Great Tang’s Talented Little Landlord

After Wang Renyou spoke, Wang clan of Taiyuan naturally did not waste any more time.

Soon, the endless stream of Carriage drove into the Yongyi Gambling House in Xuanyang Fang, unloading carts of copper coins and silk.

Wang clan of Taiyuan was also deliberately disgusting Li Wangyou. Although there was enough gold in the treasury, he deliberately didn’t take it out. Instead, he brought carts of copper coins and silk.

Even these copper coins are stored for too long in the Wang clan of Taiyuan vault. Many of the ropes connecting the copper coins are rotten and broken, and the scattered copper coins are piled up randomly in baskets.

There are a lot of coins on top of them, and they are even rusty, and they look very shabby.

Li Wangyou doesn’t dislike it. As long as the amount is sufficient, the copper coin will be the copper coin. Even the silk he always dislikes is planned to be collected.

Since silk is used as currency in Great Tang anyway.

Two pieces of silk are worth the consistent copper coin.

China has been short of copper since ancient times. Although copper coins are legal tender, they are always in a state of lack. So even in the Tang Dynasty, silk was still one of the currencies used for trading.

In the heyday of Tang Dynasty, Yang Guozhong’s power prevailed, and the history books record that in his family, “Chinese and foreign rates were left and the amount of silk was accumulated to 30,000,000 horses”, which shows the currency status of silk.

If Wang clan of Taiyuan just used silk to offset the copper coin, Li Wangyou would also admit it. Anyway, he had already prepared. He had pleaded with Li Er before, and planned to transport all the copper coins and silks he won from Wang clan of Taiyuan into the palace to exchange them for gold.

But when Li Wangyou grabbed a handful of scattered coins from the basket containing the coins, he was so angry that he almost threw the coins on Wang Shopkeeper’s face.

The copper coins he grabbed were obviously not Kaiyuan Tongbao. Not only the coins are small, but also thin and light.

Li Wangyou reacted immediately, this is private money!

Great Tang has been short of copper for a long time. The Kaiyuan Tongbao that Wude started casting four years ago can only cast 300,000 coins per year.

In the second year of Zhenguan, in just seven years, he had only made more than two million coins of copper.

Even though half of these coins are in Chang’an City, they are still an utterly inadequate measure. Therefore, it is normal to barter and use silk tokens.

As the currency is insufficient, the Aristocratic Family’s clan casts private money in their own sphere of influence to make up for the shortage of copper money.

These private money are naturally not comparable to Kaiyuan Tongbao. Although the materials are good in workmanship, they are much lighter and thinner than Kaiyuan Tongbao.

Private money can be circulated, but most of the time, only two or three pieces of private money can be used for one Kaiyuan Tongbao.

Now that Wang clan of Taiyuan has moved so much private money, it is obvious that he intends to pass the customs as a shoddy, deceived, how to make Li Wangyou not angry.

“Wang Shopkeeper, what do you mean by Wang clan of Taiyuan? Using that many private money to pay for official money, is it because someone is foolish?”

“This, Maybe the new servant made a mistake, so let them change Count of Hu.”

When Wang Shopkeeper saw that he wanted to fish in troubled water, he was discovered by Li Wangyou. I can only apologize in embarrassment and throw the pot at the “temporary worker” at the same time.

He was about to greet people and transport the private money away. Li Wangyou rolled his eyes and then reached out to stop him: “Wait, the money and luck are here, so don’t be so troublesome. . Discount it, this Qian has accepted it.”

“I dont know how Count of Hu intends to discount?”

“Someone does not take advantage of you, two catties of private money, Its worth one catty of official money. If you Wang clan of Taiyuan are willing, you can accept it, so you dont have to carry it back and forth.”

On the market, depending on the region, two or three private money will be worth one. Kaiyuan Tongbao, Li Wangyou gave the conditions, in fact, it is not harsh, and even a lot less.

Wang Shopkeeper asked about the accountant sent by Wang clan of Taiyuan, and nodded immediately agreed.

Such large-volume transactions of copper coins are weighed by official accounts.

Five jin Kaiyuan Tongbao copper coins are generally consistent.

The private money is slightly lighter, and six catties are consistent.

Under normal circumstances, only 12 to 18 catties of personal money can be exchanged for 5 catties of Kaiyuan Tongbao. And now Li Wangyou proposes to exchange ten catties of private money for five catties of official money, why would Wang clan of Taiyuan disagree.

Niu Wu still wanted to persuade him. He felt that his family would suffer too much from the exchange.

Li Wangyou doesn’t matter, it is a blessing to suffer a loss, even more how he has other plans.

He stretched out his hand to invite Wang Shopkeeper again: “Wang Shopkeeper, you Wang clan of Taiyuan, do you still have a lot of this private money? If there is a lot, someone can accept it all, and it will be exchanged at this ratio. “

Listening to Li Wangyou’s words, Shopkeeper Wang couldn’t help being overjoyed.

“Count of Hu, can you take this seriously? This copper coin worth 50,000 taels of gold can be exchanged for private money?”

Li Wangyou nodded: “Of course, As many as you have in Wang clan of Taiyuan, you need it all.”

For this, Shopkeeper Wang was naturally overjoyed.

If we can pay Li Wangyou’s bet of 50,000 taels of gold according to the ratio of two catties of private money to one catty of official money, he might be free from family punishment.

Nowadays, you only need to pay Count of Hu 3,000,000 catties of private money to clear your gambling debts.

And these private money, calculated on the basis of three private money exchanged for one official money, are only worth 160,000 Guans of Kaiyuan Tongbao on the market, which is equivalent to saving 140,000 Guans of copper.

Even if it is two for one, only 250,000 pennies of Kaiyuan Tongbao are saved, which still saves 50,000 pennies.

This is not a small amount. Shopkeeper Wang naturally nodded quickly and agreed.

For fear that Li Wangyou would regret it, he hurriedly greeted his buddies and transported all the Kaiyuan Tongbao back, including all the silk and silk, and replaced them with their own private money coined by Wang clan of Taiyuan.

Li Wangyou also did not refuse to come, while counting the copper coins, while letting people load the car. Directly transfer these private money to Taiji Palace in four rounds of Carriage.

After a long time of tossing, it was not until the sun was about to dip to the west that the 3,000,000 catties of personal money were finally counted.

Since then, the gambling debts of Li Wangyou and Wang clan of Taiyuan have been settled.

He re-delivered the money-worthy bet issued by the Yongyi Gambling House to Shopkeeper Wang: “Okay, someone has cleared your gambling house.”

Wang Shopkeeper almost cried holding the bet in his hand.

The ups and downs these days are really too exciting.

Wang Shopkeeper made up his mind, as long as he escaped the family punishment this time, he would apply to go back to Taiyuan and never come to Chang’an City again.

While Li Wangyou escorted the last Carriage’s copper coins, when he drove into Taiji Palace, he was stopped by Mi Tuo.

“Count of Hu, why did you order them to be shipped with all private money? This, how does this let the slave servant give you gold?”

Great Tang Court Eunuch usually claims to be a miscellaneous family.

And Mi Tuo, the highest-rank Court Eunuch in Taiji Palace, can only call himself a slave servant in front of Li Er and Empress Zhangsun.

When he was in front of Li Wangyou, he called himself a certain.

Until this Eastern Palace incident, Mi Tuo was also in awe of Li Wangyou. In addition, Li Wangyou is also the nephew of Li Erwei’s Wufu, so Mi Tuo simply lowered his posture and began to call himself a slave servant in front of Li Wangyou.

Li Wangyou and Li Er have agreed that the copper he transported from Wang clan of Taiyuan will be exchanged for gold by the palace.

Li Er naturally confessed the matter to Mi Tuo, the provincial supervisor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

But when the copper coins were transported into the palace today, Mi Tuo was dumbfounded.

It was not Kaiyuan Tongbao that was transported into the palace, but truck after truck of private money. He really doesn’t understand what the Count of Hu is doing, how can such private money be exchanged for gold?