I handed in the sand sculpture through the book system

Out of the habit of copying official documents for many years, Li Ziwen subconsciously chose a rather euphemistic rhetoric when describing the international situation, ignoring some of the outrageous operations in it, so as to avoid too much stimulation to Mu Chen.

In general, since the cosmic background radiation event broke out more than ten days ago, international confusion and worries about unknown radiation continue, but the fear has gradually disappeared.

Everyone gradually discovered that Seris, the oriental power that suffered the first shock in theory, actually showed a strange calm in the aftermath of the incident: the government is still working normally, the economy is still operating normally, and the army has no special mobilization.Except for a few secret seminars and mobilization of personnel and materials in the local area, it can be said that he is extremely calm.

——Judging from all the signs, the mysterious creature that caused the radiation incident probably, maybe, maybe... is not dangerous?

Once it was confirmed that the danger had been ruled out, the politicians who came out of the underground bunker instinctively turned their heads—they didn’t understand the mysteries of the cosmic background radiation, but the country’s top scientists guaranteed them with their lives, hiding behind the radiation incident Its technology has reached a level that is completely unimaginable for humans, and it already belongs to the realm of magic.If measured by human thinking, this is almost "omnipotent"

If there is such an omnipotent power hidden in the human world, how can it be monopolized by one country?

Driven by this kind of instinctive greed, countries with a little bit of a reputation took action, sending immeasurable secret agents, spies and even professional equipment to Linjiang Province at any cost through various channels, and encountered the same irresistible situation in the East. Estimated resistance and counterattack.After several days of seeing each other, finally some countries have achieved results.

The first to jump out was of course the Yankees. Although the country's intelligence agency was scolded by the president as a dung-making machine, it was still quite professional after it was seriously operated.After losing a large number of high-level dark threads, they got the key news-the key person who triggered the radiation incident, his name was Mu Chen.

As a result, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sailis received the first letter from the Yankee ambassador, protesting that the East restricted Mu Chen's personal freedom and violated his human rights, and demanded an immediate meeting with Mu Chen.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sailis had already planned to return the letter as it is and refute it bitterly, pointing out that Mr. Mu Chen is now in good health and well, and what was said in the letter is purely shameful and speculative rumors.We have a series of evidence from video to audio to Mr. Mu's personal letter, what do you have?

The Yankee ambassador didn't take it seriously at all, and still talked nonsense three times a day, using excuses ranging from restricting personal freedom to restricting freedom of movement to restricting freedom of speech.He declared that the Yankee Nation is a country of freedom, and only when Mu Chen met with the Yankee Ambassador alone could he prove his freedom!

This back-and-forth exchange lasted for two days. On the third day, the Yankees turned their offensive and made great progress—the country’s Secretary of State wrote to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the East, pointing out that the Yankees had received accurate information, and Mu Chen had In the text, he expressed his longing for New York. Yankee fully welcomes Mr. Mu's visit and is willing to provide all conveniences. Therefore, he urges Siris to release Mr. Mu immediately and arrange the earliest flight to Yankee!

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was caught off guard, and after repeated research, it replied honestly: After investigation, your so-called "accurate news" that Mu Chen yearns for New York is just Mr. It does not represent my will.I hope you will stop such rumors, and the English teacher's comments on the composition are attached to the letter, please check it.

[Afterwards, the Siris intelligence department conducted a deep review, reflecting on the negligence that occurred during the secrecy process, and unexpectedly omitted such important information—Mr. Mu’s English composition text! 】

Of course, such an ironclad counterattack could not prevent the Yankees from gaining strength in the slightest—ah no, the determination to defend Mu Chen's freedom.On the fourth day, the specifications were further upgraded, and the central government received a call from the Yankee Presidential Palace.

During the phone call, the President's special envoy announced that his subordinate department found some traces left by Mu Chen on the video website, and found that Mu Chen had browsed many film and television works with the image of the President of the Yankees, and expressed his gratitude in the comments and likes. love for the President.The President of the Yankees thanked him for this and offered to meet alone for him at Peanutton to present his own performance.

After the experience of the previous few times, this time Siris moved quite quickly - they simply checked the information and immediately responded to the special envoy's invitation on the phone.

The caller of Serris said that your so-called film and television works with the image of the president should be officially called "ghost animals".That is, a short video with a humorous effect is created by using a large number of editing, tuning, special effects and other technical means.

The caller also pointed out that in view of the particularity of this type of work, the on-the-spot performance may not be done by manpower.We are grateful for the enthusiasm of the President of your country, and are willing to provide technical support to tailor more ghost and animal videos for Mr. President, and forward them to Mr. Mu for viewing.If you agree with this proposal, you can send the materials to the internal mailbox of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...

——However, this kind of diplomatic confrontation between you and me is limited to a few high-end countries. After all, there are too few intelligence capabilities in the world... Of course, the shortcomings of intelligence capabilities have not limited certain countries to share a share Tang's ambition, so he slapped his butt and opened his mind, and went straight to the fantasy style.

In this genre, being able to analyze the similarity between Park and Mu from the perspective of Chinese characters is already a superior method, and more often it is close to the plot of a novel.For example, condemning the Eastern powers for using human experiments to pollute the cosmic radiation environment, protesting that the East sent signals to the aliens on the Alpha Cantilever of the Milky Way regardless of the interests of all mankind, protesting that the change of the cosmic background radiation hinders the communication between its citizens and nature... Such letters can be sent in a day More than [-] letters came, which made the Ministry of Foreign Affairs overwhelmed and had to temporarily second personnel.

Despite the consideration of stability, the variation of the cosmic background radiation is still strictly blocked by various countries.But under the calm and waveless society, the dark tide is already raging, and even drastic changes are about to happen.

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In general, the economic system designed by Pei Yan has withstood the test.

Of course, there were still some twists and turns in the middle.Just half a day after the currency was issued, the canteen opened by the crossing team faced a wave of runs—the natives still instinctively distrusted the currency, and subconsciously sold the currency to exchange it for more reliable sugar and salt.

Bei Yan was mentally prepared for this.He ordered to recruit more waiters, opened more wooden cart counters, and provided unlimited supply of white sugar and salt to the aborigines. Customers who shopped for ten bags were given an extra cloth bag. A bad seasoning factory, the seasonings sent over are enough to marinate and dehydrate the whole city.

This turmoil lasted for several hours, and finally the people were persuaded by the endless supplies and gradually dispersed.Steel coins have thus established credit.

After that, Bei Yan implemented the established plan.He put cloth, charcoal, needles and thread into the canteen, and opened a side dish service in the cafeteria. In addition to porridge and rice, he provided pickled cabbage, pickled ginger, and even more luxurious pork products.

The two-way investment of goods and currency had immediate results, and in just a dozen days, the population flow in Jiangling City became active rapidly.The streets and alleys gradually became bustling, and people came and went as far as the eye could see, and they could hear a lot of laughter.There was even the sound of small merchants hawking and yelling at the corner of the street, one after another in the empty city, which was quite interesting.

"Finally, there is some vitality, not like the ghost town before."

Bei Yan breathed a sigh of relief, then rubbed his red hands again: "...it's this horrible weather, I don't know when it will warm up?"

"Liu Ming is also waiting." Wang Zhi also spit out white mist: "If the temperature rises, it is time to arrange farming. Such a large land should be self-sufficient. It can't be supported by modern materials. ?”

"That's right." Bei Yan felt sorry for him: "Although the current situation is not bad, in fact, it all depends on us... Oh no, the 100 billion quota in Mr. Mu's hand. As soon as the supply is cut off, the entire economy will immediately be reduced." will crash."

Mu Chen snorted from behind, and looked up at the dark yellow wooden board on top.

A few days ago, I had a communication with the big leaders, roughly reported the latest situation, and discussed the specific list of the next material assistance.At the end of the meeting, the big leader made an unfeeling request, saying that historians came to the door, hoping that they could take pictures of the daily life of the people in the Middle Ages and keep them as valuable materials.

At first they said yes.But in practice, we found that there are many problems.There are quite a lot of cameras with me, but how to take pictures is not a small trouble: In the past ten days, the traversers have worked very effectively, but they have successfully eliminated the natives' fear of themselves.But after the fear disappeared, it was replaced by some kind of crazy and extreme worship.If they show up on the street with a video camera, a group of people will surround them and bow down, and they will be sobbing.

This kind of thing was photographed back, maybe they thought they were restoring the Five Dou Rice Sect.

After discussing and discussing, Xiang Liang finally proposed a feasible plan.They placed a wooden board in the most inconspicuous corner of the government office lobby, and several people dug holes behind the board to take pictures of the distant view, and then handed over the camouflaged camera to Du Heng and Yi Cheng, who asked them to walk around the streets to take close-up shots.Editing two pieces of material can almost meet the requirements.

But sitting around like this is really boring.Mu Chen snorted, looked around, and suddenly had a new discovery: "Why are there so many strangers?"

He pointed to a few thin figures in rags in front of the government office.After investing a lot of cloth, the clothing conditions of the people in Jiangling City have been completely improved.Although it is limited to tailoring skills and there is no style or color, there is no such thing as a tattered garment that cannot keep out the cold.

Bei Yan glanced casually: "...they should be farmers from the nearby countryside, who came to trade agricultural products. I have received several reports in the past few days, saying that there has been an obvious population influx after the economic recovery in the city. It’s a good thing that the population increases and productivity increases. It just adds trouble to Shu Bai’s epidemic prevention.”

As he spoke, his heart moved slightly, he raised his head and looked around, just in time to see Yi Cheng trotting with a wooden box in his arms, running towards him.

Yi Cheng stopped in front of the wooden sign, lowered his head to wipe off the sweat, and then quickly walked in, offering the wooden box with both hands: "The boy is ordered, and the inspection has been completed."

Bei Yan hummed, took the wooden box where the camera was hidden, reached in to turn off the switch, and asked casually:

"What did you find?"

——Limited to the rules of the system, the time-traveling team did not explain to Yi Cheng what the cameras were shooting, but only asked him to walk around with the wooden box to understand the hardships of people's livelihood.

Yi Cheng bowed slightly and crossed his hands to answer: "My boy walked around the streets and alleys, and what he saw and heard was prosperous, and he was no longer depressed and deserted when Hou Rong made troubles in the past. In my humble opinion, the people's livelihood is now rough and safe, and there is a faint sense of well-off. appearance……"

Before he could finish his sentence, Mu Chen was choking on the saliva and coughing, gasping for breath: "What? You said little——"

Wang Zhi coughed dryly, and quickly interrupted the dangerous speech:

"'The people are too tired, but they can be well-off'. Now that there is great chaos, how can it be compared with civil and military governance?"

Yi Cheng glanced at King Hengyang in surprise (he always felt that His Highness was going to reveal something), and replied respectfully: "The boy was born too late, and as far as he can see, there are wars and famines, and the people are like worthless people. I never knew What is the so-called governance of the world in the ancient books? According to the boy, if the world can be like Jiangling now, then it is truly a remarkable governance..."

Bei Yan smiled slightly beside him, thinking that no dynasty could learn the way of governing Jiangling.He casually asked again: "There is no need to flatter the horse. You have been investigating for so long, have you checked the price changes?"

Yi Cheng has been fascinated by his ears and eyes these days, and he also knows the meaning of this series of strange words.He thought about it carefully, and replied: "The boy bought a few things on the corner of the street, and heard the comments from the vendors, saying that the things are more expensive these days."

Bei Yan nodded: "The wages were increased a few days ago, and the effect is so immediate. This economy is too small and too sensitive...In the agricultural era, productivity is relatively fixed, and there is no need for mild inflation. We must find a way to control prices... …Let’s do this, let the commissary increase the supply of charcoal first, and then see the situation.”

"Charcoal?" Wang Zhi frowned: "Even if you want to return currency, using salt and sugar cloth is better than charcoal? Now it's a collective fire, and the demand for heating is not great. What do you do to increase the supply of charcoal?"

Bei Yan smiled and shook his head again and again:

"First, increasing the amount of cloth, salt, and sugar is not very useful—they used to grab more than a dozen catties, but now there is really no demand. Second...who said I want to use charcoal to return currency?"

He blinked, reached out and took out a glass bottle from his pocket. Inside was a crooked long needle with extremely rough workmanship, which was obviously not the handwriting of modern craftsmanship.He jingled the long needle and handed it to Mu Chen.

"——From more than ten days ago, I put at least [-] steel coins into Jiangling City. With Jiangling City's pitiful market size attached to the natural economy, it should have been overwhelmed by such a huge amount of currency long ago. There has been a big inflation. But until now—until now, the prices in Jiangling City have only fluctuated on a small scale...do you guess why?"

Mu Chen was taken aback for a moment, since the canteen was established, every day's ledger had to be sent to him for signature.He glanced roughly, but he was absolutely clear that such a small amount of sales would not be able to recoup such a large amount of money.Where did the extra money go?

His eyes swept over the rough long needle, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration: "The steel coin was melted!"

"That's right." Bei Yan laughed: "This is one of the main reasons why I decided to use steel coins. In the Middle Ages, there was a serious lack of metal products, especially the lack of strong alloys such as steel. If there are too many steel coins, what will the local aborigines do? ? They will buy charcoal, melt it quietly, cast it into steel skins, steel needles, steel knives, all kinds of metal utensils, and resell them to nearby farmers who are desperate for metal!"

He smiled and pointed at Yi Cheng (Yi Cheng hurriedly bowed his head and tied his hands):

"This kid came to me quietly a few days ago, saying that he knew that there was a blacksmith secretly selling molten steel coins, and asked me if I need to ban it. Hey, I'm so happy to hear that! A lot of metal products flow into agriculture, how big it will be Promotion? We are currently short of manpower and cannot control the outside of Jiangling City, and the commissary is too expensive for farmers. But as long as we have this method, we can still inject metal and promote productivity..."

Mu Chen and Wang Zhi nodded in admiration.Yi Cheng next to him was confused, but he admired it even more in his heart - he asked himself that he had read "Guan Zi" and "Huo Zhi Zhuan", but Mr. Bei's methods were really unheard of. People live in peace, really have the talent of ghosts and gods.

Thinking of this, he changed his mind slightly, remembering that he had asked Brother Du Heng about Mr. Bei's background, but Du Heng's face changed drastically, and he repeatedly warned himself not to pay too much attention to the private affairs of King Hengyang... I don't know where I touched it His reverse scale.

Bei Yan was complacent for a moment, then remembered what he had just thought about.He stretched out his hand to call Yi Cheng over, pointed to a few outsiders in ragged clothes standing at the corner of the street, and told him to go and do some shopping.

After a while, Yi Cheng came over with a bamboo basket and told Bei Yan that he had bought five fish with three steel coins, and the vendor was very happy when he saw the steel coins, and was willing to give him the basket together.

Bei Yan nodded, thinking that the credit of the steel coins had obviously spread outside Jiangling City, which is excellent news.He casually asked, "What kind of fish did you buy?"

Yi Cheng bent down and put down the basket: "Mr. Zi, the man said it was the silver bar fish he caught at home. The nobles in the city liked to eat it. Now that the nobles are gone, they can eat it by themselves. It tastes good. He said the fish is bad. It is very fast, we need to steam it quickly, otherwise we can only feed it to the dogs. Their dogs have eaten seven or eight..."

Bei Yan snorted, reached out and lifted the lid: "Interesting, I want to see what it is—"

His eyes widened suddenly, and the lid snapped aside.

Wang Zhi snorted and poked his head over, then was dumbfounded:

"I don't care, this is fucking shad, Changjiang shad!"

His sudden cry made Yi Cheng tremble in fright.Mu Chen became curious and followed suit.But he didn't call out, he looked at the slender silver fish inside, and couldn't help but wonder: "Why?"

At this time, the gap in knowledge was revealed. Bei Yan and Wang Zhi looked at each other, then turned their heads, and answered all Mu Chen's questions with one sentence.

"In the 80s, a Hong Kong businessman ate a shad by the Yangtze River." Bei Yan's Mandarin is quite standard: "A piece of shad costs [-] yuan."

Wang Zhi followed with a sigh: "Zhang Ailing said three regrets, one of which is that the shad is thorny."

Mu Chen took a deep breath and fully understood the weight of this thing: "Then... how much is a piece now?"

"Now?" Bei Yan laughed: "It's not about money anymore. Now there are no shad in the Yangtze River, and you can't see a single scale even if you throw a hundred thousand."