Zhang Qiang doesn't know how to operate the entire territory, without income, the territory will go bankrupt, can't he go out to fight every time he runs out of money, and seize the enemy's property to distribute it to everyone, right?

Wei Wuji glanced at Zhang Qiang, "My lord, I have a solution." ”

Zhang Qiang looked at Wei Wuji.

Wei Wuji said: "My lord, if you want to reduce your expenses, you only need to turn all the people into soldiers. ”

Zhang Qiang's eyes widened, "Yes, militarized management, wartime rationing system, so that all people can't buy things even if they have money, hehe, won't this save a lot of money?" ”

"Yes, that's it," Zhang Qiang slapped the table.

You Haibo glared angrily and stood up, "My lord, this is a big blow to us, in this way, the people will not come to our territory again, and those excellent Ming scholars will not come to us again, so it will be a big disaster for us to recruit talents and restore the economy disrupted by the war. ”

Zhou Congee stood up and said happily: "My lord, this is good, so that those merchants can no longer sell grain, they can't raise the price casually." ”

Zhang Qiang nodded slightly, "Yes, I just thought now, it was the businessmen who forced us to increase the soldiers' salaries, why, we should be so passive, to yield to the merchants, to satisfy their greed, we are the government, just do it." ”

Zhang Qiang stood up, "Now I order," everyone quickly stood up, the governor himself stood up, who dared to sit in front of the governor.

"One month from tomorrow, we will slowly transition to a wartime system, and everyone will accept militarized management, from the economy to the people's clothing, food, shelter, and transportation, and slowly transfer to the wartime system."

"In the first week starting tomorrow, of the 30,000 prisoners of war captured this time, Jinhua Mansion will leave 10,000 people, and deploy 8,000 people to Taizhou Prefecture, 2,000 people to Quzhou Prefecture, 5,000 people to Chuzhou Prefecture, 3,000 people to Wenzhou Prefecture, and the remaining 2,000 people to the sailors.

"Within a week from tomorrow, all merchants in the territory will be ordered to sell the grain to the territory at a price 20 percent higher than before the price increase, and if they do not comply, they will be directly sealed, and the seized grain will be transported to the official warehouse of the Governor's Mansion of Jinhua Province except for 30% for distribution by the prefects and yamen of several prefectures.

In the future, the food supply of the three provinces will need to be deployed through the Quartermaster Office of the Governor's Office, and the Quartermaster Department of the Governor's Office will set up branches in each prefect's yamen, which will be under the dual management of the prefect's yamen and the governor's office, and will be divided into food and other materials. ”

"From now on, the trade in gold and silver and other currencies shall be prohibited within one month, and the Governor's Office shall issue grain stamps to exchange the grain and gold and silver in the hands of the people, and the gold and silver shall be stored in the Governor's Mansion and the various prefects' yamen, and the prefect's yamen shall store a small amount of gold and silver for foreign trade as needed, and the rest shall be handed over to the grain bureau specially established by the governor's palace yamen for management."

You Haibo shouted in surprise: "The Yamen of the Food Bureau manages gold and silver? ”

Zhang Qiang replied solemnly: "Yes, because our grain stamps have replaced the role of gold and silver as money, only grain stamps are allowed to circulate internally, and gold and silver are used externally. ”

Wei Wuji said: "My lord, how is the military salary paid?" ”

Zhang Qiang said: "Use the silver seized earlier to pay the soldiers, and this month will be distributed as usual, and the increase will be 10% to the soldiers." But next month, when the food stamps are printed, the gold, silver, and copper coins in the hands of the soldiers will all be returned to the Food Bureau of the Governor's Palace, and in the future, we can only use the food stamps to buy things and materials in our territory. ”

Zhou Congee was happy, "Your Excellency Governor, doesn't this mean that we can print as many as we want?" We don't have to give them gold and silver? ”

Zhang Qiang shook his head, "No, our grain stamps have to correspond to gold and silver, and in the future, our money will be divided into: cents, cents, yuan, corresponding to the current value of Wen, cents, money, and gold and silver." ”

Xuanyuan Longfei touched his head and said with some annoyance: "My lord, the villain doesn't understand." ”

"Hehe," Zhang Qiang smiled, "It means that in the past, copper coins were Wen, and now we have changed it to cents, a cent of silver, everyone is weighed with silver pliers, how troublesome, let's use paper money instead of broken silver, directly write that this is a few cents, no need to pay for fire, no need to pay for weighing, at a glance, how much is how much, how much is how much, in the past, a penny of silver was about a few hundred Wen, now we have changed it to yuan, and the larger two, we use numbers to express, equivalent to one tael, two taels, or something. ”

Xuanyuan Longfei still didn't seem to understand, Zhang Qiang looked at Zhou Congee, "Governor Zhou, you can explain." ”

Among these people, the one who knows him best is almost Zhou Congee, the family who followed him earlier, who has understanding, does not grab or occupy, and is very loyal, so Zhang Qiang asked Zhou Congee to explain, believing that he can say that he is ugly.

Sure enough, I saw Zhou Congee think for a while, and said to everyone: "I don't know if it's right to say it, let's listen to it, and let the adults explain it if it's wrong,"

He paused for a moment, waiting for everyone's eyes to focus on him, and then said: "I think that one penny is one cent, two cents is two cents, five cents is five cents, ten cents is one cent, twenty cents is two cents, fifty cents is five cents, one hundred wen is one yuan, two hundred wen is two yuan, five hundred wen is five yuan, one thousand wen is ten yuan, and one thousand four hundred wen is fifteen yuan, which is equivalent to one or two silver, I don't know if this is right, do you see, my lord?" ”

Zhang Qiang nodded, "Almost, our grain stamps should closely follow the proportion of the price of Daming silver, one hundred yuan is seven or eight taels of silver, one hundred and fifty yuan is ten taels of silver, as for the proportion of gold, I believe that with the above comparison, it is easy to get, because the proportion of gold and silver is floating, so our exchange is also the exchange ratio after everyone converts." ”

After speaking, Zhang Qiang waited for a while, and after everyone basically figured it out, he said: "We are only doing this to alleviate the bad situation of our current lack of fiscal revenue, and the situation is slightly eased, and then we will adjust, maybe we will continue to use food stamps or other as money, maybe we will exchange it back for silver and use it as money, don't worry, at the same time, we should explain it to the people below, don't cause a bad impact, I believe that after the war, These people are more receptive than the rich people who sit at home. ”

You Haibo thought for a while, "Your Excellency is afraid that someone with a heart will incite the people and maliciously exchange the gold and silver in our hands, if you want to do business with the outside, you have to pay the gold and silver of the outside merchants, and the outside merchants don't use our food stamps, isn't that the same for adults?" ”