Chapter 383: Salt Introduction
(I beg all pirated readers to take a look at the genuine version in the past two days, there is no serious recommendation for two months, the results continue to decline, and there is no motivation to update)
scolded and temporarily extinguished Han Derang's idea of suicide, Sun Chunming returned to his study helplessly, sitting in a daze and not knowing what he was thinking.
Sun Yue happened to come in and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Sun Chunming explained the matter.
"Damn, the ancients were really sick, they couldn't be eaten, and persistence was more important than life."
Sun Chunming frowned and sighed: "You stubble children, you don't read Wang Shuo anymore." ”
"Wang Shuo? The one who followed Feng's pants? ”
", it's Feng Pants who are messing with Shuo Ye! Oops, we have a generation gap. ”
"No, what does this have to do with Han Derang?"
"There is a saying in Shuo Ye, which I have always liked, he said, 'Faith cannot be eaten, so it is not important; Dish cooking can't be eaten as a meal, so it's not important; Freedom can't be eaten, so it's not important; Principles can't be eaten as food, so they don't matter; We believe in the life of pigs, so we also get the fate of pigs, and sooner or later we will be fed by others.'" ”
"Dad, now the readers of Dianniang are all good comrades, the mainstream atmosphere is anti-cooking, anti-freedom, and advocating belief in our party, it's easy for you to drop the subscription when you talk like this, and it's easy to be 404, and those who don't know think the author is cents."
Cross out.
Let's read books normally.
"Okay, okay, I know, that is, he has principles and doesn't want to be hostile to Liao, so let's not let him touch things related to Liao."
"How is that possible? He can't take the Jinshi exam, so he can only follow the two of us, you won't talk about it, even if I am a civil official, there are still 100,000 defenders stationed in Luoyang City, and at least the battle between the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Liao will be the mainstream of the world in the past few decades, what thing did he do in the Great Song Dynasty have nothing to do with the Great Liao? ”
"Dad, haven't you kept telling me that Uncle Cao and Uncle Fang are not at the level of enough, can't they have a good vision, this canal is about to be repaired, and your capital layout can almost be started, when the business of Luoyang City, our family's business, I'm afraid it will be more than ten times bigger than now, and you don't have time to stare at it, why don't you let Han Derang take over?" He was also Uncle Cao's nephew, and they wouldn't have any opinions if they wanted to come to Uncle Cao. ”
Sun Chunming was entangled when he heard this: "It's good, but people are also the foundation of a regent, so they will take care of our business?" It's not such a way to use overkill, and I still want him to be the right and left hand of our grandfather. ”
Sun Yue said with a smile: "Who said that doing business has nothing to do with national affairs?" ”
"Huh?"
Sun Yue grabbed the brush on the table and wrote five big characters like a cloud: commercial banknote salt introduction!
After writing it, he wanted to see his father's sudden realization and surprise expression, but as a result, Sun Chunming asked painfully: "What do you mean?" ”
Well, there are not many history lovers who know about this thing, so Sun Yue had to give Sun Chunming a simple science popularization.
The introduction of commercial banknotes and salt began in the early Ming Dynasty, which was a system created by Zhu Yuanzhang, and the expulsion of Meng Yuan from Mobei in the early Ming Dynasty was largely due to this excellent system, and it was beaten as a grandson in the middle and late periods, which was largely due to the collapse of this system.
To put it simply, the imperial court contracted out the project of transporting military rations to the merchants, and no matter what method you use, you must complete the work with quality and quantity, otherwise you will cut your whole family. Of course, there are risks and benefits, and the imperial court will give them some salt as a reward.
Not to mention, the efficiency of merchants has been much higher than that of the imperial court since ancient times, and after this system, the loss of grain transportation is at least thirty percent lower than that borne by the imperial court itself, and there are very few delays.
After these merchants got the salt guide, they usually used it directly as currency to exchange the spoils of war with the soldiers, and then find a way to transport it back, so that the income of the big soldiers increased significantly, and the desire to fight was greatly strengthened, which was also a surprise.
Of course, with such a wonderful dynasty as the Meng Dynasty, no matter how good the system is, they will be collapsed by them, and they can even harm paper money cheaper than paper, not to mention salt citation, 100,000 catties of salt, dare to send 100 million catties of salt, and as a result, by the middle of the Ming Dynasty, salt citation is basically less than paper money is worth a few dollars.
By the way, silver also began to become the main currency in the Ming Dynasty, but by no means because the commodity economy is more developed, and the economy is not even comparable to the nails of the Great Song Dynasty, and the people are purely forced by the various monetary policies of the imperial court to cheat their fathers, and they have to use silver (the paper money of the Ming Dynasty is more fierce than the yuan, and the most strange thing is that their copper coins are not only insufficient, but also every time they change the emperor, they will issue new ones, and the old copper coins are not allowed to be used, otherwise they will be arrested, of course, At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court was poor and beep, also because of this fucking financial policy).
In contrast, the court of the Song Dynasty had too much conscience, from the perspective of copper coins, not only full of two catties, but even a large number of exports to be the currency of neighboring countries, not even privately minted, because the cost of Song money is really high, private casting is not profitable at all, even if the Southern Song Dynasty issued paper money, at the beginning also insisted on the proportion of reserves within one to three, which was much higher than that of later generations, but later Kublai Khan was too fierce, and the imperial court could not withstand it, so it had to be issued, and then, the Southern Song Dynasty collapsed.
So in general, the credit of the Song Dynasty is still very reliable, or the basic conscience of the scholars and doctors of the Song Dynasty is still there, and there are enough restrictions on the imperial power, so there is no need to worry too much about this thing will disturb the lives of the people in the world, at least people are not like the Meng Dynasty, and they do not treat the people as people.
Explain all this to Sun Chunming, Sun Chunming also probably understood what Sun Yue meant, and couldn't help but groan: "You mean, I will take the lead in handling such a thing?" ”
"Yes, after Luoyang, it will definitely be the economic center of the entire Great Song Dynasty, if you propose, the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty will definitely enthusiastically support it, and even the issuance of paper money in the future may be initiated by you, after all, the first Jiaozi was not a group of businessmen in Sichuan and Shu who made it out."
Sun Chunming frowned and said: "But in the end, don't you still have to be the enemy of the Khitan, then the introduction of commercial banknotes and salt is essentially a military supply system." ”
With a smile, Sun Yue said confidently: "Come a little bit, let Han De get on the boat with business first, and then say, when the time comes, things will advance little by little, and it will be up to him to decide whether to do it or not, boiled frogs in warm water, if there is a gradual adaptation process of betrayal, it will not be necessary to die or live, this is human nature, not everyone is Hong Chengchou, but in the same way, not everyone is Wen Tianxiang." ”