Datang romantic little landlord

China has been short of copper since ancient times. Although copper coins are legal tender, they are always in a state of shortage.So even in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, silk was still one of the currencies used for trading.

In the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, Yang Guozhong was in power all over the world. According to historical records, "Chinese and foreign salaries have converged, and 3000 million pieces of silk have been accumulated", which shows the currency status of silk.

If the Wang family in Taiyuan just used silk to offset the copper coins, Li Wangyou would recognize it.Anyway, he was already prepared, and he begged Li Er for a favor before, planning to transport all the copper coins and silk silk he won from the Taiyuan Wang family into the palace and exchange them for gold.

But when Li Wangyou grabbed a handful of scattered copper coins from the basket of copper coins, he was so angry that he almost threw the handful of copper coins at Shopkeeper Wang's face.

The copper coins he grabbed were obviously not Kaiyuan Tongbao.Not only is the coin smaller, but it is also thin and light.

Li Wangyou immediately realized that this was private money!

Datang was short of copper coins for a long time, and Kaiyuan Tongbao, which was minted in Wude four years ago, could only cast 30 Guan per year.

In the second year of Zhenguan, in just seven years, more than 200 million copper coins were minted with all the efforts.

Even if half of these copper coins are in Chang'an City, it is still a drop in the bucket.Therefore, it is normal to barter and use silk tokens.

As for the lack of currency, the aristocratic families minted private money in their sphere of influence to make up for the shortage of copper coins.

These private money are naturally inferior to Kaiyuan Tongbao. Although the materials and workmanship are not bad, they are much thinner than Kaiyuan Tongbao.

Private money can be circulated, but most of the time, two to three private money can be worth one Kaiyuan Tongbao.

Now that the Taiyuan Wang family actually brought in so much private money, it was obvious that they were planning to pass it off by cheating them. How could Li Wangyou not be angry.

"Treasurer Wang, what does your Taiyuan Wang family mean by this? Taking so much private money to pay for official money, is it because you are fooling yourself?"

"This, this may be a mistake made by the new servants. Let them replace Hu County Boss."

Shopkeeper Wang saw that his family wanted to fish in troubled waters, but was discovered by Li Wangyou, so he could only apologize in embarrassment, and at the same time threw the blame on the "temporary workers".

He was about to greet someone to transport the private money away, but Li Wangyou rolled his eyes and reached out to stop him: "Wait, the money has already been transported, so don't worry about it. Let's discount it, the private money Qian took it."

"I don't know how Uncle Huxian plans to discount it?"

"Someone doesn't take advantage of you. Two catties of private money are worth one catty of government money. If you Taiyuan Wang family is willing, certain will accept it, and it will save you from carrying it back and forth."

In the market, depending on the region, two to three private money can be used to offset one Kaiyuan Tongbao. Li Wangyou's conditions are actually not too harsh, and even a lot less.

Shopkeeper Wang inquired about the accountant sent by Taiyuan Wang, and immediately nodded in agreement.

This kind of large-scale copper coin transactions are all weighed by official scales.

Five catties of Kaiyuan Tongbao copper coins are probably consistent.

And private money is slightly lighter, six catties is consistent.

Under normal circumstances, only twelve to eighteen catties of private money can be exchanged for five catties of Kaiyuan Tongbao.But now that Li Wangyou proposed to exchange ten catties of private money for five catties of official money, how could the Taiyuan Wang family disagree.

Niu Wu was on the sidelines and wanted to persuade him, thinking that such an exchange would be too much of a disadvantage for his family.

Li Wangyou didn't care, it was a blessing to suffer losses, not to mention he had other plans.

He stretched out his hand to invite shopkeeper Wang again: "Treasurer Wang, you Taiyuan Wang family, do you still have a lot of private money? If there is more, I can accept all of them, and exchange them according to this ratio."

Hearing what Li Wangyou said, shopkeeper Wang couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"Uncle Huxian, are you serious? Can all these copper coins worth 5 taels of gold be exchanged for private money?"

Li Wangyou nodded: "Of course you can, how many of your Taiyuan Wang's are there, I want them all."

In this regard, shopkeeper Wang was naturally overjoyed.

If Li Wangyou can pay Li Wangyou the 5 taels of gold bet according to the ratio of two catties of private money exchanged for one catty of government money, he may be able to avoid family punishment.

Nowadays, it is only necessary to pay Huxian Bo 300 million catties of private money to clear his gambling debts.

And these private money, calculated on the basis of three private coins exchanged for one official coin, are only worth 16 guan of Kaiyuan Tongbao on the market, which is equivalent to saving 14 guan of copper coins.

Even if it is two for one, it is only 25 guan Kaiyuan Tongbao, which still saves [-] guan copper coins.

This is not a small sum, and shopkeeper Wang naturally nodded in agreement.

Afraid of Li Wangyou's repentance, he hurriedly greeted his assistants and transported all those Kaiyuan Tongbao back, including the silk silk, and replaced them with private money minted by the Taiyuan Wang family themselves.

Li Wangyou never refused to come, counting the copper coins while asking people to load the car.Directly transport these private money to Tai Chi Palace in a steady stream of four-wheeled carriages.

After tossing about for a long time, until the sun was about to set to the west, the 300 million catties of private money were finally counted.

Since then, Li Wangyou and Taiyuan Wang's gambling debts have been settled.

He handed back the note worth a thousand gold issued by Yongyi Gambling House to shopkeeper Wang: "Okay, I'm settled with your gambling house."

Shopkeeper Wang held the bet in his hand and almost cried.

The ups and downs of the past few days have been too exciting.

Shopkeeper Wang made up his mind that as long as he escaped the family punishment this time, he would apply to go back to Taiyuan and never come to Chang'an City again.

When Li Wangyou escorted the last carriage of copper coins into the Tai Chi Palace, Mi Tuo stopped him.

"Uncle Huxian, why did you order someone to bring all the private money? Well, how can the slaves convert it into gold for you?"

Datang's eunuchs usually claim to be miscellaneous.

And Mi Tuo, the highest-ranking eunuch in the Taiji Palace, would call himself a slave only in front of Li Er and the eldest grandson empress.

In front of Li Wangyou, he used to call himself XX.

Until this incident in the East Palace, Mi Tuo was also in awe of Li Wangyou.In addition, Li Wangyou is also Li Erwei's nephew, so Mi Tuo simply lowered his posture and began to call himself a slave in front of Li Wangyou.

Li Wangyou and Li Er agreed that the copper coins he brought from the Wang family in Taiyuan would be exchanged for gold by the palace.

Li Er naturally handed over this matter to Mi Tuo, the provincial inspector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

But today the copper coins were transported into the palace, Mi Tuo was dumbfounded.

What was transported into the palace was not Kaiyuan Tongbao, but truckloads of private money.He really didn't understand what the county uncle was doing, how could this kind of private money be exchanged for gold?

450 See No Evil

Regarding Mi Tuo's question, Li Wangyou laughed and said: "Mi Tuo, I will not exchange these private money into gold. It will be stored in the palace for now, and I will explain it to the saint. Enter the palace and explain clearly to the saint."

Seeing what Li Wangyou said, Mi Tuo naturally had no objection.

Otherwise, it would be difficult for Mi Tuo to explain to Li Er and Empress Changsun if he exchanged the private money for gold.

It was getting late, and the evening drum in Chang'an City had already sounded, and Li Wangyou didn't dare to delay any longer.