In fact, the Hu and Han merchants here in Ningyuan are no longer just bartering. www.biquge.infoCopper coins, gold and silver, silk, and cloth are all used as currency.

The market was so big that they no longer only demanded barter, the right price, but also accepted the trade of gold, silver or silk cloth. With these, they can also buy the goods they want from the Han merchants, and even use these to buy goods, which is more popular.

The gold and silver coins minted by Li Kee Qian Zhuang were very popular among Turkic merchants because they were beautifully made, difficult to imitate, and had standard denominations. Turkic merchants also often traded some gold, silver, pearls, etc., but these had to be identified and agreed on first.

"Collect more gold and silver, we will also open a mint in Ningyuan to mint gold and silver coins, and copper coins will not be minted in the future. Now the imperial court has also begun to mint coins. ”

Li Shimin is crazy and poor, and he makes money everywhere.

After Li Chao talked about the advantages of coinage last time, Li Chao was interested. Using the hydraulic coinage method that Li Chao said, the cost has been saved a lot, especially the time has been saved and the production capacity has been expanded. Minting coins can also become a very profitable method, which can increase the income of the imperial court, which naturally cannot be let go.

Besides, the adoption of the new coinage method will still deal a big blow to counterfeit money. After all, the difficulty of imitation of this kind of coinage has greatly increased, and Li Shimin has now made the molds, and a large mint has been built on the Wei River in Chang'an.

The newly minted money is called Zhenguan Tongbao, because the imperial court has already discussed, and next year will be the first year of Zhenguan. Zhenguan Dynasty's money, of course, can no longer be called Kaiyuan Tongbao, after all, the newly minted money and Kaiyuan Tongbao are not the same.

The weight of Zhenguan Tongbao is the same as that of Kaiyuan Tongbao, which is a heavy coin, but the copper content has been reduced. However, because Li Chao said that the newly minted copper coins are difficult to imitate, even if they are reduced in fineness, it is not very important.

In the past, the imperial court reduced the copper content of coins, and even directly issued what was five when ten, and also issued iron coins, but the result was a mess, why?

The biggest reason is because these coins are not difficult to imitate, and the lower the copper content of the court money, the higher the profit of minting fake money, and of course the more fake money.

And the copper content of Kaiyuan Tongbao is very high, aside from the coinage, the copper contained in this money, even has exceeded the value of the money itself, those unscrupulous businessmen directly melted the copper money, and the money has always been made of copper can be sold for six or seven times, six times the profit.

Historically, by the time of the Song Dynasty, it was popular to save Mo.

It's that I often count 700 yuan and 600 yuan as 1,000 yuan, why is this? Because at that time, everyone calculated according to the actual value of copper coins, and the copper contained in 600 copper coins was worth 1,000 yuan, so they saved Mo from using it.

This is no longer the monetary value of money, but the value of its own metal.

Such good money, of course, no one wants to imitate it, and whoever imitates one loses the other. Everyone will make fake money, inferior money, but too inferior is easy to identify, will be rejected, will be found to be reported to the official, and the government will be severely punished if it is found.

Therefore, if the government uses good money, the credit system of coins can still be maintained.

Once the government uses the money, or even one as ten as twenty, and latte as money, this will be over. Because the threshold for imitation is too low, even others don't need to make bad money, they can do exactly the same as the money of the imperial court, with the same materials and the same process.

Because no matter how hard you do it, you won't lose money.

Such money flows out, who knows whether it is true or not?

A large amount of private money appeared, which was tantamount to robbing the imperial court of seigniorage.

And now, Li Chao is equivalent to a hanging.

The new coinage method allows the imperial court to not have to mint such expensive money, and the materials can be inferior and the fineness is low, so that the cost is also reduced, and the manpower and time spent are also reduced.

But because of the new technology, it is extremely difficult to imitate. If they want to imitate the same as the money of the imperial court, then not only will they not imitate much, but they will also lose money, imitating one by one.

If they make low-quality money and imitate it casually, then it will be difficult for this kind of money to flow out under the suppression of the imperial court. The people and businessmen refused to accept it, the government rewarded them for reporting, and the government vigorously investigated and cracked down, and arrested one by one, and disposed of one by one.

In this way, the cost of counterfeiting is so high, and it is naturally difficult for counterfeit money to circulate.

The imperial court successfully replaced the higher-cost Kaiyuan Tongbao with the lower-cost Zhenguan Tongbao, which saved the cost, and also cracked down on those unscrupulous merchants and earned seigniorage.

Merchants who wanted to melt copper coins to make copper utensils reduced the profits of melting money. Those merchants who want to counterfeit copper coins, they have increased their costs.

As the cost of crime increases, the crime rate will of course fall.

However, because the production of gold and silver was too small, although the imperial court also planned to mint some commemorative gold and silver coins for rewards, it did not prohibit merchants from minting gold and silver coins themselves. After all, this small amount is mainly calculated by the value of gold and silver itself.

Datang has never regarded gold and silver as circulating currency.

But this also happens to be a good gap for Li Chao.

Of course, the Li family will not imitate the imperial court's money-making Zhenguan Tongbao, but use this technology to mint some gold and silver coins and use them to circulate in the market here, how can they let it go.

When the gold and silver coins were in Taozhou, they were used very well.

For the Li family, the fineness of the gold and silver coins is reduced a little, but the coins minted are calculated according to the full value, and the difference in the price is their profit. For users, gold and silver are inherently precious metals, and both Turkic and Han Chinese can accept their value, which is a kind of hard currency.

Although the fineness may be insufficient, it is beautifully made and difficult to imitate, especially in the way that it is not necessary to weigh it, but to calculate it by face value, which can make it more convenient for merchants.

Minting gold and silver coins can definitely make money, and the only thing that restricts the Li family from making a fortune in coinage is where to get enough gold and silver.

With gold and silver, after being melted, it was mixed with copper for casting, and the profits were endless.

"San Lang, our family handed over this coinage technology to Your Majesty, and now we use this technology to mint gold and silver coins, will it be taboo?" Zheng Hongxian is thinking about things now, and he is becoming more and more comprehensive.

Li Chao casually flipped through the other reports and said, "You don't have to worry about this, Your Majesty said when he first got the coinage technology I presented that the Li family can continue to mint gold and silver coins in the future, as long as they don't mint copper coins." If you think of it this way, even before this coinage technology, the gold and silver shops and jewelry stores in the past would have made some gold leaf gold ingots, and that could also be used as money. ”

"As long as Your Majesty allows it, then I can do it with confidence." Zheng Hongxian said with a smile, the Li family has added another money-making industry.

acted as a teacher, and after receiving a lot of praise from Hongxian and Siniang, Li Chao went back leisurely.

Zhao Siniang has been in Li's house for a long time, and Li Chao has long been used to seeing her now, and she has no intention of seeing her outside. Nodding and saying hello when you meet doesn't require extra courtesy.

He originally introduced a few people to Zhao Siniang, all of whom were his subordinates, and they were all officers with rank, but Zhao Siniang was unwilling, and Li Chao saw her like this, so he forgot it. After all, to do matchmaking, others have to be willing.

It is useless for an ox to press its head without drinking water.

When I went back, Yahuan had already prepared toiletries.

There is still no toothpaste, tooth powder is used, the main material is green salt, and some Chinese medicinal materials such as mint powder are added. Green salt is not ordinary salt, but is made from the best green salt grains in Yanzhou and then fired with bamboo.

Pretending to be a little forced, it is advertised that the high-grade large-grain green salt of Yanzhou is loaded into three-year-old green bamboo, and then sealed with natural loess at both ends.

It is then made by calcining pine trees that are more than 10 years old as fuel.

In fact, there is no need to ask for so much, ordinary salt, ordinary green bamboo, ordinary loess, ordinary pine branches, just do.

This process, to put it bluntly, is that the bamboo will reach a high temperature of more than 1,000 degrees when calcined, and under this high temperature, the organic matter will be burned away and the inorganic matter will be left.

Bamboo salt, in fact, is just another form of coarse salt.

After burning, some minerals in bamboo salt are higher than ordinary salt, and these things mainly come from bamboo and loess, which contain more ingredients, and enter the table salt after baking.

This is actually the same as many skin care products and health care products in later generations, what this element and that essence, there must be, but how many, how much can it play, this is definitely not as good as they boast.

Li Chao's bamboo salt was made into powder, and some Chinese herbal medicines such as mint were added, and then it became tooth powder.

After advertising on the Half Moon Talk, this kind of tooth powder immediately became a sought-after commodity for the rich family of Chang'an, and like the perfume and soap produced by the Li family, tooth powder has also become a hot-selling commodity of the Li family.

It's a very simple thing, sprinkle it on a toothbrush, and it feels cool when you brush your teeth.

After brushing my teeth and spitting foam, my teeth are indeed very white and my mouth is very cool, but it is certainly not as mysterious as advertised.

Rinse your mouth and wash your face.

Energetic.

Carrying a cowhide backpack with a few clothes in it, Li Chao prepared to go for a morning swim.

There has been no war recently, and Ningyuan Border City is also very good.

On the Lingzhou side, Chu Suiliang is busy digging the Tang Canal.

The weather is hot, and there is such a good lake on the edge of Ningyuan City, so now Li Chao has a new activity in the morning. It is to get up every morning to practice guns first, and then ride horses, and then sweat.

I just went to Wuhu Lake, and when the sweat stopped, I jumped into the lake and took a refreshing swim.

Swimming in the lake for a while, it was extremely cool, and after finishing the change of clothes, I rode a horse and went to work in the yamen.

As soon as he went out, Su Dingfang was already waiting there on horseback.

Recently, Su Dingfang, a student, has become Li Chao's swimming partner, and if he doesn't swim back and forth with Li Chao every day, he will feel uncomfortable. (To be continued.) )