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The ministers immediately understood what Chen Yuan meant, he wanted to abolish the copper coins and change the monetary system of the Great Song Dynasty to the silver standard. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Chen Yuan had already told Renzong about this question a long time ago, so after hearing this, Renzong looked at the courtiers in the hall: "Ladies and gentlemen, do you think it's okay?" ”

Fan Zhongyan immediately stepped forward: "Long live, there is nothing wrong with this, but it must be implemented carefully and properly, and we must exchange the money in the hands of the people with real money, and we must not let them suffer losses." ”

Chen Yuan immediately said: "Lord Fan, rest assured, we now have enough silver to ensure that there will be no turmoil in the market, please long live the exchange price of silver and copper coins by the emperor list posted in various places, all banks, yamen, must be exchanged in strict accordance with the emperor's price, will not let the people suffer." ”

Renzong nodded: "Yes, I will play." ”

Fu Bi took a step forward: "The minister dares to ask long live, how much silver is in the treasury now?" ”

Renzong looked at the inner court official standing behind him, Renzong's money was in his hands. The inner court official first saluted Fu Bi with a fist, and then took two steps down: "Back to the masters, now the silver in the treasury has reached two million taels, and the gold is five hundred thousand taels. ”

Fu Bi's brows furrowed, this number would be astronomical if it was placed in other countries, but in the Great Song Dynasty, Fu Bi was afraid that there would still be a phenomenon of people suffering. The current Great Song Dynasty has a population of more than 80 million, and it will soon be nearly 100 million. Moreover, the people have been rich in recent years, and the average family has more or less some savings, and if Renzong only has this gold and silver, it is obviously not enough to exchange the copper coins in the hands of the people.

Chen Yuan knew what the ministers were worried about, and said to Fu Bi with a relaxed face: "Don't worry, Lord Fu, I still have some silver here, plus some of the money that is now circulating among the people, which is enough to deal with." ”

Not only did he have some silver deposits, but he now had a silver mountain, and with this silver mountain as a guarantee, Chen Yuan was able to make the monetary system of the Great Song Dynasty smoothly complete the transition from the copper coin standard to the silver standard.

What are the benefits of the silver standard?

On the surface, it is for the convenience of business in the Nanyang area, but in fact, it is indeed convenient. But the more advanced reason is that Chen Yuan is going to pull the wool again this time. He had been secretly buying silver a year earlier, and the price of silver had already risen.

When Renzong's holy decree was given, all the people of the entire Great Song Dynasty had to more or less pluck a few hairs and give them to Chen Yuan.

This is not Chen Yuan's ultimate goal. The people of the Great Song Dynasty only gave a few, and the real big head came from those vassal states and the Liao State.

The current Great Song Dynasty is quite the United States after the Great Song Dynasty, and the currency of the Great Song Dynasty is quite the US dollar. The Uighurs, Tibetans, Dali, and Liao are now all stockpiling copper coins from the Great Song Dynasty, and the amount of copper coins determines the wealth of a country.

However, the Great Song Dynasty suddenly traded in silver, which meant that the copper coins in their treasury would shrink rapidly.

This time they are all going to face a very serious crisis. Following the Great Song Dynasty, they did not have enough gold and silver reserves. If it is strong and unchanged, then things will be simpler, the copper coins collected by Chen Yuan will have a good dumping place, when those copper coins of the Great Song Dynasty pour in, it will only make the price of their country's silver higher and higher, they can't stand it, if they want their country to survive this crisis, they must come to ask for the help of the Great Song Dynasty.

If those vassal states were more respectful and willing to pay some price, Chen Yuan would help them slowly get through this crisis. But the Liao State depends on whether Yelu Hongji and Yelu Zongyuan have the ability to catch this move.

If they can't catch it, the little wealth that Liao Xingzong has accumulated in the past few years of reform will fall into Chen Yuan's pocket in an instant, and this is the big head.

Of course, those court ministers did not realize the key to this, Chen Yuan had already told Renzong that using silver could make the Liao State fall into passivity, so before making a move against the Liao State, obtaining the silver ore of the Liao State was a very important link.

Renzong knew this, smiled and said: "Okay, the sooner this matter is done, the better, don't give some speculative people any smell, Chen Shimei, you are responsible for formulating the exchange price, and after it is formulated, it will be handed over to Lord Xiangguo, and Lord Xiangguo will be responsible for this matter." ”

Xia Zhu stepped forward: "The old minister obeys the order." ”

The following is the second layout of the Liao State, Renzong took out a notebook: "Ladies and gentlemen, Di Qing's troops have landed in Goryeo, and these days they are fighting with the prince Wang Hui of Goryeo, the situation is going quite smoothly, and those Dongying people entrenched in the territory of Goryeo have now been basically wiped out." Di Qing and Song Qi wrote to ask if it was possible to set up the prince of Goryeo as the king, what do you think? ”

There is nothing to discuss about this, Wang Hui is now the only and best choice in the Song Dynasty. The court passed the resolution with a chorus of approval.

Renzong said again: "Goryeo has just experienced the war, and the national strength is quite fragile, so Wang Hui is deeply afraid that the Liao State will interfere in Goryeo affairs, and asks us to garrison the northern part of Goryeo, I think it is okay." ”

Fan Zhongyan immediately stepped forward and said: "Long live, the minister also thinks that it is okay, if Goryeo is stationed in our troops, it can also put a certain amount of pressure on the Liao people, and it can also stabilize the situation in Dongying." ”

Renzong smiled: "What Fan Aiqing said is very agreeable, so be it." But there is one thing that must be done. ”

His eyes looked at Chen Yuan: "Our troops in Dongying must be restrained. Liu Ping's team has always been able to fight well, and has repeatedly made military exploits in my Great Song Dynasty, but after arriving in Dongying, it actually became a division of jackals, which is really sad. I thought it had a lot to do with the fact that they didn't have a prison army. ”

Renzong looked at Sima Guang, and Sima Guang quickly lowered his head.

Renzong shook his head slightly: "Can you Aiqing recommend suitable candidates?" ”

Liu Ping has a very high rank among the generals, and according to the rules of the supervising army, the minister who supervises the army must have a grade of four or more. Sima Guang is suitable, but people don't want to go.

When the ministers in the court were thinking about a suitable candidate, Renzong coughed lightly: "Chunyou, are you willing to go to Dongying?" ”

Fan Chunyou was overjoyed when he heard this, this is Renzong giving himself a chance, let himself go to Dongying to take charge of himself, if he does a good job, then he will definitely be promoted after he comes back. Even if he can't be promoted, he will be content with a four-grade official position at least in the past few years.

Just as he was waiting for thanksgiving, Fan Zhongyan stood up first: "Long live, the child is shallow in knowledge and difficult to take on the big responsibility, please take back your life." ”

Fan Chunyou finally couldn't help it, and knelt down in the middle of the lobby: "Long live, the grass people ask for their life to go to Dongying, this trip to Dongying will definitely not live up to the high hopes of Long live!" ”

If he didn't say this, Renzong would have persuaded Fan Zhongyan. But Fan Chunyou's meaning was clearly to go to Dongying to do something, but Renzong hesitated.

Chen Shimei has almost done everything about Dongying, and I believe that the rest of Chen Shimei also has arrangements. Renzong's meaning is to let Fan Chunyou go to the gangsters, and when the situation in Dongying is stable and he comes back with the troops, he will have an excuse to find a suitable position to arrange him.

It's as simple as that, but Fan Chunyou obviously didn't understand.

Renzong was hesitating, Fan Zhongyan turned his head and glared at Fan Chunyou: "Rebel!" If you don't step back quickly, if you want to enter the court, you will give me a good test, because you are my Fan Zhongyan's son! ”

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty did not speak, this was a family matter of the father and son, and others could not intervene.

Fan Chunyou didn't dare to contradict, lowered his head and stopped talking, but his unwilling appearance made everyone see it clearly.

Renzong sighed: "Okay, then this matter will be discussed later, and the court will be withdrawn." ”

Fan Chunyou's another opportunity was lost, but fortunately, what the Song Dynasty instilled in the scholars was the concept of loyalty and filial piety, and Fan Chunyou was not such a rebellious teenager, although he had some complaints in his heart, he didn't dare to turn his face with Fan Zhongyan.

Father and son went home in a carriage.

Next, Chen Yuan began to implement a plan to use silver to recover copper coins. He had been working on this plan for a long time, so he seemed very steady when he made a move. After Renzong got off the imperial list, Chen Yuan immediately posted announcements at the doors of various banks, those who kept their money in the banks did not need to worry, from now on, their deposits would be directly converted from copper coins to silver.

In other words, what is the exchange ratio of copper coins and silver posted on Renzong's imperial list, and when their deposits expire, Chen Yuan will give them the corresponding amount of silver for white flowers. All they need to do is come to the bank when they have time and exchange the old certificate of deposit for a new one. Of course, it doesn't matter if you really don't come to change.

The exchange of copper coins is divided into three parts, the first is the copper coins of those large households, for these people Chen Yuan issued them silver tickets, and the silver tickets can be exchanged for copper coins at any time in half a year. Then through the government of each place, the deadline for exchanging copper coins is issued, and within this time limit, you can go to the government to exchange the loose money in your hand.

It doesn't matter if the deadline expires, the imperial court will not abolish copper coins immediately, and copper coins can still continue to be used as a circulating currency in the market, which will be slowly recovered by banks. If you just buy some firewood, rice, oil and salt, it won't have any effect, but after the copper money goes into the bank, it won't go out again.

In short, Chen Yuan thought very well for those ordinary people, and this time they will definitely suffer some losses. Chen Yuan hopes to control these losses within the smallest range, for example, the original consistent money for one or two silver, after the exchange, one or two silver may not be able to buy the same money before, this phenomenon will inevitably occur, Chen Yuan hopes that even if you can't buy it, the difference will not be too much, and it will not have a big impact on the lives of the people.

This is easy to say, but to really do it is indeed a technical job, first of all, how much silver you put out every day, how much copper money you collect to come in, this must have a proportion.

The communication of the Great Song Dynasty still relies on manpower to transmit messages, and the situation of each semicolon cannot be grasped in time, which is the biggest problem faced by Chen Yuan, so he stipulated that the silver ticket must be used after half a year.

Since taking over this job, Chen Yuan has become busy again, and he immediately sent a mining team to Dongying to dig for silver, while thinking about how to play his game of chess well.

A few days later, Zhang Kuangzheng finally came back from Nanyang, Hu Yanqing found him when he was in Sumatra, as soon as he heard that Chen Yuan had prepared a fleet for him to sail, Zhang Kuangzheng didn't care about anything, and immediately turned the bow of the ship and came back.

Because of the headwind, he was really anxious along the way.

Zhang Kuangzheng looked thin again, but he looked very good in spirit. After getting off the dock, the first thing he did was to come to Chen Yuan's Horse Mansion.

(To be continued)