Chapter 44 Abolition and Change

Even by the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were as many as sixty or seventy million taels, but because foreign indemnities gave priority to this kind of silver coin, they were all taken away from the indemnity.

Therefore, in modern times, this kind of coin is much rarer.

Although there are not so many now, in the eyes of the well-informed Yao Qisheng, it is not a rare thing.

Zhang Xuan said: "I have watched the money law of the previous dynasty, when Hongwu, silver was banned, after Xuande, the banknote law collapsed, and the flow of silver became a fact, and there was even a tax on gold and silver." But silver is measured in catties, trivial and complicated, not only cut and broken, but every time a tax is collected, it must be melted and cast. If you move, you will have to levy fire consumption, which will cause great harm to the people. And even if there are silver ingots, the amount varies. ”

"Ouchi silver, Changping silver, and the silver minted by each private house, the frequency of various cashes is different. It's a big disadvantage at one end of the world. ”

"I have the idea of clearing the source, I don't know what Yao Qing thinks?"

To be honest, Zhang Xuan thought of this way. Although it has some reference for the policies of later generations, in essence, Zhang Xuan also wants to solve the problem.

Even when he was studying, he didn't quite understand.

The method of coinage in our country has been in place since the pre-Qin period. After the Ming Dynasty, silver was used instead. This is clearly a major setback in the system.

What's even more incredible is that after hundreds of years, the Ming Dynasty just didn't want to use silver, and then the banknote law was defeated and had to be used. However, the Qing court did not change at all, and inherited it directly. It's speechless.

Of course, Zhang Xuan has the intention of eliminating fraud for a few days, but the starting point is to solve the financial problem.

Financial issues are just four words. Open source and reduce expenditure.

However, it is impossible to solve the financial problems of Bactria by merely reducing expenditure. Zhang Xuan knew that after clearing the acres of land, Daxia's financial income would definitely increase greatly, but no matter how much it increased, it would have to wait for a while. But during this period of time, the Great Xia court could not do without money.

There must be a financial resource that can support the Qing court through a period of transition.

But open source also requires knowledge.

The method of collecting taxes is also good and evil, and the good law is to collect taxes unknowingly, and the people do not know it. But the evil law is to collect a cent, and the people below are required to pay ten cents of the tax.

Under such circumstances, the burden on the people is heavy, and the government's financial problems have not been resolved, which is naturally a collapse.

The situation in the Ming Dynasty is proof of this.

Zhang Xuan thought about how the later government would solve the financial problem, and one way was to print money.

Although I don't know how many complaints there are about this method of currency depreciation. However, compared to the method of levying in this era, it can be regarded as a good law. Although Zhang Xuan is not a financial expert, he also knows that there are some benefits to increasing the supply of money and not exceeding the limit.

So the first thing Zhang Xuan thought of was this method.

However, the method of paper money in Daxia is absolutely impossible.

Not to mention, Zhu Yuanzhang has already ruined the reputation of paper money. Even if there are many front-end technology points, Zhang Xuan may not be able to get through.

For example, how to print banknotes that people can't imitate.

Although it is not impossible, but without a lot of experiments, Zhang Xuan does not dare to mess around.

So Zhang Xuan thought of a compromise solution, which was to abolish the two yuan and change the yuan.

First of all, since ancient times, there has been an unknown number of coins, even if it is gold and silver coins, it may not be none. In the court, there were gold and silver coins given by the king.

But these gold and silver coins. Not as a currency, but as a reward.

There is nothing wrong with the casting.

And Zhang Xuan will not honestly make ten percent silver coins, for the sake of beauty or sturdy, naturally have to mix some other things.

After all, silver is soft, so you can't mint silver coins with a tooth mark.

As for the minted silver coins, Zhang Xuan will definitely use ten percent of the silver. Among them, the price difference has a professional name, called money interest.

As for how much money and interest, Zhang Xuan has not yet decided, after all, there are still some technical problems, such as what metal to co-cast with, and what proportion of metal is used to achieve the best performance.

It all has to be considered.

But Zhang Xuan has a bottom line in his heart, Yicheng. At least 10% interest.

It doesn't sound like a lot of money, but one million taels is an extra 100,000 taels. No, 100,000 yuan.

How many taels of silver are there in the whole world? Zhang Xuan didn't know too well, and he couldn't even measure it.

But Zhang Xuan believes that the decision is above 100 million taels, or even hundreds of millions of taels.

If all these silver were exchanged for silver dollars, there would be tens of millions of taels of income, or even more.

Perhaps, this money can also play a big role in the Northern Expedition.

However, it is a long process to mint all these silver dollars into silver dollars, and it is impossible to mint all silver dollars in one go. If you want to have millions of taels of interest a year, it's not bad.

For this time, there are hundreds of taels of inputs, which is Zhang Xuan's life-saving money.

Yao Qisheng is also an extremely smart person, some words don't need Zhang Xuan to explain, just listen to it, and understand a little bit of Zhang Xuan's purpose.

Immediately said: "Your Majesty is wise. ”

This sentence has a bit of flattery. But there is also a bit of sincerity. As the head of the household, he is responsible for the finances of Daxia.

He also thought of various ways to open source, but it was not as good as Zhang Xuan's method. Although it is also to collect money, if such a thing is really done, let Daxia use silver coins for large amounts and copper coins for small amounts. It is good for the court and the people.

At least the miscellaneous tax of fire consumption, there is none

Pregnant.

"It's just that I don't know how Your Majesty wants to mint coins. Why don't you make one person lift in the Jingshi Mint? ”

Zhang Xuan smiled slightly and said, "Yao Qing understands what he thinks. Such a big event is placed outside of the Jingshi, and I am not at ease. ”

The mint was full of money, and Zhang Xuan didn't dare to let him put it outside.

Yao Qisheng said: "I don't know who Your Majesty wants to lift the mint?" ”

Zhang Xuan pondered for a moment and said, "How is Xian Zijing?" ”

In Zhang Xuan's thoughts, the person in charge of the mint. First of all, it must be reliable, and it must be a close trust. Second, we must also be proficient in casting. Third, there will be no corruption.

Zhang Xuan thought about it, Xian Zijing was the most suitable.

First of all, although Xian Zijing only followed Zhang Xuan in Guangdong, he is now an old minister, and he is also quite effective, and the Guangdong Manufacturing Bureau has made great contributions to Zhang Xuan's victory in the Qing court. Now it can be said that Guangdong's iron world is strong.

I don't know how much armor and iron were supplied to the front. It is also said that he has made meritorious contributions, but only in the study of the method of steelmaking, there has been no progress. At that time, when he was studying the method of steelmaking, he innovated a lot of methods, all of which were used in ironmaking, which improved a lot of efficiency. It also improves the quality of iron.

But it still can't be made directly.

Zhang Xuan used him, firstly, he was an old minister, and secondly, he understood technology, although the minting of silver coins was very different from casting. But it's not that big of a difference. Nanjing, Jiangnan, I don't know how many masters of casting gold and silver. But this kind of large-scale project can rarely compare with Xian Zijing.

The most important point is that Xian Zijing's family is wealthy, and even if the family property is not one million taels, it is more than 100,000 taels.

He sat in the official position more to change the court, after all, even if he has money and no official position, under the environment at this time, he is just being slaughtered.

Therefore, Xian Zijing will never make mistakes for the sake of money.

He promoted Xian Zijing, firstly, to reward merit. Second, Zhang Xuan also wanted to rebuild the Nanjing Manufacturing Bureau.

Although the Guangdong Manufacturing Bureau has done an excellent job, this kind of important weapon of the country, placed in Guangdong, makes Zhang Xuan a little worried.

In the south of the country, the capital of the country could not be placed in Guangdong. Only in Nanjing, it was determined that the core of Zhang Xuan's rule would be the Yangtze River.

Therefore, placing weapons manufacturing entirely in Guangdong does not conform to the law of internal and external checks and balances. The dispatch of Xian Zijing and other backbones of the Guangdong Manufacturing Bureau to the north is just the beginning. And there is a reason to say no, the Xian family's influence in the Guangdong Manufacturing Bureau is inevitably a little bigger. Zhang Xuan didn't want to hurt the feelings of the monarch and ministers, but the mountain that should be cut still had to be cut.

But now there's more to do, and there's less overhead.

However, we must put this matter aside and wait for the financial crisis to pass, and then it is not too late to do it.

But whatever is foreseen is established, and what is not foreseen is wasted. Zhang Xuan naturally had to prepare first, and wait for the right opportunity to build another steel city near Nanjing.