Stars in The Sky

The workshop area in the south of the city.

A large group of Xuanjia's personal guards at five steps and one sentry at ten steps blocked all the passageways, and all the people in and out of the building would be severely investigated.

This is, of course, due to the fact that great people have come to visit us today. Another key reason is that the workshop area is a mint area of the new regime. There are a large number of soldiers stationed in the area, and the guard is very strict.

As for Zhao Yuanjin, who is only the Duke of the state and has not yet officially become king, it is a bit premature to consider casting and issuing new money. What's more, the ancient productivity was backward and the mining cost was high. It was a great burden for any new regime to raise enough copper, plus supporting metals such as lead and zinc.

If you want to issue new money, you have to have sufficient economic strength. Not all the vassals have capital to play like this. Looking at the whole world, except for the declining imperial court, Wu zhence and the northern princes do not have the ability at present.

However, with Qin Feng there, it was easy to purchase thousands of tons of copper ingots from the main world, which was much more convenient than purchasing silver. Therefore, Zhao Yuanjin now has unique resource advantages that even the imperial court can not match.

“…… The quality of the money is good. It is much better than the copper money issued by the imperial court. "

In the workshop, Zhao Yuanjin looked at the brand-new copper coins placed in front of him and was satisfied with the way.

On the tray with red silk satin substrate, there is a row of nine copper coins, beside which there are copper coins issued by the imperial court for comparison. The new money is big, shiny and heavy. It's easy to see the difference between the two.

The reason is also very simple. There are more copper in the new coins, the proportion of copper six lead four, and the copper coins of the imperial court are copper four lead six.

The ancient copper coins were not entirely made of pure copper, but contained a collection of copper, lead, zinc and other metals. How to set this ratio depends on how the authorities consider it.

During the Qing Dynasty, a famous official, sun Jiagan, once mentioned to Emperor Yongzheng the malpractice of money administration. The official price of the court stipulated that one or two grain silver coins could be exchanged for two thousand copper coins. However, due to the lack of copper metal resources, the money in the folk market was expensive and the silver was cheap. Only one or two silver coins could be exchanged for 750 copper coins.

Because the casting proportion of Kangxi coins was half copper and half lead, some merchants saw that there was a profit to be made, so they collected copper coins widely among the people. After collecting it, it was melted, refined and made into copper ware, and then sold on the market. Such a turnover is tens of times the profit. Those greedy officials also took the opportunity to make huge profits.

And officials at all levels in the collection of taxes, the people are required to pay is tattooed silver. But how can the common people have money? Therefore, most of the money handed in was copper. When the officials received copper money, it was converted at the official price of one to two thousand. But as soon as they changed hands, they sold them at the black market price of one or two to 750. When they were handed over to the state treasury, they were changed into one or two silver coins for two thousand copper coins. On such a reversal, they made almost three times the profits!

In this world, the great Qi Dynasty also had similar disadvantages. Later, in order to stop such incidents, the court on the one hand imposed severe punishment and severe laws to deter it, on the other hand, it adopted such measures as reducing the proportion of copper in copper coins, issuing small copper coins with poor color and insufficient weight, etc.

In fact, the simplest and most effective way is to increase the supply of copper metal. If there is more copper in the market, the price will naturally come down. Profiteering merchants will naturally not be interested in anything unprofitable.

Fighting for the world depends not only on the army, but also on the economic field, which even plays a decisive role in many cases. Purely in terms of financial and material resources, Zhao Yuanjin is now the first vassal in the world, and even the imperial court may not be able to match it.

Moreover, under the proposal of Qin Feng, the newly minted coins were divided into three types: copper coin, copper dollar and silver dollar. In the future, there will be banknotes issued by the official Bank of the imperial court. With its own support, the new dynasty does not need to worry about the possibility of malpractice in the field of currency circulation.

"Sir, when does the new money come out?" Zhao Yuanjing asked politely.

Qin Feng said with a smile: "this matter is not as eye-catching as the title of king. It is not too much hindrance to advance some of it. Now, at least, the new money can be used to pay the soldiers' salaries and the salaries and rewards of officials at all levels. "

"In that case, it's settled." Zhao Yuanjin said.

Once the new money of the state of Chu began to circulate on a large scale among the people, and the proper operation from the official level would be enough to cause a devastating blow to the economic order in the territory of other vassals. At that time, it would be guaranteed that those guys would not cry. Of course, it would take enough time.

After the negotiation, they left the workshop and went back to the inner city in the Gonggong's car.

Since it happened to be the birthday of Lu, Zhao Yuanjin's wife, Qin Feng did not go back to his residence. Instead, he came to the palace to attend a dinner party with him. It was inevitable that he met the little princess.

"This is the iron heart fortress to give me a Laurie, to be my father-in-law?" Qin Feng in the car thought helplessly.

Zhao Yuanjin, who was sitting opposite, seemed to see his mind and said in a warm voice:

"although Xinyue's girl is a bit unruly, she is intelligent and has a good appearance. At the same time, she admires her husband very much. It can be said that she is a good match for her husband. I hope you will not give up.""Even so, I don't match princess Zhao's age. This..." Qin Feng said with a wry smile.

It is a well-known fact that people in the ancient world got married early, even in the imperial family. It is very common for a man to be a father at the age of 14-5 and a woman to marry at the age of 12-3.

For example, Su Dongpo, a famous scholar of all ages, once did this kind of thing. He bought a group of girls who were 12 or 13 years old to be warm bed maids. They sold them when they were 15 or 16 years old, and then bought some new ones to continue playing. And in the letter to a friend, he specially mentioned this matter, which was full of boasting between the lines.

This guy is still a good man in the legend. He is highly praised in the history books, and all of them are of this kind. It is conceivable that what kind of virtue those powerful people of his time are.

Well, the ancient world didn't care about that. However, Qin Feng came to the independent world. According to the law of China, this kind of thing was properly started in three years and the highest death penalty was imposed. Moreover, he asked himself that he was a young man with ideals, morality, integrity and bottom line. He could not do such animal things.

Even if you really like women, there are too many suitable choices. Why do you have to deal with a little Lori?

"Why, sir? Xinyue has been twelve virtual years old, at most one or two years later, he can take on the responsibility of his wife. What's the harm of staying in the mansion for a period of time? " Zhao Yuanjin continued to persuade.

"Is there still such an operation?"

Qin Feng murmured in his heart. In fact, he also understood Zhao Yuanjin's intention. He just wanted to close his relationship with him in this way and consolidate the cooperation agreement.

After all, whether Zhao Yuanjin can become the founding emperor in the future depends entirely on Qin Feng's mood. If he suddenly changes his mind to support other princes, Zhao Yuanjin has no way.

In the end, he can only reluctantly agree to come down. Anyway, he doesn't need money. It's OK to raise an idle person in the government. He will promise not to touch her until he is an adult.

And with the time velocity difference between the two worlds, she grew up to be a girl a year later.

The generous driver drove into the main gate of the palace. When it stopped, Qin Feng took the lead to get off the bus and saw a beautiful white Lori coming up with a brisk step.

The facial features are exquisite and picturesque, the skin is smooth and smooth like the best ivory, and the big dark eyes are full of spirituality. Although she is still young, she has initially shown her charming demeanor. She must be a disaster stricken beauty in a few years.

"Brother Qinfeng, where have you been

She rushed up and called out crisply: "people originally intended to go to your mansion to look for you, but they didn't want you to go out again, which made them go for nothing."

Qin Feng sighed helplessly and put his arms around her. He coaxed her with good words until she had a smile on her face again.

Zhao Yuanjin happily looked at it without saying anything to remind her daughter that she should pay attention to the rules of dealing with people.

When he entered the main hall, the banquet had already been held. Zhao Yuanjin's wife Lu, as well as more than ten respectable wives and six children were present one after another. And without exception, after saluting Qin Feng, he sat down.

Zhao Xinyue naturally took Qin Feng to sit at the same table, staring at him with black and white big eyes full of expectation.

Qin Feng knows what she wants. She takes a silver tablet from the dimensional space, opens the game interface and hands it to her.

Zhao Xinyue cheered, quickly snatched the past, snow-white slender jade finger in the above excited to scratch.

Since last time Zhao Yuanjin's family dinner, Qin Feng and Xiao Luoli had taken out this thing to play with when they first met. So a hair out of control, the girl from then on he, three days and two to find an excuse to come and play with him.

Seeing the strange "fairy ware" flashing with colorful light, all the people present, including Zhao Yuanjin, showed a look of awe. The eyes of several young brothers and sisters towards Zhao Xinyue were full of envy and hatred. It's a pity that it belongs to her nature, and it's useless to be envied by others.