Rumble!

The doctors in the hall trembled when they heard this, and then they swarmed to the big box containing the gold, and picked up the gold that had been artificially made into the shape of gold ingots in the future.

When they were sure that it was really gold, they all turned their heads to look at Wu Zixu, hoping to get his answer.

Wu Zixu smiled and said, "You must be very puzzled that my Qi country is not like the Chu country that produces gold, why is there so much gold now?" ”

Everyone didn't speak, but they secretly said in their hearts at the same time: nonsense!

Wu Zixu smiled and said: "That was before, in the past, my Qi country did not produce gold, but since three months ago, it has begun to produce gold!" ”

What the?

Everyone was dizzy by Wu Zixu's words, gold? Oh my God, the country of Qi has gold?

How did they not know, why did generations of ancestors not know?

Is it from the newly acquired land?

Then Wu Zixu explained it according to the story that Lu Di had made up for him.

Everyone couldn't believe it when they heard it: "I didn't expect that couple called Gan Jiang Mo Ye still have such ability?!" ”

Wu Zixu smiled and did not mention this topic again, but also took out a piece of gold from the big box, pointed to the small characters written under the gold: "This is gold, also known as the Great Qi Ingot, which is divided into one or two Qi ingots, five or two Qi ingots, ten or two Qi ingots, twenty two Qi ingots, and fifty two Qi ingots." ”

When everyone heard this, they went to check the box, and sure enough, the gold nugget was big and small, and they looked at the gold in their hands in reverse, and the words "Great Qi Yuanbao, Jiang Lu Wannian" were written on the back of the gold.

Everyone was amazed, touching the delicately carved gold ingots in their hands left and right, but Wu Zixu was at the end of the big box.

Boom, the lid of the large box was opened.

This time there was no dazzling gold, but dazzling white, everyone's eyes widened, I don't know what to say, at this moment, Daxing Zaiyu's voice trembled and howled: "Yes...... It's platinum, platinum! ”

Yes!

Everyone exclaimed, in this day and age, platinum is more expensive than all gold!

Mainly because it is harder to mine and more difficult to refine.

"Wouldn't this platinum also be made locally in our Daqi?" A doctor trembled and held a silver coin with the words "Daqi Silver Dollar, Jiang Lu Wannian" written on it.

Silver coin?

Yes, it's silver!

These silver coins are similar to the shape of the Great Qi Tongbao copper coins, but the material has been replaced with silver, and the hollow has been replaced with a solid one, and the size is similar to that of Yuan Datou in later generations.

Wu Zixu took everyone's expressions into his eyes one by one, and finally smiled as bright as a white plum blossom.

"Hooray!" At this moment, all the people in the hall who had been cut off by the tax reform were gone, and instead they raised their arms and shouted.

for they know that the time has come for their wealth.

When everyone was dissipated, Wu Zixu began to tell the specific details of the currency reform, and everyone was immersed in joy and did not allow anything.

The enlarged meeting of the Prime Minister's Office lasted from morning to dark, and finally appointed Ran Qiu as the chief supervisor of the reform.

Now for them, the most urgent thing is not to pay taxes or currency, but to buy slaves and find mines to mine.

But where to buy slaves?

The surplus slaves in the market had been privately bought short by Zhong Lichun a few months ago.

Going abroad to buy?

Abroad was almost bought by Zhong Lichun.

When they realized that there were no new slaves to sell at home and abroad, they looked at the mountains of gold and silver, and their eyes were red, so they pouted and shouted that they wanted to start a foreign war.

Because only war can give them the right to use more new slaves for ten years.

Many years ago, when Lu Di was crying for slaves in the wilderness, Qi Jinggong had already abolished the slave life system and implemented the slave system for ten years.

The so-called ten-year slavery system means that as long as a slave serves his master for ten years after becoming an adult, he can eliminate his slave status and become a ronin.

Ronin refers to a class of slaves and low-class people (laborers, merchants, merchants) who have no land and no fixed residence, but have relative personal freedom.

Therefore, after many slaves became ronin, in order to survive, some became slaves of the scholar class, and some became tenant farmers on private land.

What if you can't buy slaves, and there is no war for the time being?

These slave owners began to think of ways to improve the living environment of slaves, so that slaves could work during the day and give birth to slaves at night, so that after ten years, the new generation of slaves could replace the older generation of slaves and become another tool for them to obtain profits.

Lu Di did not expect that the ten years of slavery had also accelerated the population expansion of the Qi State, although this expansion was bloody.

This is all an afterthought, so I will not say anything for the time being.

Looking at their departing backs, Wu Zixu, Pu Yuhou, Yu Ying, Lu Qing, Ji Ran and other doctors glanced at each other, and only then did they breathe a sigh of relief at the same time.

The tax reform is in full swing, and although it has encountered a lot of resistance, it has been carried out by the princess, the doctors, and the middle doctors at all levels.

Lu Di has been paying close attention to the reforms, and when he saw that the tax reform and the currency reform were being carried out without any danger, he breathed a sigh of relief, and everything was under his control.

Clean the house and then have a treat?!

Lu Di looked at the sand table of the territory of Qi that he asked people to make in his thatched cottage, and now the territory of Qi looks like a chicken leg, the largest and most square place is the Shandong Peninsula, and the lower part of the chicken leg is the northern region of Jiangsu and Anhui in later generations.

It is bordered by the great country of Zhongshan and Yan in the north, the great country of Wu and Chu in the south, and the great country of Lu, Song, Wei and Jin in the west.

These neighboring countries are not what Lu Di is concerned about now, but the countries within the countries that he is concerned about now.

Because there is still a country within a country left in the eastern hinterland of Qi State, it makes Lu Di very uncomfortable, and the name of this country is Ren Guo.

The territory of Renguo is not large but not small, and it probably radiates outward from the center of Rencheng on the Shandong Peninsula in the future.

The country has existed for a long time, it is said that it was established during the Xia Dynasty, and it went through the Shang and Zhou dynasties until the end of the Warring States period when the Qi State surrendered to the Qin State, and the country did not perish.

This country is a country surnamed Dongyi tribe, living on fishing and hunting, although it was once bullish in history, but later after the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, it has been suppressed by the Qi State and could not raise its head, and later it belonged to a vassal state with no sense of existence.

The reason why Lu Di is worried about this country is mainly because this country is the only independent country left within the Qi State, although it is not a threat, but it is just a disgusting panic.

"Wuze, how about the widow sent you to be the big city commander near the country?" Lu Di suddenly turned his head and said with a smile to the big fat man beside him.