Yang Bo didn't care so much about these Yangzhou salt merchants. In fact, he has already mastered the ability to support the new wealthy merchants, as long as he is willing, he can create a few Han San at any time to replace these old salt merchants, which is simply a snap of his fingers.

Of course, Yang Bo also knows that his teacher also has the ability to find a few good apprentices to replace him at any time, so he must be honest, only when he is a good baby can he eat candy, and it will be very miserable to play tricks with the teacher.

……

"Emperor, this is a silver dollar sent by the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau, please take a look."

Zhu Houxi took it in his hand, and frowned after just looking at it.

"What's going on? How is the front of the peony flower? It's fake, right? ”

Huang Jin hurriedly said: "Emperor, it's hard for the slave to say whether this is true or fake, after all, the silver is real, but it is not issued by the imperial court official silver number." ”

Zhu Houxi frowned, does anyone dare to argue with the court?

Soon Wang Yue was called.

"This one...... Your Majesty, this should be a private silver dollar issued by the gentry of Jiangnan united, with the purpose of fighting against the imperial court. ”

"They're bold!"

Zhu Houxi slapped the table and was furious, "Send someone over now and copy them all, Jinyiwei, Dongchang, or directly transfer troops?" ”

As soon as Zhu Houxi came up, he showed three knives.

Wang Yue said: "Your Majesty, this thing is really difficult to handle, I'm afraid I can't copy it directly?" ”

"Why? Is my will not working? ”

Wang Yue smiled helplessly, took out two things from his arms, and put them in front of Zhu Houxi, one was an ingot, and the other was a silver ticket.

Zhu Houxi took it in his hand, looked at it, thought for a while, and finally understood.

It turns out that the Ming Dynasty really has a blind spot in the issue of currency.

Take treasure money as an example, this thing must be issued by the imperial court, and anyone else who dares to print treasure money privately is definitely a dead end.

But the problem is that the imperial court has no regulations for gold and silver.

After all, they are all gold and silver bars, whether it is the court, the people, or even overseas, they are all the same flowers.

And some money bank ticket numbers are collateralized by their reputation and strength, and many silver tickets are issued.

So the question arises, what are these silver tickets?

Is it a banknote, or a bill?

Is it legal or not?

In fact, this fuzzy space is very large, not only silver tickets, but even some people mint copper coins privately.

Someone has to ask, does the imperial court have any attitude towards this kind of behavior?

I'm sorry, I really don't have any attitude, because the reason is also very simple, after all, I don't have much in private, if it is not enough, the casting process is not good, it will be eliminated directly, and no one wants to.

If it's worth it, so much the better.

After all, for a long time, the Central Plains Dynasty has been plagued by a shortage of money, and it is a great thing that someone increases the money supply! What's the time to restrict? It's too late for encouragement!

Take copper coins as an example, not all of them are minted in the Ming Dynasty, but there are many from the Yuan Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, and even the Tang Dynasty.

There are complicated rules for the exchange of silver of different colors, even copper coins, the same one or two silver, sometimes can be exchanged for 800 copper coins, sometimes can be exchanged for 1,000 two, the difference is in the quality of copper coins.

This kind of situation is simply unimaginable in the future era of a high degree of monetary unity.

Zhu Houxi muttered: "Now this group of families in Yingtian, in order to prevent the imperial court from holding the sole right to issue currency, will join forces to issue silver dollars and work against us. And this silver dollar, whether it is a silver ticket ingot, there is still room for ambiguity, I can't arrest people directly, right? ”

Wang Yue nodded again and again, "Your Majesty is really wise, and he made such a complicated matter clear at once......

"Complicated fart!"

Zhu Houxi was so angry that he cursed, "Wang Fugui, I will give an order now, and you will immediately deploy to arrest people...... The issuance of currency is the power of the imperial court, the power of me. Whoever dares to steal the imperial power, I will destroy his nine clans! ”

His Majesty the Emperor was murderous, and even Huang Jin spoke, "That's right, if Lord Wang is unwilling to do it, I am willing to go!" ”

Wang Yue couldn't cry or laugh, "Huang Jin, what are you doing with the blind coaxing!" ”

"It's not a blind coax, but it's angry! These things are just shameless. ”

Wang Yue took a deep breath, "Things can't be seen so simply...... Gold and silver are naturally currency, so His Majesty thinks that the right to issue currency belongs to the royal family, which is not correct. ”

Zhu Houxi rolled his eyelids and snorted coldly: "Wang Yue, what do you mean?" Could it be that you can't let me hand over power? ”

"No, no, no!" Wang Yue waved his hand, "Your Majesty has misunderstood, the minister means to find a way to consolidate the right to issue currency." ”

Zhu Houxi took a deep breath, "Okay, I won't talk nonsense, you just say it, what are you going to do?" ”

"That's right, with the currency that the imperial court can grasp now, it's really not enough to meet the needs of the people, so let them issue silver dollars, it's not impossible. It's just a little restrictive. ”

"What restrictions?" Zhu Houxi said curiously.

"Envy!"

Wang Yue spit out two words lightly.

……

As a gathering place for the Jiangnan family, the Wei Mansion is indeed a gathering of crowns. It stands to reason that the Xu family would not be so stupid, and they have to be this up-and-coming bird, but the problem is that they have been entrenched in Jiangnan for too long, and the implication is too deep.

What's more, the Xu family's wealth is also the most.

Abolish the two yuan. The impact on them is also the greatest.

Anyway, the imperial court does not object, then we will issue silver dollars ourselves, and it will be the turn of pure wealth competition, and the imperial court is really not necessarily their opponent.

And the issuance of silver dollars is also a profitable thing, so why not!

Therefore, with the Xu family behind the back, and several Jiangnan wealthy families in front, a new silver dollar quickly appeared in the southeast, which is the so-called "peony yuan".

This kind of silver dollar is patterned with peony, which means that the flowers bloom and become rich. It is also minted according to the proportion of silver dollars in the imperial court, seventy percent silver, and three percent copper.

And in order to win the trust of the people, they raised the ratio of silver to 75%, so that the fineness of the silver dollar would be better.

The seven great families initially mobilized as much as 10 million taels of silver.

They also have money bank ticket numbers all over various counties, as well as countless talents. Most importantly, they also control the commercial lifeblood of the southeast, and all kinds of transactions cannot be avoided from them.

Even if they take 10,000 steps back, they will mint silver dollars and trade them internally, and they will not lose money.

At least half of the imperial court silver dollar can be divided.

"Alas, to be a man, you must know how to cherish blessings. Especially if you can't be like Wang Yue, you can't kill everything and leave no way back, which will harm your descendants. ”

Xu Pengju, the contemporary Duke of Wei, said, shaking his fat body, holding the peony yuan in his hand, and smiling brightly.

"What's going on? Are all businessmen willing to accept it? ”

"Yes, why don't you want to!" The subordinates smiled and said: "Grandpa Guo, we are on the right step here, they all said that they would rather trust the merchant than the imperial court." The treasure money has come once, who can guarantee that the silver dollar will not come a second time? What if the imperial court changed to half silver and half copper? ”

Xu Pengju laughed, "Well said! If you can have this insight, it means that this person is capable of doing great things. By the way, who is he? I'd like to see you. ”

The steward smiled happily: "It's not your brother-in-law, how can your own family not be towards your own family!" ”

Xu Peng raised his eyes and rolled his eyes, and couldn't help but snort, "He, he will use my banner to deceive." However, he did a good job this time, so I asked him to come to the mansion, and I asked him something. ”

The steward smiled on his face and hurriedly agreed, he also lost that it was a favor, and the words would not be said in vain.

The next day, Xu Pengju received his brother-in-law in the garden.

said that he was a brother-in-law, but in fact he was just the elder brother of his concubine, and he couldn't be on the stage.

"How's it going, the silver dollar thing, it's not bad, right?"

When the brother-in-law heard this, he knelt down directly and cried: "Grandpa Guo, you have pity on me!" Give me two more percent, or I'll die." ”

Xu Pengju frowned, "What nonsense!" Where did I owe you? ”

The brother-in-law cried, "Grandpa Guo, now that the imperial court has decreed, the unofficial silver dollar must be paid ten percent of the envy!" ”

"Envy? My silver dollar is so good, what do I have to pay? Xu Pengju was shocked.

The brother-in-law grinned and cried: "Grandpa Guo, let me tell you the truth, our silver dollar just can't work, you see, after blowing, put it in your ears, there is no ring, the people don't recognize it!" ”