It's really weird, this treasure has not yet been officially issued, but the fire consumption of silver has really come out.

At the very least, the merchants of all sizes in the capital, regardless of how big they are, have received a notice from the yamen - those who use treasure money to pay taxes and taxes will not be charged fire consumption, and those who use silver copper plates will be charged an additional five cents for every two taels of silver.

The people, whether they are ordinary people or merchants, have a confused expression.

Even if we recognize the face value of this treasure banknote, the government will still recognize it, and you can use this thing to pay taxes and taxes, but where is this thing? Who has it?

Didn't you say a ball?

Don't you want to get a new name and collect more money, right?

In short, the thinking of the common people and ordinary merchants was infinitely expanded at this moment, and they began to associate with Emperor Chongzhen's intention to collect more money.

Even rumors began to emerge that the emperor planned to build more gardens.

And the fuck is that the rumors spread by the people themselves are not even enough to slander the king, and there is no place for Jinyiwei to spread it.

Immediately afterwards, there was also a rumor from the Yamen of the Salt Administration, anyone who used treasure money to buy salt was still at the original price, and as for the silver, I am sorry, I have to collect the fire.

Before that, Emperor Chongzhen had already drawn some people from the Ministry of Industry and the Craftsman Prison, and some of the dead eunuchs from the Twenty-Four Bureaus to form a new yamen.

Shaofu.

The Han Dynasty had the institution of Shaofu, which was abandoned when it came to the pseudo-Yuan, and the Ming Dynasty naturally did not set up this institution again.

But Emperor Chongzhen once again brought out this institution, specifically in charge of matters related to people's livelihood, such as the salt administration.

It is equivalent to a state-owned enterprise that will cry for relief when there is nothing to do in the future.

Of course, the Ming version of Shaofu is not exactly the same as the Shaofu in the Qin and Han dynasties and the state-owned enterprises in later generations.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, the Shaofu had two functions, one was responsible for collecting taxes on mountains, seas, and ponds and collecting local contributions for the use of the court; Second, it is responsible for the supply and service of all the needs of the court, such as food, clothing, daily life, and safari play.

Many of the state-owned enterprises in later generations are really troublesome. For example, if you can't move and can't connect, you are under the control of the evil mother-in-law of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

The Ming version of Shaofu combines these two parts into one.

To put it simply, it is necessary to engage in money-losing things such as salt politics and money-collecting things such as perfume.

If the demand for such things as salt is not very large, or that the common people are not sensitive enough to this price, the rumors of the remaining perfume and some other messy Shaofu franchises have also come out, but it will really be fatal.

Many of the eldest wives and concubines of wealthy families in the capital have found that the price of perfume has risen, which was originally expensive, but now it is even more expensive.

If you continue like this, you can't afford perfume, how can you get the favor of your master? Without grace, how can we live this life?

As for those wealthy businessmen who are constantly entangled with the official lords, they are very anxious.

The decision to recover the fire consumption has come out, and the matter of the treasure money is also a certainty, but this treasure money has never been traced, and when the day has to pay the commercial tax, the fire consumption will die.

The tax of one tael of silver is five cents, but who only pays one or two taels of silver every month? Who doesn't have a tax of hundreds of taels, thousands of taels or even tens of thousands of taels?

A month looks like this fire doesn't consume much, but what about a year?

The silver of the white flowers is inexplicably missing a lot, and I feel distressed!

However, what hurts people is that until the ninth year of Chongzhen, this new treasure banknote was still silent and disappeared.

It wasn't until the New Year of Chongzhen's tenth year, when Emperor Chongzhen rewarded his ministers, that Chongzhen's treasure money came out after a long time, and was rewarded by Emperor Chongzhen to some courtiers.

And then? There's nothing then.

The treasure money was not issued, and the people did not have it, and the ministers who got the treasure money planned to spend the treasure money at the beginning, but when they got it, they gave up this idea.

Even a fool can see that Emperor Chongzhen will definitely issue this thing in the future, and the ones in his hands can be described as the first batch, just the number of Ming Chongzhen Nine Years Jia XXXX on the treasure banknote already means that it is the top batch.

For such a treasure banknote, don't you take it home and take it out to spend? Silly, isn't it?

Then Emperor Chongzhen looked at the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military operations with a bewildered expression, which could only mean a capital suit.

Start playing Collectibles now?

But after thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen was also relieved.

There is a way to be the gold of the prosperous era of antiques and troubled times, and the Ming Dynasty, which has lasted for more than 200 years and nearly 300 years, should now be regarded as a small prosperous era, although natural disasters are always continuous, but the atmosphere of playing antiques and collecting has risen.

Even his mother's palace collection of books has been inexplicably passed by the ministers, and Jinyiwei is still tracking down the whereabouts of these books.

Then Emperor Chongzhen was also ruthless, planning to exchange all the treasure banknotes issued during the Zhengde period and before Zhengde.

Equivalent exchange, holding the usual treasure money can be exchanged for one or two silver.

For this reason, Emperor Chongzhen also specially took out 30 million taels of silver to be used as reserves.

There is only one purpose, no matter what, I have to hype back the credit of the treasure banknote.

However, what stunned Emperor Chongzhen was that after the people exchanged less than five million taels of treasure money at the beginning, there was no one to exchange it.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Guo Yunhou with a dark face: "Didn't Guo Aiqing say that the previous exchange of treasure banknotes required about 30 million taels?" Now it's less than five million taels, why? ”

Guo Yunhou also had a confused expression.

According to the inspection of the household department, the treasure banknotes issued from the Zhenghongwu period to the Zhengde period are not only 30 million taels, but also 300,000 taels.

Even if it is all kinds of damage and is taken to wipe the buttocks, the rest of the ones will have to be twenty or thirty million taels to be recovered.

And in the case that it has been stated that these treasure notes can no longer be circulated, who among the people is willing to keep these waste papers?

In short, the issuance of treasure banknotes this time is full of weirdness.

Seeing that Guo Yunhou was speechless, Emperor Chongzhen simply instructed Wang Chengen: "Find out the reason by the Tianer Cultivation Department." ”

No, you have to figure out about the treasure banknote, five million taels is too evil, isn't there someone holding back the bad?

After all, just the nobles in the capital have to have tens of millions of taels in their hands to be normal, and these people don't exchange them for silver?

But the news of Jinyiwei's return made Emperor Chongzhen even more painful - most of them had already been taken to wipe their buttocks, and they were gone.

As for the rest, the big ones have them, but they don't exchange them, so they plan to pass them on from father to son, from generation to generation.

The truth that scarcity is precious, these nobles of the Ming Dynasty played more slippery than later generations - now the people don't have this thing, and the court still wants to take it back and burn it uniformly, what does this mean?

It means that the previous treasure money is gone, and it can no longer be found.

Although this thing is not very valuable now, who can say for sure what will happen in the future? As long as the Ming Dynasty is not extinguished, this thing will be worth a lot of money sooner or later, right?

Now you want to take back the treasure money of the same face value for a tael of silver? Bah!

Emperor Chongzhen was helpless, and he could only admire the Ming people once again - the concept of collection will not be hyped up by these bastards now, right?

Tian Ergeng also reported another news - the people are not very enthusiastic about the issuance of Chongzhen treasure banknotes, but the merchants of all sizes in the capital are looking forward to it, just waiting for the issuance of Chongzhen treasure banknotes.

After inquiring about Guo Yunhou, Emperor Chongzhen finally decided to issue 10 million taels of treasure notes first - there are now more than 30 million taels of silver in the treasury, which is just enough to take out 10 million taels to distribute those ticket numbers to the capital, or bank outlets.

Emperor Tuo Chongzhen's blessing of studying at the Traveler Training Center made the merchants of the Ming Dynasty feel disgusted or felt that there was no loophole to exploit The new policy came out.

In the so-called bank outlets, the exchange of treasure money and silver also requires an additional fire cost.

That is to say, one tael of silver can be exchanged for a treasure banknote of a consistent face value, and a treasure banknote of a consistent face value must be exchanged for silver, and a fire consumption of five cents must be charged.

Many merchants who came to line up at the beginning to try to see if they could exchange it gritted their teeth and stomped their feet, and Lao Tzu stopped changing!

Merchants have their own plans - now the treasure money and silver are equivalent to the government, and the loopholes that can be exploited are simply not too big!

How to take advantage of this loophole?

Lao Tzu collects money normally, can I use these treasure money in my hand to pay taxes?

In this way, won't the money still fall into your own hands? Treasure money, when you need it, go to those so-called banks to exchange it?

As for those mud-legged treasure money, where did they get the treasure money in their hands?

Then, Tian Ergeng reported the reaction of the people in the capital to Emperor Chongzhen: "The people asked for more treasure money, and now some of these have fallen into the hands of those merchants, and the people are very dissatisfied with the fact that they have to pay more taxes." ”

Emperor Chongzhen didn't pay attention to this matter at all.

If the people ask for more than one occurrence, they will have more to do? Is this thing up to me or the people?

Now it is very simple to print some treasure banknotes, but once more money is issued, the consequence is likely to be the depreciation of treasure money, and fools will send more!

It wasn't until Chongzhen's ten-year spring tax came up that the Daming Royal Bank once again shamefully printed 10 million taels of treasure banknotes.

This time is even more ridiculous, not only the merchants in the capital are already staring at the issuance of this batch of treasure banknotes, but even some big merchants in Nanzhili are also eyeing the time of the issuance of this batch of treasure banknotes, and even specially brought silver to the capital to prepare to exchange a batch of treasure banknotes.

No one is stupid, and no one wants to pay hundreds or thousands of taels of silver more than others for no reason when paying taxes.

This time, not only the newly printed 10 million taels of treasure banknotes flowed out, but the 10 million taels issued before were used by the merchants in the capital to pay taxes and then flowed back to the treasury, so it is equivalent to 20 million taels of treasure banknotes that can be exchanged.

However, it is useless, 20 million taels looks like a lot, and it is almost enough to catch up with Chongzhen's ten years of spring tax, but in fact, many large merchants exchange tens of thousands of taels at one time.

It was too easy to find out 2,000 big merchants in Daming, so the treasure banknotes that had just been issued didn't last even a day, and they were once again redeemed.

The treasure money exchanged was still collected by these big merchants, intending to use it to pay taxes, but it was still not circulated in the market.

The sourness in the heart of Emperor Chongzhen, who was rewarded, could not be described, and in the end it could only be turned into three words - hemp selling batches!

Is the banknote issued?

It was issued, and the face value met its own expectations, one or two silver is equal to the usual treasure banknote, and the entire Ming Dynasty has recognized it.

But in reality?

This thing is not circulating in the market at all, these things are all in the hands of the merchants waiting to pay taxes, and then waiting to exchange silver for treasure money after paying taxes, and the circulation is still gold, silver and copper plates!

Fucked up by the Ming society slapped in the face?

Emperor Chongzhen couldn't figure out what the problem was in the middle - even the cabinet and the eight scholars couldn't figure it out.

Emperor Chongzhen was very unhappy.

Based on the confidence that he still had thousands of taels of silver and silver, Emperor Chongzhen simply issued another 10 million taels of Chongzhen treasure banknotes.

As a result, Emperor Chongzhen was slapped in the face again, and the 10 million taels of treasure money still didn't even turn over a wave, and it was all swallowed by those merchants.

This time, Emperor Chongzhen did not dare to print additional treasure money again.

There must be something wrong here, and if you don't find the root of the problem, you can't solve the problem by printing treasure money, but it will make this thing invisibly depreciate.

The problem lies in the merchants, but also in the people, Emperor Chongzhen plans to go out of the palace to take a look, find the root of the problem and then solve it.

Otherwise, if it goes on like this, I don't know when this thing will really circulate.

After coming to a restaurant that had nothing to do with Jinyiwei and the East and West Factory, Emperor Chongzhen's bad taste was once again revealed: "Blanch a pot of wine first, and then serve a few of your specialty dishes, and by the way, two catties of sauce beef." ”

The shopkeeper looked at the treasure money dangling in Emperor Chongzhen's hand, but his face was full of bitterness.

I know this thing, and the shopkeeper has already let him see it, but this treasure money is not so easy to take.

The imperial court is like a crazy person who collects cattle all over the world, and now no cow dares to fall to his death.

Even if there is, it is the restaurant that has something to do with those noble lords that dares to let the cow fall to death, and it only does the business of regular customers.

These guest officials, who are not regular customers, order beef, and it is likely that the front foot will make the cow fall to death, and the back foot will have the government come to the door.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Xiao Er's tangled expression on his face, and said with a smile: "That's it, if there is no beef, there will be no it, and a few of your specialty dishes will be ready." ”

The shopkeeper responded with a smile: "Okay, don't worry, the wine and food will be fine for a while, you can sit down for a while." ”

When it was time to settle the bill, Emperor Chongzhen took a few dimes of broken silver found by the shopkeeper and asked curiously, "Why don't you find the treasure money?" It's also convenient for my son to take it with me? ”