In mid-September, after Liu Bei returned to Luoyang from Nanyang, he received rectification opinions from local states on pre-sales and implementation rules.

He also discussed with Liu Ba and Li Su very diligently, and finally removed the drought and preserved the essence, simplified the complexity, approved the part that was relatively enforceable, and finally achieved great success in the pre-sale of industrial and commercial tax.

Of course, this success is not a flood-style uniform selling style. After all, after the new policy details came out, those scarce resources that cannot be easily expanded were sold very well.

A few states even sold out all the reserved quotas and asked the court to print a batch to send them before the end of the year to make it easier for them to continue selling.

Those non-strength resource-based tax types are somewhat unsold. Fortunately, they can still be sold in the future, which is nothing more than losing some duplicate printing costs. After most merchants find out the ways in it, they tend to buy more copying of shortage resource categories. Anyway, if they want to convert into non-strength products in the future, they can also expect the official promise to be transferred after the run.

All kinds of good news were all over the place, but in short, it made Liu Bei very satisfied.

"I didn't expect that after the sales of the industrial and commercial tax, there were still so many problems. Fortunately, Gongyou and Zichu and others worked hard and adjusted in time, which could reverse the doubts among the people and finally sold so much. Now, the military expenditure for the war in the repair of the river and Luoyang New City has finally been settled."

With this joy, Liu Bei felt that he could temporarily put down his concerns about the shortage of money and food. Calculate the days, Lu Bu had already started to "send a letter to the world" ten days ago, widely informing him of his abandonment of darkness and exposing Yuan Shao's black information.

The manifesto began to spread from Taiyuan ten days ago and arrived in Luoyang six days ago. However, considering that there were urgent messengers from Luoyang who came to report specially, the transmission speed could not be counted.

In the hostile camp, considering that there will be several days of loss when passing through the border, Yuan Shao's camp will definitely try to block the news in the future, so the speed of transmission among the people will definitely be slower.

It should have just been introduced to Jizhou for a short time. I don’t know when I will arrive in Wei County and Yecheng, but I guess it will only be in the past few days, and the error will not exceed ten days.

Liu Bei felt that he needed to discuss new issues with Li Su and Zhuge Liang again, and see how to take advantage of Yuan Shao's favorable situation after the disease worsened.

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On September 22, Liu Bei heard that Li Su and Zhuge Liang were also back from Bowang and Kunyang. Liu Bei had always treated the virtuous and humble men. Considering that his subordinates were working hard and hard, he did not call them into the palace to meet and report, but went to the Sili Governor's Office to discuss matters with his subordinates.

Anyway, the conditions on Li Su's side are not bad, so Liu Bei has become accustomed to visiting Zhao Pu like that with Zhao Kuangyin.

However, because there was no appointment, Liu Bei actually lost the air. Several Li Su's subordinates, such as Zhang Song, who were guarding the Sili Governor's Office, were frightened and quickly reported:

"I don't know that Your Majesty is coming, Sikong and the prefect Zhuge went to the right school to supervise the die-casting sample of the new currency. I will immediately invite Sikong back."

Liu Bei was stunned for a moment, waved his hand and told Zhang Song not to be nervous, just go to the prison together: "I know this, there is no need to worry about it, go to the chariot, go to the right school together."

Zhang Song was a little nervous. He heard that Liu Bei asked him to be in the same car, so he was really flattered, but he still went on order.

The carriage and horse fell off and transferred from the Sili Governor's Office to the branch office where he was supervised in Luoyang.

Liu Bei heard Li Su's suggestion of "minting new coins" a while ago, and they also discussed a set of plans with the Ministry of Finance to solve the current problem of "the scale of citation and court material trade is getting bigger and bigger, and there is not enough copper coins."

Therefore, it is still necessary to cast gold and silver into coins that are difficult to counterfeit, and to take the coin rights to the court exclusively. Liu Bei just approved this matter a while ago.

After all, in previous years, the scale of official procurement by the imperial court was not that large, and the demand among the people did not have so high, so they went to huge working capital a few years in advance. The problem of insufficient amount of hard currency can be covered up, and there will be no problems of "deflation" and "money is expensive and cheap".

However, the fiscal volume has increased significantly in the past two years, and the productivity of the people is indeed increasing by leaps and bounds, and so much new material wealth can be produced every year.

When the scale of copper coins is basically constant and only a slight increase, the amount of materials corresponding to the unit coins will become more. Even Shu brocade can be used as money, which is still a bit insufficient.

When military supplies were in a tight situation before, the change in the court treasury could only be given priority to migrant workers who were performing labor service overtime to ensure that the wages of the lower-class people were not owed.

As for large military supplies and material purchase orders, the imperial court had some credit period, which was essentially a blank note for several months. On the one hand, the imperial court could not pay at that time, and on the other hand, there was indeed not so much metal currency in the world.

After all, in the 20th century, there were government procurements that were first made by credit, and it was even more surprising that the imperial court made a move to a move to a move to a move to a move to a move to a move at the end of the 2nd century. It was completely within the scope of the people and businessmen's perception.

Later, many wealthy businessmen who came to subscribe for citations had done government procurement before, but they directly paid for the citation subscription with the contract of supply and the IOU that had not settled the debt.

Now the citation system has finally stabilized, but after all, citation has not become a paper currency, and it will take many years to transition. In the case of deflation and deficit expansion, it is still necessary to increase the direct money supply.

During the Huanling period, the number of copper coins in the world was estimated to be less than 20 billion, and it was only a few hundred of them evenly distributed to each person. And a large amount of them was hidden by the rich, and even more of them were buried by the bad habits of the Han Dynasty. They were so filial and honest.

The court can no longer only recognize that gold and copper coins are money. It wants to mint gold into gold coins. Although there is not much silver now, it still needs to be used to mint coins, which can relieve deflation and survive the transition period well.

Of course, since it is to solve the currency shortage, Liu Bei had to learn from Cao Cao and use the other party's good places to fight against the trend of a grand funeral.

The future recognition of filial piety by the court mainly depends on whether a person is good to his parents when he is alive, rather than whether he is buried with him after death. Burial will never be included in the assessment standards for selecting talents by the government and selecting filial piety and honest people in local counties.

In the other hand, if you find that you spend money on burial rather than spending money on living people, you should be considered unfilial! You will deprive yourself of the qualifications of being elected as an imperial examination candidate!

Of course, these are all later stories. This kind of policy formulation process does not cost much, the key is the efficiency of publicity and promotion.

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Liu Bei's car driver will be on the right school when he arrives. Although the most rigorous production test of the confidentiality level is underway, when he sees the emperor coming, of course, he will immediately open all the doors and give in advance.

Liu Bei entered the inner courtyard directly, and when he walked to the middle gate, he saw Li Su and Zhuge Liang hurriedly greeting him.

"No need to be polite. I came here without invitation. You don't have to come out to welcome you." Liu Bei helped me and inspected and asked, "How are you doing? I remember I started trying a few days ago."

Li Su hurriedly led Liu Bei in, then found a hydraulic mold pressing machine, took a few finished gold and silver coins that the craftsmen had just unloaded, and gave them to Liu Bei Yuling.

Li Su introduced: "It's not bad. These hydraulic forging presses can be forged even breastplate. Die-casting gold and silver, which is much softer than steel, is very convenient.

Moreover, when forging steel, it is necessary to repeat and press slowly, for fear of breaking, so the afterburner and deceleration transmission of the hammer head is more complicated. The gold and silver are soft and not afraid of rapid deformation.

Therefore, as long as the materials are prepared in advance and the weight is standard, a gold and silver coin can be die-casted between a few breaths. The coins pressed out are more exquisite and delicate because the mold pattern and flower decoration are more delicate than copper coins cast with copper water. It is extremely difficult for the people to forge without molds. It just makes it easier for the court to clarify laws and completely accept the right to cast gold and silver coin into the official business."

In fact, there were a lot of gold and silver coins die-casting techniques in the West in the late Renaissance. The specific technical details are not worth talking about. Anyway, if you can create hydraulic forged plate armor, you will definitely be able to create gold and silver coins with die-casting. Who makes gold and silver softer and easier to process?

Since the middle of the Age of Discovery in history, gold coins from European navigation civilizations, such as British Pound, Gold Louis, Florence's Florinian gold coins (valued 21 shillings), and Ducate gold coins from Venice (valued 27 shillings), were basically made like this.

The craftsmanship is fine, and can print a circle of thirty or forty letters of negative text, and there are many other details that are difficult to forge.

When Li Su was working on water-forged plate armor a few years ago, he did not immediately take out the die-cast gold and silver coins. It was simply that the market did not have this need and should not take too fast steps. However, the technology has always been reserved there, and it can be taken out at any time when the water comes naturally.

Liu Bei weighed it, estimated the weight in his mind, and asked, "This gold coin is ten thousand yuan? A silver coin is one thousand yuan? But the weight should be less than one or two taels, right?"

Li Su: "The amount is indeed slightly insufficient, and one or two percent of other base metals separated when remelted are easily remelted, including copper, tin, and lead. The specific formula can be found at the craftsmen's experimental records.

In short, the court issued a 20% discount on the coins that were re-melted in real gold and silver, which was also effective in preventing the public from privately remelting. Because as long as the remelting is destroyed and the metals are recovered, it will definitely be more deficient than the denomination of gold and silver coins.

This also prevents the price of gold and silver from fluctuating slightly. When the metal price rises, the people will immediately rush to molten coins to get gold and silver, wasting the minting of coins. The price of gold and silver must rise by more than 20% so that private merchants and people will see the benefits of molten coins, and such violent fluctuations are difficult to occur.

The 20% off gold and silver are really heavy, and it is not enough to exploit the people. After all, the imperial court has mastered the technology, and this die-casting technology is not available to the people. It is natural to charge 20% of the people with this technology. It is not easy for the people to imitate it, and it is easy to find out if it is made with shoddy crafts. "

Li Su said it very reasonably, after all, advanced productivity should be valuable. The people have not mastered these new machine technologies, but only know that they have melted gold, silver and copper and recasted it. With this technology, they can earn 20% of their credit value, which is acceptable to the people.

In any case, it is much more conscience than "straight hundred coins" or other things that directly make big money, and it is also considered the light of human nature in troubled times.

Liu Bei took a batch of samples, played with them repeatedly, and then handed them over to the servant to collect them, preparing to take them back and slowly appreciate and collect them, which can be regarded as witnessing a period of history.

After explaining this, he had time to ask Li Su what he was doing today: "Lu Bu's surrender manifesto that insulted and slandered Yuan Shao should have been passed to Yecheng. I think about Yuan Shao's current state, if he suffers great humiliation again, he may die at any time.

Patients with stroke are the most difficult to endure in winter and summer. He took the summer past and must not be taken over again in winter. The court should make specific arrangements for Yuan Shao’s affairs.
Chapter completed!