The fifth day of the second lunar month in the first year of Zhenguan is a Friday according to the Yanhuang Academy calendar.
Near noon, suddenly thousands of oxcarts, pulling brand-new copper coins, entered the gate of the academy.
A copper coin usually weighs about five to six kilograms, and one hundred thousand copper coins equals five to six hundred thousand kilograms. If it is transported by ox cart, shouldn't it be loaded into thousands of carts?
Such a huge movement naturally attracted the attention of many students, especially those students who were sitting by the windows in the teaching buildings with windows facing the main gate of the academy and were in class. They immediately saw the spectacular scene downstairs in Guanghua!
"Damn it! There's so much money downstairs! Our academy is getting rich!"
On the second floor of Guanghua Building, Class 1, Wang Meng was sitting by the window. At this time, he was already hungry. He was looking forward to getting out of school soon and going to eat. He inadvertently glanced out the window and caught a glimpse of the vast city. The guy was pulling an ox cart pulling copper coins. He couldn't hold it back and exclaimed loudly.
The teacher who was lecturing in the teaching building and the students who were listening to the class all turned their attention here for a moment.
"Wang Meng! Stand up! Who allowed you to make as much noise as you want in class?"
This section of Class 1 is an arithmetic class, and the teacher is Xu Hongzhi. Old Xu’s face is very ugly now. I believe any teacher will not look good when he encounters a student who “jumps” like this in his class!
"Uh...Mr. Xu, I...I was wrong! It's just that there is really a lot of money out there, with thousands of cars, right? If you don't believe it, look at it!"
Wang Meng shrank his neck, but he couldn't help but glance out the window.
"Zhoucao! There is really a lot of money! Isn't that the mountain leader? Why did he suddenly bring so much money to the academy?"
Cheng Chumo squatted down and stretched his neck toward the window. When he saw the numerous bullock carts outside, he couldn't help but huffed.
As the saying goes, three people make a tiger, after these two guys said this, the students in the teaching building immediately couldn't sit still, especially the students in the row of seats by the window, one after another stretched their heads to look out.
"Wow! There's really a lot of money!"
"There are hundreds of cars here, right?"
"There are hundreds of cars, there should be thousands of cars!"
"Thousands of cars? Oh my God, how much does that cost?"
The teaching building, which had been quite quiet before, immediately started buzzing with discussion.
"Quiet! Everyone be quiet!"
Xu Hongzhi glanced at Cheng Chumo and Wang Meng angrily, and quickly spoke out to maintain order.
Similar situations also occurred in other classes. Guanghua Building, which originally had only the sound of the teacher's lecture, suddenly ushered in a burst of noise when school was about to end at noon. However, this burst of noise was soon replaced by the noise in each teaching building. The gentlemen suppressed it forcefully.
"Dang Dang Dang~!"
After much anticipation, the students finally arrived. When the bells and drums rang, students from all classes rushed out of Guanghua Building, not to rush to eat, but to "see the money"!
It cannot be said that they have never seen money, but most people have never seen so much money! Thousands of cartloads of copper coins, this is so spectacular, it’s hard for them to come out in droves to “see the wonder”!
At this time, there were still bullock carts containing copper coins outside Guanghua Building. After all, it was impossible to deposit all the copper coins into the warehouse in a short period of time with such a large amount of copper coins.
"Holy crap, where is all this money going?"
The students soon discovered that the bullock carts were slowly lining up, heading in one direction, and they couldn't help but follow them to find out.
It's not that they didn't think about asking the people next to the oxcart, but the people pulling the oxcart today were not the guards of the academy, but the sergeants of Youwu Houwei (the soldiers Li Zexuan borrowed from Yuchi Jingde). Most of them I want to ask, but I don’t know the person, so how should I ask?
But there are always people who know each other.
"Hey! Brother Shen, why are you here?"
Yuchi Baolin saw an acquaintance and asked quickly.
His father was General Youwuhouwei, so it was not surprising that he knew a sergeant from Youwuhouwei.
"Back to the eldest son, the marquis wants to mobilize 100,000 copper coins from Chang'an to the academy. The general has specially sent us to escort him along the way!"
The sergeant cupped his fists and said.
"One hundred thousand guan? Why did the mountain chief suddenly transfer so much money?"
Cheng Chumo next to him couldn't help but ask.
The sergeant replied with a straight face: "The general will not know!"
"Hey! Look! All these copper coins have been transported to this building!"
The students followed the ox cart and finally found the final "destination" of the 100,000 copper coins.
It is a three-story building near the academy library. It has not been used since it was built. Today is the first time they have seen anyone enter this building!
"Yanhuang Bank? What is this?"
The attentive students suddenly noticed the huge plaque in front of the building with the four characters "Yanhuang Bank" written on it. After reading it, they were all puzzled.
"Xiao Ke, I see that you have been to the mountain chief a lot recently. You should know what Yanhuang Bank does, right?"
Li Tai also came to watch the fun. After he saw the words "Yanhuang Bank", he turned to look at Li Ke and asked.
Li Ke didn't hide it from him and said frankly: "Well! The mountain leader plans to promote a paper currency that can replace copper coins in the academy. This Yanhuang Bank is the department responsible for exchanging this currency!"
"Paper currency? What is paper currency?"
Li Tai said puzzled.
"Well……"
Li Ke had talked to Li Zexuan many times, and he always said some "professional words" inadvertently. At this time, he thought about it and explained: "Qingque, you can understand it this way, this paper currency is a kind of currency that can be exchanged for copper coins." It’s just a voucher, it’s mainly for everyone’s convenience when buying things, so you don’t have to carry a big bag of copper coins all day long!”
"Oh? This is a good thing~!"
Li Tai's eyes lit up and he looked excited.
Paper money is indeed an "artifact" for a "lazy person" like him!
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"Chief, why are you bringing so many copper coins to the academy?"
After class, Yan Silu found Li Zexuan and asked, his words showing some dissatisfaction because Li Zexuan's "fancy showing off his wealth" behavior had affected the normal teaching of the academy in the morning!
Li Zexuan smiled slightly and said: "Mr. Yan, I just want to find you! Could you please inform me that all the gentlemen of the academy will go to the conference room for a meeting at noon! I have something important to announce! The question you asked just now will be answered shortly. I know the answer!”
Yan Silu was stunned for a moment and had to respond: "Okay! I will go and notify the gentlemen of the academy now!"
After that, he didn't continue to ask questions and turned around directly.
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Second update!
(End of chapter)
