After returning from his visit to the Li Mansion, Zhao Tuo fell into an extremely busy schedule. Very busy!
"This country is almost operating at full capacity." Zhao Tuo sighed inwardly. According to his observation, the entire Qin State is now like a clockwork machine, busy everywhere.
In the newly conquered vassal areas, a large number of officials needed to be dispatched to take over local government affairs, appease the survivors of the Six Kingdoms, popularize Qin's laws, and crack down on resistance forces.
In the original Qin State's old land, the heads of Guizhou were recruited to serve, and the construction of Chi Road connecting Xianyang was started. At the same time, the roads between counties and counties also had to be renovated.
In terms of military affairs, in addition to General Tu Sui who was leading his army all the way west, gathering Han and Wei Zongwai along the way.
Shu County will also begin to recruit soldiers, transport grain and fodder, and prepare to attack the southwestern barbarians, and then attack the distant Dian Kingdom all the way.
This is at the local level. Every department at the central level is also overwhelmed with various affairs.
Tingwei needed to train legal officials, judge crimes in various places, and was also responsible for promoting Qin law to the newly conquered Qi region.
In charge of millet management, one should be responsible for spring plowing, and at the same time, preparing for grain and fodder matters after the nobles of the six countries migrated to Guanzhong.
Even Zong Zheng and Feng Chang were busy with the expansion of the ancestral temple and the revision of Qin etiquette. Zhao Tuo, as one of the nine ministers, was naturally very busy. In addition to asking Zhang Han to start the paper-making project, Zhao Tuo also
There are several big projects currently in full swing.
Among them, the most important thing is to sell all the soldiers in the world to make plowshares and coins, which is the responsibility of the Shaofu.
As the order was issued, a large number of carriages carried countless weapons from the Six Nations to the huge construction site on the south bank of the Weishui River.
There are tens of thousands of Qin people serving here. Under the command of iron officials, the collected weapons of the Six Kingdoms are divided into categories. They have to remove the wooden parts of the weapons and stack them according to the different materials of copper and iron.
Within ten months, countless hills of copper and iron were piled up here. Accompanied by his subordinates, Zhao Tuo came to the construction site in person to inspect the progress of this project. This was his first major project after taking office, and naturally he could not be careless.
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"Reporting to the Shaofu, according to statistics, there are more than 600,000 copper weapons and nearly one million iron weapons here. In addition to the weapons, there are also a large number of copper and iron parts, as well as the leather materials for horse gear and vehicles, enough
There are nearly two million." Baigan, the chief minister of the Shaofu, followed Zhao Tuo and reported nonchalantly.
Zhao Tuo nodded slightly. There were a large number of iron weapons among the confiscated weapons of the Six Nations. Although these items cannot be used to mint coins, if they were made into agricultural tools, the quantity would be very large.
After they were cast, these agricultural tools were distributed to various counties and counties, which would be of great benefit to Qin's agricultural production. It was far more useful than just casting twelve golden men for the emperor.
When he thought of the golden figures of Emperor Qin in history, Zhao Tuo asked Bai Gan: "Have you found out the models of the twelve golden figures?" Bai Gan said hurriedly: "My subordinates have just asked people to get the pictures out, and they are about to
Submit it to the young master for review. If the young master approves it, we can start making models for casting." After saying that, Bai Gan asked his men to get the silk paintings of the Twelve Golden Men.
Zhao Tuo opened the silk painting and saw that it was twelve Di people with high noses and deep eyes, wearing barbarian costumes.
Each one looks quite majestic. If it were cast into a five-foot-tall giant, it would be really majestic and domineering, and would be called a wonder in the world.
However, the Twelve Golden Figures designed on the current drawings are only one foot tall. Compared with the original history, it can only be considered a low-end version and does not require much material.
"One foot?" Zhao Tuo frowned and said, "It's too high. Wouldn't it be taller than the emperor when he stood up? How can this be done? The emperor's majesty cannot be offended. Shrink them some more and make them all eight feet.
Make it according to the length of a real person."
"In addition, they should be made to look like they are kneeling and bowing, so that their height is lower than the emperor. Only in this way can they show the power of the king and the surrender of Yi and Di."
"Oh, by the way, the postures of these golden men should be different, but don't make them the same. Don't make them all men either. There must be some female barbarians among them. Only in this way can all men and women in the world worship the emperor!
"Zhao Tuo imagined the needs of future generations of figurine otakus and made fine adjustments in some details.
Bai Gan wiped the sweat from his head and said: "What the Young Mansion said is that I will ask someone to draw another sketch." Zhao Tuo nodded with satisfaction. With these twelve little golden figures on display in the Qin Palace,
The emperor should not have any resentment.
After inspecting the completion site, determine the size of the golden man, as well as the type and quantity of agricultural tools to be cast later.
Zhao Tuo hurried back to the Shaofu, where Yin Chang, the Tongcheng of the Shaofu, also made a design for the new currency. There were many styles of coins during the Seven Kingdoms War.
In terms of shape alone, there are shovel coins, knife coins, round coins, etc. Each of these shapes of coins can be divided into various different shapes.
For example, there are two types of round round coins: round round holes and round square holes, which have no fixed shape. For example, the Ban Luo coins and Lin Wan coins circulated in the Qin Dynasty all have round holes.
"Since later generations are called Brother Kong Fang, it is natural to use square holes." Zhao Tuo decided that the shape of the new coins should be round square holes.
This shape has been tested by later generations for two thousand years, and it is the right choice. As for the patterns on the coins, in this era, coins would have words printed on them, most of which were place names or country names.
For example, Jiyinquan money has
The word "Jiyin" means that the money was minted in Jiyin. Another example is the word "Jiyin" on the money in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
The word "Eastern Zhou" means that it was cast by the Lord of Eastern Zhou. In addition, there are also words engraved with weight. For example, Qin Banliang, what is printed on the coins is
"Half Liang". However, because of Zhao Tuo's suggestion, the First Emperor decided not to print words on the coins, but to print dragon patterns instead.
This coin was used as a symbol of himself and the Qin State. According to Yin Chang's design, it is a giant dragon circling around the square hole in the middle, with its dragon body spread out and surrounding the coin. At first glance, it looks quite interesting.
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"There is a dragon printed on the money, and this dragon is the ancestral dragon!" Zhao Tuo was quite proud, although he wanted to cast
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The proposal of "Qin Datou" was rejected by the emperor, but a dragon is not bad. It is a symbol of the First Emperor and is still very meaningful.
Thousands of years later, when these coins are dug out of the ground, the dragon patterns on them may still be alive, and I don't know how much they can be sold for.
After the shape and pattern were decided, it was time to weigh the money. Zhao Tuo still used his innovative spirit here and made reforms according to his ideas.
The old coins of the Qin State were about half a liang. In the original history, after the unification of Qin Shihuang, the currency generally followed the old system and used half a liang of coins.
In Qin, one tael was 24 baht, and half a tael was 12 baht. This was the plan presented by Yin Chang. But Zhao Tuo felt bad.
"Half a liang is too heavy, and it is a large amount of money. It is not easy to carry, and it is easy to be scraped and minted privately, so it is better to cut it in half and mint six baht coins!" Zhao Tuo said plausibly.
If he remembered correctly, Qin's half-liang coins did not circulate for a long time because the coins were heavy and difficult to use. In the later period, the coins shrank in size and weight.
In the Han Dynasty, crude pod coins were first produced, and then eight baht coins were produced. It was not until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that five baht coins were produced, which unified the weight of the currency. Five baht coins were still being minted until the Sui Dynasty.
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Since he, Zhao Tuo, is now in charge of coinage, instead of using half a tael of money that is destined to be eliminated by history, it is better to directly learn the practices of the Han Dynasty in one step.
However, although the five-baht coin has a long history and has passed the test of time, Zhao Tuo cannot directly copy it.
The reason why Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used five baht coins was because he changed the water virtue of the Han Dynasty into tu virtue. The lucky number of tu virtue is five, so the Han Dynasty used five baht.
"Qin is the virtue of water, and it is the sixth grade."
"So the weight of the new coin should be six baht, which just symbolizes that our country of Qin is six!" Zhao Tuo waved his hand and cut the weight of the Qin coin in half.
Yin Chang said with some worry: "Will the emperor agree to such a big weight change?"
"Oh, how could the emperor disagree? I broke a copper coin into two pieces for him!" Zhao Tuo was very confident that a half-liang coin weighing 12 baht could be turned into two pieces after being melted and recast.
Six baht, if you do this, your savings will be doubled. Will the emperor be unhappy?
Anyway, he, the young man in charge of money, is very happy. Not to mention that the emperor loves six, and these six baht can be regarded as his lucky number.
Sure enough, after Zhao Tuo submitted his new coin minting plan, the First Emperor expressed satisfaction with the shape and weight of Qin's new coins designed by Zhao Tuo.
However, the emperor was also dissatisfied with the name that Zhao Tuo came up with.
"Black Dragon Coin?"
"Back then, my late ruler, Duke Wen, went hunting and caught a black dragon, which was an auspicious sign of Shui De. Named after this prey, it does not show my majesty."
"This coin should be called a dragon pattern coin."