Good Life in Qin Dynasty

Wang Ben had handed over the military affairs a long time ago, and everyone knew that his youngest sister was going to marry, or marry the emperor's younger brother. If there were no accidents, she would be the future empress.

Everyone is very active in contact with military affairs, let him go back with peace of mind, they will definitely give him a good job!

"You are optimistic about the border trade, and you must not let foreigners bring weapons in!" Wang Ben is afraid of the idea of ​​​​foreigners trading: "Every time 100 people are allowed to come in, and the number of people who deliver goods cannot exceed 1000, and they are not allowed. Walk around, and let them send back all the civilians from the Central Plains that they took away, and if I send one back, I will give them a hunk of salt, and I will give them priority in trading in the future!"

"No!" All the soldiers cupped their fists in salute.

Although the imperial court repeatedly asked the foreigners to return them to the Zhongyuan people, most of the foreigners refused.

The slaves of the Central Plains people are all ingenious, what will they do when they are sent back?

No way, Wang Ben and the others had no choice but to play the court, or Li Si gave an idea to lure him!

So they exchanged the slaves in the Central Plains with salt and tea, which foreigners couldn't dream of!

The people who got back cried so hard that they couldn't help themselves!

They thought they would never return to their homeland!

And after these people came back, they didn't go home immediately, let them teach foreign languages ​​to the diplomats!

Some of them have lived with foreigners for more than ten years and have naturally learned their language!

Sometimes, because being slaves is a dead thing for foreigners, they don't shy away from slaves when they talk and do things. On the contrary, they let Qin get a lot of news that foreigners didn't pay attention to!

After Wang Ben had arranged things, he hurried back with his people. Fortunately, the road was covered with concrete roads, and there were post stations for them to rest, so they didn't suffer much.

It's midsummer here, and Li Jiyang started delivering ice to every household again. Basically, there are grocery stores selling popsicles in every county in Qin State.

Two eggs, two duck eggs, or one goose egg can be exchanged for one popsicle. Of course, if you buy it with money, you will get two for one cloth coin.

Folks eat popsicles almost by bartering.

In the scorching summer, Li Jiyang sat on the east side of the Hall of Mental Cultivation and looked at the account book. Last year's harvest was better than the previous year's, but he still felt that it was not satisfactory.

It is mainly a question of currency.

Although there are regulations in the court, there are only four types of currency today, cloth coins, yuan coins, Qin knife coins and gold.

However, in places where the country has been destroyed, some nobles still use the currency of their home country as the basis. For example, in the original Zhao State, within the scope of the current Zhao area, cloth coins are still the main currency, because cloth coins are the first currency used in Zhao State. , they can produce cloth coins by themselves - Li Jiyang is out of luck!

Leave the ledger to find Ying Zheng.

Taking a bath today, Yingzheng rarely read the memorial, but enjoyed the shade in the waterside pavilion.

Eating the frozen peaches, he also left an ice cream for Li Jiyang, with peach pulp dripping on top.

When I saw him coming, I smiled: "I'm going to find you!"

Knowing that Li Jiyang was looking at the account book, he didn't bother him. Seeing him coming, he immediately pointed to the ice cream and said, "Newly made, try it!"

Li Jiyang was very angry all the way, but after taking a bite, he instantly felt better!

Zhao Xi was afraid that Jun Shang would catch a cold, so he wiped Li Jiyang's sweat with a wet towel, then stepped aside, and wiped himself.

It's good to serve the king in a refreshing way!

"I checked the ledger..." Li Jiyang mentioned the currency issue to Ying Zheng: "The currency issue cannot be delayed any longer."

"In fact, there have been regulations for a long time, but the currency has not been determined yet. There are many kinds of currencies in the past. It is better to unify them." Ying Zheng said: "Use a new currency?"

"Use a new one!" Li Jiyang said: "At least it can prevent some people from making fakes!"

As long as you know how to make cloth coins, even women can make them and spend them as money!

Such a currency is too unsuitable for circulation as money!

Especially now that foreigners are doing business with Qin!

"Do you have any suggestions for the new currency?" Ying Zheng said, "Not many people in the court understand this thing except Yao Shangqing!"

Yao Jia went to the border to establish a mutual market, and hasn't come back for more than a year, okay?

Then the ministers of the DPRK and China were a little bit blind!

Han Fei made the legal provisions very clear, but the key point was that it was useless!

Gan Jing worked on some of the monetary system, and Yao Jia participated in completing it, and Gan Luo just took over this part now.

It concerns the livelihood of hundreds of millions of people, and no one dares to act rashly.

"Well, use copper!" Li Jiyang decided to follow the ancient system: "A copper plate is equivalent to a cloth coin, a large coin is equivalent to a won coin, a tael of silver is equivalent to a knife, and a tael of gold is equivalent to... a gold!"

"Copper?" Ying Zheng thought for a while: "That's fine, it's just gold and silver...it's not easy to fake, but copper...?"

"Copper coins are made round, with a square hole inside, symbolizing the roundness of the sky and the earth!" Li Jiyang shouted at Zhao Xi, "Go get the pen, ink, paper and inkstone!"

"No!" Zhao Xi hurried to get things.

Li Jiyang continued to talk to Ying Zheng: "And those old and young people from all over the world, isn't it because they have money in their hands? They haven't tossed enough?"

Ying Zheng felt a headache when he thought of those nobles: "Those people... can't be killed and can't let them go..."

The survivors of various countries are not doing well now, because without the aura of that special class, they can neither oppress the good, nor can they be domineering!

Everyone is under the control of Qin Law!

What's more, those who disobeyed discipline have long been sent to hard labor!

So now they are thinking about overthrowing Qin's rule every day.

"Next time, if we recruit people for official business, let those elders and children also participate!" Li Jiyang advised Yingzheng: "It is also a chance for them to participate. Of course, they have to be officials in a different place!"

Li Jiyang didn't want them to grow locally!

"Also!" Ying Zheng thought for a while and agreed.

The main reason is that those adherents are too troublesome, and the key to not making too much trouble is always a heart disease.

"Think about it, if they know that their children and grandchildren have the opportunity to enjoy the glory and wealth again, how can they still stand up and struggle with high-ranking officials?" Li Jiyang said: "I'm afraid they will be the first to maintain the stability of the local area! "

When Ying Zheng thought about it, it really made sense!

Zhao Xi returned with a brush, ink, paper and inkstone, and Li Jiyang drew a copper coin with the words "Great Qin Empire" written on the front and the words "Great Qin Tongbao" written on the back.

Another big copper coin was drawn, which was twice the size of the copper coin. The words "Great Qin Empire" were still written on the front, and the words "Great Qin Dabao" were written on the back!

Draw an ingot of one tael of silver, with the words "Great Qin Empire" written on the bottom, the words "Silver Yuan Bao" and the words "heavy one tael" written on the other side.

The same is true for gold ingots, except that "silver ingots" are changed to "gold ingots"

It is still in decimal, the conversion ratio of one for ten.

It's just that silver ingots are one tael, two taels, five taels and ten taels.

And the gold ingot has 50 taels more gold ingots than the silver ingots.

"What do you think?" Li Jiyang pointed to the thing and asked Ying Zheng.

"Not bad, not bad!" Ying Zheng liked it very much, especially the words "Great Qin Empire" engraved on all the money!

Li Jiyang thought about the coins of later generations, and suggested: "You can also print your face on it, so that thousands of people will admire it!"

He remembered that Grandpa Mao was printed on coins in this way...

"Forget it!" Ying Zheng said: "This is very good. If mine is printed, will Fusu also be printed on it in the future? After a long time, Fusu's son, grandson, and great-grandson will all be printed on it, no Is it crowded?"

Li Jiyang: "...!"

He thought so far, I was speechless!

"Forget it, that's it. I'll have someone exchange it with a special metal to ensure that it will be strong!" Li Jiyang touched the coin picture he designed, and he felt a sense of accomplishment!

"It's just that not only we have gold, silver and copper, but others also have it... It's hard to tell if someone is fake, such as cloth coins." This is what Ying Zheng is worried about.

Li Jiyang thought for a while: "I have a way, we will track all the coins!" "How is that possible?" Ying Zheng was surprised: "So much money..."

"Don't forget, we still have Master!" Li Jiyang pointed his head up: "We only did this at the beginning, and when things are smoothed out, we don't have to bother so much."

Ying Zheng looked at Li Jiyang seriously: "Am I... very useless?"

"Who said that?" Li Jiyang retorted immediately: "If Qin Shihuang is useless, all future generations should die!"

Ying Zheng took him into his arms: "I'll trouble you to do anything...."

This made Ying Zheng feel powerless.

Li Jiyang smiled and patted Ying Zheng's chest: "That's because I have a more suitable solution than you! You will know later!"

He just needs to buy a tracking and monitoring system.

It's more convenient than Yingzheng's manual check!

"Okay, I'll trouble you then!" Ying Zheng handed over the currency matter to Li Jiyang.

He knows that Xiaoyang has a lot of energy, so instead of letting the ministers worry about it, it is better to let Xiaoyang handle it all by himself!

Li Jiyang returned to Qin Anjun's mansion that day, entered the space at night, found Lantian, and traded with him for a large intelligent monitoring switchboard to control a huge micro-monitoring system. This monitoring system has unlimited mirrors, and its monitoring The tiny volume required is just a speck of dust!

Then let the space start to produce coins.

The coins produced according to his idea, even if it is a copper plate, also carry a micro-monitoring system!

The first batch of copper coins alone produced tens of billions, and the big coins were also tens of billions. The silver ingots and gold ingots were [-] million each, and each was [-] million, which added up to hundreds of millions.

Remembering the number of samples and portions, Li Jiyang went to court the next morning after breakfast—the ministers were used to how Qin Anjun sometimes went to court from outside the palace. Li Jiyang proposed a unified currency in the morning court, Some ministers agree, some disagree!

Wang Jie disagrees!

"Nowadays, the world is just flat, and a thousand wastes are waiting for prosperity. It is really not suitable to change the currency!"

Wang Wan said quite logically: "Security is the key!"

Always make reforms, make a Qin road today, build a canal tomorrow, Qin will never stop!

The most important thing is that there is nothing wrong with him here!

Now he is old. When the emperor succeeded to the throne, he was only 30 years old. Now he is more than 50 years old. He still wants to be an official honestly. On the day of his death, he can get a good posthumous title. Earn a title and leave a good fortune for future generations.

There are quite a few people who think like him, and they are all veterans. Ying Zheng saw that they were all those left to him by the late emperor.

Perhaps they were all good back then, and the late emperor had high hopes for them, but now it seems that each of them has been worn away by the years, and has become a drifter!

However, Gan Jing argued hard: "It is such a great thing to unify the weights and measures, unify the currency, and unify the world. Why should you oppose it? I will report to the emperor, and I agree!"

People like Gan Jing also agree with this!

And there are quite a few of them, all ministers with real power!

Especially Zhang Ping, who is the minister in charge of the household department, knows that there are many places where the tax revenue is much worse because the currency cannot be truly unified!

Now the weights and measures are forcibly unified, but the currency is still not unified. For example, in Chudi, in places near the sea, shell coins are still popular today!

It is equivalent to the existence of cloth coins!

Don't underestimate the small change, the small change is the most difficult to guard against!

These days, the imperial court has long stopped accepting shell coins!

But folks are still using it as pocket money!