After the defeat of the Yuan army, Fei Xian stayed in the Huguan area for a period of time, met with the scholars of the Shangdang area headed by the Linghu clan, and after re-appeasing and inspiring him, he left Zhang Xiu to strengthen the defense of the Taihang Mountain area of Shangdang Huguan, and then led the soldiers back to Pingyang.

After all, the autumn harvest is also very important, and it still needs to be watched somewhat.

Moreover, Yu Fuluo's attitude on the side of Yinshan is also a key point of Fei Qian's prevention, but before Yu Fu Luo, Fei Qian still has to arrange the things at hand, and the most important project is to upgrade the Jiao sub system used in economy and trade to the Tongbao system.

Fei Qian also held a few Tongbao in his hands, pounding in his left and right hands, and found some bad taste that shook when he was rich in later generations, well, good habits.

At the beginning, Tongbao was forged by hand, that is, a hammer was used to put the coin in the upper and lower two briquetting modules, and after knocking and beating, it was considered complete, but such coins were easy to form uneven edges and different thicknesses due to the uneven manual strength.

It is not easy to directly use the manufacturing mode of later coins, first of all, it is difficult to do in the process, and there is no hydraulic press that can withstand up to tens or hundreds of tons to forge coins, so Fei Qian can only seek the second best in the end, using water power to forge, using a simple crank linkage method, pressing the coin embryo after quenching and pickling softening, and the final formed coin is more still some of the appearance of later generations.

There will be no urge to pick him up and try to plate him......

Tongbao, or coins, on three qualities, gold, silver, red copper, and then four specifications, gold and silver are one, two kinds of red copper, each of different sizes, gold coins and half taels, silver coins one tael, copper coins are divided into three baht and six baht.

Because the Han Dynasty still adopted the Qin system, twenty-four baht for one tael, so on the one hand, in order to facilitate the calculation, on the other hand, to reduce the possibility of its own coins being expelled by bad money, Fei Qian simply removed the strange quantity unit of five baht money, and directly used the specifications of three baht and six baht that are easier to make up whole numbers.

Of course, the weight of the actual coin is not sufficient, only about ninety percent of the weight, plus the metallurgical process of the Han Dynasty is not very good, almost eighty percent of the texture can be called pure gold and silver, so in fact, the real texture of the Tongbao made by Fei Qian is only about 70%.

The use of gold and silver as coinage is not a pioneering feat of Fei Qian, in the early Han Dynasty, there were various shapes of silver coinage that continued to be used, but not as much as gold. Han Wu Yuanjia four years, because of the Xiongnu soldiers, financial difficulties, according to Zhang Tang's suggestion, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the issuance of white deer skin coins at the same time, with Shaofu to accumulate rhyme silver tin, cast platinum three products, that is, silver coins as a Han Dynasty commemorative coin, one is a round dragon coin, also known as white selection, white food, round and dragon pattern, weighing eight taels, worth three thousand. One is the square ring, which is square and has a horse pattern, weighs six taels, and is worth five hundred. The last one is an oval turtle coin, the meat round is good square, the coin is like a turtle, with the tortoise shell as the coin, weighing four taels, worth three hundred.

Not to mention gold, what horseshoe gold, lin gold, gold judgment, etc., have all appeared, and in the Han Dynasty it was even more common than silver.

In the Han Dynasty, silver and gold were actually called gold like red copper, but because the output of silver and gold was relatively small, they were generally used as raw materials for luxury goods to make utensils, and even if it was a gold coin and silver coin made by the emperor Lao'er, in most cases, it would also be enshrined and rarely put into the market for use.

Although the royal family of the Han Dynasty gave large rewards of gold and silver to the members of the royal family and the nobles of the noble clan at every turn, in fact, it was not seen in the market at all, and because the Han Dynasty paid attention to the funeral factor, many of the gold and silver that were rewarded were also buried after the death of their owners, which eventually led to the existence of high-value metals that did not exceed copper coins in the market, and also provided the source of trouble for those who were ten hundred and hundred.

Fei Qian doesn't have much silver on hand right now, but what about gold......

If it weren't for Yinshan Xianbei attacking Fei Qian, Fei Qian would not have sent Zhao Yun to the north to parade, and it would not even be possible to see the primitive natural gold nuggets on the Xianbei Colorful Scepter, and naturally it would be impossible to find the gold mine in the north of Yinshan.

Geographically speaking, the gold mine that was discovered should have been from Inner Mongolia in the later generations?

Probably, anyway, gold is generally enough at this stage.

Although the official exchange rate of gold and copper coins in the Han Dynasty was that one catty of gold was equal to 10,000 yuan, note that it was Han catties, but in fact, from the Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty, private minting was repeatedly banned, coupled with a large number of stupid economic strategies that were ten to hundred, resulting in a great depreciation of copper coins, so now the amount of gold exchanged far exceeds the official exchange rate.

After Feiqian created the gold Tongbao, plus controlled the gold mine, if it can be fully rolled out and used, it is equivalent to controlling the lifeblood of the invisible economy, and even in the future, there are some additional benefits......

Zao Yi also looked at these treasures upside down, looked at the patterns of these treasures with great interest, and then weighed the weights separately, and then said: "Junhou, this is ...... Well, Tongbao, it's really exquisite, I don't know how much to do? ”

Fei Qian picked up the golden treasure and said, "This matter is the reason why a certain Zijing came...... This coin is worth half a tael, how about the price of five stone fine millet? ”

Zao only tilted his head, blinked his eyes a few times, pulled his fingers again, and said, "In this way, a pound of gold is one hundred and sixty stone essence millet?" Well...... It seems to be a little higher, but it's not too much......"

Fei Qian smiled and nodded. In the Western Han Dynasty, a stone of grain, if it is tens of dollars, it is too cheap, if it is hundreds, it is too expensive, and now in the Eastern Han Dynasty, hundreds of dollars are cheap, and now they are thousands of dollars, Feiqian is better here, but it is almost eight or nine hundred dollars a stone, so if gold is directly linked to copper coins, if a fixed exchange rate is adopted, then no matter how much it is set, it will lead to the emergence of bad money to expel good money, either to expel copper coins or to expel gold coins.

Therefore, Fei Qian simply linked it directly to food.

Just like the later generations as a whole said that there is no inflation, no depreciation, everything is in a reasonable range, within the scope of control, and within the original plan, a large list of proper nouns of what CPI and GPI are indiscriminate, but as long as you see the fundamentals, how much grain can be bought with the same amount of coins, you will clearly know whether the coins have depreciated and whether there is inflation.

People survive on food, not on the value of coins, a stone of grain, under normal circumstances, the amount that can be supplied for food is relatively stable, so when Fei Qian directly linked the price of gold to grain, it is equivalent to making the price of gold have a fixed standard.

As for the future, it may be dozens or hundreds of years later, when the society is stable and the grain grows in large quantities, the possibility of gold naturally depreciating will also increase, but at present, grain is hard currency, just like oil at a certain stage in the future.

This is the result of the competition between the values of items.

And this also has great advantages, that is, it is convenient for Fei to trade with the surrounding princes, after all, after having a fixed standard, everyone will be more accepting and agreeing.

It's just that Zao Yi still has some doubts, and he fiddles with these Tongbao and says: "If it is privately cast by others, what should it do?" ”

Fei Qian pointed to Tongbao and said: "If you say that the quality is good, the workshop is naturally not bad, but if someone is willing to melt copper and cast it privately, it will also be up to him, as long as the value is the same." ”

Zao Yi frowned, thought about it, and didn't quite understand, but since Fei Qian showed a confident appearance, Zao Yi didn't say anything more in this regard.

Fei Qian knew in his heart that imitation would definitely not be prohibited, and the Han Dynasty had no way to prohibit private casting, not to mention the princes of Fei Qian.

But the weight of gold and silver is over there, although the weight is only ninety, but the convention is basically like this, and Fei Qian's Tongbao has patterns on both sides, and the structure of the sky is also round, in addition to the pattern, there are also internal and external outline of the Yin text pattern to prevent cutting edge grinding and theft, and the form is naturally better than the original five baht money I don't know how much.

As for the copper yuan Tongbao, which is the most used, there is not much difference between the six-baht coin and the original five-baht coin in terms of weight, so it also cuts off the possibility of being melted and stolen, and even on the other hand, there may be people who dissolve the original five-baht coin and cast an imitation of the six-baht Tongbao here in Feiqian.

Originally, the exquisite five-baht coins in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, that is, the five-baht coins of the three officials, have mostly disappeared, and most of them are five-baht coins in the period of Emperor Heng of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, especially the "four out of five baht" during the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, and the weight is more or less sufficient. The so-called "four outs" refer to the money curtain from the four corners of the square hole to lead out a straight line of yang text to the outside, which is a preventive technology used to prevent the theft of copper on the back of the money.

But the five baht coins minted by the follow-up princes are not as good as one, what should be ten straight hundred, what Dong Zhuo has done, Cao Cao has done it, Liu Bei has also done it, everyone turtle does not laugh at Wang Ba, the boss does not laugh at the second......

Therefore, Fei Qian is not afraid of imitation by others at all, and even at this stage when the coin is rolled out and used, imitation is welcome.

Hands up for a warm welcome.

In other words, Fei Qian is now minting six baht money, it will depreciate less than two percent, plus the exquisite craftsmanship also requires cost, so in fact, it can be regarded as a perfect replacement for the original five baht money, if from the perspective of weight, Fei Qian's six baht money is a "bad coin", if the princes around the country compete to imitate it, then it means that the original normal five baht money this "good coin" will eventually be expelled from the market, and the final rest is the six baht Tongbao formulated by Fei Qian.

As for how many six-baht tongbao made by the princes in various places, the key is the price of one gold tongbao set by Fei Qian at the beginning to replace the five stone corns.

"Zijing, take advantage of this autumn harvest, the opportunity to summarize and pay taxes from all over the country, in Pingyang, Anyi, Huguan, Jinyang, Lishi, Linjin, Huaili, Chang'an, Nanzheng, build a silver shop, arrange personnel, and start exchanging Tongbao matters," Fei Qian said to Zao You, after all, Zao You's reputation among ordinary farmers in the north is still very good, so using Zao You's prestige to replace and upgrade the entire five baht money and Jiaozi has naturally become Fei Qian's best choice, "A certain has ordered all county guards to cooperate with Zi Jing, Handle it together with the Agricultural Society, I don't know if Zijing has other questions? ”

Zao only pondered for a while, and felt that it didn't seem to be a big problem, so he nodded and took over the matter. Although Zao You really don't know anything about economics, but as a Tongbao taken out by Fei Qian, Zao You even feel that she is more accustomed to it than Jiaozi, after all, after so many years, whether it is a man or a woman, they still like the feeling of the heavy money bag, and the wallet, after all, it is too light......

And in Zao You's opinion, Fei Qian just changed the five-baht coin to the six-baht coin, which is already considered benevolent government, okay, compared to those guys who mint some of the ten straight hundred big money at every turn, it is already a lot stronger, so Zao Yi thinks it is not a big problem to promote.

"That's right," Fei Qian suddenly thought of something, after all, he had promised to come down before, "Zijing, send someone to transport some corn wine to the place where Shangdang Huguan is, when a certain battle against the Yuan army, Zeng Yun gave the colonel a jar of wine after the war, well, give a jar to the second lieutenant Gong and Wei." ”

Of course, there was no problem with such a trivial matter, so he wrote it down, and then said: "Junhou, this General Yuan ......"

As a Zao Yi from Yingzhou, how could he not know the strength of the Yuan family in Shandong, hearing that Fei Qian won the Yuan army, Zao Yi was both happy and worried, so he couldn't help but ask, mainly wanting to know Fei Qian's follow-up strategy for Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu.

"The thief of impermanence is the only eternal profit." Fei Qian said with a smile, "I don't know if Zi Jing can hear this?" ”

Zao only touched the tip of the goatee that gradually came out of his chin, pondered for a moment, nodded, and said, "Hmm...... There is a lot of truth to that...... The meaning of the prince is...... Can the Yuan family also drive it away? ”

Fei Qian laughed and said, "Why not? It's not a failure, it's a lack of price! War horses, blades, armor, leather goods, and even Zhuang He's good breeds, are all needed by the Yuan family, and the combination is two benefits, and the division is two defeats. ”

With the decline of Chang'an Luoyang, Pingyang has completely replaced these two places and became the largest commercial center of the Han Dynasty, and for the Hu people, there is a relatively close, relatively fair and safe trading place.

Therefore, under such circumstances, the Hu merchants who originally flowed to Jizhou and other regions were basically cut off, and if it weren't for the caravans sent out by Fei Qian, these areas would only have to rely on self-sufficiency.

"That's right, even so, but everything has a ...... in case" Fei Qian looked at Zao Yi and said, "A certain has passed the book Yuanzhi, you can welcome his mother, along the north of Jingxiang, through the Wuguan to Guanzhong, Zi Jingruo is ...... You might as well write a letter, so that if you wish, you can go together, and you can take care of it on the way......"

When Zao Yi heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, and then nodded.

This matter can also be regarded as a place for Fei Qian to take precautions, Xu Shu's mother was originally in Jingxiang, although it is said that there is a high probability that there will be no problems under Pang Degong's care, but Pang Degong is also older, and Fei Qian also wants to simply let Pang Degong take over the leader of the big sacrificial wine of Shoushan School Palace, so if Pang Degong leaves Jingxiang, then the situation will naturally change......