FWF Chapter 269 Xiao Qi Wants to Create a Global Unified Currency
Chapter 269 Xiao Qi Wants to Create a Global Unified Currency
Chapter 269 Xiao Qi Wants to Create a Global Currency
As for Zhao Shen, who was used to being washed face with spittle by the ministers, he didn't feel happy about half of the ministers in the DPRK and China not wanting to take the train with him.
He led half of the court ministers who were willing to go, and under the escort of the forbidden army, he drove from Lin'an to Pingjiang City in a mighty carriage.
On the second day, Emperor Zhao Shen, accompanied by Zhenbei King Xiao Qi, led the officials to board the train named "Xingsheng" by Xiao Qi.
The carriage that Zhao Shen was riding in was specially made by Xiao Qi for the Royal Family by the Foundry Bureau.
Except that the overall structure and shock absorption of the entire carriage are the same as other carriages, the interior of the carriage is much different from other carriages.
In other carriages, there are long wooden seats, and one long seat can seat three people.
But this royal carriage is different. There are wide spring seats inside, especially the seat specially made for Zhao Shen in the middle of the carriage is even more luxurious.
Not only does the seat occupy more than half of the compartment, but the backrest can also be laid flat. After the backrest is laid flat, this huge seat becomes a soft spring sleeper.
Zhao Shen liked this seat very much. If Xiao Qi hadn't told him that the reason why such a soft sleeper was designed to be so comfortable was to prevent him from feeling uncomfortable when taking the train for a short period of time.
But if he sat or slept on such an overly soft bed for a long time, it would not be good for his health. He wanted to replace all his dragon chair and sleeping dragon couch with this thing.
Zhao Shen took the officials with him on the "Xingsheng" and stayed for two days from Pingjiang City to Shanghai Port. During this period, Xiao Qi took Emperor Zhao Shen and the officials to visit the Shanghai Navy Port.
Whether it was Zhao Shen or those civil and military officials who followed Zhao Shen, they were all stunned by the densely packed sea ships docked in Shanghai Port!
What they knew about the Changshengying Marine Division newly established by Zhenbei King Xiao Qi was that it was invincible and could be said to be unrivaled in the world.
Now that I have seen many large sea-going ships docked in Shanghai Port, I understand that the Changshengying Navy of the Song Dynasty was able to cross the four seas, and it is definitely not as simple as fighting bravely!
Xiao Qi asked Emperor Zhao Shen and his officials to board the steamer and go out to sea for a symbolic turn.
After returning, Zhao Shen was amazed at this big ship that could sail quickly in the sea without manpower paddling or sailing.
Those ministers who took the train with Zhao Shen were almost all close to the royal family, and at least they were not disgusted with Xiao Qi.
They saw that Xiao Qi, King of Zhenbei, not only trained the land army of the Great Song Dynasty with strict military discipline and invincibility, even the navy was transformed by him into such a powerful force.
They all became fans of Zhenbei King Xiao Qi, no matter what, these ministers still only wanted to make the Great Song Dynasty stand upright.
And now they have also seen that as long as Xiao Qi, King of Zhenbei, is present in the Song Dynasty, countries that dare to oppose the Song Dynasty, no matter on land or overseas, will be trampled under the feet of the Song Dynasty!
Xiao Qi understands the principle of striking while the iron is hot, and he also knows that by attracting more ministers to his side, he can save a lot of unnecessary troubles.
Before preparing for the emperor's car, he ordered people to make a lot of silver sheets, on which the four characters 'high-level VIP' and a string of Chinese character numbers were directly stamped out with a punching machine.
Xiao Qi personally gave these silver cards, which were twice larger than the business cards in his previous life, to all the ministers who followed Zhao Shen this time, and told them that these were for their families.
In the future, if anyone who holds such a card takes a train, there will be a special window to buy tickets, and they can buy the most comfortable carriage, and the fare is [-]% off.
These ministers were very flattered by King Zhenbei's sudden gesture of favor when they got these silver paper cards.
After all, what they knew about Xiao Qi before was that they fought everywhere and killed people without blinking an eye. Even the frail Princess Yongjia was influenced to climb trees and beat people not long after she married him!
For a long time, Zhenbei King Xiao Qi was a taboo in the hearts of these ministers.
If you want to flatter and find no one, if you accidentally provoke it, it will be over. Not to mention the two princesses of the palace, even the people of Song Dynasty can drown you with their saliva.
Now seeing Zhenbei King, who usually sees the dragon but never sees the end, came to each of them and gave them a silver so-called VIP card, how could they not be surprised!
However, these ministers also knew that no matter what, even if they would not even take the train with their families in the future, this card personally given to them by King Zhenbei was very rare, enough for them to brag to their hometown elders for half a lifetime.
After Xiao Qi's initiative to show his favor this time, these ministers are no longer as afraid of Xiao Qi as they were before, and instead have a lot of close relatives with him.
Zuo Prime Minister Yu Yunwen saw Xiao Qi's actions, and he was full of praise for Xiao Qi. When chatting with Zhao Shen, he praised Xiao Qi to the limit.
To put it bluntly, the son-in-law of the emperor, now knows how to build a good relationship with his colleagues, and no longer always speaks with fists like before, and has become mature.
Zhao Shen heard that Xiao Qi had sent beautiful cards to all the ministers, but his father-in-law, who was the emperor, did not have any. He immediately became jealous and called Xiao Qi to ask why they all had me?
When Xiao Qi was asked, he was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed: "Royal father, you are the king of the Song Dynasty, and the railways and trains belong to your old man.
Even the compartment was specially built for you. If it was given to you, wouldn't it be a joke? "
Since the emperor asked about the card, Xiao Qi took advantage of the opportunity to think about it for a long time, and took the opportunity to tell his father-in-law about making gold, silver and copper coins.
He told Zhao Shen that the stamping machine has been released now, and only Da Song has this kind of thing in this world, and it cannot be imitated.
In the future, the merchants of the Song Dynasty will do business with foreigners all over the world.
In this way, currency will become a kind of strategic resource. We need to create a large number of coins first. In the future, wherever the Changsheng camp of the Song Dynasty passes, the currency of the Song Dynasty will be uniformly implemented, and the unit of measurement of the Song Dynasty will be uniformly implemented.
Zhao Shen was worried that he had minted a large number of coins, and as a result, all these gold, silver and copper coins were traded to other countries.
At that time, wouldn't the precious metals accumulated by Song Dynasty be taken away by other countries?
Xiao Qi patiently explained the use of currency to Zhao Shen, and told Zhao Shen that from the beginning, those overseas countries would definitely keep the coins made by the Great Song Dynasty and trade the goods of the Great Song Dynasty with gold and silver nuggets.
But this is better for Da Song. In order to be more durable, these currencies will add a certain proportion of other metals. They exchange pure gold and silver with us for currency, and we earn money at both ends!
For the gold and silver returned from the trade, we will mint more gold and silver coins.
And Xiao Qi asked Zhao Shen to rest assured that with Da Song's current production technology and capabilities, the goods produced by Da Song would only be exchanged for a large amount of gold and silver and brought back to Da Song, and it was impossible for Da Song's gold and silver to go out The situation of not coming back.
After hearing Xiao Qi's words, although Zhao Shen was still a little worried, but out of his trust in Xiao Qi, he gritted his teeth and agreed to Xiao Qi's proposal, ordering the Great Song Mining Bureau to make samples of the Great Song coins as soon as possible.
The next day, Emperor Zhao Shen led his ministers back to Pingjiang City by train, and then returned to the capital city of Lin'an by carriage.
After Xiao Qi returned to Lin'an, he designed several patterns of coins overnight, and asked those craftsmen to step up making molds and rush out the first batch of machine-made gold, silver and copper coins.
However, Xiao Qi also had a bad idea. Silver was still scarce in Song Dynasty, but it was not lacking overseas. For this reason, he made copper coins into copper coins with no holes in the middle. The smallest one is one penny, then ten, twenty, fifty Maximum one hundred words.
A silver dollar weighs one tael and can be exchanged for a thousand copper dollars.
According to the current exchange of silver for copper coins, although the amount of silver in the Song Dynasty has begun to increase, it is no longer as much as one tael of silver for three pennies, but one tael of silver can still be exchanged for two pennies, that is, more than 2000 copper coins can be exchanged for one tael silver.
Xiao Qi plans to use these copper coins to harvest silver on a large scale overseas. After all, there are no standard coins in the world at this time, and these copper coins will definitely become the favorite things of the local people.
Moreover, the copper mines mined by the Song Dynasty both domestically and overseas have made the copper reserves of the Song Dynasty very full. In addition to the copper ingots reserved for making bullet casings, the copper ingots in the treasury of the Song Dynasty are still piled up. There are many warehouses in Song Dynasty.
In addition, China has thousands of years of experience in making copper coins. The proportion of these copper coins only needs to be slightly improved to make them more durable.
For small coins of one penny, Xiao Qi still uses the design with a square hole in the middle. The copper coins from ten to one hundred pennies do not have square holes. Xiao Qi designed a dragon on the front of these copper coins, and engraved a circle on the edge of the coin. In small print, indicate the face value of the coin.
The back is engraved with the pattern of the Song Dynasty Imperial Palace.
In order to facilitate the identification of people in other places, the face value of the coin is marked with Chinese characters on the front, and Arabic numerals are selected on the back.
Xiao Qi didn't care if someone would ask why this thing, I wouldn't explain it.
But this also reminded Xiao Qi that it was indeed time to learn Arabic numerals. He wrote the learning method of Arabic numerals into a textbook, and trained several teachers, ordering them to teach this counting method in the school.
However, he did not say that these are Arabic numerals, but directly named Dasong simple numerals.
For this shameless method, Xiao Qi said that he has no pressure. He can't say that this is Arabic numerals. If he really said that, then there will be more problems, and he will have to keep explaining.
Soon, samples of these gold, silver and copper coins were produced. Xiao Qi took these coins into the palace to show them to Zhao Shen and Zhao Gou.
The two emperors were very satisfied, and felt that they were much more beautiful than the copper coins they had used before.
Instead, Zhao Gou asked Xiao Qi why the characters on the year name were so small, and the year name of each emperor's money was very large.
Xiao Qi said that at first he thought about the year, but in the end he felt that these coins were harvested overseas for gold and silver, and the year didn't matter, and they didn't know Chinese characters.
As soon as Zhao Gou heard about harvesting gold and silver from other races, he immediately became interested, and he immediately threw aside the matter of the year name.
After Xiao Qi's detailed explanation, both Zhao Gou and Zhao Shen were stunned!
Zhao Gouxin said that this grandson-in-law is simply a cannibalism master!
Directly doubled the value of these copper coins, didn't they go to harvest their gold and silver!
Zhao Shen hesitated: "My son-in-law, what if those people don't want to exchange silver for our copper coins?"
"Father, you don't need to worry too much, those uncivilized alien races are just wearing one more coat than the savages.
They will rush for many of our products in the Song Dynasty. Besides, they also understand that they can trade with us for some things they need.
Better than getting nothing! "
Zhao Shen was still thinking about it, but Zhao Gou thought very clearly, and said directly: "That's right, I traveled thousands of miles from the Great Song Changsheng Camp to their side, and I'm not letting them decide!"
Only then did Zhao Shen come to his senses, thinking he was right.
My son-in-law has always had a grudge against those alien races, probably because his master doesn't like those people.
So he made a decision: "Just do as the wise son-in-law said, but this coinage has always been supervised and managed by the Ministry of Household Affairs..."
Of course Xiao Qi knew that this was something he couldn't let him do casually.
"Father, I have ordered the minting bureau to build several such minting machines, and when all these minting machines are completed.
Just leave it all to the Ministry of Accounts, with the Ministry of Accounts as the mainstay, and the Changsheng Camp as the supplement, to supervise the minting of coins. Do you think it is feasible? "
Zhao Shen and Zhao Gou looked at each other and nodded secretly. This king of Zhenbei is still very measured, knowing that such matters are not up to Chang Shengying to decide.
"My son-in-law's idea is very good, let's do it this way, I don't know when my son-in-law will start using these coins to barter overseas!"
Xiao Qi said in his heart: The Suez Canal will take at least a year or two to complete. If it is to be used, we can only try it in Southeast Asia, South Asia and Central Asia.
"Return to father, after these coins are minted, the Changshengying and the various commercial firms of the Song Dynasty can bring the products produced by the Song Dynasty and these coins, and trade them in the Southeast Asian countries first."
Both emperors agreed to Xiao Qi's new currency policy, and after decree that Xiao Qi was fully responsible, Xiao Qi began to busy himself with these matters.
At the same time, the city of Lin'an has been bombarded by the various descriptions of the train ride after returning from the railway ride with Emperor Zhao Shen.
For this era, when a train travels smoothly for hundreds of kilometers, the people sitting on the train don't feel any bumps, which is simply miraculous and cannot be more miraculous.
What's more, this thing is not only stable, but also faster than a horse-drawn carriage, and can transport thousands of people at a time.
After the first batch of officials who took the train told their personal experience, those officials and people who didn't go there just felt miraculous, and they all wanted to take a ride at any time to experience it.
But those businessmen didn't think so, and they quickly realized that this railway was a good thing for businessmen to use.
Some smart firms heard that those officials were given VIP cards, so they quietly contacted those officials, hoping to buy their VIP cards at a high price.
(End of this chapter)