Chapter 122 is born to know, but not to learn, but to be able

Datang is not short of materials, on the contrary, because of the abundance of products, resulting in cheap value.

Especially for farmers, this is very abnormal. The price of five dollars for rice is only more than 100 yuan per mu, and only 50 yuan can be earned for 100 mu of land after deducting the seed tax.

Even if it is converted into RMB, it is only more than 20,000 yuan. It is equivalent to the income of more than 20 acres of grain planting by farmers in later generations, and if it is planted with vegetables, this income will be higher.

Although Chen Ying adopted the method of paper money and printed a lot of banknotes, it still did not change the problem of low prices of Datang materials, because the family gate valve was not optimistic about Chen Ying's Datang Tongli Money Village at first, and the interest on deposits and loans was also extremely low, so there was no profit at all.

When they came to their senses, Datang Tongli Money Village had grown into a behemoth. These clan gate valves have never given up on the imitation of money, in fact, the most difficult thing about the banknotes issued by Datang Tongli Money Village is not the patterns and passwords on it, but the printing paper.

Chen Ying makes paper for money, which is made from cotton, cotton linters and high-quality poplar wood, through a series of chemical pulps and other complex production processes. Although it is not as good as the banknote printing paper of later generations, it has the advantages of high quality, high tensile force, folding and wear-resistant, and is not easy to deform and not easy to break when soaked in water.

The banknote printing workshop was placed in Chenjiabao, and it took more than 100 processes to manufacture, and it is no exaggeration to say that Chen Ying would lose more than 400 yuan for every money with a face value of 100 wen. Printing 500 banknotes, barely enough. This makes the clan gate valve a dog bite a hedgehog and has nowhere to put his mouth.

After failing to make a technological breakthrough in printing money, the clan gate lords couldn't make a plan, and they came up with another poisonous plan.

That is to prepare a large amount of money, prepare to run, so that Chen Ying's Datang Tongli Money Village fell into an embarrassing situation of making ends meet, once this situation occurs, Chen Ying's hard-won Tongli Money Bank's credit will go bankrupt, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

Fortunately, the Tiger Yi detected the conspiracy of the clan gate lord in time, controlled the scale of money printing in time, and strictly controlled the reserve system. At present, the reserves of Datang Tongli Money Village are about 30%, which actually makes Chen Ying feel that resources are seriously wasted.

However, after the discovery of this copper mine, this unfavorable situation can be changed.

Closely linked with Chen Ying from the first year of Wude, Li Jiancheng and Chen Ying have already reached a tacit understanding, in fact, there is no need for Chen Ying to say clearly, Li Jiancheng began to dig a big pit for the family gate valve.

Li Jiancheng actually didn't have any concept of two million taels of gold, anyway, one tael of gold could be cashed out for ten guan, so these two million taels of gold could be exchanged for more than 20 million guan.

According to the plan, the construction of the strategic gallop around the sea can be carried out directly.

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Wei Zheng felt like he was dreaming, and he didn't know how he came back. After returning home, Wei Zheng looked at his old wife Wen Xi Pei and said, "Madam, how much money do we have left in our family?" ”

Pei Shi thought for a while and said, "More than 1,600 guan!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Pei's immediately thought of a rumor that the imperial court seemed to be short of money, and the queen Zheng Guanyin borrowed money from the Zheng family, but the Zheng family in Xingyang finally took out more than 20,000 yuan of buckles and ropes.

Pei Shi thought of a possibility, and his face changed greatly: "Xuancheng, you can't give this money to the imperial court, and this money has to be left for Shuyu to leave a dowry!" ”

In fact, the cost of marriage has not been low throughout the ages. The heavier the dowry, the more face the woman's family has, and the man's family also has face. After all, millions of dollars are not something that ordinary families can come up with.

Chen Ying and Li Xiuning got married, openly and secretly, Chen Ying took out no less than one million. If you count the income from steel, I'm afraid it's more than five million, in fact, Li Xiuning is the one with the heaviest dowry among Li Yuan's daughters. Of course, Li Xiuning's dowry is also very rich.

In the original history, Li Shimin married his youngest daughter, Princess Hengshan (eight years old, ten years old, and the marriage was canceled in the same year), to Wei Shuyu as his wife, but in this time and space, Li Jiancheng has far fewer children than Li Shimin, and there are fewer suitable for marriage.

However, at this time, the Tang Dynasty was too Changqing, the daughter of Dou Dan, the concubine of the horse, as his wife. It's just that at present, Li Xiaogong has just been invited as a matchmaker to officially propose marriage to Dou Dan.

Once Dou Dan allows, he will enter the Nacai of the Six Rites. At this time, the man will go to Nacai, although with wild geese. However, it varies depending on the status. There are 30 kinds of official rituals, and they all have different symbolic meanings, such as sheep, herbs, and deer, which are taken as auspicious to convey the meaning of blessings; The glue, lacquer, acacia bell, mandarin duck, phoenix, etc. are used to symbolize the meaning of good marriage between husband and wife; Or take the merits and virtues of each object to motivate and exhort the couple, such as the pampas reed, the cypress, the relics beast, the blessed beast, the fish, the goose, the nine children's wife, etc.

The Sui and Tang dynasties once stipulated the customization of the dowry, from the prince to the nine products are the same, the standard is: a goose. one lamb, one for wine, one for millet and one for rice. However, this is only for the formation of a social atmosphere, but there are few people who really abide by it. Just like getting married in later generations, there are online comments to prohibit rehiring.

This is pure. Even if you think about it empathically, getting married is the right thing to do, and Ma Yun's daughter will never marry a poor dick. The matter of Diaosi marrying Bai Fumei can only be YY on the Internet.

Wei Pei was worried that Wei Zheng would donate the money to the imperial court, and he would not be able to get a dowry that matched his identity. After all, Wei Zheng is now also the first-rank prince and master of Wensanguan, so he naturally can't be too shabby.

Wei Zheng shook his head and said: "Madam, for my husband to know your concerns, I mean, the rest of the family's wealth is taken out of the Datang Tongli Money Village, all of which are purchased in kind, and don't buy gold and silver......"

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Wei Zheng only has less than 2,000 yuan of property, but Wei Ting is different, Jingzhao Wei is a wealthy family in Guanzhong, and Wei Ting, as the veteran of Li Jiancheng's Qiandi, has much more means than Wei Zheng. At this time, Wei Ting's son Wei Zhijie took the money to buy shops and fields in Chang'an and Luoyang.

In particular, Wei Ting bought 120,000 acres of fertile land from Anxi in one go.

Examples like this have been staged in Chang'an one after another.

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In Anxi Shule Academy, Li Xiuning, Yang Rong, Li Daozhen and other daughters boarded the steam engine train with Chen Ying. After this period of improvement, Zino and other craftsmen improved the lubricating oil with high temperature resistance, increased the efficiency of the piston, and adopted more precise structural components for the position of poor air tightness.

Of course, with Chen Ying, a giant standing on the shoulders of history, rubber began to be put into use more than a thousand years ahead of schedule, but at present, this steam engine train still has no rubber.

As the saying goes, snakes have snake paths, rats have rat paths, although there is no rubber, clever craftsmen use cotton, pressed into a felt ring with excellent air tightness, although the effect is not as good as the real rubber ring, but it is also much better than before.

This time, I saw the steam engine train, which was much improved compared to the original steam engine train, and the original train carriage was a row of wheels with an iron basket on it, so that even the strongest man could vomit blood when he was bumpy. However, with the use of shock absorption devices, the effect of this kind of train carriage is much better. It's almost the equivalent of driving a pickup truck and speeding along the beach next door to Gurban. Although it is uncomfortable, it is not unbearable.

The improved train is much faster than the original, and most importantly, it can tow sixteen train cars.

Of course, due to the influence of Chen Ying, an otherworldly butterfly, this train at this time is simply the royal No. 1.

The carriage, which is 10 feet and 6 feet long, is divided into four parts, including a rest area for sleeping, a banquet area for dining and singing, a bathing area for bathing, and a kitchen.

In particular, the banquet area for dining, which is six feet long and two feet wide, can be used for a small drinking party, or for five or six dancing girls to dance in it.

The most important thing is that all the chairs are comfortable sofas, and you can sit on the sofa and enjoy the fun of going up and down.

Yang Rong looked at the train that was speeding out, and asked excitedly, "Who made this car?" ”

Chen Ying pointed at Zino and said, "It's him, and the craftsmen of Shule Academy!" ”

Yang Rong said excitedly: "Originally, the slave was worried about how to transport the mined copper back to Guanzhong, but now it's okay, there is this thing, it is better than cattle and horses!" ”

Even Li Daozhen exclaimed: "With this thing, the inexhaustible grain from Anxi can be directly transported to Chang'an, how much time can be saved in the middle?" How many more goods can be pulled? ”

Chen Ying said with a smile: "According to the current train carrying capacity, it is not a problem to pull twenty carriages, according to the first three trains loaded with coal and water, seventeen carriages, each carriage can carry more than 10,000 stones." ”

However, Li Xiuning's brain, which has been silent, thinks differently from Li Daozhen and Yang Rong, and the train she thinks of is an absolute militaristic weapon.

Datang has millions of soldiers, and a large-scale war is not impossible to assemble a million troops, the key is that logistics can't keep up. A train can carry tens of thousands of stones, and tens of thousands of stones of grain are enough for an army of 100,000 to eat for three days. Even if there is an army of 500,000, it will take two trains.

Such a militaristic weapon is used as a carriage, which is really a tyrannical thing.

Li Xiuning suddenly thought that this thing is an excellent weapon for use in the military or the people. The only thing that limited this thing was the time it took to lay the two rails. However, Datang began to build the Chi Road as early as the third year of Wude, and now it has been repaired for seven years, and it has built tens of thousands of miles of Chi Road.

Could it be that Chen Ying foresaw the appearance of this thing as early as seven years ago?

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying's pretty face, and thought in his heart: "Could it be that there are really people in this world who are born to know?" ”

But to say that Chen Ying can see through the future?

Li Xiuning was a little puzzled again.

The kind of people who are born to know, without exception, are immortals.

However, Chen Ying, as Li Xiuning's pillow person, knows Chen Ying very well, and Chen Ying is definitely a living person.