Brewed himself a cup of tea, Li Ke is no longer in Taiji Palace, he is now in a shopping mall, he is looking at the information sent by Tian Meng in his hand, tomorrow is the bidding meeting of Datang Sleepless City, so Li Ke ran out of the palace early this morning.

Don't worry about it in the palace, there is Li Tai to help keep an eye on it, tomorrow is the time to rest, and the day after tomorrow is the court meeting, so this time is not in a hurry.

"Are they all here?" Li Ke asked.

"It's all here, all the families who participated in the meeting last time have transported a large amount of copper coins into Chang'an City, and according to the information we have collected in several nearby big cities such as Luoyang, many people have already made the decision to bid for Datang Sleepless City." Tian Meng said in a respectful tone.

Li Ke nodded, it is not surprising that these people made this decision, they just lack vision, they do not lack brains, what business can make money, they understand more than others.

"These people are really rich." Li Ke was extremely emotional.

What he was holding in his hand was the analysis report made by Tian Meng and others, according to the information that Tian Meng and the others had, the number of copper coins that had entered Chang'an City alone was close to 40 million! When converted into copper coins, it is almost close to 40 billion dollars! How much inventory did these people dig up?

The heritage of these gate valve families that have been inherited for hundreds of years is truly terrifying.

Tian Meng and the others didn't speak, to be honest, when they calculated this number, they also felt a little terrifying, although they all knew that His Royal Highness had close to 12 million guan in his hands, which was already a lot of money, but the gate valve family could take out 40 million guan casually, which was pure money!

Because His Royal Highness said, don't use silk and other cloths to offset, as long as money and food, and the grain is naturally impossible for them to come all the way to Chang'an, it would be too much of a loss.

Therefore, only copper coins entered Chang'an City.

In the entire Tang Dynasty, I am afraid that the poorest is the treasury, or the money in the treasury is the least.

Li Ke looked at the information in his hand, and really sighed, this is real cash, this is not counting the food, silk and other funds in the hands of the gate valve family, you can imagine how rich these people are!

Don't doubt the total amount of this number, everyone thinks that Datang currently uses silk as currency, and Datang does not have enough Kaiyuan Tongbao to mint and use, and the copper coins of the people are not enough, and the copper coins of this number seem unrealistic.

That's because using silk, silk, and cloth as currency is beneficial to the gate valve family! They can be said to be equivalent to "making money" at any time, which is much less than the loss caused by minting copper coins, so of course they are reluctant to take out the money.

Is there money in the world? Absolutely!

In the more than 400 years of history of the Han Dynasty, almost all dynasties and generations are minting money, and even in the history of the Han Dynasty, there was the first example of expelling bad money with good money, which is also the only time in the entire ancient history, and in the more than 400 years of the Han Dynasty, the peak population is close to 60 million, and there is no shortage of copper coins.

It is conceivable how many copper coins there are in the world, and these later dynasties have never stopped minting money, according to the statistics of Li Shimin from the royal books of the past dynasties in the Hongwen Pavilion, there are at least hundreds of millions of dollars in the world.

Li Ke compromised and calculated 100 million yuan, which is almost 100 billion copper coins, and according to the number of grams cast by Datang Kaiyuan Tongbao is about 4.2 grams, it is already 420,000 tons of copper.

Although this is also a drizzle relative to the amount of copper used in later generations, it is not a small number for ancient times.

Hey, poor, after all, the silver and silver compensation of the Qing Dynasty in later generations are based on 100 million yuan, hey.

As for how Tian Meng calculated it, it was actually calculated according to the number of carriages pulling copper coins entering Chang'an City, and there was an approximate number of copper coins that a carriage could pull, and it was only necessary to calculate how many carriages had been pulled to Chang'an City.

Although the calculation is an approximate number, even this number is not very accurate, because many of the things pulled by the gate valve family are not only copper coins, but also silver and gold, because the storage of copper coins can easily lead to decay and other results, in the absence of good storage conditions, it is not as good as gold and silver more preserved.

The amount of gold held by the Chinese people from ancient times to the present has always been very large.

Of course, so many copper coins can't all be Kaiyuan Tongbao, and the entire Datang has not produced so many Kaiyuan Tongbao. However, Li Ke left the secret label instructions for these gate valve families last time, and it was written that copper coins of any dynasty can be used, including bronze.

When converted into Kaiyuan Tongbao, only one percent of the loss is required.

For this choice, the various families remained silent, they knew what Li Ke wanted copper coins for, and they also knew why Li Ke still accepted these copper coins from other dynasties, and only one percent of the loss could be exchanged.

Of course, it is because the current Datang is short of money, and after this wave is withdrawn, it is estimated that His Royal Highness will soon reform the monetary system of Datang.

This is not something difficult to guess in the speculation of various gate valve families.

But they don't care, the money will soon be back in their hands, although they don't understand modern economics, but they know a little bit about the fact that money is circulating.

Even if the currency was reformed, it was nothing more than that they made less money in the production of silk and silk, but what should be theirs or theirs, these people were not in a hurry.

The point, of course, is that it's useless to be in a hurry.

Now the power of the Tang Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger, and no one will go against the royal family at this time, the focus is on going against His Majesty Li Shimin, the powerful Heavenly Khan.

If you don't make mistakes, Li Shimin has no way to deal with these gate valve families, but if you take the initiative to make mistakes yourself, then don't blame Your Majesty for wielding a knife.

If Your Majesty just kills one family, no one will resist, and everyone understands the reason.

It is impossible for any passenger not to care about the sinking of the ship, because when the ship sinks, everyone has to die, but when there are several lifeboats on this ship, it is another matter.

So there are things that were foreseen, but they didn't stop them, or they couldn't stop them.

"Is the embossing machine cast?" Li Ke looked at the information in his hand and asked.

"The service life cannot be compared with the embossing machine you took out, but we can already mint, and a total of ten coinage production lines have been produced, each of which can mint 40,000 coins per day." Tian Meng said an exciting number, "We can mint 400,000 new coins every day. ”

Tian Meng was excited, but Li Ke had no waves in his heart, you were excited for 400,000 a day? In later generations, a coin minting machine could emboss 42,000 coins in an hour, which is a million a day! And that's just a stamping machine.