Chapter 503: Black Dragon Coins
"In this world, there will be no more records of Emperor Qin collecting the world's soldiers in the future, and casting them as the twelve golden men."
"The wonders of Daqin have been lost by me." When Zhao Tuo left the Qin Palace, there was still a smile on the corner of his mouth.
He changed history again. With his Zhao Tuo's incorruptible tongue, he successfully persuaded Qin Shi Huang to no longer cast twelve golden men with the soldiers of the world who had gathered.
strangled to death in the cradle this matter that was only to satisfy personal desires and was not beneficial to the country by working hard and wasting money.
This time, the world's blades collected by the Qin State will be divided into two parts: iron and bronze. After most of the iron tools are melted, they will be used to cast agricultural tools, that is, Zhao Tuo's so-called sword-casting ploughs to help with agricultural work.
In addition, a small part of the iron will be melted into twelve small gold figures, which will be placed in the palace for the emperor as decorations, which can be regarded as a small compensation for the desire to collect in his heart.
As for the bronze side. In the end, after consideration, the First Emperor decided to melt all the bronze artifacts and turn them into coins to promote the unification of the world's currency.
As for the fact that his head should be printed on the coin for the world to admire, the emperor did not agree.
An important reason is that if the coin is damaged and the avatar is damaged, isn't it an insult to the supreme emperor?
How can this kind of thing work! The emperor is supreme and will not allow anyone to blaspheme! In addition, in actual operation, the half tael of coins circulated in the Qin State has a hole in the middle, and it is not easy to print a head image on it.
If it is made into a coin without holes, it will not be able to be strung together, compared to the current Qin half two coins, it is not convenient in circulation, so in the end this matter was not agreed.
However, the First Emperor did not knock out Zhao Tuo's idea with one shot, but instead came up with a good idea by himself.
The reason why the Qin State is still virtuous is that the ancestor Qin Wengong went out hunting and obtained a black dragon in the wild, which is auspicious.
Therefore, the emperor's head cannot be printed on the coin, but the black dragon can be printed on the coin.
With the hole as the center, the dragon shape is tattooed all around! This is what the First Emperor himself thought. Coins printed with black dragons circulate all over the world, which is a new atmosphere of the new dynasty and can show the majesty of his first emperor.
The minting of new coins was just used to promote the policy of unifying the world's currency. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the old currencies of the previous seven countries, including the Qin State, were abolished, and only new currencies were circulated from then on, so as to achieve a great unification in currency.
At the same time, the black dragon is the symbol of the Qin Empire, and the black dragon is tattooed on the coin, which can declare the majesty of his Great Qin to the head of the world.
Where the black dragon is located, it is the territory of Great Qin, and this practice can unite people's hearts to a certain extent!
In addition, this black dragon can also be used as an anti-counterfeiting mark to crack down on people who mint private money. Those who cast fake money can't make a black dragon, and it is difficult to circulate private money, and it is easy to be exposed, so good! Zhao Tuo thought to himself.
As the young minister in charge of the coinage, although he has been appointed for less than a day, he has already begun to do his duty and prepare a plan to crack down on the criminals who make counterfeit coins.
"Although I have lost the twelve golden men of the Qin Emperor, I have left a new cultural symbol for the Great Qin of this world."
"Black Dragon Coins!" This is the title of the new coin presented by Zhao Tuo when he came up with the idea of tattooing a dragon on the money of the first emperor.
It sounds weird, but it's better than half a tael. Thinking of this, Zhao Tuo was quite proud, and walked out of the Qin Palace with light steps.
…… The side hall of the Qin Palace. The First Emperor retracted his gaze, turned his head to look at Zhao Gao who was standing in the hall, and said: "This Zhao Shaofu seems to be a little dissatisfied with the gold caster." Zhao Gao's scalp was numb, and he hurriedly bowed down and said: "The whole world is owned by His Majesty, and His Majesty wants to cast gold, and no one dares to object." ”
"The words of the minister and the young government should be for the sake of state affairs. If I want to unify the currency of the world, I must consume a lot of copper, and this batch of weapons is also beneficial to the country. And the matter of coinage is under the control of Shaofu, and the minister feels that the reason why Zhao Shaofu suggested using the weapons of the Six Kingdoms to mint coins is because of his duty, not because he is dissatisfied with His Majesty's gold mintman. ”
"Hehe, what a duty." The First Emperor smiled and shook his head. He approved Zhao Tuo's suggestion because the reasons put forward by Zhao Tuo were indeed very convincing.
Casting swords into ploughshares can help farming. Bronze coinage was able to help the Qin State unify its currency. These are real national events.
In particular, dragon coins were made and popularized all over the world, completing something that had never been done since ancient times
How great it would be to have a "unified currency"! Even if it is the three emperors and five emperors of the ancients, it can't be reached.
If this is done, it will add glory and luster to his name as the First Emperor. At the same time, it will also bring him great satisfaction.
Compared with this, the attraction of the twelve gold casters has weakened a lot. As an imposing emperor, the First Emperor knew how to choose.
"This Zhao Tuo can always come up with some strange ideas, I appointed him as the Shaofu, and I really used it right."
"I don't know, what else can he make for me?" He looked out of the hall, a look of anticipation in his eyes.
…… Shaofu Bureau.
"Chief, I'll leave it to you here." The former Shaofu Zhang Song had a bitter face, and handed over the affairs here to the new Shaofu Zhao Tuo.
"Thank you Zhang Jun, if there is no help from Zhang Jun this time, I will have to take a lot of time if I want to master Shaofu as soon as possible." Zhao Tuo smiled and thanked him.
This former Shaofu is a loyal person, and he has been waiting for him to come to the Shaofu official office to hand him over.
After meeting Zhao Tuo, Zhang Song gave a detailed explanation to Zhao Tuo about many precautions in managing the Shaofu, the situation of some major projects being carried out, and the situation of the officials in the official office.
This made Zhao Tuo, although he was a newcomer, he already had a general understanding of the entire Shaofu organization.
"The chief is polite." Looking at the extraordinarily young face in front of him, Zhang Song sighed secretly in his heart. From the high-ranking Jiuqing Shaofu, he was relegated to the distant Huiji County in the blink of an eye, how could he be willing in his heart.
If someone else takes over the position of Shaofu, Zhang Song will definitely be extremely resentful in his heart, but in the face of Zhao Tuo, he doesn't dare, and even bows his head to make friends.
Nothing else, just because this young man is the brightest new star of today's empire, the great hero of the unification of the world, and the son-in-law of the emperor.
Whether it is the title or merit, or the emperor's favor, Zhao Tuo is far more than him Zhang Song, so where does he dare to resent, he can only sigh in his heart for his bad luck.
Looking at the former Shaofu with a bitter face in front of him, Zhao Tuo could probably guess the other party's thoughts. He smiled slightly and said, "I went to the land of Wuyue before to chase the rebel Xiong Qi. I know a lot about the place of Huiji, and the Yue Jun who belonged to Daqin also has a lot of friendship with me. Since Zhang Jun is going to Huiji to be the county guard this time, I should inform Zhang Jun of the things that happened there, so that Zhang Jun can have a detailed situation. Zhang Song immediately showed joy on his face and thanked him repeatedly.
The land of Wu Yue is simply a place where barbarians live in the Central Plains, especially those barbaric Yue people, which makes Zhang Song feel afraid when he thinks about it, and now Zhao Tuo is willing to share the experience there, which is naturally a great thing for him.
"This Zhao Shaofu led the troops to defeat the Yue people before and surrendered to the king of Yue, and this time he went to Huiji, and maybe he could borrow his name." Thinking of this, Zhang Song was full of joy, and even the complaint against Zhao Tuo in his heart was gone, he only felt that this Zhao Shaofu was also a kind person.
Half an hour later, the new Huiji Taishou Zhang Song happily said goodbye to Zhao Tuo and left. Shaofu has completely become Zhao Tuo's territory.
"Come on, call me all the young mansions." As soon as Zhang Song left, Zhao Tuo restrained the smile on his face and sent someone to call his subordinates.
Under Shaofu, there are a total of six Shaofu Cheng, all of whom are Qianshi's rank Lu and belong to the deputy position of Shaofu.
"Meet Shaofu." The six Shaofu Cheng had been waiting outside for a long time, and when they heard Zhao Tuo's call at this moment, they all had respectful faces.
They stood in front of Zhao Tuo, and they didn't dare to make a sound. Zhao Tuo asked them to introduce themselves first, so that they could understand each other face-to-face.
"The subordinate is Yin Chang, the copper of the Shaofu, who is responsible for oral taxation and coinage."
"The subordinate is the Shaofu worker Cheng Baigan, who is in charge of the utensils and is in charge of the examination room, Zuo Yi and other workshop functions." …… Among the six Shaofu Cheng, what caught Zhao Tuo's attention were Shaofu Tongcheng Yin Chang and Shaofu Gongcheng Baigan.
Yin Chang was a long-bearded man in his forties, with a calm voice and a shrewd and capable voice.
According to what Zhang Song said before, this Yin Chang is not from a family, and he is all based on his ability. He also has a brother Yin Tong, who is a general under Feng Wuxue, who has many military merits and is the chief of the right.
As for Bai Gan, a young man, he has a yellow face and a short beard, he is from the Bai family in Yixian County, and he has quite a background, and he can enter the door with a relationship.
Zhao Tuo silently went through the information of these two people in his mind, but he didn't care too much, no matter how big the background of these subordinates was, could they still have him?
The reason why he paid attention to these two people was because they were responsible for the next affairs of the soldiers who sold the world.
After Zhao Tuo announced the edict of the First Emperor, he began to issue orders: "Bai Gongcheng, your department is responsible for counting the collected soldiers of the world, and separating copper and iron. Iron tools are cast from your department into ploughshares and other agricultural tools. As for the bronze ware, it was transported to Yin Tongcheng and waited for the new coins to be minted. As he spoke, Zhao Tuo turned his head to look at Yin Chang again, and instructed: "Yin Tongcheng, you have to first get a few patterns of the dragon pattern coin, and I should present it to Jinshang, if Jinshang is satisfied, I will mint new coins according to that pattern." Can you remember? Zhao Tuo's voice fell.
Yin Chang, Bai Gan and the other Shaofu Cheng hurriedly surrendered their promises without the slightest pause. Zhao Tuo nodded with satisfaction, he is now a leader, these things don't need to be handled by his own hands at all, just give orders, and his subordinates will complete his orders.
However, this is limited to what is within the cognition of these subordinates. If they want to come up with something they have never seen or even thought about, I'm afraid Zhao Tuo will have to go into battle in person.
Zhao Tuo hesitated for a moment, today was his first day in office, and he didn't want to make a big move. But he had been trying to build that thing for years, and now that he had the opportunity in front of him, he really didn't want to wait any longer.
Zhao Tuo thought about it slightly, but remembered someone.
"Bai Gongcheng, Zhang Han of the examination room, is it your subordinate?" Bai Gan's head was pondering the matter of destroying the world's blades and building farm tools, and when he heard Zhao Shaofu's call, he hurriedly bowed down and said: "Back to Shaofu, Zhang Han of the examination office is a subordinate of the subordinates, who is responsible for the main equipment." ”
"Well, let the examiner come here to see me." Zhao Tuo's eyes lit up. He wanted to give Zhang Han a task that would be famous for eternity.