Chapter 330: Princes and Kings: I'll be scared first
For more than a year, the imperial court spent several months studying the material of the new coin.
Copper coins are easy to say, they have ready-made proportions, and they only need to be changed to their appearance and reminted.
And the current five-baht coin is not much of a problem, but it still needs to be destroyed and recast, and Liu Ponu is also to be lazy and save trouble, and he is lazy to redesign.
Therefore, the design method of the five-baht coin is directly followed, but the five characters on the five-baht coin are changed to the number 1, and the previous seal five looks like an hourglass.
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Just this small change is enough to abolish the previous currency.
At the same time, in order to prevent people from fishing in troubled waters, Liu Ponu reduced the weight of the five-baht coin to three grams, while the weight of the previous five-baht coin was about 3.5 to 4 grams, so that the new coin was smaller than the previous old coin.
If someone wants to fish in troubled waters, they just need to take a closer look and find it out.
The weight of the big five beads has been directly increased to five grams, except that the area has increased a little, the layout is the same, the only difference is that a 0 is added after 1.
The layout of iron coins and gold coins is the same, there are only 1 and 10, and the baht word is still used at the back, which is a continuation of the five-baht coin.
The reason for this is that convenient casting is only one of them, and the biggest reason is that it is convenient to manage and use.
If the design of the currency is too complicated, it will not be too convenient for the people to use, so it is divided into six levels, all in decimal, whether it is used or calculated, it is much more convenient.
Comparatively speaking, the material research of iron coins is more time-consuming and laborious.
The main reason is that iron is more prone to rust, especially in different environments, which will lead to different speed of rust.
If left in a humid environment, it only takes a few days for the surface to rust, and it is obviously unlikely that a currency of this quality will be put into circulation.
Therefore, although the production of iron is very large, if you want to use it to make coins, you must first solve the problem of rust.
However, in the face of the omnipotent Huaxia, these difficulties are nothing at all.
After a large number of failed experiments, the researchers quickly came up with the idea that copper also rusts, but patina instead of rust, but there is a type of copper that does not rust, cupro.
So after a messy stewing operation, the iron-nickel alloy came out, because cupronickel is a copper-nickel alloy.
And the iron-nickel alloy, if it is too profound, you may not understand it, but this thing is something that everyone in later generations often uses, and steel hammers are made of this alloy.
Then the whole Han began to enter the frenzied task of minting money, and when the monetary reform began, the imperial court had to have a sufficient amount of money put into the market.
If you want to take back the copper coins from the people, but you don't have the corresponding currency for them, then there will be chaos.
Although the amount of iron coins used was the largest after the reform officially began, the number of copper coins was also not much less.
A five-baht coin is exchanged for a small iron coin, when does it have to be exchanged? For those rich people, directly giving him a new copper coin can pull him away with a hundred or a thousand old coins, which is not only convenient to use, but also convenient to exchange.
So as time went by, the number of copper coins in the hands of the imperial court became smaller and smaller, and a large number of copper coins were used to smelt and mint new coins.
In this year's time, the imperial court has accumulated hundreds of millions of iron coins with a face value of 1 yuan, more than 40 million iron coins with a face value of 10, and more than 10 million copper coins of all sizes.
In other words, the role of gold coins can only be used for large transactions at present, after all, a small gold coin is equal to ten large copper coins, ten large copper coins are equal to a hundred small copper coins, equal to a thousand large iron coins, 10,000 small iron coins, take a small gold coin to go shopping?
Frankly speaking, there is hardly a single one in the market who can give him change......
Liu Che's summoning order had been issued, and along with the ones that had been shipped out, there were truckloads of new coins.
At present, there are a total of thirteen Qianzhuang, which are in the capital of thirteen states, and when the princes and kings leave Chang'an and return to the fiefdom, it is the beginning of the monetary reform, so of course the money must be prepared at this time.
Of course, in the face of such a huge amount of money transportation, it is difficult to guarantee it with the power of the money bank alone.
Therefore, Liu Che directly sent the new army troops to be responsible for transportation and protection, and after arriving in the locality, he was directly stationed on the spot to take care of it, and waited until the reform began to transport the new currency to various counties, and at the same time was responsible for cooperating with various places to exchange, and brought the exchanged new currency back to the state capital, and escorted back to Chang'an.
In order to accomplish this task, Liu Che mobilized 30,000 troops from the entire Guanzhong region, and requisitioned another 90,000 troops along the way.
30,000 troops will leave with the currency of the twelve states, and the troops waiting at the border after leaving Guanzhong will be dispersed to join the protection, and a part of them will be added to each place, and when they finally arrive at the destination, depending on the size of each state, ensure that there are 10,000 to 20,000 troops to protect it.
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Inside Chang'an City.
Hundreds of princes and kings were panicked, and they gathered together in twos and threes.
There is no major event in the imperial court, but the emperor suddenly recruited them, this recruitment is very unusual, it already makes people feel suspicious, but the court even more scared them, but the emperor has not given any explanation.
"King Jiaoxi, do you know what His Majesty is calling us to Chang'an this time?" Someone found the former crown prince Liu and asked.
"It should be a good thing!" Although Liu Zhi knew, the actions of the imperial court made him a little uncertain.
"What's the good thing? If this is a good thing, how could Your Majesty suddenly send a large army to various places when we came? Except for Guanzhong, none of the twelve state capitals have fallen, and there are an average of 10,000 or 20,000 ......people in each state," someone said sadly in a panic.
"yes, and I've heard that the trucks are fully loaded, and you can press a deep trail on the road, presumably loaded with a lot ......of supplies," someone immediately added.
The army pulls out, the trucks are fully loaded, what can the army's trucks pull?
Of course it's war materials, otherwise what else can he pull? Pull money to hang out?
"Are any of you doing something wrong?" Someone shouted in fright.
"What do you mean?"
"The emperor will recruit us first, and then send the army out, which is obviously to divert the tiger from the mountain, first wipe us out in Chang'an, and then send the army into our fiefdom to loot ......"
Such an explanation instantly frightened these princes and kings.
Those who want to rebel will definitely not dare to come to Chang'an at this time.
But another question is, if the emperor wants them to rebel, isn't that a matter of words?
And the emperor is indeed very unfriendly to these princes and kings, and always uses various reasons to suppress them from time to time, and even makes them lose their titles.
Well, those who have the throne don't have to worry for the time being, as long as they don't do anything, the emperor won't easily remove them, but those who didn't inherit the throne and were only divided into a marquis are miserable, those people have been almost wiped out, and although they are okay for the time being, but when it comes to their son's generation, there is a high probability that they will be wiped out.
These people are actually very helpless, knowing that their descendants are going to be masturbated, but they can only stare dryly, and they can't do anything.
Liu Ju didn't want to talk too much, but seeing that these people didn't do anything, he scared himself half to death first, and if it continued like this, I was afraid that the hundred and ten kings would run away overnight, so he could only stand up helplessly and comforted: "Although I don't know what my father is going to do, I can tell you for sure that this time is indeed a good thing, and my father has no plans to do anything to you, so put your heart down, and everything will be known tomorrow......"
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