Zhuge Liang was silent, and Liu Jing said again: "Liu Jing's sincerity was not enough back then, and he was rude to Mr. Liu Jing and Mr. missed each other. ”

After a long time, Zhuge Liang sighed and said slowly: "My biggest ambition in this life is to revive the Han Dynasty and revitalize the Han Dynasty, so I will do my best to assist Uncle Liu, how can I not have the will of God in Uncle Huang, it is not possible for Kong Ming to recover, His Royal Highness's sincerity Kong Ming can not know, how can he not be grateful, as long as His Royal Highness agrees to me two conditions, Kong Ming is willing to go out of the mountain again, and do his best to assist His Highness." ”

Liu Jing was overjoyed, "Please Mr. Speak clearly!" ”

"The first is to implore His Royal Highness to move the Xiangyang County School to Longzhong, the decline of Longzhong makes Kong Ming extremely sad, I only hope that in my twilight years, when I return to Longzhong, I can hear the sound of reading in Longzhong."

Liu Jing nodded, "I also have a deep understanding, when I was in Longzhong Middle School, I could see Hongru talking and laughing everywhere, and I saw the young scholars in high spirits, but today I saw the dilapidated Longzhong, which is really sad, I will arrange to establish Jingzhou Prefecture School in Longzhong, and then build a spacious official road to connect Xiangyang City." ”

Zhuge Liang was overjoyed, got up and saluted, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your thoughtfulness." ”

Liu Jing waved his hand and smiled: "Sir, please take a seat, Liu Jing is willing to listen to it again." ”

Zhuge Liang sat down and said: "My second condition is that I hope that His Royal Highness can be kind to Uncle Huang and his descendants, Uncle Huang is old and no longer ambitious, please look at Kong Ming's face, let Uncle Huang die peacefully, so that his descendants can also continue to have heirs." ”

Liu Jing sighed and said: "I might as well make it clear to Mr. that the reason why I named Uncle Liu Huang as a lieutenant is mainly to consider using his reputation to recruit the Central Plains scholars, but I will not let him take real power again, I have learned the lesson of Ma Chao, at most let him be in charge of the temple and the rituals, as for his descendants, I will give them titles and wealth, let them be a rich man, frankly speaking, Liu Chan really makes me have nothing to worry about." ”

Zhuge Liang understood what Liu Jing meant, Liu Chan's mediocre qualifications were indeed disappointing, but Liu Jing had already made it clear to him that he would not give up the bottom line of principles, and Zhuge Liang did not expect Liu Bei to do anything now, as long as he could make Liu Bei grow old, he would no longer regret it in his heart.

But Liu Jing's sincerity moved him very much, Zhuge Liang got up and knelt down and said: "How can Kong Ming let His Highness bend down to visit, if His Highness doesn't dislike it, Kong Ming is willing to follow the work of dogs and horses." ”……

Liu Jing's trip to Longzhong did not disappoint him in the end, Zhuge Liang conformed to the general trend, abandoned prejudices and previous suspicions, and joined Liu Jing's Fuhan Group.

Half a month later, Zhuge Liang took his family to Chang'an under the escort of a team of Han troops, and Liu Jing specially held a banquet for hundreds of officials in the Qilin Hall of Weiyang Palace, which was for Zhuge Liang to receive the wind and wash the dust, and it was also a celebration for the merger of Jiaozhou into the Han State.

At this time, the time has come to June, the weather is slowly getting hotter, with the Han and Wei countries reached a free business agreement, all the checkpoints in the territory of Wei have been removed, the enthusiasm of the merchants has been gradually stimulated, the official road of Pujin Pass and Tongguan is full of endless caravans, mules, donkeys, horses, carrying large and small bags and the faces of the merchants who are excited and expectant.

Han furs, tea, timber, paper, medicinal herbs, silk and various daily utensils were continuously transported to Bingzhou and the Central Plains, while Wei copperware, livestock, agricultural tools, salt, cloth, and fine charcoal were shipped to Han, but this was only a superficial list of goods, but in private, Han pig iron, grain, and Wei weapons, armor, and population were commodities for some big merchants to make huge profits.

Both legal and illegitimate, trade flowed through the increasingly prosperous commerce of the two countries, with Cao Cao for Han pig iron and grain, and Liu Jing for more far-reaching purposes.

Chang'an Xianyang sub-city, here is one of the three sub-cities of Chang'an, the original Xianyang city has long been destroyed in the war, and later rebuilt the county seat,

With the rapid development of Guanzhong and Chang'an, Xianyang also has a population of 780,000, mainly a place where craftsmen live, and the livelihood in the city is mainly handicrafts, woodware, ironware, winemaking, weaving, papermaking, pottery, etc., and the sound of tinkling and clinking can be heard everywhere in the city.

In addition to the private handicraft workshops, some large-scale official workshops are also located in Xianyang City, such as the crossbow workshop and Jiafang of the Ordnance Supervisor, the wine workshop of Guanglu Temple and the coinage workshop of Shaofu Temple.

On the morning of this day, Liu Jing, the king of the Han Dynasty, accompanied by Jiang Wan, the head of the household department, and Ma Liang, the new Shaofu Temple, came to the Xianyang City Money Workshop, and there are currently two kinds of money in the Han Kingdom, one is the original Jiangxia money, but now it is renamed the New Han Money, and the other is money, that is, five baht coins made of gold, one money can be used as a hundred Han money.

In the past, the red gold that used to pass in the Han Kingdom has been banned from circulation, and large transactions can use official gold ingots, there are ten taels of ingots and five taels of ingots, gold ingots are not legal tender, but a kind of treasure, but the Han State also acquiesced in its circulation in the market.

In order to prohibit the private production of copper coins, the Han State formulated the most severe punishment measures, once the seizure of private copper coins or gold ingots, will be beheaded all over the house, this regulation is not only limited to the Han State, including the whole world, has been ten families for making private money and have been publicly beheaded.

The copper coins of the Han Kingdom have already become the common currency of the world because of their sufficient color and high copper content, and money is even more sought-after, and it is difficult to see a trace in the market, so they are basically stored by ordinary people as hard currency in times of war.

The coinage workshop covers a very large area, there are thousands of acres, there are more than 100 coinage furnaces, nearly 2,000 coinsmiths work here, but the coinage workshop of the Han Kingdom is not only Chang'an, there is also one in Chengdu and Wuchang, and a workshop is also prepared to be built in Jiangdong, the amount of coinage in the Han Kingdom reaches 200 million yuan every year, and there are 10 million coins and millions of gold ingots.

Despite this, it is still not enough to meet the growing demand for money, and barter is still used in many places.

Especially after the Nanyang conflict between the Han and Cao armies, Cao Cao was forced to agree to Liu Jing's terms of free trade for merchants in order to calm the incident, and it was obvious that the merchant trade between the two sides would move towards greater prosperity, and in this case, the importance of currency was obvious.

The top priority is to increase the amount of coinage, which is also a very urgent requirement at present, in just half a month, Liu Jing has come to inspect the coinage workshop in Xianyang for the second time.

Everyone came to the raw material warehouse, the raw material warehouse is made of boulders, and the money storage warehouse is together, there are a total of twenty huge warehouses, which are closely guarded by the soldiers, the soldiers push open an iron door, Shaofu Cheng Zhang Jin invites everyone to enter the warehouse, and thousands of copper ingots are neatly stacked in the warehouse, each copper ingot weighs more than 100 catties.

Zhang Jin introduced to Liu Jing and others: "Your Royal Highness, after the last inspection of His Royal Highness, a large number of copper materials and gold ingots were transported from Jingzhou, and at present our raw materials are sufficient, all craftsmen are divided into three shifts, day and night to mint coins and gold ingots, and strive to mint 400 million coins and gold ingots this year, and the gold ingots will reach 10 million ingots. ”

At present, the raw materials such as copper and gold of the Han Kingdom mainly come from the four counties, Jiangxia County, Yuzhang County, Danyang County and Qianwei County, and the Han Kingdom has more than a dozen mines in these four counties, and the mining, smelting, and transportation have formed a complete system, and the scale has been expanding, which strongly supports the prosperity of the Han Kingdom.

Liu Jing nodded, turned around and said, "Have you completed what I ordered last time?" ”

"It's done, Your Highness, please!"

Zhang Jin invited everyone into a spacious room, which was originally a warehouse, but has now been converted into a showroom, displaying all the coins in the world and coins minted by the Han Kingdom over the years.

Zhang Jin invited everyone to sit down, and he took a wooden box, which contained coins from the Han and Wei dynasties, all of which had been cross-sectioned.

"Your Highness, please look!"

Zhang Jin put two five-baht coins in front of Liu Jing, "One is our Xinhan money, and the other is Wei money." ”

Liu Jing turned around and asked Ma Liangdao, "Is this the latest Wei Qian?" ”

Ma Liang nodded, "According to His Highness's orders, we will sample samples from Yedu every month to conduct special research, and this Wei coin is the newly minted copper coin of Wei State last month, and the formula has changed." ”

Liu Jing held the two copper coins in his hand and looked closely, the cross-section of the two copper coins was clear yellow, and the difference was not big, indicating that the Wei State also adopted the copper content ratio of the Han State and increased the copper content to ninety percent.

Liu Jing nodded and said with a smile: "It seems that Cao Pi also realized that there was a problem with their money, and they had to use the same copper content as us." ”

Jiang Wan said on the side: "Weichen sent someone to Yedu to investigate, the former Han money and Dong Zhuo money have disappeared, red gold due to our ban on circulation, Ye Du is gradually not used, the market is mainly our new Han money and Wei money, mainly our new Han money, Wei money only accounts for two percent, one new Han money can be exchanged for three Wei money on the black market, and the official is still one for one, which led to a run on Yan zhòng, and now the official has stopped redeeming huàn." ”

Liu Jing asked again, "What about money and gold ingots?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, the year before last, the Wei State also followed our example to mint money and gold ingots, but it stopped last year, and Weichen estimated that their gold inventory was insufficient, and the price of grain in Wei soared at the beginning of last year, and Wei bought a lot of grain from us with gold."

Allowing Wei to buy grain with gold was an order issued by Liu Jin, in any case, Liu Jing wanted to take the minted money into his own hands, at this time, Zhang Jin was a little worried: "Now that the copper content of Wei money is the same as ours, will it affect the status of new Han money in Wei?" ”

Ma Liang shook his head and smiled: "Freezing three feet, not a day's cold, the Wei State has minted a lot of bad money, and its reputation has long been ruined, it's not a day or two to save its reputation, and what about the previous Wei money?" Therefore, even if they increase the copper content, they can't change the situation of Han Youwei and Wei inferior. ”

Liu Jing added: "Now that the Han State no longer recognizes Wei money, we have set up an official caravan to put the minted money and gold ingots into the Wei State in exchange for a large number of materials, which will inevitably cause a shortage of materials in the Wei State, and the Wei State will sooner or later notice this strict problem, and the Wei State will either stop trading, or can only follow us to mint new Han money, and in turn buy our materials, I believe they will choose the latter, and if this continues, the Wei money will soon disappear, and our coins will first unify the world." ”

At this time, Zhang Jin handed another coin to Liu Jing, "Your Highness, please look at this coin!" ”

Liu Jing took the money and was stunned.