Over the next few hundred years, the details of the five-baht coin have changed, but it has remained the mainstream currency until now.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, after the world was divided, the princes of various places would privately mint copper coins, but most of them still referred to the five-baht coins, and their patterns and weights were very similar.

But after Wei unified the Three Kingdoms, the currency also began to unify, and from that time to the present, everyone seems to use coins minted by the imperial court.

Zhao Hanzhang looked at the pattern on the copper coin and pondered, so will she be the first place to mint coins?

Is she going to cast it exactly like the previous version of the five-baht coin, or is she going to add something to it?

Zhao Hanzhang didn't know that Xiliang, thousands of miles away from Luoyang, had already printed a new five-baht coin at this time.

Zhang Yu came in with a tray of copper coins, bowed down and said, "Father, this is a newly printed five-baht coin." ”

Zhang Liang hurriedly put down the pen and took it over to take a closer look.

Zhang Yu said: "A copper coin is between two baht and three baht. ”

Zhang Liang lifted his eyelids and looked at him, "Is that two baht or three baht?" ”

Zhang Yu lowered his head and whispered: "The weight is two baht and two gui, between 2,2 and 2.4." ”

He said: "We don't have much Xiliang copper, and the casting process can only do this. ”

Zhang Liang flicked the copper coin lightly, put it down after a while, nodded and said: "Enough, our purpose is also to let the people under our rule have money to use, so that every transaction is barter." ”

He said, "Send the money down." ”

"Yes."

Zhang Yu didn't leave, but asked, "Father, can this money be traded to merchants outside Xiliang?" ”

Zhang Liang's eyes flashed and he looked up at him.

Zhang Yu said: "Since we went to Yumen Pass to take a trip, Zhongzhou began to have merchants coming, they also mentioned before, the goods can only be bartered with us, the calculation is extremely inconvenient, now with money, they may be willing to take some money to leave." ”

Zhang Liang groaned: "But the five baht coins we minted are lighter than those of the imperial court, and they are only afraid that they will not want to." ”

Zhang Wei said: "If we only trade with money, they are unwilling, and they have to be willing. ”

Zhang Liang frowned, did not speak, but asked, "Have you prepared the things for Luoyang and Chang'an?" ”

Zhang Wei said sullenly: "Ready." ”

He couldn't quite understand his father, "Father, it's okay to send furs and horses to Zhao Hanzhang, after all, she sent us food, why should she give Chang'an a copy?" ”

"Didn't you see Fu Zhongshu's letter? There was a famine in Chang'an, and we couldn't send food, but we could send other things to help them tide over the difficulties. ”

"But ......"

Zhang Liang raised his hand to stop him from saying his words, and said: "Da Lang, if there is chaos today, but Xiliang is the land of Jin, we are guarding the country of the Jin family, and we are Jin ministers, so we must be loyal to the Great Jin." ”

"Whether it is Chang'an, Luoyang, or Yuncheng, where His Majesty is now, our Xiliang and them are all brothers' cities, and we should help each other." He said: "Today I will help Chang'an and Luoyang tide over the difficulties, and in other days, Chang'an and Luoyang will also help me." ”

"Even if there is no help, as long as the things we give out can be used on the people and countless people live, it will not be a loss."

Zhang Yu lowered his head with a look of shame and said, "Yes, it's my son who is too narrow-minded." ”

Zhang Liang nodded and said, "Go ahead, let people load two more boxes of new money, and Chang'an and Luoyang will each send one box." ”

He had a new idea, if he wanted to let the guests from other places use their new money, then he had to get the approval of Fu Yi and Zhao Hanzhang.

As long as the two of them agree with his new money, especially Zhao Hanzhang, the merchants who come to Xiliang now mainly come from Yuzhou and Luoyang, and he also knows that one of the caravans is Zhao Hanzhang's people.

So as long as Zhao Hanzhang agrees with Xiliang's new money, then his new money can be used in Xiliang and Zhongzhou.

Zhang Liang took out a blank piece of paper, pondered for a while, and then wrote a letter to Zhao Hanzhang, which would be sent to Luoyang along with the gift.

This batch of goods in Xiliang was escorted by the Xiliang Army, and the Xiliang merchants who were attached to the Xiliang Army set off together.

Since the rebellion was put down, the assassin Shi gathered the displaced people, and the Yumen was closed, and a large number of Zhongzhou refugees poured into Xiliang.

In order to settle this group of displaced people, Thorn Shiguang opened up two new counties, which shows how many refugees there are in this group of refugees in Zhongzhou.

It was the goods of Zhongzhou that came with the refugees, and the assassin set up military posts along the way from the Zhizhi to Yumen Pass, and also deterred Yumen Pass, allowing them to open and close their mouths half-way, allowing refugees and merchants to enter and exit, and there were more Zhongzhou merchants who came over.

The merchants of Xiliang also want to go to Zhongzhou, and I heard that there is a female general in Zhongzhou, who is also very powerful, and has pacified the war in Luoyang, and there is a lot of business to do.

Didn't you see those refugees moving back to Zhongzhou again?

I heard that I was going back to Luoyang.

Alas, the homeland is hard to leave, as long as you have money, you can still move, who doesn't want to go back to their hometown?

The Chang'an soldiers guarding the Yumen Pass silently watched the people at the pass go in and out.

Last month, the Xiliang army suddenly Chen Bing was outside the Yumen Pass, which scared them, and they thought that Zhang Liang was going to turn back, who knew that Yongzhou, not far from Chang'an, also found a large army, led by Zhao Hanzhang's younger brother Zhao Yong, and also faced Chang'an.

King Nanyang was so frightened that he couldn't eat, so he immediately asked Fu Yi to discuss countermeasures.

He knew that Fu Yi was here to fight for power with him, so he was very wary of Fu Yi, so that Fu Yi's work was not going well.

And this time, he had to turn to Fu Yi for help.

He has some friendship with Zhang Liang, and Zhang Liang also respects him, not to mention Zhao Hanzhang, who is his future granddaughter-in-law, so King Nanyang hopes that Fu You can come forward to make peace.

Fu Yi did come forward to talk with the two parties, Zhang Liang and Zhao Hanzhang's purpose was obvious, they wanted the Yumen Pass to be opened and refugees and merchants to enter and exit the pass.

Seriously, the opening of the Yumen Pass is a big challenge for the soldiers of Chang'an, after all, this is a gateway to the Central Plains, once the pass is opened but cannot be held, foreign enemies enter the pass from here, then the Central Plains and below may become a disaster.

But as Zhang Liang said, Xiliang is the front station of Yumen Pass, if there is something wrong with Yumen Pass, it is also after the fall of Xiliang, once there is a war, it is not too late to close.

But...... But Yumen Pass is not only to prevent foreign enemies such as Xianbei, but also to prevent Zhang Liang and Xiliang.

Ahem, of course, you can't say this to Zhang Liang.

Fu You didn't trust Xiliang very much, but he trusted Zhang Liang.

So what he said to the king of Nanyang was, "As long as Zhang Liang lives, the Yumen Pass can be opened, and once Xiliang replaces the Thorn History, the Yumen Pass will be closed." ”

King Nanyang is a gentle person who doesn't like to fight, so he looked at the Xiliang army outside the pass, and then looked at the outside of Chang'an City.

So the gate was opened.

After the opening of the Yumen Pass, the workload of the soldiers skyrocketed, but they did not complain, because all the merchants entering and leaving the pass had to pay taxes, more or less, so the Chang'an army, which had been suffering from famine and even the soldiers began to starve, had income.

(End of chapter)