Huang Zongxi walked over, glared at Cao Wenyao and Song Yingsheng, snatched the Ruyao wine glass in their hands, and put it to their mouths to kill it.

turned around and looked Zhu Shun up and down.

I watched it for a long time.

Zhu Shun who watched it felt a little hairy in his heart.

Huang Zongxi pulled the red hair ribbon to the back of his head, tore open the red and purple clothes, and said with interest: "You are Zhu Shun?" ”

Without waiting for Zhu Shun to answer, Huang Zongxi continued: "To tell you clearly, your so-called change is impossible to succeed, so I will always avoid you." ”

"I know you don't want to believe it, but that's the truth, for the sake of Lao Cao and Lao Song's face, I'll point you out."

"There have been many reforms carried out in successive dynasties, although the reform measures are to reduce the burden on the peasants and improve the tax administration of the imperial court, but it has just begun to have some effect, and after each reform, it has increased to a higher level."

"And do you know who your enemy is in this reform? But the Donglin Party and the Jin merchants, that is, have the emperor's care, otherwise you would have been sunk into the Yongding River in the second year of Chongzhen......."

Zhu Shun listened to Huang Zongxi talking about the disadvantages there, and only said two words before he shut up.

"Do you know what stock is and what is an offshore currency settlement center."

Belch......

Huang Zongxi, who thought he was a pedantic celestial, was stunned.

I don't dare to say that I learned five cars, but I dare to say that he has learned a hundred cars, and he has a ability to never forget, and he has memorized the entire "Yongle Canon".

After racking my brains for a long time, I really don't know what a stock and offshore currency settlement center is.

Zhu Shun didn't explain, he drank a glass of rice wine with a smile and warmed his body.

Huang Zongxi's desire for knowledge was stronger than that of the Western scholars who sought the truth, and he couldn't help but ask about the true meaning of these two sentences, which were obviously related to gold and silver.

But there was no way to speak, after all, everyone didn't know each other, and there was no reason to tell Huang Zongxi, an outsider, that belonged to Zhu Shun's own knowledge.

Huang Zongxi could only snatch the wine jug, and the depressed person poured wine there.

"Haha."

Zhu Shun, Cao Wenyao, and Song Yingsheng couldn't help laughing.

The eldest brother Song Ying smiled warmly and persuaded him: "Sir, there is no need to sell Guanzi." ”

Zhu Shun snatched the wine jug, personally poured a glass for Huang Zongxi, and said with a smile: "Let's talk about this stock issue first, the stock is the largest financial potential of a country when it is large, and it is the size of a cake when it is small." ”

"The reforms of the past dynasties will indeed fall into a strange circle, but that is because no matter how the reform is, the stock, that is, the pie, is still so big."

"If the stock can be continuously expanded, just like the people of Shuntianfu have changed the grain they grow from more than one stone of wheat per mu to 20 stone of potatoes, the people will naturally be able to eat enough."

Huang Zongxi heard Zhu Shun's explanation about stock, and the more he listened, the more he thought it was true, and when he heard it, his eyes were about to light up at the end, and he muttered to himself: "Daming lost the right to mint money, isn't it because of the scarcity of copper. ”

"If you gather all the copper of all the countries on the map of Kunyu Wanguo in your hands, the problem of monetary power will naturally be solved."

"That is, the stock has been expanded."

Huang Zongxi turned his face, stared at Zhu Shun and asked, "Could this offshore currency settlement center be related to the gathering of copper?" ”

This time it was Zhu Shun's turn to be shocked, Huang Zongxi's explanation of the offshore currency settlement center was not right on the surface, but there was not much difference in the inner meaning.

Zhu Shun was also ready to use these novel knowledge to deceive this great talent who had helped the people in the world, where was he willing to explain easily, smiled and said: "Huangshan people, can you talk about how the Ming Dynasty lost the right to mint coins." ”

Huang Zongxi muttered that he was really stingy, took the Ruyao wine glass, and dried it up in one gulp: "Since ancient times, the main coins in the Central Plains are copper coins, but the Central Plains is very short of copper, and the value of copper itself has become very high. ”

"The Central Plains Imperial Court used copper coins as currency, and it fell into a strange circle, when the imperial court minted copper coins with high copper content, the copper value of the copper coins themselves exceeded the value specified in the copper coins."

"For example, if the imperial court mints a penny, the specified value of this copper coin is one penny, but the copper used to mint a penny is worth more than a penny."

"In this way, a large number of bureaucratic gentry will collect copper coins and smelt them into copper to make a profit."

"So since the Song Dynasty, the Central Plains court has been looking for a coin to replace copper."

"Silver, obviously not, compared to copper, the Central Plains is more short of silver."

"From the Jiaozi of the Song Dynasty, to the banknotes of the Yuan and Meng, and to the treasure banknotes of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, the imperial court tried to replace copper coins with paper money, but it is a pity that the imperial court did not set up a special barter system for paper money, which also caused paper money to become waste paper."

"In addition, copper coins have also stopped being minted, and the people have spontaneously used silver as coins."

Zhu Shun couldn't help but nodded, but he didn't expect Huang Zongxi to see through the currency standard of all dynasties.

Silver became the currency in circulation, and anyone who discovered a silver mine, mined silver, and circulated it to the market is money.

This is fundamentally different from the imperial court's use of copper to mint money, even if it is privately owned by copper mines, copper is mined, and it cannot be directly circulated, and copper coins need to be minted into circular square holes in order to circulate in the market.

However, the right to mint coins is in the hands of the imperial court, and daring to mint coins privately is a major crime of the nine clans, and private copper mines can only be used to mint copper products.

Huang Zongxi's vision of the essence of the economy is far more than this, and he sighed and said: "Using silver as a coin, the imperial court has lost the right to mint money, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but will make the Ming Dynasty stronger." ”

"In the past, the copper coins were only the coins of dozens of countries of the Ming Dynasty and the subject countries, and they were exchanged for silver coins, and they became the coins of all countries, which is equivalent to bringing together all the national courts on the Kunyu Wanguo map."

"Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty pioneered the Silk Road, porcelain, silk, and tea from the Central Plains court have always been the most sought-after goods in all countries, but it is the goods of all countries, and it is difficult to achieve the tightness and large quantities of porcelain, silk, and tea."

"In this way, the silver of all countries continues to flow into the Ming Dynasty, but the outflow of silver from the Ming Dynasty is lower than the inflow, and the wealth of all countries has gradually become the wealth of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Shun couldn't help but say: "Trade surplus." ”

Huang Zongxi almost didn't pick up the copper wine jug and gave Zhu Shun a look at his head, why are there so many fresh words in your mouth.

It's so tempting.

The offshore currency settlement center has not yet explained, and there is another trade surplus.

Yes, I can't go now.

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