"Your Highness! Mi Shangshu asks to see! ”

Liu De, who was dealing with government affairs, raised his head and said to Dian Wei: "Let Mi Qing come in." ”

"Yes!"

Mi Zhu quickly came to the hall with a tray in both hands, and bowed slightly to Liu De: "Your Highness! ”

"What happened to Mi Qing?"

Liu De put down the brush in his hand, motioned for Mi Zhu to sit down, and asked.

Mi Zhu handed the tray in his hand to Liu De and said, "Your Highness, this is a newly minted coin, please take a look." ”

"Oh? Newly minted coins are out? ”

Liu De lifted the cloth cover on the tray, a copper coin was placed in the tray, Liu De picked up the copper coin, carefully looked at it, the round square hole, the casting is exquisite, the face and back are flat, and in order to prevent the edge from being cut, the coin has added a perimeter.

It stands to reason that the copper coin should be engraved with words, but because Liu De has not yet been proclaimed emperor, the engraving is omitted first, and the style of a copper coin is produced first.

Then Liu De tossed the weight with his hand, nodded and said: "It's really good, now the economic problem is more severe, the people are mostly bartering, and a lot of private money is pouring into the market, the price is uneven, it is easy to make social turmoil, the Zhou Dynasty is a lesson from the past, we must be more cautious!" ”

Since Liu De raised the army, the world is divided by princes, so the economy has also been destroyed, and the princes and heroes who mint private money abound, and the pit is still the common people, and the country's reputation is bankrupt, which has a great impact on people's livelihood.

When Liu De was reforming the official system and setting up six cabinet ministries and other departments, he emphasized to the household department that the coinage rights should be returned to the central government first, and fortunately, Liu De's strong army cleared a lot of obstacles for the reform of the currency system.

Although the coinage right was withdrawn, although Liu De occupied no copper mines at that time, the amount of copper was scarce, and the society was still quite turbulent, food was scarce, and the war never stopped, so the task of minting new coins has been stranded.

At that time, the main productive force was the tuntian system, which was called wartime communism.

This is when Liu De recalled the history of the original time and space, and remembered that the tuntian system implemented by Cao Cao had a saving effect on both military and civil affairs.

And Liu De's territory has also been greatly restored because of the tuntian system.

It also made Liu De always have the spare strength to pacify Li Yun, Xiang Yu and other princes and occupy the land of Qizhou in a few years.

At that time, Liu De also advocated that the people should plant jujube trees on the land that could not grow grain, as an economic income, and the development of such a policy of planting jujube trees has also reflected the effect so far, so that the people have excess financial resources, so that they will not go bankrupt when they are slightly affected by disasters, and sell their children and daughters at worst.

And this newly minted coin also reflects one of Liu De's great ambitions, reform measurement.

In the past, the currency measurement was based on the 24 decimal system of 24 plants for one tael, Liu De looked very uncomfortable, and it was not very convenient to use.

For example, the five-baht coin issued during the heyday of the Great Zhou Dynasty is the same reason, Liu De originally wanted to mint the five-baht coin, but after thinking about it for a long time, there are still disadvantages of the five-baht coin, and the issuance of the new currency is conducive to people's further understanding of the role of money, rather than just staying in the present.

That is, a copper coin is a penny, before it was the 24 decimal system of the penny, baht, and tael, and the new coin is the decimal system of centi, cent, money, and tael, which is convenient to convert and suitable for economic development.

The Han Dynasty was newly established, everything should be new, and the currency reform would last for a long time, and Liu De believed that the people would definitely choose a new copper coin that was beneficial to them and more convenient.

Moreover, the minting of new coins is also very likely to impact the forces of other princes, which is also conducive to Liu De's unification road.

And the name of the copper coin.

That is, Liu De's new year name.

Liu De held his brush and wrote four big characters on the slender, white paper: Kaiyuan Tongbao.

Kaiyuan: the meaning of opening up the country and opening up a new era.

Tongbao: A treasure in circulation.

Mi Zhu got this book, his spirit was more excited, he hurriedly bowed to his knees, took the paper solemnly with both hands, and then bowed and left in a hurry, the time from Liu De to be the emperor has not yet been determined, but Mi Zhu knows that this "Kaiyuan Tongbao" must be cast first, and when Liu De ascends the throne and becomes the emperor, this "Kaiyuan Tongbao" will be issued all over the world.

After Mi Zhu left, Liu De called Dian Wei in and said, "You send someone to call the Ministry of Works!" ”

About an hour later, Xuyou hurriedly came and bowed to Liu De: "Cui You of the Ministry of Ministers and Ministers to meet His Highness!" ”

"Get up!"

Liu De nodded and said, "Do you have any craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry who are more powerful in building weapons?" ”

Cui You raised his head slightly, although he didn't know what Liu De was talking about, but Cui You didn't dare to slack off, and after thinking about it, he said: "Your Highness Qiqi, there is indeed a person, who is a person from Shuzhong, named Pu Yuan, who is good at forging knives. ”

Liu Dexin said: This is quite a coincidence.

Immediately, Dian Wei was summoned again, and Dian Wei sent someone to call Pu Yuan over.

When Pu Yuan came over, Liu De couldn't help but use stunts to check Pu Yuan's attributes: baby

Character: Pu Yuan

Gender: Male

Age: 3663

Injuries: Healthy

Faction: Han

Identity: Blacksmith

Official Position: Ministry of Industry Craftsman (no rank)

Title: None

Prestige: 25

Merit: 685

Loyalty: 92

Command: 47

Force: 73

Intelligence: 58

Politics: 49

Charisma: 62

Adaptability: Infantry B Cavalry C Archers C Weapons C Naval Army C

Treasure: None

Stunt: Blade Casting [Casting Weapon Ability Increases, Chance of Crafting Treasures Increases] (Level 2 Support Skill)

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"The grass people meet Your Highness!"

The sturdy Pu Yuan hurriedly knelt on the ground and bowed.

Liu De motioned to Pu Yuan to get up, and said to Pu Yuan: "I heard Cui Qing say that you are a good hand at forging knives in the Ministry of Industry, so what about casting swords?" ”

Pu Yuan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly replied: "The basic principle of sword casting is the same as that of knife casting, and the reason why grass people are famous for casting knives is because the army has a relatively large demand for steel knives. ”

"Great goodness!"

Liu De said again: "That Gu needs you to make twenty-eight swords, and the quality of these swords must reach the treasure level, can you do it?" ”

Pu Yuan knew that his opportunity had come, but with twenty-eight swords, each of which had reached the treasure level, it was definitely a very high challenge.

If you have enough time, it should be fine, but I don't know...

"I wonder how long Your Highness can give the grass people?"

Pu Yuan asked.

Liu De tapped his fingers on the table and gave Pu Yuan a time, "It's only one year." ”

"This..."

One year to build twenty-eight treasure-level swords, one year is too short.

But Pu Yuan didn't want to give up such a good opportunity, so he bowed: "The grass people take the order!" ”

Liu Dedao: "Very good, if you need anything, you go to Cui Qing, Cui Qing will fully support you!" ”

Cui You arched his hand on the side and said, "The minister understands!" ”

Liu De didn't finish speaking, but Pu Yuan understood, so when Pu Yuan came out of the hall, he thought to himself: I'm going to find a helper.

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