Chapter 122: Born to know, but not learn, but do

The Tang Dynasty did not lack materials. On the contrary, because of its abundant resources, it caused low value for money.

Especially for farmers, this is very abnormal. The price of five cents of rice is only more than one hundred cents per mu. Excluding seed tax, only five cents of land can be earned by 100 acres.

Even if it is converted into RMB, it is only more than 20,000 yuan. It is equivalent to the income of farmers who grow more than 20 mu of grain in later generations. If they grow vegetables, the income will be higher.

Although Chen Ying adopted the method of banknotes and printed a lot of banknotes, it still did not change the problem of low materials in the Tang Dynasty, because the aristocratic clans were not optimistic about Chen Ying's Tang Tongli Money House at first, and the deposits were given interest and the loan interest was extremely low, and there was no profit at all.

When they came to their senses, the Tang Dynasty Tongli Money House had grown into a giant. These aristocratic families never gave up imitating money. In fact, the most difficult thing about the money issued by the Tang Dynasty Tongli Money House was not the pattern and password on it, but the printing of money paper.

Chen Ying made money paper, and the main raw materials are cotton, cotton velvet and high-quality poplar wood, which are made through a series of chemical pulp and other complex production processes. Although it is not as good as the printing paper of later generations, it already has the advantages of high quality, large tension, resistance to folding and wear, and is not easy to deform or break when soaked in water.

The workshop for printing money paper is placed in Chenjiabao, and it is completed through more than 100 processes. It is no exaggeration to say that every time Chen Ying prints a 100-dollar bill, he will lose more than 400 bills. Printing a 500-dollar bill is barely enough to make money. This makes the aristocratic families bite hedgehogs and have nowhere to put their mouths.

After being unable to obtain a technical breakthrough in printing paper, the aristocratic families failed and came up with another plan. They thought of another vicious plan.

That is to prepare a large amount of money and run, which will put Chen Ying's Tang Tongli Money Bank into a dilemma of not being able to make ends meet. Once this situation arises, the credit of the Tongli Money Bank that Chen Ying finally built will go bankrupt and the consequences will be unimaginable.

Fortunately, the Tiger Yichi timely reconnaissed the conspiracy of the aristocratic clans, controlled the printing scale of money in a timely manner, and strictly controlled the reserve fund system. At present, the reserve fund of the Datang Tongli Money House is about 30%, which actually makes Chen Ying feel that resources are seriously wasted.

However, after the discovery of this copper mine, this unfavorable situation can be changed.

It was closely linked to Chen Ying since the first year of Wude. Li Jiancheng and Chen Ying had already reached a tacit understanding. In fact, Chen Ying didn't need to say anything, but Li Jiancheng began to dig a big hole for the aristocratic families.

Li Jiancheng actually had no idea about two million taels of gold. Anyway, one tael of gold can be cashed in ten coins, so these two million taels of gold can be exchanged for more than two million coins.

According to the plan, the project of building a strategic road around the sea can be launched directly.

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Wei Zheng felt that he wanted to dream, and he didn't know how he came back. After returning home, Wei Zheng looked at his old wife Wenxi and Pei and said, "Madam, how much more money does we have in our family?"

Pei thought for a while and said, "More than 1,600 shoals!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Pei immediately thought of a rumor that the court seemed to be short of money. Queen Zheng Guanyin borrowed money from Zheng, but Zheng in Xingyang finally took out more than 20,000 yuan like a beggar.

Pei thought of a possibility and changed his face: "Xuancheng, you can't give this money to the court. You have to leave a betrothal gift for Shuyu!"

In fact, the cost of marriage has not been low throughout the ages. The heavier the betrothal gift, the more face the woman’s family appears, and the man’s family also has face. After all, a huge amount of money is not something that ordinary families can afford.

Chen Ying got married with Li Xiuning, and on the outside, he secretly, Chen Ying took out no less than one million guan. If the steel income is included, it is probably more than five million guan. In fact, Li Xiuning is the one with the most betrothal gift among Li Yuan’s girls. Of course, Li Xiuning’s dowry is also very generous.

In the original history, Li Shimin betrothed his youngest daughter, Princess Hengshan (eight years old, ten years old, and the marriage was cancelled in the same year) to Wei Shuyu as his wife. However, in this time and space, Li Jiancheng's children were far fewer than Li Shimin, and there were even fewer suitable for marriage.

However, at this time, the daughter of the Taichangqing of the Tang Dynasty and the son-in-law Dou Dan was his wife. However, at present, Li Xiaogong had just been invited as a matchmaker and officially proposed to Dou Dan.

Once Dou Dan allows, he will enter the Nacai among the Six Rites. At this time, the man will use geese to Nacai, although he uses geese. However, the Nacai ritual varies according to his identity. There are thirty types of Nacai rituals, and they all have different symbolic meanings, such as sheep, vanilla, deer, which takes good luck to express the meaning of blessings; and use glue, lacquer, rosy bells, mandarin ducks, phoenixes, etc. to symbolize the meaning of couples' good marriage; or use the advantages and virtues of each thing to inspire and encourage couples, such as reeds, cypresses, relic beasts, blessed beasts, fish, geese, and nine-son women.

The Sui and Tang Dynasties once stipulated the customization of betrothal gifts, from the princes and kings to the nine ranks, the standards are: one geese, one lamb, one hu of wine, millet, rice and flour. However, this is only for the formation of social atmosphere, but few people really abide by it. Just like when getting married in later generations, re-hiring is prohibited.

This is pure nonsense. Even if you think from the perspective of others, getting married is a good match. Jack Ma's daughter will never marry a poor loser. The loss of the loser can only be YY in online novels.

Wei Pei was worried that Wei Zheng would donate the money to the court, so he could not come up with a betrothal gift that matched his identity. After all, Wei Zheng is now the first-rank prince and grandmaster of Wensan official, so he naturally should not be too shabby to take action.

Wei Zheng shook his head and said, "Madam, I know your concerns. What I mean is that the family's wealth will be taken out from the Tang Dynasty Tongli Money House and bought it all into physical goods, and don't buy gold and silver..."

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Wei Zheng only had less than 2,000 stakes of property, but Wei Ting was different. Jingzhao Wei was originally a wealthy family in Guanzhong. As the veteran of Li Jiancheng's residence, Wei Ting had more means than Wei Zheng. At this time, Wei Ting's son Wei Ding took money to buy a property in Chang'an and Luoyang to buy shops and fields.

Especially Wei Ting, he bought a total of 120,000 acres of fertile land from Anxi in one go.

Examples similar to these have been staged in Chang'an one after another.

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In Anxi Shule Academy, Li Xiuning, Yang Rong, Li Daozhen and other women followed Chen Ying on the steam engine train. After this period of improvement, Qi Nuo and the craftsmen improved the high-temperature resistant lubricant, increased the effectiveness of the piston, and adopted more precise structural components for positions with poor airtightness.

Of course, with Chen Ying, a giant standing on the shoulders of history, rubber began to be put into use more than a thousand years in advance, but the steam engine train is still free of rubber.

As the saying goes, snakes have snake paths, rats have rat paths. Although there is no rubber, smart craftsmen use cotton to press into felt rings with excellent airtightness. Although the effect is not as good as real rubber rings, it is also much better than before.

This time I saw the steam engine train, which was much more improved than the original steam engine train. The original train car was a row of wheels with an iron basket on it. Even the strongest man could rush and vomit blood. However, with shock absorption devices, the effect of this train car was much better. It was almost equivalent to driving a pickup truck and running on the next detachment of Gurban. Although it was uncomfortable, it would not be unbearable.

The improved train speed is much faster than before, and most importantly, it can drag sixteen train cars to run.

Of course, due to the influence of Chen Ying, a butterfly in another world, the train at this time was simply Royal No. 1.

The 100-foot-long carriage is divided into four parts, including a seating area for sleeping, a banquet area for dining, singing and dancing, a bathing area for bathing, and a kitchen.

Especially for the banquet area where you eat, the difference is that it is six feet long and two feet wide. A small cocktail party can be held, or five or six dancers can dance inside.

The most important thing is that the chairs are all comfortable sofas. Sitting on the sofa and enjoying the fun of bumpy up and down, it has a unique flavor.

Yang Rong looked at the train running outward and asked excitedly: "Who made this car?"

Chen Ying pointed at Qi Nuo and said, "It's him, and the craftsmen of Shule Academy!"

Yang Rong said excitedly: "Originally, I was worried about how to transport the copper mined back to Guanzhong. Now, it's better than a lot of cattle and horses with this thing!"

Even Li Daozhen exclaimed: "With this thing, you can transport it directly to Chang'an from Anxi. How much time can you save in the middle? How much more goods can you drive??"

Chen Ying smiled and said: "According to the current train carrying capacity, it is no problem to pull twenty cars. According to the first three trains, it is loaded with coal and water. In the seventeen cars, each car can carry more than 10,000 stones."

However, Li Xiuning, who had been silent, thought differently from Li Daozhen and Yang Rong. The train she thought about was an absolute military weapon.

The Tang Dynasty had millions of soldiers. A large-scale war was not impossible to assemble a million troops, but the key was that the logistics could not keep up. A train could carry tens of thousands of stones, and tens of thousands of stones of food was enough for a hundred thousand troops to eat for three days. Even if it was five hundred thousand troops, two trains were needed.

Such a powerful weapon in the military and national way is used as a carriage, which is really a waste of heaven and earth.

Li Xiuning suddenly realized that this object was used in the army or among the people, and it was an excellent weapon. The reason why this object was limited was just the time it took to lay these two railway tracks. However, the Tang Dynasty began to build the road as early as the third year of Wude, and now it has been seven years of construction, and has been building the road for tens of thousands of miles.

Could it be that Chen Ying foresaw the appearance of this thing seven years ago?

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying's pretty face and thoughtfully said, "Can you really know people in this world?"

But if we want to say that Chen Ying can see through the future?

Li Xiuning was a little confused again.

Those who are born to know are all gods without exception.
Chapter completed!