Drop two hundred and eighty-four, the winner decides everything
Emperor Liu Qi touched the five-baht coin, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.
This new five-baht coin minted by Liu Che not only has a beautiful appearance, but also has a smooth surface and patterns on the surface of the coin.
The most important thing is that this coin contains a high copper content.
Liu Che's ability to mint money naturally could not be concealed from him, the emperor.
The Shaofu has allocated a total of tens of thousands of kilograms of copper materials in the past few months.
In addition to the copper materials that Liu Che, the prince, owned and failed to obtain, as well as the copper materials that the Bo family worked hard to collect and supply, nearly 200,000 kilograms of copper went into the prince's workshop.
only……
Emperor Liu Qi took the five baht coins and looked at the box of newly minted coins placed in the main hall.
He was slightly confused.
At this moment, he even felt that he could not understand Liu Che's behavior at all.
This five-baht coin contains such a high copper content. Can the prince make money from this five-baht coin?
Don't underestimate the Liu family's ability to scrape the land.
As the crown prince of the Liu family.
Liu Che knows this too well!
At the beginning, Liu Bang was able to mint the three-baht coin that directly led to a financial crisis before the Christian era and triggered a large-scale economic crisis.
Empress Lu minted eight baht coins.
Emperor Taizong Xiaowen minted four baht coins.
And all these minting activities are actually just to scratch the land.
Even in order to facilitate the scraping of land and maintain the credibility of coining money, when Empress Lu was in power, she issued an edict stipulating the circulation standards of coins. According to the regulations at that time, any coin with a diameter of not less than ten inches and eighty, the writing on the coins must be as long as
If you can still recognize it clearly, then even if the coin is missing a hole. Although the body of the coin is worn, as long as it is not artificially broken or is entirely made of lead, even if it is a legal coin, any coin cannot be rejected. Violators will be fined 2
two.
This law actually wiped the ass of Gao Emperor Liu Bang.
Because the quality of the batch of three-baht coins minted by Liu Bang was really unacceptable.
But, now that it has been released.
Do you expect the court to admit that you were wrong?
In addition, the Han Dynasty at that time was poor and had rats running around in the warehouse...
So this shortfall can only be passed on to the people...
Liu Che knows these things very well. Speaking of which, since Liu Bang, scraping the land by casting money has been one of the talents that the old Liu family has full of skills.
Later, Xiaozhu was so unscrupulous that he even committed the absurd act of exchanging a deer skin for three thousand gold.
Therefore, when Liu Che minted five baht coins, he didn't just slap his butt and mint money directly.
But after repeated trials and constant adjustments to the formula, we finally arrived at the current reasonable ratio of copper, iron, and lead for casting coins.
This batch of five-baht coins minted by Liu Che currently guarantees that while the minted coins will have a certain profit, some "smart people" will not take advantage of the loopholes.
For example, raising money to cast bronzes or something...
From this, you can imagine how profitable it was to mint money in the Western Han Dynasty!
Because the four-baht coins currently on the market, regardless of weight, size or shape, the copper content cannot be compared with the batch of five-baht coins cast by Liu Che.
In this way, as long as the five-baht coins minted by Liu Che are circulated, they are guaranteed to have a certain profit margin!
Of course, it is not Liu Che's goal to complain about his father, grandfather, and ancestors.
As a time traveler, Liu Che knows very well what does currency mean?
Currency is the political power, the foundation of the country, and one of the symbols of the legitimacy of the dynasty!
From this point of view, let alone making money to make a profit, even if it is a loss, this power must be returned to the central government!
However, Liu Che knew very well that the current transfer of coinage power to the central government would only cause the princes to become alienated from each other, and would not produce any practical results.
Xiaozhu was able to return the minting power to the central government, which was based on the era when Wu Chu was wiped out, the power of the princes and kings was greatly reduced, and at the same time, the order of favor was already in effect.
In other words, if we rashly promote the state-owned coinage franchise at this moment, there can only be one ending - no one in the world will resist!
However, it is not advisable to push forcibly on the surface, but it can still be done secretly to slowly take back the minting rights.
This is what Deng Tong did back then!
but………
There is a generation gap in this matter!
For people in this era, they cannot understand or understand financial policies.
In this era, primitive barter was even popular in many remote mountainous areas. Even in Guanzhong, silk cloth was also a form of currency. Silk cloth was accepted for legal circulation and government taxation...
Liu Che was thinking about how to explain to his father.
Emperor Liu Qi asked calmly: "Prince, do you want to use this money to collect grain?"
Liu Che kowtowed and said, "Reporting to my father, this is exactly what happened!"
"The prince's heart is too soft..." Liu Qi, the long-time emperor, sighed leisurely.
Liu Che's heart skipped a beat after hearing this. He was really afraid of what might happen.
Kings and rulers must, of course, love their people as their sons.
But as a ruler, being soft-hearted is a taboo!
After Duke Xianggong of the Song Dynasty, no one in power in the world believed that evil could prevail against good.
As for the Liu family of the Han Dynasty, a bunch of realists were in power.
Can you expect a ruler who believes that the sword is more important than the power of words to agree with the idea that the people are more important than the king?
The emperor of the old Liu family couldn't even trust his uncles, brothers and sisters!
Therefore, in the previous life, Liu Rong's temper was weak and he faced the fate of being deposed. Later, Liu Zhi was trained like a pig's head by piglets every day. Liu Xun even said unceremoniously: "Anyone who messes with my family must be a prince."
Even the ministers and people did not like a soft-tempered king.
Ban Gu, a later generation, unceremoniously commented that Emperor Yuan was "Rouran and Confucian", which was not a compliment at the time!
As for Emperor Hui Liu Ying, public opinion at this time generally accused him of being a "benevolent and weak king".
Therefore, Liu Che knew very well that he must not give the impression of being 'soft-hearted' to others.
Liu Che thought for a while and kowtowed: "My father is so generous, and this is what I think..."
He looked up at his father and said firmly: "I have carefully read and compared the gains and losses of coining money in ancient and modern times, and with the mentality of considering the future generations of the country, I decided on this five-baht coin."
proportion!"
After hearing this, Emperor Liu Qi opened his eyes slightly, nodded and said, "Go on..."
As an emperor, he is extremely sensitive to numbers and data.
Liu Che bowed and said: "Father, during the Warring States Period, the coinage was mixed and chaotic. However, it ended with the Qin Dynasty ruling the world with half a tael of money..."
"Qin's half a tael weighs twelve baht. Since the prosperity of the Han Dynasty, all emperors of the past dynasties have deeply felt that Qin's money was heavy and inconvenient, so they paid three, eight, four baht, etc., but they still used half a tael.
As a result, the people benefited from the convenience and the state treasury was abundant..." Liu Che was shameless and shamelessly put money on the face of his ancestors.
From the perspective of Liu Che as a time traveler, the moral integrity of the Liu family's royal family has been reduced by more than one empty space!
The money of the Qin Dynasty weighed twelve baht. In terms of weight alone, it was four times as much as Liu Bang's three-baht coin and three times as much as the four-baht coin in circulation today.
However, the old Liu family ordered that regardless of Qin money or Han money, they should be calculated according to the face value of half a tael.
This is equivalent to saying that after Liu Bang became emperor, he did nothing and started a four-fold inflation. The Han Dynasty was able to survive such a large-scale inflation because of the right time, place and various factors.
Impact.
Even the one-square gold yuan coupon policy is nothing more than that!
But then again, it is indeed difficult for Liu Bang, a gangster leader who bullied men and women in Peixian County before he was 48 years old, to understand what financial order is...
Liu Che firmly believed that Liu Bang probably made this ridiculous decision as soon as he slapped his butt...
Therefore, after Empress Lu took power, she immediately spent eight baht to stabilize the market.
From three baht to eight baht and then to four baht, the Han Dynasty basically crossed the river by feeling the stones and completed most of the journey of currency reform.
It's just that those who pay tuition are the common people of the world like those of future generations.
While Liu Che was slandering his imperial ancestors in his heart, he said righteously: "However, Erchen discovered an unusual thing from the records of past dynasties..."
Liu Che thought for a while and said: "My son is studying. In the early years of the Warring States Period, Li Kui carried out the reform in Hedong. At that time, one stone of corn was fifty cents! So Li Kui said to Wenhou: Today, one man has a narrow family and five mouths to rule.
Hundreds of fields...Thirty stones for a thousand and five hundred dollars!"
The emperor Liu Qi nodded after hearing this. This record and Li Kui's remarks were known to everyone in the government and the public at that time. They almost regarded it as a quintessence and regarded it as a must-read for those in power.
book.
"What does the prince want to say?" Emperor Liu Qi asked strangely.
Liu Che raised his head and said: "Report to my father, I used to be confused by this. In Li Kui's time, one stone of corn was worth fifty dollars. Now, one stone of corn is worth only forty or fifty dollars. In good years, the price of rice is only forty or fifty dollars. In the lean years, the price of rice was once
To eighty, ninety..."
Emperor Liu Qi was slightly startled when he heard this. He seemed to understand something, but his mind could not turn around for a while.
Liu Che continued: "At the time of Li Kui, the yield of Hedong was one stone and a half per mu, and it was known as the most blessed land in the world!"
"Nowadays, those who produce two stones per mu in Guanzhong only go to the fields, and there are many people who produce four stones per mu in the upper fields..." Liu Che blinked, looked at his father, and said the core point: "In the past two hundred years, the productivity per mu has increased.
It has doubled, but the price of rice has hardly increased... Let’s just talk about Qin money. At that time, one qian was as important as three qian in our Han family. In two or three hundred years, the yield per mu doubled, the money system shrank, but the price of rice did not change at all.
If you move, I think this is weird!"
More than just weird!
In the early years of the Warring States period where Li Kui lived, Han, Wei and Zhao had just separated, and the currency in circulation was still Jin cloth coins. Judging from the cloth coins unearthed in later generations, the weight of cloth coins must be much heavier than Qin coins!
Therefore, in the Han Dynasty, such a strange phenomenon occurred.
For almost three hundred years, the price of grain, which is the main bargaining commodity, has actually been lower than three hundred years ago.
Through a simple mathematical calculation, we can figure out the strange theory here.
That is to say, the current price of rice and the price of rice in Li Kui's era are constant at fifty qian, and the cloth currency in Li Kui's era is calculated as twelve baht.
In other words, the yield per mu has increased two and a half times, and the currency has depreciated three times.
But the price of rice has not changed...
As if inflation does not exist in this world...
The most important thing is that instead of inflation, prices have experienced a strange contraction.
This does not take into account the population changes and land changes over the past three hundred years.
Anyone of later generations who has gone to middle school or has seen the world can see at a glance that the economy and finance of this era are restricted by artificial abnormalities.
Of course, if you want people before the Christian era to understand and understand the economics of later generations, this is undoubtedly a hellishly difficult task, and it is basically impossible to succeed!
But this did not prevent Emperor Liu Qi from becoming confused and confused.
He also vaguely sensed something was wrong.
In this world, only the stubborn and conservative elements among the Confucian group think that the world is the same as it was three generations ago, with no changes.
The fact is that the entire Han Dynasty is at a critical juncture from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, and the Han civilization has also moved from dormancy to strength and development.
At this time, all kinds of new technologies and inventions are emerging one after another, and even the social system is at a critical moment of major changes that have not happened in three thousand years.
Just like China opened its eyes to see the world after 1840.
The same is true for the Han Dynasty. Since the siege of Baishan Mountain, the Han and Huns coexisted, and the Huns were even stronger than the Han Dynasty.
In order to maintain the great defense of Huayi, and also for the sake of my country for thousands of years.
Whether Liu is willing or not, this regime must be open-minded and progressive. It must keep making progress, keep thinking, and keep reforming.
Therefore, in this era, the various schools of thought, the three nobles and nine ministers, and even the supreme emperor are constantly seeking their own changes and breakthroughs.
If we don't do this, if we can't become stronger, everyone knows that once the Huns invade, everyone will be sent to the mountains to become savages.
Under such a situation, hundreds of schools of thought contended for glory, once again blooming for the second time after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
From the emperor to the common people, people with a sense of urgency and enterprising spirit are all looking for ways to revive the central empire and realize an utopia in which the whole world is not the king's land, and the shores of the land are not the king's subjects.
Therefore, as long as it does not touch ideology, does not endanger the monarch's rule, and does not harm vested interest groups, the entire society will readily accept new ideas and ideas.
It is precisely because of this that Chao Cuo shouted the slogan, "Yu has nine years of water, Tang has seven years of drought, and when the country is destroyed and barren, those who have accumulated a lot are prepared in advance." He spoke openly and openly.
The ancient slogan carries the trend of reform.
Just like this, Zhang Qian later opened up the Western Regions, and Han envoys even went as far as the distant Parsi, reaching the end of Asia and seeing the straits of Europe.
The entire society's sense of worry and desire for change are no worse than those after 1840.
After 1840, China as a whole tried almost all possible principles, whether it was a constitutional monarchy, a people-based system, a dictatorship, a Nazi, or even capitulationism.
The Han Dynasty at this time was basically the same.
As long as the ruler thinks it makes sense, he doesn't mind giving it a try.
Emperor Liu Qi’s mathematical achievements were no worse than most people.
He just did some calculations in his mind and asked, "Why does the prince think this is?"
"I believe that if something goes wrong, there must be a monster!" Liu Che knelt down and said, "Although I don't understand why it is like this, I am sure something is wrong. Therefore, with this five-baht piece, I cast stones to ask for directions, and felt the stones to cross the river.
Let’s see what we can find in the end…”
When the emperor Liu Qi heard this, he also showed a smile on his face and said: "Throwing stones to ask for directions, and crossing the river by feeling the stones, the prince has a good idea! I support you, prince, just go ahead and do it!"
At this moment, Emperor Liu Qi finally truly felt that his prince had grown up and could take charge of his own affairs.
So, he decided to let go and fully support Liu Che in doing it.
At the same time, he was also curious, what could Liu Che find out in the end?
But no matter what, at least this investment will not lose money!
Playing with the five-baht coin in his hand, Liu Qi knew very well what effect such a coin would have if put on the market.
That is, basically, not even a fool will use five baht to trade in the future.
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At the same time, in the distant grassland, across the Hetao Plain, all the way to the west, at the foot of Rouge Mountain, the annual grand celebration of the Huns was being held.
This celebration is one of the most important celebrations for the Huns.
The Huns called it the 'Balin'.
The Julin Conference mainly serves two functions.
First, the number of humans and animals of the kings, tribes and nobles.
This is an "advanced management system" that Bank of China taught the Huns only after talking about it.
The second is to show off their power, and gather representatives from all vassal states, servant states and allies to show all forces the power of the Xiongnu's invincible control army and the extremely powerful Xiongnu Empire.
This was the period when the Huns were at their most powerful.
A generation of heroic lords, Lao Shanyu, fought in the south and north, defeating the entire Western Region. He expelled the feudal Yueshi, annihilated the Donghu, and brought the entire prairie, from the Great Wall in the north to Beihai in the south and Central Asia in the west, to
Under the rule of the Xiongnu.
Even the head of King Dayuezhi was made into a drinking vessel. It became a drinking vessel for the Xiongnu Chanyu.
At this moment, the Xiongnu Empire stretches for tens of thousands of miles. Under the hooves of the Xiongnu horses, there is no city that cannot be broken, and there is no country that cannot be destroyed.
At this moment, the contemporary Chanyu of the Xiongnu, a man known as the military minister Chanyu in the Han Dynasty, rode his horse and flew past the vast and vast royal court cavalry battle formation.
Countless voices shouted excitedly: "Plough on the plow! Plow on the plow!"
In Chinese, it can be understood as Son of Heaven or Son of Heaven.
The Xiongnu believed in primitive shamanism.
The military minister Shanyu walked all the way and came to Rouge Mountain. Then he faced the direction of Longcheng and bowed. This was to worship his ancestors.
Then bow to the west, which is to worship the gods.
Worship the sun again, spread your hands, and countless sounds of "Plowing the plow" can be heard continuously.
The military minister Shanyu stood up. The large and small copper rings hanging from his big earlobes jingled.
"Great plow. Please protect me, the Xiongnu, from generation to generation, to be extremely strong and rule thousands of miles of grassland for tens of thousands of years!" The military officials lowered their heads and kissed the earth, praying.
Hundreds of wizards danced an inexplicable dance around him.
In fact, the appearance of the Huns is completely different from that of the Chinese.
To be precise, the Xiongnu were an extremely mixed race.
For a military official, he was short in stature, even less than 1.6 meters tall, but he had a big round face, tall cheekbones, thick eyebrows and almond-shaped eyes. He had a weird nose ring on his big nose, his ears were huge, and his earlobes were covered with hair.
Earrings of different sizes.
In the eyes of the Huns, this is the purest blood of the Huns, the direct descendants of the great Maodun Chanyu.
But in fact, this is still a mixed race.
They are probably a mixture of Serbian and East Asian races.
In the process of evolution, in order to resist the cold, the Huns generally had thick body hair. They were surrounded by military officials and ministers, and there were even nobles and slaves who looked almost the same as the ancient Greeks.
After the prayer, the military minister Shanyu stood up, and several slaves wearing only animal skins were led to the mountain.
Then, several wizards came over, took bone knives, slit the throats of these efforts, and let their blood flow on the grass on the mountain.
"Qu Sheren, who disobeyed the great Plow Guy Tu, has been punished by holding the plow!" A wizard screamed strangely, knelt down and kissed the toes of the military minister Shanyu.
"Plough the plow, Gutu! Plow the plow, Gutu!" hundreds of thousands of Huns attending the meeting shouted crazily.
Qu She, this was once a powerful nomadic nation, with tens of thousands of cavalry at its peak, but at this moment, this nation has been uprooted from its roots.
The last few nobles were killed on Rouge Mountain.
Use their blood to prove the strength of the Xiongnu!
When all these ceremonies were completed, the military minister Shanyu stepped into the Shanyu tent prepared for him.
Dozens of nobles were already waiting for his arrival.
The Huns are also a nation that is good at learning. At the very least, during decades of war with the Han Dynasty, they also learned some of the political structure of the Han Dynasty and used it for themselves.
For example, every powerful Xiongnu tribe must have a king.
Each one has a noble appointed by the Chanyu to supervise the country.
Such a move allowed the Xiongnu Empire to maintain its unity and unity, and all tribes scattered over tens of thousands of miles of grasslands would obey the will of Shan Yuting.
"King Youxian disobeyed me and was punished by Zhu Li and died suddenly. As a descendant of Zhu Li Gutu, the great Maodun Chanyu, I will re-appoint a new King You Xian to command Rouge Mountain.
All the bow-hunting people in the north!" As soon as the military official Shanyu entered Shanyu's tent, he announced his decision as a victor.
"Great Plough Guy Tu, all our bow and hunter subjects obey your orders..." Dozens of nobles, kings or chiefs, knelt down and kissed the place where the military ministers walked to show their submission.
No matter how close they were to King Youxian in the past, at this time, they all followed the rules of the game of the Xiongnu. The winner has everything and the loser loses everything.
"As a supporter of the plow, I order all the bowhunters to not step into the Great Wall without an order!" The military minister Shan Yu then issued his second order after arriving at Rouge Mountain. He looked around
Everyone said: "Unless the Emperor of the Han Dynasty breaks the covenant, anyone who trespasses will die!"
"This is an alliance between the great Laoshang Zhangli Gutu and the emperor of the Han Dynasty. Anyone who disobeys it will be regarded as treason!"
It seems that this order is ridiculous. When will the Huns abide by the covenant?
For them, isn’t it true that covenants are only broken?
However, if we think about this matter from a political perspective, all those who have come into contact with the Han people or are themselves former Han subjects or fugitives will be as clear as a mirror in their hearts.
Attack the Han people in the south?
Not only would he not get any benefits, but he would also be stabbed until his mouth was bleeding.
The facts of the past few decades have proven that the Han Dynasty was capable of posing a threat to the Xiongnu.
Since the hedgehogs in the south are so tough, why go to the south to rob them?
Nowadays, the gifts and goods sent by the Han Dynasty every year can basically meet Shan Yuting's demand for luxury goods.
What's more, if you want to rob it, wouldn't it be easier for the small countries and tribes in the west and north that have no resistance?
The most important thing is that this military official, Shanyu, was the former King Zuoxian. He had always been in the west, and the west was his foundation and home base. As for the south...
Ahem, it was the territory of his past mortal enemies and competitors.
The tribes in the south are still loyal to the descendants of the deceased King Youxian.
Under such circumstances, the military ministers were so embarrassed that they allowed the southern tribes to continue to invade the Han Dynasty.
The reason is simple. The Han Dynasty was very strong. If we invaded the Han Dynasty, we would have to mobilize the entire southern army and even mobilize cavalry from the west to cooperate.
If this happens, some "careerists" will seize the opportunity to strengthen their own strength, and even plot to rebel against Shan Yuting.
In the history of the Xiongnu, palace coups and conspiracy rebellions were as simple as eating and drinking water for the Han people!
What makes the military officials most uneasy is that the remaining forces of King Youxian support and protect King Youxian's two sons.
Therefore, letting the tribes in the south stabilize and no longer have fighting power became the only option.
And such a decision is also in line with the consistent thinking of military ministers in the past when they fought against King Youxian.
You know, after the death of the old Shang Shan, the military ministers and King Youxian have been engaged in a line struggle.
Should we go all out to invade the Han Dynasty south or attack those small countries that are easy to conquer and control from the west?
Now, as the victor, the military ministers must ruthlessly and completely destroy all the policies of King Youxian.
This is called political correctness!
"In addition, send someone to Chang'an of the Han Dynasty to deliver my letter of credence to the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, declaring that I, born of the great sun and moon, have the will set by heaven to support the plow, and I will give it to the Han Dynasty.
The peace that people hope for, I hope that the people of the Han Dynasty will also give me enough wealth and silk to satisfy me!" Shanyu, the military minister, said expressionlessly.
"Obey the great Plough Gutu, your command is our will!" The Xiongnu nobles present, whether willing or unwilling, all knelt down and surrendered at the feet of the victor.
The iron law of Xiongnu survival is that the winner decides everything! (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature for better novels and faster updates!
