Wentang

Chapter 445 New Money
Yue Shan's closed-door writing has a great influence, not only in the literary world but also in the imperial court.I don't know how many people secretly rejoiced and prayed for him to retreat for ten or eight years, so that they would have one less competitor.

Li Shimin was also very excited. Although he did not write the book, part of the final credit must be attributed to him.The new learning emerged during his reign, which is the embodiment of his outstanding Wenzhi.

So he immediately passed the decree to Yue Shan, write the book well and don't worry about outside things.

However, Yue Shan didn't retreat directly, but had a few small things to deal with first.

The first is to hand over work matters clearly, especially when Dizhou wrote more than a dozen letters to arrange the next work.

However, even his accomplices also met and talked about work matters.

He also specially went to the palace to meet the eldest grandson Wugou, and took the time to play with Li Lizhi for a day.As a time traveler, how could he forget such an important thing as coaxing his mother-in-law and fiancee.Although he was also a single dog in his previous life.

After that, he took his newly recruited disciple Liu Rengui to meet Li Shimin.

"You said you want him to serve as the commander of the Dizhou Navy?" Li Shimin frowned.

"Yes, it's not that I'm conceited. Neither Duke Jiaodong nor Master Sun Ren is a qualified naval general. They don't know what the ocean is or the navy, let alone naval warfare."

Yue Shan knew that Li Shimin didn't want him to intervene in military power, but he wasn't going to back down on this matter, so he said:

"It's been less than a year since I left Dizhou. Do you see what the Dizhou navy has become like? Is that the navy? It's just a bunch of fools. Every day I'm fishing or kelp. How can I rely on them to broaden my Tang Dynasty?" sea ​​frontier."

Li Shimin frowned and thought, he knew very well what the Dizhou navy was like.Ever since Yue Shan left Dizhou, those people used the navy as a tool to make money in order to make money.

In the beginning, the sailors were only allowed to use their spare time to go fishing, but later it became mainly fishing, and the training was not carried out once for more than ten days.

If he hadn't seen a world map, and if he didn't have the big cake of 'The Lord of the World' drawn by Yue Shan, he wouldn't care.Anyway, the navy is just an auxiliary service, so it's not bad to make money.

But now he knows how big the world is, and knows that there are more land and wealth overseas, and even the destruction of Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, Wa, and even southern countries need navy.

Not to mention the fine breeds in Dongsheng Shenzhou, the large and small islands in the waters around Datang, and the last time Yueshan proposed to run a horse farm on the island...

All these require Datang to have a powerful navy.

The problem Li Shimin is facing now is that there are some things that he can't tell others right now, or he doesn't want to tell more people.The result is that few people know his plan, and naturally they don't pay much attention to the navy.

The good Dizhou navy has now become a fisherman, and the original plan to form a navy in Shencheng or Quanzhou has been delayed until now and has not been implemented.

It is a little underestimating to say that Datang has no generals who understand water warfare. Careful search and training can always find talents in this field.But the problem is that none of these people can gain his trust, and there is no way to know the court's long-term plan.

To put it bluntly, no one in Datang really understands the sea except for chatting with a few people. Even those who don't understand the sea can't lead the navy well from a strategic height.

Yue Shan was undoubtedly the most suitable candidate, but Li Shimin was absolutely unwilling to let him leave the capital easily, so he became an absolutely impossible candidate.

Now use Yue Shan's apprentice...Li Shimin knows Liu Rengui, and he doesn't doubt his loyalty.The only concern is that letting him go to the navy is equivalent to letting Yue Shan hold a part of the military power...

Li Shimin didn't struggle for a long time whether to temporarily abandon the naval construction or take a little risk, and soon gave a choice.

Let Liu Rengui go.

The overseas interests are too great, and the title of co-lord of the world is too attractive. He doesn't want to give up, not even a day's delay.It's worth taking a risk, too.

Besides, the possibility of Yue Shan having a different heart is very small. Even if he really has a different heart, how big a storm can the Dizhou navy cause thousands of miles away on the sea.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin frowned, and asked, "Did you show Liu Rengui the map of the world?"

"No, how dare I tell him without the permission of the sage. I just showed him the map of the sea area around Datang, and told some of the plans of the sage." Yue Shan was overjoyed, knowing that Li Shimin agreed, and quickly replied.

Li Shimin nodded in satisfaction, and asked again: "What is his ability, may he be competent?"

"He's right outside, the sage can call him over for a personal assessment," Yue Shan said.

Li Shimin hesitated for a moment before shaking his head and said, "No hurry, let's talk about another thing first."

As he spoke, he took out a few coins from the brocade box on the table and spread them out on the table, "This is the new money just presented by the Mint. Take a look at it."

The court's new money?Yue Shan went to the desk and picked up the new coins.

There are four new coins, which are the usual gold coins, the silver coins of one hundred wen, and the copper coins of ten wen.To Yue Shan's surprise, the silver coin waiting for fifty Wen disappeared, and there was an extra copper coin waiting for five Wen.

Seeing his doubts, Li Shimin explained: "The bank's research report pointed out that rich people mostly use gold coins and silver coins equal to one hundred Wen for large transactions, while ordinary people mostly use copper coins equal to Ten Wen and Kaiyuan Tongbao, and silver coins equal to fifty Wen are rarely used."

"Moreover, what the people urgently need are small-denomination copper coins, not large-value gold and silver coins. Therefore, their suggestion is to cancel the silver coins of fifty Wen and add copper coins of five Wen."

Because of Yueshan's relationship, many words that would appear in later generations appeared in Tang Dynasty in advance.Such as practice, such as reports, such as research...

Hearing this, Yue Shan understood the truth after a little thought.

Merchants spend more money in transactions, so naturally more gold coins and silver coins equal to one hundred wen will be used.The people are poor, and they don't spend much money to buy things, and they use copper coins of ten and one penny the most.

For large transactions, its denomination is small and it is inconvenient to carry, so it is discarded.Its denomination is too large for small transactions, and no one wants to use it.In this way, fifty pennies would be embarrassing.

Of course, the denomination of fifty cash also has its uses, such as convenience when giving change.But this convenience is not irreplaceable, and it is not practical for the Tang Dynasty facing a money shortage.It's better to cancel the fifty coins and cast them into other denominations.

However, the folks have been facing a money shortage, and adding a coin equal to ten coins will not solve this problem.Now we have added the five-wen, etc., which is not only convenient for the people, but also can further alleviate the problem of money shortage, which serves multiple purposes.

When minting money back then, he took it for granted. Yue Shan couldn't help laughing at himself after he figured this out.Therefore, he was not unhappy about the denomination of fifty coins removed from the new imperial money.

But soon he asked another question: "Saint, how should we solve the matter of privately coining coins?"

(End of this chapter)