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Chapter 121 The Secret of the Rich House

The old coins are cleaned after being burnt. Ten pieces weigh one tael, and one thousand coins weigh six catties and four taels. They are eight cents in diameter and are brass-colored. The four words Kaiyuan Tongbao are written by Ouyang Xun, a famous Tang Dynasty master. The font is generous and exquisite. , clear without adhesion.

The new money was washed after burning. Thirteen coins weighed one tael, and one thousand coins weighed five catties and one tael. The diameter was eight cents, and the color was blue. The words Kaiyuan Tongbao on the money were straight, blurred, and sticky.

After Yun Chu measured the weight of the coins, he washed his hands in clean water, and said to Cui Shi: "Use the old money at home and exchange all the new money in the hands of the villagers."

Cui said: "In this case, the family will lose [-]%."

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "Anyway, we don't wait for the rice to go to the pot. It's okay to lose some. Maybe we can earn some without losing."

Cui said with a smile: "How can you earn back the [-]% you lost? My concubine is all ears."

Yun Chu sighed and said, "Casting copper ware, such as casting a huge copper phoenix."

Cui said with a smile: "I suspect that these copper coins are actually cast after the copper is melted. Now that Mr. Wang has made copper, it seems that it is not profitable."

Yun Chu looked at Cui Shi and said, "Have you been exposed to this kind of thing before?"

Cui said with a smile: "For the rich and powerful, copper coins are not easy to store, so if you accumulate more copper coins at home, you will cast copper coins into bronze wares and put them in your home. ten thousand catties.

Cui's hometown in Qinghe has a family temple. In the family temple is a gilded bronze Buddha, weighing more than [-] catties. On both sides of the bronze Buddha are two servant Buddhas, each weighing [-] catties. , and eighteen arhats, each weighing more than three thousand catties...

When copper coins were worthless, Cui began to cast Buddha statues, and when copper coins became valuable, Cui began to repair Buddha statues.

There are more than Qinghe Cui's family in the world, but everyone's way of doing things is similar. Mr. Lang can replace the new copper coins in the hands of the villagers, but he can't replace all the new copper coins on the market. "

Yunchu clicked his mouth and said: "So, everything I do is useless?" "

Cui thought for a while and said: "Mr. Lang, bear with it. The world belongs to the imperial court. They don't care about their own people. What can Mr. Lang do by himself? If you want to take good care of the people in Jinchangfang, you have to You must release all the copper coins in your hand. The sooner you release them, the less you will lose.

However, Liu Yi, Liu Fangzheng, who trusts you the most, after hearing your advice, did he give up the copper coins in his hand?

No!

So, my lord, some people deserve to be poor. They have lived like this for thousands of years, and they have long been used to it. "

Yun Chu looked at Cui Shi and said: "So, they have worked hard all their lives, worked hard all their lives, worked as cows and horses all their lives, and finally ended up with one—they deserve to be poor?"

Cui sighed and didn't speak, but her expression clearly showed that she approved of this sentence very much.

After all, Yunchu exchanged his own old copper coins for the new copper coins in the hands of the villagers, which made the worried villagers smile again.

Then, the next day, they brought more new copper coins to the head of the village to exchange, but the head of the village flatly refused.

Kindness is too much to send out at once, and if you send out too much, you will become a fool. Obviously, the villagers are actively exchanging it even though they know that the old copper coins are worth more than the new copper coins. This shows that in their eyes, inside Long is a fool.

As Cui said, Yunchu couldn't do anything during this massive robbery.

I can only watch the price of goods in Chang'an take off, and the price of grain rise from two yuan for a bucket to twenty yuan.

Therefore, Chang'an is big, and it is not easy to live in. This sentence has become more famous.

On the third day after the Shangyuan Festival, the government issued an announcement, stopping the sale of grain in Changping warehouses, and also warned all Chang'an people not to hoard and live together, and if found, they will be severely punished.

At the same time, the imperial court's adjustments to the Xia Fu are also being formulated intensively. Although they don't know the content, Yunchu knows that the imperial court will not suffer losses in vain anyway. Only those who suffer losses will succeed, and only in this way can the accounts be smoothed out.

Therefore, it was already clear at a glance that the idiot was damaged.

The old monkey came to see Naha and brought many gifts, among which was the seven treasure glazed lamp that Naha had been thinking about.

Yun Chu did some research, and soon discovered the secret of why this lamp is getting brighter and brighter. It is mainly on the colored glaze that serves as the lamp shell. These colored glazes are divided into seven layers according to the light transmittance. Concave mirror with light effect, as long as you press the mechanism on the handle, the shell of the glazed lamp will rise layer by layer, and finally achieve the effect similar to the lotus growing step by step.

"I told Xiangji Kitchen that before the Shangyuan Festival, all the money stored there by your family will be exchanged for gold!"

Hearing what the old monkey said, Yunchu immediately understood that the Da Ci'en Temple was responsible for this big change in copper coins.

Also because of the old monkey's words, the Yun family also changed from a victim in this turmoil to a winner.

"Master Xuanzang has been refusing to see you, I don't know why, but he always cheers up whenever he talks about you, which is very strange.

Originally, I wanted to ask if I knew the reason, but since you are so stupid, it must be because you don't know.

I had nothing to do, so I asked Naha to enter the temple. This child is so stupid that he failed to memorize a short "Heart Sutra" for half a month. I wanted to scold him, but Master Xuanzang said, What are you doing with a useless thing like the Heart Sutra? You also say that everyone has their own "Heart Sutra", and that this "Heart Sutra" is engraved on everyone's heart, and the rest only depends on the level of practice..."

That being said, when Your Majesty, the Queen comes to Da Ci'en Temple to offer incense on the 28th birthday of Empress Wende and the [-]th day of July [-]th, Naha will still appear. If you don't come down, you can't justify it. "

Although the old monkey is very annoying, there is nothing to say about his attitude towards Yunchu and Yunna.

Therefore, Yunchu also sent him a jar of alcohol that had just been steamed at home.

Unexpectedly, after taking a sip, the old monkey resolutely returned the alcohol to Yunchu, thinking it was poison.

Fortunately, because Yunchu started to give him gifts, the old monkey agreed to put the small giant phoenix that Yunchu had just let the craftsman cast into the temple for worship, waiting for those who are destined to come home to worship.

"The focus of bronze statues is copper. Is there copper in your bronze statue?"

Yun Chu took a look at the white Baji bronze statue cast by himself, and somewhat felt that it was a bit excessive, because the copper color could not be seen in this thing, and it seemed that the craftsmen accidentally put less copper in accordance with his instructions.

On the street in Yunchu, there is a tertiary product waste collection station belonging to the street. Although the name is not good, but under the condition of monopolizing the street waste, the annual profit is very objective.

One of the most profitable is from non-ferrous metals.

Copper-zinc alloy: brass yellow, copper-tin alloy: bronze, cyan, copper-nickel alloy: white copper, copper-zinc-lead alloy is also considered brass, and copper-nickel-zinc alloy is also considered to be copper-nickel. In short, there is a lot of knowledge in it, Yunchu In order to supervise the cash disbursement of the waste collection station, he also made up for this kind of knowledge.

There is no such thing as zinc in Datang, but there is tin, but the price of this thing is not much different from that of copper, so it is not good to add it to copper.

Fortunately, the lead of people in Datang contains zinc. Yunchu asked the craftsmen to use as little copper as possible and more lead to cast a batch of bronze statues.

Now, it looks like a bit of a mess.

Although the old monkey looked down on Yunchu's delivery, he accepted the two hundred bronze statues with a sad face.

He also asked Yunchu to go to the Zhike monk to collect the money. The price was very good, not only could he make back the money Yunchu lost due to his good intentions, but also had extra money to pay the wages of the craftsmen.

Following the old monkey into the Daci'en Temple, after receiving the money from the Zhike monk, Yunchu asked the old monkey, "You won't lose money, will you?"

Before the old monkey could answer, the Zhigu monk on the side smiled and said: "Amitabha, Amitabha, these bronze statues are already very good, just need to gilt the outside, and then place them in front of the Buddha for incense. Please go home and worship."

Yunchu didn't care what the Zhike monk said, he only cared about what the Zhike monk said - these bronze statues are already very good!

You know, when he asked people to cast bronze statues, he blushed thinking about what he said, but he didn't expect that these bronze statues turned out to be works of conscience in the mouth of Zhike monk.

In an instant, a feeling of being at a loss arises spontaneously.

The old monkey looked at Yunchu and said, "You earn yours, I earn mine, and you'll die when the goods arrive."

Yunchu, who felt that he had lost a lot of money, returned home with the money. Cui Shi was very happy, and Naha was also very happy, and they came to help count the money together.

Then, Yunchu discovered that when Naha was counting the money, the money in her small hand was always not much. On the contrary, her small money bag became swollen at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Yun Chu wanted to ask, but was stopped by Cui Shi with his eyes, and deliberately created an opportunity for Naha to transfer the copper coins, so that she could empty the purse and come back to continue filling the money.

The hard work of counting money was finally over, Naha left happily, and Cui said to Yunchu: "Miss Naha took 620 Wen."

Yun Chu smiled and said, "Little girl knows how to use money."

Cui shook her head and said: "Little lady's subordinates only eat one meal a day, and they are too hungry to play with her or take a bath."

"So, she's taking care of those little girls?"

"Not just little girls, but little boys."

Yun Chu nodded and said, "Although it's a good thing, she still has to tell the adults when she takes the money."

Cui shook her head and said: "The stolen meals are more delicious, the people who are stolen are fresher, and the money stolen to support people is more grateful.

After little lady Naha has been raised like this for a while, we will be able to give their family a sum of money in an upright manner, and get all the children to our house to work as servants. "

"Hey, isn't the life of the people in Jinchangfang getting better? It won't be the point where they sell their sons and daughters, right?"

Cui gritted her teeth and said: "Children in Fangshi are not suitable to be slaves, only servants.

My concubine thinks that although our family has a lot of channels to get money, but there are not enough slaves. Now that the food price has risen ten times, I think that it is better to take advantage of this opportunity to raise more slaves. "

(End of this chapter)