Chapter 467: Inflation II (Page 1/1)

Currency exchange for pearls, and then by the pearl settlement of the price of goods, although it sounds like just a change of currency settlement form, but in fact it is the beginning of a monetary monopoly, the trading building is the largest goods sales industry in the Xia Dynasty, up to rare and rare items, down to the people's livelihood consumption necessities, these are through the trading building to buy and sell.

At this moment, the trading building suddenly announced a change in the settlement method of items, replacing gold coins with pearls, and only accepting pearl trading items, so that people want to buy items from the trading building, they first need to exchange the gold coins or jade coins in their hands for pearls, or sell their own items to the trader, and obtain pearls from the trading building according to the value of the items.

However, no matter which method is used to obtain the pearl, the essence of it is to complete the trading building, although I don't know how the pearls used in the trading building were obtained? However, it should not be overlooked that pearl is not a rare material, it is fished from the sea and can be obtained endlessly, while gold and jade are rare minerals and are non-renewable resources.

Copper, silver, gold, jade, these are the direct materials used to mint money, and their own scarcity causes them to never depreciate. But pearls are different, only if there are enough sea fields, people can get pearls endlessly, when these things are rotten on the street, no matter how big the pearls are, they will be trapped.

Before inflation, the average price of a pearl was 50 copper coins, and only some pearls in excellent condition could be sold for 100 copper coins, and under normal circumstances, the market price of pearls was 50 gold coins, and a gold coin could buy a pearl necklace. But now the price given by the trading building is one gold coin for one pearl, which has raised the price of pearls by 200 times.

First there was a price hike, and then there was a change in currency. Although these two methods of disrupting market prices may seem to have nothing to do with the war, if we study them carefully, we will find that they have a direct impact on the army, and the harm caused by the price hike leading to the soaring price of goods is not to be mentioned.

For a simple example, a gold coin can buy 200 pearls, but now a gold coin can only be exchanged for one pearl, and the trading building only allows the use of pearls to settle items, which means that as long as the trading building has enough pearls, it can buy all kinds of items in a steady stream.

As long as they send people to get enough pearls from the sea, they can take away the grain, cloth, medicine, kerosene, salt, iron ore, timber, rice and flour, and even weapons, tents, forage and other items of the Xia Dynasty.

In this way, the trading building can make a profit on both sides, the former is the trading building with pearls to buy a large number of items, the latter is the trading building with pearls to exchange a large amount of currency, whether it is to buy or sell, the trading building can obtain huge profits, but the currency reserves are limited, and the production of pearls is unlimited, under the elimination of the other, the currency will be consumed by pearls sooner or later.

If it continues like this, it will be a year, and the long will be three years, and the currency of the Xia Dynasty will be consumed by the trading building, and at that time, the people will have accumulated a large number of pearls, but there is no currency, once the trading building is closed, those pearls are no different from lumps, and it is really going to get to that point, no one dares to close the trading building, and can only beg the other party to open up.

Although the trading building did not directly intervene in the war, it used the economic lifeline to deal a fatal blow to the Xia Dynasty, and the trading building used their pearls to continuously squeeze the Xia Dynasty's materials and currency, and then used these currencies and materials to trade with them in the Infinite Ocean Island Country and the Million Mountain Alliance, so in order to avoid this kind of thing, we must join forces to resist the trading building.

Ling Xia told Xia Yuanwen about the harm of inflation, after listening to what Ling Xia said, Xia Yuanwen was scared out of a cold sweat, to be honest, he did not pay too much attention to the trading building before, only paid attention to the harm caused by the soaring food prices, and at this moment listening to Ling Xia say this, he understood the sinister intentions of the trading building, this is simply a desperate plan.

Seeing that Xia Yuanwen had realized the threat of this matter, Ling Xia then changed the topic, he suggested that Xia Yuanwen temporarily disarm and raise troops, take advantage of the fact that the current food is still enough, immediately reduce the troops, and wait until Long Jiuzhong and Qiu Luobei led the corps to return to the Western Theater of Operations, and immediately began to arrange disarmament matters, leaving only one corps to garrison the war zone, and the rest of the troops to be temporarily transferred.

In addition to the standing garrison of the defense corps, the surplus troops were temporarily converted into reserves, the corps was responsible for raising livestock, the reserve was responsible for cultivating and growing grain, working and farming in peacetime, and assembling as soldiers in case of war, so as to maintain food self-sufficiency and not have to worry about foreign invasion, in addition, to curb the outflow of goods.

With the military rations stored in the Western Theater at this time, if one corps is fed, it can completely last for about four months, and if necessary, it is possible to implement a period of closure of the territory and the city, during which the whole people can rest and recuperate; as long as these four months are well utilized, all the grain planted and the livestock raised can be harvested, and as long as a single crop of grain and animal husbandry is harvested, they will be able to tide over the difficulties.

Solving the problem of the skyrocketing price of military food and materials, Ling Xia asked Xia Yuanwen to write a notice about the harm of inflation and post a public notice in the territory of the Western Theater of Operations, so that everyone could understand the sinister intentions of the trading building, and at the same time, they also jointly wrote a letter to Xia Yuanyou, detailing the threat of inflation, and asking the imperial court to make the pros and cons public in the official name.

After sending the joint letter, Ling Xia refused Xia Yuanwen's retention, he wanted to rush back to Ziyanjiang as soon as possible, seeing that Ling Xia was in a hurry, Xia Yuanwen had to let him leave, before leaving, Ling Xia took a look at the food of the troops, and saw that the food of the troops was only enough for three days, so he borrowed a million loads of food from Xia Yuanwen, although Xia Yuanwen was also short of food at this time, but still lent it to Ling Xia.

Bidding farewell to Xia Yuanwen, Ling Xia rode a horse to catch up with the team, and then led the team towards Ziyanjiang.

Not long after Ling Xia left, the territory of the Western Theater was plastered with notices to resist inflation and exchange pearls for currency. In the evening of the same day, Xia Yuanyou issued a holy decree, and notices were posted in all the territories controlled by the imperial court at the same time, the content was similar to the notice in the Western Theater, and it also detailed the dangers of inflation and currency changes, and called on the people of the Xia Dynasty to boycott the trading building with all their might.

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