Jingwen came to the palace, and Emperor Li Shimin also received him.

"How about making money just now? My avatar has been used by you to promote, so will you give me some benefits? Li Shimin asked.

Jingwen immediately knew that Li Shimin should have known what Jingwen had just done. However, Chang'an is the capital of the Tang Dynasty, what news does Li Shimin not know quickly? If an emperor can't even know all the important things that happened in Chang'an City, it means that the emperor is an emperor who has been set aside, and he is not an emperor with rights at all. Therefore, now the emperor has known this very early, and knows that Jingwen uses his appearance to make money.

"Your Majesty, I have a mention, that is, to let the people of the world know about you, Your Majesty! Your Majesty, how many people in this world know about you? I'm afraid that the vast majority of people only know the emperor, but they don't know who the emperor is. Therefore, the minister has a way, that is, let the people of the world see your avatar, so that the people can know who the emperor is, and let the people be loyal to the emperor! Let the people know that it is the emperor who leads the people to live a happy life. Jingwen immediately bragged.

"Do you mean, make my head all over the world, and then let the people know about it? But that's a lot of money! And there is also a suspicion of boasting! Li Shimin said.

Li Shimin also understood what Jingwen meant, that is, to make the emperor's portrait more visible to the world, so that they could know who the emperor was. However, the cost of such a government is also very high, and there is also a suspicion of boasting. As an emperor who wants to be faced, of course it's not suitable to brag like this!

"Your Majesty, it is naturally impossible for us to issue your portrait to every household. However, we can let as many people as possible see the emperor's portrait, for example, let the emperor's portrait circulate in the market, so that the people can scramble to watch! You said. Wouldn't that be great? Jingwen said.

"Then what do you think is the way to let the people know about me, but not to say that I am boasting?" Li Shimin asked.

Jingwen continued: "We can issue commemorative coins, which are specially used to show the people the heroic appearance of our emperor!" And our commemorative coins can be used as a high amount of currency, so that we let the people spend the process of continuous circulation, so that the emperor's heroic posture can not be reflected in the hearts of the people? We can use small amounts of silver as auxiliary coins to represent currencies that are of high value. Nowadays, there are many people, who buy things with a slightly larger amount, and they have to carry money strings to the streets, which weigh a lot. We might as well be in this case. I made some commemorative coins with the emperor's portrait on them. ”

"In this way, when the people spend money, they can often see the majesty and heroism of the emperor. At that time, your emperor's image in the hearts of the people will be greatly improved. ”

Li Shimin began to think about using small amounts of silver as auxiliary coins, and put some emperor's heads on many auxiliary coins, which can indeed have a positive effect. Moreover, Li Shimin has actually received news that the people are actually short of copper coins, and many people have begun to use silver as an auxiliary transaction. In fact, silver has become an auxiliary currency in some way. In fact, every time the imperial court ordered that silver could not be traded, but because of the lack of copper coins, it could not be stopped at all. And this is also a real problem. Li Shimin also knew that orders alone could not be realized.

And Li Shimin also knows the truth that blocking is better than sparse, and now Jingwen proposes to mint some silver commemorative coins, so that they can be cast on it to become a portrait of the emperor, which can be said to be propaganda for the emperor. Let the people know directly who the master of this country is. and not follow those officials blindly.

"In that case, then you should try to mint some small silver coins, about a penny to half a tael. If the effect is good when the time comes. Then you can gradually expand a little bit. Li Shimin said.

And Jingwen was happy in his heart, this time he could be said to have taken the opportunity of this commemorative coin, and then got the right to issue large amounts of currency into his hands. In the future, these small silver coins are roughly equivalent to the right to issue silver coins from one penny to half a tael, that is, it fell into Jingwen's hands. With a silver coin and a half tael of silver, that is probably equivalent to tens of yuan to hundreds of yuan in later generations, and the face value of this amount of money is probably the largest amount that ordinary people can use. And if you can grasp the right to issue this kind of coin, then I am afraid that the coinage rights of Datang will gradually transition to the hands of Jingwen's bank.

In the future, the transactions of those large-scale merchants will also be monopolized by their own exchange business, and the economy of Datang will be manipulated in Jingwen's hands. And as long as this process lasts for decades, Jingwen can also become the overlord of Datang's economy.

As for Li Shimin, he didn't think there was anything in this commemorative coin at all. For Li Shimin, he did not regard this kind of silver coin as a regular coin. Regarding Li Shimin's economic thinking, he still believes that copper money is currency. And this kind of silver coin is actually just a secondary coin, just used to commemorate the people. However, Li Shimin did not know that if the laws of the economy were followed, I am afraid that it would not be long before these currencies that were originally used for commemoration would gradually eliminate many bulky copper coins under the influence of the invisible hand of the economy, and the status of copper coins would be greatly reduced.

This is the economy, few emperors and officials in ancient times were able to understand the economy, and their eyes were on what military, what etiquette education, and what engineering construction, and the economic aspect was not paid attention to at all, but thought that business was a cheap industry. Although it does not crack down on business, officials will never take the initiative to support it, let alone take the initiative to study the laws in it. Therefore, Jingwen took the opportunity to start manipulating the economy when it was primitive, who could be more familiar with the economy than Jingwen? Although Jingwen was a two-sword in later generations, he was a master of economics in ancient times, and no one could compare to him!

"Hahahaha......" After Jingwen left the palace, he immediately burst out laughing, because he knew that the time for him to control the economy was not far off.

And those guards didn't know what was going on with Jingwen, and thought that Jingwen had cooperated with the emperor to make money, because this was not the first time this kind of thing had happened. (To be continued......)