After returning from a visit to the Li Mansion, Zhao Tuo fell into an extremely busy work. Very busy!

"The country is running at full capacity." Zhao Tuo sighed in his heart, according to his observation, the entire Qin State is now like a clockwork machine, busy and omnipresent.

In the newly conquered princely regions, a large number of officials need to be sent to take over local affairs, pacify the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, popularize the laws of the Qin State, and fight against the resistance forces.

The original Qin State will recruit the head of Qiantou to serve, start to build a road connecting Xianyang, and at the same time will renovate the roads between the counties.

In terms of military affairs, except for General Tu Sui, who was leading the army all the way west, gathering Han and Wei Zongfang along the way.

The direction of Shu County will also begin to recruit soldiers, transfer grain and straw, prepare to attack the southwest Yi, and then attack the distant Dian State all the way.

It's on the ground. Every department of the central government is also full of all kinds of affairs.

The court lieutenants were required to train the magistrates, adjudicate local crimes, and be responsible for extending the Qin law to the newly conquered Qi lands.

Zhisu Neishi was responsible for spring ploughing, and at the same time, he also had to prepare for the grain and straw after the nobles of the Six Kingdoms migrated to Guanzhong.

Even Zongzheng and Fengchang were busy with the expansion of the Zongmiao and the revision of the etiquette of the Qin State. Zhao Tuo, as one of the Shaofu of Jiuqing, is naturally very busy, in addition to him letting Zhang Han do the papermaking project, there are several major projects under his command that are in full swing.

One of the most important things is the matter of selling the world's soldiers to mint ploughshares and coins by the Shaofu.

With the order given, a large number of horse-drawn wagons carrying countless blades of the Six Nations came to the huge construction site on the south bank of Weishui.

There are tens of thousands of Qin people who served here, and under the command of the iron official, the collected blades of the Six Kingdoms were classified, and they had to remove the wooden parts of the weapons and stack them according to the different materials of copper and iron.

However, in the middle of the month, there are countless copper and iron hills here. Accompanied by his subordinates, Zhao Tuo personally came to the construction site to inspect the progress of the project, which was the first major project after he took office, and naturally he was not allowed to be careless.

"Yu Shaofu, according to statistics, there are more than 600,000 copper weapons and nearly one million iron weapons here. In addition to weapons, there are also a large number of copper and iron parts, as well as the leather of horse harness and vehicles, which are nearly two million yuan. Shaofu Gong Cheng Baigan followed Zhao Tuo's side, chattering and reporting.

Zhao Tuo bowed slightly. Among the swords of the Six Nations were a large number of iron weapons, which could not be used to mint coins, but if they were made into agricultural tools, they would be very large.

After the casting was completed, these agricultural tools were distributed to various counties and counties, which was greatly beneficial to the agricultural production of the Qin State, far more useful than just casting twelve Dajin figures for the emperor.

When I think of the Qin Emperor Jin people in history. Zhao Tuo asked Bai Gan: "Have you made the model of the Twelve Golden People?" Bai Gan hurriedly said: "The subordinate just asked someone to get the picture out, and he was about to present it to the Shaofu for inspection." If it is approved by the Shaofu, you can start to make a model for casting. As he spoke, Bai Gan asked his subordinates to take the silk paintings of the twelve golden men.

Zhao Tuo opened the silk painting and saw that it was twelve people with high noses and deep eyes, wearing barbarian costumes.

One by one looks quite majestic, if cast into a five-zhang high giant, it is really very powerful and domineering, which can be called a wonder of the world.

However, the twelve gold figures designed on the drawings are only one zhang high, and compared with the original history, they can only be regarded as a low-profile version, and the materials required are not much.

"One zhang?" Zhao Tuo frowned and said, "It's too high, isn't it taller than the emperor when you stand up, how can this work, the majesty of the emperor cannot be offended." Shrink them a little more, and make them all eight feet, according to the length of a real person. ”

"In addition, it is necessary to make the appearance of kneeling and bowing down, so that their height is lower than that of the emperor, so as to show the majesty of the king and the submission of Yidi."

"Oh, by the way, these golden people have to be different, don't make them the same. Don't be all men, you have to get some women to be among them, so that you can represent that all men and women in the world worship the emperor! Zhao Tuo imagined the needs of those figurine-made otaku in later generations, and fine-tuned some details.

Bai Gan wiped the sweat from his head and said, "What Shaofu said is that the subordinates will let people draw sketches again." Zhao Tuo nodded with satisfaction, with these twelve little golden figures on display in the Qin Palace, the emperor should not have any resentment.

After inspecting the place where the work was completed, determining the size of the gold man, as well as the type and quantity of farm tools to be cast later.

Zhao Tuo rushed back to Shaofu, and Yin Chang, the copper of Shaofu, also got the design plan of the new currency. There are many styles of coins from the era of the Seven Kingdoms Melee era.

In terms of shape alone, there are shovel coins, knife coins, and round coins. Each shape of the coin is divided into different shapes.

For example, in the round round money, there are two kinds of round holes and round square holes, and there is no shape. For example, the Banyu money and Lin Yuan money circulating in the Qin State are all round holes.

"Since the future generations will be called Brother Kong Fang, it is natural to use Fang Kong." Zhao Tuo set the shape of the new coins, all of which are round square holes.

This form has been tested by the next two thousand years, and it is not wrong to choose it. As for the patterns on the coins. The coins of this era were printed with characters, and most of them were the names of places or countries.

For example, there is money in Jiyinyuan

The word "Jiyin" means that the money was minted in the place of Jiyin. Another example is that there is money in the Eastern Periphery

The words "Eastern Zhou" represent that it was cast by the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. In addition, there are also words engraved with weight, such as Qin Banliang, which is printed on the coin

"Half two". However, because of Zhao Tuo's advice, the First Emperor decided not to print the words on the coins, but to print the dragon pattern instead.

This coinage was used as a symbol of himself and the Qin state. According to Yin Chang's design, it is a giant dragon circling around the square hole in the middle, and its dragon body is spreading, surrounding the money surface, at first glance, it is quite tasteful.

"There is a dragon printed on the money, and this dragon is the ancestral dragon!" Zhao Tuo was quite proud, although he wanted to cast

The proposal of "Qin Datou" was rejected by the emperor, but a dragon is not bad, this is a symbol of the first emperor, and it is still very meaningful.

Thousands of years later, when these coins are dug out of the ground, the dragon patterns on them may still be vivid, and I don't know how much they will be sold for.

After the shape and pattern are decided, it is time for the weight of the money. Zhao Tuo still exerted his innovative spirit here and carried out reforms according to his ideas.

The old coin of the Qin State, about half a tael. In the original history, after the unification of Qin Shi Huang, the currency generally followed the old system, using half a tael of money.

One tael in Qin is 24 baht, and half a tael is 12 baht. This is the plan offered by Yin Chang. But Zhao Tuo didn't feel good.

"Half a tael is too heavy, and it is a big money, it is not easy to carry, and it is easy to be scraped and privately cast, so it is better to halve it and cast six baht coins!" Zhao Tuo's mouth was full of words.

If he remembers correctly, the Qin State's half tael coin did not circulate for too long, just because the money was heavy and difficult to use, and in the later period, the money type was reduced and the weight was reduced.

When it came to the Han Dynasty, it first made a crude pod money, and then made an eight-baht coin, and it was only after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that a five-baht coin was made, which was regarded as a unified weight of the currency, and until the Sui Dynasty, a coin weighing five baht was still minted.

Since he, Zhao Tuo, is now in charge of the coinage, instead of using half a tael of coins that is destined to be eliminated by history, it is better to directly learn the practices of the Han Dynasty in one step.

However, although the five-baht coin has a long history and has passed the test of time, Zhao Tuo cannot directly copy it.

Because the reason why Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used five baht coins was because he changed the water virtue of the Han Dynasty to the earth virtue. The lucky number of Tude is five, so Han uses five baht.

"Qin Nai Shuide, Shang Liu."

"Therefore, the weight of the new coin should be six baht, which just symbolizes the six of my Qin country!" With a wave of his hand, Zhao Tuo directly cut Qin Qian's weight in half.

Yin Chang was a little worried: "The weight has changed so much, will the emperor agree?" ”

"Heh, how could the emperor disagree, I broke a copper coin into two pieces for him!" Zhao Tuo is very confident that after a half-tael coin weighing 12 baht is melted and recast, it can be turned into two six-baht coins, so that once it is done, the deposit will be doubled directly, will the emperor be unhappy?

Anyway, he, the young man who manages money, is very happy. Not to mention that the emperor loves six, and this six baht is also his lucky number.

Sure enough, after Zhao Tuo presented his new coin minting plan, the First Emperor expressed his satisfaction with the shape and weight of the new Qin coin designed by Zhao Tuo.

However, this emperor also has something to be dissatisfied with, that is, the name that Zhao Tuo came up with.

"Black Dragon Coins?"

"Back then, the first Jun Wengong went hunting and won a black dragon, which was the Rui of Water De. In the name of this prey, it does not show the majesty of me. ”

"This coin is still called the Dragon Pattern Coins."