Great Tang princess

Chapter 639 Economic Circulation Issues

Once a person has something to do, he will feel that time passes quickly. It has been a month since he came to Yizhou in a blink of an eye.

During this month, the civilian dormitory at the foot of the mountain was already full of people. The blast furnace, brick kiln and cement factory were also built successively, and then the construction of the military barracks officially started.

The first is to plan the training ground and dormitory building, which will be upgraded to a division-level unit in the future, so the planning is much larger than Qingdao in the beginning.

Moreover, this place is originally a mountainous area, and it is very open, so it doesn't matter how large the land is.

The main frame of the dormitory building has also begun to be built, making it into a three-story building. In addition, the city wall will be built elsewhere as a training ground.

The arsenal was also built immediately, responsible for the production of various weapons such as swords, guns, swords and halberds.

Although Li Yuechen had proposed the concept of special operations a long time ago, this is not the age of guns after all, so the main force of the army is still infantry and cavalry.

The infantry needs to train various skills such as fighting and battle formation, and the main weapons are spears and large shields.

As for weapons such as axes, they are mainly allocated to special reconnaissance forces.

And because this kind of place is a rugged place, the number of horses is several times that of Qingdao, and the number of military dogs is also doubled.

Although the government soldiers who signed up from all over the country have not yet come, but these things must be prepared in advance.

In the palace, the Shangyi Bureau has been operating urgently recently to make military uniforms for the new army.With the help of sewing machines, all the equipment can be fully equipped after the recruits come over.

In fact, Li Yuechen is also thinking that when the time is right in the future, the Shangyi Bureau can be independent, and a separate fabric market can be established outside.

As for the clothing bureau in the palace, those highly skilled tailors can be left alone, so that their craftsmanship can continue to be passed on.

After more than 1000 years, it seems that the streets are full of Western-style clothing, but that is because of convenience. Many good Chinese-style clothing are expensive, and ordinary people cannot afford it.

Not to mention those complicated and expensive custom-made clothes, but the Hanfu from the industrial assembly line, as long as the fabric is better, it is ridiculously expensive.

So in many cases, it is not because people are unwilling to promote traditional clothing, but because their spending power is limited.

But having said that, this idea is still too early. The plan for the next few years should be to gradually take down Tubo first.

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For the civilian husbands who were conscripted to work, the life they lived this month was unimaginable.

At first, I thought that even if I was given money, I would have to work hard every day, but I didn't expect that what was said in the propaganda was true, and it really included food and lodging, three meals a day.

Three meals a day are fine, except for porridge, steamed buns and pickles at night, there is actually meat to eat in the morning and noon.

Although it's just some minced meat, it's still meat!It made the folks feel that they had come to the right place.

And after the official start of work, the work is not very tiring. You only need to work for four hours a day, and you can do whatever you want in the dormitory for the rest of the time.

In terms of work content, tasks were assigned from the very beginning. Some taught them how to lay bricks, some taught them to plaster cement, and others taught them how to tie bamboo tendons and so on.

And they will also clearly say that doing this way can save effort and so on...

They are of course willing to work hard when they meet such a boss, so they work very hard and seriously.

Of course, when the gunpowder exploded the mountain at the beginning, everyone was so scared that they thought it was the mountain god who was angry, and almost ran back in fright.

Now the main frame of the dormitory building and the bamboo reinforcements of the training ground have been paved, just waiting for the cement to be applied.

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Although the temperature on the plateau is low, the temperature in the afternoon is not bad.

Therefore, when Xiaodong walked on the construction site, he was only wearing a hakama pleat that was easy to move. If he was walking in this kind of place wearing a skirt, he might be useless in less than an hour.

Before arriving at the construction site under construction, he saw Li Shouli wearing a wooden hard hat discussing something with the craftsmen supervising the site.

"Does your lord know where His Highness is?" Xiao Dong asked.

I just went out to do errands according to the princess's order, but when I came back, I found that the person had disappeared.

Li Shouli pointed to the forest not far away: "I guess I went to play with those black and white bears again?"

After Xiaodong saluted and thanked him, he got up and walked into the woods. While walking, he couldn't help but think, His Highness really likes this black and white bear.

It has been a month since I came to Yizhou. During this time, Li Yuechen basically didn't care about anything. She would only show up if Li Shouli and his brothers asked her if there was anything they didn't understand.

Usually, he basically played in the forest, and during this time he beat up all the pandas, big and small, on the mountain.

Beating them is to let them understand that they should not be enemies of humans, let alone attack humans.

But I didn't expect these pandas to get acquainted with her after being beaten too much, and they usually come to play with her when they are free.

Li Yuechen was also happy to be at leisure, basically staying in the forest every day, playing with this group of pandas.

After Xiaodong entered the forest, he soon saw a group of guards sitting on the ground resting, and some of them vaguely surrounded a place to prevent outsiders from approaching.

In the middle of the protective circle of the guards, Li Yuechen was riding on the back of a panda, constantly rubbing its ears and back.

The panda also had a look of enjoyment, half-closed its eyes and took a nap while enjoying the massage, with a lazy look.

The other pandas around were sitting on their own, and some were leaning against each other, constantly gnawing on the fresh bamboo, skillfully peeling the skin and putting it into their mouths one by one.

The guards next to them were still holding the bamboo rats they had just caught, and if they saw a panda fighting for grabbing bamboo, they would throw a bamboo rat over.

Seeing Xiaodong approaching, Li Yuechen stopped what he was doing: "Is everything done?"

"Return to Your Highness, everything is settled, but there are some other questions." Xiaodong replied.

"what happened?"

Xiaodong replied: "After a while, I will pay wages to the peasants, but when I come here this time, I don't bring much copper coins. If I send them all, I will need to bring some more copper coins from the East to buy other supplies in the future... ..."

"Well, this is really a problem..."

These days, they are all copper coins, without pens and paper, and the weight is quite scary.To pay these folk husbands a month's salary, at least they need to install a carriage.

Of course, Li Yuechen couldn't bring several carts of copper coins with him this time, so he also brought some gold and the like.

However, gold is a large amount of money, and it was used by Tang Yan to buy supplies, and it is not realistic to use this stuff to pay wages.

At this time, the guard captain on the side suddenly said: "Your Highness, I have a question..."

"Oh, Xiaoru, tell me." Li Yuechen waved her hand to signal that she could speak.

The captain of the guard was from Xianbei, named Yiluoru.He is the most powerful among these guards, so he became the captain of the guard.

Li Yuechen also guessed that the surname Yi Xiao might be one of the sources of the Yi surname in the future.

Yiluoru said: "Your Highness once said that no matter what, as long as the quantity is too large, it will depreciate and become worthless. This subordinate is thinking that if more wages are paid to the peasants in the future, will the coins themselves be devalued?" Depreciation..."

Speaking of this, I still don't forget to add a sentence: "This subordinate speaks without authorization, and please forgive me, Your Highness!"

"No, no, that's right!"

Li Yuechen nodded: "This is indeed a problem, but I didn't think carefully about it..."

Due to the inconvenient transportation in this era, there are naturally few exchanges between various parts of the country, and there are naturally fewer economic circulations.

Under such an era background, if there is a sudden increase in the circulation of coins in a place, it is indeed easy to cause inflation problems.

"Then, when paying wages, don't give out all copper coins. Part of it should be paid for with grain or cloth!" Li Yuechen gave an order.

Anyway, the main consumption of ordinary people these days is food and cloth, and the place where they can really use the money is to buy some other daily necessities such as salt.

If you still have some spare money in your hands, the way of entertainment is gambling or prostitution.

Especially in these cities where there is no curfew, there are quite a few private gambling houses and brothels, and the main consumer groups are those middle and lower class people who are not rich, but who can occasionally have a little spare money.

"Well, that's all. It's really not good. It's okay to use some silk to pay for it. Let them know how to sell it." Li Yuechen added.

Silk refers to pure white silk, which is also the cheapest kind of silk fabric. Some middle-class people will bite their teeth and buy some to make a piece of clothing that they don’t usually wear, and use it to pretend at critical moments use.

In this way, there should be no need to worry about the impact on local prices.

But after all, this incident made Li Yuechen a little vigilant. This kind of environmental restriction is really not friendly to economic development, and it seems that he still needs to find a way to deal with it.

In fact, many years ago, Li Yuechen suggested to his mother to pave the main traffic arteries across the country with concrete roads.

The plan has been approved, and it has already been formally started, but the speed is too slow after all, and it has not been repaired here in Sichuan.

So if you want to make the economy flow, it is still too slow to rely on this alone, and you must think of other ways.

And what Li Yuechen can think of right now is the bank.

But the problem is that opening a bank in this era... always feels unreliable, and she is not engaged in finance. If something goes wrong and causes the national economy to collapse, it will be ridiculous.

Li Yuechen never underestimated the wisdom of the ancients. She knew very well that the ancients were not stupid, but they had little knowledge.

Even if she forcibly created a bank in this era, people would definitely find opportunities to take advantage of the loopholes, and it would be even more troublesome then.

……

After bidding farewell to a group of pandas and returning to his temporary office, he sat on a chair and began to think carefully.

When it was almost time for dinner, Li Yuechen suddenly thought of a question. Since it is unreliable to run a bank in this era, it is better to take a step back and get something like a passbook to try first.

If you can, continue to develop, if not, forget it.

Now that the Lu family led by Lu Zhenghao has completely transformed into a business family, he can be allowed to assist in completing this experiment.

The process is also very simple. The current canning factory is still in Dongdu, and Lu Zhenghao needs to transport a large amount of coins and materials of equivalent value to Dongdu to purchase raw materials every year.

Therefore, Li Yuechen planned to open a bank in Fanyang and Dongdu. In the future, Lu would not have to transport money and supplies to Dongdu by himself, but just go to Fanyang's bank to put the money in, and then come out with a list.

At that time, take this list to the bank in Dongdu, and you can exchange it for the same money, and you can directly buy raw materials in Dongdu.

This process saves the hard work and risk of escorting a large amount of coins and materials. At least it can improve the efficiency of merchants by more than 01:30 points.

Of course, this is not only for the Lu family, but also other business families, so we must do a good job in anti-counterfeiting.

Don't even think about electronic anti-counterfeiting technology. In this day and age, even ultraviolet lamps cannot be manufactured, so we can only slow down and work hard on watermarks.

Li Yuechen also owns a paper mill, and it is already on the right track, but there are still many bigwigs in the paper mill, so let them think of a way together.

So he immediately wrote a letter, asking Du Laoer, the boss of the paper mill, to lead a group of people to study it carefully to see if they could come up with an anti-counterfeit watermark.

Early the next morning, the pilot took the letter and jumped down from Mount Siguniang on a hang glider to fly to Dongdu.

Li Yuechen brought a few pilots with him this time, with the purpose of training a group of hang glider pilots here.

Of course, this place is farther away from Dongdu, so it would take at least two days to fly there, but even so, it is much faster than using horses to send messages.

Her estimate was correct. Four days later, the pilot brought back a letter from Du's second son, saying that they would start researching it immediately.

However, according to His Highness's request, the paper should be harder, so they have to start from the fundamentals, try harder paper first, and then consider the issue of watermarks.

It just so happens that His Highness is in Sichuan, why don't you send them some local plants, let them try more, and try all kinds of materials.

Of course, there was no problem with this request. Li Yuechen immediately sent someone to cut down some of the various plants on the nearby mountains, and packed them for delivery.

By the way, I also sent a lot of panda dung.

Of course, this is not for disgusting people. Panda feces contain a lot of bamboo fiber. When he was traveling in Sichuan, Li Yuechen had heard of toilet paper made from panda feces. Why don't they try to make it.

If it succeeds, a toilet paper factory can be opened here in the future. It doesn’t need to be sold for a lot of money, just enough for local people to use.

Before the advent of automobiles, transportation capacity could not keep up, so even toilet paper, once it leaves the production area, is not a product that ordinary people can afford.

Nowadays, the straw paper sold in Dongdu is cheap in Dongdu, but once it is shipped to other places, the price will rise gradually. There is no way, the transportation cost is high.

However, this situation will not last for too long. When there are more airships in the future, they will naturally be able to undertake the transportation tasks of some enterprises and reduce the transportation costs of many products.

Li Yuechen plans to make toilet paper affordable for people all over the country within 30 years!
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