Joining the monetary system is another reform of the Xia State, just by rewarding meritorious personnel to introduce the monetary system into the Xia State, the Xia State needs to change the place has been greatly reduced, but it is also necessary to pay attention to this reform, and it is necessary to cooperate with all levels of the Xia State, especially the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Minting Currency, which manages the currency.

Su Yan gave an order to the Ministry of Industry, the first batch of minting 1,000 gold coins, 10,000 silver coins, and 100,000 copper coins, there are molds, and it is not difficult to mint three kinds of coins in batches, but the next things that the Ministry of Commerce needs to carry out are more troublesome, especially the pricing of various items, there are too many places to consider.

On the battlefield of the Eastern Front, the Xia State Expeditionary Legion had stopped, and in six days, it captured five tribes, one of which was a rainy day, which can be said to take a tribe in one day.

Only two of the five tribes were forced to surrender by the Xia Expeditionary Legion, and the other three all fought against the Xia Expeditionary Legion, and the male clansmen of the three tribes were killed and wounded, and the surviving male clansmen would also be reduced to slaves to contribute to the development of the Xia Kingdom.

After capturing the five tribes, the Xia expeditionary corps was forced to stop, not because it could not continue the attack, but because it was affected by two factors: shipping and the strength of the expeditionary corps.

The expeditionary corps only has the strength of three towns, and it takes a certain number of guards to transport the captives back to the Xia country, and the shipping is insufficient, and the expeditionary corps also needs to divide troops to guard the captives, and finally after capturing the five tribes, the expeditionary corps no longer has enough troops to take down the next tribe, so it can only wait for the fleet to transport the captives away, and at the same time transport back the people who have been divided into troops, so that the expeditionary corps can continue to advance.

On the Eastern Front, the Xia Expeditionary Corps temporarily stopped, and on the Western Front, the Xia Cavalry Corps once again embarked on the journey.

This is the second time this year that the cavalry force has gone deep into the grassland, and this time the first goal of the cavalry unit is to attack and harass the grassland country and force the grassland country to fall apart, and the second goal is to destroy the anti-black alliance.

There is no way, because when they wanted to attack the Anti-Black Alliance in the first operation this year, they found that the Anti-Black Alliance had moved in advance, and maybe there would be such a situation next time, so Mu Shi and the others no longer took the destruction of the Anti-Black Alliance as the first goal.

Two thousand cavalry left the city under the leadership of Mu Shi, marched for ten days, and once again came to the sphere of influence of the country of the grassland, but after entering the sphere of influence of the country of the grassland for nearly a day, the cavalry found a very unexpected thing - no figure was found.

"What about the people of the Prairie Country? Where have they gone? "The people with telescopes in their hands all searched in the distance with binoculars, but they still didn't find a single figure.

This is definitely a very strange thing, you must know that in the past, the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom would find grazing people in the sphere of influence of the Grassland Country for more than an hour, and then there would be a team of people following the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom to observe and monitor them, this time there were no people who were watching, let alone herding people, and the vast prairie seemed to have no one living here.

The cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom marched for another day, but still no human figure was found.

"The Grassland Country has moved?" Mu Shi was very puzzled, how could such a big grassland country move.

Unable to answer this question, Mu Shi could only make new arrangements for the cavalry troops, and the cavalry troops divided into four routes to search for people from the country of the grassland.

The separation of the four cavalry took two days, and two days later, the four cavalry converged again, so that Mu Shi got a very helpless news, no one was found in the four routes, and the country of the grassland may have really moved.

"Forget it, instead of looking for the country of the steppe, we will continue to advance westward, destroy an alliance or several tribes, and then return with the spoils of war." Mu Shi gave a new order to the cavalry troops, and then the 2,000 cavalry continued to advance towards the west of the prairie under the leadership of Mu Shi.

Yes, the alliances and tribes that originally belonged to the country of the grassland have moved, they have experienced the war of the country of Xia, they all know the strength of the country of Xia, before the country of the grassland fell apart, some alliances and tribes left the country of the grassland and moved to a distant place, after the country of the grassland fell apart, the remaining alliances and tribes did not dare to stay in place, if the cavalry of the country of Xia came again, they would be in danger, so they also immediately moved to the distance.

So much so that in the sphere of influence that originally belonged to the country of the steppe, there were almost no human figures.

The alliance and tribe that originally belonged to the country of the grassland moved, but the alliance and tribe next to the country of the grassland did not move, and the cavalry troops of the Xia country marched to the west for more than two days and found another tribe.

A new war began, and in just over half a day, the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom inflicted heavy losses on an alliance with a population of up to seven thousand, capturing nearly three thousand people and harvesting tens of thousands of cattle, horses and sheep.

Through the torture of the captives, Mu Shi got a thing that surprised him very much, it turned out that the country of the grassland was not moving, but the country of the grassland had fallen apart, and the alliances and tribes that originally belonged to the country of the grassland had left the country of the grassland and moved to distant places, so there was almost no one in the sphere of influence of the country of the grassland.

This is really unexpected news for Mu Shi, Mu Shi has always wanted to make the country of the grassland fall apart, and even made a plan to destroy the anti-black alliance to force the country of the grassland to fall apart, and then made a plan to attack many times to force the country of the grassland to fall apart, but he didn't expect the country of the grassland to fall apart.

Mu Shi convened the guards and captains of the cavalry unit to discuss for a long time before he came to a conclusion that everyone agreed:

The country of the grassland was originally composed of alliances and tribes, and was heavily damaged when attacking the city, and the cavalry troops of the Xia country attacked the country of the grassland twice in a row, which made the country of the grassland be hit hard again, and the strength of the various alliances and tribes of the country of the grassland continued to decline, and it has reached the point where it is unbearable, first there are alliances or tribes that break away from the country of the grassland, and then more alliances or tribes break away from the country of the grassland, and finally the country of the grassland falls apart.

The fall apart of the country of the grassland is a good thing for the country of Xia, originally everyone wanted to make the country of the grassland fall apart, and even made various plans, but I didn't expect the country of the grassland to fall apart without fighting, just a few attacks by the cavalry troops fell apart, the cavalry troops completed the task ahead of schedule, the steppe returned to its original state, and the cavalry troops could attack the nomadic tribes at will to plunder cattle, horses and sheep.

However, the cavalry troops and the city can not relax their vigilance, the country of the grassland appears once, and there may be a second or third time in the future, and the huge country of the grassland is a huge threat to the city.

More importantly, the Anti-Black Alliance, the advocate of the Grassland Country, still exists, and maybe the Anti-Black Alliance will create a new grassland power alliance in the future, and the Xia Kingdom has to guard against it, and the best way is to completely destroy the Anti-Black Alliance.

Mu Shi decided to take the plan of "destroying the Anti-Black Alliance" as the long-term goal of the cavalry troops, and every time the cavalry troops went deep into the grassland in the future, they would try their best to find the Anti-Black Alliance, and then destroy the Anti-Black Alliance, even if the Anti-Black Alliance moved to a place far away from the city, the cavalry troops of the Xia State would not give up.

Armed with the spoils of war, the cavalry troops set out on their way home.

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It has been a while since Su Yan conveyed the currency plan to the ministries, and all the ministries and cities of the Xia Kingdom are preparing for Su Yan's currency plan, the currency plan is not kept secret, and part of the currency plan is known to the people of the Xia Kingdom, and many people take the currency as the main body of discussion when chatting, and they are very curious about the currency plan.

"I heard that the king wants the Ministry of Commerce to issue some coins, there are three kinds of gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins, and in the future, those who reward meritorious service will no longer directly issue various items, but issue coins, and then let the meritorious people use the coins to buy what they want."

"Yes, yes, I also heard that it is said that the Ministry of Commerce will set up some shops, and various items will be placed in the shops, with different coins as prices, as long as you have coins in your hand, you can enter the shop to buy things."

"My king is wise, I can actually come up with such a method, with this coin, it will be more convenient for us to exchange items between us, and even I can use coins to buy items in your hands directly, not as much effort as before."

"No, the most convenient thing is to reward meritorious personnel, in the past, some of the items rewarded were not needed, and could only be exchanged with others, but now you can only reward coins, and it is more convenient to use coins to buy what you need."

"The premise is that you can make meritorious contributions, haha"

"Meritorious, this is simple, I have to work hard, and I will definitely be rewarded."

Although the Xia Kingdom has not officially issued coins, most of the people of the Xia Kingdom are not resistant to coins, and even many people hope that the coins can be issued faster.

Not only was it the matter of Xia Guo's internal issuance of coins, but the Minister of Commerce Li Zhi also suggested to Su Yan that coins could also be used in Xia Guo's foreign transactions.

However, this point was rejected by Su Yan, and the introduction of the concept of coins in foreign transactions is one aspect, and may even lead to the failure of transactions.

Not all people are as easy to accept coins as the people of Xia Kingdom, with the development level of Xia Kingdom, many aspects have been able to compare with the Zhou Dynasty, and even surpass the Zhou Dynasty in some aspects, and the tribes that Xia Kingdom has come into contact with are still in a relatively primitive state, probably that is, the snake tribe can understand some coins.

Think about it, when Xia Guo traded with a tribe, he took out the coins, and struggled to explain to the other party what the coins were and what the coins could be exchanged for, but the other party directly regarded the Xia people as liars because the coins could not be eaten and could not be used.

When trading with other tribes, it is better to use animal skins as standard materials, which can be worn as clothes and can be used as bedding, which is indispensable for every tribe.

However, the trade between the Xia Kingdom and other tribes has basically stopped, the tribes that the Xia Kingdom traded with before were mainly the tribes on the new route, and now the Xia Kingdom Expeditionary Corps is fighting against the tribes on the new route, it is expected that the Xia Kingdom will hardly trade with many tribes in the future, and it is more likely that after discovering the new tribe that has been washed, it will directly send a large army to attack the past, and the rapidly developing Xia Kingdom does not need to grind.

More than half of the summer time, a shop has been built in the existing fifty-six cities in the Xia Kingdom, and there are no items in the shops for the time being, but when people walk in and look, they will find signs with the names of items hanging everywhere, and there are accurate prices next to them.

Coins have not yet been issued, and shops have not yet opened, but one of the functions of shops is beginning to emerge, which is to set prices for various items to facilitate transactions between people.

In order to price various items, it took a lot of thought from the Ministry of Commerce, and even Su Yan and other departments were involved in the pricing of items.

Pricing items is not a simple task, and there are many aspects to consider.

For example, the pricing of various grains needs to consider the planting area, yield, planting difficulty, taste and other aspects of the grain, and then price the various grains one by one after comparison.

At present, the highest yield of millet in Xia is millet, with a yield of more than 200 catties per mu, because millet has the highest yield per mu, and millet has the largest planting area among various crops, and millet is almost the cheapest crop, and Su Yan priced it at one copper coin and one catty.

Other crops are more or less valuable than millet, and they are priced one by one, especially various vegetables, which are more expensive.

Food is the most common item, and it is also an item that people need, the quantity is large, so the price is low, and it is also necessary to consider various aspects in exchange for other items, such as output, difficulty of production, usefulness, etc.

Food can be sold as items, various household utensils can also be sold as items, and even various delicate weapons can be sold as items.

For example, the bow made by the bow master, the bow can be put in the shop for sale, once someone buys the bow, you can give the bow master a share, which is also considered a preferential treatment for the bow master, the master is not treated with ordinary craftsmen, and the treatment of the master will be higher in the future, and ordinary craftsmen can also work hard to specialize in technology and move in the direction of the master.

At the same time, many items sold in the shop are limited in quantity, such as the bow made by the bow master, which can only write "one piece" on it, and also list the name of the bow maker, and even the conditions required to use the bow, such as how much strength you have.

There is a limit to the quantity of cloth of various colors, there is a limit to the quantity of fresh beast meat, there is a limit to the number of weapons made by the master, and there is no limit to the quantity of some grains.

After waiting until the prices of various items were set, Su Yan made a final inspection, and after confirming that there was no problem, he sent them to the cities of Xia Kingdom.

Of course, this price is only the current price, as the item itself changes, the price will also change, small changes can wait for a month or even a quarter to be modified, large changes need to be modified immediately.

The shops of the Ministry of Commerce have been built, and the doors of the shops are open, so that the people can go in and visit at will, just so that the people know the prices of various items and facilitate transactions between them.