Gao Mingyue seemed to have known the news, nodded unsurprised, and then sat down at the table unceremoniously, picked up Mulan and prepared to serve a bowl of porridge to Yi Feng's chopsticks and eat. She ate very quickly, a celadon bowl of corn porridge was drunk in a few bites, without the slightest hint of reserve, after eating a bowl and poured a glass of milk, drank two sips, and took a few chopsticks of kelp, before finally paused, raised her head and said to Yi Feng, "Sister sent me a letter, I already know about this, I asked people to invite the best stable woman in Huaihuang to come over, and I am already choosing a wet nurse, and I also asked people to pick a group of Yahuan mother-in-law who is steady and neat" She said a lot in one breath, but Yi Feng was very satisfied when she heard it.

Although this little sister-in-law sometimes has a lot of trouble with him, she is very capable of doing things, and she has the style of an iron lady. Since arriving in Huaihuang, Gao Mingyue has not lived in the same house with Yi Feng, after all, her sister is not there, and there are no elders in the house, and it is really inappropriate for her sister-in-law to live with her brother-in-law. Gao Mingyue lives next door to Yi Feng, but she usually moves around very little. It's not to avoid suspicion or anything, but Gao Mingyue is really a workaholic. Since learning new things such as abacus and double-entry bookkeeping from Yi Feng when she was in Yangzhou, this original female account room has become more and more fascinating. The big tent on Yi Fengming's face is Uncle Zhang, but in fact, the first tent room under Uncle Zhang is Gao Mingyue. Gao Mingyue not only became a big accountant under Uncle Zhang, but also trained the maids around her into small accountants, and later even continued to recruit troops, selected a lot of smart and smart girls, and trained them all to become her accounting assistants. Now in the official office of Hu Cao in the Huaihuang Shuai Mansion. Two-thirds of the accountants are female accountants led by Gao Mingyue.

Ling Yun sometimes admires this little sister-in-law, she is so beautiful. The background is so high, but I am not interested in anything vassally elegant, female embroidery and other things, but I am very interested in these numbers, abacus, and account books.

"The medal for the last Battle of Momoyama has been calculated. The number of rewards has also been booked. Gao Mingyue lowered her head and took a sip of milk, and there were still a few bits of fluorescent milk on her bright red lips like flower petals. When Ling Yun saw it, he couldn't help but think about it for a while. Actually, my sister-in-law is really beautiful. Tall, white-skinned. The chest is straight, and the face is bright

Gao Mingyue saw that Yi Feng didn't answer, and looked up, but her eyes happened to meet his somewhat straight eyes. Gao Mingyue suddenly felt a little panicked, her face flushed unnaturally, and then she immediately glared at Yi Feng fiercely. After following Yi Feng north during this time, she witnessed Yi Feng's great changes and brought a scattered Tiger League Green Forest Organization to the world. In a short period of time, it has become the frontier governor's office of the Sui Dynasty. Sometimes, she has to admit in her heart that her sister's vision is indeed very powerful, and she can see at a glance that the down-and-out Yi Feng is actually such a good Junjie. Because of this, during this period of time, she has unconsciously quietly changed many of her ideas about Yi Feng. It's just that I didn't expect that Yi Feng would look at her with such eyes just now, it was really too much.

Yi Feng was glared at by Gao Mingyue, and retracted his gaze with some contempt.

"Does Tocao have enough money and food in his account to pay for this big prize?" Yi Feng had no choice but to change the topic.

"After sweeping Qinshan and Yanshan last time, we got a lot of money, and during this time, the trade in Huaihuang Border City was also very prosperous, and we made far more money than we expected. Now the warehouse in Huaihuang is full of gold and silver, but" When it comes to business, Gao Mingyue quickly returned to a straight face, "But we are very short of money now, lack of copper coins." ”

Lack of money, of course, does not mean that Huaihuang has no money now. Actually, this lack of money means the lack of five baht of meat that can be used as currency. After the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, private money was abolished, meat was minted for five baht, private minting was strictly prohibited, and various methods were used to unify the currency. However, the imperial court is still extremely short of copper coins, the copper coins minted by the imperial court have always been four catties and three taels, a five-baht coin weighs about three grams, a one-yuan steel coin weighs about six grams in later generations, and a five-cornered steel core copper-plated coin is about 3.8 grams. A five-baht coin is lighter than a five-dime coin, the cost of this money is actually not high, every thousand coins minted by the imperial court, the cost is about seven hundred, but this does not include the labor cost, and the workers who mint the money are basically the people who serve in Yao. However, although there are a lot of profits in coinage, the process of coinage is not simple, a coinage furnace can cast ten furnaces of money a year, and you can get 3,000 yuan. The imperial court is trying its best to mint money, and it is only a few hundred thousand yuan a year. But the imperial court keeps minting new money every year, but it is still not enough to circulate, the biggest reason is that the bronze is valuable, and the money can be melted into copper and cast into bronze can get twice the profit, so even if there is a law that stipulates that money cannot be melted and bronze is cast, there is still a large amount of money that is melted. Another reason for the shortage of money was that merchants from Goguryeo, Dongying, Silla, Baekje and other countries around the Tang Dynasty brought a large number of Sui Dynasty copper coins back to their home countries during trade, and the Sui Dynasty's copper coins could also become currency circulation in these countries.

The imperial court desperately minted money, but the more it was cast, the more it lacked money, melted money, hid money, and added money outflow, leading to a shortage of money, so that the Sui Dynasty also had to do both money and silk, many times, grain and cloth became the currency of transactions, and even most of the time, it was directly bartered. The people of the Central Plains raise silkworms and grow hemp, and the silk and hemp they weave is actually currency. When you go out to buy something, you either exchange it for food, or cut two feet of cloth and tear one foot of silk.

The money shortage of the Sui Dynasty is also facing the famine now.

The rewards for military merits before Huaihuang are all rewards, the price is clearly marked, and the beheadings and prisoners are each five guan money, and the battle array table xiàn is also according to the different tables xiàn how much money, in addition, the bereavement benefits for the dead and wounded in the battle are all given money. The last time Yi Feng's sergeant salary reform was composed of money and monthly rations, it was also because of a lack of money. However, this time, the Momoyama award was finally calculated, which was a reward of up to hundreds of thousands of yuan, not only the 5,000 soldiers and horses who went to battle were rewarded, but also the rest of the remaining armies, and even the craftsmen and people, also had a reward. Together, these rewards are enormous. Huaihuang Town has money, but most of the gold and silver utensils, cloth, silk and linen are piled up in the warehouse, and there is not enough copper money.

In fact, it is not only the lack of money in this big award, but also the increasingly popular Huaihuang border market. Lack of money is also a big problem.

"We melted the gold and silver utensils in our warehouse and cast them into gold medals and silver medals, which were divided into two kinds: one tael and one coin." Ling Yun has also been aware of the money shortage. It's just that it wasn't so strict before. However, now that Huaihuang is on the right track, whether it is the rewards of the soldiers, the salaries of the army and the salaries of the craftsmen, and the demand for Huaihuang trading, it has increased greatly. The lack of money to use not only greatly affected the trade, but also prevented Huaihuang from paying the salaries of the sergeants and craftsmen. This is where big problems come in.

However, the right to mint money belongs to the imperial court, and the imperial court has also obtained special authorization from the Son of Heaven for Yang Guang, Yang Xiu, and Yang Liang. Yi Feng is just a small general manager. Even if the Son of Heaven really rewarded Yi Feng for opening one or two money furnaces in Huaihuang to mint money, tens of millions of dollars a year would not solve any problems. Thinking about it, it happened that there were a lot of gold and silver artifacts piled up in the warehouse. None of this gold or silver is a currency in circulation. However, Yi Feng just hit this idea, and minted gold and silver to reward the silver medal, which can be said to be a special reward, not a currency, but the gold and silver are precious metals that can be semi-circulated. This can also be regarded as a sideline ball for Yi Feng, using gold and silver to reward merit and silver medals to solve the problem of lack of money today.

As he spoke, Yi Feng simply asked Mulan to bring his homemade pencil. Start drawing this silver medal on a blank piece of paper.

"The gold and silver medals are round, and there is no square hole in the middle. At the top of the obverse of the silver medal is a tiger, which is similar to the shape of the tiger symbol, indicating the relationship between this gold and silver medal and the reward of military merits. Below the tiger, there is the word reward. Ling Yun said as he took a pen and wrote down two big characters in block letters, and wrote three words in the lower left and one tael to indicate the amount, and the gold and silver coins of one tael were one foot in diameter and about thirty centimeters. The diameter of one coin is one inch, about three centimeters. The back of the gold and silver medals is a meandering Great Wall pattern.

"How do you redeem huàn?" Gao Mingyue bit her lip lightly, she didn't expect that the trouble that had plagued Hu Cao's people for a long time would be solved so easily in Ling Yun's hands. The original gold and silver, most of which were utensils, or gold and silver collars, were mostly very heavy, dozens of taels each, and were not suitable for circulation. But if the gold and silver coins are minted as one tael or one penny, it is much more convenient for circulation. And with the name of the merit card, there is no need to worry about the problem of private casting.

"According to the current rate of huàn, one tael of gold is exchanged for five taels of silver, and one tael of silver is exchanged for huàn 1,600 yuan."

At this time, the ratio of gold and silver was not ten to one, and the ratio of folk gold and silver to huàn was generally stable at about one to five, which was half lower than the exchange rate of one tael of gold and ten taels of silver. However, one tael of silver can be exchanged for huàn to 1,600 copper coins, but it is much higher than the exchange rate of one or two silver thousand coins later. Although the exchange rate of one gold and ten silver, one or two silver and a thousand coins is more convenient to calculate, Yi Feng will not be stupid enough to ignore the existing exchange rate directly with his gold and silver coins. That won't work.

However, according to the current exchange rate, one or two gold can also be worth 8,000 copper coins, and the price of gold has not changed much from later, that is, the price of silver is slightly more valuable than that of later generations. One tael of silver is worth 1,600 yuan, and one gold is worth only five silver.

"One tael of silver medals is equal to eight thousand bronze coins, or five silver medals of one tael. One or two silver medals are equal to 1,600 copper coins. The gold medal of one coin is equal to 800 copper coins, and the silver medal of one coin is equal to 160 copper coins. This time, the Momoyama Awards were all issued with gold and silver awards. After a pause, Yi Feng said again, "Inform all shops in Huaihuang that gold and silver reward cards shall not be rejected, and their value shall not be devalued." "The gold and silver medals are cast to solve the shortage of money and make up for the shortage of copper coins. In addition, at some time, the people of Tocao would come to the White Tiger Hall to discuss the salary standards and payment methods of military generals and craftsmen at all levels. Now that the governor's office is about to be established, Ling Yun does not expect the imperial court to help him pay for the salaries of these bureaucrats and the supply of the army, he will not think so, nor dare to let the imperial court help him raise soldiers. Really let the court raise it, and it is impossible to say who this soldier will listen to when he arrives. Since you have to raise it yourself, it will be a regular expense from now on. The monthly expenditure is a large amount, Ling Yun is already thinking, and plans to spend these salaries in the form of money and rice like all dynasties and generations, and then even the money will be divided into the true color and the color, one-third is the natural color, that is, the money, and two-thirds will be the color, that is, the distribution of various physical goods.

"That's fine." Gao Mingyue replied very neatly. Although these gold and silver medals are now temporarily minted, it is not a big problem. Casting gold and silver medals is actually similar to casting copper coins, only if you do a good job of money, the rest is not difficult. Minting a thousand copper coins is no different from minting a thousand gold and silver coins. However, casting 1,000 copper coins is consistent money, but minting 1,000 coins is 8,000 copper coins, which is equivalent to the casting volume of almost three coin-casting furnaces in a year, and the imperial court is only two or three hundred coin-casting furnaces. One tael of gold is worth eight times, and one catty of sixteen taels can be worth one hundred and twenty-eight pieces. A thousand catties of gold can cast a gold medal worth 128,000 guan, and 100,000 taels of silver can cast a silver medal worth 160,000 guan. More than 1,000 catties of gold and 5,000 catties of silver are indeed not a problem for Huaihuang, who has now copied thousands of walled forts in the entire Qinshan and Yanshan Mountains and made a lot of money in the border market. It is not a problem to take out multiple gold and silver, and the gold and silver that were originally placed in the warehouse and did not have much effect can now replace three or five hundred thousand copper coins at once. "In half a month, Hu Cao and Gong Cao will be able to do this."

Ling Yun admires Gao Mingyue's ability to do things, if it is placed in the future generations, this is definitely a female president who is very popular.

"Then please." Ling Yun said with a smile, in fact, to solve the money shortage, Ling Yun has several ways in his heart, in addition to minting gold and silver coins, he can also issue military tickets. Even a little more ruthlessly, print banknotes directly. However, everything has to have a foundation, it needs to be gradual, and if you take too big a step, it is always easy to get an egg. Issuing banknotes is still too big a step, and it is always more reassuring to give real gold and silver to subordinates than to issue a piece of paper. Ling Yun didn't want to, carelessly, let his subordinates get killed. Something like banknotes, let's talk about it later.

Gao Mingyue took the drawing paper from Yi Feng's hand, and there was the appearance of the gold and silver medals painted by Yi Feng, but when she looked down carefully, she suddenly had a portrait on the white paper in addition to the eight money patterns on the front and back of the four gold and silver medals painted by Yi Feng. It was just a simple pencil, without color, but the image of a girl jumped on the paper, and she recognized it at a glance that the girl in the painting was her own appearance. The painting is so expressive and lifelike, she has never seen herself so beautiful in the painting. For a while, I was a little stunned.

On the other side, Ling Yun was also a little uneasy, just now after he finished drawing the money sample, he talked with his sister-in-law, and unconsciously drew the sister-in-law opposite. After handing over the money sample, I remembered that there was a portrait of the sister-in-law on it. Just when he thought that he was going to suffer another blank eye, but unexpectedly, this time Gao Mingyue looked at the painting and was stunned for a while, and then suddenly stood up with the painting and hurriedly said to him, "There is one more thing you have to solve as much as possible, the food reserves in Huaihuang Town are getting smaller and smaller, I still have something to do, so I will go first." After speaking, without waiting for Ling Yun to reply, he ran away like a gust of wind, leaving Ling Yun stunned for a long time, not knowing how to react for a while.

This sister-in-law, why is this reaction, isn't it?

(Recently, my health was very poor, I wanted to go out to travel and relax, but I fell ill halfway through, lay in the hotel for a few days, and finally went back to my house halfway, and came back with motion sickness, and diarrhea, and I am still a little uncomfortable today.) Depressed! After staying at home for a long time, my body collapsed. (To be continued......)