Isn't money money? If it's four or five years in the morning...... No, it should be said that before they had contact with the empire, Wusun actually did not value the value of money, and most of them bartered and used horses, cattle, sheep and other livestock as hard currency.

Isn't there any currency here in the Western Regions? No, it's not. Many city-states in the Western Regions had their own currency, especially the more valuable the metal of the powerful city-state currency, most of them were gold and silver, but none of the city-states used brass as currency.

Wusun was once the most powerful state in the Western Regions, but the nomadic nature of the Wusun people meant that they would not produce their own currency. Of course, there are reasons for this, one is that Wusun smelting technology is not good, and the other is that he does not understand the relevant mining technology, and the most important reason is that Wusun thinks that things that cannot be bought can always be obtained by sword or intimidation, and for a long time, many city-states close to Wusun are "lambs" like existence, and are often "sheared".

"How embarrassing?" She's mouth said so, but his head kept nodding: "Discount, there is a discount on the Empire's side." When the Imperial Military purchases supplies, we will give a 20% discount! ”

Han Xin let out a "hmm", as if he had lost interest in speaking.

A trace of contempt and contempt flashed on Yu Fanjun's face on the side, Wusun needed assistance from the empire, but what Wusun could give to the empire was so small that it was insignificant, but Wusun hadn't realized this, and he was even stingy with the necessary supplies.

Shea talked about other things, and before he took his leave, he promised that he would provide the necessary food, and vaguely offered to discuss everything if he had money.

The empire's finances have always been in deficit, but the official government of the empire has never been short of money, and it is not a problem to solve anything, but sometimes it is really not so comfortable to spend.

As soon as She'a left, the curtain of the back account was opened, and He Yi walked out with a few people.

"Stupid Wusun." He Yi's face was expressionless: "They are burying themselves." ”

"Huh." Lu Chen chuckled a few times. said: "That's fine." Then buy it with great fanfare and boiling. He even informed the merchants and asked them to spend money on everything that Wusun could buy. ”

Han Xin and Yu Fanjun had already stood up to salute, and when they heard the words of Shi Luchen, the commander of the Western Regions, the two smiled cooperatively.

"The Wusun people are a people of robbery, but they don't know much about the value of the precious metals they have on hand." Lu Chen touched his chin: "Most of the Wusun people have some looted gold in their hands, and the amount of them is not large, but it is a lot together. Maybe it can also be bought by merchants at the right price. ”

Originally, some people still felt a little unauthentic about planning to annex or eliminate the allies of Wusun's current empire in the future, but Wusun's high-level eyes were narrow...... Or is it miserliness, or greed? Let those who were embarrassed in their hearts have no last remaining miserliness.

Since it is a bad feeling, the premise of not starting a war on Wusun. It's not too much to pit Wusun, right? The Wusun people did have a lot of gold on hand, most of which came from the city-states of the Western Regions. The imperial gold, silver, and copper tri-tiered monetary reform system has been put on the agenda, and the merchants who follow the envoys to the west are either bold or have backgrounds, and it is natural for them to have a little bit of news as a high-level leader.

The land of China, as far as the Yin Shang period, as close as the Great Qin to dominate the world, the currency circulating in the market is generally brass. Because the color of the pure brass is very similar to gold, it is called "gold". There are several types of currencies when formulating them, and in the early days, small currencies such as knife coins and shovel coins were the majority; Pressed into a cake is used as a relatively high denomination currency, that is, a horseshoe-shaped copper cake, so it is also called "horseshoe gold".

Gold and silver were also considered valuable in China. However, because the quantity is too scarce, it is difficult to become a currency that can be circulated in the market, and it is generally used to make jewelry, or to formulate some decorative jewelry. A small amount of temporary currency that is used in block trades. For a long time, gold and jade existed as high-grade currencies, but they had little to do with the common people. Only circulated among the nobility.

In fact, the first to really use gold as a currency in circulation were the Chu and Wu states during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, probably because there were more gold mines in the territory of these two countries? In the early days, because of the smelting technology, the purity of the smelted gold was not too ideal, for example, the gold smelted by Chu and Wu was not pure golden yellow, but with blue, blue, maybe some white, dark red, it is estimated that there are many mixed metals, such as a small amount of silver, copper, because of the colorful relationship was once called "colorful stone".

There are legends about the colorful stones, and the story of Nuwa mending the sky has appeared as early as the Shang generation. The appearance of gold is not nonsense, in fact, the smelting of gold is later than bronze, how to remove the impurities in gold to make it of high purity is a matter of later.

At present, the main currency of the empire is still brass, but because of Lu Zhe's intervention, brass is no longer called "gold", it should be called copper, and gold is transferred to real gold, which can be regarded as the first preparation for the future gold, silver, and copper three-digim model of the monetary system.

There were envoys to the empire in Wusun, and even the blind knew that copper coins were circulating in the empire, and they knew the purchasing power of copper coins as a currency.

The Wusun who need the empire, they not only need to get help from the empire's military level, but also need to buy a wide variety of materials from the empire, such as food is a more urgent commodity. So how does Wusun shop in the Empire? You can't just pull horses, cows, and sheep to change! They didn't even dare to think of a way to "pay" with a sword. How to obtain the currency of the empire became a question that had to be considered.

Many of the merchants in the envoy group came to Wusun in need of necessary supplies, and when they bought meat products, they had earlier used goods in exchange, and later felt the trouble of bartering, and tried to use copper coins to buy them, but they were not accepted by the Wusun people at first.

Wusun is a tribal form, and to put it bluntly, the tribal Kunmo can control all of Wusun's power over life and death, and also has the power to interfere when necessary. Ordinary Wusun people don't know the value of copper coins, and no matter how dull the royal family and nobles of Wusun are, they still know the value of copper coins, or it is under the joint intervention of the royal family and nobles that ordinary Wusun people accept the fact that copper coins can buy things.

Interestingly, ordinary Wusun people received copper coins from the Imperial merchants. The copper coins in their hands were quickly exchanged for other things by the royal family and nobles. The behavior of the royal family and nobles greatly reminded the ordinary Wusun people that since the royal family and nobles regarded copper coins as treasures, then copper coins must be treasures. As a result, the common people from the Wusun to the royal family all knew the value of copper coins, and the imperial merchants could pay copper coins when they traded.

"The more widely our currency circulates, the better it is for the Empire." Lu Chen had already explained for a long time just now, talking about the relevant concepts of money interest and so on, and taught a good lesson for those who were worried about the damage caused by the outflow of imperial currency. However, his appearance was not specifically to explain such a thing, and the topic of currency was just enough, and finally looked at He Yi and said, "Deputy Commander." Matters, you say, or am I going to talk about it? ”

He Yi didn't move except for a few words with Han Xin at the beginning, and Lu Chen asked for instructions, but he also nodded without saying a word.

"Then let's talk about it." Lu Chen looked around at the crowd in the tent, among them were the legions of the envoy corps, as well as some senior generals of the Western Regions Dispatch Army, and smiled before saying: "Before we came, there were already signs of chaos within Wusun, and after we arrived, we suppressed those ambitious leaders of the Wusun tribe. It not only helped the royal family with the surname Mi resist the invasion of Mao Dun in the south, but also indirectly helped the royal family with the surname Mi to suppress the disobedience. ”

Everyone is nodding, and it is precisely because of this that under the performance of the royal family surnamed Mi "not on the road", they all feel a little disgusted.

"Liu Zhengzhi is very busy. Busy hooking up with some Wusun tribal leaders, and also busy tasting women of various tribes. Lu Chen said giggled, and everyone laughed loudly. He shook his head and said, "So there is nothing Liu Zheng doing in this secret meeting." Let's not delay him in sowing seeds on women of all races for the sake of the population growth of the empire. ”

Yu Fanjun couldn't help but look at Han Xin, wanting to see something from Han Xin's face. However, he saw that Han Xin had no expression on his face, and wondered in his heart whether Lu Chen ridiculed Liu Bang for having an opinion on some of the operations of the envoy group.

The Imperial Military was a huge group. However, there are also factions and responsibilities within the military, the Wehrmacht is one whole, the Forbidden Army is another whole, most of the local garrisons and the additionally appointed warriors are another system, Yu Fanjun and Han Xin have a history of serving in the Wehrmacht, and they also have the symbol of the Forbidden, and they are still serving as additional delegates for the first time, and the current sequence cannot be regarded as a group of the Wehrmacht.

"There is also a brother Tai who is also very busy, he took dozens of relatives and rangers, set off from the empire thousands of miles, and trekked mountains and rivers to the Western Regions." Lu Chen's face became more and more serious: "It is precisely because of the ambition of this brother that some of our designated plans may be forced to be executed in advance. ”

Not everyone knew what was going on, especially on the side of the legations, who were mostly at a loss.

It stands to reason that Han Xin, the armed commander of the envoy group, would ask, but Han Xin's sense of smell in some things was really not very good, and the result could only be asked by Yu Fanjun.

"Li Xin! Li Xin, who said that he only needed 200,000 Qin troops to destroy the Chu State. Lu Chen didn't have a sneer on his face, but he was afraid that some people didn't know who Li Xin was, so he added an extra sentence. He frowned and said, "This brother Tai was introduced by the father of Wang Zhonglang (General) of the Ninth Cavalry Regiment, and met with His Majesty. Then, maybe he understood something wrong, and hurriedly led people towards the Western Regions. ”

Wang Ben's father, Wang Jianke, is a famous general, and there are few people who don't know. As for Li Xin, most of them still know who it is. For those who don't know, someone specifically mentioned the names of Li Chao and Li Ren.

Li Chao and Li Ren both served in the imperial military, Li Chao is about to be promoted to a partial general and has a lot of fame, Li Ren has a good hand in archery and is relatively famous, as soon as these two names are mentioned, Han Xin immediately made a sudden expression.

Han Xin suddenly didn't finally know who Li Xin was, he was a person who was familiar with military books, how could Li Xin, as a negative textbook in the history of military use, not know? He was suddenly Li Chao and Li Ren, and he had more or less contact with the two when he served in the Fifth Cavalry Regiment.

Yu Fanjun was so speechless at Han Xin that he couldn't bear to ask, "Lu Changshi, what is Li Xin doing in the Western Regions?" ”

"This brother Tai and Li Ren have formed a mercenary group, what else can they do when they come to the Western Regions?" Lu Chen's face was admired, and he couldn't see that the admiration was fake, and said: "They are here to do big things." ”

Yu Fanjun saw the look on Lu Chen's face, and the curiosity in his heart was mentioned to the maximum, and he waited for Lu Chen to continue, and was puzzled how Li Xin's arrival made the Western Regions send troops have to carry out some plans in advance.

"This benevolent brother, he is heading for the mud city. Hunicheng is the royal capital of Shanshan Kingdom, Shanshan Country has another name called Loulan, and he and Li Ren directly aimed to pick off the head of King Loulan. Lu Chen spread his hands and said, "We just got some information, they have already passed out of the border of Dunhuang County and have been rushing to the mud city. At their speed, they will be in Mud City in a month at the latest. ”

Yu Fanjun was obviously a little stunned when he heard it, and asked, "What did you say?" Li Xin is with less than a hundred people......"

"Wrong!" Lu Chen shook his fingers and made a gesture of three: "It's less than thirty people." ”

"Oh, less than thirty!" Yu Fanjun was surprised: "There are less than thirty of them, and then they are going to attack the mud city, and who are they going to cut down?" ”

Han Xin finally spoke up and reminded: "Shanshan Kingdom, also known as Loulan Kingdom, their king is the other one. ”

"Yes, yes, but it doesn't matter." Yu Fanjun's face was incredible: "Thirty people are attacking the city, and they still want to kill the king of a country?" Aren't they heavenly soldiers!? ”

"Haha!" Lu Chen was amused by Yu Fanjun's actions: "I don't know if it is thirty people attacking the city, but what is more strange is ......", he sold a pass, and said mysteriously: "There is news from the Taiwei Department and the General's Mansion, saying that there are unofficial channels to get His Majesty's speculation, and His Majesty thinks that Li Xin may be able to really kill Zhi Wu with thirty people." ”

In fact, it is not uncertain words such as "maybe" and "think", Lu Zhe said in a more affirmative tone that Li Xin can definitely do it. But it also sounds too ...... It's weird, some people who are ministers think it's unlikely, so they selectively cover up the emperor's shame, lest Li Xin can't do it when he gets it, and embarrass the emperor who is sure to do it. (To be continued.) )