Chapter 336 New Town Temple Calculation
Du Baiyue said awkwardly that his brothers were all fighting at the front, and he was the only one left in Chengdu enjoying a peaceful life, feeling extremely uncomfortable.
This sentence made both Lao Cao and Zhao Yulin laugh.
But what Baiyue said was true. Every man wants to fight on the battlefield and be a hero. Who would be willing to live a life of mediocrity?
He said that if they all left, who would be in charge of the security of Chengdu? Right now, the troops around Chengdu combined have already exceeded two columns.
Lao Cao immediately mentioned Zhang Guoan. Guoan had to be able to do it. He and Dongmei's child had just been born, and the couple was very sweet. If anything really happened, they could still be in charge of the Central Court.
Du Baiyue also strongly recommended Guoan to take over.
Zhao Yulin felt that this was something that Lao Cao and Baiyue had discussed beforehand.
He asked Baiyue where he wanted to go?
A look of surprise immediately appeared on Du Baiyue's face, and he said excitedly that he would go anywhere as long as the young master allowed it.
Damn it, this guy really wants to go to the battlefield.
He turned and looked at Lao Cao, wanting to hear his opinion.
Lao Cao said that Huacai seemed to be outnumbered , and the Eastern Group was short of troops. The situation of a tug-of-war against the Mongolian army with both sides attacking and defending should be improved. How about letting Baiyue go to Yan'an Prefecture to assist Lu Huacai?
He asked Cao: Should we let Baiyue lead a column up?
Lao Cao said that there were not so many, and Yibin had just formed a new army of a corps, which was almost complete, so he asked Baiyue to take them over for a try. He said that Feng Guiqi of the Fourth Column had been away in Gansu for a long time, so he was transferred to Huacai to strengthen the force.
Zhao Yulin nodded and proposed that Lu Huacai, Feng Guiqi and Du Baiyue form the command body of the East Group to plan how to change the current situation in Yan'an Prefecture.
He used bowls and wine glasses to lay out the topographical maps of Yan'an Prefecture, Linzhou, Shizhou and Xiazhou on the wine table and said that it would not be long before the Great Khan of the Grassland would pass away. Once the Great Khan passed away, his sons would definitely fight to the death for the Khanship and would have no time to care about foreign enemies...
Zhao Yulin was still chattering when he realized that Lao Cao and Baiyue had been petrified.
He looked at the two of them in confusion, and Du Baiyue said in bewilderment, "Young master, how did you know that the Khan of the grassland was about to die, and when would he die?"
Zhao Yulin suddenly realized that he had let the cat out of the bag and brought history into reality.
He took a sip of wine and whispered that the secret must not be revealed. He smiled and said that he calculated with his fingers and found that the Khan of the grassland would not live past 1241. That guy was drunken and indulged in wine and women all day long, and he would definitely die young and not live long.
He asked Baiyue to set off after the New Year, bring the newly made red cannon with him, and make plans with his brothers. Zhao Yulin said quietly that once the fighting started, the entire northwest would be mobilized.
Lao Cao immediately became excited and said eagerly that it would be better to let him lead the troops and have another fight.
Zhao Yulin smiled and said that he would not express his opinion this time, as he was still recovering from his injuries. Let Lao Cao go to find Ding Gong, as long as Ding Gong agreed.
Du Baiyue began to persuade him not to go to the front line and work hard.
Cao Cao was always at the forefront of the battlefield, with many arrow wounds on his body and several knife wounds on his legs. He was seriously injured during the Eastern Expedition to Luoyang, and no matter how strong his physique was, he couldn't bear it at an old age.
Zhao Yulin also began to persuade him, hoping that he would take care of his health and maintain Chengdu's hard-won new situation.
Lao Cao was silent, picked up the cup and asked someone to drink it.
After the two men sent Baiyue away , Zhao Yulin accompanied Lao Cao back to rest.
The rape flowers on the roadside have bloomed. The hot and humid air currents from the ocean have found their way here and are blocked by the mountains to the north of Xindu Town. The temperature in Xinshi in winter is several degrees higher than other places.
Lao Cao said with a smile that this place was really comfortable, with flowers and hot springs, and it was much warmer than the winter in Hanzhong and Guanzhong.
He asked Zhao Yulin if the banknotes were ready and could be issued.
Zhao Yulin said proudly that he had just raised 100 million yuan and would give it a try first.
Lao Cao said with a disappointed look on his face: "One hundred million? Only 100,000 strings of cash. Isn't that a little too little?"
When Zhao Yulin saw his expression, he remembered that the one hundred million they remembered meant one hundred thousand. And the one hundred million he mentioned was the big one that Principal Wang mentioned in the future.
He knew that he had spoken out of turn again, and said with a smile that he had obtained 10 million strings of money, which was enough. However, we cannot use all of it for direct issuance, so he suggested to Ma Ling that 10 million strings of money be issued, and the rest be used for the exchange of old currency notes.
Old Cao was amused then, and asked him to explain clearly with a laugh, which made him walk several steps weakly.
Zhao Yulin smiled and said to him: It seems that in order to understand the word "billion", we have to sort out the issue of number carry.
He said that everyone is used to carrying numbers according to ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, and hundreds of millions. So what should we do with larger numbers?
He wanted to change "wanwan" to "yi", so one wanwan would be one yi.
Only then did Lao Cao understand why Zhao Yulin boasted about making 100 million with such a bright expression. It turned out to be a large number, haha.
Zhao Yulin laughed and said that at present we have a small population, little money, and a small world of cognition, so the numbers we will need in the future will be larger.
The population will increase to more than one billion.
Silver would be counted in hundreds of billions or trillions, not to mention exploring the mysteries of the infinite universe.
Lao Cao was immediately petrified and stood still again.
Zhao Yulin quickly supported him and called him back to talk.
He went back and had a conversation with a teacher from the Xinshizhen Academy. Within two days, Cuiping Morning Post published an article signed by the Third Young Master: Our total fiscal and tax revenue has exceeded 100 million guan.
After briefly introducing the achievements of the New Song Dynasty in developing production and governing the country with great efforts, the article focused on introducing the arrangement names of decimal numbers and specifically explained the usage of the word "billion", changing the past habit of saying one hundred thousand as one hundred million to one hundred million as one hundred million.
Lao Cao came over with a newspaper and laughed to chat with him. Zhao Yulin was having fun with Feiyan and the others.
When the two beauties saw him coming, they immediately dispersed. Zhao Feiyan's face turned red with shyness, but Yangjin didn't care and pulled Feiyan out to see the rape flowers.
Lao Cao asked: Isn’t it too boring to accompany him in Xinshi, so boring that you even have to worry about how to use numbers?
Zhao Yulin smiled and said that he was free anyway, so he might as well sort it out.
Lao Cao said that he had seen the establishment of a bank in Chengdu. Ma Ling'er is capable. Our New Song Kingdom will open a bank.
He said it was very simple, it was just the reform of money houses, and private individuals in Chengdu would no longer be allowed to control finance. However, this would harm the lifeline of the country, and if it continued in the long run it would harm national affairs and cause the people to starve.
Lao Cao said happily, "Who's afraid of birds? Let's just circulate the new currency and make the old currencies useless."
Zhao Yulin hurriedly said no, absolutely not, that would be tantamount to robbing the people of their money.
He agreed to issue 10 million new coins this time because Chengdu had not issued any money in the past two years. Only silver coins, copper coins and iron coins were in circulation, so the coin market in Sichuan and Shu was relatively stable.
During this period, the money houses in Chengdu spread the news that the court was going to issue new currency and stop using the old ones, which caused the exchange rate of Qianyin to fall sharply. If the court really released the news that it was going to abolish the old Qianyin, those Qianyin would soon become a piece of waste paper.
People who hold a lot of money will suffer huge losses and may even jump off buildings or into rivers.
There were too few tall buildings in this dynasty. Zhao Yulin was afraid that Lao Cao didn’t understand, so he quickly added a scene of jumping into the river.
Lao Cao laughed and asked him if it was that serious. Ordinary people only had a few small coins in their hands, and the real rich people were the wealthy families.
The two were chatting when the captain of the guard, Chu Yuxuan, came in hurriedly and said that there was a letter from the king, Lord Ding.
Zhao Yulin opened the secret letter, but there were only a few words on the paper asking Zhao Yulin to go back.
Lao Cao was happy and said that he couldn't play anymore. Lord Ding had invited him, so it must be a big matter that he couldn't handle. He should go back quickly. Then he shouted exaggeratedly: "Oh, Cuiping Mountain sent a boat of fireworks, and only he and his ladies were there to enjoy them."
Lao Cao even started teasing and whetting his appetite.
Zhao Yulin didn't have time to say goodbye to the two women who were admiring the flowers outside. He immediately packed his luggage and boarded the ship.
By the time we got back to Chengdu, it was already New Year's Eve two days later.
He walked into the government office, and the officials smiled and said, "I'm finally back. I'll change into my formal attire quickly." The annual New Year's Eve ceremony was about to begin.
Zhao Yulin changed his clothes and sat next to Mr. Ding. The old man said cheerfully that this year's party would be hosted by Miss Chen Chen and Miss Qu Tao, and they had rehearsed it twice.
Zhao Yulin thought, what's the big deal about rehearsing ten times? What urgent matter is there that he is concerned about? Why did they call him back in a hurry and ask him to sit up and watch the show without saying anything? Why didn't they call Cao Gong back as well to stay up all night with him?
He was muttering in his heart, but his eyes were looking at Chen Chen, Qu Tao and the others honestly. The two women sang in unison and created a very lively atmosphere for the party, which was very good.
It was not until the end of the party that Mr. Ding pulled him to the lounge and said that Chengdu was unstable and those people in Shisanpu who were playing with money were extremely evil.
Shunfengsi reported to him that someone was manipulating the money market and spreading rumors that we were going to abolish Qianyin. They were maliciously suppressing and raising the exchange rate of Qianyin for silver coins for profit. These days, many ordinary people were crying and shouting in Qianpu Street, and some even went to the government to complain, pointing the finger at Shisanpu.
Mr. Ding said that there was an expert among this group of people. He standardized the decimal numbers in the Cuiping Morning News and explained the correct usage of the word "100 million". Immediately, someone here spread a rumor that we were going to issue 100 million new coins, which was exactly . It was really too high, otherwise someone must have leaked the secret.
Zhao Yulin also felt it was strange, but his intuition told him that someone must have leaked the information, and was using Zhao Yulin's explanation of "one hundred million" to leak the amount of new currency.
The old man said with some regret that he had not thought things through. He expanded the discussion on the new currency issuance in advance and let the news spread to the public, making us busy and panic.
He said that there were too many rats in our government office and it was hard to guard against them.
Seeing the maid coming to urge him, he signaled Ding Gong to go with him to Anfu Temple to attend the New Year's blessing ceremony, and then talk about these trivial matters after that.
After all the ceremonies were over, everyone returned to the government office. Ding Gong asked the officials of the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of SF Express and the Ministry of Inspection to stay and discuss the matter.
After the old man introduced the situation, he asked everyone to speak.
