Chapter Ninety-Nine: Revisiting the Coinage

Zhang Xuan asked the household department to set up points everywhere, just to deprive the responsibility of transshipment from the local government.

In the future, the household department can evolve into a subordinate department of the household department, and the government can collect taxes and pay them here directly. The Ministry of Household directly sent the army to transfer taxes. Even Zhang Xuan wanted to expand this point a little bigger. This branch will be sufficient to the General Administration of Taxation in the future, and all the things related to taxation will be given to this part.

This is just an idea of Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan wanted to convert the exchange points of silver coins and silver taels into banks, exchange them first, and then summarize them in different places after the exchange of silver taels. First, the government summarized the affairs of the capital in different places, that is, the affairs of the silver taels to the capital, and then opened the business to the people.

As for savings, lending and other businesses, step by step, and even how the bank will belong in the future, whether it will belong to the household department, or the big one, Zhang Xuan has not thought clearly. But that doesn't stop him from being the next kid.

In fact, the ban on silver taels in the world is very good for coinage. It's just that Zhang Xuan also knows very well that if he does this, it will cause too much damage to the people.

The economy of Great Xia is large, how many silver taels are circulated on the market, Zhang Xuan is at a loss, he doesn't know at all, and there are no economic data statistics, and even Zhang Xuan himself doesn't know how to count them, so as to calculate the number of silver taels in circulation.

Let Zhang Xuan's original intention, he would rather subtly let the silver coin become the mainstream in the market, and then give such an order with forced exchange.

Don't look at the minting volume of three million coins in a month, it seems like a lot, but even in the Nanjing market, the mainstream of circulation is still silver taels, although a large number of silver coins are distributed to the hands of soldiers and officials.

However, if you want to replace silver taels as the mainstream currency, you still owe some heat.

Zhang Xuan secretly said in his heart: "If you do it too quickly, I'm afraid there will be problems." ”

"Your Majesty, there is a question I don't know if Your Majesty has considered it?" Yao Qisheng said: "There were not many copper coins in the former Ming Dynasty, and there were a lot of private money in circulation. ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Do you mean private casting? My silver coins are not afraid to be minted privately. ”

When minting silver coins, Zhang Xuan asked Xian Zijing to do a lot of tricks, not to mention the patterns on it, the texture of the silver coins alone is not something that ordinary craftsmen can make, it is smashed under the water hammer.

"The minister is not talking about silver coins, but copper coins. There are a lot of privately minted copper coins, but in terms of quantity, they cannot be compared with the former Song Dynasty. There is also a reason for this, that is, because the people mostly use scattered silver, instead of the position of copper coins. Now that His Majesty wants to exchange all the silver for silver coins, then there will be a shortage of copper coins among the people. ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Do we still want to mint copper coins? ”

Zhang Xuan always felt that his brain was big for a while, and he had to admit one thing, everything in the world is interrelated, and you think it can be solved

One thing, the next thing comes out, and sometimes you think you're solving a problem, but you're actually creating a problem.

And in the world, there is nothing but the dead. I'm afraid there is no such thing as not encountering, some things are imposed by others, and some things are found by yourself.

"In the opinion of the ministers, one is to mint tax change, mint half a tael, or a little smaller. Either add a copper coin. Yao Qisheng said.

The so-called half-tael is actually a silver coin that weighs half a tael.

Although the silver coins minted by Zhang Xuan are not pure silver, they are still one or two weights in weight, worth one or two silver. And half a tael, as the name suggests, is a silver coin that weighs half a tael, and this title can be regarded as a long history, and the currency of the Qin Dynasty is half a tael.

"It's a two-pronged approach." Zhang Xuan said: "It's just that now the country is nervous, and there are fewer silver coins. It's just a copper coin, but you have to prepare in advance, and first inquire about the price of copper overseas. Get ready. ”

China has always been short of copper. It may be that copper has already been mined in ancient China. As soon as he thought of minting copper coins, Zhang Xuan instantly thought of buying from overseas. Another place is Yunnan.

Yunnan has always produced copper, and the copper used in the copper coins of the Qing Dynasty was all produced from Yunnan. The affairs of Yunnan, Zhang Xuan was ready to hand over to Li Dingguo.

"Yes." Yao Qisheng said.

"In a few days, I will be out of the school, is this money and food enough?" Zhang Xuan said.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the minister will sweep away the household department, and he will also make up the money and food." Yao Qisheng said.

Zhang Xuan said: "Don't push it so hard. If it really doesn't work, it is okay to issue another batch of treasury bonds. ”

Yao Qisheng said: "Yes." But he didn't want to. He always felt that the national debt was not a decent thing. Try not to get it if you can.

After there was no problem with money and food, Zhang Xuan transferred ten battalions from the Nanjing garrison.

If the military is the establishment, it is even better to be transferred.

It's just that the incident happened suddenly, and the garrisons near Nanjing have a mission, and one is suddenly transferred, and I am afraid that there will be a loophole in the Yangtze River defense line.

And so. I had to disperse and draw.

Zhang Xuan divided the ten battalions into two armies, and the first army was named Liaodong. The other army was ordered to be called Shenyang.

To show the battle of the day.

From the time I got the news, it was until the fifth day of the first month. In the past five days, the officials of the entire Nanjing City have been very busy, especially Zhou Fuchen, who urgently dispatched the Ruan Jin Naval Division, and the Yangtze River Naval Division. A lot of civilian ships were recruited to get enough ships for transportation.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, I set off from Nanjing.

Truth be told, winter is not a good time to go to North Korea, and Guy is the headwind. If it is changed to the day when the winter flowers bloom and the south comes, the ships will ride the wind and go smoothly, but it will not be counted

day, you will be able to get to North Korea.

However, sailing against the wind, you can only use the wind from eight sides, and take a zigzag shape on the sea, and it will take at least ten days to get there.

However, it was a good wind from Korea to Nanjing, so after the departure of the army. The second group of North Korean envoys came.

Also with them were the two princesses of North Korea.

Zhang Xuan's head suddenly became as big as a fight.

Dolgon, he didn't care too much. Anyway, they are enemies of life and death, and Dorgon's death must be counted on his head. Zhang Xuan didn't care about this, let alone two women.

Zhang Xuan was worried about Luo Yujiao.

Luo Yujiao is not afraid of guilt, but he calculates carefully, since he married Luo Yujiao, that is, when he followed Luo Rucai to Henan, he had the sweetest life.

At that time, Zhang Xuan, although there were some petty officials in the rebel army, there were not many things. Since then, it has not been a foreign battle, but more gatherings and fewer separations. It's just that it's busy with official business, and it's rare to get together.

I'm already sorry for her.

And now two more Korean princesses have been stuffed. Zhang Xuan felt even more sorry. I'm embarrassed to face Luo Yujiao.

It's just that Zhang Xuan's ministers couldn't understand Zhang Xuan's shame, and they came out one after another, and asked Zhang Xuan to accept the two princesses with righteous words, so as to be good for the whole of Daxia and the Qin and Jin of Korea. also saw that Zhang Xuan's harem was thin, and the scarcity of heirs came out again.

It seems that Zhang Xuan didn't accept the two of them, which was a big rebellion, and he just ignored the Jiangshan Sheji.

Zhang Xuan also knew that he couldn't talk to them clearly. Zhang Xuan's shame is impossible for a man in this era to have.

Zhang Xuan easily pressed this matter down. He stood in the corridor from the front palace to the harem, with high red walls on both sides, but there was a lot of dead grass growing on the red wall, but fortunately it was winter, and if it was summer, the wall would be lush and green.

didn't want to come to the harem, but saw Luo Yujiao and two identical beauties, laughing.

As soon as Zhang Xuan arrived, although these two Korean princesses grew up beautiful, they could not be called stunning, but the two of them seemed to be carved out of a mold. A smile seems to have the same mind, and the two stand together, and eight points of color have twelve points of charm.

Zhang Xuan's heart was relieved, and he suddenly felt grateful and ashamed in his heart, and said to Luo Yujiao: "Yujiao, is this really? ”

"You don't have to say it." Luo Yujiao said: "I feel sorry for the two princesses, let alone the old slave? Let's stay in the palace. ”

"Yes, yes, yes. The old slave just obeyed his orders. Zhang Xuan nodded, followed Li Guofu's example, and said.

Seeing Zhang Xuan like this, Luo Yujiao couldn't help but chuckle, it seemed that time had returned to the past. But she knew that this was just an illusion, he was the emperor after all, and he would accompany the king like a tiger after all.

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