Technology dominates the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 183 [What kind of money is the best? 】

"The matter of the refugees is decided in this way, and you can make arrangements on the table immediately after you go down."

"In addition, add a [Disaster Relief Department] to the household department, and you will be in charge of it for the time being. This time, the relevant expenses for refugees will be recorded in the accounts of the Disaster Relief Department."

Lu Bu thought for a while, and he could use this opportunity to set up a special disaster relief department. Once a disaster occurs, it can respond in time and distribute disaster relief funds or relief materials.

Chen Gong was startled. He thought of this step. According to the system of the Han Dynasty, only when a disaster occurred would a temporary disaster relief department be set up to distribute relief food and so on.

However, Lu Bu wanted to set up a [Disaster Relief Department] in advance. He is really the Lord of Benevolence and righteousness, with a heart of benevolence, he will definitely be supported by all people in the future.

"The lord is wise and benevolent, and will be loved by all people."

Arching his hands, Chen Gong said what was in his heart, and expressed his gratitude to Lu Bu on behalf of the people.Such a heroic, brave, benevolent and loving master, Chen Gong did not choose wrongly.

"People do not have long-term concerns, but they must have near-term worries. This is not all for the refugees, but more importantly, to prepare for a rainy day. In the future, I plan to allocate an emergency relief fund for the [Disaster Relief Department] every year. "

"If you really encounter a disaster, you can deal with it at any time. Gongtai, what do you think?" Lu Bu was a little proud of being praised by Chen Gong, and added some thoughts of his own.

"Preparing a certain amount of emergency money and food for disaster relief every year will increase the financial burden. The Han Dynasty did not do this before, but this is something that benefits the people. My lord is thoughtful, and Chen Gong admires it!" Chen Gong said sincerely.

The money and food reserved for disaster relief every year is definitely not a small amount.It will bring a lot of burden to the national treasury, but no one has successfully done this kind of good thing for the people before.Now that Lu Bu proposed it, Chen Gong also wants to try hard, maybe he will succeed.

To put it bluntly, to do big things, to get things done.In the final analysis, it still depends on food and money.

Currently, there are only more than 300 million shi left in actual records, and the monthly fixed expenditure is at least 15 shi. If Lu Bu wants to speed up the construction of five new counties and two academies, the consumption will be faster.

As for money, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty carried out the reform of the currency system and adopted the new "platinum" and "skin coins".Platinum coins are divided into three grades: round dragon coins worth [-] renminbi, square ringgit coins worth [-] renminbi, and oval tortoise coins worth [-] renminbi.

The so-called platinum is actually an alloy of silver and tin.There is less silver and more tin, and the price is so high, it will naturally depreciate.Coupled with the high price of silver and the low price of tin, thousands of people began to cast it privately. As a result, platinum was abolished after only one or two years.

The raw material of the leather coin is the skin of the white deer raised in the Royal Shanglin Garden. It is one foot long and one foot wide, with colored drawings on it.A small piece of deerskin with a picture was made for 40 yuan, which was not feasible at the time.

However, it can be said to be the earliest attempt at banknotes in history because of the great disparity between its currency material and the value of the currency face.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty soon discovered the disadvantages of platinum and leather coins.So a few months after the issuance of platinum and leather coins, "five baht coins" began to be minted.

The five baht coin is quite exquisite, with a thick and well-proportioned copper color and dignified and handsome characters. It also adopts the protruding outline of the knife coins and ring coins in the Warring States Period to protect the characters on the coins from wear and tear, and at the same time increase the fastness.The casting method of this protruding edge profile has been fixed ever since.

Five baht coins are decent in size and moderate in weight.The big ones are like certain knife coins, which are 50 centimeters long and weigh more than [-] grams; the small ones are like cash pods, less than one centimeter in diameter, which is as small as a pea, which is very inconvenient to carry and count.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty transferred the power of minting coins to the central government, and set up an institution responsible for minting coins in Shanglin Garden, called "Shanglin Sanguan".

When there is a special agency responsible for casting coins, the quality of coins is guaranteed.At this time, the method of casting coins has adopted the method of copper mother mold, that is, firstly use clay to make a very exquisite concave mold ancestor mold, and then cast a convex mold copper mold, which can be used to make countless concave mold clay molds, so The size and style of the minted copper coins are exactly the same.

As for the edge of the money, it was originally filed by hand, but at this time, it has been changed to stacking and flattening with a turning tool, which has made technological progress.

That is to say, from the Han Dynasty to the present, whether in the Central Plains or other states, the currency used is still five baht.

It's just that now that the Han Dynasty has been defeated, and the princes each control their own territory, the five baht coin is no longer the exclusive power of the "central-central".

Moreover, if you cast five baht coins by yourself, you can get more benefits, so the princes basically cast five baht coins by themselves.

Many people will lose weight or add sundries. The same copper and tin can cast more five baht coins, so that they can get more benefits from it.

Jiaozhou is located in a remote place, and the original Zhu Fu, the governor of Jiaozhou, firmly grasped the lifeblood of casting five baht coins, so that the five baht coins circulating in Jiaozhou actually lost a lot of copper content.

When mentioning money, Chen Gong felt embarrassed, "My lord, most of the five baht coins circulating in Jiaozhou are not as good as those in the Central Plains, and are much lighter. And there is not only one kind, there are more than a dozen five baht coins of different weights, mixed and used .”

Lu Bu looked at Chen Gong and asked, "Do you want to recast the five baht coins?... By what standard?"

But Chen Gong shook his head, and he replied: "I have thought about this, but it is very difficult. The five baht coins were the most formal in the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but now they are too messy, especially the five baht coins in the Central Plains are even more chaotic and cannot be unified. It’s better to exchange food or cloth, hey, it’s very difficult to change in a short time.”

However, Chen Gong still had his own ideas and said, "My lord, I have thought about it, and I can try new coins in Jiaozhou."

"New coins? Tell me about it." Lu Bu was curious. From the perspective of future people, Lu Bu thought that banknotes could be used, which happened to be new paper made.

However, Chen Gong had an idea, and Lu Bu wanted to hear it first.

"I don't know if my lord has heard that leather coins were implemented during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty?" Chen Gong asked. He had carefully studied various currencies of the Han Dynasty before, especially the white coins (platinum) introduced during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. There is a soft spot for leather coins and five baht coins.

White coins, that is, silver, but because of the small amount of mining, it is difficult to have enough to maintain circulation.

But the five baht coin was spoiled, so Chen Gong set his sights on the leather coin.

"Leather coins? Made of sheepskin?" Lu Bu didn't know what leather coins were, but he knew parchment paper, so he immediately thought of sheepskin.

"My lord, I misunderstood. The leather coins implemented by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used the skin of the white deer raised in the Royal Shanglin Garden at that time, but because the white deer skin was very valuable, it was difficult to circulate, and it was not used after that. " Chen Gong explained that he didn't want to use white deerskin or sheepskin as coins.

(End of this chapter)