thefictionvixens Chapter 329
Chapter 329
Su Chen and Li Chengqian came forward and found an empty seat to sit down.
The seat farthest from Li Shimin.
Li Shimin stared at Su Chen and pointed to the bottom in front of him.
Su Chen had no choice but to get up and sit on the seat pointed by Li Shimin.
"Boy, you also heard what Zhijie said just now. What do you think should be done?"
Li Shimin waited for Su Chen to sit down and said straight to the point.
"Haha, good steel should of course be used on the blade. Pick the strongest horse, and horseshoes and saddles are indispensable.
I said last time that alcohol and wound medicine are easy to carry, just throw them in the saddlebag of the saddle." Su Chen laughed.
"Okay, Jun Ji, you will go to the military supply department immediately to convey my oral order. Gather enough saddles and guerrillas to install them all."
Li Shimin immediately made the decision.
Hou Junji stood up and accepted the order respectfully, "I will obey the imperial edict!" Then he turned and left.
Li Shimin looked at Su Chen again and asked, "Is there anything else you need to tell us? The guerrillas will set off tomorrow."
Su Chen shook his head and said, "I have nothing to tell you. They have to adapt to the situation in the Turks."
Li Shimin nodded slowly, and then smiled slightly:
"What are you doing in the palace today?"
Su Chen heard this and glanced at the people in the study room. They were all his own people.
Li Shimin frowned slightly, 'Could this kid make another big move? '
Su Chen made sure that there were no outsiders in the study room, stood up and took out a handful of 'banknotes' from his arms, and gave one or two to each person.
Everyone looked at it carefully. They didn't think the patterns on it were strange.
Everyone got a different denomination. Li Shimin had two hundred coins and one guan in his hand.
Li Shimin took the 'banknotes' and looked at them, glancing at Su Chen from time to time.
‘Are you asking for my salary?’
Li Shimin thought Su Chen was asking for his salary, as Su Chen had mentioned the salary at school a few days ago.
“Boy, did you come all the way to the palace today just for this? Just say what you want to say, why are you showing me this thing?” Li Shimin threw the ‘paper money’ aside and said unhappily.
He could still afford half a year’s salary.
“Oh? Your Majesty, do you know what I just gave you?” Su Chen asked with a smile.
“How did I know? Don’t talk nonsense, tell me quickly, what is the use of this thing.” Li Shimin urged.
Su Chen nodded, “That’s money, called paper money!”
Upon hearing this, Li Shimin picked up the paper money card again.
“Haha, boy, look at who looks like a fool among you, just use this card to exchange for his copper coins.”
Li Shimin only paid attention to the Tang Bank and his own portrait on the tissue card.
He didn't pay much attention to the other things. As for the denomination, it was up to Su Chen to change it. It didn't make any sense.
It was a pity that Emperor Taizong didn't know the meaning of the word "bank".
Or, he didn't think about it that way for a while.
Su Chen didn't get angry. He looked at everyone and asked, "Who has copper coins?"
Everyone was groping around on their bodies. They didn't even bring any money with them.
"Catch it, Su kid!" Cheng Yaojin threw a string of copper coins to Su Chen, about twenty or so.
Su Chen caught it. This was the first time Su Chen had come into contact with copper coins from the Tang Dynasty. He wasn't the one who bought the piglets that time.
"Why is this copper coin called 'Kaiyuan Tongbao'? Kaiyuan is not Tang Xuan..." Su Chen immediately shut up.
Su Chen was very surprised. He had heard of the Kaiyuan Prosperity.
That was the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang!
"Haha, which minister will come to help Su Daxueshi?"
Li Shimin laughed shamelessly, and he suddenly remembered what Princess Changle said:
'Su Chen has never seen money'
"I can't believe this kid has never seen money! It really opened my eyes, hahaha...!"
Su Chen was mercilessly teased by Li Shimin and was speechless.
"Hehe, Your Majesty, I, Cheng Yaojin, will talk to Su kid." Cheng Yaojin seemed to be very active today and volunteered to come forward and say.
"Hahaha...!"
Everyone laughed in unison, and Cheng Yaojin's move even pressed Su Chen to the ground.
The least educated person explained Kaiyuan Tongbao to Su Chen.
Kaiyuan Tongbao is not history, but the personal experience of Cheng Jin and others.
"Su kid, listen to me, Old Cheng, and I'll tell you in detail."
Su Chen smiled politely, "Okay, I'll listen carefully."
"It is said that in July of the fourth year of Wude, the emperor abolished the five-zhu coins of the Sui Dynasty and replaced them with the newly minted Kaiyuan Tongbao coins.
The four characters of Kaiyuan Tongbao were composed and inscribed by Ouyang Xun, the official."
After Cheng Yaojin finished speaking, he looked at Su Chen with a smile, as if waiting for Su Chen to ask questions.
Su Chen nodded slightly and tossed the string of copper coins to estimate the weight.
"Ten coins of Kaiyuan Tongbao weigh one tael, and one thousand coins weigh six jin and two taels.. "Cheng Yaojin took the initiative to tell Su Chen when he saw this.
"Thank you, Uncle Cheng, for clearing up my doubts."
Su Chen politely bowed and then looked at Li Shimin.
Li Shimin was still smiling, and nodded when he saw Su Chen looking at him.
"Zhijie is completely correct, boy, what questions do you have now?"
Su Chen was calm and said in his heart: "Hehe, just laugh! You won't be able to laugh in a while."
"One thousand copper coins weigh six pounds and two taels?" Su Chen looked at Li Shimin and asked seriously.
"Yes! The error is only two taels." Li Shimin nodded.
Su Chen nodded, then changed his expression and smiled slightly:
"Speaking of which, there is a grain merchant in Chang'an who wants to go to Jiangnan Road to purchase rice worth 10,000 strings.
May I ask your majesty how many troops this Chang'an merchant should bring?"
Su Chen is somewhat familiar with the history of the Tang Dynasty. Money houses originated in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. At that time, they were not called money houses, but "money cabinets".
Money houses did not flourish until the middle of the Ming Dynasty. There are no money houses in the Tang Dynasty now.
Li Shimin and others silently calculated how many stones of rice could be bought with 10,000 strings of copper coins.
In the early years of Zhenguan, the price of grain was still high. 10 coins could only buy a dou of millet or northern millet. Rice would be more expensive.
10,000 strings could buy about 80,000 stones of Jiangnan rice.
"Boy, do you know the load capacity of a carriage? A single horse can carry 1,200 kilograms, and two horses can carry about 2,500 kilograms.
Eighty thousand shi of rice requires at least three thousand pairs of horses and carriages to transport the rice back to Chang'an.
What is the purpose of asking these questions?"
Li Shimin was very puzzled, and felt that these questions had little to do with the previous discussion.
"Your Majesty, you don't have to consider the transportation of rice. What I want to ask is how to transport 10,000 strings of copper coins to Jiangnan."
Su Chen waved his hand and asked the key question directly. He didn't expect Li Shimin to consider transporting rice first.
"Transport copper coins?
Of course, they are loaded into money boxes and transported by carriages. Why bother asking this?"
Li Shimin didn't need to think about it. Merchants always carried silver and money when they were traveling.
"Oh, one string of money weighs six kilograms and two taels. Ten thousand strings must weigh at least more than 60,000 kilograms, right?" Su Chen nodded and continued to ask.
Li Shimin nodded, indicating that Su Chen's calculation was correct.
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