Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Qingji wanted to achieve the consistency between the kingdoms of the feudal vassals and the native land of Wu, with the same text, same track, unified currency, unified language, and unified weights and measures.

Among them, the relatively less difficult ones are the unified currency and the unified weights and measures.

The remaining three reform measures are incomparable.

Cars on the same track?
Not to mention the overseas countries, the twenty vassal kingdoms in the west are thousands of miles away from the mainland of Wu. How to build bridges and pave roads so that the trains and tracks are connected and connected together?
It is also extremely difficult to have the same text and unify the language.

The difficulty is that those foreign nationalities may not accept the "baptism" of Wu, and still stubbornly maintain their own language and culture...

"Then start with the easier reforms first, the easier ones and then the harder ones."

Qingji put his eyes on Lu Ban, Minister of Industry, and said, "Gongshuban."

"Chen is here!"

"I want all the vassals and kingdoms in the world to have the same carriages, the same script, the same coins, the same shape, the same size, the same scale, the same weight, and the same law as Great Wu. I will trouble you."

Qing Ji said slowly: "Ministry of Industry, let the workshops in various places work overtime immediately to produce new Wu system weights and measures as soon as possible, and then distribute them to the feudal kingdoms in various places and sell them to the people."

"The old weights and measures are strictly forbidden. Those who violate them will have their property confiscated, their entire family exiled for three thousand miles, and given ten years of hard labor!"

"promise!"

Lu Ban immediately agreed.

Qingji's determination to unify weights and measures is beyond doubt.

Dare to steal and play tricks?

Or dare to use the previous weights and measures?

That is an act of death.

"In addition, let the workshop also produce more five baht coins, the more the better. The specific demand is to be determined."

"promise!"

"Five baht is the legal currency of my great Wu and all the kingdoms. It should not be changed. All old currencies of the kingdoms will be cancelled, and they are not allowed to circulate in the country!"

Qingji said solemnly: "Once the five baht money arrives, the feudal kingdoms can pass through the local government offices and let the people of the country exchange the old currency at the yamen."

"Exchange at commodity prices, trade at equivalent value, and there must be no deductions or excessive distribution."

"Bo Pi, your censors have sent inspectors to strictly supervise the censors to prevent the occurrence of enriching their own pockets."

"promise!"

Bo Pi immediately agreed.

Qing Ji said again: "Use half a year as the time limit. After half a year, the old currency is not allowed to circulate in the kingdoms of the vassals. Anyone who violates it will be beheaded!"

"The whole family was exiled for three thousand miles and served ten years of hard labor to atone for their crimes!"

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

The officials shouted.

The importance of unifying weights and measures and unifying currency is self-evident.

Regions such as the Americas, Australia, and Southeast Asia may have accepted this "novelty" from scratch, but the original Persian Achaemenid dynasty was different.

Thanks to the reforms of Darius I, the Achaemenid Dynasty had a relatively complete monetary system, and weights and measures were also unified.

At that time, the Persian Empire had a very vast territory, and various currencies and weights and measures were used in many areas, which brought a lot of inconvenience to economic exchanges and trade between various places.

In view of this, Darius I stipulated that he had the privilege of minting gold coins, the provincial governors were only allowed to mint silver coins, and each autonomous city was only allowed to mint copper coins.

The gold coin minted by Darius is named "Darioke", weighs 8.4 grams, is the best in color, and contains 98% pure gold.

The silver coin is called "Shekel", which weighs 5.6 grams, and 20 Shekels are equal to one Darek.

Since the silver coins circulating in the market are minted in various places and have different fineness, Darius also stipulated that the treasury should classify all kinds of silver coins handed in by taxpayers, including silver or pure silver, second-class silver, third-class silver, etc., and convert them according to a unified standard , the taxpayer has to make up for the difference in fineness.

Because of his meticulous calculations, Darius was called a "small merchant" by taxpayers...

What Qingji has to do now is to break the currency system and weights and measures system established by the Persians.

"His Majesty."

At this time, Zeng Shen, Minister of the Household Department, frowned, and came out with a wat in his hand, "The currency system of Great Wu is completely different from that of other vassal kingdoms."

"However, both are gold standard and silver standard, so can gold and silver also circulate in the market?"

"Gold coins, silver coins, copper coins, all will not work."

Qingji waved his hands in an unquestionable tone and said, "There can be no exceptions in everything. If there are exceptions, they will have a chance to get away with it, and then they will steal and play tricks. This opening must never be opened."

"The exchanged gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins will be melted into new currencies."

"According to my Great Wu's monetary system, [-] baht is equal to ten taels of silver, and equal to one tael of gold, which remain unchanged."

Hearing this, Zeng Shen smiled wryly and said, "Your Majesty, there are forty feudal kingdoms in Great Wu with a population of more than 2000 million. These feudal kingdoms are too far away from the mainland of Great Wu, thousands of miles away."

"Wait until the five baht coins are minted, and then send the old coins back to be minted. I don't know how long the delay will be."

"Why is it so troublesome? Your Majesty, why don't you just distribute the stoves used to mint money to the vassals, and let them figure it out and mint money by themselves?"

As soon as Zeng Shen's words came out, Prince Heng couldn't help but scolded him like a dog.

Let the vassals have the right to mint coins?
What did Zeng Shen think!

Just to reduce his own workload?
Fortunately, Zeng Shen's proposal was immediately rejected by Qingji.

"It doesn't matter if the money isn't minted fast enough. You can take money out of the treasury first and make up for it later. It's okay."

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Gongqing Baiguanshan shouted.

Anyway, this is a matter of left-handed and right-handed.

Qing Ji is indeed not short of money, and Da Wu is not short of money either.

It's just that if too much money is minted, a large amount of money will be circulated in the market, which will inevitably lead to inflation, so Qingji has not minted too many five baht coins.

He even dared not hand over the power of minting currency to those princes.

Even his own son is the same.

In case these feudal lords can't take it easy and mint a large amount of five baht coins every day, wouldn't it make the empire itself unlucky?

Isn't it harming Da Wu's fundamental interests?
After solving the problem of unifying weights and measures and currency, Qingji thought about it again.

"Second and third sons, please discuss how to make the books of my great Wu and all the vassal kingdoms have the same language and unified language?"

"..."

This is the most difficult thing.

Qingji's question made all the ministers and officials in the court shrink their heads like quails, not daring to speak rashly.

Or Fan Li is more reliable.

Fan Li thought about it all night last night, tossed and turned, and finally came up with a better solution for Qingji.

"Your Majesty, I think that if we want to unify the language and writing, we can send the local scholars of Great Wu to go out and give lectures in various feudal kingdoms, advocating that Great Wu is the culture of the kingdom of heaven."

"At the same time, set up rural studies, county studies, and national studies in various feudal kingdoms and their counties, so that scholars can act as teachers to recruit local young people or children to school, from young to old, so that they can be influenced by Wu Xue."

"Under the subtle influence, they naturally admire the culture of my great Wu, and choose to write Wu characters and speak Wu dialect."