Just as Bai Liyan and Gao Xun were speaking, a clear voice suddenly interrupted Gong Shouqian's speech:

"Brother Gong's words, I really don't agree with them."

As soon as the young man said this, Gong Shouqian was very surprised when he heard the news, and when he thought that someone had suddenly interrupted the political discussion, he fixed his mind and followed the young man:

"Dare to ask Your Excellency's name, what is wrong with what you say below."

With a bow, the young man squeezed out of the crowd and stood outside the hall with his hands in his hands. The young man is dressed in a white muslin cloth, eighteen or nineteen years old, his lips are like a crown of jade, and he is full of heroism between his gestures.

The young man bowed in return, took a few steps forward and said:

"It doesn't matter who you are, I just heard Brother Gong's fallacy, and I really don't dare to agree. As the saying goes, there is no business and no wealth, and no wealth does not support the people, dare to ask Brother Gong, how to support the people in the new policies of "Promoting Business Tax". ”

"Levy commercial taxes, gather people's hearts and support the people with commercial taxes."

Gong Shouqian coped with ease, and the young man took over and asked:

"If this is the case, where does the commercial tax come from?"

"Naturally, profiteers are unrighteous people."

At this time, everyone echoed and laughed, all laughing at the young man's ignorance, and even Gong Shouqian straightened his back. Thinking that the skin was too thin, a little crimson appeared on the young man's face, and he calmed down and then said:

"Then dare to ask Brother Gong, where does the wealth of profiteers and unrighteous people come from?"

"It should be the ill-gotten wealth of the people." Gong Shouqian said disdainfully, already impatient: "If Your Excellency has no achievements, I will forgive Gong no longer to accompany you." ”

"Wait." The young man hurriedly said, "As far as I know, the wealth of the so-called profiteers and unrighteous people comes from the new money minted by the government.

In order to promote the new policy "Agricultural Mulberry Order", Sun Yue, the prince of Xiangguo, used high prices and low endowments as bait to make the displaced people and the common people open up wasteland. In order to be able to buy the grain stored in the hands of the people, the Xiangguo people minted money to solve the urgent need. As a result, the copper coins in the hands of the people increased sharply, but it attracted the wind of merchants raising prices.

I don't know how Brother Gong thinks this matter should be judged. ”

The young man's spearhead suddenly pointed at Gongsun Yue, and the scene suddenly burst into discussions. Gong Shouqian should have been unexpected, maybe he didn't understand the economy at all, the young man pointed to the biggest flaw of the "Nongsang Order", and Gong Shouqian was a little flustered in his heart. He fixed the way of God:

"It's understandable to mint money to increase the people's income, so why not."

"Brother Gong's words are wrong." The young man's voice raised, and his face suddenly showed a bit of sharpness: "It is not so much that the baht in the hands of the people has increased sharply, but that the government has minted money on a large scale, and the new money in the treasury is like a surplus." The world's goods have their own quotas, and if the goods are far less than the money, the money can be worth the price.

The government used the new money to buy grain, and the new money in the hands of the people naturally increased, and if the merchants received the goods at the original price, there would inevitably be more and more new money on the market. When new money is popular and floods the world, so much money and less goods, if the original price remains unchanged, it will not make the businessmen lose money, and the price increase is inevitable.

Now the agriculture is not prosperous, and the new policy is introduced, and the merchants are heavily taxed, so what are the similarities and differences between killing chickens and eggs. ”

The young man's sharp wording made sense, and everyone was talking about it for a while.

Most of the people present do not understand the economy, and those who understand the economy also do not understand it. When the total amount of goods is in a relatively constant state of output in the short term, the result of large-scale coinage can only be that the government treasury is flooded with new money, and the result of new money participating in circulation can only be that prices are forced to rise.

Money itself cannot bring any labor production, nor can it be changed into materials, the role of money is only to provide a yardstick, when the scale of measurement is artificially expanded, the measure of the yardstick will naturally rise.

The young man's words exposed the lies of the "Nongsang Order", and more people still don't know the reason.

Gong Shouqian's face fluctuated, and there was a hint of surprise, and he paused for a long time before saying:

"What you said is only one-sided, not enough. The "Agricultural Mulberry Order" is a move to benefit the country and the people, and the land has been opened up and the grain products have increased. As Jun said, there is nothing wrong with minting money. The people have surplus money and grain in their hands, and the profiteers and unrighteous people have greedy thoughts in their hearts, and they raise prices and hoard Juqi for huge profits, which is obvious to all. Do you think that if you don't mint money, profiteers and unscrupulous people won't raise prices? ”

"You!" The young man was speechless, biting his lip with a look of shame.

What Gong Shouqian said is not unreasonable, there is more margin in the hands of the common people, but the circulation of coins is too small, which is not a good thing, so the money still has to be minted. Even if they don't mint money, no one can guarantee that profiteers won't take advantage of the opportunity to raise prices.

However, in Bailiyan's view, the amount of additional currency issuance is no longer a macro concept that can be understood by the current cognitive category and knowledge reserves.

There are no reasonable statistical data or economic theoretical basis, and even if what young people say is true, in the absence of a rational economic theory system, in the end, they can only say that the public is justified, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable, and no one can come up with a reasonable and specific basis for the issuance of money.

When the young man was speechless, someone stood up during the banquet, and Bailiyan was stunned. This person is none other than Gao Xun on the side:

"What Brother Gong said is not right."

Gao Xun bowed deeply, Gong Shouqian turned his gaze and looked at it fixedly, his expression did not seem to be surprised, and there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, with a calm look.

"It turned out to be Brother Gao Xun, and I am fortunate to be happy." Gong Shouqian bowed, and then said, "I don't know what senior brother has to teach you." ”

At this time, everyone's eyes turned to Gao Xun, and the young man also cast his eyes to look at Gao Xun carefully.

Gao Xun fixed the way of the gods:

"As far as we know, within three years after the promulgation of the "Nongsang Order", the amount of new money minted by the government treasury was 20 times that of previous years, and the rice output was only 30% higher than that of three years ago in the three years after the promulgation of the "Nongsang Order".

If there is no abnormal price to buy grain, the price of merchants will not rise to the wind, and the copper coins circulating in the market will not be popular. No copper money is popular, and even if the merchants raise the price, the people can't afford it. If the people can't afford it, there will be no market for the goods, and if there is no market, how can the merchants talk about huge profits.

In my humble opinion, the so-called profiteers and unrighteous people are nothing more than those who follow the trend.

Now that the "Nongsang Order" has not been eliminated, and the "Push Business Tax" has been revived, in the name of "Push Business Tax", the practice of looting businessmen, even if it is a law-abiding operator, there is no possibility of law-abiding under the "Push Business Tax".

If even complying with the price increase is also sued as a profiteer, dare to ask Brother Gong, today's cloth price is far more than the cloth price 50 years ago, if this is taken as a calculation, it is not that all the businessmen in the world are profiteers. ”

Gao Xun's words were incisive and he had a deep understanding of the matter of minting money, and even Gong Shouqian could not cope with it for a while, or Gong Shouqian did not understand economics at all.

"Okay, this benevolent brother is very admired when he sees the subtle knowledge."

The young man in the distance bowed and bowed in deep agreement, and Gao Xun returned a salute:

"In the next humble opinion, let Your Excellency smile."

As soon as Gao Xun's words fell, another man stood up during the banquet, saluted everyone, and said loudly:

"What Brother Gao said is very false, and I dare not agree with it." The man wore a blue robe, wore a wooden crown, and his face was very dark, and his two short mustaches were very separated. The man continued: "The so-called minting of money is nothing more than the lack of old money, and the new is minted to make up for the old money, if the businessmen are all taking the new as the pretext and raising the price, it is not to make the treasury not mint money, if the treasury does not mint money, how can the world have old money, there is no old money, how can we talk about taxes, and how can we do state affairs without taxes, what do you think of it?" ”

The man who spoke was Lu Mo, the doorman of Ding Yang Hou, twenty-three this year, and Fang Cai's words were obviously aimed at Gao Xun. Gao Xun is also a guest of Zhao Xun, and the two sides are suspicious because of the battle of Jiangdong, and what Lu Mo said clearly represents the position of Ding Yang Hou on "Pushing Business Tax".

At this time, Gao Xun said:

"Everything has a quota, even if it is new, there should be a scale, if it is arbitrary money, the new money is far more than the commodity, dare to ask Brother Lu, if Brother Lu is a businessman, today's money is not as good as yesterday's money, what does Brother Lu think."

"Since Brother Gao thinks that there should be a scale for minting new money, then please tell everyone how much new money should be minted in the treasury every year, and how much should be spent, so that the profiteers and unrighteous people can keep their own peace."

"You!"

Gao Xun was speechless for a while, he really didn't expect Lu Mo to avoid the seriousness and ask such a tricky thing.

In terms of current cognition, it is difficult for anyone to really calculate the standard of how much money should be minted, let alone a dry rotten literati and economic illiterate. Even if Lu Mo asked this question himself, he didn't know the reason.

At the same time, he also pushed the matter of minting money to the authority of the Inner Dynasty, Lu Mo himself did not know, and others did not know. In this way, how much money should be minted is reasonable, and only the authority can say.

Even if Gao Xun is only eight buckets tall and can say a reasonable amount of coinage, Lu Mo can completely deny this account, and if he is economically illiterate on the spot, he can completely laugh at Gao Xun's nonsense.

The direction of public opinion immediately developed in the direction of Lu Mo's favor, Gong Shouqian liked Lu Mo's words very much, he said:

"What Brother Lu said is extremely true, and Gong deeply cares. The purpose of minting money is to make up for the lack of the old, how much should be minted with geometry, since it is the prudent measure of the inner dynasty, does the senior brother think that the inner dynasty minted money is to condone and appease the unrighteous profiteers. ”

When the words fell, Gong Shou was full of joy, he made a gesture to Lu Mo, and his face suddenly became a little more proud.

Gao Xun intended to explain the coinage and the market's demand for copper coins thoroughly, and he didn't want to be held by Gong Shouqian.

Nowadays, the authoritative interpretation of coinage is in the hands of the inner court, how much new money is minted, and how much is spent for procurement, which is naturally the inner court, and the current knowledge is scarce, even if the reader's understanding of the economic field is mostly blank, such as Gao Xun and other literati and small people in the market, even if they say that the sky is broken, it is just Gao Xun's words.