Emperor Xiaoyao of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 361

Amulets, there are not many of them.The new gadgets that Jinyu has been tinkering with in the past few years have basically been promoted, but there are exceptions. The promotion of iron farm tools has been frustrated.A huge investment may not be recovered in ten or eight years.There are not many people who dare to invest first like the Jin family, and there are not many people with such high incomes as the people of Jinjiazhuang, so many people are very happy to pretend to be deaf and dumb.

The people are poor, the production tools are backward, and the whole family faces the loess and their backs to the sky. What they face is not only watching the sky to eat, but also birds pecking at insects. After a year of hard work, there will not be much harvest. , eat and clothe warmly, longing for but unattainable.

Zhang Yungu said that "prosperity, the people suffer; death, the people suffer".Although pessimistic, but there is some truth.Compared with the demise of a dynasty, it is more hopeful that there will be a prosperous age when the dynasty rises.

Whether it is for the purpose of self-protection and earning a talisman, or the purpose of doing something for this era out of conscience, or the purpose of repaying Li Erye, Jin Yu is willing to do something for the upcoming prosperity.If in the prosperous age, there is one's own strength, so that the people can eat enough and wear warm clothes, then this credit will not only be famous in history, but also brag about it for a lifetime!

It is very simple for later generations to have everyone fed and clothed, but looking at the history of China, there are only a handful of people who can achieve this goal! (Like it for poverty alleviation!) The false prosperity of "eating bran and diarrhea" does not count, it is blown out by dog ​​licking.After all, eradicating poverty is easier than eradicating poverty.

In Zhenguan, the common people follow the path of small-scale peasant economy, and self-sufficiency accounts for the vast majority.If someone says that the agricultural tax needs to be abolished and that the people are subsidized, I believe Li Erye will be the first to jump out and beat him to death with a brick.Subsidies are unrealistic, and income can only be increased by increasing income.

Farmers do not have any special skills, they are begging for food in the soil, and the increase in income can only be achieved through improved seeds.

The road of agricultural colleges is difficult, with a large investment and a long time to return, but as long as good seeds can be cultivated and promoted, then everything will be worth it.

The development of the Agricultural College is inseparable from the support of Mr. Cheng...lovely people like this.Mr. Cheng...cute and arrogant, although he has small thoughts, he is willing to teach Jin Yu's philosophy of life through his words and deeds. He supports the Agricultural College with real money, and Jin Yu silently praises him in his heart!

After Jin Yu opened the silver box and counted, a mouthful of old blood immediately pooled in his chest.Two hundred catties of silver ingots are exactly the same, but this is silver!Only a very small number of large-scale transactions can be settled with silver, and the vast majority of private circulation is still copper coins, and silver collars are used to buy vegetables, let alone whether they are equivalent or not. I dare not accept it.If you want to trade, go to exchange first, the problem lies in the exchange link, one tael of silver can't be exchanged at all!Pass!money! ! !

Old Fairy Cheng!Jin Yu's classic curse was stuck in his chest, and he couldn't bear it... I want to give him some wax!Light up the sky lanterns! (╯‵ ′)╯︵┻━┻

In China's thousands of years of history, when gold and silver were used as currency, they were always required to chisel or punch inscriptions to mark key information such as weight, origin, year, and names of people for inspection. This is a manifestation of credibility.

In the film and television works of later generations, there will always be a maid holding a plate of gold and silver ingots in the camera. Don’t take it seriously, they are all fake. Gold and silver of the same size may not be able to resist movement, let alone He held it without trembling.Surprised or not, is it unexpected?

In the novel, there are golden and silver yellow croakers and ingots with exquisite patterns appearing in many antique markets. Regardless of what dynasty the words are blown into, most of them are handicrafts from last week.The real old yellow croaker is dull and dull, wishing there were patterns or characters on all six sides. The real silver ingot has a rough surface with no patterns and inscriptions, which is off-white.Surprised or not, is it unexpected?

Gold, in ancient China, had transaction attributes, but most of the time it was not a currency in the true sense, and most of it appeared as handicrafts, ornaments, and religious items.

Silver, in the Tang Dynasty, was not only used to make handicrafts and utensils, but also had currency attributes. It was used for local taxes, tributes, rewards and large transactions. Silver cakes (saobing-shaped), with inscriptions [marked with accurate weight, origin, year, character information, etc.], and not in the shape of ingots, are you surprised or unexpected?
During the Zhenguan period, all the gold and silver on hand could be exchanged for copper coins, with different colors and prices. There was no official exchange channel in the true sense, only private channels.Among the folks, there are mainly two places: quality warehouses (pawn shops) and gold and silver shops (jewelry shops).It is more commemorative, and those who want to redeem it can go to the pawn shop, but the price is low.

There is no bank in Zhenguan. The bank appeared in the period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and was called "cabinet".The government-operated foreign exchange appeared more than 200 years later during Tang Zhaozong's time. Are you surprised or surprised?

Official silver (that is, silver ingots and silver collars with officially recognized inscriptions) has the highest exchange rate, but it can only be exchanged secretly. After all, some rewards are representative and are not for the recipients to exchange for money. ...

Black silver can only be exchanged at gold and silver shops, and the exchange price is lower than official silver, and the quality warehouse does not accept mortgages.The so-called black silver refers to silver collars and silver ingots without inscriptions or unofficially recognized inscriptions. At the same time, you must be prepared to be interrogated to prove that the source is legitimate (usually no one asks, but you will encounter lower prices).

In short, gold and silver shops like to exchange silver that can lower the price in order to seek greater profits. After all, some gold and silver shops have official backgrounds, you know.

Jinyu used to exchange gold and silver at gold and silver shops, but this time he wanted to try the official exchange.The agricultural college connects with the household department, public to public, and Jinyu is ready to strive for a high ratio of exchange!

Logically speaking, it is more straightforward to find the empress if the Agricultural College is located in the inner palace, but firstly, it is not easy for Jin Yu to play a rogue with Mrs. Li, and secondly, if he succeeds in playing a rogue, what if he is mixed with silk hemp?

Readers, don’t think this is impossible. In most dynasties, silk, hemp, grain, and copper coins were hard currencies!Buy half a sheep's face on the street, no copper coins?It is also possible to pay the bill with two catties of rice.Chai Fu delivered goods to the restaurant, but he didn't want copper coins.The government is also willing to do this, and then a reporter surnamed Bai was exposed and scolded for more than 1000 years...

In short, Jin Yu is going to take the money from the Agricultural College directly to the Ministry of Household Affairs, even if he is using power to overwhelm others, he will exchange it for more copper coins!

To overwhelm people with power, Jin Yu is barely qualified, and the super-grade Marquis with 800 sealed households is the only one in the whole country, and there is no semicolon!

Generally speaking, the real seal of a royal prince is no more than a thousand, and the real seal of a princess with 600 households is the ceiling!The old goblin Cheng was born and died to become the Duke of the state, and only 700 households were actually sealed!Because of the marriage between the Qin family and the royal family, the number of seals increased to 1000!Not to mention that there are still a bunch of princes and county lords with hundreds of food towns. The food towns are imaginary, without a single copper coin.

Before going to the household department to be a rogue, Jin Yu decided to apply for two subjects himself—cabbage and potatoes, to show off to Li Erye’s wife.Cabbage is for high yield, and there will be an output in the past two years. Potatoes are not sure, and the worst thing is to spend two years of research fees. slip!

Injustice has its head, and the debt has its owner.The project fee still has to be paid by Old Fairy Cheng. For a breakthrough, let's go to my husband's house to try first.

(End of this chapter)