Li Yuanxing had a slight headache, and when he was reading history books before, Li Yuanxing already knew from the books that in many periods in ancient times, soldiers were as cheap as slaves.

Sometimes, it is not the fault of the soldiers, but the social environment at the time.

Think about it, who would be born a wicked person.

So, where are the roots?

But the locust plague could not be cured, Li Yuanxing knocked lightly on the table and said to Yuanchun: "Go back to the study and transfer the state and county information of Hedong-do, He-do, Nam-do, and Gyeonggi." ”

After Li Yuanxing finished speaking, he walked straight to the study.

Yuan Chun went to call for information, and Li Liyuan and her two maids also rushed to Li Yuanxing's study when they heard the news. Her two maids as secretaries are not enough information, but it is still possible to sort out the information, after all, they know how to read.

In Datang, knowing words is already a very great ability.

You must know that Datang's literacy rate is less than one percent.

Li Yuanxing picked up a strategy casually and opened it to see that this is a small county in the southernmost part of Hedong Province, and the name is very unfamiliar. Li Liyuan said beside him: "Your Highness, Liyuan has brought the map. Li Liyuan opened the map and found the location of that county in the fastest time.

Judging from the map, it should be the location of Yuncheng in Shanxi Province north of Weinan in later generations.

"Yes!" Li Yuanxing nodded, signaling that he knew.

Looking at the information, it is written that 1,700 households have 3,100 acres of paddy fields and 66,000 acres of dry fields. Apart from agriculture, there is no other handicraft industry, and there are no special products. There aren't too many past merchants.

I checked again on the map and saw that the merchants of Hebei Province would cross the Yellow River in Fengling. Or go directly to Luoyang, or come to Chang'an via Huazhou, and you don't need to go to this county again, because there is no good location to cross the Yellow River, and if you detour to Yaozhou, you don't need to go through this county.

"A year's tax revenue is only four thousand buckets of grain!"

Seeing this number, Li Yuanxing felt a chill, according to the calculation of ten yuan per bucket, this is 40,000 yuan. That's forty dollars.

What is 40 dollars enough for?

It is that there is no food or drink in the county throughout the year. Four thousand buckets of food is not enough for the soldiers who have been mobilized to repair the river for a few days.

Poor! It seems that the refusal of these states and counties is not entirely unreasonable.

"Send someone to the household department, this king wants to see the tax situation of these three states and counties in previous years." Li Yuanxing said that he personally wrote a document, and not everyone is qualified to check such information if the household department wants to check it. Li Yuanxing also needs to write down formal documents for the record. Then it was sent by the corresponding official of the household department. After Li Yuanxing checked it, he took it back.

Transcription is absolutely not allowed.

Li Yuanxing's paperwork was half written. Changed again.

"Forget it, tell them to get ready, and this king will go to Chang'an tomorrow to check it out for himself."

Yuan Chun took Li Yuanxing's paperwork. I went out and sent someone to deliver the letter.

"Let's sort out all these materials first, and then consider it after this king checks the information of the transfer department tomorrow."

Li Yuanxing is a man, not a god, and what he has is the experience and knowledge of the afterlife.

But Datang is a huge country, and it is an empire that needs to be rebuilt, and Li Yuanxing also thinks that he is too impatient for many things, and it seems that it is time to clean up his mood and start again from a different angle.

After Li Liyuan's two maids sorted out the information of Sandaozhou County and put it on the shelf, Li Yuanxing took out a very beautiful aluminum alloy shell with a lockbox from under his desk.

"Sterling silver box, Your Highness, this one is so beautiful!"

"This is not silver, this is called aluminum, which is a good thing, but now Datang can't refine it. You remember, chests are only for stuff, and what's precious is always what's inside the box! Li Yuanxing said to Li Liyuan with a smile.

Li Liyuan nodded vigorously: "Your Highness, Liyuan knows." There is an allusion to buying and returning pearls in ancient times! ”

Li Yuanxing didn't answer again, but opened the box in front of him, and the sample of the commemorative coin in the face, of course, for modern people, this is the commemorative coin of the TV series. It can be placed in Datang, which is the real currency.

Li Yuanxing's hands are divided into three kinds of coins: gold, silver, and copper.

It's certainly not 100% pure, and there are more or less alloying components.

Copper coins are divided into two kinds, one is a standard one-coin copper coin, an old farmer printed on the front, in fact, it is the head of the old Li head, and the back is a word held by an ear of wheat, and the other is a five-coin copper coin, with the head of a sergeant, the head of Li Er's personal guard, the head of the forbidden army master.

There are three kinds of silver coins, one is a silver coin, which is equivalent to a hundred copper coins. The front is the avatar of the eldest grandson Wuji.

Five silver coins, equivalent to copper coins of 500 wen, with Li Jing's head on the obverse.

One or two silver coins, the obverse is the head of Wu Cao.

Holding the silver coin printed with Wu Cao's portrait, Li Yuanxing was still thinking about how to say Wu Cao's portrait, after all, he didn't even print his portrait on the coin, and now he printed Wu Cao, and it was a woman, I am afraid that this matter will take a lot of time.

Li Liyuan said at this time: "Your Highness, Liyuan understands. ”

"What do you see?" Li Yuanxing asked rhetorically.

Li Liyuan cushioned it with silk, picked up a copper coin of five coins and said: "Your Highness, the foundation of the Tang Dynasty is one for agriculture and the other for the army. This is also the theory of His Royal Highness, there is agriculture and land, and the people have food and clothing. There are soldiers and generals, and the Tang Dynasty is subject to the coming of all countries, and no foreigner is rude to me anymore. ”

"Well, that's a good point!" Li Yuanxing praised loudly.

If you want to talk about ideas, Li Yuanxing initially just thought that the lowest money would be used for agriculture and the army, but it was not as full as Li Liyuan thought, and really, Confucian education was still first-class, and it was naturally first-class in beautifying some affairs.

"Your Royal Highness, this is the eldest grandson servant, since the time of Longxing Taiyuan, the eldest grandson servant shot regardless of the family's opposition, and devoted all his efforts to follow the current saint to raise troops in Taiyuan, meritorious, deserve this glory." After that, Li Liyuan picked up Li Jing's one again: "Although Li Shangshu is a general, he can fight for the Tang Dynasty, and he deserves the name of His Royal Highness's military god, and he deserves this glory!" ”

zuihou, Li Liyuan picked up Wu Cao's one.

"Princess Mingyue is a member of the Wu family, and her father, Wu Shitong, funded the army, so it can be said that the family wealth has been scattered." Speaking of this, Li Liyuan grinned and made a grimace at Li Yuanxing: "Liyuan believes that there is also His Royal Highness's love for Princess Mingyue!" ”

"Ah, this ......" Li Yuanxing was dumbfounded, asking him how to explain.

In front of a woman, do you say that you love another woman?

Fortunately, Li Liyuan knew how to get to the point, and the topic immediately turned to the gold coin.

"Your Highness, this gold coin, the Emperor Taishang only has one, I'm afraid it's just to make the Emperor Taishang happy, and I'm not going to really use it. Because now Zhenguan Dynasty. One or two gold coins with the head of the saint is extremely noble, and the five coins are also very good with the eldest grandson queen, and the royal highness of this money should be the princess of Pingyang, but this, Li Yuan thinks it is not good. ”

"Why?" Li Yuanxing didn't understand.

"Our woman was originally with her husband, and Her Royal Highness used the head of Princess Pingyang, so how about Chai Attached to Madang. Ask that man if he is willing to live under the shadow of his wife. Li Liyuan's words are the truth.

Instead, Li Liyuan suddenly said again: "His Royal Highness is the King of Qin of the Tang Dynasty, and he is already extremely noble. So no matter how strong Princess Mingyue is, she is only under the light of His Royal Highness. ”

"Clever girl!" Li Yuanxing smiled and gently caressed Li Liyuan's face, and then took out a small box from the box: "Fortunately, Ben Wu has prepared another kind of gold coin, which is the prince's head." This coin, except for the Qin Palace, there will be no one in the world who can imitate it. ”

Li Liyuan was puzzled.

"Your Highness, why is that?"

"Such a coin requires a weight of 500,000 catties, and it is heavily smashed in the impression. Let's ask, except for our Qin Wangfu, who can make it, even the household department. Establish a rule that the king's mint is strictly forbidden to approach casually. All craftsmen in the workshop must be absolutely reliable! ”

Hearing Li Yuanxing say this, Li Liyuan's face was excited.

"Whoever dares to come near will kill his whole family!"

"Don't just talk about fighting and killing, as a woman, you naturally have to be reserved."

Knowing that Li Yuanxing was not really reprimanding himself, Li Liyuan stuck out his little tongue: "Your Highness, then will our Qin Wangfu use this money in the future?" However, Li Yuan felt that this gold was not red gold, and when outsiders received money, would they have opinions. ”

"No, gold can't be red gold, red gold is too soft. But the king's gold coins, one tael is absolutely worth one tael. Don't forget, what the world can't imitate, the Qin Wangfu itself is credit. The people of the Tang Dynasty will believe in this king, they will believe in the Qin Palace, even if they know that it is not red gold, they will also believe that this is worth one or two gold. What's more, if the real one or two pure gold is taken away and turned into gold water, we will also lose the cost of the workshop! ”

Li Liyuan nodded as if she didn't understand.

The next day, after the morning pilgrimage. Li Yuanxing made a formal application in front of Li Er and the ministers, and reported it with a formal seal.

He wrote a seal of 500 words, and the meaning was only one sentence.

The younger brother wants to mint money by himself, and the Qin Wangfu will use his own money in the future.

"Something the size of a toothpick, Gorou still writes so much nonsense." Li Er flipped through the watch seal, and when he saw half of it, he scolded: "Wulang even has the watch and seal written by someone, you might as well write a sentence directly on paper, just say that you want to mint money yourself, don't you do this!" ”

Because there were no outsiders present, Li Er spoke a little casually.

"The prince minted money in the fief, which was allowed by Tang Lu." Cui Junsu came out and said this.

The meaning of this sentence is to say, this little thing is really unnecessary, if Your Royal Highness King Qin wants to mint money, just go and mint money. You can cast as much as you want, and no one will care at all, and no one will dare to care.

But the moment Li Yuanxing opened the box, he shocked everyone! (To be continued......)