The Roman Palace was built on the Palatine Hill and was later known as the Palatine Palace. Because the foot of the mountain was guarded by the most elite Roman legions, the palace mountain was relatively peaceful.

At the top of the hill, the Roman Emperor Caracalla stands on a high platform, where he used to like to stand and look down on the prosperity of the magnificent city of Rome.

Today's city is full of desolation and thick smoke billowing everywhere. The sound of shouting and scolding can be heard to the top of the mountain, an apocalyptic scene.

Caracalla's lips trembled, and he wanted to cry without tears, and muttered, "Why, why did my empire become like this?" ”

"Report ......"

Caracalla wiped the corners of his eyes, and when he turned around, he saw that all the important ministers of Rome had arrived.

Antonic was out of breath and shouted, "Your Majesty, check ...... Examine...... Check it out! ”

"Who the hell is that man?" Caracalla's face was gloomy and terrifying.

Caracalla was not stupid, and he soon discovered that the source of all this came from the huge amount of gold exchanged in various important towns at the same time. This will definitely not be a coincidence, there must be an organization that wants to overthrow its own dynasty. So, he sent an elite force to investigate. And the main target is naturally focused on the nobles who exchanged in the city of Rome.

Antonic said cautiously: "Your Majesty, the news reported back from the Thracian region does not have that person. ”

In Rome, those who can have huge amounts of money will definitely not be ordinary people, but must be aristocrats.

"Not at all?" Caracalla was very puzzled, and asked again, "That must be disguised, it must be an impostor family, a big family, it must be a powerful big family, continue to investigate!" ”

The thing is clear, the person who can have such a large amount of money to exchange must be a huge family. Then, the goal can be greatly narrowed.

Gaia Julius was shocked, and thought to himself that this was a great purge. He immediately said: "Your Majesty, calm down, the minister has already checked, and there is no change in the funds of the major families." They did not participate in the redemption and were loyal. ”

This makes it even more confusing, so who is it.

At this time, I saw Calpunias Brutus's face flushed, and he exclaimed excitedly: "I know! ”

When Caracalla's cold gaze stared at the past, Calponias hurriedly said, "It must be the Tang Dynasty, it must be the ghost of Emperor Wude?" ”

"Oh?" Everyone was stunned.

At this time, I heard a voice sound outside: "Report ......"

When they looked back, they saw an officer rushing forward with a letter, and exclaimed, "I found a letter addressed to Your Majesty!" ”

Caracalla took it and saw that it was a letter written to him by Emperor Wude, in which everything was clearly explained.

Caracalla looked at the letter, his pale face gradually turning green, and then purple, and at last when the purple turned black, he frantically tore up the letter, and cried out: "Despicable, shameless, wow! ”

It turned out that Caracalla spurted out a mouthful of blood and fell on his back.

"Your Majesty!" The crowd panicked.

Caracalla was spitting blood, and his empire was already on the verge of collapse.

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In the middle of June of the fifteenth year of Wude (220 AD), the Tang Dynasty met.

The guards on duty said loudly: "Xuanwang Xuance, Wei Xiaokuan and others have come to see ......"

Immediately, Wang Xuance and Wei Xiaokuan entered the Jinluan Hall side by side.

The scarcity of gold has created its status as a hard currency for hundreds of years, and although Datang is now actually implementing the credit standard, gold still has a significant role. After all, Li Yi can't live for long. Once he dies, Datang's credit standard is likely to fall apart.

This is also the reason why Li Yi clearly set the credit standard as the gold standard in the "Datang Bank Law". Even if he dies, even if Datang's credit system collapses, as long as Datang has enough gold reserves, Datang's economic system will not collapse, and the Datang Empire will not collapse. Because Datang can use gold at any time to once again act as a currency to support the entire system.

This is also the reason why countries are still frantically stockpiling gold under the global credit standard in later generations.

As the world's most powerful country in the last hundred years, and an expanding empire, the Roman Empire had the largest gold reserves in the world, accounting for more than one-third of the world's gold reserves.

And because the Roman Emperor Caracalla forced the people to exchange gold for paper money, and now the Tang Dynasty has swept two-thirds of Rome's gold reserves, so that the Tang Dynasty is now in charge of almost four-fifths of the world's gold reserves.

This is the foundation of the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, as the implementers of this action, Wang Xuance and Wei Xiaokuan have made great contributions.

"1 million catties of gold ......" Even Li Yi couldn't help but stand up from the dragon chair after hearing the results of this operation, and he waved his hand fiercely, "Okay, good!" ”

At this time, 1 million catties are relative to 250,000 kilograms in later generations, that is, 250 tons of gold. This amount of gold, even in the later generations that Li Yi traveled over, is a number that cannot be ignored, let alone the era before 1800.

Subsequently, more than 100 Royal Forest soldiers moved more than a dozen large wooden boxes. When opened, it was full of golden gold.

Wang Xuance bowed to the ground and said, "Your Majesty, the rest are outside." ”

Everyone passed through the door of the main hall and looked out, only to see that the square in front of the Taihe Hall was densely packed with large wooden boxes. A thousand soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army are working hard to carry it.

250 tons of gold, even if each soldier carried 50 kilograms, it would take 5,000 people to move it at one time. What's more, there are only 1,000 Royal Foresters here, and each person needs to carry five round-trips.

"1,000,000 catties...... Gold...... Oops...... "Many elderly officials looked at the countless large wooden boxes outside, and said in their hearts that if this was the previous dynasty, it would be difficult to have a box, so they were so excited that they almost fainted.

Hundreds of officials were overjoyed, and praised Wang Xuance and Wei Xiaokuan for being the pillars of the country. And Wang Xuance and Wei Xiaokuan returned the salute one after another, saying: "Don't dare to be greedy for the merit of heaven for ourselves, we just implemented the emperor's plan." ”

Yes, yes, this was all planned by the emperor. As a result, hundreds of officials sang praises one after another, what is an emperor through the ages, a family for all generations, and a saint in the reincarnation, incomparable...... Those who don't want money are thrown out.

Although I know that it is not good to have a personality cult, but all the officials are like this, Li Yi has no choice but to let them go, the law does not blame the public, and everyone can't be reprimanded, right?

Fortunately, Li Yi is used to it, if the average emperor is praised like this, he must faint to death happily.

Emperor Wude's heart was excited, but he still maintained a considerable calm, and asked, "Two Aiqing, how is the situation in Rome?" ”

The hundred officials were very pleased, and secretly gave a thumbs up, the emperor of the heart is worthy of being a saint emperor, if it is someone else, he only cares about money. Thinking about the Three Emperors again, more than 2,000 years, the Chinese people are looking forward to it, and finally there is a sage emperor again!

God has eyes, sent Emperor Wude, and followed Emperor Wude, and it will be famous in history in the future.

Therefore, all the officials are in good spirits, and they are not dizzy, and they don't take gold seriously, and their hearts are not just 1 million catties of gold, what a big deal. When there were three emperors and five emperors, there was China, and now there is Emperor Wude, who defeated Rome, and there is the whole world. The whole world belongs to our Datang, and there is still a shortage of gold? Dig as you like!

Li Yi also found that all the officials didn't look at the gold in the palace, and he was very pleased, and he said in his heart that he was worthy of being an official of my Tang Dynasty, what is this gold!

Wang Xuance began to replay the recent situation in Rome.

When Caracalla devised a plan to deal with it, the Roman army sprang into action and suppressed the riots. In places where the riots are severe, massacres are even carried out and all finances confiscated. Caracalla used these possessions to pacify the riots.

Caracalla convened a council of senators and said to them that when the country is finished, you will be finished. He asked the senators to give their wealth and appease the people. And promised that in the near future, the state would compensate the patriarchs.

On the other hand, Caracalla made a promise to the Roman people, and he signed a contract of national debt, claiming that within three years he would compensate for everything.

It was another bloody suppression, and another compensatory appeasement, with a big stick in one hand and a radish in the other, and finally pacified the nationwide riots. However, the country is in recession, the people are struggling to make a living, and the national strength is no longer half of what it used to be.

Wang Xuance said: "All over Rome, more than 2 million troops and countless warships were dispatched, and the riot was finally suppressed. However, Roman paper money has dismantled and is now back to gold, silver and copper currency. However, due to the scarcity of precious metals, the people have returned to bartering thousands of years ago. ”

Li Yi on the dragon platform frowned slightly, and said in his heart: "The Roman army is so loyal and powerful, and it suppressed the national rebellion so quickly?!" ”

Wang Xuance observed his words and said: "Your Majesty, Caracalla issued paper money on a large scale in the early stage, gathered huge material reserves, expanded the army, and rebuilt the navy. So, when the rebellion broke out, the army was not affected. ”

Li Yi suddenly realized that Caracalla had looted the wealth of the whole country with paper money that could be printed uncontrollably, and although his country was finished, his military power could be strong to the peak for a certain period of time. This is like the militaristic expansion of later generations, such as the little devils in World War II, the people of the whole country did not have enough to eat, and the front-line troops were called a terrible one, and the whole of East and Southeast Asia was screaming.

Li Yi originally planned to take advantage of the civil strife in Rome to send troops, but he didn't expect that this Caracalla was really capable and ruthless, so he quickly suppressed it. Now it seems that Rome's military power has skyrocketed.

Jia Xu touched his somewhat gray beard and said, "Your Majesty, Rome has lost its entire national economy, and Caracalla simply cannot maintain a huge army for a long time. Just wait and gather strength, and there will definitely be a chance. ”

Rome has almost collapsed. The longer the time is drawn, the greater the gap with Datang.