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Volume 7: Joking about drinking the blood of Huns Chapter 4: Apprentice

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    Update time: 2010-04-01

    When she came to the mansion, there were injuries everywhere. Huang Wen looked at Chen De apologetically, but Chen De was a little moved.

    To avoid the suspicion of the court, he could only stay in Lanzhou for one night. After hastily comforting the injured soldiers and civilians, he took Xiao Jiu, Zhang Zhongyao and Li Jian to the study.  Xiao Jiu saw that Chen De only summoned Leyang Fu to encourage him, and then let him go. He secretly sighed in his heart that Jincheng Camp had not been ineffective in defending the city in the past few months, but it had formed its own system and lost Chen De's trust.  For these hundreds of athletes, it is a great loss.  Chen De saw Xiao Jiuruo had regrets and said with a smile: "General Xiao, are you aggrieved for the children of Shu camp?" Xiao Jiu hurriedly said: "There is no difference in military supplies. Your Excellency rewards and punishes the children of Shu camp fairly. I am just  I just feel it¡¯s a pity for these hundreds of athletes.¡±

    Chen De said with a smile: "They have their own King Qibo to explain. I am too kind to them. In the future, they will not be beautiful when they return to Xishu. Treating each other so politely is a good thing for everyone."  Okay." Seeing that Xiao Jiu was relieved, Chen Defang said: "This time Hexi is reorganizing the army and training the Sixth Army. You all know that Xiao Jiu is the commander of the training army. Since there are many troops and horses, everything is complicated.  Several agencies are needed for overall coordination. There is nothing new. The Military Intelligence Department is still in charge of Li Si, and the Baggage and Heavy Department is formed based on the Baggage Battalion, led by Xiao Jiutong. In addition, Zhong Yao is in charge of the Road Department and Youtong is in charge.  The Correctional Department and Li Jian are in charge of the Ordnance Department." These military departments established by Chen De were in charge of major matters such as intelligence, logistics, training, staff, and research and development.  Among them, the Road Department headed by Zhang Zhongyao was the most important.

    Xiao Jiu's prestige was high, and Zhang Zhongyao had known about it for a long time, but Li Jian was very excited. His official position was originally just a school captain, but now he suddenly took charge of the military department. He was thinking about how to express his loyalty to Chen De again, but  He then said: "This military department is an organization with specialized responsibilities outside each army. You and other military department directors can allocate fifty people from the capable officers to be responsible for coordinating related affairs among all six armies."  This gives a few people the right to choose their own staff.  The Anxi army has always followed the recommendation system. Even for senior military commanders such as Xingu and Xiao Jiu, it is not easy to place their cronies in the army.  The top officer of the military department was appointed by Chen De and selected his own staff. This greatly enhanced the ability to implement Chen De's intentions in various fields. This was also Chen De's plan to balance the shortcomings of the election system in the military.  .

    "The establishment of the military department is inconsistent with the imperial system. It is still a secret of our army. You can just know it and do not make it known to the public." Chen De said solemnly.

    "The general knows how to do it." Li Jian, Xiao Jiu and Zhang Zhongyao also nodded solemnly. They knew that Chen De's actions had greatly exceeded the scope of authority given by the imperial court to Jiedushi to choose his own staff. It was clear that he wanted to establish his own business.  Although he had known this for a long time, Xiao Zhan and Li Sanjiang still felt an inexplicable excitement in their hearts.

    Seeing that Chen De had almost finished speaking, Xiao Jiu just said carefully: "After your lord set out for Hexi, the Sogdian merchant Kang Qudagan sent someone to tell you that they wanted to imitate the woolen clothes I made in Lanzhou. Please tell me, lord."  Granted. The general thought that this matter was not urgent. There were frequent wars in Hexi and he had no time to take care of it, so he never reported it." Xiao Jiu has always stayed away from businessmen like Kang Qudagan, but now that he has found him, he knows  This group of Sogdian merchants were Chen De's allies and they just reported it.  From what he saw, woolen weaving workshops were currently an important source of income, so of course they should not be allowed to imitate Kangqudagan.

    Chen De pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "Businessmen, they travel thousands of miles just for money. This woolen industry is very profitable, and imitation is inevitable sooner or later. Kang Quda thought that he would ask my permission, which is considered to be intentional." He  Turning to Li Jian, he said: "Li Xiaowei, others are copying and chasing behind. Our woolen weaving workshop must make the fabrics more exquisite and durable, and also improve the proficiency and prevention technology of the workers." As for machine weaving, Chen De is now  I don't dare to hope.  He paused and then said: "Tell Lao Kang that he can do woolen weaving. However, the method of woolen weaving was first invented by our Lanzhou Army. Every time he makes a woolen garment, he must pay  I have two hundred copper coins. This is called apprentice money. Give half of the apprenticeship money you receive to those craftsmen who have revolutionized the weaving technology. If Kang Quda does his job, I, Lanzhou, will continue to have a steady flow of money.  He is allowed to imitate and sell it. I will explain it later, and Lieutenant Li will make a regulation according to the rules for collecting apprenticeship money as I said."

    After giving orders to Li Jian, Chen De turned back to Xiao Jiu and said, "General Xiao, just give him this reply. From the Western Regions to Jinling, everyone in the workshop guilds in various places knows the rules for masters to lead apprentices.  Only those who have served a master for seventeen or eight years can learn a craft. I, Anxi Craftsman, am more kind. This apprenticeship is for ten years. My Anxi army does not do secret things. If there is anything new from Lao Kang in the future,  To make money, I, the craftsman of Anxi Army, also paid his apprenticeship in the same way."

    With the current profits of wool weaving, it is nothing to charge two hundred copper coins for the patent. The key is to make KangqudaThe group of businessmen headed by ? accepts this rule, and at the same time, the existence of patent money prevents authorized merchants from vicious bidding, which will lead to a rapid decline in sweater profits.  Big businessmen who accept Chen De's patent concept will naturally spare no effort to squeeze out those businessmen who imitate sweaters without authorization. At least within the reach of big businessmen like Chen De and others, infringing imitations cannot become popular.

    The patent system is a treasure to promote technological innovation. In an era when everyone arbitrarily appropriates the innovation achievements of others, people either stick to the old ways or cherish their own things. The technological level of the entire society improves as slowly as a snail. However, after the implementation of the patent system, creation, invention and production  Improvements in technology can greatly increase the speed at which individuals accumulate wealth and their social status.  Although Chen De could not control the infringement and imitation in countries such as Song and Liao, he only profited from patent rights within the scope controlled by the Anxi Army. The rich gains were enough to stimulate people's thinking.  What's more, the original guild system and the tradition of masters and apprentices in this era restricted other craftsmen from imitating other people's skills at will.

    "Li Xiaowei, how is the coin minting going?" After explaining the most important military system and operating rules, as well as all the details of the patent system to the three generals in detail, Chen De started to care about the craftsmanship camp again.  Other items in come.

    "Following your instructions, the mold has been made. Now it can suppress gold, silver, and copper coins." Li Jian said as he took out a few coins from his arms and handed them to Chen De. Chen De kept only one of each.  He looked at it in his hand, and distributed the others to Xiao Jiu and Zhang Zhongyao for viewing.

    The gold coins produced by the Craftsman Camp have a coiled dragon pattern on the front, and the year of casting and the words "One Liang of Gold" on the back. Because a few other metal components are added, they are harder, more wear-resistant, and more lustrous than pure gold.  Under the guidance and strict requirements of De, Lanzhou's current coinage technology is even better than that of the Song Dynasty, and the square-hole and round gold coins produced are extremely beautiful.  The same is true for silver coins and copper coins, which have the words "one tael of silver" and "one tael of copper" respectively.

    Chen De directly ordered Li Jian to do this coin minting. Neither Zhang Zhongyao nor Xiao Jiu knew about it. They were a little surprised when they saw this situation. Zhang Zhongyao even thought that it seemed that the Lord was determined to change the dynasty, but Chen De said: "Jiang  After setting up camp in Hexi, we must set up a mint as soon as possible. From then on, we should try to use our own coins to pay the tribes and traders in the grassland. Since we have occupied Hexi, the volume of east-west trade is so huge, if we can all pass it, we will  The annual income from the gold, silver and copper coins minted by the Anxi Army is not a small amount."

    Rubbing the exquisite coins in his hands, Chen De couldn't help but sigh. The pattern of trade between the East and the West in this era was very different from that in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Not only did the West import large quantities of silk, porcelain and other exquisite products from the Central Plains and Khitan, but the Central Plains and Khitan also imported large quantities from the West.  Spices, gems, horses and artifacts of all kinds, overall, the trade between the East and the West was balanced.  In other words, the Chinese in earlier eras had quite strong spending power, and they also continued to purchase large quantities of goods from the West.

    After the Qing Dynasty, perhaps some changes occurred in China's social structure. In short, the Chinese people's consumption power plummeted. By the Qing Dynasty, a steady stream of surpluses caused 75% of the world's silver to be concentrated in the hands of the big empire.  When bacon and afternoon tea became the norm on the tables of farmers in England, the living standards of the people of the Chinese Dynasty were at the lower end of the previous dynasties. It became a country described by the barbarian envoys as a country full of beggars. This was the so-called prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong.  The last war caused by trade and a century-long national crisis wiped out the huge surplus of silver accumulated over hundreds of years of people's wealth and support.

    However, what is strange is that judging from the records of the Chinese dynasties, China's precious metals and coins were flowing out in large quantities in the East-West trade. For this reason, all dynasties had regulations prohibiting the export of coins. In other words, from the metal  From a monetary perspective, the country recorded a huge deficit.  However, judging from the records of Rome and Persia during the same period, a large amount of gold and other precious metals also flowed to the East. In other words, Western countries also had huge deficits.  So, where did such a huge amount of precious metals go? Chen De estimated that it was all earned by those commercial cities that specialized in trade between the East and the West in this era.

    A Silk Road has nourished hundreds of the most glorious and wealthy ancient commercial cities. In China, there are Luoyang, Taiyuan, Xi'an, Jiayuguan, Dunhuang, Gaochang, Jiaohe, Loulan, Turpan, Urumqi, Yining, Kuqa, Aksu,  Kashgar et al.  In West Asia and Europe, there are Taxkorgan, Islamabad, Kabul, Mashhad, Tehran, Baghdad, Damascus, Constantinople, Lyon, Rome, Venice, Genoa, etc.

    Note 1: In 1992, a large number of Jianzhong Kaiyuan and Qianyuan coins were unearthed near Kuqa, Xinjiang (called Anxi in the Tang Dynasty).  The copper quality of these coins has the characteristics of copper produced locally in Xinjiang, not copper produced in the Central Plains. Therefore, it should be coins self-cast by the defenders stationed here when the Anxi Protectorate was established in the Tang Dynasty.

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