Zhao Guo also had the experience of destroying countries before, such as Zhongshan Kingdom, but Zhongshan Kingdom is a small country after all, although some people in later generations called it the Eighth Hero of the Warring States, but in fact it is not at the same level as the other seven.

Zhongshan has been in the trap of Zhao for a long time, and the difference between it and Zhao in terms of customs and habits, language and writing is not too big, and after Zhao annexed Zhongshan, it has not been subject to much resistance in governance.

Yan is located in the northeast and has been isolated from the Central Plains for a long time, and has already evolved a system of its own, and Zhao needs to break this system and shape Zhao's system.

Yan is isolated from the Central Plains, and even if there is chaos, Zhao has enough ability and time to solve it.

The size of the Yan State is sufficient, and after the success of the Zhao State, it can solve other regions in the same way in the future.

The governance of Yandi will provide the most valuable experience for the future development of Zhao State.

Everyone heard unprecedented firmness from Zhao Kuo's tone, and hurriedly leaned over and said yes.

"The fourth thing is to mint coins, and the widow is going to mint 200 million copper coins, weighing one baht and ten baht. The style uses round square holes. One baht is 100 million, and ten baht is 100 million." Zhao Kuo said.

It's not just about coinage, it's about unifying the currency.

At this time, there are four main types of copper coins in the world, the first is cloth coins, which evolved from empty first cloth.

The empty first cloth is a big money cast in the previous Zhou Dynasty, and the shape is like a shovel and other agricultural tools, because the head is left with a round hole for the handle, so it is called the empty first cloth.

The interior of the cloth coin is also very chaotic, with round shoulders, square feet, and round spans. There are square shoulders, square feet, and round straddles. It has square shoulders, pointed feet, and rounded straddles. There are square shoulders, square feet, and square straddles.

There are all kinds of styles.

The second type is the knife coin, which, as the name suggests, is a copper coin that looks like a knife.

Cloth coins evolved from agricultural tools. Knife coins evolved from knives.

Knife coins are also large and small, pointed and round.

The third is the round copper coin, which is relatively familiar to everyone, and the appearance is more in line with the aesthetics of later generations, but most of them are non-hole, or round holes, and the square holes are mainly half a tael of the Qin State.

The fourth is the copper shell, which evolved from the original shell coin, and was mainly used by the Chu State.

The Qin State mainly used round coins, that is, half a tael, one tael equal to twenty-four baht.

The Yan and Qi kingdoms mainly used knife coins, the Han kingdoms mainly used cloth coins, and the Wei kingdoms mainly used cloth coins and round coins, with different units.

Zhao is the most chaotic, in addition to the copper shell, cloth coins, knife coins, round coins are used, and the right to mint money has not been taken back to the center, each big city or nobles have the right to mint money, can mint money, which leads to the Zhao State of the currency is very chaotic, there are everything.

Anyone can make it, so what kind of quality the money is can be imagined.

Don't expect the conscience of some people to mint enough copper coins for you, and even if such people had, they would have been eliminated long ago.

The chaos of currency directly affected the development of people's livelihood in Zhao State.

Zhao Kuo wanted to mint coins a few years ago, in addition to the shortage of money at that time, the main reason was to unify the currency.

The money shortage is good for Zhao State, if it weren't for the money shortage, down to the common people, up to the kings and nobles all short of money, everyone would not pinch their noses to use paper money, and paper money would not be recognized by everyone so smoothly.

There is really no money up and down the country, and there is no money in other countries, so many people can only choose to barter, which allows paper money to circulate.

However, at that time, Zhao Kuo had no time and no money, and Zhao Guo produced too little copper every year, and he couldn't make any splashes when he smashed it all in, and if Zhao Guo used enough copper to mint coins, and then exchanged them for inferior copper coins minted by other countries or nobles, his pants could be lost.

If Zhao also minted inferior copper coins, it would be meaningless to mint them or not.

Nowadays, bulk merchants either transfer accounts, or use paper money, or barter, no one will choose heavy copper coins, but for the people at the bottom, or heavy copper coins can give people a sense of stability.

Zhao Guo minted inferior copper coins and couldn't pit others, only

pit the people at the bottom, and then backfire to Zhao Guo itself.

Now Zhao Guo has vacated his hand, and after several years of accumulation, Zhao Guo has continued to mine copper mines, and Yuan Hua has transported a large number of copper blocks from Yingzhou, and Zhao Kuo now finally has the confidence to mint coins.

Although 100 million baht and 100 million baht are not enough at all, compared with the number of coins minted in Zhao State before, it has increased many times.

"In addition to this, take back the coinage rights of the localities and nobles. That is to say, from now on, except for the imperial court, no one is allowed to mint money without permission, and it is against the exile of Yingzhou. Those who have had experience in minting coins before, or who are still minting coins, are nobles, and within three months, all molds and minting workers are handed over to the imperial court. Starting next year, the new currency will be officially introduced. The imperial court gradually recovered other versions of copper coins. Three years later, all copper coins except baht coins were abolished, and everyone was forbidden to trade with the old copper coins." Zhao Kuo continued.

Zhao did not have the ability to abolish other copper coins before, because the borders of various countries were intertwined, business contacts were close, and Zhao's own strength was not particularly prominent.

While large merchants rarely use copper coins, small and medium-sized merchants rely heavily on copper coins.

But now it's different, Zhao has become stronger and more confident.

The rules are made by the strong, and Zhao Guo used to obey the rules, and now he is starting to make rules.

The Zhao Chamber of Commerce is all over the world, and more than half of the businessmen in the world have joined the Zhao Chamber of Commerce. Zhao Guo has the cheapest salt in the world, monopoly paper, almost monopoly war horses and coal, the most sophisticated farm tools in the world, and the best milk wine......

The world is inseparable from Zhao, and businessmen are even more inseparable from Zhao.

Especially now, the real big businessmen, the businessmen who dare to take risks, have all gone to the Western Regions, and the remaining small and medium-sized businessmen can only drink soup in the Central Plains.

Doing business in the Central Plains, except for a few commodities such as Shu brocade and colored glass, all others are inseparable from Zhao State.

No one stood up to oppose it, when Zhao Kuo discussed it with them, it was a real discussion, and any opinions could be raised, but if an order was given, it would be useless to object.

And it was not a day or two for Zhao Guo to prepare for this coinage, and when he saw a boatload of copper being transported back to Handan, everyone had already guessed this day.

It is good for everyone to be able to unify the currency and ban the inferior currency.

"If we recycle old coins, the 200 million copper coins minted will probably not be enough. And...... There may be people who take the risk and mint large quantities of low-quality copper coins to exchange for high-quality copper coins." Lin Xiangru said.

There is no shortage of people in this world who take risks, as long as the interests are sufficient, even if they kill the head, there will be people who will flock to them.

"Just re-mint the old coins into new ones, and although there will be losses, the difference will not be too big, unless all the copper plates that are recovered are extremely inferior. As for the second point, for those who exchange a large number of copper coins, they can provide the source of the copper coins, and then exchange them after verification. If it is too inferior, it will not be exchanged." Cai Ze said.

In fact, there are not many currencies that are too inferior, and although most of the copper coins are not genuine, they can barely be used, which is much stronger than the later Han Dynasty.

It's not that these people have a bottom line, but that the world is not unified during this period, everyone is selective, and the coins you mint are too bad for anyone to use, not only can't make money, but also waste money in vain.

"What if the other side divides the money among a large number of civilians, and the civilians exchange it? Even the government probably won't be able to find out. He also suggested that inferior copper coins should be exchanged at a discount." Yu Xin said.

"No." Zhao Kuo immediately said, "The copper coins of Zhao Kingdom are different, and it is difficult to set the standard of discount, even if the standard is set, there will be various problems in the implementation process, and in the end, it is the civilians at the bottom who are damaged. The widow would rather suffer a little loss from the court."

Theoretically, there was nothing wrong with the discount treatment that Yu Xin said, which could minimize the losses of the imperial court.

The coinage itself can be made by the imperial court, but if it is used to exchange old coins, Zhao will not only not be able to make money, but also lose a lot of money, and Yu Xin is also to reduce the loss of Zhao.

But this matter is for people to deal with, and for people to come and go

There will be subjective judgments, and if the two sides have different judgment standards, some people will be dissatisfied.

Even the low-level officials are likely to classify the copper plate with good quality as inferior copper plate, discount it to the commoners, and then report it to the court according to the standard of good quality, and earn the difference for themselves.

This kind of thing has been common for more than 2,000 years.

In the end, the court and the people lost money, and the court lost the support of the people, and they had to bear the infamy for the corrupt officials who filled their pockets.

Instead of letting those corrupt officials get greedy, it is better to distribute this part of the money to the people.

"I, an official of Zhao State, can handle these things." Yu Xin had faith in his eyes, and there may be some officials of Zhao State who are full of private pockets, some who are indiscriminate, and some who harm the people, but he dares to guarantee that most of the officials of Zhao State have ideals, will not go, and do not disdain to do such things.

He has been to many countries, and Zhao may have been no different from these countries in the past, but the officials of Zhao have really changed a lot over the years, and he Yu Xin feels honored to be an official in the same dynasty as these people.

"It's not that the king doesn't trust the officials, but ...... There are also officials below the officials. Can you guarantee the officials, can you guarantee the officials?" Lin Xiangru cleared the road.

Officials and officials have not been a class since ancient times, whether it is in the current countries, or later in the Han, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, there are very few real officials.

For example, in the Han Dynasty, according to statistics, there were only more than 8,000 real officials, and even if such a few people did not sleep, eat or drink, they could not manage the entire Han Dynasty.

However, the total number of officials of the Han Dynasty was more than 120,000.

The officials of Zhao State counted the Yan land, nearly a thousand, but even if the officials did not count the Yan land that had not yet been counted, there were nearly 10,000.

It is these officials who really help the country to take charge of the grassroots, and it is these officials who can really reach the common people on behalf of the imperial court.

During the period of the feudal system, the officials were originally the retainers or servants of the princes, assisting the princes in managing the fiefdoms.

Later, the feudal system gradually collapsed and became a county system, and the officials became liuguan, who were directly appointed by the central government.

But the officials were fixed, and the son inherited his father's business, passed on from generation to generation, and gradually became the head snake of the land everywhere.

These officials actually control the grassroots of the country, and even the fate of the country. Whenever the control of the state decreased, these officials would unscrupulously persecute the people, and finally the officials would force the people to rebel.

They turned around and followed their new owners to continue mingling.

Except for special opportunities, these officials, no matter how good they are, cannot become officials, that is, from the very beginning, the upward channel is locked.

In this way, a group of people who have lost hope control the bottom of the country, and you can imagine what the bottom is like.

A thief like Tuo can't be caught, and a fugitive like Xiang Liang and Zhang Liang can't even think about it, they can catch honest people at most.

After all, honest people can't do anything about them.

Not to mention unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, torture into confessions, perversion of the law for bribes, embezzlement and bribery, and so on.

In order to solve the problem of officials forcing the people to rebel, ancient China invented a system: amnesty for the world.

In this way, the criminals who were caught were released in order to alleviate public resentment.

Whenever the Qin State conquered a place, it would pardon the criminals and then move them to these places, along with Shang Jia, Shang Jia's son, Shang Jia's grandson......

Later, Qin II granted amnesty to the world, and ordered Zhang Han to command a group of pardoned criminals to suppress the rebellion, and the effect was extremely significant, winning all the way until he met Liu Bang and Xiang Yu.

The Han Dynasty and the dynasties that followed it learned from each other, and whenever something big happened, they would give amnesty to the world.

Liu Bang reigned for 12 years and granted amnesty 12 times.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty reigned for fifty-five years and granted amnesty twenty-five times.

In the Tang and Song dynasties, the division of officials was more obvious, officials were superior people, officials were inferior people, out of contempt for officials, all officials were born, and the three generations were not allowed to take the imperial examination.

completely lost hope, and the officials became even more unscrupulous, Bai Sheng stole the birthday gang in "Water Margin", and he came out after paying some money.

The Warring States period is okay, not as deformed as the Tang and Song dynasties, if you are lucky, the officials are still able

Those who are officials, and can be great officials.

The worst is that Lao Tzu is not mixed with you, but he is mixed with other countries, and there is a chance, but the opportunity is very, very small, but not nothing.

Moreover, there are standards for the selection of officials, and not everyone can be an official.

For example, Liu Bang became the pavilion chief only after passing the assessment.

But the power of the head snake has been formed, such as Liu Bang......

Whether it is an official of the Zhao State or other state officials, it is inevitable that they will have to rely on officials to govern the locality.

But it's hard to say what the officials are capable of......

Moreover, at this time, the Zhao State did not set a standard system for the assessment and selection of officials like the Qin State.

Zhao is still lagging behind in this regard.

"The widow naturally believes in the officials of my Zhao country, but my Zhao country is so big, the widow can't trust all the officials." Zhao Kuo said calmly, different statuses, different ideas, Zhao Kuo himself does not believe in virtue very much.

Virtue can only educate people, not discipline people.

The law has to rely on the law.

"Does the King have molds and finished products for new coins?" Lin Xiangru didn't dwell on the previous question and continued to ask.

"Yes." Zhao Kuo handed over the molds and finished products that had already been prepared to Lin Xiangru.

"The color is good, the round square holes are easy to carry. There should be no objection to the new coin." Lin Xiangru took the finished product, nodded, and then said embarrassedly, "It's just...... I, Zhao Guo, can't spare people now."

"The widow and the Mo family have said that the main use of water conservancy forging is not a problem technically, and there is not much manpower, and the workshop is enough to meet it." Zhao Kuo said.

"In that case, the minister has no other opinion." Lin Xiangru shook his head.

"The ministers have no opinion." Everyone leaned over and said.