Chapter 161 The People's Discussion I
The organization of the Yuan Bumin has nothing to do with the so-called form of democracy, but is only a tool used by the head of the Han Ministry to control the Han Ministry. As it turned out, the organization's control was not only effective, but even exceeded Yang Yingqi's expectations. Because this organization is composed of elite figures in the ministry (or recruited because of loyalty, or absorbed because of virtue, or absorbed because of ability, or absorbed because of contribution, or for several reasons), especially the people who entered in the later period, almost all of them have considerable talent and culture, so they can not only more effectively implement the policy of the Han Ministry that is beneficial to themselves and the Han Ministry as a whole, but also can often take the initiative and actively play a constructive role in various fields. Compared with non-Yuan people, the Yuan people have no legal privileges and cannot be hereditary, but in specific affairs, they have become the actual controllers of various fields within the Han Dynasty because they can help each other!
However, in terms of major decisions, the Yuan Minmin Conference has always been only a ceremony used by the head of the Han Ministry to win over the elites in the Ministry, and its symbolic significance for voting on important decisions is far greater than the practical significance. But even so, the majority of the Yuan people were already very satisfied, because they did not even have this kind of "glory" under other regimes!
This time, after differences of opinion, the high-level leaders of the Han Ministry used this Yuan Ministry's meeting as a means to resolve contradictions, which was the first time in history.
The Han Department follows the principle of taking from a variety of ways: there are examinations, promotions, recruitment, and elections. The talents who have been included in the Yuan Bumin are also available in various fields. Geographically, Jinmen is of course the most important area, followed by Liaokou, followed by Daiyu, followed by Yongning, Dongjin, Tanggu, Dainan and Mayi.
In terms of composition, soldiers, scribes and merchants are the three most important forces, and the strength of the warriors has been in a position of supremacy in the past few years, and the scribe group only caught up after the Song scholars joined the group. Since the efficiency of the civil official group is relatively high at the moment, and they can usually fully cooperate with the military operations of the military group, the military personnel are quite satisfied with the performance of the civilian officials; In the scribe group, because several leaders have a pioneering and enterprising martial spirit, and the authority of the warriors is constrained by a relatively complete system, the scribes do not have an excessive evil feeling towards the warriors. In addition, the existence of a number of leaders of Yunwen and Yunwu in the high-level of the Han Dynasty, such as Cao Guangbi and Yang Kaiyuan, is also an important reason why the two major groups of civil and military forces did not reveal obvious contradictions. It can be said that now is the honeymoon period between the literati and the warriors of the Han Dynasty.
In addition to the civil and military forces, the strength of the merchant groups should not be underestimated, but until now they have only cautiously followed behind the two major civil and military groups, flattering, promoting, and infiltrating, but they have not yet had the courage to directly surface to ask about the overall military and political situation. But out of their natural pursuit of power and wealth, they still seem to be very active!
The number of people attending the meeting was as high as 300, and 39 were pure businessmen. The leaders of some important families such as Lin Ling, Zhao Lumin, and Liu Jie all came, and in addition, Chen Fengshan of Fujian, Ouyang Ji of Liuqiu, Li Xianglong of Goryeo, and Ayimusi of Dongjin also appeared, and the new families of the Wenzhou faction took the opportunity to run around to make friends. After obtaining Yang Yingqi's consent, these business leaders held a summit in the Jinmen Chamber of Commerce Hall, and the more than thirty people who could enter this room were all extremely rich, Zhao Lumin, the president of the Jinmen Chamber of Commerce, personally presided over it, Ouyang Ji sat in the chief, but the most eye-catching person in the audience was Lin Ling.
Lin Dangjia was still dressed in men's clothes, but there was no makeup to hide her face, and all the old foxes present could see that she was a woman, but no one dared to say it.
The first thing we discussed at this merchant summit was about the minting and circulation of new money! In this era, the Song coins minted by the Great Song Dynasty could not only pass through Japan, Goryeo, Daliao, Jurchen, Western Xia and Nanyang, but were even bought and sold as commodities! However, due to the lack of copper in the territory and the defects in the monetary policy of the Song Dynasty, Song money has been in a very tight state. Yang Yingqi's plan to make money by the Han Ministry has been planned for a long time, but he has been plagued by two problems: one is the problem of copper source, and the other is that he is afraid that he will be accused by Huining. However, the smooth circulation of money is an important prerequisite for the great development of the commodity economy, and the scale of trade in the East China Sea Economic Circle can neither be solved by bartering, nor can it be satisfied by the amount of Song money flowing into the East China Sea. Therefore, in addition to precious metals, the circulation of some bulk goods in the past mainly relied on a kind of "credit exchange" as a supplement.
What is this credit jiaozi? Originally, the minerals of Anpo went south to Liaokou and then transported to Jinmen, and one production and one sale required a large amount of money flow, and within a few months, the supply of currency in southern Liaoning was in short supply. So Yang Yingqi came up with a way to cooperate with several merchants to issue some credit payments with a quota as proof of their transactions, and the merchants who took over the transportation could take these credit payments to a special department of the Han Ministry at any time to cash out the equivalent value of goods. At the beginning, there were merchants who came every month to cash out the credit into goods and take them away, especially some small businessmen, who can rest assured that they were holding a white slip that was nothing? But slowly the credit of this Jiaozi was established, and many people were not in a hurry after getting it, because of the ease of use, and finally all the trade routes from Anpo to Jinmen were directly traded with this kind of credit Jiaozi. After the Han Ministry legislated and agreed to pay taxes on this kind of credit payment for civil use, the use of credit payment has become more and more extensive, and now in Tianjin and even in the flow of commerce, credit payment as currency has occupied a considerable share.
However, many merchants are still skeptical about the use of credit Jiaozi - paper money is not unused, but in the end most of them become worthless because of credit collapse! With this lesson from the past, they dare not be cautious. Fortunately, the Han Ministry has such a mechanism as the Yuan Minmin Conference, and they will make their voices heard through this mechanism, hoping that the Han Ministry will quickly mint new money. They couldn't solve the political problem of "Tan Yue", but Tongyuan had already helped the Han Department think of two places: one in Japan and the other in Mayi.
Chen Fengshan, who has the strongest power in Mayi, is the most enthusiastic about this matter! The copper mines in various parts of the South Seas were already under his control, and as long as the Han Ministry was determined to mint money, his Chen family might be able to shine in this matter!
Lin Ling was not very enthusiastic about minting money. At present, the business of Credit Jiaozi is half public and half private, and she has a share of the Lin family in the private shares! She intuitively thought that this business was promising, and even came up with the idea of making it the main business of the Lin family. So when others praised Chen Fengshan's proposal, Lin Ling didn't say no.
Although Chen Fengshan is Lin Ling's hometown, he looks down on women in his bones, and after knowing Lin Ling's gender, he maliciously speculated that the reason why the Lin family can achieve this point today is completely because Lin Ling betrayed his hue! In fact, there are many merchants in the East China Sea who secretly think about this! But despite this, he still didn't dare to underestimate Lin Ling's influence, and when he saw her react like this, he asked: "Does Master Lin think that Chen's ideas are inappropriate?" ”
Lin Ling smiled: "Don't dare!" Uncle Chen's idea is naturally very good. But ......"
"But what!"
Lin Ling said: "But looking at the scale and timing of this Yuan Minmin Conference, I am afraid that it will be different from the previous sessions." Therefore, the focus of the discussion will also be tilted. ”
This sentence made the more than 30 men present raise their hearts, and Zhao Lumin asked cautiously: "What did Lin Dangjia hear?" He really asked the hearts of everyone at the scene! Especially the word "wind" is wonderful, what they care about is not Lin Ling's "idea", but the "wind" released by Yang Yingqi!
Lin Ling smiled and said, "I didn't hear anything about the unique wind. However, looking at the current situation, there is naturally a little association. What she said was actually the truth, but no one at the scene believed it!
Zhao Lumin hurriedly said: "The so-called situation of the Lin family refers to ......"
Lin Ling said: "Last year, the 'Southern Tour' of the Lord of the Jin Kingdom was abandoned halfway, the trade route in southern Liaoning was cut off for more than a month, and Liaokou City was burned down again - these three things, you won't know about them, right?" Or do you think it's over and you don't have to worry about it anymore? ”
As soon as these words came out, the audience was full of awe.
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