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What did Dong Zhuo do to make Li Shushi and others so nervous?

It turned out that news came from Luoyang that Dong Zhuo was going to remelt the twelve gold figures that were said to have been minted from Qin Shi Huang's confiscation of the world's weapons and minted them into copper coins, and then use them as a new currency to highlight the new dynasty and new policy

It doesn't sound like a big deal, but it's nothing new to say that the issuance of a new currency is a new thing every dynasty, and the issuance of currency is also one of the functions of the government. But is it really that simple?

Apparently not.

Because the new money that Dong Zhuo wants to issue is not the usual currency issuance to supplement market circulation, because there is already credible information that all the new coins issued by Dong Zhuo are inferior and inferior coins, which are commonly known as "small money".

Why does Dong Zhuo's issuance of "small money" make everyone feel a headache?

This is because this kind of small money is the same as the five-baht coin in circulation nowadays in terms of face value, but the metal contained in the coin, especially the rare copper metal deposited as currency, weighs much less than the five-baht coin in circulation today.

What will be the result?

Quite simply, the qe1, qe2, qe3 of US imperialism...... What kind of results can be caused, these inferior small coins issued by Dong Zhuo can cause the same result - only compared to US imperialism, which harms others and benefits itself, Dong Zhuo's small coins are slightly more harmful to others and not beneficial to himself. It is estimated that the power can be about equal to the fiat currency and gold yuan during the Republic of China.

In this way, everyone should know what kind of chain reaction can be triggered in the future, anyway, whether it is a wealthy family, a businessman or an ordinary farmer, it will be unlucky after all. It's just that compared with the people who have weak resistance, the wealthy families with precious metals, large quantities of cloth and grain storage are much more resistant to currency depreciation.

Of course, if there is no good way to deal with it, then the powerful family will not last long, unless they have the confidence to survive in the large-scale civil unrest, they can only become the local tyrants who have been divided into land.

In fact, the inflation problem caused by currency depreciation has always been a stubborn disease that has not been cured by all dynasties, but because ancient China was a closed small-scale peasant economy and had limited dependence on currency circulation, compared with the high-profile land issue, although the currency issue also caused a lot of destructive effects, it was not highly valued.

But if you don't pay attention, the impact can still be devastating.

At this point in time, this issue has a particularly great impact on Li Shushi's annexation of the state, even more than the land issue. Although there are Taiyuan Basin, Xinding Basin and Datong Basin, as well as rivers such as Fen River, Sanggan River, Hutuo River and Zhanghe River (turbidity), although Shanxi is also plagued by soil erosion, a large part of the lost water and soil is concentrated in several basins, so that although there are many mountainous areas in Bingzhou, there is also a lot of cultivated land.

However, no matter how much arable land needs people to cultivate, but because the Shuozhou area is declining year by year, even the hinterland of the Bingzhou area has been repeatedly invaded, a large number of people fled to the Central Plains and even the Jianghuai region, and a large number of young and middle-aged Taiping Taoist believers went to Jizhou to fight and die in other places during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, so the economy of Bingzhou has been greatly affected.

In response to this situation, Li Shushi and his aides devised an economic plan that was somewhat different from that of the Han Empire—to use commercial development to drive population agglomeration, and then population agglomeration to promote agricultural development.

The state is close to the steppe area, and a large number of horses can be obtained by bartering every year, and after obtaining the joining of the Karasuma and Xiongnu tribes, this advantage is even more obvious.

Although the quality of horses is good and bad, and the war horses are quite strictly divided, in any case, four legs are faster than two legs, and four legs carrying two legs are more labor-saving than running on two legs alone. Therefore, the demand for horses has been very strong since Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty allowed local recruits to protect themselves, and those who have money buy war horses, and those who have no money buy inferior horses.

At the same time, wool and its products, smelted steel ingots and their products are also very popular commodities, which can bring a lot of profits.

If there is a profit, it will naturally attract enough businessmen; For the sake of ease of business, merchants naturally had to settle down here; To settle down and start a business, it is natural to buy land and recruit tenants, households, and other people to use for production. However, the tax revenue in the annexation state is not high, and the population is still sparse, so it is not easy to recruit people in the annexation state.

Want to get someone? Then you can look outside the state. Regardless of whether they are foreign slaves or outcasts, as long as they abide by the laws of the state, they are the people of the state, and they enjoy the treatment of the people of the state. It's just that this qiē is a personal act and has nothing to do with the state government.

Of course, the government at all levels of the state has also promulgated a policy of rewarding childbirth, but although this is the royal road, it is impossible to see the effect for 20 years. What's more, with the current medical conditions, it is difficult for the neonatal mortality rate to be reduced to a considerable level, and if there is no war, the natural mortality rate can be guaranteed to be at a relatively low level. But what Chinese all know is that the troubled times, a troubled era that often sees people eating people, have entered the second movement.

It can be said that after several years of operation, the plan formulated by Li Shushi and his staff has begun to bear fruit, and many peripheral children of the family and some of the children of the poor family who are secretly supported by Li Shushi have begun to form a merchant class in the state, and even some industries have produced quite powerful trade unions. Although it is still only in its infancy, it already has some right to speak.

And the Chinese's feelings for the land are unmatched by people in any other country in the world. When you have money, you naturally have to buy land, and buying land requires people to manage and cultivate it, as well as various farming tools and livestock. These needs not only bring a large number of people, especially young and able-bodied laborers, to the state, but also enrich the economic activities of the state.

After all, even a self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy cannot be completely closed after all. As long as they want to have a better quality of life, they must circulate their goods. Professional things still have to be done by professional people, it is the best, no.

However, once the outbreak of inflation leads to the collapse of the economic chain, it will have a disastrous impact on the annexation of the state and even Shuozhou, which has a close economic relationship with the annexed state, and will also cause a large amount of wealth loss, which can be said to almost reach the effect of surrendering without a fight.

"The most important problem is that in addition to Sili and Liangzhou, who will obey Dong Zhuo's orders, only we are left in Bingzhou, Shuozhou and Xuzhou, and they still obey the orders of the central government, and there is no ban on annual offerings. Xuzhou is separated by Yanzhou and Yuzhou for the time being, could it be that Dong Zhongying's move is specifically aimed at us and wants to bring down our merger? ! ”

It is no wonder that Li Shushi would sigh like this, because it seems that this is the case.

As mentioned before, Dong Zhuo implemented a number of new policies after the massacre, the core of which was a harsh criminal law and improved the status of soldiers. Once these regulations are rolled out throughout the country, the hardest hit will naturally be those cultural families who started by relying on poetry and books, because all their strength is thrown into the search for chapters and excerpts, and there are few traditions of joining the army.

Such a decree was naturally resisted by the majority of the nobles, especially when they already had a good excuse.

In fact, even Li Shushi did not intend to copy all the harsh laws and regulations, because the Qin law was not only strict, but also too aggressive, and the military aristocracy formed by the Qin law was completely committed to expansion, and had to take expansion as its own responsibility, otherwise their descendants would lose the family they had worked so hard to build after three generations.

This is also an important reason why the Qin Dynasty perished so quickly - the benefits of the Qin Law could not be shown because of the unification of the whole country, even if it was forced to conduct a foreign war, because the war goal did not have much benefit to be made, and a lot of manpower and material resources had to be invested (the Great Wall, the Ling Canal, the Zhichi Road, etc.), so even if the battle was won, it could not make up for the financial gap, and once it failed, it would be the collapse of the whole front. Although there are also entries to encourage Sang Zhi, do you think there is anyone in the Qin State who became a nobleman by farming?

But what about the drawbacks? But it keeps showing - strict laws that make people hopeless, terrifying cool officials, and complicated servitude.

So under the instigation of well-intentioned people, the central power of the Qin State, which originally lacked the ability to control the world, gave up the world in this way.

Therefore, unless Dong Zhuo did not take into account the vast territory of the Han Dynasty in Kwantung when he first promulgated the new policy, and was ready to learn from the Qin Dynasty to fight with the heroes of the world with a corner of his strength, Dong Zhuo's new policy looks like suicide a little more.

"Dong Zhuo doesn't know the harm of small money, and Li Wenyou should also know it. So I'm afraid that its main purpose is still those powerful families in Luoyang City, as for our corners and corners, I'm afraid that he himself knows that it is beyond the reach of the whip. ”

"What Zhong Ji said is reasonable. The most important question now is not who the order in Luoyang City is directed at, but how we solve this problem. Looking at the recent actions of the Kwantung princes, the meaning of raising troops to prepare for war has become very obvious, and there seems to be a lot more private money on the market than in the past. I'm afraid that those small coins in Luoyang City are just the last blow. ”

Although Guo Yi and Zhong Xuan are also worried, the direction of their worries is obviously different from Li Shushi, as the leader of the county, the two of them have no less detailed information about the commercial circulation in the county than Li Shushi, and they are much clearer about the changes in the market than Li Shushi, the state pastor who has been suppressing bandits in the north for a period of time.

"Hey, I really won't be able to live in peace for a while."

Although Li Shushi looked helpless, several other people felt very relieved when they saw his appearance.

Is this a delusion?

ps: Although the currency war in the Han Dynasty was not as obvious and fierce as in modern times, the impact was also extraordinary, in fact, Dong Zhuo's small money was really nothing, after all, its depreciation was only one-tenth. There are even more bt in the twentieth or even in the fiftieth, of course, the trick is not just a small money. For example, Liu Ba, who can become an economist in the Three Kingdoms, once used currency depreciation to help Liu Bei get a large amount of military funds.

As for why Liu Ba was able to ensure the stability of the market and let the currency of Shu circulate in large quantities in Wu and Wei? This issue will need to be addressed at an appropriate time in due course.

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