The shopkeeper said with a smile: "Master Gongzi forgives the sins, the small shop does not have those scattered treasure money, there are only 100 and 100, and other restaurants are estimated to be the same." ”

Emperor Chongzhen was happy at this moment, and simply smiled: "Okay, these broken silver will be rewarded to you, and you can take it." ”

Bai picked up more than two taels of broken silver, and the shopkeeper naturally thanked Emperor Chongzhen repeatedly, looking at the posture, he couldn't wait to treat Emperor Chongzhen as his own father.

Emperor Chongzhen felt that he had found a little reason.

The face value of the Chongzhen treasure banknotes issued by the Treasure Money Bureau was too large, and as a result, ordinary people could not afford to change it, but it was convenient for large merchants to exchange it and use it to pay commercial taxes.

Just like the renminbi of later generations, in addition to the 100 yuan bills, there are also dime and two dimes, and even one and two cents are flying all over the ground in the early days.

In contrast, the treasure banknotes of the consistent face value are about equivalent to a few hundred yuan, so it is naturally convenient for the rich and excludes the poor who have no money.

This is very unscientific.

Even if it is exchanged for the next generation, you take a hundred-yuan bill to buy a tea egg, and you try to see if the seller will look at you with the eyes of a fool.

Now that we've found the root of the problem, the rest is much easier.

During the period from the ninth year of Chongzhen to the beginning of the spring of the tenth year of Chongzhen, the entire Ming Dynasty was basically relatively stable, and the natural disasters were basically not much.

Originally, the great famine that occurred in history led to the recurrence of man-made disasters, but after Emperor Chongzhen tried his best to get food, it did not appear.

The most direct change is that the people of the Ming Dynasty have been spoiled, and they are not even very active in the division of land in Liaodong.

It can be said that Emperor Chongzhen smoked the blood of other small countries to raise the Ming Dynasty and ensure the internal stability of the Ming Dynasty.

As for those Fanguo countries in Nanyang that are ripe several times a year, because they sold all their grain to everyone at a high price, resulting in their own people starving to death, Emperor Chongzhen obviously didn't care about it.

In March of the tenth year of Chongzhen, the treasure banknote bureau issued 10 million taels of new treasure banknotes again, but the face value of the issued made the merchants who were waiting to exclude the exchange of treasure banknotes scold their mothers.

This time, not to mention the face value of 100 and 10 times, there is not even a consistent one, but all of them are one or two texts, five or ten texts, and the largest is only fifty texts.

There's nothing wrong with getting these treasures back to pay taxes, but it's disgusting to go back with a bunch of small-denomination bills?

You have to count half a day!

Especially the so-called bank branch officials, it is even more disgusting: "Master, if you change, the villain will slowly count you, you can sit?" ”

Xu Chengshun, the owner of the drunken immortal building of the number one restaurant in the capital, originally followed Yang Qiqi in Liaodong to pit Jiannu, but now he has completely whitewashed into ordinary Ming people, and now he is extremely nostalgic for Liaodong Jiannu.

When the territory of Jiannu in Liaodong was mixed, as long as he had silver in his hand, this small official would dare to talk to him like this?

He had already discounted his legs!

But now it's not done, this little official is like a bird to everyone, not only for himself, it's useless to sue the government, there is nowhere to go out of the fire.

After returning to the Drunken Immortal Building with a snort, Xu Chengshun instructed his shopkeeper with a dark face: "Pass the word, in the future, there will be those who will take treasure money to settle the bill according to normal silver, but this treasure money should go out as little as possible." ”

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "Master, the treasure money is just paper, and it is used to pay taxes, and it is not necessarily a good thing to put too much in your own hands, right?" ”

Xu Chengshun said with a dark face: "You will do whatever the master tells you!" ”

Xu Chengshun is not stupid, he has already guessed that it will be the world of treasure banknotes in the future through the pile of small denominations of a few pennies when he exchanged treasure banknotes today.

Although the silver is good, it is not as convenient as the treasure banknote after all, and it doesn't matter if the people recognize it or not, as long as the government can recognize the face value of this thing to pay taxes.

It would be nice to have some silver tickets worth 1,000 taels!

With Xu Chengshun's sigh, these penny and penny treasure banknotes began to be exchanged by some small merchants in the capital.

The uncles of Jinyiwei said that when they went to the bank outlets to redeem these treasure money, they were directly taken back to pay those messy management fees, and there was no fire consumption.

For the credibility of Jinyiwei, the people of Daming are still generally recognized - if you say that you kill the whole family, you will kill the whole family, and you will never lose your trust.

And with the first exchange and successfully paid the tax with the treasure banknotes, the so-called stall management fee, which may be more than a dozen cents, these small denominations of treasure money are considered popular.

However, this kind of fire was only limited to the small traders and hawkers who paid taxes or simply called sanitation management fees and stall management fees, and did not officially start circulation.

It was the Jinyi Wei who really made this thing circulate - after taking the silver and exchanging it for small denomination treasure bills and then going to these merchants to spend some money, this thing was officially put into circulation.

That's how it works sometimes.

Jin Yiwei took the treasure money in the unit of literature to consume, and no one in the merchants dared to refuse to accept it.

And you can also use these treasure notes to pay for these messy expenses, which just saves fire.

But what about the treasure money that exceeds these fees?

Don't say that you will wait for next month to use it, because no one of the masters of Jinyi Wei now uses silver, and they have all used treasure money, including the eunuchs in the palace.

This means that each merchant will receive far more money than they need to pay in taxes or other fees.

In line with the principle of not wanting to throw the risk into their own hands, many people try to exchange the treasure money for silver, even if it is the loss of some copper plates.

I thought it was very troublesome, but it was easy to exchange it after the so-called bank branch, and there was no imaginary difficulty or imaginary trouble.

In this way, some bold people dare to hold more treasure money in their hands, and then the treasure money on the market gradually has a tendency to be insufficient.

But it's useless, although Emperor Chongzhen, who doesn't understand economics at all, says that he has more knowledge than his brother's carpenter, but when it comes to treasure money, he is really not necessarily better than a carpenter.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was not bold enough, simply decided to issue as many treasure banknotes as there was in the treasury and internal funds, and the face value was mixed, even if Guo Yunhou said many times that the treasure money could be issued a little more, it would never be issued more.

The consequence is that the people's treasure money is always in a situation that is about the same, but always seems insufficient.

Because of the matter of the treasure money, the bigwigs of Nanzhili wrote to Emperor Chongzhen for the first time, demanding that the north and the south be treated equally, and the north could not be given priority.

The treasure banknotes issued by the imperial court before Zhengde are probably, perhaps, almost equivalent to waste paper, but are they still the same in the Chongzhen Dynasty?

It's obviously different, first of all, the imperial court treats the treasure money as real money, and the people will naturally have more confidence in the treasure banknote.

And the south, where commerce is prevalent, especially those places in Nanzhili and Songjiang Prefecture, have a more sensitive sense of smell for this kind of thing.

Then the merchants in the south felt aggrieved.

Is the south the south of the Ming Dynasty? Are we the emperor's people?

Why was the treasure banknote issued in the capital first, but not in the south? Isn't Nanzhili the capital of the Ming Dynasty?

As long as your court approves of this thing, if you don't send out tens of thousands of taels, then who is disgusting with a few thousand taels?

Why are all these benefits taken by the people of the capital?

The big merchants in the south were more playful than the merchants in the north, and simply spread the demand for treasure money to the household department and cabinet of the southern Zhili.

In short, it is a sentence, the south is the south of the Ming Dynasty, and such a convenient thing as treasure money cannot only let the northerners take advantage!

Regarding the reaction of the south, Emperor Chongzhen's first thought was that these grandsons wanted to play counterfeit money!

But after thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen felt that something was wrong.

If earlier, these bastards might have had that guts, and now to say that they have that guts is pure fun.

It's like the case of the North and South List, that is a means played by Zhu Yuanzhang to win over the northern scholars, if it was the southern scholars who jumped at the beginning, what would be the result if you tried it?

The most recent examples are the Donglin Party and the Fushe.

Before Liaodong was not pacified, there were still many people in the south of the Yangtze River who secretly summoned the spirits of the Donglin Party and the Fushe.

After Liaodong was completely pacified, and 100,000 households were forcibly relocated to Liaodong in Jiangnan, who else in Jiangnan would summon the soul of the Donglin Party and the Fushe?

Isn't it now to praise the emperor's wisdom, and then completely step on the Donglin Party and the Fushe into the mud and scold them?

Of course, by the way, it would be better to get a few places for your family to go to Liaodong - such a good thing as Liaodong sending concubines must be mixed.

What's more, after there are more people in Liaodong, this business can be done in Liaodong, which is equivalent to finding another source of money for his family, isn't it?

As for saying that Liaodong is too far from Jiangnan, then hehe.

It is indeed far enough to take the land route, first from Jiangnan to Tianjin Wei and then to Shanhaiguan, and then to Guangningwei before you can reach Haizhouwei, and then you can go to Liaodong.

But there is a sea route! Whether it's from Songjiang Mansion, or from Fujian or Zhejiang, you can go directly to Nansiwei, even if it's a supply, there is Denglaiwei in the middle!

Now the most active people in Liaodong are not Shanxi in Shaanxi, but in Jiangnan, especially the families in the area of Nanzhili.

Now Nan Zhili is so well-behaved, saying that they have the courage to target the treasure money and want to play counterfeit money, and they don't believe it if they kill Emperor Chongzhen - even if they dare, Jinyiwei will be vegetarian?

Since it is not someone who wants to play any conspiracy, it means that the demand for treasure money in the south is real.

But there is only so much silver in the treasury and the treasury in total, will it depreciate if it is issued too much?

Isn't there always an economic crisis in later generations that accompanies the depreciation of banknotes?

Damn, you're just embarrassing this ape!

After scolding countless times in his heart, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly remembered another way to play in later generations - the Bretton Woods monetary system.

Later generations have seen a lot, and they can be regarded as remembering this word and its general meaning.

It is nothing more than the dollar pegged to gold, and the currencies of other countries are pegged to the dollar.

But how much gold and silver does Daming have now?

There's no way to calculate an exact number!

According to preliminary estimates, it is not a problem to get tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver.

It's just that these gold and silver are scattered among the people, and they are not directly controlled by the government.

And isn't the purpose of making a bank out of oneself to control the gold and silver through paper money?

After scolding the pig's head a few times, Emperor Chongzhen finally allowed the treasure banknote bureau to print some more treasure money.

Of course, the amount of additional printing depends on the household department, and the Treasure Money Bureau only prints it, regardless of anything else.

Guo Yunhou felt that Emperor Chongzhen had taken off his pants and farted a little in this matter - the treasure money has always been equal to one or two pieces of silver, so there is so much to think about this kind of thing?

As long as the government recognizes the value of this thing, how much do you print and you are not happy?

As long as it is not printed too much, exceeding the total amount of gold and silver owned by the people of the Ming Dynasty, there will be a risk of depreciation of this thing?

The premise of the depreciation is that the government itself does not approve of this thing! Or is it that your emperor himself didn't approve of this thing first, and you can still expect others to approve it?

Even so, Emperor Chongzhen didn't dare to print too much at one time - 50 million taels, which were issued directly in Nanzhili.

Because Bao Qian finally took the first step to success, even the thunder fire in Jizhou in April burned the fire in the east for more than 20 miles, which failed to disturb Emperor Chongzhen's good mood.

As for the news from Shandong and Henan, it made Emperor Chongzhen even happier - the locusts are coming, and there is not enough to eat......

That's right, the people of the big food country can make locusts suffer a life-and-death dilemma? Isn't that funny what is it?

Eating locusts is not enough to eat, this is the right way to open!

Emperor Chongzhen, who was still occasionally troubled by the fact that there were no locusts to eat and no golden cicadas to eat, had even more smiles on his face after Empress Zhou finally gave birth to a son.

Damn, ten years, it's been ten years, how many decades can there be in life?

Now that the Jiannu has been destroyed and the country is pacified, the queens and concubines of the harem should have babies, they should be pregnant, and they should be drafted, and they finally have the appearance of being emperors!

The only headache is to go to the first of those selected show girls.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was far away in the capital, was very happy, but Yin Liu Xuanmin, the governor of Xuzhou, was thinking about how he should die.

Xuzhou flood, except for some people who hid in the high places of the state capital and survived, the rest basically have no hope of getting back.

And beforehand, there was no sign at all, and there was no preparation.

With such a serious disaster, how can we explain to the people? How to explain to the Son of Heaven?

Emperor Chongzhen naturally didn't know about Liu Xuanmin's plans, because there was suddenly a very magical news from the Royal Academy.