"Uncle Fan, didn't you change your shovel or pick? Is it that the dog official doesn't change it, and he goes desperately to find them! ”

"Stand down for me!" Fan Rongqing grabbed the young man and said angrily: "Shizhuzi, you kid doesn't have enough dishes, who is going to go desperately, and the court has been changed." ”

Yang Shizhu scratched his head and said with a smile: "Uncle Fan, it's changed, why are you still like eating bitter melon." ”

"Alas! I'm confused! ”

Fan Rongqing squatted on the ground and carefully opened the box, and a burst of silver light almost blinded the eyes of the two teenagers.

"W-what is this?"

"At that time, the silver - yuan, said to be newly minted, a piece of silver for one or two silver, for us three hundred yuan."

"Isn't that three hundred taels!" Yang Shizhu jumped up happily, "Uncle Fan, it's enough to buy everything now." ”

Fan Rongqing sighed and said with a wry smile: "Silly boy, I have used silver for many years, and I have exchanged it for silver and silver dollars, and I don't know if people want to ...... it."

"It's useless for us to sit and worry, we have to ask."

"yes, let's go to the bull market."

Fan Rongqing hugged the wooden box tightly, there was a lot of wind and sorrow to blow up the bunker, the two and a half children followed closely, they inquired, and soon arrived at the livestock market in Xicheng.

Far away, I saw people coming and going, and I couldn't see the end ↘ of the black pressure at a glance. On both sides of the road, there are a lot of livestock sheds separated by logs, there are cows, sheep, horses, people are boiling, horses neighing for a long time, so lively.

"Alright, don't look at it!"

Fan Rongqing patted the back of Yang Shizhu's head and scolded: "Stinky boy, don't go and see Lao Niu yet!" ”

They passed through the crowd and came to a cattle pen with twenty fat and strong bullocks, which could fit five or six young men if they were used to plough the fields. Make sure to plough the ground deep and well.

"What, you're in the picture?" A thin middle-aged man asked with a smile.

Fan Rongqing nodded subconsciously, but immediately corrected: "Just take a look, look at ......"

"Hehe, then you have to take a good look, there is no such shop in this village." The middle-aged man smiled and pointed to the man leaning against the side of the bullpen.

"See, that one is from Mongolia, I heard that he is still a petty official, and the cattle are all good and good, so let's do it quickly if you have made up your mind." It's too late and it's gone! ”

Fan Rongqing walked forward, staring at these cows carefully, and the more he looked at them, the more itchy his heart became.

"This, how much does this cost?"

"It's not expensive, seven taels of silver a head. If you buy more, you can still negotiate. ”

Seven taels!

Fan Rongqing subconsciously touched the money bag in his arms, the money in the whole village was not enough to buy two cows!

In fact, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, a cow was only two or three taels of silver, and in the middle period, it was only five taels. It's just that today's disasters are continuous, and the price of everything is rising, just take grain as an example, in the past, one stone of rice was at most about one tael. But now there are three taels or even five taels in the nine sides and other places.

If it is in the last years of Chongzhen, or even ten taels of silver, it will be the real end of the world!

Fan Rongqing silently calculated. Still can't make up your mind.

Yang Shizhu suddenly said: "Uncle Fan, I have counted, there are a total of 23 cows. Just buy it all! ”

"What nonsense, how much silver do you want?"

"How much, not much, right?" Yang Shizhu rolled his eyelids, and couldn't count much for a while. The middle-aged man next to him smiled and said: "It's not much, it's only 161 taels, for the sake of our fate, it's 150 taels, you go and drive them all away!" ”

Yang Shizhu suddenly smiled and said, "Uncle Fan, don't we have three hundred taels?" Why don't you spend it? ”

"You!" Fan Rongqing glared at Shi Zhu viciously, and said in his heart that his wealth is not exposed, this kid is really bad!

But when it came to this, Fan Rongqing couldn't say anything else, he carefully took out a few silver dollars from the box. Holding it in my hand, I only felt that my mouth was dry, I broke out in a cold sweat, and I stuttered a little.

"This, this one, okay?"

When the middle-aged man looked at the silver dollar, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he laughed and said, "Why not, this is a good thing." ”

He took the silver dollar and gave it to the Mongol, whose eyes narrowed into a slit, and took it in his hand, touching and looking at it.

In the end, he walked directly in front of Fan Rongqing and said in stiff Chinese: "Han people, cow, yours, silver, silver dollars, give me!" ”

Fan Rongqing swallowed and foamed with difficulty, and asked in a hoarse voice, "One yuan top one or two?" A total of one hundred and fifty? ”

"Hahaha, it's too expensive?" The middle-aged man laughed.

"Don't think it, don't think it, hurry up and settle the account!"

Fan Rongqing really couldn't wait, he immediately counted the silver dollars, and the cattle were also prepared over there, and the thin middle-aged man, as a tooth man, quickly did things, and specially called a few young people to help Fan Rongqing drive the cattle together.

"This, it's all mine?"

Fan Rongqing pinched his thigh hard, it hurt!

It was as if he had stepped on cotton, and he didn't know which leg to take. The whole person seemed to be floating in the air, but he was continuously surprised, the first surprise was that the imperial court actually gave him a share of work, the second surprise was that the silver dollar was converted into huàn, and he was given an extra thirty yuan, and the third surprise was that the Mongols actually received the silver dollar, and there was no discount!

In the past, the imperial court collected grain and cash, all of which were desperate to consume fire, when did the people take advantage of it! Why did you change sex this time, did you take the wrong medicine, or did you really meet the old man Qingtian......

Fan Rongqing held his head and thought hard for an hour, but there was still no result. But he thought of another, more important thing, and that was to spend the remaining silver dollars quickly.

"Shizhu, take a good look at the cows, I'm going to buy farm tools!" Fan Rongqing ran away, for fear that it would be too late......

Fan Rongqing didn't know that his hurried roaring action happened to fall into the calculation of one person, that is, our young security master Zhang Ke!

It seems that the emperor of the Zhu family has a reluctance, and the apocalypse has an unusual enthusiasm for abolishing the two yuan, but almost no one supports it.

At this time, Zhang Ke was at the right time, and he made a twist and turn, and asked for a temporary stay in Liaodong and Daning.

The so-called Daning Dusi is the thousand-mile grassland that has just been recovered, and as expected, Zhang Feng served as the governor of Daningdu, the chief soldier of Yingzhou, and the title of prince Taibao, and became a first-class military general.

Of course, Zhang Feng is only in charge of fighting, and everything else has to listen to Zhang Ke.

After some careful planning, the action of abolishing the two yuan officially began, although Zhang Ke is not a student of finance, but he has a vision far ahead of the times, and he is laid out calmly.

First of all, the basis of currency is credit, Zhang Ke solemnly announced that silver dollars and silver are equal, one or two silver dollars and one silver dollar, and when taxes are levied, they will be denominated in silver dollars.

With a tax guarantee, the value of the silver dollar is guaranteed.

This is not enough, because the most important thing for a currency is to keep circulating in the market, not to be hidden in a cellar and grow hairs in the treasury.

There is a law in the currency market called bad money driving out good money. Almost everyone in later generations has had this experience, and the same denomination banknote, a new one, an old one, and the old one is often spent first. And the same will be true for those who get the old coins, so that there are more and more old coins on the market, and they have become the main currency in circulation.

In fact, the old currency is equivalent to the bad currency, and the new currency is the good currency.

The silver dollar has 30% copper, which is obviously a bad currency in comparison, and it must be circulated in a large way to drive the silver out.

The first batch of silver dollars put by Zhang Ke was selected by ordinary people and distributed in the form of redemption of huàn conscription work. These people had almost nothing, and when they got the silver dollars, they would spend them immediately.

And in order to avoid some people saving money and becoming crazy, Zhang Ke specially arranged a nine-fold exchange for huàn. Let the common people really realize that spending silver dollars is taking advantage. Just like the discount promotion in the supermarket, the people who get the silver dollar will definitely be eager to spend the silver dollar, and they will not feel at ease if they stay for a moment.

The merchants who got these silver dollars also knew that the silver dollars were inferior to the silver, and they would also spend them, whether it was to purchase raw materials or pay taxes, so that the silver dollars would quickly circulate in the market, and the first step of abolishing the two yuan would be successful.

Zhang Ke was triumphant and explained the mystery to Deng Wentong.

"I see!" Deng Wentong stretched out his thumb and exclaimed: "The second brother is really exquisite, admire, admire!" If the silver dollar had been given to the family first, they might have seen that the silver dollar was beautiful and would have collected it, so that the more they hid it, the more the silver dollar could not be expelled. ”

"Brother-in-law is right." Zhang Ke smiled and took a sip of tea.

Deng Wentong then frowned again, and couldn't help asking: "Second brother, since the silver dollar is a bad coin, why do Tartars like it?" As far as I know, the Tartars sell cattle, sheep, and horses, but they are all vying for silver dollars, don't they know? ”

"Yes, of course they do, but there is another rule, they don't know."

"What is it?"

"Good money drives out bad money!"

Zhang Ke has a smug smile on the corner of his mouth, in later generations, the same law of saving good money to drive out bad money, for example, in the international market in later generations, investors often choose the dollar to avoid risks, the reason is that the dollar is strong enough, and the national strength behind it is strong, and the dollar has become a good currency and is popular.

When designing the abolition of the two yuan, the bad money was used internally to drive out the good money, and the good money was used externally to drive out the bad money.

Zhang Ke stipulated that all Mongolian merchants who came to trade must pay a tax of 10%, and only collect silver dollars, if they pay silver, they need to pay for fire!

That's right, it's fire consumption, Lao Tzu turns silver into fine silver dollars, it also takes effort, and you have to pay money to Lao Tzu. Obviously, minting silver dollars is a lot of money, and you have to ask for more money, so capricious! That's how arrogant!

Of course, the Mongolians can not agree, but don't think about coming to Daming to do business, don't want tea, silk, porcelain, woolen wool. Do the Mongols have any other choice, they can only obediently accept the silver dollar and accept Zhang Ke's exploitation, this is the power of monetary hegemony!

Moreover, Zhang Ke also promulgated an even more immoral rule, within a year, the Mongols would exchange silver for huàn silver dollars without charge, and in the future, they would have to add a 5% tax to huàn.

Deng Wentong heard Zhang Ke say this, and his eyes almost fell off.

"Second brother, you're too ruthless, hurry up and tell me the truth, is the Tartar obediently holding the silver to the door?" (To be continued......)