673 Guo Peng recovers the right to mint money
Except for Guanzhong, in the area controlled by Guo Peng at that time, the trend of private coinage prevailed in the world.
Private currencies are complicated, the value of the currency is unstable, there is no credibility, and transactions are difficult, so many places simply resume bartering.
Since the era of Qingyan Erzhou, the most important thing Guo Peng did every time he conquered a place was to ban local private coins, and then announced that he would recycle all kinds of private coins in a certain proportion.
The recovered coins were exchanged for standard five-baht coins produced in the mint factory he was in charge of, in order to replace the money circulating in the market and achieve economic unification.
After military reunification, the first thing Guo Peng did was to carry out economic reunification.
With the abundant grain reserves obtained by the tuntian system as the foundation, Guo Peng linked his standard five-baht coin with the hard currency of grain, which was in troubled times.
He stipulated how much grain could be purchased with a five-baht coin, and he was not allowed to rise or fall at will, so as to increase the credibility of his standard five-baht coin.
With the hard currency guarantee, everyone is willing to believe Guo Peng's standard five-baht coin.
As a result, Guo Peng successfully replaced most of the various private coins in circulation in various places with his own standard five-baht coins, such as five baht for weight reduction, five baht for trimming, and five baht for invasion wheels.
Guo Peng also ordered that only the standard five-baht money could be used for transactions in his jurisdiction, and no other currencies were accepted, and the powerful Guo Wei official commercial force led by the Mi clan took the lead in complying and using the standard five-baht money for commercial settlement.
As a result, Guo Peng quickly completely crushed all kinds of privately minted five-baht coins in various places, and established the economic status of Guo's standard five-baht coins.
While expanding the territory, Guo Peng also set up workshops where all kinds of workers could work together, and not only that, Guo Peng also restored the policy of monopolizing salt and iron during the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Only the official could buy and sell salt and iron in his own jurisdiction, controlling the social and economic lifeblood of the era, making these large-scale handicraft workshops the de facto state-owned enterprises of the Guo Wei regime.
Not only that, Guo Peng also set up foreign trading institutions to manage grain, war horses, weapons and other materials that were urgently needed by other major forces, and also controlled these institutions in his hands, turned them into his own state-owned enterprises, and led foreign trade by himself.
Whenever he conquered a place and ordered that all trade in his jurisdiction must be settled in standard five-baht coins, the various five-baht coins minted by the local people had no resistance.
All the private coins recovered, including the five-baht coins minted by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the Western Han Dynasty, as well as the money minted by Wang Mang, these Guo Peng did not waste them, all of them were recast and recast, turned into his own standard five-baht coins, re-entered the circulation market, restored circulation, and restored economic order.
At the same time as the economic unification, Guo Peng ordered Guo's legal team to draft laws and proclaim them to the world, outlawing the policies of the central government that had not been too concerned about coinage rights since the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Guo Peng strictly ordered the revocation of the right to mint coins in various places to return to the central government.
No local government agencies, private commercial institutions or individuals are allowed to privately mint currency, and once discovered, they will be dealt with severely, and at the lightest is hard work, starting with five years, and there is no upper limit.
In this way, in a few years, Guo Peng conquered various places to expand his territory, and at the same time, he also restored the economic order of the regions under his jurisdiction.
As a result, the Central Plains and Hebei regions, which had been severely damaged after the war, gradually recovered under Guo Peng's administration, and even slowly returned to the state before the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
As a result, Guo Peng began to gradually reduce the agricultural tax quota of the Tuntian people, so that they could have a little more surplus money to spend, so as to stimulate economic development and expand domestic demand.
Guo Peng then gradually and slowly increased the issuance of currency, increased the circulation of currency, and then used part of the money harvested from economic growth for infrastructure construction, improved transportation and public security, and launched various infrastructure construction actions such as water conservancy, warehousing and urban construction, so as to gradually revitalize the economic situation in the jurisdiction.
As a result, Guo Peng's cautious actions led to the emergence of a situation of political communication and harmony in the areas under the jurisdiction of Guo Wei's regime, which was widely praised.
Within the scope of what he can do, Guo Peng is willing to do as good as possible to the lower-class people, make their lives as better as possible, let them eat more things as much as possible, and enjoy the dividends of development as much as possible.
He is willing to try and do whatever he can do.
In the final analysis, the five-baht coin has been in circulation for hundreds of years, and the people of the world have recognized the five-baht coin.
In the chaos of the world, each force is doing its own thing, and each is minting private money, especially after Dong Zhuo minted a small amount of money to destroy the economy of Kansai, the government that uses the standard and full amount of five baht coins is the government that can be trusted and the government that is credible.
During this period, not to mention Dong Zhuo's small money and the five-baht coins issued by the Central Committee of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the five-baht coins minted by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Xuan and other emperors of the Western Han Dynasty, and even all kinds of money minted by Wang Mang were in circulation.
Every place has its own hard currency, and every place has its own private coinage.
Some of the great tycoons owned vast estates with a large number of people, so they minted their own currency and issued their own currency on the estates.
He demanded that the people of the manor who depended on him could only use the currency he minted, so that he could better exploit it, as if it were a small private kingdom with economic independence.
The monetary chaos in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was far beyond today's imagination.
Political chaos and military secession inevitably lead to economic chaos.
There are many types of official and private coins used in the market, and the mainstream currencies used in different places are also different, which seriously hinders the development of commerce, and it is no wonder that people have reverted to barter.
After all, money was not indispensable in those days.
Therefore, Guo Peng insisted on using the five-baht coin and improving the casting technology of the five-baht coin, so that it was sufficient and sufficient, the craftsmanship was relatively exquisite, and the value was enough to preserve, so everyone was also happy to use such a five-baht coin.
With his abundant material reserves and correct policies, he helped the good money gradually drive out the bad money, and the economic order was restored.
When economic order was restored, social order was basically restored, and the pressure on public order under the Guo Wei regime was greatly reduced.
In the past, when the two prefectures were first occupied, such economic policies had not yet been established, and when the newly occupied areas had not yet had time to implement the Tuntian policy, the local areas were often very chaotic.
Bandits and thieves are often rampant everywhere and are very difficult to deal with, so Guo Peng was forced to join the army to fight, arresting a large number of lawbreakers and putting them in prison, making prisons everywhere overcrowded.
This situation often does not end until the tuntian system is gradually implemented and everyone is given their own land to settle down.
After Guo Peng gradually figured out such an economic countermeasure, he carried out a successful experiment in Hebei.
After the successful implementation of such an economic policy in Hebei, Guo Peng can be regarded as accumulating some experience, and there is an additional group of talents who are good at economic and monetary affairs in the team of planners under his command.
Guo Peng transferred them separately and set up a finance department under the cabinet to oversee the issuance and minting of currency and the implementation of economic policies.
Later, when conquering Yuzhou and Huainan, as well as the land of Guanxi and Xuzhou, such policies played a positive role and played an important role in stabilizing people's hearts.
Obviously, Guo Peng felt that such a policy was successful, so he vigorously pursued it.