The emergence of banks not only reduces the burden on households, but also makes the management and issuance of new currencies more efficient.

At the same time, it has one of the biggest effects, which is to take back the right to mint!

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, which was also the Wude period ruled by Li Yuan, in addition to the household department, Li Shimin, the king of Qin at that time, Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, and some princes, also had the right to mint coins.

However, Li Shimin later issued a decree that private minting money was not allowed, and once he was found to be executed, the family property would also be confiscated.

Unfortunately, it had little effect.

After all, the interests in this are too great, not to mention ordinary people, even the five surnames and seven wangs, these gate valve families, it is impossible to let go of such interests!

And most importantly, as the economic development of Datang is getting faster and faster, more and more copper coins are needed, even if they are also minting, but the copper coins on the market are still not enough.

Under such circumstances, Li Shimin could only turn a blind eye and didn't know it.

But with the advent of the Datang Royal Bank established by Gao Ming, all this changed.

After the issuance of five new banknotes, namely 10 banknotes, 5 banknotes, 1 banknotes, 500 and 100, Gaoming issued "three paper and one copper", which are also three banknotes and one copper coin.

Banknotes are in 50, 20 and 10 denominations, while copper coins are still one coin, but they are no longer the Tongbao of Datang in the past, but all-copper coins!

Nowadays, the Tongbao circulating in the Tang Dynasty is not actually all copper, it is also mixed with iron, and the Tongbao of the household department is better, but it is mixed with iron, while the family is generally more than two percent, and some black-hearted businessmen even exceed three percent, so as to seek benefits.

But now, with the advent of the banknotes and pure copper coins of the Tang Royal Bank, these private coins of these families can no longer be played.

And in the state that the currency meets the market demand, Li Shimin will not turn a blind eye.

His approach is only one word - kill!

There is no saying that there are no human rights in the feudal slave society, who dares to fake and kill the whole family and punish the nine clans!

From Gao Ming's first edition of treasury bills three years ago, to the fifth edition later, and to the current new currency, I don't know how much blood has been stained and how many people have been killed.

In fact, these Gao Ming himself also knew that he just didn't think about it, and a few years of career as the prince of the Tang Dynasty made his heart harden a lot.

This time it was the same, after the issuance of "three papers and one copper", he issued an order that all old coins should be recycled within a year and not allowed to be used again.

The standard of recycling is based on the quality of the copper coin.

The copper coins issued by the household department are 100% exchangeable, and the new copper coins of the family gate valve can only be exchanged for 80 new coins, and other inferior old coins can only be exchanged for half of the original price!

Obviously, such an exchange standard will bring great losses to the people, and even some people will live in poverty temporarily, but in order to implement the new currency system and cut off the soil for the survival of private coins, such "labor pains" are also unavoidable.

Of course, there will still be people who mint copper private coins in the future, but with Datang's existing technology, it is impossible to make a large number of them, after all, with convenient banknotes, who wants to carry a large number of heavy copper coin streets?

Nowadays, the train only collects paper money, which also makes the reform of paper money more smooth, and the reform of paper money has made the rapid development of the cities around the railway, especially Taiyuan as the terminal station, which has developed the most rapidly!

Now there are three trains of luck, and when these three trains arrive, nearly 4,000 people will pour into the city, most of them will stay here for a few days, and the traffic will be hundreds of thousands a month.

This may not be a big deal in modern times, but in Datang, it is remarkable, and most of these people are not local to Taiyuan, and they spend money on food, accommodation and rest, which also greatly stimulates the urban economy here.

At this point, the city where the Li Tang Dynasty rose from the army, after being silent for 30 years, once again ushered in the opportunity to rise, and faintly had a trend of shoulders with Luoyang and Chang'an.

Now the Ministry of Officials, in order to manage this rapidly developing city, requires an increase in the number of officials in Taiyuan Mansion, and at the same time upgrades the rank of Taiyuan Mansion to the second grade, which is the same level as Jingzhao Mansion and Luoyang Mansion.

Gao Ming also set up a branch of the Taiyuan Royal Bank here, and let Wu Wang Li Ke be in charge of management.

At the same time, Li Tai, the king of Wei, was appointed as the president of the branch of the Luoyang Royal Bank, providing copper money or new and old currency exchange business for the local and surrounding people, and the paper money needed was transported by train by Cheng Yanjin.

Gao Ming himself was in charge of the head office of the Royal Bank in Chang'an City, and at the same time appointed Zheng Liwan as his deputy to help manage the affairs of the Royal Bank and receive six products.

In a society like Datang, where men are superior to women, it is naturally impossible for women to be officials, but when it comes to Gao Ming, the situation is different.

Now everyone in the court knows that Zheng Liwan, the woman who was chosen through the beauty pageant, is actually Gao Ming's outer room outside, if it weren't for the divorce turmoil at the beginning, I am afraid that she would have been admitted to the East Palace now.

Now she is only given a six-grade treatment, and it does not involve the position of military and political affairs, but only manages money for the Royal Bank, which is naturally nothing to worry about.

The most important thing is that since the establishment of the Royal Bank, the monthly income of the hundred officials in Chang'an has been collected from the bank, and some political performance rewards have been involved, which have to be taken from Zheng Liwan's hands.

As the saying goes, "county officials are not as good as being in charge", considering this level, the officials are still sensible to avoid any unpleasantness with Zheng Liwan.

Of course, Zheng Liwan also knew that the officials looked down on her and only regarded her as a vase with a high position, so she also held her breath and worked more diligently and hard, making the development of the Royal Bank thriving.

It stands to reason that with such a good helper, Gao Ming's workload should be much less, but the reality is just the opposite.

He's gotten busier.

Because of the advent of trains and banks, problems that did not appear in the past have appeared, and problems that were not obvious have become very obvious to the point where they have to be dealt with.

In particular, the pieces sent by the Ministry of Railways were almost piled up on his table, and he had no choice but to transfer a few officials from the court and ask them to help deal with it together, which was really important to read to him.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, in the past six months, the Ministry of Railways of Luoyang Prefecture has seized more than 10,000 catties of unreported illicit tea, and illicit tea dealers are rampant, so I implore you to change the standard of Tang Lu's beheading from 300 catties to 100 catties!"

"What? Tang Law stipulates that selling a hundred catties of tea without permission will be beheaded? ”

Hearing this invitation, Gao Ming immediately waved his hand, "What nonsense is it to sell illicit tea?" The fine for confiscating the tea is OK, and the specific amount is for them to see! ”

"Yes!"

After the official wrote down his wise handling opinion, the official next to him continued to speak.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the Taiyuan Ministry of Railways caught more than a dozen people stealing railroad tracks in January, two of them were beheaded by patrol cavalry because of resistance, and more than ten others were detained, asking if they needed to be sent to Chang'an to be beheaded."

"No need, he will be executed for the crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason, and those who do not report it will be guilty of the same crime, and their families will be assigned to Lingnan!"

"Yes!"

"His Royal Highness the Prince, ...... of the Ministry of Railways of Chang'an"

The old ones were dealt with one by one, the new ones were sent one by one, and by the time the sun set in the afternoon, the desks were still the same.

Gao Ming spoke dryly, took the teacup, but found that the tea inside was empty, and the little official next to him was about to add water, but he stopped him.

"The work can't be done, okay, let's get here today, everyone has worked hard, let's go back, and come back at three o'clock tomorrow morning!"

"Yes, His Royal Highness the Prince!" Everyone got up and saluted him, and then went out one after another.

Gao Ming was also ready to go back, but what he didn't expect was that when he walked to the door, he saw an unexpected person.

At this time, a gust of wind blew, and Gao Ming smelled the strong smell of the sea on the other party's body, but he didn't care, but instead "revealed" a bright smile.

"Liu Bing, you're finally back!"

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