"Brother, there is another problem. Although trade is good nowadays, this trade is very inconvenient!"
After Jiang Jing finished speaking, he put down the account book and asked someone to bring in several trays. On the trays were various copper coins, silver ingots, silver nuggets, and gold nuggets.
"Brother, this gold and silver is okay. You can calculate the value by distinguishing the quality, but this copper coin is troublesome!"
"Brother, please see, these copper coins are not all worth one penny. Here is Xiaoping, who has one penny, and it can be discounted by two, three, five, or ten. It didn't matter before. But recently, I discovered a problem. This copper coin suddenly changed to ten. That’s a lot! And when twenty bucks show up.”
Jiang Jing pointed to the two new coins and said. The coins were larger than Xiaoping's and the style was very new. They were obviously just made.
"This is to take advantage of our Liangshan!"
Sun Lei immediately reacted. Isn't this trick just to turn on the money printing machine? One is worth ten or twenty dollars. The cost is not much more expensive than one penny of Xiaoping, but the value is directly ten or twenty times. This I just came here to grab something. One dollar was worth ten and twenty dollars, and I had nothing to buy, so the money was like scrap metal, thrown away from my hands.
"My little brother suspects that Tokyo has minted a large number of ten coins and twenty coins this year, so many orders have not been accepted!"
Jiang Jing spoke.
"Isn't it okay if I don't accept it?"
Lin Chong said.
"I'm afraid that's not possible. In fact, these copper coins are the most circulated among the people. Even if they are not used in large transactions, there are many scattered ones. It is impossible not to collect them!"
Jiang Jing shook his head and said, ordinary people may use silver, and copper coins are the mainstream. The end result is that these coins will flow into Liangshan from the people when they are used as ten coins or twenty coins.
"You decide on a document and post it everywhere. This kind of ten coins or twenty coins is prohibited from circulation. If you want to use it, then it will be calculated by weight!"
Sun Lei thought for a while and said, Liangshan has finally accumulated a fortune, but he can't let people plunder it so wantonly.
"Brother, I'm afraid it's hard to stop it among the people!"
Jiang Jing said, bulk trade is easy to control, but ordinary people have no choice.
"Pei Xuan, catch me on this matter!"
Sun Lei looked directly at Pei Xuan. There was nothing difficult to handle. As long as he was decisive enough, there wouldn't be so many messy things.
"Jiang Jing, please study our own currency in Liangshan!"
Sun Lei looked at Jiang Jing again and said, always using other people's currency would be such a troublesome thing. Money depends on credit and strength. Liangshan is now strong enough. As for credit, just take your time.
"Yes, brother!"
Jiang Jing felt something in his heart after hearing this. Liangshan's own currency is extremely important.
Privately minted coins have been made in all dynasties, but privately minted coins are a serious crime, and such privately minted coins are inferior coins with poor craftsmanship, making them easy to recognize and difficult to circulate.
Jiang Jing has already begun to think about where to recruit a group of craftsmen who know how to mint coins.
"Brother, there are now a total of 150,000 spears, swords, and shields in the warehouse. 20,000 pairs of iron armor, 50,000 pairs of leather armor, 100,000 pairs of paper armor! 30,000 sets of horse gear!"
"In terms of bows and crossbows, there are three thousand black lacquer bows, yellow birch bows, hemp back bows, and white birch bows, and two thousand divine arm bows! There are more than three hundred crossbows. There are more than three hundred thousand arrows of various types!"
Tang Long also stepped forward to report.
"Brother, we currently have three latest one-inch guns in Liangshan, one hundred two-inch guns, and thirty three-inch guns."
"There are also five hundred cannons including single-shooter cannons, double-shooter cannons, five-shooter cannons, seven-shooter cannons, sleeping car cannons, squatting tiger cannons, and whirlwind cannons!"
"There are currently only fifty artillery pieces that can fire explosive shells!"
After Tang Long finished speaking, Ling Zhen stood up and said, he was very proud. With so many artillery pieces, the entire Song Dynasty combined did not have as many as Liangshan.
Ling Zhen looked at Sun Lei gratefully. If Sun Lei hadn't allowed him to experiment at all costs and pointed out the gunpowder formula, he would never have been able to do this.
"There are only fifty! What's the caliber? What's the range?"
Sun Lei asked. He actually didn't value artillery that could only fire solid projectiles. The power was too small. It would be better to use a trebuchet to throw explosive packets to be more lethal.
"There are two-inch and three-inch calibers, and the range can reach two to three places! However, brother, this kind of cannon is similar to a mortar, and the shells are thrown out. The accuracy is difficult to control!"
Ling Zhen said with some embarrassment that Sun Lei had given him so much funding, but the things he researched were somewhat unavailable.
"Two or three miles away, that's enough. It's already a big improvement!"
Sun Lei didn't have any dissatisfaction. He was able to study to this point in just two years. Ling Zhen was already a genius. If it's not accurate, then it's okay. Anyway, in this era of war, there is no need to ask for accuracy. The enemy is a large area with tens of thousands of enemies. If people come over on foot or on horseback, as long as they can roughly hit the position, they will explode.
"Thank you brother, I will definitely research more!"
Ling Zhen said gratefully.
"Brother, now our Liangshan Horse Army has 50,000 horses, 30,000 cavalry, 5,000 heavy armored cavalry, 25,000 light armored cavalry, and there are also 20,000 troops ready..."
Lin Chong said.
"Brother, our Liangshan Infantry Army now has a total of 80,000 soldiers, including 5,000 shield soldiers, 2,000 heavy armor soldiers, 2,000 sword soldiers, 5,000 mountain troops, 10,000 mobile field troops, and 20,000 spear soldiers..."
Wu Song also spoke next.
"Brother, our Liang Shanshui Army now has a total of 50,000 troops, including ten giant sea-going ships, fifty medium-sized sea-going ships, and two hundred small-sized sea-going ships. There are nearly a thousand loach warships suitable for inland operations!"
Ruan Xiaoer then spoke.
"Brother, we currently have more than 50,000 new recruits in Liangshan. We are actively recruiting troops this year and have received nearly 100,000 new recruits."
Xu Ning also spoke.
"After all, we now have an army of 330,000 in Liangshan, including 100,000 new soldiers and 230,000 capable of fighting!"
Sun Lei rubbed his chin and thought, the troops and horses were expanding very quickly, which indicated that the war must be accelerated. Without the plunder of war, it would be very difficult to raise so many troops and horses.
But most of the heroes in the Juyi Hall were delighted when they heard these figures. This family fortune made them very proud, something they had never dared to think about before.
"Well, very good! Liangshan is where it is today thanks to the concerted efforts of all the brothers!"
Sun Lei looked at everyone with satisfaction and said.
"It's all because of my brother's good leadership!"
But everyone shouted in unison, most of them are rough men, they don't know so much, if it were not for Sun Lei's leadership, they would at best occupy the mountains and become kings, robbing families and homes.
"Today is a good day, I won't go home until I get drunk!"
Sun Lei said with a smile, "Most of the people present are rough guys. They don't like the red tape. If they are happy, they naturally want to have a good drink."
"Ha ha!"
Everyone burst into laughter, and it really touched their hearts while drinking.
"Military advisors, please stop looking at these accounts today and relax!"
Sun Lei looked at Xiao Jiasui, Wen Huanzhang, Li Zhu, and Zhu Wu and smiled and said, the dozens of boxes of rosters and accounts could not be fully checked in a while.
