Chapter 45 Scales

If it weren't for the tempering of the past few years, Li Wei would probably have been fooled.

In other words, ordinary people affirm two answers at this time, the first one answers, saying that I have a business arrangement, which is perfunctory. Then Pei Yan must be on the verge of asking, what's the matter with you? Liu Renliang is not there, he is the prime minister, this is not an inner palace matter, with Li Ji's words, the inner palace affairs are the emperor's family affairs, which is easy to prevaricate, and the prime minister has the right to intervene. Li Wei didn't answer truthfully, how could he be bad in the future? It's not a ship, it's a folk jiāo Yi, even if it sells 10,000 ships to the Wa Kingdom, Pei Yan can only stare dryly. There are also many standard weapons, such as standard horn bows and various military crossbows, crashes, trebuchets, fire yào, and even standard horizontal knives and Mo knives, which must be discussed with the prime minister in the end. Answer truthfully, then Li Wei will wait for countless ministers to impeach.

Or another answer, don't worry about it, can you say that? No. Merchants are the most splashed group in this era, the most famous case, in the history of Zhang Yizhi's brother power, invited a few businessmen from Yizhou to the banquet, the result was that Song Jing was taught a hard lesson, and Zhang Yizhi's brother had to admit his mistake. No matter what kind of coat Liang Jinzhu wears, he is still a businessman, so he has received so many benefits, the Zheng family married a concubine, changed his surname to marry, and he was still unconvinced in his heart, and for this reason. Li Wei is the emperor, the world's example, if you have merit, occasionally banquet a time, such as Li Zhi's banquet to Zou Fengchi, or disaster relief, Chang'an East Palace banquet Liang Jinzhu is still okay, but there are too many contacts, a dignified prime minister, how can he not ask?

A gentle question, but there are so many swords and swords hidden.

Really, Pei Yan doesn't know what Liang Jinzhu and Li Wei are busy with?

Therefore, Pei Xingjian, who is quite capable of knowing people, is very disgusted with the celebrity of his family. However, Pei Xingjian also took him helplessly, as an official, he has the talent of officials, if he wants to be ranked, Hao Chujun resigned, and counted and counted, only he was the first, Xue Yuanchao was second, and this was Liu Renliang. On the clearing of names, the family is empty. In terms of talent and learning, Li Wei and Liu Ren are not as good as them. All the words are the great righteousness of the sage, and all the writings are the moral articles of the gentleman. If you want to catch Wu Chenghe's mistakes, you can catch a lot of them casually. But it is even more difficult to find Pei Yan's fault than Shu Dao.

However, Li Wei is not Li Wei, who made him speechless in the past, and immediately said: "I have some arrangements, which are related to the military and the economy, Pei Qing, none of them are what you are good at, and the matter has not been settled, this matter is not trivial, and when the matter is concluded, I should negotiate with Zhu Qing." ”

Cui Zhiwen lowered his head and smiled.

Wonderful, the answer to this sentence.

Pei Yan was also speechless and said, "Yes." ”

Indeed, not only him, but also the economy and military affairs in the court, there are really few people who can compare with this young emperor. And these two items are a top priority, that is, it is not an exaggeration to do something urgent and subordinate to power.

He sealed his mouth and left no handle.

But it is also a small temptation, at this time, the East Palace was upgraded, and what he got was a false name, which paved the way for marrying the Zheng family's nv, but Zhuwu was also upgraded, promoted to official and knighted, which is a real benefit. The Queen Mother wanted to stabilize such a situation in her heart, so Pei Yan was very honest during this time, and it was a tacit cooperation.

This time, the answer between Pei Yan and Li Wei was only two sentences, but those who were interested still noticed it slightly. There are not many ministers who can see the truth, but there are many rumors.

But it worked well.

The beasts by the river heard many rumors and were worried. As an envoy sent by the Wa Kingdom to the largest country in the surrounding area, this person is not without wisdom, on the contrary, his wisdom is very high. Therefore, as soon as he heard about the Zheng family's affiliation, he immediately had the courage to propose marriage to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, not expecting to succeed and fighting. So as soon as I heard that Li Wei had returned to Beijing, I looked for Li Wei and asked for help.

Liang Jinzhu was talking to him, but it was impossible for the beast by the river not to know the low status of merchants in the Tang Dynasty, how could such a big thing be decided by a businessman. Liang Jinzhu is talking, which is equivalent to the emperor talking, which is because the emperor is afraid of causing controversy.

negotiated immediately, and the result made Li Wei stunned.

He underestimated the mineral resources of the Wa Kingdom, especially the resources of gold and silver.

In the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties, silver as the monetary unit, the main reason is that a large amount of silver was obtained from the Wa State, only at the end of the Ming Dynasty, China obtained 200 million tons of silver from the Wa State through trade means, which is in tons as a unit, into two, how much?

So much silver was smashed in the Tang Dynasty, and hundreds of Jiangnan were also developed.

Although the current exploration, mining, and smelting technology of the Wa State is backward, it has also accumulated a large amount of silver in the Wa State, but the Tang Dynasty is too strong, and the Wei civilization is almost dependent on the existence of the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty only uses copper coins as a monetary system, which leads to the same copper coins in the Wa Kingdom, and even uses the copper coins of the Tang Dynasty as currency. There is a lot of silver, but it is worthless. In the past few years, some seafarers have tried their best to keep the price of silver very low, and one or two pieces of silver are only worth two or three hundred wen in the Japanese country.

This is something that the beasts by the river did not say, and Li Wei did not expect it, so this time Li Wei agreed to buy the weapons of the Tang Dynasty in gold and silver, which also made the Japanese people quite tempted. Not only silver, Li Wei thinks that the Wa State does not produce gold, this idea is also wrong, and the Wa State also produces gold. Later, Marco Boro called the country of gold, and there were many gold and silver deposits.

At this time, the Wa Kingdom was also undergoing a transformation.

During the Sui Dynasty, Buddhism was introduced to the Wa Kingdom, and the two major forces of the Wa Kingdom, the Soviet Russian clan supported Buddhism, and the Monobe clan supported the traditional Shintoism. (Does it count as information?) But as soon as it is written, the Ministry of Intelligence of all civilized countries in the world at that time will appear in the book, in order to be a reasonable party) and then the royal family nvxing imperial food cooking house Ji who has an in-law relationship with the Soviet Russian clan is the emperor of Tuigu nv. After Emperor Tuigu NV ascended the throne, he immediately nominated his son Prince Shotoku as the regent, and cultivated it from an early age, which is quite similar to the historical Muroku clan. In terms of attitude towards relatives, it is slightly better than Wu Zetian. Of course, different environments and different situations lead to different mentalities.

At least now Wu Zetian has not done much to kill Li Wei, and what he is fighting for is only the distribution of rights.

Prince Shotoku ascended the throne as Emperor Kotoku and immediately learned the system of the Sui Dynasty and carried out reforms. This laid the foundation for the Japanese kingdom to enter the era of civilization. During the reign of Emperor Tenchi, the Battle of Baijiangkou made the Wa Kingdom realize the gap with the Central Plains, and once again imitated the household registration system of the Tang Dynasty and strengthened the royal power.

But a few years ago, there was another big war in the Wa Kingdom.

Emperor Tenchi had a younger brother named Damito, who was very intelligent, and Damito had a wife, Nuta-oh, who was an NV Kabuki and was very beautiful. This NV person is not only beautiful, but also not simple-minded, and later the Wa Kingdom went to Silla, and she personally led the army to cross the sea to fight. It turned out to be a side room of the sea people, and the emperor of the ten cities was born, and Emperor Tenchi was forcibly included in the harem. However, the people of the sea have been enduring humiliation and burden, carefully assisting the imperial brother in handling government affairs, and quickly became the three giants of the Wa Kingdom with Emperor Tenchi and Kamazu, a powerful minister. In order to win over, Emperor Tenchi set up the sea as the crown prince and married his four sons to him.

So when I looked at the * films of the Wa Kingdom later, there were many films that were **, which was a tradition of the Wa Kingdom since ancient times, so don't be surprised.

But then Emperor Tenchi repented again, this time for two reasons, the first later years Emperor Tenchi, like Li Longji, began to degenerate, seeking pleasure, but the people of the sea were very promising, after the defeat of the Battle of Baijiangkou, he immediately read out the famous Jiazi edict of the envoy of the Wa Kingdom in the East Palace. This caused Tianzhi to be uneasy and alert, which was quite like Li Zhi and Li Wei. Second, for the sake of an NV person. After King Nuda became the NV person of Tianzhi, he broke off the connection with his ex-husband, and when he was hunting, the people of the sea couldn't help but wave his sleeves to King Nutian to show his love, and King Nueda immediately sang a song: Ziqian hunting ground, Jun Ma is wandering. Wouldn't it be seen by others, Jun Sleeve Nairyang. With so many people watching, you have to be careful

But the people of the sea did not control it under the dream of Risi, and actually replied with a song: Ziqian and her sister Yàn go back and forth to the hunting ground. How to let others fu, longing for me to break my intestines. (These two poems are too plain, Lao Wu will not annotate) in the face of such a red luoluo eyebrows, the shrewd Tianzhi will not turn a blind eye, "Long Yan is furious". Soon after, Tenchi feasted on the high hall on the shore of Lake Biwa, seeking pleasure, and was dissatisfied with his brother Wen Tianwu, and the sea used a spear to cover the board, expressing anger. Under the new hatred and old hatred, Tianzhi wants to push the sea people out and behead them. Because the Zhongchen Kazuzu pleaded hard, he didn't succeed. In order to maintain his status, Tenchi changed his way again, not only marrying several of his own NV children to the sea as his wife, but also marrying his favorite concubine, King Eda's sister to Nakatomi Kamazu as the main room, and Nakatomi Kamazu married his love NV to the sea as the side room. For the time being, the peace of the court of the Wa Kingdom was maintained.

Soon after, Nakazu Kamazu fell ill and died, and the contradictions between the Tianzhi brothers finally could not be reconciled, and they began to promote their beloved son, Prince Otomo, to the throne. However, the Otomo prince had three great disadvantages, and the Japanese kingdom prevailed in the horizontal royal inheritance tradition, with brothers first, and heirs later. Otomo's mother is a local wealthy family, but she is only a nv in the palace, which is very humble. The third is that in the deep palace, Prince Otomo lacks experience in governing the country. However, Tianzhi used various means to forcibly pave the way for his son, first making his son the minister of the imperial government, which was also the first title in the history of the Japanese state. He also appointed the confidant of the prince of Otomo, my red brother, as the left minister, the middle minister Jin Lian as the right minister, and Su I Guoan, Jushi Biden, and Ji Daren as the imperial historian. When he was critically ill, Tianzhi summoned the people of the sea into the palace and asked the people of the sea to inherit the throne. This is a very dangerous statement. If the people of the sea had agreed, they would have been put to death immediately. But instead of agreeing, the scheming sea man repeatedly asked Tianzhi to pass the throne to the queen mother, and entrusted the state affairs to the prince of Otomo, and was afraid that his brother would kill him, so he asked his brother to let him become a monk. Escaped a catastrophe and remained in seclusion.

is so low-key and pathetic, Tianzhi is not easy to do. But at this time, the naïve prince of Otomo couldn't wait, and made an alliance with several henchmen, speeding up the pace of grabbing the class. When Tianzhi was dying, Brother Su I Chi took the opportunity to Bi Palace and forced Tianzhi to declare Dayou as the heir to the throne. Before the funeral was over, Prince Otomo immediately ascended the throne and was called Emperor Hongfumi. Then prepare soldiers, horses, grain and grass, and prepare to exterminate the people of the sea in one fell swoop. But Otomo neglected a person beside him, the nv son of the sea man, the emperor of the ten cities, who was Otomo's wife, and when he heard the news, he immediately informed his father.

The people of the sea immediately raised an army to resist, and this is the famous Luàn of Renshen in the history of the Wa Kingdom. Soon after, Otomo was defeated and hanged himself in front of the mountain. The people of the sea ascended the throne as Emperor Tenmu. In this farce, two important NVXING characters ended up very miserable, King Etian was old and decrepit, and his love was not there. Although the Emperor of Ten Cities NV helped his father, he buried his husband's life, leaving a permanent wound in his heart, and died of emaciation seven years later. But the country that was finally taken away, the people of the sea were very cautious, and they were also a very accomplished emperor in the history of the Japanese state, and immediately carried out a series of reforms after ascending the throne. And imitated the Tang Dynasty, making the earliest coin in the history of the Wa Kingdom.

There is another noun, that is, there is ambition. Kim Famin, the king of Silla, is also a masterpiece of a generation, and the two of them collided...... It's going to be very interesting.

After hearing the words of the beast by the river, he didn't know that the new emperor of the Tang Dynasty was actually worried about the hatred and jealousy more than a thousand years later, thinking that this was a great opportunity, and immediately agreed. But there are some doubts in my heart, that is, the two proposed by the beasts by the river, how to divide the benefits after the war, and how to allow themselves to conquer the Silla people. Is it all the way to burn and kill, or is it all the way to the useless benevolence. If it was the latter, he didn't want to attack Silla.

The result undoubtedly made the beasts by the river very happy.

After getting this agreement, Li Wei immediately came to Shangyang Palace.

It is also sad that it is not easy for every emperor of the Japanese Kingdom to ascend the throne, and it is not easy for him, and if he wants to do something practical now, he must cooperate with his parents.

Not only with his parents, but also with several prime ministers.

At the same time, he also brought some small things into Shangyang Palace.

The matter of the agreement was not said, but several prime ministers knew that the envoys of the Japanese State had left Luoyang and returned to the Japanese State, and they had negotiated about it. In the hearts of some people, such as Cui Zhiwen, they are very much in favor of it, no matter what happened to the Wa Kingdom and Silla, there are too many things in the Tang Dynasty at the moment, and they will talk about it after getting the money first.

When several prime ministers arrived, Li Wei first talked about gold and silver, and said: "There are many drawbacks to the currency in my dynasty, especially the cloth and silk as a tax, and there are many làng fees every year. But there is no need for silk, and the money is not enough. Many years ago, my mother and I mentioned that we wanted to make gold and silver as coins, auxiliary currency, reduce làng fees, make up for the lack of currency, and be valuable and very convenient to carry. But the queen mother said a very wise word, that there was very little gold and silver, and it was difficult for the people to know it. Even copper coins have been minted by the people, and they have been repeatedly banned, and there are more valuable gold and silver coins. ”

"What the Queen Mother said is the most reasonable," Xue Yuanchao said immediately.

For Xue Yuanchao, Li Wei doesn't hate it, this person is very weak, he becomes a rat crossing the street when he is frightened, and he also has confidence with a big order in his arms. He said calmly: "But since the beginning of the maritime industry, I have been an exporting country, and there has been a lot of gold and silver, which is used as a utensil, which is also a kind of làng fee. Therefore, the ministers had an idea that when the salary was paid, part of the gold and silver should be used instead, and in some remote areas, the grain and silk would be used as tax tribute, and sometimes the income of the imperial court would not be enough for the freight expenses, and gold and silver could also be used instead. At the same time, the price of gold and silver will be determined. Erchen thought, one tael of silver is worth 1,200 yuan, and one tael of gold is worth 6,000 yuan. ”

It's a short sentence, but it encompasses a lot.

It is difficult to make gold and silver official currency. But at least let it circulate to the maximum, this comes and goes, no matter how much gold and silver is not enough for the imperial court, then the gold and silver will be circulated. As soon as it circulated, more people got to know each other, and it gradually evolved from official to non-governmental. It is a step-by-step process without any compulsion. Circulation is also the premise of stable exchange price, the current price of gold and silver is very hunluàn, when the high gold one or two can be worth more than 8,000 Wen, the low is only 5,000 Wen, when the silver is high can reach 2,000 Wen, when the low 1,000 Wen is insufficient. The price is also different in different places, such as Sangang, because there is more, the price is low, and the price is high in remote areas with heavy jewelry.

The use is also a variety of jewelry and utensils, pure gold and silver are also different shapes, there are cakes, ingots, leaves, slivers, and irregularities. If you want to exchange money, you must go to the cabinet, this is a professional, into sè, try the weight, knock on the sound, and then bite the soft and hard, you will know how pure the sè is, and then according to the sè, cash into copper coins.

In fact, some large quantities of jiāo are already quietly replaced with gold and silver, which is convenient and inconspicuous. But it's not the mainstream, for example, if you buy a piece of Hu cake, the price is only worth a penny, or even two pennies, and take a gold ingot of five or six taels, how can the baker find it for you? It's just that there is a search, what if you come across Xibei goods? Aren't we going to sell it?

Wei Tongxuan said: "There are many drawbacks......

It's not opposition, it's that there are many drawbacks, although the method has been so mild that it can't be mild. For example, one point is too expensive, and it is not easy for private circulation. Also, there are many interests involved. Most of the people who opened the counters were the major families and the wealthy businessmen of various powers, and they could bring them a lot of benefits through the cào longitudinal exchange price every year.

Li Wei said slowly: "I know that this is to prepare for the bulk of jiāo easy, and the people are not unable to circulate, and they can also be jiāo easy if they are thin and small." And the smaller and thinner it is, the less it is for gold and silver to be counterfeited by iron. After all, there are not many metals softer than it, and it has its softness, but it also does not have its brightness. Nor is it immediately circulating...... Besides, the dispute of interests, it seems that there is, but in the long run, it is a win-win situation, the more circulation, the more exchange, the standard is set, they gain less, but the amount can be more, and the income can increase instead. Therefore, when looking at things, we must not only look at the negative side, but also see the positive side of it. Qin used strict laws to win the world. However, he lost the world with strict laws. The Han Dynasty relaxed the law and discipline and won the world again, and the Eastern Han Dynasty lost the world again. So since the Three Kingdoms, the two great sages, Zhuge Liang and Wang Meng, are very strong in usage, precisely because the times are different. For example, when people wear clothes, they wear thick clothes in winter and thin clothes in summer, and they must keep pace with the times, which is the long-term way of the country. But for every change, there will be disputes of interests. It depends on the gains and losses, such as this ......"

A small box is opened, and inside is a simple little scale. There are also several weights of various sizes.