Datang first village

Li Yuanxing had a slight headache. When he was reading history books, Li Yuanxing already knew from the books that in many ancient times, soldiers were as cheap as slaves.

Sometimes, soldiers are also bandits, not the fault of the soldiers, but caused by the social environment at that time.

Just think, who would be born a villain.

So where are the roots?

But the plague of locusts cannot be ruled out. Li Yuanxing knocked on the table lightly and said to Yuanchun: "Go back to the study and transfer the materials of the counties and counties of East Road, Hebei Province, Henan Province, and Gyeonggi Province."

After Li Yuanxing finished speaking, he went straight to the study.

Yuan Chun went to call for information, and Li Liyuan and her two maids also rushed to Li Yuanxing's study when they heard the news.Her two maids are not enough materials to serve as secretaries, but it is still possible to organize the materials, after all, they can read.

In Datang, knowing characters was already a very remarkable skill.

You must know that the literacy rate of Datang is less than [-]%.

Li Yuanxing picked up a policy casually, opened it and saw that this is a small county in the southernmost part of Hedong Road, with a strange name.Li Liyuan said beside him: "Your Highness, Liyuan has brought the map." Li Liyuan opened the map and found the location of the county in the fastest time.

From the map, it should be the location of Yuncheng in Shanxi, north of Weinan in later generations.

"En!" Li Yuanxing nodded, indicating that he understood.

Looking at the information again, it is written that there are [-] households, with [-] mu of paddy fields and [-] mu of dry land.Apart from agriculture, there is no other handicraft industry, and there are no special specialties.There are not too many past merchants.

I checked on the map again, and the merchants of Hebei Road will cross the Yellow River in Fengling, or go directly to Luoyang, or come to Chang'an via Huazhou. There is no need to go to this county, because there is no good place to cross the Yellow River. , if you detour around Yaozhou, you don't need to pass through this county.

"One year's tax, only four thousand buckets of grain!"

Seeing this figure, Li Yuanxing felt a chill in his heart. Calculated on the basis of ten coins per bucket, this would be [-] coins, or forty pennies.

What is forty pennies enough for?

Even if the county does not eat or drink all year round, four thousand buckets of food is not enough for the soldiers of the Xiuhe army mobilized by themselves to work for a few days.

Poor!It seems that the refusal of these states and counties is not entirely unreasonable.

"Send someone to the Ministry of Household Affairs. I want to see the taxation situation of these three states and counties in the past years." Li Yuanxing said, and wrote a document himself. Not everyone is qualified to check such information for the Ministry of Household Affairs.Li Yuanxing also needs to write down official documents for the record, and then the corresponding small official of the household department will send them, and then take them back after Li Yuanxing checks them.

Absolutely no transcription is allowed.

Li Yuanxing's essay was half written and then revised.

"Forget it, tell them to get ready, the king will go to Chang'an tomorrow to check for himself."

Yuan Chun took Li Yuanxing's paperwork and went out to send someone to deliver the letter.

"Let's sort out all the information first, and I will think about it after checking the information of the transfer department tomorrow."

Li Yuanxing is a human being, not a god. What he has is the experience and knowledge of later generations.

But Datang is a huge country, and it is an empire waiting to be done. Li Yuanxing also thinks that he is too impatient about many things. It seems that it is time to clean up his mood and start again from a different angle.

After Li Liyuan's two maids arranged the materials of Sandao Prefecture and counties on the shelf, Li Yuanxing took out a very beautiful aluminum alloy case with a combination box from under his desk.

"A sterling silver box, Your Highness, this is so beautiful!"

"This is not silver. This is called aluminum. It is a good thing, but it can't be refined in Tang Dynasty now. You remember, boxes are only used to hold things, and the most precious things are always the things inside the box!" Li Yuanxing smiled at Li Liyuan Said.

Li Liyuan nodded vigorously: "Your Highness, Liyuan knows. There is an allusion in ancient times about buying a box and returning the pearl!"

Li Yuanxing didn't answer any more, but opened the box in front of him, which contained samples of commemorative coins. Of course, for modern people, this is the commemorative coin of the TV series.It can be placed in Datang, this is the real currency.

The coins in Li Yuanxing's hands are divided into three types: gold, silver, and copper.

It is definitely not [-]% pure, and there are more or less alloy components.

There are two types of copper coins, one is the standard one-coin copper coin, the front is printed with an old farmer, in fact, it is the head of Lao Li, and the back is a word supported by wheat ears, and the other is five coins For the copper coin, the portrait of a sergeant was used, and the portrait of Li Er's personal guard, the master of the Forbidden Army, was chosen.

There are three kinds of silver coins, one is one silver coin, which is equivalent to one hundred copper coins.On the front is the portrait of Changsun Wuji.

Five silver coins, equivalent to five hundred copper coins, with Li Jing's portrait on the front.

One or two silver coins, with Wu Zhao's portrait on the obverse.

Holding the silver coin with Wu Zhao's face on it, Li Yuanxing was still thinking about how to describe Wu Zhao's face. After all, he didn't even print his face on the coin. Now Wu Zhao is printed on it, and it's a woman. I'm afraid it will take a while.

Li Liyuan said at this time: "Your Highness, Liyuan understands."

"What do you understand?" Li Yuanxing asked back.

Li Liyuan used silk as a pad, picked up a five-cent copper coin, and said: "Your Highness, the foundation of the Tang Dynasty is agriculture and the army. General, the Great Tang will accept all nations to come to court, and there will be no foreigner to be rude to my Great Tang."

"Okay, that's really good!" Li Yuanxing praised loudly.

In terms of thinking, Li Yuanxing only thought at first that the lowest level of money should be spent on farmers and the army, but it was not as full as Li Liyuan thought. Sure enough, Confucian education is still first-class, and it is naturally first-class when it comes to beautifying some affairs.

"Your Highness, this is the eldest grandson Pushe. Since the time of Longxing Taiyuan, the eldest grandson Pushe has disregarded the opposition of his family and devoted all he has to follow the current saint to fight in Taiyuan. He has made meritorious service and deserves this honor." After finishing speaking, Li Liyuan picked up Li Jingna again. One: "Although Li Shangshu is a surrendered general, he can fight for the Tang Dynasty and be worthy of the name of His Royal Highness's military god. He should have this honor!"

Finally, Li Liyuan picked up Wu Zhao's one.

"Princess Mingyue is a member of the Wu family. Her father, a samurai, sponsored the army. It can be said that he has spent all his family wealth." At this point, Li Liyuan grinned and made a grimace at Li Yuanxing: "Liyuan believes that, Among them is His Highness's love for Princess Mingyue!"

"Ah, this..." Li Yuanxing was dumb, how could he explain it.

In front of a woman, do you say that you love another woman?

Fortunately, Li Liyuan was very knowledgeable, so the topic immediately turned to gold coins.

"Your Highness, there is only one gold coin for the Supreme Emperor. I am afraid that it is just to make the Supreme Emperor happy, and he is not going to use it. Because it is Zhenguan Dynasty now. One tael of gold coins is very honorable for the emperor's head, and the five coins are for the eldest grandson of the empress. Excellent, His Royal Highness should be using Princess Pingyang for this money, but this, Li Yuan thinks it’s not good.”

"Why?" Li Yuanxing didn't understand.

"Our women are originally with their husbands, and His Highness used the head portrait of Princess Pingyang, so what about Chai Fu Ma Dang. How about that man willing to live under the shadow of his wife." Li Liyuan's words were quite true.

Instead, Li Liyuan suddenly said: "His Royal Highness is the King of Qin of the Tang Dynasty, which is already extremely noble. So no matter how strong Princess Mingyue is, she is only under the light of His Highness."

"Smart girl!" Li Yuanxing smiled and caressed Li Liyuan's face lightly, then took out a small box from the box: "Fortunately, Ben Wu has prepared, and the gold coins for this money are also prepared. The other is the head portrait of the prince. No one in the world can imitate this coin except the Prince Qin's Palace."

Li Liyuan was puzzled.

"Your Highness, why is this?"

"Such a coin requires a weight of 50 catties, and it is smashed heavily into the impression. Let me ask, who can make it except our Qin Palace, not even the Ministry of Households. Make a rule, the king's mint is strictly prohibited Come close at will. In the workshop, all craftsmen must be absolutely reliable!"

Hearing what Li Yuanxing said, Li Liyuan looked excited.

"Whoever dares to get close will kill his whole family!"

"Don't talk casually about beating and killing. As a woman, you naturally have to be more reserved."

Knowing that Li Yuanxing wasn't really reprimanding herself, Li Liyuan stuck out her little tongue: "Your Highness, then will our Qin Palace use this money in the future? But Liyuan feels that this gold is not pure gold. When outsiders collect money, will there be any Opinion."

"No, gold can't be red gold, red gold is too soft. But the king's gold coins, one tael is definitely worth one tael. Don't forget, something that the world can't imitate, the Qin Palace itself is credit. People in Tang Dynasty will believe it This king will believe in Prince Qin's Mansion, even if he knows it is not pure gold, he will believe that it is worth a tael of gold. What's more, if the real tael of pure gold is taken away and turned into gold water, we will lose the cost of the workshop !"

Li Liyuan nodded half understanding.

The next day, after the morning court.Li Yuanxing filed a formal application in front of Li Er and the ministers, and reported it with a formal seal.

Wrote a five-hundred-character seal, meaning only one sentence.

The younger brother wants to make money by himself, and the Qin Palace will use its own money in the future.

"Goro still writes so much nonsense about something the size of a toothpick." Li Er looked at the seal, and scolded halfway through it: "Goro even asked someone to write the seal, you might as well just write it on paper." In a word, just say that you want to mint your own money, it’s all right, do these things!”

Because there were no outsiders present, Li Er spoke a little more casually.

"Wang Jue minted money in the fief, which is allowed by Tang law." Cui Junsu said this when he came out.

The meaning of this sentence is that such a trivial matter is really unnecessary, if your Highness King Qin wants to mint money, just go ahead and mint money.You can cast as much as you want, and no one will control it, and no one dares to control it.

But when Li Yuanxing opened the box, everyone was shocked! (To be continued.)