Looking at Li Chengqian, who was at a loss and was trying to rebuild the three views, Qin Hao continued: "Let's make the most basic deduction, the gold circulation rate of Datang is not high nowadays, so other things are often used to replace gold as collateral in bulk trading, salt is easy to exchange and salt is never worried, so once it is launched, it has become the most popular collateral, right, from an economic point of view, salt and gold can almost form an equivalent exchange, right." ”

Li Chengqian nodded.

"Now that the Hexi Corridor is unimpeded, the trade between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions is becoming more and more prosperous day by day, whether the merchants buy or sell materials, they need to pay with gold, and the natural convenience of salt will inevitably replace the status of gold, so that the salt will remain in the hands of the merchants and circulate, and it will naturally not be used to exchange for salt, if there is no large-scale change in the output of salt, then the salt will gradually be accepted by the market, becoming a supplement to gold, even a supplement to silver, a supplement to brass, Become my Datang's 。。。。。 Currency! ”

Li Chengqian swallowed his saliva with difficulty and said, "Goods... Currency? That... Isn't the salt that is not exchanged for salt just a piece of paper? This..... Is this possible? ”

"Of course it is possible, but only if the imperial court controls the number of his issuances."

"Lone seems to understand a little, in this case, this is a great thing, not only can the people get convenience, but the problem of my Datang's money shortage can also be solved, at least you don't have to tear up so much silk cloth every year, you can wear the silk cloth on your body, in this case, why do you want to oppose Lonely?"

"Because the imperial court doesn't know the power of this thing, it is impossible to print only 10 million stones, once the imperial court is tight, it is essential to add salt to print, after all, this thing is printed out is money, this thing is too tempting for the ruling class, so big that it is impossible to stop, even if we understand what we said again, if we don't actually hurt once, we will never have this memory."

"What if... What would happen if the imperial court really printed more, as you said? ”

Qin Hao exhaled lightly and said: "It's not a big deal to print a little more of this thing, after all, it is impossible for the common people to redeem all the salt in one go, if you print twenty or thirty million stones, it is estimated that there will not be any impact on the entire market system of the Tang Dynasty, and the imperial court can also get two million dollars for nothing, which is almost money blown by the wind, but if it is printed to more than 50 million, it is estimated that the people will suffer, because in essence, this is an act of looting people's wealth, And if it's a little higher in a short period of time。。。。。 ”

"What if it's any higher?"

"The rivers and mountains are overturned, the heavens and the earth change color, the blood flows and drifts, and the Li family is dead."

Qin Hao got this thing, it is basically the prototype of paper money, of course, the harm of abuse is similar to paper money, the Great Yuan Empire, which was invincible in the world for a while, perished because of the abuse of paper money.

I remember that in his previous life, he had seen countless crossings, and the protagonists in them could always make banknotes, all of which were made with gold and silver as reserves, and it took a lot of effort to get them, and there were a lot of YY ingredients in them.

Why bother, who dictates that the reserves of paper money can only be gold and silver? The things of gold and silver are hungry and thirsty, and the reserves are so small that they are difficult to control, which is more convenient than using salt?

This is not Qin Hao himself came up with it, the introduction of commercial banknotes and salt, there was a system in the early Ming Dynasty, the merchants and the common people helped the army to raise and transport baggage, and used salt as a reward, when Zhu Chongba and Zhu Laosi were fighting, the introduction of commercial banknotes and salt played a very huge role.

Of course, the bitter fruit after that will be borne by the descendants of the old Zhu family, because of the continuous printing and printing, in the end, the amount of salt is thousands or even tens of thousands of times the annual output of Daming salt, and finally it is not as good as waste paper, and the entire economic system of Daming collapsed, and the people were poor and the country was poor.

Are the hundred officials in the early Tang Dynasty smarter than the hundred officials in the early Ming Dynasty? I'm afraid not necessarily, Li Shimin is certainly the first emperor of the ages, but Zhu Mazi and Zhu Laosi were not given in vain, so Qin Hao estimated that the mistakes made by the old Zhu family in the early Ming Dynasty were similar to those made by the old Li family in the early Tang Dynasty.

Li Chengqian only felt that his brain was buzzing, and he grabbed Qin Hao's shoulder and said angrily: "Why don't you make these words clear to your father, why don't you stop him, what are your intentions!" ”

Qin Hao shrugged his shoulders helplessly and said: "It's useless to say it, this thing is a sword of the imperial court, it is impossible not to use it, my words are just the words of a family, everything I said before I tasted the bitter fruit is alarmist, don't say that it is a saint, when I am really short of money, I am afraid that even you will not be able to resist his temptation, or that sentence, I will never know how much it hurts if I have not been bitten by this thing, on the one hand, there is endless wealth at my fingertips, and on the other hand, there is unwarranted alarmism, how to choose at a glance?"

I don't say, let things develop in his original direction, I can still guide and control it a little, and when it comes to the day of the outbreak, I am also sure to come out and clean up the mess, I said, at most, be careful when printing, but in that case, once the thunder explodes again as the years go, I'm afraid even I won't be able to return to the sky. ”

Li Chengqian was stunned for a moment, and then said: "You said that once something really happened, you can still remedy it?" ”

Qin Hao nodded and said, "At least if it breaks out within three years, there is still a way." ”

Li Chengqian immediately laughed when he heard this, and said: "It turns out that you have calculated everything, haha, too, how can a person like you throw out something that you didn't calculate, no wonder you asked me to oppose it, you want to let Lone Lai turn the tide." ”

"Your Highness is really smart, thank you for your trust."

"Ha, you said so much that you don't understand a few words, but it's okay to believe in you, knowing what you plan to do, and Lonely's heart will be steady. If it is really as you say, Lone's whip is not in vain. ”

Li Chengqian is also a smart person, but the Tang Dynasty has not even established the gold and silver currency standard, where did the financial system come from, this span is really too big, so he only listened to it in a daze, only knew that this was a thunder, and if he threw it out, he could blow himself to pieces, but Qin Hao could save it.

Of course, taking risks is not without benefits, every year the imperial court can turn a lot of paper into money, and this special bit of stone into gold is nothing more than that, for this low-hanging fruit, Li Chengqian also feels that this risk can be risked.

Sometimes it's so simple for the superior to think about things, they don't need to understand things, it is enough to understand who can do things.