After a lot of hardships, through many obstacles, after several twists and turns, Dong Chong finally arrived in Qinchuan with his tour group, without waiting for Dong Chong to enter the city to rest, Qinchuan County Lingxian, who went out of the city to greet him, asked Dong Chong inexplicably: "Second Master Dong, why did you come to this remote place?" Does the Taishi have any orders? ”

Dong Chongyi, "My eldest brother asked me to escort the divine rice seeds to Qinchuan to sow seeds, don't you know?" ”

The Qinchuan County Order is even more strange, "As early as ten days ago, Li Xiang flew pigeons to pass on the villain, and arranged the Qinchuan agricultural planting plan, this year in Qinchuan in addition to planting enough self-sufficient wheat and chestnuts, the rest of the land has been planted with cotton and hemp, and the divine rice and divine fruit will not be allowed to be planted in this county until next year, Dong Erye, don't you know?" ”

Dong Chong was dumbfounded, and suddenly remembered the mysterious smile that Zhao Yun had when he withdrew with Gan Ning, his heart moved, and he turned around and shouted: "Bring the box containing the divine rice, open it and take a look." ”

The treasure chest made of steel, molten lead sealed, although it fell into the hands of thieves several times, but no one could open it, Dong Chong's personal soldiers spent a long time and spent a lot of effort to pry open the treasure chest, but there was not a single half-grain of divine rice in the treasure chest, of which twenty-nine boxes were filled with ham, beef jerky and other foods that could be stored for a long time, but only one box contained copper coins and gold coins that Dong Chong and others had never seen, and a letter.

Dong Chong saw that the letter had been written by himself, so he hurriedly opened it and checked it, and his eldest brother wrote crookedly on the letter: "Hard brother, those dried meat and ham are for the brothers, and the gold and copper coins will replace the original five baht coins in the future, you can mint more for the eldest brother in Qinchuan, and when you return to Chang'an, the eldest brother will reward you well." "At the end of the letter, Dong Chong wanted the number of coins minted in Qinchuan to the ratio of copper and zinc in the coins.

Dong Chong's nose was almost crooked, and he learned the tone of his fourth sister-in-law and scolded hatefully: "Old ugly ghost, I asked me to come to Qinchuan to be a blacksmith for a long time, and he deserved to be scolded by his wife every day." ”

Dong Chong scolded Kang Peng in Qinchuan, but Kang Peng praised him in Chang'an, Kang Peng took Zhao Yun's flying pigeon and smiled bitterly, "The dignified Gan Xingba was actually planted under the sweat medicine, is Dong Chong's kid the reincarnation of Lord Wei?" With a wry smile, Kang Peng immediately let go of this matter temporarily, Gan Ning was still on the way back to Chang'an, and he had a great weakness in his character, so it should not be difficult to win him over. What Kang Peng has to do now is to prepare his economic and military work before the autumn harvest, so that he can seize the opportunity on his road to the world.

Yongzhou corn is mainly planted in Chang'an to the north, Weishui to Wugong between, this area of fertile land, developed water conservancy, Dong Zhuojun garrison dense, large population and rich life, and after more than a year of painstaking management, Dong Zhuojun in these places has won the hearts of the people, the local people are related to Dong Zhuojun's interests, with their assistance, Dong Zhuojun is confident to ensure that high-yield seeds do not flow out.

In the blink of an eye, in May of the second year of the early Han Dynasty, all the corn planted has sprouted and grown, and most of the small works of the princes in Chang'an were captured, in order to deter the remaining small part of the fine crops that escaped by chance, lest they take risks, Kang Peng used all kinds of terrorist means, in addition to taking all the captured fine works to the front of the carrier platform Ling Chi was executed, and sent envoys to pressure the princes, forcing them to hand over the families of these fine works, Liu Yan was afraid of his threat, and handed over some of the irrelevant fine writers, these people arrived in Chang'an, He was immediately reduced to a slave by Kang Peng, and worked as a cow and a horse in the factory mine for the rest of his life, and he could not be pardoned forever. For Liu Biao, who refused to hand over the person, Kang Peng responded to a nirvana order, ordering the world to offer a heavy reward for the head of the fine writer in Jingzhou, which is valid for life. As soon as these methods came out, those who were lucky not to reveal their identities either fled Yongzhou, or surrendered to Dong Zhuo's army, and no one dared to risk the danger of stealing high-yield seeds.

With the continuous development of Chang'an's economy and commerce, the original five-baht money system of the Han Dynasty has seriously exposed the shortcomings, the five-baht money began in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, each weighing four grams, the copper-lead ratio is copper seven lead three, the value of five Wen, Qianwen is consistent, replacing the serious theft of three baht money, effectively promoting the social and economic development at that time, along with the Western Han Dynasty through the golden age of development. After Wang Mang usurped the government, he minted 50 Daquan, but the same weight of coins was worth 50 wen, so as to plunder the wealth of the people, causing the prices of the people to soar, the price of goods and money to cheap, the purchasing power of coins fell rapidly, and the people could not survive, so they gave up production one after another and went into exile. After the restoration of the Eastern Han Dynasty, although Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu recast the five-baht coin, but the reputation of the five-baht coin has been bad, and the people mostly use cloth, silk, millet and other daily necessities to barter, and finally wait for the five-baht coin to rebuild its prestige, the unfortunate people of the Western Han Dynasty met the most stingy emperor of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Han Ling, and wantonly accumulated the world's money, hidden in the palace, and the rope that wore the money was rotten and was reluctant to take it out to relieve the people and develop the economy, resulting in no more money circulation among the people, so they had to embark on the old road of bartering again. But the unlucky people of Xinghan are still behind, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty died, the original Dong Boss entered Beijing, Dong Boss was more ruthless than Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, demolished the twelve bronze people and minted seven or eight billion small coins, each weighing less than one gram, and made up for the last knife on the crumbling five-baht money system, and since then inflation has reached the point of no return, picking up a load of money can only buy a stone of grain, and the people of the Eastern Han Dynasty have reached the point where they cannot survive. Of course, these things can't all be blamed on Boss Dong, his successors Boss Cao, Boss Liu and Boss Sun are more ruthless than the other, and Boss Cao uses grain and cloth as currency; Boss Liu minted a coin as 500, and in the later stage, Zhuge Liang was forced to be helpless, so he had to follow Boss Cao's example and use cloth as currency; The most ruthless is Boss Sun, a big spring is priced at 5,000 Wen, and there is no limit to looting people's wealth for pleasure or military spending, which is not to be mentioned later.

Kang Peng, who came from later generations, of course, understood how much damage these monetary policies would cause to the people, but when he substituted into Dong Boss's body, it was the time of the Great War of Tiger Pass, and he was unable to take care of economic matters, after the Battle of Tiger Pass, Dong Zhuojun not only burdened the finances of Luoyang, the most populous country in the world when the economy had been tragically destroyed, but also had to relieve nearly one million victims in the north who experienced drought and locust plagues. With the wealth accumulated by the Han family over the years, Dong Zhuojun's finances have gradually recovered, and Kang Peng also decided to reform the monetary policy to lay a financial foundation for the hegemony of the world, and to reform the currency, the first thing is to mint a new credible currency.

A.D. 192, Han Dynasty three years of May 11, Kang Peng officially ordered Yong, and, Liang three states of the government and people, announced the issuance of new coins, the new currency to adopt the copper, gold standard, divided into copper coins and gold coins, the specifications of copper coins is two centimeters in diameter, weighing about three grams, each official value of a penny, in order to distinguish the previous issuance of five baht money, Kang Peng copper money color from the traditional copper seven lead three to copper six zinc four weak with a small amount of iron lead, not only to reduce the cost of casting, but also sufficient, good color, the surface of the casting text is very clear, and the material wear-resistant, The first batch of 1.2 million new copper coins and the official price of the old five-baht coins were exchanged for 20 Wen, but in the private sector it actually reached 1 to 30 or even higher, so that many officials working in the Mint Bureau and businessmen who resold the new money became rich overnight, and even made Kang Peng's newly appointed Imperial Shi Sima Lang wave the butcher's knife again and again, until the minting factory in Chang'an increased the monthly production capacity to 800,000 Guan per month for half a year. to suppress this undercurrent that may threaten the issuance of new currency.

Gold coins weigh about 100 grams each, worth 1,000 yuan, gold purity is about seventy percent, Kang Peng wanted to use pure gold, but after the pure gold coin sample was manufactured, it was found that the gold coin was too soft, not practical at all, and had to be mixed with brass to ensure the hardness of the gold coin. Due to the high fineness and sufficient weight of the gold coins issued by Kang Peng, the possibility of depreciation is very small and easy to carry, and the exchange price with old money on the black market is even more outrageous, from the official price of 20 guan per piece to 1:35, with Kang Peng did not anticipate in advance of the rapid circulation to Luoyang, Chenliu, Xuzhou, Hanzhong, Chengdu, Xiangyang and other commercially developed areas, and even along the Silk Road spread to Arabia and Rome and other places, laying a solid foundation for Kang Peng to control the national economy and issue paper money in the future. And when the poor princes found that the economy of their territory had been indirectly controlled by Kang Peng, it was too late, and the new currency had already seized the local currency circulation field with lightning speed, and the new currency they minted followed the trend and did not have the same financial security as Dong Zhuojun, the money was small and of poor quality, and it was basically depreciated as soon as it was issued, and even if it was forced to be issued, the people did not want to use it at all, so they could only watch Kang Peng buy their last bit of materials and commodities with coins, but they were helpless.

An interesting thing happened when the coin was originally designed, the self-aware Kang Peng insisted that his head should not be printed on the gold coin, but Li Ru, who supervised the minting of the currency, disobeyed the order and resolutely used his father-in-law's head as the back of the gold coin, which also gave Kang Peng's gold coin a new name - Dong Datou! But Li Ru complied with his father-in-law's other arrangement, and used the words 'Dakang Tongbao' as the obverse text of the new coin, which in Li Ru's opinion was the name of the country that his father-in-law was going to proclaim emperor.

During that time, Kang Peng was really busy, the refining technology of ancient zinc was backward, and the zinc produced could not meet the amount required for coinage, fortunately, Kang Peng did not learn anything well in high school before, but the chemistry class of the beautiful teacher listened to it with relish, and learned some means of soil method zinc smelting and coking, soil method coking is very simple, and soil method zinc smelting is much more difficult, to load zinc ore (PS: mainly zinc oxide) mixed with charcoal into a bullet-shaped mud pot, seal it with mud, and fix it with a pointed end down after drying, calcined with coking coal, after a period of time and so on for the zinc ore melted into a clump, after the cold is opened, you can get a purity of more than 95% zinc ingots, and these things are necessary to teach by word and deed, Kang Peng eats and lives in the workshop on the outskirts of Chang'an, every day in addition to dealing with official documents is to guide zinc smelting and coking, in his spare time, Kang Peng gave full play to his chemical expertise, and designed a secret weapon for siege, handed over the drawings to Li Ru to order, so busy that he didn't even have time to go home. Fortunately, several of his wives knew that he was not going to mess with flowers, but they didn't come to interfere with him, especially Cai Wenji brought a group of little girls and Dong Peng to bring him food every day, which made Kang Peng very moved.

When the matter of the foundry was on the right track, the time was already the third day of June, and Lu Su and his entourage also returned to Chang'an on the same day. On the way back to Chang'an, Kang Peng saw that it was still early, so he went to the field to check the growth of potatoes and corn, and did not set off back to Chang'an until he was covered with dust and mud.

When he was about to arrive at Chang'an City, Kang Peng saw a group of people around the avenue, and there was a girl's cry in the crowd, Kang Peng became curious, dismounted and squeezed into the crowd, but saw that in the crowd were two stunning girls who looked exactly the same, one of them was crying sadly with a head slanted to the left and a girl with a small disan to the left, and the other girl with a diagonal to the right was comforting her, "Sister, don't cry, I'll just say that he is old and ugly, you don't believe it, you still pestered your father to come to Chang'an......"

Kang Peng saw the crowd of onlookers pointing at them, and some people were snickering, Kang Peng was even more curious, and leaned up and asked, "Two girls, what's wrong with you?" Are there any difficulties that you can't get over? ”

If you want to know what happened next, please see the next chapter - "Big Joe's Dream Lover".

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