Overlord!

Chapter 68 The Key to Revitalizing Currency Value - Privately Coined Currency

After hearing what Sun Ce said, the soldiers immediately cheered up.

Sun Lang helped the whole army get married and start a business!Salaries are also given to everyone, even the lowest soldier's monthly salary has five shi.

The soldiers chatted with each other excitedly. With this salary, even if Sun Lang didn't help to start a family, the soldiers could support the expenses of a family by themselves.

Now following Sun Lang and fighting bravely, not only can I make a living, but also the food and clothing of the whole family's parents and wives.

Wang Dou asked in surprise: "General, does everyone have this salary?"

Other soldiers also asked: "General, can all the soldiers receive it?"

Sun Ce nodded solemnly, and declared to everyone: "All the registered soldiers in our battalion, no matter which Sima's subordinates they are, can receive the salaries I distribute for you."

The soldiers immediately cheered up, everyone's eyes were full of longing for a moment, and the morale of the whole army was like a rainbow.

Some people have already begun to fantasize about using this salary to settle down in Wu County, marry a wife and have children.

Some people were overjoyed that the parents in the family finally had a support fund.

Suddenly someone yelled: "Sun Lang gave me the capital to settle down and start a career, so that my mother can take care of her old age. I will sell my life to Sun Lang!"

"Sun Lang has lived and died for me, and we, An Neng, will die for Sun Lang?"

"From now on, I will only obey Sun Lang's order!"

Looking at the enthusiastic and sincere faces, Sun Ce smiled.

If you want to rule the world, you must have the talent of Sun Lang, who is the best in the world, and you must also have the simple life of a scholar and a small soldier!
There has never been a conflict between the two, and even Sun Lang is talented and has the world in mind. The most essential purpose is to let the soldiers and people in the world live a peaceful and simple life.

Whoever can keep Shimin in his heart, Shimin will hold him high.

Sun Ce treated the whole army with generosity and kindness, and tens of thousands of soldiers in the whole army enthusiastically regarded him as the monarch.The heart of the whole army is tied to one person.

And this step is exactly the change that Sun Ce has been pursuing since time travel.

He wants to use a more powerful position and system to establish himself as the absolute authority among the three armies, and all the soldiers in the army will only regard him as the master.

Use the recruiting system to replace Soochow's tribal private soldier system.

Generals can no longer have their own troops, let alone hereditary military power.

Sun Ce just wanted to "be young with thousands of pockets, and continue to fight in the southeast." He firmly held these ten thousand elite cavalry in his own hands.

The soldiers are very simple, and they will serve whoever pays them.

Historically, many generals of Soochow used Fengyi in several counties to raise troops.For example, Cheng Pu eats four counties, and Lu Meng eats Xunyang and Yangxin counties.

They support the trilogy themselves, and the army naturally obeys them.

Now, Sun Ce pays salaries to the whole army, and tens of thousands of soldiers are naturally firmly in Sun Ce's hands.

All generals only have the power to command troops to fight, and Sun Ce can easily replace the chief general of any department.

And in order to achieve this step, a lot of wealth is necessary.

Directly distributing food, Sun Ce's wealth will expand several times, and I am afraid that it will not be able to support it!

This was also another important purpose for Sun Ce to come to the military camp directly after talking with Zhang Zhao about minting coins.

With the issuance of new currency, Sun Ce intends to implement it in the military as the first step!
A thousand words of rhetoric are not as good as putting real wealth in your hands once.

Sun Ce was very decisive, and shouted to all the soldiers: "The whole army lined up, go to the bottom of the school platform according to the division, and receive Jiangdong Tongbao one by one. This is my salary in the camp. Anyone who takes 150 yuan can go to Zhenwei The school lieutenant, Cheng Gong, takes one stone of grain. Soldiers can receive 180 yuan, corporal leaders 210 yuan, and even chiefs [-] yuan!"

Cheng Pu, Captain Zhenwei, is tolerant and honest, elegant and friendly, and is very popular in the army.

When the soldiers heard that they could go to Cheng Gong's camp to collect money, food, and cloth, they immediately felt relieved. After all, Cheng Gong loved soldiers like his sons, and the soldiers admired him very much.

Sun Ce personally supervised the military officials beside the school platform to distribute each soldier's salary to the soldiers.

The general responsible for distributing salaries is Xu Yi.

Long before communicating with Cheng Pu to pay salaries to the main disciples, Sun Ce had already asked Xu Yi to melt the captured copper coins and recast Jiangdong Tongbao.

Although there are not many copper coins minted today, there are already millions of them, which is more than enough to distribute to soldiers and craftsmen.

At this time, the importance of the number of readings is revealed.

To be reasonable, a soldier is 150 yuan. For the illiterate and ignorant people in this era, it is not an easy task to figure it out.

But in Sun Ce's army, soldiers can not only check with the military officials, but also sign their names on the booklets they withdraw!

Looking at this scene, Zhang Zhao put his hand on his chin, nodded solemnly, and praised: "The army under the general's command already has the demeanor of Juyan's garrison, and its combat power is comparable to that of the great man in the heyday."

The soldiers of the Juyan garrison can sign their names on the back of the payment list written by the military officials every time they receive their salaries and allowances.

Looking at the names and fingerprints in different handwritings on the booklet, Sun Ce was also in high spirits.At least the possibility of airspace rates will be greatly reduced.

Then Sun Ce looked at the neatly lined soldiers in front of the school platform, and said with a smile, "What is the Juyan Han army? Sooner or later, I will build a peerless and powerful army that will not demolish houses to death from freezing, and will not plunder to death from starvation!" "

To build an army, as long as the soldiers are given sufficient salaries and sufficient food, their combat effectiveness will be guaranteed.

Zhang Zhao didn't ask much about this, but talked to Sun Ce about more important economic and political affairs.

The so-called economy has been a concept since ancient times, that is, benefiting the country and benefiting the people.

Zhang Zhao looked at the copper coins drawn by the soldiers and asked, "The general didn't directly promote Jiangdong Tongbao in the prefectures and counties, but distributed it in the army first. Is he planning to use the hands of the soldiers to spread the Tongbao?"

Sun Ce frowned, but shook his head, and said with a smile, "Actually, there is no rush to promote it. Thousands of catties of gold and silver are enough to spend for a while, and attract powerful people to trade. Tong Bao, I plan to start with the soldiers. between them and their relatives."

As he spoke, Sun Ce's smile became even more pervasive: "Zibu must know that what is in the rush is not business. I hope that Hao Qiang can take the initiative to ask for this kind of Tongbao."

Zhang Zhao pondered, soldiers and craftsmen totaling tens of thousands, if they can settle down in Jiangdong smoothly, there will be tens of thousands of households, and the scale is comparable to a large county.

This is Sun Lang's most important and most solid foundation. As long as this ten thousand households can be stabilized, not only can they conquer other ten thousand households militarily, but the people's livelihood will also significantly affect the other ten thousand households.

There are more than 16 households in Jiangdong, which is the household registration estimated by Zhang Zhao.At the peak of the Han Dynasty, there were 12 households in Wujun and 1108 households in Kuaiji.The two counties have a total of [-] million people.

However, since the war, the population has dropped sharply, and Shanyue and Haoqiang occupy a large number of people. The population of Wujun and Kuaiji must have declined to less than one million.

Therefore, as long as the most basic ten thousand households are managed well, and its internal economy runs smoothly, it will inevitably attract other tycoons to actively participate in it.After all, tyrants also seek profit, so it is impossible to remain indifferent to the scale that accounts for one-tenth of Jiangdong's wealth.

Zhang Zhao asked: "I heard that the general wants to implement Huang Lao's rule. Could it be that he wants to restore the early Han Dynasty and allow the private tyrants to cast money?"

The problem of the powerful gathering together for private casting has become a common practice at present.

Under the current situation, it is obvious that Sun Ce dared to launch Jiangdong Tongbao, and these tycoons dared to mint currency privately.

However, Sun Ce didn't care about this issue, and was even happy to see it succeed.

So Sun Ce smiled and asked Zhang Zhao, "What does Zibu think?"

Zhang Zhao pondered seriously for a long time, and then slowly said: "When the early Han Dynasty prospered, people's livelihood was poor, and the folks were allowed to mint coins, so the mountains in the southeast cast money, boiled the sea into salt, and became rich in the world. Endowment, national use and prosperity."

Sun Ce nodded with a smile, Wu Guo has no gifts!That is to say, ordinary people do not need to pay household taxes, and are exempted from all poll taxes.

Basically, as long as the national policy is stable and the economy is allowed to develop, the southeast can quickly become rich in the world.

Wu Guo only relied on private casting of copper coins and cooking the sea into salt, which made the country rich and the people did not pay taxes.

With this foundation, Sun Ce naturally doesn't care too much about Jiangdong's powerful and powerful private casting of Jiangdong Tongbao.In the early stage, the private minting of currency was a loose policy that was conducive to the restoration of economic development.

The biggest difference between Sun Ce and the little overlord in history is that he can bear his temper and never rushes.

Sun Ce is very clear that it is whimsical to establish a complete and advanced economic system in one step, and it may even lead to resistance and career collapse.

Historically, the currency reforms of Cao Wei and Soochow all collapsed, and they had to use cloth as currency in the end. An important reason was that they could not forcefully bow their heads and recognize the value of the currency they issued.

Sun Ce...Of course there is no other way.

So he allowed and even encouraged the tyrants to forge Tongbao privately at the moment.

After all, if Hao Qiang discovers the currency himself, the Hao Qiang also have a little minting power, and they themselves will fully support the widespread use of this currency.You can buy all kinds of materials by casting money, which tycoon would not like it?

And Sun Ce didn't care who issued Tongbao, he only cared about one thing, that is, Jiangdong could have a currency that really circulated.

As long as Tongbao can be circulated and the tyrants grab Sun Ce's wool, Sun Ce can also use Tongbao to buy back a lot of wealth from the tyrants.This is much better than a pile of scrap metal in his hands that can't be spent.

Besides, in terms of minting coins, it is impossible for Wu Jun to be as powerful as Sun Ce.

After all, minting coins in this era really requires a lot of copper and iron. There is a plain in Wu County, and there is not even a mine, so there is no way to mint a large amount of coins.

But Sun Ce was able to rely on tens of thousands of elite cavalry to head back westward and take down Tongshan in Danyang and Yuzhang.

Of course, this is only the most trivial point.

More importantly, as long as Jiangdong Tongbao is popular in Wu County, after the economy is prosperous, Sun Ce, as the ruler, can rely on a stable Jiangdong to obtain a huge amount of wealth by taxation, and further consolidate the southeast as the foundation of his own struggle for world hegemony .

Zhang Zhao also had the same opinion, with a solemn expression on his face: "No matter what kind of currency is used in Jiangdong, it is bound to face an urgent problem, that is, the shortage of money. In the shortage of money, even if Tongbao has all kinds of advantages, the people have no money in their hands. Impossible to pass through. The most urgent task is to use the powerful hands to change the various currencies existing in the folk into Jiangdong Tongbao. After Jiangdong Tongbao goes smoothly, the right to mint coins will be returned to the government, and private minting by the people is prohibited."

Sun Ce smiled and stroked Zhang Zhao's back, and said, "Jun Shi is my Guan Zhong, who has the talent of Wang Zuo. With Qing's assistant, I know that Jiangdong will become the foundation of a king and hegemony."

Then Sun Ce said with a smile, "Zibu doesn't need to worry too much, he can do everything he can. There are only a few thousand catties of gold and silver, and tens of thousands of shi of grain. Even if things go wrong, it will not affect our occupation of Jiangdong. "

No matter how bad it is, can it be worse than assigning troops to the generals in history, and letting the generals solve their own food and living expenses?

Zhang Zhao looked at Sun Ce solemnly. Sun Lang's smile still made people feel like a spring breeze, and his words made people fall in love even more.

But the more it was like this, the more determined Zhang Zhao was, how could he not serve such a hero with all his heart?
With a solemn expression, Zhang Zhao cupped his hands and said, "This is the general's capital to fight for world hegemony. I will spare no effort to properly implement the new currency law for the general, and then govern Wu County, build a foundation, and help the general to define the river and achieve hegemony."

Sun Ce nodded: "The promotion of Jiangdong Tongbao is based on the soldiers and their families. How is the placement of the soldiers?"

Speaking of this, Zhang Zhao relaxed a lot: "Recently, the Navy has transported thousands of men and women from the Liyang and Niuzhu camps, and they can set up homes for the soldiers one by one."

This is a happy event, and Sun Ce also smiled.As for how to get married, it is also simple.Just follow Cao Wei's example and ration women directly to sergeants.

As for what kind of love, what kind of relationship between men and women...

The ancient Central Plains did not talk about this. Whether a woman is happy or not is more important in whether the husband and wife are respectful after marriage.That is to say, pay more attention to the post-marriage rather than the pre-marriage.

Of course, Sun Ce didn't pay much attention to these men and women.Straight men don't believe in love.If he travels to Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, he may still have romance.In this troubled time at the end of the Han Dynasty, he only cared about one thing, how to keep more people alive.

This policy is enough to keep thousands of refugee men and women alive.As for the withered love of several women, it can only be said to be the dust of the times.

So Sun Ce said to Zhang Zhao: "Place the soldiers and their families in Wu and Wuxi counties as much as possible, so that the salaries in the hands of the soldiers can be sent directly to their homes, which is enough for the centralized circulation of money."

Wuxian is the later Suzhou, and Wuxi needless to say, these two places are one of the most prosperous cities in any dynasty in the Central Plains.From the moment when the Wu State was established in the Spring and Autumn Period, this place has been prosperous for a long time.

The salaries of the soldiers are not too much. If they are scattered to various parts of Wu County, they will be diluted by the huge area, and most of the people will not know what Jiangdong Tongbao is.

Only when they are all gathered together and Tongbao circulates among the families of soldiers and soldiers, will it have a very reliable value.This is why Sun Ce said that he is not in a hurry to promote.

At this time, Zhang Hong took the initiative to suggest: "If the general wants to arrange soldiers, I don't think it is necessary to issue fields and houses to every soldier."

"Oh?" Sun Ce frowned: "If you don't distribute the fields and houses, how will you settle down for the soldiers?"

Zhang Hong said bluntly: "Sima Gong once said that all the people who set up households use poverty to seek wealth. Farming is not as good as work, work is not as good as business, and embroidery is not as good as relying on the gate of the market. If the general does not establish a land system, even if the land is issued, the soldiers will go to war. Outside, the wife and daughter are unable to farm at home, so they will inevitably sell the land to the powerful. Instead of letting the powerful earn it, it is better to give him money directly and allow him to buy a house by himself."

Sun Ce was stunned for a moment, is Sima Qian so unrestrained?He even said that.

(End of this chapter)