Chapter 189: Alexandra's Suggestion
In the morning, Qian Er assisted the Jianghu battalion to replace a 36-pounder Tiago gun on the Hou Junji, and a thin crack appeared in the lower part of the barrel of this gun, which was no longer sufficient, so he had to notify the Jianghu battalion to replace it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Fortunately, now the Shidao craftsman household camp has been fully resettled, and it can produce all the ordnance, and it will not delay major events.
Gao Haicheng accompanied Tiago to chat, this time there are three warships with five guns that need to be replaced, Tiago personally led the team, after the replacement, the three warships will also go to sea to test the guns, according to the regulations the craftsman must follow, if the new cannon test is not qualified, the craftsman must be fully responsible, so Tiago personally led the team.
Qian Second Gunner stayed on the artillery deck, and when the craftsmen battalion personnel hoisted the artillery into the deck, Qian Er was surprised to find that Qian San was among more than ten craftsmen, and the third brother, the old man, and the niece were not still on Shidao.
"Second brother, it turns out that you are on this ship." Qian San was very surprised, there had been no news of the second brother in the family for a year, but he understood that no news was good news, if the second brother had a good one, someone would have come to tell him, which happened in the craftsman camp.
"Third child, you've also come to Jeju, Dad and Yaya." Qian Er asked.
"Hey, the family sold the house for ten taels of silver, and they all came to Jeju with me, and the second brother is not at home all the year round, so I can go home every day, so I moved my father and Yaya here together." Qian San talked about the situation at home.
The work was busy, and Qian San said that the family mostly lived in the artisan house, and the two were busy separately.
Thiago went to sea with the ship to test the gun, and everything went well.
In the evening, Qian Er asked Wang Qiang, the commander of the first division, for leave, and at this time, the fleet was resting and training in Jeju, and Wang Qiang immediately granted a three-day vacation.
When Qian Er came to the craftsman camp the next day, he was also surprised by the huge size of the craftsman camp. The halfway up the hill that spreads from the bottom of the hill is the site of the craftsman's camp, which is divided into cannons, guns, armor, gunpowder, test artillery sites, residences and other places. The residences are all newly built.
Qian Er's meeting with his father and niece had another surprise, Qian Er handed over the seventy taels of silver he had saved in the past year to his father, which had both three taels of silver per month and a reward for the south, and the father sent a message to the brothers to deposit in the bank, and in a few days they would ask for a daughter-in-law, and there should have been a mother-in-law at home.
Zhao Lie received a Jeju document at the Shidao government office, and Huang Han reported to him that the two soldiers were fighting over a mother-in-law as a wife. He was severely punished by repression, one was confined for ten days, and the other was confined for one month.
Well, this is a reflection of the extremely unbalanced ratio of men and women in their territory, many of the Liao people who can escape to various places are young and strong, and the men of the more than 200,000 Liao people account for two-thirds. Over the past few years, many Liao people have served as soldiers and errands and have some money and food. It's a natural thing to want to start a family.
However, where are more than 100,000 men looking for so many women when they get married, Zhao Lie grinned, it is really my business to start a family and start a family, and I am really a parent official.
Seeing Zhao Lie grinning after reading the paperwork, Alexandra understood that Zhao Lie was in trouble again. After being by Zhao Lie's side for a long time, of course she understood that Zhao Lie was the center of his territory, and all kinds of cumbersome and unexpected things needed his decision, and her heart was too tired.
Alexandra looked at Zhao Lie with inquiring eyes, she hoped that Zhao Lie would talk more and not be bored with everything. Carrying it on her shoulders, she just couldn't help when she said it, and it also made Zhao Lie feel more comfortable.
Zhao Lie roughly explained, "Yali, if you are rich, I hate to use money to buy some women, and I can't let hundreds of thousands of people be single and homeless." ”
For the purchase of women, if it was in the past, Alexandra must have hated it, but after a long time in the Ming Dynasty, she also experienced a lot of helplessness, there are human traffickers all over the Ming Dynasty, and the sale of human beings, especially women and children, is semi-legitimate in many places, and it cannot be eliminated at all.
If it was a woman bought by the Broken Capture Army who was just a daughter-in-law for the Liao people and soldiers, it would be better than being sold into a green building or a small house in a house, but she didn't discuss this issue out of disgust in her heart.
"Lie, we in Portugal and Spain use gold and silver coins as coins, and you directly use silver taels, is there any 。。。。。。 here?" Before Alexandra finished speaking, Zhao Lie had already stepped forward and hugged her, and kissed her red lips deeply, until she was almost out of breath, and then let go of her.
"Yali, you're so smart. This suggestion of yours has helped me a lot. Zhao Lie shouted excitedly.
Alexandra curled her lips slightly, looked around with a red face, and then looked at Zhao Lie with disgust.
Zhao Lie hurriedly apologized, he understood that Alexandra was afraid that Marta would blame her for violating God's teachings when she saw it, after all, they were not married yet, and they should pay attention to maintaining chastity.
Zhao Lie immediately ordered someone to convene Zhao Meng and Tang Xianwen to discuss, and at the same time he also hated it in his heart, by his own family, he was still a person who traveled through the future, and how profitable the currency issuance was in the future was grasped by the governments of various governments through the central bank, why didn't he think about such a matter of saving expenses, and he had to rely on a Western woman in the seventeenth century to react after the broadcast, it was really worrying.
He is the best to do here, most of the people are in Jeju and Beihua at the moment, where the implementation of new currency gold and silver coins, but it is a matter of opening a mold, and the issue of coins is a thing, one or two gold can be molded out of more than 20 gold coins, and the same is true for silver, not to mention copper coins.
Of course, casting, embossing, issuance, recovery, and destruction will bring costs, but it still brings several times the benefits, if the soldiers of Jeju and Beihua Island use gold and silver coins for the salaries of the soldiers, and the purchase and sale of objects, then Zhao Lie will save a lot of money, and at the same time firmly control the economy in the territory.
"Minting gold, silver and copper coins," Zhao Meng hesitated for a moment, "minting coins privately in Daming is a crime of killing the head, although it is carried out in Jeju and Beihua Island, the sailors and infantry cavalry can flow around at any time, and will bring gold coins into Shidao and Shandong." "If the matter is revealed, it will be a catastrophe for the Zhao family.
"Well, the sailors and infantry cavalry will be transferred to Shidao on business, and the gold and silver coins of their food and salary will be exchanged for silver taels, and there will be no major problems as for the individual gold and silver coins flowing into Shidao and Shandong, you must know that the gold and silver coins of the Francois and the Netherlands are also imported and exported from various parts of Guangdong and Fujian, and the local governments are just acquiescing." Zhao Lie said.
It was to issue gold, silver and copper coins in the closed environment of Jeju Island and Beihua Island, and Zhao Lie also made a lot of money, as for Shidao, it was a matter of the future, and Zhao Lie was not in a hurry.
Zhao Meng also nodded, as long as it did not flow into Shidao and Shandong in large quantities, there would be no big mistakes.
"My lord, if this coinage is implemented, our financial endowment can be greatly increased, and it will help the adult's affairs to be unparalleled, and the adult's method is really wonderful." Tang Xianwen sighed, seeing that most of the important matters around him were from Zhao Lie's ideas, Tang Xianwen was sincerely admired.
"This is not Ben's idea." Zhao Lie shook his head in shame.
"Oh, second brother, who came up with this idea, is it the second brother who rewarded it?" Zhao Meng was also curious, could it be the second brother's method of distributing rewards.
"This is the solution that Miss Alexandra came up with." Zhao Lie said with a smile.
"My lord, what a virtuous help I have found, Miss Alexandra not only takes care of the refugees, has the courage to go into battle, but also knows the internal affairs, and it is a blessing for my subordinates to have such a duchess." Tang Xianwen hurriedly complimented.
Zhao Meng also nodded in agreement, I really didn't expect Alexandra to be really the second brother Fuxing, spreading benevolence and righteousness everywhere for the second brother, and coming up with such a subtle method for Zhao Lie, which really helped a lot, and these two things are also worthy of the word talent.
"Haha, Yali did help a lot, but Ben will have a long-term vision and have taken a fancy to Yali early." Zhao Lie was triumphant, and said that I was a Yiren woman in my photo, and now you look at what kind of character Alexandra is, only I am the one who knows people.
"Your Excellency is wise, and your eyes are like torches." Tang Xianwen echoed.
Zhao Meng smiled silently, which meant approval.
Zhao Lie sat down with satisfaction and took a sip of tea, today the salted fish turned over and was really happy, someone has always said irresponsible remarks about him choosing a Xiyi woman, this time, it is this Xiyi woman's suggestion worth a thousand gold, no, ten thousand gold.
There was a knock outside the door, and in the sound of Zhao Lie coming in, Du Li walked in,
"My lord, Commander Wei may have made a private visit to the various thousand households below recently, which may be unfavorable to your lord." Du Li stepped forward to report.
Damn, this old thing is really like a hungry wolf with perseverance, pressing step by step, it is really disgusting, Zhao Lie's good mood was swept away, and there is really no good way to deal with this top boss, however, this person has made frequent moves as soon as he arrives in Shidao, which shows that Zhao Lie's heart is very urgent, and Zhao Lie must also be careful not to overturn the boat in the gutter.
Zhao Lie immediately ordered that Wei Qing and several other Galen warships be transferred to Dashanzi Island immediately, and at the same time eliminate all irregularities in Shidao, and wait for the arrival of this Wei commander.
Fortunately, the salt works, artisan camps, shipyards, and the Broken Army and Water Infantry Army in Shidao have all moved to Jeju, and there are no major violations, and there are only more than 20,000 refugees left.
Zhao Meng and Tang Xianwen immediately left and led their subordinates to follow Zhao Lie's orders, the purpose was to prevent Chang Runing from seeing what he wanted to see, and to let him return empty-handed.
At meal time, Shidao was in a commotion.
Zhao Lie sent a red official letter with a white feather to Ma Tao and Huang Han in Jeju, which indicated that Jeju would establish a separate place and secretly gather craftsmen from the craftsman camp to mint gold, silver and copper coins, first casting molds, and then starting to die-cast samples.
Zhao Lie noted that the gold, silver and copper must be content in ninety percent or more, otherwise the future may encounter the resistance of the people, resulting in the collapse of the issuance, in order to facilitate the casting of Shidao, Zhao Lie indicated in his heart that the diameter of the gold, silver and copper coins is nearly one inch, and the thickness is one-twelfth of an inch, and the gold, silver and copper coins are attached to the front of the Beihua Island pattern, and the back is the Jeju Island pattern. (To be continued.) )