"Food and clothing, well-off!"

Su Lingnon slowly tasted, his eyes gradually brightened, and at the same time, a sense of shame suddenly rose in his heart, in fact, solving the problem of food and clothing for the people of Datang should be solved by their farmers.

However, it is not too late at this moment, with this good seed, the problem of food and clothing in the world will definitely be solved.

"After the well-off?" Li Shimin asked.

"Rich!" Merton said without hesitation.

Li Shimin said thoughtfully: "Rich? ”

"At that time, people will have no worries about food and clothing, education for the young, support for the elderly, medical treatment for the sick, and everyone will live and work in peace and contentment. From then on, everyone will be able to live in the Hillhouse building, all teenagers will have a good education, and everyone will have access to free medical care. Merton paints a heart-pounding picture.

"Is this possible?"

Su Lingnon was immersed in it and couldn't extricate himself for a long time.

"Of course it can be realized, if it can't be achieved in ten or eight years, then it will be achieved in eighty or one hundred years." Morton said in a deep voice.

Li Shimin's heart was shocked, isn't this the case in Mojia Village today? If the whole world is like Mojia Village, no, even if it reaches half of the level of Mojia Village, then his Li Tang's country will not be eternal for ten thousand years.

Farmers, doctors, and Mohists, ............ hundreds of schools of thought flashed in Li Shimin's mind one by one, and he secretly thought in his heart that maybe the era of a hundred schools of thought contending was the real existence of Datang.

"Of course, the best measure of whether the people are rich or not is to look at the money in his hands, each household can save 100,000 yuan, which can probably be called rich!" Merton's words directly destroyed the atmosphere.

"It's unbearable!" Li Shimin said angrily.

"Do you really dare to think that each household has 100,000 yuan, where is there so much copper money in Datang." Su Linong also shook his head and said with a smile,

There are three million households in Datang, if each household saves 100,000 yuan, Su Lingnong will suddenly be dizzy, they can't even think of such a large number.

Li Shimin also laughed for a while, if this is the case, how much copper will be needed!

The Tang Dynasty has always lacked copper, in the daily transaction process, usually use silk, juan, silk as currency, "charcoal seller" has a sentence "half a horse of red yarn and a zhang of silk, tied to the bull's head to fill the charcoal value." ”

Although it depicts the scene of the palace people exploiting the poor people, it proves that silk fabrics were indeed used as currency in the Tang Dynasty.

"It was impossible before, but if cotton is popularized in Datang, I'm afraid it will be possible?" Su Lingnon suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"White Stacks!" Li Shimin suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

At this time, the white stacks were a luxury comparable to silk. Since a barbarian country like the Western Regions can be weaved, how can it be a secret in the hands of the Mo family.

Merton nodded and said, "The cotton jacket and cotton clothes were only discovered after the boy got the cotton, and the original purpose of the boy was to make a white stack. ”

Li Shimin hurriedly asked: "So, the Mo family has cracked the weaving method of white stacks?" ”

Merton nodded and said: "This matter is not difficult, Weichen took the cotton to Mojia Village, and in just a few days, all the drawings from cotton stripping, to spinning, and even to weaving have been made." ”

"This weaving ink family can't be passed on!" Li Shimin said urgently.

"Why is that?" Su Lingnon was puzzled. It stands to reason that if a large number of white stacks are woven, it will be a big income for the people of Datang, but Li Shimin actually spoke out to stop it.

Merton explained: "Master Su doesn't know that the people of the Tang Dynasty have a shortage of copper coins, and many of the purchased items are replaced by silk fabrics. If a large number of white stacks comparable to silk suddenly appear in the hands of the people of the Tang Dynasty and use them to buy goods, Lord Su can think about what will happen. ”

This is exactly the same as the principle of the indiscriminate issuance of paper money in later generations, if a large number of paper money on the market is surviving, it will inevitably cause a large depreciation of paper money, although the value of silk and white stacks is higher than that of paper money, but after all, it is not real currency.

After Merton explained the principle, Su Linong suddenly realized.

"And silk can be used in addition to trading, but if the people already have enough white stacks in their hands, I'm afraid that when they sell things, I'm afraid they won't be willing to ask for silk and juan anymore." Merton said another serious thing, if Bai Diezi introduces Datang, I am afraid that it will cause silk fabrics to withdraw from the Datang currency market.

The biggest reason why silk can be used as currency is that the people's demand for him is very high, but if the people's demand drops sharply, it will naturally no longer be used as currency.

Li Shimin's face was immediately embarrassed, he did not expect that cotton, which seemed to benefit the country and the people, would be involved in the reshuffling of the currency market.

If the silk depreciates sharply, the biggest loss is the imperial court, the Tang Dynasty implements the rent and Yong modulation, in which the harmony is the expropriation of silk, a large number of silk fabrics are in the hands of the imperial court. Once the price of silk fabrics drops significantly, the loss of the imperial court is not one or two points.

"Do you want to postpone the trial of cotton planting?" Su Lingnon cringed a little and said, there are too many interests involved.

Merton couldn't help but sigh, the decline of the farmhouse was not without reason, and its pattern and vision were too small.

Li Shimin pondered for a moment, looked at Merton and asked, "What does the Mo family think?" ”

Mo Dun's heart tightened, and he immediately knew that Li Shimin's test was coming, so he immediately nodded after thinking about it for three breaths: "The Mo family has always used the three-table method as a criterion. The first table, "The Matter of the Ancient Holy Kings"; the second table, "Observe the reality of the ears and eyes of the people"; The third table is "abolishing (fading) as a criminal policy, looking at the interests of the people of the country." Wechen believes that this matter applies to the third table. ”

"Abolish (issue) as a criminal administration, and look at the interests of the people of the country." Li Shimin said.

"Not bad! The implementation of cotton makes the people of Datang no longer endure the bitter cold, which is naturally beneficial to the people. How can we let the people suffer from the cold because we look ahead and look backward? Merton said.

"If there is a large backlog of silk, what will Sanghu do?" Li Shimin asked.

Merton smiled and said, "In the West Market, there are a large number of Hu merchants who come from thousands of miles just for silk, but we are worried about too much silk?" ”

Li Shimin shook his head and said: "It takes a year or two for Hu merchants in the Western Regions to come and go, and the camel caravan carries too few things, so it can't transport much silk at all. ”

"Then we can put the silk trade in Yumen Pass, so that we can save at least three thousand miles, save half of the time for Hu Shang, and even we can form a caravan and send it to the countries of the Western Regions, and even the countries of the extreme west.

In this way, when Datang's silk sells well in Western countries, it is not known whether the silk can be enough, and at the same time, a large amount of money is rolling in, and Datang's lack of money crisis is naturally solved. ”

Merton painted a grand scene that couldn't help but make Li Shimin's hearts flutter.

"And the tools for peeling cotton seeds and spinning threads are extremely simple, and the craftsmen of Chang'an City can easily make them, and it is only a matter of time before Bai Diezi appears in Datang, so it is better to plan early than to panic at that time."

Merton said the final word.