Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 496 Fellow Daoists, please set off

  A bright hall, a table with thin strips, a table, and one person sitting alone.

  Yuan Wei kept this posture for a long time, until a figure stood in front of him.

   "Meet Master Yuan!" Wang Yun cupped his hands.

  Yuan Kai raised his eyelids, and said in a neutral tone: "Wang Situ is free today, see me, a dying man?"

  Wang Yun didn't say a word, but smiled, walked over slowly, and sat gently beside the table.

The waiter who followed Wang Yun was kneeling beside the two of them, and then placed the red clay stove, charcoal, copper kettle, water spoon and other items neatly one by one, then kowtowed and retreated, leaving the space for Yuan Kai And Wang Yun two people.

  Wang Yun rolled up his sleeves, did it himself, added some charcoal, and then heated the copper kettle on the red clay stove.

  Yuan Wei lowered his eyes, as if he didn't care about everything around him at all, and didn't look at what Wang Yun was doing, just like an outsider who completely forgets himself.

Wang Yun didn't speak either, just looked after the small red clay stove, looked at the water in the copper cauldron, the waves started to rise from the calm, and then the overlapping bubbles became dense, and for a while, in the bright hall, only The sound of falling water gradually rose.

When the water was about to boil, Wang Yun took a carved lacquer box, put the tea powder that had been ground and selected with a radish sieve into the water, and at the same time stirred it gently in the kettle with a long-handled copper spoon to let the tea powder and The water fully contacts and blends together.

The water temperature continued to rise, and some bubbles began to appear. The color of the entire copper kettle gradually began to change with the addition of tea leaves. Wang Yun took a small carved pot, and used a silver spoon to put it into the pot. A little bit of green salt came out from the spoon, and then sprinkled into the copper kettle.

  This is the first boil.

   After a while, some foam began to appear in the copper cauldron. Wang Yun slowly turned his wrist, and spooned the foam out against the surface of the water, and put it in the cooked bowl beside him.

  After almost all the foam was scooped out, Wang Yun added another spoonful of cold water into the copper kettle, and then continued to stir it slowly with a spoon.

   This is the second boiling.

Although there was a spoonful of cold water to suppress it, the temperature of the water had actually risen quite high, and the fragrance of tea slowly permeated, and the surface of the water was like waves surging. It was poured into the copper kettle to stop boiling, and then the copper kettle was removed with a brocade pad.

  This is triple boiling.

  After three boils, the tea soup is ready.

  Wang Yun divided the tea soup and said: "Tianshi Ge's tea is clear and elegant. If you add more vulgar things, it is not beautiful, so just a little source of all flavors is enough... Yuan Taifu, please tea."

  The tea soup is not too much, not too little, just divided into two bowls. While talking, Wang Yun slowly pushed the tea bowl on the wooden tray to Yuan Wei's side along the table.

The scorched aroma of the properly roasted tea leaves, mixed with the fresh fragrance of the boiled tea leaves, blended together and lingered in the nose, making Yuan Wei's nostrils involuntarily incited twice: "Wang Situ really Good method, move to the western capital, still have the tea of ​​the celestial master..."

  Wang Yun smiled, then picked up the small lacquer box containing tea, opened it, gestured to Yuan Kai, and said, "It's all in this cauldron."

  Yuan Wei's eyebrows trembled slightly, then he picked up the tea bowl and started to sip slowly.

After drinking the tea soup, Yuan Kai put down the tea bowl, suddenly patted the table lightly, and slowly chanted: "Drinking from the Yellow Spring, the lonely body is broken, the soul returns to rest, the world perishes, and the past is chasing back, Time doesn't wait..." The tone of the tone was a little resentful at first, then confused, and finally revealed a trace of sadness, and the voice gradually weakened and became inaudible.

   "Why is Mr. Yuan here!" Wang Yun said in relief.

  Yuan Kai remained silent, and said after a long time, "When will the sentence be executed? Dove wine, or white silk?"

  Wang Yun was stunned for a moment, then Fang smiled and said: "It's bad! The Taifu is bad! You have a heavy responsibility, why talk about life and death so lightly?"

  Yuan Kai was also stunned for a moment, rolled his eyes a few times, and said: "Situ, don't want to make fun of it. How can there be such a heavy responsibility like Maoci's earthen steps, mirage gray chalk walls, and a tile house?"

  Wang Yun laughed and said: "The bright hall is five feet long, the food has soft hair, and there are lap mats, how can you be biased?"

  Yuan Wei paused, stroked his beard, and said with some expectation: "Shandong...how is it today?"

"Luoyang has been burned, Shandong..." This matter is just that Yuan Kui is under house arrest and the news is not well-informed, but it is not a secret, and sooner or later he will know, so Wang Yun did not hide it, and said directly, "...It is also gone! "

  Yuan Wei raised his head, then his waist slowly slumped a little, and his head lowered, "So, the highway, at the beginning..."

   "The highway originated in Henan, but originally originated in Hebei."

  Yuan Kui let out a haha, shook his head with a wry smile, and muttered: "Hey little star, I'm in the west and I'm in the east, ha, ha ha... My life is boundless..."

   "Why should Mr. Yuan be meager..."

  Wang Yun waited for authority, but Yuan Kai said directly, "Why is Xiangguo looking for me?"

  Suddenly Kade Wang Yun paused for a moment, and then said: "No one else, I want to invite the Taifu to also serve as the Grand Sinonger..."

   "Da Si Nong?" Yuan Kai repeated, then suddenly opened his triangular eyes, "Master, please tell the truth."

  Wang Yun sighed, remained silent for a while, and then said: "Xiangguo wants to reset the position of Captain Shui Heng."

   "Captain Shuiheng..." Yuan Kai repeated it in a murmur, his face sank, and he said, "Wang Situ, do you want me to sin against all people? I will never accept it!"

What?

you are not willing?

  If you don't want to, this position may fall on my head! Then I have to do things that offend the people!

  So, fellow daoist, please go on your way...

Wang Yun came here after accepting this order, and he had a good idea about the current situation, so he said slowly: "In the past, King Wen was imprisoned and sat in the Book of Changes, and Zhong Ni traveled hard to write the Analects of Confucius. It can be seen that in the world, how can everything be fulfilled? How can you get white lotus root without black mud? Or maybe Yuan Gong wants to get three feet of white silk in Xiatai?"

  They all want to do what they want, and they only want to do cool things. How can there be such a cheap thing in the world? !

   "One thought can lead to life, and one thought can lead to death." Wang Yun lowered his voice, and continued, "Be brave enough to be responsible, and you will have a chance of survival. If you live here..."

  Fellow Daoist, do you know that if you refuse, someone will bring you some presents after I leave?

  If Yuan Kai was really not afraid of death, why would he procrastinate and suffer such humiliation?

  Many people, including Wang Yun, can understand this point.

  Wang Yun looked at Yuan Wei and signaled Yuan Wei to make a choice.

  Yuan Kui closed his eyes, his beard swayed automatically without wind, and he sighed after a long time, and said: "So, I will let this old man be driven by me..."

  Wang Yun nodded, and said: "Good! I will report back to Xiangguo immediately... After a few days, I will have a drink with Mr. Yuan, and let me leave first..."

   So, how does the currency keep the dynasty running?

   After the currency was minted, the imperial court had to pay salaries to ministers, remuneration to craftsmen and servants, and military salaries to generals and soldiers.

   Then, these "people who eat imperial food" use the money they received to buy things in the market.

   Ordinary people also sell grain or other products in the market.

   Between buying and selling, the currency is transferred to the hands of the common people.

   In the end, the imperial court passed taxes, and then took back part of the currency in the hands of the common people into the hands of the government.

   Salary, market circulation and taxation constitute a whole, and currency completes round after round of circulation.

   If there is a war, the imperial court will issue more currency to search for the wealth of the whole society.

   Since currency is the tool used by the emperor to maintain the operation of the dynasty, it is up to the emperor to decide what to use to cast it. Copper is not a precious metal and has no scarcity value, so the cost of casting and distribution is relatively low.

   Using copper coins, the court and the government can maximize the "seigniorage".

   This "seigniorage" is the difference between the cost of minting coins and the scalar value of coins. For example, the casting cost of one hundred copper coins may be only 10 renminbi, but you can buy 100 renminbi of goods, and the difference of 90 renminbi is the seigniorage.

   Compared with gold and silver, the cost of copper is lower, so the price difference that can be formed is naturally larger.

   The emperor forced the use of copper coins as legal tender, so that people could be plundered at will without restriction.

   So it's not that China doesn't use the gold and silver standard, but that many smart people deliberately don't...

  (end of this chapter)