Chapter 212: Unified Currency and Cutting Leeks

Completely letting go of Taixue's things is a thought for Zhang Yuan.

After this thought grows in my heart, it is not so easy to cut it off.

So Zhang Yuan really handed over all the affairs of Taixue to Kong Anguo.

The good name must be to exercise his ability.

In fact, Zhang Yuan just wanted to do something else, because the most important thing to sum up in Taixue is the growth of students and the expansion of influence.

Come to think of it, only when the influence expands and the people become rich will it lead to the growth of the source of students.

In this way, Zhang Yuanshou has no meaning at all in Taixue.

It's better to find something else to do, so that your reputation will become wider and wider, and Taixue's influence will also increase as your reputation grows.

Zhang Yuan, as the principal of the first state-run education place in China, also served as the Minister of Education by the way, so it can be said that Taixue is going to grow up with him.

Qin Shi Huang unified China, and no matter how much Liu Che does now, future generations will only say that he developed and perfected on the basis of Qin Shi Huang.

And Qin Shi Huang set a unified tone for China in China, and those who do not seek reunification in the future are the sinners of the nation.

As a modern person, Zhang Yuan has a much deeper understanding of this point than the ancients.

In modern times, so many warlords have a relationship with foreign countries that are constantly being sorted out and chaotic, but not all of them are working hard to maintain national unity.

This is the influence that the pioneers have on those who come after them.

Both the Han and Qin dynasties were the first Chinese dynasties to try to govern the country.

On the one hand, they demanded innovation, because most of the systems left over from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period could not be used.

On the other hand, it requires stability, and the Qin Dynasty is actually very chaotic at the bottom, but it was suppressed by strong military strength and a strict calendar.

When the Han Dynasty first founded, it was also chaotic, otherwise it would not have been ruled for decades.

Allowing the people to seek their own life and death is better than the state forcing them to die, those are two different concepts.

In Zhang Yuan's view, the most chaotic thing is the economy and finance, and until now Liu Che has not set things right, because he doesn't understand it at all.

And so far, Liu Che has actually reformed twice, and the effect cannot be said to be none, but it has not touched the root of the chaos at all.

In order to change the status quo, Zhang Yuan went to Chang'an City.

Pingyang Hou Mansion of Chang'an City.

Since the death of Pingyang Hou Cao, in fact, the Queen Mother has been looking for a husband for Princess Pingyang.

But Princess Pingyang may not have helped his son Cao Xiang completely control the Pingyang Hou lineage, so she didn't find someone to marry.

Zhang Yuan's visit this time has only one purpose.

Control the trading of paper mills and the coal mining trade in Shu County.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, Xin'an Hou is asking to see you outside."

Zhang Yuan came to visit suddenly, and Princess Pingyang was also surprised.

If there was no Princess Pingyang on weekdays, Zhang Yuan would definitely not come to the door to find Princess Pingyang.

Because there is a need for Princess Binh Duong now, to be honest, there are not many of them.

This kind of character will only be most effective when Zhang Yuan is in danger of survival or when he is still very weak.

"Let Xin'anhou come in."

"Whoa."

When Zhang Yuan saw Princess Pingyang, he found that she did not have a resentful look like a widow, and her expression was as noble as before.

"Your Royal Highness the Princess."

"Why did Xin'anhou come today?"

The alliance makes Princess Pingyang speak very directly.

"I came here for the paper mill and the Shu County coal mine."

Zhang Yuan's share of the paper mill and the coal mine is 20%, and they all occupy the least proportion of the tripartite relationship.

However, these two cornucopias were presented to the world because of Zhang Yuan.

"What's wrong? What happened? ”

For a long time, Zhang Yuan didn't care about this.

Fifty percent of the paper mill's share is Liu Che's, thirty percent is Pingyang's princess's, and the bulk of the coal mine is also Pingyang's princess's.

In order not to compete with the royal family, Zhang Yuan has never asked about these two businesses.

The royal family did not deduct Zhang Yuan from the money.

"On a whim, I plan to do something with these things and the shops under your name, Your Highness the Princess.

Your Royal Highness the Princess, please rest assured that the ministers will give you dividends from the inner treasury according to the original set share, and you can also send some businessmen to supervise. ”

"What are you trying to do?"

Obviously, Zhang Yuan didn't explain the reason clearly, and it was difficult for Princess Pingyang to agree to Zhang Yuan's request.

"Collect the privately minted copper coins on the market and re-smelt them."

Zhang Yuan just said one of his main purposes, and there was another meaning that he didn't say.

"You're doing this to unify the currency?"

Princess Pingyang could see at a glance that after all, Liu Che had already carried out two currency reforms, although both ended in failure.

"Yes, only in this way will the people not pay more attention to barter.

The most important thing is that it can stabilize the prices of our Han, and there are other benefits.

Collecting taxes and anything will not be made more difficult because of the weight and composition of the currency. ”

Zhang Yuan only said that Princess Pingyang could understand and accept the benefits.

The more explicit benefits Zhang Yuan did not say.

The most important reason why Liu Che wanted to reform the currency system was to plunder wealth for his own use.

He himself probably didn't expect it to be crooked, and it had an extremely big impact on future generations.

And the impact is mostly positive.

"I know what you said, but you have thought that Your Majesty has also implemented three baht coins and half two coins.

But in the end, there were no good results, and the phenomenon of private casting could not be eliminated at all. ”

"The minister knows that it is too easy to imitate just half a tael and three baht coins, and it is easy for private mints to grind copper chips from them, and then use the copper chips from the grinding to smelt new coins."

"Now that you know, you should also understand the difficulty of harmonizing the currency.

How could you have done such a thing alone. ”

"So the minister wants to try it first, and the only business that the minister is involved in are these two things.

I have come to ask for your consent, and I can guarantee that no matter what, your dividends with Your Majesty will not be less. ”

Princess Pingyang kept silent and hesitated for a long time.

She understood that what Zhang Yuan was going to do was a good thing, and the biggest beneficiaries were the royal family and ordinary people.

But the difficulty is by no means as easy as Zhang Yuan is showing now.

"Since you want to give it a try, then I can't stop you.

When you're ready, send someone to take over my shop that sells coal and paper.

It's just that I definitely want to send someone to supervise it, which you have to understand Xin'anhou. "90 look

"Thank you, Your Highness the Princess, supervision is a must.

The minister also wants to reassure His Majesty and reassure you. ”

With the promise of Princess Pingyang, Zhang Yuan took the first step forward.

What he wanted to do was not only to reform the currency system and unify the currency, but also to reduce the price of paper by taking advantage of the convenience of managing the shops.

He couldn't be the master of Princess Pingyang before, and Liu Che didn't have the concept of small profits but quick turnover, just thinking that as long as it was expensive, then the money flowing into his pocket would increase.

Now that Zhang Yuan has taken over, he can make Liu Che and Princess Pingyang understand a little.

When paper was available to everyone, they would pay more dividends than they do now.

From ancient times to modern times, China's greatest resource has always been the number of people.

Modern capitalists wish that China could have a population of several billion, so it would be very easy for them to cut leeks.

So the more users, the more leeks.

This is why the most important thing for Internet companies is user resources.

A company that kneels to Lao Mei, to put it bluntly, does it have any core technology that can make Lao Mei remember?

In fact, there is no such thing as at all, Lao Mei can make an exact same appearance in a short period of time as long as she wants to.

So why should he still care, it's not because of that huge user base.

Zhang Yuan wants to make paper available to the Han people, and only making money from the rich will never be as good as earning money from the people of the whole country.

Popularize first and then charge, the consistent means of cutting leeks.

For example, a bunch of video websites in Huaxia burned money frantically in the early stage, and when the number of users was counted, it couldn't rise.

VIP is coming, and then it is to insert advertisements in movies and TV series, and then it is advanced on-demand, and they can continue to upgrade the method of cutting leeks later.

Zhang Yuan can't be so black-hearted, even if the Han people can afford paper, he won't be black-hearted enough to print a logo on the paper in order to advertise some people.

For example, Dong Zhongshu can ask him to advertise and print the words "Ram Spring and Autumn" on the corner of the paper.

Printing is also in Zhang Yuan's hands, and Zhang Yuanda can use these in exchange for wealth and various resources.

But all of this is based on harming the people.

If you have more than those four words, you may write four fewer words on a piece of paper, and in the end, it will be unsightly.

Video websites add ads to TV dramas and movies, which not only reduces the user experience, but also steals and steals everyone's time.

The greatest wealth of the poor is time, and capital is slowly wasting your time.

Originally, it only takes 40 minutes to watch an episode of a TV series, and then there are two minutes of ads in it, and it's disgusting that they can use algorithm plug-ins to make it impossible for you to skip it.

Two minutes a day, twelve hours and seventeen minutes a year.

This is still one person, what if this base is expanded to 10,000, 100,000, or even millions or tens of millions?

This is really not alarmist, capital makes users waste fragmented time, and they use this time to earn a lot of profits.

And the user takes a higher risk, do you think you just bought a VIP and paid for an advanced VOD?

Your most precious thing has been stolen.

This is Zhang Yuan's personal idea, so he will definitely not do such a disgusting thing.

He popularized users firstly to make the people of Dahan literate, and secondly, he returned to his original purpose.

Collect all the copper coins that are not of good quality up and down the country.

Zhang Yuan thought about it for a long time, this was the only way he could drastically change the status quo.

When Liu Che realizes that this thing can really be done, he will definitely come forward to lead this matter, and at that time, the unified currency will be like a bag to get something.

took the first step, Zhang Yuan immediately returned to his home at the foot of Lantian Mountain.

At this time, it should be when Taixue was busy, and Zhuo Wenjun never thought that Zhang Yuan would come back at this time.

"Now that the list is about to be released, won't anyone criticize you when you come back at this time?"

Zhang Yuan was still thinking about things, but he didn't expect Zhuo Wenjun to care about himself so much.

"It's okay, have you been scolded less over the years?

As long as there is no chaos, I won't be able to show up, I have already entrusted Kong Anguo.

If something happens, he'll be finished, and I'm not a big deal if I'm not this Hou Ye, anyway, it's easy to seal the Hou. ”

Zhang Yuan really didn't say nonsense about this, there were at least two major wars between Han and Hungary, Zhang Yuan only needed to participate in that once, and it was really a simple matter to make military achievements.

"Bah, it's going to happen.

Ah Yuan, if you come back this time, you will stay for a while longer, and we will work hard. ”

Zhuo Wenjun lowered her head shyly after speaking, and her efforts must be for the greatest cause of mankind.

"Hehe, then work hard.

But you have to go to the vault and have a look. ”

As his family became more and more abundant, Zhang Yuan had already carved out a vault underground to store his belongings.

The security of Xin'anhou Mansion basically depends on these Han troops in Shanglin Yuan, and it is still necessary to get a vault.

To be honest, Zhang Yuan didn't know how much money he had.

But when he really saw half of the horseshoe gold in the warehouse, and I don't know how many boxes of copper coins, Zhang Yuan was still stunned.

"This must be tens of thousands of catties of gold."

"Master Hou, the treasury is counted once a month, and the last count was half a hundred and twenty coins of 136.52 million.

Ninety-four thousand seven hundred and forty-six gold. ”

Zhang Fu used to be in charge of the money Xiaoqing, but now that there is more money, Xiaoqing and Lao Zhao will manage it together.

Xiao Qing is in charge of expenditure, and Lao Zhao is in charge of inventory.

Seniors just love to look at these mountains of money.

More than 100 million and a half taels, which still makes Zhang Yuan happy enough.

Zhangfu never accepts those privately minted copper coins that are short of catties and taels, and the transactions have always been large transactions, and the number of copper coins is counted and then weighed.

It is not a simple matter to hide from Lao Zhao.

As more and more copper coins increased, Zhang Yuan finally melted and cast them all into Han Wu half taels in order to be as fair as possible when distributing the monthly money.

Now it looks like it's working out pretty well.

"Lao Zhao, I want to re-melt these copper coins into new coins."

"Master Hou, do you want to mint copper coins privately?"

"It's not private, Your Majesty hasn't forbade the princes from minting money."

Lao Zhao didn't know this, he only knew that the people could not mint copper coins privately, and if they were caught, they would be beheaded, and their families would be implicated.

"Then everything is subject to Master Hou, Xiong Daxiong and the two of them did not lose their lives.

There are all the things in the house, and minting money is just a trivial matter. ”

Lao Zhao got to the point, the mold is the most important.

The copper coins that were issued before were too easy to grind and too easy to counterfeit.

Basically, there is no anti-counterfeiting function, and it is not possible for the people to see at a glance whether there is a shortage of catties or two.

The people are all small transactions, and it is impossible to weigh them like Zhang Fu.

Therefore, the copper coin made in the end must be recognized by the people at a glance.