I made myself a cup of tea. Li Ke was no longer in Tai Chi Palace. He was now in a shopping mall. He was looking at the information sent by Tian Meng in his hand. Tomorrow was the bidding meeting of Datang Evernight City, so Li Ke had this morning He ran out of the palace.
There is no need to worry in the palace. Li Tai will help keep an eye on it. Tomorrow is the time for bathing, and the day after tomorrow is the court meeting, so there is no rush at this time.
"Are you all here?" Li Ke asked.
"All are here. Every household that attended the last meeting transported a large amount of copper coins into Chang'an City. According to what we have collected in Luoyang and other nearby big cities, many people have already made their plans. The decision to bid for the Everlasting City of the Tang Dynasty." Tian Meng said in a respectful tone.
Li Ke nodded. It was not surprising at all that these people made this decision. They just lacked vision, not brains. They knew much better than others about what kind of business could make money.
"These people are really rich." Li Ke sighed with emotion.
What he held in his hand was the analysis report made by Tian Meng and others. According to the information Tian Meng and others had, the number of copper coins currently entering Chang'an City alone was close to 40 million! If converted into copper coins, it would be almost 40 billion coins! How much inventory did these people dig out?
The heritage of these powerful families that have been passed down for hundreds of years is truly terrifying.
Tian Meng and the others didn't say anything. To be honest, when they calculated this number, they felt a little scary. Although they all knew that His Highness had close to 12 million guan in his hand, this number was already very large, but the powerful family could do it casually. You can take out 40 million yuan, which is pure money!
Because His Highness said that there is no need for silk and other cloth to offset the price, but only money and food. Naturally, they cannot bring food 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, the treasury was probably the poorest, or the money in the treasury was the least.
Li Ke looked at the information in his hand and sighed with emotion. This is real cash. This does not include the food, silk and other funds in the hands of wealthy families. You can imagine how rich these people are!
Don't doubt the total amount of this number. Everyone thinks that the Tang Dynasty currently uses silk as currency, and the Tang Dynasty does not have enough Kaiyuan Tongbao to cast and use. There are not enough copper coins among the people. It seems unrealistic to have this number of copper coins.
That's because using silk, silk, and cloth as currency is beneficial to wealthy families! They can be said to be "making money" at any time, which is much less loss than casting copper coins, so of course they are unwilling to take out the money.
Is there money in the world? Of course!
During the more than 400 years of history of the Han Dynasty, almost all dynasties and generations were minting money. In the history of the Han Dynasty, there was even an example of expelling bad coins with good money for the first time. It was also the only time in the entire ancient history. For more than a hundred years, the peak population was close to 60 million, and there was no shortage of copper coins.
It is conceivable how many copper coins there are in the world. The following dynasties have never stopped minting coins. According to the statistics compiled by Li Shimin from the royal books of the past dynasties in the Hongwen Hall, there are at least hundreds of millions of copper coins in the world.
Li Ke made a compromise and calculated 100 million coins, which is almost 100 billion copper coins. According to the gram number of Kaiyuan Tongbao minted in the Tang Dynasty, which is about 4.2 grams, it is already 420,000 tons of copper.
Although this is a drizzle compared to the amount of copper used in later generations, it is not a small number in ancient times.
Hey, you are poor. After all, the amount of silver compensation paid by the Qing Dynasty in later generations was based on hundreds of millions, hey.
As for how Tian Meng and the others calculated it, they actually calculated it based on the number of carriages pulling copper coins entering Chang'an City. There is a rough number for how many copper coins a carriage can pull. You only need to calculate how many. You'll know when the carriage arrives at Chang'an City.
Although the calculated number is a rough figure, it is not even very accurate, because the things brought over by many wealthy families may not only contain copper coins, but also silver and gold, because the storage of copper coins can easily lead to rot and other consequences. Without good storage conditions, it is not as valuable as gold and silver.
The Chinese people have always owned a lot of gold from ancient times to the present.
Of course, so many copper coins cannot be all Kaiyuan Tongbao. The entire Tang Dynasty did not produce so many Kaiyuan Tongbao. However, the hidden instructions Li Ke left for these wealthy families last time stated that copper coins from any dynasty are acceptable, including bronze.
When converted into Kaiyuan Tongbao, only 10% of the loss is required.
Regarding this choice, various aristocratic families have maintained silence. They know what Li Ke wants the copper coins for, and they also know why Li Ke still accepts these copper coins from other dynasties, and they can exchange them with only 10% of the loss.
Of course, it is because Datang is currently short of money. After this wave is withdrawn, it is estimated that His Highness will soon reform the currency system of Datang.
This is not something difficult to guess based on the speculations of various wealthy families.
But they don't care, the money will be back in their hands soon after they take it out. Although they don't understand modern economics, they understand to some extent that money circulates.
Even if the currency is reformed, it is just that they make less money in the production of silk and silk, but what should be theirs is still theirs, and these people are not in a hurry.
Of course, the point is that there is no point in rushing.
Nowadays, the national power of the Tang Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger. At this time, no one will go against the royal family. The key point is to go against the powerful Tian Khan, His Majesty Li Shimin.
Unless you make a mistake, Li Shimin has no way to deal with a wealthy family like them, but if you make a mistake on your own initiative, don't blame His Majesty for wielding the sword.
If Your Majesty just kills one family, no one will resist. Everyone understands the truth.
It is impossible for any passenger to care about the sinking of the ship, because if the ship sinks, everyone will die, but when there are several lifeboats on the ship, that is another matter.
Therefore, although some things were foreseen, they did not stop them, or were unable to stop them.
"Has the imprinting machine been cast?" Li Ke asked, looking at the information in his hand.
"The service life cannot be compared with the stamping machine that your highness brought out, but we can already cast it. Currently, we have produced ten coin minting production lines. Each production line can mint 40,000 coins per day." Tian Meng said. An exciting figure, "We can mint four hundred thousand brand new coins every day."
Tian Meng was excited, but Li Ke had no emotions in his heart. Are you excited about 400,000 yuan a day? In later mints, a coin casting machine could strike 42,000 coins in one hour, which is one million coins in one day! This is just a stamping machine.
