"President, these things of yours have made me more and more big, you go to the household department, and make this Laoshizi Baoquan Bureau do something, now the people of the world call the money minted by the imperial court a discounted Tongbao, and no one wants to use this thing."

After finishing his work in the household yamen, Liu Ximing returned home not long after Huang Zonghui and Du Liangji and others came to the door.

As soon as he entered the study where Liu Ximing was, Huang Zonghui shouted loudly.

Du Liangji smiled and bowed his hand to Liu Ximing, "Congratulations to the president, congratulations to the president, you are a second-class member at a young age, you have really climbed the ladder, hahaha." ”

Liu Ximing was dressed in his usual clothes and welcomed the two friends in with a smile.

Huang Zonghui also reacted at this time, and laughed: "Then I should be called Da Situ in the future, it is rare." ”

"What kind of big Situ, but it's just a false name, are you still coming to me so late for the sake of the court?"

Liu Ximing looked indifferent, and was quite unimpressed with this position of household secretary.

"Hehe, it seems that only entering the cabinet can satisfy you", Huang Zong smiled again when he saw the complaint, and then asked solemnly: "It is for this reason that minting money is not a good errand, and if you don't do it well, the good reputation you have accumulated before will be ruined." ”

Liu Ximing personally poured tea for the two of them and said with a smile: "You also know that if you can't do it well, it's not good for your reputation, so what if you do it well?" ”

"What if it's done?"

"Minting money is an important matter related to the healthy development of a country, this dynasty does not specialize in secular things, so there is no achievement for silver money, at first Taizu only thought that the treasure money can collect the wealth of the world, so it was indiscriminately issued, so that the treasure money is like waste paper."

"However, the world's military-civilian transactions always need currency, fortunately the Tessians such as Spain, Portugal and so on from the East brought silver, the annual inflow of silver into our country as high as millions of taels, the world has currency available, forming the current situation of gold, silver, copper coins and grain cloth circulation."

Liu Ximing first explained the principles of monetary economics to the two, and then continued to explain after the two roughly understood the monetary composition of the Ming Dynasty:

"This kind of monetary structure is very unstable, so in the future, the first thing we should do when the Datong Society is in power is to unify the currency, and gold, silver and copper coins are all limited by output, and most of them are controlled by the Taixi people, which is not good for China."

"So I'm already thinking about issuing all paper money internally in the future instead, and still using gold and silver externally, and Westerners who come to China to buy goods must first exchange gold and silver for paper money before buying."

"In this way, as long as the export of goods can be in the hands of China, then how to exchange gold and silver will be decided by China, and it will indirectly control the world's economy."

"At the same time, paper money is easy to carry, can better promote domestic economic development, and because it is a credit currency, it can also be over-issued to a certain extent, thereby stimulating rapid economic development."

From the beginning of the occupation of Luzon, Liu Ximing was already contemplating a future monetary system.

He keenly discovered a problem, in today's world economic system, China has a position similar to that of the rabbit in later generations, that is, the role of the world's factory.

It's just that the world's factories are more high-end, from low-grade cotton cloth to high-grade silk, tea, porcelain, etc., all controlled in Chinese hands.

With the right management, China could easily turn itself into a rice emperor, using finance to harvest the world's wool, while turning white skins into a supplier of raw materials to China.

In this case, it is necessary to adopt the same method as foreign exchange control, and all the gold and silver obtained by export enterprises from overseas transactions are collected and replaced with paper money, and import enterprises can apply for exchange for gold and silver according to the volume of goods.

In the early days, whiteskins may also require the use of gold and silver, but once the status of China's paper money increases, it is very likely that white skins will also use paper money directly.

In this way, it is equivalent to the internationalization of Chinese banknotes, and the issuance of banknotes is in the hands of China, so it is natural that the wool can be harvested directly.

Liu Ximing carefully studied this method several times and found that it had a very high operability.

After the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, the Midi relied on the dollar to bind the dollar to oil, so as to achieve dollar hegemony.

Now Liu Ximing has changed his way and tied paper money to tea and silk goods, and he will inevitably be unable to break away from this system until the white skins find an alternative place of origin.

However, Liu Ximing's set of things sounded like a fantasy to Huang Zonghui and Du Liangji, after all, they had not been exposed to this aspect of knowledge.

Liu Ximing had no choice but to laugh and say: "Let's just say this, this coinage is an opportunity, an opportunity to link my personal credit to the national currency." ”

"If the people of the world find that the coinage led by Liu Ximing eventually produces all good money with high quality and solid materials, then it is easy to form a solidified impression and upgrade my personal credit to reliable and trustworthy, so that when we want to implement credit currency again in the future, the resistance will be much smaller."

"Oh~~~", Du Liangji slapped the table, "I'll just say, where are you a person who will do loss-making business, hahaha, you are really smart." ”

Huang Zonghui kept smacking his tongue in his heart, this Wujiang brother's plan is too big, it is simply a link.

Thinking that Liu Ximing has now become famous because of the epidemic, and in the future, with these things he is planning now, Huang Zonghui showed a knowing smile on his face.

As Huang Zonghui himself said, he was born in Jiangnan, and he was not interested in who the emperor would do, but the people who worked together must have his heart.

After listening carefully to Liu Ximing's plans for the next period of time, Huang Zonghui and the two left together.

Liu Ximing's actions regarding the Baoquan Bureau were also very fast, but he made a very troublesome request to the Baoquan Bureau, to relocate all the mints of the Baoquan Bureau to Tianjin.

The reason is that it is close to the port, which makes it easy to import copper ore from overseas, and in order to avoid transportation, it is obviously much more convenient to mint coins directly in Tianjin than to bring them back to Beijing.

This reason is quite legitimate, and Chongzhen nodded in agreement.

In addition, Cheng Taiding and others took Liu Ximing's codex and went to the yamen of the Ministry of Industry to make a good fuss, and forcibly pulled out nearly 10,000 craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry.

These craftsmen will also go to Tianjin to build together with the Baoquan Bureau.

Outsiders don't know Liu Ximing's plans, and they all seem to think normal, but in fact, Liu Ximing's calculation in his heart is a dingdong.

If you want to develop industry, then you must have a large number of excellent craftsmen, and these craftsmen who have been poached from the Ministry of Industry, Liu Ximing plans to use the method of fleeing in batches to send all of them to Taiwan or Luzon to further improve the local development.

In addition, even if the Beijing division falls in the future, the concentration of these people in Tianjin will be convenient for the Luzon fleet to be transferred, which can be described as killing many birds with one stone.

In an atmosphere in full swing, Tianjin's affairs have been rapidly developed.

A month and a half later, the people of Tianjin Wei found that there were more than a dozen red-haired ships dozens of zhang long on the port, and in addition to some Han faces, there were really a lot of red-haired people, which made the people of Daming very strange.

This is naturally the trading fleet coming from Luzon, and in addition to the dozen or so merchant ships in the port, there are more than a dozen warships cruising in the sea without entering the port.

The sea route is much faster than the land route, and now Luzon and Zheng's family do not enter the river, and it only takes more than half a month to transmit the news to Luzon by sea downwind.

Although Luzon has been established for so long, it has always kept a low profile, although the Ming court has also received some twists and turns about this newly established overseas country.

But firstly, the Ming Dynasty is now too busy to take care of itself, and secondly, these Luzon people also keep to themselves, and have never done anything to invade Daming County, coupled with the deliberate concealment of coastal officials, the Ming court did not take this Luzon to heart.

On the wharf of Tianjin Wei Port, Liu Ximing, who was dressed in a big red python robe, came to greet the Luzon fleet in person, surrounded by a group of guards.

It was still You Degao who was responsible for protecting the fleet going north, and he himself had already changed ships to merchant ships in advance.

As soon as he saw Liu Ximing's figure, You Degao immediately rushed down with Jiang Baolin and other subordinate generals with an excited face.

"Meet the second brother!"

"Meet the Lord!"