Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 805 The country's reputation is the most important

Chapter [-] The country's reputation is the most important

When Li Xiuning woke up, the sky had already brightened. Li Xiuning, who was dazed, washed up and asked He Yueer, "Chen Lang didn't come back yesterday?"

He Yue'er nodded and said: "Here we are, but he came back too late. Chen Lang said that he was carrying too much cold air, so he was resting in the study next door for fear of freezing the princess and the fetus in the womb. The time is gone!"

Li Xiuning asked suspiciously, "What has he been up to lately?"

He Yue'er shook her head and said, "I don't know too well, Chen Lang goes to the Shule River every day, and he doesn't know what to do!"

Li Xiuning frowned, feeling very strange in her heart.She absent-mindedly ate a meal, and asked He Yue'er to prepare the carriage, and she drove out of the city.

However, Li Xiuning's carriage stopped just after leaving Shule City's capital.Li Xiuning was resting her eyes with her eyes closed, when suddenly she heard the cries of women in the bustling bustle.Li Xiuning lifted the curtain of the car, and found a small group of Tang soldiers arguing fiercely in front of a Hu Bing shop dozens of steps ahead, while the shopkeeper of Hu Bing, his wife and daughter were crying loudly.

Li Xiuning didn't understand Tuluohuo language, and vaguely heard that the men and women crying bitterly seemed to be using Tuluohuo language, so she asked curiously: "What happened?"

A Lite businessman obviously understands Tang dialect and can speak Tuluo Huo language, so he helped Li Xiuning translate: "Oh... a small matter, this team of Tang officers and soldiers ate 170 four pieces of hu Bread, fifty bowls of mutton soup, no payment!"

When Li Xiuning heard that this was the reason, she immediately became furious, and said to the guards in front: "Catch them here!"

Although Li Xiuning is a princess of the Tang Dynasty, she is also a hero of the female school. When she was in Guanzhong, she formed the Women's Army, and she hated the officers and soldiers very much, so she strictly enforced military discipline. Now Shule City is the Shule of the Tang Dynasty. The people in the city, regardless of Han or Hu, are subjects of the Tang Dynasty. Now the soldiers of the Tang army dare to eat the king's meal, which is not bad.Don't look at the 170 four pieces of Hubing, which only cost more than 300 yuan, and the sum of fifty bowls of mutton soup is only [-] yuan, which is always less than the money.

However, regardless of the small amount of money, the impact it creates is extremely bad.

Li Xiuning looked at the group of soldiers from the Tang Army who were escorted over, and shouted coldly: "What's your name, and which general you belong to!"

The leader of the team stepped forward and bowed: "Su Jianwu is the leader of the Sixth Brigade of the C and B Brigade of the Shesheng Army, and belongs to General Duan!"

Li Xiuning shouted with a cold face: "Su Jianwu, are you convicted?"

Su Jianwu said with a puzzled face: "I don't know how humble!"

Li Xiuning's voice suddenly raised an octave, and scolded: "You are not guilty yet, which military regulation tells you that you can rob people's property by force and eat the king's meal?"

Su Jianwu said aggrievedly: "Reporting to Your Highness, how dare you be so humble, you have already given the money, and the food only needs 830 seven cash, and you have given me the consistent money, and they are not allowed to give change, they are not happy, this is not blackmail !"

All the soldiers also spoke in agreement, but Li Xiuning was stunned.Ordinarily, Su Jianwu would never dare to open his eyes and tell nonsense in front of his own face, but now they say that the public is right, and the mother-in-law is right, and Li Xiuning doesn't know how to judge.

At this time, He Yue'er, who went to investigate the whole incident, returned to Li Xiuning and said, "Your Highness, the matter is now clear. Team Su really paid the money, but what he paid was the money ticket from Datang Tongli Bank, which has the same face value." , but the store didn’t recognize it, and even tore up the money ticket!”

Datang Tongli Bank’s banknotes, although they are called banknotes, are in fact like banknotes of later generations. They are not named and cannot be lost in the mail. With the banknotes, they can be exchanged for coins of the same face value in full. However, the banknotes are shredded by the store. Naturally, the opportunity to exchange is lost.

Under the current circumstances, the Hushang mutton shop does not recognize the money tickets in the hands of the generals of the Anxi Army. Gold and silver, suffered losses, these soldiers were asked to pay again because they paid the ticket, so they naturally quit.

If it weren't for the extremely strict military discipline under Chen Ying's command, I'm afraid they would have hacked people with their knives.

Knowing the whole story, Li Xiuning had no choice but to let the soldiers pay the bill.Li Xiuning, who boarded the carriage again, was even more puzzled. He found that as long as they were Han people, they all recognized the money tickets in the hands of the generals of the Anxi Army. Only these Hu merchants and people of all ethnic groups naturally did not recognize the money tickets from the Tang Tongli Bank.

Why there is such a huge disagreement between Han and Hu, Li Xiuning is very strange, she thought about it but didn't understand it.

When Li Xiuning came to the banks of the Shule River, he found that at some point there were a dozen waterwheels erected by the river. Due to the cold weather, there were thousands of Anxi soldiers standing on the rafts, knocking on the rafts from time to time. To the ice on the surface of the Shule River to prevent the river from freezing.

Under the action of the water flow, these five-to-six-foot-high water wheels continued to rotate with the water flow, making roaring sounds.

When there were hundreds of steps away from the workshop on the west bank of the Shule River, a huge golden sound was heard. These golden sounds were the huge hammers swung by the ancient giant gods, which made people's eardrums very uncomfortable.

At this time, Chen Yingzheng was like an ordinary craftsman, surrounded by a group of craftsmen, pointing and pointing.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying, dancing and dancing, excited like a child.

Li Xiuning looked at He Yue'er and asked, "What is Chen Lang doing?"

He Yue'er said suspiciously: "It seems to be making money!"

"Coins?" Even if Li Xiuning had never eaten pork, he had seen pigs run away.To cast money, the cold casting method is adopted. The prepared copper water is poured into the pre-made copper coin mold. As long as it condenses, the copper coin will be cast.

However, this traditional process of casting copper coins has a problem, that is, the efficiency is too low.Datang generals can cast about 8000 million pieces at most in one year.It sounds like a lot, but only 38.For a Datang with an annual revenue of more than 600 million guan, the mintage of 38 guan is really too small.

This also caused Datang's money shortage, not to mention that Datang is not an influential country, but a regional power, including Goguryeo, Buyeo, Silla, Baekje, Champa, Linli, Luoxie, Including Japan and Luzon, they all use Tang coins, and there is a very bad habit among the people, that is, saving money.

Therefore, the coins of the Tang Dynasty were never enough, and the folks did not have enough currency, and most of them used barter.Chen Ying developed by leaps and bounds and introduced banknotes.However, the storage of banknotes is not as durable as copper coins. Once it is damp or corroded by mice and ants, it will become a mass of useless waste paper.

Under this circumstance, Chen Ying decided to release the coins of Datang Tongli Bank. Most of Chen Ying's copper mine resources in the Western Regions were in Chen Ying's own hands except for the one copper mine obtained by Yang Rong. Copper, silver, and gold coins were all minted.

However, the efficiency of hot casting is too low.Chen Ying thought of the cold forging process of later generations, directly using hydraulic impact pressure to stamp and form copper coins at one time.

Now a hydraulic stamping machine weighing 5 jin can strike 15 copper coins at a time. In theory, as long as the raw materials are sufficient, a hydraulic stamping machine can punch [-] copper coins within the time of one stick of incense ([-] minutes). Three thousand pieces can be punched out, and [-] copper coins, or the same amount of gold and silver coins can be cold forged in one year.

Looking at the copper coins that were successfully cold-forged, Chen Ying nodded in satisfaction and said: "Good job, everyone will take double cases this month."

All the craftsmen burst into cheers. At this moment, Chen Ying accidentally saw Li Xiuning's carriage. Chen Ying was shocked. Li Xiuning was pregnant. In such a noisy environment, every moment Li Xiuning stayed, Just a little more dangerous.

Chen hurried to the carriage and asked the coachman to drive the carriage back to Shule without any explanation.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying and asked, "Chen Lang, why did you think of minting coins?"

Chen Ying smiled slightly and said: "Everywhere I go, I will go to the local market and ask about the prices of various items. Today's people in the world completely abandon the five baht coins of the Sui Dynasty, let alone use them. Most of them are bartered in exchange for the necessities of life."

Li Xiuning nodded thoughtfully and said: "The world is rebelling against the king, the flames of war continue, and the people are displaced, so it is natural to have something to eat and drink, and it will be safe if you hold it in your hands.

Chen Ying didn't expect that Li Xiuning still had a talent for managing money, and he looked a little appreciative in his eyes, and continued: "It's not that the coins are useless, but that the country's reputation has been lost. There are disputes in the world, frequent dynasties change, and the size of the coins. There is no unified standard for severity, and the common people are naturally unwilling and unable to use it.”

Li Xiuning gradually frowned and said, "Bartering can only make the wealthiest gentry richer, while the common people are getting poorer."

"That's right!" Chen Ying became a little excited, he sighed and shook his head and said, "Not only are the people poor, but the country is also poor, because the family's family keeps the property rich and the country's lifeblood is ultimately in the hands of the family's family. "

Li Xiuning sneaked into her fist secretly, breathing heavily, and asked, "Chen Lang, can you change this problem by doing this?"

"In the current Tang Dynasty, the world is unified, and the war is gradually ending. It is time to turn around, resume production, and pay attention to the livelihood of the people." Chen Ying said with a wry smile: "So, I adopt the ratio of copper to tin at eight to one. Forging coins, only when the credit value of coins is stable, supported by national reputation, and useful things such as food and cloth are in the hands of the court to improve the lives of the people, this is the way to long-term stability in the world. Gate, here, I will try out coins first, as long as Datang is no longer short of money, merchants who come to Datang will not barter anymore!"

Chen Ying actually kept half of what he said.

Chen Ying wants to use Datang Tongli Bank to control Datang's economic lifeline.

The Rothschild family has a famous saying: "Once the money sounds, the voice of opposition will stop abruptly!"

Once Chen Ying's business empire is established, then he will have a real amulet on his body, which is more effective than any iron book of alchemy.In fact, there are basically few ministers who have obtained the iron scroll of Dan Shu in history, and there are basically few who can end well.

Chen Ying did this in order to live a good life!

Chen Ying looked at Li Xiuning and said, "For the use of coins, the country's reputation is the most important."

(End of this chapter)