Hengdao Sixteen Kingdoms

Chapter 570 Five Baht
"This book should be slightly improved and punctuation marks should be added so that readers don't have to spend their energy on breaking up sentences and interpreting meanings!" Li Yue is still not used to books of this era.

Throughout the article, word by word, you have to rely on your own interpretation.

From the Han and Wei dynasties to the present, there is only sentence reading.

That is to say, there is a slight pause at the end of the semantic meaning. The real full stop had to wait until the Song Dynasty.

"What are punctuation marks?" Chang Wei was puzzled.

Li Yue added punctuation to "Spring and Autumn" on the paper: In the early days, Duke Wu of Zheng married Yu Shen and named Wu Jiang.

Then he drew question marks, exclamation points, colons, etc. After a little explanation, Chang Wei understood, "It can indeed speed up understanding. With this thing, the children of the poor and common people will not have to work so hard in the future!"

Many times, once the sentences are broken up, the meaning of the entire article becomes clear.

You don't even need to have a husband to explain, which is a great thing for the poor people who can't afford to pay for a husband.

"I will immediately order Tiangongyuan to make a new one!" Chang Wei is a traditional scholar and naturally knows the value of this thing.

Li Yue thought about getting a movable type printing, but then he thought about it, it was not necessary, there were only so many classics these days, movable type printing did not have much value at present, but the enlarged technology was difficult to promote.

Anything that can be promoted is simple and easy to use.

Li Yue looked at the third wooden plate, wondering what was in it.

gunpowder?

compass?
In the Spring and Autumn Period, there are records of "saltpeter coming out of Longdao".

The Five Stone Powder became popular in the Wei and Jin Dynasties and promoted the development of alchemy. The master of alchemy was undoubtedly Ge Hong, who lived in seclusion in Zhuming Cave in Luofu Mountain, seeking immortality and refining alchemy. He combined Taoism with Confucianism, thus freeing Taoism from the original witchcraft stage. Later he created "Bao Bao" Pu Zi Nei Chapter" has become a collection of Taoism.

However, gunpowder is not that powerful, and it is not omnipotent.

Production, preservation, and transportation are all big problems. If you want to apply it on the battlefield, there is still a long way to go.

Chang Wei opened the third wooden plate, but there were two coins. One was golden and was five baht of gold, and the other was blue and yellow and was five baht of copper.

After Dong Zhuo's genius introduction of small coins at the end of the Han Dynasty, he immediately destroyed the credit of the five-baht coin that had been built for hundreds of years in the Han Dynasty. He also pushed the Eastern Han Dynasty to the brink of death.

So that the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu that succeeded later were troubled by money. Cao Wei exchanged things for things, and Wu and Shu all used hundreds of coins, five hundred coins, and thousands of coins to plunder people's wealth.

China's economy has deteriorated severely and people's livelihood has become increasingly miserable.

The basic logic behind the operation of everything in the world is actually money.

Money is needed to fight a war, money is needed for food, clothing, housing and transportation, and money is needed to run a country.

Shihu is a good man who kills people, sets fire to dig graves, harms people, and plunders people's wealth, but he is basically an idiot economically.

It is extremely urgent to rebuild the five-baht coin system.

This thing is more important than gunpowder.

"This is a new coin cast by Shanyang Iron Workshop. It contains [-]% copper, [-]% lead, and [-]% other impurities. One coin can be exchanged for one hundred copper coins." Chang Wei placed the wooden plate on the table.

Li Yue picked up two coins and tried them. Compared with the coins of later generations, they were obviously quite different. There was no pattern, just one hole and two characters.

However, as a currency, money should not be made too exquisitely, nor be of sufficient quality, otherwise it will be collected by others, and bad coins will drive out good coins.

One hundred copper coins are exchanged for one gold, which is equivalent to linking the five baht coins to gold and implementing the gold standard, which is conducive to stabilizing the economy.

China and Turkey are relatively short of silver and cannot build a silver-standard currency system.

Before the Song Dynasty, copper and five baht were used.

Li Yue has been preparing for several years to rebuild the five-baht coin system.

Now the annexation of Yan State is just the right time to use the power of victory to promote it in an all-round way.

Active business can reduce the burden on the people.

It is equivalent to a pool of stagnant water, running over and over again under the five-baht money system.As Liang's economy becomes stronger, it can cause a dimensionality-reducing blow to surrounding countries.

Zhuge Wuhou had already used this trick. After Liu Bei's defeat at Xiaoting, what he was left with was a Shu Han riddled with holes, with all his elite troops lost, his people's hearts broken, and his treasury empty.

There are words in the list of departures, "Yizhou is tired and disadvantaged, and our sincerity is in a crisis of survival", which shows how bad the situation was at that time.

But after Zhuge Wuhou took over, in just a few years, Shu Han came back to life, conquered Menghuo seven times, and left Qishan six times. The fundamental reason is that Zhuge Wuhou will link the economy of Shu Han with Shu Brocade, create new money, stabilize prices, and Shu Brocade Unblocking the two countries Wei and Wu, suppressing the national currency of Wei and Wu...

The meeting place of the market is the abyss of thousands of merchants.There are hundreds of tunnels and thousands of Luosi.There are mountains of bribes, and beautiful stars are numerous.

The prosperity of Chengdu gave Zhuge Wuhou the confidence to launch the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.

"Tomorrow's meeting will promote this money!" Li Yue said solemnly.

It was time for Liang Guo to take this step.

Rice from Jianghuai, timber and leather goods from Liaodong, livestock from Youzhou, and seafood from Qingxu can only prosper with the stimulation of commerce.

With huge economic benefits, Liaodong has no worries about its development.

"Wei!" Chang Wei bowed his hands.

There may have been some resistance to implementing these things in the past.

Now that Li Yue has conquered the Yan Kingdom and won a great victory, his prestige is at its peak, and no one who is blind dares to stop him at this time.

Li Yue had also promoted the five-baht coin on a small scale before, but the response was mediocre, and private transactions were still dominated by grain and cloth.

The essence of the economy is actually credit, and the implementation of currency requires an appropriate opportunity.

After this great victory, who else doesn’t trust Li Yue or Daliang?

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty created the five-baht coin system six times before and after six currency reforms, which brought the Han's national power to its peak, so it was able to attack the Huns from the north and shock the Western Regions.

Although the Han Dynasty fell, the five-baht coin had a strong vitality and was still circulating in the market until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

If Liang Guo wants to regain the prosperity of the Han Dynasty, it is inevitable to restore the economic system of five baht coins.

It was just as Li Yue expected.

The edict was issued without any obstruction.

Not only did Yecheng begin to use the five-baht coin, it also began to circulate locally.

In fact, the people's desire for coins is more urgent. After all, no one wants to buy anything. They just buy and sell a few bags of grain and a few pieces of cloth. Small business is just that, and big business cannot be done at all.

Apart from this, there are a large number of books available in the market.

You can buy one for two or three five bahts.

It doesn't matter if you don't have money, you can rent books. Li Yue set up twelve bookstores in Yecheng, exclusively for children of poor families to borrow books for free, which is considered a welfare for Daliang.

There are not only hundreds of scholars, but also various enlightenment picture books, which are simple, easy to learn, and full of interest.

There are also various storytelling works by Honglusi, from Wei Qing and Huo Qubing to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

Often a literate person recited it, and dozens of people listened and applauded.

What Li Yue didn't expect was that the five-baht money was not boycotted, and no one said anything about the yellow vine paper. Instead, the book club attracted a lot of opposition.

It is claimed that the country's power is wasted and the people have no intention of farming.

Li Yue sneered and sent all the memorials back.

There is no room for negotiation on this matter.

(End of this chapter)