Hanbo

Chapter 66 Gold Coins and Exams
After Huo An's mission is completed, Huo Shan is next.

In Huo Shan's view, the Chinese New Year at the end of September and the beginning of October is always a little less flavorful.

Although the weather is getting colder, it's still not cold enough to make people set a stove, let alone the snow.

However, Huo Shan felt that it was the right choice for him to go back to his home for the New Year, it was very lively.

It's not like the palace, where the rules are strict and lifeless, Huo Shan feels a little restrained, this way, it doesn't look like the Chinese New Year, it's better in the mansion.

Huo Shan sat on the steps and watched with a smile on his face. He was throwing firecrackers into the fire with thin bamboo segments in the yard to play with, and then the children ran around with their short legs flopping and giggling.

The children were all playing in front of the brazier. At first, they were suppressed by their parents and couldn't enjoy themselves.

Because their parents hadn't met Huo Shan a few times, they didn't know Huo Shan's character, and they were afraid of making Huo Shan angry if they made too much noise, so they collectively suppressed them.

But as time went by, seeing that Huo Shan was very amiable, he gradually let go.

There are so few young ones who are already sleeping soundly in the arms of their parents!

Huo Shan rolled up his sleeves and beckoned:

"Come, come, come here, little ones."

After the children heard Huo Shan's words, they looked at their parents, and their parents waved again and again:
"Go, go and meet the Patriarch."

A group of children ran in front of Huo Shan, a few cleverly remembered their parents' actions, and immediately knelt on the ground, and the others followed suit:

"Meet the master."

The shouting was also uneven and messy, but Huo Shan was very happy.

"Hahahaha, get up."

"Come here, do you see what's inside?"

Huo Shan opened the gold five baht box next to his legs, revealing the neatly stacked large gold five baht coins inside.

"Money, it's money!"

"Wow, so much!"

The little radish heads stared at Jin Wuzhu with bright eyes.

"Who among you hasn't started reading yet?"

Among the forty or so children, five or six looked to be two or three years old, and the cuties who could just run were pushed out.

"Come, come here."

A few little radish heads were not afraid of strangers at all, and ran over with their chubby legs.

"Want it or not?"

"Think~"

"Well, that's good, kowtow to me for a new year, and I'll give it to you."

A few children were very straightforward, and immediately knelt down and began to kowtow. They didn't understand New Year greetings, but kowtow understood, and they kowtowed just now.

But the rest got up after kowtowing once, and only one child kowtowed non-stop.

Huo Shan walked over and pulled him up, touched his little face and asked with a smile:

"Does the headache hurt, why doesn't it stop?"

When the child heard Huo Shan's question, he blinked his big eyes and said in a childish voice:
"My lord, San'er wants to give one to my sister."

Huo Shan showed surprise, and then laughed out loud.

"Haha, I still know that I am thinking about my sister. Very good, my sister already has one. If I give you one more, it will be regarded as a reward for you."

Immediately afterwards, Huo Shan walked back to the steps, picked up a special gold five baht, and then took out one from the red string on the left, put it on and hung it around the child's neck.

Then he took out an ordinary one and handed it to the child.

Then he took out a handful that had already been dressed and handed them to Xiao Lizi, asking him to distribute them, one for each person, Xiao Lizi and Sun Shang also had them, but Qimen didn't.

These gold five bahts are different from ordinary gold five bahts. The word five baht is engraved on the front, while the word champion is engraved on the back that was originally empty.

This kind of golden baht with five baht engraved on the front and the champion engraved on the back, and the golden half liang engraved on the front and Yulin on the back, Huo Shan cast [-] pieces each.

There is an anti-counterfeit mark designed by Huo Shan on it, so it can't be copied by others, and it is much more beautiful than ordinary money.

After the casting was completed, Huo Shan directly destroyed the mold, and did not plan to cast it again in the future.

This thing is used as the identity certificate of the people in the Huo family and the Habayashi army.

In the future, it will be handed down to future generations, and it may become a very meaningful collection.

Huo Shan also planned to make a gold coin with Liu Che's head printed on the front, Qilian Mountain in the middle on the back, Ma Treading Dragon City on the right, and Fenglang Juxu on the left.

Originally, Huo Shan was going to print Wei Qing's avatar on it, but thinking about it, he seemed to be harming the old man Wei, um, so he chose Lao Liu's. As for Lao Huo or his own, um, he didn't dare.

Huo Shan is going to cast [-] pieces, and then destroy the template. In the future, this thing will be used as the most precious reward for himself to reward his subordinates.

In order to prevent Liu Che from robbing him, Huo Shan also designed one for Liu Che.

On the front is Liu Che's head portrait, on the back is a map of the territory of the Han Dynasty, on the right is the four characters of the Great Han Empire, and on the left is the four characters of Longevity and Boundless.

Liu Che was very satisfied after reading it, and wanted to forge some more to use as new things for him to reward ministers.

But was stopped by Huo Shan, he told Liu Che to cast [-] pieces first, and then destroy the template, the territory of the Han Dynasty will definitely become bigger in the future, and it will have to be recast in the future.

Liu Che was very happy after hearing this, and agreed frankly, and Huo Shan's money-making plan was thus approved.

The weight of the two gold coins is set at around 31 taels, [-] grams.

The size, well, twice the size of a dollar coin.

This time Huo Shan set one or two, but according to Liu Che's disgusted expression, it was too small and too light, so he doubled it.

Two taels is just two taels. One tael is the size of a one-yuan coin. Some are too small, and they don’t weigh your hands.

Now the template is being made in a heavily fortified place in Shaofu, and when the template is completed, gold coins can be minted.

As for why the template is destroyed after the casting is completed, you must know that the rarer the thing, the more precious it is!
Thinking of this, Huo Shan was very happy, because Liu Che happily said that Liu Che helped him get the materials for Huo Shan's [-] gold coins.

You must know that one piece is 31.2 grams, and 6240 pieces are 6240 kilograms of Han Jin, which is [-] gold. Can you be unhappy if you get a year of taxation for nothing?
.........

Then there are these children who have read books.

"How long have you been studying?"

Then there was a mess of voices, some shouted for two years, some called for three years, and some just started school.

Huo Shan smiled and nodded:

"Well, yes, Sun Shang, bring a sand table over here."

"promise."

Not long after, Sun Shang came over with a wooden board and a bag of sand, and poured the sand into the wooden board. After smoothing, Huo Shan began to speak again:
"Did you see this sand table? Since you have started to learn how to read, I will test you. One word is five baht, who will come first?"

The children were stunned for a moment. They have never seen such a teaching test. Usually they can't learn to play the board. You have learned how to reward money?

Huo An and others are watching this scene with a smile on the side.

Next, a child about ten years old quickly rushed to Huo Shan to salute with lightning speed:
"My lord, servants come first."

Huo Shan looked at the other children, and found that although the children in their teens, seven or eight years old were robbed of the top spot, they were not convinced, but they didn't rush forward to grab it. Huo Shan nodded in satisfaction.

"Well, let's get started."

As soon as Huo Shan finished speaking, the child picked up the wooden stick next to him and began to write on the sand table.

In the end, the child wrote 170 characters, but it doesn't mean that he can only know so many, but that he can only think of so many.

The child was still relatively smart, and couldn't remember any more words, so he wrote an article silently.

Huo Shan took out 170 coins and handed them to him:
"You have to work harder in the future. I will take an exam next year. I hope you can write [-] words next year."

"Thank you, my lord, for teaching."

After the child got the money, his small mouth couldn't close his mouth and his eyes disappeared.

Next, the children came forward one by one, some could write seventy or eighty words, some could write thirty or forty, some were nervous and couldn't remember a single one, Huo Shan could only encourage and guide them!
During this process, Huo Shan suddenly thought, should I get a textbook for beginners? The textbook at this time is really hard to describe.

Not only is it difficult to understand, but there are also many words that are repeated, such as "Cangjie Pian", which is necessary for elementary school at this time.

Speaking of this elementary school textbook, he wrote "Cangjie" by Li Si in the Qin Dynasty, "Yanli" by Zhao Gao, and "Bo Xue" by Hu Wujing.

A teacher in the early Han Dynasty combined the three books into Cangjie Pian.

Huo Shan remembered:

'"Three Character Classic", "Hundred Surnames", "Thousand Characters", "Disciple Regulations" four.

"San Zi Jing" is the most catchy, but it is not suitable. There are so many characters in it that have not yet appeared, so this can only be eliminated.

The same is true for "Hundred Surnames" and "Disciple Regulations". If you can't take these two books, then only "Thousand Characters" is left. '

'"Thousand Characters" talks about great principles, basically involving astronomy, nature, self-cultivation, human relations and morality, geography, history, farming, sacrifice, gardening, diet and daily life and other aspects.

Although it is regarded as a Confucian classic, Liu Che probably likes the part about the principles of monarchs and ministers in it.

The individual characters that did not appear in it can be replaced! '

'But taking this thing out just fits Gu Liang's wishes, and it has to be planned, and the great prosperity of Confucianism is inevitable, if you can't avoid it, then join and even control it.

It is a good story to pull the uncle in, and the father and son are both civil and military.

Let him find those old men in Taixue, and give them a wave of Confucian reputation, and maybe they can win Ni Kuan and Sima Qian.

Relying on this book of primitive learning, and commenting on several Confucian classics in the future, coupled with some people's praise, maybe he can be named as a sub-sage after death. '

After thinking about it, Huo Shan felt that it was settled, so he went to ask today.

As for the matter of Gu Liang, Huo Shan was going to hand it over to Ni Kuan and those old men from Taixue.

Asking them to sign, of course they have to do something, and they have struggled for a lifetime, and with the help of Ni Kuan, I believe that it will be no problem to deal with a small Guliang who has not yet risen.

And this is a name that will last forever and be famous in history. It is estimated that Huo Shan asked them to destroy Gu Liang, and they would not be vague.

(End of this chapter)