Datang first village

Cui Junsu was dedicated to serving the public, which surprised Li Er.

Originally, Li Er thought that Cui Junsu should consider the interests of the Seventh Family when it comes to such a major event as casting money.

So Cui Junsu's reaction made Li Er very happy.

Cui Junsu, as the Minister of the Household Department, is naturally in office with his character and surname, so he must consider official duties.However, he also had a small plan. Before that, he asked Li Er's permission to exchange copper, silver, and gold for Li Yuanxing's coins.

Therefore, the aristocratic family is not considered affected, but an exchange ratio needs to be discussed during the currency exchange process.

Similarly, now Cui Junsu has to bargain over the cost of casting money between the Ministry of Households and Qinwangzhuang.

In Qinwangzhuang, Li Yuanxing was preparing to have dinner.As soon as he walked to the gate of the backyard, he heard Lu Maofeng's report: "Your Highness, Fang Du and Prime Minister have arrived at the gate of Qinwangzhuang, and Cui Shangshu from the Ministry of Households has just left the train station. According to Cui Shangshu, after the train started, he saw the Ministry of War. Li Shangshu is coming to the station!"

"I'm afraid they haven't eaten!" Li Yuanxing asked with a smile.

"At this hour, of course I haven't eaten!" Lu Maofeng replied with a smile.

Li Yuanxing shook his head helplessly, and said to Yuan Chun: "Go to the concubines, my king's dinner is not in the backyard. Come back as early as possible at night, let Princess Ying go to the king's treasury to get some iced food for the backyard, and prepare a box Ice, a few copies of the ice point will be sent to the front hall by the king later!"

Yuan Chun responded, and went back to the backyard to deliver the message.

The ice food Li Yuanxing mentioned refers to things like ice cream and ice cream packaged in later generations.

In Datang, the value of this thing is beyond imagination.Cui Yingying called two cooks and four pastry chefs.After many days of research, I used milk powder, refined sugar, and fruit juice, and it was barely close to the taste of ice cream, but it was still far from it.Still working hard.

The freezing point is naturally something that was produced through hard work and experimentation.

It is ice desserts, and such desserts are honored guests in Qinwangzhuang, because the small machines supported by electricity brought by Li Yuanxing only have a split freezer and an ice machine.Another set of industrial ice machines will not be available in a short time.

It's not that Li Yuanxing can't bring any more, but that the electricity in Qinwangzhuang is a bottleneck, and too many of these things may not be good.

Li Yuanxing did not take the soft sedan chair, but walked by himself.

When Li Yuanxing walked to the small living room in the front yard, even Cui Junsu had arrived.

After entering the small meeting room, Li Yuanxing opened his mouth and said: "Unified currency is the foundation of business. One tael of silver in Datang, the most can be exchanged for [-] renminbi, and the least can be exchanged for [-] renminbi. It's just too big."

Seeing that Li Yuanxing had guessed his purpose, Cui Junsu said nervously, "The main reason is that the fineness of the money is too much related. The better copper coins have seven cents of copper, and the worse ones have four cents of copper. But there are still some coins, which are made of copper. Less than one cent is mostly lead, tin, etc., so naturally it cannot be exchanged for too much silver."

"Everyone, please sit down, the king has ordered the kitchen to prepare some good dishes!"

When everyone sat down, Cui Junsu said again: "One merchant sells goods, and another merchant brings in a cart of money, which is only a few hundred guan. But these hundreds of guan are good money, bad money, and There's that shitty money."

When it comes to this, the dishes have already been served.

For four people, two cold dishes were prepared, followed by two hot dishes, two meat and two vegetarian dishes, and one soup.

One of the cold dishes is cucumber with fungus, and the other is egg with pepper.

The meat dishes are pork ribs with potatoes and chicken stewed with mushrooms.Vegetarian dishes are tomato scrambled eggs, garlic broccoli!

Of course, in the Tang Dynasty, these dishes have very nice names, and they are all very poetic.

The last soup is hot and sour tripe soup.

"The dishes arranged by His Highness must have a purpose. Is Your Highness going to talk about the money first, or the food first?" Du Ruhui had been in Qin Palace for a long time, and he immediately felt that Li Yuanxing must have other purposes.

"Let's talk about money first!" Li Yuanxing picked up his chopsticks and picked up a piece of egg.

Because Li Yuanxing is the king of Qin and has the most distinguished status, the rest of the chopsticks he moves can start.

Although the ancients said, food does not speak.But this rule didn't seem to work very well anymore, Cui Junsu ate a few mouthfuls of food, and while Fang Xuanling poured wine for the four of them in person, he continued to tell the story of his two businessmen who were various money.

"When receiving the goods, the merchant who sells the goods will send someone to start counting the money in the cart, and divide it into five types of money: upper, middle, lower, inferior, and extremely inferior. Then, according to these five types of money, use one of them It is converted as a benchmark. This adds another opportunity for the two businessmen to argue."

After Cui Junsu finished speaking, Fang Xuanling also said: "Hundreds of guan, that is hundreds of thousands of money, it will take a lot of time to divide it!"

"What if there is no subdivision when collecting money?"

Li Yuanxing wondered if someone would be afraid of trouble and would not want to divide the money in this big transaction.

Cui Junsu said: "For long-term cooperation, one coin will be used as the standard. For the first cooperation, there will be shrewd businessmen who will first use one coin as the standard. Then when the delivery and money are made, the money will be divided in advance. "

"Of course, there are still some, such as the buyer did not divide for some reason, but the seller trusts, so something happened!"

Cui Junsu said it very euphemistically, in fact, he was saying that if the desire to buy goods is broken, it is necessary to use money to pay for good money.Then the seller is naturally unwilling, and there will definitely be a fight.

Whether it is going to the Yamen or fighting privately, it is troublesome.

Li Yuanxing understood: "This method has not really broken away from the barter and barter trading method."

"So, His Royal Highness's King Qin's money solves this problem. Shops in the two cities of Chang'an have already put up signs outside the doors, saying that King Qin's money is exchanged for three cents, and this is the exchange rate with the upper money. The price of rice in Chang'an is , Eight cents for a bucket of money. The price of rice in Huazhou is six cents for a bucket, and some people sell it for five cents!"

Speaking of this, Cui Junsu made a fool of himself: "Your Highness thinks, how much is King Qin's money?"

"According to the one-third discount, it should be six cents a bucket."

"Your Highness does not know that the current price of rice in Chang'an is [-] Wen and [-] Dou, and some are already [-] Wen and [-] Dou. This is the price of King Qin's money, and it is also the price recognized by Chang'an grain merchants. And the merchants like King Qin Money, when you see King Qin’s money, you don’t need to carefully distinguish whether it’s good money or bad money.”

As soon as Du Ruhui finished speaking, Fang Xuanling also said immediately: "Your Highness, the biggest advantage of using King Qin's money is that it is easy to calculate."

"how to say?"

"Businessmen used rulers to make wooden plates, and each plate cost a hundred pieces. Some people tried it, and picked money at will, no matter how they were placed, it was a hundred dollars per plate, with five columns on each plate, and each column cost twenty coins. It's easy to calculate, good Counting is easy to calculate. King Qin’s money is exactly the same in size and weight, and it is exquisitely made, so there is no possibility of counterfeiting. It is impossible to make such a beautiful engraving on shoddy money!”

Li Yuanxing comes from modern times, even if he has not studied economics and finance in depth.

But he is very clear.

How much impact does a unified financial system have on industry, commerce, and people's livelihood.

One person served a bowl of rice.

The rice in Prince Qin's Mansion is still very fresh to the people of Datang.

In the past, Datang was mainly boiled, and then stewed in a large pot. If it was dried, it would be rice, but some would be wasted at the bottom of the pot.Even rich families are unwilling, so the rice in Datang is more like thick porridge.

Li Yuanxing uses a set fire to cook the rice, so the rice is naturally different, more fragrant and more grainy.

Li Yuanxing didn't eat, he was just thinking.

According to historical records, the inflation before Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty was very small, and one penny was almost the purchasing power of four yuan in later generations.As soon as his King Qin's money is released, it is tantamount to increasing the value of the money invisibly, and one penny will be worth six yuan in later generations, which should be harmful to Datang's economy.

"Mr. Du, go to the money casting workshop tomorrow and ask them to start casting steel coins immediately."

"Steel money is worthless, is your Highness in a hurry!" Du Ruhui asked.

Cui Junsu opened his mouth and said: "Your Highness is wise, someone will explain it!"

Cui Junsu has been in the household department for many years. He can't say the words inflation and deflation, but he can express the meaning of deflation and its harm to the market and the economy.

After finishing speaking, he added: "Right now, don't worry too much, after all, there is still a lot of bad money in the market!"

What Cui Junsu said is reasonable, bad money is temporarily equivalent to the steel money of King Qin's money.Copper coins were of great necessity as a supplementary currency for small objects.

It's just that the Seventh Family doesn't need it, and neither does Qin Wangzhuang.

This need is the need of the Tang Dynasty, the needs of the household department of the Tang Dynasty, the economic needs of the Tang Dynasty, and the needs of the people.

Hearing what Cui Junsu said, Li Yuanxing seemed to have come to his senses: "Which one of you has my imperial brother's imperial edict?"

The three looked at each other and shook their heads: "There is no imperial decree!"

"The Ministry of Household wants my king's coin-making workshop?" Li Yuanxing asked.

Cui Junsu quickly said what Li Er meant, without changing a word, completely copying the original words.

"Two algorithms, one is that the Ministry of Households bears the expenses of the king's workshop, and the other is how to exchange money, how much copper is exchanged for how much. Of course, let's discuss the details with the long history of the king!"

"Your Highness, when will the steel money be released? Can the Ministry of Household Affairs make a request?" Cui Junsu asked again.

"Ten days in advance, because you need to adjust the machine, and you can't always change it, don't waste time on debugging the machine. This year, you can only cast four kinds of coins at the same time, so you must think about it. And the craftsmen of the household department must According to my king's rules, it still needs to be reviewed."

Cui Junsu had no objection.

Fang Du and Du Xiang also had no objection.

Originally, the meaning of the two ministers Fang and Du was to ask Li Yuanxing to make a move so that the coins in Chang'an City had a rule.

Now that the Ministry of Finance has stepped in, they only need to pay attention to the details.

"Your Highness!" Cui Yingying actually came in person.

Her personal maid followed behind with a tray.

"Please taste the freezing point of my Qinwangzhuang, it's very special." Li Yuanxing took it out of the food box himself. (To be continued.)