Chapter 32 Shi Tong

Quickly jumped to the side and shouted, "Uncle! What the hell are you doing?! ”

Uncle Strange respectfully took out something from his waist and handed it over: "Son, don't worry, you and I are not outsiders, you should know this thing!" ”

Su You jumped higher when he saw it: "Oh, you still dare to steal from me!" Oh no......"

The splitter snatched the things in the strange uncle's hand, and then took out an object from his schoolbag, but it was two identical small folding knives.

Su You couldn't help asking, "The old man of Shijia Village Hengzhi, who are you?" ”

Uncle Strange said respectfully: "What the son said is the ancestor. ”

Su You said: "You hurry up, I'm not used to someone kneeling and talking to me." ”

Uncle Strange got up, bowed down and said, "Childe, please come with me." ”

The two turned to the backyard, and the strange uncle pointed to a sponge-like object and said, "Childe, please look, this is the cloud steel made by my father according to Childe's method." ”

Su You picked up an iron rod and knocked on the honeycomb of steel: "How is the iron?" ”

The strange uncle's eyebrows fluttered: "It's really a god!" This steel should be the kind made by Shu Han Puyuan, which is very hard after water quenching, and the two handles made by my father are 'hard is good', and you can blow your hair and break your hair. ”

Su You's engineering dog looked disappreciative of Xiaobai: "Blowing hair and breaking hair, that's just superb grinding technology, and it has little to do with steel, don't talk about layman's words." ”

Uncle Strange bowed down and said: "Yes, yes, but the quality of this steel is the only one I have ever seen in my life, and this is absolutely no problem." ”

Su You said with a smile: "Old Man Shi is the first person who is willing to believe my words as a child, and this benefit should be deserved by him." ”

The knife is very exaggerated now, an ordinary cattle killing knife, the price is more than two runs, reaching the steel quality of Yungang, the same as jade porcelain, it is a valuable treasure.

Uncle Strange said: "My father ordered someone to send me a message the day before yesterday, saying that the son has arrived in Meishan, and saying that the son is chic and generous, all kinds of magic, God-granted, and the style of the ancients, and he is by no means an ordinary person. If I encounter it, I should be a teacher. ”

After speaking, he knelt down with a puff: "The ancestor ordered, Shi Tong didn't dare to disobey, and hoped that the little boy would accept me as an apprentice." ”

Su You hurriedly jumped away again, waved his hand desperately and said, "Uncle, don't don't, at my age, how can I be your master!" ”

Shi Tong said: "Little boy doesn't have to be too humble, you are the same generation as our Shi family's aunt and grandmother, and you have been a childhood sweetheart since ......childhood."

Su You hurriedly stopped him: "Stop! Belch...... Are you talking about the little lady Shiwei in your village? She didn't bother me, did she? Ouch, why are you still kneeling, hurry up! ”

Shi Tong said: "The little boy doesn't accept me as an apprentice, and Shi Tong doesn't dare to get up." ”

After speaking, his eyes rolled: "As long as you accept me, my father will go to explain to the son." My aunt and grandmother are still locked up in the ancestral hall, but my father is the elder of the clan and has the right to speak in the clan, and now that Yungang is out, coupled with the relationship between our master and apprentice, it will be a bad thing to a good thing......"

Su You rolled his eyes and sighed: "Okay, okay, I promised you, hurry up." Send someone to Shijia Village first, and ask your father to rescue Shi Wei! ”

Shi Tong stood up and patted his knee: "I know that the little boy is a ...... who will hurt people."

After speaking, he asked the people in the shop to buy snacks and fruits, and here he mixed water with honey for Su You, and he was busy all the time.

Su You was dizzy by Shi Tong's huge figure, and stopped him: "Don't be busy, and sit down and talk." ”

Shi Tong respectfully dragged a stool to sit.

Su You asked: "This copper and iron is also the monopoly of the imperial court, I want to ask you how this shop works?" ”

Shi Tong said proudly: "Although my Shi family is not powerful in Meishan City, it comes from the Junyi Marquis, the founding government of Xiping County, and the ancestor is the king of Wuwei County. ”

Depend on! The five generations of officials are rich and the four generations are rich! In the romance, the descendants of the mighty king Shi Shouxin!

This baby is really Song Taizu's iron buddy, and he has been following Taizu to fight in the east and west.

He was the first to advocate the yellow robe, and he was the first to take the initiative to resign from the army, and then Taizu was defeated in the Gaoliang River, and he was the first to jump out and consciously take the blame.

His son, Marquis Shi Baoji, Junyi, married Princess Yanqing, the second daughter of Song Taizu.

Involved like this, the slug who has nothing to do and shouts Brother Xiaoyou behind his ass is still related to the current Song family?!

But that was many years ago, and now the Shi family, in addition to being low-key or low-key, is now in the line of Taizong.

And in a few more years, as long as the giant businessman and tycoon sell 5,000 yuan, the marginal clan can sell their daughters as wives, and this bit of royal blood, in the eyes of the rich and powerful, is just like that.

Seeing Shi Tong continued: "Although I have a very strict ban on copper, but my Meishan is located in the southwest, and most of the copper used is Dali, and the imperial court can't control it." ”

"And iron tools are used in every place, so as long as you pay the full amount of your own duties, plus some background of the Shi family, it will not hinder you to get some iron to make some agricultural tools."

The government of the Song Dynasty was not a bad thing for the imperial court, after all, it could support for so many years in the environment of redundant soldiers and redundant officials, relying on taxes and state monopoly.

The quality of salt, tea, and mining politics will not be talked about for the time being, but this copper politics is really a bit painful.

After the founding of the country for a hundred years, after the development of commodity society reached a certain height, copper coins were not enough.

How to fix it? The method of the Song Dynasty was to collect all the copper from the government, and even the use of copper by the people was strictly restricted, and the bronze ware was listed as a prohibited item except for the use of officials, temples, clans, and ancient cultural relics.

Then the actual value is completely ignored, and the price is forcibly set, resulting in a set price for the government and a price for the people.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the government collected copper from the people, and it was only 100 yuan per catty.

But consistent copper coins, theoretically only one catty, often written in the history books of officials make mistakes, fined a few catties of copper, in the Northern Song Dynasty, refers to a few pounds.

The tenfold spread clearly illustrates the essence of the so-called monopoly - cruel and brutal resource appropriation and plunder.

In Sichuan alone, this has led to a lot of problems.

First, buy raw copper from the Yi people, because the price is not high, the Yi people are unwilling to sell.

Second, through the privilege of officials, they can buy a pound of copper for 100 yuan, melt it and make it into copper ware, and then they can sell it for nearly the same! It's a huge profit!

Third, if the state officials dared to set fires, the people dared to light lamps, so they turned money into tools one after another, and private casting was rampant.

Fourth, the pit households have thin profits, not only can they not be positive, but they can only be adulterated in large quantities, and the mineral sand and soil are mixed together and sold to the government, and there will always be a small loss!

Therefore, even though the laws and regulations are strict, there is no choice but to work together, resulting in this so-called copper policy, which is simply a joke.

And closely related to the copper policy, that is, the money policy, the economic foundation of a country.

The last problem is that Sichuan has no money, so everyone plays paper money and iron coins together.

Thinking of this Great Song Dynasty, which leaked like a sieve, Su You sighed: "If we buy copper from Dali, will the imperial court take care of it?" ”

Shi Tong frowned and said: "It doesn't matter, the problem is that if you buy it back, you can only sell it to the government, which becomes buying high and selling low, and you will lose a lot of money......."

Su You rolled his eyes: "What if you say that the one you bought is a bronze artifact?" ”

Shi Tong's eyes lit up: "If it is a bronze object, then there is no problem of the price difference of raw copper, and it is okay when the imported goods change hands, but the new problem is coming, the copper they make is really poor, and the buyers may not be able to see it!" ”

Su Youthief smiled: "It seems that there are great business opportunities in this. But let's talk about it when we have a chance, and let's talk about steelmaking for now. Small workshop, it is best to use the group steel method, can you learn this method? ”

Shi Tong thought for a while and said: "My Meishan Shi family, smelting and forging as a business, the group steel that Gongzi said, is it wrapped in wrought iron, mud sealed and smelted, and finally impurities are removed to obtain fine steel?" ”

Su You said: "That's exactly what it is! The iron sand in my Meishan water is pure in texture, and the smelted cloud steel only needs to adjust the carbon content to get the steel ......"

Shi Tong was puzzled: "The smelting books in the family collection say that Muwang makes fire, Tuwang produces gold, and fire can be gold. Therefore, the way of smelting is to force the earth with fire, and to promote the release of gold. After that, it was quenched with water, forcing the fire in the gold, and only the pure gold could be saved. What about the carbon content that Master is talking about? Gold contains carbon, it should be that the fire is not enough, and then the wood is in the gold, isn't it......"