The Central Plains has been restored to stability, and many places are full of bumper harvests, and the people are all smiling. The harvest in the autumn fields is pre-sold to the grain station by the farmers early. Now that the crops are ripe, the weather is beautiful again, and it is a good weather for the drying field.

Everyone scrambled to get the crops back, and the people at the grain station had already been dispatched, and they also hired a lot of idle people to help buy and transport grain. The grain station fully thinks about the people, and they don't need the people to collect and send it to the grain station themselves, they all take the initiative to go to the countryside to buy.

On the one hand, the grain was weighed, and on the other hand, food stamps were issued to give enough food.

The grain station used silver dollar coupons to pay for food, and the people also liked to accept this kind of silver dollar coupons. A stack of banknotes, neither heavy nor heavy. It also saves them from going to the bank to exchange it, and when they get the banknotes, they can use them to pay taxes.

Now all prefectures and counties have set up new tax bureaus and sub-bureaus, and these people who eat public meals are also shrewd, and the grain stations here go to the countryside to collect grain, and they will also come down to collect taxes together, which is also called convenient for the people.

In fact, they wanted to complete the task as soon as possible, and followed the grain collectors at the grain station to take the initiative to go to the countryside to collect taxes, which really gave convenience to the people. Now that the imperial court has refreshed the rule of officials, Zhang Juzheng's examination law has been implemented again, and it is even stricter than in the past. It's too difficult to be an official and want to make a mess. The capable go up, the mediocre go down, and if some are not good, their positions will not be guaranteed.

The people weighed the grain, and after receiving the payment, they could turn around and line up at the table at the tax bureau on the side to pay the tax.

Now the tax is collected in a unified manner, and the imperial court does not collect silver dollars, but collects silver dollar coupons, which makes it much easier for the people. In the past, the field endowment was partially levied on silver, and at this time, the price of grain fell, and then the price of silver rose, one in and one out, although the field endowment was still so much, but they actually paid two or three times the money.

It's good now. As much as you want, not a penny more. You don't even have to go to the county, the people from the tax bureau directly follow the people from the grain station, and everyone was most afraid of seeing the public family from these counties in the past.

But now everyone is not afraid of them, firstly, everyone has a silver ticket in their waists, and secondly, these public families of the new dynasty have a much better attitude towards the people, and they will not bully the people at will, but when everyone pays taxes, they will also smile very kindly.

Spread into acres. After Tian Fu levied silver and unified the payment of silver dollar coupons, the people felt that they were much more relaxed now. Although the new dynasty has only been established for half a year, everyone feels that the present days are very different from the past, and life is full of hope.

The landlords are not desperately hoarding grain this year, and now the land rent is less, but the field endowment is not less, and after the land is spread into the mu, they have more land. Therefore, it also bears most of the Ding Yin, although only one pound is added to one acre, but it can be added, and one acre also costs more than ten or twenty catties. This was in the past. But you don't have to pay it.

What's more, this year I also paid a deed tax, and I paid five years of tax arrears, and many landlords were really cut off a piece of meat, and they were very distressed.

Many landlords could not come up with so much cash for a while. He was reluctant to sell his land, so he ended up borrowing money from the bank. Now that the autumn harvest has arrived, the landlords are also anxious to hand over the grain from the tenants, taking advantage of the fact that the price of grain is now high. All of them were in a hurry to get back the silver dollar coupons, and then after paying this year's autumn tax, they went to the bank to pay off some of the arrears.

The landlords were also afraid of being in debt.

But they didn't dare to complain.

Daming is really finished, and there is no more wind and waves. Clans from all over the country, as many as nearly 100,000 former dynasty clansmen, have been sent to Tamna Island and Geoje Island in Korea, and Tsushima and Hirado Islands in Japan.

It is said that what Tamna Island used to be the place where the Yuan Dynasty exiled prisoners, and after Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he also exiled some Yuan Dynasty nobles to Tamna. Now the Emperor of the Han Dynasty has exiled the Ming Dynasty clan to Tamna Island. As for the Japanese Tsushima Island, which is the nest of the former Japanese pirates, I don't know if these former nobles went there and whether they could survive.

Those gentlemen who had enjoyed all kinds of privileges and privileges in the Ming Dynasty in the past suddenly found that no one could shake the rule of the Han Dynasty when they looked around the world.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty was beaten to sue for peace, sent the princess and relatives, moved the capital to the far north, and did not dare to fight.

The Mongol tribes in southern Mo have even looked down on the wind, and even the thieves and other thieves who have been roaming the world for more than ten years have not heard the news now.

The people of the southwest were in rebellion, but what was published in the newspapers every day was also the defeat of the people everywhere.

In such a situation, who else dares to mess around, and which one dares to have the slightest thought.

However, what relieved them was that except for the first few fires, which were difficult for the gentlemen to burn, nothing excessive happened in the future. As long as they pay taxes on time, the court will not trouble them.

Even though the county now has townships and appointed those township heads, town heads, militia captains, police station chiefs, etc., in the villages below, the imperial court still allows them to be managed by local gentry with fame.

They have lost some money, but the land is still in their hands, and their fame is still there.

After paying the tax deeds, their children were also able to participate in the imperial examinations. The imperial court doubled the admission rate of the imperial examination this year, and even recorded thousands of more candidates who failed to pass the examination to raise people and jinshi, and they were sent to Guozijian for further study, and they became officials after they came out.

There are millions of scholars in the world, hundreds of thousands of talents, in fact, most of them are the children of landlords and gentry, and there are not many poor people who can be admitted to the show.

This imperial examination has made the gentry and landlords of the world excited again, and it seems that the new dynasty is also inseparable from them, and their status will not be shaken by the new dynasty. As long as the new dynasty still selects scholars for the imperial examination, then in the end the court will still be in the hands of their children.

During the harvest season, the people from the General Food Administration and the Department of Taxation are the busiest.

However, the busy is very rewarding, and this year's autumn tax is collected very quickly, and the tax payment situation is quite good.

After the autumn harvest, the Imperial Silver Dollar also introduced a new version of the silver-bronze coins.

The president of the Imperial Bank presented to the emperor nine new silver and bronze coins, the main coin being one dollar silver dollar, and the silver auxiliary coins being five jiao, two jiao, one jiao, and half jiao. The four copper coins are two cents, one cent, half cent, and one penny.

The new version of a silver dollar, on the front is the side portrait of Liu Jun, and the year name of the issue, which reads that it was made in the first year of the Long Han Dynasty of the Han Empire. On the back, it is decorated with a dragon ornament and a one-dollar coin, and the outer ring is straight-edged.

The reverse of the four silver coins features a nine-headed bird ornament.

However, Liu Jun's attention was focused on the four copper coins.

The four copper coins are denominations of two cents, one cent, half cent, and one penny. Among them, two points and one point are 20 and 10 respectively, and the material is 75% copper, 18% lead, and 7% tin.

The two-cent copper coin was larger than the one-dollar coin of later generations. I also focus a little. The one-cent copper coin is about the same size and weight as the one-dollar coin.

Copper coins of half cents and copper coins of one cent are made of 95 percent copper, 4 percent lead, and 1 percent tin. The half-cent one is a little larger and heavier than the pennies of later generations. The one is smaller than the pennies of later generations.

A two-cent copper coin is about nine grams, while a one-cent is six and a half grams, a half-cent is five grams, and a penny is only about two grams.

"Your Majesty, we intend to mint these four copper coins in two. One point is cast into two, half a point is cast into five, and one article is cast into two. ”

One cent of copper coins can only buy half a catty of rice, but in daily transactions, the face value is larger than that of half a penny, and it is smaller than two less, because the circulation will be greater.

Through Jinyiwei and Dongchang and the Five Cities Terracotta Division, Liu Jun knew that this set of new coins would be issued. Now it is very popular with the people.

The people have even called the copper yuan that is two cents and twenty wen a double copper plate, a single copper plate when ten, a half cent when five is called a big son, and a penny is called a small son.

The four silver coins are known as silver slots. The pentagonal one is called Xiaolongyuan. The two horns are called double horns, the one horns are called single horns, and the half horns are called small horns.

The one-dollar coin is known as the Great Dragon Dollar.

Now that nine new silver and copper coins have been issued, the imperial court has been recycling the old copper coins that are circulating in the market. Recast them into new copper plates.

"Your Majesty, now that all the mints have started, but the number of targets set by Your Majesty is far away. It's still a bit difficult. ”

"What's the difficulty?" Liu Jun asked.

The eight kinds of auxiliary coins are for the convenience of circulation, but the main currency, the silver dollar, is the guarantee of the silver dollar bill, so increasing the minting and circulation of the silver dollar is very important for the current economic stability. Once the silver dollar can't keep up, in case there is a cash-out problem and the credit is damaged, it is a serious matter.

"Your Majesty, it's still an old problem, there is not enough silver ingots, and second, there is not enough copper."

China is not a major producer of silver, and its own silver production is very small, mainly from Japan and the South Seas. The silver in the South Seas was mined by the Spaniards in South America, and Japan was the second largest producer of silver in the world.

"Your Majesty, according to intelligence, at present, European countries are fighting, Spain is also involved, and the situation in the South Seas has begun to be somewhat unstable, and the Netherlands has begun to blockade Spain's merchant ships, and the silver flowing into our dynasty from the South Seas is getting less and less."

"What about Japan?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan has newly issued a ban on the outflow of silver."

The Japanese had previously mined several large silver mountains, especially the Iwami Silver Mine, which made the Japanese have a lot of silver, and after the chaos in Japan, although the Tokugawa family unified Japan and established the Edo shogunate, the domestic industry and commerce were not developed, and many of their goods needed to be imported from foreign trade.

With a large amount of silver, the Japanese wielded the silver and desperately bought goods from the Dutch, Portuguese, and Ming people. Now, however, the Japanese are discovering that their silver is flowing out too quickly, not only in large quantities, but now also in copper.

Especially since the Han monopolized trade with Japan, the Japanese could only trade with the Han merchants, and they were even more disadvantageous in trade. The Tokugawa family had no other choice, so they simply banned the outflow of silver and limited the amount of trade.

The two sources of silver imports, Spain and Japan, were suddenly out of stock, which made the demand for silver more and more urgent.

"In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, we flowed more than 5 million taels of silver and more than 1 million catties of copper from Japan. But now, almost all at once, the flow has been cut off. It's the same on the South Seas side, if the Spaniards' silver ships can't come through, we can't exchange the silver back. ”

The Imperial Bank has a huge mint with state-of-the-art minting machines and processes that can mint millions of coins of all denominations every day if it is at full capacity.

But if you don't have enough silver and copper, the two main materials, then you're useless.

"Little Japan has only been honest for a few days, and he jumped up?"

Liu Jun sneered a few times, and then said to the governor, "You continue to mint coins, you can mint as much as you can, the source of silver and copper, I will find a way." ”

As for what to do, it must be a bell to tie the bell.

Since there is a problem on the Japanese side, we have to find the Japanese to solve it. (To be continued.) )

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