Chapter 221: Change

Princess Pingyang knew Liu Che's attitude and Zhang Yuan's thoughts.

But she doesn't have any hope for Zhang Yuan, at the moment Liu Che has no intention of targeting Zhang Yuan, plus the dividends have not been less and have become more than before, Princess Pingyang can continue to wait patiently for the development of things.

On the first day of Liu Che's reaction, things developed in a direction that everyone did not expect.

At this time, Zhang Yuan, who was enjoying the tranquility in the Xin'an Hou Mansion, finally knew the decree issued by Liu Che with some hindsight.

However, it was not any official who came to tell him, but the people of Qingpingfang came to tell Zhang Yuan after knowing from the mouths of the people who exchanged coins.

"Your Majesty's order in the morning?"

"Yes, it was just submitted to the Prime Minister's Office and will be implemented in a month."

A new law will always be enforced until the whole world knows about it.

However, this is also the reason, and after receiving the warrant from the Prime Minister's Office, the local government will immediately launch a crackdown.

Arresting people first and waiting for a month later to interrogate them is not a violation of the regulations, is it?

"How much five baht has Qingpingfang exchanged so far?"

"The 100 million five-baht coins have been exchanged for nearly 50 million, and Ziqian Zhuangzi has also released 10 million sub-coins."

"So you can't resist the darkness today?"

"Master Hou, don't say it's dark, the villain estimates that it will be almost gone if he rushes back at this time."

Although Zhang Yuan was happy in his heart, he still had some worries.

The worry wasn't that things would get out of hand, but that he didn't want the five baht to flow out so easily.

There is only one possibility for so many copper coins to flow out in such a short period of time.

"Is the money exchanged in the store the accumulation of many small transactions, or is it the fifty million that is added up by the large transactions?"

"Master Hou, they are all large transactions, and the Hou Mansion of Guangping has exchanged tens of millions of five-baht coins at one time."

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Zhang Yuan was speechless, if those rich businessmen exchanged a large amount of five baht, Zhang Yuan didn't care.

But these princes can only let the money be put in the treasury in exchange for five baht coins, just like the money in Zhang Yuan's house.

If it hadn't been for the decision to implement the five-baht coin and rebuild the market atmosphere of the Han Dynasty, those coins would really not see the light of day for the rest of their lives.

"You ride a fast horse to Qingpingfang, and let Lao Zhao only exchange the amount below 100,000 yuan.

Those large exchanges told them that they could pay the money first, and then our Xin'anhou Mansion would melt them for free.

After all the smelting is completed, it will be sent directly to their house, and the exchange ratio will be reduced to 4.5 to 1, and we will make up for the missing 0.5.

Only more than 10 million dollars can enjoy this ratio. ”

"Master Hou, I'm afraid the villain's words can't convince those nobles."

Zhang Yuan sighed and didn't say anything, and followed this person out of Xin'anhou Mansion.

Now that such a big movement really needs a personal town, and a fall on the streets of Chang'an City may knock down a high-ranking relative.

Although this is unrealistic, it is quite normal to knock down some people in the noble mansion.

After all, there are only 200,000 people in Chang'an City, and there are hundreds of thousands of palace guards and all kinds of slaves and craftsmen who serve the royal family, and there are also hundreds of thousands of slaves raised by the nobles in Beique Jiadi.

Such a population ratio is abnormal, but it can greatly highlight the uniqueness of Chang'an City as a political center.

When he arrived at Qingpingfang, Zhang Yuan saw the lively appearance of Chang'an City.

The last time I saw so many people was when I returned triumphantly from Hetao, and Liu Che held a grand celebration ceremony.

"Everybody, give way!"

The guards outside the gate of Qingpingfang saw Zhang Yuan riding over on horseback and immediately forcibly evacuated the crowd.

There are vehicles large and small at the door, and it is estimated that each family has taken out all the copper coins sealed in the house.

"Xin'anhou is here!"

Zhang Yuan appeared in an extremely high-profile way.

The crowd immediately fell silent.

The people present in exchange for coins were not big people, but only confidants from various provinces.

Those high-ranking nobles didn't think that anyone could covet their possessions in Chang'an City.

"Go and tell Lao Zhao, write a piece of paper and stick it on the doorpost."

"Whoa."

A moment later, a piece of paper with the rules that Zhang Yuan had just set was pasted on the door.

An uproar ensued.

However, no one dared to ask Zhang Yuan rashly, what was written on the paper was not a guarantee from Qingpingfang, but a guarantee from Xin'an Houfu.

Soon the uproar subsided, and a small group of people retreated from the crowd.

The paper posted did not delay ordinary people from exchanging copper coins.

The upper limit set by Zhang Yuan is already very high, at most 100,000 five-baht coins, which means that you must have 500,000 copper coins in your house.

The only people who can reach this amount are the merchants and those nobles.

Ordinary people can exchange hundreds, thousands, and five-baht coins, which can be regarded as a household.

The exchange of coins continued in an orderly manner.

Merchants and ordinary people still have to spend money in the end, and the market is so revitalized.

Chinese have always liked to save money.

A healthy and positive market economy is an obstacle to development.

Banks have lowered interest rates several times and issued credit cards on a large scale, just so that ordinary people can withdraw the money deposited in the bank and spend it for consumption.

In this way, the state can collect a large amount of consumption tax, and it will not be said that the state income has been greatly reduced due to subsidies to ordinary people.

The officials are very aware of the habits of the common people and the traditions of China.

They never directly collect taxes from people, they will slowly drain your money from places you don't know.

Eventually, the advent of the pandemic burst the economic bubble that told the development, and people learned that they had no savings and had to buy all kinds of expensive necessities.

Of course, this is relatively expensive.

Capitalists and politicians will always trick people into comparing their own prices with those of the most developed countries in the world.

They never let the average person know what another country in the world has about what is worth with an average wage in their own country.

Rapid development is to let the common people bear all the pressure, no matter how rich the capitalists are, in the end the pressure is passed on to the ordinary people.

Zhang Yuan understands this, but no one in the Han Dynasty has yet understood the consumption tax, which is the most suitable thing for exploiting the people.

Using coins to buy goods is a reflection of the original value of the goods.

If there is a shortage of goods, the price will rise, and if there is an increase in the number of goods, the price will decrease.

The people will not suffer losses, no matter what they buy, it is a direct reflection of the value of that commodity in the market, and there is no middleman to make the difference.

Zhang Yuan waited in Qingpingfang for an hour, and saw that the sky was about to get dark.

Although the flow of people at the door has not decreased, Zhang Yuan is planning to close the door.

The vehicles that were blocked at the door when Zhang Yuan came have been parked there, and just when Zhang Yuan was about to close down, someone wanted to handle Zhang Yuan's new business.

"Is Master Hou still closing?"

Lao Zhao immediately jumped up and asked. Grave

"The doors were closed as soon as it was dark, and those who asked us to help mint money were told to be limited to seven days.

The daily amount of 100 million is the upper limit, and every 100 million is pushed back by one day, do you understand? ”

"The villain understands, and the villain will explain it."

Copper has a low melting point, so coinage can be something that everyone can do.

Zhang Yuan now has Lantian Mountain, Lantian County, and three blacksmith workshops in Chang'an City.

He kept the high-temperature furnace running day and night, barely able to melt about 100 million copper coins a day.

The reason why seven days is given is to be able to complete all orders within the promised time limit.

Not everyone in Chang'an City is very rich.

People like Zhang Yuan, who have a net worth of hundreds of millions, are already the richest people.

Of course, in this group of people, Zhang Yuan is the bottom existence.

For example, if the Pingyang Hou Mansion took out all the money in their treasury, there would definitely be billions.

The huge wealth accumulated in 70 years, and the nobles who have survived several wars are all rich people.

Fighting the Huns is a money-losing business, but fighting a war in the country is a money-making business, and of course it must be the money earned by the winning side.

When Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty fought the War of the Seven Kingdoms, he didn't even have the money to expand his armaments, and when he won the war, the treasury was directly enriched.

There are countless people who have made a fortune with them.

Tian Wei has changed from a person who needs the support of his sister to sell jewelry to a rich man who can bribe courtiers with a lot of money.

This can be seen on the surface, and the post-war reorganization of forces is the moment to divide up interests.

Zhang Yuan is not as good as these people, and he can only hang the back of these people's cars.

It is more than enough to be compared to the bottom.

It is estimated that the poor among the princes will be able to come up with tens of millions of dollars.

Five baht, of course.

As soon as Zhang Yuan's ratio came out, everyone's money depreciated.

Zhang Yuan's minting money must be earned, and it is a huge profit, which is why Zhang Yuan can propose to subsidize a large transaction at a ratio of 4.5.

Even with the ratio of 4.5, Zhang Yuan still makes a lot of money.

If the ratio of five for one Zhang Yuan is only to protect the capital, then change it to the ratio of 4.5, and Zhang Yuan will go bankrupt as soon as the seven days come.

There is no other meaning in earning this money.

In the future, if Liu Che did not take over the matter of minting money, Zhang Yuanwei would have promoted the five-baht coin to the whole country, and the money needed to popularize paper into civilian life would be an astronomical amount.

Lao Zhao had just taken over two large orders, and the sky was completely dark.

Zhang Yuan didn't give anyone any affection or affection, and directly ordered the door to be closed.

The nobles who came to Qingpingfang and Zhang Yuan seemed to ignore one of the biggest problems.

Today, the nobles who came to Qingpingfang, the largest in line are naturally the Marquis of Guangping, but only a few people in the Marquis of Guangping are engaged in politics in Chang'an.

None of the other powerful or righteous nobles came to Qingpingfang.

The richest Pingyang Hou Mansion is reasonable, and it is possible to directly come to the mold of coinage based on the relationship between Princess Pingyang and Zhang Yuan.

But Zhang Yuan didn't find this.

The top families and officials of the Han Dynasty collectively expressed their attitude on the first day.

Of course, this attitude is for Liu Che, not for Zhang Yuan.

At this moment, Zhang Yuan seemed to have become a blind man, he didn't know anything, and he didn't give him a breath.

The business in Qingpingfang lasted for a month.

The amount of copper money that flowed out eventually reached two billion.

The copper coins exchanged by ordinary people and businessmen barely add up to 200 million.

The amount of money released was only 150 million, and the rest was all the amount reached by the nobles according to the ratio of 4.5.

This month, Zhang Yuan's wealth doubled.

It seems to be less, but this is calculated together with Zhang Yuan's almost 100,000 catties of gold.

In addition to the money released, Zhang Yuan still has 600 million five-baht money left, and all the money released will be recovered, and Zhang Yuan will be able to make up 800 million five-baht money.

This month swept away all the other coins circulating in the Chang'an market.

The five-baht coin has even flowed to the boundary of internal history, at least the satellite cities of Chang'an City have begun to use the five-baht coin.

Regarding this earth-shaking change, Liu Che did not mention or ask.

Zhang Yuan was worried in his heart at this time.

Chang'an City is at Liu Che's feet, and Liu Che can immediately know everything that happened.

But Liu Che didn't summon Zhang Yuan, and Zhang Yuan went to participate in the early dynasty a few times when he was uneasy, and no one asked.

As for Wei Qing, he had already been transferred to the frontier by Liu Che to deal with the revenge of the Huns.

The revenge of the Xiongnu Dashan and the military ministers was destined to end in nothing.

In addition to receiving dividends from Qingpingfang normally, the Pingyang Hou Mansion has no other movements.

During this period, Zhang Yuan received a reply from Zhuo Wangsun.

Zhuo Wangsun said that Zhang Yuan could be provided with the equivalent of one billion five-baht coins.

After getting the news, Zhang Yuan was overjoyed.

This is estimated to be not all of Zhuo Wangsun's wealth, but also half of it.

The Wuyan clan lent Emperor Han Jing's daughter, and Emperor Han Jing returned their family ten thousand gold.

This 10,000 gold is the capital of the Wuyan clan, and it is possible to multiply this 10,000 gold tenfold over the past few decades.

After all, the loan shark family, the interest is just that.

The Linqiong Zhuo family must be richer than the Wuyan family, which can also provide Zhang Yuan with a glimpse of how rich Zhuo Wangsun is.

But it didn't take long for Zhang Yuan to be hit hard by a punch.

News came from Shu County again, saying that the government had ordered the Zhuo clan to leave for Maolingyi within a month.

As for the statement, of course, Liu Che called on the world's heroes to enter Maolingyi.

On the previous occasion, Zhuo Wangsun stuffed millions of money into the government, and then finally eliminated his family from the list through the relationship operation of Princess Pingyang.

The same is true for the rest of the families, wealthy businessmen who do not have a little official background.

The big one involves the Huang family, and the small one is also inextricably linked to the local government.

How can the emperor know who is who, and hundreds of thousands of people have moved in at once, and Liu Che can still read all the people on the list?

But now it's basically just a direct roll call.

It was not only Linqiong Zhuo's family who received the notice, but also Zhuo Wangsun's good brother, and Linqiong's Cheng Zheng family also received the notice.

There is also the Huang family in Shu County, and in other places, even Kong's own family has been notified.

Anyway, as long as the famous iron merchants and salt merchants in the whole world have received the notice.

The most wronged are the Huang family and Cheng Zheng, these two families are halfway monks or because of Liu Che's order to meddle in iron smelting, and the other family has thrown all the business to Zhuo Wangsun since the development of the Zhuo family, and then devoted themselves to the trade business of these small countries in the southwest.

But now it's the city gate that is on fire and the fish in the pond!