"The first batch of copper bills is planned to be issued at a total price of 100 million taels, which will be put into the provinces in no less than three times depending on the situation, and the official ingots currently have 80 million taels of silver as the central bank's reserves, and about 5 million taels of copper, gold and pure gold exchanged from southwest and Southeast Asia, and on the whole, the central reserves are sufficient."

At the end of August, Xia Yuanji, the head of the household department, informed Zhu Yunwen and the cabinet of the upcoming bank plan at the small court meeting.

may also be accustomed to living a prosperous life for so many years, and the 100 million taels that Xia Yuanji came with when he opened his mouth did not scare everyone in the palace at all, and everyone even felt that 100 million taels did not seem to be much.

After all, the total value of this copper ticket is as high as 100 million taels, and the cost alone is about 12 million taels, although it is 6 million less than planned, but it can be regarded as a lot of expenses.

"It's small, it's small."

Zhu Yunwen, who had been listening silently, said: "This year's tax silver has not been confiscated, and the central government has 80 million taels of reserve silver, plus the equivalent of more than 50 million taels of gold, and only 100 million taels of copper tickets are printed, which is really too conservative." ”

100 million taels sounds a lot at first glance, but after careful calculation, it is evenly distributed to the heads of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and one person is only one or two pieces of silver.

How long can a copper ticket of more than 1,000 yuan be used in daily life and how many things can be bought?

Seeing that Zhu Yunwen was a little dissatisfied with this number, Xia Yuanji also sat down honestly, he just said the plan of the household department, as for what the emperor had other ideas, it was not his responsibility.

"Has the Ministry of Taxation done a calculation this year, and how much this year's annual income can reach?"

When he said this, Zhu Yunwen looked at Yu Xin, who had been a lot haggard recently, and knew that he would retire from the second line next year, and his spirit was much worse.

His biggest regret may be that he can't take down the word temporary on his head before Zhishi.

"According to the Ministry of Taxation's estimate, it is about 18 million taels."

The end year of the five-year plan is 10 years of Jianwen, and the plan target is 116 million taels, but now it is only eight years after Jianwen, and the estimates made by the Ministry of Taxation have approached this figure, which shows that when the plan was formulated, Zhu Yunwen still underestimated the wisdom and ability of the Ming bureaucracy.

"In addition to the reserves of gold and silver, there has been no war in recent years, and the official warehouses of the provinces are basically full, and grain can also be used as part of the reserves to give banks money printing support."

As long as the central grain reserves are sufficient, there will be no inflation in the current era, after all, it is closely related to the lives of the common people, and in the Ming Dynasty in the fifteenth century, in the end, there were still two major pieces of grain and clothing.

Eating and cloning is a prosperous age.

"Since the support is enough, let's print it."

Zhu Yun shook his head and gave instructions: "The first batch of 100 million taels will not be moved, and it will be put directly into it, and then 200 million yuan will be printed and invested in batches within a year." ”

If the 300 million cash is thrown down, the domestic market of Daming will be hot.

"It is not only possible to digest our domestic market, but also to order all coastal transshipment envoys, and after the bank is opened, foreign merchants must open accounts with the bank in exchange for our Ming Dynasty's official ingots and copper bills for commercial activities, residence, and consumption."

If a country wants to become a hegemon, it is absolutely impossible to be limited to military strength alone, and controlling the economic system is also one of the important means.

During the reign of John Bull, the world followed the pound sterling standard, and after World War II, the United States became a great power alongside the Soviet Union, but because of its behavior of buying and selling in the two world wars and making war money, it became the creditor of the vast majority of European countries, and successfully made the dollar replace the British pound, and the dollar standard became the world's main economic currency.

laid the foundation for the United States to become the world's sole superpower.

At present, Zhu Yunwen has to do a good job of laying the foundation in the early stage for the establishment of the Ming currency standard.

At present, the process is not skilled enough, and the copper ticket can only be printed and distributed to use first, and then the process anti-counterfeiting technology will progress in the future, then Huayuan will inevitably be born (it is too ugly to name it after the name of Ming, Ming coin...... Then, the countries radiated by the Ming power will be included in the Ming Empire system by Zhu Yunwen, using low-cost Chinese dollar banknotes to grab gold and silver from other countries through trade surpluses.

When he is in a bad mood, the central bank only needs to print 120 billion banknotes, and the economies of all countries except for the Ming Dynasty will collapse directly.

Although the country's economy will also suffer, it doesn't matter, as long as there is enough gold and silver in the central reserve, the imperial court can completely bear it, and the inflation of prices will be paid by the state to stabilize it, even if it doubles, it can be carried over.

But other countries will be full of anti-people, and the country will be ruined.

"There are banks in all provinces, and basically the chambers of commerce in various provinces have set up their own businesses, and when they open banks, it is necessary to completely abolish these money banks established by non-governmental organizations."

Don't look at the ancient times, the people of the Ming Dynasty also have usury, in the early years of the fight against the underworld and evil, the provinces to clean up the green hooligans, most of them were employed by these chambers of commerce, and their duty was to be responsible for the accounts.

The money bank itself rarely undertakes the savings business, and they prefer to lend or offset, because only these two businesses can make quick money.

"The people only keep the pawn shop business, and all the money banks that undertake the lending business are all banned, and the merchants of the provinces who want to trade and do not want to take a few large carts of cash all over the world can deposit the silver in the local bank and exchange it directly in other provinces with their savings certificates."

Since the imperial court is ready to come forward to establish a bank, the private money banks that overlap with the banking business will inevitably be banned, and the emperor has never been polite in grasping the centralization of power.

"If you issue 300 million, then there will be a lot of money left in the treasury this year."

As soon as Zhu Yunwen said this, several people in the hall laughed in understanding, and Zhu Di's expression became a lot more excited.

What's the most money-burning thing?

Of course it's a war!

As soon as the cannon sounded, there were ten thousand taels of silver.

If there is no war, the hundreds of cannons produced by the Firearms Bureau in the past few years and the shells that fill several warehouses will be useless.

"The minister has been an official for so many years, and he has read the history books for so many years, and the ancients often said that the soldier is the murderer of the country, and he cannot act without permission.

And right now, I, Daming, have to fight in order to go to stock, it's really impressive, I don't know what to say. ”

As soon as Xia Yuanji opened his mouth, it caused laughter, and several people echoed it, after all, all dynasties and dynasties have tightened their belts when they fought wars, and no one was willing to start a war until they were forced to do so.

The current Daming is good, there is so much money that I don't know where to spend it, but I take the initiative to find a way to burn money.

"Fighting a war is not a bad thing, it is nothing more than spending money from the treasury into personal hands."

Zhu Yunwen calculated an account for the cabinet: "As soon as the war starts, the transportation of materials needs a large number of people, and the people will have to pay their wages, and it is about to enter winter, and the people have no farm work to do, so they are just recruiting to earn some money for the New Year."

Yu Hengsi's manufacture of knives and the manufacture of artillery by the Firearms Bureau require the purchase of pig iron from the private sector for smelting, which is another expense to stimulate the private economy.

If you fight a war, you will have military rewards and pensions, and this money will also be spent on the soldiers and soldiers, and if you calculate it left and right, isn't the country's money still in our country? ”

Fighting wars to stimulate domestic economic prosperity is typical of the aggressive thinking of the bourgeoisie and arms dealers.

"If the money is thrown in the treasury and it can't be spawned, then spend it, as long as you can win the war, then the money can be plundered and then taken back, and the treasury has no loss, and the people have become richer, killing two birds with one stone, isn't it."

Everyone had to admit the correctness of the emperor's statement, but the precondition for this matter was also very important, that is, to win the battle.

If you have a big defeat, it will be nerve-wracking.

"In our country's budget this year, the proportion of military spending has increased from nearly 50% in the first year of Jianwen to less than 20% now, which shows that our Ming Dynasty has been peaceful for a while."

Zhu Yunwen laughed as he spoke, but he was not happy about the low proportion of military spending, this **** idea is too serious.

"What Your Majesty said is not unreasonable, since you are determined to issue 300 million, so much money does not need to go out, there is no point in establishing a bank."

As the chief of the General Staff, Zhu Di was the first to express support in this matter, he was about to stay in Nanjing until his body was rusty, although the peaceful and prosperous world was gratifying, but his temperament was not liked.

"But, where to hit?"

Looking around Da Ming, there were no more enemies.

"Either we will fight the northwest and destroy Chagatai. Either continue to support the opening up of the southwest battlefield, strive to destroy North Delhi as soon as possible, and then take him 1.8 million slaves back to build roads and build cities, or cross the sea to the east to fight the Japanese state. ”

Northwest, southwest, and due east, the three battlefields, it depends on how to choose.

"There is a saying that war serves politics and politics serves the overall situation, and among the three battlefields, only the opening up of the southwest battlefield is the most suitable for this precondition."

It was not Zhu Yunwen who said this, but Yan Zhenzhi, which made Zhu Yunwen stunned.

Unexpectedly, after so many years, these early pedantic ministers also developed a wolf-like view of the overall situation, and they could even say such a level of words.

The original of this statement seems to be such an emperor himself.

It seems that Ping Suli has read "Quotations of Emperor Jianwen" and learned the spirit of the speech.

"Now that the opponent has been chosen, then all departments should start preparing and fully cooperate with the General Staff Office to formulate operational plans and serve logistics."

Seeing that everyone had no objections, Zhu Yunwen decisively ordered: "The Ministry of Industry will send out 100 sea ships, escorted by the Fujian and Zhejiang naval divisions, and land and unload 200 cannons, 200 giant arquebuses, and enough artillery shells and pellets from Jiaozhi Haiphong Port by sea.

He ordered the commander of Yunnan to make Ma Dajun the commander, and immediately organized the six southwestern countries to form the second seven-nation alliance army on the day of receiving the order, and the whole army of 200,000 went to the front line to prepare for war.

Siam and Phnom Penh were ordered to raise military rations to finance their armies, one of which should be spent to be compensated after the war.

The arsenal counted enough weapons and armor for the 200,000 troops to be used, and was immediately shipped by sea. ”

Two hundred cannons, two hundred giant arquebuses, and 200,000 elite soldiers in fine standard armor.

In this time and space, this is a formidable military force that no country is capable of resisting.

Everyone in the temple has already focused on how many results can be achieved, rather than how to fight this battle and whether it can be won.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there has been no defeat!