Even before the workshop was established, it received a large number of orders.

The advantage of exclusive business is that you pay the full payment first and then get the goods as scheduled.

Fortunately, brick factories and cement factories are not very technical things. They are just two things. They are large enough and have enough labor. This is enough.

The brick factory is nothing more than digging the soil, making bricks, drying them, sending them to the kiln, and then lighting and heating the kiln. After a period of time, after it has naturally cooled down, it can be moved out directly for shipment.

Comparatively speaking, the cement factory is quite hardworking.

The raw materials need to be manually smashed with a sledgehammer, the more broken the better, and then burned until they can be reduced to ashes with just a pinch. Before burning, different raw materials must be proportioned.

Mix them together and burn them.

"Your Majesty, this is really like robbing money..." Zhang Cang touched his head, which was losing hair, and sighed with excitement on his face.

Got rich...

Really rich...

If we continue with this approach, the construction of the West City and Northwest City will not be a problem at all.

And soon, construction of the palace will begin.

"What do you mean it's like robbing money? This is the only way to develop the economy. The days from now on will definitely get better and better!" Wang Buxian glanced at Zhang Cang speechlessly, "You can't speak."

Say less than a few words.

Can the affairs of the imperial court be called robbery?

"What your Majesty is saying is that the brick factory, cement factory, battlefield, and coal mine require at least 100,000 people to work. This means that every month, the court has to pay millions of wages. Even if only half of it is paid,

Circulation is also of great benefit to the economy." Xiao Hepi said with a smile.

I was really turned off by Wang Buxu's sexy idea.

He has never seen such a shameless emperor!

This special girl is simply perfect both inside and outside.

It was an uneventful night, so Xiao He hid on the bed and silently calculated an account with his fingers.

An acre of land cost 200 yuan, and to build a three-room house, it would take about 5,000 bricks (big green bricks, not red bricks in later generations). If you sell it for 500 yuan, the construction cost will be 100 yuan, and you will make a net profit of 400 yuan.

Six to seven hundred tiles are cheaper. Seventy or eighty tiles cost one penny, while fifteen tiles cost one penny, making a net profit of more than thirty penny.

A hundred stones of cement can be sold for 50 yuan, and the construction cost is less than 5 yuan, making a net profit of 45 yuan.

Do you think this is the end?

Far from it.

Adding everything up, including labor, these courts have to verify the price, and then levy taxes based on the transaction amount, with a tax of one per fifteen.

Therefore, for a yard with one acre of land, the court can earn more than 670 yuan. If a yard is calculated based on a net profit of 200 yuan, basically for a yard with one acre of land, the court can make a net profit of 700 yuan.

Well, basically more than half of the house price went to the court.

When Xiao He thought it was over, Wang Buxu smiled.

Saonian, are you too naive?

"I plan to set up a mint to specialize in minting coins!" Wang Buxu looked at everyone and said directly.

At present, this is an ordinary meeting, the kind where all the big guys from the three provinces and eight ministries are participating.

"Well, it's time to establish it!" Zhang Liang nodded, seeming to say that it should have been established long ago.

The Han Dynasty has just completed three years, and it has been using only half a liang of the Qin Dynasty. How chilling!

"Hmm..." The big guys nodded in agreement.

But minting coins is not a simple matter. First of all, what form should be used and how much weight should be used.

Why is Qin Banliang called Qin Banliang?

That's because it weighs half a liang, so it's called half a liang.

"In view of the current limited number of coins, I have thought about it. Each new coin weighs five baht, and the form is still half a tael. At the same time, it uses inner and outer edge craftsmanship to prevent fraud. In addition, everyone can think of a year name.

When the time comes, cast the year number on the coins, lay them out on the left and right, and mark the casting time on the top and bottom..." Wang Buhao said blatantly.

This problem must be solved sooner or later.

The weight of Qin Banliang is a bit too heavy, making it inconvenient for currency circulation. Especially after the economy develops, it becomes even more inconvenient.

As for why five baht is used?

First of all, five baht is still a unit of weight.

One tael is equal to twenty-four baht, and the weight of five baht is about 3.5 grams.

If you say you have never touched five baht, do you have no idea about its weight?

It doesn't matter, the same thing happens when you touch the currency of the Qing Dynasty. Take Kangxi Tongbao as an example, the size and weight of the two are almost the same.

Liu's Han Dynasty did not give it a name and directly inherited the Qin Dynasty's name of using weight as money, so it was called five baht money.

Wang Buxu decided to print it with the year number plus the year of casting.

The use of inner and outer edge craftsmanship also draws on the lessons of Liu's Han Dynasty.

At first, some unscrupulous people cut the Qin coins in half, and then used the excess copper to mint coins, which greatly disrupted the monetary economy of the early Han Dynasty.

After Empress Lu discovered this problem, she adopted an external border and printed the words five baht to solve the problem. It was impossible for the cut money to have a border or the words five baht.

Character.

Of course, preventing fraud is only one of the reasons.

One coin becomes two coins, and there are two more bahts. Isn’t that nice?

If the number of coins is not enough, the barter situation will never be solved. From another level, this will directly affect the development of the country's tax economy.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid we have to take back the half taels from the people in advance, right? This is a bit difficult to deal with..." Zhang Liang thought for a while, and if the weight remains the same, he can just exchange them for one in the future.

But the weight has been reduced by more than double. Although anti-counterfeiting settings have been added, some things cannot be banned.

"No problem, issue an edict prohibiting private minting of coins. If found, they will be guilty of treason! Reporters will be rewarded with thousands of coins! In addition, starting from the year after next, only new coins will be allowed to circulate in the market!" Wang Buxu said calmly

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Naturally, no one else needs to say more about the dangers of privately coined currency.

Just because of this incident, how much price did the Han Dynasty pay?

The most significant reform of the five-baht coin in the early Han Dynasty was that the imperial court took back the right to mint coins and banned private minting.

But don't forget, there are a few big guys who are authorized by the court to mint coins. It was these big guys who almost overturned the Han Dynasty.

Naturally, Wang Buxu would not allow this to happen.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid this year is not enough, right?" Zhang Liang asked again.

"Enough!" Wang Buxuan smiled slightly, and then took out a new copper coin from his body.

The style and other things had been designed a long time ago, and then he said: "Now the only thing missing is the year number..."

Damn it...

It was already planned...

Dog Emperor...

Nonsence!

He is obviously a shrewd emperor!

Since the internal and external layout gradually unfolded, the ministers seemed to have discovered something.

Wang Buxian seems to be becoming more and more obsessed with making money.

The happiest person is of course Zhang Cang. Now that the household department has money, he is no longer panicking.

Except for Zhang Cang, almost everyone else was not happy.

The emperor only cares about making money, what about government affairs?

I want to remonstrate, but after thinking about it carefully, it seems that it will not affect government affairs?

Think about it more carefully.

Alas, we ministers seem to be quite useless.

The emperor said that Luoyang City would be expanded, and the ministers began to scratch their heads about the lack of money and various difficulties.

With a wave of his hand, the emperor solved the problem of money and the problem of people.

The emperor said he wanted to mint coins, but they hadn't thought about it yet. The emperor even took out the template, and now they were just waiting for them to think of a year name.

Han Xin said that he wanted to study some cavalry operations.

The emperor got him a horse-killing weapon, but he suffered pitiful casualties, and the other person was knocked upside down, and his parents didn't recognize him.
Chapter completed!