Chapter 486: A Whim

"My lordโ€”are we starting to mint coins too? Now our five-baht money is lost, and there is no proper constant standard for real money, and there will be problems in trading after a long time. After the fall of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, still used the Qin system of half a tael in the early days of the founding of the country, and the people in power at that time did not realize the importance of numismatic unity. Such private modifications to the coins caused a shortage of bronze content, which caused chaos in the economy at the time. History records that after Liu Bang's initiation Lu Hou found the problem, he actively advocated the reform of the currency system and personally participated in the design of the coin, in order to prevent the half of the two coins from being cut off, on the basis of the square hole round money, the five baht around the side was added as the weight unit, and the Han five baht was born. The five-baht coin in the Western Han Dynasty weighed five baht, with a regular shape, a standard weight, and a well-minted coinage. After Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, he also tried to destroy a lot of five-baht coins and implement his own new currency, but Wang Mang promulgated a series of decrees to change the currency system, and successively prescribed more than 30 kinds of currency. Later, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty Liu Xiu re-implemented the five-baht coin of the Western Han Dynasty, but the coinage required a large amount of copper, at that time gold, silver, and copper were the largest circulating currency, but some of the bold clans behind them quietly bought the five-baht coin and mixed it with lead and mercury, and a sufficient amount of five-baht coin could be used for a long time without loss, and it would not take long to crack and become scrap coins when mixed with lead and mercury, but the Western Han Dynasty only appeared on a small scale at this time. Zhang Zhao is in charge of people's livelihood, he found that most of the five baht coins circulating in the hands of the people are broken, if these residual coins are not recast, the result is damage and unusable, so that those hard-earned money earned for a year into a pile of waste, once this situation spreads, the consequences are unimaginable.

"Five-baht coins are now minted privately in various places, and the copper content mixed with them is also more or less, but what standard should we need for coinage? The top priority needs to be considered-" Cheng Yu also frowned, this coin needs to cost countless copper, which needs to smelt copper ore, but how to mint this five-baht coin? If all copper is cast, it is equivalent to giving their own big money to the people, and the recovered residual coins are not all copper, so that Yangzhou's wealth will flow out, and dragging down Yangzhou is not what they want to see.

"Don't look at me. I don't know anything about these things, but if I could do something else! Zhang Zhao brought out the topic, Cheng Yu expressed his opinion, and when Guo Jia arrived, he actually said such a sentence, which made Zhou Yu very helpless. This kid has no wine or pleasure, and when he goes out to march and fight, the others are not interested. However, Guo Jia of the Luoyang Huimeng learned that his friend Xi Zhicai actually followed Cao Cao, and he knew that Xi Zhicai did not come for his own reasons, and there was another point that Cao Cao also had a strong appearance. As for people's livelihood and finance, it is not his field, and he really doesn't know how to deal with such a situation.

"Aren't you just a matter of coinage, and you're taking it so seriously? Now the circulation of coins is nothing more than gold, silver, copper, common gold, silver can be according to ten taels for an ingot, an ingot for fifty taels, as for ten taels below the scattered, on this basis we can temporarily not move, five baht money does not know that you have to be all copper, have you heard of a technology called copper plating? Zhou Yu thought it was a big deal, but it was to mint copper coins, most of the copper coins he had seen in later generations were left by the Qing Dynasty, with Kangxi Tongbao and Qianlong Tongbao, he felt that now it was a transaction, and now the Chinese commercial houses under his command are now almost all over every state and county, including many back and forth transportation of salt, iron, tea, grain, etc., now Zhou Yu controls the Yangtze River basin and firmly controls the salt road in his hands, Yangzhou can develop so smoothly, Zhou Yu has a high profit on the salt. Why did he want to make copper-plated copper coins, because he thought of one point, that is, economic warfare, and in his memory, it seemed that currency wars could directly destroy a country, but he didn't have mature ideas.

What the? A dignified Yangzhou assassin history took the lead in falsifying? Zhang Zhao, Cheng Yu, Guo Jia, and Jia Xu suddenly had such an idea in their hearts, others still use copper mixed with some other things, but he just wants to use copper plating, how can a layer of copper powder know that it is fake?

Seeing everyone's puzzled eyes focused on Zhou Yu's face, he pretended to smile mysteriously, picked up the wine glass in his hand and took a sip, "Do you think I want to fake?" My current five-baht coin with you is so ugly that there is nothing else except a square hole that is easy to string together? Is it easy to rust after a long time? The copper plating I am talking about is a kind of copper powder mixed in a special piece of gold powder, which is made of iron as the core, and some exquisite patterns are drawn on the outside, and the year is engraved on it, so that it is impossible for people to forge it in a short time, and this currency can only be used in Yangzhou. As long as we officially admit that it doesn't matter what it is made at all, it just needs to be strong and durable, and we need to collect gold, silver, copper, etc., in case we need it-"

If it is only circulated in Yangzhou, it doesn't matter what kind of manufacturing it is, once it is out of Yangzhou, it can only use the old version of the five-baht coin, which can solve a lot of urgent needs, but Jia Xu pondered for a long time and said, "My lord, your proposal just now made me come up with a shunlian strategy, and the loss of five-baht money on our side is very large, and this is the same result in other realms." The copper coins in Yangzhou can be made according to the lord's father, but we also need to make a large number of inferior five-baht coins, which I have a lot of! โ€

Everyone was surprised by Jia Xu's sudden exit, and Guo Jia opened his mouth and said, "Wenhe-what do you want?"

What the? A dignified Yangzhou assassin history took the lead in falsifying? Zhang Zhao, Cheng Yu, Guo Jia, and Jia Xu suddenly had such an idea in their hearts, others still use copper mixed with some other things, but he just wants to use copper plating, how can a layer of copper powder know that it is fake? Seeing everyone's puzzled eyes focused on Zhou Yu's face, he pretended to smile mysteriously, picked up the wine glass in his hand and took a sip, "Do you think I want to fake?" My current five-baht coin with you is so ugly that there is nothing else except a square hole that is easy to string together? Is it easy to rust after a long time? The copper plating I am talking about is a kind of copper powder mixed in a special piece of gold powder, which is made of iron as the core, and some exquisite patterns are drawn on the outside, and the year is engraved on it, so that it is impossible for people to forge it in a short time, and this currency can only be used in Yangzhou. As long as we officially admit that it doesn't matter what it is made at all, it just needs to be strong and durable, and we need to collect gold, silver, copper, etc., in case we need it-"

If it is only circulated in Yangzhou, it doesn't matter what kind of manufacturing it is, once it is out of Yangzhou, it can only use the old version of the five-baht coin, which can solve a lot of urgent needs, but Jia Xu pondered for a long time and said, "My lord, your proposal just now made me come up with a shunlian strategy, and the loss of five-baht money on our side is very large, and this is the same result in other realms." The copper coins in Yangzhou can be made according to the lord's father, but we also need to make a large number of inferior five-baht coins, which I have a lot of! โ€

Everyone was surprised by Jia Xu's sudden exit, and Guo Jia opened his mouth and said, "Wenhe-what do you want?"

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