Chapter 24: Treasure Money
Little milk sound! It's so cute that people's hearts are about to melt!
Zhang Zhaohua has no resistance to this kind of voice, in her last life, she especially liked a singer with a small milk voice, and in this life, she dressed as a child, but she couldn't make such a children's voice, and the other children she had seen had their voices that couldn't meet her requirements. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Zhang Zhaohua stretched his neck to see which child sent it.
"Second brother," this is what the child who eats Xiangsven said, "it's a female doll, don't scare her." ”
This is an ordinary voice, it seems that the one who can make a small milk sound is the child who cuts meat with a dagger and eats it, it seems that these two dolls are brothers. Zhang Zhaohua doesn't seem to see any similarities between these two dolls, and he doesn't seem to see any dissimilarities - because these two dolls are round, with palm-sized small faces like dough, and their facial features are round no matter how you look at them, but there is a clear difference, the big one has faint eyebrows, and the small one has thick eyebrows.
"What's your name?" asked her with a smile, "What about your family, why are you walking on the road alone?"
Five steps away, Zhang Zhaohua replied: "I am the granddaughter of the local grain chief's family," but avoided answering the question of walking alone, and only asked: "Who are you?"
Seeing Zhang Zhaohua's clear words, the two of them were really a little interested, and said, "We are passing by." ”
Seeing that Zhang Zhaohua had been staring at the pork in their hands, "Do you want to eat it?" The little child picked a slice with a dagger and said, "Come and get it yourself." ”
The guards around him looked at each other with a smile, but they didn't stop or laugh.
Zhang Zhaohua walked over slowly, stood still and suddenly said, "Is this meat delicious?"
The two children didn't seem to hear clearly, and asked at the same time, "What are you talking about?"
"I'm asking you," Zhang Zhaohua said, "Isn't the taste of this stolen meat particularly fragrant?"
Zhang Zhaohua also hesitated for a long time before asking, she intuitively felt that these people in front of her were not strongmen, and she was sure that the identities of these two children were extraordinary, and it was precisely because they didn't look like people who lacked meat to eat that Zhang Zhaohua dared to ask - there is a saying that stolen things are delicious, and these two melon children are afraid that they enjoy the fun of stealing meat more.
"Zhangjia Village is a small place, and today's drinking ceremony in this township is the first time that the villagers have performed such a major ceremony since they settled down," Zhang Zhaohua tilted his head and said: "But I accidentally lost the most important sacrifice, I don't know how many people will be punished, but the culprits are at ease, as if they don't know anything, and enjoy their sacrifices in a big way." ”
The two children who said these words completely forgot to chew, and even the guards on the side showed surprised looks.
"What, am I wrong?" asked Zhang Zhaohua, tilting his head.
The air seemed to freeze, but it was soon broken by a high-pitched laugh from the carriage behind the tree: "What a cleverness!
Zhang Zhaohua looked up and saw a person jumping out of the car, shaking his hand and laughing.
This person is about 20 years old, with a high nose and starry eyes, he is a very temperamental man, and he looks like he is pampered, but Zhang Zhaohua found that his skin and skin tone are uneven, one is black and one is yellow, and there are even calluses on his hands from farm work.
What kind of reason is this, before Zhang Zhaohua could figure it out, he saw that the two male babies called "uncle" affectionately, and the man answered, "Gao Xu, what she said is true, you really stole the meat and came back?"
"Uncle, I really don't know about the village drinking ceremony," the boy called "Gao Xu" put down his dagger, flicked his oily hands and said, "It's only because that family has a happy event, so he went into the stove to get food out." Moreover, when I went in, the woman who was on guard did not come up to stop me, so I said that I was taken by others. ”
Zhang Zhaohua nodded and said: "Because the governor of the state and county is here, the cook woman thinks that you are the little son of the official family when she sees you, so she doesn't dare to stop it." ”
"I see!" the man laughed, "but it was a misunderstanding." ”
"Gao Chi, Gao Xu, you have eaten and used other people's meat, and you can't make other people's wine ceremony," the man said, "Now that you have been approached by the master's family, how are you doing?"
The older boy, who was called Gao Chi, took a few pieces of paper as thin as a cicada's wings from the guard behind him, handed them over, and said, "This is ten pieces of treasure money, which is worth the meat money." ”
Zhang Zhaohua looked at the dragon pattern on the paper in front of him in surprise, he really didn't expect this.
"I haven't seen this thing, I've only seen copper coins," Zhang Zhaohua said cautiously: "You guys are not lying to me." ”
"The law of the country is parallel to money, and silver is forbidden," the man said, "You can't see it in the countryside, but you will know it when you go to the county seat." ”
Zhang Zhaohua took the letter and looked at it suspiciously, and asked, "How much silver and copper can this thing be exchanged for?"
"Doll cautious," the man looked at her meaningfully, and said, "Daming treasure money cannot be exchanged for silver, and can only be exchanged for gold and silver with the government, but the government does not use gold and silver to exchange treasure money with the people." ”
What are you kidding, where is there such a cheating monetary policy, Zhang Zhaohua saw the determined look of the man opposite, and was convinced that what he said was true - the rule is that it will not be exchanged!
I'll go, Zhang Zhaohua said in his heart, just now I thought that Zhu Yuanzhang was not without economic acumen, and he would issue treasure money, and he also knew that silver should be banned from circulating at the same time as issuing treasure money -- because when silver and treasure money compete in currency, silver has an overwhelming monetary advantage. In addition to being more inconvenient to carry, silver is more reliable than treasure money, whether as a means of payment, a unit of denomination, or a treasure of value.
But after she heard about this non-exchange policy, she completely overturned her judgment that Zhu Yuanzhang was economically minded.
Why not exchange, the reason can be understood, because the precious gold and silver must be under the control of the government, because to relieve the financial pressure, after all, there is still the army of the Northern Yuan on the border, after all, the south is not very stable - but the biggest problem is that the people do not understand why they are not exchanged, that is, because they cannot exchange stable gold and silver, the people of the Ming Dynasty are suspicious of the value of the Ming treasure banknotes.
Treasure money has effectively become non-exchangeable banknotes. Zhang Zhaohua was thinking about it quickly, and he didn't know how many years had passed since this kind of treasure money was issued--If at the beginning, the government could still rely on state power to issue such non-convertible banknotes, but if it encountered inflation, the country's credit would be completely bankrupt, because the banknotes would depreciate irrepressibly, what should the government do? When the banknotes depreciate, they agreed to exchange them? This in itself has a great deal of arbitrariness.
Moreover, Zhang Zhaohua instinctively felt that a person like Zhu Yuanzhang, who had climbed up from the bottom of society, naturally valued money and took it from the people, but after seeing the real money, would he return the money - of course it is impossible.
This will be destined to encounter the second problem in the issuance of treasure banknotes in the Ming Dynasty, the problem that the treasure banknotes are only issued and not returned.
Only new banknotes are issued, but the old banknotes are not returned, and money is only collected from the people, but the real money and silver that are circled back are not circulated in the market -- what is this, isn't this just the indiscriminate issuance of paper money, and what is the difference between the treasure money in the hands of the common people and a piece of paper?
Zhang Zhaohua has foreseen the fate of the Daming treasure banknote, which will depreciate and then perish over time.