Xu Shiyang really wanted to pinch the necks of those corrupt officials in Jiangnan and ask him what his intentions were to send the sugar boiling master to Liaodong?

In this era, people have not yet discovered that sugar beets can be squeezed for sugar, and there will be no sugarcane in Liaodong.

Of course, Xu Shiyang himself does not have a sugar industry now, but he has plans to expand his influence to Taiwan Island or Ryukyu, where sugar cane can be grown, and it is a big deal to divide the profits of the sugar industry with the Li pirate group.

In addition, Xu Shiyang now thinks that maybe he can introduce some sugar beets on his territory to lay the foundation for his sugar industry, which has been a luxury before the industrial age, and if he can add a little sugar to the spare food of front-line soldiers, it can really save his life at a critical moment.

What's more, sugar has a lot of energy and is easy to absorb, and it can even be used as a medicine in this era.

In addition to the sugar boiling master, Xu Shiyang also found some tartars in the team of craftsmen, but they were very important to him - paper craftsmen.

There are basically no best rice paper craftsmen, but there are many kinds of coarse paper and straw paper craftsmen.

This is also extremely useful for Xu Shiyang, at least the paper required for the musketeer's paper-wrapped ammunition seems to be fine, which can effectively increase the rate of fire of the Divine Soldier.

In addition, with so many craftsmen, Jiangbei's original barter economy can no longer keep up with the situation, and some necessary currency circulation is necessary.

The good thing is that Xu Shiyang obtained a large amount of hard currency in the Heqin fleet.

There were 300,000 pieces of silk in the coins, and Xu Shiyang didn't plan to let them into circulation, so he had to find an opportunity to sell these things out.

300,000 taels of silver, it is too much to use directly as currency, Xu Shiyang plans to mint them into silver coins, the current idea is that the face value of one tael of silver coins contains 85% silver and 15% copper.

In this way, the 300,000 taels of silver in Xu Shiyang's hands can mint about 350,000 silver coins.

There are also coinsmiths among the Kiwa craftsmen, who can be used to do this kind of work.

Xu Shiyang plans to temporarily fix the exchange rate of silver coins at 1:1000 Wen Da Zhou coin, which is slightly lower than the current one tael and a half (1050 Wen), but it is not much lower, and it can basically be counted as one tael for one tael.

Considering the stable quality and exquisite production of silver coins, these premiums are estimated to be acceptable to the market (the other is time and space, silver coins such as Spanish Eagle Ocean have occupied a considerable part of the domestic currency circulation market), in this way, Xu Shiyang can get nearly 50,000 taels of "seigniorage", which is faster than grabbing money!

In the case of auxiliary coins, it can be replaced by copper coins in the old coins, and these Da Zhou coins alone have as much as 2.05 million guan on the official face, in addition to being used for foreign trade, Xu Shiyang plans to take out one million of them and circulate them within the control of Qingzhou.

Of course, his coinage rights could not be left in the hands of others, and Xu Shiyang also planned to leave a way for his auxiliary coins to replace the coinage of the Great Zhou when necessary.

Xu Shiyang naturally couldn't use precious metals to make auxiliary coins, not any metal, so he wanted to take advantage of the fact that there were so many paper-making craftsmen to issue banknote auxiliary coins.

Paper money now has no credit, so Xu Shiyang took the most important necessities of life in Jiangbei as the foundation, and linked paper money to grain.

In Qingzhou now, Xu Shiyang has the largest grain inflow channel (Jiangnan and local production) and the largest grain reserves, so he can directly stipulate that the paper money and grain he issues are one yuan to one catty, with a fixed exchange rate.

Such paper money is not so much currency as grain stamps, but it is enough to be used as auxiliary currency, and the exchange rate of paper money against copper and silver coins can fluctuate with the changes in grain prices, which can dilute the monetary image of grain stamps and have certain benefits for strengthening the confidence of the people at the bottom in food stamps.

Xu Shiyang has made some statistics, the Qingzhou army now has about 200,000 stone of grain in the warehouse, if Jiangnan is fine, it can transport another 100,000 to 200,000 stone to him every year, and if Qingzhou's own grain production can be stabilized, it will probably be able to provide about 150,000 stone of tax grain.

At present, when the population has increased on several scales, Xu Shiyang estimates that about 70% of Qingzhou's annual grain income will be directly consumed, not counting the import from Jiangnan.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang intends to issue 1.5 times the total of 45 million yuan of food stamps according to inventory and net income in the first year.

These food stamps will be circulated in the Qingzhou-controlled area together with 1.05 million copper coins, and then when the credit of the banknotes is strengthened, they can be fully replaced by copper coins.

Along with the monetary policy, it is natural to determine the issue of internal wages and benefits.

Xu Shiyang still planned to count all the people who stayed in Qingzhou into his military rank system, whether they were craftsmen or family members, whether they were forbidden officers and soldiers or palace maids.

In this way, everyone can get a fixed salary according to their rank, which is paid entirely by food stamps, and can be exchanged for food in the grain store or canteen of the Qingzhou public house - in addition to grain, vegetables, meat, fish, poultry eggs and even alcohol, but the price has different degrees of premium.

Prizes other than salaries, such as medals for brave soldiers, bonuses for craftsmen, etc., were given in the form of copper coins, so that the new craftsmen would have greater enthusiasm for production, and they might work hard to accumulate money that they could use back home.

Although Xu Shiyang had no plans to let them go back to Jiangnan.

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The success of the interception and pro-fleet operations brought a huge amount of income to Xu Shiyang and Qingzhou, and with such a large amount of profits, many jobs that were completely impossible to do before could already be started.

Of course, nothing in the world will be only good, from now on, Xu Shiyang will not be able to let any Cao boat reach Yanyun through the canal, in this way, it is estimated that before the end of the year, the Tatars will be able to get the specific news that the convoy was intercepted in Qi Province.

I don't know how the war between the Jurchens and the Mughals went, if the Jurchens can win, then next year, when the Tartars find a way to accumulate some supplies, they may go south at any time.

Moreover, it will definitely not be a small action to make a fierce an, it is possible for the Jurchens to come with all the divisions.

This will be a strategic decisive battle of great importance, if it can be won, or even if it is just to force the Jurchens back, Qingzhou will cross the most important threshold and officially become a major force that can affect the balance of power in the entire world.

If it fails.......

Well, in fact, it was also before, dealing with the Tartars, and after failure, there was no after.

So now it's time to do your best to prepare!