Strengthening starts from the county magistrate

Chapter 93

The autumn leaves are frosty, and the moon is on the west building.

Cao Zhengxiang boiled the pot of wine, and took out his set of wine plates to get drunk with cherry blossoms.

After getting Shen Mu a cup, he filled it up for himself, sipped it and roared, feeling very comfortable, and then said with a smile: "If you follow your lord's wishes, then the construction of the academy will start tomorrow, but the simple framework It's not difficult, but for other requirements, maybe our current money may not be enough."

While talking, Cao Zhengxiang took out a ledger and handed it over.

Shen Mu took it and flipped through it briefly, feeling helpless in his heart.

It records all the property they have scooped up since the two of them took office.

With just this money, I am afraid that the shell of an academy will be a little hanging.

Even if they have made a lot of money from the geniuses in the major counties and counties recently.

But building a real academy requires more than just money.

It's like creating a sect on the mountain.

The important thing is not the mountain, but the inner core of the mountain gate.

How many skills are there in the Cangshu Pavilion, how big is the vitality cave for the disciples to cultivate, whether there is a supply of weapons and medicines, etc., these are the scopes that need to be considered.

In such a comparison, it cannot be described as stretched.

Shen Mu picked up the wine saucer and took a sip: "If you want to earn money, you have to earn monk's money, otherwise it will be difficult to accumulate wealth quickly."

Cao Zhengxiang nodded when she heard the words: "Indeed, ordinary money can only be used for ordinary things, whether it is an academy or a sect, these are all beyond the scope of ordinary people, and the money and things required will naturally be different."

Shen Mu basically understood what Cao Zhengxiang said.

He also explained to Shen Mu before.

There are several continents in the whole world, and there are many dynasties, so gold, silver and copper coins are still the most basic tokens, and monks also need to use them.

And when it goes beyond the boundaries of ordinary people and needs to trade more advanced things, such as magic tools, exercises, elixir, etc. between monks, in addition to equivalent exchange, there are actually two special coins that are defaulted between monks.

I already have a piece of sunken wood, and I have also consumed one piece, that is incense money.

As for how to convert a piece of incense money into gold and silver, no one has figured it out, because no one is stupid enough to exchange incense money for ordinary silver.

After all, this is a special copper coin produced by incense offerings. It can not only form incense with the gods of mountains and rivers, but also absorb some of the incense luck contained in it.

Therefore, this is one of the currencies recognized by monks all over the world.

The other one, Shenmu, is not owned yet.

Name: Jinjingqian.

According to Cao Zhengxiang, the degree of preciousness is much higher than the existence of incense and money.

Incense money is born of worship.

The Golden Sutra, as the name suggests, is made of gold and contains the Sutra of the Great Dao.

It was formed by condensing and refining the bones and golden body fragments after many ancient overhauls fell or became immortals.

The great powers of ancient times were at least at the peak of the martial arts realm, and even went to the tenth floor or even higher.

It can be seen from this that the great energy contained in the golden body fragments of such a person after death is naturally quite precious.

It was refined into gold scripture coins by later generations to buy equally precious items.

There is a simple conversion between gold money and incense copper money.

One gold scripture coin is equal to one thousand incense copper coins.

Of course, if the quality and appearance of the incense copper coins are excellent, the proportion may be less, but generally the difference is not big.

"Incense money is not easy to get." Shen Mu said again.

Cao Zhengxiang nodded: "Naturally, the main thing is that our borderlands are too poor. Look at the street shops all over the city. Is there any business that needs incense money to replace it? If there is, you have to go to the previous 'Guan Dao Pavilion' It’s only a post station, at least Feijian needs to pay incense money to send a message, and occasionally other Zongmen stations will sell some items, that’s all.”

What Cao Zhengxiang said is an obvious fact.

Except for a small amount of logistics, there is almost no monk-level business in the borderlands.

There is almost no possibility of incense money circulating.

Of course, Shen Mu thought of some other ways, such as grabbing directly.

But this is not a long-term solution.

It's okay once or twice, but after a long time, people become alert and stop coming, and they can't run to the door of other people's houses to grab them.

"It's like this in Dongzhou. Most of the incense money is in the hands of the dynasty. Take Dali as an example, maybe more will be distributed to the Dali military camp, followed by the righteous gods enshrined by the dynasty."

Shen Mu's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard the words: "Wait, you said the military camp?"

"Yes, the cost of the military camp is actually quite expensive, no less than that of cultivating disciples of the sect on the mountain. The main reason is that there have been some turmoil in recent years, and it is difficult to be stable without raising soldiers."

Shen Mu thought for a while: "Old Cao, you said that the one on the edge of our border is very rich?"

"You mean the newly transferred general?"

"Yes."

Cao Zhengxiang narrowed his eyes slightly, and nodded his head: "When I was doing internal affairs in the Sui Dynasty, I heard that there were several generals in Dali. Apart from the famous cavalry battalion, it was Xiao Nanhe, but such a strong general was inexplicably assigned to our Most of the border borders are deployed from the capital, and if there are really important tasks, the money given will not be small."

Shen Mu smiled and nodded: "Old Cao's analysis is reasonable, I think so, such a large military camp, even if it is only guarding the border, it is impossible for the capital to treat it badly, there must be a lot of incense money in hand, maybe there will be gold By money."

"My lord listens to your words, could it be that you want to..."

Shen Mu smiled and took out a grain of rice from his pocket.

"Master, you said vitality rice, would they like it?"

"Of course." Cao Zhengxiang agreed: "The food and grass in the military camp are very important. They have a great demand for this stuff. No matter whether there is a war or not, they will store a lot of it. However, although this stuff is very good, I am afraid it will not be expensive. , and sir, can you have that much quantity?"

Shen Mu shook his head, and handed the rice grains in his hand to Cao Zhengxiang.

"The amount may not be large, but what if I say that the vitality contained in my vitality rice is twice that of ordinary rice?"

"double?"

Looking at the rice grains in his hand, Cao Zhengxiang gradually became surprised.

Although he could guess that this thing must be the seed given by Xin Fan before, but he had seen it at the time, and it was just an ordinary thing in the world.

Could it be that even this can go against the heavens and grow double?

Cao Zhengxiang was surprised, but more of a surprise and exclamation.

As expected of the man he fancied, awesome!

After a long time.

The two looked at each other and smiled without saying a word.

...

...

After tidying up everything, Shen Mu and Cao Zhengxiang went back to rest.

The next day.

Shen Mu got up early, and originally decided to take Gu Shouzhi to the ancestral hall, and then roughly study how to build the academy structure.

But still go out.

A burst of red drums broke Chen Jing...

(End of this chapter)