Chapter 716: The King is Yingming
According to Zhou Xu's current analysis, those with a loyalty of less than 70 will basically rebel if they say they want to.
However, this is in line with Li Bowen's current performance. As soon as Xianyang City fell and the news of Yan Sheng's death came out, he immediately came to show his kindness. This is enough to show that this person's temperament is not good. Maybe he's a loyal minister.
Fortunately, Zhou Xu has already thought about it.
People's hearts are complicated. To develop a country, we need too many people. We cannot expect everyone to be a loyal minister.
As a supreme ruler, what he needs to do is to put the right people in the right positions so that they can provide value to Dazhou.
Loyal people have a suitable position for loyal people, and those who are capable but not very loyal naturally also have a suitable position.
Take Li Bowen as an example. Don’t talk about friendship with this kind of person. Just treat him as a wage earner. You pay him and he does the work.
As long as he can always do a good job and satisfy you, you will always spend money to hire him. If one day the job fails, just ask him to pack up and get out.
When Zhou Xu was thinking this, he didn’t know that in such a blink of an eye, Li Bowen, who had already wiped out all his money, would lower his posture and be respectful as soon as he came up. He knelt down and saluted Zhou Xu.
"Little man Li Bowen, pay your respects to the king! Long live the king!"
Looking at Li Bowen's three shouts of long live, Zhou Xu sat on a grand master's chair with one hand and took advantage of it with one hand. He lifted his chin and looked at the other person with interest.
"Excuse me, I wonder why Prime Minister Li came here?"
After hearing this, Li Bowen stood up and was about to answer, but when the words came to his mouth, he seemed to realize something was wrong. He was shocked and immediately knelt back, knocking his forehead to the floor tiles.
"The king is joking. The tyrant Yan Sheng is dead. Now this Xianyang City is your territory. How can a villain be a prime minister? He is just a commoner."
After Li Bowen said these words, cold sweat had soaked his entire back. At the same time, the atmosphere fell into an eerie silence until Zhou Xu's laughter broke it.
“Hahahaha, Mr. Li can relax a little and don’t be so nervous.”
Li Bowen, who heard this, could only laugh dryly and even claimed that it was true, but he didn’t mean it at all. Dare to relax.
[This king of Zhou Dynasty is not a fuel-efficient lamp either! 】
“Then why did Mr. Li come here this time?”
Zhou Xu was already clear about Li Bowen's background. At this moment, he was not in much mood to compromise with the other party, so he immediately returned to the topic.
Facing this question again, Li Bowen simply stopped standing and just knelt down to answer.
"The villain abandoned the secret and turned to the light, and came here to join the king. He is willing to work hard for the king! If the king does not give up, the villain is willing to convince the old officials in the city to be loyal to the king!"
This answer was expected by Zhou Xu. The other party came over to show his kindness at this time, just to surrender.
However, while surrendering, Li Bowen did not forget to increase his own value, and revealed to him in disguise the fact that the officials in the city were following his lead.
Zhou Xu did not object to this, and directly gave the other party an approving look.
"It is really a blessing for the people of my great Zhou Dynasty to have Bo Wen help me. Come and give me a seat."
It is a gentle compliment, Zhou Xu doesn't mind saying a few more words, There is nothing to lose anyway.
During this period, Li Bowen looked ashamed and behaved very humbly.
If you hadn't figured out this person's temperament in advance, it would have been easy to be fooled by the other person's appearance.
From Prime Minister Li to Mr. Li, and then to Bowen, the change of title, coupled with the current offer of a seat, made Li Bowen feel greatly relieved.
In his opinion, this shows that he has initially passed the test. "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the seat!"
Kneeling on the floor tiles in this winter, my knees really hurt a bit after kneeling for a long time. Now that he was granted the seat, he hurriedly crawled off the ground. got up.
After seeing Li Bowen take his seat, Zhou Xu spoke up again.
"Now that Bowen has surrendered to me, I happen to have something here that I would like to discuss with Bowen."
"Please tell me, the king. The villain will do his best to solve the problem for the king."
After hearing this, Zhou Xu made an expression of satisfaction with him and then started talking.
"Actually, it is not a complicated matter. Now that I, the Great Zhou Dynasty, have annexed the land of the tyrant Yan Sheng, the people of the two countries have merged into one country. In order to facilitate management, and also to consider the future development, here is Many things must be unified."
Li Bowen, who had just sat down at this moment, had not yet settled down. This topic made him tense up unconsciously. He vaguely felt something. Something bad is coming.
But he didn't dare to speak rashly. In the end, he bit the bullet and waited for Zhou Xu's next words.
When Zhou Xu saw this, he did not show any concern and directly made the matter clear.
“For example, coins.”
Li Bowen’s heart twitched when he heard those two words, and even the expression on his face changed because he couldn’t hold himself tight.
Zhou Xuchun pretended not to see this and continued to talk to himself.
"We all use silver taels here. It's a bit troublesome to calculate these few taels of money, so I plan to unify all the silver coins into coins."
"We in Dazhou are now The currency is mainly copper coins. The current denominations are determined to be one copper, five coppers and ten coppers. Now that gold and silver are available, I plan to make silver coins and gold coins according to this template."
"Silver coin denominations. , are also made into one silver, five silver and ten silver coins, and so on. "
"One hundred copper coins are equal to one silver coin, and one hundred silver coins are equal to one silver coin. Gold coins.”
“On this basis, I also plan to fix the prices of gold, silver and copper. Even if there is a need to adjust them later, the relevant departments will be fully responsible.”
Li Bowen was already sweating profusely when Zhou Xu said he wanted to unify the currency. Now that he said this, the blood drained from his face.
But Zhou Xu seemed not to notice, and continued talking...
"In other words, the copper used to cast one copper coin is worth one copper, and the value of one silver coin is The value of a silver coin is one silver. By analogy, what do you think of Bowen? "
At this moment, Li Bowen was sweating profusely. Faced with all the questions that had been asked to him, he was After hesitating again and again, he spoke cautiously...
"I'm afraid, the common people are used to using silver coins, and it will be difficult to promote this new coin."
Hearing this, Zhou Xu waved his hand.
"What's so difficult about this? At that time, multiple currency exchange counters will be set up in various cities, requiring all people to change. At the same time, it is explicitly prohibited to directly trade with gold and silver! Violators will be punished. What do you think, Bowen? "
In an instant, Li Bowen's face turned pale. He was not that sad when his father died.
Now facing Zhou Xu with burning eyes, Li Bowen could only force out a smile, his voice trembling slightly.
"The king is wise! The villain admires me!"
(End of this chapter)