Wentang

Chapter 389 Currency
The so-called surname change was not because someone wanted to rob his academy, but that the content of the professors in the academy gradually deviated from the direction he set.

At the beginning, he compiled textbooks to teach students, and divided the students into three grades, and the depth of knowledge increased step by step.The Five Books of Yue Xue compiled by him also sparked a small discussion.

Everything was fine at first, but an accident happened when he was working in Dizhou.

This matter has to start with the compilation of the Zhenguan Dictionary, which was ignored or even ridiculed by most people at the beginning.Especially the aristocratic families, they simply took this matter as a joke.

In their opinion, what kind of profound things can the barbarian Li family come up with?

Thanks to the relationship between Li Gang, Pei Ju, Wang Ji and others, a group of people were gathered to do this work, but as the dictionary framework was built and spread, the grandeur of the dictionary was finally recognized by more and more people.Even the family didn't start to worry.

More and more people want to participate, some Pei Ju and Li Gang can refuse, some they not only cannot refuse, but also welcome.

There are more and more great Confucian scholars coming to Longshoushan Academy, and it is inevitable that some of them will make a mistake of "being a good teacher" and go to give lectures to the students of the Academy.

Of course, they will not use Yueshan's textbooks, but use their own textbooks to talk about what they are best at.All the scheduled courses were disrupted, and Yue Shan's teaching plan was almost at a standstill.

Moreover, such great Confucian lectures are a good thing for college students who have a certain foundation and a preliminary personality, but for a group of elementary school students, it is a bad thing that cannot be worse.

These students who have just come into contact with learning have not yet established their outlook on life and values, and they are instilled with various ideas by those great Confucians, and they suddenly become dizzy.

I don't know who is right, and I don't know who is wrong.Sometimes it is clear that two people have completely opposite meanings, but why do they both feel reasonable?

Another reason is that these people don't fully accept the Five Books of Yue Xue, and it can even be said that they don't think highly of them.They don't shy away from this in class.

What would the students think when they heard that so many great Confucians said Yuexue Wushu was not good?
That's why Yue Shan said that if he came back a little later, the academy would not be named Yue, and his plan to use the academy to spread new ideas and cultivate reformers would be in vain.

This is intolerable to him and must be corrected.But correction also requires a method, so many great Confucian scholars gathered together, it was a prosperous literary world, it would be foolish to drive people away rudely.

It is best to think of a way to keep these people and teach according to their own plans.So he didn't rush to school to deal with this problem, but thought about countermeasures at home.

By the way, I wrote two notes to Li Shimin, one about developing Chunshenjiang, and the other about silver coins.

With the demon capital of later generations as a model and the experience of developing Dizhou, the development of Chunshenjiang is still relatively easy to write.

Yue Shan first analyzed the geographical advantages of Chunshen River, then talked about the strategic location for developing this place, such as the radiation to the entire southeast region, and finally talked about some countermeasures for developing this place.

Seventy to eighty thousand characters are eloquent, which can be regarded as a huge space in ancient times, because many books do not necessarily have that many characters.

Moreover, he used half-white and half-literal sentence patterns, rather than orthodox classical Chinese.Naturally, this is also intentional. I just want to gradually make the daily documents more straightforward through myself. It is really unnecessary to write so jerky and difficult to understand.

Of course, there is no problem in continuing to write articles and the like in classical Chinese.You can't become a fat man by eating at one bite, take your time and change from official documents first.

After the booklet was written, he sent it directly to the palace, and he didn't care about it, and began to focus on the silver coins.

This booklet is really difficult to write. It is necessary to let Li Shimin understand the importance of currency, and not to use too professional vocabulary, such as telling him about finance, he can't understand it.Of course, the main reason is that Yue Shan himself doesn't understand.

He could only use his little knowledge and translate it into words that people in the Tang Dynasty could understand to explain this problem.

All in all, it took four or five days to barely finish writing a booklet.

This is not over yet, in order to increase his persuasiveness, he wants to go directly to Li Shimin with the real thing.So after the booklet was written, he called Yu Zhiming from the academy's business department.

Let him summon a large group of carpenters, blacksmiths, silversmiths, stonemasons and other craftsmen to study how to mint silver coins.

There were only two serious currencies in the Tang Dynasty, one was gold and the other was copper.Moreover, gold can only be stored as a symbol of wealth and cannot be circulated in the market.

It is illegal to use gold to pay bills when you go out to eat, not to mention that others can’t find it. First of all, it is illegal.

Of course, this only refers to ordinary small transactions.The real big transactions still use gold, but this kind of situation is very rare and not representative.

Therefore, there is only one currency in circulation on the market, copper, to be precise, copper coins.Silk grains can also be exchanged for things, but this is barter.This is the reason why there were often money shortages in ancient times.

The money shortage in Chu Tang was very serious. Many future generations may not be able to imagine that half of the transactions of such a powerful Chu Tang were barter.

The impact of money shortage on the economy and national power is huge, and it is inconvenient for the common people, so Yue Shan wants to start with the currency.

The first is to turn silver into a legal currency to participate in transactions.

However, there are many situations in turning silver into currency. It is to use scattered silver and silver ingots as currency directly as in the original history, or to further mint it into silver coins.

Yue Shan is inclined to the latter, the former is too troublesome.Moreover, to collect taxes and so on, it is necessary to recast the broken silver into silver ingots, which is too easy to breed corruption.

In the original history, there was a talk about huoxiao, which means that there will be losses when casting broken silver into silver ingots, and the people must make up for this money.

In fact, everyone knows that fire consumption is nonsense, but this kind of miscellaneous tax has been collected for hundreds of years, and many corrupt officials set the fire consumption higher than the regular tax.

Yue Shan felt that no matter how convenient it was, it was more convenient to buy silver coins directly.

However, there are many methods of casting metal coins. Is casting or forging the same as casting copper coins?
Casting costs are poor and high quality is easy to be counterfeited. Forging and casting requires machinery, but there is no such thing in the Tang Dynasty.But Yue Shan still chose forging.

Although he didn't major in mechanics, he had seen stamping machines and sketches of old antique hydraulic stamping machines.

Although I can't remember clearly, I still know that it is roughly divided into several parts. Combined with the appearance of a modern electric stamping machine, it should be possible to make it after careful consideration.

So he summoned those craftsmen to his small courtyard to study the stamping machine together.

(End of this chapter)