Leaving the design agency, it was almost dusk, Bailiyan rushed to the printing workshop non-stop, and met Su Fangyi, Zong Botai, and Zhao Anling on the way. Seeing Bailiyan, Su Fangyi said first:

"At noon, when I learned that Hou Ye was coming, Su and a few others wanted to greet him, but when they saw that Hou Ye hurriedly went to Duan's master's place, they didn't bother. I got urgent news just now, so I had to come and beg for mercy. ”

"Eh, you and I have been friends for many years, and Mr. Su's words are out of sight. Mr. Fang Cai said that there was urgent news, but I don't know what the urgency is. ”

As soon as the words fell, Zong Botai answered:

"This person has come all the way, but he is an old friend of the Hou Ye."

"Coming all the way, or is it an old friend?" Bailiyan frowned and pondered, the current thousands of miles are not enough to express the concept of distantness, at least more than 10,000 miles, and it has to be an "old friend", not to mention how familiar it is, but at least it has to be seen, thinking of this, Bailiyan has a hidden guess in his heart, so he said:

"Is it a country of ambiguity or a country?"

"Neither."

Zong Botai denied, and Bai Liyan asked again:

"That's?"

At this time, Su Fangyi said again:

"It's our old adversary, Mooney Yar Quika."

As soon as the words came out, Bai Liyan was shocked and stared like a drum:

"It's him!"

Surprised, Bailiyan thought in a blink of an eye that since the armistice in the south, it had only been eleven years since the armistice in the south, and most of the commanders of the northern expedition that year had become too old to use or even returned to the west, and Mooney would probably not have come with an army. Thinking through this, Bai Liyan hurriedly asked:

"Mooney isn't here with troops, right?"

"The main hall has just come to report that Mooney is here with the book of the Barbarian Kingdom to ask for medicine from the Central Plains."

"Asking for medicine? Need Mooney to come in person for medicine? Bailiyan was suspicious.

"It is believed that the plague broke out in the barbarian land, and tens of thousands of people died, and the herbs needed by the Jinxuedi people were all in the Central Plains, in Beihai, and they came here to buy medicine. When the main hall learned the news, it stopped its caravan at the border of Qianyue Mountain, and only let more than 100 people including its entourage enter the Central Plains. At this time, it should have entered the Zhiguo, and it will be possible to reach the Xianguo within a month at the earliest. ”

"Shhh...... If he came to the Central Plains to buy medicinal materials, he would buy medicine, and the southern border could also trade, so he had to come to Xianguo to do something, not to test the truth, and prepare to raise troops again. ”

"It's not impossible." Su Fangyi affirmed, and continued: "Eleven years have passed, the Central Plains thieves are still rampant, and they were killed by you and me in their homeland, so it is difficult to say that this is not a temptation. Especially you, the Marquis of Yongxing, have always been their demons, if you don't drive the crane west, I'm afraid that the barbarians will not be able to sleep and eat. ”

"Hehe, Mr. Su is also joking. If he doesn't come, it's okay, come on, hum, let him open his eyes. However, this matter is not in a hurry, and wait for Mooney to wait for Xianguo to watch his movements. At present, there is another important matter to discuss with you, and I think you must have heard about the shortage of gold and silver. ”

"I already know." Zhao Anling said, and then said, "Lord Hou came, presumably this matter has alarmed King Xian and hurt the country. ”

"Well, what Mr. Zhao said is good. In recent days, the preliminary inventory shows that the amount of gold and silver entering the Hou Mansion, the treasury and the money shop has been reduced by more than one percent, and if it continues to develop, by the end of the year, not counting the new coins of gold and silver, the gold and silver will not only not make a penny, but will have to lose at least 100,000 yuan. ”

The three of them were taken aback when they heard the news, and Su Fangyi said first:

"It's so serious!"

"Yes, this is still the preliminary inventory of the treasury, not yet more than half, and the gold and silver of the people and the city are not included in it. I'm afraid that the loss will be even greater at the end of the year. Let's go, let's go to the clinic first, and I'll discuss it tonight. ”

At present, the expenditure of the national treasury is balanced by a system of balance of payments and precious metal deposits, and there is no deficit in fiscal revenue and expenditure.

However, now that the economy is booming, commodity production is surging, domestic demand and export demand are huge, and fiscal revenues are soaring, there will still be a large amount of Singapore dollars and some precious metals left every year.

Under the Bailiyan plan, a large amount of wealthy funds will be invested in agriculture and industry as much as possible, supporting industrial expansion, as well as technology research and development, education allocation, and water conservancy and infrastructure construction.

Even so, the huge export profits of the salty countries still left a large fiscal surplus at the end of the year.

In view of this, the annual surplus of Singapore dollars and income-generating precious metals is deposited in Qianfang, and foreign investment and lending are made through Qianfang.

In this way, the treasury is always empty by the end of the year, and some of the precious metals and new currencies that are financially rich are flushed into the treasury as equity, and part of them are deposited as deposits for investment, and then cash is withdrawn from the treasury to replenish the treasury.

Since the Xian State has monopolized the production of most upstream products and monopolized the Central Plains market, a large amount of currency surplus has been generated, and a large amount of hot money piled up in the treasury without saving it is harmful, and not only can it not be circulated and produce economic benefits.

When the relative aggregate of commodity production and commodity consumption remains unchanged, the money in the place where the money is relatively concentrated will trade at a premium, which is inflationary, while the area where the money is relatively scarce and cannot be used to trade commodities due to the lack of money, there will be deflation, because there is no money supply, there will be no trade.

When the market is not circulated because of the hoarding of a large number of precious metals in the salty country, resulting in the deflation of foreign precious metals, and the vicious economy of domestic precious metal inflation, the salty country will not only not benefit because of the increase in precious metals, but on the contrary, inflation causes the relative depreciation of the purchasing power of precious metals in the salty country, and then attracts money laundering and hot money to flock to.

When the main precious metal currency is used for hoarding, and the production of precious metals is restricted by natural resources, it cannot provide unlimited money flow at any time, so the hoarding of precious metals does not produce economic benefits, on the contrary, the total amount of materials is relatively inconvenient, causing inflation.

Although the production capacity of Xianguo is still in the early stage of expansion, the productive forces are far from meeting the market demand, there is no absolute inflation, and hoarding precious metals is beneficial to the economy, but hoarding in the national treasury is not used, after all, it cannot produce economic benefits, it is better to deposit it in the national money mill, use it for economic construction and investment, let the market self-regulate, and expand the basic production of the people.

Yongxingcheng controls the upstream industrial production, and through the sale of non-regulated lower-level means of production and equipment, the capital outside the system can also enjoy the benefits of efficient production, thereby promoting employment, taxation and capital flow, and then forming a huge capital and market effect, pushing up social production efficiency and making it a virtuous circle.

However, Bailiyan ignored the fact that at least fifteen years ago and for more than 1,000 years, precious metals were still the high-grade currency circulated by the elite at the top, and copper coins were still the main circulation at the bottom.

Although the circulation rate of precious metals in the private sector is not high, it is not the mainstream currency among the poor class at present, but at the national level and the aristocratic level, precious metals are the main monetary documents for the exchange of rights and interests and the bulk commodity transactions between the vassal states.

The reason for this is that precious metals are restricted by exploration and mining, and the value of precious metals cannot fluctuate due to the inability to artificially increase currency, so they are scarce and expensive.

At the same time, there are many princes, the currency exchange between countries is chaotic, and there is no unified market currency standard, resulting in the exchange of copper coins between countries still need to directly use precious metals as standard conversion, which in turn leads to precious metals becoming hard currency.

Most of the large transactions at the government level between the princes and the princes are huge transactions, and the large amount is large, and the huge fluctuations in copper coins are easy to cause currency losses. This is not the case with precious metals.

Thinking that when the Soviet Union collapsed and the ruble collapsed, India used the devalued ruble to pay off the Soviet Union's hundreds of billions of foreign debts, but its actual purchasing power was only equivalent to hundreds of millions of dollars in the eighties, how shameless.

Due to the various benefits of precious metals in the aristocratic class and the princes' class, in just 15 years, the Xianguo has benefited from the progress of agriculture, industrial technology, and the development of the commodity economy, and the precious metal currency is radiating to the middle and lower social groups of the Xianguo.

In turn, the general public has the opportunity to contact the circulation of precious metals, so it is inevitable that precious metals will not only be traded in a small area, but will spread to the whole society.

At this time, the government's tax revenue was not only copper coins and a small amount of gold and silver in the early years, but new coins and gold and silver precious metals that had increased exponentially.

Due to the scarcity of precision measuring instruments, it is inevitable that the grassroots bureaucracy cannot determine the weight of precious metals in most cases, but defaults to the amount of the amount and collects the precious metals, instead of weighting.

When precious metals are repatriated to the treasury through a broad market, the huge cumulative error will ultimately hurt the treasury.

The surplus precious metals obtained by the treasury each year are deposited in the money mill, so the money mill loses even more.

To a large extent, the shortfall was a war of money laundering and plundering launched by taking advantage of the highly developed commodity economy of the salty country, the lack of testing capabilities at the grassroots level, and the concentration of precious metals.

And through the circulation of the market economy, indirectly attacking the market powers such as Zhiguo, Jinguo, and Changsun, Bailiyan can even feel the smoke of war, faintly shrouded in the untouchable economic market, the first knife is stabbed in the artery of Xianguo, and the turmoil caused by economic blood loss will soon sweep the Central Plains.

Everyone in the governance center talked and discussed, Bai Liyan was at a loss for what to do, and asked Su Fangyi if he knew the initiator, but Su Fangyi avoided mentioning it. However, silence is better than sound, and all of you here are the most intelligent people in the world, how can you not know the clues, because of the political status of Liang Guo, it is better not to say than to say.

Seeing that Baili Yan frowned, Zong Botai said at this time:

"Master Hou, I have a method to use, but it may not work if I pull the whole body."

"As long as you can break this difficult situation, Mr. can just talk about it."

Bai Liyan pressed her hand and motioned for everyone to be quiet. When he was young, Zong Botai continued:

"Does Master Hou know how to use wood?"

Bai Liyan shook her head and hurriedly asked:

"What do you mean, sir?"

Before the words fell, Duan Songzhi said on the side:

"The method of taking wood is to give up the big and take the small head, so that the material can be used. If you choose the small and take the big, there will be a shortage. Therefore, the wood used in the calendar is considered a small head, not a big head, so that the business is trustworthy, and the goods are not deceived. ”

"......I see," Bai Liyan thought thoughtfully, she had never cared about this matter before. And there are discrepancies.

He remembered that in his previous life, when he bought a house for decoration and purchased wood, he was only a big head, not a small head.

Due to the inherent lack of rigidity of wood, the dimensional accuracy during processing is not high, and there are tolerance errors at both ends. However, when the timber mill shipped, in order to avoid its own losses, the manufacturer calculated the volume with a large head. In the hands of the dealer, the volume is calculated in the same way.

However, when the wood is used for processing, it can only be calculated with the minimum size, and the maximum size of Ruo'an is calculated, and the small head can not meet the requirements and can only be discarded.

Therefore, the purchaser calculates the volume with the small head of the wood, and the seller calculates the price with the large head, and there is a head in the middle, and finally the seller is the beneficiary, and the purchaser suffers a loss.

If the price is denominated by a small head, the seller can only raise the price in order not to lose money, but there are always profiteers in the market, as long as one person takes the lead, it will become a follow-up, and over time the unspoken rules of the market will be formed.

At present, the folk customs are relatively simple, the professional ethics are strong, and wood is a scarce resource, which is not easy to cut and process, and forming, so the value is much higher.

Precious things will inevitably prompt the market to be more cautious in purchasing, so that sellers and producers will also pay more attention to reputation, so as to form a good business environment.

But Bai Liyan still didn't understand the relationship between wood and precious metals, so he asked again:

"Mr. Zongbo, what does the wood method have to do with gold and silver?"

"It is said that there is no involvement, but there is also a involvement. Has Master Hou ever thought about leaving enough gold and silver to give up? ”

"Leave enough? hissed...... "Bailiyan seemed to have an understanding, but he still didn't understand: "Can Mr. say it clearly." ”

"At present, there is a shortage of gold and silver, and it will only get worse in the future. Therefore, if it is tacitly allowed to continue to circulate with a short catty of gold and silver, and the full amount of gold and silver is recast into a short catty of gold and silver, and the selling price of the commercial goods is repriced and shipped with a short catty of gold and silver, not only can the harm of a short catty of gold and silver be avoided, but also the gold and silver can be repaid. ”

"I understand, Mr. Zongbo wants to use the gold and silver that is short of two catties as the standard, and in the future, it will be priced at this weight, and the goods will be sold at the same time, and those sufficient gold and silver will be remade into the same weight as the short catty and two gold and silver, so that the excess gold and silver can continue to circulate as coins, not only will not be lost but will also increase."

"It is precisely that most of the gold and silver used by various countries at present are fixed on the full amount of Liang State, and they are originally safe, but now they are used to five or six tenths of gold and silver, or even more short catties, and it is unrealistic for all countries to recover all the gold and silver and recast the full amount of gold and silver in a short period of time, and the resulting losses are not something that the vassal states can bear. Therefore, the only way to increase the price is to reduce the price to stabilize the shortage. ”

"This method is good, but it is not easy to convince the vassal states! Especially in the case of Liang Guo, who has a standard instrument, and if it is to be re-customized, it involves a wide range of things. And even if it is based on the shortage of two gold and silver in the short catty, it will be issued again in the future, and it will still be less, how can such despicable means be curbed. ”