Qian Song

Chapter 476 The Imperial Banquet (please vote for me!)

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Chu Yue wears spring sleeves, and Wu Shuang reveals the dawn.The ambition is to fill the sea, but the courage is to worry about the sky.

The service is shameful and the money is paid, and the leisurely joy is complete.What happened to my husband? One day will determine a thousand years.

Not long after Japan was incorporated into the territory of the Daqian Dynasty, Li Cun summoned Wang Xun, whose condition had improved, to go to the palace.

Although Wang Zhen and Wang Xun were not direct descendants of Li Cun earlier, and they were once enemies of Li Cun, and even refused to serve Li Cun for a time. Xun and his son admired him and always treated them politely.

Later, Wang Zhen and Wang Xun were moved by Li Cun's sincerity. Of course, this was also because the Zhao and Song dynasties had completely become history, and the Daqian dynasty was the real China, the real Central Plains dynasty, and the real Han dynasty. The martial arts were sold to the emperor's family, and eventually both father and son entered the military system.

Since then, Li Cun has always attached great importance to Wang Zhen and Wang Xun and his son, and did not doubt their loyalty because they were surrendered generals.

Only then did Wang Zhen, Wang Xun and his son fight to the death on Shikoku Island.

in fact--

What outsiders don't know is that Wang Xun came up with this strategy that shattered the Japanese's last hope of resistance.

In other words, before setting off for the expedition, Wang Xun was prepared to risk his life.

As the first emperor throughout the ages, such loyal ministers and good generals are definitely Li Cun's favorite.

Therefore, although Li Cun has been busy recently, Li Cun still took time out of his busy schedule to meet Wang Xun in person.

——Because Wang Zhen was still in Japan working with Li Xianzhong to wipe out the remaining resistance forces, Li Cuncai did not summon Wang Zhen together.

Wang Xun has thick eyebrows, big eyes, a good body and a dignified appearance. Li Cun liked him very much at first sight.

When Li Cun, who wanted to give Wang Xun's wife a royal title, learned that Wang Xun's wife had died in childbirth not long ago, Li Cun immediately betrothed the third daughter of Concubine Qian to Li Cunsheng to Wang Xun as his wife. Extension of wife.

Wang Xun was a little flattered and couldn't thank him for a moment.

When Li Cun saw it, he didn't take it seriously. He also told Wang Xun clearly that he planned to divide the Japanese archipelago into ten kingdoms in the future and give his ten sons as fiefdoms. However, before that, he had to send loyal ministers and good generals to garrison the Japanese island.

——There is still a lot of gold and silver that needs to be mined in Japan. Li Cun certainly cannot give such a Japanese island to his son. Otherwise, who does this gold and silver belong to?

As a loyal minister, Li Cun chose Song Jiang, who was ruthless, decisive, and interested in fame but not in wealth. He served as the Japanese ambassador and was fully responsible for all government affairs on the Japanese archipelago. The key to governing the Japanese archipelago was to lead the Japanese and the Daqian Dynasty. Millions of miners were employed to mine Japan's gold and silver.

Li Cun chose Wang Xun as a good general. Well... to be precise, Li Cun chose Wang Zhen.

However, Wang Zhen is now over 60 years old, and he almost lost his beloved son before. Li Cunzhen was afraid that he would be unaccustomed to Japan, so he asked Wang Xun to take office together with Wang Zhen, so that he could help Wang Zhen at the critical moment. To be a successor or something.

Wang Xun is not afraid of death, how can he be afraid of going to Japan to help guard the Daqian Dynasty for a few years?

Therefore, Wang Xun immediately accepted the order on behalf of his father Wang Zhen.

Soon after, the gold and silver accumulated by the Japanese for thousands of years were transported back to the Daqian Dynasty.

How many there are, no one knows.

What the world only knows is that not long after, the imperial court issued an order to cancel the gold and silver bimetallic system and change it to the gold standard. Within three years, anyone can come to the bank of the Daqian Dynasty with silver to exchange the silver for gold at a fixed ratio of ten to one. , or directly exchange silver into banknotes issued by the Daqian Dynasty. From now on, the banknotes issued by the Daqian Dynasty are only linked to gold. The past one-min note has been officially renamed one yuan, and ten yuan is equal to one tael of gold. , at any time, anyone can exchange the two for each other at banks that have been spread in all major cities of the Daqian Dynasty.

——In order to better control inflation, the Daqian Dynasty did not issue ten yuan banknotes. The largest denomination banknote issued by the Daqian Dynasty was one yuan. In addition to one yuan, there were also five cents, two cents, one dime, and five cents. There are nine kinds of banknotes, including one cent, two cents, one cent, five cents, two cents, and one cent. These are mainly to correspond to the copper and iron coins of the Song Dynasty. Of course, this is also to prepare for future inflation. Make enough space.

There were many considerations why Li Cun chose the gold standard instead of the silver standard.

Ordinarily, Li Cun, who occupies the most important pole of world trade and has a large amount of both gold and silver, can continue to use the gold and silver bimetal system.

In this way, the Daqian Dynasty can also issue more banknotes, right?

Moreover, with the promotion of the Daqian Dynasty in recent years, the gold and silver bimetallic system has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and has a solid mass foundation.

Some people even endorsed the imperial court, saying: If gold is the sun, silver is the moon.

In many ancient documents, there are thirteen months in a year and 28 days in each month. Therefore, the earliest gold and silver ratio was one to thirteen.

Therefore, some people advised Li Cun that if he felt that the gold and silver bimetal system was unstable, he could force the gold and silver ratio to be one to thirteen, and stop using the current floating ratio.

Li Cun knows very well that the historical ultra-stable structure of gold and silver is 5000:[-]. During China's long history of [-] years, the gold-silver price ratio has been basically stable at [-]:[-].

If Li Cun forced the ratio of gold to silver to be a fixed one to sixteen, with the current strength of the Daqian Dynasty, he would definitely be able to stabilize the Daqian Dynasty's banknotes for a period of time without collapsing.

But there has always been a certain degree of arbitrage space in gold and silver prices between Europe and Asia.

This is mainly due to the flow of silver to the east and the flow of gold to the west, caused by the high price of silver and the low price of gold in Asia.

Between this dynamic balance, Europe prefers gold, while Asia prefers silver.

In the history of Europe, whoever can control the East-West trade channel can take advantage of the difference in gold and silver prices in Eurasia to conduct huge arbitrage transactions of 50.00% to [-]%, thereby making huge commercial profits and dominating Europe. The fate of the continent.

To be honest, the Daqian Dynasty, which currently controls the east-west trade channel, can use the difference in gold and silver prices in Eurasia to obtain huge arbitrage transactions and gain huge commercial profits, and can even dominate the fate of some neighboring countries.

But Li Cun knew that this was just a small profit.

Think about the power of the U.S. dollar in future generations. You can directly print money to buy goods from any country. Through the U.S. dollar, you can control the world to a certain extent.

Compared with this, this small amount of commercial profits can only sway those businessmen, but it will never sway Li Cun, the overlord who intends to control the world.

Let's put it this way, Li Cun's goal is to make the banknotes issued by the Daqian Dynasty the world currency of this era, and then use the banknotes issued by the Daqian Dynasty to control the world.

In order to achieve this goal, Li Cun is bound to launch a stable currency.

The gold and silver bimetal system will definitely not be able to create a stable currency. This has been proven by too many histories. It cannot be solved by Li Cun forcing a fixed ratio of one to thirteen or one to sixteen between them.

You know, let alone other places, there is a large amount of silver on the Prince Continent alone. Once they are discovered and then mined, it will definitely impact the currency market, causing fluctuations in the price of gold and silver, and thus affecting the Daqian Dynasty. Stability of banknotes issued.

Therefore, if Li Cun's ambition is to create a world settlement currency similar to the US dollar in later generations, he must first abolish the gold and silver bimetallism and choose a gold standard or a silver standard.

The actual situation at the current stage is that the West has less gold and more silver, while Asia is just the opposite, with more gold and less silver.

Also, judging from the gold and silver in the hands of the Daqian Dynasty and Li Cun personally, there is more gold and less silver.

In this case, it is obvious that using the gold standard would be more beneficial to the Daqian Dynasty and the East.China has lacked silver mines since ancient times. The reason why it has always used the silver standard throughout history is actually mainly for overseas trade.

China has been the world's largest manufacturer and largest exporter since ancient times. In order to facilitate the valuation of import and export trade, ancient China adopted the silver standard. In other words, ancient silver had the same role as the US dollar, the main global currency in later generations.

In fact, gold can also have such attributes, but the earliest businessmen engaged in world trade promoted silver as an international settlement currency in order to make Westerners who owned more silver keen on international trade.

Li Cun is not one of those businessmen. He does not need to use such a weak method. He has formed a complete monopoly in the East. Of course he can use gold as the international settlement currency. No, of course he can use the banknotes issued by the Daqian Dynasty as the international settlement currency. currency.

Of course, in this process, some war methods will inevitably be used, just like what Western countries did to China. If necessary, Li Cun can retaliate in the same way.

Let's talk about it again, Li Cun chose the gold standard instead of the silver standard.

In Li Cun's view, gold is useless except as currency, while silver can be used in industry.

——Li Cun, who knows the general trend of history, is very clear that with the development of industry and the expansion of the application fields of silver industry, the consumption of silver will become larger and larger. One day, the silver in the world will even be needed by industry. Eat them all. It is also said that silver may be the first metal in the world that is consumed by humans. Therefore, no matter how much silver there is, there will be no place to use it in the future.Gold is rarely consumed for industrial purposes.

In other words, if Li Cun chooses the silver standard, the gold of the Daqian Dynasty and the large amount of gold that will be exchanged in the future will be useless. If Li Cun chooses the gold standard, the silver of the Daqian Dynasty and the large amount of silver that will be exchanged in the future will be useless , which can be used to develop industry in the future, killing two birds with one stone.

To sum up, Li Cun chose the gold standard.

The main advantage of the gold standard is that its face value is equivalent to fixed gold. Unless a large amount of precious metals are mined in a short period of time, the purchasing power of the currency can be regarded as approximately stable and inflation is unlikely to occur.

Of course, if there are advantages, there must be disadvantages.

The disadvantage is also that the total amount of gold is basically fixed. As productivity increases, the demand for currency increases, which will lead to insufficient gold in the world.

However, such a situation will certainly not occur in the short term. After all, this is ancient times when productivity was very backward.

To take a step back, if that day really comes, the Daqian Dynasty can also learn from the United States in later generations and decouple the banknotes issued by the Daqian Dynasty from gold, and then bind them to the financial revenue of the Daqian Dynasty.

Some people may ask, what if this road finally ends?

Then you can only resign yourself to fate.

Or, it would be time for the decline of the Daqian Dynasty.

All in all, after obtaining Japan's gold, Li Cun resolutely promoted the abolition of the gold and silver bimetallic system and changed it to the gold standard.

In this process, even powerful people like Li Cun encountered a lot of resistance. Some businessmen who took advantage of the difference in gold and silver prices in Eurasia to obtain huge arbitrage transactions and thus obtained huge commercial profits even wanted to assassinate Li Cun.

As a result, these businessmen failed to assassinate Li Cun. Instead, Li Cun took the opportunity to massacre a large number of businessmen, adding billions of yuan to the treasury of the Daqian Dynasty, and this did not include Li Cun's huge personal income. .

This made Li Biao, who suddenly had a bigger pocket, laugh at everyone he met, and then vigorously develop a series of plans such as the big railway plan, the big industrial revolution, the big navigation plan, the big agricultural plan planned by Li Cun...

In the spring of the 24th year of Hongwu, the navigators sent by Li Cun to explore the South China Sea returned. They successfully found Australia and a number of islands along the way.

After these navigators came back, they said: "The men and women there have different shapes. They don't weave or wear clothes. They cover themselves with bird feathers. They eat no fireworks. They only eat hair and drink blood. They just live in caves."

He also said: "The men and women there wear short blouses of five colors and are tied with single-piece skirts of embroidered cloth."

These are the Aboriginal people of Australia.

These navigators also recorded some Australian species, such as the Asian crane: "There is a crane, which is about six feet high. It feeds on grains. When it hears people clapping their hands, it will flutter its wings and dance. Its appearance is impressive, but it is also a foreign object."

Another example is the kangaroo: "There is a strange rat with small eyes, big ears, a long face, and black whiskers on both sides of the nose. There is a pouch on the abdomen, which can hold the cubs. The forelimbs are short and the hind legs are strong. It is timid and alert, and moves by jumping. It likes to gather. They gather in groups of three to twenty and feed on grass and fruits.”

Based on the descriptions of these navigators, Li Cun determined that these navigators had indeed found Australia.

In the autumn of the 24th year of Hongwu's reign, Li Cun personally went to Australia and named Australia Kunjiao.

——The 24 characters of the ancient compass are "Jia Mao Yi Chen Xun Si" in the east, "Bing Wu Ding Wei Kun Shen" in the south, "Geng Xi Xin Xu Qian Hai" in the west, and "Ren Zi Guichou Gen Yin" in the north. Starting from Quanzhou, Australia is exactly located "Kun angle" position.

Li Cun divided Kunjiao into sixty vassal states, and the islands along the road were also divided into sixty vassal states by Li Cun, preparing to entrust them to his sons in the future.

At this time, the vast territory of the Daqian Dynasty had become:

As far north as the Arctic Ocean;

The easternmost point is not the Pacific Ocean to the east of the Japanese archipelago, but the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean to the east of the United States;

As far south as the Tasman Sea in southern Australia;

In the far west, it is bounded by the Ural Mountains - the Himalayas - the southern part of Indochina - Srivijaya - the Indian Ocean in western Australia.

It can be said that Li Cun has occupied half of the world's territory with some twists and turns.

Today, the territory of the Daqian Dynasty is so vast that it can be said that it is unprecedented and unparalleled in the future.

Someone therefore suggested that Li Cun hold a grand banquet to celebrate this historic moment.

Li Cun also felt that he was really awesome and could really celebrate.

Think about it, if emperors and kings from all over the world gather together for a banquet of a hundred emperors or something, it will definitely be recorded in the annals of history.

"If I let the queens from all over the world accompany me again, and I have another night of hundreds of queens, then..."

The more he thought about it, the more Li Cun became moved.

As a result, Li Cun, who didn't like banquets very much, went ahead and ordered the Ministry of Rites to organize a grand banquet. All civil and military officials in Beijing could participate. The royal families and clans of various countries, especially the emperors and kings of various countries, must join.

At the same time, Li Cun also asked a group of female officials to notify the queens of various countries and asked them to put on their original phoenix robes and prepare to accompany Li Cun to the banquet of a hundred emperors...

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