When will this day end?

Yang Shang looked at the sky speechlessly, looked at his deskmate who was lowering his head and digging a hole beside him, and then looked at Bai Qi, who was sitting under the canopy not far away, reviewing documents, and silently beat Wu Anjun in his mind a thousand or eight hundred times.

During this period, Wu'anjun completely used the two of them as animals. In order to train them, he deliberately brought the two of them with heavy iron rings, which were called "martial arts practice."

"Take the saplings with me." After digging the pit, Cao Shen's voice came from below.

Yang Shang handed Cao Shen a "ya"-shaped sapling that was three feet tall, red in shape, with only smooth trunks. When the sapling touched a stone, it made a sound of metal and stone collision, which was very different from ordinary saplings.

Yes, this kind of sapling is not an ordinary species. It is a brand new plant developed by the farmer Tianping in the Agriculture Palace.

When Tian Ping and others studied plants, they found that some plants like to swallow and absorb metals in the soil. Through these plants, Xia Guo invented a "Shouyang tree".

This tree can absorb copper ore from the earth and condense a "red copper magic fruit" on the tree. This fruit is inedible and is condensed by the essence of red copper and can be smelted and forged.

In other words, there is no need to mine or smel. Just plant trees on copper ore to automatically collect copper essence.

Cao Shen carefully buried the Shouyang tree in the pit. Before he could fill the soil, he saw the ends of the saplings automatically growing rhizomes and exploring the copper ore thirty meters below.

As the roots absorb the essence of copper ore, tiny red and golden buds grow on the branches. Each bud is like gold and iron, and can also create weapons.

"It's OK." Cao Shen came out of the pit, Yang Shang took out the spiritual talisman sealing the pit, and hid the Shouyang bronze tree.

Then, the two came to Bai Qi to report.

Bai Qi spread out the map and circled it at a certain location above: "Well, this place has been completed, let's go to the next place immediately. I remember that there is a masterless copper mine nine hundred miles east of Carlo City, so we will seize it first."

Yang Shang looked at the copper ore that had not yet been circled on the map and counted quietly, and there were fifty places. He couldn't help but say, "June, why do we do this? With the current copper ore holdings in our Xia Kingdom, we don't have to worry about it for hundreds of years, right?"

"Yes." Cao Shen also nodded and agreed.

Is it good for the current Xia Kingdom to constantly seal copper ore and iron ore in the Eastern Land?

Bai Qi closed the map and looked at the two of them.

After this period of hardship, the two have a new temperament, no longer have the bookish spirit of the past, but a kind of perseverance and tenacity baptized by fighting.

"You two know about the new currency?"

The two looked at each other, and Cao Shen complained: "Although we are often not in the capital during this period, we still know about the new currency."

"Then do you know, do you know what the biggest problem with the new currency is?"

"question?"

This is really unclear. Because in their era, the Suri New Coin had long been abolished. Unless people who specialize in business methods, who would have studied this thing?

Yang Shang closed his eyes and recalled the records of the business information at home. He hesitated and said, "Is it a question of the face value of the currency?"

"Yes, the minimum face value of the new currency is silver. And one silver coin is exchanged for a consistent amount of money. In this exchange ratio, how to buy low-end daily livelihood supplies for new currency? Even those gradually scarce vegetables cannot be settled directly according to the silver coin, right?"

"Junhou means..."

"They will also promote another low-degree currency. This part is the essence of transactions. It is the right to mint the country itself."

In other words, the state is responsible for the minting of copper coins?

Yang Shang understood a little, but Cao Shen still didn't understand it.

Bai Qi said again: "Give all the rights to mint coins to the God of Wealth, this is at slaughter. All countries are not stupid, so how can they let the gods go there? Therefore, according to our Xia Kingdom's discussion and speculation, all countries should still maintain a part of the rights to mint coins and can regulate prices through low-degree currencies."

Countries themselves mint base currencies and regulate the exchange ratio with Suri silver coins. However, this kind of currency can only be used in their own country and does not involve foreign currency circulation, and the God of Wealth will not have much resistance.

"Then the question is, what materials do they need to mint this low-degree currency?"

Speaking of this, if Cao Shen doesn't understand, he will be really sorry for his identity as a student.

"The lowest-end copper coins in our country are made of copper. Even if other countries do not use copper, they will choose other widely present metals. Therefore, Junhou led us to seal the minerals to fundamentally eliminate the possibility of metals used by the Eastern countries?"

"Not only that." Bai Qi pointed at Dongfang Haotu: "In the future, this is our territory. The minerals here are our things. Instead of letting these small countries squander and causing us to recycle and recast again in the future, it is better to cut off their path from the beginning and let them use our Datiantong Zhengfu from the beginning."

"But how could they give us the right to mint coins?"

The new Suri coins are printed with avatars or scepters, which can bring faith power to the God of Wealth. If countries use their own gods or kings, they can also bring corresponding faith power. Will they give in?

"So, our purpose is the East, not the West." Bai Qi smiled and said, "You two still don't understand. What does our counterattack mean now?"

The Tumu Dynasty could have survived the famine with the old grains of the past years. However, the eastern city-states were small in scale, and some countries with only one small city had to continuously purchase from abroad. In this case, the famine was enough to be fatal.

In this case, Xia State held food, and they had to agree to any conditions.

Zhao Gao had already set out with Yang Ke's will and went to his first stop in the east for negotiations.

"What? The king hopes to buy food through the new coins?"

"No, no, you should know that our country does not collect Suri New Coins." Zhao Gao paused and said in a very sinister way: "Have you not discovered it yet? Why did a famine suddenly break out this year that spreads the entire continent? But our country is fine?"

"What is the only difference between our country and other countries? Isn't it that we don't use new coins?"

"The king of our country believes that the new currency in Suri is cursed. The reason why there is widespread famine in the mainland is because this new currency is cursed. Therefore, I advise your country to be careful. If this new currency is not used, it should not be used."

"Ah, by the way, by the way. Continue our negotiations. There is an accident in our country's coins and is under the reform and rest period. Therefore, it is impossible to trade with our country's coins."

"What? Your country plans to use gold mines directly?"

"How can that be! Isn't that bullying your country? Our country promises that, in accordance with the principle of friendship between the two countries, we will never seize your gold mines at this moment. Therefore, we choose to trade cloth. It is a fair choice, right?"

"Of course, your country may not have enough cloth, so there are cotton and ramie. What? All these things in your country are gone? So what daily necessities do you have? We can talk about them slowly. Otherwise, it's okay to exchange less food. After all, you can focus on the nobles first. What are those untouchable slaves? You said, right? Don't worry about the other party's riots and directly use the army to suppress them. Famine, be sure to show the king's leadership and authority in order to survive the disaster smoothly."

Zhao Gao tried his best to do everything and kept provoking the other party's domestic tensions during trade negotiations. Even his request to exchange grain for cloth was hidden.

It is autumn now and the weather is getting colder. But he deliberately asked the Eastern countries to settle their accounts with cloth. When winter comes, there is no need to keep the cold. The Eastern countries will trade cloth and cotton to the Xia Kingdom again to keep the cold winter.

At that time, Zhao Gao would choose iron tools for farming in spring to trade.

And in spring, he would choose the ice mirror or military weapons used in summer.

In short, it is forced to demolish the east wall and repair the west wall little by little, and constantly overdraw the future necessities to maintain the present. Thus, slowly erode the various countries and completely subvert the various countries.

As for Bai Qi's so-called "right to mint coins", Zhao Gao got it shortly after the negotiations.

Even though Suri's new currency controls the exchange of high-degree currency, as long as the copper coins are in hand, the Xia Kingdom can continue to trade.

When he was too anxious, he directly used a large amount of copper coins to exchange money. He minted all the copper ores on the continent into coins, forcing the God of Wealth to go bankrupt.

After hearing Bai Qi's explanation, Cao Shen and Yang Shang understood a little. It turns out that they were also marking the copper mine to deal with this coin war?

"More than that, another purpose of Shouyang Tong Tree-"

Suddenly, a fire phoenix passed by the west in the clear sky and fell straight towards Carlo City.

Bai Qi's expression changed: "Phoenix, is it...going, let's go!"

...

In the Pantheon, the God of Wealth slowly opened his eyes.

The so-called fire phoenix entering the eastern soil was just a small episode. For him, the most concerned thing at present was the famine caused by the joint efforts of the agricultural gods.

Because of this famine, the situation in the eastern countries has begun to collapse.

"So that's your purpose? Do you think that my plan can be ruined by a famine? Joke, my new currency cannot be stopped by a mere food shortage."

Goddess Luoya sat upright on the throne and turned her head casually to look at the God of Wealth.

The God of Wealth cursed with evil voices and anger: "You are also great gods believed in by all countries in the mainland, and they actually came up with such a method. Are you worthy of those believers who believe in you?"

"What benefits does Xia Kingdom give you? Let you peasant gods help him together?"

"Don't forget that Xia State has its own peasant god. There is also the stupid girl of Feng Shen. She has to work hard to think that she is the protector of Xia State. Don't forget how the ancestors of Xia State kicked us away. When Xia State grows up, what kind of protector god will turn around and continue to sacrifice to their ancestor god!"

After the God of Wealth finished scolding, Luo Ya spoke gently: "Speaking of it, you and I have the same father."

"What, does Your Highness want to play the emotional card? Even so, I will not admit defeat. Don't think that you will win in a mere famine! Want to win me with this little trick? It's impossible!"

The God of Wealth's eyes flashed. Although they didn't want to use that trump card, if they forced it hard, they could only do this.

"No, I mean, you're a younger brother."

A thousand years of foundation deserves to compete with me?

Goddess Luoya smiled slightly: "Suri, this is just the beginning. Do you think the famine will last only for a year? And outside of this, do we have no other means?"

Famine, this is just the initial problem. It is winter.

In Eastern countries, in order to solve the problem of food, they had to use cloth to buy food.

It’s winter that conflicts will completely break out.

Thinking of this, Luo Ya turned her head and looked in the direction of the main god throne: "The goddess of disagreement and disputes under Youmeng may be busy again."

"Well, the Mother Goddess's underworld is even more busy. Because it is necessary to receive a large number of souls in winter."
Chapter completed!