Chapter 331: Rich and Rival Country

Qin Shaoyou left it alone, there are advantages and disadvantages for Yang Jiong, and the advantages are of course obvious, that is, the less Qin Shaoyou interferes in the council hall, and the more authority he has as the speaker.

However, this council hall has just opened, and it is very noisy, and even the basic deliberations cannot be carried out, and he can't wipe off his face and take any coercive measures, because once he moves strongly, this will become a matter of offending people, and the businessmen naturally want to accuse him of being a scholar and favoring the scholar, but the scholar feels that he is not protective and considerate of himself enough, and the biggest result is that both sides are not pleased.

Yang Jiong came to 'consult' Qin Shaoyou, hoping that Qin Shaoyou would be this bad guy, but on the contrary, Qin Shaoyou was unwilling to be fooled, which made him a little anxious.

After thinking about it again, he stopped asking for help, and it was better to solve it himself.

He said, "What does Your Highness think of those merchants' proposals?" ”

Qin Shaoyou barely thought about it, and said bluntly: "In less than three years, this case will definitely become a legal text." ”

"Really?" Yang Jiong looked surprised: "This is obviously an absurd legal text, where is there a person who sees people idle and is punished with hard labor, His Highness laughed." ”

Of course he didn't believe it, but Qin Shaoyou was convinced of it, and he said lightly: "At present, the local scholar clan, nine times out of ten, still rely on the grange in the countryside for a living, they are used to this kind of pastoral casualness, but the income of the grange is far from being as good as the exchange, so sooner or later, you still have to become a businessman, of course, it is different from ordinary businessmen, but all those who do business are always profit-seeking, heh...... Let's get it far. ”

Yang Jiong thought about it, and gradually agreed, now there are many scholars doing business, even the Yang family is not exempt from vulgarity, not to mention that the market is very good now, and any business on the market can make a lot of money, and prices everywhere are skyrocketing, and the result of skyrocketing. It is even more unbearable for the scholars.

The scholars relied on the grange, and the money was originally slow, and after the price of grain was suppressed, they finally made some money, but the price soared, and the money in their hands became more and more worthless, and the Zhuangzi had begun to introduce bills of exchange, and began to be accepted.

The bill of exchange was issued by the Divine Government. This is not Qin Shaoyou's idea, but it has reached the point of last resort.

In fact, there is only so much money minted by the imperial court, if it is according to the previous model, this will work, after all, the copper output of the imperial court is only so high, and it also takes time to mint money, which is very suitable for the kind of self-sufficient economic form. But the problem is that Mengjin's business activities are very prosperous. Moreover, the volume of commercial transactions is also rising, and some people buy and sell at a time, even exceeding thousands, which is rare in other places. But how much is a few thousand dollars? It has always been a thousand dollars, a thousand yuan is 100,000 yuan, and thousands of dollars is hundreds of thousands of copper coins, a big businessman. To carry out transactions, it often requires more than a dozen truckloads of money, which are delivered, cleared, and put into storage alone. It takes days.

This method of trading, delayed too much time, especially for some of the merchants who resold the goods, it is simply fatal, you may think that the price of cloth may rise recently, and you want to buy a batch, but the transaction has not been completed, but the market has changed.

This is the case for businessmen, and even more so for the Shence Mansion, the daily shipments of the Shence Mansion are extremely high, and the people who produce tea may only be thousands, but the bookkeeper in charge of the transaction is as high as 100 people, why? With such frequent transactions, almost everyone needs to count their coins, from morning to night, which is not only time-consuming but also laborious.

On the one hand, the scales of this era are not very accurate, and there are many errors between one or two gold and one or two coins of gold, but this money and gold are not a small amount, and the fineness of gold is also different, plus the price of gold fluctuates greatly, today may always be one or two gold, tomorrow it may become nine hundred dollars, but the Shence Mansion at this juncture, make out the bill of exchange, For example, if the Shence Mansion wants to purchase a certain raw material, after taking the goods, it will issue a kind of imitable bill to go out, and the amount of money will be written on it.

After all, Shence Mansion has enough credibility, so the merchant takes the bill of exchange, but he can rest assured, put it in his hand, and naturally take it when he needs money.

But gradually, some merchants have also begun to use this kind of bill of exchange released by the Shence Mansion to trade, after all, this thing can go to the Shence Mansion to withdraw cash at any time, and the transaction is also simple and fast, only need to verify the authenticity.

Finally, bills of exchange began to become more and more popular, and even the money and grain room of Shence Mansion specially set up the exchange of money and bills of exchange, and began to vigorously improve the anti-counterfeiting level of bills of exchange, and began to consciously release bills of exchange.

And the bill of exchange is not only used to guarantee the credit of copper coins, but also part of the goods of the Shence Mansion, which leads to the fact that there are more and more bills of exchange on the market, which have long exceeded the number of copper coins themselves.

In layman's terms, the Shence Prefecture bill of exchange belongs to the tea and cloth standard currency, and it is not copper coins, nor gold and silver that are used as deposits, but goods.

The advent of bills of exchange has made the money more overflowing, which makes the copper money more and more worthless, and the rich people of the scholar clan who originally still clinged to gold, silver or coins feel more uneasy, the money will depreciate, and the more popular the business behavior, the more the money will depreciate, such as cloth, last month a horse only two times, but now, it has climbed to nearly three times, and the little property they are guarding is shrinking unconsciously.

In other words, the previous mode of saving money is gone, and if you can't let money come out, it will inevitably shrink your wealth.

The situation faced by the nobles is both an opportunity and a cruel reality.

This is also the reason why Qin Shaoyou dares to assert like this, if they refuse to take out the money, the final outcome will be a dead end.

And once these people put a large amount of wealth into Mengjin, then what difference will they have from ordinary businessmen? Their interests naturally coincide with those of the merchants.

Qin Shaoyou and Yang Jiong talked a lot of gossip, Yang Jiong benefited a lot, he looked at Qin Shaoyou, and had a delusion in his heart, this guy, why do you have so many inexplicable ideas.

While he was talking, someone came in a hurry and said, "Your Highness, someone is looking for Speaker Yang to speak, saying that he is a family member from Hongnong County." ”

Yang Jiong frowned, family?

What is this family doing here?

He felt that this was rude, so his face was very bad, so he smiled at Qin Shaoyou embarrassedly and said, "Your Highness, the old man retires." ”

Qin Shaoyou nodded his head, but he might as well shout at the people outside: "Something's wrong, something big." Hurry, I can't slow down for a moment, I want to see the third uncle......"

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Chapter 2 is delivered. (To be continued......)