Chapter 145: Gongsun Hong's Wonderful Journey (6)

It cannot be said that the ideas of the ancients were wrong, and this inference is generally the evaluation of them by descendants who have read history books.

However, if you stand in the shoes of the ancients and consider them with their thinking, you will find that many mistakes are not actually mistakes.

It's just that once the timeline is extended, the disadvantages of short-sightedness will gradually be revealed, and finally it will become a big mistake that will be remembered for the ages.

In fact, everyone's eyes are dark, of course, this does not include the special case of Yun Lang.

You can only speculate on the future with the limited conditions at hand, which is a very test of wisdom and experience.

Yun Lang thought that this was not much different from gambling.

Gongsun Hong received too many surprises along the way, and when he came to the money workshop, he was no longer too surprised by the new and strange scenes here.

If the Yun industry can't surprise him, it will disappoint him.

The main components of the bronze coin are copper and lead, and after the Yun family re-smelted the copper coin, they naturally obtained these two metals.

Copper has a melting point much higher than lead, so it is naturally easy to separate them. The lead that melted first was copper, and as for the rest of the impurities, Yun Lang thought that there was no need to do further separation.

Gongsun Hong watched Yun melt the miscellaneous money, and then poured the copper water on the template, made into irregular copper plates, and then put it into the furnace again to burn, at the moment when the copper was about to melt, take out the copper plate, stuffed it between two rotating rollers, when the copper plate arrived at the other end from this end, a more standardized copper plate appeared, and then put the copper plate into the fire, and then stuffed it into another pair of rollers with smaller gaps and kept pressing, and so on three times, A copper plate that matched the thickness of the copper coin appeared in front of Gongsun Hong.

"This is a copper plate with six copper, three leads, and one impurity, which is a bronze coin, and I originally hoped to cast a brass coin, but as a result, the cost was too high, so I had to give up."

Gongsun Hong looked at the hot copper plate in front of him and asked, "How much copper is in the miscellaneous money?" ”

Yun Lang smiled bitterly: "It would be good to have half of the copper content in the miscellaneous money." ”

"Coupled with the fire consumption, wouldn't the Yun clan lose money in making new money?"

Yun Lang knocked on the copper plate and said helplessly: "Fortunately, one new coin is enough to use five miscellaneous coins, so the new coin made by the Yun family is also called one dang five coins." ”

Gongsun Hong frowned and said, "In this way, if your Yun clan makes money, won't you have five times the profit?" ”

Yun Lang shook his head and said: "There are not so many, the reason why miscellaneous money is called miscellaneous money is, firstly, the weight of this thing is very light, secondly, there are many impurities, and thirdly, the roughness of casting."

The weight of Yun's five coins is comparable to that of Qin half tael, which is twelve baht coins, and the coins of Linmiao four baht, Yiyang four baht, Dong'e four baht, Rongyi four baht, Xia Cai four and a half coins, as the name suggests, only have three components of Yun's one-five coins, plus the copper in Yun's one-five coins is higher than that of private coinage, so there is no idea of depriving the people of one-five coins.

The Northwest Institute of Technology believes that after the unification of the six kingdoms, the first emperor determined the unification of laws, weights and measures, currency and writing, which was the most important achievement of his life.

It is no less than his merit in unifying the Six Kingdoms.

He also abolished the old money of the six countries in the late Warring States period, and improved it on the basis of the Warring States Qin half tael coin, and the half tael coin with round square holes was circulated throughout the country, ending the chaotic state of different shapes and weights of the currencies of the six countries.

This is very beneficial to the promotion of people's livelihood.

On the other hand, my Han Dynasty has still used Qin Banliang since the founding of the country, but the government has not continued to mint new money, so that private money has become a trend.

The twelve baht half tael is getting smaller and smaller, some are less than a cent in diameter, weigh less than two baht, and they are broken in one hand.

This is a typical method of exploiting the people, but the government has no intention of stopping it, allowing the people to complain for a long time.

As His Majesty's courtiers, the Yun clan naturally couldn't see His Majesty's people being exploited, so he minted some new money within the scope of his own power to compensate the people, and the Yun clan himself had no idea of profit. ”

Gongsun Hong watched as the copper plate was heated again and sent under a cylinder that was constantly pounding up and down, and only heard a series of slight clicks, and pieces of copper yuan fell from the holes below.

Then another craftsman took the copper yuan and went to another iron cylinder, and after placing it, a young and strong craftsman kept pressing the handle, and one by one the exquisite copper dollars appeared in front of his eyes.

Gongsun Hong looked at Yun Lang and sighed and said, "The Yun clan does things one after another, and the interlocking links are breathtaking.

In order to make new money, you did not hesitate to re-mint gold for the nobles, deliberately causing the wind of gold and copper cheapness, and then your Yun clan took the opportunity to use a large amount of gold to buy the people's copper coins, and finally melted the people's copper coins and re-created the Yun family's five coins.

Yun Lang, tell me, in this process, did you really not receive benefits? The old man is not talented, and he thinks that he still has some knowledge of human nature.

The old man would never believe that you would operate such a complicated thing in vain without benefit. ”

Yun Lang sneered and said, "The benefits are naturally there, but ah, the Yun family's profits come from alchemy, not copper smelting."

Does Shaofu understand what Yun Lang meant? ”

"Compensate the people with the money of the rich and noble?"

Yun Lang said with a smile: "I prefer to call this method robbing the rich and helping the poor, of course, just using the rich, not reducing their wealth."

The rich get the gold that they are satisfied with, and the value does not decrease but increases, and the people have a really good copper coin to use, without worrying about being cheated by others, and His Majesty does not need to collect any taxes in kind when collecting taxes, and the money is collected directly.

What is good for everyone, why does Shaofu deliberately say it? ”

Gongsun Hong glared at Yun Lang and said loudly: "Where in the world is there a thing that has the best of both worlds or even the best of all three.

There is no tree without roots, water without a source, if one party gains, there will inevitably be a loss.

You now tell me that everyone has benefited, whether it is the rich and noble, or the common people, or Your Majesty, the imperial court, and even your Yun clan.

I wondered, where does the benefit of all come from? ”

Yun Lang shrugged his shoulders very irresponsibly and said, "I don't know, anyway, those who come to me for smelting gold are very satisfied with the quality of gold, and they don't have any opinions on the quantity of gold."

The Yun family used the new money to buy grain, and the grain merchants gladly accepted it, and the Yun family used the new money to pay the wages of the porters, and the porters were also very happy, and the Yun family used the new money to pay the autumn tax, and the government was also very satisfied with it.

Since no one said that they were cheated by the Yun family, everyone was satisfied, and everyone felt that they had not suffered a loss.

What a good thing this is, Your Majesty has in his hands a coin of stable value that everyone is willing to accept, why do you have to keep asking?

In this world, not everything has an answer. ”

"It's the rich and noble who are trapped? What did you just say, robbing the rich and helping the poor! ”

Gongsun Hong asked expectantly, holding a large handful of warm copper coins in his hand.

Yun Lang said with a smile: "To this day, there are still rich and noble families who have brought gold and asked my Yun family to re-smelt it for them, and then mark it with their family's unique mark!"

How can you say that I cheated them? ”

Yun Lang firmly believes that with Gongsun Hong's understanding of money, he still can't guess the mystery, first, he doesn't know what real money is, second, he doesn't know anything about political economy, and third, he doesn't know that once the value of money does not have a fixed target, it will be transformed into countless flowers.

didn't give virtual currency, stocks, and futures to Dahan, Yun Lang felt that he was already the kindest person in the world.

The Yun family is always short of money, and he also hopes to get another handful of gold and silver coins in the future, and completely determine the monetary system of the Han Dynasty.

"It seems that now it's only now that you talk about the real secret skills of Northwest Technology, isn't this hand called making something out of nothing?"

Yun Lang didn't say anything, the more itchy Gongsun Hong became, so he had to guess aimlessly.

"The real secret skills of the Yun clan are in the land, in farming, in breeding, but not in these indifferent little things."

"A trifle?" Gongsun Hong asked seriously.

"Little things!" Yun Lang replied solemnly.