The money industry not only did not mint money, but bought copper coins in the market on a large scale, and as a result, in less than half a month, the price of silver in Nanjing City fell by half, which really caught Yang Chao by surprise.

Yang Chao thought about all kinds of rebellions of Qian Zhuang and the forces behind them, including secretly casting to making people noisy in public, and even prepared for their rebellion, but he didn't expect that the way they used was to disrupt the financial market.

"Sure enough, he's an expert. Although I didn't get out of the bank, I couldn't have accumulated financial knowledge after playing with money for hundreds of years. ”

Finance must have developed to a certain extent, and the era of barter obviously does not require too complex financial services.

The reason why Westerners play so much in the banks is because they are fragmented and trade exchanges are very frequent, and secondly, because although they have been in turmoil for a long time, the wave of usury people who run banks always survive, Italy will go to Spain if it is not good, Spain will go to France if they get it, and France will go to the Netherlands if it is chaotic, and they have been accumulating knowledge since before the birth of Christianity, and it is strange that it is not good.

Although China's economic scale is the largest in ancient times, the law of rise and fall once every two or three hundred years makes it difficult to pass on this kind of knowledge smoothly, after all, this is a unified country, and there is nowhere to run if you want to, so in the Song Dynasty, there was also such a thing as Jiaozi in the people.

Although the Ming Dynasty has not yet developed to the extent of the Song Dynasty, the main factor is the substantial decline in the government's management ability, rather than the economic decline, the Ming Dynasty with two or three times the population of the Song Dynasty, even if the economic scale can not exceed the Song Dynasty, but it can still be flat.

It's just that the management of the Ming government is too conservative and the restrictions on commercial activities are too great, but even so, the financial industry of the Ming Dynasty has smoothly evolved to the stage of usury, that is, the level of the Jewish Middle Ages, although it has not yet evolved to the banking industry, but it is obvious that these people who have accumulated two hundred years of money and business have much higher financial knowledge than ordinary people.

Having this kind of knowledge is welcomed by Yang Chao, but using this kind of knowledge to disrupt order and engage Yang Chao is used. Then I can't bear it.

"Li Liang, immediately go to Yangzhou and tell Qiao Chengwang that I don't want to see too much silver exchanged for copper coins!"

Qiao Chengwang looked at the group of Yangzhou salt merchants. With the support of Yang Chao, they recovered their vitality the fastest, and because Huai'an was occupied by the Qing army for a long time, and Haizhou, the sea salt producing area of Huai'an, was under the control of Yang Chao, these Yangzhou salt merchants not only stabilized their Tongzhou and Yancheng territories. also took the opportunity to extend his hand to Haizhou.

Now although Huai'an has begun to recover, Du Shouchang's group of Huai'an salt merchants have obviously been encroached upon by Yangzhou salt merchants A lot of the market, is in Haizhou crazy fighting, to drive Yangzhou people out of Haizhou, the two groups of people have repeatedly lobbied Yang Chao, hoping that Yang Chao will come forward to attack the other party.

However, Yang Chao is happy to see them fight, because in this case, the price of salt will be very low, and the common people will benefit a lot.

Qiao Chengwang is a group of salt merchants, in fact, they are all experts in the pawnshop and money industry. The usury capital they lent reached 30 million taels, and the annual interest was 9 million taels, which can be called a big player in the money industry, if they also joined at this time, it would be even more difficult for Yang Chao to stabilize the situation.

Compared with the simple money industry, the main business of salt merchants is the salt industry after all, and for them, it is more stable to be able to control the salt industry, which can be passed from father to son, just like the wealthy family is crazy to annex land, not because the land assets are more stable.

Now Yang Chao spoke. Since you have been asking for me, it is time for you to express whether you want to fish in troubled waters and plan to fight against Yang Chao, or whether you are willing to do it for the profit of the salt industry. Reaching a united front with Yang Chao depends on your performance.

"Kang Xiaobao let out a rumor, and said that Yangzhou salt merchants are collectively optimistic about silver and will not throw a tael of silver into the market for copper coins."

A place like the Qinhuai River is a distribution center for exchanges, allowing Kang Xiaobao to let out the wind. It won't take a day to spread throughout the city.

"Wu Duoyu, hurry up and print a batch of small silver tickets, I must see them within three days."

"This is a pattern of one tael, this is a penny, this is a cent, this is a cent."

One tael of silver is roughly a thousand Wen, one penny is one hundred Wen, one cent of silver is ten Wen, and one cent of silver is equivalent to one penny, which is a very small denomination, after all, as the lowest monetary unit of the Ming Dynasty, a penny of copper can no longer be bought.

Wu Duoyu saw the pattern given by Yang Chao, and his hands trembled a little: "Uncle, I'm afraid this is inappropriate, this pattern is forbidden." ”

"Breaking the ban? What a forbidden! ”

"This, this, this, this is Taizu!"

Wu Duoyu said tremblingly.

"What's wrong with Taizu? It's Taizu who is valuable, if the head of this lord is valuable, it is better to use the head of this lord. ”

"The villain doesn't dare to print."

Wu Duoyu was still trembling, kneeling down and begging for mercy.

No wonder he didn't dare to print, the image drawn by Yang Chao was the portrait of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, which was intended to be used on this batch of small banknotes, so that the group of turtles in the money village could see, Lao Tzu even dared to move out of Ming Taizu, and one by one they were still stopping.

As for the violation of the ban, Yang Chao didn't even think about it, and printed Zhu Yuanzhang's head on the banknote, which is to respect him, others don't have the qualifications to print it, and the future generations will not be the surrender of the Indian leaders.

"Alright, take it and print it! Everything is in Benjue's pocket, and if you can't get the silver ticket within three days, I want your head! ”

Yang Chao said viciously, he couldn't help but be ruthless, even if he was fighting now, he didn't see blood, but the tragedy was even worse than the battlefield, he was killed on the battlefield, and it was clear how many people died.

At this time, due to the uncontrollable comparison of silver and copper coins, the situation of the common people has been chaotic, because copper coins have become expensive, everyone is more willing to keep copper coins, and take silver out to trade, just like when the dollar appreciates in later generations, everyone likes to save dollars.

But those who can afford silver are generally relatively wealthy people, at least the middle class, and the poorest group of people often only have copper coins in their hands, and they can't see a few big ingots of silver in their lives, so these people are the most affected, but everyone has not panicked, because the copper coins in their hands are rising, compared with the price of silver, and soon the copper coins are also appreciating compared to other prices, and for those who use copper coins, it seems that prices have fallen.

But the silver has depreciated by almost half, but the price has depreciated by three layers relative to the copper coin, which is equivalent to silver, and the price has risen.

Yang Chao didn't believe that these money connoisseurs had a strategic attack on silver, they might just want to disrupt the market and force Yang Chao to change his position, allowing them to continue to mint private money, so that the price of money would come down, but it just accidentally affected Yang Chao's plan to promote the silver standard.

"Report to your lordship, Master Du Shouchang Du asks to see you!"

Because of the financial war, Yang Chao temporarily put his base camp, which is closer to the market, and if he is in the military camp, he will not have time to get in touch with the fastest market changes so quickly.

And Yang Chao also gave Du Shouchang in Jinchai Tower, otherwise it would be impossible for him to see Yang Chao.

"Let him in!"

"Xiaomin has seen Uncle Yang."

Du Shouchang saluted in a proper manner, and his appearance looked much haggard.

Huai'an was surrendered to the Qing army by Liu Zeqing, Du Shouchang fled to Nanjing with his family, and later Huai'an recovered, and the Du family moved back, but the family business withered, and most of the wealth was confiscated by the Qing army.

Du Shouchang regained his family business and tried his best to restore the family business, but he didn't have the romantic posture of the past, he was busy like a young man all day long, and it was strange that he didn't look haggard.

He has been in Nanjing these days, just to represent the salt merchants of Huai'an, hoping to get the support of Yang Chao and squeeze the Yangzhou merchants out of Haizhou.

"You came to me, but for the matter of Haizhou Salt Works?"

Yang Chao didn't want to agree to Huai'an's gang of salt merchants, Daming has always adhered to the salt monopoly system, but under this system, the annual government functions get a million taels of salt tax, but the profits of salt merchants are as high as 10 million, and the people still have to eat high-priced salt, and the benefits are all taken up by salt merchants, this system is simply too bad.

It's good now, Yangzhou salt merchants and Huai'an salt merchants don't agree, Yangzhou people have crossed the line, Huai'an people plan to grab it back, both groups of people have begun to fight frantically in the market, they all want to squeeze each other to death, and the people eat salt is much cheaper.

This kind of good thing, Yang Chao doesn't want to end like this.

"No, the villain was a little upset when he heard that the uncle, and the villain was worried about the uncle!"

Du Shouchang licked his face and smiled.

"Worry? How are you going to share my worries? ”

Yang Chao smiled, but did not deny that he was indeed a little troublesome.

Du Shouchang said: "Huai'an salt merchants are no worse than Yangzhou salt merchants, at this moment, Huai'an colleagues are united in their hearts, willing to throw out all the copper coins in their hands, and raise the price of silver, I don't know if this is considered to share the worries of the uncle?" ”

Yang Chao said with a smile: "Okay, it's rare that the salt merchants in Huai'an have a heart, they can take care of the overall situation, and their hearts are to the court, and this lord will definitely ask the court for credit." ”

Du Shouchang said: "You don't have to ask for credit. I implore my uncle to be considerate of us and others, and expel those black-hearted salt merchants from Yangzhou from Haizhou! ”

Yang Chao pondered for a moment, this group of salt merchants actually came to make their own transactions, they paid a lot of money, Yang Chao only asked Yangzhou salt merchants not to throw out the silver in their hands, but this group of Huai'an salt merchants were willing to throw out the copper money when the price of copper money rose sharply.

But Yang Chao still didn't promise them: "That's it." Some of the salt farms in Haizhou were occupied by the Yangzhou people, and it was not easy for these lords to interfere, after all, the salt was all sent down. But how about Benjue give you salt stickers so that you can open your own salt farms? And there is no limit to the number of leads! ”

Du Shouchang was stunned for a moment, and immediately overjoyed: "Is this serious?" ”

Yang Chao nodded: "Naturally, take it seriously!" However, this salt sticker can't be given in vain, a salt sticker is 100,000 taels, and it can't be less. At the same time, salt merchants who want to get salt stickers have to throw out at least a million copper coins! ”

Du Shouchang nodded violently: "A word is a certainty!" (To be continued.) )