"Why are you notifying us?" Liu Ye, who learned about Chen Zhen, also rushed over. He happened to hear Fazheng's words, so he took over the conversation with a smile and asked.
"At least be clear about your intentions!" Fa Zheng said resentfully, "By the way, I'm getting married soon. Are your gifts ready?"
"Two bottles of home-brewed wine are ready when I accept you as my junior brother." Guo Jia answered smoothly.
"How stingy." Fazheng glanced at Guo Jia with disdain. In fact, he was quite satisfied. Although he didn't know whether Guo Jia's homemade wine tasted good or not, at least it had enough friendship!
"How about I give you a pair of gold Suan Ni?" Guo Jia curled his lips, his style dropped a lot.
"So stingy." Fazheng raised his eyebrows and looked at Guo Jia with great displeasure.
"Okay, stop bickering. Guess what Zichuan wants to announce at the end of the year?" Liu Ye brought back the topic that Fazheng had distorted.
"It's better not to worry about it. In terms of general government affairs, although I am not wrong and don't want to admit it, no one can deny that he has an extremely long-term vision in government affairs." Li You directly stopped the topic.
Li You didn¡¯t want to be aroused at all. After all, if he was really interested, he would ask, and he would tell Chen Xi just by asking.
Based on Li You's understanding of Chen Xi, it is very likely that it will conflict with his own cognition again in the future, and then it will happen again that a group of people don't agree with him, and in the end, Chen Xi will overthrow a group of people. It is really too disharmonious. .
"I think we should not worry about the general affairs of government. We just have to do our job well. Zichuan will solve the matter of Zichuan on his own." Lu Su cut off the bud directly. He didn't want something as embarrassing as last time to happen again.
Unlike Liu Ye and Chen Xi, who had secretly and directly clashed with each other, others at most looked on sideways. He didn't end directly. As for Liu Ye, he didn't end that time. But it has contributed to the flames. This is the difference.
"I'm really just curious" Liu Ye said helplessly.
"What are you curious about" Chen Xi didn't hear what was said in front of him. When he stepped in the door, he heard Liu Ye's curiosity and asked.
"I'm curious about what political strategy you want to release at the end of the year." Liu Ye said quickly, but Lu Su didn't stop him and looked at Chen Xi. Everyone else also looked curious.
"What happened to the coinage and SDRs?" Chen Xi answered casually.
When Chen Zhen sent a letter to Taishan, he also sent someone to notify all the senior officials in Yecheng. However, the generals had already gone to various parts of Jizhou to eliminate banditry. Liu Bei went out for a walk again. Naturally, Chen Xi was the last one to arrive.
As for Xu Shu. He also had good martial arts skills and led five hundred people to suppress bandits.
"Coin?" Everyone's face turned dark, and they wanted to curse. In this Han Dynasty, if you want to mint the standard five baht coins, the cost of casting six to seven million coins is ten million coins. Generally, countries are not strong enough. , resolutely not to do such things as minting money.
"Well, it's really time for us to mint money." Li You thought for a moment and said slowly, and Jizhou also has copper mines. It's really time to mint some coins to prove your strength.
"However, Li You ignored the Special Drawing Rights in one sentence, and others only paid attention to the minting of coins and did not think deeply about anything else. On the contrary, Chen Xi stopped talking a lot.
"Well, how much money can be cast?" Lu Su asked with a sigh.
It is inevitable to mint money. When the power develops to a certain extent, it is necessary to mint money. In order to improve people's recognition of this force, but making money means losing money. A loss of about 40% is confusing enough to think about.
"Five baht!" Chen Xi said proudly. The five-baht coin minted at the peak of the Han Dynasty was very recognized and could still be used until the Tang Dynasty. This is the advantage of weight money!
"The cost is too high, and if you mint five baht coins, everyone in the world will use them. No matter how much we make, it won't be enough." Jia Xu said, hiding his face. There is no fake word about the five baht coins, even if the words on it are blurry, it doesn't count. Fake, the money only depends on the weight.
"It's just for everyone in the world." Chen Xi curled his lips and said, "I'll find out later. I don't know what Xingba's preparations are now. It took a lot of time without a chart the first time. Probably not."
In fact, Chen Xi did not know that Gan Ning knew that Luzon Island was a strategic location after returning from his first trip. After Guan Hai went to Yizhou, Gan Ning asked him to use Qiongzhou as a springboard to travel between Luzon and Yizhou. Collect copper ore.
A large amount of copper ore was smelted into bronze nuggets on Luzon Island, and then escorted by Guan Hai to Yizhou for storage. After more than ten trips, Yizhou had already stored thousands of tons of small copper nuggets.
Think about it, one cubic meter of copper contains more than eight tons, and bronze is denser because of tin and lead. In fact, thousands of tons of bronze blocks melted together are less than ten meters long, wide and high
But these are also the main materials Chen Xi will use to cast money in the future. Anyway, they are not his own stuff, and Chen Xi is not afraid of waste. After all, compared with bronze smelting and casting, China seems to have always been at the pinnacle of history.
As for those Gan Ning soldiers who stayed in Luzon Island, they have now realized that they are very indifferent to money. Anyone who looks at the money at his feet every day and doesn't know whether it is tens of billions or hundreds of billions will probably take a long time. If you lose money, you will lose motivation. There is no one to buy anything in this damn place, and it is useless to take copper.
Although Chen Xi did not know that the copper for making money was ready, he knew that he had an island with a large amount of copper for him to squander, so making money was a must.
But before starting to mint money, Chen Xi needs to fix the value of the coin. It can appreciate or depreciate, but it must not be left to the aristocratic family to have the final say. Those guys who don¡¯t even understand the laws of economics, the currency must be calculated by the official!
"We lost a lot in casting this. Ten million yuan of copper can only be cast to six and a half million yuan. This is still the cost of large-scale manufacturing in the country. As for us, even if we have conducted research in this area, I am afraid that it is just this. "More." Liu Ye said helplessly, but did not stop Chen Xi. After all, it was time to make money.
"So we need to find all the aristocratic families. We need to give each five baht a clear value, fix the market price, and maintain price stability for some materials." Chen Xi said helplessly, "The prices of daily necessities such as food, salt, and cloth must be within It¡¯s under our control, and it¡¯s about long-term peace and stability.¡±
"There is no way to eliminate wealth and poverty. What we have to do is to ensure that the poorest people at least have food to eat and clothing to wear. As long as we can do this, no, as long as we can roughly do this, our system will be impeccable. Yes." Chen Xi said with a smile on everyone's face.
Although this is not entirely the case, according to Chen Xi¡¯s estimation, this system can maintain long-term peace and order for at least five hundred years before some awareness of rights and interests awakens! (To be continued)