Chapter 384: A Difficult Negotiation Continued
Chancellor of the Exchequer Koo Kim-shan had a reasonable, favorable and restrained debate, and the core of the argument was that we were discussing the issue of currency printing and exchange------ and other issues could be discussed in another topic.
For example, the problem of my style, I still have the problem of whether I have the heart of the Great Song.
As for why it was not mentioned before, but raised now, this is an inevitable question of the development of the times!
The voice of these words is clear, the layers are clear, and the center is prominent.
Gu Jianshan and his friends believed that the other party would understand even if they were a hundred years old.
However, at this time, Prime Minister Chen Yizhong, the head of the other party's negotiating delegation, said: "It's almost noon, so you might as well come back after lunch------ see you in the afternoon." ”
Gu Jianshan looked sideways at the Dali Bell produced in the Great Song Dynasty, and then looked at his pocket watch, and found that it was only 10:45 in the morning.
It took more than two hours in one morning and nothing to talk about!
However, the purple robes lifted their butts and left, what could they do with Gu Jian Mountain at this time?!
They refused the luncheon arranged by the Great Song Dynasty government, and collectively went back to the canteen of the ambassadors of the Federal Empire to eat and take a lunch break.
Da Song did learn a lot of the cooking skills of the Federal Empire, but it was not very authentic, and everyone had to comment on the results of the negotiations.
Education Minister Yang Youxing lamented and said, "My gods, it is even more difficult to negotiate with them than with women!"
I'd like to add some private goods to it------ it would be nice to get down to business! ”
Gu Jianshan said hatefully:
"Bootlegged? If you explain the common sense to them, I will obey you!
The guys I hate the most are those who pretend to be confused------ but they are all of them!
If they don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate printing of banknotes, why don't they dare to print more this year??
And it's just right to take advantage of us and not hurt them!! ”
It seems that there are capable people in the Great Song Dynasty government who really understand the truth of issuing currency------ but why don't they admit the facts?!
The Minister of Commerce, Guo Zirenqiang, said cheerfully:
"------Hehe, wait for me to talk to them about the dangers of monopoly management, so that the elite group can give up the monopoly and carry out a free market economy------ they may gladly accept it?!"
Ambassador Hou Dongfang originally wanted to clip a fried large yellow croaker, but he put down his chopsticks and said, "Don't be blindly optimistic!" ”
Damn, am I optimistic?!
Guo Ziren rolled his eyes.
The Federal Empire negotiating team was collectively in a state of pessimism, and everyone was silently smoking on the small whaleskin couch in the hall, and no one wanted to take a nap.
The knowledge taught to them by the lords, and the work experience they had gained in the imperial government, seemed to be of little use.
Yang Youxing groaned lightly: "I am willing to use the sword of common sense to split those messy pseudo-wisdom!" ”
Fart!
That's what everyone says about him.
Feng Zheng said calmly: "Shall we take a detour?" Let's not talk about the issue of paper money, let's talk about precious metal currencies------ such as silver coins with the same composition jointly issued by the two countries, don't let them add copper, tin and lead to silver coins indiscriminately------ everyone is reasonable! ”
As mentioned above, the Federal Empire also issued gold, silver and copper coins, stipulating that they were interchangeable with the banknotes of the Federal Empire------ because the gold, silver and copper coins of the Federal Empire were all forged and pressed, and the fineness was high, and the composition of gold, silver and copper was basically about 85%, which made the gold, silver and copper coins solid and wear-resistant.
At the beginning of circulation, everyone kept gold, silver and copper coins and threw paper money for use, which is a very simple reason for bad money to drive out good money.
But who knew that the Federal Imperial Mint produced more and more gold, silver and copper coins at all------ especially after the development of gold, silver and copper mines in Australia, Southern Yindianzhou and Nankai region.
Slowly, citizens discovered that the two currencies were indeed the same, and eventually they chose to use them according to actual conditions, rather than intentionally hoarding a certain type.
Gu Jianshan mentioned earlier that currency printing not only refers to paper money, but also includes gold, silver and copper coins.
In fact, the currency of the Federal Empire has long since jumped out of the grain standard and has gone to the gold, silver and copper standard.
Copper coins, in particular, at least on the island of Liuqiu, have returned to the essence of a metallic material.
With the deepening of trade between the two countries, the Great Song government also obtained far more gold, silver and copper coins than before.
The Great Song Dynasty also issued copper coins, but they still used minting, and they couldn't change the problem of arbitrarily adding unknown ingredients!
Of course, the common people are not stupid, they also keep the copper coins of the Federal Empire and throw out the copper coins of the Great Song Dynasty, and the exchange ratio is far from the one to one specified by the Great Song government------ or even one to four or five!
Although the copper content is not so exaggerated, the copper coins processed by forging technology are beautiful, good-looking, and not afraid of falling.
For a while, the Great Song Dynasty government saw that it was not suitable, so they secretly added unknown ingredients, so that the minted copper coins were afraid of falling.
As a result, the copper coin soon really reached the level of one to six.
As the federal empire imported more and more gold, silver and copper, the Great Song government finally gave up the idea of fighting wits and courage with the common people.
They gradually increased the copper content, and also adopted the manufacturing method of forging------ which forced them to import equipment from the Federal Empire.
In this way, the exchange of copper coins is stabilized, and it can basically reach one to one.
The silk, porcelain, and tea produced by the Great Song Dynasty obtained a large amount of precious metals from the Federal Empire, and the Federal Empire was helpless.
The Great Song Dynasty also tried to issue silver coins------ precious metals were kept in the treasury in vain, and there was no meaning.
As a result, they made the same mistake again, and began to add something to it------ and they were uncomfortable with any more copper, tin, and lead------ they might just not be able to see the people use about 90 percent of the gold and silver coins!
Except for a certain era in the afterlife, any attempt to be a fool of the common people will be shamefully recognized.
The story that turned out to be similar to that of the copper coin was repeated.
The meaning of the controversy is that if you can mess around with paper money, the composition of the gold and silver coins we jointly issue should be the same, right?
This is a truth that children understand, if you sell more cheap corn flour in the drinking cake, you can't be the same price as my 100% white flour drinking cake, right?!
However, they encountered an incomprehensible fiasco in the afternoon negotiations, and no one expected that the group of purple-robed people would talk about him left and right and mention the "difference between righteousness and benefit"!
You talk to them about the facts, they talk to you about morality------ and then an afternoon passes, and nothing comes of it.
Prime Minister Chen Yizhong also announced that the next two days will be the tenth day of the Great Song Dynasty, and it will be adjourned for two days!
What's going on, still resting?!
Feng Zheng was convinced, and said: "Let the market decide for itself, the old guys can only talk about crooked reasoning and can't talk about business." ”
What's the point of them running together to negotiate if they can't solve the problem at the national level?!
The first one is like this, what if there are several more?!
Foreign Minister Hou Dongfang made his own judgment and said:
"They played procrastination with us, and the key is behind their backs!
Didn't you look at that Chen Yizhong, who basically didn't say anything------"
The key lies in Chen Yizhong?!
Hou Dongfang smiled slightly and said, "Not necessarily! Probably the ------ behind him"
It can't be, we've been tricked by him?!
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