Tai Shi Ci and Fu Min quickly understood.

Seeing that everyone was pondering, Liu Cun paused for a moment before continuing to explain: "There is another reason, this riot of the people not only killed all the officials and landlords in the territory, but also occupied the Gushui Wharf, the largest trade wharf in Jizhou, and cut off the trade routes in Jizhou, which is what Lord Liu Yu and General Gongsun cannot tolerate the most. ”

"With the growth of the Yellow Turban in Montenegro, the western part of Youzhou and Jizhou is becoming more and more chaotic, and the people who can no longer bear it have killed local corrupt officials and landlords, snatched all the food and materials and fled into the mountains to the west, and the Yellow Turban departments in the mountains continue to converge and grow."

"Under such circumstances, Lord Liu Yu and General Gongsun urgently need my Qingzhou's support, but they have all seen what happened to Qingzhou, Qingzhou can't even support itself, how can I support them?"

"Therefore, only by taking out as much pig iron, furs, war horses, cattle and sheep as possible, and exchanging them for grain in Xuzhou and Jiangnan through waterways, and in exchange for weapons and equipment in my Qingzhou, can they keep most of Youzhou under effective control, and then they can recruit more troops to attack the growing Yellow Turban Army in the west."

Fu Min clapped his hands and sighed: "The lord said it thoroughly!" The subordinates were still ignorant about the situation in Youzhou before, and when they understood the stakes, they immediately understood it. ”

Everyone laughed, and the chief of the guard, Zhai Qian, strode in: "Report to the lord, my uncle has arrived." ”

Liu Cun was overjoyed, stood up to greet him, and soon went to the door to greet the two brothers, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang.

Zhai Chao warmly greeted the more than ten relatives of the Mizhu brothers, and with Liu Cun's permission, he immediately took the brothers who were familiar with each other to the famous wine shop on the opposite street for dinner.

The Mizhu brothers and Tai Shici met warmly, and Liu Cun entered the kitchen to bring two pairs of dishes and chopsticks and wine glasses. The five of them gathered around the large round table and began to toast and talk.

After three glasses of wine, Mi Zhu's face turned red immediately after shouting good wine. It made everyone laugh.

Liu Cun poured wine for the Mizhu brothers: "Have you gone to Zhushan's house?" ”

Mi Zhu was happy: "Huan'er's goose egg little face is round, and her figure is fat." When she got home, she was teaching Niuniu to play the piano, and it could be seen that Niuniu liked to stay with Huan'er. ”

Mi Fang said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for two years, Niuniu has grown into a beautiful big girl, it seems that I have to talk to the old man when I go back, and set this family business for my cousin, and start first!" ”

"Don't! Niuniu is only thirteen years old, and she can't talk about it until she is at least sixteen...... In addition, there are more than a dozen apprentices around me, who knows who Niuniu will like when the time comes. I have promised her not to interfere in her marriage and to choose the man she likes. Liu Cun politely refused.

Mi Fang was unhappy: "Are you such a father?" Such a precious daughter, what if you really like a fisherman? ”

Liu Cun replied very seriously: "As long as Niuniu likes it, what about fishermen, isn't it still my son-in-law?" ”

Everyone laughed, Mi Fang was stunned, and then relieved: "It's also, even if it's fishing." With you, my father-in-law, I don't have to worry about a bright future, haha! ”

Liu Cun shook his head: "It's wrong, if that's the case." Unless the man of Niuniu continues to fish and live his life well, if he wants to be an official, he can only start from the soldier in the water army or the infantry cavalry. Otherwise, go to the state capital's biennial official qualification exam and fight fairly with everyone. I won't help him, I don't have money for food and clothing. Too much is not good. ”

"For Niuniu, since she chose such a man, it is equivalent to choosing such a life, there are gains and losses, and you can't complain, unless you can't go back to your parents' house anymore, I will raise it."

The brothers looked at each other, only Mi Zhu and Lu Pei believed that Liu Cun would do what he said, which was also where the vast majority of officials in Qingzhou admired Liu Cun the most.

Mi Zhu raised his glass to toast everyone, knowing that there were no outsiders, and he had no scruples about speaking: "This time, I will transport 200,000 quintals of grain to you, as well as the 500,000 catties of Yizhou copper ingots that my caravan bought from Jingzhou, all of which are unloaded at Zhushan Port." ”

"In addition, there are three million catties of Yizhou copper ingots, which will take half a year to be delivered one after another, but the price has increased by two percent, so I will say hello to you first."

Liu Cun was very grateful: "Thank you so much, the mint doesn't have to stop work now, the eldest brother has solved the big thing for the younger brother!" ”

Mi Zhu smiled: "You said in your letter that you want to issue new coins?" ”

Liu Cun introduced: "That's right, the time is ripe, in addition, two years ago, three counties in Donglai discovered silver and lead-zinc mines, and there were two gold mines, there was no mature smelting means at that time, and then every effort was done to invite six craftsmen from Jingzhou and Yizhou who smelted silver many times, and pondered repeatedly for nearly a year before mastering the whole set of smelting methods and processes. ”

"The purity of the silver ingots refined now is more than ninety percent and five, plus the more than three million catties of silver nuggets we have recovered from Chang'an, Luoyang and Hedong in recent years, as well as the more than two million catties that Langya Money Bank has successively recovered at a discount, plus the silver mines in Jingzhou, Yizhou and other places that have been stimulated to be mined continuously, as well as the silver that ocean-going caravans continue to transport back from Jiaozhou and even further south, it is already possible to issue silver coins."

"But think about it, when the time comes, will it really be circulated, do you have so much silver?" Mi Zhu reminded very cautiously.

Liu Cun replied truthfully: "The government officials have been thinking about it for more than a year, and the doctors from Langya Academy and Agricultural and Industrial College have participated in the discussion, and they feel that they can meet the circulation, after all, our influence is limited to the five surrounding states, and has not yet extended to the entire Han Dynasty." ”

"At present, the only difference is the improvement of weights and measures, such as weight customization, there are currently two opinions, one is to continue the customization of 1 catty 16 taels, and the other is to adopt a new customization of 1 catty and 10 taels. The latter is the teaching habit implemented by Langya Agricultural Industry and Business College in the early years, and it is also the standard used by our major workshops, that is, 1 catty = 10 taels = 250 grams = 500 baht, which is more conducive to calculation. ”

"The biggest problem today is that the new 1 baht weight is about 13% less than the existing 1 baht weight, and the existing gauge needs to be replaced. Personally, I would like to prefer the second opinion, but it seems that it will be difficult to implement it in the short term, so the private sector will remain unchanged. ”

Mi Zhu understood: "So how to implement the additional issuance of silver coins?" ”

Liu Cun replied: "The preliminary opinion is that in the future, the 1 tael of gold coins in Langya Money Bank will still be exchanged for 600 five baht coins, and only the issuance of 1 tael of silver coins will be increased, which can be exchanged for 60 five baht coins." In addition, since the beginning of June this year, we have handled off-site settlements for large merchants, which are the gold and silver tickets that I mentioned before. ”

Mi Zhu was pleasantly surprised: "The special printing paper you said has been made?" ”

Liu Cun smiled, nodded and stopped explaining, no one on the side could understand what Mi Zhu and Liu Cun said about the gold and silver tickets, why were they so happy? But seeing Mi Zhu's ecstatic appearance, he knew that there was definitely a huge benefit in this.

Mi Zhu, who is proficient in the business operation of coins and money banks, knows better than anyone that as long as the gold and silver bills can be circulated, the Langya Money Bank can easily occupy the financial dominance of the five surrounding states by relying on the monopoly of the coinage right and the right to issue tickets, and the agriculture, industry and commerce of the surrounding states will be gradually controlled by the Langya Money Bank, which is definitely a soft knife that kills people without seeing blood.

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