A royal village outside the city of Lunu was changed into a coinage bureau.

A group of Shaofu craftsmen who came to Zhongshan Country with Shi Fen, as well as mountains of coinage raw materials and various tools, were placed here.

After arranging Gongsun Hong and others to inspect and supervise spring ploughing, Li Yunze was stationed here to supervise the large-scale coinage.

The reason why he attaches so much importance is that he is well aware of the importance of money, and secondly, he knows that if these metal currencies are left unsupervised, they can easily cause accidents.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the treasurers of the Hubu Silver Treasury, in order to be able to steal the treasury silver, even practiced the jaw-dropping deflationary thaumaturgy.

In addition to copper coins, gold coins are also minted in this coinage.

A gold coin is worth 10,000 dollars, and stealing ten or eight coins will make a fortune, of course, it is necessary to pay attention to it.

It's good to say that copper coins are good to formulate rules and regulations and arrange people to implement them, after all, the value of copper coins is not high.

But here for the gold coins, Li Yunze is basically staring at it by himself, which can be called a strict defense.

But even so, it can't prevent the loss of gold coins from happening.

"The King."

Yan Yi, with a look of shame on his face, saluted Li Yunze, "After counting, there were 216 gold coins minted yesterday, but when they were put into storage, there were only 214 gold coins, and two gold coins were lost. ”

Li Yunze looked at the hydraulic foundry, which had been suspended for a long time and was still closely searching, rubbing his chin and asking, "How much have you lost in total?" ”

"My Majesty, thirty-three gold coins have been lost in these days. Minister, guilty. ”

Yan Yi is in charge of the income and expenditure of money and grain, and Li Yunze is also in charge of the Money Bureau.

But now that such a thing has happened, he, the person in charge, is naturally responsible.

"What about you, you're still too civil."

Li Yunze didn't directly punish Yan Yi, but talked about habits.

The embarrassed Yan Wei here took the initiative to say, "The minister asked the king to transfer Lieutenant Zhi to investigate thoroughly." ”

These words made Li Yunze laugh, "If you really want to come over and investigate thoroughly, then all the workers here will die." Overkill, you can't do it. ”

Zhi Du couldn't find out how the gold coins were lost, and with his style, he must have disposed of all the gold coins that could be accessed.

These people are just craftsmen, not local tycoons.

Moreover, only a very small number of people steal gold coins, and the vast majority of craftsmen are innocent.

"This matter."

Looking at the craftsmen in front of him who only had a piece of cloth around their waists and were busy bare-chested, Li Yunze's eyes seemed to be smiling, "It's just a small means, and look at the means of this king." ”

The security at the Mint is so tight that no one can steal the coins except for the artisans who have direct access to the coins.

And the craftsmen are almost all clean and slippery, and the only place where they can hide things is Gu Doyle.

This kind of thing, those silver treasury kudding in later generations have already been perfect, but no one except Li Yunze knows about this era.

You know, that's two hundred and fifty grams, and that's half a pound of gold, who would have thought that it could be hidden in such a place.

Even if Yan Yi thought of it, he wouldn't check them one by one.

First of all, he was not taught to do such humiliating things.

The second is that people in this era value face and reputation very much, and once it is mandatory to inspect it, it will cause the craftsmen to die of shame.

Of course, this kind of thing will not have the slightest pressure on Zhidu to come over.

Li Yunze used the simplest method, that is, to bring a metal detector from the modern world.

Naturally, there were sergeants to do such things.

Su Ang was a craftsman in Shaofu, and he followed him to Zhongshan Country and was arranged to work in this coinage bureau.

When he saw the copper coin, he didn't care, because although the copper coin was good, it was not worth much, and it was not worth selling for himself.

By the time he was transferred to the hydroelectric factory to mint gold coins, his eyes seemed to turn golden.

Su Ang is actually a pseudonym, he is not surnamed Su but surnamed thief.

That's right, it's the thief who robbed the house.

There are various schools of thought among the hundreds of schools, and the almost bizarre thief is also one of them.

The founder of the thief is the thief, but the head of the peak thief.

The thief is the direct descendant of the thief, and the family history is the origin.

In fact, the thieves have also left their names in the history books, such as Meng Yanjun, who once recruited 3,000 guests, many of whom were thieves.

When Meng Weijun was imprisoned in Xianyang and was about to be killed, it was the thieves who disguised themselves as dogs and risked their lives to steal a white fox fur worth thousands of gold from the palace of the Great Qin Dynasty, and offered it to the concubine of King Zhaoxiang to intercede before he was able to escape.

This is the story of the dog thief.

But that's not the end of the story.

When Meng Yanjun fled to Hangu Pass, because it was stipulated that the rooster should be switched on and off after the rooster crowed, Meng Yanjun, who was eager to escape, asked the thieves under the door to learn the rooster crow, causing the rooster to crow in the pass and escape.

This is the story of the rooster's crowing.

Roosters and dogs are thieves who do it.

After Qin unified the world, most of the hundreds of schools except the Legalists were attacked.

Like a thief, the Mo family was even more attacked.

As a last resort, the thieves can only survive incognito.

When he arrived at the Han Dynasty, he still didn't want to see the thieves and the Mo family, so the thieves could only continue to remain incognito until now.

The thief has no loyalty to the Han at all, and stealing gold coins is very peaceful.

As for the technology of stealing gold coins, it can only be said that the chicken and dog thieves are nothing at all among Taoists, but they are just entry-level techniques.

If you get the true inheritance of your ancestors, you can take away two at a time at your peak!

The same is true today, the thief with two gold coins, wiped beads of sweat with a tired face, followed the workers in front of him in a line, and walked outside.

He has always scoffed at the inspection of the sergeants, and he has the ability to steal the house

'Didi Didi ~~~'

The sergeant with the stick in his hand swept in front of the thief, and the seemingly ordinary stick suddenly made a strange noise, which frightened everyone.

However, the sergeant over there was overjoyed, and flew up directly and threw the ignorant and sluggish thief to the ground.

"Caught! The thief who stole the gold coins was caught by so-and-so! ”

The Han law inherits the Qin law, and those who catch thieves should be rewarded with one-tenth of the theft.

The sergeant, of course, was excited.

You know, there are dozens of gold coins lost here.

After the sergeant braved the hardships to probe and retrieve the goods, he really took out two yellow gold coins from the thief's body.

This person actually secretly brought in a special potion, and bent the gold coin to hide it.

From then on, the craftsmen had to inspect not only when they went out, but also when they came in.

There is nothing more to say.

Zhang Tang, who was in charge of hearing the case, went to report to Li Yunze after the interrogation.

"The king, the thief said that he was a thief and was willing to serve the king."

"Huh."

Li Yunze, who was dealing with official business, chuckled lightly and asked casually, "Han Lu, how to deal with it?" ”

This is where Zhang Tang is most familiar, and he immediately responded aloud, "King, the Han law 'horse thieves die, cattle thieves increase, so the capital is important and the capital is not light'." The thief is a craftsman of the Minting Bureau, and stealing the gold coins of the Minting Bureau without permission is a prison guard who steals from himself and should be punished. moreover

The amount of money stolen is huge, and it should be taken seriously. According to the law, it should be beheaded. ”

"Hmm."

Li Yunze nodded: "Deal with it according to the law." ”

If he commits a crime, he will be punished, and there is no such thing as a crime where he can still ask the sufferer for compensation.

After Zhang Tang left, Gongsun Hong, who was coordinating with government affairs, also lowered his head and continued to be busy with the work in hand.

If Li Yunze had shown a slight tendency to accept useful talents before, he would immediately come forward to debate with Zhang Tang and recruit talents for the king.

Even if it's a rooster and a dog thief, that's talent!

I can't say when, it will play a key role, and Meng Weijun is the best show.

Without the help of the rooster and dog thieves, Meng Weijun would have died in Hangu Pass.

It's just that Li Yunze simply ordered the execution, so Gongsun Hong naturally acted as if nothing had happened, and he would definitely not be strong, and he thought that he was good enough to take in talents for the king.

You must know how to do things, and you must not work against the king.

Gongsun Hong, who has been a small official for many years, can be said to have a deep understanding of this.

The theft came to an end when he was beheaded and the stolen gold coins were recovered.

Before they figured out how the sergeants found out, the craftsmen who had other intentions didn't dare to make any more moves.

The commerce and trade of Zhongshan are very developed, and the caravans from the south to the north and the east to the west can be said to be endless, and large and small caravans can be seen on the official road at any time.

In addition to its own advantages, the attractiveness of its high-quality products that have appeared in the last two years is also an important reason.

The most popular are white paper, as well as books that have been brushed by printing.

Because the people who can buy these things are basically not bad for money, and the profits are high enough, they are naturally welcomed by the caravans.

The second is the butcher shop for beef and mutton production, cheese, trained cattle and so on.

Of course, these things are still relatively one-sided, and there are not many consumers.

The real big head is the various iron tools that the craftsmen and supervisors outside the city keep making day and night.

I don't know why, the iron ware created by Zhongshan Guojiang is very good in quality, both in appearance and quality, it is far superior to other places, so it has always been the favorite of the caravans.

The caravans also brought a large amount of supplies to Zhongshan, the most of which were iron and fuel.

Recently, there are a lot of caravans that are not caravans, they are officials. Shang is the team of Shaofu.

Shaofu's convoy transported large quantities of copper, gold, and various other materials to the Mint Bureau outside the city of Lunu.

After that, the minted copper coins and gold coins were loaded into carts and transported all the way back to Chang'an City.

The ownership of these things is actually in the hands of Chang'an, and Zhongshan is just processing with incoming materials on the surface.

But in fact, only Li Yunze and Yan Yi know how many raw materials came in and how many copper coins and gold coins were processed.

The price difference is very large, and Li Yunze also stayed with peace of mind, which is counted as a processing fee.

These processing fees play a huge role in promoting the development of Zhongshan.

The Shaofu convoy transporting copper coins and gold coins set off and left, and when they returned to Chang'an City in the south, several men in the herbal tea shed on the roadside also got up and followed.

Wealth touches people's hearts, and there are always people who are not afraid of death who want to be rich with their lives.