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Coins were minted with copper and tin, then gilded.

Compared to the gold coins popular in the barbarian countries of the West, we have a larger caliber and less gold content. There's a square hole in the middle. It is about an inch in diameter, and it can be the size of the palm of a child's hand.

This thing is called ingots.

The ingots of this year are the gold-plated enlarged version of Tongbao, and for the time being, it is not the shape of the treasure ship with a round middle and two warped ends in the middle of the later generations.

Tie a Chinese knot with red silk is a very good pick. It is also a commonly used gift in festive activities, and its use value is slightly equal to the red envelope of later generations.

But it's not just red envelopes.

This gold ingot, which is bound to the Chinese knot, also has some meaning of blessing and warding off evil spirits.

The concept of ingots beckoning wealth has been very popular in recent years. The saying of warding off evil spirits and driving away filth is only a recent one, and it has not been widely circulated. This is exactly the latest fashion that the Shenxiao Sect is currently vigorously promoting.

In fact, Lin Lingsu focused on the chemical and physical research of the Five Thunder Rectification Method, and Fan Chun was not superstitious at all. These two enthusiastic advocates of warding off evil spirits are not unprofessional, but to effectively help the government solve the problem of insufficient heavy metal resources.

The big flowers are big and the things are not rich. Lack of copper.

The Great Song Dynasty needed more copper for coinage.

The Jiaozi and iron coins in Sichuan, and the Huizi in Kaifeng Prefecture all came into being when the copper coins were insufficient.

Many governments in later generations have lost their monetary credibility due to the government's indiscriminate deforestation of currency, and have never harmed the economy. Da Song didn't have this worry. There was a surplus of materials and a shortage of money in circulation, which went in the opposite direction to the inflation of later generations.

Officials need more copper.

Shi Jin is not a scholar, he bypassed the imperial examination, bypassed the cadre system of the State Council's political hall and the management of the officials' department, and was very fortunate to climb the relationship between the Privy Council and the chamberlains, and was personally received by the Zhao Guan's family, just for this matter.

Shi Jin claimed to be able to get more copper and gold for the country.

This is a major event that affects the national economy and people's livelihood.

Zhao Ji was overjoyed when he heard this, and through the line of the head of the line, Li Shishi, he went out of the palace in micro-suits, and cordially summoned Shi Jialang in Fan Lou. Liang Shicheng came forward to promote, and Tong Guan signed the guarantee, guaranteeing Shi Jin a messenger of the Imperial City Division, as well as a Chengxinlang's Jilu rank.

Han Shizhong was able to get the official position that he could only get by capturing Fang La ten years later, and Shi Dalang ascended to the sky in one step and was directly promoted to seven levels in a row.

This is not the willful and reckless behavior of the Zhao official family......

This Shi Jin really has the ability to increase the copper production capacity of the Great Song Dynasty. As long as this judgment is true, then this unseemly promotion is not wrong.

So is Shi Dalang a liar or does he have real skills?

He himself felt that he really had the ability to do this.

Isn't it just a little stone into copper? It is not reliable to turn stones into gold, but it is still easy to turn copper into gold.

Although China is not a big copper country, it is also the first ancient civilization in the world to invent bronze smelting. Anhui has Tongling, Hubei has Daye. These two are known as copper-producing towns.

And then...... And then there are no reliable copper ore reserves.

Yunnan has copper, and it is currently the domination of Dali Buddhism and Tusi. There is copper in the Northeast, not to mention this.

Where else can copper be produced?

There is one of the most important places! Kunlun!

Almost all ancient myths unanimously claim that the Yellow Emperor intercepted Kunlun Mountain and made the Kunwu sword to cut Chiyou.

This Kunwu sword is obviously the earliest bronze knife in history.

So where exactly is Kunlun Mountain?

Some people say that Kunlun Mountain is the Green Ridge Tianshan Mountain, that is, the dangerous road of the South Tianshan Mountain that Tang Sanzang walked in the past. On the southwest side of the Taklamakan Desert, exit along the Yarkand River through Yecheng...... That is, the pimple where Gulandam and Comrade Amir fought, and the second platoon commander froze to death on the snowy mountain.

Some people also say that Kunlun Mountain is not so far, it is Qilian Mountain at the junction of Gansu and Qinghai.

If it can be determined where Kunlun Mountain, where the Yellow Emperor refined his sword back then, then it is undoubtedly possible to find a long-lost bronze mine. The difficulty of mining this ancient copper ore should be extremely low. Because the ancient people of the Neolithic Age 5,000 years ago could be mined, it means that this vein is very shallowly buried. It is very suitable for the unofficial small landlord class, digging privately. The premise is to find the right place.

This has nothing to do with Shi Jin, who is originally from Huayin, Shaanxi. However, one day, a Taoist priest appeared, which changed the fate of Shi Dalang's life.

At that time, Shi Jin was still young, and he squatted at the foot of Huashan Mountain with the children to play in the mud.

A concave-eyed eagle-eyed melancholy ...... With a high bun on his head, a cyan robe, and a peachwood sword tied to his back, he walked on foot from the west......

The eyebrows of the Hu people in Central Asia are usually inverted, and they have deep sunken eyes, and they always look worried. A bit like the meow people, also like eagle eyes, the people of the Tang Dynasty are very emotional to call it "sorrowful hu".

It was such a melancholy man who changed Shi Dalang.

On that day, Shi Jialang was playing at the foot of the mountain, and the Taoist priest of the Lingbao Sect from the Western Regions came west with fluttering sleeves and a sword.

In the young Shi Dalang's mind, this melancholy nonsense man looked very dragged and very bullish.

Shi Dalang threw away the mud in his hand, stepped forward, blocked the road, and said to this person, "Uncle, please stay!" ”

The foreign Taoist priest knew Chinese, and stopped very kindly.

He smiled at the Chinese children, "Kidd! Walter Chimad? ”

Shi Jin was still called Shi Bin at this time, he had not yet been crossed, and he was an indigenous. Of course, I don't understand the language of the birds. But it doesn't matter if you understand bird language or not.

The young Shi Dalang spread out his palms and said very domineeringly, "I opened this road, I planted this tree, if you want to pass from here, leave the money to buy the road." ”

This is the tradition of historians.

Speaking of which, this Taoist priest should indeed pay some money to buy the road. Who told him not to go down the official road?

Shijiazhuang is not next to the official road.

The big road in front of Zhuangqian is a charity construction done by the old staff of the Shi family. To say that this road was opened by my family is not to boast. According to the practice of the future society, local governments will also levy tolls and tolls when building bridges and fast lanes.

The historian has always had such a tradition of bullies who collect money to buy roads.

Of course, this unofficial underground fee is not legal in the Great Song Dynasty. It's not legal, but it's popular. This is the tradition of the underworld, as well as the exclusive benefits of local tyrants and bullies.

The regime of the Great Flower Family, since Qin Shi Huang, has never been poisoned by the emperor alone.

Of course, the political power cannot belong to the common people of the world.

In fact, the power and interests of the big flower family have always belonged to the local tyrant class. This is a general statement. For example, the Jiangdong forces of the Three Kingdoms, Sun Quan alone said that it doesn't count, and it has to be collectively supported by the four Jiangdong clans. This atmosphere was most obvious in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The emperors are all puppets, and the gate lord clan is the boss behind the scenes.

The Tang Dynasty advocated violence, and the noble family with outstanding military achievements became the true masters of the country. The second prince killed his brother and father or something, it was all superficial kung fu. The eunuchs abolished the Son of Heaven, which was also a mere formality. In essence, it is a struggle for the rights and interests of the noble generals.

In the end, Datang was destroyed by the excessive expansion of the power of the Wuxun family.

During the Great Song Dynasty, the style of painting changed abruptly. The wise scholars of the Northern Song Dynasty summed up the various shortcomings of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, and strictly restricted the expansion of the power of military generals, so the rise of the scribe landlord and wealthy class had long been established.

The outsiders are the backbone of today's Great Song Dynasty society.

Outside the historian, he is such a big local tyrant. The historian wants to illegally collect toll fees according to the methods of the Black Society, and the government will acquiesce and secretly support it.

Although Shi Jin couldn't understand barbarian, that Taoist could understand Chinese.

So he smiled again and said, "Gewuyo! ”

Take a piece of malachite from your sleeve and toss it in the air.

It was a sunny afternoon, and the deep blue malachite glittered in the sun, and after a few flips in the air, it fell, and was firmly held in Shi Dalang's hand.

Shi Dalang was still young at this time, and he didn't recognize this thing, and he didn't know whether it was worth it or not.

"Uncle! Don't bluff me, how much is this thing worth? ”

The Taoist priest laughed loudly, "Hot Silk Isproness Lace, Yuri Chopsticks Ear, Walter Recklessness and Delirium Baiyit." ”

With a wave of his sleeves, he strode away.

Shi Jin became more and more incomprehensible, and chased after more than a dozen steps, after all, he was weak and weak, and the weather was very hot, so he could no longer continue to catch up.

I could only hear what the Taoist priest said from afar......

The Taoist priest drifted away, leaving only the last message drifting away in the wind.

The last sentence is: "Quga Gongma! Panser! Panser! Gongma! Quga! ”

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