After sending off the people of Wuyang Hou Fan City, Dou Pengzu, Liu Pengzu, and Liu Sheng's uncle and nephew were not idle for too long.

Some people in Fan City made samples and made 'early birds', and those princes and nobles who were originally interested in buying grain, but still had some concerns, also completely dispelled their concerns.

After briefly inquiring about the doorway with the people of Fan City, the remaining princes and nobles also boarded the gate of the palace in order.

said a thousand words and ten thousand, and in the end, Liu Sheng still said the same thing:

- As long as you can afford to pay, I will sell you as much as you buy 20 million stone grain in Taicang!

——Copper coins are 100 coins and 100 stones, gold is 100 stones, the price is clearly marked, and there is no deception!

Before I came, I had already asked the people of Fan City about the doorway, but after I came, I was repeatedly reminded and emphasized by Liu Sheng that most of the princes were not too grinding.

tentatively negotiated the price, and determined that the price was not negotiable, so they all paid happily.

But the money was paid, and the princes couldn't get the grain they bought.

Some people wanted to get their hands on it, but Liu Sheng firmly refused on the grounds that he was dealing with the people of Fanshi - to deliver all the grain of the princes at one time at the beginning of spring next year.

There are also people who are already suffering from having no place to store the grain after they buy it;

was reminded by Liu Sheng of such a 'kindness', and most of them said with a smile: Son's business is too conscientious!

The princes reacted like this, and it did not surprise Liu Sheng.

The reason is simple: in this era, the cost of storing grain, especially grain in 10,000 stones, is a staggering expense.

Needless to say, the warehouse must be big enough to hold so much grain;

Secondly, it is necessary to meet various conditions such as ventilation, dryness, keeping away from water sources, and convenient transportation.

It is precisely for this reason that for thousands of years, farmers have preferred to sell their grain to merchants at a low price after the autumn harvest, and buy it at a high price the next year, rather than save some money to build a small granary to store grain.

- In addition to the merchants who have a huge amount of money and can afford to bear the huge cost of storage, and they are wealthy businessmen, the only people in the world who have the ability to store so much grain are the government.

The granaries of the government will certainly not help the people store grain, but will only store the rice that is distributed to the army, the military rations supplied to the army, and the grain stored by the government and the treasury.

As for businessmen, spending such a huge amount of money and cost to store grain will naturally earn a '100 million points' price difference.

In the past, the meritorious nobles who lived in Chang'an almost never dealt with food;

Even the taxes (grain) collected by the feudal state are basically sold directly on the spot, exchanged for money and gold stored in the fiefdom, or transported to Chang'an for expenses.

With such a lucrative deal, the heroes can't take care of themselves, and they don't want to build a warehouse or find a warehouse.

- Anyway, Liu Sheng is willing to help everyone save it, so save it!

As for the possibility of Liu Sheng 'embezzling this part of the grain', it did not make any of the princes and nobles feel worried.

Because this era is an era of virtue.

As long as Liu Sheng does such a thing, let alone being the prince of the prince, from now on, there will never be another person in the world who is willing to treat Liu Sheng as a 'person'.

From buying grain to storing grain, Liu Sheng set a one-stop service for the big guys, and the princes had no worries, so they naturally rushed to subscribe.

In just three days before and after, more than 140 princes and nobles in Chang'an Shangguan ascended to the palace to subscribe for food, and there were 37 people!

And the amount of grain subscribed by these thirty-seven people undoubtedly made Liu Sheng once again surprised by the huge purchasing power of the princely group······

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"Fei Hou Chen Yan, Long Hou Zhou Tong;"

"Duchang Hou Zhu Bibi, Haiyang Hou Shao Province;"

"Boyang Hou Chen Shi, Yangdu Hou Ding Ancheng, Dongwu Hou Guo It ······"

"Whew~~~"

"-Thirty-seven families~"

"There are nearly twenty households with more than 1,000 households in the restaurant alone?"

After waiting in the side hall of the palace all morning, he couldn't wait for the prince who came to buy food, and Liu Sheng, who was bored, got up and walked in front of his brother Liu Pengzu.

Picking up the few volumes of 'ledgers' and glancing at them roughly, Liu Sheng couldn't help but laugh and shake his head.

"Thirty-seven Chehou families have jointly bought more than 7 million stone of grain;"

"If one hundred and forty families all make a move, the 20 million stone grain in Taicang is afraid that it will really be eaten?"

Hearing Liu Sheng's words, Liu Pengzu, who was sitting in front of the case, also nodded slowly, and a little surprise also appeared on his face.

"Earlier, Ah Sheng said that he would sell grain to the princes, and I was still thinking: How many stones of grain can the princes buy?"

"Oh, it's good now······"

"It opened my eyes?"

The conversation between the two brothers also made Nanpihou Dou Pengzu on the side interested;

There was nothing to do, so he explained the reason for this for the two brothers in a casual tone.

"The princes and nobles of Chang'an don't seem to be very rich, judging from food, clothing, housing and transportation, there are not even some businessmen who are extravagant;"

"But in fact, as long as it is a marquis, especially those who have more than 1,000 households and have been passed down for twenty or thirty years, the wealth accumulated over the years is actually very huge.

"——During the reign of Emperor Taizu Gao, the total number of farmers in my Han family was only two million;"

"But just the Founding Meritorious Marquis of Taizu's Imperial Decree, and the sum of his feudal food and euphemism has no less than 200,000 households!"

"The princes account for 30% of the agricultural taxes in the whole world, and the marquis and nobles account for 10%, but the Chang'an court only accounts for 60% ······"

···

"Sixty percent of the court, thirty percent of the princes, and only one percent of the Marquis of Che, it doesn't sound like much;"

"But sixty percent of the court's rent and tax must be used to distribute the officials' salaries, the army's food and salary, and also to dredge the canals, repair the roads, and spend the money in the palace."

"——Such a huge expense, but only 60% of the world's taxes, enough is already very good."

"The thirty percent of the princes should also be used for the daily use of the officials, armies, and local governments and palaces of the vassal states."

"As for the Marquis of Che, although more than 100 of them together only account for one percent of the tax of my Han family, but after getting this tax tax, the Marquis of Che do not need to take out most of them like the court and the princes to govern the feudal country."

"In addition to daily expenses and occasional expeditions with the army, the marquis can basically save most of their annual feudal taxes."

···

"Take the people of Wuyang Houfan City as an example, the annual tax of 5,000 households is 50,000 stone of grain and rice;"

"According to the grain price of about 50 yuan per stone in Guanzhong in previous years, the 50,000 stone of grain and rice is 2.5 million yuan."

"Two and a half million a year, ten years, that's 25 million."

"And five decades have passed since the existence of the Marquis of Wuyang······"

A slow and low tone resounded in the hall, causing the two brothers to turn their heads together.

Seeing the other side of the main seat, Nanpihou Dou Pengzu smiled lightly and lowered his head, sipping tea, and saying something from time to time.

"This time, the people of Wuyang Hou Fan City bought 350,000 stone grain from Gongzi;"

"But if the money and gold that exist in the feudal country are transferred to Chang'an, and the Marquis of Wuyang eats a million stone of grain alone, it is not impossible."

"A Marquis of Wuyang can eat a million stones alone, and the rest of the princes who also have thousands of food estates are not too much different."

"In this way, these thirty-seven princes together will eat 20 million stone of grain stored in Taicang~"

"Well, it's a bit of a struggle, but it's not impossible······

After a relaxed resignation, Dou Pengzu lowered his head and focused his attention on the steaming bowl of tea in his hand.

Judging from Dou Pengzu's words alone, Dou Pengzu seems to be full of worries about Liu Sheng's opening of Taicang to sell grain this time.

But in fact, for this incident, Dou Pengzu saw it very thoroughly.

- This time, Liu Sheng, will win a big victory!

Even if there is no basis, Dou Pengzu still firmly believes this!

As the eldest son of the late Nanpihou Dou Changjun, Dou Pengzu is actually not a very smart person.

At least compared to Dou Ying, Dou Pengzu can only be regarded as a 'middle-aged person' at most.

Regarding this incident, Dou Pengzu still couldn't understand it: Liu Sheng, what does he want.

But Dou Pengzu, who is 'in the posture of a middle-of-the-envelope', did not ignore the most noteworthy key in this whole matter.

——Liu Sheng's actions have been unanimously supported by the Empress Dowager Dou and the Son of Heaven!

That's all there is to it.

The unanimous support of the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven was enough to make Dou Pengzu conclude that there was nothing wrong with this incident.

Knowing this, he can be regarded as having a bottom in his heart, and Dou Pengzu is not so eager to know about Liu Sheng's real purpose and plan.

Anyway, Liu Sheng is sure to win, so instead of knowing Liu Sheng's 'how to win' in advance now, it is better to wait for the spring of next year and see such a good show with your own eyes.

- Dou Pengzu, also Chehou~

The life of the aristocracy is always so boring and boring.

It's rare to have such a good show, and it's a cool article with a 'known ending', which adds to the boring aristocratic life, and of course Dou Pengzu doesn't want Liu Sheng to spoil himself too early.

As Dou Pengzu expected: after his 'alarmist' inference, Liu Sheng's face still did not show the slightest worry.

With a smile, he straightened his waist with confidence and looked at the money boxes and gold boxes that had been piled up outside the palace gate.

"If you're not afraid of going bankrupt, just let the horses come, right?"

"There are still a lot of gaps in this pit;"

"It's not just about burying these thirty-seven ······"

He said a word with a light smile, and then stared deeply at the money box and gold box outside the door of the hall, and stared at it for a long time;

Then, Liu Sheng suddenly smiled, then shook his head and turned around with a smile.

looked at his cousin Dou Pengzu, and pointed his finger to the wooden box outside the temple gate, which was almost full of the imperial palace.

"My nephew estimated that the 'guests' who should have come have already come."

"Uncle Lao also went to Shaofu and sent all the gold sent by the princes to the Shaofu."

"-By the way, tell Shaofu: This is what I got from selling grain this time."

He said softly, and when Dou Peng Zuwen got up with a smile and frowned slightly suspiciously, Liu Sheng turned around and looked at the wooden boxes containing copper coins.

"Copper coins, just keep them."

"Maybe if you turn back, you have to send it back as it is······"

A meaningful murmur did not attract Dou Pengzu's questioning, he only smiled and nodded, and walked out of the palace gate.

Greeted outside the side door of the Imperial Palace, and after a short time, hundreds of slaves poured into the Imperial Palace, and under the command of Dou Pengzu, the wooden boxes full of golden cakes were carried outside the side door of the Imperial Palace.

-- In the past three days, most of the more than 7 million stone of grain bought by the princes were purchased in gold.

The reason is also very simple: copper coins are too inconvenient······

Rather than a room full of copper coins, which were only enough to buy a good horse, the princes were apparently willing to save for lighter, more valuable, and more beautiful gold.

In the past three days, the 37 princes who bought grain from Liu Sheng sent a total of nearly 50,000 gold······

"Fifty thousand gold, even in the later generations, there are twelve and a half tons of ······"

"Hey!"

"Hey, hey."

Hehe smirked, watching the slave found by Dou Pengzu move all the gold in the palace, stepped forward again, and picked up a few copper coins from the remaining wooden box, Liu Sheng smiled lightly and sat back in the top position.

And Liu Shengfang's muttering, intentional or unintentional, also revealed a little understanding on Liu Pengzu's face.

"Eh, Ah Sheng."

"I heard that after those princes bought the grain, they were discussing in private that they would sell the grain back to you in the spring of next year?"

"——What do you say, the grain doesn't move in Taicang, and the money to buy grain is put here in Asheng for a winter, and it can be multiplied several times in half a year?"

Speaking jokingly, Liu Pengzu also got up from his seat, stretched lazily, and stepped forward and sat down beside Liu Sheng.

I saw Liu Sheng indifferently lowering his head, looking at the copper coins in front of him, and he didn't forget to sneer and reply: "The grain they bought~"

"It's definitely going to be sold back to me."

"-It is indeed as they said: not a single grain of grain in Taicang will come out of the warehouse."

"But the princes 'put the money' here ······"

"Hey!"

"-Don't think about it~"

"How much it shrinks, it all depends on the spring of next year, whether I am in a good mood or not······"

was full of banter, and even had a vague tone of schadenfreude, which also caused Liu Pengzu to laugh and nod.

Secretly, I also roughly understood Liu Sheng's plan.

But like his cousin Dou Pengzu: Liu Pengzu, I don't want to see through this scene too early, and what kind of ending it will end.

On the contrary, at this moment, the copper coins placed in front of Liu Sheng attracted Liu Pengzu's attention.

"Huh?"

"Qin half two, Han three baht, Lu Hou eight baht, Taizong four baht······"

"Tsk, that's so miscellaneous;"

"In order to buy grain, the princes are afraid that they have searched all over their mansions?"

The slightly joking tone did not make Liu Sheng take his attention away from the few coins in front of him.

His gaze swept in front of him, and these four copper coins with different shapes, Liu Sheng's face also surged with a touch of strangeness.

Qin Banliang is the fruit of the unified weights and measures, unified currency and other systems implemented by the first emperor after the unification of the world, following the same track of cars and the same text of books.

Just like the name of 'half tael', each Qin half tael weighs half a tael (twelve baht);

The whole body is covered with copper, about the size of a silver dollar in later generations, and a square hole the size of a soybean is opened in the middle;

The top, bottom, left and right of the money face are respectively written with the words 'the sky is round and the place is round' in Qin seal.

——This is the most circulating, highest purchasing power, and most recognized coin in the Han Dynasty today.

···

And the next Han three baht is diametrically opposed to Qin Banliang.

The weight of about three baht is only a quarter of that of Qin Bantael, and the copper content is even more scarce to the naked eye;

It's about the same size as a one-dollar coin in later generations, but the inner hole can't be opened bigger than the outer ring!

If it weren't for the square inner hole and the faint copper yellow of the money body, Liu Sheng would only think that what was in front of him was a key ring with a round outer circle and a square inside······

On the narrow money face, which is not much wider than the key ring, the word 'three baht' is written on the left and right.

Just these two words~

Tsk, how do you say that······

- It looks like the words square and wen are written as 'put', and the left and right sides are separated, and they are engraved on the left and right sides of the money surface.

The word 'three' on the left side can't be written as three points of water;

The word 'baht' on the right side is even more seriously disproportionately slender, like the neck of a giraffe.

It's just such a slender 'three baht' two words, but it can really be recognized······

This is, for example, the least circulating, the least purchasing power, the least popular, and the least valuable coin today.

···

There are two coins left, which are three baht more normal than Taizu, that is, the key ring.

Eight baht after Lu, weighing about eight baht;

From the point of view of fineness, the copper content is lower than that of Qin Banliang, but it is also much higher than Taizu's three baht.

The size is about three baht, but the inner hole is more than half smaller.

As for Taizong's four baht, the proportion and copper content are similar to those of Lu Hou's eight baht, that is, the whole is smaller, the thickness is thinner, and the weight is only four baht.

If it is said that Qin Banliang is very popular and Taizu three baht is very unpopular, then the eight baht of Lu Hou and the four baht of Taizong are in between, that is, they are not very popular and will not be very annoying.

And these four copper coins, which have different sizes, weights, and even copper contents, are circulating at the same time in today's Han Dynasty!

Such a strange phenomenon naturally gave birth to an inexplicable desire for knowledge and an irrepressible curiosity in Liu Sheng's heart.

"Qin half weighs twelve baht, which is four times the three baht of Taizu, three times the four baht of Taizong, and one and a half times the eight baht of Lu Hou······"

"The copper content and fineness are also uneven;"

"——What does 'one money' mean in the popular sense?"

"A Qin and a half taels, or a three-baht, eight-baht, or four-baht?"

Thinking of this, the more puzzled Liu Sheng's face became, and the more he was interested.

After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Sheng finally raised his head and looked out of the palace gate, the thin figure that had stood on the side of the palace gate for a long time, like a pine tree.

"Summer Sparrow~"

"Come here, come over here, and ask you something."

(End of chapter)