In the first imperial examination, there were many examples of people awakening exclusive plots, which made Bai Tu understand that this was not accidental, but that the imperial examination was on the list, and it really had a certain guiding effect on awakening plots!

It's not surprising to calculate - the awakening of scheming is originally affected by both his own talent and the official position he holds.

Since the "official position" has an impact on the strategy, it is not surprising that the imperial examination, which has a sense of ceremony, will have a similar effect......

For this reason, Bai Tu specially studied this matter with Yu Ji, Chu Ji and other reused city Ji Yiji.

Yu Ji suggested that Bai Tu that the next time the imperial examination is held, it can create a stronger "sense of ceremony", and maybe there will be a stronger guiding effect, maybe the top three scholars on the list will be able to awaken the corresponding exclusive tricks on the spot!

In this way, it can not only enhance the strength of the Chu state, but also increase the attractiveness of the imperial examination.

After Liu Ye obtained the permission of the Ministry of Rites to trade with sea vessels, while waiting for Wei's reply, he also began to negotiate the price with the Ministry of Households.

Liu Ye, who has dealt with Chu Guo once or twice, is already familiar with this process at this time, and also understands the routines.

For example, when negotiating with the Ministry of Rites, it is more about the nature of the license to "allow a certain commodity to be traded", but when negotiating with the Ministry of Rites, it is purely a dispute of "interests"!

As long as the price is high enough, it will definitely be able to buy......

However, this time it was a little different, because when discussing with the Ministry of Rites before, there was the main book of the Ministry of Households, so the transaction permit reached itself stipulated that Wei State could buy at least one of the main ships of the Chu State Navy at a price of "30 million yuan".

30 million coins refers not to Han five baht coins, but to Chu coins......

In fact, in the past six months, many princes have discovered that the state of Chu is vigorously promoting currency transactions, and this currency is the "Chu currency".

For a long time, because of the recession of the commodity economy of the Later Han Dynasty, and every time there was troubled times, the princes would routinely mint bad coins privately, so "bartering" was the mainstream of bulk transactions.

At this time, there is no collateral for coinage, and the metal used for coinage, that is, "copper", is used as the bottom line of monetary value.

However, in history, during the Three Kingdoms period, Wei Shu and Wu compared to minting money, and often "when a hundred big money" and "straight ten thousand big money" - that is, on the copper coin, directly cast a hundred, thousand, ten thousand words, it is stipulated that this one can be used as thousands of pieces......

Of course, it is useless to impose regulations, in fact, when it comes to the people, the value of these millions of dollars will fall sharply, and at the same time, the broken currency trading system will be left behind.

However, for the commodity economy to truly recover, the monetary system must be re-established, so Bai Tu began to mint Chu coins, and gradually only recognized Chu coins in transactions!

And how did the other princes get Chu coins?

Naturally, the Chu State also levied all kinds of horses, mineral deposits, etc., with a clear price in Chu coins.

In addition, there is a constant purchase of rice, wheat and other grains for 100 yuan and one stone - the grain storage of Chu mainly relies on official and semi-official farms, and the purchase of private people is only to prevent grain prices from falling, for example, because of the rise in grain prices this year, the imperial court has not purchased too much additional grain.

It has been verified by all the princes of Chu coins, and it is also a copper coin, and it is a copper coin with full quality, in terms of weight, although it is less than five baht, but there are more than four baht...... It can be called a conscience coin.

Of course, the state of Chu said to the outside world that one coin of Chu belongs to "one baht coin".

Historically, after the princes' indiscriminate coins, the "five-baht coin" was once considered a symbol of orthodoxy - that is, the minted coin weighed as much as "five baht" - and the "baht" was also a unit of weight.

If you are willing to mint five baht, you will be considered a responsible force.

According to the Han system, sixteen taels are one catty, and twenty-four baht is one tael......

In the Han Dynasty, one catty was about half a catty in later generations, and five baht was more than 3 grams.

And Bai Tu is full of these rituals, but behind them is the anti-human mixed base system has had enough, and from the beginning of the establishment of the Chu State, he began to re-standardize weights and measures.

Chu Jin and Han Jin have not changed much, but they have specially recast the standard stone in each county, which is considered to be re-accurate, equivalent to half a catty and 250 grams in later generations.

After ten taels and one catty, ten baht and one tael, that is, one plant is equivalent to 2.5 grams, and the smallest Chu coin is also based on one baht, which can be regarded as a strong promotion of the concept of "Chu baht" and "decimal system" to the people.

Even specially minted a "big money", not to save copper, because the material of the big money is also ten times that of one tael or small money......

As for anti-counterfeiting...... It mainly relies on the minting, adding trace amounts of other metals, and the cost of counterfeiting copper coins is itself very high - it is not meaningful to really use the same weight of copper to mint counterfeit Chu coins, after all, copper itself is also a precious metal.

In addition, the discovery of counterfeit coins in China, the immediate punishment of forgiveness, and the discovery of foreign counterfeit coins directly lowered the transaction level of the princes, do not worry too much about the problem of counterfeit coins.

In addition, the state of Chu still recognizes the mainstream one gold and ten thousand coins - one pound of gold, which can be used as ten thousand coins.

However, only real gold, not brass...... In fact, the so-called "brass" in the Han Dynasty was called "gold", which only existed when the reward was awarded, which sounded better, and the other was that when copper coins were used as money, they would be called "gold".

In fact, a pound of gold, equivalent to a hundred catties of copper coins, existed in the Qin Dynasty, which refers to real gold, and the people of the Han Dynasty were able to distinguish between gold and brass......

It's just that the price of gold in the Han Dynasty was actually very low, and it was only exchanged for a hundred-fold weight of copper coins.

In addition, the state of Chu also recognized that the not very mainstream "three silver for one gold", which was the mainstream exchange ratio that lasted for a long time in the former Han Dynasty, three catties of silver, can be exchanged for one catty of gold.

It can be regarded as a white picture paving the way for silver coin trading - with copper reserves, as a trading metal, sooner or later there will be a time when it will not be enough, but with Bozhou, silver coins can be used boldly and with confidence!

After mining, it is completely possible to use the "three-baht silver coin" as a straight hundred coins, and three taels of small intestines can be used as a unit of ten thousand coins.

As long as the silver mining channels in Bozhou are "locked", there is no need to worry about inflation - the silver reserves in Bozhou can crush other silver mines for a long time.

As for paper money, Bai Tu plans to wait for the popularization of silver coins before using "silver tickets" to make the transition, which is enough to persist until a more reliable monetary system is established.

Regarding the actions of the Chu State in the implementation of the "Chu coin", the other princes naturally did not fail to notice it, but their reactions were different.

The Han dynasty nominally forbade the circulation of Chu coins in the Central Plains, Guanzhong, and Xiliang, and if it wasn't for the impossibility, Liu Xie even wanted to collect Chu coins and melt them into Han five-baht coins to show his authority...... Unfortunately, he has no money.

I can only find someone to write an article to criticize the change of 16 taels and 24 baht in Xia Chu, which violates etiquette and religion, violates the way of heaven, and so on......

However, the so-called prohibition, that is, in the Gyeonggi area, there will be no Chu coins circulating on the surface, in fact, Yonghou, Zhai Hou, Saihou, and Zhenghou will not specifically stop the circulation of Chu coins in their respective territories.

Only Liu Bei, the Marquis of Qi, resolutely forbade Chu coins from circulating in Xuzhou and Qingzhou outside Donglai.

Because Donglai County has two ports of Chu State, it is a large trading county, so to a certain extent, it can tolerate Chu currency as a circulating currency.

Wei is to prohibit Chu coins from circulating among the people, and to open and close an eye to the bulk transactions of the family Haoright, but when they interact with the local family Haoright, they will never use Chu coins, and they also want to promote Wei money, but unfortunately Wei does not have the foundation of Chu State, and its own goods cannot be exported everywhere, and Wei money is difficult to open up the situation, so it can only promote circulation among the people of Wei.

Liu Zhang responded by "playing dead" and "invisible".

As for the Gongsun clan and the Hanzhong Heavenly Master Dao, because there was an agreement to buy Chu Jia and repair Han Yan before, Chu coins were used throughout the territory......

However, in any case, as the currency of the Chu State, the major princes basically have an understanding of its value, especially Liu Ye, who is the great Honglu, can weigh the meaning of "30 million money".

First of all, Wei did not have the habit of hoarding Chu coins, and it was impossible to exchange their own resources for Chu coins and pile them in the treasury, so if they wanted to make up 30 million Chu coins, they would definitely have to exchange 30 million Chu coins worth of goods for them.

In general, this is ...... Pretty penny!

It's just that compared to the value of the "newest" main ship, 30 million dollars, is completely acceptable.

Of course, from the moment Liu Ye succeeded in the negotiations, he understood that Chu must have newer shipbuilding technology.

It's just that the current Liu Ye still stupidly thinks that as long as there is a "sample" to go back, coupled with Ma Jun's ability, he will be able to catch up with the progress of the Chu State.

However, when Liu Ye negotiated with the household department, he finally understood what it meant to be shameless......

The main ship is worth 30 million dollars?

That's right, I have a lot of faith in my words, saying 30 million, just 30 million, but ...... Bundled sales, you must buy five main ships at once, as well as other supporting ships, and even the second-generation ships that were launched three years ago!

The total price is 300 million.

When Liu Ye accused the household department of breaking the contract, Bu Qi said that the final interpretation right belonged to the Chu State, and the price of 30 million ships had not changed.

And when Liu Ye angrily said that he would refuse Chu Guotun to be stationed in Tuyin Port, the household department also behaved mediocre - that is the matter of the Ministry of Rites, don't expect us to give up the performance of the Ministry of Household in order to give up the Ministry of Rites!

Liu Ye could feel that their attitude was true to a large extent, which was also in line with the characteristics of the six divisions of the Chu State.

The reason why Bai Tu divided the foreign trade negotiations into two parts, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Households, was to extract benefits to the greatest extent.

If the palace did not come forward, it represented the state of Chu and the king of Chu and did not think it mattered......

Liu Ye also remembered what Bai Tu had told him before, and understood that Chu Guo was telling himself that he knew that Wei was copying sea ships, so don't want to buy Chu Guo's technology for the price of one!

In the end, Liu Ye returned to the chair in the household department, and gradually pushed the price to 260 million, and it was not a price reduction, but a ...... Chu agreed to sell fewer ships to Liu Ye, and the unit price actually increased.

However, what Wei Guo wanted was a sample, so he pinched his nose and recognized it!

As for the transaction period, Chu only said that the transaction would be made within a year - because the main ship was still in Bozhou.

Liu Ye is not in a hurry, it is not a matter of one or two months to get together 260 million......