After taking the Tang Dao, Li Shimin reached out and pulled it out. When he saw the red blade inside, Li Shimin was obviously stunned. What's more important is that the red blade obviously didn't look like dye. It felt almost like metal. What's even more amazing is the fine dragon pattern on the blade. Li Shimin doesn't even know how Li Ke made it.
But what surprised me was that the knife was not sharpened.
Although the blade was not sharpened, Li Shimin casually tried the feel of the blade and immediately understood that it was definitely made of fine steel. He just didn't know how the red blade was made.
"How did you do this?" Li Shimin asked with some admiration.
"It was all developed by craftsmen, but this thing is not reproducible, and it uses too few materials." Li Ke shrugged and said, "So I will leave it to you, my father, after I made it."
"Just one?" Li Shimin played with the Tang Dao in his hand and couldn't help but ask.
"Just one for now." Li Ke nodded simply, determined not to admit it.
"Just one means that when you want to use it, a second one will appear, right?" Li Shimin glanced at Li Ke. He now knew his son well enough. This guy, I don’t know how many pitfalls there are in those words. I will never be able to be manipulated by him in the future.
"That can't be done, that can't be done." Li Ke smiled nonchalantly, "Dad, how about we have a thrilling flight... Oh, no, mahjong."
Li Ke almost said that he was bald. He didn't have anything like flying chess and had never played it before.
"What is mahjong?" Li Shimin was a little confused.
"Come on, dad, you will know after playing with it. I will ask the craftsmen to carve a few for you to take back. This is a good medicine for the queen mother to deal with the relationship in the harem." Li Ke said with a smile.
Empress Changsun was a little dumbfounded: "Then Queen Mother, do I still have to thank you?"
"That's not possible, I have to thank my father for this." Li Ke said with a smile, "Changle, you guys continue to play, I will play mahjong with my father and the others."
Empress Changsun and Li Shimin took them to the study room next door. The mahjong table here was not yet confiscated. Li Ke explained the rules to the three of them. It didn't matter whether they remembered it or not. Just start playing. Two more rounds would be enough. It's all done.
Sure enough, after playing two rounds, Li Shimin and the other three became interested and learned how to play mahjong. Soon, the sound of shuffling cards could be heard in the room skillfully.
"Dad, let's talk about some things. Don't dislike my mother and my mother being here. Ergong." Li Ke said while playing cards.
"What do I dislike? It's your mother and queen who don't participate in government affairs. What do you want to talk about?" Li Shimin was a little confused.
"Do you think Datang's current monetary system is healthy?" Li Ke asked.
"Currency? You asked that. In your opinion, this must be unhealthy. But I also know the crux of the problem, but the Tang Dynasty does not have so many copper coins now." Li Shimin said helplessly.
"Dad, how much do you think there are copper coins in the world?" Li Ke asked with a smile.
"There should be a lot of them. Since ancient times, all dynasties have been casting copper coins. Although the sizes of copper coins are different, the copper coins of the Han Dynasty are naturally the most minted. Although each dynasty and each dynasty also melted some copper coins for Casting, but according to the information collected by the Tang Dynasty, only a small part of the coins of the previous dynasties were smelted by each dynasty and each generation, and each dynasty and each generation has been looking for copper ore to smelt and then use it to cast coins."
"However, most of the coins were either buried in the hands of aristocratic families, or some emperors, princes, nobles, and people from aristocratic families were buried underground after their deaths. These coins are only a small number after all. Nine tubes are not big. Part of it must still be in the hands of aristocratic families, I think it is at least hundreds of millions." Li Shimin gave a rough figure.
"Based on the current population of the Tang Dynasty, copper coins are definitely not enough. However, although I don't know the specific number in my hand now, there should be close to 12 million copper coins. If I dig out some of them from the powerful families, in fact, The circulation in the entire Tang Dynasty should be almost complete." Li Ke thought for a while.
The current population of the Tang Dynasty is not large, and the hidden population is over 30 million. If you can get 20 million copper coins, it will definitely be enough to circulate throughout the world, but how to get this money into the hands of the people is also a problem. Then there is the gradual recovery of the monetary status of silk, cloth, silk, and silk floss.
"What do you mean?" Li Shimin looked at Li Ke in surprise.
"Gradually take back the status of textile currencies such as silk and silk." Li Ke said.
"It's not that easy to do." Li Shimin immediately frowned. The main reason is that once a system goes deep into the system, for the people, they often can only recognize this thing. "You like to stand from the perspective of the people." , what do you think is the biggest problem in this system reform?"
"Anti-risk ability." Li Ke sighed.
"?" Li Shimin was stunned for a moment. He thought Li Ke would say a lot of other things, but he didn't expect that a word he had never heard of would pop up. As soon as he was interrupted, Li Shimin knocked out the 40,000 yuan in his hand, " forty thousand."
"What a fool, hahaha!" Li Ke laughed loudly and pushed the card, "Forty thousand yuan alone. Dad, give me the money, one pound of money."
"Bookkeeping!" Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, and then said angrily, I was thinking about your problem, you actually played my cards wrong? !
"Hey, come on, come on, keep going." Li Ke quickly started playing mahjong.
"Continue to talk about the topic you just talked about. What does risk resistance mean?" Li Shimin asked while picking up cards.
"It's the ability of the common people and aristocratic families to resist risks. If we want to stop using cloth, silk and other silk fabrics, there will definitely be a pain. No matter what the reason is, the ability of the common people to resist risks will definitely be lower than that of aristocratic families. The aristocratic families are The loss of tens of thousands of guan may not be a big deal, but the loss of a few pennies or more may lead to the collapse of a family."
"So we must first ensure that ordinary people don't have any problems. As for the wealthy families, they will definitely make speculative moves. It doesn't matter even if they make a little money." Li Ke said.
"Any ideas?" Li Shimin raised his eyebrows. Li Ke was very organized and had obviously been thinking about it for a long time.
"I haven't thought about it yet. I have some clues. Let's dig out their money first." Li Ke sighed. It was not easy for these people to dig out their money.
"How?" Li Shimin looked at Li Ke in surprise and asked.
"The Tang Dynasty never sleeps." Li Ke spit out five words.
