The next day, Mei Xiaohan was going to repair the old house he was living in, and on the other hand, he was recruiting talents.

Talent recruitment is very crucial.

Since the establishment of the imperial examination system in the Sui Dynasty, successive dynasties have opened Enke to recruit talents, so that some commoners' children also have the opportunity to 'carp jump over the dragon gate'.

A large number of children of ordinary people had the opportunity to enter the school to receive civilian education, and this educational trend was established as Confucius.

"Learning and excellence", "everything is inferior, only reading is high".

Society is a melting pot where each takes what it needs while using each other. Whether in ancient times or in modern times, there is no single person who has the power to fight the world.

Mei Xiaohan threw a stone at the "bitter lake", and the stone slowly sank to the bottom of the lake until it disappeared.

The stone sank into the bitter lake and disappeared, which made him a little lost, an inexplicable sadness.

When a person's identity changes, the problems he has to face will also become completely different.

At this moment, Mei Xiaohan felt that her life sank to the bottom of the lake like this stone.

A person likes to think, it is not necessarily a bad thing, but thinking too much is not necessarily a good thing at first sight.

It has been argued that there are three realms of the human spirit: camels, lions, and babies.

The camel of the first realm, it endures humiliation and burden, passively obeys the orders of others, and its fate is controlled, but it works hard and resents.

Mei Xiaohan's character can't be such a person, and he can't be willing to obey anyone's arrangement, even if fate is like this, he is bound to change his life against the sky.

The lion of the second realm, as the king of the deep forest, will never passively choose to wait, it will turn the passive into the active, everything is up to me to take the initiative to fight for, take the initiative to take the responsibility of life, in order to be able to fill the stomach must pay the price.

Mei Xiaohan did the same, at least working in this direction. Only by taking the initiative can we not fall into passivity.

The third state is the baby, which is a way of living in the present moment and enjoying what is there.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying life, and there's nothing wrong with being content with the status quo, but it's hard for such people to achieve something. If this continues, most of the lives will be wasted.

Modern Buddhism master Hongyi, his best friend Xia Yazun's evaluation of it is to do the same, like the same.

Student Feng Zikai commented on it:

When he was a teenager, he was like a handsome boy.

When I was middle-aged, I was like a celebrity.

Do drama, like an actor.

Learn oil painting and be like an artist.

Learn the piano like a musician.

Running newspapers and periodicals is like an editor.

Be a teacher, like a teacher.

Be a monk, like a monk.

And Feng Zikai believes that "life has three floors":

The first is material life.

The second is spiritual life.

The third is the life of the soul.

Material life is food, clothing, shelter and transportation, spiritual life is academic literature and art, and spiritual life is religion.

Feng Zikai believes that life is such a "three-story building".

Those who are too lazy to take the stairs live on the first floor, and take care of their material life, eating and drinking, without restraint. Such people account for the vast majority of the world, and there is no shortage of people in ancient and modern times.

Secondly, those who are happy to take the stairs climb up to the second floor to have fun, or stay here for a long time, these are people who have already filled their stomachs and devote a lot of time and energy to literature or art.

There is also a kind of person who has a strong "desire for life", of course, his leg strength is also very large, and he is not satisfied with the second floor, so he takes the stairs and climbs to the third floor.

They refuse to be slaves to instinct, they don't want to live an ordinary life, and they don't want to get to the bottom of the source of the soul, the very essence of the universe.

The world they walked into was very different from the secular world, and that was the religious world.

Everyone has a different understanding of the realm of life, and their attitude towards destiny is also different.

The Great Song Dynasty, for the literati, was a heavenly world, and the status of the literati was unprecedentedly raised. The great empire reached a high point of tolerance for literate scholars. Emphasis on literature over literature, emphasis on business and agriculture.

It is not easy for Splendid City to survive in the cracks of the Great Song Dynasty.

Regardless of the so-called ideal problem of life, what needs to be solved now is how to gain a foothold in this place, which is the first essence of Mei Xiaohan's current life.

Mei Xiaohan went out, and as soon as she went out, she met a person who was holding a short sword in his hand, leaning against the side of a big tree, and said, "Mei Gongzi, don't come unharmed!" ”

Mei Xiaohan snorted and said, "Where did you come from, why did you say that you don't come to harm!" ”

No one can be trusted, and no one can be trusted by any word, this is definitely a wise saying.

"If you have something to say, just say it, don't have to detour more!"

"My name is Yu Chuping, and I am a businessman!"

Mei smiled and said, "This is really interesting, I have never dealt with any businessmen, and I am unlikely to know you!" ”

Yu Chuping said: "It doesn't matter if you don't know me, if someone says that they don't know Mei Gongzi and Mei Da, it's a joke!" ”

More than one person has spoken to Mei Xiaohan like this, and Mei Xiaohan also has a little wave in her heart when she listens, after all, being praised is a thing worth talking about.

Mei Xiaohan said: "Although I don't understand what you're saying, it sounds like you're very good at sycophancy." ”

"Let's talk about your purpose, this is the most real!"

"I've already said that I'm doing business with Mei Gongzi!"

"Since it's business, there must be conditions for doing business, tell me what kind of business you want to do with me?"

Yu Chuping said: "I want to buy the free trade rights under the governance of the three counties where Mei Gongzi is located!" ”

Mei Xiaohan said: "Tell me, what kind of business do you want to do?" ”

Yu Chuping said: "Qian Zhuang! ”

In the fourth year of Wude, Tang Gaozu issued Kaiyuan Tongbao, ending the situation that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty dominated the world with five baht coins.

The use of silk and grain as physical money was gradually replaced, and the commodity economy continued to develop.

After the implementation of the two tax laws, coins began to enter full circulation in cities with more prosperous commerce.

It was against this background that money accounts began to accept the deposit of money from private individuals and firms, as well as the issuance of credit loans, and the business of flying money, which was popularly known as flying money.

Due to the information carried by the coins of the Great Song Dynasty series themselves, from the perspective of material, shape, and money, the coins of the Great Song Dynasty series are in line with the characteristics of Song money.

The coins are all made of bronze and are in the shape of a copper coin with a narrow central rim.

Because there are more words on the back of the face, the perforation of the copper coin is deliberately reduced.

The money on the back of the face is the same style of regular script, at this time has been written in the Great Song Dynasty, Kaifeng and other words.

The two big characters of "Tongbao" and the four small characters of "Kaifeng" and "Qingyuan" on the left and right convey the following information: this Tongbao coin is the local currency of Kaifeng Prefecture;

Coins are limited to use within the Kaifeng Prefecture, where the capital is located;

The coin issuing and management agency, Qian Zhuang, is located in Kaifeng Qingyuan, which should be a place name in the capital at that time.

Thirdly, the big characters "when ten", "when twenty" and "when hundred" are the face value of the coin, and although the "when fifty" coin does not see the money map, it is estimated that it should also exist.

Finally, the four small characters "Great Song Dynasty" and "Qian Zhuang" on the back of the money indicate two meanings: first, this coin was issued by the Great Song Dynasty; Second, Qianzhuang is a government-run financial institution. It is the function of the Da Song Dynasty series of coins.

The currency flow in the Song Dynasty was a situation of separation, and the coins used in each region were different, in addition to paper money, there were also copper coins and iron coins, and copper and iron coins were divided into large and small.

Because of the existence of these factors, these have prepared the conditions for the development of the exchange industry.

The Song Dynasty already had the so-called exchange workshop, and the exchange business in the Song Dynasty was still handled by government agencies in the early years, which was similar to the method of Tang Xianzong; Allowing the people to pay cash to the Zuozang Treasury in Beijing and go to the states to withdraw cash, which is called a convenient exchange.

The government-run exchange agencies of the Song Dynasty were called "Qianzhuang" rather than "exchange fang". The Great Song Dynasty may be an institution attached to the Zuozang Treasury to handle specific business. The money bank not only handles the "transformation" business of cashing in the Beijing division to other places, but also handles the business of exchanging the coins of the Great Song Dynasty money village series with the coins that cannot be circulated in the Beijing division (paper money, iron money, etc.).

The exchange shop is a private financial shop, and the government could not have allowed it to undertake inter-regional exchange business, at best, it could only undertake some private money exchange business. This is related to the different currency areas of the Song Dynasty.

During the Song Dynasty, iron coins were used in Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places, which not only had historical origins, but also related to the strategy of preventing copper coins from flowing into neighboring countries.

However, due to the low purchasing power of iron money, it is relatively heavy and inconvenient to circulate, so paper money Jiaozi came into being.

Therefore, the circulation scope of Jiaozi, in addition to Sichuan, is not only Hedong Road and Shaanxi Road, in other words, that is, the circulation area of iron money. Later, the money was introduced, and the circulation area was relatively wide, in addition to Sichuan, there were Jingdong, Jingxi, Huainan, Jingshi and other roads. ”

Officials in the above-mentioned areas can only carry iron money or paper money. However, these coins are not in circulation in Jingshi and will be rejected. Therefore, the Da Song Dynasty Coin series is a local substitute currency prepared for people entering Beijing from different currency areas.

Personnel entering Beijing can exchange iron money, jiaozi or money quotation at a certain rate for the Great Song Dynasty series of coins, which can be spent within the scope of Kaifeng Prefecture.

Kaifeng Prefecture, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, is the location of Bianjing, with 17 counties under its jurisdiction, and Bianjing is also within the administrative jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture.

The scope of activities of the staff entering Beijing will not be limited to Bianjing City, so the word "Kaifeng" has been written on the substitute currency.

In order to prevent outsiders from taking the opportunity to exchange more copper coins, and then bring back the remaining copper coins after spending, causing the copper coins to flow into the iron money area.

The Da Song Dynasty Coin series coins are not full value coins, and several coins are only the size of three coins, and the value of the currency is rigidly stipulated.

This kind of coin can only be exercised within the Kaifeng Prefecture by executive order, and other regions will not accept it at face value. Therefore, before returning to Beijing, people need to exchange it for local currency in order not to suffer economic losses.

The Da Song Dynasty Coin series is a local substitute currency, which only provides convenience for people from different currency areas to spend in Beijing, so the monetary investment is not large.

"In order to ensure that the three counties under the governance of Mei Gongzi will definitely flourish, this is also an investment for me!"