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Liu Che didn't bother to care whether Ji Di and Yan Yi were willing or not.

For him, the emperor, you didn't do a good job if the task was assigned?

I'm sorry!

Please move your position!

The emperor can remember the old feelings and take care of his old courtiers.

However, it is absolutely not possible to miss the old feelings on national affairs.

Because that's a crime!

The longer the emperor is in office, the more he will become a loner!

Of course, you can value feelings, read affection, just like Yuan Cheng, and be a good gentleman.

But such an outcome will undoubtedly only push the entire country and nation into the abyss.

As Wang Anshi said: It is better for a family to cry than to cry all the way, cry all the way, and cry all the way than to cry in the world.

Of course, considering that Ji Di and Yan Yi are both gentlemen, Liu Che arranged two deputies for them - Gongsun Hong and Master Father Yan.

After the matter was confirmed, Liu Che said to Liu She: "Shaofu, the army is about to triumph, how is the minting situation regarding the reward of gold coins?" ”

When the news of Wuzhou Saijie came, Liu Che ordered that Shaofu take the lead and mint one million gold and five baht as one of the rewards for rewarding meritorious soldiers.

For these gold five baht, Liu Che requires that he strive for excellence, just like a work of art.

Liu Che is very concerned about this matter.

Because it is related to the credibility and credibility of the gold currency after the future gold standard.

China has been short of copper since ancient times, but the use of coins is huge!

So far, Shaofu has minted a total of nearly 200,000 five-baht coins.

But. Compared to the millions of coins in circulation, this is a little five baht. can only be the king and hegemon in Guanzhong.

Went to Kanto, there. It's still a world of four baht or even three baht.

Although the five-baht coin has earned credibility, the maximum amount of five-baht coin circulating in the Kanto region is 50,000 yuan.

This is the result of the efforts of the Salt and Iron Yamen to recycle old coins and mint new coins.

Now, the financial problem of the Han family is that the circulation plate of the five-baht coin is too small!

Even if Shaofu desperately tries to mint money, within ten years, I am afraid it will be difficult for five-baht coins to truly replace the circulation status of four-baht coins and three-baht coins.

Moreover. Even if Shaofu is desperate to mint money, there must be raw materials!

The serious shortage of copper and the difficulty of refining it restricts the development of national finance.

As a traverser, Liu Che knew that in the long history of China, the lack of copper has always plagued the Chinese dynasty.

In order to deal with the problem of the lack of copper coins, Emperor Wu played with white deer skin coins, and he had to take a deer skin to offset 3,000 gold.

During the Ming Dynasty, treasure money was also engaged.

Until the middle and late Ming Dynasty. It was the inflow of silver from the Americas that made China no longer short of money.

Silver became money and equivalents.

Now, counting on the silver of the Americas to save the world is tantamount to a dream.

Neon and Huaihua's gold. It can be relied on.

In addition, the Western Regions, West Asia and India are all rich in gold.

As long as you can conquer and rule these places. There will be no shortage of gold in the Han family.

Turning gold into a general equivalent, making it a large currency in circulation. This is not only a solution to the money shortage, but also the best financial policy to strengthen the centralization of power.

But how effective is it. You still have to try to know.

After all, China has never had the experience of issuing gold and silver coins.

Whether the common people recognize and accept it is a big question mark.

When Liu She heard this, he immediately gave an order to the two entourages behind him, and soon after, someone held a plate and presented it to Liu Che.

"Your Majesty!" Liu She said like a treasure: "This is a kind of money, please look at it!" ”

Liu Che asked Wang Dao to take the plate, lifted the silk cloth covered with it, and then, dozens of neatly arranged gold coins appeared in front of his eyes.

The appearance and size of these gold coins are similar to the five-baht coins currently in circulation in the Han Dynasty.

Liu Che picked up a gold coin and looked at it in front of him for a while.

Shaofu did spend a lot of thought on minting these gold coins this time.

It's almost like a work of art.

The coin is about two centimeters in diameter, like the five-baht coin, with a square hole in the middle, and a circular shape to symbolize the round place of the sky.

On both sides of the coin, with a small usurp, the word five baht is written.

The upper and lower parts are bordered with gold grain, which looks beautiful.

It's just that......

Liu Che looked down at Liu She and asked, "Shaofu, how much does this gold coin cost?" How is the fire consumption? ”

Han system, one catty sixteen taels, one tael twenty-four baht, after conversion, one baht weighs about 0.65 grams, and five baht weighs about 3.30 grams.

But in reality, it is impossible to control the coins and catties very finely.

The current Han five baht usually has a weight difference.

The heavy ones may be close to four grams, and the light ones are about three grams.

The gold coin in Liu Che's hand now, judging from the feeling, is also about 3.5 grams.

From a mathematical point of view, a pound of gold should be able to mint at least eighty-five gold baht, and if you ignore your conscience and mix some impurities, a hundred can easily be minted.

At present, the five baht coins can mint 110 coins per pound of copper on average.

From an economic point of view, a pound of gold must mint at least 90 gold and five baht to be considered a loss.

But from a financial point of view, at least 100 pieces must be minted to ensure continuous circulation.

However, this casting method adopted by Shaofu made Liu Che very worried.

If the fire consumption is too much, and the number of gold coins minted is not enough, he will lose money!

Liu Che is unwilling to do things that are at a loss.

"Back to Your Majesty, this kind of gold coin, at present, one pound of gold, ninety-two coins......" Liu She said with a smile: "It's okay to ......"

Liu Che shrugged his shoulders helplessly, pushed the plate of gold coins into Liu She's hand, and ordered: "Shaofu will think of a way to see if it can be a pound of gold on the basis of ensuring the appearance." minted about a hundred coins......" Liu Che thought for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "At least ninety-five!" ”

Although the state issues currency. I don't make money from money itself.

However, the scum of issuing money at a loss. It will certainly be deeply educated by the broad masses of the working people.

There are so many smart people, and once someone finds out, after melting the gold five baht, recasting can be profitable.

Liu Che believes that the people from north to south of the river, up and down the river, will participate in this process.

Therefore, the cost of gold must be controlled.

Financial loopholes must be eliminated and exploited by profiteers.

And Liu Che had already calculated. More than ninety-five gold coins would make any form of reminting unprofitable.

Because gold is not like copper, mixing copper into iron can also fool people.

The fineness of the gold coins can be seen at a glance by experienced people.

Although Liu She didn't know why the Son of Heaven was so picky on the coins he gave to meritorious soldiers. But since this is the order of the Son of Heaven, of course he has to obey it.

It's just that......

"Your Majesty, if you have a pound of gold, you must mint more than 100 gold coins. The minister was worried that the gold coin was in poor condition, even if it was ninety-five. I'm afraid there are some flaws......" Liu She said.

Mixing things into the gold is a technical job.

Even if it is another two thousand years. The jewelry in the gold shop, how good is it? Whether it is pure gold or not, the aunt can distinguish it at a glance.

In today's era when technology can't catch up with future generations, it's almost impossible to mix something into gold without being discovered.

After all, gold, if you are slightly doped with impurities, the average person really can't see it.

But if there are too many impurities, even a fool can tell the difference.

When Liu Che heard this, he also nodded, and encouraged: "Try to do it, on the premise of ensuring quality, mint as many coins as possible, and pass on my order to the craftsmen: if you can mint more than ninety-five coins, all of them will be knighted!" ”

Only then did Liu She bow down and bowed: "No! ”

After this matter was settled, Liu Che said: "Yan Yi stays, and the other secretaries will go back to get busy...... In addition, tonight, I will hold a banquet in the Xuanshu Hall to celebrate the great victory of Ma Yi with the ministers, and all the ministers will come to participate in the strike......"

"No!" The ministers bowed one after another, and then withdrew from the hall step by step, leaving Yan Yi to face Liu Che alone.

"Maoling's work, Aiqing will talk to me first......" Liu Che sat down, leaned against the bed, closed his eyes and recuperated.

"No!" Yan Yi bowed down, and then took out a booklet from his arms, and reported the contents recorded in the booklet to Liu Che one by one.

Liu Che closed his eyes and listened carefully to Yan Yi's report.

Maoling, this is the hottest economic hotspot in Guanzhong now.

Not to mention, Liu Che sold the school district house, and he returned more than 50,000 gold and tens of thousands of coins, and made a lot of money.

And Yan Yi and Ji Di also made a lot of money in the process.

They may have initially just wanted to save some face for Liu Che, and took money from home to buy two or three sets of B houses.

But now, they have become the first people in history to make a profit by flipping houses.

But the school district house is a one-shot deal.

After making this ticket, Liu Che doesn't plan to play anymore for at least five years.

Playing like this every year is to treat businessmen and the world as fools.

But even if there is no school district house, Maoling has still become an economic growth point for the Han family.

Not to mention anything else, Gongsun Hong took people to set up cards in Maoling, collected business tax and transaction tax, and in just two months, he handed over more than 5 million yuan to Mofu.

The Shi family alone contributed more than one million dollars in business taxes to Gongsun Hong.

In addition, Shaofu opened a racecourse in Maoling, sold horse betting lottery tickets, and earned 30 million yuan in half a month.

Even Prime Minister Zhou Yafu was frightened.

But Liu Che knew that this was just the beginning.

Not to mention, Xiuyiwei once reported that in Chang'an alone, the annual bet amount of cockfighting lackeys is as high as tens of millions of dollars.

And that's just the size of Chang'an's underground illegal gambling market.

The entire Guanzhong, the whole world, the wealth invested in cockfighting, lackeys and games every year cannot be counted at all.

From the aristocratic princes to the peddlers and pawns, the people of the Han Empire always have a surprising enthusiasm for gambling and competitive competitions.

Nowadays, everyone can gamble openly and legally, stimulate their nerves and blood vessels, and at the same time support national defense construction.

This wave of horse gambling is naturally out of control.

The merchants, nobles, and officials of the city, the cashiers with plenty of money to spare, and the rangers who do nothing all day, find new entertainment.

But, there are pros and cons to everything.

The rise of the horse gambling wave, on the other hand, has actually intensified social contradictions.

The aristocratic officials said that they had money anyway, and even if they went bankrupt, there were still people who would not starve to death.

But this Ranger is a problem.

Once there is a thing where someone gambles on horses, goes bankrupt, and then seeks death and even revenge on society.

It is likely to have extremely bad effects.

Liu Che naturally has a very high vigilance about this.

Therefore, on the one hand, he ordered that the maximum bet amount for betting on horses was limited to 1,000 yuan, and also let Shaofu plaster all conspicuous positions in the racecourse with the slogan 'Gambling harms others and harms oneself'.

It's actually like printing 'smoking is bad for health' on a cigarette pack, purely in case something goes wrong, so that you can shirk responsibility.

But even so, Liu Che's heart is actually very uneasy.

After all, gambling on horses, under today's social ethics and moral values, once something goes wrong, it may be a tsunami.

Since ancient times, China has not only been a ruler, but also a footcloth.

In fact, the common people are the same.

In the thinking of the Chinese people, even if there is a problem and trouble in another two thousand years, it is to find the government to solve it.

Especially in the countryside, when encountering troubles and difficulties, of course, the emperor will take the blame.

Don't say that something happened to the gambling horse, even if it doesn't rain, the emperor can be responsible.

Moreover, public opinion, and even the emperor himself, accepted this premise - God does not rain, it is indeed my fault!

And after listening to Yan Yi's report on the grand occasion of betting on horses, Liu Che's inner uneasiness was even more magnified.

"...... like this" Liu Che opened his eyes and instructed Yan Yi: "Qing and people, those who have the title of Doctor Kagong and below are not allowed to enter on all roads around the racecourse!" ”

The Gongdafu, the seventh rank of the military merit system, is the boundary that divides the landlord class and the yeoman peasants.

Further up, it is the highest level of the donation system. 、

The exclusion of those with the title of prince from the racecourse is tantamount to preventing gambling from harming yeoman farmers and tenant farmers.

As for the landlords, the nobles are arrogant.

Liu Che just wanted to say: Welcome to bet!

Moreover, if you are reasonable, it is only cool that these people's money can be earned!

When Yan heard this, he was overjoyed and bowed: "The minister respectfully obeys the edict!" ”

This racecourse, Yan Yi naturally knew that this was the meaning of the Son of Heaven, so it was opened.

Although it was publicized externally, this was a decision made by Liu She alone in order to raise funds for the construction of cuirassiers and the manufacturing costs of equipment.

However, this is also deceiving children.

Even the rangers in the market can't fool them!

Although Yan Yi wanted to advise the Son of Heaven, closing this racecourse was the best decision.

But alas, he can't say.

What if I disobey the Son of Heaven because of this?

And, so far, there has been no mess at the racecourse.

The princes and scholars had no opinion, and if they rashly proposed to close it, they might be attacked as 'fame and reputation'.

Now, the situation of Confucianism in the court is very dangerous.

If you are not careful, you will be bitten by the old Huang school and the Mo family.

Even a Legalist who is not paying attention and seems to be an ally at the moment doesn't mind kicking it and filling it with a handful of dirt.

For the current Yan Yi, it is better to ban the public doctor than to ban it.

Anyway, it's an improvement!

[It's about to be 515, I hope to continue to hit the 515 red envelope list, and the red envelope rain will be able to give back to readers and promotional works on May 15. A piece is also love, and it must be better! (To be continued.) )

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I'm a waste of wood today~~

I actually wrote 10,000 words!

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