, the food had already been served.
For four people, we prepared two cold dishes, two hot dishes, two meat and two vegetarian dishes, and a soup.
One plate of cold dishes is fungus and cucumber, and the other is hot peppers and eggs.
The meat dishes are braised pork ribs with potatoes and chicken stewed with mushrooms. The vegetarian dishes are scrambled eggs with tomatoes and broccoli with garlic!
Of course, in the Tang Dynasty, these dishes had very nice names, and they were all very poetic.
The last soup is spicy and sour belly soup.
"The dishes arranged by His Highness must have a purpose. Are you going to talk about the money first, or the dishes first?" Du Ruhui had been in the Qin Palace for a long time, and he immediately felt that Li Yuanxing must have other purposes.
"Let's talk about money first!" Li Yuanxing picked up a piece of egg with his chopsticks.
Because Li Yuanxing is the King of Qin and has the most noble status, only the others who move his chopsticks can start.
Although the ancients said that you should eat before you eat, but this rule doesn't seem to work very well anymore. Cui Junsu took a few bites of the food and continued to tell his story about two businessmen who made various money while Fang Xuanling personally poured wine for the four of them.
"When receiving the goods, the merchant selling the goods will send someone to count the money in the cart and divide it into five types of money: upper, middle, lower, poor, and extremely poor. Then based on these five types of money, one of them will be used. This gives the two businessmen another opportunity to argue."
After Cui Junsu finished speaking, Fang Xuanling also said: "A few hundred guan, that is, hundreds of thousands of money, it will take a lot of time to divide it all!"
“What if there is no breakdown when collecting money?”
Li Yuanxing wondered whether there would be people who were afraid of trouble and were unwilling to subdivide the money in this large transaction.
Cui Junsu said: "For long-term cooperation, one dollar will be used as a standard for the meeting. For the first time, there will be smart businessmen who will use one dollar as a standard. Then when the money is delivered, the money will be divided in advance. "
"Of course, there are also some cases where the buyer doesn't pay for it for some reason, but the seller trusts it, so something goes wrong!"
Cui Junsu said it very euphemistically. In fact, he was saying that if you are not willing to buy goods, you will need to replenish your money with good money. Then the seller will naturally be unwilling, and there will definitely be a fight.
Whether it's going to the Yamen or having a private fight, it's always troublesome.
Li Yuanxing understood: "This method has not really broken away from the bartering and barter trading methods."
"So, His Highness's King Qin's money solves this problem. Shops in the two cities of Chang'an have put up signs outside their doors, saying that King Qin's money can be exchanged for three cents per penny, and this is the exchange ratio with the money above. The price of rice in Chang'an is , the price is eight cents per dou. The price of rice in Huazhou is six cents per dou, and some sell it for five cents!"
Speaking of this, Cui Junsu gave up a clue: "Your Highness, how much does King Qin's money cost per dou?"
"Converting it to one-third, it should be six cents per dou."
"Your Highness doesn't know. The current price of rice in Chang'an is eleven cents per dou, and some are already five cents per dou. This is the price paid by the King of Qin, and it is also the price recognized by Chang'an grain merchants. Moreover, the merchants like the King of Qin. Money, when you see King Qin’s money, you don’t need to carefully distinguish whether it is good money or bad money.”
As soon as Du Ruhui finished speaking, Fang Xuanling also said: "Your Highness, the biggest advantage of using King Qin's money is that it is easy to calculate."
"How to say it?"
"The merchants used rulers to make wooden plates, and one plate was worth one hundred coins. Some people tried it. They randomly picked money, and no matter how they were arranged, it was one hundred dollars per plate, five columns on one plate, and twenty dollars per column. It's easy to calculate, good. The number is easy to calculate. The size and weight of King Qin's money are exactly the same, and they are exquisitely made. There is no possibility of counterfeiting. Money that is faked as good will not be able to produce such a beautiful engraving!"
Li Yuanxing comes from modern times, even if he has not studied economics and finance in depth.
But he knew it very well.
How much impact does a unified financial system have on industry, commerce, and people's livelihood?
Each person was served a bowl of rice.
The rice at Prince Qin's Mansion is still very new to the people of the Tang Dynasty.
In the past, people in Datang mainly boiled and then simmered it in a big pot. The dry part was rice, but some of the bottom of the pot was wasted. Even wealthy families were not willing to do so, so the rice in Datang was more like thick porridge.
Li Yuanxing uses a set fire to cook, so the rice is naturally different, more fragrant and more grainy.
Li Yuanxing didn't eat, he was just thinking.
According to historical records, the inflation before the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty was very small. One penny was almost the same as the purchasing power of four yuan in later generations. As soon as your Qin King's money was released, the value of the money was increased invisibly. One penny was worth more than the purchasing power of future generations.
six yuan, which should be harmful to Datang's economy.
"Du Gong, tomorrow you go to the coin mill and ask them to start casting steel coins immediately."
"Steel money is not valuable, is Your Highness a little impatient?" Du Ruhui asked.
Cui Junsu said: "Your Highness is wise, I will explain it to you!"
Cui Junsu has been in the Ministry of Household Affairs for many years. He cannot say the words inflation and deflation, but he can express the meaning of deflation and its harm to the market and economy.
After saying that, he added: "Right now, don't worry too much, after all, there is still a lot of bad money on the market!"
What Cui Junsu said is reasonable, bad money is temporarily equivalent to the position of steel coins of King Qin's money. As a supplementary currency for small items, copper coins are extremely necessary.
However, the Seventh Family does not need it, and neither does Qin Wangzhuang.
This need is the need of the Tang Dynasty, the needs of the household department of the Tang Dynasty, the economic needs of the Tang Dynasty, and the needs of the people.
Hearing what Cui Junsu said, Li Yuanxing seemed to react: "Which of you has my imperial brother's imperial edict in your hands?"
The three of them looked at each other and shook their heads: "There is no imperial edict!"
"Does the Ministry of Household Affairs want my king's money-making workshop?" Li Yuanxing asked.
Cui Junsu quickly said what Li Er meant, copying the exact words without changing a word.
"Two algorithms, one is that the household department bears the expenses of my workshop, and the other is how to exchange money, how much copper is exchanged for how much. Of course, let's discuss the details with my long history!"
"Your Highness, when will the steel money be released? Can the Ministry of Household Affairs make a request?" Cui Junsu asked again.
"Ten days in advance, because the machine needs to be debugged and cannot always be replaced. Don't waste time debugging the machine. Within this year, you can only mint four kinds of money at the same time, so you must think about it. And the craftsmen in the Ministry of Household Affairs must
According to the king’s rules, it still needs to be reviewed.”
Cui Junsu has no objection.
Fang and Du both had no objections.
Originally, Fang and Du Liangxiang wanted to ask Li Yuanxing to take action to make the coins of Chang'an City have rules.
Now that the Ministry of Accounts is involved, they just need to pay attention to the details.
"Your Highness!" Cui Yingying actually came in person.
Her maid followed behind with a tray.
"Please taste the ice cream from our Qinwangzhuang. It's very special." Li Yuanxing took it out of the food box himself. (To be continued...)
ps: This is the second update, pre-saved.
Today’s update, the quantity is definitely a surprise.