At the end of June, Lin Yuyan, who had been quietly in the mansion for a few days, suddenly announced: "Jing Yi, Ji Wu, Chun Yuqi, you have to follow this son to Wancheng to take a look!" ”

"Didn't Your Highness just come back from outside the city?" Several people also asked in surprise.

Lin Yuyan said: "What I said outside Wancheng is not outside Wancheng, but outside Wancheng, it is in the territory of Wuguo, like Fangcheng Mountain, or Xinye in the south!" ”

Several sect guards also persuaded: "Your Highness, let's wait for Mr. Wen to come back from Yangdi......

"No way!" His Royal Highness Gongzi Yan also refused, and said: "I'm afraid that Mr. Wen won't come back in Yangdi for a while, so let's go to Yangdi to find Mr. Wen first, okay?" ”

How dare a few Zongwei centurion say half a word.

Immediately seeing that these Zongwei agreed by default, Lin Yuyan also arranged: "Now the territory of Wuguo is not very peaceful, so I have to bring some people in Zongwei's mansion to keep some people to watch the house, so let's do it, Chun Yuqi has always been steady, just stay in the mansion and take care of it, Jing Yi and Ji Wu, the two of you will go with me!" ”

Jing Yi and the three nodded, and then Jing Yi opened his mouth and asked Lin Yuyan, "I don't know how many Zongwei guards His Highness will bring to Yangdi?" ”

Lin Yuyan thought for a while and said: "It is not advisable to bring less, of course, it is not advisable to bring more, otherwise there may be no food on the road, so let's hurry up and make dry food, let's go to Mr. Wen as soon as possible, the guards will probably bring twenty!" ”

As soon as Gongziyan gave this order, the entire mansion was operational, Jing Yi carefully selected some Zongwei, and the subordinates in the mansion also seized the time to make dry food, preparing Gongziyan to take his Zongwei team to Yangdi's own fiefdom to find Wen Xiangheng.

I don't know that Jing Yi got a map of Wuguo there, although it is a little shabby, but after all, it can continue to be used, Lin Yuyan observed for a long time, and also carefully selected a route, that is, first from Wancheng south, take the water to Huaiyang, and then take the dry road to the east, to Miyang (Yangdi).

The Zongwei also knew that his Royal Highness had also made a big circle on this route, but he was still within the acceptable range, so he didn't say anything and responded.

However, Jing Yi still reminded: "Your Highness, in this way, our journey to Yangdi will be doubled out of thin air, and the original five-day itinerary is probably not enough!" ”

Lin Yuyan looked at Jing Yi and said, "How can there be?" Remember that the wharf from Wancheng to Shuishui is only a dozen miles away, and when you get to Shuishui, rent a few boats to go south along the water, remember that we are going downstream, so that the time to get to Huaiyang is only one or two days, at most it is an additional day or two trips! ”

Jing Yi and the others seemed to be right when they thought about it, but Jing Yi still smiled and said: "I'm just afraid of bumpy roads, Your Highness can't stand it......"

His Royal Highness suddenly changed his face, looked at Jing Yi and said, "If I say half a word on the road, you will directly carry me back, and I will never say anything like Wancheng again!" ”

Realizing that His Highness might be a little angry, these Zongwei Centurs didn't dare to say anything. On the evening of the last day of May, everything is ready!

But looking at the room full of things, Lin Yuyan was also stunned, looked at Jing Yi and shouted: "We are just looking at Mr. Wen from the yang land, and we are not going to move, what are we doing with so many things!" ”

Jing Yi was also puzzled and asked, "What does Your Highness think?" After all, there are more than twenty Zongwei carrying this time......"

Lin Yuyan rolled his eyes and said, "I know that there are more than twenty sect guards, but you don't take a look, what else do you bring besides these dry foods?" Is this sack? Also, what are you doing with silk cloth, is it possible that you are planning to make clothes on the road? ”

Only then did Jing Yi and the others understand where His Highness's misunderstanding was, and immediately explained: "Your Highness, these linen cloths and silk cloths are not to make clothes on the road, but to exchange for some useful things along the way. ”

"Change?" Lin Yuyan looked at Jing Yi's eyes with some confusion and asked, "Why don't you use silver money?" ”

"Money?" Jing Yi also didn't expect His Royal Highness to spit out these two words, and immediately explained: "Didn't His Highness also tell Gu Liangshi about the chaos of the currency system in the Wu Kingdom last time in Nanyang Academy, and Yi thought that His Royal Highness had studied the transactions of the Wu Kingdom......

Hearing this, the corners of Lin Yuyan's mouth twitched, and he suddenly remembered that his Zongwei Baifu was impossible to target, and immediately gritted his teeth and spit out two words: "You say!" ”

Jing Yi then explained: "The currency system of the Wu State is very chaotic as His Royal Highness understands, the Jin State, the Qi State, the Chu State, and even the old Qin State, and the Bashu State, all kinds of coins are chaotic, and it is very inconvenient for the civilians of the Wu State to use them. Bartering's way, among which rice and cloth are the most common trading items, so Yi has prepared a little more to prevent untimely needs on the road! ”

Hearing Jing Yi say this, Lin Yuyan knew that he didn't know how to write the sentence that firewood, rice, oil and salt were expensive, and it was hard to believe it when he thought about it, the dignified martial country, with a population of nearly 700,000, actually most of the civilians still maintained the primitive trading method of "bartering", no wonder the martial country was so weak!

But speaking of which, it is also very troublesome to carry this room full of things, Lin Yuyan thought for a while and said: "For the time being, the Zongwei who will be brought out will be set at ten people, and each person can carry dry food, as for the cloth, it doesn't hurt to bring some, there is no need to exchange so many things on the road!" ”

Jing Yi thought about it, although reducing the number of Zongwei accompanying him undoubtedly increased the risk to his Highness's travel, but when he thought about it, more than 20 Zongwei accompanied him, I am afraid that there is some meaning of "no one here is three hundred taels", so after thinking about it, Jing Yi figured it out, and simply agreed.

So after arranging it again, Lin Yuyan let everyone go to rest as soon as possible, and prepared to set off for Yangdi tomorrow, that is, on the first day of the seventh month.

However, as soon as she returned to the bedroom, Lin Yuyan fell on the bed all of a sudden, tossing and turning.

[There are no coins in the dignified martial arts! 】

Yes, Lin Yuyan was very concerned about this matter, after all, he did know that the currency system of the Martial Kingdom was chaotic before, but he also did not expect that a huge Martial Country, with a population of more than 700,000, would still use the primitive "barter" transaction method.

How can this work!

After all, the most fundamental purpose of Lin Yuyan and Gu Liangqiu's compilation of "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" was to make money, and now he was told that most people in the entire martial arts country still traded in the way of "bartering", and there was no such thing as currency at all, which made Lin Yuyan acceptable!

Is the papermaking technique that has been painstakingly and laboriously spent money and manpower to come up with only in exchange for bags of rice grain and pieces of cloth?

How many people do you have to feed before you can eat all that rice and wear out all that cloth!

It's better to think about how to solve these things as soon as possible, this is a problem! However, it is not without a solution, it seems that if Lin Yuyan gets a large amount of rice grain and cloth, as long as he pulls it to the countries of Jin, Qi, and Chu in exchange for money, it is also feasible, but for Lin Yuyan, this seems to be impossible, because rice and cloth are the most commonly used materials in a country, and they will never be too much.

Especially when Lin Yuyan is still the royal prince of the Wu Kingdom, how can he do such a self-digging thing.

Thinking about it this way, this road is also not feasible, and this time it put Lin Yuyan in a dilemma.

Suddenly, Lin Yuyan's eyes lit up, and he said to himself: "Why do I use other countries' coins!" ”

[That's right!] Why can't I mint my own coins? 】

Thinking of this idea all of a sudden, Lin Yuyan couldn't help but think of it, Wu Guo didn't have any laws prohibiting private minting of coins!

Thinking about it all at once, Lin Yuyan also seemed to see a lot of money rushing to him, but he still quickly sobered up, because if he continued to think about it along the line of minting coins by himself, Lin Yuyan would inevitably encounter two problems?

First of all, what is the material of coinage?

Lin Yuyan also first thought of nothing more than two kinds of objects, iron and copper, iron, this is easy to do, Nanyang County, where Wuguo is located, is a high-yield area of iron, and Wuguo's iron smelting is also relatively developed, but iron is easy to rust, especially coins, which have been circulated by many hands and cannot be rusted like iron, so it is good to grind it on a whetstone.

The problem of rust can be effectively avoided, but what is in front of us is that the amount of copper produced by Wuguo is really not much, and I am afraid it is difficult to support its huge demand for coinage, but the problem of coinage material is easy to solve, it is nothing more than to bother more and experiment a few times, and try to find the right coinage material origin.

The most difficult problem is the second problem, which is how to promote the use of coinage.

Today's Wu country is not without coins, as Lin Yuyan knew before, Wu Guo including the cloth coins of the Jin State, the knife coins of the Qi State, the ant nose money of the Chu State, the Yuan coins of the old Qin, the shell coins of Bashuyong and other places, etc., there are no less than a dozen kinds of coins, but none of them can be used by the people of the Wu State on a large scale, if you want to implement coinage on a large scale, I am afraid that Lin Yuyan has to consider this issue carefully.

Like Lin Yuyan's temperament, like such a "really can't figure out" question, Lin Yuyan also flicked his sleeves, and secretly said in his heart:

[Since I can't figure it out, I'll leave it for later, anyway, there will be a way to solve it one day......]