There are thousands of officials of all sizes gathered in the city, how can there be hundreds of officials above the fifth grade who can go to the court to discuss matters, it is not a big deal to meet an acquaintance on the street, Zhao Yu casually stopped a borrower and estimated that no one would refuse, even if he did not come forward, neither Wang De nor Ni Liang would return empty-handed. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info But he still can't wipe his face a little bit, and he doesn't look good, and the emperor borrowing money is not the same as robbing, and it is estimated that no one dares to let him pay it back. What's more important is that I am worried that I will be recognized and ruin my trip.

But Zhuang Shilin is different, if Wang De is the manager of the middle school, Ni Liang is Ma Ben, then he is the bookkeeper, who specializes in taking care of money for himself, and it is reasonable for him to reach out to him for money in public and private. Besides, Zhuang Shilin is Zhao Yu's confidant, he will understand what is going on with a glance, even if he is responsible, he will not dare to 'betray' himself, so he asked Su Lan to stop the sedan chair and bring it to see him.

Since Su Lan has been living in the palace, outsiders don't know anything about her, but everyone in the big house knows that she is His Majesty's personal maid, and she trusts her very much, and she is not shy about discussing confidential matters. So when Zhuang Shilin saw Su Lan's face, he knew what was going on, and knew that it was impossible for him to leave the palace alone, so he immediately got out of the sedan chair and followed her to see His Majesty.

"Did Lao Zhuang bring any money?" Without waiting for Zhuang Shilin to give a salute, Zhao Yu asked.

"Your Majesty......" The little emperor likes to sneak out of the palace is known to everyone among the elderly, but when he opens his mouth, he asks for money from himself, which still scares him.

"Don't call your majesty, call your son. I forgot to bring money when I left the palace today, so I borrowed some from you and went back to pay you back! Zhao Yu pointed to a few people and said with a smile.

"Hey, even if the son uses money, open his mouth, why be polite!" Zhuang Shilin understood now, His Majesty was in a hurry and forgot to take the money, and just happened to see himself and stopped to rob it!

"How much money do you have?" Zhao Hao looked him up and down and asked.

"Childe, there are probably more than a dozen!" Zhuang Shilin groped in his sleeve.

"Is there no scrap of gold or silver?" Zhao Yu asked with a frown. The reason why he asked this was because when he arrived in this world, he knew that it was just as fantastical as when he had traveled here, and that money could really crush people!

Since ancient times, China has mostly used coinage, and since the Qin and Han dynasties, there have been ring coins, which were later customized as outer circles and inner squares, which is the origin of the nickname "Brother Confucius Fang". In the Han Dynasty, it was called five baht because of its weight, and in the Tang Dynasty, because the weight of Kaiyuan Tongbao was stable, it could be used as a balance law, and "money" became a unit of weight. Ten dollars and one tael, one hundred and sixty dollars weighs one pound. The standard of money has always been Qianwen, and the weight is about six catties and three taels, and this is a lot of money. So the waist is just the imagination of a few scholars, counting the weight, there are 60,000 catties, wrapped around the body, not to mention that it can't be entangled, and it can't move if it's entangled.

Modern people are even more outrageous, you may have watched the Kunqu opera "Fifteen Runs", the thief Lou Arat tiptoed from other people's homes to steal fifteen pieces of money, put on a posture of unknowing, and was overjoyed. If you know how heavy the money is, you really can't do these expressions if you think about it, the total weight of the money is about 100 catties, and you have to use a hemp bag. Carrying the stolen hundred catties out of the village and walking a few miles, this Lou Arat can be selected as a special soldier in modern times.

Merchants who do business in long-distance trafficking do not dare to transport money in this way, so they can only come with goods, sell goods and go, and the money they earn can probably only be squandered at the destination or when they return to their hometown, and they can only bring some small money to spend along the way. Therefore, the ancients had money, even if it was dozens of texts, it was well known to passers-by, and the sound of copper coins colliding in the backpack was too familiar to people. If you have a lot of money to transport, you probably have to use a car, and the clanging sound of copper coins along the way is equivalent to drinking "there is money here" all the way, which is simply a "traitor" who makes the rich helpless.

Although the Song Dynasty later had quasi-paper banknotes such as Jiaozi and Huizi, as well as the Zhongtong banknotes of the current Yuan Dynasty, they can be easily carried. However, after Zhao Yu took power, because there was no gold and silver as a credit guarantee, of course he did not dare to test the water to issue banknotes, otherwise it would be ugly to die, and the banknotes of the enemy country were not allowed to circulate in Qiongzhou. So now the currency system in Qiongzhou is very chaotic, there are copper money, gold and silver, but due to the official compulsory exchange ratio, coupled with the sufficient supply of materials, the price has been stable, and it has not caused chaos, but the inconvenience is certain, and there is a question just asked by Zhao Yu......

"Childe, these are bits and pieces, take them and use them first!" Zhuang Shilin took out a stack of paper from his sleeve and handed it over, and said with a smile.

"Oh, how is it a salt lead?" Zhao Yu took it with some confusion, looked at it and said. However, as he said, these pieces of paper should be salt stamps to be exact, according to the algorithm of the Great Song Dynasty, a salt is a stone, weighing one hundred and sixteen catties, both one catty, five catties, and one hundred catties, some large and some small.

"Childe, this salt can be used as money in the market!" Zhuang Shilin still explained with a smile on his face, "Childe, the price of salt per catty of salt in our Qiongzhou is fifty wen, because it is an official price, and it is very stable, and it is extremely convenient to carry, so the people use it as paper money after exchange." ”

"I see!" Zhao Yu nodded, but he felt that it was inappropriate and asked, "This salt quotation can only be used as a voucher for receiving salt, and our government does not buy it back, how can the merchant exchange the salt quotation for gold and silver or make money?" ”

"Have you forgotten that the salt in our Qiongzhou is several times lower than that in the mainland, and these merchants collect salt from their own foreign traders to collect it, and sometimes they can also profit from it, so they are more willing to collect salt than gold and silver!" Zhuang Shilin whispered.

"Hehe, no wonder when I bargain, those merchants have to ask if there are red tickets or blue tickets, it turns out that the mystery is here!" As soon as Zhao Yu mentioned it, he immediately figured out what was going on.

After Zhao Yu decided to build a salt farm in exchange for funds, the prospect he described made the ministers excited, and the project was able to advance rapidly, and after the first batch of 5,000 salt pans were put into operation, the second phase of 10,000 mu of salt pans was soon put into operation, and now it has reached an annual output of 50 million catties of sea salt. At first, as he expected, the price of overproduction plummeted, and the price of 20 wen could not be sold.

However, with the intervention of the bureau and the destruction of the coastal salt works, the sea salt in Qiongzhou began to be dumped into the interior at a price of 60 to 100 wen, and the merchants had the most sensitive sense of smell, and they soon smelled business opportunities from it. However, the Yuan court continued to use troops everywhere, and the military expenditure required was huge, so it could only continue to increase the salt tax, so that the price of each introduction of salt (400 catties per quotation in the Yuan system) soon soared from the price of seven taels per quotation in the second year of the Central Unification to one ingot per yuan banknote, until the current two ingots.

The price of each ingot of salt is equivalent to 100 yuan, and the high price of 250 yuan of salt is currently worth about 40 yuan in the market under the impact of counterfeit money, but the price of salt is still around 200 yuan, which is still ten times that of Qiongzhou salt, and the gross profit obtained by a small boat of 500 stone is more than 7 or 8,000 yuan, which is faster than robbery.

In fact, Zhao Hao had already calculated, because the construction of the salt pan used a heavy army, and the salt workers used were also prisoners, these people did not need to be paid, and the raw materials were seawater and sunlight, and there was no cost, so the production cost of each catty of salt was only equivalent to the loss of tools and the burden of food and clothing of the salt workers.

But compared to the high profit of private salt, everyone is jealous, including the Xingchao group of scholars and doctors who 'regard money as dung' and love the people like children, so they discussed raising the price. Of course, Zhao Yu also hopes to sell it more expensive, but his original intention is not only to solve his financial difficulties, but also to use this to impact the salt policy of the Yuan Court and bring down their economy, of course, he is also a little selfish, after all, the bureau is the earliest to participate in smuggling, the channel has been opened, the capital is also the thickest, and the profit is also the largest. Everyone's voice is so high, after thinking about it, Zhao Hao, who was opposed at first, felt that he couldn't go his own way, after all, the dynasty was also rich!

However, Zhao Yu opposed raising the price of salt to synchronize with the Yuan court, and he calculated an account for everyone, and now the population of the area ruled by the Yuan court should be more than 50 million, according to the calculation of six catties of salt per person per year, it should be about 300 million catties, and the output of salt in the Northern Song Dynasty was around 600 million catties, and the most important salt producing area was the Lianghuai region, and the output was half of the country.

The main battle area of the Song and Yuan Dynasty battles was also in Lianghuai, which led to the destruction of the salt pans, the scattering of salt workers, and the salt works on the southeast coast were also destroyed by the Qiongzhou navy. However, Jiangbei had long been controlled by the Yuan court, and salt production was restored. In this way, although there is a gap now, it is not large. Therefore, their competitiveness is mainly in the price, if the price of salt is too high, the profits of the smuggler will drop sharply, and they will not risk losing their heads to sell salt in Qiongzhou. Then the salt in Qiongzhou will still be unsalable, and the money will still not be available, so it is necessary to determine a win-win price.

Therefore, under the auspices of Zhao Hao, after several discussions, it was decided to implement the dual-track system, in order to maintain the stability of prices in Qiongzhou, the local salt price in Qiongzhou was set at 50 wen a catty, and the price of export was set at 100 wen a catty. In order to distinguish between the inside and the outside, and to allow the imperial court to control the production and income of salt, the salt introduction system was reinstated, and the salt policy was revised.

Because Qiongzhou implemented a strict household registration system and granted land according to the population, it was very unlikely that the population would be concealed, and the population could be accurately calculated, so that the ticket system could be realized, and the salt would be distributed to everyone's head. They can buy salt at a low price in any shop in Qiongzhou with their tickets, and the merchants can then go to the official treasury to get salt or exchange it for gold and silver at the exchange, which will subsidize the loss of the merchants, so that the increase in salt prices will not seriously affect the lives of local soldiers and civilians. Traders in other cities must first go to the real money used in the household department to buy salt, and then get salt with tickets.

In order to distinguish them, the salt is also divided into three colors, red is used by locals, blue is used by foreign traders, and green is used by military salt sources. In addition, there is a kind of yellow ticket issued by the inner government, Zhao Yu knew that raising the price of salt and his own smuggling business was also affected, so he re-reached an agreement with the ministers, after which the income that the Inner Government Zuozang Treasury should obtain from the salt field will no longer be collected in the form of gold and silver, but in kind, and now implement the agreement of thirty percent.

After many rounds of negotiations, numerous arguments and compromises, an agreement was finally reached and the new salt policy was implemented. In this way, it not only protects the interests of all parties, but also prevents the corruption of the salt administration to a certain extent, at this time the salt produced by the salt factory has an account, the government warehouse also has a book in and out of the account, and there is also an account in the exchange office, if the gap between the three is too large, someone will inevitably cheat from it.

Zhao Yu didn't expect that someone could find a loophole in such a design, when issuing red tickets according to the population, and did not consider the difference in consumption between the old and the young and the young, and who did not pickle vegetables, pickled meat, and then livestock also needed to supplement salt, and Qiongzhou itself was no longer short of salt, so the red ticket was overissued and was in a state of oversupply. In order to maintain the price of salt and promote sales, the blue ticket issuance adopts the method of starvation sales, and is issued in a monthly ration. In this way, some people see business opportunities and start speculating when scalpers......

"Childe, those merchants will lure buyers to make a profit when they have salt tickets, and then sell them to salt dealers in other cities to make a profit. There are even some big households either alone or jointly to raise funds to buy out the blue tickets sold by the imperial court every month, and then resell them by two to five times for each quotation, which is very profitable! Zhuang Shilin said.

"No treachery, no business!" Zhao Hao figured out the joints, and listened to Zhuang Shilin's explanation of the operation method, which is no different from speculation in later generations, buying short and selling short, he said with a smile.

"Gongzi thinks that we are going to take some measures, and if we let it develop, I am afraid that it will push up the price of salt and cause unsalable, which will affect the income of the imperial court!" Zhuang Shilin's face flushed and whispered.

"It's not necessary for the time being, it's the nature of businessmen to make profits, if they don't make money, won't Qiongzhou be in a depression, and where will there be so many commodities across the sea!" Zhao Hao smiled and waved his hand, but he also thought in his heart.

"Childe Mingjian!" Zhuang Shilin arched his hand.

"Don't be so hypocritical, come with something affordable." Zhao Hao said weakly, "Think about it, isn't it wrongful that my son earns millions of yuan every year, but he doesn't have time to spend it!" ”

"Childe, this year's Zuozang Treasury has already exceeded one million, and now there are more than 10 million!" Zhuang Shilin whispered.

"Oh, there are so many!" Zhao Hao touched his nose to hide his surprise and said, but the smile on his face betrayed him, and several other people couldn't help but laugh when they saw this, but they didn't expect that the shrewd little emperor would also have a time when he couldn't settle the accounts, but he also secretly admired his way of making money, thinking that three years ago they were still worried about how to fill their stomachs!

"Of course, this is all planned by the child!" Zhuang Shilin also said with a smile.

"Damn, I don't spend so much money to make myself so hard, I'm going to be wanton today, I will pay for everything you want!" Zhao Yu said proudly......