The old coins were burned and cleaned. Ten coins weighed one tael, and a thousand coins weighed six pounds and forty taels. They were eight cents in diameter and brass-colored. The four characters Kaiyuan Tongbao were written on them. They were written by Ouyang Xun, a famous Tang Dynasty scholar. The font was generous and exquisite.
, clear and without adhesion.
The new money was burned and cleaned. Thirteen coins weighed one tael, and one thousand coins weighed five jins and one tael. They were eight cents in diameter and blue in color. The four characters "Kai Yuan Tong Bao" on the money were straight, blurred, and stuck together.
After Yunchu measured the weight of the coins, he washed his hands in clean water and said to Cui: "Use the old money at home to exchange all the new money in the hands of the villagers."
Mrs. Cui said: "If this is the case, the family will lose 30%."
Yun Chu shook his head and said: "Anyway, we don't have to wait for the rice to be cooked. It doesn't matter if we lose some. Maybe we won't lose anything and can still make some."
Mrs. Cui smiled and said: "How can Mr. Lang make back the 30% he lost? I am all ears."
Yun Chu sighed and said: "Casting bronze vessels, such as casting a giant copper phoenix."
Mrs. Cui said with a smile: "I suspect that these copper coins are actually made after the melting of copper utensils. The husband has now made copper utensils. It seems that he is not making money."
Yun Chu looked at Cui and said, "Have you ever been exposed to this kind of thing before?"
Ms. Cui said with a smile: "For wealthy people, copper coins are not easy to store. Therefore, when they accumulate a lot of copper coins at home, they will cast them into copper utensils and place them at home. Some large copper utensils can easily reach thousands."
Thousands of kilograms.
Cui's hometown in Qinghe has a family temple. In the family temple, there is a gilt bronze Buddha, which weighs more than 14,000 kilograms. On both sides of the bronze Buddha, there are two serving Buddhas, each weighing six thousand kilograms. Under the bronze Buddha
, and there are eighteen Arhats, each weighing more than three thousand kilograms...
When copper coins became less valuable, Cui began to cast Buddha statues. When copper coins became valuable, Cui began to repair Buddha statues.
There is more than just the Cui family of Qinghe in the world, but everyone does things in the same way. Although Lang Jun can replace the few new copper coins in the hands of the villagers, he cannot replace all the new copper coins on the market."
Yun Chu clucked his lips and said, "So, everything I do is useless?"
Cui thought for a moment and said: "Lang Jun, please bear with me. This world belongs to the imperial court. They don't care about their own people. What can Lang Jun do on his own? If you want to take good care of the people of Jinchangfang, just
You must put all the copper coins in your hand out. The earlier you put them out, the less you will lose.
However, Liu Yi and Liu Fangzheng, who trust you the most, gave up the copper coins after hearing your advice?
No!
So, Mr. Lang, some people deserve to be poor. They have been living like this for thousands of years and have long been used to it."
Yun Chu looked at Ms. Cui and said, "So, they have worked hard all their lives, toiled all their lives, worked as cattle and horses all their lives, and they deserve to be poor in the end?"
Mrs. Cui sighed and said nothing, but her expression clearly showed that she very much approved of this sentence.
After all, Yunchu exchanged his old copper coins for the new copper coins in the hands of the residents, which made the sad residents smile again.
Then, the next day, they brought more new copper coins to the village chief to exchange them, but the village chief refused.
Giving out kindness once is too much. If you give out too much, you will become a fool. Obviously, the residents know that the old copper coins are worth more than the new ones, but they still actively exchange them. This shows that in their eyes, the kindness The elder is a fool.
Just like what Cui said, Yun Chu could not do anything during this massive robbery.
I could only watch as prices in Chang'an soared, and the price of food rose from two cents per dou to twenty cents.
Therefore, the saying "Chang'an is big and difficult to live in" became even more famous.
On the third day after the Shangyuan Festival, the government issued a notice to stop the selling of grain in Changping warehouses. They also warned all Chang'an people not to hoard in groups and would be severely punished if found.
At the same time, the imperial court's adjustments to Xia Fu were also being formulated intensively. Although he didn't know what the content was, Yun Chu knew that the imperial court would never suffer losses in vain, but if something like this happened, something would happen. Only those who have suffered losses can make it happen, and only in this way can the accounts be smoothed out.
Therefore, it was already obvious at this time that the fool was damaged.
The old monkey came to see Naha and brought many gifts, including the seven-treasure glazed lamp that Naha had longed for.
Yun Chu did some research and soon discovered the secret of why the lamp was getting brighter and brighter. It was mainly in the colored glaze used as the outer shell of the lamp. These colored glazes were divided into seven layers according to the light transmittance, and the last layer seemed to have a polypropylene Concave mirror with light effect, as long as you press the mechanism on the handle, the shell of the glazed lamp will rise layer by layer, and finally achieve an effect similar to that of a lotus growing step by step.
"I told Xiangjichu that before the Lantern Festival, all the money your family keeps there will be exchanged for gold!"
Hearing what the old monkey said, Yunchu immediately understood that Da Ci'en Temple had a share of the credit for this big change in copper coins.
Because of the old monkey's words, the Yun family also changed from a victim to a winner in this turmoil.
"Master Xuanzang has been refusing to see you. I don't know why, but whenever he talks about you, he always gets happy, which is strange.
I originally wanted to ask if you knew the reason, but looking at your stupidity, I guess you don't know either.
I had nothing to do, so I asked Nahato to enter the temple. This child was so stupid that he couldn't memorize a short "Heart Sutra" for half a month. I wanted to curse a few words, but Master Xuanzang said, "Recite the Heart Sutra." What is the purpose of such a useless thing as the Heart Sutra? He also said that everyone has his own Heart Sutra, and that this Heart Sutra is engraved on everyone’s heart, and the rest only depends on the level of cultivation..."
Having said that, when Your Majesty and the Queen come to Daci'en Temple to offer incense on the 15th of March, the birthday of Queen Wende, and the anniversary of her death on July 28th, Naha will still appear. Then she will write a "Heart Sutra" It’s unjustifiable that you can’t even memorize it.”
Although Old Monkey is very annoying, he has nothing to say about his attitude towards Yun Chu and Yun Na.
Therefore, Yun Chu also gave him a jar of alcohol that had just been steamed at home.
Unexpectedly, the old monkey took a sip and resolutely returned the alcohol to Yun Chu. He thought it was poison.
Fortunately, the old monkey saw that Yun Chu had started giving him gifts, so he agreed to put the small giant phoenix that Yun Chu had just cast by craftsmen into the temple for worship, waiting for someone who is destined to come home to worship it.
"The focus of the bronze statue is copper. Is there any copper in your bronze statue?"
Yun Chu took a look at the white bronze statue he cast at home, and felt that it was a little too much, because the bronze color was not visible in this thing. It seemed that the craftsmen accidentally put too little copper in it according to his instructions.
There is a street-owned tertiary industry waste collection station on the street of Yunchu. Although the name is not good, but with a monopoly on street waste, the annual profits are very objective.
Among them, the largest profit comes from non-ferrous metals.
Copper-zinc alloy: brass yellow, copper-tin alloy: bronze, cyan, copper-nickel alloy: white copper, copper-zinc-lead alloy is also considered brass, copper-nickel-zinc alloy is also considered white copper, in short, there is a lot of knowledge in it, Yun Chu
In order to supervise the cash disbursement of the scrap collection station, I also supplemented this knowledge.
There was no such thing as zinc in the Tang Dynasty. There was tin, but the price of this thing was not much different from that of copper, so it was not good to add it to copper.
Fortunately, the lead of the Tang Dynasty contained zinc, so Yunchu asked the craftsmen to use as little copper as possible and more lead to cast a batch of bronze statues.
Now, it seems to be a bit of a mess.
Although the old monkey despised the goods sent by Yunchu, he still accepted the two hundred bronze statues with a melancholy look on his face.
He also asked Yun Chu to collect money from Zhi Ke Monk, and the price was very good. Not only could Yun Chu make back the money he lost due to his kindness, but he would also have extra money to pay the craftsmen's wages.
After following the old monkey into Da Ci'en Temple and receiving the money from Zhike Monk, Yun Chu asked the old monkey: "You won't lose money, right?"
Without waiting for the old monkey to answer, the Zhike monk on the side said with a smile: "Amitabha, Amitabha, these bronze statues are already very good. We just need to gild the outside and put them in front of the Buddha to incense. There will definitely be laymen and pilgrims who are willing.
Please go home and worship."
Yunchu didn't care about anything else the Zhike monk said. He only cared about what the Zhike monk said. These bronze statues were already very good!
You know, when he asked people to cast bronze statues, he blushed just thinking about what he said. Unexpectedly, Zhike Monk said that these bronze statues turned out to be works of conscience.
For a moment, a feeling of huge loss emerged spontaneously.
The old monkey looked at Yun Chu and said, "You earn what's yours, I'll earn what's mine, and the goods will die when they reach the end of the field."
Yunchu, who felt that he had lost a lot of money, returned home with the money. Cui was very happy, and Naha was also very happy, and they came over to help count the money.
Then, Yunchu discovered that when Naha was counting money, the money in her little hands was always not much. On the contrary, her little money bag became bulging at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Yunchu wanted to ask, but Cui stopped him with his eyes, and deliberately created an opportunity for Naha to transfer the copper coins, so that she could empty her purse and come back to continue filling it with money.
The hard work of counting money was finally over, and Naha left happily. Cui said to Yun Chu, "Miss Naha took away six hundred and twenty coins."
Yun Chu smiled and said, "The little girl knows how to use money."
Ms. Cui shook her head and said, "The young lady's subordinates only eat one meal a day. They are too hungry to play with her or take a bath."
"So, she takes care of the food for those little girls?"
"Not just little girls, but little boys too."
Yun Chu nodded and said: "Although it is a good thing, she still has to tell the adults when she takes the money."
Mrs. Cui shook her head and said: "The stolen food tastes better, the stolen people are fresher, and the stolen money supports people, which makes people appreciate it more.
After Miss Naha has been raised like this for a while, we will be able to give their family a sum of money openly and bring the children to our house as servants."
"Hey, aren't the lives of people in Jinchangfang getting better? It's not like they're selling their sons and daughters, right?"
Mrs. Cui gritted her teeth and said: "Children in Fangshi are not suitable to be slaves, they are only suitable to be servants.
I think that although our family has many sources of money, we don’t have enough slaves. Now that the price of food has increased tenfold, I think that we should take advantage of this opportunity to acquire more slaves.”
