274 Silent plunder

In between, countless people are also asking and urging the development of the new Shanghai gold rush. Compared with trade www.biquge.info using a sieve to find gold is necessarily a simpler and cruder way to make a fortune.

It's not that Yang Changfan isn't in a hurry, it's just that he must first determine an order now.

Settling down in the Americas is a huge opportunity, but it can also be a huge mess. Tons of silver will surely drift across the ocean, and more people will go to the Americas, he believes that human desire and greed will break the existing order, and it is not inconceivable for a group of people to go deep into the North American continent to establish a state.

In the midst of chaos, how to try to ensure order?

Rough and harsh rule is not advisable, and the Huiwang Mansion does not have so much military power to control every inch of the Americas, so is there a more reasonable way to control everything?

The "Chinese currency" came into being.

The Huiwang Mansion had huge gold and silver reserves, and now has the capacity to issue paper money.

Although there is a limited understanding of economics, the benefits of paper money are well known.

First of all, it is convenient, in the case of such frequent and huge transactions, it has become increasingly cumbersome and funny to transport several carts of silver back and forth, including taxes on companies, in addition to considering fire consumption, etc., which is also commonplace.

On the other hand, in transactions with silver as currency, every ship, every caravan had to carry a large amount of silver, which was no less dangerous. With the decline of Xu Hai's pirates and the opening of new routes, there are always outlaws who devote themselves to this cause, and the new generation of pirates do not listen to the words of the Hui Palace, nor are they afraid of death, they only go to the boatload of silver, exchange it for paper money, and naturally cause trouble to the pirates.

For the Huiwang Mansion, the issuance of "Chinese currency" is tantamount to controlling the world with an invisible hand, no matter how you trade, all the money is actually in my hands.

In this regard, Yang Changfan gathered talents from the "mathematical community" to establish the "Bank of China", set up branches in various places under his rule, transported and stored gold and silver in various banks, issued banknotes and Chinese coins, which were exchanged with gold and silver, and issued American coins in Acapulco America, which could also be exchanged with gold and silver, but the rates were different between the two places.

The major companies and the various departments under the command of the Hui Wangfu took the lead in responding, exchanging gold and silver for banknotes, and the common merchants got the banknotes, and saw that they could indeed exchange gold and silver in the bank, so they were also willing to use this banknote, and the vigorous transactions of Moss Bay did need such a kind of banknote.

In fact, as early as the Hongwu period, the imperial court had issued paper money, and stipulated that paper money must be used. It was just indiscriminately printed, and it could not be exchanged for silver at all, so that it depreciated rapidly, and people gradually abandoned it, and over time, the imperial court acquiesced to the situation of gold and silver trading.

Therefore, as long as it is guaranteed that people can easily exchange paper money for stable real money at any time, paper money will not collapse.

With the issuance of paper money, the development of the golden city in North America has finally been put on the agenda, led by the "Bank of China" development, the construction of a new Shanghai, the golden valley for the new Suzhou, the establishment of the metallurgical bureau to smelt gold, people after the golden sand, can be directly exchanged for paper money, only need to pay a certain amount of taxes and losses.

Because more than 30,000 soldiers returned with gold for several months, the reputation of the Golden River Valley was so great that not only the people of Moswan, but also Fujian and Guangzhou, and even Zhejiang were full of interest in it. At the beginning of the forty-third year, an even larger gold rush fleet of immigrants rushed to New Shanghai.

At the same time, Huiwangfu banknotes are also unconsciously popular in the southeast prefecture and county, this kind of banknotes are far more prestigious than the existing banknotes of the imperial court, and can be exchanged for real money and silver at any time in Moss Bay, and Moss Bay has gradually eliminated gold and silver transactions, more gold and silver poured into the vault, and more paper money was issued.

In this regard, the soldiers of the Huiwang Mansion were bloodless, no heavy endowment, no exploitation, and easily obtained nearly 10 million taels of gold and silver, and only paid tens of thousands of banknotes.

The popularity of the Chinese currency instantly made the prosperity of Moss Bay explode to another high point, and the country was rich and the people were strong. After many years of prosperity, it has become a trend to cast moss bay, and people no longer have the slightest fear, even if they come to moss bay only to become a worker, to be the lowest worker in the silk factory and shipyard, and the annual income is several times that of farming under the rule of the Ming court, and they don't have to suffer from forced labor, why not? If you fight some more, you can go to New Shanghai or Acapulco, and the various versions of the story of getting rich overnight have spread so far to Beijing.

On the contrary, for the Ming court, Moss Bay is like a vampire, although there is no war or looting, but all the time desperately sucking the people and property in the interior.

The popularity of the Chinese currency caused an outflow of silver.

The wave of emigration left the landlords with no tenants to exploit.

However, the influx of a large number of foreign products and the export of a large number of local silk ceramics did not bring too many benefits to the Ming court, and the oil and water were eaten up by the Huiwang Mansion and the merchants.

No one could have imagined that after quelling the Japanese and the uprising, the three southeastern provinces urgently reported a poor harvest, and there were no natural disasters and no natural disasters, that is, no one farmed, and there was less silver.

Obviously, the local businessmen are so rich, but the government's silver is less!

When there is no one to peel off, a large amount of wealth has flowed out, and the price of land has plummeted, not only the landlords have a hard time, but also the officials, and the main income of most officials is not so innocent.

It's hard to imagine why the whole country is in a depression when there is a frenzy of imports and exports......

Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang were originally the three extremely wealthy provinces, but judging from the harvest in the autumn of 43 years, except for Zhejiang's barely supportive support, Guangdong and Fujian have been miserable, and most of the harvest has failed.

Invisible plunder is the most deadly, and the soldiers of the Hui Wangfu are bloodless, and in fact they have completed a more thorough plunder than any pirate.

The three provinces are in an emergency, and the cabinet has a headache.

These things are by no means explainable by the right and the same, even the great Confucian Xu Jie, most politicians including him can only be sure of one thing - this is all done by the Hui Palace.

In the Immortal Pavilion, Jiajing's complexion became more and more sallow than a few years ago, and he didn't know if it was really gradually aging, or if it was alchemy.

Jiajing put down the paperwork and chuckled: "Do you think that the urgency of the three southeastern provinces is only because of Yang Changfan?" ”

Xu Jie bent down as much as he could: "Although it is difficult to name, it can only be so." ”

"Yang Changfan can rob a village and a house?"

"Although it has not been robbed, the coastal villages and towns of Fujian and Guangdong have seen deserted villages and dead towns, and the whole village has thrown itself into Moss Bay, which is not a lie."

"Yang Changfan can grab a penny and a grain?"

"Although it was not robbed, the people in the southeast used Moss Bay banknotes without permission, and a large amount of grain and cloth went to sea, only exchanged for a few blank papers."

"In this way, Yang Changfan rules the world, which is better than Zisheng."

Xu Jie swallowed and foamed at the mouth and retorted: "In terms of strange skills and tricks, I am not as good as him." (To be continued.) )