Chapter 175
Gao Mingyue seemed to have known the news, and nodded in surprise, then sat at the table without any hesitation, picked up the bowls of mulan and served porridge for Yi Feng and started eating.—{2}{3}{w}{x} She ate very quickly, and drank a few sips of corn porridge from a celadon bowl, without any reserve. After eating, poured a glass of milk, took two sips, and took a few chopsticks of kelp, and finally paused, raised her head and said to Yi Feng, "Sister, I've already known this. I'll ask someone to invite Huaihuang's best wife, to come over, and I'm already choosing a nurse, and I'll also ask someone to pick a group of maids who are steady and neat and neat. She said a lot in one breath, but Yi Feng was very satisfied after hearing this.
Although this sister-in-law is sometimes very inconsistent with him, she is very capable in doing things and has the style of an Iron Lady. Since she arrived in Huaihuang, Gao Mingyue did not live in the same house with Yi Feng. After all, her sister is not there and there are no elders in the house. It is really inappropriate for her sister-in-law to live with her brother-in-law. Gao Mingyue lives next to Yi Feng, but she usually walks very little. It is not to avoid suspicion, but Gao Mingyue is really a workaholic. When she was in Yangzhou, she learned new styles such as abacus and double-entry accounting methods from Yi Feng. When she was in Yangzhou, she learned new styles such as abacus and double-entry accounting methods from Yi Feng.
Queen West, this female accountant became more and more obsessed. Yi Fengming’s big accountant was Uncle Zhang, but in fact, Uncle Zhang’s first accountant was Gao Mingyue. Gao Mingyue not only became a big accountant under Uncle Zhang, but also trained the maids around him into small accountants. Later, he even kept recruiting soldiers and selected many smart girls, all of whom trained them to become her accounting assistants. Now, in the office of the Huaihuang Mansion, two-thirds of the accountants are all female accountants led by Gao Mingyue.
Ling Yun sometimes admires this sister-in-law, who is so beautiful and has such a tall background, but she is not interested in art, embroidery and other things, but she is very interested in these numbers, abacus, and account books.
"The meritorious book of the last battle of Taoshan has been calculated. All the rewards have been made into account books." Gao Mingyue lowered her head and drank a sip of milk. Her lips, which were as bright as petals, were still covered with a few white milk. When Ling Yun saw it, she couldn't help but have some time to think and think about it. In fact, her sister-in-law is really beautiful. She is tall, has white skin, and has a tall chest and a bright face...
When Gao Mingyue saw Yi Feng not answering, she looked up, but her eyes met his slightly straight-headed look. Gao Mingyue suddenly felt a little panicked, her face unnaturally turned a bit rosy, and then she immediately glared at Yi Feng fiercely. After following Yi Feng north during this period, she watched Yi Feng's great changes with her own eyes and organized a scattered Tiger League Green Forest. In a short time, she had to manage the frontier general administration of the Sui Dynasty. Sometimes, she had to admit in her heart that her sister's eyes were indeed very powerful. Yi Feng, who could see the down-and-out Yi Feng at first glance, was such a great master. For this reason, she had quietly changed many of her ideas about Yi Feng without realizing it. But she didn't expect that Yi Feng would look at her with such eyes just now, which was too much.
Yi Feng was glared by Gao Mingyue and withdrew his gaze awkwardly.
"Does there be enough money and grain in the household tent to pay for this grand reward?" Yi Feng had to use the topic to change.
"After sweeping Qinshan and Yanshan last time, we got a lot of money. During this period, the trade in Huaihuang border market has also been very prosperous. We have made money far more than we expected at the beginning. Now the warehouse of Huaihuang is full of gold and silver, but..." When it comes to serious business, Gao Mingyue quickly returned to a serious face, "But we are short of money now, lack of copper coins."
A shortage of money does not mean that Huaihuang has no money now. In fact, this shortage of money means that there is a lack of meat, good Wuzhu coins for currency circulation. After the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, private coins were abandoned and private minting was strictly prohibited. Various methods were prohibited to unify the currency. However, the court still had extremely shortage of copper coins. The copper coins minted by the court were always four kilograms, and a Wuzhu coins weighed about three grams. A one-yuan steel coin weighed about six grams in later generations, and a five-cent steel core copper coin weighed about three grams. A five-cent steel coin was about three grams. A five-cent steel coin was lighter than a five-cent coin. The cost was not high. The court had a thousand coins for every mint, and the cost was about seven hundred. However, the labor cost was not included. The workers who minted the coins were basically in Yao service.
People. However, although there is a lot of profit in minting coins, the process of minting coins is not simple. A coin furnace can cast ten furnaces a year, which can only cost 3,000 jin of coins. The court has been minting coins every year, but it is still not circulated. The biggest reason is that copperware is expensive, and brining coins into copper can make twice the profit. Therefore, even if there is a law that cannot be used to mint copperware, a large amount of money is still crammed. Another reason for the lack of money is that merchants from Goguryeo, Japan, Silla, Baekje and other countries around the Tang Dynasty brought a large amount of copper coins back to their country during trade. The copper coins of the Sui Dynasty can also become currency circulation in these countries.
The court tried hard to mint money, but the more they minted, the less money they were, the more they were minted, the money was hiding, and the money was outflowed, which led to a shortage of money, which made the Sui Dynasty have to trade both money and silk. Many times, grain and cloth became transaction currency, and most of the time, they were directly bartered. The people in the Central Plains raised silkworms and planted hemp, and the silk and hemp they weaved was actually money. When going out to buy things, they either exchanged grain for food or cut two feet of cloth to pull one foot of silk.
The money shortage in the Sui Dynasty is also facing Huaihuang now.
The military merit rewards before Huaihuang were all rewards, with clear price tags, beheadings, and captives of each five-cent coins. In addition, the performance of the battle formation was also based on different performances. In addition, the pensions for deaths and injuries were all given. The last time Yi Feng's salary reform of the soldiers was made up of salary and monthly grain, which was also due to lack of money. However, this time, the Taoshan Awards were finally calculated. This was a reward of hundreds of thousands of coins. Not only were the 5,000 soldiers and horses who fought were rewarded, but the remaining left-behind armies, even the craftsmen, and the people of the craftsmen also had a reward. The combined number of these rewards was huge. Huaihuang Town was rich, but most of the accumulated gold, silver, cloth, silk, and hemp in the warehouse, and copper coins were not enough.
In fact, it is not just because of the lack of money in this award, but now the increasingly popular Huaihuang Bian City. Lack of money is also a big problem.
"I have ploughed the gold and silver utensils in our warehouse and made gold medals and silver medals for rewards, which are divided into one or two liang and one qian." Ling Yun had long observed the matter of money shortage. However, it was not that serious before. However, now Huaihuang is on the right track, whether it is the rewards of soldiers, the salaries of the army, the salary of craftsmen, and the demand for transactions in Huaihuang, it has been greatly increased. The lack of money will not only greatly affect the transaction, but will also prevent Huaihuang from paying the salaries of sergeants and craftsmen. This is a big problem.
However, the right to mint coins belongs to the court, and the imperial court was only Yang Guang, Yang Xiu, and Yang Liang, the chief general of the court, received the special authorization of the emperor to mint several coins. Yi Feng was just a small manager. Even if the emperor really rewarded Yi Feng and mint coins in Huaihuang, tens of millions of coins a year could not solve any problem. After thinking about it, a lot of gold and silver objects were piled up in the warehouse. These gold and silver were not circulating currency. However, Yi Feng was just right to make this idea, minting gold and silver coins to reward silver medals. Reward silver medals can be said to be a special reward, not a currency, but gold and silver are real precious metals that can be semi-circulated. This is also a side ball for Yi Feng, using gold and silver medals to reward silver medals to solve the problem of lack of money now.
While speaking, Yi Feng simply asked Mulan to bring his homemade pencil and began to draw this silver medal of rewarding merit on white paper.
"The gold and silver medals are both round and there is no square hole in the middle. Above the front of the silver medal is a hidden tiger, which is similar to the shape of the tiger talisman, indicating the relationship between the gold and silver medal and the reward of military merits. Below the tiger, there are two words "Reward merits." Ling Yun said while holding a pen to write the two big words "Reward merits in regular script", and wrote three characters on the lower left to express the amount. The diameter of the gold and silver coins of one liang is one foot, about thirty centimeters. One qian is one inch in diameter and about three centimeters. The back of the gold and silver medals are all winding Great Wall patterns.
"How to exchange?" Gao Mingyue bit her lip lightly, but she didn't expect that the trouble that had troubled the households for a long time was solved so easily in Ling Yun's hands. Most of the original gold and silver were utensils, or gold and silver crocks, most of which were heavy, and one was dozens of taels, which was not suitable for circulation. But if gold and silver coins were cast into one tael or one coin, it would be much easier to circulation. Moreover, with the name of reward cards, there was no need to worry about private casting.
"According to the current exchange rate, one tael of gold is exchanged for five taels of silver, and one tael of silver is exchanged for one thousand six hundred coins."
The gold and silver ratio at this time was not ten to one, and the private gold and silver exchange ratio was generally stable at around one to five, which was half lower than the exchange rate of one tael of gold and ten taels of silver. However, one tael of silver can be exchanged for 1,600 coins of copper coins, but it is far higher than the later exchange rate of one tael of silver and a thousand coins. Although the exchange rate of one gold and ten silver and one tael of silver and a thousand coins of silver are more convenient to calculate, Yi Feng would not be so stupid that he ignored his gold and silver coins directly. Doing that would not work.
However, according to the current exchange rate, one tael of gold can be worth eight thousand copper coins. The price of gold has not changed much from later generations, but the price of silver is much more expensive than that of later generations. One tael of silver can be worth one thousand six hundred coins, and one gold is worth only five silver.
"One liang of reward silver medals is equal to eight thousand copper coins, or five one liang of silver medals. One liang of reward silver medals is equal to one thousand six hundred copper coins. One liang of reward silver medals is equal to one thousand sixty-year-old copper coins. This Taoshan Awards are all issued with gold and silver medals." After a pause, Yi Feng said again, "Notify the shops in Huaihuang that gold and silver medals are not allowed to be rejected, and the value shall not be deprecated." The gold and silver medals are to solve the money shortage and make up for the insufficient copper coins. If the gold and silver medals are given, of course, they cannot be used at that time. "In addition, find a time, everyone in the households will come to the Baihu Hall to discuss the salaries of military generals, officials and craftsmen at all levels, etc., and discuss the salary of military generals, officials and craftsmen at all levels.
Standards and distribution methods." Now that the General Administration is about to be established, Ling Yun does not expect the court to help him bear the salary of the bureaucrats and the supply of the army. He will neither think so nor dare to let the court help him raise soldiers. If the court really wants to support the soldiers, it will be impossible to tell whoever you hear. Since you have to support them by yourself, then this will be a regular expense in the future. The monthly expenditure is a large amount. Ling Yun is already thinking that he plans to spend these salary and salary expenses in the form of salary and rice, just like each dynasty and generations, and then even the salary must be divided into true colors and color discounts. One third is the true colors, that is, the money is paid, and two-thirds must be discounted, which means to distribute various physical objects.
"This is no problem." Gao Mingyue answered very neatly. Although he is temporarily casting these gold and silver reward cards, it is not a big problem. In fact, the gold and silver medals are similar to casting copper coins. Only by making a good example of money, the rest is not difficult. There is no difference between casting a thousand copper coins and casting a thousand gold and silver coins. But casting a thousand copper coins is only one silo, and one thousand gold coins can cast an eight thousand coins, which is equivalent to the amount of casting about three coin furnaces a year, and the imperial court only has two or three hundred coin furnaces. One liang of gold is worth eight silo, and one kilogram of sixteen liang can be worth one hundred and two.
Eighteen jin. One thousand jin of gold can produce a reward gold medal worth 128,000 jin, and one hundred thousand taels of silver can produce a reward silver medal worth 160,000 jin. More than a thousand jin and five or six thousand jin of silver are indeed not a problem for Huaihuang, who has now copied thousands of families in Qinshan and Yanshan and made a fortune in the border market. It is not a problem to take out multiple gold and silver. The gold and silver that were originally placed in the warehouse can replace 300,000 jin of copper coins at once. "In half a month, the household and the labor chief can accomplish this."
Ling Yun admires Gao Mingyue's ability to do things very much. If he were to be in the future, he would definitely be a female president with a thunderous life.
"Then please, please." Ling Yun smiled. In fact, to solve the money shortage, Ling Yun had several ways to solve it. In addition to minting gold and silver coins, he could also issue military tickets. Even a little more ruthless, and print paper money directly. However, everything needs to have a foundation, and it needs to be progressed step by step. If you take too big steps, you will always get rid of the eggs. If you issue money, it is still too big. Give real gold and silver to your subordinates, which is more at ease than sending a piece of paper. Ling Yun didn't expect that he would accidentally revolutionize his subordinates. Let's talk about things like money later.
Gao Mingyue took the drawing paper from Yi Feng's hand, which looked like a gold and silver medal that Yi Feng painted. However, when she looked down, she suddenly had a portrait on the white paper, except for the eight coins on the front and back of the four gold and silver medals painted by Yi Feng. She just used a simple pencil, which was not colored, but the image of a girl appeared on the paper. She could recognize it at a glance that the girl in the painting was her own. The painting was so vivid and lifelike. She had never seen herself so beautiful in the painting. For a moment, she was a little stunned.
On the other hand, Ling Yun was also a little nervous. After finishing drawing the money, he talked with his sister-in-law, and while unknowingly, he drew the sister-in-law on the opposite side. After handing the money script over, he remembered that there was a portrait of his sister-in-law on it. Just when he thought he was about to roll his eyes again, Gao Mingyue was stunned for a while at the painting, and then suddenly stood up with the drawing script and said to him hurriedly, "There is one thing you have to solve as soon as possible. The grain reserves in Huaihuang Town are getting smaller and smaller, and I have something to do, so I'll leave first." After that, he ran away like a gust of wind before Ling Yun replied, which made Ling Yun stunned for a long time, not knowing how to react.
Why is this sister-in-law reacting? Could it be?
Chapter completed!