Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, touched the five-baht coin, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.

The five-baht new coin minted by Liu Che is not only beautiful in appearance, smooth on the surface, but also has lines on the surface of the coin.

The main thing is that this coin has a high copper content.

Liu Che minted money, so naturally he couldn't hide it from him, the emperor.

In the past few months, Shaofu has allocated a total of tens of thousands of catties of copper.

In addition, the copper materials owned by Liu Che, the prince himself, and the copper materials that were copied and copied and supplied by the Bo family, nearly 200,000 catties of copper entered the prince's workshop.

It's just that......

Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, took the five-baht coin and looked at the box of newly minted money placed in this hall.

He didn't understand it slightly.

At this moment, he even felt that he couldn't understand Liu Che's behavior at all.

The copper content of these five baht coins is so high, can the prince make money on these five baht coins?

Don't underestimate the Liu family's ability to scrape the ground.

As the crown prince of the Liu family.

Liu Che knows this too well!

At the beginning, Liu Bang was able to mint three baht coins that directly led to a pre-AD financial crisis that triggered a large-scale economic crisis.

Lu Hou minted eight baht coins.

Emperor Taizong Xiaowen minted four baht coins.

And all this coinage is actually just scraping the ground.

Even in order to facilitate the scraping of the ground and maintain the credibility of coinage, during the reign of Empress Lu, he issued an edict stipulating the circulation standards of coins, according to the regulations at that time, as long as the diameter is not less than ten inches and eight, as long as the handwriting on the coin can still be recognized, then even if the coin is missing. Although the body of the money is worn, it is not just broken by man or is made of lead. Even if it is a legal coin, any can not be refused, and the offender will be fined two taels.

This law is actually for Emperor Gao Liu Bang to wipe his ass.

Because the quality of the batch of three-baht coins minted by Liu Bang is really unacceptable.

But, since it has already been issued.

Do you expect the court to admit that you are wrong?

In addition, there were rats in the poor treasury of the Han family at that time......

So this deficit can only be passed on to the common people......

These things, Liu Che is clear, speaking of which, since Liu Bang. Relying on coinage to scrape the ground is one of the talents of the old Liu family.

Later, the little pig who had no discipline even did the absurd act of using a deerskin for 3,000 gold.

Yes. Liu Che minted five baht coins, but in fact, he didn't just slap his ass and mint money directly.

Instead, it's been a trial and error process and the recipe has been tweaked. Only then did it finally come to the reasonable ratio of copper, iron and lead in the current coinage.

This batch of five-baht coins minted by Liu Che. At present, it is just guaranteed that while minting money has a certain profit, it will not give some 'smart people' loopholes.

For example, it is necessary to cast bronze objects with money......

From this, you can imagine how profitable it is to mint money in the Western Han Dynasty!

Because the four-baht coins currently on the market, whether it is weight, shape, or copper content, they cannot be compared with the batch of five-baht coins minted by Liu Che.

In this way, the five-baht coin minted by Liu Che will only be circulated. It is guaranteed to have a certain profit margin!

Of course, complaining about his father, grandfather, ancestors or something. It was not Liu Che's goal.

As a traverser, Liu Che is very clear, what does currency mean?

Money is the regime, the foundation of the state, one of the symbols of the legitimacy of the dynasty!

From this point of view, not to mention that there is a profit in minting money, it is a loss, and this power must be returned to the central government!

However, Liu Che knew very well that the current return of the coinage to the central government would only cause the princes to be separated from morality, and it would not have any practical effect.

Little Pig was able to return the coinage power to the central government, which was based on the background of the era when Wu Chu was exterminated, the power of the princes and kings was greatly reduced, and the Tui En Decree had taken effect.

That is to say, if you rashly promote the state-owned monopoly of coinage at this moment, it can only be an end - no one in the world will not oppose it!

However, it is not advisable to forcibly push it on the surface, and it is still possible to slowly take back the coinage right secretly.

That's what Deng Tong did in the first place!

But.........

This thing is a generation gap!

For people in this era, they can't understand or understand financial policies or anything.

In many remote mountainous areas of this era, primitive barter was even popular, even in Guanzhong, silk cloth was also a form of currency, legal circulation, and government taxation were all accepted silk cloth......

Liu Che was thinking about how to explain to his father in his heart.

Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, asked lightly: "The prince wants to use this money to collect grain?" ”

Liu Che kowtowed and said: "Back to my father, that's exactly the case!" ”

"The prince's heart is too soft," Liu Qiyou, the son ......of heaven, sighed for a long time.

Liu Che listened, but his heart jumped, he was really afraid of something.

The king, the ruler, of course, should love the people as sons.

But as a ruler, soft-heartedness is a big taboo!

After Song Xianggong, there was no one in power in the world who believed that evil could not prevail over good.

As for the Liu family of the Han family, it is a bunch of realists in power.

Can you expect a ruler who is a tyrant to be a ruler who believes that swords are better than cannons to identify with what the people are noble and the king is light?

The emperor of the old Liu family can't even trust his uncles, uncles, brothers and sisters!

Therefore, in the previous life, as soon as Liu Rong's temperament was soft, he faced the fate of being abolished, and later Liu was trained by the little pig every day, and Liu Xun said unceremoniously: 'Those who mess with my family will be the prince'.

Even the courtiers and the common people did not like a soft-natured king.

Later generations of Ban Gu unceremoniously commented on Emperor Yuan's 'soft and good Confucian', which was not a compliment at the time!

As for Emperor Hui Liu Ying, at this time, public opinion generally unceremoniously accused him of being a 'benevolent and weak king'.

Therefore, Liu Che knows very well that he must not leave behind the impression of being a 'soft-hearted'.

Liu Che thought for a while and kowtowed: "Father and Emperor Rongyu, the son thinks like this......"

He looked up at his father and said firmly: "Before and after the son's retainer minted money." I have carefully read and compared the gains and losses of ancient and modern coinage, and with the mentality of considering the future generations of the society, I have set the proportion of this five-baht coin! ”

Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, listened. His eyes opened slightly, and he nodded, "Go on......"

He, the emperor, was exceptionally sensitive to numbers and numbers.

Liu Che bowed down and said: "Father, the Warring States period minted money and was chaotic, but it ended with Qin half and two coins dominating the world......"

"Qin half a tael, weighing twelve baht. Since the prosperity of the Han family, the emperors of all dynasties have felt that the Qin money is heavy and inconvenient, so they have taken three baht respectively. Eight baht, four baht and other money, still in half a tael, the people have their own convenience and the treasury is abundant......" Liu Che was brazen and cheeky to put gold on his ancestors' faces.

This thing. From the perspective of Liu Che's traverser. The Liu family's royal family has lost more than an empty space!

The Qin Dynasty's money weighed 12 baht, which was four times that of Liu Bang's three baht and three times the four baht coins in circulation today.

However, the old Liu family ordered that regardless of Qin money or Han money, it should be calculated according to the face value of half a tael.

This is equivalent to saying that after Liu Bang became the emperor. Nothing was done, and there was a four-fold inflation. In this way, the large-scale inflation of Cheng Dù and the survival of the Han family are really due to the influence of various factors.

Even if it's a blank Golden Yuan coupon policy, it's nothing more than that!

But then again, it is indeed difficult for Liu Bang, a hooligan leader who bullied men and women in Pei County before the age of forty-eight, to understand what financial order is......

Liu Che firmly believes that Liu Bang probably made this ridiculous decision with a pat on the buttocks......

Therefore, after Empress Lu took power, he immediately used eight baht coins to stabilize the dìng market.

From three baht to eight baht to four baht, the Han family basically crossed the river by feeling the stones, and completed most of the way of monetary reform.

It's just that these people who pay the tuition are the same as the people of the world.

While slandering his imperial ancestors in his heart, Liu Che said with righteousness and awe-inspiring: "However, Erchen found an unusual thing from the records of the past dynasties......

Liu Che thought for a while and said: "Erchen is studying, in the early years of the Warring States Period, Li Kui changed the law in Hedong, and when it was, corn was fifty dollars a stone!" It was Li Kui who said to Wen Hou: Today, one husband and five people are narrow to rule Baitian...... Stone thirty, for money five hundred! ”

Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, listened and nodded, this record, and Li Kui's remarks, at this time, everyone in the government and the opposition knew about it, and almost regarded it as a currency and regarded it as a must-read book for those in power.

"What does the prince want to say?" Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, asked strangely.

Liu Che raised his head and said: "Back to my father, my sons used to be confused about this, when Li Kui was young, a stone of corn was worth fifty, and now one stone of corn, when the harvest year, it was only forty or fifty dollars, and when it was not available, the price of rice was eighty or ninety ......."

Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, was slightly stunned when he heard this, he seemed to understand something, but his brain couldn't turn for a while.

Liu Che continued: "At the time of Li Kui, Hedong produced one and a half stones per mu, and it was called the land of the world! ”

"Now those who produce two stones per mu in Guanzhong are just in the field, and four stones per mu in the field abound......" Liu Che blinked his eyes, looked at his father, and said the core place: "In the past two hundred years, the yield per mu has doubled, and the price of rice has hardly risen...... And only Qin money, at that time, one penny was the weight of three coins of my Han family, and in two or three hundred years, the yield per mu doubled, the money system shrank, and the price of rice did not move, and Erchen thought it was very strange! ”

It's not just weird!

In the early years of the Warring States period where Li Kui was located, Han, Wei and Zhao had just separated, and the currency in circulation was still the cloth coins of the Jin Kingdom, and the cloth coins were only the cloth coins unearthed in later generations, and the weight was definitely much heavier than the Qin money!

So, in the Han Dynasty, such a strange phenomenon appeared.

For almost 300 years, the price of grain, which is the main bargaining commodity, has been lower than it was 300 years ago.

A simple mathematical calculation can lead to this strange theory.

That is, the current price of rice is constant at 50 yuan from the price of rice in the Li Kui era, and the cloth coin of the Li Kui era is calculated as 12 baht.

In other words, the yield per mu has increased by 2.5 times, and the value of the currency has depreciated by three times.

But the price of rice has not changed......

It's as if there is no zài inflation in this world......

The most important thing is that instead of inflation, prices have become strangely tightened.

And that's without taking into account the 300 years of demographic change and land change.

Any later life, went to secondary school. Anyone who has seen the world can see at a glance that the economy and finance of this era have been artificially deformed.

Of course. If you want people to understand and know the economics of the future, this is undoubtedly a hellish task, and it is basically impossible to succeed!

But this did not prevent Liu Qi, the son of heaven, from also being puzzled and confused.

He also vaguely felt that something was wrong.

In this world, only the die-hard and conservative elements of the Confucian gang would think that the world has not changed as it was in the third generation.

The fact is that the entire Han dynasty is at a critical juncture from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, and the Han civilization has also moved from dormancy to strength and development.

At this time. Despite the emergence of new technologies and inventions, even the social system is at a critical juncture of great changes unseen in 3,000 years.

Just like China after 1840, when it opened its eyes to the world.

The same is true of the Han family, since the siege of the mountaineering. Han and Huns coexisted, and the Xiongnu were even stronger than the Han family.

In order to maintain the great defense of Huayi, but also for their own country for thousands of years.

Whether Liu wants it or not, this regime. We must all be open-minded and upward. Keep forging ahead, keep thinking, and keep reforming.

In this era, whether it is a hundred schools of thought, three princes and nine kings, and even the emperor who is high, he is constantly seeking self-change and breakthrough.

If you don't, you can't be strong. Everyone knows that once the Huns come in. Everyone will be sent to the left and go to the mountains to be savages.

In such a situation, a hundred schools of thought competed for glory, and once again bloomed the second light after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

From the emperor to the common people, people with a sense of distress and enterprising spirit are all looking for a way to revive the central empire and realize the ideal kingdom of the whole world and the coast of the land.

Therefore, as long as it does not touch on ideology, does not endanger the rule of kings, and does not endanger hài vested interest groups, the whole society is happy to accept new thinking and ideas.

It is precisely in this way that Chao Cuo shouted the slogan of 'Yu has nine years of water, Tang has seven years of drought, and the country is dead and barren, so as to accumulate more and prepare for the first place'. Zhengda and brightly branded the slogan of Shigu and carried out the trend of reform.

It is precisely in this way that Zhang Qian later excavated the Western Regions, and the Han envoys even went to the distant rest and arrived at the end of Asia and saw the strait of Europa.

The sense of distress and the desire for change in the whole society are no worse than those of the post-1840s.

After the 1840s, the whole of China tried almost all possible truths, whether it was a constitutional monarchy, a people's cooking, a dictatorship, a Nazi, or even capitulationism.

At this time, the Han family was basically the same.

As long as the ruler thinks it makes sense, he doesn't mind trying it out at all.

Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, is no worse than most people in mathematics.

He just made a slight calculation in his heart and asked, "Why does the prince think this?" ”

"Erchen thinks that there must be a demon when things go wrong!" Liu Che knelt down and said: "Although Erchen doesn't understand why this is the case, there must be something wrong, so with this five baht money, throw stones to ask for directions, cross the river by feeling the stones, and see what can be found in the end......"

When Liu Qi, the son of heaven, heard this, a smile also appeared on his face and said: "Throwing stones to ask for directions, feeling the stones to cross the river, the prince thinks well!" I support you, the prince let it go! ”

At this moment, Liu Qi, the son of heaven, finally really felt that his prince had grown up and could be on his own.

So, he decided to let go and fully support Liu Che to do it.

At the same time, he was also very curious, what could Liu Che find in the end?

But either way, at least this investment will not be a loss!

Playing with the five-baht coin in his hand, Liu Qi knew very well what effect such a coin would have when it was put on the market.

That is, basically, not stupid people will trade for five baht in the future.

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At the same time, in the distant steppe, across the Hetao Plain, all the way to the west, at the foot of the Rouge Mountain, the annual grand celebration of the Huns was taking place.

This celebration is one of the most important celebrations of the Huns.

The Huns called it 'the Forest'.

There are two main functions.

First, the number of people and animals of the kings, tribes, and nobles.

This is an 'advanced management system' that the Bank of China taught the Huns only after they arrived at the Xiongnu.

The second is to show off their might, and the representatives of all the subject states, client states and allies of the conference show all the forces that the Xiongnu are invincible in the world and the strength of the Xiongnu Empire at its peak.

At this time. It was the period when the Huns were at their strongest.

A generation of male lords and elders went to the single Yu, fought in the south and the north, and broke through the entire Western Regions. expelled the feud Dayue clan, destroyed the Donghu, and made the entire steppe, from the Great Wall in the north, to the Beihai in the south, and to Central Asia in the west, all under the rule of the Xiongnu.

Even the head of the King of the Otsuki clan was made into a drinking vessel. It became a drinking utensil for the Huns.

At this moment, the Xiongnu Empire stretched for tens of thousands of miles, under the hooves of the Huns. There is no city that cannot be conquered, and there is no country that cannot be destroyed.

At this moment, the Xiongnu contemporary Shan Yu, the Han called the military minister Shan Yu's man. Riding his horse flew past the vast royal court cavalry battle array.

Countless voices shouted excitedly: "Hold the plow alone! Hold the plow alone! ”

If you change it to Chinese. It can be understood as the son of heaven or the son of heaven.

The Xiongnu are based on primitive shamanism.

The military minister Shan Yu walked all the way and came to the Rouge Mountain, and then he bowed in the direction of Longcheng, which was to worship his ancestors.

Then they bow to the west, which is a worship to the gods.

Worship the sun again, spread your hands, and countless sounds of 'supporting the plow and lonely Tu' continued to sound.

The military minister Shan Yu stood up. The large and small copper rings hanging from the big earlobes jingled.

"Great plow. Please bless me for generations of Huns, who are extremely strong and prosperous, ruling thousands of miles of grasslands for thousands of years! The warlord bowed his head and kissed the earth, praying.

Hundreds of wizards danced inexplicably around him.

In fact, the appearance of the Huns is different from that of the Chinese.

To be precise, the Xiongnu were an extremely mixed-race people.

As far as the military minister is concerned, he is short in stature, even less than 1.6 meters, but he has a large head and a round face, high cheekbones, thick eyebrows and almond eyes, a strange nose ring nailed to his big nose, huge ears, and earlobes full of earrings of different sizes.

In the eyes of the Huns, this is the purest blood of the Huns, the descendants of the great Mao Dun Shan Yu.

But in fact, this is still a half-breed.

It is probably a mixture of Cypriots and East Asian races.

In the process of evolution, in order to resist the cold, the Huns generally had thick body hair, and the military ministers were alone, and even had nobles and slaves who were almost the same as the ancient Greeks.

After praying, the military commander Shan Yu stood up, and a few slaves who were only dressed in animal skins were escorted to the mountain.

Then, several wizards came over and, with bone knives, slit the throats of these efforts, leaving their blood to run on the grass on the mountain.

"The disobedient and lonely refractive man who supported the plough has been punished by the plow!" A wizard screamed grotesquely, knelt down, and kissed the toes of the military minister Shan Yu.

"The plough is lonely! Hold the plow alone! Hundreds of thousands of Huns shouted frantically.

Reflex, this was once a powerful nomadic people, at its peak with tens of thousands of cavalry, but at the moment, this people was uprooted from the roots.

The last few nobles were killed on this Rouge Mountain.

Use their blood to confirm the strength of the Xiongnu!

When this qiē ceremony was completed, the military minister Shan Yucai stepped into the Shan Yu tent prepared for him.

Dozens of nobles were already waiting for his arrival.

The Xiongnu are also a people who are good at learning, at least, in the decades of war with the Han family, they also learned some of the political structure of the Han family, and used it for themselves.

For example, every powerful Xiongnu tribe must have a king.

Each of them has a nobleman appointed by the Governor to oversee it.

Such a move allowed the Xiongnu Empire to maintain its unity and unity, and all the tribes scattered in the steppe for tens of thousands of miles would obey the will of Shan Yuting.

"The Right Virtuous King disobeyed me, and has been punished by the plough and died violently, as a descendant of the lonely, the great Mao Dun Shan Yu, I will reappoint a new Right Virtuous King to rule all the bow hunters north of the Rouge Mountain!" As soon as the military minister entered the account, he announced his decision as a victor.

"Great plough solitary, all our bow hunters obey your orders......" Dozens of nobles, either kings or chiefs, knelt down and kissed the place where the courtiers walked in submission.

No matter how close they were to King Youxian in the past, at this time, they all followed the rules of the game of the Xiongnu, and the winner had one qiē, and the loser lost everything.

"I order all the bow hunters as a plowman, and without an order, they must not set foot in the Great Wall!" The military minister Shan Yu then issued his second order after coming to Rouge Mountain, and he looked around at everyone: "Unless the emperor of the Han Dynasty tears up the covenant, otherwise, the trespasser will die!" ”

"This is the covenant between the great old man and the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and those who disobey it are regarded as rebellion!"

It seems that this order is absurd, when will the Huns keep the covenant?

Isn't it for them to make a covenant to tear up?

However, if we think about this matter from the perspective of politics, all those who have been in contact with the Han people or who are themselves past Hanchen and fugitives are as clear in their hearts as mirrors.

Fight the Han people in the south?

Not to mention the benefits of eating, you will be pierced and bleeding.

The facts of the past few decades have proved that the Han dynasty was capable of posing a threat to the Xiongnu.

If the hedgehog in the south is so hard, why go to the south to raid?

Now the gifts and goods sent by the Han Dynasty every year can basically meet Shan Yuting's demand for luxury goods.

What's more, wouldn't it be easier for the small countries and tribes in the west and north that had no power to resist to grab it?

The most important thing is that this military minister Shan Yu is the former King Zuoxian, who has always sat in the west, and the west is his foundation and nest, as for the south......

Ahem, it's the territory of his past sworn enemies and competitors.

The southern tribe is still loyal to the heir of the deceased King Youxian.

Under such circumstances, the military ministers would let the southern tribes continue to invade the Han Dynasty.

The reason is very simple, the Han Dynasty is very strong, if it invades the Han Dynasty, it is necessary to gather the entire southern army, and even draw the cavalry from the west to cooperate.

In this way, some 'careerists' will seize the opportunity to strengthen their own strength, and even plot to rebel against Shan Yuting.

In the history of the Xiongnu, palace coups and conspiracy rebellions were as simple as eating and drinking water for the Han people!

The most unreassuring thing for the military ministers is that the remnants of King Youxian support and protect King Youxian's two sons.

Therefore, it became the only option to let the tribes in the south settle down and no longer have combat effectiveness.

And such a decision is also in line with the consistent thinking of the military ministers in the past when they fought against the Right Hyun King.

You must know that after the death of Lao Shangdan, the military ministers and the right virtuous king have been fighting for the line.

In the end, it was to invade the Han Dynasty in the south or to attack the small countries that were easy to conquer and control.

Now, as the victors, the military ministers must of course ruthlessly and completely destroy all the policies of the Right Virtuous King.

This is called political zhì correct!

"In addition, send another person to Chang'an of the Han Dynasty to deliver the letter of state to the emperor of the Han Dynasty on my behalf, declaring that I will give the people of the Han Dynasty the peace they hope for, and hope that the people of the Han Dynasty will also give me enough satisfactory wealth and silk to the great sun and moon, and the will of the great sun and the moon that the heavens have put on the plow!" The military minister said with a blank face.

"Obey the great plough, your command, is our will!" The Xiongnu nobles present, whether they wanted to or not, all knelt down and surrendered at the feet of this victor.

The iron law of survival of the Huns, the winner decides a qiē! (To be continued......)