Destiny Only Han

Chapter 662 Liu Ying: The little boy is inferior!

Xiang County, Zengshi County (now Baise, Guangxi).

It has only been a few years since the county was established here. At the earliest time, it was just a pass of the Nanyue Kingdom, used to monitor the movements of the Dian Kingdom, Yelang Kingdom and the Yue tribe on the other side.

After all, Baise is located at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, and has the title of "connecting the east to the west, connecting the east to the west".

Now, with the complete collapse of the Nanyue Kingdom on one side of the separatist regime, the three counties in Lingnan have returned to the direct jurisdiction of the Han Empire. Therefore, this place has gradually changed from a pass with only a hundred households and more than 200 defenders to a medium-sized county with thousands of households. .

Well, population growth is largely dependent on gold diggers.

After all, Liu Ying has a map of the world that shows the local mineral deposits in her hand, and she only needs to follow the map to find out where the ore veins are located.

As for hard currency like gold, it is natural not to worry about finding someone to dig it.

Therefore, when the gold diggers come, craftsmen who sell and repair tools will follow, and small vendors such as tailors, shopkeepers, butchers, wine dealers, etc. will also pour in. However, it is those who only need a small amount of money to make the market full of vitality. A seafood merchant who can warm the whole life of others.

But there is no road in the world, and there will be a road if there are more people walking.

With roads, people will gather here, and there will be markets and houses.

Then, the village became a market town, and the market town became a county seat. Liu Ying, who led the army, saw a city surrounded by wilderness but full of vitality.

However, Liu Ying was not in the mood to wander around the market. What was placed in front of him at the moment were mangoes, lychees and a dozen kinds of fruits with names and names that were chilled with well water, as well as a thick pile of them. letterhead.

Mangoes are originally produced in India and the Malay Peninsula. It is said that Master Xuanzang, Tang Seng, was the first Chinese to eat mango. .

Now, with the launch of large ships with a displacement of tens of tons to hundreds of tons, the farthest end of the Maritime Silk Road has also expanded westward from the South China Sea in the pre-Qin period to the coast of the South Pacific Ocean and its islands, all the way to the Indian Peninsula. In addition, local tyrants in this period liked to raise rare birds and animals, and plant exotic flowers and plants, so cargo ships loaded with such things as Bengal tigers, Asian lions, proboscis monkeys, and many flowers and trees’ seeds or seedlings docked every day in Panyu Port.

Well, keeping some weird animals is the hobby of all human beings, and it has been like this since ancient times.

For example, the skull of an extinct gibbon was excavated from the tomb of Empress Dowager Xia, the grandmother of Qin Shihuang, and the remains of giant pandas were also found in the tomb of Empress Dowager Bo, the mother of Emperor Wen of Han...

As for the mango in front of Liu Ying, it was found in the back garden of an official in Panyu. Although it is not too sweet, it is a rarity...

Liu Ying peeled off a cold lychee and held it in her mouth, then wiped her hands and began to open the letter.

Then, he froze slightly, his eyebrows furrowed together.

On the envelope of the topmost letter, there were three seals, one from the Eastern Palace, one from Lu Zhi, and one from Little Lolita’s Princess Zhiyang. It is written in grand style, and the place where the letter was sent is the summer resort of the Western Han Dynasty, Lin Guang Palace, which is later known as Ganquan Palace...

"I was fighting life and death in front of me, but these guys are enjoying themselves together..."

Liu Ying grumbled in a low voice, spit out the lychee cores into the trash can with a pop, opened the envelope immediately, and read in a low voice.

"It's been a long time, and the fist is very strong..."

"The emperor is well, your majesty is well, the empress is well... my concubine is well too..."

"The two places are close to each other. It has been a few months since we parted in a hurry. The heat in Guanzhong is unbearable, and it must be even worse in Lingnan. The concubine is not by His Highness's side. I hope His Highness will take good care of himself and don't be greedy for cold..."

After Liu Ying read this, she put down the ice lychee she was holding in her hand, but after thinking about it, why should a family member of Dou Yifang take care of herself? Besides, she couldn't see it, so she continued to peel it off and put it in her mouth. Then the whole person is like petrification.

The reason is very simple, Dou Yifang also wrote the matter of her pregnancy into the letter.

"Your Highness once said that the Empress lost a bet with His Majesty and lost the right to name her grandson to His Highness, but His Majesty said nothing of the matter. Recently, she was looking through the "Dictionary" to search for good names..."

"Throwing a pen hurts my feelings, I am at a loss when I come to the book, my concubine Dou writes in Lin Guanggong."

This old man is too shameless... Liu Ying picked up the cattail fan and slapped it twice, deciding to make a quick decision in Dian and return to Guanzhong as soon as possible.

Well, there is no rush to hold the baby.

The main reason is that Liu Bang's naming is too casual.

For example, Liu Fei is now 1.8 meters tall, but weighs almost [-] catties...

Another example is Liu Ruyi, Liu Bang himself was as happy as he wanted, he successfully entered Guanzhong, destroyed Qin and proclaimed himself emperor, but Liu Ruyi was not at all happy...

Therefore, those who name their children Shenma must not refer to Liu Bang's suggestion, it's too foolish!
So Liu Ying sat up, holding Dou Yifang's letter in her hand, she took her shoes and went to Zhang Buyi to show off.

After all, he had asexually reproduced a child, and the little boy was still empty below his knees, so it was impossible to specify...

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In the northwest of the Dian Kingdom, there is a tribe named Laojin. Although the leader is a Bo, he has no intention of aspiring to be the King of Dian. At that time, the place still maintained the tranquility and serenity of the past.

Since Kuai Che expressed his intention of not being the King of Dian on the shore of the Erhai Lake, under the protection of Chong Da and a group of soldiers, he withdrew from the core area of ​​Dian Kingdom and stayed in Laochen, waiting for the arrival of Liu Ying's army. At the same time, he kept rejecting and giving advice to those Bo people patriarchs and Dian royal families who came to recruit him.

After all, relying on the civilized level of the Dian people, there is no concept of combining vertical and horizontal at all.

Most of the aborigines are sincere, simple and pure, they disdain tricks such as long-distance friendship and short-term attack, hypocrisy and obedience, and they don't know how to use them...

The reason why Kuai Che stayed here and did not leave was not only because of the high level of Chong Da Yi Gao that made him bold, but also because he secretly organized people to go to various parts of Dian Kingdom to explore mineral veins.

Mainly copper mines.

As soon as he left, a lot of work would come to a standstill, so although it was a bit dangerous, it was the reason why he had to stay.

Anyway, I received a secret report a few days ago, saying that the army led by Liu Ying has reached the border of the Dian Kingdom, and is marching at a high intensity of forty miles per day (Qin and Han weights and measures, 1 mile is 415 meters, 40 miles is about 16 kilometers). come!

After all, there are dirt roads, and it is rainy in the south. Once the ground is wet by rain, the flat ground will be half a foot muddy!
Well, just like the wedding video that swiped the screen, the groom told the bride that there was a cement road in front of his house, but it turned out to be a water and mud road...

This is also the reason why Liu Ying only recruited two thousand elites from Guanzhong, and then recruited a large number of Lingnan garrison soldiers and garrison troops who were used to walking on muddy roads.

Another reason is that the elite army is equipped with a large number of firearms and sophisticated armor, and conquering the Dian people is as easy and comfortable as the Spanish pioneers who conquered the aborigines of the American continent.

Although the aborigines regarded the Spaniards as gods in mythology, which led to their defeat, the number of Han troops was much larger than that of the original Spaniards!
Therefore, this battle must be won.

And the reason why Liu Ying came to conquer Dian against all opinions was not for the king's land under the whole world and the king's ministers on the shore of the land, but for the copper mine.

In addition to cultivating leading parties, Kuai Che has actually only done this one thing in recent years.

The Han Dynasty was short of copper. Although silver, gold, brass and other metals were continuously obtained after excavating the Iwami Silver Mine, as the name implies, the Iwami Silver Mine is mainly composed of silver mines, and there are not many copper and gold mines.

The important thing is that silver is a precious metal, and people still use copper coins as currency on a daily basis.

Well, another reason for using copper coins as currency is that the price of goods in the Han Dynasty was not high at this time, and a bucket of grain was only a dozen five baht coins.

In an analogy, the silver dollar issued by Liu Ying belongs to the hundred-yuan bill, just as even in the era when money is worthless in later generations, the circulation of the hundred-yuan bill is far less than that of the ten-yuan and 20-yuan bills. Packs of cigarettes were given in small change.

Of course, scan code payment has changed all that.

But today's Han country is only connected to electricity in a small area, so the use of QR codes and mobile phones is still far away...

Therefore, unless Liu Ying prints a large amount of banknotes without shame, and plunders the real gold and silver in the hands of the people with pieces of paper by flooding, the country's demand for copper coins will be a bottomless pit!
After all, in addition to being an intermediary for transactions, currency also has a very important function.

stored value.

For example, silk products such as silk can be circulated as currency, because the output of silk is not high, so it has the value of preservation, otherwise, why is the circulation not cabbage?

Therefore, as long as productivity is higher than short-term consumption, human beings must need the existence of money.

Such as gold, silver and copper, such as banknotes, such as credit points in future technology...

As for banknotes, they gradually lose their value-storage function and continue to depreciate.

The root cause is nothing more than the fact that there is basically no cost to issue banknotes. For example, Dameng’s precious banknotes are too hard to wipe your ass...

In the major countries of later generations, the cost of issuing currency is lower, especially in the electronic age, and even the printing press does not have to be started.

The issuing agency buys the debt and gives the banknotes to the indebted agency to buy the debt it issued.

Such as national debts, local debts, corporate bonds, and even IOUs...

The more privileged the debt institution is, the stronger its debt capacity is. It only needs to sell its own debt and promise to repay in the future to get the cash from the currency issuer.

As for whether and when it will be returned, it is unknown.

Anyway, in the electronic age, in the face of debts that debt institutions cannot repay, the issuer records a bad debt and writes it off, and then the whole people bear the inflation...

(End of this chapter)