"The emperors and governments of the British Empire, starting with its founder Li Lu, have all occupied the blood of our ancestors of Teotihuacan and other Indians with their hands, and Ossinette has given up thousands of years of gold and silver accumulated under the blackmail of the British Empire's great executioner Ho Jin and his good nephew, Li Song, the king of Qi, and also provided the gold and silver deposits of Teotihuacan.It was the British Empire, relying on the gold and silver looted from our ancestors, that established the gold standard, and embarked on the road of frenzied plundering abroad and oppressing minorities internally.This first dynasty in history was not as glorious as it was packaged by their royal literati, but was full of all kinds of dirty, ugly, and rancid .....
In short, since the fall of Teotihuacan, the entire American continent has trembled under the iron hooves of the British Empire, and the Indians have groaned under the rule of the British Empire. ”This is 300 years later, a historian of Indian descent who is hiding in Malawi, the continent of Aphilica, commented on Li Lu and his British Empire in his "History of the Rise and Fall of the Indians", which really fulfills that sentence: History is always written by someone, and the key depends on what the guy who wrote history is!
After the British captured the city of Teotihuacan and cleaned up the resistance of the Teotihuacans, they immediately plundered the city with a population of nearly 200,000, and the famous Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon, as well as the gold and silver treasures of the Temple of Kukulcan and the extravagant Butterfly Palace, were systematically looted by the British army, and the gold and silver were melted down and made into gold and silver ingots, and then shipped back to the British mainland.After the fall of Teotihuacan, Li Song drove all the Teotihuacans out of Teotihuacan City, in the cry of these natives, a fire burned the magnificent Teotihuacan City, and the Teotihuacan City, which has become a ruin, is designated as a military restricted area, all Indians can not approach this ruined city, in fact, this is the regular operation after the British army occupies the new territory, do not destroy its society, burn its temple, move its heavy weapons, how to make those foreign people forget the previous dynasty, obediently accept British rule?
After burning down Teotihuacan City, Li Song set the new Linzi City, the royal capital of his Qi Kingdom, on the shore of Xinying Lake (that is, Texcoco Lake, which has dried up and disappeared in later generations, Li Song named this lake Xinying Lake, mainly to flatter his daughter Li Xin and wife Cui Ying) 80 miles southwest of Teotihuacan City.The reason why Li Song wants to set his royal capital here, in addition to the meaning of deterring the people of Teotihuacan who have just conquered, there is also a very interesting point, Li Song is a devout Taoist, before attacking Teotihuacan City, when passing by, Li Song saw a strange scene, he saw an eagle with a snake resting on the cactus on the island in the lake, he immediately remembered that Li Lu told him that he saw an eagle with a snake in his mouth resting on the cactus The place where the king capital is located, At that time, he made a decision to build his own new Linzi City here.Because the water level of Xinying Lake is shallow, there is often a threat of flooding during the rainy season, so the builders of the city built a dam more than ten kilometers long in the lake to resist flooding and adjust the salinity of the water to ensure the normal growth of crops.The rivers of the new Linzi meet and intersect, and boats carry goods through them.There are also three stone causeways leading to the lakeshore, and suspension bridges are erected at intervals to control access.The British Han Chinese who followed Li Song and the attached Indians built artificial lakes on the periphery of the capital, and planted grain and vegetables on them to supply the city.The fresh water used in the city is drawn from the spring on the opposite bank of the Xuannu Mountain (that is, Chapultepec Mountain), and the stone canal that diverts the water adopts a two-channel design to ensure a continuous water supply, and the fresh water enters the city and is stored in large and small ponds and sent to the homes of city residents with copper pipes.From the day of the founding of the city, the appearance of the new Linzi city is on par with the imperial capital broken leaves, they attach great importance to cleanliness and hygiene, the whole city is in order, and the Baiyun Temple, a landmark building located in the center, is spotless.After stabilizing the situation, Li Song and He Jin immediately took Xinlinzi as a base and expanded around, and in the days of their expansion, countless indigenous Indians, because of their resistance to British colonial rule, either lost their lives, or were captured and became miserable mining slaves, and in Akani's "History of the Rise and Fall of the Indians", this bloody period is called the "Bloody Age".Most of the Indian prisoners of war who refused to give in were forced by the British army to go down the mine with knives and guns to dig gold ore and silver ore for the Han masters, because the safety factor of these mines is extremely low and very low, so the death and injury rate of these mine slaves is called a high, but even if these mine slaves die more, the Han men don't care, because the dead are not their own people, what can they do?
It's a big deal to catch a few more disobedient barbarians.In the Teotihuacan War, the British army under the leadership of Ho Jin, had a huge harvest, when the huge wealth arrived at the port of Tianzhu, so that Li Lu was not happy, after harvesting such a large amount of ill-gotten gains, he was finally able to operate on the financial system of the British Empire, that is, to fully establish a financial system with the gold standard as the core.......
Speaking of this gold standard, in real history, it is a pity that China has never practiced it, and the value and charm of gold are almost as breathtaking as its dazzling light.In the 6th century B.C., the Persians created probably the oldest gold coin in human history and named it after King Darius; In 250 BC, the Romans began to produce gold coins, which circulated throughout Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia with the conquests of the Empire; In the middle of the 13th century, King Saint Louis of France and King Henry III of England minted the sovereign currencies "Gold Eju" and "Golden Penny", which represented the dignity of the country, almost simultaneously; At the end of the 18th century, the United States and France established the gold and silver double standard; In 1816, Britain promulgated the "Gold Standard Act", which contained 123.27 grains of pure gold per pound gold coin (1 grain = 64.8 milligrams), that is, nearly 8 grams of gold per "gold pound"; In 1873, the United States adopted a de facto gold standard, with 1.67 grams of gold per "gold dollar".But in China, gold has never really become a currency, nor has it achieved the status of the currency standard.Generally speaking, precious metals have three major functions, bookkeeping, medium of exchange and value reserves, and it is surprising that gold has only played the last role in the long history of 5,000 years.Is it the lack of gold in China?
It is not correct to say that the detailed, credible and continuous historical record of China began in the Western Han Dynasty.The first thing that surprised us was that in the Western Han Dynasty, the Chinese ancestors used gold as a means of payment and transaction, and the value was clear; At that time, the emperor rewarded his ministers with more gold, and if the ministers committed a crime, they could use it to atone for their sins.For example, during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in the battle against the Xiongnu, the famous general Li Guang was unlucky and encountered the main force of the Xiongnu.In the end, Wei Qing felt that his big victory was also related to Li Guang, so he couldn't help Li Guang pay a hundred taels of gold and atone for Li Guang.However, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the circulation of gold recorded by official documents was greatly reduced, the emperor's rewards were few, and the people were also few, and in other words, gold as a means of payment was forever withdrawn from the trading market.What's going on?
Some financial history experts speculate that it may be that Buddhism in the Eastern Han Dynasty gradually flourished, and a large amount of gold was used to decorate Buddha statues or copy scriptures, while others say that it may be that overseas trade flourished at this time, which caused a large amount of gold to flow out to the West, and a large amount of gold was brought into the underground world by the emperors and nobles as burials, of course, these statements are very reasonable.But the most direct reason is that "silk", that is, silk, has steadily become a means of large-value payment.The great poet Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty wrote at the end of his famous work "The Charcoal Seller": "Half a horse of red silk and one zhang of silk are tied to the head of the ox to fill it with charcoal. ”Some people once thought that the old man who burned charcoal was hungry and cold, and gave him these silk satins, which could neither keep out the cold nor satisfy hunger, so what was the use?
In fact, according to the records from the Book of Han to the Book of Wei and even the Six Classics of the Tang Dynasty, from the Han to the Tang Dynasty for a thousand years, silk and silk were currency, not simple commodities.The so-called "gold and silver are treasures, money and silk are goods", at this time the most important function of gold and silver is value storage, that is, "treasure", and the most important function of copper money and silk is the circulation of currency value, that is, "goods".