Chapter 194: The Great Coin Spreading Project
Although Eunuch Tao is a eunuch, he is greedy for money and loves power, but who can resist the temptation of leaving a name in history?
Even a eunuch wants to leave a good name in history.
Eunuch Tao looked at Su Ze. If other scholars advised him to do something good and make a name for himself in history, then Eunuch Tao would definitely not pay attention. Eunuch Tao, who had climbed up from the fierce struggle in the palace, did not believe those scheming people. scholar.
But Su Ze was different. He was different from those scholars who were always taught by sages. He never talked to Tao Gonggong about irrelevant knowledge, but actually came up with solutions.
The Three Immortals Coin proposed by Su Ze can really be minted, and it has been approved by the emperor.
Eunuch Tao asked: "Mr. Su, teach me."
Su Ze said: "I dare not teach, Su just suggested." "
Since ancient times, there are only two methods to promote new money. One is what the father-in-law said. The government forces people to exchange old money with new money. The disadvantage of this is that the people are unhappy, reject the new money, and will be stigmatized." "If the new money is of poor quality, the new money will also be bad
. It will soon depreciate."
Eunuch Tao nodded.
He also studied the money law carefully during this period, and understood that what Su Ze said had already happened. This was why Ming Dynasty tried to clear up the money law many times, but the results were not ideal.
Su Ze added: "As for the second way, that is to spend the money, and it will naturally flow into the market."
"Spend it?"
Su Ze nodded and said, "Yes! Spend money!"
"Send it to the government directly. The advantage is that the new money in the house is spent naturally, and the people do not resist it. The people take the spent money and use it, and the new money circulates." Eunuch Tao quickly asked: "How to spend it?
"
Su Ze said with a smile: "There are many ways to spend money. Repairing water conservancy, building ponds and dams, reclaiming wasteland, and building roads are all ways to spend money. If my father-in-law wants to spend money, he only needs to pay the hired laborers. ."
Eunuch Tao's eyes lit up, and he finally understood what it meant for Su Ze to leave his name in history.
If what Su Ze said is true, then his Eunuch Tao's name will remain in the history of Fujian forever.
If a few things are accomplished, the Fujian people will enshrine Eunuch Tao.
Ordinary people are sometimes easily incited, but they are not stupid either.
If he really does things for the people, then the people will remember him.
If the people are recruited to build projects, the people will definitely not be willing to do it. But if the government gives money to do the projects, then the people will naturally be willing. If the money is enough, then the people will definitely rush to do it.
What Su Ze said was very impressive, but Eunuch Tao thought for a moment and said bitterly: "But the money is all spent, the name is lost in history, and the lives of the family are gone." Eunuch Tao was not convinced by
Su Ze's words . Brain fever, he came to Fujian to unblock money laws, and more importantly, to make money for the emperor.
If all the newly minted money was spent, what else could he use to present to the emperor?
Su Ze said, "Don't be impatient, Eunuch Tao. I haven't said the next step yet."
"Next step?"
Su Ze nodded and said, "Nowadays, the gentry and landlords in Fujian have hoarded a lot of Song money in their hands. They are going to do something." Your father-in-law must be aware of this, right?"
Eunuch Tao nodded and cursed: "These stinking scholars! They usually talk about benevolence, justice and morality so harshly, but now they want to take advantage of the imperial court to mint new coins and make a lot of money! The Za family is still responsible for the infamy. It's so disgusting!"
Su Ze said: "These wealthy gentry have exchanged all the silver in their hands for Song coins, but do they have the ability to privately mint three immortal coins?"
Eunuch Tao immediately shook his head, whether it was brass alloy or It is impossible for these families to learn the hydraulic embossing machine, and they have no ability to imitate new coins.
Su Ze said with a smile: "In that case, father-in-law, let them hold all the Song Qian in their hands. When they can't bear it anymore, then use the new money of 'pawn fifty' to exchange the Song Qian in their hands."
Although Eunuch Tao didn't understand any economic principles, he still understood Su Zejiang's methods.
Money is distributed to the people. If the new money can be recognized by the people, it will quickly circulate in Fujian. At this time, the people who are panicking are the wealthy gentry who have hoarded a large amount of old money.
The more new money is recognized by the market, the harder it will be for old money to circulate. When rumors are released as before, these big families will definitely rush to sell the old money in their hands.
When the time comes, Eunuch Tao will use the "50" big money to exchange the old money back from these big families. The recycled copper can be used to mint new money, and at the same time, it can also make a fortune for the emperor!
When he thought of this, Eunuch Tao immediately said to Su Ze, "Sir, what a wonderful idea!" "
Is it just this project?"
Su Ze said, "Grandpa, don't worry, if Su will study the water conservancy map again and dredge the water system in Fujian, he will definitely be able to leave a The big project named after my father-in-law is here!"
Eunuch Tao also felt very excited when he thought that he would leave a project named after himself in Fujian like those ancient wise ministers.
Eunuch Tao rolled his eyes again and asked: "But can such a big project be promoted by the Zajia family?"
Su Ze sighed. As expected, people who can climb to high positions are not fools. This Eunuch Tao seems to have an impatient personality, but in fact he is not at all. You're not stupid, you're not that easy to fool.
Su Ze said: "Don't worry, father-in-law. Who in Fujian can refuse my father-in-law to give them money to build projects?"
Eunuch Tao immediately understood that for local officials, building water conservancy and roads was also a political achievement. In the past, they were unwilling to do it because The court has no money.
If the court is willing to spend money, who wouldn't want to build a good project during his term?
Not to mention the oil and water that can be greedy for ink, the construction of the project is the political achievement that is delivered to the mouth.
As long as you have money, no one can build a project!
As long as you repair it well, it will be a political achievement, and you will get better evaluation in the exam.
Eunuch Tao hurriedly said: "Mr. Su is a great talent!"
After seeing Eunuch Tao off, Su Ze looked at the hydrographic map and thought about this big project that would spread money throughout Fujian.
There are many mountainous areas in Fujian, so the land resources are poor. While the ancestors of the past dynasties were cultivating mountain fields, they also liked to cultivate fields by rivers.
This is also normal. The land along the river is fertile and the water diversion cost for building water conservancy facilities is low. This is the best place to cultivate fertile farmland.
However, opening up fields along the river has also resulted in the river embankments in Fujian not being strong enough. Once there is a heavy rain, the embankments will burst in places.
Su Ze sneered. If we want to build water conservancy, we will naturally have to convert the fields near the river to farmland. Those who can open fields on the most fertile land by the river are almost all powerful local families. Since we want to build water conservancy in Fujian, we will naturally have to suffer a lot from the wealthy gentry! The fields that had encroached on the rivers were turned back to farmland and built into river embankments.
If this matter were handled by local officials, it would probably not be possible. However, these wealthy gentry have offended Eunuch Tao, and Eunuch Tao is here on behalf of the palace, so it can be done.
Su Ze looked at the hydrological map and found out where the entire Fujian water conservancy system was weak. According to the administrative distribution of each prefecture and county, he selected several large-scale projects.
These projects to strengthen river dams are huge in scale, but if the government spends money to recruit people to strengthen them, then the people will definitely support them.
Who in Fujian has never been affected by floods? Everyone was very active when Changning was building water conservancy projects.
Next is the seaside. Because Fujian is close to the sea, it often encounters tide disasters.
A tidal disaster occurs when a large tide occurs at sea, and seawater pours back into the estuary, polluting the land near the sea.
Tidal disasters are also very serious for people along the coast. The land eroded by a tidal disaster will become salinized, making it impossible to grow crops normally for several years.
Coastal cities can build dykes to protect against tidal damage, which is also a huge project.
After reading the newly painted hydrographic map and looking at the densely packed projects on it, Su Ze knew that if these projects could be completed to the letter, Eunuch Tao would definitely remain in the hearts of the people of Fujian forever. It would not be enough for the people to build a shrine for him. strange.
However, Su Ze had no idea how many of these projects could be completed properly and how many would be corrupted.
But he doesn't care, his purpose is not to extend the life of the Ming Dynasty, he wants to rebel!
On the one hand, this large-scale project is to accumulate experience for myself and see what kind of things would happen when such large-scale projects were implemented in ancient times.
The project that Su Ze is currently in charge of is the river construction project in Changningwei. Changningwei are all villagers, and they use people from Chenjia Village. The amount of the project is not large.
But this time, Fujian's "big money-spreading" project will involve the entire territory of Fujian, and it will also involve a large number of Fujian's labor force. This is not something that can be built by just clicking your fingers and deducting money and materials in the game. Various problems are bound to occur in such a huge project.
On the other hand, Su Ze really hated these wealthy gentry and wanted to make them suffer.
The last thing is experience. Now Su Ze's water conservancy skill has reached level 5. As long as the water conservancy skill is a project that Su Ze manages and designs himself, he can gain experience as the project progresses.
If all the projects in Fujian can be attributed to me this time, I am afraid that the water conservancy skill will be able to break through Level 10 in one fell swoop.
Thinking of this, Su Ze still took out precious time to design and select several major projects for Eunuch Tao while he was studying his skills in the imperial examination. However, these projects could not wait until Eunuch Tao minted the first batch of money and waited for the provincial examination. Work can only start after finishing.
In the days that followed, the workshop in the mine was filled with ping-pong-pong-pong every day. Eunuch Tao moved directly to the workshop and personally supervised the minting of new coins.
The wealthy and powerful families in Fujian are also very impatient. They have a lot of Song money in their hands, but now they can't spend any of it.
After the rumors that the imperial court wanted to abolish Song Dynasty money fermented, the value of Song Dynasty money continued to fall, and now many places in Fujian have returned to the state of barter.
Eunuch Tao, who minted the coins this time, guarded the workshop very closely. The craftsmen involved in the minting all lived and ate in the mines. The shape of the new coins minted has not been leaked until now.
In the blink of an eye, July 10th came, Su Ze finished writing the eight-part essay exercise in his hand, and a prompt came in his mind:
[Complete the exercise, imperial examination skills +20, Lv10, 9/10000]
[Imperial examination skills exceeded Lv10, please choose passive Skills and allocation of free attribute points. ]
Then three cards, two purple and one blue, appeared in front of Su Ze.
Purple passive! Still two!
Su Ze quickly opened the cards and only saw the passive skills of these three cards:
[Blue Passive - Read the book a hundred times and its meaning will become clear: when reading, increase the imperial examination skill experience by 15%. ]
[Purple Passive - Master on the spot: When taking the imperial examination, you will temporarily gain intelligence +5 and imperial examination skills +2. 】
[Purple Passive - Winning the First Prize in the Examination: In the imperial examination, there is a 10% probability of writing an article that the examiner will appreciate. The imperial examination article has +8 charm to the examiner]
These three passives made Su Ze confused.
Although the first blue passive is only blue, its function is upright and simple.
Upgrading from Lv10 to Lv11 requires 10,000 experience points. Increasing imperial examination experience can greatly increase the speed of liver imperial examination skills. Especially after breaking through Lv15, this skill is even more magical.
The second skill also appeared last time, and it can be said to be a very practical skill.
During the imperial examination, the imperial examination skills are +2, which means that Su Ze can pass the Jinshi examination as long as his skills reach level 13.
What really made Su Ze hesitate was the last skill.
This purple passive does not improve the imperial examination skills itself, but it allows Su Ze to write articles that are more satisfactory to the examiner.
In the provincial examination and the joint examination, the examiner has great influence in deciding the final imperial examination rank.
And this skill is a charm skill specifically designed to face the examiner, with +8 points of charm. In other words, the article written by Su Ze can make the examiner fall in love with it at first glance, making it easier for him to be chosen first!
Su Ze's original goal was to improve his imperial examination skills to Level 10. After passing the exam, he would stop taking the imperial examination and concentrate on his rebellion in Fujian.
But now these three passive skills made Su Ze hesitate. Should he continue the imperial examination?
Su Ze thought for a while and finally chose the second purple passive.
[Purple Passive - Master on the spot: When taking the imperial examination, you will temporarily gain intelligence +5 and imperial examination skills +2. 】
Anyway, as long as your imperial examination skill level is high, you still have hope of winning the imperial examination.
Regardless of whether you want to continue to take the joint examination or not, the imperial examination skill +2 will be effective in the provincial examination.
After decisively choosing passive, Su Ze added some free attributes to intelligence.
Su Ze, male, 25 years old.
Intelligence: 14
Strength: 11
Agility: 6
Charm: 6
Remaining attribute points: 0
Intelligence was finally no longer thirteen points. Su Ze picked up the "Selected Journals of the Times" on the table again. With the blessing of fourteen points of intelligence, Su Ze Ze was more aware of the subtleties of the article, so he picked up the manuscript paper again and solved a trigonometric function question. His ideas for solving the problem became much clearer, and his speed of solving the problem was also much faster.
Su Ze took out the hydrographic map of Fujian that he had copied from under the table. After final modifications to the project plan, he folded up the entire set of drawings. Tomorrow he would leave for Fuzhou Prefecture to take the provincial examination. He planned to hand this map to Eunuch Tao himself.
The students in the county school also packed their bags and headed to Fuzhou Prefecture together to prepare for the rural examination in the 34th year of Jiajing!
(End of chapter)