I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 219 Hey, I smell it~

Chapter 219 Hey, I smell it~
"In the past few years, you have been working in the palace. You should have gone to the market outside the palace to buy something, right?"

Wen Sheng asked, causing Xia Que to nod hastily. Seeing Liu Sheng smiled in satisfaction, he immediately lowered his head and looked up at the four copper coins lined up on the table in front of him.

"Do you know all these four coins?"

This time, Xia Que was not in a hurry to answer.

Carefully raised his head, carefully looked at each copper coin, and then lowered his head again.

"recognized;"

"The biggest one is half a tael."

"The one with the thinnest money circle is three baht coins."

"There are two remaining. The larger one is eight baht coins, and the smaller one is four baht coins."

The stern answer only provoked Liu Sheng to smile and nod again.

Then, he leaned his upper body back a little, and raised the corners of his mouth with a half-smile.

"Then let me ask you: Suppose, I ask you to go to Dongshi to buy grain for one stone, and the price of grain is fifty yuan per stone;"

"How should you bring these four kinds of money?"

"How do you bring it so that you can just buy a stone of grain?"

After asking the question, Liu Sheng took his time to put his hands back, and together with his brother Liu Pengzu beside him, they waited for Xia Que's answer.

But the answer Xia Que gave made Liu Sheng more interested in 'money'...
"Return to the son's words."

"If it's in the market, and the seller lists a price of [-] qian per stone of grain, then the 'fifty qian' usually means four baht."

"—Because the four baht coins were minted by the order of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, the people recognized Emperor Taizong the most, and naturally, they also recognized the four baht coins the most."

"If I want to buy such a stone of grain, the most convenient thing is to bring fifty four baht coins;"

"As long as the fineness is not lacking, fifty four baht coins can just buy this stone of grain."

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"If it is eight baht coins, as long as the quality is not bad, it can be halved directly, and only 25 eight baht coins are needed;"

"Even if you run into a troublesome person who pesters you endlessly with 'lack of color', you only need 26 or seven coins at most."

"If it's half taels, then it's usually [-]% off, that's [-] coins."

"If the seller is more kind, he will return a few pieces, only seventeen or eight pieces..."

After listening to Xia Que's soft-spoken answer, Liu Sheng just nodded thoughtfully.

It is not much different from Liu Sheng's prediction: the purchasing power of these types of money is mainly based on weight.

——Taizong's four baht coin, because the golden signboard of "Taizong Xiaowen Emperor" became the main reference;
However, the Luhou eight baht coins, whose quality is almost the same as that of the four baht coins, have gained nearly twice the purchasing power of the four baht coins because of the weight of "twice the four baht coins".

As for Qin Banliang, which has higher copper content, higher quality, and three times the weight of four baht coins, it also has the purchasing power nearly three times that of four baht coins because of its weight advantage.

In other words: the purchasing power of four baht, eight baht, and Qin Banliang is basically determined by weight, and is not affected by the same copper content, which is the "fineness" in the popular sense.

And the remaining three baht...

"What about three baht?"

"If it's three baht coins, how many coins are needed to buy the grain priced at '[-] yuan a stone'?"

When this question came out, Liu Sheng already had the answer in his mind.

And Xia Que's next answer undoubtedly made Liu Sheng completely sure of the guess in his heart.

"Three baht money..."

"Young Master, you should have heard that Empress Dowager Lu once issued a decree that no one is allowed to refuse three baht money?"

He hesitated slightly, and at the same time answered something that was not the question, which only made Liu Sheng nod his head lightly.

Seeing Xia Que bent her upper body down a little more, she said in secret: "Emperor Taizu Gao also issued a decree that merchants are not allowed to wear silk and ride in carriages..."

After saying that, Xia Que lowered her head deeply, leaving only the top of her hat for the brothers Liu Sheng and Liu Pengzu in front of her.

And after Xia Que's extremely tactful answer, the two brothers just looked at each other for a while, then shook their heads and laughed...

When it comes to Empress Dowager Lu's decree of "prohibiting the rejection of three baht coins", one has to mention the evolution of coins in the land of China in the past [-] years.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, each country in the world had its own coins, which were circulated within each country, and several relatively widely recognized coins were also circulated among countries.

Among them, the most characteristic of the times and the most well-known to later generations are the sword coins of the Warring States Period.

In the end, the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, which lasted for more than 400 years, came to an end with Qin Shihuang's domination of the world, and the era of the Great Qin Empire officially came.

After dominating the world, Zulong Yingzheng issued the first standard currency in Chinese history: Qin Ban Liang.

The first emperor stipulated: All Chinese people in the world must use Qin characters, speak Qin dialect, respect Qin laws, follow Qin customs, and use Qin coins.

This "Qin money" refers to Qin Banliang money.

After Qin Banliang became the only legal currency in the world, only a dozen years later, the first emperor Yingzheng died in the sand dunes;
The second generation, Hu Hai, stood up immediately, and all the heroes of the world rose together. The euphemistic name was: "Qin lost its deer, and the world chased it together."

Only three years after the death of the First Emperor Yingzheng, the Great Qin Empire, which once dominated the country, was overthrown by the anti-Qin rebel army represented by Xiang Yu, Liu Bang and others, and the Great Qin Empire collapsed;

Winning Qin Sheji was also buried in the hands of Ziying, the third generation who was beheaded by Xiang Yu in Xianyang City.

After the death of Qin Dynasty, the world was divided into eighteen by Xiang Yu, and then quickly unified again by Liu Bang, the king of the Han Dynasty.

After reunifying the world and establishing the Liu Han Sheji, Liu Bang, as the founding king, spent almost his entire career as an emperor, banning the order of the princes with different surnames that he personally entrusted.

And the world was devastated because of the more than 400 years of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, the ten years of Qin's destruction of the six kingdoms, the struggle for hegemony between Chu and Han after the fall of Qin, and the rebellion of princes with different surnames after the founding of the country by Liu Han—this hundreds of years of war. The mess everywhere.

After Liu Han was established, he suffered from the emptiness of the treasury;

He has no money in hand, but he is still anxious to lead an army to put down the rebellion of princes with different surnames.

In desperation, Liu Bang, Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty, ordered to cast a low-quality three baht coin in front of Liu Sheng, which was like a key ring.

——Obviously, the three baht coin in front of Liu Sheng was privately minted.

Because in the Taizu Dynasty, the three baht coins cast by the Shaofu officials did not have the word "three baht" written on the face of the money, but the word "half two".

That's right;

The weight is three baht, the copper content is gratifying, but the face value is as high as half a tael 'Han half tael'.

Such a coquettish operation naturally caused the already dilapidated world, which was waiting to be rebuilt, to experience hundreds of times of inflation almost overnight!

Coin credit goes bankrupt, government credit goes bankrupt, economic and social order collapses!
Overnight, the world returned to the ancient times of bartering;

The treasury, which was already empty, was even weaker because of Liu Bang's operation of killing chickens and taking eggs;
The emperor can't drive, but he can't get together eight horses of the same color, and the prime minister Cao Can can only be an ox cart to go to court.

At this point, the three baht money, or "Han three baht", is no longer necessary.

The only way to solve the problem is to depose Han Sanzhu.

However, the choice of Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bang was: let go of the right to mint coins, allow the world to mint them privately, and "celebrate together"...

Then, the monetary order of the Han Dynasty, not surprisingly, rotted.

In those few years, almost everyone in the world was busy melting copper to cast three baht coins;

At the same time, these people who cast three baht coins, without exception, do not agree with the purchasing power of three baht coins.

——Including the three baht coins that I cast with my own hands, just out of the oven...

This situation lasted until the 12th year of the Han Dynasty, when Emperor Taizu Gao died.

The crown prince Liu Ying succeeded to the throne at a young age, and the Empress Dowager Lu took over the mess left by her husband Liu Bang.

Almost immediately after Xiaohui Liu Ying succeeded to the throne, the Empress Dowager Lu issued an edict: the people are forbidden to cast money privately!
After nationalizing the right to mint coins, in order to reduce the bad influence of the "key ring" three baht coins, the Empress Dowager Lv took a middle place between Qin Banliang (twelve baht) and Han Banliang (three baht). Value: Eight baht.

But in order to wipe her husband's ass, and at the same time leave some fig leaf for her husband, the Empress Dowager Lu also reluctantly ordered: All kinds of coins that already exist in the world, as long as they are not all lead and copper-free, as long as the structure is in the shape of money with a circle on the outside and a square on the inside, and If it is not completely broken, it will continue to circulate among the people;
No one is allowed, in any name, to refuse to accept 'money' that meets the above requirements;
Violators will be fined four taels.

After the operation of the Empress Dowager Lu, the currency order that was ruined by the great ancestor Liu Bang finally returned to the right track, and the world of Liu Han officially started the historical process of "rebuilding China".

Later, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen succeeded to the throne, and on the basis of Empress Lu's eight baht coins, another four baht coins of qualified quality and relatively lighter were issued.

At this point, the corrupt coin order of the Han Dynasty was finally corrected back to the right direction in the hands of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen.

After understanding the development process of Qin Banliang, Taizu Sanzhu, Lvhou Bazhu, Taizong Sizhu, and then looking back at Xia Que's reply to Liu Sheng, the meaning is very interesting. ·····

"Emperor Taizu Gao once issued a decree that merchants were not allowed to wear silk and ride in carriages;"

"But in the world today, almost no one abides by this ban."

"So, Empress Dowager Lu's decree 'not to refuse three baht coins' has already become a dead letter?"

The meaningful words only provoked Xia Que to play with her body;

On his lips, he did not forget to reply cryptically: "In the whole world, I am afraid that no one dares to speak ill of the Empress Dowager Lu..."

"It's just three baht. Merchants who see it will refuse to do this business with reasons such as 'sold out', 'closed', or even 'something at home' and 'being unwell'."

"Even if it is reported to the government, as long as it is related to the three baht money, the government will mostly not accept it..."

Hearing this, Liu Sheng finally nodded with a half-smile, thoroughly verifying his conjecture.

Xia Que's words were very cryptic, but clear enough.

——People in the world dare not make irresponsible remarks about the empress dowager Lu's ban of "no rejection of three baht coins";

But the three baht money that resembles a key ring, or the purchasing power of the "three baht ring", and the IQ of the people in the world, they are not allowed to recognize it.

Therefore, they will refuse to accept the three baht money in various ways that do not involve 'violating the empress dowager Lu's ban'.

As for the government, they turned a blind eye to this phenomenon, and turned a blind eye, and cleverly classified the three baht money as: pod money.

The so-called pod money is low-quality money that is as thin as gauze like elm pods and will break when touched.

Obviously, the three baht coin of Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of Taizu, is the "battle money" among the inferior pod money...

"What about the gold?"

"One gold, roughly how much can you get off?"

"I converted one gold into ten thousand coins, did I lose or gain?"

After thinking for a while, Liu Sheng raised his head with his usual expression, and asked Xia Que in front of him again.

Seeing that Liu Sheng moved the topic away from the sensitive term 'three baht money', Xia Que also straightened up her waist, which she wished she could bend to ninety degrees.

There was also a little lightness in the tone of voice.

"There is no exact statement on the market about how much copper coins make up a gold coin;"

"Sellers sell goods in the market, and they seldom mark how much copper and how much gold at the same time."

"—but sellers prefer gold to copper coins."

"Things that can be bought with copper coins can definitely be bought with gold; but things that the seller has clearly marked 'how much gold' are basically impossible to buy with copper coins."

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"For something worth three to five hundred dollars, if the buyer is willing to give a golden bean, the seller will happily accept it."

"However, even if someone bids 500 million yuan for a steed that is clearly priced at '[-] gold', the seller may not be willing to sell it."

"--cheap things, the buyer will not be willing to pay for gold;"

"—for expensive things, sellers will not be willing to charge copper coins."

"If you want to talk about the number of conversions between gold and copper coins, it is based on the prices of pawn shops and Ziqian shops: gold is one gold, and the discount is [-] yuan..."

Instinctively speaking with a little uncertainty, but also with enough certainty, Liu Sheng and Liu Pengzu nodded repeatedly.

Seeing Xia Que adjust her breathing a bit, she continued, "One gold is converted into [-] yuan, which is four baht."

"If it's eight baht, it's about [-]; if it's Qin Banliang, it's about [-] to [-]."

"The gold that the dukes buy food, the young master will receive ten thousand yuan for one gold. No matter how you calculate it, the young master will make money..."

After Xia Que said the last words, Liu Sheng finally nodded to Xia Que with a satisfied smile.

Then he waved his hand lightly, signaling Xia Que to back down.

After Xia Que bowed again, walked back to the door of the palace with small steps, and then stood back to the side of the door, Liu Sheng finally couldn't hold back the joy in his chest, grinned and giggled.

"I said that day, the people of Wuyang Houfan City, why were they inexplicably unhappy..."

"Hey;"

"Co-author, did I unintentionally put it together?"

Slightly joking, but obviously smug laughter, which also provoked Liu Pengzu who was on the side to smile and nod his head.

"On the market, one piece of gold is worth [-] yuan;"

"When you get to Ah Sheng's place, Marquis Wuyang's gold can only be exchanged for [-]..."

"—that is, Marquis Wuyang was sure that this business could earn more than ten times the huge profits, so it didn't happen on the spot."

"If it weren't for this, whoever changed it would be kicked by Ah Sheng angrily..."

But when Liu Sheng heard the words, he just smiled and lowered his head, looking at the four copper coins in front of him.

Then, he reached out to pick up the key ring and weighed it lightly.

"Take it as Marquis Wuyang, the price he paid for the pod money he sent."

"Let's talk again;"

"Three thousand gold, buying 30 shi of grain, and buying 120 million shi of grain, is there any difference to Marquis Wuyang?"

"—No difference~"

"Anyway, in the spring of next year, the food in Taicang will still be stored in Taicang without moving;"

"Marquis Wuyang will definitely come to me, cry, make trouble and hang himself, in order to get back part of the money."

"What's the difference between discounting 30 shi, 120 shi, [-] shi, and [-] million shi?"

After saying this easily, Liu Sheng stood up with a smile, and casually threw the bean pod money in his hand at his feet.

——It’s just rubbish, throw it away and throw it away.

As for the remaining three coins, Liu Sheng grabbed them casually and put them into his sleeves.

Today, Liu Sheng was very interested in the answer he got from Xia Que.

But no matter what Xia Que said, she was just a servant in the palace;

Liu Sheng felt that he needed to find a real 'knowledgeable person', and then talk about the 'money' issue.

Well, Tianzi Qi must be a 'knowledgeable' person...

"I heard that in a few days, father and grandmother will hold a celebration banquet for the prime minister and Wei Qihou in Changxin Hall."

"Anyway, the matter of the uterus is temporarily over;"

"Brother, are you interested in taking a trip?"

Wen asked with a smile, and Liu Sheng did not forget to turn his head and turn his questioning gaze to Liu Pengzu.

When Liu Pengzu heard this, he looked at Liu Sheng with a hint of banter.

"Prime Minister, but you never wanted your father to appoint Ah Sheng as the crown prince?"

"Even my cousin Wei Qihou has neglected Ah Sheng because of this."

"—A Sheng, are you so open-minded?"

"Ah Sheng really wants to go to the celebration banquet for these two?"

Hearing the deep meaning in his brother's tone, Liu Sheng, who hadn't thought about it deeply, couldn't help but shook his head and smiled wryly.

"Then what can I do~"

"A person who wants to be a prince can't really 'get away from each other' with the prime minister?"

"—Even if you want to turn against me from now on, you still have to find out in person: where did the prime minister's inexplicable dislike for me come from, and is it possible to resolve it."

"Even if it can't be resolved, you have to listen to the prime minister's tone before you can consider how to deal with it according to the actual situation..."

"What does brother think?"

The indifferent and vaguely bitter words only made Liu Pengzu nod his head with a smile.

After thinking for a moment in secret, he also agreed with Liu Sheng's statement.

Just when he was about to speak, and wanted to discuss with Liu Sheng the specific strategy for dealing with the newly released prime minister, Tiao Hou Zhou Yafu, Xia Que outside the hall made a complaint, and a smear appeared on the faces of the two brothers at the same time. Stiff color.

"Aunt Guantao?"

"At this juncture, what is Aunt Guantao doing here?"

"—Hi~"

"—I can smell it..."

Reluctantly, he groaned, causing Liu Pengzu to smile wryly, and Liu Sheng finally forced his smile back, and looked up at the gate of the palace.

——Before Liu Sheng went out to greet her in person, Guantao Princess Liu Piao had already walked into the womb of the Crown Prince by herself, and appeared outside the side hall where Liu Sheng was...
 Two more completed.

  Three shifts will start tomorrow.

  Good night, fathers.

  
 
(End of this chapter)

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