Datang first village

Li Yuanxing smiled helplessly: "If Mingyue, a little money fan, finds out, she won't make trouble for me when she comes back."

Everyone laughed again.

It's no secret that Wu Zhao is a money fan, and everyone in the Tang Dynasty knows it.

Wu Zhao was called the Little God of Wealth in the Tang Dynasty, and they all said that Wu Zhao was the God of Wealth in the Heavenly Court****.

"Forget it, I'm going home after Mingyue's absence. Forty cents a catty of frosting sugar, isn't that expensive this time." Li Yuanxing took the wooden board from the wooden box Yuanchun brought, and the following is A row of bamboo tubes.

Each bamboo tube is filled with white sugar.

The white granulated sugar that was actually made in Datang was inferior to modern ones, but it was excellent sugar in Datang.Li Yuanxing used the lime clarification method, which was a very mature technology in the Song Dynasty.In the Tang Dynasty, it was recorded in history that it was slowly used on a large scale after the 27th year of Zhenguan.

"Excellent icing sugar!"

"This king's output is not bad." Li Yuanxing said softly.

Only this sentence is not bad, everyone has already heard the taste, Li Yuanxing has already industrialized mass production.

At the same time, another meaning of this sentence is that once Li Yuanxing's frosted sugar comes out, it is definitely the way of life for all sugar factories in Datang, with large quantity and low price.

But Li Yuanxing has never done anything wrong, and being able to speak out here is equivalent to preparing to support several, or even dozens of powerful sugar chambers of commerce.

On the other side, Yuan Chun was in the kitchen, telling the cook to make cakes quickly, while flipping through the paper in his hand.

The content of this piece of paper was what she was going to say today, which was arranged by Li Yuanxing in advance. She was looking at the few key words that she hadn't said, and she hadn't passed on the information.

Yuan Chun still remembered that Li Yuanxing had confessed.

Give up some small ones, and you can't keep them in the first place.It is possible to keep a larger interest that can be grasped at hand.

For example, give up the malt sugar and keep the frosting sugar.

The most important thing to keep the source of the frosting sugar is beets.In the coming year, Li Yuanxing plans to plant tens of thousands of mu of sugar beets in Qinwangzhuang. When Li Yuanxing plans to sell the sugar to the surrounding countries, that will be the real big profit.Anyway, the people of Datang will definitely like maltose.

Frosted sugar is originally a noble consumer product.

For the muffins brought by Yuanchun, in fact, only about half of the sugar leftovers were used, and the rest was made of white flour.After all, this is for adults to eat, not for artisans.

After taking a bite of the crispy cake, Li Jing asked, "Now, are you still making it?"

"There is also a small workshop that has been making, with a hundred people." Yuan Chun replied with his head down.

"Someone wants to go and see!"

Li Jing wanted to see it, but Li Yuanxing naturally would not refuse, and motioned Yuan Chun to take him to the workshop to have a look.

Cui Junsu didn't go, but instead proposed to go to Li Yuanxing's garden for a walk. Today was a sunny day, and it was a full moon night, and the scenery in the garden in the front hall was excellent.

However, neither Li Yuanxing nor Cui Junsu came here to see the scenery.

"Your Highness, there is a record in the Han Dynasty that Jia Yi once said that "killing money means prospering, correcting money means dying". Someone once read the history of money casting, and the Han Dynasty used bad money to replace good money, but it was helpless His Highness wants to replace bad money with good money, although His Highness has to pay for many goods with good money, but it doesn’t cure the root cause! I’m really worried.”

Cui Junsu's words are good words.

But Li Yuanxing believed in science and the research of economics.

Moreover, the theory of bad money has been studied in the Western world in the sixteenth century, and it is called Gresham's law.Moreover, in the ancient Roman era, the gold coins used by the Roman Empire were always cut off by people, but the gold coins were getting lighter and lighter. This was also the earliest bad coin.

"The bad drives the good, and the good drives the bad. These two laws coexist, but they will change or even intersect under certain circumstances."

Wu Zhao's original words were, positive Gresham and anti Gresham.

Of course, Li Yuanxing would never say the word Gresham out of his mouth.

"The law of bad driving good must be produced under one major premise. Both bad money and good money are the legal tender stipulated by the Ministry of Households of the Tang Dynasty; the two coins have a certain legal ratio; the sum of the two coins must exceed the needs of society The amount of money. Cui Shangshu thinks, is there enough money in Datang?"

Cui Junsu shook his head with a smile: "We trade silk, rice, sheep, and cattle instead of money, because there is not enough money."

"One more thing, when businessmen from Daqin come to Datang, how will they trade?"

"Barter and money barter." Cui Junsu answered truthfully.

Li Yuanxing took out a strange-looking gold coin from his pocket, and then said: "Let's talk about barter first. If their goods are poor, will my Datang merchants lower the price or reduce the amount of exchange. In other words, they Use your own gold coins, complete and good gold coins will be accepted by Datang merchants, then the incomplete gold coins that have been cut, they will be fools as Datang merchants!"

Li Yuanxing's gold coin is Ao Lei!

Then Li Yuanxing took out another bag, which contained various ancient Roman coins.

Of course there are cut Ores, and there are whole and incomplete dinars (silver coins!)

"The law of good drives out bad! In market transactions, merchants are more willing to accept coins with guaranteed value. This king calls it hard currency, while bad money is soft currency. There will be unavoidable bad drives in Datang In Liangzhong, at that time, this king also had a way to solve it, and at that time Datang also had the strength to control it."

Cui Junsu nodded: "The attitude of the Ministry of Households is that it has been confused for a few years now, and it does not stipulate when the official currency of the Tang Dynasty will be. Silk can be used, grain can be used, and cattle can also be used!"

"Exactly, the common people will see that they like hard currency. This needs a process. Some of them will definitely be hurt, and some will take advantage of the opportunity. For example, someone privately used King Qin's money to exchange gold, silver, and copper. , Earn the small price difference, or errand money, what does Cui Shangshu think?"

Cui Junsu did not answer immediately.

At this time, Cui Junsu also realized that a change would bring many problems, large and small.

It will take a long process for good money to truly become Datang's official money.At present, it seems that, as Li Yuanxing said, some goods can only be bought with good money, which promotes the circulation of King Qin's money in a disguised form.

As for saving money, people with good looks save it.

Li Yuanxing also understood in his heart that there is a limit to everything.Just like him, he likes to put new money in his wallet and spend the old money first.This is also a reaction to bad money driving out good money.

"One more thing, Cui Shangshu needs to make a decision early. The exchange of gold coins and silver coins must be regulated. One tael of gold coins is exchanged for several taels of silver coins. It is the rules set by the king, and when the coins were minted, the weight of the silver coins and the silver content, the king made some manipulations."

Cui Junsu clearly knew that the exchange of silver and coins fluctuated due to fluctuations in the price of silver.

It is absolutely impossible for Li Yuanxing to change the formula of King Qin's money, otherwise it would be a vicious struggle between the bad money and the good money of King Qin's money.

"My lord, there is frosting sugar!"

Li Yuanxing, is this a joke?

Obviously it was not a joke, Cui Junsu quickly realized: "Your Highness is right. Your Highness doesn't want caramel, but His Highness keeps frosting sugar. It sounds like you are talking about sugar, but when you think about it, you are talking about coins. I think all major chambers of commerce are willing to cooperate with Prince Qin's Mansion, they are His Royal Highness's Frost Sugar!"

"Exactly, merchants like hard currency!"

"Your Highness, it goes without saying that foreign merchants barter, but a recent report from the Ministry of Commerce stated that in recent months, the proportion of barter is declining. Foreign merchants will choose to sell their goods and then use the money to go Buying goods. Then His Highness thinks, can it be controlled within the scope of King Qin's money!"

Li Yuanxing shook his head lightly: "There is no need to forcibly control it, the market will prove that my King Qin's money is hard currency."

"Someone will send someone to pay attention!" After Cui Junsu replied, he suggested: "I don't know how foreign businessmen think about King Qin's money!"

Li Yuanxing clapped his hands lightly: "That's right! This king thinks that the Ministry of Household Affairs should join hands with the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Commerce to consider the exchange of foreign currency for Datang currency. For example, that dinar is exchanged for Datang silver coins, or Is it a copper coin?"

Li Yuanxing's proposal made Cui Junsu feel bright.

"Your Highness's remarks are incisive. Merchants still like good money. It's better to arrange for someone to let the Ministry of Commerce release the news. For the safety of their own coins, foreign merchants will definitely choose good money. At least in Chang'an City, King Qin The money has been circulated enough." It is rare for Cui Junsu to fully agree with Li Yuanxing's statement, at least he is very confident in the matter of coins.

Li Yuanxing also agrees with this statement.

"The rest of the states and counties, slowly map it!"

Cui Junsu said goodbye, he did not leave Qinwangzhuang.Because it was already late, his identity was not enough to allow Chang'an City to open the gate at night without any trouble.

On the other side, about three miles east of Qinwangzhuang, there is a small village.

The distance between this Zhuangzi and the first village of King Qin's Farm is only five miles. This is the largest food processing workshop in King Qin's Mansion. Right now, the main business here is processing vermicelli.

The sideline is processing maltose and horse cakes.

When Li Jing arrived, it was still in full swing, with hundreds of cauldrons steaming.

Processing vermicelli is actually a physical job. In the modern age, manual workshops are definitely dominated by men.

But here in Datang, never underestimate the physical strength of healthy women. A strong woman can hold a bag of [-] catties of sweet potato flour with one hand, and can walk like flying to the processing room dozens of steps away, and she will never feel the pain. asthma.

Li Yuanxing was shocked when he saw this scene.

Seeing this scene, Li Jing felt normal.

Just after entering the food workshop, Li Jing subconsciously took two steps back, because he felt a very dangerous aura! (To be continued.)