Straight man of steel

Chapter 415 Unified Currency and Leek Cutting
For Zhang Yuan, it was just an idea to let go of the matter of Taixue completely.

After this idea has grown in my mind, it is not so easy to cut it off.

So Zhang Yuan really handed over all the affairs of Taixue to Kong Anguo.

The name must be to exercise his ability.

In fact, Zhang Yuan just wants to do something else, because the most important things about Taixue are the growth of students and the expansion of influence.

But after much deliberation, only when the influence expands and the common people become rich will the source of students increase.

In this way, Zhang Yuanshou's presence in Taixue would be meaningless at all.

It's better to find something else to do to make your reputation more and more widespread, and the influence of Taixue will also grow with the growth of your reputation.

As the principal of China's first state-run education institution, Zhang Yuan also concurrently served as the Minister of Education. It can be said that Taixue will grow up with him.

Qin Shihuang unified China, no matter how much Liu Che does now, future generations will only say that he developed and perfected on the basis of Qin Shihuang.

And Qin Shihuang set a unified tone for Huaxia and China, and those who do not seek unity in the future are sinners of the nation.

As a modern person, Zhang Yuan understood this much more deeply than the ancients.

There are so many warlords in modern times who have unreasonable and chaotic relationships with foreign countries, but not all of them are working hard to maintain national unity.

This is the influence of the pioneers on the latecomers.

The Han Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty are actually the first dynasties that China tried to govern the country.

On the one hand, they demand innovation because most of the systems left over from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods cannot continue to be used.

On the other hand, it demanded stability. The Qin Dynasty was actually very chaotic at the bottom, but it was suppressed by its strong military strength and strict calendar.

When the Han Dynasty just founded the country, it was also in chaos, otherwise it would not have ruled for decades by doing nothing.

Letting the people seek their own life and death is two different concepts than the state forcing them to die.

The most chaotic thing for Zhang Yuan is the economy and finance. Until now, Liu Che has not rectified the chaos, because he doesn't understand it at all.

And so far, Liu Che has actually reformed twice, and it can't be said that there is no effect, but it hasn't touched the root of the chaos at all.

In order to change the status quo, Zhang Yuan went to Chang'an City.

Pingyang Hou Mansion in Chang'an City.

Since the death of Pingyang Hou Caoshi, the queen mother has been looking for a husband for Princess Pingyang.

But Princess Pingyang may not have helped her son Cao Xiang completely control the Pingyang Marquis lineage, so she didn't find someone to marry.

Zhang Yuan's visit this time has only one purpose.

Control the transactions of paper mills and coal mines in Shu County.

"His Royal Highness, Marquis Xin'an is out to see you."

Princess Pingyang was also surprised by Zhang Yuan's sudden visit.

If there is no Princess Pingyang not summoned on weekdays, Zhang Yuan will definitely not come to find Princess Pingyang.

Because there are not many places where Princess Pingyang is needed now, to be honest.

This kind of character will be the most effective only when Zhang Yuan is in crisis or when he is still very weak.

"Let Xin Anhou come in."

"Here."

When Zhang Yuan saw Princess Pingyang, he found that she didn't have the resentful expression like a widow, and her expression was as noble as before.

"My minister pays respects to Her Royal Highness the Princess."

"Why did Marquis Xin'an come here today?"

The ally relationship makes Princess Pingyang speak very directly.

"Come here for the Paper Mill and the Shu County Coal Mine."

Zhang Yuan's shares in the paper mill and the coal mine are both [-]%, and they are the party with the least proportion in the tripartite relationship.

But these two cornucopias were presented to the world because of Zhang Yuan.

"What's the matter? What happened?"

Zhang Yuan has always ignored this.

[-]% of the paper mill belongs to Liu Che, [-]% belongs to Princess Pingyang, and the majority of the coal mine belongs to Princess Pingyang.

In order not to compete with the royal family for profit, Zhang Yuan has never been involved in these two businesses.

The royal family did not withhold money from Zhang Yuan either.

“I suddenly had an idea and planned to do something with these things and the shop under your name, Your Highness, Princess.

Please rest assured, Your Royal Highness, the minister will distribute dividends to you and the inner treasury according to the originally determined share, and you can also send some merchants to supervise. "

"What do you want to do?"

Obviously, Zhang Yuan didn't explain the reason clearly, and it was difficult for Princess Pingyang to agree to Zhang Yuan's request.

"Collect privately minted copper coins on the market and remelt them."

Zhang Yuan only mentioned one of his main goals, but he didn't say anything about another meaning.

"The purpose of your doing this is to unify the currency?"

Princess Pingyang could tell at a glance, after all, Liu Che had carried out currency reform twice, although both ended in failure.

"Yes, only in this way, the common people will not pay more attention to the transaction method of barter.

The most important thing is that it can stabilize the prices of our big men, and there are various other benefits.

Tax collection and the like will not be more difficult because of the different weight components of the currency. "

Zhang Yuan only said what Princess Pingyang could understand and the benefits she could accept.

Zhang Yuan did not mention the more explicit benefits.

The most important reason why Liu Che wants to reform the currency system is to plunder wealth for his own use.

He himself probably didn't expect to hit the right path, and it would have an extremely large impact on future generations.

And the impact is mostly positive.

"I understand what you said, but you have thought that His Majesty has also promoted three baht coins and half baht coins.

But in the end, there were no good results, and the phenomenon of private casting among the people could not be eradicated at all. "

"I know that it's too easy to imitate half taels and three baht coins, and it's easy for private minters to grind copper shavings from them, and then use the ground copper shavings to melt and mint new coins."

"Now that you know it, you should also understand the difficulty of unifying the currency.

How could you do such a thing by yourself. "

"So I want to try it first, and the only business I'm involved in is these two.

I have come here to seek your consent. I can guarantee that no matter what, the dividends shared between you and His Majesty will not be reduced at all. "

Princess Pingyang hesitated for a long time without saying a word.

She understands that what Zhang Yuan is going to do is a good thing, and the biggest beneficiaries are the royal family and ordinary people.

But the difficulty is definitely not as relaxed as Zhang Yuan is now.

"Since you want to give it a try, it's inconvenient for me to stop you.

When you are ready, send someone to take over my coal and paper shop.

It's just that I will definitely send someone to supervise it, you have to understand this, Marquis Xin'an. "

"Thank you, Your Highness Princess, supervision is necessary.

I also want His Majesty to rest assured that you can rest assured. "

With the promise of Princess Pingyang, Zhang Yuan took the first step forward.

What he has to do is not only to reform the currency system to unify the currency, but also to reduce the price of paper by the convenience of being able to manage shops.

He couldn't be the master of Princess Pingyang before, and Liu Che didn't have the concept of small profits but high sales. He only thought that as long as the price was expensive, more money would flow into his pocket.

Now that Zhang Yuan takes over, Liu Che and Princess Pingyang can understand a little bit.

When everyone can afford paper, their dividends will be much higher than they are now.

From ancient times to modern times, China's largest resource has always been its population.

Modern capitalists wish that China could have a population of several billion, so that it would be extremely easy for them to cut leeks.

So the more users, the more leeks.

This is why the most important thing for Internet companies is user resources.

Then why does he still care about it? Isn't it because of the huge user base.

Zhang Yuan wanted to make paper affordable to all Han people. Making money from rich people would never be as good as making money from the whole country.

Popularize first and then charge, the consistent method of cutting leeks.

For example, a bunch of video sites in Huaxia burned money crazily in the early stage, and when the number of users increased, they couldn't rise.

Zhang Yuan can't be so black-hearted, even if the common people can afford paper, he won't be black-hearted enough to print a logo or something on the paper in order to advertise to some people.

For example, Dong Zhongshu can ask him to advertise, and print the four characters Gongyang Chunqiu on a corner of the paper.

The printing technique is also in the hands of Zhang Yuan, and Zhang Yuan can use these in exchange for wealth and various resources.

But all of these are based on harming the people.

With those four extra words, a piece of paper may contain four less words, and in the end it will be unsightly.

Video websites add advertisements to TV series and movies, which not only degrades the user experience, but also steals and steals everyone's time.

The greatest wealth of the poor is time, and capital is slowly wasting your time like this.

It only takes 10 minutes to watch an episode of TV series, but there are 2 minutes of commercials in it. It’s disgusting that they use algorithm plug-ins to make it impossible for you to skip it.

2 minutes a day, 7 hours and [-] [-] minutes a year.

This is still for one person, what if the base number is expanded to 1, 10, or even millions of people?

This is really not alarmist. Capital makes users waste fragmented time, and they use this time to earn a lot of benefits.

And users take a higher risk, do you think you just bought a VIP and paid for an advanced on-demand?

Your most precious thing has actually been stolen.

This is Zhang Yuan's personal idea, so he will definitely not do such a disgusting thing.

Firstly, he popularized the users to make the common people of the big Han able to read and write, and secondly, he returned to the original purpose.

Collect all the copper coins from all over the country that are not of good quality.

Zhang Yuan thought for quite a long time, this is the only way he can significantly change the status quo.

When Liu Che realizes that this matter can really be accomplished, he will definitely come forward to lead this matter. At that time, the unified currency will be like picking something out of a bag.

After taking the first step, Zhang Yuan immediately returned to his home at the foot of Lantian Mountain.

This time should be when Taixue is busy, and Zhuo Wenjun never thought that Zhang Yuan would come back at this time.

"The list will be released soon, won't anyone criticize you when you come back at this time?"

Zhang Yuan was still thinking about things, but he didn't expect Zhuo Wenjun to care about him so much.

"It's okay, have you been scolded less these years?

As long as there is no trouble and I don't show up, I'll be fine. I've already entrusted Kong Anguo.

If something happens to him, he will be finished. I will not be this Marquis at worst. Anyway, it is easy to be named Marquis. "

Zhang Yuan is really not talking nonsense about this point, there are at least two major wars between the Han and the Hungarian, and Zhang Yuan only needs to participate in that one, and it is really easy to make military achievements.

"Hey, hey, it's definitely going to be okay.

A Yuan, if you come back this time, you can stay for a while longer, we will work hard. "

After Zhuo Wenjun finished speaking, she lowered her head shyly. The effort she said must be working hard for the greatest cause of mankind.

"Hey, then you can work hard.

Still have to go to the vault to have a look. "

As the family fortune became more and more abundant, Zhang Yuan had already opened up a vault underground to store his belongings.

The security of Xin'an Hou Mansion basically relies on these Han troops in Shanglin Garden, so it is very necessary to have a treasury.

To be honest, Zhang Yuan didn't know how much money he had.

But when he saw half the warehouse filled with horseshoe gold and countless boxes of copper coins, Zhang Yuan was still stunned.

"There must be tens of thousands of catties of gold."

"Master Hou, the treasury is counted once a month, and the last time the treasury was counted, there were 650 coins.

The number of gold is 740 six. "

Xiaoqing was in charge of money in Zhang's house before, but now Xiaoqing and Lao Zhao will take care of it if there is too much money.

Little Qing is in charge of expenditures, while old Zhao is in charge of inventory.

Old people just love looking at these mountains of money.

More than 1 million and a half coins, this still makes Zhang Yuan happy enough.

The Zhang family never accepts those privately minted copper coins that are short of catties and taels, and the transactions have always been large transactions. The amount of copper coins is counted and then weighed.

It is not an easy thing to hide it from Lao Zhao.

As the copper coins became more and more abundant, Zhang Yuan finally melted them all into Hanwu half liang in order to be as fair as possible when distributing the monthly coins.

It still looks good now.

"Old Zhao, I want to re-melt these copper coins into new coins."

"Master Hou, do you want to mint copper coins privately?"

"It's not private casting. His Majesty has not banned the princes from casting money."

Lao Zhao didn't know this, he only knew that folks can't mint copper coins privately, if caught, they would be beheaded, and their family members would be implicated.

"Then everything will be obeyed by Lord Hou, Xiong Daxiong Er and the others have not lost their jobs.

There are all the things in the house. Casting money is just a trivial matter. Master Hou, you just set the mold. "

Lao Zhao mentioned the key point, the model is the most important.

Those copper coins issued before were too easy to grind and obtain copper shavings, and they were also easy to imitate.

Basically, there is no anti-counterfeiting function, and it is impossible for the people to see at a glance whether there is any shortage.

The transactions between the common people are all small, and it is impossible to weigh them like the Zhang family.

Therefore, the copper coins made in the end must be recognized by the common people at a glance.

(End of this chapter)