Weird!

Very, very weird.

Zhang Liang sat down and looked around at the village, which had just picked up and started construction.

The village is not large, with only about 100 households, and it is only three or four miles of land, and each house has a yard with fences and stakes.

According to the situation of Xianyang that they have seen along the way, Liyi, which is more than 100 miles away from Xianyang City, is at least in a state of not loving his father and mother.

In addition, after the First Emperor ruled the world, the barrier between Wei and Qin was eliminated, and the geographical location of Liyi also decreased a lot.

Because it is on the south bank of Weishui, there is shipping, which makes Liyi lively.

But this kind of anger is all poverty at a glance.

It was a place where the poor and the prisoners of slavery lived.

This also directly leads to the fact that it is impossible for Mataili to be regarded as a treasure in the hands of internal history in terms of identity and status like the townships near Xianyang City.

This is conspicuous and visible, and such governance is reasonable.

But such a township is now the richest he has ever seen.

Everything here is full of weirdness.

"It's a long story, but it's not long, it happened two months ago."

The young man named Ma San also sat at the long table and said happily: "This pie in the sky has smashed on the head of our platform, no way, we have been poor all my life, and it is time for us to live a good life in the platform." ”

Zhang Liang choked up and asked, "What do you say?" ”

Ma San smiled and said, "I heard about this matter, and it started from more than two months ago, when the Great Law Order and the County Order Master went to Pinyang to find coal. ”

"I've also heard that the official errand of the matter is spreading, and the Great Law Decree tells the county commander what kind of economic way."

"It's just some messy things, saying that you can no longer use grain as a bargain, let alone trade with grain."

"We don't know, this is all inquired about later."

"But I don't know what's going on, the county magistrate gave us Ma Taili, one person sent five hundred yuan, our family of seventeen people, guess how much, it's eight thousand five hundred yuan!"

"The real fourteen gold, half a new gold, was thrown to me like that, and let me ...... Well, no, it's for my family to take the flowers. ”

"Don't pay it back, give it to us."

"Not only our family, but also one hundred and twelve households in Mataili, each of them, the county magistrate has issued five hundred dollars."

"You probably haven't understood it yet, that's right, as long as the people whose household registration is in Dongshan Tingmatai, Liyi Township, Xianyang, whether they are old people, children, young men, women, or men, according to the capita, the county magistrate sent five hundred yuan to each of us."

"And tell us plainly that the money is ours, and we can do whatever we want."

"Do you understand, if you don't understand, let's say it again."

Ma San rolled up his sleeves and drank a bowl of wine very boldly and said, "Five hundred yuan per person, the county commander sent it to us." ”

"Shhh

Looking at Ma San's arrogant appearance and listening to Ma San's bold words, many Confucian scholars sitting at a table stared at Ma San with straight eyes, staring at the Ma family that was still under construction, and staring at the busy and energetic people.

It's numb!

Zhang Liang was also numb.

Lu Jia was also numb.

If Ma San hadn't rolled up his sleeves and repeated it a few times, he would have thought he had heard it wrong.

After the Qin State unified the world and unified the currency, the currency of the world was subject to the Qin half tael, but because it was a new currency, it was in a state of serious insufficiency, which led to a lot of discrepancies in the quality of the Qin half tael, but this is not an important reason.

The important thing is that three coins and a bucket of corn, ten coins and ten beams of wood, and a horse of cloth eight feet long and eleven coins.

This price is extremely low compared to the Qi country in the past.

And this also means that Qin Ban is very precious, and one money can buy a lot of things.

It's hard to imagine.

500 yuan per person is used for three or four years for an ordinary peasant family.

What's more, it is still paid per capitation.

"Why?" Zhang Liang couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, why, why did the county order give you money?" Lu Jia also asked with a cold air.

"This is for no reason, the government will send you money, this, it sounds, it is incredible." The Confucian scholars also asked in shock.

"The specific reason, we don't know, but I didn't say it just now, what economic principles did the Great Law Decree tell the county magistrate, and the county magistrate sent us money, but, Guan Qiuzi, look at our ......" Ma San didn't care at all and pointed to the majestic tunnel:

"After we got the money, we divided a part of it and bought five ploughing cows, so that not only do we not have to borrow from the pavilion, but we can also rent cattle from other villages."

"Then each of our families filled the rice and grain tanks, and each of us bought copper-headed farming tools."

"Let's tell you the truth, we are also afraid that the county order will take back the money, so we can't wait to spend it all."

"So we went to Xianyang City together and bought a lot of fabrics, but after careful calculation, I felt that it was still a lot, so we bought the silk and satin worn by the officials, plus pots and pans."

"But it's still a lot, we thought, the houses in this village have been built for more than 20 years, the wind and rain have blown, many of the walls of the houses have fallen off, and some of them are still leaking and repairing, and they have the money to build new houses."

"No, the wood is cut by ourselves in the mountains, and the bricks of each family are bought for a hundred dollars, and the glutinous rice is just thought about it, just what kind of glutinous rice is used for a wall, and the mud is used, and the laborers are also a top two people."

Ma San said, drank another bowl, and said: "Who would have wanted to do this, especially the recent propaganda compound, which is crowded with people, from time to time people come to us to ask where to ask, there are many people, it looks like they are quite rich, hehe, they are quite generous." ”

"Let's think that this rich man loves to eat and drink, so we bought these meats and wine."

"Who knew that someone complained that our cooking was unpalatable, so I found a few cooks in Xianyang City, and this time it has been improved, and many people have come to us to eat and drink, but they have made a lot of money."

"Recently, we have been thinking about those people in Liyi, although they don't have much money, but they can make a few dollars occasionally with rice porridge or something."

"If we can set up a brick kiln, we don't have to worry about it in the future, but this brick kiln is very troublesome, and the county commander didn't give us approval, so we don't dare to build it indiscriminately."

"And this, the people in the neighborhood who are red-eyed also want the county commander to send them money, who knows that the county magistrate not only didn't give it, but also beat up all the troublemakers, and made a fuss to join our Ma Taili, and the county magistrate beat them again, and this one is honest."

"Don't say anything else, there are ten miles and eight towns around here, take a look, our Mataili can be regarded as having a good life with this ball."

Ma San is really a bold person, and he drank most of the pot of wine alone.

And listened to Ma San's babbling words.

I made things clear.

Zhang Liang and Lu Jia looked at the table full of haggis, mutton soup, mutton steamed buns, and warm rice wine, and they didn't even have the idea of moving fast.

Their minds were spinning rapidly.

"This is not a normal official behavior, and according to the situation in Xianyang, this is even less like the style of Feng Shijie in the internal history."

"This person is a good talent in terms of maintaining stability, and he can manage Xianyang, which has a complicated relationship, in an orderly manner, and he will definitely not do this kind of thing that directly upsets the balance in the township."

"And, obviously, the internal history is only for Matairi!"

Lu Jia couldn't help but shake his head, he couldn't understand what the intention of such an operation was.

"Could this be an experiment in the national policy, to observe the changes in Mataili, so as to see if this national policy can be fully implemented?" Zhang Liang frowned.

"No, because this is an abnormal means of stimulation, how big is a horse platform, but only a hundred and ten households, if this is a test of national policy, then one million people in Xianyang, even if it is a hundred yuan per person, it is enough for the scalp to numb." Lu Jia shook his head and said:

"Moreover, this is not what the government will do, using this way to make the people rich, even if the government has enough money, this is equivalent to directly disrupting the stable order, even if it is stupid, it will not implement such a national policy."

"So what's the meaning behind this, it's not just about making Mataili rich." Zhang Liang was even more puzzled, and said incomprehensibly: "If you think about it, if you send money for no reason and implement it in a single horse platform, you must want to confirm something through such behavior, which is certain." ”

"But what do you want to prove?" Lu Jia shook his head, not knowing what kind of reason was contained in it to support the reason for sending such a large sum of money.

Five hundred dollars is by no means a small amount.

"You can see that you are all big shots, discussing here, let's not bother!" Seeing that no one paid attention to him anymore, Ma San said goodbye and didn't want to bother anymore.

He has encountered a lot of such discussions, and it is not strange to listen to them.

If anyone could guess, he would love to hear it, why?

"Livelihood, trade, try, or prove something!"

But it was Ma San who had just stepped forward, and when he heard the young man in Tsing Yi get up and speak, he couldn't help but pause and looked at the young man in Tsing Yi.

"Confirm something, you mean?" Being reminded by Lu Jia like this, Zhang Liang woke up suddenly, and his eyes flashed again to scan the changes in the entire horse platform, like being struck by lightning.

Lu Jia couldn't help but exclaim: "If this is the case, this person's gaze surpasses the sages of the past, and it is enough to change the world." ”

Zhang Liang also shook his head vigorously, wanting to think of other possibilities, because if this is the case, "That's terrible, how did this person come up with it?" ”

Many Confucian students didn't understand, so they looked at the communication between Zhang Liang and Lu Jia, and couldn't help but feel dizzy and confused, but they really didn't understand.

"What are you talking about, two big shots?" Ma San is also smart and clever, so he couldn't help but ask.

"The difference between other things traded and money!" Lu Jia laughed at himself, sat down, couldn't help pouring a cup of binge drinking, and when he looked at Ma San again, he asked with a smile:

"If you were given five hundred measures of corn and five hundred pieces of money, what would you choose?"

Ma San said puzzledly: "Of course it's five hundred buckets of corn, do you still need to think about it?" ”

Lu Jia glanced at the fellow Confucian scholars with a smile, and asked Ma San again: "Five hundred buckets of corn, even if you eat seventeen people, you can't eat it all." ”

Ma San said as a matter of course: "As long as the corn is saved, I will save it until next year and eat it again, I can't eat it next year, I will eat it again the year after tomorrow, I am only too little, not too much, do you still need to think about it?" ”

Lu Jia asked: "If the harvest is good this year and the harvest is good tomorrow, you can't even hold the corn in your house." ”

Ma San said as a matter of course: "Then sell some of it, and there is something at home that needs money, and you have to sell some more, as for your question, I can't fit a granary, I'll just build another one, do something hard to live, what is there, there is so much food, then what am I worried about, just sit and eat and wait for death." ”

Lu Jia smiled and said, "So, I gave you five hundred dollars." ”

"You need to use this money to buy grain, to buy ploughing cattle, to buy farm tools, to buy cloth, to buy bricks and tiles, to buy pots and pans, because coins, just coins, cannot be eaten!"

"But coins can be traded for what you are now and the whole of the stables that seem to be a good day right now."

"When you have 500 buckets of corn, you think about saving it for this year, eating it again next year, and continuing to eat it later."

"When you have five hundred dollars, you buy cattle and farming tools, and then you buy enough food for your family, instead of stockpiling grain, and the rest of the money is because you are afraid of losing, so you buy silk and silk and build a new house."

"For you, the five hundred dollars are gone, but in exchange for the life you have now without food and clothing."

"However, for the internal history, or some people in the imperial court, the five hundred dollars can understand a truth, and it also makes Zai understand a truth."

"What is money?"

"The ancient transaction, barter, both parties are satisfied, a transaction is reached, it should be called an exchange rather than a transaction, the transaction should be equivalent, and the exchange is adjusted according to demand."

"So later, there was a coin as a unified thing to measure the value of an object, 'The coin of Yu Xia, gold is three grades: yellow, white, red, money, cloth, knife, or turtle shell."

"Since coins are artificially created, if everyone can create them, but they are different, then there is no value at all, and if everyone can make gold, silver, copper, cloth, turtle shells, it is not conducive to the exchange of goods."

"Therefore, in the past, in order to stabilize the transaction, the vassal states unified their own coin styles, and cloth coins prevailed in the land of Han, Wei, Zhao and Sanjin, Qi Yan and Zhao prevailed in knife coins, Zhou, Qin, Zhao and Wei prevailed in round coins, and Chu prevailed in copper shells."

"Because of this, the currency transactions of various countries are not interconnected, and the transaction is difficult."

"After the Qin State unified the world, the unified currency was Qin half taels, whether it was cloth coins, knife coins, round coins, or copper shells, they could no longer be traded, but they could be exchanged for Qin half taels."

"So we don't just have to ask ourselves, what exactly is this coin?"

"Cloth coins, knife coins, round coins, cloth, and turtle shells can all be coins, and Qin half taels can also be, so I make a kind of Jia half tael, and Brother Zifang makes a good half tael, can it also be traded as currency?"

"Otherwise, because we know each other and trust each other, the Jia half tael and good half tael we make are things that are recognized by us, things that we trust, and we are sure that they can be traded to what they want, so they can be circulated between us."

"But we don't know each other with the villagers in this platform, and naturally, people will only think that the coins we approve of in our hands are scrap copper and worthless."

"And we took out Qin Banliang, but the villagers of Mataili can give us rich food, so as to complete this transaction, this is because Qin Banliang is something that is recognized and trusted by both us and the villagers of Mataili, and this is the currency."

Lu Jia said eloquently: "Money itself does not have any value, but because it is recognized by us, it has value. ”

As he spoke, Lu Jia took out his heavy money bag, poured it on the table, and said with a smile: "It can't be eaten as rice and wheat, nor can it be eaten as chicken, duck and pork, let alone like pots and pans, can't quench thirst, can't shelter from the wind and rain, and even he is not as good as my soles, and the soles can still protect the soles of my feet, but it corresponds to the soles of my feet." ”

"But now it's recognized by all of us, and we can use it to trade everything I say."

"But this is only superficial, what kind of truth do we have to use it to summarize, and what kind of life should we exchange it for, from this ordinary food transaction to all the transactions in the world."

"As Brother Ma said, with food, he will hide the grain in his warehouse, but the grain is determined, God appreciates the food, the beauty is everything, God does not appreciate the food, the mourning is all over the wilderness, the people cannibalize, this is uncontrollable, in order not to starve to death, he needs to hide the grain for his own use, hide it endlessly, use the grain as currency, where does the world come from currency."

"In the same way, in the present gold and copper cloth, among them, cloth is the most uncontrollable thing, more or less like grain, which can be created, used or hidden, and it is indescribable."

"And gold is a rare thing, it is unspeakably expensive, and it is used very little, which is for the imperial court, if it is hidden for personal purposes like grain, there will be no currency in the world."

In the past, Guan Zhong wanted to destroy the Chu State, and Qi Henggong searched for a lot of money at the price of 80,000 yuan a deer, causing the Chu State to make a living by selling deer, but at the same time, the Qi State bought and sold surplus grain on the border of Qi and Chu, so that the Chu State thought that he had enough food and could arbitrarily encourage the people to sell deer.

I don't know that the state of Chu has delayed the agricultural time because of this, but Guan Zhong ordered the border of the state of Chu to be closed at this time, and the grain sales of the state of Chu were cut off, as a result, the rice family of the state of Chu rose wildly, the people were hungry, and the people of the state of Chu fled to the state of Qi one after another, and the state of Chu was greatly injured because of this, and gave in to the state of Qi three years later. ”

"If copper coins are issued indiscriminately, prices will inevitably rise, and people's livelihood will suffer, so copper coins will be rare things."

"If you hide it like food and don't use it, there will be no currency in the world."

"If there is no currency, there is no transaction, and if there is no transaction, there is a need for exchange, and it is not a big mess."

"As I said before, money has no value in itself, and everyone needs to trade it for what they need, that is, if I buy the food on this table with money, Ma San can get the corresponding money, and he needs to use money to buy a ploughing ox or other things, and the farmer who sells the ox or others to get the money needs to buy more forage calves or other things, and he who sells calves forage or other things needs to buy more fields, hire more cattle herders, or use more other uses."

"In this way, it will be like the flow of rivers on the earth, the mountains and rivers stretch endlessly, over and over again, endlessly, nourishing the people, and maintaining stability in the world."

"The imperial court, there is no need to worry about the preciousness of gold and copper, and the rebellion of cloth."

"The people of the world need no longer worry about having nothing to buy and nothing to sell."

"When money is constantly circulating, it is the day when the people are rich."

"And the government gave Ma Taili 500 yuan precisely to see clearly, to see clearly how this currency circulates in the world, and more importantly, to truly understand currency and distinguish money from grain."

"Money is money, and the trick depends on our common approval, depending on whether the imperial court has the power to maintain the normal flow of money."

Whoa!

Listen to Lu Jia's long narration.

The Confucian scholars sitting around the long table got up and bowed very respectfully, and Zhang Liang also got up and bowed: "Brother Xie Jia's teaching, today's words made me suddenly enlightened, this theory should be the theory of currency!" ”

Let's go!

Ma San next to him was stupid, and couldn't help but exclaim: "You, you, who are you?" ”

Lu Jia sighed, although he also returned the salute, but said in frustration: "I, just pick up people's teeth, what kind of currency, the real knowledge here has already been understood in the circulation of five hundred coins!" ”

Hearing this, Zhang Liang's body was stunned, and he also sighed: "Liang, I sigh that I am not such a person!" ”

When many Confucian scholars heard this, their faces also faded, and they followed the mourning voice: "It is true that as Brother Liang and Brother Jia said, we are not as knowledgeable as this person!" ”

But at this time.

A Confucian student asked suspiciously: "It's just that the call is still confused, Ma Sanyi's household is 8,500 yuan, why don't you buy real estate in Xianyang City, move to Xianyang City, follow the business, and live in the imperial city as the people of the Son of Heaven, but you want to buy farming cattle, rebuild houses, live in the old land, and continue to work." ”

Hear the words.

Not only many Confucian scholars looked at Ma San.

Even Lu Jia and Zhang Liang looked at Ma San.

Truly.

Eight thousand five hundred gold, which is as much as fifteen gold.

Although he is not hugely rich, he can already make a living in Xianyang, and he no longer has to cultivate the farmland and be accompanied by heaven and earth.

Before he digested what Lu Jia said about Ma San at length, he couldn't help but be stunned and stopped.

But at this time.

A laughing children's voice suddenly appeared at the patchwork table,

"Because peasants have always been peasants, good citizens of farming!"

"The people take food as the sky, they have left this land, and they have no tricks, how can they survive in the fiercely contested Xianyang City?"

"There is no relatives of the powerful yet, the word Dou Da is not yet acquainted, and there is no leaf to rely on if there is a slight wave, how to survive?"

"And here, there is land to nourish and feed, and there are villagers to help in poverty, born and grown up in Si, how to give up?"