Chapter 568: Five Baht
"This thing should be slightly improved, and punctuation marks should be added, so that the reader does not have to spend his energy on breaking sentences!" Li Yue is still not accustomed to the books of this era.
Throughout the text, word by word, it is all up to you to interpret it.
So far, in the Han and Wei dynasties, there are only sentences to read.
That is, there is a slight pause where the meaning has been finished, and the real full stop will appear until the Song Dynasty.
"What is punctuation?" Chang Wei was puzzled.
Li Yue punctuated "Spring and Autumn" on paper: At the beginning, Zheng Wugong married Shen Wujiang.
Question marks, exclamation marks, colons, etc. were drawn on the back, and after a little explanation, Chang Wei understood, "It can indeed speed up understanding, with this thing, the children of the Hanmen Shu clan don't have to work so hard in the future!" ”
In many cases, when the sentence is broken, the meaning of the whole text becomes clear.
I don't even need to explain it to my husband, which is a great thing for poor people who can't afford to spend money to hire my husband.
"The minister immediately ordered the Tiangong Academy to make a new one!" Chang Wei is a traditional scholar, so he naturally knows the value of this thing.
Li Yue thought about getting a letterpress printing, but after thinking about it, there was no need, there were only so many classics in these years, and movable type printing did not have much value at present, but the increased process was not easy to promote.
Anything that can be promoted is simple and easy to use.
Li Yue looked at the third wooden plate, not knowing what was in it.
Gunpowder?
Compass?
In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a record of "saltpeter out of Longdao".
The Wei and Jin dynasties were all the rage, which promoted the development of alchemy, and the master of the collection was Ge Hong, who lived in seclusion in Zhuming Cave of Luofu Mountain, sought immortal alchemy, and combined Taoism with Confucianism, so that Taoism was out of the primitive witchcraft stage, and then created "Hug Puzi Inner Chapter", which became a collection of Taoism.
But gunpowder is not that powerful, and it is not omnipotent.
Production, preservation, and transportation are all big problems, and there is still a long, long way to go before they can be applied on the battlefield.
Chang Wei opened the third wooden plate, but there were two coins, one was brilliantly golden, which was five baht of gold, and the other was yellowed in the blue, which was five baht of copper.
At the end of the Han Dynasty, after Dong Zhuo's genius launched the small money, he immediately destroyed the five-baht credit built by the two Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, and the Eastern Han Dynasty was also pushed to the brink of death by him.
So that the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu, who succeeded later, were troubled by coins, Cao Wei exchanged things, and Wu Shu made straight 100 coins, straight 500, and straight 1,000 coins to plunder the wealth of the people.
China's economy has seriously deteriorated, and people's livelihood has become more and more miserable.
The basic logic behind everything in heaven and earth is actually money.
Money is needed to fight a war, food, clothing, shelter and transportation are all money, and the operation of the country also depends on money.
Shi Hu is a good hand at killing people, setting fire to graves, mutilating the people, and plundering the people's fat and ointment, but he is basically an idiot economically.
Rebuilding the five-baht system is extremely urgent.
This thing is more important than gunpowder.
"This is a new coin minted by Shanyang Iron Mill, containing 60% copper, 20% lead, and 20% other impurities, one coin for 100 copper coins." Chang Wei placed the wooden plate on the desk.
Li Yue picked up two and tried them, compared with the coins of later generations, it was naturally a lot worse, there was no pattern, just one hole, two words.
However, as a circulating thing, money cannot be made too exquisitely, and the fineness cannot be too sufficient, otherwise it will be collected, and bad money will drive out good money.
100 copper coins for one coin, which is equivalent to pegging five baht coins to gold, implementing the gold standard, which is conducive to stabilizing the economy.
Middle-earth was relatively short of silver, and it was impossible to build a silver standard monetary system.
Before the two Song Dynasty, copper five baht was used.
Li Yue has been preparing for several years in order to reconstruct the five-baht system.
Now the annexation of Yan State is just taking advantage of the power of the great victory to comprehensively promote.
When business is active, it can reduce the burden on the people.
It is equivalent to a stagnant water, and under the five-baht system, it runs over and over again.
The economy of Liang is strong, and it can form a dimensionality reduction blow to the surrounding countries.
This trick Zhuge Wuhou has already used, after Liu Bei Yiting was defeated, what was thrown to him was a Shu Han who was full of holes, the elite was lost, the people's hearts collapsed, and the treasury was empty.
There is a saying in the list of teachers that "Yizhou is tired, and this sincerity is in danger of survival", which shows the bad situation at that time.
But after Zhuge Wuhou took over, in just a few years, Shu Han came back to life, seven expeditions to Meng, six out of Qishan, the root of which is that Zhuge Wuhou will link the economy of Shu Han with Shu Jin, create new money, stabilize prices, Shu Jin unblocked Wei and Wu, and depressed Wei Wu's national currency......
The market will be the abyss of all merchants. Hundreds of tunnels and thousands of tunnels. The bribes are accumulated, and the stars are numerous.
The prosperity of Chengdu gave Zhuge Wuhou the confidence to go on the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.
"Tomorrow's court meeting, promote this money!" Li Yue said in a deep voice.
Liang Guo has also reached the time to take this step.
The rice of Jianghuai, the timber and leather goods of Liaodong, the livestock of Youzhou, and the seafood of Qingxu can only prosper under the stimulation of commerce.
With huge economic benefits, Liaodong does not have to worry about not being able to develop.
"Yui!" Chang Wei bowed.
There may have been some resistance to pushing these things out in the past.
Now that Li Yue has won the great victory of annexing Yan Kingdom, his prestige is in full swing, and no one who does not open his eyes dares to stop it at this time.
Li Yue had also implemented the five-baht money on a small scale before, but the response was mediocre, and the private trade was still dominated by grain and cloth.
The essence of the economy is credit, and the introduction of money requires an appropriate opportunity.
In this big victory, who else doesn't trust Li Yue and doesn't believe in Daliang?
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty reformed the currency system six times before and after, and only then did he create a five-baht coin system, which made the national strength of the Han Dynasty reach its peak, so that he could attack the Xiongnu in the north and shock the Western Regions.
Although the Han Dynasty died, the five-baht coin was extremely vigorous, and it was still circulating in the market until the end of the Qing Dynasty.
If Liang wants to regain the prosperity of the Han Dynasty, it is inevitable to restore the economic system of five baht.
Sure enough, it was as Li Yue expected.
The edict was issued, unimpeded.
Not only did Yecheng begin to switch to five-baht coins, but local governments also began to circulate.
In fact, the people's desire for money is more urgent, after all, no one wants to buy anything, just a few bags of grain, a few pieces of cloth to buy and sell, small business is just that, big business can not go on at all.
In addition to this, there are a large number of books on the market.
Two or three pieces of five baht can buy a copy.
It doesn't matter if you don't have money, you can rent it, Li Yue set up twelve book clubs in Yecheng, which are dedicated to the children of the Hanmen Shu clan for free borrowing, which is considered the welfare of Daliang.
There are not only hundreds of schools of thought, but also a variety of enlightenment picture books, which are easy to learn and full of fun.
There are also various commentaries of Honglu Division, from Wei Qinghuo's illness to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.
Often, a literate person recited, and dozens of people listened to it, and they applauded.
What Li Yue didn't expect was that the five-baht coin was not boycotted, and no one said anything about Huang Teng Paper, but the book club attracted the opposition of many people.
It is claimed that the national strength is wasted, and the people have no intention of farming.
Li Yue scoffed and sent all the pieces back.
This matter is non-negotiable.
(End of chapter)