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"But do we have the money?"

"We use sterling silver, they use the gold standard. *Dream*Small* Says .lā means that their money is linked to gold, but it is not real gold. So our silver price is comparatively more valuable. I really can't explain this to you, because I don't quite understand it, but I can only say that our monetary system is different from theirs at this time, and we use the price of silver to buy their grain, and there is actually a price difference in the middle. It may be a lot cheaper than growing it ourselves. Of course, the grain bought back must be strictly managed, which will really impact the market, and if no one farms the land, something will happen. ”

Qingyu took one and wrote it out to him while talking, can she tell him about the exchange rate? Apparently not. There will be an exchange rate difference between sterling silver and the gold standard, but it is really difficult to explain this.

"It's not a question of cheapness, no matter how cheap we are, what kind of food can we buy with living money? Now it is more urgent to buy anything than to buy food. Xianfeng shook his head, now he is worried about money.

"It's okay, money is such a thing, you don't always have it. Do the math, there will always be. She smiled and thought about it: "Your Majesty, do you know that the grain is cheap and hurts the peasants?" ”

"You don't understand?" Xianfeng doesn't believe that Qingyu doesn't understand.

Qingyu smiled, she actually understood, she read a text in middle school, the harvest of farmers into the city to sell grain, thinking that it was hard to have a good harvest, thinking that going to the city can be sold at a good price, imagining that when she went home, she would bring a small doll for her child and buy a piece of flower cloth for her daughter-in-law......

As a result, because foreign grain rushed in, the price of their grain was worse than in previous years, and they could not buy toys and flowers. (Text title: "Extra Three or Five Buckets" Ye Shengtao)

And then the teacher's explanation for that was that it was an economic aggression by the Americans, and a large number of peasants went bankrupt...... Later, some people explained that the grain was cheap and hurt the peasants, because the bumper harvest was abundant, a large number of commodities poured in, and it was inevitable that the price would be lowered. According to the rules of the commercial society, as long as it is a commodity, you must be prepared to lose money. But she really can't let her pay her taxes and take all the risks after paying her rent.

So when the Americans asked for food, she subconsciously wanted to refuse, and out of politeness, she just casually coped with two sentences. Then when I was thinking about it in the house, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I couldn't generalize. However, she didn't have any more useful books to look up, so she could only keep making deductions by herself to find the best direction!

She also wants to protect farmers, but there are many things, and it is really not what she wants. The U.S. agriculture protects a lot of agricultural subsidies, so their grain is shipped to China cheaper than the Chinese grow it themselves.

And their agricultural subsidies are actually criticized because their subsidies are subscribed to the land. This is just a cheap discount for big farmers, not small and medium-sized farms that really need subsidies. This is not possible in China at present, because it is the landless peasants who really need subsidies.

Moreover, she can't stand on the side of the peasants to oppose the landlords, think about the things that Guangxu kid provoked, and the things that the scholars were angry about, she couldn't do. As I told her, what she was thinking about now was how to make a peaceful transition.

"It's really difficult, and I'm afraid that they will starve to death, and I'm afraid that they will import grain, and the grain will hurt the farmers. Alas! Qingyu let out a long sigh.

"I'm just afraid I don't have any money." Xianfeng shook his head.

Qingyu laughed out loud, thinking that this person was really cute.

"Don't worry, I'm in charge." Qingyu gently patted his face, pulled him up, and took him to dinner.

If nothing else happens, she still has some confidence in getting money. The next day, her idea began to be put into practice.

She has been in the palace for almost half a year, and she has mastered them all. Began the palace comprehensive thrift strategy. For example, the ingredients to be used in the palace, in addition to the tributes from all over the world, some home-cooked ones are produced in their own imperial villages.

Xianfeng then woke up, yes, we have a Huangzhuang, and there are a lot of them. are all in the suburbs of Beijing, all kinds of production. In the past, Huangzhuang was all paid silver, and they felt that Huangzhuang was a place of great profit. But looking at the comparison between the income and the total expenditure in the palace, he wanted to faint.

The palace buys an egg for thirty taels, while the Huangzhuang sells an egg for less than three cents. Because Sanwen is the retail price outside, how can it be higher than the retail price that they wholesale to those people? So how many eggs are needed in the palace every day, directly from the Zhuangzi, the retail price is still given, and it is a huge amount of money inside and out. There are also all kinds of poultry, livestock, vegetables, fruits. According to the price they sold to others, the silver handed over by the emperor did not change every year, but the expenses in the palace were almost negligible at once.

Qingyu also opened an imperial dining room outside, don't you people outside love to eat imperial food? We're going to get all these out of the palace and give you a try. What the palace can't eat every day, can only be sent here, and then the swill is also sold to people in need, and after various expenses, the palace can really achieve self-sufficiency. Of course, Qingyu will not say that this is only the first step, and she will be able to make a profit next year.

Every year, the Ministry of Household allocates 4 million to the palace, as Xianfeng said loudly in the court, in the future, the Ministry of Household Affairs will allocate funds to the inner treasury for the people's livelihood, rather than supporting the members of the royal family.

This is actually nothing to change for the household, and the money always has to be given. Who to give is not to give. But it was a great shock to the courtiers.

Because Daoguang has always shouted thrift, he is really very economical to himself and his concubines. But what is the use of his own frugality? The people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not cooperate, and Daoguang's frugality had no effect at all. And Xianfeng copied the Internal Affairs Office at the beginning, and now the Internal Affairs Office is completely under the control of Xianfeng and his wife.

Of course, what they want to know most is, what did the emperor do, just save four million? Of course, there are also opposing voices, such as the Zongren Mansion. You're royal self-sufficient, so what are we going to do?

Those yellow belts, those red belts, and those hardcore crops full of people, can they still enjoy this kind of treatment? They have a sense of crisis. They felt that this was done by the emperor to show them. Even those who have money are not happy. Even if I don't care about the money, it's a status symbol. If you cancel it, then what is the difference between us and those Han people, and where is their superiority?

But they didn't dare to say these things openly, Xianfeng didn't say anything, he only said that he wanted to use every penny of silver on the people. Of course, those broken officials cried together, but Xianfeng didn't believe them a word. No matter what, they don't feel good.

However, Qingyu is a narrow ghost, and she doesn't want the people in the palace to raise her, so make this into a joke and let Xiangqin go out of the palace to find someone to teach those flowers to sing. She wants to sing well, so that the illiterate people know that the emperor and the mother are supporting themselves, so their money is not in supporting the emperor. The emperor wants to use that money to do things for the people.

The common people will think, the emperor doesn't want them to raise it, so who hacked their money? The Hanako laughed and asked, 'Yes, where is your money, you have to ask the officials.' ’