The wharf in Chang'an East City was cleaned up early in the morning, all the boats left temporarily, the idlers were not allowed to enter, and the 3,000 soldiers were three steps and one sentry, five steps and one post, and the security was very tight.

The periphery of the police cordon in the distance was full of onlookers, and everyone was talking, no one knew what was going to happen, was this a big man coming to Chang'an?

Guo Song and a group of officials have been waiting in front of the wharf, they are waiting for the fleet from Hebei, more than a month ago, the first fleet from Hebei arrived in Chang'an, transported 300,000 stone sea salt, that is Zhu Tao's stock of sea salt, directly transported back to Chang'an.

Today, a second salt fleet will be ushered in, but it is not sea salt that they are transporting, but 10 million taels of silver, 1.5 million taels of gold and a large amount of jewelry and jade from the Youzhou Treasury, which are all wealth stolen from Chang'an and Luoyang back in those decades.

Prior to this, the gold and silver wealth in Xindu's warehouse had been transported to Taiyuan by camel, and then from Taiyuan to Chang'an, but Xindu's wealth was far from being compared with the wealth stored in Youzhou.

This time the transport of gold and silver Guo Song adopted the strategy of transplanting flowers and trees, using salt ships to transport, the specific method is to transport the gold and silver to the Juma River first, and at the same time, a salt fleet from Pingzhou also arrived at the Juma River, this salt fleet has been filed with the Wei State.

At the Juma River, the two fleets exchanged goods, the Youzhou fleet returned to Jixian with salt, and the salt fleet, which was exchanged for gold and silver, continued southward, passing through the area controlled by the Wei State without any danger, sailing into the Yellow River, and sailing directly to Guanzhong.

Guo Song was waiting for the arrival of this salt fleet at the Dongshi Wharf at this time.

Pan Liao next to him said with a smile: "Your Highness, we mentioned the new plan to expand the currency before, and I think it can be officially implemented." ”

Pan Liao said that the new currency scheme was the introduction of gold and silver coins, which they had actually tried as early as Hexi, but then stopped.

There are two reasons for the discontinuation, on the one hand, the gold and silver coins issued are not circulated in the market at all, and all of them are collected by merchants or ordinary people, and the gold and silver coins have become commemorative coins, also because the number of gold and silver coins issued at that time is too small.

On the other hand, and the main reason, their gold and silver reserves and silver ore production are not enough to support the large-scale implementation of gold and silver money.

Now that their gold, silver, and silver reserves are gradually enriched, and several large silver pits have been dug in Guanzhong and Taiyuan, they have the opportunity to issue gold and silver coins again.

Guo Song nodded, "This matter is very important and needs to be considered carefully, but Changshi can arrange for it to be discussed in the Counsellor's Hall together, and even to carry out the signature." ”

The Jin Palace's proposal is a workaround for the court meeting, and the Jin Dynasty Mansion did not have a court meeting, but in order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the hundred officials, Guo Song began to implement the proposal last year, and sent the draft opinions on some major matters to the various departments to solicit the opinions of the hundred officials, the most typical is the transformation of the Han Chang'an City, the construction of Xi'anmen Street, and the opening of the Weiyang Palace, which has collected hundreds of opinions.

At this time, someone said in a loud voice: "Your Highness, the fleet seems to be coming!" ”

Guo Song took a step forward and looked at the waterway in the distance, only to see a black spot appear in the distance, gradually, the black spot became bigger and bigger, it was a mighty salt fleet, this fleet was pulled by an eight-wheeled boat, eight big men on the boat stepped on the runner, and the eight paddle wheels installed on both sides of the ship quickly rotated to drive the boat forward.

Of course, it is impossible for a car ship to pull a thousand salt ships, in fact, after the arrival of a thousand salt ships in Chang'an, they were divided into ten teams, and one car and ship to pull a hundred ships, and what they saw was the first team.

In the midst of cheers, the first batch of salt fleets slowly docked, and Wang Shixun, the escort officer, stepped forward and bowed, "Wang Shixun, the lowly salt and iron department, see His Royal Highness the King of Jin!" ”

"Wang Zhicheng has worked hard, has it been a smooth journey?"

Guo Song smiled and asked, "Tian Yue didn't send someone on the ship to investigate?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, the journey was very smooth, we are a salt ship, they are not interested, I'm afraid they will be interested in the Youzhou cargo ship behind."

Guo Song knew about the Youzhou cargo ship, they injured nine people and killed three people, and Guo Song had sent a messenger to negotiate and claim compensation, demanding severe punishment of the murderer.

Guo Song nodded, turned around and ordered: "Unload!" ”

Guo Song flashed to the side with the heavy officials, hundreds of wrestlers got on the boat, they lifted the tarpaulin, revealing the camouflaged salt sacks underneath, after removing the sacks, one by one the big wooden boxes were exposed, and the wrestlers picked up the big wooden boxes ashore, and soon they were piled up like a hill.

There was a slight commotion among the people around, and there were so many large wooden boxes, and everyone realized that they must be filled with all kinds of treasures.

At this time, hundreds of ox carts came to the docks, and one by one large boxes crashed into the ox carts, which had carriages and locks on the back doors, which were specially used to transport valuables.

At present, there are three warehouses of the Jin Palace, one is the original two inner warehouses of the Daming Palace, and now it is renamed the right library, one is the left library of the Daming Palace, and one is the treasure house of the Jin Palace, and the three warehouses have their own functions.

The left Zang warehouse is mainly to store copper coins and copper ingots, and the right Zang warehouse is the largest, also called the light goods warehouse, which stores silk, cloth, cotton, spices, precious wood and various utensils, including porcelain, bronze, lacquerware, wood, tin and so on.

The treasury of the Jin palace stored gold, silver, jewelry, jade and other valuables.

Of course, these are official vaults, not Guo Song's own private vaults, Guo Song's private vaults are hidden in the inner palace of the King of Jin, which is a secret vault built with large bluestone and three iron gates.

In addition to these three treasure warehouses, there are more than a dozen professional warehouses outside the city, such as grain and grass warehouses, ordnance warehouses, salt warehouses, pig iron warehouses, timber warehouses, oil and charcoal warehouses, etc.

In the afternoon, in the original hall of the Counselor's Hall, convened by Pan Liao, seven counselors began to discuss the plan of introducing money and money.

In fact, this plan was handed over to everyone a month ago, and today we took the opportunity of the arrival of Youzhou Gold and Silver to sit down and discuss the feasibility of the plan.

Guo Song was also here, and he supported this plan, after all, they had accumulated a huge inventory of gold and silver in the southern and northern wars, and it was a waste that this wealth had not been used.

Pan Ning took the lead in saying to everyone: "Everyone has already seen the plan, plus the gold and silver shipped today, our current silver inventory is 37 million taels, 2.8 million taels of gold, of course, it is impossible to put all of them on the market at once, the plan is to launch 2 million taels of silver and 1 million taels of gold every year, that is, 2 million taels of silver and 100,000 taels of gold." ”

Sima Liu Zi of the White Tiger Hall raised his hand and asked, "May I ask Pan Changshi, what is the basis for setting this amount?" ”

Guo Song also said: "Pan Changshi, can you talk about the balance of finance and taxation first, so that it will be clearer." ”

Pan Ning nodded, and said unhurriedly: "Everyone should have seen the annual report given to you by the Du Branch, in the past, our income and expenditure were very balanced, and the revenue was slightly greater than the expenditure, but in the past three consecutive years, our tax revenue and expenditure gap is about 1.5 million yuan, and the majority is the renovation of the new city and the construction of official houses, although the construction of Xi'anmen Street and official rental houses also cost a lot of money, but this can be slowly earned back from the rent, it is not a gap."

In the past three years, we have accumulated a total debt of 4.5 million yuan, which offsets the surplus of the previous year, and the actual debt is 3.6 million yuan.

So we auctioned off a treasure in the inner treasury at the beginning of last year, including official kiln porcelain, jade, etc., with an income of 3 million yuan, plus some confiscated income, which can be regarded as completely making up for this debt.

Then we took Youyan and got the output of sea salt, which greatly reduced the cost of salt production, from this piece we can increase our income by two million per year, but in the same way, our expenditure will also increase, building roads and bridges is a big head, just the widening and repair of the official roads in Hexi and Beiting, for ten years, we will spend at least 500,000 yuan every year, and the official plus is also a big head, and we will also increase millions of dollars every year, and there will be some sporadic increase in expenditure, so our fiscal and tax expenditures are basically balanced, and there will be no redundancy. ”

After saying this, Pan Liao glanced at everyone, and saw that everyone had no doubts, so he continued: "Everyone is about to ask, since the fiscal and tax expenditures are balanced, why do you want to mint gold and silver money?" The reason is very simple, we want to start building sea ships in Cangzhou, we want to build a strong naval army, and we want to prepare for the recovery of the south in the future, which is a reason.

Secondly, we need to buy 50,000 to 100,000 Bactrian camels, and we need to use gold and silver to raise this money, and we have already reached an order contract with the Sogdian merchants, and we have already balanced our tax bills and cannot spend any more.

If you have no objection to my above statement, let's vote for the first time, whether to issue gold and silver coins? Once this principle is settled, we will discuss the details. ”

(End of chapter)