What is the basis of a regime's authority? There is only one answer, and that is currency. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Friends who have read the much-defamed financial book "Currency Wars" must know very well that for a robber country like the US imperialism that plunders and exploits the whole world by financial means, the green paper they print is an IOU that can legally turn the blood and sweat of the people of all countries into a happy life of the American people from all over the world.

And the U.S. military is to protect the circulation of this IOU in the world's trade and settlement system, acting as the largest settlement tool.

Now, Li Shouhan also wants to sacrifice currency, a big killer that kills people invisibly and plunders but is bloody and fleshy.

In the signing room of the General's Mansion, I could hear the busy footsteps of the clerks of the various departments and Cao outside, and the sound of crackling abacus, Li Shouhan was half-lying on the Luohan bed, with a blanket on his body, seemingly closing his eyes to recuperate, but in his mind he was calculating like turning over the river and the sea.

The Americans' green paper can travel all over the world and become the hardest white slip, relying on the dollar and gold in the early stage, and relying on oil in the later stage, and using oil to kidnap the whole world. However, before that, the Yankees, who were so powerful that they were perverted industrial systems and military systems supported by industrial systems, laid the foundation and endorsed this form. Otherwise, Franklin's portraits, no matter how beautifully printed, would only appear in the toilets and in the farmers' markets before the Qingming Festival. But there are so many stupid Bai Tian naively think that the Yankees just rely on green paper, and then desperately advocate that all the industrial systems of the Celestial Empire be sold at a low price and replaced with green paper, so that the Celestial Empire can achieve hegemony in the Eastern Hemisphere. Among them, there are many well-known so-called economists who are shaking their lips and waving their flags and shouting, what shares, what private ownership, and so on, and so on. To this day, the disciples of "shares" and "private" still suffer infinitely.

"Humph! They can use oil, how can this king not! Although Li Shouhan is only the title of a duke at the moment, the people under him have already called him the prince. At this time, don't say that he is vaguely called by his subordinates, or even arrogant, even if he comes out and uses the Son of Heaven's honor guard chariot and horse, it is estimated that no one will say anything.

In the current trade pattern, the Nanyue Army and the Nanyue Army's fundamental place in the south and central China can be regarded as playing a pivotal role in the entire world trade system. Grain and oil, refined salt, sugar, cloth, ironware, tea and silk exported from the mainland, porcelain, tea, cloth, and military weapons produced by themselves were exported to all parts of the world by sea ships.

"What if we declare at this time that we will only accept silver dollars minted by ourselves and our allies to be minted on our behalf by our standards as settlement currency?"

"Also, what do you think of the Hongguang Silver Dollar and Hongguang Tongbao issued by the Emperor after the New Year, and our Nanzhong Silver Dollar and Tongbao are circulating in the Central Plains as the only legal currency?"

Summoned Hu Cao, Long Shengxing and other relevant people to discuss in the signing room, Li Shouhan first threw out his own issues. It is necessary to promote the currency of South China as a means of the same as the navigation regulations, throughout the trading system, throughout the interior.

"Huh?" As soon as Li Peilin and the others sat down, their buttocks had not yet touched the cushion of the chair, and they heard Li Shouhan's sudden question, and they were suddenly a little confused. In their view, nine times out of ten, the Lord convened a meeting today to discuss the transfer of grain and wages. However, I didn't expect that the lord threw out such an issue.

"After the change, how is the new money minted?"

"Back to the lord, since King Fu supervised the country, the coinage bureaus in Nanzhong have started to manufacture, day and night. Today, the Hongguang silver dollars that have arrived in Nanjing and stored in the Hucao warehouse have been one million yuan, and Tongbao has been converted to ten times the amount of silver dollars. ”

"The silver dollars and treasures stored in the garrisons of various critical places are also the total number here."

This is Li Shouhan. It has several super-large copper mines in Zhenla and Luzon, and relies on seafaring trade and industrial production, and the precious metals such as gold and silver in its hands are piled up. It also has the ability to produce silver dollars and tongbao with water pressure, with very low consumption, and extremely high speed and efficiency. This is what makes it possible to generate new money of this magnitude in just a few months.

"Take a sample of the money!"

On the Golden Palace, Zhu Yousong comforted Li Shouhan from the bottom of his heart, and heard that the new money reported by Shi Ma Shiying of the Cabinet Shoufu University had been minted, and asked His Majesty's will to set when it would be put on the market.

No emperor heard that the new money for his era name had been minted before the official change. Immediately, Zhu Yousong was a good student and praised Ma Shiying a few words, of course, both the monarch and the minister knew that now that the treasury is empty, where will the new money come from. I can't say that Liang Guogong looks at it differently.

There was a little eunuch holding a wooden plate, and on the brocade on the plate were more than a dozen dazzling newly minted silver dollars and tongbao, which were sent to Zhu Yousong and the military ministers of the court one by one.

Zhu Yousong held a silver dollar in his hand, looking at the white, shiny, and round thing in his hand, he couldn't help but smile. Unexpectedly, I will be able to see the coins of my year name one day! He had already made up his mind, and after the dispersal of the dynasty, he would present the money to the Queen Mother, and then send it to his father's spiritual throne to be enshrined to comfort his old man's spirit in the sky.

The silver dollar as a whole, the production is very exquisite, the pattern is natural and clear, the color is delicate and rich, there are "Daming household silver dollars" under the "Hongguang first year casting", "folding gold and silver one or two" and other words, in the middle is the words "Hongguang treasure", Qian Wen Xiuyi, dignified strokes. On the back, there are two big characters written "One Yuan", and the surrounding is the sun, moon, stars, plum blossoms, and pine branch patterns. On the lace, there is also a line of small words "containing silver ninety into seven".

As an emperor whose father and son have been splashed with greedy and lustful sewage for hundreds of years, although Zhu Yousong is not as unbearable as the Donglin party members say, who doesn't like money? Especially the coin made with such a beautiful coin, and it has its own year name, suddenly, Zhu Yousong's heart was full of joy. He stroked it gently with his fingertips, feeling the patterns on it, as well as the tooth patterns on the edges, and he didn't think it was very enjoyable. Motioning to the little eunuch beside him to come over, he reached out and grabbed all the silver dollars in the wooden plate, and let them fall, making a pleasant sound of ding dong, and the voice continued. Inside the wooden plate, the luster of the white flowers is dazzling.

In the wooden plate, these silver rounds in the hands of the ministers, almost each of them has the same shape, fineness and weight, and one can be used as a piece, which is also the original Nanzhong in order to avoid the color and weight do not meet the standard, and even the circulation can only be valued by weight, not by the piece, losing the meaning of the circulation of silver yuan, resulting in the inability to act as a settlement tool and deliberately strengthened. Moreover, the silver content of these silver rounds is still an astonishing silver content of ninety percent seven, which is similar to the Ming Dynasty folded silver, which can be described as very high-quality. Even compared with the gold and silver that entered the treasury of the inner house, the fineness is almost the same. However, if these ministers knew that these silver dollars, which were ostensibly marked with a silver content of ninety-seven percent silver, were actually ninety-ninety-nine silver, I wonder if their jaws would have hit the surface of their feet.

(Ninety percent of silver dollars are not made up by the author, the famous I-shaped silver dollar in the coin collecting industry was made by Mao Commissar in the Jinggangshan period, and the silver content is as high as 99.8%!) That's right, you read that right, it's ninety-nine-eight! ）

In addition to playing the signboard of Hongguang silver dollar and making the name of Hongguang more appealing, from an economic point of view, it is also to prevent people with ulterior motives from imitating and counterfeiting silver dollars. It must be known that at this time, the silver content of the folded silver of the Ming household department is only ninety three, and the popular folk silver ingots in the south of the Yangtze River are only 90% of the silver content at best.

Although these silver dollars are stamped with hydraulic power, the stability of the power cannot be guaranteed, and there are slight differences between the silver rounds, but they can achieve such exquisite and standards, which is already very good, and it is not a problem for the people to accept and popularize.

Looking at these sparkling coins, the hundreds of officials in the court have their own hearts. Although these coins are also the first time they have seen them, they are not unfamiliar, because the Nanzhong silver dollar and Tongbao that they value the most are basically the same as the fineness of these currencies. The Nanzhong Silver Dollar and Tongbao have always been treasured by them in their private treasury, carefully guarded, and extremely precious, but now they are reluctant to let them accept these new dynasty currencies that are basically the same as the Nanzhong Silver Dollar Tongbao.

Because, once these coins circulated in the market, entered the financial and taxation system of the imperial court, and flowed into the treasury of the government, then they lost a good tool for exploiting and oppressing the common people.

Ming coinage, in the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang time, only handed over to the Ministry of Industry Baoyuan Bureau is responsible, at that time the annual coinage is not much, and vigorously pursue the treasure money policy, strict control of copper coins, three times twice stop casting, prohibited, so although the private casting was rampant at that time, but overall copper coins are very valuable.

However, in the Wanli period of Mingshenzong, the household department that obtained the right to mint money because of the war to aid Korea vigorously set up a coinage furnace all over the country to follow suit, and finally the whole Ming Dynasty has how much money furnace can not be counted, especially a large amount of private money, light and inferior money mixed into the official money to fill the number, so that many official furnaces have closed their doors.

During the Apocalypse and Chongzhen, the same private money was overflowing, the provincial money bureaus were indiscriminate and bad money, making profits, Chongzhen was the first year, Chongzhen Tongbao was cast, each text weighed one penny and two cents and five cents, and it was well-cast, but because the imperial court finances almost collapsed, it was not maintained soon.

Later, the official money was cast in a small and light manner, and was jokingly called Running Horse Chongzhen, at this time the money system was the most complicated, and the money bureaus around the country wantonly minted it, plus the private money that flooded throughout the country, and the types reached more than 100 kinds.

As in the past dynasties, Chongzhen Tongbao is mainly a small flat money, which is a small money with a face value, of course, there are two money, three money, five money, ten money and other big money, which is used as two, five, ten and other money.

Ming stipulates that when the tenth class of big money, at least the weight of the money is one or two, and the copper content should reach how much, but it is rarely done, during the Apocalypse, it was opened to cast ten coins, but because of the official and private coins, it was quickly ordered to stop casting, and the silver was produced by the imperial court, and the ten coins were recovered.

Compared with the sand shells and light sheet coins that are privately cast everywhere, the copper circles of the same shape of the silver dollar in each person's hand are of good color, beautiful appearance, high copper content, and sufficient weight. I think it will be easy for people to accept it in the market.

As for what shape the silver copper coin is made, the ministers don't care, the Ming Dynasty calculates the silver taels, has always only looked at the color and weight, the shape does not matter, it is like broken silver, it is cut from a piece of silver, a clip cut down, what is the shape? The official silver of the Ming Dynasty is folded into silver, and it is cast into the shape of ingots, which is just convenient for statistics.

On the contrary, I feel that such a piece is easy to use, and there is no need to weigh it, and it is also convenient to look at the color. However, convenience is convenient, where can we go to make money?

In the Ming system, minting money is a lucrative business, which is a well-known secret. At this time, the copper used to cast money, every 100 catties of copper, after the sale of at least 16,000 yuan, but the cost of 100 catties of copper is less than half, and the profit margin is almost three times.

Therefore, starting from the Ming Taizu, there are more and more people who mint coins privately, although the capital crime cannot be stopped, and the development to the present, it is more and more widespread, and it is full of officials, gentry, eunuchs and other control and participation, and the power of private money dealers is getting bigger and bigger. These private money businessmen often rely on the court bigwigs. In other words, one is an umbrella and the other is a white glove.

Another important reason is "fire consumption"! The term fire consumption originated in the Wanli period, and appeared after Zhang Juzheng implemented the "one whip law". Taxes are levied in various places, and no goods are collected, no copper coins are collected, only silver is collected. These broken silver of various shapes and weights are melted and recast into silver ingots, and this part of the money, of course, cannot be paid by officials at all levels, but is levied on the people.

Later, the heavier the fire consumption, some states and counties, even reached every two, two, three, four or five yuan, some of which were handed over, and most of them were divided among officials at all levels, and each fire consumption was several times that of the regular endowment, and the people were miserable.

Thinking of this, some people couldn't sit still, and they immediately took out the name of righteousness and began to object: "Guogong, this matter is not appropriate. Now that the thieves have not been exterminated, the country is in trouble, and the issuance of silver dollars is just a trivial matter, which should be placed after these two major events. ”

Li Shouhan snorted when he heard this, and said in his heart I have long known that you gang will make trouble, but please can you find a more reliable reason. Thinking of this, Li Shouhan said disdainfully: "The thieves in the east are just dry bones in the grave, and the silver dollar is the foundation of the country and the lifeblood of the people. And if you wait for the autumn to be implemented, do you still want the people to pay your rent for one year's silver dollars, and you give the people another year's wages for running horses and Chongzhen? ”

Li Shouhan's stern tone made the ministers unable to hang up on their faces, so some people's hearts began to move: "Guogong, please forgive me for being blunt, and now the dry bones in the mound are stolen from the Jingshi, and the family occupies a large area of land in Jin and Shaanxi to claim the king, while the Marquis of Linqing died on the battlefield and Shandong fell. The reason for investigating it is because the Guogong has not been thinking about the people's hardships for many years, which has led to many rebellions among the officials and people in Shandong. In the next thought, the issuance of new currency is not indispensable, but it should be slowly planned so as not to hurt the people. ”

"Your Majesty! The Cabinet already has a proposition. These coins, if His Majesty finds them feasible after the Imperial Inspection, are issued and exchanged by the various states and counties. In addition, the Cabinet of Ministers issued a letter to all localities stipulating that all kinds of coins in the past, coins made in previous dynasties, and silver ingots of various shapes, could not be taxed on money and grain, nor could they be used for commercial transactions. Those who enter the official treasury, in addition to His Majesty's Hongguang Treasure and Hongguang Tongbao, are Nanzhong Silver Dollar and Tongbao can enter. This is also to unify the standard of numismatic form. So as not to harm the people with private money! ”

Ma Shiying's words were no less powerful than the twenty-four-pounder siege cannon in the court, which shocked everyone's eyes and made them dizzy.

"Qing and the others are very well planned. However, although the various types of money popular on the market are of inferior quality, they are also condensed by the blood and sweat of the people. Secretaries and others need to plan to prevent the sick people from harming business. ”

Get! Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong's words can be regarded as playing a role in assisting Li Shouhan and Ma Shiying. Aren't you talking about the sick and harming the people? Okay, I'll ask the relevant departments under me to come up with a plan to collect the money in the hands of the little people.

"Your Majesty! Shousuke-sama has already made a plan. Each of these silver dollars can be exchanged for 2,000 Wen for Hongguang Tongbao or Nanzhong Tongbao, which is the official price from then on. The two official coins of Hongguang Tongbao and Nanzhong Tongbao are exchanged for one new coin for four private coins in exchange with various miscellaneous coins on the market. ”

"It's a good move. I don't know how long it will take to redeem and redeem? ”

"Your Majesty, the deadline should be one month. After a month, there will be broken silver and private money, and the houses, furnaces, banks, and businesses in various places should be exchanged at the market price. However, the government everywhere is not allowed to collect money and grain from the treasury to pay taxes! ”

The conversation between Zhu Yousong and Li Shouhan made many people present secretly breathe a sigh of relief. Some have even found another way to speculate.

"The price of going back and forth in Beijing, tattooing silver one tael, buying money six hundred, its nobility is only between zero and twenty, since the holy practice, moving day by day, to last year, has been sold to two thousand, summer and autumn, more than two thousand hundred, silver is expensive and cheap, it can be said. With the number of 2,000 frogs, it can be exchanged for one tael of high-quality silver, and there is a big difference here. In addition, there is also the matter of exchanging four private money for one official money. These two ways can be used to make great profits! ”

The officials who were the first to get the important information that the imperial court was about to issue new money and redeem all kinds of private money such as sand shells and light money that were popular in the market, after the dispersal of the court, did not wait to return home, they waved in their sedan chairs, and the pen walked between dragons and snakes.

"Open the furnace! Mint money! As much as you have, you can cast as much as you want! ”

"Take the broken silver, go out into the streets, and collect the sand husks! It's okay to pay a higher price! ”

Everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River heard the wind.