The currency reform of the Chu State was implemented last year, and the gold and silver coins were exchanged very early. The money government did not levy much seigniorage, and pure gold and 18K (75% gold) gold coins, pure silver and silver coins containing 90% of silver were not exchanged one-to-one, but were exchanged at the exchange rate of 1:1.30 and 1:1.05.

Not only did the gold and silver coins of Chu quickly be exchanged, but the gold and silver of other countries also quickly flowed into Chu for exchange, and then flowed into commodities and flowed back out. As for the head of Xiong Jing on the front of the coin, the Chu State bird and insect inscription on the coin, and even the three-headed phoenix in the back, it can't be scraped even if you want to. The coin has edge teeth around it, and there are fine patterns on both sides of the front and back, and once scraped off, the coin is incomplete.

This is the case with gold and silver coins, but ant-nose coins do not have such benefits, and even if they can scrape out some more copper in exchange, their value is very limited, and the one-to-one exchange rate barely maintains the minting cost. However, all counties and towns across the country are exchanging, and 40,000 or 50,000 gold have been exchanged to this day. After the iron came out, copper was no longer a precious metal, and the old coins of 40,000 or 50,000 gold had been piled up in Qianfu and had not been melted. Shi Yan is talking about these old coins.

"The old coin is no longer a coin, just copper." Xiong Jing was a little moved, and after thinking about it, he felt that he shouldn't play this kind of money.

"Great King, more than 60 million stone grains are transported into the Chu State, and it must be that there is more grain and less money, and the price of grain is cheap. Less than 20 yuan of millet hurts the peasants, and more than 80 years ago also hurts the peasants, if you don't increase the coinage, the price will be chaotic. "After hearing that Ao Cang was taken and that there were more than 60 million stones in Ao Cang's grain, Shi Yan thought about this problem, and spending the old coins was the best way." If the king thinks that it is not good to use the old coin, he can borrow it from the money house. ”

"Borrow?" It's a lot more pleasing to the ear.

"Yes. The Qian Mansion borrowed the old currency from the royal court, and the royal court used the old currency to buy millet, 50,000 gold and 30 yuan a stone, and 16 million stone of corn could be purchased. Shi Yu said. When the king buys millet, the rest of the counties will also buy millet, and the merchants will also buy millet, so that the high price of millet will make the farmers profitable. If the price of millet can rise to 50 yuan next year, you can get 30,000 gold, and then return 50,000 gold and sub-money to the Qian Mansion. ”

"Good." Xiong Jing finally nodded, this is not a free lunch, this is a risky business.

"In addition to the armor, the pig iron utensils of the house are sold in the world, although their profits are small, they can also get ten thousand gold every year; land and everything, or up and down twenty thousand gold; The income of the paper house is 15,000 gold a year; Coal, salt, and cement are no more than a thousand gold; Yingdu is the city of Chu State, which is listed alongside Chen, and has a city tax of more than 300 gold a year; There are nearly 80,000 households in Yingdu, and there are more than 900 gold ...... a year."

Shi Yan is like a few treasures, and after the Ao system, how much income the royal court has in a year was read out by him, Xiong Jing has long been accustomed to seeing large amounts, and hundreds of gold and hundreds of gold are not taken seriously at all. Before Shi Yan finished speaking, he could roughly determine that excluding the profits from selling military armor, his annual income would be about 50,000 gold.

Shi Yan saw that Xiong Jing was absent-minded, and began to read the expenses after reading the income: "The daily expenses of the royal court are less than 10,000 per year, and the king is dismantled, and 30,000 gold is saved; However, for the courtiers, palace officials, county officials, generals, feudal monarchs, and unsealed Yingdu honorable scholars, these are all ministers of the king, and this should cost a huge ...... of 20,000 gold."

"Wait!" Xiong Jing hurriedly shouted. "As much as two gold?"

"Yes." Shi Yan nodded. "It costs more than 8,000 gold for a year alone; More than 400 courtiers were dismissed, 5,000 stone a year would cost 156 gold a year, and more than 400 people would need 7,000 gold a year; county officials and generals earn more than 2,000 gold per year; There were many officials in the royal court, and it cost more than 2,000 gold; Yingdu has a small reputation, but more than 100 gold. ”

"So there are 20,000 gold left." Xiong Jing had to nod, this money is indeed so much.

"The sacrifice is very expensive." Shi Yan brought out another expense. "The wax sacrifice alone costs 2,000 gold......"

"How do you cost 2,000 gold?!" Xiong Jing knew, but he never imagined that the sacrifice was so expensive.

"When the wax sacrifice is a big drunken Yingdu, Yingdu has 80,000 households, all of which are given wine and food, although each household is only 200 yuan, but also more than 1,600 gold. The annual sacrifice costs three or four thousand gold. Shi Yu said. There are feasts and rewards, but fortunately, the king's reward is not much, and there are more than a thousand gold. ”

"So there are fifteen thousand gold left." Xiong Jing took a deep breath and said another number.

"For the purpose of building a boat yard, the cost is also." Shi Yan finally said about the shipyard. "A winged warship is seventy-two gold, and the young master orders a two-hundred-gold one, and the boat-building yard buys big chapters everywhere. Dazhang 1,000 yuan, 2,000 yuan, this year has been purchased more than 10,000 yuan, this more than 4,000 gold. Next year, the Chenwen Boat Yard will build two sea boats, one of 520 tons and the other of 300 tons, which will cost more than 1,300 gold.

All the houses are profitable, and the gold of the experiments and craftsmen of the houses may have more than 2,000 gold a year. The rest of the royal court in a year is only more than 7,000 gold. However, there are twenty-eight princesses in the palace, most of them are married, and the princess is married, with her grade, and the cost varies from thousands of gold, and last year, the princess was married, and the fee was 20,000 yuan......

"Ahh Xiong Jing gasped, he didn't expect that there was still this money. The flower-like wives suddenly turned into money holes, and they all looked at him charmingly and coquettishly. Could it be that they don't marry and stay in the palace to accompany themselves?

"The king, the six princesses are invited to be in the next year, one is married to the Zhao State, one is married to the Qi State, and four are married to the Chu State, which should cost 13,000 gold." Shi Yan said the number he knew, and finally turned the royal court's income into a negative number.

"Don't hear about it, the wedding should be a levy, marry my princess of Chu State, don't you want to levy?" Xiong Jing was unhappy, he could build fifteen ocean-going cargo ships for 13,000 gold, how could he be cheaper than others.

"The king, marrying a princess is indeed a levy, but the gift of dowry in the world is twice as much as the gift of levy, so the common people do not want to have daughters." Shi Yan said the situation of marriage in the world, the common people may be able to drown the baby girl, but how can the royal court drown the princess.

"Hey!" Twenty-eight wives will cost 13,000 gold for six, and won't the twenty-eight add up to 60,000 gold? No, there is also a princess. The dowry is 20,000 gold, and the dowry of the princess cannot be less than this amount, which is 80,000 gold. A little bit of 80,000 gold is a hundred ocean-going cargo ships, which can transport 40,000 tons of grain at a time.

"I don't know." Xiong Jing has run out of ideas.

He didn't know that Shi Yan also missed two expenses: only 30,000 people in Yingdu's division had large-wing warships, and the remaining 20,000 people still needed sixty winged warships and corresponding supply boats; There is also an ever-expanding cavalry, after most of the king's pawns and sanitation returned home, Xiong Jing prepared to form a cavalry, the heavy cavalry should have at least 1,000 cavalry, and the light cavalry should be about 2,000, which would be a huge expense.

"Minister......" Shi Yan still had something to say, even if Xiong Jing waved his hand, he still said it. King, the sea boat has been launched, and Ao Cang is in urgent need of a boat, why can't two sea boats go to Ao Cang to transport grain? The minister thought that with the transportation of grain by sea boat, one boat could get 100 gold, and two boats could get 200 gold, so it was another young ship. ”

"Huh?" The dispatch of the young division to Aocang to transport grain was mentioned by the division, but Xiong Jing was unwilling. Now Shi Yan mentioned it again, thinking of the current serious financial crisis, Xiong Jing had to wave his hand and agree. Soon, the Shao Si Ming and the Xiang Lady, who received the king's order, sailed out of Shaobi under the cheers of the students, half-hung sails and half-paddled through Yingdu and headed for the girder.

"Report ——!" A few days later, at the head of the girder city, the hammering sound of the trebuchet 'bang, bang, bang' was still continuous, and the military officials on the corner tower shouted urgently and rushed to the city tower where Lin Jiao was located.

"What?" The Chu army has not attacked the city, but Wei is still like a frightened bird, shouting at the slightest disturbance. Lin Jiao looked at the soldier who ran in front of him, glared at him and asked him what was wrong.

"Report to the general, the Chu people are also in the boat." The officer gasped and shouted. "It is higher than the walls of the Great Beams."

"So high?" Lin Jiao didn't believe it, he hurried out of the city tower, and in the direction pointed by the military officer, he saw the Chu State boat that was higher than the city wall. It was not one ship, but two, and the masts of the two ships were far higher than the walls of the girders, and there were sails hanging on them, and the sails were blown by the wind. In Lu Lijing, Lin Jiao even saw the Chu people standing on the mast crossbeam.

"Is this He Zhouji?" Lin Jiao, who has never seen a sea boat, is a little puzzled.

"General Yu, this should be the sea boat of the Chu State." The deputy generals and strategists next to him also saw Haizhou, although they did not have Lu Lijing, but Haizhou's appearance was exactly the same as described on the Dachu news.

"Sea boat?" Lin Jiao continued to mutter. "What did Lian Po send Haizhou to do?"

"General, I thought that the sea boat was not here to attack the city, but to transport grain." Strategist. "The grain of Ao Cang is like the water of the sea, although Xiang Yan occupies Ao Cang, but the boat is not in time. It is reported that in order to collect boats, Xiang Yan has promised Wei people that one stone of millet can get half a bucket, and all the traitors in each city rushed to Aocang to transport grain. ”

"This is also an enemy!" Lin Jiao put down Lu Lijing angrily, very angry at the traitor's behavior. "In order to get the millet of Aocang, the Chu army had to divide its troops, and after the millet of Aocang was transported, Xiang Yan's army would go to Daliang."

"General, King Qin will not sit idly by." A counselor reassured.

"Birds!" Lin Jiao was angry when he mentioned King Qin. If the king had not been the head of the country, Huan Qi, and the king of Qin had not left Daliang, and offered the king of Qin and the Chu people, the siege of Daliang would have been solved long ago. Not only did the Great Liang break the siege, but in order to compete for the throne in the Qin State, the princes would set off a great chaos in the Qin State, how could they have the energy to go east to take revenge? The Kwantung states are thankful that they don't attack Qin.

"General?" The generals were puzzled by Lin Jiao's attitude. Now that the Chu army is attacking the city, the king of Wei does not allow the Wei army to fight, he is waiting for the Qin army to come to the rescue, but looking at Lin Jiao's attitude, it seems that he does not welcome the Qin army.

"Instead of believing in the Qin people, it is better to believe in the Chu people." Lin Jiao is not afraid of heaven and earth, and his words are extremely harsh. "If the Qin army arrives, when will it retreat? The Chu people do what they want, and the northern half of the city is also. If the Chu people half the city according to this, the boat division can go north out of the big river, and the Qin army is afraid, and they will not dare to force me to attack Chu again, how can the king be mediocre......"

"General, general, be cautious!" Lin Jiao told the truth, but he couldn't say this, and the deputy general Yu Tu hurriedly stopped it.

"Ben Jiang is not a minister in the Yan Dynasty, just for the sake of the Wei State, why be cautious!" Lin Jiao snorted, and his anger seemed to be about to rush to the crown.