"With so much raw silk, I don't know how long it will take to finish weaving."

"These silks are a lot thicker than the previous ones."

"I think the new silk is good, a little thicker, but it's also much stronger. Silk threads are not easy to break. ”

……

At the family meeting of the Sima family, everyone expressed their opinions. Sima Kao, the patriarch of the Sima family, asked, "Have you already put out the silk?" ”

Immediately, the manager of the warehouse replied: "This is natural, we are selling silk overseas." ”

Listening to the words of the donkey's head not in the horse's mouth, Sima Kao had to say more accurately, "I mean, can you sell out all the inventory?" ”

The Sima family made silk in the early years, and after the price of silk fell overseas, they began to transform into high-value-added industries such as embroidery. Those who do embroidery must store some silk, and Sima Kao refers to these parts.

"Eighty percent of the inventory is out." The person in charge of the warehouse said with a little weakness.

"Eighty percent is not bad." Sima Kao is not a matter of blame. Tripling the output in a year, this is said by people like Zhao Guanjia who never speak, and no one completely believes it. It was Sima Kao, the hardcore of Zhao Jiaren's Zhao official family, who had to rely on loud intimidation to suppress the opposition below when he held a family meeting. The family can sell eighty percent of the goods, which can be regarded as giving Sima Kao enough face.

Seeing that the patriarch Sima Kao had no intention of reproaching, the steward sighed: "Shangshu, I really can't believe what the official family said. ”

"I'm not convinced." Sima Kao told the truth. Zhao Guanjia's honest style was most admired by Sima Kao, and he did his best to learn this style.

"But before, Shangshu insisted that we listen to the words of the officials." The people of the Sima family were relatively speechless about the reaction of their own family patriarch.

"I don't believe what the officials say, I just believe the officials." Sima Kao explained. This is the prestige that Zhao Jiaren has accumulated for a long time. Even if it looks at the outrageous things, Zhao Guanjia himself is always believable. Just like Zhao Guan's family let the Yellow River be diverted, Sima Kao didn't believe it at all.

"Shangshu, what are we going to do next?"

"Let's not use silk to lend money for the time being in the future, the official family let all the officials shine silk this time, which should mean this."

"But we've been lending money on silk for so many years."

"If we say that we have been using silk to lend money for so many years, it is better to say that we couldn't make so much money before." Sima Kao gave the family a taunt.

When the people of the Sima Kao family heard this, they stopped talking for the time being, they only became rich today after Sima Kao followed the Zhao official family. The commander-in-chief, who had followed them for ten years, had now made it clear that the price of silk was going to plummet, and that Sima Kao did not use silk as a currency for money lending, that is, he wanted to follow the policy of the officials.

The crowd looked at each other for a while, and someone asked, "What do we use instead of silk?" ”

"Pay the bill." Sima Kao answered neatly.

Hearing the word "handing over the banknote", everyone's expressions became very rich. Five years ago, handing over money was something that everyone wanted to get rid of immediately. This thing represents the ruthless plundering of the people by the imperial court, especially at the end of Jia Rudao's reign. Under the rule of the Zhao official family, the payment of banknotes could be taxed, and the public grain stores and supply and marketing cooperatives only accepted the payment of banknotes, and forcibly made the face value of the banknotes greatly improved among the small people. The purchase of grain and daily necessities has never been the main part of the Sima family, and the Sima family, which is mainly engaged in the silk industry, has always used silk as currency.

"If we pay the money and depreciate it, won't we lose a lot?" Someone complained.

"Now there is no sign of handing over money, but the silk is about to be depreciated. If we continue to hold on to the silk, we will immediately lose a lot of money. Sima Kao gave orders to his people.

Hearing the patriarch's words, everyone's expressions were ambiguous. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like you're really listening.

Sima Kao did not force it, every era has a family, and the situation of the family is different in every era. In the Great Song Dynasty, the duty of the patriarch of the family was to coordinate the internal affairs of the family, point out the direction of the family, and promote the descendants. It is a situation where the obligations are greater, the power is not great, and the privileges are basically absent. It goes well with Chinese culture that has not been enslaved.

At this time, Sima Kao had already put forward a suggestion, and as for whether the family was willing to accept it, it was not Sima Kao's problem, but the problem of family members.

The family meeting ended. After the morning meeting the next day, Sima Kao caught up with Sun Qing, the head of the household, and asked him if he could have time to eat in the evening. Sun Qing looked embarrassed, and he said, "Xiong Sheng is going to pull me to eat today." ”

When he heard that it was Xiong Xiang, Sima Kao smiled slightly, and he replied, "It's okay, I'll accompany you." ”

So after getting off work in the evening, the three Shangshu went to a restaurant called 'Hangzhou Hot Pot' to eat. Copper pot, spicy hot pot base based on hemp. In the 21st century, this would have been considered a Sichuan taste, while the Great Song Dynasty at this time considered it a standard Hangzhou taste.

Since Zhao Guan's family introduced the crop of chili pepper from Fusang Zhou to the Great Song Dynasty, Hangzhou happened to become the area where the explosive spread of spicy hot pot occurred. Sliced meat, gizzards, duck intestines, yellow throat and the like are very delicious in the spicy pot. The three Shangshu also had their fill before they let people cover the tuyere on the copper pot.

After wiping his face with the steam-heated hot towel provided by the hotel, and taking two sips of Sinhalese black tea, Sun Qing sighed happily: "Every time I eat this spicy hot pot, I feel happy." ”

"I think Sun Shangshu is heroic enough to drink tea." Sima Kao said with a smile. In the past, the entertainment activities of the doctors of the Great Song Dynasty were mainly to visit the painting boat, and the sister paper in the painting boat drank tea, drank alcohol, and ate very exquisitely. The so-called three mouthfuls are the products, and the tea should be less and exquisite. At this time, the amount of a cup of tea on the table was enough for four or five people on the boat. Sun Qing's style of almost drinking a cup of tea in two sips is like a cow drink in the eyes of the painting boat.

Xiong Shang also drank two sips of a big cow, and also wiped his face with a hot towel, and then wiped his oily mouth clean. Throwing down the towel, Xiong Shangshu said with a smile: "After following the official family all these years, I realized that I hadn't eaten much food before. I used to eat so badly that I could only pretend to be decent. Now I can eat happily and comfortably, which is called decent. ”

"Well said. Come, a toast to decency. Sun Qing praised and picked up his beer glass.

The three of them are all scholars, and they have their own free and easy. In fact, Sima Kao also likes the current food very much, and is very satisfied with the current meal. As Xiong Sheng said, after following Zhao Jiaren for many years, he felt that he had tasted it.

Putting down the wine glass, Xiong Sheng asked, "Sun Shangshu, my family is engaged in silk trading." In this situation, silk is afraid that it will not be able to be used as money. You've got to give us money. Otherwise, we will lose nothing. ”

"Didn't you pay the bills? How can you be short of money. The government ordered that the government's raw silk and silk should only be bought and sold in banknotes. Sun Qing replied very simply.

"What the hell does the official family mean. Stumped that this money is going to replace silk? Xiong Shang continued to ask.

Sima Kao listened carefully, which was also a question he cared about. Silk has been used as currency for thousands of years. As said in "Pipa Xing", Wuling is young and entangled, and I don't know how many red silk songs are played. What the Zhao family did at this time was undoubtedly destroying thousands of years of Chinese tradition. It's scary when you think about it.

"Didn't you participate in the last class of the school? That time I talked about fiscal discipline, and I talked about a knowledge point, two major economic policies. Do you remember that? Sun Qing asked.

Hearing this question, Sima Kao and Xiong Sheng both shook their heads. There are countless just points in each lesson, who can remember it so clearly.

Seeing that the two Shangshu were so honest, Sun Qingshang did not sell Guanzi, he explained: "The two major fiscal policies, one is the monetary policy implemented by the total money bank, and the other is the industrial policy implemented by the household department. These two major policies determined the economic policy of the Great Song Dynasty. This was the case this time, and the industrial policy adopted an active policy, with direct investment from the imperial court to increase silk production. The monetary policy is a passive policy, and the imperial court passively issues banknotes to make up for the monetary gap according to the decline in silk prices and output. ”

Watching Sun Qingshang proudly talk about it, it sounds very powerful, but everyone can't understand it. Sima Kao said directly: "Can this silk be used as money?" ”

Sun Qing replied, "Whether you can be a money maker or not, that's not something I can manage." The official specifically said that this time he can only be sure that the price of silk will plummet, and after the silk falls, whether you are willing to use silk as money is your business. The government will not intervene in this matter. So judge yourselves. ”

Hearing this useless truth, Xiong Shang Shang asked more directly: "Sun Shangshu, you just say something clear." Do you think it is reliable to put money at home in the future, or to put silk? ”

"I think it's safe for you to hand over the money. And I think you should not put the money at home, but deposit the money in the bank, and now keep the money in the bank, and the bank will give interest. Sun Shangshu gave a clear suggestion.

"Can we buy what we want with the money?" Xiong Shang continued to ask.

"In the past, the denomination of banknotes was relatively large, and the minimum was consistent. This time, the official has ordered the issuance of banknotes with a minimum denomination of 50 wen. As long as this new version of the banknote is issued, we will want more government-run things that can only be traded with the banknote. Do you think you can buy what you want? ”

Xiong Sheng was shocked by this news, he really didn't expect the official family to prepare for such a big reform of paying money. Just as he was pondering, he heard Sun Qing continue: "In the future, I will rent land in the South China Sea, and only collect and pay money. ”

After saying this, Xiong Sheng and Sima Kao's expressions became serious. The various families of the Great Song Dynasty have seen clearly that there are two places where the big money will be made in the future, one is north of the Huai River, and the other is the South China Sea. To the north of the Huai River, land reform is definitely going to be carried out, and it is impossible to buy and sell land, and the only way to get a large amount of land is the South China Sea. The South China Sea can only use money to lease land, which undoubtedly answers Xiong Shang's question, "Can we buy what we want with money?" ”