Shen Jin was stunned, hesitated for a moment, and said seriously, "Yulong, if you want to use money, I still have some Silk and Silk Fabrics at home..."
I didn't say "This is illegal".
"What do I want from you Silk and Silk Fabrics? I want Shenlang Coins, and it's a newly minted Shenlang Coins, a steady stream of Shenlang Coins." Liu Cheng said helplessly.
"But aren't you just making money to make money?" Shen Jin really couldn't turn a corner this time.
In the previous political discussions, he could still give himself an explanation, twists and turns, and always had ideas and reasons. But now that you Liu Cheng said that you want to mint money, it can only be for the sake of the money itself. After all, his father minted money back then to raise military supplies.
You can't give Copper Mine stones to soldiers and military slaves, right?
Moreover, because Shenlang Coins is too thin and too small, even the soldiers who pulled out their own Wuxing complained.
"Of course it's to make money." Liu Cheng replied patiently. "The purpose of making money is not to make money or save money. That's nonsense."
"Yulong, listen to me, you must not use this to make the army uneasy for the sake of temporary gain..." Shen Jin got stuck mid-sentence.
Not only was Liu Cheng looking at him with his head tilted to the side like he was looking at a fool, but he also realized that given the method and generosity the other party had used to deal with Way of the Celestial Masters, how could he possibly do such a thing and drink the blood of his soldiers with a small amount of money instead of Five-Zhu Coins.
"Don't say it yet. I'll say it first. If I ask you, listen and answer." Liu Cheng waited for the other party to stop on his own, and then took out a thin Shenlang Coins from his arms. "Is this the money you Father minted back then?"
"Yes."
"This thing is so thin and light. When I sold Grass Sandals, I knew that in Jingkou, for those cheap things, three Five-Zhu Coins would cost five Shenlang Coins, and one Five-Zhu Coins would cost two Shenlang Coins... Do you know?"
"I really don't know."
"I'm asking you now, it's obvious that ordinary people have to spend money with baht, and it's obvious that Shenlang Coins is so bad, and the exchange rate between Shenlang Coins and Five-Zhu Coins on the cheapest items is often more than one or two percent difference, but why do people still use the bad money you Shen Family cast for the rebellion decades ago?"
"..."
"Do you know?" Liu Cheng turned around and asked Shen Chiqian, Xie Ae, and Wang Guannu who were standing at the door.
The three of them almost shook their heads in unison.
"Because of lack of money." Shen Jin said in a low voice. The man who controlled half of Wuxing Commandery's economy seemed to have come to his senses.
"Yes, because of the lack of money." Liu Cheng said solemnly. "Because of the lack of money, even the bad money from decades ago is still used by the people, and the relevant exchange ratios are formulated based on economic circulation... And this is Jiangcheng, the most economically developed place in Jiangzuo. Then let me ask you, have you ever thought about the situation on both sides of the Huai River, with frequent wars and unstable people, and only Wubao and the army can survive, how bad will the economic circulation be?"
"But bad money is useful if it is handed out, but when the lower-level sergeants and those Wubao Lord saw it, they didn't understand anything and were only dissatisfied." Shen Jin roughly understood what the other party meant.
"Then I will cast good money!" Liu Cheng was speechless. "Can't you cast good money?"
Oh my, can you make good money by casting money privately? Shen Jin It's like being struck by lightning. If so, then this thing can be done.
Don't underestimate Shen Jin. Even Xie Xuan standing at the door suddenly realized that he had never turned around in his mind. Privately minting money is equal to bad money. This is the inherent understanding that everyone has from the time they come into contact with this concept.
"Huai River region is short of money. We mint good money and high-quality money. Compared with Five-Zhu Coins, the imperial court has so much military resources. Military Weapons is here. It is just a normal issuance and purchase, which will not delay our making money." Liu Cheng continued. "At the same time, we can use money to connect with trade. Fortified Manor, and if the money we give out is high-quality money, both the sergeant and Fortified Manor will recognize it, but the officer and Wubao Lord will not allow it, and they will not be able to control it. By then, the entire Huai River region will use the new Shenlang Coins. Just this name will naturally be authoritative... it kills multiple birds with one stone, why can't it be cast?"
"I'll try my best." Shen Jin regained his composure and quickly agreed. "If this is done, it will be useful to Northern Expedition's overall situation, so it will be done naturally."
"It's not about trying your best, this is the key!" Liu Cheng reminded with all his strength. "This matter should be done as a top priority. When you arrive Qiao Commandery and settle down, arrange this matter immediately. Go. Let my brother-in-law Shen He or simply my father-in-law personally supervise the money. Once the money is minted, send it to South Garden. My wife Awu will personally accept it and then be responsible for it. Liu Ye, who is in charge of transportation, will take a special line to transport it and let Chiqian pick it up and distribute it uniformly. I will not take advantage of you. You have to pay for the labor of the copper material. Naturally, your cost will be deducted, and it will be shipped to Huai River region later. We will add up to five of the profit margins between the two, but I must also grasp every step of making and distributing money, because I want to use them to subdue the morale of the army and subdue Huai River region Fortified Manor..."
Shen Jin, who had long since woken up, nodded repeatedly and almost swore at the Fei River.
And Liu Acheng's words are not meant to appease and coax. Shen Jin father and son and their soldiers are now in his own hands, allowing others to earn hard money, but in the end, won't they also be used on the soldiers to replace themselves Northern Expedition?
Besides, the profit margin of 21 plus 5 is already quite a lot.
"Qianjun." At this moment, Xie Xuan, who was listening carefully next to him, couldn't help but speak. "If casting money is harmless, why doesn't the imperial court cast it by itself?"
It's rare for Liu Cheng to look at Xie Xuan, a top-notch good boy from another family, with the same eyes he used to look at Shen Jin, but Shen Jin doesn't know how hard he has worked up to care for his wife Xie Family with this look.
Xie Xuan was immediately horrified by the sight of the two of them.
On the contrary, Shen Chiqian next to him was used to being a rich kid from the Punished Family. He laughed on the spot and explained for himself Father: "Thank you... Mr. Xie, I heard someone said that taxes were transferred from Kuaiji to Jiangcheng, half of it is consumed on the road, and the materials that the former army transferred Way of the Celestial Masters were clearly scattered everywhere Manor, but under mixed circumstances, only 20% of it was used, and everyone benefited... Is it possible that casting money has no harm at all, just because it was not cast by the imperial court?"
Xie Xuan became silent halfway through.
"A'e." Liu Cheng softened his tone when he saw this. He even quarreled with his wife, mother-in-law and family without delaying every opportunity to educate these people. "This is what I discussed in "Treatise on Lasting Peace and Order" that day South of the Yangtze's chronic disease is one of the manifestations of the natural separation between scholars and common people. Literati You can rely on your family to become an official since you were born, so why do you need to be moral and educated? Not everyone is like you. You can just live and die, but it is not because you have read a book and set the ambition to be a member of the family.
"You will understand when you think about it. Those people occupy high positions and can lie down and take whatever they want. The people below can fool them as much as they want... As for the minting of coins, let alone the storage and transportation later, it is just a mining Mine. Believe it or not, when the court issues documents, the counties will not handle it properly. If they do not demand a certain output, they will even force the miners and local wealthy families to rebel."
Xie Xuan can only bow his head and be taught.
In this way, with the help of Xie Shang, after swallowing Shen Jin whole with bones and bones, Liu Cheng almost couldn't wait to arrange the minting. To be honest, if he hadn't come to Shouchun and was keenly aware of the problem of lack of money and economic circulation, he would not have been so rough with Shen Jin.
But being rough also has its benefits, isn't it worth it?
After explaining the matter, it was too late to even send Shen Jin to Huaibei, so he continued his project process. In other words, he had to prepare a list of soldiers and sergeants from Shen Jin before he could go to Qiao Commandery.
As Sergeant Active Service officially started the unified registration list, an interesting statement came out immediately. General Liu of the Vanguard Army was probably waiting for his wife's uncle Shen Jin, Liu Huzi It is good for to have three buildings of soldiers, but Gao Heng does not have enough soldiers and horses. There are only people for one building, and the people for the other building are still being recruited from his hometown, so General Liu of the Vanguard Army had only two thousand men in hand.
Two thousand men cannot subdue the Shouchun generals.
For example, the Champion General Wang Xia here in Western Command has six buildings in hand, which is the last and most core army of Xie Shang; the Zhu Xian has four buildings... The other generals, Administrator, etc., each start with two buildings, and there are two thousand people. It is really impossible to suppress anyone.
But once Shen Jin's two thousand well-equipped soldiers arrived, their true nature changed. Now General Liu of the Vanguard Army can directly control four thousand people, and has become the largest powerful faction. Winning over one or two people is enough to subdue Shouchun's approximately ten thousand people and twenty or thirty soldiers and horses.
What's more, this General Liu of the Vanguard Army ghost is specially designed to let Liu Huzi be in Yingkou, Gao Heng be in Feikou, Shen Jin fall under the Shouchun city, and the inner and outer triangles naturally lock Shouchun.
Therefore, this directory must be done whether it is done or not.
Frankly speaking, this kind of Rumour happens every day, and there are all kinds of them. It was even reported that General Liu of the Vanguard Army wants to send wives to everyone... In fact, it cannot be regarded as a simple Rumour. If Liu Acheng can work at Shouchun for four or five years, he will definitely find a way to hold a blind date conference to encourage these people to find wives.
It encourages not only marriages between the Military Clans, but also intermarriage within local Fortified Manors and Western Commands.
It's not about military morale and combat effectiveness. It's just about promoting internal unity and absorbing and controlling Fortified Manor. That's what we should do. Anyway, everyone will think about marrying a wife when they are alive, so why don't you people marry the one who is useful to me General Liu of the Vanguard Army?
But back to the present, this Rumour has advantages and disadvantages. Liu Cheng can almost think of who is inventing or spreading this Rumour... and he himself is optimistic about this.
Because this means that those generals and Banner Chief still didn't quite understand what the crux of the matter was at the end of the matter. They must have been a little panicked and had some instinctive resistance, but they could only push the matter to a category they could understand, such as seizing power. They also expected Xie Shang to intervene, and were even attracted by Shen Jin.
What else can you say?
Strike while the iron is hot, and Rumour hurry up and fix the key points in this entire series of projects.
There are really not many people. At the request of Liu Cheng, almost all the staff of Shouchun here were dispatched. Including Liu Cheng, they encountered some setbacks and resistance. The troops sat down in person and recorded the names in person. In this way, after ten days of hard work, on the third day of April, relying on the original roster of officers and using other survey forms as verification, the completed roster of soldiers and sergeants of the entire army was officially released.
And it wasn't until this day that Liu Cheng realized that, including the two thousand people Shen Jin, Western Command currently had 13,781 people here.
Of course, the nominal full strength is 17,462 people, thirty-three buildings, plus multiple General's title, Administrator holders' direct cavalry guards, Attendant Secretariat Supervisor cavalry, etc. including Xie Shang.
The numbers will definitely change. It's possible that someone drowned in the river on the day they got the roster, and many new young men were called over from behind by the elders of the clan.
But Liu Cheng knew it well, and he had already grasped a key point of Western Command by taking advantage of it.
I can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
-------I am the dividing line of relief-------
There is a folk saying, "Shenlang Coins is as light as wool; Lulang Coins is as clean as salt." However, everyone knows Wu Region. Shenlang Coins and Lulang Coins are both from the same source, but Shen Chong is the most exploited, and Emperor Taizu is the most labor-intensive, so they are divided into two parts.
--"Miscellaneous Records of the Literati".Anonymous author of Qi Record