Chapter 218 The credibility of the state is of the utmost importance

When Li Xiuning woke up, the sky was already bright, and Li Xiuning, who was staring in a daze, asked He Yue'er while washing, "Chen Lang didn't come back yesterday?" ”

He Yue'er nodded and said: "I'm here, but I came back too late, Chen Lang said that he had too much cold on his body, and he was afraid of freezing the princess and the fetus in his womb, so he rested in the study next door and left before dawn!" ”

Li Xiuning asked suspiciously, "What has he been busy with lately?" ”

He Yue'er shook her head and said, "I don't know too well, Chen Lang goes to the Shule River every day, and he doesn't know what to do!" ”

Li Xiuning frowned, she was very strange in her heart. She ate a meal absentmindedly, and asked He Yue'er to prepare the carriage, and she rode out of the city.

However, as soon as he left the capital of Shule City, Li Xiuning's carriage stopped. Li Xiuning was closing her eyes to recuperate, and suddenly she heard the noise of a woman crying in the hustle and bustle. Li Xiuning lifted the curtain of the car and found that a small group of Tang Army soldiers dozens of steps ahead was arguing fiercely in front of a Hu Cake Shop, while the shopkeeper of Hu Cake and his wife and daughter were crying loudly.

Li Xiuning didn't understand the language of Tuluo fire, and vaguely heard that the men and women who were crying out of voice seemed to be using Tuluo fire language, so he asked curiously: "What happened?" ”

A Rite businessman obviously understood Tang dialect and could speak Tuluo Fire language, so he helped Li Xiuning translate: "Oh...... A little thing, this group of Tang officers and soldiers ate one hundred and seventy-four Hu cakes and fifty bowls of mutton soup in this Hu Cake Shop, and they didn't pay! ”

When Li Xiuning heard that this was the reason, he immediately became angry and said to the guards in front: "Arrest them to the palace!" ”

Although Li Xiuning is the princess of the Tang Dynasty, she is also a heroine among women, when she was in Guanzhong, she formed the Women's Army, and she hated the officials and the people of Huohuo very much, so she paid close attention to military discipline, and now Shule City is already the Shule of the Tang Dynasty, and the people in the city, regardless of Han Hu, are all subjects of the Tang Dynasty, and now the soldiers of the Tang Army actually dare to eat the overlord meal, which is worth it. Don't look at the 174 pieces of Hu Cake are only more than 300 yuan, and the 50 bowls of mutton soup together are only 800 yuan, and the money is always less.

However, despite the lack of money, the impact of the creation is extremely bad.

Li Xiuning looked at the group of Tang Army soldiers who were escorted over, and shouted coldly: "What is your name, and which general does you belong to!" ”

The team led by Zheng stepped forward and bowed and said: "The lowly Su Jianwu is the team of the A Brigade B of the Sixth Chong Prefecture C Regiment of the Sixth Folding Chong Army, and it belongs to General Duan!" ”

Li Xiuning roared with a cold face: "Su Jianwu, are you guilty?" ”

Su Jianwu said with a puzzled face: "I don't know!" ”

Li Xiuning's voice suddenly raised an octave, and he scolded: "You still don't know the crime, which military rule tells you that you can rob the people's property and eat the overlord's meal?" ”

Su Jianwu said aggrievedly: "Returning to Her Royal Highness the Princess, how dare you be like this, Your Majesty has already given money, and the meal money only needs 837 Wen, and Your Majesty has given the consistent money, and they are not allowed to give change, they are still not happy, isn't this a slander!" ”

The soldiers also echoed their words, but Li Xiuning was stunned. It is said that in front of himself, Su Jianwu would never dare to open his eyes and say nonsense, but now they are saying that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law is reasonable, but Li Xiuning doesn't know how to judge.

At this time, He Yue'er, who went to investigate the whole story, returned to Li Xiuning's side and said: "Your Royal Highness Princess, the matter is already clear, Team Su did pay, but he paid the money ticket of Datang Tongli Money Bank, and the face value is consistent, but this store doesn't recognize it, and tears up the money ticket!" ”

The money ticket of Datang Tongli Money Bank, although it is called a money ticket, but in fact it is like the paper money of later generations, it is not named, it is not lost, and the money ticket can be exchanged for the same face value in full, but the money ticket that was torn up by the store naturally lost the opportunity to exchange.

In the current situation, the Hushang mutton shop does not recognize the money tickets in the hands of the soldiers of the Anxi Army, but the ordinary Tang Army soldiers have limited salaries, and the money has always been enough for them for a month.

If it weren't for the extremely strict military discipline under Chen Ying's command, I am afraid that they would have already cut people with knives.

Knowing the whole story, Li Xiuning only had to reluctantly let people pay the bills for this team of soldiers. Li Xiuning, who re-boarded the carriage, was even more puzzled, he found that as long as it was the Han people, they all recognized the money tickets in the hands of the soldiers of the Anxi Army, but only these Hu businessmen, as well as the people of all ethnic groups, naturally did not recognize the money tickets of the Tang Tongli Money Village.

Why is there such a huge disagreement between Han and Hu, Li Xiuning is very, she can't figure it out even if she wants to break her head.

When Li Xiuning came to the bank of the Shule River, he found that he didn't know when more than a dozen water-wheeled carts had been planted on the riverside, and because of the cold weather, thousands of soldiers of the Anxi Army stood on the rafts, knocking on the ice on the surface of the Shule River from time to time to prevent the river from freezing.

Under the action of the current, these water wheels, which are five or six feet high, continue to rotate with the current, making a roaring sound.

When he was still hundreds of steps away from the workshop on the west bank of the Shule River, he heard a huge golden sound, which was a huge iron hammer wielded by the ancient giant god, which made people's eardrums very uncomfortable.

At this time, Chen Yingzheng was like an ordinary craftsman, gathered in the middle of a group of craftsmen, pointing and pointing.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying, dancing with her hands, excited like a child.

Li Xiuning looked at He Yue'er and asked, "What is Chen Lang doing?" ”

He Yue'er said suspiciously: "It seems to be minting money!" ”

"Minting?" Even if Li Xiuning has never eaten pork, he has seen pigs run. To cast money, the cold casting method is adopted, and the prepared copper water is poured into the copper coin mold made in advance, as long as it is condensed, the copper coin is cast.

However, there is a problem with this traditional process of minting copper coins, that is, it is too inefficient. Datang will be in charge of the prison, and the maximum number that can be minted in a year is about 380 million pieces. It sounds like a lot, but it's only 380,000. For a Tang Dynasty with an annual financial income of more than 6 million guan, the minting amount of 380,000 guan is too little.

It also caused a shortage of money in the Tang Dynasty, not to mention that the Tang Dynasty is not a country without influence, but a regional power, including Goguryeo, Buyeo, Silla, Baekje, like Champong, Lin Xi, Luo, including the Wa Kingdom, Luzon, are all using the coins of the Tang Dynasty, and the people also have a very bad habit, that is, saving money.

Therefore, the coins of the Tang Dynasty are never enough, and the people do not have enough money, so most of them adopt the method of bartering. Chen Ying developed by leaps and bounds and launched banknotes. However, the storage of banknotes is not as durable as copper coins, and once it is damp or corroded by rats and ants, it will become a useless waste paper.

In this case, Chen Ying decided to launch the coins of Datang Tongli Money, and most of Chen Ying's copper ore resources in the Western Regions, except for a copper mine obtained by Yang Rong, were in Chen Ying's own hands, and Chen Ying decided that he should make copper, silver, and gold coins.

However, the method of hot casting is too inefficient. Chen Ying thought of the cold forging process of later generations, and directly used hydraulic impact pressure to stamping and forming copper coins at one time.

Now a hydraulic stamping machine weighing 64,000 catties can impact 600 copper coins at one time, in theory, as long as the raw material pipe is enough, a hydraulic stamping machine can stamping 3,000 pieces in a column of incense (five minutes) time, and a year's time is enough to cold forge 150,000 copper coins, or the same number of gold coins and silver coins.

Looking at the copper coins that were successfully cold-forged, Chen Ying nodded with satisfaction and said, "Good job, all of you will take double examples this month." ”

The craftsmen suddenly cheered like thunder, at this time, Chen Ying inadvertently saw Li Xiuning's carriage in a blink of an eye, Chen Ying was suddenly shocked, Li Xiuning was pregnant, in such a noisy environment, every moment he stayed, Li Xiuning was a little more dangerous.

Chen hurriedly walked to the carriage, and without saying anything, he asked the coachman to drive the carriage back to Shule City.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying and asked, "Chen Lang, why did you remember to mint coins?" ”

Chen Ying smiled slightly: "Everywhere I go, I will personally go to the local bazaar to ask about the prices of various items. ”

Li Xiuning nodded thoughtfully and said: "The world is against the king, the war is continuous, and the people are displaced.

Chen Ying didn't expect that Li Xiuning still had a little talent for financial management, with a bit of appreciation in his eyes, and continued: "It's not that the coins are useless, but that the country's reputation has been lost, the world is strife, the dynasty changes frequently, the size of the coins, there is no unified standard, and the people are naturally unwilling and unable to use it." ”

Li Xiuning gradually frowned and said: "And bartering can only make the richest material clan richer, and the people are getting poorer and poorer." ”

"Exactly!" Chen Ying was a little excited, he sighed and shook his head: "It's not just the people who are poor, but the country is also poor, because the family is always rich, and the lifeblood of the country is only in the hands of the family gate." ”

Li Xiuning secretly burrowed into his fist, his breathing became a little heavy, and asked, "Chen Lang, can you change this problem by doing this?" ”

"Now that the Tang Dynasty is unified, the world is unified, and the war is gradually stopping, it is the time to turn back, resume production, and pay attention to the livelihood of the people." Chen Ying smiled bitterly: "Therefore, I take the ratio of copper and tin to eight to one, cold forging coins, only the credit value of the coins is stable, supported by the country's reputation, the grain, cloth and other useful things, in the hands of the imperial court, improve the lives of the people, this is the way to long-term peace and stability in the world, the Western Regions is the west gate of the Tang Dynasty, here, I will try the coins first, as long as the Tang Dynasty is no longer short of money, the merchants who come to the Tang Dynasty will no longer barter!" ”

Chen Ying's words were actually half retained.

Chen Ying wanted to use Datang Tongli Qianzhuang to control the economic lifeline of Datang.

The Rothschilds famously said, "As soon as money rings, opposition ceases!" ”

Once Chen Ying's business empire is built, then he can really have an extra talisman on his body, which is more effective than the iron scroll of the Danshu. In fact, there are basically few ministers who have obtained the iron scroll of the Dan Book in history, and there are basically few who can have a good end.

Chen Ying did this, in fact, so that he could live well!

Chen Ying looked at Li Xiuning and said, "For the use of coins, the credibility of the country is the most important. ”