Chapter 321: Minting Money
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The formulation of family law is just a small matter, and it is only a solution to some future
The establishment of a new Han Dynasty, the establishment of a truly peaceful and tranquil country with a rich people and a strong country, there are too many aspects to be involved. It can be said that there are countless of them, and Liu Yi can only think of one to deal with one, and to deal with one when he encounters one. Fortunately, a few military advisors and some courtiers were talented and strategic, and as long as they said a head and set a general strategy, they could implement it in this direction and come up with some practical solutions. In this way, it will not make Liu Yi too blind.
Liu Yi can be regarded as a human being in two lives, whether it is in the past or the present life, Liu Yi was originally an ordinary person, where is there any eloquence? The matter of ruling a country, Liu Yi had never thought about it.
If it weren't for the insight of modernization after later generations, many things, Liu Yi really didn't know how to deal with them, of course, the encyclopedia in the solar mobile phone also gave Liu Yi a lot of help.
Speaking of which, this ancient era is very different from the post-modern era, governing the country and ruling the people is not as complicated and as many projects as in later generations.
As far as the situation of the Han Dynasty is concerned, the ordinary people do not ask for much, most of them are people whose lives are unsustainable, as long as Liu Yi has a way to let them have food and clothing, and can have a place for them to settle down, these people will be very satisfied, they will worship and support Liu Yi, and be loyal.
Therefore, for the time being, it is relatively simple for Liu Yi to govern the Han Dynasty. It can only solve the problem of food, clothing and housing for the people, and everything else is easy to discuss, and the system of the New Han Dynasty can be slowly improved.
In fact, the family law is also a kind of labor law, as long as some laws and regulations are formulated, the relative personal safety of those who serve can be ensured. Of course, this problem is not a big problem now, and Liu Yi is only bringing it up now so that everyone has time to solve it slowly.
However, Xi Zhicai, Jia Xu and others also saw from this incident that Liu Yi was indeed doing his best for the Han people and the Han people, no matter how big or small, they attached great importance to it, and they could also come up with some feasible plans to make them respect Liu Yi more, and they felt that if the Han was under the rule of Liu Yi, the Han would definitely be revitalized. Moreover, once the Han Dynasty is really unified in the future, it may not be as simple as revitalization, and it is very likely that the future will usher in an unprecedented era of peace and prosperity, far more than the peace and prosperity of any dynasty.
When a few people get together and talk at night, it involves more than just the use of future generations. They also took the opportunity to raise many difficult problems related to people's livelihood.
For example, the problem of salt. The consumption of salt, the Chinese people can be traced back to the Yellow Emperor period, and they have long known how to use seawater to cook salt. However, in all dynasties, the salt of the people is in the hands of the government, and ordinary people cannot make salt privately, otherwise, the crime can be confiscated and exterminated.
Although it is said that China has thousands of miles of seawater, and the useful seawater can be dried or boiled to produce countless sea salt, the Chinese people have always been short of salt. At present, the salt used by the people has to be rationed by the government.
After Liu Yi captured Luoyang, the use of salt by the people was also a problem. Luoyang is far from the sea, it is difficult to make its own salt, now, the world is divided by the princes, everywhere is war, the official agency that used to supply salt, has long ceased to operate, or even no longer has this institution. However, in the present situation, it was difficult to obtain salt from the hands of those princes, and it was necessary to send someone to negotiate with them to buy it.
Now Luoyang is in ruins, and it has not been able to improve this aspect for a while. Now, the princes of the world, I am afraid that they all have a hostile feeling towards the New Han Dynasty, and I am afraid that they will not have trade contacts with the New Han Dynasty in this regard. Besides, all the way for thousands of miles, passing through countless power territories, can others let the salt transportation team pass through safely? There is no feasible route to transport salt to Luoyang.
However, they took this out and told Liu Yi, Liu Yi took the opportunity of the latrine, took out his solar mobile phone to check it, and found that there was a salt-producing land in the east of the Hezhou River. There's also a legend in this. The ancients diverted water from the salt pond in the east of the river to the cultivated land next to it, whenever in midsummer, when the strong south wind blows, the cultivated land is full of salt flowers for a day and a night, the local people call this "planting salt", the quality of salt is very good.
In fact, later generations have some misunderstandings about the salt used by the ancients, thinking that the ancients ate salt and ate some coarse salt and some bitter salt. In fact, the ancients have long been very particular about salt.
This kind of "salt planting" in Hedong is the description in Lü Buwei's "Lü's Spring and Autumn = Original Flavor" during the Warring States Qin period.
The book describes "planting salt": "The beauty of harmony, the ginger of Yangpu, the ostentatious cinnamon, the fungus of Yue Luo, the tuna, the salt of Daxia, the dew of slaughter, its color is like jade, and the egg of Changze." This means that the best seasonings are ginger from Yangpu in Sichuan, cinnamon from Zhaoyao Mountain in Guiyang, Hunan, bamboo shoots from Yueluoguo in Guangxi, sauce made from sturgeon fish, Hedong salt from Shanxi, nectar like jade in Zaijie Mountain, and caviar from Daze in the West.
It can be seen that the ancients have long known about some refined salt and also consumed refined salt, but it is possible that these salts were only eaten by some wealthy people, and ordinary people could not access them.
In any case, since there is a place for salt production in Hedong County, the problem of salt consumption for the common people can be solved.
However, the salt works in Hedong may have already become history, and this can only be done by sending someone to investigate and see where there are salt mines. You must know that the water of the Yellow River is fresh water, and it is unlikely to produce salt, but in some places where the east of the river flows, the water is released to irrigate the fields, and the fields can produce "seed salt", which proves that there are salt mines in the east of the river, and the river water flows through, bathing and dissolving some molecules, and after the sun, it becomes a salt flower.
Hedong County is not too big, as long as you spend time, you can definitely find salt mines.
Well, the problem of salt is actually only temporary, as long as Liu Yikong zhì the Yangtze River basin, he can open up the waterway, and in the future, he can directly build a salt factory by the sea to make salt and transport it back to the inland.
In addition to all these big and small problems, there is another problem that needs to be solved. That was the problem of the lack of money in the New Han Dynasty.
Jia Xu, the Minister of Finance, said: "My lord, there are millions of people in Luoyang and Bingzhou in the land we are now governing, and almost all of these people are now poor and white. ”
It turned out that millions of people in Luoyang were looted by Dong Zhuo's army, and almost all the money and property fell into Dong Zhuo's hands. And the people of the state, they are already poor, they have no money at all, and in addition, foreigners often invade and plunder, and the original government is deprived layer by layer, so it can be said that it is quite good for ordinary people to be able to search for dozens of copper plates.
Nowadays, it is no longer just the problem of some ordinary people, but also some of the former rich families who do not have much money.
And the newly formed New Han Dynasty, the treasury is equal to zero. If it weren't for a few big victories and some spoils, the New Han Dynasty might have been even poorer. Also, if it weren't for the support of the two bases, one south and one north, the current New Han Dynasty would be difficult to sustain.
But where did the money come from for both bases? This is the money obtained by constantly producing some special products from the two bases and selling them elsewhere. If there were not so many people at once, there might not be a shortage of money, but now it is different, relying only on the income of two bases, it is impossible to support the operation of a Han court. Also, Dongting Lake Xinzhou has been sealed by Liu Biao's economy for so long, which is equivalent to a year or two years without any income, which makes Liu Yi poor and white now. Well, in short, just one word, poor! No money.
Although for the time being, the people of Luoyang and the land of Bingzhou in the New Han Dynasty did not need much money, but if the New Han Dynasty did not have any money, it would be difficult to do so.
People don't have money, and they don't need much money for the time being. Because, for the time being, the government will still assist them.
Well, the people nowadays, they just need to concentrate on production. Food, the government will ration for the time being, and the grain they produce will be paid to the government for distribution, which is all actions initiated by the people themselves. However, Liu Yi had already asked Xun Wenruo and others to implement the policy of charging a certain grain tax only according to the situation of the fields in the future, although it was not possible to do all of them for a while, but a considerable number of areas have begun to implement such a policy. This is a matter of what the people eat.
The people's utensils are also arranged and deployed by the common people, and their clothing problems are also solved by the weaving workshops of the New Han Dynasty, and in terms of housing, the government also sends people to help them solve it.
It can be said that there are really not too many aspects that people need to use money now. But this is just a problem for ordinary people. Those who don't do production, if they don't have money, then they can't do it, for example, officials at all levels in the New Han Dynasty, if they don't have money for them, what do they usually eat and wear? Well, although there are government rations, they still have families. If they don't have money for their families, how will their families live? After a long time, who still has the heart to work for the New Han Dynasty again?
These are still temporary. In the future, when the government will no longer uniformly allocate money to the people and let them live poisonously, then they will have to use more money.
With the development, the average person will not be satisfied with only having enough food, clothes to wear, and a house to live in. Who wouldn't want to eat better if they had the conditions? Wear better? Better to stay? However, if you don't have money, can you eat well, dress well, and live well?
For example, if the people have received the land to grow grain, they will only pay a certain grain tax in the future, and they will have more surplus grain for the grain they have grown. What to do with these uneaten leftovers? They will want to sell it, and then use the money from the sale of grain to buy something they need. However, now that the Han Dynasty has no money, there are very few rich people, who has the money to buy the surplus grain in their hands?
If that time comes, the government can't ask for their food for nothing, right? It is even less likely that the people will be allowed to sell their surplus food elsewhere.
When Liu Yi learned about these situations, he was very scratched, but a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he immediately thought of a dignified court, how could there be no bank? If the New Han Dynasty has no money, won't it mint it itself? Since it is the new Han Dynasty, it is equivalent to being different from the old Han Dynasty, and now, it should also be time to set up a coin issuing agency.
Liu Yi thought for a while, and then said: "I think it can be like this, let's set up a money and silk issuing agency, our new Han Dynasty, we can't do without our own money and silk, now, it's time to get started, we will mint copper coins ourselves." ”
"Minting copper coins?" When Xi Zhicai and the others heard this, their eyes widened.
Especially Xun Wenruo, his face was a little gray and said, "This, this is not very good, right?" If you mint money privately, you can steal your home...... Uh......"
Whether it is post-modern or ancient, the issuance of coins is very strict, except for the gate, who dares to mint coins privately?
However, Xun Wenruo said and suddenly shut up and didn't say any more.
Liu Yi smiled and said, "Haha, you won't forget it, right?" We are now a new Han dynasty, not an old dynasty anymore. We mint money, but we don't mint money for personal gain, but the New Han Dynasty minted money. ”
"But, but ・・・・・・ is that okay? If we mint copper coins privately, will it cause inflation? Jia Xu really didn't think about the problem of minting copper coins.
"And what is this bank?"
"By the way, even if we mint copper coins, how are we going to issue them?"
The people in the room asked Liu Yi gossipingly.
"Let's talk about this one by one." Liu Yidao: First of all, it is necessary for our New Han Dynasty to set up a coinage department, and our New Han Dynasty is now poor and white, and without money, we cannot talk about development at all. ”
"I agree with the lord, how can I say that our New Han Dynasty is a country, how can we not have our own coinage department?" Xi Zhicai agreed.
Liu Yi thought about it and said slowly: "Moreover, the money we want to mint is not as simple as the copper coins of the old dynasty that we use now. We're going to mint silver coins. ”
"Silver? Our big man is very short of silver. When Jia Xu heard this, he immediately said: "Moreover, silver coins are too expensive, one or two silver can be exchanged for a thousand copper coins, who can afford to use silver coins?" ”
"Well, the silver coins I'm talking about aren't really silver, not all of them silver." Liu Yi waved his hand and said, "I said Duyin ......"
Liu Yi said, suddenly stopped, scratched his head and said: "Forget it, this doesn't make sense to you, let's wait until I and the blacksmith have studied it." Anyway, those silver coins look like they are white in the same line as silver, but they are not all silver, they are just copper coins. ”
"Oh, we'll have to wait and see."
"But it's not the same as copper coins, will others approve of them?"
They have questions again.
Liu Yi said: "The coins we have minted are definitely different from the previous copper coins, and for the time being, they will only be issued in places where we can rule, and there will be different values." There is no longer only one copper coin in the past. Our copper coins will also have some anti-counterfeiting marks, which cannot be made by others. ”
Liu Yi thought about it, the current copper coins, it is really troublesome to use, a thousand copper coins are worth one or two silver, and silver, in fact, is also weighed, every time a little larger shopping, you have to carry a large amount of copper coins or silver, but also with the scale, and weighing, there are also different standards.
Although it is said that when the Qin Emperor unified the world, he had unified the measurement, and the unit of measurement of the Han Dynasty was also unified, but there were still many differences in the one catty that the ancients said in different places, and it was not the standard one catty or one kilogram in later generations. Fortunately, Leo has a solar-powered phone and has a gravity pressure gauge that can set a standard unit of weight.
Liu Yi felt that he should take this opportunity to determine the city catties and kilograms of later generations, so that the Han people could use some standard units of measurement from now on.
In terms of coins, Liu Yi planned to do so that a silver coin would be equivalent to one yuan for future generations. When it was issued, the imperial court exchanged one silver coin for three copper coins. After all, using the measurement of later generations, one copper coin in this era is equivalent to more than three cents in later generations. In this way, no one suffers. In addition, some copper coins are also issued, each of which is equivalent to half a yuan, that is, five cents, and as for one or two cents, they are not wanted.
Silver coins should also be used as some large coins with high silver content or pure silver, such as ten yuan, twenty, fifty, and one hundred yuan. No matter how large the value of the currency is, you can use gold coins instead.
In this way, the same values as those of future generations can be realized.
The bank is an intermediary between the court and the people, after the court mints the coins, they will be issued through the guò bank, and the people can exchange the coins issued by the new Han Dynasty through the guò bank. In the future, the bank will also play the role of a trust. When the conditions are ripe, silver bills will be issued, and if the Han Dynasty is unified, Liu Yi will even consider issuing some banknotes to replace coins, but it is impossible to do so now. The common people would not accept paper money either. Only after the unification of the Han Dynasty did the society stabilize, and it was possible to do it again.
However, it will not be so simple to actually issue your own coins, and there are many issues to consider. So, now is just for them to start preparing, not right away.
But there are some truths, Liu Yi still has to make them clear.
Liu Yidao: "Our New Han Dynasty is poor, and the people are also poor. The country is rich and the people are strong, to put it bluntly, it is to make the people rich, but how to make the people rich? How can we make the people loyal to our new Han Dynasty forever? I think that as long as our people not only have food, clothing and shelter, but also let the people gain wealth, in this way, the people will always be loyal to our new Han Dynasty. Only in this way can we truly revitalize the Han Dynasty, and in this way, what we do will have substantive significance. ”
"However, we are so poor now, even if we mint coins, we can't make the country rich and the people strong with these coins, right? If it is really that simple, it is enough to desperately mint money in all dynasties. Jia Xu asked incomprehensibly.