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As April drew to a close, the weather became hotter and hotter, and wealthy doctors began to wear silk cicada clothes, and scholars and countrymen began to make summer clothes out of fine kudzu.

As the saying goes, "praise the handsome, then virtuous, grow up, and be the lord of the Lu, and he will be in his position", which is also the day when the Xilu officials are distributed.

According to the new trend of the Spring and Autumn Century, the captured cities, Zhao Wuxian no longer gave feudal titles to his subordinates, at most according to the merits he had made, and allowed them to hire landless peasants to cultivate and eat their rented rice.

In addition to Ritian, officials who serve in the government also have rice distributed every year. However, since the end of April, the minting workshop has been continuously minting new coins of Xilu, so in addition to Lumi, there is also money!

Zhao Wuxian said bluntly to Zhang Mengtan: "I don't expect a high salary to support the incorruptible, but some people's desire to be sealed in Xiaoyi has not diminished, and they have to improve their treatment to appease them." ”

It's helpless to say, after all, the highest ideal now is to become a feudal monarch and rest with the country. Even in the world of the Warring States Period, the ideals of Qin, Qi, Zhao, and Chu are like this one after another, what Fengyang Jun Li Dui, Marquis Wei Ran, Xue Gongtian Wen, and Chun Shenjun who seized Jiangdong were all stunned by the status of the feudal monarch on the ground, not to mention the people in the Spring and Autumn Period?

The concept should be subtly changed, and it is hoped that centralization will be realized. If he went out with a bunch of big and small lords at the beginning of the business, Zhao Wuxian was looking for unhappiness for himself. Fortunately, in this regard, the Confucian disciples of Confucius were strong supporters of Yulu Shitian. Confucius's rejection of the fiefdom of the Marquis of Qi set a good example for them, and the current Confucian scholars are far from the rotten Confucians who will rise to an upsurge when they hear about feudalism in later generations.

So on this day at the end of April, the Yuncheng Judge Cheng also received a large string of copper coins as money......

"The outer circle is square and the inner square is novel......"

Playing with the size of the Zhao money in his hand, Cheng Jian knew that it was distributed to promote the circulation of Zhao money in Yuncheng, and he couldn't help but think of the "Golden Cloth Law" that Si Kou had made him newly formulate.

The "Golden Cloth Law" is the price standard set by Zhao Wuxian as a ruler, which has the exchange ratio of two kinds of Zhao money, large and small, and various common goods.

Cheng Qian held the money in one hand and the cloth in the other hand and explained to the colleagues who came to inquire: "For example, the second and third sons want to make summer clothes. Zhao's big money is five as a foot square of fine arrowroot, and a small money is twenty-five as a square of fine arrowroot, which is equivalent to forty big money, or two hundred small dollars can buy a medium summer coat......"

The officials suddenly realized and looked at the ones in their hands: "It turns out that after distributing these money, we have an extra piece of clothing every month." ”

Some people come from poor families and feel that they have taken advantage of it, while some people are wealthy and do not think so. But on the bright side, he had to be grateful to Dade from afar to the Sikou Mansion.

Only Cheng Jian is still calculating in his heart.

The status and value of the new coinage were determined in the form of a written law and then distributed to officials, which was the first step in the circulation of coins.

Officials and scholars either asked their subordinates to go to the weaving workshop to buy fine arrowroot cloth to make summer clothes, or they went directly to the ready-to-wear shops in the market to make them customized. In this way, Zhao money was circulated in the market...... With the guarantee of "Golden Cloth Law", I am not afraid of those who see the city and nod their heads. The silk cloth merchant who grovels to the extreme will not accept it!

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"Hooligans, hugging cloth trade silk. Bandits come to trade silk. Come and go. ”

In the streets and alleys of Yuncheng in April, humming this well-known poem of a man's heart. The silkworm girls once again wore bamboo baskets full of silkworm cocoons on their heads and went from Lilu in the suburbs to Guo's weaving workshop outside Yuncheng.

This month, the sericulture affair is almost over, and it is said that those mysterious concubines are now taking thirty or forty girls to learn sericulture, and she is the first to offer silkworm cocoons to Si Kou. In addition to the cocoon tax, they also had to offer their labor income to the weaving workshop in exchange for corn, or cloth coins and knife coins as compensation.

As soon as they entered the weaving workshop, the silkworm girls used to giggle and laugh and suddenly stopped, and they trembled and offered silkworm cocoons for the merchants to inspect, and the silk cloth merchants who nodded in front of the city officials were now arrogant, picking and picking in the cocoons, looking for all kinds of excuses to cut prices.

Finally, when the silkworm girls received a strange string of coins strung together with fine hemp rope, they couldn't help but look at each other.

Under their push, the silkworm girl, who was famous because she had been treated by Yi Bian Que, stood up and timidly asked if she could exchange it for the knife coins she used on weekdays, or food.

The silk merchant raised his eyebrows, and scolded openly: "This is a new coin minted by Sikou, and in Yuncheng, although knife coins and cloth coins are not prohibited, they are no longer recommended to be used, if they are hidden at home, it is best to exchange them, otherwise they will not be collected by the Yi Temple when paying taxes and mouth money, and they will bear the consequences at their own risk!" You don't believe what Naigong said? Do you think I'm bullying you? It's legal tender, do you know what fiat is? The temple and the gate of the city are also pasted with the "Golden Cloth Law", and you can go and watch it and ask about it. ”

The silkworm girls were frightened and frightened, so they could only escape with a string of copper coins in their hands, and ran to the Yi Temple and the city gate to watch. It is indeed a notice made of paper, the seal characters are densely packed, and there is a small official next to it who spits lotus flowers there to explain to the onlookers, what the silk merchant Jia said should be true.

So the silkworm girls caressed their beating hearts and asked about the exchange ratio of "Zhao's one tael" and "Zhao's five baht" and coarse linen......

In this world, charcoal burners shiver in winter, brick burners only live in shabby houses, and silkworm raisers have no silk to wear. They are not accustomed to wearing those luxurious clothes that are as slippery as snot, and they dare not keep them privately, otherwise they will be beaten half to death by the men in the family, and the poor will die, and only when the skin comes into contact with the rough linen clothes can they settle down.

The linen cloth is rough and heavy, but like the cocoon, it is sold by the pound.

Thin as cicada wings, this adjective is enough to describe silk clothes, and a few taels can be made into several layers of silk clothes. A black mole on the chest can be seen between the two floors.

And coarse linen is different, just one piece. Wearing it on your body will feel the weight that pulls you down, according to the exchange in "Golden Cloth Law". It's worth two big coins a catty.

The silkworm girls counted their fingers for a long time, and then they calculated that ten catties of coarse linen were enough to make a brown coat to keep out the cold, which required a lot of money and twenty. They couldn't help sighing, the mulberry tree belongs to the weaving workshop, and after paying the cocoon tax on their income in the past few months, what they got in exchange for a season's summer clothes for the family was just that, and the remaining money was enough to buy how much corn to eat?

They live on the outskirts of the city, specializing in sericulture and have no access to fields. Therefore, it is necessary to go to the markets inside and outside the eup, and exchange for food......

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Since he was hired by Zhao Wuxian as a "persuading farmer" in January, Fan Xu began to walk on the land of Xilu, walking on the ridges, outside the abandoned farmhouses, and in the newly reclaimed saline-alkali land......

Like Houji, as an official of agriculture, he personally led the farmers to sow a hundred grains and persuade them to cultivate mulberry. With enough food and clothing for all the people, this is the ideal of Fan Xu. This is the "ritual music" that Fan Xu likes, not as high as Confucius of Zhou, and as far away as Lao Tzu. Instead, it is rooted in the countryside.

He is also constantly learning all kinds of new farming methods, such as the substitution method, such as cattle farming. Zhao Xiaosikou's instigation has been eagerly surging in his heart, writing a book of agriculture that belongs to all the people. Farming and gardens can also open a family school!

In April. After still circling around Xilu twice, he returned to the left side of Yuncheng again, and he had to organize his guards to drive away wild beasts so that they would not harm the crops, and at the same time he had to warn the nobles in various places not to hold large-scale field hunts and interfere with farming.

During this period, he naturally noticed the new changes in the small market in Lilu.

Different from the big markets in Yuncheng that have become increasingly prosperous due to the transfer of governance, these "pavilion markets" and "li markets" seen by Fan Xu are like the "sets" in the northern countryside in later generations.

Once the market is formed, people from dozens of miles around it will be attracted to buy and sell goods and exchange goods here.

Fan Xu noticed early on that although a farmer could theoretically achieve self-sufficiency for a farmer and a weaver, the chickens and dogs could never get along with each other, but in fact, exchange could never be avoided.

For example, not every clay pot, kettle and other cooking utensils or daily necessities can produce clay pottery, and each craftsman has his own specialty, so it is impossible to work while farming, so it is necessary to go out and exchange.

Moreover, people must eat salt, and this thing could only be bought in Yuncheng when Qi implemented a salt ban policy against Lu and Cao. Because of the lack of salt, many people seem to be hungry, unable to farm, and often eat soil salt and are prone to diarrhea, which makes Fan Xu very headache.

Fortunately, Zhao Xiaosikou had his own means to transport salt from Wu State, Ju State and even Wei's Anyi, which was suddenly moistened like spring rain, and the price of salt in Yuncheng stabilized, and normal salt was supplied and circulated. It's just that each kiosk has to be supplied in limited quantities according to the population, so by the way, the population of Lilu that has been unsorted out for a long time will be counted in one go.

Feeding the people is the first step to realizing centralization, and King Zhou Xuan couldn't even do this back then. Fan Xu also understands this, but his pursuit is to make the people's lives better, produce more capacity, and trade fairer......

When he came back this time, he sensitively noticed that the scattered Qidao coins and Weibu coins that had been exchanged in the market had disappeared, and were replaced by some new coins with round square holes.

"Si Kou has finally minted coins...... Fan Xu doesn't know how to live within his means, but even he, who has been sitting on the side of the peasants, has already realized that the Lu copper shell coin is not suitable for exchange.

For example, in order to buy a cow, sometimes wealthy taxis have to carry buckets of "shell coins" or "imitation shells" to the market. The calculation when paying is also very troublesome, and if you buy more expensive things, you may have to carry the amount of "shell coins" on your shoulders and push it to pay. This has caused chaos in the circulation order, and this single low-face currency system can no longer be maintained, and it is not common law to rely on Qi Dao Currency or Wei Guobei Currency all the time, so a new currency is imperative.

The change of currency brought about a new way of exchange, and Fan Xu noticed that many silkworm farmers on the outskirts of Yuncheng were holding pieces of Zhao money, wanting to exchange them for grain from farmers.

I don't know if it is because of the eyes of the merchants in the city, the people in the city are sleeker than the people in the suburbs of Waiguo, and the people in the suburbs of Waiguo are smoother than the peasants in Lilu. Therefore, in terms of bargaining, the peasants will never be able to say that the silkworm girls are raised.

"Ten dollars with one stone! It used to be like this! The silkworm girl insisted on trading it in the proportion of the former Qi country's knife coins in exchange for grain.

I want to exchange food for money. The farmer, who had exchanged money for equipment, scratched his head full of straw and husks, and was about to agree. However, the transaction was stopped by the pavilion chief who was patrolling from the sidelines.

"The pavilion has its own "Golden Cloth Law", the official government of Qi Dao Coin will not accept it from now on, according to the weight, 1 knife coin is exchanged for newly minted big money 2, small money 10 stone corn sold for 20 yuan, or 15 baht is the most appropriate, Si Kou Chongnong, you wait for Hugh to deceive and disrupt the market!"

Fan Xu breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that Si Kou doesn't want the new currency to hurt the peasants.

He also counted the accounts in his heart. Food, one and a half stones per month, a family of five eats 90 stones of millet all year round, a family that does not do agricultural affairs, needs 1,800 yuan to eat, 30,000 households in Xilu, there are 90% of the peasant households, and the remaining 10000 yuan has to be barely enough for 500,000 yuan. But how much copper, tin, and lead are enough to cast in the treasury of the Scoop's house?

Forget it, this is not what he should care about, the next May is the season of millet ripening, and he has to continue to urge the farmers in the pavilions not to delay the farming time.

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When he learned that even the Lilu outside Yun City had begun to circulate Zhao's large and small coins. Ling Hubo knew that Zhao Wuxian's currency reform was half successful.

Because of Wei Ju's instructions first, he has been paying attention to Zhao Wuxian's governance from beginning to end. Any new initiative will keep him curious for a while.

"To change the currency, you must have enough power and credibility in the lord. Zhao Wuxian has a powerful military pawn, and he also has the power to defeat the Qi people in military affairs. So there is no shortage of power. As for the reputation, I heard that he had done the burning of coupons before, which won the hearts of the Xilu people. ”

"So even if you are suspicious of the appearance of the new currency, as soon as you hear that it is the 'legal tender' stipulated by Zhao Xiaosikou in the written law, most people will not doubt it, and they are even willing to exchange the Qi State Sword Currency and Wei Guo Cloth Currency in their hands...... As everyone knows, this Zhao Wuxian is a person who wishes to be a countryman, and after the Qi knife melts, he can mint three Zhao coins, but he only gives people two, and he doesn't know how much profit he grabbed during this period, and he made a profit, and he couldn't figure it out......"

Ling Hubo played with the big and small coins in his hand, speculating on Zhao Wuxian's sinister intentions, and sneered in his heart.

But this is also a good thing, and Zhao's porcelain, silk, paper, are quite popular goods, as long as Zhao Wuxian gave an order, claiming that these things also have to be exchanged for Zhao coins, then it is not difficult for this kind of coin to spread all over the world, especially the Lu country, which does not have its own coinage, can be infiltrated by Zhao coins overnight!

Even the Jin Kingdom itself will be affected, I don't know if Zhao Ying will use his son's achievements directly, if so, the Wei family has to guard against it!

He pondered: "The Wei clan's pointed head cloth is not superior among the six Qings, perhaps, after I go back, I can let the prince follow Zhao Coin and make a kind of yuan?" ”

Because after getting rid of the jealousy and malicious speculation about Zhao Wuxian in his heart, looking at these Kong Fang coins, they are indeed very superior to the currencies of the current princes.

The first is that it is simple and beautiful, and the shape is almost identical, which can better reflect the authority of the official.

The second is relatively small in size, easy to carry, the basic monetary unit of Zhao Qian is "money", the highest monetary unit is "Guan": counting is thousands, and it is called Guanguan with a rope thread, and the middle unit is a small string of 100 coins. Traditionally, money can be put on the street in wide sleeves, and it is not like Qi Dao and Jin State pointed cloth coins have to be tied to the waist, and if you are not careful, its sharp part will stab people.

Well, but when Wei's is imitated, you can replace the square hole with a round hole......

Wei Ju is a teng, a horse, and a horse is turned into a teng. He and Ling Hubo seem to have recognized Zhao Wuxian's ideas, and it must be right to follow suit, Wei Wushu copied Zhao Wushu, and Wei's Zhaoxian Pavilion copied Zhao's Juxian Pavilion, and now even the currency system is planned to be copied......

However, what Hu Bo didn't know was that the origin of the money in later generations was precisely the Wei State a hundred years later, which gave rise to Qin Banliang and even Brother Kong Fang, who remained unchanged for eternity...... The historical line is messed up here again, and it is no longer clear who is copycat and whom.

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Within half a month, Zhao's big and small money became popular around Yuncheng, and Zhao Wuxian was relieved and relieved.

The creation of a currency, in addition to the benefits, also has a great symbolic meaning, which means that Silu officially becomes an economic entity.

And for a state, whoever holds the coinage power is the one who controls the country's economy!

Therefore, the six secretaries of the Jin State shared the economic lifeline of the Jin State, and each had their own specialty.

Therefore, Zhao Wuxian's economic power will be invisibly extended to the entire Lu country!

However, in this era, there are not many people who are aware of this, and there are only a few people such as Zhong Zhong, so the officials of various countries do not prohibit private coinage while coinage.

But Zhao Wuxian clearly stipulated in the "Golden Cloth Law": Death to the private caster! The whole family is punished as a subordinate!

In addition, in order to unify the shape of the currency, in addition to issuing strict laws and regulations, it is also necessary to achieve technical uniformity. Although the pottery fan and stone fan process in use at present are easy to operate, after all, the soft texture of clay and talc is used, which is easy to be damaged in the process of casting money. Therefore, only the use of durable copper models can mint large quantities of coins of consistent shape and quality.

Just when the currency was gradually circulating in Xilu, the time began to enter midsummer May, the rain was sparse and sparse, and a series of measures were issued from the court of the Qi State.

In the end, it was decided to stop the economic sanctions against Lu in accordance with Zhao Wuxian's "Salt Ban Order", and at the same time sent envoys to try to make peace with Lu State.

"Peace? Qi Hou sent an envoy to ask for peace with the Lu State? ”

When he got the news, Zhao Wuxian, who had just sent Linghu Bo out of the dock, was stunned.

Qi Hou's move can be described as a stroke of genius, and it hit Zhao Wuxian's sore spot at once, and then, Qi Guo's series of measures are overwhelming. Qi Hou, this monarch who has been a little mediocre most of the time seems to have been reborn, and it seems that he is a terrible opponent of Zhao Wuxian who has never been masked, Yan Ying has been reborn! (To be continued.) )