When is this day going to be the head?

Yang Shang looked at the sky speechlessly, looked at the table next to him who was digging a pit with his head bowed, and then looked at Bai Qi, who was sitting under the canopy not far away to review the documents, and silently beat Wu Anjun thousands of times in his mind.

During this time, Wu Anjun completely used the two as cattle. And in order to train the two of them, they also deliberately brought weight-bearing iron rings to the two of them, which was called "martial arts practice".

"Follow me the sapling. "The pit was dug, and Cao Shen's voice came from below.

Yang Shang handed Cao Shen a three-foot-tall, red-colored, and sleek trunk-shaped sapling. When a sapling hits a stone, it makes a sound of gold and stone colliding, which is very different from ordinary saplings.

Yes, this sapling is not an extraordinary species. It is a brand new plant developed by farmer Tian Ping in the Agricultural Palace.

When Tian Ping studied plants, he found that some plants like to devour and absorb metals from the soil. Through the cultivation of these plants, Xia Guo invented a "Shouyang tree".

This tree can absorb copper ore from the earth, and condense a "red copper divine fruit" on the tree. This fruit is not edible, but is condensed by the essence of red copper, which can be used for smelting and forging.

In other words, no mining and smelting are required. Just plant a tree on the Copper Mine to automatically collect Copper Essence.

Cao Shen carefully buried the Shouyang tree in the pit, and before he could fill in the soil, he saw that the end of the sapling automatically grew rhizomes and probed into the copper mine thirty meters below.

As the roots of the tree absorb the essence of copper ore, tiny red-gold shoots grow on the branches. Each sprout is like gold and iron, and it can also be used to craft weapons.

"That's it. Cao Shen came out of the pit, and Yang Shang took out the spirit rune to seal the pit and hide the Shouyang copper tree.

Then, the two came to Bai Qi's side to resume their lives.

Bai Qi spread out the map and drew a circle at a certain location on it: "Well, this place is finished, let's go to the next place immediately." I remember that nine hundred miles east of Caro City, there was an unowned copper mine, and we went to seize it first. ”

Yang Shang looked at the copper mines on the map that had not yet drawn circles, and silently counted them, there were still fifty places. He couldn't help but say, "Prince, why are we doing such a thing. With the current copper ore holdings in our Xia Kingdom, we don't have to worry about it in a few hundred years, right?"

"yes. Cao Shen also nodded in agreement.

Constantly sealing copper ore and iron ore in the eastern land, is there any benefit to the current Xia Kingdom?

Bai Qi closed the map and looked at the two of them.

After this period of tempering, the temperament of the two has been renewed, and there is no longer the bookish spirit of the past, but a kind of fortitude and tenacity that has been baptized by battle.

"You two know about the new dollar, right?"

The two looked at each other, and Cao Shen complained: "Although we are often not in the capital during this time, we still know about the new currency. ”

"Do you know what the biggest problem with the new currency is?"

"Questions?"

It's not clear. Because in their time, the new Suri currency was long gone. Unless someone specializes in business, who studies this thing?

Yang Shang closed his eyes and recalled the records of his family's business information. He hesitated, "Is it the face value of the currency?"

"That's right, the minimum denomination of the new currency is silver. And a silver coin is exchanged for money. Under this exchange ratio, how can Singapore dollars buy low-end daily necessities? Even those vegetables that are becoming scarce can't be settled directly according to silver coins, right?"

"The prince means ......"

"They're going to push for another currency with a low denomination. This part is the essence of the transaction. It is the right to mint money that the state itself maintains. ”

That is, the minting of copper coins is the responsibility of the state itself?

Yang Shang somewhat understood, but Cao Shen still seemed to understand.

Bai Qi said again: "Giving up all the coinage rights to the god of wealth is at the mercy of others. Therefore, according to the deliberations and speculations of our Xia Kingdom, each country should still retain a part of the coinage rights, and the price control can be carried out through low-denomination currencies. ”

Each country mints its own base currency and regulates the exchange rate with Suri silver coins. But this kind of coin can only be used in the country, and does not involve the circulation of foreign currency, and the god of wealth will not have much resistance.

"So the question is, what materials do they need to mint this low-face currency?"

Speaking of this, if Cao Shen doesn't understand it anymore, I'm really sorry for his status as a student.

"The lowest copper coins in our country are made of copper. Other countries, even if they don't use copper, will choose other widely available metals. Therefore, the prince led us here to seal the mineral deposits to fundamentally eliminate the possibility of the use of metals by the eastern countries?"

"And that's not all. Bai Qi raised his whip and pointed at the vast land of the East: "In the future, this is the territory of our country." The minerals here are all ours. Rather than let these small countries squander them and cause us to recycle and reforge them in the future. It's better to cut off their way from the beginning and let them use our big day pass positive money at the beginning. ”

"But the right to mint, how could they give it to us?"

The new Suri coin is printed with a head or scepter, which can bring faith to the god of wealth. If countries use their own gods or kings, they can also bring corresponding faith power. Will they give up?

"So, our purpose is the East, not the West Tumu. Bai Qi smiled and said, "You two, you still don't understand." What does it mean to fight back now? ”

The Tumu dynasty was able to survive the famine with the old grain of the past years. However, the city-states in the East are small in scale, and some countries have only one small earthen city, which needs to be constantly purchased from abroad. In this case, the famine was enough to kill.

And in this case, Xia Guo holds grain, and they must agree to any conditions.

Zhao Gao had already set off with Yang Ke's will and went to his first stop in the East to negotiate.

"What? The king wants to buy grain for new dollars?"

"No, no, no, you should know that our country does not accept Souri dollars. Zhao Gao paused, and said in an extremely gloomy voice: "Haven't you noticed it yet? Why did a famine suddenly break out this year that spread across the entire continent?" And only my country is okay?"

"What's the only difference between our country and other countries?

"Our king believes that the new Suri currency carries a curse. The widespread famine on the continent is due to the curse of this new coin. Therefore, I advise your country to be careful, and do not use this new currency if it can be used. ”

"Ah, yes, yes. Continue our negotiations. At present, there has been an accident in our country's coins, and it is in a period of reform and recuperation. Therefore, it is not possible to trade with our coins. ”

"What? Your country is going to use gold directly?"

"How can that be! Isn't that bullying your country? Our country promises, in line with the principle of friendship between the two countries, that it will never take advantage of the danger of others to seize your gold mines at this moment. Therefore, we choose to trade with cloth. Cloth for food, it's a fair choice, right?"

"Of course, there may not be enough cloth in your country, so there is cotton and ramie. What? These things are all gone in your country? So what daily necessities do you have in your country, can we talk slowly. Otherwise, it's okay to change less food. After all, you can focus on the nobles first, what are those untouchable slaves? You say, right? Don't worry about the other party's riot, just use the army to suppress it. Famine, it is necessary to show the leadership and authority of the king in order to survive the disaster. ”

Zhao Gao has done everything he can to stir up tensions in the trade talks. Even his request for grain for cloth was secretly ill-intentioned.

It's autumn and the weather is getting colder. But he deliberately asked the countries of the East to settle the accounts with cloth. When winter comes, there is nothing to keep out the cold. The eastern countries will once again trade cloth and cotton to the summer country to protect against the cold winter.

At that time, Zhao Gao would choose iron tools for spring cultivation to trade.

In the spring, he would choose the ice or the weapons of the army to use in the summer.

In short, little by little, countries are forced to tear down the east wall and make up for the west, and constantly overdraft the necessities of the future to maintain the present. Thus slowly encroaching on countries and completely subverting them.

As for Bai Qi's so-called "coinage right", it was obtained by Zhao Gao soon after the negotiations.

Although the Souri Singapore dollar controls the exchange of currencies in higher denominations. But as long as the right to mint copper coins was in hand, the Xia Kingdom could continue to trade.

In a hurry, he directly used a large number of copper coins for currency exchange. Cast all the copper mines of the continent into coins, forcing the god of wealth to go bankrupt.

After hearing Bai Qi's explanation, Cao Shen and Yang Shang understood a little. Dare to love yourself and others to mark the copper mine, also to deal with this coin war?

"More than that, another purpose of the Shouyang Copper Tree"

Suddenly, a fire phoenix crossed from the west in the clear sky and fell straight in the direction of Caro City.

Bai Qi's expression changed: "Phoenix, is it ...... Let's go, let's go!"

......

Pantheon, the god of wealth, slowly opened his eyes.

The so-called fire phoenix entering the eastern soil is just a small episode. For him, the most important thing to care about at the moment is the famine caused by the gods of agriculture.

Because of this famine, the situation on the side of the eastern countries has begun to collapse.

"So that's what you're for? You think a famine can nullify my plans? Joke, my new dollar can't be stopped by a single food shortage. ”

The goddess Loya sat on the throne and turned her head to look at the god of wealth nonchalantly.

The God of Wealth scolded angrily: "You are also a great god believed in by all countries on the mainland, and you actually came up with such a method. Are you worthy of the believers who believe in you?"

"What benefits did Xia Guo give you, so that you gods of agriculture could help him together?"

"Don't forget, the Xia Kingdom has its own god of agriculture. There is also the stupid girl of the wind god, who thinks she is the protector of the Xia country, so she bothers to work hard. Don't forget, how did the ancestors of the Xia Kingdom kick us away. When the Xia Kingdom grows up, what kind of protector god, they will turn their heads and shake it off and continue to worship their ancestral gods!"

When the god of wealth finished scolding, Luo Ya said gently: "Speaking of which, you have the same father as me. ”

"What, does Your Highness want to play the emotional card? Even so, I won't admit defeat. Don't think that just a famine will win! You want to win me with this little trick? Impossible!"

The god of wealth had a gleam in his eyes. Although that hole card is not used, if they push it hard. That's all I can do.

"No, I mean, you're just a brother. ”

A thousand years of heritage, also worthy of fighting with me?

Goddess Loya smiled lightly: "Suri, this is just the beginning, do you think the famine will only last for a year?

Famine, that's just the initial problem. Immediately after that, it was winter.

In the eastern countries, in order to solve the problem of grain, they were forced to buy grain with cloth.

It will be in winter that the contradictions will completely erupt.

Thinking of this, Luo Ya turned her head to look in the direction of the main throne: "The goddess of discord and strife under Youmeng's hand is probably going to be busy again." ”

"Well, the Mother Goddess's Hades is going to be even busier. Because winter has to receive a large number of souls. ”