Chapter 171: Mining Copper Ore and Minting Coins
Li Chengzhou finally escaped from the clutches of Fang Changge and Meng Biao, it turned out that they didn't ask about things before just because they weren't interested in them, and in the face of things they were interested in, such as horses, they could ask all night.
Li Chengzhou really couldn't stand it, so he quickly found an excuse to escape from Fang Changge's room, mainly because the questions of the two were too sharp, and Li Chengzhou couldn't take it at all.
The space of the dragon boat is too dense, what will the horses eat in the future, these questions Li Chengzhou can't answer at all, he can only prevaricate, and even he doesn't even know the principle of dream reversal.
Xiao Ling drove him out of the summoning space, otherwise he could have asked more.
After that, when you go to the summoning space, you must be more restrained, Xiao Ling has driven him out of the summoning space many times.
Or next time, don't tell the story first, and wait until Xiaoling is finished.
Li Chengzhou got up in the morning and didn't start the morning court, he felt that this court meeting was too time-consuming, and it was better to let the hundred officials do things by themselves if they had this time, and then come to him if there was really something to do.
He wandered around and found Fan Qingyan, who was helping to coordinate the construction of the road. Fan Qingyan commanded these people, selected a few people who were mainly responsible, and asked them to take their own people to perform their duties.
Li Chengzhou squatted aside.
"Brother Qingyan, will it be a bit crowded for 2,000 people here?"
"What else can I do? Two thousand people can't just let half of them sit and watch, can they? ”
"Can you let half of the people go to Burning Sun City? Let them start from the other side. 1,000 men on each side, in batches, so that efficiency can be maximized. ”
"What Your Majesty said makes sense, but how to solve the problem of sending a thousand people to eat?"
"This is easy to do, and when the time comes, I will let all localities take care of the food for the nearby road builders."
"Okay, I'll arrange it!"
Li Chengzhou grabbed Fan Qingyan, who was about to leave.
"Brother Qingyan, don't leave yet, I still have something to discuss with you."
"Is there anything bigger than building a road?"
"Don't say it, there really is!"
"Then tell me about it."
"Let's say minting coins."
When Fan Qingyan heard this, he hurriedly threw the words in his hand to the little official in charge of this matter.
"Let's go, take a step and talk."
Fan Qingyan pulled Li Chengzhou away, and he wanted to talk to Li Chengzhou about this matter.
The two of them came to Fan Qingyan's room.
"Brother Chengzhou, tell me quickly, how are you going to mint coins?"
"No, I won't come to you."
Fan Qingyan looked at Li Chengzhou incredulously.
"What's the matter with you? No? Won't you come to me mysteriously saying that you want to mint coins? ”
"It just won't! How are coins made and how much do they weigh? What is the shape? ”
"Will I?"
"You will."
"Who said that?"
"Fang Lao said."
Fan Qingyan was instantly speechless.
"Okay, okay, I do know a little, before Fang Lao was invited to mint Qin new coins, I was still young at that time, and I followed Fang Lao to participate in that coinage."
"I'll just say you do. Let's talk about it, how to do this? ”
Fan Qingyan rolled her eyes.
"How can this thing be so simple to make, first of all, there must be copper mines."
"There's a lot of copper. You don't have to worry about that. ”
"You're talking about the Bronze City? There is only one copper mine in Bronze City, and it is difficult to afford the expenses of such a city. ”
"Brother Qingyan, do you remember Hongshan City?"
"Of course I remember, we just came back from there, what's wrong."
"Guess why it's called Red Mountain City?"
"Is it because of the copper mines?"
"There is indeed a large amount of copper ore near Hongshan City, which is extremely pure, and even shows red."
"You went to see it?"
"Yes, I went to take a look, and there is indeed a mountain of red copper, which can be smelted with a little smelting, and copper can be easily smelted."
Li Chengzhou looked at Fan Qingyan, and little stars were about to pop up in his eyes.
Fan Qingyan pushed Li Chengzhou away: "Your Majesty, respect yourself!" If you have something to say, don't be so close to me. ”
"Brother Qingyan, what the hell is going on, what should you do in the first step of minting coins, hurry up."
Fan Qingyan obviously couldn't escape, so he could only passively accept this tragic fate.
"Of course, the first step is to allocate resources, two copper mines, how should manpower be allocated?"
"How?"
"It can't be directly assigned to Red Mountain City and Bronze City, right?"
"Can't you?"
"Of course not, why do these two cities want to do this, and other cities just need to enjoy it?"
"What then?"
"I don't dare to say anything good, after all, the cities are very short of manpower now, and they can't allocate too many manpower. Nor can this task be assigned to cities across the country, and it is too difficult for people from all over the country to concentrate in those two cities. ”
"I have a good idea."
Li Chengzhou remembered the bidding in his previous life, if he could gather all the city and county orders and let them compete with each other, this would also solve this problem.
"What's your solution?"
Fan Qingyan didn't believe that Li Chengzhou could say anything good.
Looking at Fan Qingyan's disbelieving eyes, Li Chengzhou rubbed his nose.
"Why do you look down on people so much? Don't believe I can come up with a good solution? ”
"Believe, of course believe, you say your way."
"We can gather these county orders, or let them send people over to participate in the bidding, and all the cities that undertake the mining of copper ore can enjoy certain treatment."
"For example?"
"Smelt copper, and after making copper coins, you can leave a part of it, a tenth?"
Fan Qingyan hurriedly covered Li Chengzhou's mouth.
"Damn, Your Majesty, don't talk nonsense like that. A tenth, do you know how much that is? In the later stage, they are rich and rival the country, which is not simply a matter of talking. ”
"One percent? Thousandth? ”
"The method you said is very good, but you can learn from it, but how many benefits can be given, we can slowly study it later."
"And now?"
"Now, of course, I have to talk about the specific mining situation. How many people should be sent to mine, how many people should use molds to make copper coins, and how much should be produced every day. ”
"So how are copper coins issued, what is the specific purchasing power, and how are these things arranged?"
"That's all for later, we have to smelt the copper ore first, don't we?"
"Do you want to call the tomahawk too?"
"Call here, let's talk about it together."
Li Chengzhou asked the soldiers outside the door to call the tomahawks to discuss the matter.
Tomahawk was training soldiers in the barracks, and Meng Biao was on the side to help Tomahawk.
I heard Li Chengzhou and Fan Qingyan call themselves.
"General Meng, I'll go over first."
Watching the tomahawk leave, Meng Biao set his eyes on Dinka Mamba and the others.
"Come here, and I'll tell you how to fight."