Even if you don't talk about the sword that Tian Yu stabbed in Xuansu County, Yanbei seems that Tian Yu is not only a well-deserved leader of the sailors in Liaodong, but also a great hero and capable official under his northern Yanbei. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Wenxian water village was built in good order, Tian Yu contributed a lot, more than 1,000 craftsmen formed a settlement that was not inferior to Wenxian, and a steady stream of warships were driven out from the shipyard...... According to the current scale of the shipwright, as long as there is still a large area of woodland in the southeast of Liaoning, more than 20 medium-sized warships can be added every year!

In three years, he will have more than 100 fighting ships.

Of course, there is not only one meritorious person in Liaodong County, Tian Yu, but also Xiangping Academy, which has more than 100 students, Anping Township Iron Mine, which produces 120,000 catties of iron every year, and Tiewu, who makes more than 10 crossbows every day...... Fu Zhu, Bing Yuan, Zhang Leigong, which one is not a hero!

After welcoming Tian Yu back, Yan Bei and Fu Zhu inspected the Xiangping arsenal, tens of thousands of spears, more than 1,000 precision forged ring knives, crossbows covered with pressed tablets, and countless arrow clusters, which made Yan Bei extremely satisfied, but he still asked Fu Zhu greedily: "Gong He, Tie Wu can shoot three or four hundred ring knives every ten years, why is there only one thousand three hundred ring knives in the treasury?" Wow, this knife is good! ”

In the period when the earliest craftsmen were still unable to make ends meet, Tie Wu, who now has the former craftsmen, has become Yanbei's most valuable wealth in Liaodong. If the world is stable, he can get rich with the production capacity of iron and iron ore alone, but he will not have the power to make bows and crossbows when the world is stable. And in these chaotic years, the most valuable weapons and armor can only be reserved for their own army!

It's not that he can't sell weapons, in fact, Yanbei is happy to sell a little less spear to the princes whose territory is farther away from him, such as Zhang Miao, who wants to compete for the assassination of Yanzhou, or Yuan Shu of Nanyang.

As long as they are far away, there is a high chance that they will have a common enemy, and why not exchange these cheap weapons for what they need?

But there is no suitable opportunity.

Yan Bei fiddled with the ring knife in his hand and checked the past one by one. He is an expert in using knives, and when the knife is in his hand, he only needs to pick it up and look at it a few times to know whether it is good or bad, and these knives forged by Tiewu are all good things!

The color is no less than the fishing knife.

Yanbei started by relying on more than a dozen ring knives, and naturally has a deep affection for knives, which makes him extremely fond of fine forging knives. However, after all, the ring knife is one of the few elite weapons equipped with the army, and the battlefield is more used by those piled up spears. The wooden shafts of Liaodong are all good wood, and the tough spear shafts can ensure the efficiency of the blade to the greatest extent...... Not all spears in Liaodong are made of iron, and thirty percent of the spearheads are made of copper.

In fact, if it weren't for Yanbei's stop, Zhang Leigong of Tiewu would have planned to use all the spearheads in copper.

In terms of the spear used by the foot soldiers, there is not much difference between copper and iron, because the toughness of copper is not good, so most of the time it can only be used for stabbing, and if it is a chop, it is easy to break. Even if you stab the enemy, when the enemy is wearing slightly heavier iron armor, it will not only fail to pierce through the enemy's armor, but will be broken.

But this is almost negligible in today's era.

Because judging from the information transmitted from various places to Liaodong County, the subordinates of the princes from all walks of life ...... The number of corporals under his command is extremely low, let alone iron armor. If you go to Liangzhou, even if you count the iron-inlaid armor of the Bingzhou cavalry in the iron armor, the heavy foot soldiers wearing iron armor under Yanbei and the light cavalry wearing leather armor are all well-deserved second in the world in terms of protection.

Liaodong not only produces iron, but also copper, but it seems that Yanbei did not intend to use copper to make weapons. In terms of market price, copper is indeed more expensive than iron, but the copper from Qianshan cannot be left unused.

Yanbei obviously didn't think so...... He wants to use copper to mint coins, how can he use them in weapons!

"General, the manpower required to forge knives is too huge, so when Tiewu produced agricultural tools and weapons, he decided to use spears to equip a large number of soldiers, then forge ring knives, and then make iron armor." Fu Zhu is good at using swords, but swords consume more manpower than swords, so Liaodong has not considered forging long swords for the time being, he said: "At present, the soldiers of Liaodong have two or three spears to spare, and by the end of the year, there should be 30,000 spears, 3,000 ring knives, 2,000 pairs of leather armor and 500 pairs of iron armor. ”

Yan Bei nodded, this number is very good, it means that he can easily pull up 10,000 brave soldiers and arm 1,000 elites. In addition, Tiewu will continue to produce armor, and in the future, it will be able to arm more than 5,000 new soldiers every year, and this number can increase as Tiewu has more craftsmen and apprentices.

This is the advantage of having a piece of territory, Yanbei got Liaodong County earlier than others, and he can take the lead everywhere. On the other hand, the Kwantung princes, who fell into attack after receiving the position of Taishou, are still attacking each other over land, borders, friction and other issues, and most of them even have no ability to forge armor at all. One less weapon is broken, and in the future, there will be more and more elite soldiers in Yanbei who are armed to the teeth, but their soldiers will become more and more shabby, and there will be fewer and fewer soldiers!

"Alas, it would be nice if we were in Nanyang!" In the Han Dynasty, there were three government-run iron-smelting centers, which were large-scale, namely Yecheng in Wei County, Yingong County in Henan, and Nanyang County now occupied by Yuan Shu! Jizhou for the Yellow Turban, Erzhang, Black Mountain one after another, those officials and craftsmen ran to death, Yecheng iron smelting is not as good as before, as for Gong County, not to mention, it is close to two hundred miles of scorched earth, even the figure is gone, only those refining furnace pits are left, only Nanyang County has not been destroyed, Yanbei reluctantly put down the ring knife, and said to Frustration: "If we are in Nanyang County, Tiewu must be stronger than now!" ”

He smiled, "The general is a little greedy...... By the way, the general didn't let Lei Gong use copper to forge weapons, and Tie Wu had a large number of copper ingots left, what did the general plan to do with them? ”

Yan Bei turned his head and gave Dian Wei a look, and asked him to lead people to guard around, and then whispered to Fu Zhi: "I plan to mint copper coins privately." ”

Privately minted copper coins!

"This ...... I'm afraid it's not proper, although the imperial court can't control Liaodong, but this. "I wasn't shocked this time, it's normal for Yanbei to have this kind of thought, Dong Zhuo of the imperial court has started to make new small money, and so on! He suddenly paused in the middle of speaking, and said thoughtlessly: "This is not bad...... It's a good idea! ”

This time Yan Bei was confused, and this preface did not match the afterword, and asked: "What did Frustrated Jun think?" ”

"General, Dong Zhongying pretends to use the imperial court to make a small amount of money to fill the financial gap of the imperial court, which will inevitably make the imperial court currency system chaotic, and may even affect the ...... Guanzhong" Before he finished speaking, Yan Bei grabbed the conversation, he was extremely sensitive to numbers, and he was more proficient in business affairs, nodded and said: "What Fu Jun said is true!" If the people do not recognize the small money or the price, the market price will skyrocket, and the people will not want to use the money in the long run. In this way, it seems that privately minted coins are no longer feasible. ”

"No!"

Hearing that there was a bit of silence in Yan Bei's words, he hurriedly interrupted: "It is precisely because of this that the general should mint coins, implement them with power in Youdong and even Youzhou, and even use Youdong money in Jizhou to fight against the influence and disasters caused by the imperial court coinage!" This is a move for the benefit of the country and the people! ”

This, this has deviated from Yanbei's own idea of privately minting coins, obviously Fu Zhu intends to change the private coins to official coins, and when Dong Zhuo's court circulated Guanzhong with small money, he used large money to circulate in Youzhou...... That is to say, to take the lead in disrespecting the small money of the imperial court.

"Gong and think this will work?" Yan Bei didn't want to be so troublesome, although he had heard a little about Dong Zhuo's creation of small money, he didn't think deeply about the impact this matter would have on the Central Plains and even the world. But when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't help but ask himself, with the wealth of Liaodong and the talent of Yanbei, can he fight against the world's small money with his own strength? "I'm afraid this is not something that Liaodong County can do."

Yanbei wants to mint coins privately, and at most 10 million coins will circulate into the market a year. 10 million coins sounds like a lot, but in fact, there are far more than 10 million coins in circulation every ten months when Shanggu City exchanges markets with foreigners every year.

But if you want to hit the small money issued by the Central Plains in the name of the imperial court?

Don't say 10 million dollars, even 10,000 dollars is not enough!

Where did he get so much copper and iron to make money!

"The current energy of Liaodong is naturally not enough, but the lord has the idea of coinage, so why not try it in the future?" Of course, he understands this clearly, coins do not have to be implemented now, even if a small number of privately minted coins go to the circulation market every year according to Yanbei's idea, there is no harm in the Central Plains collecting big money with small money, and it happens that Yanbei uses big money in Youzhou, even if Yanbei sends out 30 million big money a year, it will not affect the circulation of money in the world. Thinking about this clearly, Fu Zhu then said: "By the way, General, last year and this year, there were more than 1,000 foals in the racecourse in the county, and the lord didn't go to take a look?" ”

The horse farms in Liaodong County are located in the north, because there are many mountains in the county and few plains, it is not easy to find a large valley and flat land, and it is worried that it will damage the hooves of young horses. But in the north of Xuansu County, there are many places suitable for raising horses...... There is no shortage of excellent horses in Yanbei's hands, and this year's output is more than 1,000, and next year it will be 1,000 and 5 more!

"Let's go see it in a few days, thanks to Gonghe mentioning it, otherwise Yan is afraid that he will forget. I made an agreement with Sun Jian, the assassin of Yuzhou, that I would sell him 500 war horses, send them to Wu County by boat, and let Han Dang, who was with me, take them away in a few days. ”

"Horse traffickers?" Fu Zhu frowned slightly, and said to Yan Bei: "There is no shortage of money in the county, why does the lord want to sell horses?" ”

"I don't want money, I'm going to exchange five hundred horses for at least five hundred shipwrights, and in our hands, shipwrights are much more useful than horses...... Our best horses can produce a steady stream of tall cubs, but the skilled shipwright cannot. Yan Bei said, with a wicked smile on his face, and said to him: "Let the horse supervisor pick out a war horse with a shoulder height of five feet and six inches, one inch higher is not enough, and one inch lower is not good...... Remember to give them a knife, otherwise they won't be docile enough as war horses. ”