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Sure enough, after the salt price official camp was released, those salt merchants who had hoarded a large amount of well salt were completely panicked, and hurriedly lowered the salt price again and again, in order to catch up with the salt price before the price of salt plummeted, and to make a little more money. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But everyone is not stupid, knowing that the price of salt will definitely fall sharply in the near future, where can they buy high-priced salt? The current market has become a buyer's market, and the hoarded salt cannot be sold, so anxious that the salt merchants who hoard a large amount of well salt are so anxious that they stomp their feet. Lu Chengqi didn't sympathize with them at all, salt is a strategic material, but it is also a necessary material, this is a double-edged sword, hurting both the enemy and himself. These unscrupulous salt merchants don't have any conscience for their compatriots, how can Lu Chengqi not be annoyed by controlling the price of salt and living in strange goods? What's even more infuriating is that they would rather sell salt to the Khitans than to their own compatriots, which is a heinous crime.

It is no wonder that those salt merchants are so anxious that they stomp their feet, more than half of their net worth is on their goods, and if the price of salt plummets, their net worth will at least shrink by more than half. With such a big loss, it's no wonder that they are not in a hurry!

This holy decree came suddenly, and even the salt merchants, no matter how good the means and connections, were caught off guard. At this time, salt became a dead commodity, and who would be willing to take over, and who could afford to take over such a large amount of goods? As a last resort, these salt merchants also conceded, and in order to avoid losing their money, they began a difficult retail pace, and the price of salt fell again and again, so that it could be regarded as selling a little, but compared to their hoarding, it was only a drop in the bucket. God knows when this salt will be sold.

After the Supervision Department reported the salt price of Jingzhao Mansion to Lu Chengqi in the past few days, Lu Chengqi once again showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth, and said in his heart: "Although the government monitors the market as little as possible, the necessary regulation is definitely needed. The control of salt and iron by successive dynasties is nothing more than trying to hold the lifeblood of the people in their hands. But this kind of vision is too limited to see the harm inside. In this era, iron tools must be controlled, but salt, as a necessity for the human body, how can it be controlled? If the price of salt is too high in a hundred years, it will cause social unrest. ”

After solving the problem of people's livelihood, Lu Chengqi remembered that the Supervision Department had arrested many illegal businessmen who sold fine iron to Liao, and he ordered these illegal businessmen to be raided and their property was filled into the treasury. At the same time, let the "Dashun Minbao" publish this matter in the newspaper to remind all businessmen that you can do business, but if you do business that endangers the country, it will be the end of raiding the family. "Dashun Minbao" clearly pointed out that anyone who sells any metal to Liao is guilty of treason, and the family property is confiscated at the light level, and the head is beheaded for public display.

After repeated vigilance, someone finally came to his senses, Lu Chengqi will not be soft on this kind of person, if someone defy the law, once they are discovered by the Supervision Department, they will definitely end up in prison.

When Yelu Hongji, the emperor of the Liao State, heard the news, he was also a little annoyed, and said: "This little emperor of the southerners can be regarded as courageous, and he actually imposed a trade blockade on my Liao country?" ”

At this time, the Liao State was different from the Liao State in history, the Liao State in history had been loosely armed at this time, and the Yelu Hongji Dynasty was the one in which the Liao State declined.

But in the official history, the Song Dynasty was unable to counterattack the Liao State, and more energy was used to deal with the Western Xia, the Liao State sat on the sixteen states of Youyun, and the Song Dynasty came to attack, and the Liao State could be said to be the strongest military country on the Asian continent at that time. So, in this case, the nobles of the Liao State began to degenerate, and the Liao State turned from prosperity to decline.

In this alternate plane, things are different. Because of historical reasons, the sixteen states of Youyun are firmly in the hands of the Dashun Dynasty, which is a place to produce horses, although there are not many horses, but after all, there is a horse farm. Coupled with the horse breeding farm in the Yellow River Hetao, there was no shortage of horses in the Dashun Dynasty. But under the relaxation of Ma Zheng, the quality of horses is not as good as that of Liao, and the cavalry is not as good as that of Liao, so naturally he does not dare to fight a field battle with Liao. Most of the horses produced by the Horse Husbandry Supervisor are donkeys, and they cannot go to the battlefield, so they can only be used as transport horses.

And Liao has such a relatively strong opponent next to him, and he doesn't dare to relax, because in this time and space, Liao is still very strong. No, Yelu Hongji saw that Lu Chengqi issued an order to strictly prohibit the sale of iron weapons, and when he became angry, he also ordered to mobilize 100,000 troops to attack Dashun.

But Yelu Hongji forgot one thing, which led to his later crushing defeat under Youzhou City. Of course, this is a matter for the future, so I will not show it for the time being.

This day was an ordinary dynasty, Lu Chengqi was wearing a dragon gon, sitting on the dragon chair, listening to the court discussions in the court. This court meeting is a bit interesting, but the household department Shangshulin Town has come to a conclusion through the reports of the household departments of various state capitals, that is, the money is not enough.

This surprised Lu Chengqi, as far as he knew, the Great Shun Dynasty was minting money every year, how could it be that the money was not enough? The Song Dynasty in history was also faced with this dilemma, and Lu Chengqi vaguely remembered that most of the money shortage in the Song Dynasty was due to the circulation of coins to foreign countries, which was one of the main reasons. More often than not, it is due to the depreciation of copper coins. Take the current situation as an example, the money is always a thousand wen, but now it is only more than 800 wen. What's even worse is that the big money minted in the previous dynasty, one big money is equal to one hundred yuan, and now the consistent money is only equal to eight big money.

Some money banks use the difference between big money and copper money to make money, and they can always earn dozens of dollars. In the case of a large amount, you can also earn a lot.

But is the Great Shun Dynasty really out of money, is it really not enough money? In Lu Chengqi's view, that is impossible. The Great Shun Dynasty minted three million yuan of money every year, note that this is all a thousand yuan of money. There are also ten for the usual big money. In the largest year, 5 million guan were cast. But so much money, it's still not enough, why is that?

That's because the copper coins of the Dashun Dynasty have entered the lives of all the people like never before, copper coins are needed to buy things in the market, copper coins are needed for ordinary people to pay taxes, and some of the official salaries and military salaries issued by the imperial court are also copper coins. When the rich and noble families saw this situation, they naturally refused to use the money, preferring to store it. The term entanglement came from the era of copper coins. At this time, when people go out to visit relatives, they can only bring a bulky string of copper coins, and wrap the copper coins around their waists, which is convenient to carry and safe, so people call this "plate" and "winding" travel expenses "coiling".

The copper coins of the Dashun Dynasty are not only used by the Dashun, but also by Liao, Goryeo, Japan, Uighurs and other countries, as well as small countries such as Annam, which is equivalent to making money in one dynasty and is used all over the world, and it is as stiff as the dollar in later generations. The purchasing power of Dashun copper coins abroad is far better than that at home. There were many unscrupulous merchants who managed to circumvent the sea ban and bring copper coins to foreign countries for use.

The Dashun Dynasty strictly implemented the copper ban and strictly forbade the private minting of copper coins, which also led to a copper shortage and aggravated the money shortage. Because this makes Dashun's copper coins under the monopoly of the state, the nominal value of its money is lower than the actual value of its coin for a long time. If there is no huge price difference, when the supply of copper coins exceeds demand, private copper coin holders will not choose to hold the coin, but will put it into circulation for profit. When the value of the currency decreases, some of the copper coins are withdrawn from the market and minted as bronze objects, thus spontaneously forming an equilibrium. Under the current policy, the copper coins that have been artificially depressed are actually withdrawing from the circulation field and precipitating in the private sector. Because copper coins are no longer a simple means of payment, but have become wealth that can be preserved, just like accumulating gold and silver, the wealthy families of the Dashun Dynasty have piled copper coins. And Dashun also has silver two, at the beginning of the founding of the country, two silver only circulated between the dignitaries, and the silver two were cast into the shape of a small ingot, called official silver. However, with the development of the economy, silver taels also began to circulate among the people, but the weight of silver taels began to be insufficient. When people use silver taels as payment currency, they have to evaluate the silver content, weigh it, and then convert it into copper coins, which is quite troublesome.

The reason for this is that there is a shortage of money. Although Lu Chengqi himself is from a financial background, the first time he encountered this problem, he felt chaotic and his head was big.

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