Chapter 7 Plan for a rainy day
The three of them looked at the halberd held by Liu Tianhao's hands blankly, and they were dumbfounded for a while.
Seeing the expressions of the three of them, Liu Tianhao couldn't help but smile slightly, and while handing the halberd back to Tai Shici, he turned his head to look at Mi Fang and said, "Zifang shouldn't regret it, right?" ”
Mi Fang hadn't answered yet, but Mi Zhu over there replied first, "What did the lord say?" The divine soldier should be a hero, and there is no one in my Mi family to make this halberd, and it should be made by Ziyi. ”
When Mi Zhu said this, Mi Fang Tai Shi Ci was taken aback again, "Lord? ”
Immediately, the two immediately turned their heads to look at Liu Tianhao, but they saw Liu Tianhao smiling and silent, and the two of them were suddenly surprised.
Mi Fang immediately bowed to Liu Tianhao and said, "Mi Fang Mi Zifang pays a visit to the lord." ”
Liu Tianhao hurriedly helped Mi Fang up and said, "Zifang is exempt." He turned his head to Tai Shici and said, "Ziyi, why don't you hurry up and thank Zifang for giving him a halberd?" ”
Tai Shi Ci thanked Mi Fang Mi Zhu and said, "Thank you two brothers for giving you the halberd, Ci will not insult the name of the ghost god." ”
What everyone didn't expect was that Tai Shi Ci, who got the ghost halberd, was under pressure and practiced martial arts even harder every day, which made Tai Shi Ci make a lot of progress.
After breakfast the next day, Mi Fang went to take care of the family's business. Tai Shi Ci just finished practicing, and was also caught by Mi Zhen to play, and his name is beautiful: familiar with Xuzhou City.
Tai Shici's resentful eyes before he left made Liu Tianhao and Mi Zhu laugh.
Mi Zhu led Liu Tianhao to his study, and ordered the servants to stay away and forbid anyone to approach.
Liu Tianhao began his plan to transform the Mi family, looked up and asked Mi Zhu, "Zizhong, can you tell me the specific situation of the Mi family today?" ”
Mi Zhu was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "The ancestors of the Mi family started by operating reclamation, and until now, all kinds of goods have been sold, and the business has spread to the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, among which Yizhou, Liangzhou and Youzhou Liaodong are rarely involved; At present, there are tens of thousands of servants and diners, and the assets should be hundreds of millions. ”
When Liu Tianhao heard Mi Zhu say this, he was shocked. He knew that the Mi family was the head of several wealthy families in the late Han Dynasty, but he didn't expect its financial resources to be so rich? No wonder Liu Xuande has developed so fast since he came to Xuzhou. Immediately calmed down and asked again,
"So how many copper coins does the Mi family have in stock now?"
Mi Zhu replied respectfully, "Nearly 70 million." ”
Liu Tianhao suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, most of the Mi family's property was used to store copper coins.
Fortunately, I asked like this, otherwise I would have to cry to death in the future, and the Mi family would also have to cry to death. It is estimated that the reason why the Mi family later followed Liu Bei in history is also related to this batch of copper coins. Two years later, this batch of copper coins was basically completely scrapped, and there was no purchasing power at all, so they could only forge weapons and equipment. By that time, Mijia's assets should also shrink significantly.
Since the Mi family is now with him, then he is bound to save this Mi family, and he immediately corrects the way.
"Zizhong, the Mi family needs to replace this huge batch of copper coins with copper, iron, salt and grain as soon as possible, or exchange them for other rare things, such as the ghost halberd selected by Ziyi before, no matter how bad it is, it can also help the poor people of Xuzhou, at least it can earn a good reputation."
When Mi Zhu heard this, he was quite puzzled, so he asked, "Why did the lord arrange it like this?" ”
Liu Tianhao seemed to have to make Mi Zhu clear thoroughly, so he continued, "Since I entered the WTO, I have also mastered a few copper coins with Ziyi Hunting, don't you think that the copper coins of the current Han Dynasty are too badly worn?" ”
Mi Zhu hurriedly nodded to indicate that he knew the situation.
So Liu Tianhao continued, "These copper coins were all minted from Emperor Guangwu to Emperor Zhang, even if they are the latest copper coins, they should have been in circulation for one hundred and twenty or thirty years; Since Emperor He, the imperial court has never minted new money, and even old money has never been recast. ”
Mi Zhu didn't know what the problem would be with the minting of the old and new money, so he continued to stare at Liu Tianhao, expecting him to continue.
Liu Tianhao thought to himself, Mi Zhu is still an ancient person after all, and he will not have the thinking of a modern person, so he continued to preach,
"When the world is peaceful, there is no big problem with this batch of copper coins, but if the world is in chaos, the people of Li don't know whether the imperial court can pacify the world, if the world is calm, then the money of the Han Dynasty can still be used; If, I mean, if, like Emperor Gaozu destroyed Qin and built the Han Dynasty, can Qin money still be used? It is bound to recast new money and melt Qin money into Han money! ”
With such an explanation, Mi Zhu suddenly reacted, if you want to exchange old money for new money, then the old money, which has always worn out most of the time, can only be replaced with half-run new money. What's more, the new imperial court may also directly confiscate all the old money, instead of converting it into exchange. Thinking of this, Mi Zhu couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat,
"The lord is wise and knowledgeable! I'm going to arrange it. As he spoke, he wanted to go out.
Liu Tianhao hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Zizhong, don't worry, this matter will take a long time, don't be in a hurry, now I still have some things to tell you." ”
Mi Zhu realized that he was a little out of shape, and hurriedly confessed to Liu Tianhao an abrupt crime, but Liu Tianhao didn't care. How did Mi Zhu know that Liu Tianhao still had a plan, but he panicked when he came out.
Liu Tianhao felt that since he wanted to transform the Mi family, he had to be reborn.
At this time, Mi Zhu finally knew that his lord was indeed in his belly, and his export was talent, so he was grinding ink at the desk, and quickly listed what he had just said as the first point: The words 'replacement of copper coins in stock' were written down on a rough and yellowed piece of paper. Seeing the paper, Liu Tianhao interjected and asked, only to know that it was Donglai paper improved on the basis of Cai Lun paper.
Paper is still a super luxury in this era, and it is definitely unaffordable if it is not a famous family or a wealthy businessman.
Liu Tianhao and Mi Zhu discussed for about two hours, but they really made them come up with a list:
First, replace the stock of copper coins for salt, iron, copper, iron, good wood and other materials;
second, gather servants and diners, privately form groups, and be trained by Taishi Ci Mifang and others;
Third, recruit skilled craftsmen from all over the world to gather in Xuzhou, especially blacksmiths and carpenters, to process copper and iron wood;
Fourth, recruit good talents;
Fifth, establish a medical center and train a large number of doctors;
Sixth, domesticate carrier pigeons, relying on the outlets of the thirteen states of the Mijia Han Dynasty, to establish an ear and eye organization;
Seventh, improve ideas.
This seventh article is quite complicated, and it is all based on some superficial insights of later generations, and some improvement ideas summarized and proposed, such as farming and transportation, winemaking and papermaking, smelting and forging, and so on.
Liu Tianhao thought to himself, maybe he and Mi Zhu may not be able to make use of these ideas, but they can't guarantee that they will inspire some skilled craftsmen in the world.
As everyone knows, it didn't take long for the content mentioned in Article 7 to really advance the development history of some industries in Liu Tianhao's previous life by hundreds of years, and some even more than a thousand years. Of course, that's all for later.
In the following month, the entire Mi family was completely operational. Everything is going according to the list of Liu Tianhao and Mi Zhu. Tai Shi Ci and Mi Fang also trained the Mi family's private soldiers, not to mention, after the training of the two, they really found some brave people.
Mi Zhen would occasionally come to pester Tai Shi Ci, and this more and more persecuted Tai Shi Ci devoted himself to training martial arts. For the absurd things of these two people, everyone can't cry or laugh, but if you think about it carefully, it can be regarded as a good cause and effect.
In the past month, Mi Zhu introduced Liu Tianhao and basically got acquainted with the three sects and nine streams in Xuzhou, of course, Liu Tianhao did not let Mi Zhu announce the subordinate identities of the two.
They also went to Xuzhou Thorn History Mansion to meet them, but Liu Tianhao saw that Thorn History was just a wine bag and rice bag, and he thought that he was not afraid, so he did not have deep friendships. However, Chen Si, Chen Deng and other celebrities recorded in the history books of later generations, Liu Tianhao made a lot of efforts, and made a good impression one by one, but he did not have other extravagant hopes for the time being.
Liu Tianhao was very satisfied with the results of these days, but he thought to himself that if he didn't go to Luoyang as soon as possible and complete the next plan, then all of this might become the moon in the duckweed mirror in the water, and he couldn't say that he would end up with a tragedy of empty joy.
Therefore, after everything in the Mi family is running in an orderly manner, Liu Tianhao plans to set off for Luoyang immediately, only taking Mi Zhu Tai Shi Ci and a dozen or so servants, and the training side will be handed over to Mi Fang to be in charge, and the few good seedlings found by Mi Fang Tai Shi Ci can also help him. Among them, there are several people whose talents are even much better than Mi Fang.
On the day she left, Mi Zhen's little girl actually made a fuss and threatened that she also wanted to follow Liu Tianhao and them out for a long time. While making a fuss, he secretly glanced at that Tai Shi Ci.
Liu Tianhao found that these two people were all in the dark, and Tai Shici, who had reached the age of sixteen, was even more about to hang his head to the ground, holding the reins of the horse with one hand and rubbing and pinching, Liu Tianhao did not break it at the moment.
In the end, they still didn't bring Mi Zhen with them. This time they went west to Luoyang, not to mention how dangerous it was, but it was not a tour of the mountains and rivers, they had to do a lot of things. If you bring this Mi Zhen with a detached personality, I'm afraid I won't be able to take care of it.
When Mi Zhu persuaded Mi Zhen to stay, Tai Shici was obviously relieved.
A group of people waited, walking night and day, rushing in the wind and dust, and entered the boundary of Pei County in Xuzhou in a few days.
On this day, the weather was extremely hot, and there were no people on the entire official road, Liu Tianhao and they had been walking for about half a day, and they were already hungry, their mouths were dry, and their water bags had long been empty.
There is still dry food with you, but how can you withstand it just by eating dry food and not drinking water, and there are no rivers and lakes in the four corners.
Liu Tianhao stopped and asked everyone, "Who knows anything about this area?" If this continues, we will all die of thirst, starvation, and heat. ”
Tai Shi Ci Mi Zhu and both of them shook their heads and didn't know. This is also true, Tai Shici has never been out of Donglai before, Mi Zhu has been to the Luoyang area, and it is possible that he took this official road, but at that time, people were in a carriage, and the servants accompanied him, how could he break down halfway?
In desperation, a servant came up and said, "Master Qiqi, the villain followed the caravan to Luoyang last year to deliver goods, and when he came back, there was a group of thieves on the official road occupying the road, wanting to rob money and kill people. At that time, the pipe had to be uninhabited for a long time. Our team leader was afraid that he would miss the return date, and he knew some scenes in the vicinity, so he led us to the southeast direction. About five miles away from Guanguan Road, there is a forest, and there is a village on the edge of the forest, where dozens of families surnamed Xu live. According to the team leader, if the past merchants can't survive this ghost road, they can go to Xujiazhuang to find some help. ”
Liu Tianhao was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Do you still recognize how to go that way?" ”
The servant thought for a moment and nodded. Mi Zhu continued, "Then why don't you lead the way quickly?" ”
A group of men and horses left the official road in a twisting way, and under the guidance of the servant, they went straight to the southeast.
The servant has a good memory, Liu Tianhao and they traveled about six or seven miles, and they caught a glimpse of the Zhuangzi that the servant said. It's a slight deviation, but it's not outrageous. Mi Zhu rewarded the servants with several eldest sons.
Before entering the village, Liu Tianhao and a few people found that the village was full of people, crying and shouting, chickens and dogs jumping, as if there was a little riot. When I arrived at the front of the village, there happened to be a tendon black bull who broke out, and I don't know if I was frightened or somehow, I actually went straight to Liu Tianhao's side, and I didn't dodge.
Tai Shi Ci hurriedly took the gun and stepped forward, wanting to kill the cow. At this moment, a strong man rushed out of the entrance of the village, shouting as he ran,
"Don't hurt my ploughing cattle."