Qing silver was freely convertible and exchangeable, but the problem was that silver was not legal tender in any dynasty.

From beginning to end, copper coins have been the legal tender of all dynasties.

Of course, banknotes that appear briefly in certain periods are also counted.

Copper coins are generally divided into two kinds, one is called copper plate, that is, the copper coins printed with the words "ingots" or "heavy treasures" and "tongbao", similar to the paper money of ten, twenty, and even fifty yuan in later generations.

The other is the ordinary small copper coin, which is round on the outside and square on the inside, commonly known as "Brother Kong Fang", similar to the one-yuan, five-jiao, and one-dime coins in later generations.

At present, the copper coins minted in the late Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong periods are used more on the market, and there are fewer in the Shunzhi period.

The reason is the old age, the attrition factor.

The circulation of silver is mainly in large transactions, because of the inconvenience of carrying and transporting silver, so it is derived from the financial system product of the bank ticket number.

The common silver on the market is not a silver ingot, but the kind of broken particles that don't know how many knives have been cut, and the weight is calculated in money.

Or the kind of specially made size silver beans.

Basically, every shop that does business has a small weighing scale.

The congenital deficiency that silver must be weighed is destined to be more convenient in the people's livelihood market than copper coins that are not at face value.

If you want to make silver have the same real monetary attributes as copper coins and circulate on a large scale, there is only one way, and that is to create a silver dollar in the copper coin system.

Before leaving Beijing, in a secret conversation with He Shen in the Yamen, the temporary commander of the Chongwenmen infantry army, He Shen showed a silver coin from a Westerner to the virtuous brother of Dongge.

He Shen hoped that after the virtuous brother of Dongge became the governor of Zhili, he would support him to make a proposal to Fu Lehun and try to produce silver dollars in the household department and issue them to the world, so that the imperial court could obtain huge profits from both domestic trade and overseas trade with foreigners, so as to solve the current economic problem of serious shortage of money in the national treasury.

If you don't think of a way to open source, the Huguang War alone can drag the Qing Dynasty into the bottomless abyss.

When Jinchuan used troops before, soldiers' salaries already accounted for six or seven tenths of the national tax.

Now, the ratio is as high as seven or eight out of ten.

If you don't make any more money, Daqing will wait for bankruptcy.

At that time, Jia Liu was very moved.

He Shen is really patriotic, no wonder he alone supported the home of more than ten years in the late Qianlong period.

Economic minds are not ordinary jobs, but special ones.

If Jiaqing had used Heshen like his Amma, it is estimated that the Opium War would not have broken out at all, because Heshen was a rare supporter of trade among high-ranking Manchurian officials, and he knew the situation of Western countries very well.

Typical pragmatist.

Marghani's mission was led to Jingshi by Heshen, but unfortunately it was rejected by his master.

It is difficult to say that the 800 million taels of wealth confiscated by Jiaqing were not originally prepared for him by Heshen.

Therefore, it is very suitable to kill chickens and take eggs for Jiaqing.

This is also one of the reasons why Jia Liu tried his best to keep Heshen and continue to serve as the head of the household, on a macro level, he dared to say that he was the second in the world, and no one dared to call him the first in the world.

But in terms of specific details, it depends on the elites of this era to advance.

After all, his personal energy is limited.

As long as he can help himself lead the country to the road of prosperity and strength, whether it is Manchuria or Han Chinese, Jia Liu will let it go.

Even if He Shen is a royalist in his bones, he is fundamentally opposed to himself, a conspiracy usurper.

Jia Liu certainly supported the constructive idea of the silver dollar, but he did not plan to support the Qing court, but planned to pilot it in Zhili first, and then interact with Chairman Li's Bank of Sichuan.

Since it's called Shikai, you have to get a big head out of it.

Even less gold is in circulation, and most of that stuff is made into jewelry, which may only account for one percent of the country's total currency in the monetary realm.

Jia Liu is a person who doesn't love money, as history can prove.

But he is also a person who loves money, and history can also prove this.

It is not contradictory, it is in line with dialectics.

Because not loving money is a private virtue, and loving money is a public heart.

From a personal point of view, Jia Liu, the governor of Zhengerpin, raises as much as 100 million yuan of clean silver every year, as for corruption.

The official is positioned, and money is really a number.

But compared with the road of leading China to rejuvenation, his salary is not a drop in the bucket, and it is not even a dime a dime.

So, the heavy burden of revival weighed him to love money.

But he really didn't love money this time, so he changed his name.

If you want to promote the new policy in Zhili, you must not only have the army, but also have enough prestige and matching qualifications.

In terms of the army, the about 10,000 people that Jia Liu can directly control at present is not much compared to the garrison of nearly 40,000 people.

In terms of prestige, he has invincible military exploits, which is enough to scare the local elders of Zhili.

The problem is that there is a real lack of qualifications.

At full all, he is only twenty-two this year, only one year older than the twenty-one Fengsheng amount.

Its history is also accompanied by many coincidences and irreproducible factors.

Therefore, a governor in his early twenties wants to break through the laws of his ancestors in office and carry out some new policies that have never been heard of at the time, and the pressure can be imagined.

Then, it is necessary to start a great project on the first day of entering the territory of Zhili.

Packaging engineering.

Everyone in the world loves Qing officials, believes in Qing officials, and is willing to do things under the leadership of Qing officials, so Jia Liu will be favored by the world and make himself a Qing official admired by everyone.

In order to be a good Qing official, he deliberately set three rules for his subordinates, and was ready to start from his side by example, but he didn't expect the official gentry in Zhuozhou to be so considerate and took the initiative to send him a pillow.

On the way to his appointment, the new governor met the gentry and paid homage according to the usual practice, but the governor only needed copper coins and silver ingots, and when it was passed out, his image of honesty and dedication could be established.

It will not make the bureaucracy directly subordinate to feel resistant, isn't it a double win?

Sitting in the carriage holding a kettle in one hand and playing with the silver dollar given by He Shen in the other, Jia Liu's facial expression was extremely peaceful and his mood was extremely stable.

There are more than 100 miles away from Baoding, and it is necessary to pass through Ansu County on the way, and the county gentry will also come to pay homage, and they will do the same again.

In this way, before arriving in Baoding, the incorruptible image of the new governor may have been known to passers-by.

The packaged Qing official is also a clean official.

How did the Qing officials come about?

Passed down from generation to generation.

If we grasp the mystery of propaganda and know the preferences of public opinion, we will be able to firmly suppress all ghosts, snakes, and gods morally.

But he didn't know that his own Wolong Phoenix Chick actually found the loophole in his self-packaging, and was ready to go to Baoding to collect dozens of tons of copper coins.

Fiat currency, where can I refuse to accept it?

Just as it was beautiful, the carriage suddenly stopped, and then there was a noise ahead, vaguely like someone was crying.

"What's going on?"

Jia Liu lifted the curtain of the car and stretched out half of his head to ask.

The bolt who sat in front of him as a groom shouted, "I'll go to the front and have a look." ”

Without waiting for the young master to speak, he ran away.

After a while, he rushed back again, and shouted anxiously: "Young master, someone in front of you is blocking the road and shouting injustice!" ”

"What, shouting injustice?"

As soon as he heard this, the remaining drowsiness in Jia Liu's brain disappeared for a moment, and he jumped up as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and as a result, his head hit the roof of the car a little painfully.

"It's okay, it's okay,"

Regardless of the pain in his head, Jia Liuhu kicked the car door in a hurry and jumped down.

In a hurry, one didn't pay attention and fell again, and the hat of the second-grade governor with a flower feather fell off.

got up and picked up the hat, slapped his butt twice, and pointed to Fan Wei like nothing and said urgently: "What are you doing in a daze, carry the camera and follow me!" ”

After speaking, I realized that it was inappropriate, and the hardware was not perfect.

"Bring a notebook and a pen, and pay attention to the records."

Before Fan Wei came back to his senses, the ghost family had disappeared in front of his eyes.

It's so fast, it's weird.