The people of Daxi hate itchy, but there is no way, no matter how expensive it is, you have to buy it, now the banquet is held in the West, if you don't have "Lao Gan Ma Hot Sauce" at the banquet, there is no Oriental canned tea, and the ladies don't have a silk dress from Miaoyifang, you are embarrassed to say that you are a nobleman!

Of course, the people of Daxi are not willing to suffer dumb losses, they began to put pressure on Guo Zhiyuan, no, Li Jin, who was in charge of the trade route with the Dutch, and Sun Chuan, who was in charge of the trade route with Spain, coincidentally ran back to Dongfan to complain to Guo Zhiyuan, Li Jin was in awe of Guo Zhiyuan like a tiger, and he didn't dare to breathe in front of Guo Zhiyuan, so he had to frequently glance at Sun Chuan's envoy on the side, and let him speak to Guo Zhiyuan.

Sun Chuan's qualifications are relatively old, and he made great efforts in Guo Zhiyuan's most difficult period, so he stubbornly said: "My lord, are we too ruthless? A jar of tea sells for one tael of silver, and a jar of "Lao Gan Ma Hot Sauce" sells for five taels of silver, and the Spaniards are very dissatisfied and threaten to raise our trade tax! ……”

"Is it ruthless? I don't think it's ruthless enough! Guo Zhiyuan pouted disapprovingly, and said in his heart, you must know that in the future, they dare to sell a bottle of wine for tens of thousands of soft sister coins, and a leather bag and a dress dare to sell for hundreds of thousands of soft sister coins, you won't think I'm ruthless, I heard that the Spaniards threatened to raise trade taxes, and he waved his hand indifferently and said: "You let them add it, they dare to raise the tax, I dare to raise the price, anyway, the wool is out of the sheep, they love to buy it or not!" ……”

Sun Chuan and Li Jin glanced at each other, a little embarrassed, and were silent for a while before continuing: "The Spaniards also said that in the future, we must use their currency to trade with them......

Guo Zhiyuan's eyes lit up when he heard this, he slapped his head hard and stood up suddenly, and said in annoyance: "How could I forget such an important matter!" It is necessary to unify the trade currency, but not with their currency, but with our currency! ……”

Our currency? Sun Chuan and Li Jin were confused, Guo Zhiyuan didn't bother to explain to them, it is difficult for people in this era to understand the important role of money in the entire country's economic and financial system, at this time the Ming Dynasty was to adopt silver as the main circulation of the currency system, silver monetization on the one hand to promote currency circulation and economic prosperity, has positive significance, but on the other hand, it also weakened the centralization, the impact on the entire national financial system, especially in the late Ming Dynasty, Westerners found large reserves of silver in South America, They exchanged the mined South American silver for a large amount of materials in the Ming Dynasty through maritime trade, which was actually another way of plundering, so historians generally believe that the impact of Western countries on the Ming Dynasty through South American silver was also one of the important reasons for the decline of the Ming Dynasty in the later period!

Guo Zhiyuan immediately asked Xu Guangqi and Zeng Qisheng to come to discuss, and now he mainly handed over the internal affairs to the two of them, Xu Guangqi and Zeng Qisheng saw that Guo Zhiyuan was so anxious to summon them, and thought that something big had happened, so they hurried over, and before they could sit down, Guo Zhiyuan waved his hand vigorously and said in an unquestionable tone: "I am going to build a mint in Dongfan and mint coins by myself, and the two gentlemen quickly take out a charter and ......

Coins? Xu Guangqi and Zeng Qisheng were taken aback, they were no better than Li Jin and Sun Chuan, they were the most far-sighted people in this era, and they naturally knew very well what Guo Zhiyuan's words meant. From an economic point of view, coinage is definitely a profitable business, and it is a huge profit, the reason is very simple, such as a silver coin with a face value of one yuan, its value in circulation in the market is equal to one or two silver, but to mint a silver coin is not to use a tael of silver, but also to add copper or tin and other metals, assuming that the silver content of this silver coin is 70 percent, then the remaining nearly 30 percent is pure earning, which is equivalent to a private banknote printing factory, is there a more stable business in the world than this?

Therefore, any dynasty in history strictly forbade private coinage, which is a felony! The Ming Dynasty because of the flood of early treasure money, the first monetary credit system completely collapsed, and finally had to use silver as the main currency in circulation, resulting in some chaos in the Ming Dynasty's monetary system, the purity of the silver used in various places is not the same, and the silver change is not easy to find, so silver is only used in the middle and upper classes, or used for a large number of transactions, and the daily life of the people in Shengdou is still the use of copper coins. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, there were a lot of copper coins minted privately, most of these people were local magnates, and the interests of the poor people at the bottom were harmed, and the government turned a blind eye, but those who dared to mint silver coins privately did not, because this was already a blatant challenge to the country's monetary system, which was almost the same as a rebellion.

Of course, there is another reason for this, that is, there are two prerequisites for you to issue currency by yourself, one is that your credit must be good enough, and the other is that you must have enough authority, so that the issued currency can be circulated, otherwise the issued currency cannot be circulated or in vain. This problem is not a problem for Guo Zhiyuan, Dongfan has its own system, and it has a monopoly on the sea trade business, and its credit is also very good, so naturally there is no need to worry about the problem of not being able to circulate, the only thing to worry about is the attitude of the imperial court.

Xu Guangqi and Zeng Qisheng were worried about this problem, the two glanced at each other, and said cautiously: "My lord, you have to think twice about this matter, it is a big crime to mint coins in private, and it is equivalent to complicity in rebellion, now that Dongfan is in a period of development, it is really not appropriate to anger the imperial court at this time......"

In fact, Guo Zhiyuan didn't want to take this step, although he didn't have any loyalty to the king, but he didn't want to tear his face with the court at this time, but he had to go, the Spaniards demanded that their currency must be used for trade with them, in fact, they wanted to fight a currency war with Guo Zhiyuan, so as to increase the plundering of the resources of the Ming Dynasty, Guo Zhiyuan could not change the existing monetary system of the imperial court, and he could only mint coins by himself.

Guo Zhiyuan glanced at Xu Guangqi and Zeng Qisheng, and said in a deep voice: "I know very well the concerns of the two gentlemen, the wolf ambitions of the Daxi people, they discovered a large reserve of silver in South America, and then used the silver mined by cheap labor to buy our goods continuously, this is actually a disguised plunder, in the long run, it will inevitably have an impact on the economy of our Ming Dynasty, and now they propose that they can only use their currency for trade with them in the future, if I don't take countermeasures, I will only be more passive in ......the future."

"As for the court...... Maybe someone will use this to impeach me for bad intentions, but is there still less such impeachment? Even if I don't do this, they will still impeach me, so it's not bad for such a crime, and now that the Ming monetary system is very chaotic, don't those powerful people in the dynasty also mint money privately? If they can light a lamp, I will dare to set it on fire! My self-minted currency is mainly for the people of Daxi, the circulation range will not be too large, and it will not have an impact on the imperial court, so they should not do anything to me......"