Julia stood up happily, stroked her chest with one hand, and said respectfully: "Julia thank you for your generosity and kindness, I will remember your kindness." ”

Julia was dressed in a short dress, with a short sword pinned to her waist, and her exposed arms and calves were tight and full of muscles, giving people the feeling of a female pirate, but this was not the focus of Wei Feng's observation, Wei Feng's casual gaze swept past the neckline of the small half of Julia as she leaned forward, and just saw the upper half of the linen corset wrapped in bulging breasts, and after secretly praising the majesty, she laughed and said: "Julia lady, you're welcome, I hit it off with you at first sight, I even introduced His Excellency Antonio as a confidant, this celadon wine glass is a gift I gave to you, I don't know if you are still satisfied? ”

As soon as these words came out, the Romans who could understand Wei Feng's words were moved, and immediately relayed Wei Feng's good intentions to his companions, like the spread of the plague, and in a short time, the faces of every Roman showed joy from the bottom of their hearts!

For them, porcelain was not only worth fifty gold coins, but there was no porcelain in the whole of Rome, including East and West Rome, and if they were to bring it back to their country, the praise from all around them would be enough to make people feel as if they were bathed in holy light!

Someone has already begun to stroke the wine glass uncontrollably, huh! Smooth and delicate, hard and cold, it is indeed worthy of being a treasure given by His Majesty the Emperor of the Seris Country!

Antonio suppressed his excitement and pretended to excuse himself: "Envoy, this gift is too valuable, isn't it?" We don't dare to accept it! ”

"Eh~~" Wei Feng picked up his wine glass and saluted around: "Treasures are priceless and priceless." How can my friendship with you be measured in money? This is disrespectful to my Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty, and it is also a blasphemy against His Royal Highness the Emperor and Empress of your country. Come, everyone raise their glasses, let's toast to the friendship between the Great Jin and the Eastern Rome! ”

Saying this, the dominatrix led by Miss Chen all had a feeling of churning in their chests and abdomen, but fortunately, they had already seen Wei Feng's brazenness, and they had a certain immunity, so they didn't vomit on the spot, even Xie Gongyi felt that his appetite for drinking was gone in an instant!

Merely. Or the enthusiasm of the sea peoples. The Romans were so happy that they raised their glasses to the guard, and after touching them, they drank them all!

Set down your glass. Wei Feng seemed to have thought of something. Lowered and asked, "Your Excellency Antonio." Do you have any gold coins with you? Please make no mistake, I just want to find out. ”

Without saying a word, Antonio took out a gold coin from his bosom and offered it. It was forwarded by the dominatrix to Wei Feng.

Wei Feng took it in his hand, the weight was still quite sufficient, the front was the statue of Theodosius, the former emperor of Eastern Rome, with a circle of Latin characters around it, and the statue of the goddess of victory behind it, which was also surrounded by a circle of Latin characters.

Wei Feng motioned for the dominatrix to hand the gold coin to Xie Gongyi, and then asked, "Righteousness, the gold and silver coins have a fixed value and are easy to carry, isn't it more convenient than using gold and silver nuggets?" If we mint gold and silver coins in Panyu, what do you think? ”

"This" Xie Gongyi hesitated: "The Han Dynasty used five baht coins, and the right to mint coins belonged to the court.

But in the late Han Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, the court existed in name only, and the feudal towns around the country privately minted coins, which were characterized by less and less copper content, and the value of the currency became more and more virtual, such as Sun Wu's Daquan when thousand, Daquan when 5,000, Liu Xuande's straight hundred and five baht all belong to this column, they plundered the people's assets in disguise with fictitious coins, in order to maintain military expenditures, relatively speaking, Cao Wei was better, Cao Wei ordered the abolition of coins since Emperor Wen of Wei, and taxes were levied on grain, rice, cloth, and silk.

As for my dynasty, Emperor Wu destroyed Shu Wu to dominate the world, re-minted full worth of five baht money, but the good times did not last long, only a few decades on half of the country, although Emperor Xiaoyuan crossed south to continue the unification of the country, but the power fell aside, since then the private coins are out of control, compared with the previous dynasty, the private coins of my dynasty do not contain a little copper, and the quality is getting worse and worse, such as Shen Lang money, Ming weight three and a half baht, Qian Wen said five baht, and goose eye money, a thousand dollars are not more than three inches, more exaggerated is the ring money, in addition to the big square hole in the middle, the periphery is like a thin line, It does not sink into the water, it is broken casually, and the 100,000 yuan is less than a handful, so it is bright!

Privately minted coins are huge profits, the people can not bear the suffering, so spontaneously resisted, formed a situation in Jiangdong barter, grain and cloth is not easy to preserve, according to this trade is not a long-term strategy, to replace with full value coins is an inevitable trend, but gold and silver only circulate in the trade port of Guangzhou, the rest of the place even if the circulation of coins is restored, only afraid and unwilling to use gold and silver, therefore, the general or recast five baht money as well! ”

Xie Gongyi had such an insight, which made Wei Feng stunned, and after a little hesitation, he said: "The important components of crossbows and ballistas are made of copper, and a lot of copper will be consumed in the army in the future, so the five-baht coin cannot be minted in large quantities, and it can be mainly gold and silver.

In addition, although I am currently only supervising Jiaoguang, but the day of the Huan Xuan Dynasty Chan emperor, is the time when I raise troops to rebel, first of all, take Xiangzhou and Jingjiang two states, as soon as I stand firm, I will wait for the opportunity to seize Liangyi two states, as my power expands, the population under my rule will be more and more, if all use five baht money, how much copper do you need? I'm afraid that it is not enough to use it all for minting money, and before the steel can be mass-produced, the army cannot do without copper! ”

Xie Gongyi thought for a while, nodded and said, "It's justice that is not well thought out, but general, you don't have much gold and silver in your hand, how many coins can you mint?" ”

Wei Feng waved his hand and said: "You don't have to worry about this, the state of Linyi has a mountain of gold, and if you take it, you can drive the locals to mine it, and the country has a mountain of silver, and when the time is ripe in the future, let's cross the sea to expedition to the country of Japan, isn't there no shortage of gold and silver?" But at the moment, there is no hurry, first find someone to design the mold and coins, and then officially issue it when the gold mountain is mined. ”

Xie Gongyi was helpless for a while, Wei Feng's style is plunder, in fact, with his gentlemanly demeanor, he is still quite disdainful, but Wei Feng's situation is not good, the real territory controlled is Panyu and its surrounding cities, and the taxes levied can only pay salaries to officials, and at most raise a few thousand troops, and if you don't make some foreign money, you can't even raise the 30,000 troops in your hands, and you can't even raise the 30,000 troops in your hands, so you can expand the armament war.

Xie Gongyi smiled bitterly and arched his hand: "Gongyi understands and will arrange this matter as soon as possible." ”

Wei Feng and Xie Gongyi did not deliberately hide it, and the conversation was clearly heard by the Roman merchants, which made them can't help but look at each other, it turns out that this country and Rome are brothers and sisters, and they are all messy.

In the minds of Westerners, the country of Seris, located in the far east, is a rich and prosperous country, especially for the source of silk, there are different opinions, there is a forest silk said, that is, silk is born on trees, take off the wet, can be combed into silk.

There is also an eight-legged beetle said that the Seris people built a house in winter and summer to raise the insect, and used the filament spit by the insect to wrap its feet, first to raise it for four years, and then to the fifth year to use green reed breeding, green reed is the favorite of this insect, the insect due to excessive food, blood and body splitting and death, the body is silk!

There is also a wool tree that says, that is, there are sheep in the forest, and some people irrigate them diligently, and comb them out into fine silk threads, half like wool fibers, half like viscous silk.

The root cause of this misunderstanding lies in the blockade, no matter which regime in the past dynasties is aware of the importance of the silk trade to finance, and it is customary not to allow outsiders to approach silkworm farmers, and the so-called outsiders do not refer to countries such as Jin, Yan, Qin and Wei, but to ethnic groups outside the ancient Chinese concept of the world.

Ancient Chinese believed that the Sifang Tamarin Barbarians were all of Chinese Miao descent and still had some kinship.

It's just that Antonio thought about it and had a new understanding of Wei Feng's status, I'm afraid it's not just the governor of the province, but the candidates who are vying for the strength of the throne!

The family of Eastern Rome began with Constantine, only a few decades, and did not become political common sense, before that, it was the strong man who became the emperor!

Antonio feels that he has picked up a treasure, if Wei Feng can win in the military, he can also follow him to do business throughout the Ceris country, make the industry bigger and bigger, and finally get rid of the control of the Odoxia family in one fell swoop, and become a powerful clan of his own!

You know, because of their own depravity, the Romans have hired a large number of barbarians, that is, mercenaries to fight in the past one or two hundred years, and the more abundant the wealth, the more barbarians can be hired, and when there is an army with sufficient strength, Empress Odosia can no longer help him, unless there is a civil war!

If Antonio could assemble a fleet of fifty or so ships, the profits from a single silk sale would be enough to hire an army of 10,000 men!

As if a golden strip was placed in front of him, Antonio had the idea of devoting himself to Wei Feng, but there were two questions in front of him, first of all, what was Wei Feng's military strength, and on the other hand, whether he had the value that Wei Feng fancied!

The Romans were a mercantile people, paying attention to the exchange of interests!

When Antonio was secretly thinking, Wei Feng had already asked him: "Your Excellency Antonio, every time you return from my Great Jin, you are loaded with silk, so when you come, are you empty-ship or carrying your Eastern Roman specialties?" ”

Antonio replied respectfully: "Envoy, the glazed products produced in my Eastern Rome are very popular among the countries of the sea, we bring the glazed products, and exchange grain with the countries along the way, which is enough to meet the needs of the voyage, and when we arrive at the poison, we will exchange a large amount of grain, try to fill the ship, and trade with the silk merchants of your country, of course, our country's glazed products are also very popular in your country, and sometimes they are traded directly." ”

"Oh?" Wei Feng was surprised: "Don't you use gold and silver? ”

Antonio shook his head: "I use it and use it, but it is very rare, it is generally grain and glass products, by the way, envoy, this is my gift to you, please smile." ”

Anniño took a bag and offered it, and after getting Wei Feng's instructions, the dominatrix took it and put it on Wei Feng's desk, and Wei Feng opened it to take a look!

'Lying grass mud horse! 'Wei Feng almost scolded!

Inside the bag are dozens of glass beads!

'Fuck, this is a white wolf with empty gloves, using his mother's glass beads and glass glasses to trick silk? Although Wei Feng was silent on the surface, a chill surged in his heart! (To be continued......)