As the king of a country, Li Shimin could not see the business methods of the money house and could only go to his own side to inquire about the problem. If Li Anran really thought that the other party didn't understand anything, then he would not be stupid, but a brainless person.

In Chapter 60 of Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching", it says: "Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh food."

Even if Li Shimin was indeed unable to be as clear as those professional economists in later generations, he could have managed the Tang Dynasty into a prosperous era in history. To say that the other party did not understand this aspect, it would be purely nonsense!

Not to mention, even if Li Shimin doesn’t understand very much, there are still those ministers.

However, since the other party came to the door in such a manner, Li Anran was too lazy to expose the other party's true face. Instead, he further pointed the topic to a plan he had prepared before and said: "Your Majesty, have you ever thought about why in the Tang Dynasty and even some surrounding countries, only copper coins can be regarded as circulating currency, while gold and silver are not?"

Although Li Shimin knew a little about the problem of the gold and silver shop just now, he really didn't understand what was involved in the field of economics. Of course, he was not the only one who didn't understand, and even the owners of the gold and silver shops didn't understand it.

Although they do their business well on weekdays, many of the methods even coincide with the things in the field of economics in later generations. But if they really want to tell them something, they are powerless. To some extent, they can also be said to know the truth but not the reason.

After listening to the conversation that took the gold and silver shop as an example, Li Shimin, who had done some homework before coming, couldn't help but feel silent. However, although he had come up with something, he still couldn't get the gold and silver shop to the money shop together.

Fortunately, the news about the People's Bank of China during this period has caused a lot of controversy. As the king of a country, Li Shimin naturally could not have paid attention to it, and he also attached great importance to it. Therefore, some fresh nouns will not be understood.

"The real person, the reason why he uses copper coins as currency is because copper is the highest value in various fields, right?" Recalling the content of the book "Theory of Currency" provided by the other party, Li Shimin said.

Regarding this statement, Li Anran, who smiled slightly, did not refute, but nodded and said, "That's right. Your Majesty. It can be said to some extent. In fact, things like currency have been more or less different from dynasties."

"If we are far away, we won't talk about it. After the Qin Dynasty unified the six kingdoms, Qin Shihuang also unified the currency. He abolished the coins such as knives, cloths, and shells, and used "half liang" as currency. That is, he used the round square hole copper coins of Qin later. The text "half liang" was minted. He weighed twelve zhu."

"In the Han Dynasty, iron coins were produced because of private casting and profit. Of course, no matter what money is, it has no fixed value. What really makes money worth is circulation. Once it cannot be circulation, then money will no longer be money."

"It's like the two precious metals, gold and silver, have been used as accessories until now, but rarely used as currency circulation. Of course, from another perspective, it has become inevitable that gold and silver will become currency."

"Real person, what does this have to do with the money shop?" Li Shimin, who was confused when he heard it, asked.

"Haha... Of course it's related, and it's very related!" Li Anran, who found that he was a little bit crooked, naturally would not admit this, but asked with the flow: "Your Majesty, the gold and silver products in the palace also cost money, right?"

"This..." Li Shimin, who had some speculations vaguely, nodded and said, "The real person said nothing wrong."

"Then how to measure the value of these gold and silver products? Who can measure it?" Li Anran asked with a smile.

"How to measure it? Who will measure it?" Li Shimin, who repeated the sentence subconsciously, was silent for a long time before slapped the table, saying, "What the real person means is that those gold and silver shops can secretly control the price of gold and silver products?"

Seeing that the other party finally figured out the problem that he needed to understand, Li Anran, who was worried that the other party would deliberately pretend to be confused, said, "It's a kidnapping person," and continued:

"To a certain extent, there is indeed this meaning. However, it has not been too obvious at the moment. But once gold and silver exist as currency, these merchants with a large amount of gold and silver have an opportunity to take advantage of it."

"Once silver is low, they can buy a large amount of silver with gold or copper coins. When the gold is low, they can buy a large amount of gold with silver or copper coins. In this way, no matter what the market conditions are, they will only make money and not lose money."

Faced with such an answer, Li Shimin, as the king of a country, did not think of those gold and silver shops, but found that the economic lifeline of his country was not completely in his own hands. No wonder after the end of the Sui Dynasty, prices in the world soared so much.

Even though to a large extent, the price rise was due to the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Li Shimin knew very well that the rise in prices was wrong, and it should have been a surge, and it was still closely related to those families who had a lot of resources.

After seeing Li Shimin's face turned gloomy, Li Anran pretended to be ignorant and continued: "This is more than that. Once those gold and silver merchants have enough gold and silver in their hands, they can price gold and silver by themselves."

"Just like in the Tang Dynasty, not all places are exchanged for one or two silver coins for a consistent copper coins. Not to mention, whether it is silver, gold, or even copper coins, it involves a problem of quality."

Speaking of this, Li Anran directly treated Li Shimin's face with an increasingly ugly face. He opened the wrist-shaped personal terminal on his left forearm, contacted Xiangyun who had returned to the business hall on the first floor, and then asked the other party to send some things up.

Speaking of such a terminal, Li Anran will inevitably complain about his cheap brother-in-law who is probably a game homemaker every time he uses it.

There is no way, who made the wrist-style personal terminal in his hand that came from the multi-function exploration spacecraft very similar to the universal tools in the game "Mass Effect".

What made Li Anran dissatisfied is that since you have "drawed" other people's creativity, why not just "draw" thoroughly? If you can really get all the functions of universal tools out, how good it would be. It would be really painful to make things difficult.

Just as Li Anran used his personal terminal to contact Xiangyun, his eyes flashed with envy in Li Shimin's eyes, and he didn't have the idea of ​​asking for such an immortal weapon, but in the end he couldn't say this.

There is no way, Li Shimin knew very well that this kind of immortal artifact was also very precious to someone. Otherwise, so far, except for Li Anran, only Su Xiaomei and Xiangyun could have it.

Of course, if Li Shimin knew that although this original personal terminal was indeed very precious to Li Anran, the copycat version would be as good as possible, and I would probably not be embarrassed.

Li Anran, who felt Li Shimin's vision, was not unaware of the other party's thoughts. But even if Li Shimin really had to speak, he would still refuse on the grounds that the immortal weapon was unable to be manipulated by mortals and the number of immortal weapons was extremely rare.

After a while, Xiangyun, who had received the notice, walked into the reception room with a small box.

"Young Master, the thing is here." Xiangyun, who put the box on the table, said.

"Well, Yun'er, go and do your business." Li Anran, who nodded, patted the box and said.

Until Xiangyun left the reception room and returned downstairs to continue to sit in the business hall. Li Anran and Li Shimin, who remained in the reception room, seemed to have not seen Xiangyun's "irrespectful" behavior just now, just now.

"Your Majesty, please see." Li Anran said after opening the box in his hand and pushing it to the other party.

"Real person, these are..." Li Shimin asked, looking at the rolls of cylindrical objects wrapped in good paper in the box.
Chapter completed!