Chastity Layman

In Xunzhou City, in the Governor's Mansion.

The barbarian kings were so enthusiastic that they took out rare things and presented them to Qin Lang as a tribute to the emperor.

All of a sudden, all kinds of rare and rare treasures competed for splendor, which made Qin Lang amazed.

"My lower official Shanglinzhou Inspector Hou Gao Tegong has a hundred golden geese!"

A black and strong barbarian king with a Chinese name but a long face came forward. In addition to paying a lot of gold and silver, he also paid a special tribute of a hundred golden geese.

"Golden goose?" Qin Lang couldn't help being curious, a big goose made of gold?

It turned out to be a real goose, but according to Hou Gao, his goose is different because it can produce gold.

"There are golden geese in my village. There are gold flakes in the excrement. If you collect the excrement and wash it, you can get a tael of gold a day for every geese." The barbarian king said triumphantly that there are many gold and silver in Lingnan. When he was a transfer envoy, he was also in charge of making money, and he knew clearly that Lingnan monopolized 70% of the world's gold and silver production.

In the Lingnan states, almost every state produces gold and silver.

Moreover, since the Qin and Han Dynasties opened up Lingnan, the imperial court of the Central Plains has implemented a policy of prohibiting money from passing through Lingnan. Lingnan is not a copper coin circulation area, and transactions in Lingnan are generally traded with self-produced gold and silver. Bank of Communications was prohibited as currency in the Lingnan area, but it was not allowed in Lingnan, and it has been like this throughout the dynasties.

The Lingnan gold and silver production area has high output and large circulation, and the trade of sea trade has promoted gold and silver as trading currency.

In many Manzhai villages, many barbarians cut stones, and barbarian women panned for gold. Mining and gold panning had almost become the main industry of the barbarians.

Standing aside, Feng Shan whispered to Qin Lang, "This barbarian king's surname is Hou. This surname has a lot of background. His ancestors were once the Marquis of the Ouluo Kingdom."

Although many barbarians do not have surnames but only first names, there are also quite a few barbarians who actually have surnames.

Some barbarians used totems as surnames. In ancient times, many clans and tribes used animals and plants as totems, while others used mountains and wells as totems. Later, when they communicated with the Central Plains, they gradually began to use surnames to distinguish clans. The barbarians didn't have written words, so they borrowed Chinese characters and transliterated them to write them down.

So the tribe of the buffalo totem was named Wei. The surname of the duck totem is Bi, the surname of the tiger totem is Gu, and the surname of the monkey totem is Ling.

There are also some barbarians who pass down some of their traditional customs as surnames. For example, some tribes like to bathe and swim, and men and women bathe in the same river.

There are also surnames such as Guan, Pei, and Nong translated from brothers.

There are also a few surnames, which are more unusual, such as Huang Houzhang. This is the name of the official positions of the various classes in the former Ouluo Kingdom, Luowang, Luohou, and Luo. Translated as Huanghou Zhang. In fact, like many surnames such as Gongsun Gongshu in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Central Plains, they came from the change of official status.

This Hou Gao is a descendant of Ou Luo. His ancestors were Luo Hou, and his ancestors were also rich.

"Can this duck droppings really produce gold?" Qin Lang asked.

Feng Shan just smiled, "Actually, this Hou Gaoyuan is the biggest barbarian king in Chengzhou. He has many brooks under his command and commands all people. Chengzhou has a golden stream and a golden pond that produces gold. Chengzhou likes to raise geese. , the geese will eat gold sand and gold mud in the golden pool of Jinxi, and the shit they pull out can be used to pan for gold. Although his golden goose can produce gold, as long as he leaves Chengzhou, he can't pan for gold anymore gone."

With that said, Qin Lang can understand.

This is not the case with cat poop coffee. The real reason why cat poop turns into coffee is because the cat ate coffee beans, which have a unique flavor after fermentation.

The real reason for this goose shit gold is because they have Jinxi Jinchi.

Chengzhou used to have four counties, Shanglin, Heshui, Zhige, and Wuyu. Although prefectures and counties were set up, they had never been registered as households, nor were they taxed. of.

This time, Qin Lang merged Cheng, Gui, Yan, Bin, and Chun with Hengzhou into one state, and let Tan Dian be the governor. Chengzhou was withdrawn, but on the other hand, it was impossible for Qin Lang to ignore these barbarian kings. The fact that it is already divided.

So he made a detour, Chengzhou was merged into Hengzhou, and Hengzhou was changed to the Zhengzhou of the imperial court, but under Hengzhou, there were many two-character states, such as Shanglin, Wuyu and other states. In essence, the former Jimi County was changed to Jimi Prefecture. These states were still governed by the barbarian kings, but they were nominally under the jurisdiction of Zhengzhou.

However, the barbarian kings still do not have household registration and do not pay taxes. Of course, if the barbarian kings are willing to change to the secular governor and take out a piece of land from the land as the secular land, then this land must be naturalized and taxed. Like other world fiefdoms, the tax is divided into three parts, one part goes to the national treasury, one part goes to the world fief, and one part goes to the prefecture and county.

One advantage of changing the world is that it can be knighted.

In the past, the barbarian kings were self-governing, and the court generally only conferred officials, not titles.

How to choose between a world fief and a world title depends entirely on the voluntaryness of the barbarian kings.

In fact, most of the barbarian kings are still very rare about the title of the imperial court, so they took out a piece of land from their own territory and changed it to Shifengzhou, and then became a Shifeng governor by themselves, and then changed the title.

For example, Hou Gao, his original territory was the four counties of Chengzhou. The division of Chengzhou was also because this area was originally owned by the Hou family, so the previous court directly divided the territory of the Hou family into a state. Now Qin Lang merged Chengzhou into Hengzhou, but changed the original four counties of Chengzhou into four states.

After such a toss, the more critical changes are that the original Chengzhou and Hengzhou were not affiliated with each other, but now they have become a superior and inferior relationship. Second, one prefecture and four counties in the original Chengzhou have now become four prefectures. In the name of enfeoffment, Qin Lang appointed Hou Gao as the governor of Shanglin prefecture, and then assigned the other three prefectures to his brother and two sons. Serving as the governor actually divided the Hou family into four.

Immediately afterwards, there was another seduction, so Shanglin prefecture became a secular prefecture, which was actually a lower level than Jimi prefecture. If you want to be naturalized, you have to pay taxes, even if you only pay one-third of the tax, this is also a tax for naturalization. , has made great progress than before.

After waiting for a few years, the imperial court can completely re-tweet and distribute the feudal titles to the governors of the other three states of the Hou family. Come in one piece.

One knife after another, after a few generations, maybe the four counties of the original Chengzhou of the Hou family will all become Shifengzhou counties of the imperial court, and quietly changed to the place of naturalization and taxation.

Sitting on the side, Tan Dian actually saw all this very clearly.

He secretly sighed in his heart, Qin Lang is really powerful.

Also secretly sighed Hou Gao's stupidity.

He Tan Dian is famous, and if he does not accept the imperial court's seal, he will not be able to gain the trust of the court, and he will not be able to write off the past, so this seal is not a reward from the imperial court. Tan Dian could see clearly that this title was actually his nomination certificate to the imperial court, the title was safe, but it was taken by Guizhou outside the Hengzhou where he assassinated the governor.

The Duke of Yelang County was an even more blatant warning.

It's a pity that Hou Gao still foolishly took the initiative to ask for the title of the world. Isn't this stupid?

Well now, Qin Lang merged his family Chengzhou into Hengzhou, saying that the four counties were promoted to four prefectures, but in fact the four prefectures were all under the jurisdiction of Hengzhou, and then Shanglin prefecture became a secular prefecture , This is not stupid.

The tribute of one hundred golden geese was for fear that Qin Lang would not know about the golden brook and golden pool of the Hou family?

Showing off the golden goose in front of Qin Lang, isn't it like a child holding a piece of gold and swaggering through the market?

Sure enough, Qin Lang spoke.

Qin Lang unceremoniously pointed out the myth that the golden goose produces golden excrement, saying that it must be because the brook where the goose is located has gold. He also said that he was willing to send someone to help Hou's mining together, and proposed a mining cooperation plan on the spot.

"I'll send craftsmen to explore the mines. After the mine veins are explored, the Hou family will provide labor. We will provide technology and build a smelting plant. The refined gold will be divided into 30 to 70%. The Hou family has seven, and I have three. How about it?"

Now Hou Gao couldn't laugh anymore.

He squeaked and refused to make a sound.

Qin Lang smiled and proposed a few figures, which are the amount of gold that the Hou family can mine and pan for gold in a year, including the amount of gold mined by raising geese. Qin Lang promised that if the two parties cooperate, the share that the Hou family can get in the future will be It is at least double the current output.

The Hou family gave up three points. Not only did he not lose, but he was able to double it, and he did not invest extra manpower. No matter how you look at it, the Hou family has made a profit.

Qin Lang even said that the gold produced at that time can be sold directly to him, and he can also increase the price of the gold, which means that the Hou family's income can increase again.

Hou Gao counted his fingers there, the more he counted, the more he felt that the deal was done.

Hou Gao has tens of thousands of people, and his main focus is gold mining. Other planting and grazing have not developed much. Anyway, relying on gold mining, the Hou tribe is very rich.

"how?"

Hou Gao asked, "Can it really double?"

"If Governor Hou doesn't believe in empty words, then I can sign a written contract in black and white!"

"Okay!" Hou Gao nodded excitedly.

The chatterbox over there sighed in his heart, "I've never seen this surnamed Hou so stupid before! On the surface, it seems that the Hou family has made a lot of money without losing money, but in fact the gold belongs to the Hou family. Now the surnamed Qin is only Provide some technology to partner, increase the annual gold mining income, and mine three times the previous year's gold a year, and then he himself gets twice, and the rest is taken by Qin Lang. How can he make money? It is obviously a loss A lot of gold!"

It's a pity that the surname Hou is still very happy there, thinking that he can double his gold production a year and is excited.

With the example of Hou Gao.

It turned out that Gui, Yan, Bin, Chun, Guisi, Guihua, Sishun, Si Nong and more than 20 barbarian kings from the mountainous states in the north were all clamoring to cooperate with Qin Lang in gold mining.

Even the two barbarian kings of Zuoxi and Youxi, the barbarian kings Fusan and Duo Fusang, each with tens of thousands of households, were also moved.

They offered to seal the world and seal the state, and also offered to cooperate with the Qin family in gold mining and open up their own Jinshan, Jinxi, Jinchi, silver mines and copper mines.

Qin Lang asked Dugu Yanyun to take a pen to record his willingness to cooperate there, and all the barbarian kings reported their own Jinshan Silver Mine there, one after another Jinxi Yinchi Jinshan Silver Mine, Dugu Yanyun could not remember it.

After half a day's work, I recorded thousands of mines such as gold mountains, silver mountains, copper mountains and iron mountains, as well as many gold streams and gold ponds that can be directly panned for gold.

Qin Lang took a few glances at it, and according to the past output reported by these barbarian kings themselves, this gold and silver output is quite astonishing.

He felt that it was necessary for him to immediately build several gold and silver smelters in Lingnan, and to quickly build a mint here.

These mined gold and silver are processed into gold and silver coins, which is another huge profit. Lingnan doesn't even have to pay seigniorage, and can issue gold and silver coins at will. With the Qin family's technology, there is at least 8% of the minting profit.

Gold and silver coins are much faster than copper coins.

There are so many gold and silver mines in Lingnan, with such a large output, if Qin Lang can get these gold and silver to mint coins, which of the barbarian kings who own Jinshan silver mines can compare to him?

No, calm down, this is too much money.

10% must be given to the emperor's internal treasury, another 10% to the East Palace Prince Chengqian, and then 10% to the prime ministers of the court and China, and 10% to Cheng Yaojin and other Shandong upstarts. If there is 60% left, Qin Lang plans to give Feng An Tan Dian, Chen Longshu, Ning Ju, Xian Baoche, Fusang and other top Lingnan bigwigs, and give them another 10%. In this way, Qin Lang can monopolize 50%.

In this way, the benefits are evenly shared, so this profitable coin trading should be under control.

According to his current speculation about these registered mines, as long as he can bring more advanced mining and smelting technology from the Central Plains, the gold and silver production of the barbarian kings in Lingnan can be doubled or tripled, which means that the annual gold mining volume can reach ten times. About 10,000 taels, silver can reach at least 800,000 taels.

The Tang Dynasty was a court short of gold and silver, otherwise it would not have done both money and silk, and used silk as currency. If gold and silver were sufficient, the court could use gold and silver as currency.

But in fact, apart from the gold and silver produced in Lingnan, the annual output of gold in other places in the Tang Dynasty was only 10,000 to 20,000 taels, and the silver was only tens of thousands of taels.

Such a small amount of production is not enough to make jewelry utensils and to pay tribute and rewards to the emperor.

Although Lingnan is rich in gold and silver, and Nanjin is also famous, most of them are self-produced and sold, and only a few are paid as tribute to the imperial court.

The gold and silver produced in Lingnan vary in fineness and shape, and it is very inconvenient to identify the fineness and then weigh them when using them.

Qin Lang believed that if the denomination gold and silver coins produced in Chang'an were promoted in Lingnan, with uniform quality and denomination, it would not only facilitate transactions, but also make money.

Now the gold-silver ratio has almost returned to the level of the Kaihuang period. One tael of gold directly costs 8,000 yuan, while the price of silver is relatively low. One silver directly costs 16,000 yuan.

The ratio of gold to silver is one to five.

At this time, the gold price of the Tianzhu people was converted into Kaiyuan copper coins, and one tael of gold was about 97,460 Wen, which was far higher than the gold price of the Tang Dynasty. The gold-silver ratio of the Tianzhu Jieri Dynasty was more than one to eight. Going west to Persia, the gold-silver ratio reached one to twelve.

In Eastern Rome, the gold-silver ratio reached one to thirteen.

Datang’s silver is very valuable, but the farther you go west, Tianzhu, Persia, Roman Frank, the price of silver becomes less and less valuable, so now many Hu merchants transport silver to exchange for gold, return the gold and exchange it for silver, and then exchange it for Datang’s gold.

These bad guys are very smart and take advantage of this exchange rate difference.

Qin Lang now wants to plug this gap, and can't let foreigners come to grab Datang's wool!