Xia Village, the junior mint, craftsmen are smelting copper ore to make the first batch of copper coins in Xia Village.

Xu Xiake discovered a fourth-level copper mine in the northern mountains. Xia Village dug a lot of copper ore for smelting vessels and copper coins.

The copper juice melted into liquid boils red and pours into the mould of sand to form a tree-shaped money embryo.

Then, other craftsmen took the money embryo, used utensils to polish and smooth the edges of the copper coins' hair, and cut them in the circumference direction.

"What we adopt is the method of turning sand and casting coins, which can be roughly divided into three steps: making models, casting and filing coins. It can cast dozens of copper coins at a time."

The craftsman introduced Zhang Hua the general process of casting copper coins, and the actual steps must be more detailed.

Zhang Hua took a finished copper coin, which was in the shape of a round sky and was engraved with the four words "Huaxia Tongbao".

Taking the name of Huaxia Tongbao, Zhang Hua has his own grand plan, which is to allow this kind of copper coins to circulate in this world and enhance the influence of Xiacun.

The population under Zhang Hua's rule reached 20,000, and bartering was inconvenient. The copper coins, silver and gold brought by each refugee came from different dynasties and had different weights. Therefore, Zhang Hua began to issue new copper coins in a unified manner and used Huaxia Tongbao to exchange for copper coins and silver from each dynasty to recycle the copper coins and silver from each dynasty to unify the currency.

"It is announced that in the future, Huaxia Tongbao will be used as official currency in the valley, and the village will pay Huaxia Tongbao as salary, military pay, wages, and pensions."

With Huaxia Tongbao, Zhang Hua has more room to perform, and he can absorb the resources and labor provided by the private sector as soon as possible to serve as an armed force.

The copper mine dug from Tongshan has also come into play.

In addition, fiscal policy has gradually become complicated.

Xia Village announced the release of Huaxia Tongyuan, and for a moment, each village was shocked.

The Chinese Tongyuan will replace copper coins from other dynasties and circulate in the valley.

In the future, if the number of commodities increases, maybe silver and gold dollars will be minted.

Most of the items in the valley can be self-sufficient. If the scarce salt and other materials can be purchased from forces outside the valley to form their own production system.

"Huaxia Tongbao? The quality is really good."

Zhang Shide escorted another 3,000 kilograms of salt to Dongguan for trading. He found that the copper coin "Huaxia Tongyuan" issued by Xiacun was of good quality, so he used some salt to exchange for a batch of Huaxia Tongyuan.

So, the Huaxia Tongyuan actually began to appear on the eastern plain.

This is one of the economic means Zhang Hua used to influence other forces.

As long as other forces recognize the "Huaxia Tongyuan", Zhang Hua can use the dug out copper ore to smel it into copper coins and then exchange it for various resources from other forces.

The influence of Huaxia Tongyuan spread to the eastern plains. Some refugees knew that the valley to the west was a paradise, so they flowed into the valley one after another.

After absorbing the 400 prisoners of Shi Village, Xia Village absorbed another group of refugees, increasing the population to 7,000 and the total population of the territory to 22,000.

At the entrance of Xiacun, refugees lined up in a queue and registered the village, and the village allocated farmland and residences.

The valleys are vast and sparsely populated, and there is no shortage of land, but what is lacking is population!

"Did you have an official position before? What are you doing?"

"Put it, herd cattle, guard the rice, rice fields."

"Since you can herd cattle, then go to the ranch on the south bank to be a cowherder."

The village official in Xiacun glanced at the ragged young man in front of him. Since this person was born in herding cattle, he was not a family and was not very erotic. Arranged to herd cattle at the Nanban Ranch, which was a suitable job.

"Thank you."

The young man, who was covered in dust, was already hungry. In addition to disappointment, he took over the arrangements of the village to go to herd cattle, fill his stomach, and survive in troubled times.

This seemingly ordinary and even a little clumsy boy settled down on the ranch south of Xia Village and did not attract anyone's attention.

Zhang Hua was busy planning the territory and had no time to explore the abilities of every villager.

Guo Shoujing proposed a water conservancy project called Xiaqu, which directed the rivers across the valley to various villages, irrigated farmland, and increased yield per mu.

Kuai Xiang started to build more residential houses and wooden houses for more people to live in.

Xia Village develops into a town and needs to build many buildings.

During this period, the Qihuo Army Fort selected those with military talent from the refugees and trained them to become Qihuo Army, with a team of 200 people.

The Qihuojun Dock Fort became the eastern fortress defending Xia Village. After Huang Taiji knew that Zhang Hua wanted to build a pass and dock fort at the entrance of the valley, he was silent for a long time.

There was never a single force in the Eastern Plain willing to attack Zhang Hua's valley. After all, the price paid was too high, and there were other forces around him eyeing him.

If you can't attack Xia Village, any force will be greatly damaged by its vitality and will be taken advantage of by other forces.

Liu Zhiyuan fled back to Shicun. Shi Jingtang abandoned Liu Zhiyuan. In order to appease other military generals and stabilize the morale of the army, he did not treat Liu Zhiyuan. However, the intrigue began to strife within Shicun and lost 700 soldiers. His vitality was severely damaged and he was unable to attack Xia Village again.

Except for the various forces on the plains that were still fighting, the valley was safe and sound for a short time.

Wang Feng, one of the leaders of the Green Forest Army, was ordered to lead a small team of Green Forest Army disguised as refugees and continued to explore upstream along the river.

The refugees who fled from the upper reaches told that there was a royal court established by the Huns upstream of the river, which enslaved tens of thousands of people. Therefore, Zhang Hua sent Wang Feng to investigate and sneaked into the Huns' territory.

Although Wang Feng is not a first-class general, he is very useful.

"The Huns are not good at it."

Wang Feng was ordered to investigate the reality of the Xiongnu Wang Court and be careful.

The Huns were the first unified nomadic regime in ancient North. They were active for hundreds of years and competed for hegemony with the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty also gave birth to famous generals such as Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, and Li Guang to fight against the Huns.

Wang Feng was a military general in the late Western Han Dynasty, so he naturally knew the horror of the Huns.

"The leader is the Hun cavalry!"

"Don't panic."

Wang Feng pretended to be a refugee and did not carry any weapons.

At the border between the sphere of influence of Lulin Village and the sphere of influence of the upstream Xiongnu, a team of ferocious Xiongnu cavalry appeared. The bright sabers refracted the dazzling sunshine, and one man and two horses came and went like the wind!

Wang Feng and his party were surrounded by the Hun cavalry and became prisoners of this Hun cavalry.

The Hun cavalry drove Wang Feng and his group of refugees back to Wang Ting.

By the river, there are many tents of the Huns, and a tall tent is located in the middle.

The Huns turned the upper river valley into their own pastures, and all the living refugees became slaves to the Huns, grazing, smelting iron and farming for them.

Since the number of Huns who traveled through this group was not too large, they had to select those with higher military power from the refugees to serve as servants.

Wang Feng was very powerful and was selected by a thousand-captain of the Huns and was assigned to the vassal army.

"There are insufficient farmland... These Huns enslaved all ethnic groups, but did not pay attention to military farming. Instead, they used most of the land to grazle. When the winter is cold, they will definitely lack food and grass..."

Wang Feng saw the dilemma of the Huns.
Chapter completed!