Qingji wanted to realize the consistency between the vassal kingdoms and the Great Wu mainland, with the same book, the same track, the same currency, the same language, and the same weights and measures.

Less difficult of these is the unification of the currency, as well as the unification of weights and measures.

The remaining three reform measures are difficult to compare.

Cars on the same track?

Not to mention overseas countries, the twenty feudal kingdoms in the west are thousands of miles away from the mainland of Dawu, how to build bridges and pave roads, so that the tracks are connected and connected together?

It is also extremely difficult to write the same text and unify the language.

The difficulty is that those foreign tribes in Fanbang may not accept the "baptism" of Dawu, and still stubbornly maintain their own language and culture......

"Then start with the easier reforms, and then the easy ones."

Qingji set his eyes on Lu Ban, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, and said, "The public loses the class." ”

"The minister is here!"

"I want all the vassal kingdoms in the world to be on the same track with Great Wu, with the same car, the same book, the same coin, the same shape, the same degree, the same weight, the same line, and one law. I will work for you. ”

Qingji said slowly: "Ministry of Industry, immediately let the workshops in various places work overtime to produce a new Wu system of weights and measures as soon as possible, and then distribute them to the feudal kingdoms in various places and sell them to the people." ”

"The old weights and measures are all forbidden, and the offender's property will be confiscated, and the whole family will be exiled for 3,000 miles, and serve ten years of hard labor!"

"No!"

Lu Ban immediately agreed.

Qingji's determination to unify weights and measures is beyond doubt.

Dare to steal and play tricks?

Or dare to use the previous weights and measures?

That is an act of death.

"In addition, let the workshop also rush to produce more five-baht coins, the more the better. Specific needs are to be determined. ”

"No!"

"The five baht is the legal tender of my Great Wu and all the feudal kingdoms, and it cannot be changed. The old currencies of the feudal kingdoms were abolished and were not allowed to circulate in the country! ”

Qingji said solemnly: "As soon as the five-baht money arrives, the vassal kingdoms can pass through the local government and let the people exchange the old currency at the yamen. ”

"Prices are exchanged, equivalent value transactions, and there must be no deduction or indiscriminate issuance."

"Bo Yao, your Imperial History Observatory has sent people to supervise the Imperial Historians strictly to prevent the occurrence of a situation where you are filling your pockets."

"No!"

Bo Ya immediately agreed.

Qingji said again: "Take half a year as the time limit." Half a year later, the old currency was not allowed to circulate in the vassal kingdoms. If you violate it, you will be beheaded! ”

"The whole family was exiled for three thousand miles and served ten years of hard labor to atone for their sins!"

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Qunchen Mountain shouted.

The importance of a unified weights and measures, as well as a unified currency, is self-evident.

Regions such as the Americas, Australia, and Southeast Asia may have embraced this "novelty" from scratch, but the original Persian Achaemenid rule was different.

Thanks to the reforms of Darius I, the Achaemenid dynasty had a relatively complete monetary system and weights and measures were unified.

At that time, the territory of the Persian Empire was very vast, and various currencies and weights and measures were used in many regions, which brought many inconveniences to economic exchanges and trade between places.

In view of this, Darius I stipulated that he had the privilege of minting gold coins, and that the governors of the provinces and districts were only allowed to mint silver coins, and the autonomous cities were only allowed to mint copper coins.

The gold coin minted by Darius is called "Darius", which weighs 8.4 grams and is in the best condition, containing 98% pure gold.

The silver coin is called a "shekler" and weighs 5.6 grams, and 20 shekels are equal to one large number of grams.

Since the silver coins circulating in the market were minted in various places and of varying fineness, Darius also stipulated that the state treasury should classify the various silver coins paid by taxpayers, including silver or pure silver, second-class silver, third-class silver, etc., according to a uniform standard, and the taxpayers had to pay the difference in fineness.

Because of his meticulous calculations, Darius was called a "petty trader" by taxpayers......

What Qingji needs to do now is to break the monetary system and the system of weights and measures established by the Persians.

"Your Majesty."

At this time, Tobe Shangshu Zeng Shen frowned, and said with a tooth wat in his hand: "The monetary system of Great Wu and the vassal kingdoms is completely different. ”

"However, it is all on the gold standard and the silver standard, so can gold and silver also circulate in the market?"

"Gold, silver, and copper coins, all of them can't work."

Qing Ji waved his hand in a skeptical tone: "There can be no exceptions to everything, and if there are exceptions, they will have a fluke mentality, and then they will steal and play tricks, this opening must not be opened." ”

"The gold, silver, and copper coins that have been exchanged will be melted into new currency."

"According to my Dawu's monetary system, 15,000 baht is equal to ten taels of silver, which is equal to one tael of gold, which remains unchanged."

Hearing this, Zeng Shen smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, the forty vassal kingdoms of my Great Wu have a population of more than 20 million, and these feudal kingdoms are too far away from my Great Wu homeland, thousands of miles away. ”

"When the five baht coins are minted, and the old currency is sent back for smelting, this time and again, I don't know how long it will be delayed."

"Why bother? Why didn't Your Majesty just distribute the stoves used to mint money to the vassal kings, and let them watch and mint the money themselves? ”

As soon as Zeng Shen's words came out, Prince Heng's heart couldn't help but scold him with a bloody squirt.

Let the vassal kings have the right to mint coins?

What did Zeng Shen think!

Is it just to reduce his own workload?

Fortunately, Zeng Shen's proposal was immediately rejected by Qingji.

"It's okay if you don't mint money fast enough. You can take the money out of the treasury first, and then make up for it later, and you can't do it. ”

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Gongqing Baiguanshan shouted.

Anyway, it's a left-handed to right-handed thing.

Qingji is indeed not short of money, and Dawu is not short of money.

It's just that if you mint too much money, a large amount of it will circulate in the market, which will inevitably make it inflationary, so Qingji has not minted too many five-baht coins.

He didn't dare to hand over the power to mint money to those vassal kings.

Even if it's his own son.

In case these vassal kings can't think of it, and mint a large number of five-baht coins every day, wouldn't it make the empire itself unlucky?

Isn't it harming the fundamental interests of Great Wu?

Having solved the problem of unifying weights and measures and currency, Qingji pondered again.

"Second and third sons, you have a discussion, how to make my Great Wu and all the vassal kingdoms have the same text and language?"

“……”

This is the most difficult thing to do.

Qingji's question made the ministers and officials in the court shrink their heads like quails, and they didn't dare to speak rashly.

Fan Li is more reliable.

Fan Li thought about it all night last night, tossed and turned, and finally came up with a better solution for Qingji.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that in order to unify the language and writing, you can send the local scholars of Dawu to go out and give lectures in various feudal kingdoms, and advocate the culture of our Dawu as the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire."

"At the same time, in each feudal kingdom and its county seat, set up township schools, county schools, and national schools, so that scholars can serve as gentlemen, and recruit local young people or children to enroll, from small to large, so that they can be influenced by Wu Xue."

"Subtly, under the influence of their ears and eyes, they naturally admired my Dawu culture, and chose to write Wu characters and speak Wu language."