The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 148 Chen Yuanda’s experiences
For Liu Tai, it was enough as long as Yantang settled in Shile's sphere of influence.

I don't plan to use these salt halls for any showy operations, because the salt tickets circulating in the salt halls themselves can become the best props.

Liu Tai had unparalleled confidence in confirming that these salt coupons could gradually become the main circulating instruments in Shile's area.

There was no way. At this time, the whole society was in chaos. The five-baht currency that was finally minted in the Han Dynasty was also affected by the various minting behaviors of the regimes one after another in the Three Kingdoms era. After all, for various regimes, they did not care about the people. But it depends on whether the currency you mint can benefit the people.

And the common people are not really stupid, it’s just that there are not as many routines as those above, but they suffer too much from the routines, so the common people naturally say that they don’t want to play anymore.

When people instinctively avoid the use of various currencies, the entire private economy will inevitably degenerate to the level of barter transactions.

Even this kind of barter trade continued until the Tang Dynasty. Even though the Tang Dynasty built Kaiyuan Tongbao, the currency in Zhongshang was still a variety of silk fabrics.

The salt coupons provided by Liu Tai can very well solve the pain points in the hearts of the people.

Needless to say, at least when the common people can successfully exchange salt from the salt hall and the salt coupons have enough credibility, the small salt coupons will naturally be circulated in the salt hall.

As for large-value salt stamps, they can become a unified currency for local merchants to trade with each other in the areas controlled by Yuan Yan, and even in the area where Liu Tai's Qingzhou is located.

At the same time, in order to cope with the shortage of salt in distant salt halls, Liu Tai stipulated that after half of the salt savings in the salt hall, the sale would begin. Each person would sell a certain share every day. The main purpose was to delay time so that ships could deliver salt.

Under Liu Tai's conscious planning, salt coupons, which could be exchanged for a sufficient amount of salt at the Salt Hall, began to circulate out of Qingzhou and into Jizhou.

Even if those merchants did not discover the benefits of the salt coupon exchange at the beginning, as they traveled more to Qingzhou, they would naturally understand the payment role played by this kind of credit certificate in transactions.

Liu Tai understood that even if he mastered Shi Le's financial system, it did not mean that Shi Le would let him manipulate it.

After all, if you want to maintain financial hegemony, you must first have military hegemony.

If he doesn't defeat Shi Le, this move will at best cause chaos to Shi Le, and they can even eat people, so a mere chaos is nothing!

However, with this move that can wipe out the fire at any time, Liu Tai at least has an extra level of confidence when dealing with Shi Le.

So regardless of what conditions Yangman and Diao Ying negotiated, as long as Shi Le dared to let the Salt Hall settle, Liu Tai would have the upper hand.

Other forces want to learn Liu Tai's method of using bills to replace salt, and of course they can do it.

The first is a guarantee that can provide almost unlimited payments, and there must be no break in the capital chain.

This alone has blocked many people who want to simulate salt stamps. After all, salt is really an indispensable consumer product for everyone!
In a prosperous age, grain and cloth might be able to make corresponding bills, but in the Song Dynasty, coal or tea could be used instead.

But these are troubled times, and the only way to compete with Liu Tai's salt votes is to produce cloth tickets from cloth.

As for food stamps, looking at the current situation of natural and man-made disasters every year, I was afraid that they would be squeezed to death.

There is no such problem with table salt at all. Liu Tai said that he will make as much salt for you as you want.

Liu Tai even thinks that he should occasionally create some hot spots, make salt unsalable, and help with sales.

Of course, even if others really find the corresponding tools and can make corresponding bills based on table salt like Liu Tai, or even if someone creates a new generation like Jiaozi in the Song Dynasty, they still have to face the second problem - restraining greed.

Anyone who understands this operation is basically a money printing machine, but he must understand inflation and deflation, and he needs to restrain his desire to print money.

If you can't do this, the whole world is waiting for Yingjiang to start the banquet anyway. In this era, some people dare to do this. Liu Tai said that his Euphorbia is really hungry and thirsty.

While Yang Man was dealing with the relationship with Shi Le, Liu Tai went to greet the newly arrived Qingzhou governor Chen Yuanda.

To be honest, Chen Yuanda didn't show any publicity when he arrived, so he took a building boat and followed the Yellow River to the border of Qingzhou.

Chen Yuanda did not immediately send someone to notify Liu Tai, but chose to carefully observe Qingzhou with his own eyes.

To be honest, in Chen Yuanda's original impression, even though the people in Qingzhou at this time were not in dire straits, there was still a sense of sadness.

After all, Liu Tai has always been shown to be a guy who is particularly good at fighting, and he is also a bandit. How can such a person govern the country?

Not to mention that Liu Tai had just fought with Wang Jun, how desolate this place would be!

Chen Yuanda was still thinking about the miserable appearance of Qingzhou, but when he actually arrived at the boundary of Qingzhou and got off the boat, Chen Yuanda saw a quite lively port. Ships were flowing on both sides of the Yellow River, and a large number of goods were unloaded from the port. A street vendor hawks his wares. When he raises his head, he sees Qi Nu posing gracefully in a brothel.

It can only be said that it is a very harmonious and lively scene, even more energetic than the capital of the Xiongnu and Han Dynasties.

Chen Yuanda sat in the brothel and experienced the local customs.

At this time, the brothel was full of guests. Chen Yuanda and his servants took their seats and soon listened to the passionate "Burning Red Cliff".

I have to say that because the Han Dynasty now considers the Shu Han Dynasty to be orthodox, this propaganda story about Zhuge Liang using the east wind to burn Red Cliff is a politically correct track, which made Chen Yuanda nod his head with satisfaction after reading it.

In fact, after Xu came up with the opera at Liu Tai's request, Liu Tai immediately took the lead in learning various operas based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which tells the story from the three sworn brothers in Taoyuan to Xingluo The story of Wu Zhang Yuan.

As for the rest of the story, Liu Tai was no longer involved.

There is no way. The first half of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is about Guan Yunchang's loyalty and courage, and the second half is about Zhuge Kongming's unfulfilled ambition. Although other people are also eye-catching, they are still overshadowed by the style of these two people. Liu Tai naturally wants to focus on portraying them. These two people.

After all, it is very important to spread the culture of the Han revival through opera and increase the sense of identity within one's own sphere of influence.

And Chen Yuanda had never heard of this art even in Pingyang City. Now watching the actors above performing a cappella one by one, he couldn't help but feel a little inexplicably touched in his heart, and he even rewarded them when they left.

Chen Yuanda took a deep breath. To be honest, Chen Yuanda didn't know how the ferry in Qi County was operating.

But Chen Yuanda knew that if this ferry was not managed well, there would never be such a luxurious place as a brothel!

After coming out of the brothel, Chen Yuanda continued towards Linzi.

Soon Chen Yuanda saw people on the road starting to bang with shovels and shovels, and they were all working enthusiastically.Seeing this scene, Chen Yuanda couldn't help but said to the person in charge of management next to him:

"Mr. Sir, these people are on military service. Shouldn't they be working in the fields at this time?"

The man in charge of management glanced at Chen Yuanda and felt that this guy was wearing expensive clothes and must have a good background, so he said:

"Your Excellency, you must be from another county. Our main cultivation here in Qingzhou is winter wheat, which was harvested almost last month.

In the next few months until the end of July, most of the people were off-farm, so Liu Qingzhou hired people to repair the roads.

Although the money is not much, it is still in charge of food. As long as the people are free, they are happy to work! "

The people were naturally happy. In order to ensure that the people could work hard, Liu Tai ensured that breakfast, lunch and daily meals were provided. The first two meals were porridge and steamed buns. As for the daily meals, they mainly had mung bean soup and steamed buns or boiled noodles.

As for dinner, the people are basically allowed to go back and eat by themselves, but as long as they work for a week, they will be given salt coupons.

This makes people happy to work during their leisure time.

After all, for the common people, there is nothing to do during the slack season anyway, so what's wrong with being able to work to support their families.

Of course, not everyone can come to work. First of all, it must be someone who has completed the corvee service last winter.

Because in winter, it snows here in the north. If these people are allowed to come out to do corvée work, people will die. At most, they will ask the government to sweep the snow instead of letting them come out to work.

The real work is when they are at home, because the winter wheat has almost entered the stage of stopping growth, and they only need to go to the field to take a look every day, which is relatively easy.

At this time, Liu Tai will assign some tasks that require them to assemble manually and let the common people assemble them.

And these people are also very calculating. They naturally want to sow seeds in late autumn, serve in winter, harvest in late spring, and work in summer, so as to maximize the wealth they know.

Especially in this world where there are only a few peaceful days, everyone instinctively wants to save a little bit of rations so that they can be used in times of crisis.

It’s as if after three years of the epidemic, the entire society has returned to rational consumption and advocates value for money.

After experiencing droughts, locust plagues, military disasters and other disasters, the common people who survived each and every one of them had a sense of calculation.

They were calculating how many days of rations they would have to keep so that they would not starve to death, because they really almost starved to death.

Therefore, the harvest benefits brought by planting winter wheat are secondary.

For ordinary people, the greater benefit is that they can occasionally work part-time in the road construction team, earn a day's worth of food, and even get salt coupons after working for a week.

Although these rewards are really not much, even if they earn a little more every year, these ordinary people will be happy.

Therefore, they worked hard in the winter, because even temporary workers had conditions, and priority was given to the people who had completed the corvee. If you have not completed the corvee, what benefits can you enjoy here.

For Liu Tai, at least he couldn't ensure that the people had enough supplies to keep out the cold in winter.

Therefore, in addition to establishing a professional corvee team, I also have to find other ways to mobilize people to join in the road construction work.

It would be a waste of human life to let them work in winter, but if it were to be switched to summer, Mengdong's medical camp should first prepare medicinal soup to prevent heatstroke, and prepare medical camps for each section of the project.

The mined coal is basically used here to boil water, in addition to being used to forge steel.

In order to prevent people from getting sick as much as possible, mung bean soup and other fire-reducing soups are always added to the lunch meal.

All in all, we are gradually entering the Little Ice Age, so in the summer, I can encourage the people to support it. As for winter, I will save it. I don't want to be accused of disregarding human life.

Under Liu Tai's policies, summer has become the busiest time for local people.

The common people may not have a long-term perspective, but when the superiors are willing to give them some concessions so that they can see hope in the future, these farmers will never begrudge their labor force, or in other words, they have been waiting for this time.

Ordinary people never care about being called human resources, nor do they care about selling their labor force. They even wish that the upper class elites can transfer more benefits. They want to exchange for hard work and achieve wealth through hard work.

What Liu Tai is doing now is to consciously transfer his resources to these people to increase their enthusiasm for work.

After all, in this era, it was a matter of course for the court to ask ordinary people to perform corvee service, and the people needed to be responsible for their own food. As for the so-called salt coupons after working for a week, they should not even think about it.

Now that Liu Tai had made it clear, he only prepared food for these temporary workers to eat while working, as well as inexhaustible salt stamps for himself. To Liu Tai, they were almost as light as a feather.

But Liu Tai transferred such a small amount of benefits to these people, but they truly felt the beauty brought by Liu Tai's rule.

The beauty of being able to gain wealth through hard work, and the beauty of being able to be stable, even if you are a slave.

Therefore, the people of Qingzhou highly recognized Liu Tai.

Because Liu Tai's policies gave them a sense of direction and confidence in their future lives, and the more troubled the times, the more important confidence is.

When Chen Yuanda came to Qingzhou, he was still thinking more or less about how he should check and balance Liu Tai and how to seize power from Liu Tai. Even if he could not seize power, he was still thinking about how he should scold Liu Tai.

But now that he was passing through a county like Qi County, Chen Yuanda was somewhat silent at this moment.

He felt that compared to himself, who was being reprimanded for Liu Cong's arrogance and lewdness, he had no idea that the warrior Liu Tai, whom he had always looked down upon, had managed Qingzhou like this without saying a word.

With a somewhat heavy heart, Chen Yuanda finally came to Linzi and came within Liu Tai's core sphere of influence.

At this moment, Liu Tai was respectfully waiting for Chen Yuanda to arrive ten miles outside Linzi City with a smile on his face.

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(End of this chapter)