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Zhuge Liang was silent, but Liu Jing said again: "Back then Liu Jing was not sincere enough, and he was rude to Mr. Liu, which made Liu Jing and Mr. miss each other. Today, Liu Jing invites Mr. to come out of the mountain again with the greatest sincerity, and help Liu Jing revive the man. Hope Mr. agrees."

After a long time, Zhuge Liang sighed, and said slowly: "My greatest ambition in this life is to revive the Great Han and revitalize the Great Han Society, so I do my best to assist Uncle Liu, but God's will is not in the Emperor's will, and it cannot be restored by Kong Ming's manpower. I don’t know, how can I not be grateful, as long as His Highness agrees to two conditions, Kong Ming is willing to come out of the mountain again and devote himself to assist His Highness.”

Liu Jing was overjoyed, "Sir, please speak clearly!"

"The first is to implore Your Highness to move the Xiangyang County School to Longzhong. The decline of Longzhong makes Kong Ming extremely sad. I only hope that in my old age, when I return to Longzhong, I can hear the sound of reading in Longzhong."

Liu Jing nodded, "I also have a deep understanding. When I was studying martial arts in Longzhong, I could see Hongru talking and laughing everywhere. It was really sad to see the young nobles in high spirits, but today I saw the dilapidated Longzhong. Jingzhou State School was established in the central government, and a spacious official road was built to connect Xiangyang City."

Zhuge Liang was overjoyed, and stood up to salute, "Thank you for your consideration, Your Highness."

Liu Jing waved his hands and said with a smile: "Sir, please sit down, Liu Jing is willing to wash his ears before listening."

Zhuge Liang sat down and said: "My second condition is that I hope that Your Highness will treat the Emperor and his descendants kindly. The Emperor is old and no longer ambitious. Please look at Kong Ming's face and let the Emperor To die in peace, so that his children and grandchildren can also extend their heirs."

Liu Jing pondered for a while and said: "I might as well tell my husband clearly that the reason why I appointed Uncle Liu Huang as Taiwei is mainly to use his reputation to attract the nobles of the Central Plains, but I will not let him take the real power again. I have learned Ma Chao's lesson, at most Let him be in charge of the ancestral temple and ceremonies, as for his descendants, I will give them titles and wealth, and make them rich, and frankly speaking, Liu Chan really doesn’t worry me much.”

Zhuge Liang understood what Liu Jing meant. Liu Chan's mediocrity was indeed disappointing, but Liu Jing had already shown him his attitude and would not give up the bottom line of principle. Zhuge Liang did not expect Liu Bei to do anything now, as long as Liu Bei could grow old , he no longer regrets in his heart.

But Liu Jing's sincerity moved him very much. Zhuge Liang got up and knelt down and said, "How can Kong Ming make His Highness bend down to visit him? If His Highness doesn't mind, Kong Ming is willing to do the same."...

Liu Jing's trip to Longzhong in person did not disappoint him in the end. Zhuge Liang followed the general trend, abandoned his prejudices and previous suspicions, and joined Liu Jing's Fuhan Group. The seventh phase of the country.

Half a month later, Zhuge Liang arrived in Chang'an with his whole family under the guard of a team of Han troops. For this purpose, Liu Jing held a banquet for hundreds of officials in the Qilin Hall of Weiyang Palace to welcome Zhuge Liang and cleanse the dust for Zhuge Liang. Han Guo held a celebration.

At this time, it was already June, and the weather was gradually heating up. After the Han and Wei countries reached an agreement on the freedom of doing business, all checkpoints in Wei State were withdrawn, and the enthusiasm of merchants was gradually aroused. On the official road to Tongguan, there are endless caravans, mules, donkeys, and horses, carrying large and small packages and the faces of merchants excited and expecting.

Fur, tea, wood, paper, medicinal materials, silk satin and various daily utensils from the Han state were continuously shipped to Bingzhou and the Central Plains, while bronze wares, livestock, agricultural tools, salt, cloth, and fine charcoal from the Wei state were shipped to the Han state. But this is only a list of goods on the surface, but in private, the pig iron and grain of the Han State and the weapons, armor, and population of the Wei State are commodities for some big businessmen to make huge profits.

Both the mud and the sand, both legal and illegal trades are flowing in the increasingly prosperous business of the two countries. Cao Cao is in order to obtain the pig iron and grain of Han, while Liu Jing is for more far-reaching purposes.

Chang'an Xianyang vice city, here is one of the three vice cities of Chang'an. The original Xianyang city was destroyed in the war, and the county seat was rebuilt later.

With the rapid development of Guanzhong and Chang'an, Xianyang also has a population of 8 to [-], mainly artisan settlements. The city's livelihood is dominated by handicrafts, wood, iron, wine, weaving, paper, pottery, etc., everywhere in the city. The tinkling of knocking and the sound of locomotives can be heard.

In addition to private handicraft workshops, some large official workshops are also located in Xianyang City, such as the Nufang and Jiafang of the Military Weapons Supervisor, the wine workshop of Guanglu Temple, and the coin-making workshop of Shaofu Temple. In the vice city.

This morning, Liu Jing, King of the Han Dynasty, accompanied by Jiang Wan, Minister of the Household Department, and Ma Liang, the new Minister of the Shaofu Temple, came to the Xianyang City Coin Casting Workshop. There are currently two types of money in the Han Dynasty, one is the original Jiangxia money, but now It was renamed Xinhan money, and the other was money, that is, five baht coins made of gold, and one money could be regarded as one hundred Han coins.

The red gold that used to be used in the past has been prohibited from circulation in the Han Kingdom. Officially made gold ingots can be used for large-scale trade. There are two types of twelve ingots and five taels of ingots. Gold ingots are not legal tender, but a kind of treasure, but the Han Kingdom also acquiesced its circulation in the market.

In order to prohibit the counterfeiting of copper coins, the Han State formulated the most severe punishment method. Once the counterfeit copper coins or gold ingots are seized, the whole family will be executed. This regulation is not limited to the Han State, including the whole world. And was beheaded all over the house.

The copper coins of the Han Dynasty have already become the common currency in the world because of their fineness and high copper content, and money is even more sought-after. It is difficult to see it in the market, and it is basically stored by ordinary people as hard currency during wars. .

The coin-making workshop covers a huge area, covering thousands of acres. There are more than 100 coin-making furnaces, and nearly 1000 coin-making craftsmen work here. There is also one in Wuchang, and another workshop is planned to be built in Jiangdong. The annual amount of coins minted in the Han Dynasty reaches [-] million yuan, and there are also [-] million coins and one million gold ingots.

Even so, it still cannot meet the increasing demand for currency, and barter is still used in many places.

Especially after the Nanyang conflict between the Han and Cao armies, Cao Cao was forced to agree to Liu Jing's free trade conditions for merchants in order to quell the incident. Obviously, the merchant trade between the two sides will move towards greater prosperity. , the importance of currency is obvious.

The most urgent task at the moment is to increase the amount of coins minted, which is also an urgent requirement at present. In just half a month, Liu Jing has come to inspect the coin minting workshop in Xianyang for the second time.

Everyone came to the raw material warehouse. The raw material warehouse was built with huge stones, together with the piggy bank. There were a total of twenty huge warehouses, which were closely guarded by soldiers. The soldiers pushed open an iron gate. When everyone entered the warehouse, thousands of copper ingots were neatly stacked in the warehouse, and each copper ingot weighed more than a hundred catties.

Zhang Jin introduced to Liu Jing and the others: "His Highness, after His Highness's inspection last time, a large amount of copper and gold ingots were shipped from Jingzhou. At present, our raw materials are sufficient, and all craftsmen are divided into three shifts, working day and night Cast coins and gold ingots, and try to make 1000 million coins and [-] million gold ingots within this year."

At present, raw materials such as copper and gold in the Han Kingdom mainly come from the four counties, Jiangxia County, Yuzhang County, Danyang County, and Qianwei County. The Han Kingdom has more than a dozen mines in these four counties. The system is also expanding in scale, which strongly supports the prosperity of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Jing nodded, then turned around and said, "Have you completed what I ordered last time?"

"It's finished, Your Highness, please!"

Zhang Jin invited everyone into a spacious room, which used to be a warehouse, but now it has been converted into a showroom, displaying all the coins in the world and the coins minted by the Han Dynasty over the years.

Zhang Jin asked everyone to sit down, and he brought a wooden box, which contained coins from the Han and Wei dynasties, all of which had been cut open.

"Please look, Your Highness!"

Zhang Jin put two five baht coins in front of Liu Jing, "One is our new Han coin, and the other is Wei coin."

Liu Jing turned around and asked Ma Liang, "Is this the latest Wei Qian?"

Ma Liang nodded, "According to His Highness's instructions, we will collect samples from Yedu every month for special research. This Wei coin is the newly minted copper coin of Wei State last month, and the formula has changed."

Liu Jing held the two copper coins in his hands and looked closely. The cross-sections of the two copper coins were both bright yellow, and the difference was not too big. This shows that the Wei State also adopted the Han State's copper content ratio and increased the copper content to [-]%.

Liu Jing nodded and said with a smile: "It seems that Cao Pi also realized that there was a problem with their money and had to use the same copper content as ours."

Jiang Wan said from the side: "I sent people to Yedu to investigate, and the old Han coins and Dong Zhuo coins have disappeared. Since we banned the circulation of red gold, Yedu has gradually become useless. The market is mainly our new Han coins. Money and Wei coins are mainly our Xinhan coins, Wei coins only account for [-]%, and one Xinhan coin can be exchanged for three Wei coins on the black market, but the official exchange is still one for one, which has caused serious conflicts. Run, now the official has stopped the exchange.”

Liu Jing asked again: "What about the money and gold ingots?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, Wei Guo followed our lead in minting money and gold ingots the year before last, but it stopped last year. I guess it's because they didn't have enough gold in stock. At the beginning of last year, Wei Guo's grain prices skyrocketed. Wei Guo used gold to buy a lot of grain from us. "

It was Liu Jin's order to allow Wei Guo to use gold to buy food. In any case, Liu Jing wanted to take the casting money into his own hands. At this time, Zhang Jin was a little worried: "Now the copper content of Wei's money is the same as ours. Will it impact Xinhan Qian's status in Wei?"

Ma Liang shook his head and said with a smile: "Frozen three feet, it's not a day's cold. Wei Guo minted a lot of bad money, and his reputation has been ruined. It won't be able to restore his reputation in a day or two, and what about the previous Wei money? So even if they improve Even if the copper content is lowered, it will not change the situation of Han You and Wei You."

Liu Jing added: "Now that the Han State no longer recognizes Wei money, we have established an official caravan to invest the minted money and gold ingots into the Wei State, and exchange them for a large amount of supplies. This will inevitably cause a shortage of supplies in the Wei State. Will notice this serious problem, Wei Guo either stops trading, or can only mint Xinhan coins with us, and in turn buy our supplies, I believe they will choose the latter, if this continues, Wei coins will disappear soon, we The coins are the first to unify the world."

At this time, Zhang Jin handed another coin to Liu Jing, "Please look at this coin, Your Highness!"

Liu Jing took the money and was stunned.