"Why are you notifying us?" Liu Ye, who learned about Chen Zhen, also rushed over. He happened to hear Fazheng's words, so he took over the conversation with a smile and asked.
"At least be clear about your intentions!" Fa Zheng said resentfully, "By the way, I'm getting married soon. Have you prepared your gifts?"
"Two bottles of home-brewed wine have been prepared when I accept you as my junior brother." Guo Jia answered smoothly.
"How stingy." Fazheng glanced at Guo Jia with disdain. In fact, he was quite satisfied. Although he didn't know whether Guo Jia's homemade wine tasted good or not, at least it had enough friendship!
"How about I give you a pair of gold Suan Ni?" Guo Jia curled his lips, his style dropped a lot.
"So stingy." Fazheng raised his eyebrows and looked at Guo Jia with great displeasure.
"Okay, stop bickering. Guess what Zichuan wants to announce at the end of the year?" Liu Ye brought back the topic that Fazheng had distorted.
"It's better not to worry about it. Although he doesn't want to admit it, no one can deny that he has an extremely long-term vision in government affairs." Li You directly stopped the topic.
Li You didn't want to be aroused at all. After all, if he was really interested, he would ask, and he would tell Chen Xi just by asking.
Based on Li You's understanding of Chen Xi, it is very likely that it will conflict with his own cognition again in the future, and then it will happen again that a group of people don't agree with him, and in the end, Chen Xi will overthrow a group of people. It is really too disharmonious. .
"I think we should not worry about the general affairs of the government. We just have to do our job well. Zichuan will solve the matter of Zichuan by himself." Lu Su cut off the sprout directly. He didn't want to do what he did last time. What a shame.
Unlike the direct conflict between Liu Ye and Chen Xi in secret, others at most looked on sideways and did not end directly. As for Liu Ye, although he did not end up that time, he did add fuel to the flames. This is the difference.
"I'm really just curious..." Liu Ye said helplessly.
"What are you curious about..." Chen Xi didn't hear what was said before. When he stepped in the door, he heard Liu Ye's curiosity and asked.
"I'm curious about what political strategy you want to release at the end of the year." Liu Ye said quickly. Seeing that Lu Su didn't stop him, he also looked at Chen Xi, and everyone else also looked curious.
"What happened to the coinage and SDRs?" Chen Xi answered casually.
When Chen Zhen sent a letter to Taishan, he also sent people to notify all senior officials in Yecheng, but the generals had already gone to various parts of Jizhou to eliminate banditry. Liu Bei went out for a walk again, and naturally the last one to arrive was Chen Xi.
As for Xu Shu, he also had good martial arts skills and led 500 people to suppress the bandits.
"Coin?" Everyone's face turned dark, and they wanted to curse. In the Han Dynasty, if you wanted to mint a standard five-baht coin, the cost of minting six to seven million yuan would be ten million yuan. Generally speaking, countries are not strong enough to a certain extent, and they will definitely not mint money.
"Well, it's really time for us to mint money." Li You thought for a moment and said slowly, and Jizhou also has copper mines, so it's really time to mint some coins to prove his strength.
However, Li You ignored the Special Drawing Rights in one sentence, while others only paid attention to the minting of coins and did not think deeply about anything else. On the contrary, Chen Xi stopped talking a lot.
"Well, how much money can be cast?" Lu Su asked with a sigh.
Minting money is unavoidable. When a power develops to a certain level, it must be minted to increase people's recognition of the power. However, minting money means losing money. A loss of about 40% is confusing enough just thinking about it.
"Five baht coins!" Chen Xi said proudly. The five baht coins minted during the peak period of the Han Dynasty were very recognized and could still be used until the Tang Dynasty. This is the advantage of heavy money!
"The cost is too high. And if you mint five baht coins, everyone in the world will use them. We won't be able to make enough." Jia Xu said, hiding his face. There is no such thing as fake five baht coins. Even if the text on it is blurry, it's not fake. The money depends only on the weight.
"It's just for everyone in the world." Chen Xi curled his lips and said, "I'll find out later. I don't know what Xingba's preparations are now. It took a lot of time without a chart the first time. Probably not."
In fact, Chen Xi didn't know that Gan Ning knew that Luzon was a strategic location after returning from his first trip. After Guan Hai went to Yizhou, Gan Ning asked him to use Qiongzhou as a springboard to travel between Luzon and Yizhou to collect copper ore.
A large amount of copper ore was smelted into bronze blocks on Luzon Island, and then escorted by Guan Hai to Yizhou and stored. After more than ten trips, Yizhou had already stored thousands of tons of small copper blocks.
Think about it, one cubic meter of copper contains more than eight tons, and bronze is denser because of tin and lead. In fact, thousands of tons of bronze blocks melted together are less than ten meters in length, width and height...
However, these are also the main materials used by Chen Xi to make money in the future. They are not his own stuff anyway, and Chen Xi is not afraid of waste. After all, compared with bronze smelting and casting, China seems to have always been at the pinnacle of history.
As for those Gan Ning soldiers who stayed in Luzon Island, they have now realized that they are very indifferent to money. Anyone who looks at the money at his feet every day and doesn't know whether it is tens of billions or hundreds of billions will probably take a long time. If you lose money, you will lose motivation. There is no one to buy anything in this damn place, and it is useless to take copper.
Although Chen Xi didn't know that the copper for making money was ready, he knew that he had an island that produced a lot of copper for him to squander, so making money was a must.
However, before starting to mint money, Chen Xi needs to fix the value of the coin. It can appreciate or depreciate, but it must not be left to the aristocratic family to have the final say. Those guys who don't even understand the laws of economics, the currency must be calculated by the official!
"We lost a lot in casting this. Ten million yuan of copper can only be cast to six and a half million yuan. This is still the cost of large-scale manufacturing in the country. As for us, even if we have conducted research in this area, I am afraid that it is just this. Too much." Liu Ye said helplessly, but did not stop Chen Xi. After all, it was time to mint money.
"So we need to find all the aristocratic families. We need to give each five baht a clear value, fix the market price, and maintain price stability for some materials." Chen Xi said helplessly, "The prices of daily necessities such as food, salt, and cloth must be within We have it under control and this is about long-term peace and stability."
"There is no way to eliminate wealth and poverty. What we have to do is to ensure that the poorest people at least have food to eat and clothing to wear. As long as we can do this, no, as long as we can roughly do this, our system will be impeccable. Yes." Chen Xi said with a smile on everyone's faces.
Although this is not entirely the case, before some awareness of rights and interests is awakened, according to Chen Xi's estimation, this system can maintain long-term peace and order for at least five hundred years! (To be continued.)
