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At the same time, because the Chinese side is extremely short of silver in this plan, it is in thought.

Don't look at the Ming Dynasty now, many times it is traded with silver, but in fact, in various dynasties in Chinese history, silver is never the real currency.

There is no real silver standard either!

The first generation of Chinese currency was copper coins, and before the Tang Dynasty, China's main currency was always square hole yuan. After the great development of the primitive free economy in the Song Dynasty, copper coins could not adapt to the total economic volume at that time, and were replaced by paper money - Jiaozi, Huizi, Zhongtong Jiaojiao, and so on.

In the late Ming Dynasty, why did the Ming Empire suddenly abandon paper money and evolve to the copycat silver standard?

It's not that the Ming Empire wants to give up paper money, it's that the Zhu dynasty is not angry and smashed its own brand. Banknotes are made of paper and are not worth anything at all, what is valuable is the credit behind the banknotes.

However, the Ming Empire issued paper money indiscriminately from the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, destroying the national credit behind the banknotes. After Ming Chengzu, the Ming treasure banknotes have basically become waste paper.

Seriously, Zhu Zilong has always wanted to use paper money.

It's really inconvenient to use silver!

(Of course, it is also beneficial to use paper money, which is easy to grasp the country's economy.) ）

Whether it is the gold standard or the silver standard, the most important flaw inherent in it is production. Gold and silver are limited in the earth's reserves, and in times of isolation from each other around the world, these precious metals can still be used in some places, and these precious metals are used as a medium of circulation.

However, after the integration of the world, it is almost impossible to use the gold and silver standard.

And, attacking the whole world, and even indirectly ruling the whole world of the Ming Dynasty has always been one of Zhu Zilong's plans. When the time comes, how can it still adhere to the metal standard monetary system?

Besides, it seems silly to transport gold and silver between countries without anything. If you buy a BMW, can you still pick a few cars of silver to buy?

From making a fortune by himself, to Li Zicheng making his own wedding dress.

Then Zhu Zilong came all the way to Jiangnan, and Haoge also made a black pot man for himself, and along the way, the silver inventory in Zhu Zilong's hand only accounted for 80% of the current number of the Ming Empire.

How much is that?

From the opening of the Sino-European sea route in the 1550s to the 1800s, China maintained a huge trade surplus for two and a half centuries, which is rare in the history of world trade.

After the establishment of the Sino-European maritime trade route, American silver was transported through the Pacific Ocean to Manila and then to China.

It was estimated at 5,010 tons from 1590 to 1602, 8,400 tons from 1602 to 1636, and 10,000 tons from 1636 to 1644.

You can see that the ton is used here, not two.

1 ton = 1000 kg = 1000 * 1000 grams!

That is, one ton of silver, which is equal to one million grams. Ten tons of ten million, one hundred tons of ten million, one thousand tons of billion, ten thousand tons of ten billion, one hundred thousand tons of ten billion, one hundred thousand tons is hundreds of billions of grams.

One gram of silver in the 21st century New China will be about five yuan in 2026.

Converted into RMB, it is 5000-600 billion.

This is only silver, not to mention that Zhu Zilong still has a large number of antiques, gold ingots, and various gems in his hands.

If all of them are converted into RMB, it is estimated that Zhu Zilong's current family background is equivalent to tens of trillions of tax GDP in New China a year, which is not much different.

Really, Zhu Zilong is now the richest man in the world, which is not an exaggeration at all. (Provided, of course, that he is not afraid to cause a modern financial storm)!

This is not over, if Zhu Zilong on the side of the Ming Dynasty can occupy the whole world, then it is equivalent to one more earth's resources, all owned by the Chinese. You must know that in the Age of Discovery, the white people only grabbed half of the world's territory, and not everything.

In 2005, the world's silver reserves and reserve base were 270,000 tons and 570,000 tons, respectively.

This is still tentatively discovered, and as technology develops, silver mining areas deeper underground will be discovered. It is not an exaggeration to say that there are millions of tons!

Zhu Zilong even suspected that under the land of Dongsheng Shenzhou, minerals were even more abundant.

That is to say, with the passage of time, one day, the real price of silver in his hands, or the purchasing power is not even as good as iron and copper, which is entirely possible.

Besides, there are not only silver mines in this underground, but also associated gold mines, copper mines, various metal mines, gem mines, and geometric prices, which make my scalp tingle when I think about it.

What Daming lacks is not silver and money, but scientific and technological achievements.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, tax revenue has been facing two dilemmas: one is "unable to collect", and the other is "unable to collect".

For a simple example: the aland requires military expenses, including silver for military pay, military rations, and forage. The tax in B is converted into silver, C is paid for grain, and D is paid for forage. At the time of blending, the silver from B was transported to Taicang and then allocated to A, while the forage from C and D was shipped directly to A.

The reality is more complicated, and it is no wonder that some have described Ming taxation as "a river that flows into a swamp, with countless branches and tributaries." "Unified currency, issuing new currency, preferably paper money, is imperative.

Moreover, it cannot be silver and copper coins.

The casting cost of copper coins is very low, and the casting technology is also very backward, and private copper coins have become popular. When a currency is not sound and chaotic, the "one whip law" will only hasten the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

This time back to modern times, Zhu Zilong almost didn't do anything entertaining.

That is, after purchasing the materials, I went to several companies and regions, and then I found a few professional counterparts about the monetary economy. Just take the assumption of a country and plan a currency plan, after all, if you let him think alone, or let the people of the Ming Dynasty think about it, it is obviously no fun.

Without a unified and convenient currency, it is impossible to establish a reliable fiscal revenue. Without reliable fiscal revenues, it is impossible for the regime to stabilize.

Ten days of professionals cooperating with Zhu Zilong's assumptions involved a series of problems.

Finally, take the example of the Third World.

They proposed that Zhu Zilong engage in the salt standard!

This proposal made Zhu Zilong a little surprised, after all, he actually had a plan in mind at the beginning, which was to engage in the grain standard.

After all, as the saying goes, if you have food in your hands, you don't panic in your heart.

Have you ever heard of it, you have salt in your hands, and you don't panic in your heart?

As the saying goes, the people take food as the sky, as long as the banknotes can be exchanged for food, I believe that the vast majority of the people in the Ming Dynasty are still willing to use it. However, the proposal of these professionals is that it is precisely because the role of food is too great that it is not suitable to practice the grain standard.

Otherwise, once the run on the purchase of grain, resulting in an emergency in grain storage, are you done playing, or are you finished?

The salt standard, it's different.

You let the common people and landlords rush to buy salt that they can't eat for hundreds of years and put it at home?

Do you think it's a crime (code)?

Salt, on the other hand, is a regulated product in any country. Salt resources are extremely abundant, and salt reserves are exceptionally sufficient!

Taking China as an example, China's maximum salt production capacity can reach more than 80 million tons per year, ranking first in the world. However, China's annual salt sales are only about 8 million tons, and it is difficult to expand consumption, so production has exceeded sales for many years, and the backlog is serious......

But for a different environment, on the side of the Ming Dynasty.

Due to heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the price of salt in China is generally very expensive, n times higher than the price of grain.

Using the salt that the country has been accustomed to since its history, coupled with great unification, internal strife and external enemies have been suppressed to almost nothing. The wind of the heavenly empire, the revival is just later, and the national credit has also risen.

It seems that it is really possible!

-------- (To be continued.) )