Dongfang Chen arched his hand and said: "The minister and his colleagues and subordinates have discussed it, and feel that to solve the problem of excessive grain reserves, under the premise of storing grain for three years for emergency disaster relief, the excess grain from the grain-producing area can be transported to the grain-deficient area, and the freight and loss on the way will be borne by the receiving place, and the excess grain can be considered to be sold to the surrounding forces and other small countries!" ”

"On the issue of too much livestock, the ministers thought that they should consider selling it to the Southern Dynasty and Guanzhong at a high price, especially the large demand for meat in the Southern Dynasty, and the imperial court could send envoys to the Southern Dynasty to restore normal exchanges between the two countries, lift the state of hostilities, and discuss with the emperor of the Southern Dynasty the issue of trade and trade between the two countries, so that our dynasty can buy porcelain, tea, silk and other Southern Dynasty specialties from the Southern Dynasty, and the Southern Dynasty can also buy livestock, furs, medicinal materials and other specialties from our country!"

Zhao Junsheng asked: "Have you taken into account the needs of the military?" ”

Dongfang Chen said: "I have already taken it into account, this is the result of counting the grain and meat needed by the military!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought for a long time and agreed to Dongfang Chen's plan: "Yes!" The surplus grain can be left for winemaking, and the value brought by wine is greater than that of grain, which can encourage folk winemaking, but the quantity of supply must be controlled to ensure the supply of food in the market! ”

"Understood!"

At the court meeting the next day, Zhao Junsheng said to his ministers: "I will not be in the country for a long time, and I still need to recuperate with the people, so we must suspend the war with the neighboring countries, ease the situation, and develop normal state exchanges with them!" Lone plans to send envoys to the Southern Dynasties, Bingzhou, Guanzhong, Northern Liang, and Rouran, I don't know what Zhu Qing thinks? ”

Gao Yun stood up and said, "The king is wise! At the beginning of the establishment of our country, there are many things, and successive decrees have been issued to benefit the people, the country needs to be stable, at this time, the truce and the surrounding countries to ease the situation, and then send envoys to envoys is a wise move, the ministers think that sending envoys to the Southern Dynasty is the most important! ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded and asked, "I don't know which Qing family is willing to send an envoy to the Southern Dynasty?" ”

Cui Hao thought about it and stood up and said: "The king, the minister recommends a person, the minister's cousin Fan Yang Lu Xuan has great talents, he was previously a doctor of Zhongshu in the Pingcheng Imperial Court, and now he has resigned and returned to his hometown. ”

Originally, there were other ministers in the palace who wanted to recommend themselves or others, after all, it was a rare resume to envoy to the Southern Dynasty, which was beneficial to future promotions, but when Cui Hao recommended Lu Xuan, these ministers who originally had the intention to recommend themselves or wanted to recommend others have dispelled their years and no longer fought with Cui Hao, so as not to offend him.

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a moment and said, "Xuan Lu Xuan has entered Beijing to meet you!" ”

"Yes!"

At this time, Zhang Wei, the secretary of the household department, stood up and said: "The king, the minister has a book!" ”

"Tell me!"

Zhang Wei immediately said: "Since Cao Wei began to mint coins day by day, after the Jin Dynasty crossed to the south, the minting of coins completely stopped, and the northern countries all used the coins of the previous dynasties, with the loss and reduction of coins, and even for more than a hundred years, whether it was the government and the people, most of the transactions were bartered, and the use of coins was less, and even the rewards issued by the army and the government were filled in kind. Now that China has just established the country, there has been a large increase in non-governmental transactions, and the situation of bartering is no longer in line with the situation, and it has also seriously hindered non-governmental transactions! ”

"Therefore, the minister suggested that the imperial court mint the coins of the current dynasty, flood the market with new coins, and settle transactions in coins, instead of bartering and replacing the circulation of old coins of the previous dynasty!"

Zhao Junsheng listened to Zhang Wei's words and was shocked, he has long been tired of bartering, bartering is too troublesome, and there is a great obstacle to economic development, Zhao Junsheng has not understood why these dynasties such as the former Qin, Later Zhao, and Northern Wei dynasties did not mint coins, and later he learned that these barbarians understand the importance of coins to the country, barbarians have been living a life of bartering, they are used to it, they don't want to change, and they won't mint coins.

Since Zhao Junsheng served as the assassin of Youzhou, he has been too busy, and minting coins before the founding of the country is easy to arouse the suspicion of the Northern Wei court, and now that Zhao Junsheng has founded the country, he wants to change this status quo, and now there is this opportunity.

"Lone has been thinking about this problem, today Zhang Qing talked about minting coins, and Zhu Qing will discuss it together!"

There are many people in this hall who have been officials in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and there have been people in the Northern Wei Dynasty who have proposed to the emperor to mint coins for market circulation, but the Xianbei people have obviously not entered the era of civilization from barbarism, and the Xianbei nobles are too troublesome, and bartering is easier for them, such as how many chickens a sheep can be exchanged for, and the price will be done.

As a result, several proposals to mint coins were rejected in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

There are all wise and shrewd people present, where do not understand how important money is to the economy of a country? So all the ministers agreed, and the matter was approved without resistance.

Cui Hao stood up and said: "King, although it is not easy to mint coins, it is not difficult, but it is a little troublesome to solve the copper and lead needed to mint coins, which requires finding copper and lead mines!" ”

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand: "Give the local government a letter, let them send people to look for mines, and those who find it will be rewarded by the imperial court!" ”

Kou Qianzhi stood up and said: "King, it's easy to talk about finding a mine, but this coin minting thing doesn't mean that it can be minted, and you have to set the size, regulation, shape, denomination, etc., as well as the minting method!" ”

The ministers immediately expressed their opinions and ideas, and some people thought that they could continue to use the Qin Dynasty square hole round money, weighing five baht; Some people think that the shape and weight of the coins of the Liu and Song dynasties of the Southern Dynasty can be used, and they have their own opinions.

Zhao Junsheng had a headache when he heard this, and finally tried to dispel the public opinion: "Waste five baht money, the new coin follows the shape of the Qin Dynasty square hole round money, with a face value of one penny and one penny, one coin is equal to two baht and four silks, every ten Wen weighs one tael, and one thousand Wen weighs six catties and two taels and five!" There are three kinds of denominations, namely one article, five Wen and ten Wen, the front has the word 'Qiankun Tongbao', and the back is the face value from top to bottom, which are one, five and ten respectively! ”

Although it is only a few sentences, it stipulates the shape, weight, and face value of the coin, and also stipulates that the weight unit is equivalent to two baht and four wires, ten coins are one tael, and sixteen taels are one catty.

Next, Zhao Junsheng ordered the transfer of Zuo Cheng Liu Qi to the newly established coin minting department, in charge of coin minting, and the coin minting department was hung under the household department as a subordinate agency of the household department.

At the beginning of his tenure, Liu Qi began to be a supervisor and digger, and many craftsmen who were proficient in mold casting and metal mixing ingredients were dug by him, and he got Zhao Junsheng's will to transfer officials from other ministries and yamen to build up the shelves of the coin casting department.

In just three or five days, the numismatic minting department, a new yamen, was established, and the office yamen was located next to the household department, which was converted from an old house, and he asked the craftsmen to cast molds, study the metal mixing formula of coins, and mint the mother coins of new coins as soon as possible, while looking for a secret site to build a mint.

It took more than two months for Liu Yu to attack the audience with the three mother coins that had been minted.

"King, these are the three mother coins minted by the Coin Casting Division, the face value is one penny, five coins and ten wen, and the weight is one coin, five coins and one tael!"

Zhao Junsheng took the wooden box and opened it to see that there were three large, medium and small coins lying inside, which were cast beautifully and golden yellow, and the font on the coins was concave and convex and clear, quite wide and shapely.

"How is this new coin different from the coins of the Qin, Han, and Jin dynasties?"

Liu Yu replied: "Back to the king, this coin uses a new metal smelting method and mixing formula, it is more wear-resistant, not easy to rust, even if someone imitates it without knowing the smelting formula and mixing formula, it is impossible to mint a coin of such quality!" ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded, now rest assured, folk imitation coins will have a great impact on the circulation of real coins, if a large number of imitations and reach the level of fake and real, it will definitely cause a devastating blow to the economy of the entire country.

Wait a minute! Zhao Junsheng noticed what Liu Qi said just now, "You just said that a new smelting method was used?" ”

"Yes!"

"Did you bring the new smelting method from the Shogun, or did you research it yourself in the Foundry Division?"

"It was researched when the Foundry Division minted coins!"

"What are the advantages and disadvantages of the new smelting method compared to the old one?"

"The new smelting method can extract two other metals from the ore, one of which is not easy to rust and the other is very hard!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and asked, "Do you think that if you use the new smelting method with the previous smelting and forging method, can you make the weapon sharper and harder and less prone to rust?" ”

"I haven't tried it, but I think it should be feasible, but it will take time to keep experimenting!" Liu Qi said.

Zhao Junsheng nodded, "In this way, the new smelting method and the metal mixing formula for coin minting must also be kept highly secret and must not be leaked!" In addition, you write down the entire process of the new smelting method in detail and give it to Lone! ”

"Yes!" Liu Yu agreed, and then asked: "King, the minting and issuance of this new coin ······?"

Zhao Junsheng said: "The mother coin is very beautifully made, and it is not easy to imitate, so I use these three coins as the template for the mother coin, by the way, what kind of minting method do you plan to use?" ”

Liu He said: "I heard that in the past, the money was minted using clay fan and stone fan, etc., and the minister thought that this method was too inefficient, and the quality of the coins cast was also poor, and the craftsmen tried their best to come up with a method, using the money mold, carving the money mold with tin, and putting it in the frame to make the money model, which can cast more than a dozen frames at a time, and these three coins were made using this method, and the casting efficiency and quality were much higher!" ”

"Very well, let's do it!"

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