In front of Li Xin are three copper coins, which are golden flashing, silver dazzling, bright and smooth, which are three kinds of money, silver and copper coins made by Li Xin, which will replace the coins on the market, compared with the coins on the market, these three coins are not only convenient and easy to carry, but more importantly, beautiful, and increase the gold and silver coins.

"Your Majesty, the mother coin of the coin has been prepared, and the ministers are worried that someone will copy it. Especially this copper coin, copper six iron four, some people will melt these copper coins and do evil. General Zuo Yan Liben said in a low voice.

"Your Majesty, why don't you change the content of it to copper five iron five, although it is not good-looking, but if someone melts money, the cost will increase a lot." He Chou couldn't help but say.

"You say copper coins are used to whitewash the peace?" Li Xin smiled and took the copper coin, looked at it carefully, picked up the gold coin and looked at it, shook his head and said, "Is there a difference between the two?" ”

"There is a difference between this gold coin and a copper coin, as long as you blow it lightly on the side of your mouth and then put it to your ear and listen to it, the sound is extremely crisp." He Chou said with a smile.

Li Xin blew it, then put it in his ear and listened to it, and sure enough, he heard a very clear chirp, so he nodded and said, "What if you use iron money directly?" ”

The faces of the two changed suddenly, although the iron money is called good meat, but this meat is good and has good aspects, and there are also bad aspects, some of the iron money made by the imperial court is a thin layer, such iron money is of no use at all, the purchasing power is very poor, it is not accepted by the market, and it is basically a tool used by the imperial court to exploit the common people.

"Your Majesty, this?" Yan Liben said with some worry, but before he could speak, he was blocked by Li Xin.

"I'm joking with you." Li Xin waved his hand with a smile and said.

"In fact, whether it is gold coins, silver coins, copper coins, iron coins, there is a particularly troublesome place, that is, bulky." Li Xin pointed to the coins in front of him and said, "More than a dozen are okay." But what about hundreds? Or thousands? That's a huge number, and how troublesome it is to swap it in. Therefore, silk cloth and silk were used as tools of trade. ”

"And what does Your Majesty mean?" Yan Liben's eyes lit up.

"Money is for circulation, it's for trading. So I'm going to set up a money bank, so that the common people can use it to exchange money, what you need to do is to make paper money that is not easy to imitate, this kind of paper money is either a kind of endorsement, or it can be used as a kind of voucher for those merchants. Coins were available from all over the country, so that they could get coins from anywhere else with very little in the course of their business. What do you guys think? ”

"The ministers must find a way." He Chou nodded with a wry smile.

"This copper coin, let's use five to five! Although it can't be very good-looking, it is okay to make those merchants unprofitable. Li Xin threw out the copper coins in his hand with a smile and said, "What are you going to do with those recovered coins?" ”

"Please also ask the emperor to show me." Yan Liben and He Chou glanced at each other. Hurriedly arched his hand.

"I don't know, but there is one person who does." Li Xin said to Song He beside him: "Go, let Qiantang Hou come in!" ”

"Yes." Song He walked out in a low voice.

Yan Liben and He Chou glanced at each other, but they had heard the name of Qiantang Hou Douyi. A big businessman in Chang'an City, now he has become the Qiantang Marquis of the imperial court in a blink of an eye, and on the day the emperor ascended the throne, Xiao Yu and Wei Yuancheng quarreled with the court. But now the other party is still alive and well, but I really can't imagine it.

"Your Majesty." After half a ring, I saw Dou Yi walk in.

"Come on. The imperial court is about to introduce a new currency, which is about to replace the old currency, you see. Li Xin looked for Dou Yi with a smile and said, "The three currencies of gold, silver and copper are exchanged for each other. The gold coin is engraved with the Great Wall on the front and the words "Tang Tongbao" on the back, which is from the handwriting of Lord Yan! The silver coin is carved with the statue of the army, and the copper coin is the statue of Helan Mountain. ”

"If there is no mold for such a coin, I am afraid it will be difficult to imitate." Dou Yi looked at it carefully, and sighed in his heart, every depiction on this coin is meticulous, and the handwriting is extremely clear, which is not something that ordinary people can make, and the mold does not know how many times it has been changed before it can make such three kinds of coins.

"Well, what you said reminded me that the mold should be protected, this kind of mold can only stay in Chang'an, not go to the place, and the craftsman who carves the mold must also be rewarded, and they can't be leaked out." Li Xin nodded and said.

"Yes." Yan Liben and He Chou nodded again and again.

"Dou Yi, the new money is about to go public, but what are you going to do with the old money?" Li Xin asked.

"Put it away, buy something." Dou Yi thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, although we don't use the old money here, but the other side is using it, why don't the emperor use all this old money to buy things?" The emperor, you can first use these bad coins to go to Li Zhao to buy materials, as long as you can buy them, you can buy them, and then you can use good money to enter the people. In this way, in just one year, most of Li Zhao's materials will be taken by us. ”

"Yes, that's good." Li Xin listened and nodded, this is a kind of financial warfare, although it is very simple, but it is extremely difficult to really implement, and only a person like Dou Yi who is proficient in business can do it better. Thinking of this, Li Xin's eyes sparkled, and he said to Dou Yi: "Dou Yi, from today on, you will be the left servant of my Datang Household Department, the head of Datang Qianzhuang, and within two years, Datang Qianzhuang will be opened in various prefectures and cities in my Datang territory, can you do it?" The officials of the six ministries of the DPRK and the Central Committee and the local governors must obey your dispatch as long as you need them. Can you do it? ”

"The minister must do his best, and then die." After Dou Yi heard this, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but show excitement and fell to the ground.

"Fetch my sword." Li Xin nodded and said to Song He on the side.

"Your Majesty." He Chou looked at Dou Yi with some jealousy, and said, "Your Majesty, this matter is very important, do you want to discuss it with Wude Palace." "The merchant marquis is just a title, and there are already people in the court who oppose it, if you give it another title now. I'm afraid that the DPRK and China will be in a state of turmoil.

"Xiao Yu neglected to supervise and was demoted to the prefect of Hechi." Li Xin's face was gloomy, he held a sword in his hand, and said with a cold snort: "Dou Yi, holding this sword, you don't need to play the officials below the third grade." ”

"Obey." Dou Yi's hands trembled, and he took the sword, not knowing what to say.

Yan Liben and He Chou's complexions suddenly changed, who is Xiao Yu? The uncle of the previous dynasty. In today's Tang Dynasty harem, there are also three imperial concubines who have a relationship with him, and they are also the bachelors of the Wude Palace, the auxiliary minister of the dynasty, and now he is actually demoted to the prefect of Hechi, such a change is too big, and all this is because of the person in front of him.

Is the emperor really valuing business and suppressing agriculture? What will the direction of the imperial court look like in the future? As witnesses, the two of them were also confused in their hearts, but it was difficult to dissuade them at the moment. Even Xiao Yu was degraded, let alone others.

"Go down first! Dou Yi, let's discuss the matter of Qian Zhuang first. Li Xin waved his hand and asked Yan Liben and He Chou to retreat. Dou Yi was left behind.

"Your Majesty, Lord Xiao Yu Xiao is an important minister of the country, and if you demote him in this matter, I am afraid that the court will have words." Dou Yi still persuaded him. He was also a little scared in his heart. He is a businessman himself, and he is the object of oppression on weekdays, but he didn't expect to become a household servant now. There is also the manager of Datang Qianzhuang, looking at Li Xin's meaning, this Qianzhuang is probably more important, which also makes him a little uneasy.

"You are also a businessman, of course you know the importance of circulation, whether it is goods or money, it needs to be circulated. We got three kinds of coins, but after all, these are gold, silver, and copper! All of them have weight, and it is very difficult for merchants to buy and sell in the process. It is inconvenient to carry, since this is the case, you need a money village, wrap 100,000 yuan around your waist, and ride a horse down to Yangzhou. It is very inconvenient to carry 100,000 yuan of money, so this is the role of the money bank, and I opened a note in Chang'an and asked him to go to Yangzhou to get it, isn't it much more convenient? ”

"Your Majesty, this convenience is very convenient, but what if it is fake?" Dou Yi was also a little worried. Li Xin wants to unify coins, that is, in the Tang Dynasty, there are still many places to make coins, which has caused confusion in coins, Li Xin minted coins, that is, unified coins, to avoid such a thing from happening, this is a good thing, and the move of the money village made him agree. But there are also downsides to this, which also worries him.

"That's your responsibility, Dou Yi! Coins are too important to be done by those who are not proficient in this way. Li Xin patted Dou Yi on the shoulder and said: "In the future, not only businessmen can store money in the bank, but also the money of the court is also stored in the bank, and the officials' money is directly hit to the bank, not through the people below, for example, every soldier opens an account in the bank, and the court will convert his money into coins every month, which will be recorded in his name, and he will take his money every month with his own voucher to avoid having generals drink the blood of soldiers and eat empty salaries." Do you understand? ”

"I understand." Dou Yi nodded, with a look of fear in his eyes, Li Xin wanted to divide the generals in the army and avoid the generals from buying the hearts of the army with their salaries.

"So many people's money is put in the bank, and the money can be used to make money, this I believe that you are an expert, and then, these people who keep the money in the bank, can also get an interest, low in and high out, so that they can maintain the operation of the bank, and even get rich profits." Li Xin smiled and moved out some of the practices of the Bank in the future, of course, the current technology makes the money bank unable to do the various functions of the Bank in the future, but the most basic is still okay.

"This, the minister needs to go back and think about it." Dou Yi smiled bitterly: "The emperor said this, the minister still has to think about it." "Dou Yi is very smart, but he is still a little short to figure out the role of Qian Zhuang in a short time.

"Okay, okay, after you go back and think it through, write me an excerpt, and then, the matter of Qianzhuang can begin." Li Xin said with relief.

"Obey." A wry smile appeared at the corner of Dou Yi's mouth, and he slowly retreated. (To be continued......)