Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 1687 Message

When Li Ru and Jia Xu received the battle between Lu Bu and the Yanqi people and won a preliminary victory, neither Li Ru nor Jia Xu had any surprises or joy, because the battle this time could not be regarded as a battle. What a big battle, it was just a tribe of Yanqi, it was almost like breaking a leg of the Yanqi people, winning is normal, not winning is a rare thing.

Putting aside the issue of how Lu Bu and the Weixu people negotiated and received remuneration, and regardless of how Li Ru and Jia Xu used this battle to leverage the relationship between the countries in the Western Regions, looking back at Feiqian in Pingyang, after seeing After visiting Cai Yan, a new guest ushered in...

Cai Yan is also thin-skinned, Fei Qian made the two plain, but Cai Yan was even more embarrassed to meet Fei Qian, huddled in his small courtyard, and did not come out, and even refused Fei Qian's visit, which made Fei Qian Scratch your head.

However, Fei Qian didn't have much time to spend on this aspect. When the news of Fei Qian's arrival in Pingyang spread, there was an endless stream of people who came to visit him, making Fei Qian want to sell tickets before his own government office. , or some sort of reservation system.

  Among them, Mr. Shui Jing is even more diligent, coming almost every day, either to give lectures about the Palace of Learning, or to teach the second generation of the Xiping Stone Classic...

  Historically, after the Xiping Stone Classic was destroyed, it would take 40 to 50 years for Cao Fang to erect it again, but at that time it was no longer called the Xiping Stone Classic, but was called the "Zhengshi Stone Classic".

Is the original intention of the stone scriptures because stones are relatively strong and durable natural substances, and using stones as scriptures is also convenient for students to rub and spread widely, but it does not mean that Fei Qian Take out some money from your pocket, and then the clattering stone scriptures will be erected. There are many things in it.

Leaving aside the proofreading and selection work in the early stage, Cai Yan and Sima Hui have basically discussed this part, so the content is generally determined, that is, the ancient texts are basically the main ones, as for the modern texts... Of course, Fei Qian would not claim that the Jinwenjing is not good, but said to the outside world that there are so many words in the Jinwenjing, where there are so many stones, it cannot be carved! In addition, there are too many prophecies, annotations, small words and righteousness in Jinwen Jing, especially among different schools and factions, so it doesn't matter which one is engraved, right? If you want to learn the Stone Scriptures, let’s unify the caliber first and then talk about it...

  Even so, there are still a lot of things that need to be decided by Fei Qian about the Shijing matter.

  First of all, it is the selection of stone materials. Sima Hui seems to think that he is not spending his money anyway, so he does not seek the best but better. Ordinary stone materials are not attractive at all, so he strongly recommends an "imported" stone material to Fei Qian. Well, it is indeed an "imported" product, because if it is divided according to the influence of the various princes, this so-called "Stone of Fire Virtue" that complements the Huode of the Great Han is indeed not within Fei Qian's sphere of influence now...

  Luliang Mountain and Taihang Mountain originally had a lot of stones, Fei Qian meant to use these stones, but those are ordinary granite. But Sima Hui repeatedly persuaded and emphasized that such a century-old achievement, how can it be carved with ordinary white or gray stones? Where is the face of the upcoming hussar general?

   But the problem is that imported goods are very expensive...

There is no logistics these days, all the raw materials must be transported by horse-drawn horses, in case something drifts or breaks along the way, the money is really spent like running water, and it is not guaranteed to be heard what ring...

So Fei Qian gritted his teeth and didn't let go. He just asked people to go to Lvliang Taihang Generation to investigate again to see if they could find some red-colored granite. Anyway, if they wanted to import it from the Western Regions or go to Shandong to mobilize it, Fei Qian would not do it. . Sima Hui said it a few times, seeing Fei Qian's resolute attitude, he sighed and endured it for now, but it seemed that he was not giving up, but was planning to repeat the same old tune after a period of time when he could not find the red stone.

  In addition to the problem of stone materials, this good-natured old guy not only wants to engrave one typeface, but plans to engrave three kinds!

Sima Hui said convincingly that in the past, the Xiping Stone Classics were written in official script. After it was engraved, although there was no major problem with the content, people criticized the font. Many people expressed that such a serious matter, how could it be Use official script to engrave? What an insult to the scriptures!

   That's right, official script, just look at the character "宋", and you will know the origin of this calligraphy.

Mr. Shui Jing put on a shy face, and said with a smile that in order to show the atmosphere of the Hussar General, he said that he should either not do it or make a big one. Carving ancient seals, that is, characters similar to oracle bone inscriptions or bronze inscriptions, can only reflect the excellence of this version of the Stone Scriptures, and only then can the aura of heaven, earth and universe be attached to it...

   Well, that’s pretty much what it means anyway.

But the problem is that using three fonts does not mean that it is finished if it is engraved three times, because Sima Hui said that it is on the same stone scripture stele, and three fonts are engraved at the same time, which can be compared up and down. Three times more workload, even ten times more!

There is no correction fluid for carving stone scriptures. For a piece of stone scriptures and steles, from writing the draft to engraving on the stele, at any step, if one word appears among hundreds or thousands of words, it will be one more or even less. After a sum of money, this stele is basically useless...

  As for craftsmen, knowing official script is already very good, not to mention Xiaozhuan, and those bronze inscriptions that are even older than Xiaozhuan!

   Atmosphere!

   Luxurious!

  Fei Qian wanted to ask Sima Hui if the word "Kaizi" was written all over his forehead...

   Three fonts! For a moment, Fei Qian could even feel that his little money was about to move, and was ready to fly away at any time!

  But after thinking about it for a long time, Fei Qian gritted his teeth and agreed to Sima Hui's request in this regard. After all, this is different from the consumption of stone materials...

For stone or something, although there are good-looking and bad-looking colors or patterns, as long as it belongs to the type of granite, the texture will not differ too much, so for a good-looking color, it costs ten times or even dozens of times. It is indeed a bit uneconomical to import from other places at twice the price, but the three fonts are another matter.

From the perspective of the evolution of Chinese characters, no matter whether it is small seal script, oracle bone inscriptions, or bronze inscriptions, they are no longer suitable for the current writing habits, and they are not even in line with the future development direction. The most important reason is the change of writing methods, from knife to pen. , human beings will naturally and enthusiastically choose a more convenient and comfortable writing method, but it does not mean that all ancient fonts must be discarded without reservation.

   Because that's the root.

  The root of a culture.

   Just like the widespread use of American keyboards in later generations has caused many people to degenerate in writing, the writing of characters actually represents a kind of cultural inheritance to a certain extent.

  Fei Qian comes from later generations, and knows how difficult it is to study oracle bone inscriptions or bronze inscriptions in later generations. On the one hand, it is because of the problem of literary inheritance, and on the other hand, it is because of how few things have been handed down to later generations...

  So if three fonts are used for engraving now, even if not all of them can be passed on to future generations, but one more backup may be one more inheritance.

  Three fonts!

  Bronze, Xiaozhuan, Lishu!

Perhaps when the people of later generations dig it out, they can intuitively see the entire change of Chinese characters from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties, and they don’t have to try their best to guess what a certain seal script or bronze script is, because it is like a comparison. Dictionaries are average, you can search them on the stone scriptures...

  Is this considered a contribution to the later world?

   Isn’t it just spending money anyway? Isn't it just chopping hands? It’s good that the money is worth it, anyway, it’s not like the future generations haven’t chopped their hands... In addition to the heartache filled with tears, Fei Qian can only comfort himself in this way.

   After repeatedly finalizing the details of some stone scriptures with Sima Hui, Fei Qian also got a report from Xun Chen. In the current economic system, Xun Chen found that some imitation Zhengxi coins appeared on the market...

  What should come will eventually come.

   "Bad money drives out good money", Fei Qian also understands, even better than ordinary people, so this problem has already been considered when making Zhengxi coins. Many people know the words "bad money drives out good money", but some of them just take the literal meaning out of it. They don't know that under "bad money drives out good money", there are some specific restrictions, and even There is an "anti-Gresham phenomenon".

  For bad money to drive out good money, first, both bad money and good money must be legal tender; second, a fixed legal ratio applies to the two currencies; third, the sum of the two currencies must exceed the amount of money required by society.

  In the Han Dynasty, or in the territory controlled by Feiqian, none of these three conditions met.

The Han Dynasty has always used five baht coins, and gold and silver are rarely used, so when describing any big business in the Three Kingdoms, they are also described in hundreds of millions of money, not tens of thousands of taels of gold, and five baht Money, whether it is the original five baht coins of good quality or the paper money minted by Dong Zhuo later, has basically withdrawn from the circulation market in Guanzhong and Bingzhou areas, and all shops do not accept it, so the first condition does not meet .

  Secondly, the exchange rate is so sharp, how could Fei Qian hand it over so easily? Because only Changan and Pingyang have established large-scale currency exchange institutions, the next step will be to build a third one in Chengdu, and these three institutions are the embryonic forms of later generations of banks, all of which are under the direct management of Feiqian, with a slight change in the exchange rate. , so that these guys who try to come to exchange Zhengxi coins to make a profit can't even afford to wear pants. After all, the current currency system is different from the paper currency system of later generations. Even if copper is doped with a lot of other metals such as lead and tin, it still has a certain value based on weight, and it is not completely cheap without a bottom line. When the map is available, naturally no one will consider transporting five baht coins to Chang'an and Pingyang for exchange, but start to consider imitation, just like the imitation Zhengxi coins that appear now...

   However, this is exactly what Fiqian needs...

This is the Han Dynasty, not the era of convenient logistics and abundant materials of the later generations, but an era in which a lot of manpower and material resources are required to do anything. The era when economic circulation is completely incomparable with later generations!

   To develop commerce, there is naturally no lack of general equivalents as leverage, and at present, no matter whether it is real Zhengxi coins or fake Zhengxi coins, even if the number is doubled, it will not exceed the number of coins needed by the entire Han Dynasty!

  At the same time, who will have the ability to imitate coins?

   Will it be ordinary, ordinary farmers and women?

  So when counterfeit money appears, Fei Qian is not worried about bad money driving out good money, because the root of this problem lies in power rather than economy.

Regardless of whether it is the Han Dynasty or later generations, the issuance of each set of currency is forced by the state to accept the people. Although the party paying the money is happy to use bad money, the party receiving the money is not willing to accept bad money. Only when the country can guarantee Only when the bad money accepted by the payee can continue to circulate can the bad money continue to exist, and this rule can continue to work, and when the entire Han Dynasty is using Zhengxi currency, it is affected by the gold and silver exchange rate of Zhengxi currency. When the market fluctuates, what Fei Qian can collect in it is not only the benefits of coins...

Therefore, after Fei Qian got the news, not only was he not angry, but he felt a little happy, because not to mention other benefits for the time being, there is another opportunity to make money in the economic aspect, and he can make up for it to some extent because the second generation of Xiping Shijing The huge hole that will be produced.

  There are happy things, and naturally there are also unhappy things. Cui Jun reported in Taiyuan that Zheng Kangcheng arrived in Taiyuan and was 15 miles southwest of Taiyuan City.

   Zheng Kangcheng arrived in Taiyuan?

   When did you come?

   According to legend, during the heyday of Zheng Xuan, there were even tens of thousands of people listening to the lecture...

Of course, this number, according to the urination of Chinese literati, is likely to be a false finger, such as the empty alley of thousands of people. Judging from the experience of later generations, more than 500 people, no matter how they sit, is almost the limit of a teacher's human voice. Tens of thousands of people, tsk tsk... If there are really tens of thousands, Zheng Xuan will probably be useless after finishing his lecture.

…

As the saying goes, no profit can't afford to be early, Fei Qian would not believe that Zheng Xuan, the boss of Confucianism, would send warmth from thousands of miles away, and would come to Taiyuan spontaneously to learn something and make contributions. For a share?

  Theory has always been the high point, whether it is literature or economics, or any other field, so this time, I have to send someone to take a look...

  (end of this chapter)