Capital Datang

"Casting gold coins?" Li Min asked in surprise.Just now Xijun said that she had a way to temporarily make up for the shortage of silver coins, but Li Yin never expected that Xijun would propose to mint gold coins.

"Although the value of gold is high, it is much rarer than silver. How can it be used to mint coins?" Li Yin then asked very puzzled.

"Who told you that gold is less than silver?" Xi Jun rolled his eyes at Li Min and said, "Although our gold production in the Central Plains is not much, there are not a few official and private gold reserves accumulated over the past dynasties, and as early as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States During the period, some people already used gold as currency, and the common people also had the habit of collecting gold. Although I have not done statistics, in my opinion, the gold reserves of our Tang Dynasty are probably more than silver. If your husband discovers a large silver mine in Wotian, I will not agree to use silver as currency!"

Hearing Xijun's words, Li Yin felt as if he had been enlightened by someone, and he suddenly woke up. He found that he had fallen into a strange thinking circle before. From the perspective of his descendants, gold is more valuable than silver, and The quantity is also rarer than silver, but he has forgotten that the silver in the Central Plains only flowed in from abroad during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the previous dynasties, gold and silver were both precious metals. There are some differences, but they are not as big as later generations, and even the circulation of gold is much wider than that of silver, so in the era of Tang Dynasty, the reserves of gold should actually be more than that of silver." ".

Wanting to understand this, Li Yin rubbed his forehead and sighed, and then confessed to Xijun: "So that's the case. Fortunately, Xijun reminded me, otherwise I really didn't know that gold is not less than silver. It seems that we have to plan. At the same time as silver coins are issued, gold coins will also be issued, but the exchange ratio between gold coins and silver coins must be determined in advance, so as not to take advantage of some people with ulterior motives." Capital Datang 450

The gap mentioned in Li Yin's words is actually a matter of currency value. For example, in terms of silver coins, a silver coin can be used as regular money, but the price of silver was lower in the past. Great profit margins.Fortunately, the amount of silver is not much, and after Li Yin mastered Ishijian Yinshan, it is equivalent to mastering most of the silver output. Under his operation, the price of silver has been raised. Adding the cost of casting, the value itself is already consistent, so even if someone mints coins with silver, there is no room for them to obtain them.

And so is gold.The value of a gold coin should preferably correspond to its own value, so as to make it unprofitable for those who want to mint coins privately.However, equating the currency value with the actual value cannot completely eliminate private coinage. Others can still reduce the gold and silver content in it to make a profit, although there will be differences in fineness.But it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish, so the most important thing is to legislate to prohibit private minting of gold and silver coins.In addition, we must increase the intensity of the attack, so that the other party feels that the risks taken are not proportional to the benefits.Only in this way can we fundamentally eliminate the possibility of private coinage for profit.

Xi Jun naturally understood the meaning of Li Yin's words, so she nodded after listening.Then he opened his mouth and said: "Husband, although the Iwami silver mine in Watian has huge reserves, our Tang Dynasty's business is developing very fast, and the demand for gold and silver coins will become greater and greater, so I am afraid that this silver mine alone is still not enough. To meet our needs, doesn't your husband know the location of many mines, can you find some more?"

As for Li Yin's knowledge of where the mines are, the people around him were shocked at the beginning, but gradually got used to it, and now Xi Jun even took the initiative to ask Li Yin to provide some locations of the gold and silver mines.

After hearing this, Li Yin smiled wryly and said, "I do know where the reserves of gold and silver are the largest in the world, but it is a pity that it is in South America. With our current navigation capabilities, it is difficult to reach America, let alone mine it." !"

Xijun has seen the world map drawn by Li Yin and knows where South America is, so when he heard that the largest production area of ​​gold and silver is there, he couldn't help showing a look of disappointment on his face.

But Li Yin quickly comforted her and said: "We can't go to South America for the time being, but Nanyang is also one of the important producing areas of gold and silver, which will be the goal of my husband in the next stage. Let's develop slowly, and I believe that some gold and silver mines will also be discovered, and the shortage of gold and silver should be alleviated by then!"

When Li Yin said this, his tone paused for a moment, and then he said again: "By the way, metal currency will be eliminated sooner or later. In the future, our development direction is still to develop towards paper money, which is a credit currency. Although paper money is now promoted It is not feasible yet, but you should also urge the bank to carry out some check transaction business to prepare for the future issuance of banknotes!"

Xijun also learned a lot from Li Yin. For example, regarding the direction of banking, Li Yin taught him everything he knew about banking and finance. Although Li Yin didn't know much, even He doesn't quite understand a lot of things he knows, but these unsystematic knowledge are very inspiring to Xi Jun, and it is precisely because of this that Xi Jun is the only one who can discuss banking business with Li Yin people.

I saw Xijun nodded after hearing this and said: "What my husband said is very true, paper money is definitely the trend of future development, but just like what my husband said before, there must be a standard currency for the issuance of paper money, but whether it is gold standard or silver standard , all require a huge amount of gold or silver reserves, so husband, you still have to find gold and silver mines quickly."

The conversation turned around, and finally turned to the gold and silver reserves. Li Min was also quite helpless about this. It seemed that he had to pay attention to collecting some information on gold and silver mines while invading the Nanyang islands. Unfortunately, although he I know that gold and silver are produced in Nanyang, but I don't know exactly where they are. Otherwise, people would have sent people to occupy the places with gold and silver mines.

He chatted with Xijun about the bank again, and then let her go to rest. After all, she had been running all morning, so she was naturally tired.But when Xijun left, Li Yin left Feng Shuyu behind her, but Xijun gave Li Yin a warning smile, and then went back to the room to rest.

For the warning behind Xijun's smile, Li Yin also felt aggrieved. He really had no other thoughts about Feng Shuyu, but since he brought Feng Shuyu back to the palace, he aroused Wen Xin and Xijun's suspicion, and The reason why Xijun brought Feng Shuyu with him was not only to have more helpers, but also to prevent Li Yin from stealing.

If you misunderstand, just misunderstand, anyway, I am not afraid of the shadow slanting!Li Yin cheered for himself in his heart.

"Shuyu, last time your elder brother took out a thousand guns to redeem you, why didn't you go back with him?" Li Yin asked Feng Shuyu after he asked Feng Shuyu to sit down.

The last time we met Lu Wan’s fleet in Taiwan, Feng Shijie immediately offered to redeem his sister’s body afterwards, and handed over a thousand strings to Li Yin. Li Yin also kept his promise and restored Feng Shuyu’s freedom, but Feng Shuyu was unwilling to leave Instead, he chose to stay, no matter how much Feng Shijie tried to persuade him, it was useless, and in the end he had to respect his sister's choice.Li Yin was also a little strange about this, but only waited until today before he had the opportunity to ask Feng Shuyu.

Hearing Li Yin's question, Feng Shuyu had a naughty smile on his delicate face, blinked a pair of beautiful big eyes and said: "Your Highness, do you want to hear the truth or lies?"

"Oh, how do you tell the truth, and how do you tell lies?" Li Yin suddenly felt that this girl became much more cheerful, and even had the feeling of a strong woman in the shopping mall in her expression. It seems that she has learned a lot from Xijun during this period of time. With fewer things, even his personality changed, which made Li Yin feel that the other party was much more interesting.

I saw Feng Shuyu showed a sly smile again, but said with a slightly red face: "The lie is that the little girl likes His Highness, so she is reluctant to leave His Highness." Capital Datang 450

Li Yin was taken aback when he heard this, he never expected that the other party would say such a thing, although he knew it was a joke, and the other party also said a lie, but it still made Li Yin a little uncomfortable.

However, Feng Shuyu didn't seem to notice the difference at all, and continued with a smile: "As for the truth, it is that Shuyu likes the life now, and doesn't want to go back with her brother, and then stay at home every day. I will obey my elder brother's arrangement, marry and have children and live my whole life, I want to arrange my own life!"

When she said the last few sentences, the expression on Feng Shuyu's face became very serious. It could be seen that she was not joking, but she was speaking the truth.This surprised Li Yin, but also admired Feng Shuyu's independent spirit. He really didn't expect that the other party already had feminist consciousness. Although he was still very rudimentary, he already knew clearly that he wanted to Make decisions for themselves and live without being dependent on men. In the era of Tang Dynasty, there are very few women who can give birth to this kind of thinking. It is precisely because of this that people feel more admirable.

Seeing Li Yin staring blankly at him without speaking, Feng Shuyu lowered his head a little embarrassed.When she first met Li Yin, she was also in awe of each other's identity, but after getting along with him later, she found that His Royal Highness Qi Wang is a very easy-to-get-together person, and she can talk to him about any happy or unhappy things, and The other party also respects his life very much and will not interfere too much.It is precisely because of this that Feng Shuyu regards Li Yin as a friend who talks about everything, and will not hide anything from him, and occasionally jokes with him.

Although Li Yin stared at Feng Shuyu, what he thought of was a very important question. He really didn't pay much attention to this question before, but today, from Feng Shuyu and another acquaintance in front of him, he finally discovered that horizontal There is one more problem in front of me. (To be continued.)

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