The Zhen family banquet lasted until the evening, and the wine banquet was removed from the back of the pots of fresh melons and fruits, snacks and pastries, sitting around to drink tea and chat, many people only came back once a year, and there was a lot to say.

The yard began to be lively, bursts of firecrackers sounded, mixed with laughter, noise, shouts one after another, the old people are lamenting the loss of time, the young people are talking about something quietly, the women are chattering around the topic of children, the children who go to school have a bitter face because their parents have to test the academic performance of the past year...... the middle hall is deducing all kinds of situations in the world.

As soon as he and a few younger siblings negotiated the matter, Fujiwara Shuxiong walked around from behind the pillar, still carrying a wine jug and two wine glasses in his hands, "Zhen Lang, the atmosphere of the New Year here is so good, I can't even bear to leave!" ”

Fujiwara Shuxiong poured Zhen Qian a full glass of wine, his hands were a little shaky, and he couldn't speak anymore, obviously drinking too much.

Zhen Qian patted Fujiwara Shuxiong on the shoulder and brought a plate of spiced beef from the side, "I saw you drinking just now, it's easy to get drunk if you drink and don't eat food!" ”

"This is not drunk and everyone is drunk, and there are two more glasses of happiness in my heart", Fujiwara Shuxiong grabbed a piece of beef and put it in his mouth and chewed it, "I just heard the second master talk about family affairs, and accidentally heard some things about you, and I was really a little scared of twists and turns, this can be regarded as a blessing and a curse, and there is such an experience in life that will never be forgotten!" ”

Zhen Qian helped Fujiwara Shuxiong to leave the middle hall, Xiaomei took the plate of beef, it is difficult for the Tang people to eat beef, this is not to say that there are no cattle in the Tang Dynasty, but cattle are not allowed to be slaughtered by the people, and the old cattle that are dying must be sent to the government to be slaughtered first, cowhides, horns and tendons are all strategic materials that will be taken away by the government, and the rest are booked by some wealthy families first, and it is difficult to see beef for sale in the market.

In the past, when watching TV dramas, the actor sat in the restaurant, slapped the table and asked the guy to serve a few catties of beef and drink, but he didn't know the history at all.

Zhen Qian returned to his old house, and wanted to go to bed at this time, but he couldn't do it today, he had to wait until the time to say goodbye to the elders in the family, and by the way, he asked for New Year's money, which is called New Year's money, and pressing New Year's money is the same meaning.

Fujiwara Shuxiong also sat in the room with Zhen Qian, and there was a table of wine and food in front of the two, and they chatted while drinking.

"We have known each other for so long, we didn't even think of asking Zhen Lang's words, today I learned that Zhen Lang's word is called Yulin, Yulin is a unicorn, I heard that Zhen Lang was born with a jade lin into the arms of the queen mother, I don't know if this matter is serious?"

Zhen Qianna knew if this matter was true, and he thought that this was a white lie made up by his mother in order to add a little wealth to her son, and this kind of thing is often used by wealthy families, and they are happy to do it after trying it, so they are often called Yu'er, Gui'er, and Lin'er.

"Fujiwara-kun Shin?"

"Letter...... Of course I believe that Zhen Lang is a rich and noble person, otherwise why can he still be sober after amnesia, why can he make a famous story, and why there are so many adventures, don't you believe these things that happened to you? ”

What Fujiwara said seems to have a little bit of truth.

Believe it! Anyway, I don't lose a piece of meat, this kind of thing is originally something that believers have, and if you don't believe it, you don't believe it.

Fujiwara Shuxiong unceremoniously asked for a few boxes of soap and perfume from Zhen Qian's hands, and prepared to return to the Japanese country to give them away.

Zhen Sheng didn't know when he walked in, startled Xiaomei and Xiaoya, and sat down at the dining table by himself, "It turns out that the two of you ran back, let me find it?" ”

"What is my father looking for me?"

Zhen Qian poured Zhen Sheng a glass of wine with a luminous glass, Zhen Sheng picked up the wine glass and tasted it, "Grape wine luminous cup, if you want to drink pipa, urge immediately." Drunk and lying on the battlefield, how many people came back to fight in ancient times? Not bad! My son's life is very leisurely, and it is also very elegant! ”

In Zhen Sheng's eyes, he will indeed enjoy it, but Zhen Qian doesn't think so, these are nothing at all in later generations, and the life that ordinary people can enjoy will become extravagant in the Tang Dynasty, this is the difference in vision.

Zhen Sheng took out two gold and silver coins from the leather belt and put them on the table, "This is the gold and silver coins of Dalang Money?" ”

Zhen Qian swept it with his afterglow to determine that the gold and silver coins on the table were from his own bank, perfectly round, delicate patterns, with jagged edges, which other money banks could not imitate at all, "It is from the child's bank!" ”

"Do you know that this kind of gold and silver coins have been circulated throughout Hebei, and some people ask me if I don't know, can you tell me how this gold and silver coins are made?"

Forged gold and silver coins have long been a household name in later generations, the standard raw material formula, the same material, weight size, after gravity extrusion in the mold to form a standard shape, and poured copper coins are completely different, the degree of exquisiteness makes the ancients think that it is a superb hand-carved product, but it is a pity that a large number of gold and silver coins flow into the market, the clever Tang people immediately discover the mystery.

If you don't look carefully at the shape, size, and weight of the poured copper coins, there is not much difference in size, but compared with the gold and silver coins minted, the high and low judgments make people love it.

Zhen Qian did not expect that the gold and silver coins would be in circulation so widely, and when the first batch of 10,000 gold and silver coins was exchanged, they were like mud cows like the sea, and there was not even a single blister in the market, and they did not flow through the market at all.

Later, Qian Zhuang forged 100,000 gold and silver coins in a row, and this wealth was not small for the total economic output of the entire Luquan County, so gold and silver coins could occasionally be seen circulating in the market.

It was not that Zhen Qian did not want to forge gold and silver coins on a large scale, but because of the lack of gold and silver stocks, he was unable to forge gold and silver coins on a large scale.

Originally, he thought that there was a small amount of gold and silver coins circulating in several counties around Luquan County, but he did not expect that his gold and silver coins would appear in Lucheng, which gave Zhen Qian a new understanding of the scope of gold and silver coin circulation.

"This is a secret method that I gave from the Western Regions Hu Shangxiang, and I promised not to pass on this method to ......."

Anyway, Hu Shang is wandering around in Datang, and Hu Shang does have similar gold and silver coins in his hands, so it is not a fraud to Zhen Sheng.

In the Tang Dynasty, you can see a lot of gold and silver coins from the Western Regions, Zhen Qian has the gold coins of Eastern Rome in his hand, the shape is round and flaked, the front is a half-length men's portrait wearing a crown and a long beard, there are crosses on both sides, there is an inscription "FOCAS" on the left edge, and the goddess is a winged statue of the goddess of victory on the back, the goddess is holding a long-handled hook in her right hand, and a sphere with a cross on her left hand, and there is an inscription "CTQPIA" on the left edge, but the degree of exquisite manufacturing is far from the same.

The world's earliest coin is the Croyce gold coin, and the Central Plains lack of gold and silver raw materials, the Mediterranean coast has begun to appear in ancient times, around 1000 B.C., the river near the kingdom of Lydia gold sand is densely distributed, the mines in western Asia Minor are rich in gold and silver alloys, this silver and gold ore is called "amber gold" or "white gold", the hardness is larger, more wear-resistant than gold, very suitable for circulation.

Around 660 BC, the Lydians began minting a type of gold coin with a lion's head on the obverse, known as the lion coin, on the basis of which the early gold standard was formed, and the lion coins after that were circulated to the same standard, containing 54% gold and 46% silver, weighing about 4.74 grams and measuring about 11 millimeters in diameter.

Later generations, most people in the world know the ancient Roman coin, the Roman-Campeña dual currency system, the standard currency is the copper coin Aes (As), the auxiliary currency is the gold coin Aureus (Auris), the silver coin Denarius (Dinarius), a total of two gold and silver coins.

In ancient China, there were also gold coins, and "Guanzi" said: "Gold knife coins, the currency of the people". At the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, "Taigong established the Nine Mansions for Zhou, and the gold square inch weighed one catty." The earliest surviving gold coin is the "Yingai" of the Chu State. This coin is plate-shaped, with an imprint on the surface that is cut into small pieces, which are chiseled off and paid for, and each piece weighs about 15 grams.

However, due to the lack of gold and silver production, gold and silver could only be used as a means of trading bulk goods, and copper coins replaced the status of gold and silver and became a widely used currency.

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