I have a backstage in Datang

Li Shimin hesitated for a moment, and said a little defensively: "The main problem is the recognition of the people, and the habits of ordinary people are hard to change."

Gu Tianya chased after him closely, and asked again: "Which habit of ordinary people is hard to change?"

Li Shimin glanced at him and sighed: "For example, in remote areas, such as Jiannan Road and Jiangnan Road, the common people only recognize old money and not new money. They like to use old money when trading."

The emperor stopped talking, and then said: "I and the court are very puzzled about this matter. It is clear that the new money is the currency of the Tang Dynasty. Why do the common people prefer to use the old money? If it is because they miss The Great Sui Dynasty before, so this statement must be pure fart. The Great Sui caused the people so much suffering, anyone who is not a fool would miss it. But the blame is here, why do the people insist on using old money?"

Li Shimin's eyes were full of confusion, obviously he really couldn't figure it out.

Gu Tianya laughed loudly, stretched out three fingers suddenly, and said leisurely: "There are three reasons..."

"Oh?"

Li Shimin's eyes lit up obviously, and Li Jiancheng also subconsciously moved forward beside him. The two brothers almost spoke in unison, and hurriedly said, "Quickly tell me, what are the three reasons?"

But Gu Tianya let out a breath slowly, and said: "First of all, you have never cared about the worries of the common people. What are they worried about? What they worry about is that the wealth will fail. For example, for small households in the private sector He said that maybe the family’s wealth is only a few hundred coppers. But these hundreds of coppers are likely to be accumulated over many years, and even part of it is left by their parents to save money... and they Most or even all of these copper coins in the family are money from the previous dynasty."

He stopped as he spoke, looked at Li Shimin, and said with a smile: "Through what I said, can you realize something, second brother?"

Li Shimin looked thoughtful, subconsciously said: "That is to say, what the common people are worried about is that the money will fail. They have accumulated through hard work for generations, but all the copper coins in their hands are money from the previous dynasty. If they don't recognize the old money when they trade money, then it means that their wealth is emptied in an instant..."

Gu Tianya nodded with a faint smile, and said, "That's why they resist the new currency. In fact, it's not that they resist the new currency, but they have to use the old currency. The reason is very simple, the only money in their family is the old currency."

Chapter 358 [Gu Tianya actually asked the emperor! 】

Li Shimin took a deep breath, nodded slowly, and said, "It turns out that the problem lies here, and the common people cannot be blamed for this matter. If I were born in a common people's family, I'm afraid I would be just like them."

The emperor looked at Gu Tianya and asked sincerely: "Since you have seen through the essence of this matter, then you must have a solution. If you are a brother, don't hide it. If you have any good means, quickly come up with it."

Gu Tianya chuckled, and said, "It's actually easy to solve it. You only need to issue a decree to allow old money to be exchanged for new money. I guarantee that people will flock to it, and they will definitely take out all the old money."

Li Shimin was stunned, subconsciously said: "It's that simple?"

Gu Tianya laughed again, and said, "That's right, it's that simple. For the common people, what they worry most about is the failure of their wealth. As long as we allow them to exchange old money for new money, their wealth will still be the same as before. , since the wealth has not changed, it will naturally be exchanged for new money.”

He paused for a while, and then said: "After all, everyone understands that new money must be more durable than old money."

"it is good!"

Li Shimin slapped his thigh heavily, and said with joy: "I will immediately summon my courtiers and make this matter into a decree."

The emperor was about to get up as he said that, but Li Jiancheng stopped him with his hand and said, "Erlang, don't go in a hurry, we still have two questions that we haven't figured out. Brother-in-law Gu just said very clearly that there are three problems with Datang's promotion of coins. One, the first reason he has already said is that the common people are worried about the loss of wealth, but there are two other reasons, you'd better listen to what he said before going to summon the courtiers."

Li Shimin was slightly taken aback, then nodded solemnly, and said, "Brother is preaching."

The two brothers looked at Gu Tianya again.

However, Gu Tianya never thought that Gu Tianya would smile, and for some reason there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone, and said: "The second reason why the people resist the new money may be a bit of a slap in the face if you put it bluntly. Looking at the various royal families in the past dynasties, almost every time when the country was founded They are all the same, they are busy minting new money and vigorously promoting the world. On the one hand, they want to control the country’s economy, but their deeper intention is to plunder wealth... Hahahaha, to put it bluntly, it is to entrap the people. To plunder people’s wealth and enrich themselves.”

As soon as these words were said, Li Shimin's expression suddenly fell.

However, Gu Tianya didn't care about Li Shimin's embarrassment at all, but continued to talk on his own, and said leisurely: "Since ancient times, the currency used in our Central Plains has been copper coins. Copper coins are officially called gold. For example, two Brother, when you reward officials, the imperial decree says hundreds of pieces of gold, but that gold is actually copper, and copper represents wealth in China."

"Why can copper represent wealth? Because copper can be cast into copper coins."

"And the most uncontrollable greed of the royal families in all dynasties originated from the time of casting money after the founding of the country..."

When Gu Tianya said this, the sarcasm in his tone became more and more intense. Suddenly he sneered, staring at Li Shimin and said: "A copper coin is determined by the government. According to the rules of the past and present, the copper coin must be used when it is cast. Want to be the copper material. Only if the weight is enough, it can be considered as fine-cast copper coins. If the weight is short, it is entrapping the people."

He sneered again as he spoke, still staring at Li Shimin, until he finally saw him, and asked angrily: "Second brother, tell me yourself, are the copper coins minted after the founding of the Tang Dynasty compliant? There is a difference between the weight of a steelyard and the weight of it. When you mint copper coins, why do you want the common people to accept them willingly?"

This thunderous questioning made Li Shimin speechless.

At another table not far away, all the female relatives were silent, no one could believe that Gu Tianya would ask the emperor.

The atmosphere in the courtyard became obviously depressed.

Fortunately, Zhaoning was still there, so he stood up suddenly to smooth things over, pretending to be angry and said, "Tianya, why are you talking? Even if you have the truth, but the second brother is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty after all. Can you respect it? When you speak Can't you be more tactful?"

"cannot!"

Gu Tianya yelled violently, as if he didn't give Zhaoning face at all, and said sharply: "Since the first year of Wude, the Tang Dynasty has minted new money, named Kaiyuan Tongbao, which means Kaiyuan prosperity. But what I saw was not Li The royal family wants to run a prosperous world, and I saw that they were short of money when they minted coins."

He roared louder and louder, and his whole body seemed to be full of anger, and he said: "During the Sui Dynasty, everyone called Sui Wendi Yang Jian an old man, but even though he was an old man, he used a lot of materials when making money. , every copper coin is very fine, and every copper coin weighs heavily..."

The roar stopped here, and then he said: "Next is Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. The world calls him a stupid king, but he is such a "well-known" stupid king, but he never deceives the people on coins. The coins minted during his reign have always followed the fineness of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty. With copper feet, they are heavy. Just now you asked me why the common people like old money, and I replied that they did not want their wealth to be invalidated. But in fact, I would like to answer The most important thing is that the people have a steelyard in their hearts. The copper coins of the former Sui Dynasty used enough materials, so they like to use the money of the Sui Dynasty, and the newly minted coins of the Tang Dynasty are short of catties. Why should we let the common people like it? ?”

The literati got angry more fiercely than the warriors.

It seemed that Gu Tianya's roar resounded everywhere in the whole courtyard.

The roar was so loud that it even alarmed the guards outside the courtyard, but when they saw two heads poking out cautiously from the door, it was Ma Sanbao and a general... Ma Sanbao was a retainer of the Gu family, and what he was worried about was Gu Tianya, the head of the family. The military commander was General Habayashiwei of the Tang Dynasty, and he was naturally worried about the emperor Li Shimin.

It's a pity that as soon as the two of them showed their heads, they were immediately greeted by two shouts. First, Gu Tianya roared angrily, and shouted at Ma Sanbao angrily: "Get out, who told you to guard the door?"

Ma Sanbao quickly retracted his head.

Li Shimin also shouted loudly, and angrily yelled at the Habayashi guard general: "Get away from me, don't stand in the doorway to block your eyes. Although I was scolded by my brother-in-law, I think he is justified. He should scold you. He must scold, he is qualified to scold..."

The emperor took a deep breath, and said with an extremely serious expression: "Because he is scolding on behalf of the people of the whole world."

Even Li Jiancheng stood up suddenly, bowed his hands in a solemn salute, and said: "My royal family, the Li family, minted coins to harm the people. Although I was worried about this in the past, I still had an illusion in my heart, thinking that the people are ignorant and can A little bit of confusion. But today, I was exposed by my brother-in-law, and I know that the common people are the people who should not be fooled. They have a steelyard in their hearts..."

The elder brother of the royal family smiled wryly, sighed and said: "Sure enough, the second reason is to slap your face, but the elder brother wants to thank you brother-in-law, you are right."

Gu Tianya was slightly taken aback, he didn't expect Li Jiancheng to apologize, and quickly said: "Brother, you don't need to do this, I'm mainly trying to wake up second brother."

Li Jiancheng glanced at Li Shimin, and said solemnly: "Although he is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, I am also the royal family of the Li family. Regarding the shortfall of the Li family's coins, my royal family must also bear the responsibility. Sigh To put it bluntly, it’s all about greed. It’s obvious that the country has already been acquired, and the entire Central Plains belongs to its own property. The reason for the lack of copper at the beginning, but more because of our greed... Brother Gu, you were right just now. Our Li family, this thing is not kind. Those are the people of the Han family."

Gu Tianya didn't know how to comfort her for a while.

Whenever men get into a stalemate, it's up to the women to smooth things over.

So Empress Changsun suddenly stood up, and Li Jiancheng's wife also stood up at the same time. The two female relatives deliberately pretended to be curious, and changed the subject: "Brother Gu, you just said that there are three reasons. We are all waiting to hear, Why didn't you just say two things?"

Zhaoning also stood up quickly, took advantage of the situation and hugged the baby tiger in his arms, and said again and again: "Yes, we are all waiting to hear, you guys rarely give lectures to everyone, so why don't you hurry up to teach and teach while you have free time today?" Children, baby tiger, tell your father quickly, just say you want to listen to lectures, just say you want to learn knowledge..."

It's a pity that Baby Tiger's eyes widened, he grinned at Gu Tianya, and said, "Don't, don't listen, every time after daddy lectures, mother will force me to do my homework, I don't want to listen, I don't want to study."

The women laughed loudly and joked that the child was really naughty.

The atmosphere in the arena became slightly calmer.

Gu Tianya took the opportunity to go down the steps.

He laughed out loud, as if full of interest, and said, "Okay, let's give a lecture. Since everyone wants to hear the third reason, then I will give you a good lecture..."

Although he said so, he didn't start talking immediately. Instead, he suddenly leaned over and poured himself a glass of wine, then tilted his neck and drank it down suddenly.

Then his face suddenly became serious, and he said slowly: "The third reason is the strength of the coin."

"What is the strength of coins? To put it bluntly, it is the influence of national power."

"A big country is powerful, and if it coerces all directions, its currency will have a strong influence. Not only the domestic people will use it, but even the surrounding countries will also use it."

"As for weak countries and small countries, the people have little wealth and little wealth. Even if currency is minted, no one is willing to use it."

"Although the Tang Dynasty has been established, the national power is not strong, or I should put it another way, the impression of the Tang Dynasty in the hearts of the people is not strong enough."

"If the common people think that it is strong enough, then they will have a sense of honor, and with this sense of honor, it will breed centripetal force. When the new currency is introduced at that time, I can guarantee that everyone will eagerly accept it."

Chapter 359 [A million-level battle]

I Have a Backstage in Datang Chapter 359 [A Million-Level Battle] This day, the whole family talked too much.

During Gu Tianya's long speeches, he talked endlessly about the way of currency, but on the surface he seemed to be talking about minting coins, but in fact he was talking about the future of the country and the nation.

Fight a huge war that will shake the world today.

Cast a high-quality coin and promote it all over the world.

In the eyes of people of this era, these two things seem to be irrelevant, but if people of later generations listen to it, they will immediately understand the inextricable relationship between them.

Only a hegemonic country is eligible to promote currency throughout the world.

The promotion of currency all over the world will inevitably control the national power of all countries.

This is the currency war, and this is the hegemonic country.

But it has an extremely important premise, that is, the national power must make people feel extremely strong, or to put it another way, that is, the combat power of the army makes people tremble.

Therefore, Gu Tianya said that there was going to be a big fight.

Millions of battles.

……

"it is good!"

In the whole courtyard, Li Shimin's cessation of drinking suddenly sounded, but seeing the emperor stand up abruptly, his face was clearly determined.There is a faint fanaticism between the eyes.

"You actually want to fight a million-level battle?"

"Hahahaha, good!"

"I've been looking forward to this for many years..."

It is hard for future generations to imagine that Li Shimin was actually a militant in his bones. When future generations read history books, they usually focus on the rule of Zhenguan, but few people calm down and ponder why the rule of Zhenguan appeared in the era of Li Shimin. .

In fact, the reason is very simple, this is the strength of the fight.

The reason why he was able to play this kind of strength was first of all because the emperor was a militant.

But seeing Li Shimin at this moment, he clearly had a kind of uncontrollable excitement. The family members present could hear that the emperor's panting became heavier and heavier.

Suddenly he laughed wildly again, and said loudly with fiery eyes: "Looking at the past and present, there have been great wars in all dynasties, but although there have been great wars, there are not many who can be called millions..."

The emperor paused at this point, and then said: "For example, in the Battle of Changping in the Warring States Period, 40 soldiers were killed in the first battle, and it is also like the overlord of Chu at the Julu River at the end of Qin Dynasty, and the overlord of Chu broke all boats, and the tough Qin army 40. Ten thousand main forces, one victory will leave a name for thousands of years."

Suddenly Li Jiancheng also stood up, and the eldest brother of the royal family also spoke passionately, and said in a rumbling voice: "There are also the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty. Millions of troops fought against the Red Cliff. , It can also be called a battle of millions of people. The generals have left their names through the ages, and they are always fascinating."

As expected of the royal family, there is a passion for war in their bones.

Or it should be said that the ancients of our Huaxia clan are actually like this.

They are usually humble and polite, but they can't conceal their warlike ambitions. That's why the ancients paid attention to opening up territories, and that's why the ancients ranked military achievements as the first.

At this time, Gu Tianya also stood up, but his tone seemed to be pouring cold water, and he said with deep meaning: "Actually, we all know that the few battles just mentioned were not at the million-level level at all. It can even be said that we There has never been a million-level battle in the Central Plains of China."

These words startled the Li brothers slightly, and then they nodded at the same time, agreeing: "Brother-in-law is right, we have never had a million-level war. Most of the so-called million-level wars are exaggerations , If you count the troops strictly, there are not many soldiers who actually participated in the battle... There are 30 to [-] soldiers, which is already a great battle that shocked the ancient and modern."

Looking at Gu Tianya together while talking, he said again: "Those so-called battles of millions of heroes all included auxiliary soldiers and corvees. Even so, they still shocked the world."

Gu Tianya burst out laughing, and shouted loudly: "But we are different, we will not play tricks this time. Since there has never been a war of millions in the past, let us start a new chapter for the Tang nation."

He laughed loudly, his eyes were on fire.

Suddenly he clenched his fist and waved heavily, looked at Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng and said, "Big Brother, Second Brother, Gu Tianya is here today to send out an invitation to ask if you would like to be famous for thousands of years? Let's gather a million troops and fight against the Han family." Epic battle."

Gather a million troops?

Fight an epic battle?

After Gu Tianya sent out this invitation, both Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng's eyes flashed.

"it is good!"

Suddenly, the two brothers spoke together, roaring as if they had stopped drinking, and said: "A man's heart is always looking forward to the battlefield. I am from the royal family of the Li family in the Tang Dynasty. I accept this invitation from the Gu family of Youzhou."

It's like a covenant, so it's settled.

……

Then Gu Tianya spoke first, and turned his gaze to Zhaoning over there.

His tone was very gentle, his eyes were also very gentle, and he said softly: "Zhaoning, you have to help me."

Over there, Zhaoning suddenly stood up, her pretty face showing a strong fighting spirit, and said loudly: "I haven't entered the military camp for three years since I married you, but today my husband and my natal family made a covenant to fight for the Han people." A million-level epic battle. Although I am a married woman, I have not lost my force... For the glory of Youyun Gu and for the future of the children, I, Li Xiuning, put on my armor again."

Xiaoqing and Xiaorou stood up at the same time, and said in unison: "I will follow the princess and go out for my Youyun Gu family."

"it is good!"

Gu Tianya nodded heavily.

He suddenly looked at the gate of the courtyard, and said loudly: "Ma Sanbao, I know you are outside the gate."

A figure flashed at the gate of the courtyard, and he saw Ma Sanbao really there.

This guy had obviously heard the covenant in the yard just now, so there was a lot of fanaticism and excitement on his face at this moment. He didn't wait for Gu Tianya to speak, he had already laughed wildly, and said: "Patriarch, please don't worry, our Ma Sanbao I have been a fighter all my life, and as the first retainer of the Gu Clan, it is my duty to lead the army..."

Gu Tianya nodded slowly, his face showing joy, and suddenly he spoke again in a deep voice, and said in an extremely solemn tone: "In that case, report to the army!"