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Chu Yue wears spring sleeves, and Wu Shuang is transparent. The strong heart wants to reclaim the sea, and the bitter courage is worried about the sky.

The service is ashamed of the gold note, and the joy is complete. What is the matter of the husband, one day is fixed for a thousand years?

Soon after incorporating Japan into the territory of the Daqian Dynasty, Li Cun summoned Wang Xun, who had recovered from his injuries, to Que.

Although Wang Yu and Wang Xun father and son were not Li Cun's descendants earlier, and they had been enemies with Li Cun, and even refused to serve Li Cun for a time, because of Li Cun's admiration for Wang Yu, Wang Xun's father and son, who were loyal and brave and good at fighting and finally killed themselves, he has always been very courteous to their father and son.

Later, Wang Yu, Wang Xun and his son were moved by Li Cun's sincerity, of course, this is also because the Zhao and Song dynasties have completely become history, and the Daqian Dynasty is the real China, the real Central Plains Dynasty, and the real Han Dynasty.

Since then, Li Cun has always been very important to Wang Yu and Wang Xun father and son, and did not doubt the loyalty of their father and son because their father and son were generals.

This is why Wang Yu, Wang Xun and his son on Shikoku Island swore to fight to the death.

Actually-

What outsiders don't know is that this tactic to shatter the last hope of resistance of the Japanese was conceived by Wang Xun.

In other words, before setting out on the expedition, Wang Xun was ready to die at any cost.

As the first emperor of the ages, such a loyal and good general is definitely Li Cun's favorite.

Therefore, although Li Cun has had a lot of things to do recently, Li Cun still took time out of his busy schedule to meet Wang Xun in person.

- Because Wang Yu was still in Japan with Li Xianzhong to clear the remnants of the resistance forces, Li Cuncai did not summon Wang Yu together.

Wang Xun has thick eyebrows and big eyes, a well-rounded body, and a dignified appearance, Li Cun likes it very much when he sees it.

When Li Cun, who wanted to give Wang Xun's wife the title of Lady of the Decree, learned that after Wang Xun's main room died in childbirth not long ago, Li Cun immediately married Qian Guifei to Li Cunsheng's third daughter Xu Xun as his stepwife.

Wang Xun was a little flattered and didn't thank him for a while.

When Li Cun saw it, he didn't care, and clearly told Wang Xun that in the future, he was going to divide the Japanese archipelago into ten countries and divide them into his ten sons as fiefs, but before that, he had to send loyal ministers to garrison the Japanese islands.

- At present, there is still a lot of gold and silver to be mined in Japan, and Li Cun must not be able to give such a Japanese island to his son, otherwise, who will this gold and silver belong to?

Loyal minister, Li Cun chose Song Jiang, who was ruthless in means, decisive in his work, and good at fame and not wealthy, to serve as the Japanese propaganda envoy, fully responsible for all government affairs on the Japanese archipelago, and the key to governing the Japanese archipelago was to lead the Japanese and millions of miners hired from the Great Qian Dynasty to mine Japanese gold and silver.

Good general, Li Cun chose Wang Xun, huh...... To be precise, Li Cun chose Wang Yu.

It's just that Wang Yu is now in his sixties, and he was hit by the almost loss of his beloved son before, Li Cunzhen was afraid that he would be unaccustomed to the water and soil in Japan, so he let Wang Xun take office with Wang Yu, and he could be a successor to Wang Yu at a critical time.

Wang Xun is not afraid of death, can he be afraid to go to Japan to help the Daqian Dynasty guard for a few years?

Therefore, Wang Xun immediately received the order on behalf of his father Wang Yu.

Soon after, the gold and silver accumulated by the Japanese for thousands of years were transported back to the Daqian Dynasty.

How many of them there are, no one knows.

The world only knows that it didn't take long for the imperial court to issue an order to cancel the gold and silver double standard system, and change it to the gold standard, and within three years, anyone can come to the Daqian Dynasty's money village with silver to exchange silver for gold according to a fixed ratio of ten to one, or directly exchange silver for paper money issued by the Daqian Dynasty, and from now on, the banknotes issued by the Daqian Dynasty are only linked to gold, and the past one banknote was officially renamed one yuan, and ten yuan is equal to one tael of gold, at any time, anyone, You can go to the money banks that have spread all the major cities of the Daqian Dynasty and exchange the two with each other.

In order to better control inflation, the Daqian Dynasty did not issue 10 yuan banknotes, the largest denomination of banknotes issued by the Daqian Dynasty was one yuan, in addition to one yuan, there were five dimes, two dimes, one dime, five cents, two cents, one cent, five cents, two cents, one cent, five cents, two cents, one cent, and other nine kinds of banknotes, which were mainly to correspond to the copper and iron coins of the Song Dynasty, of course, this was also to leave enough room for future inflation.

The reason why Li Cun did not choose the silver standard, but chose the gold standard, was due to many considerations.

It is said that Li Cun, who occupies the most important pole of world trade and has both a large amount of gold and silver, can completely continue to use the gold and silver double standard.

In this way, the Great Qian Dynasty can also issue more banknotes, right?

Moreover, with the popularization of the Daqian Dynasty in recent years, the gold and silver double standard system has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and there is a solid mass foundation.

Some also endorsed the imperial court, saying: If gold is the sun, silver is the moon.

In many ancient texts, there were thirteen months in a year, twenty-eight days in a month, so the earliest comparison of gold and silver was one to thirteen.

Therefore, some people advised Li Cun that if he felt that the gold-silver double standard system was unstable, he could force the gold-silver ratio to be 1:13, and stop engaging in the current floating ratio.

Li Cun is very clear that the historical ultra-stable structure of gold and silver is 1:16, and in China's 5,000-year long history, the ratio of gold and silver can basically be stabilized at 1:16.

If Li Cun forced the ratio of gold to silver to be fixed at 1:16, with the current strength of the Daqian Dynasty, he would definitely be able to stabilize the banknotes of the Daqian Dynasty for a period of time without collapsing.

However, there has always been a certain degree of arbitrage space between Europe and Asia.

This is mainly due to the fact that silver flows eastward and gold goes westward due to the low value of silver in Asia.

Between this dynamic equilibrium, Europe prefers gold, while Asia prefers silver.

In the history of Europe, whoever could control the trade channel between the East and the West would be able to take advantage of the difference in the price of gold and silver in Eurasia to carry out huge arbitrage transactions of 50 to 100 percent, thereby obtaining huge commercial profits and dominating the fate of the European continent.

To be honest, the Daqian Dynasty, which currently controls the trade routes between the East and the West, will be able to take advantage of the difference in the price of gold and silver in Eurasia to obtain huge arbitrage transactions and thus obtain huge commercial profits, and even dominate some of the fates of neighboring countries.

But Li Cun knew that this was just a small profit.

Think about the power of the dollar in later generations, you can buy goods from any country by printing money directly, and you can control the whole world to a certain extent through the dollar.

Compared with this, this bit of commercial profit can only make those businessmen move, and it is impossible for Li Cun, a tyrant who intends to control the whole world, to take the initiative.

Let's put it this way, Li Cun's goal is to make the paper money issued by the Daqian Dynasty become the world currency of this era, and then use the paper money issued by the Daqian Dynasty to control the world.

In order to achieve this goal, Li Cun was bound to introduce a stable currency.

The gold and silver double standard system will certainly not be able to give birth to a stable currency, which has been proved by too much history, and it is not possible to solve it by imposing a fixed ratio of 1:13 or 1:16 between them.

You must know that not to mention other places, there is a large amount of silver on the prince's continent alone, and once it is discovered and then mined, it will definitely impact the currency market, causing the gold-silver ratio to fluctuate, and then affecting the stability of the banknotes issued by the Daqian Dynasty.

Therefore, if Li Cun's ambition is to create a world settlement currency similar to the dollar in later generations, he must first abolish the gold and silver standard and choose the gold standard, or the silver standard.

The actual situation at the present stage is that the West has less gold and more silver, and Asia is just the opposite, with more gold and less silver.

Also, judging from the gold and silver in the hands of the Daqian Dynasty and Li Cun, there is also more gold and less silver.

In this case, it is obvious that the gold standard is used, which is more beneficial to the Daqian Dynasty and the East.

China has lacked silver mines since ancient times, and the reason why the silver standard has been used throughout history is actually mainly for overseas trade.

Since ancient times, China has been the world's largest manufacturer and largest exporter, in order to facilitate the valuation of import and export trade, so ancient China adopted the silver standard, that is, ancient silver and the world's main currency in circulation in later generations - the US dollar is equivalent.

In fact, gold can also have such attributes, but the earliest merchants engaged in world trade promoted silver as an international settlement currency in order to make Westerners who had more silver keen on international trade.

Li Cun is not one of those merchants, he does not have to use this weak way, he has formed a complete monopoly in the East, of course, he can use gold as the currency of international settlement, no, of course, he can use the paper money issued by the Daqian Dynasty as the currency of international settlement.

Of course, in this process, it is inevitable that some means of war will be used, just like the Western countries did to China at the beginning, if necessary, Li Cun can return the favor to the other side.

Again, Li Cun chose the gold standard and did not choose the silver standard.

In Li Cun's view, gold can be said to be useless except for being used as currency, while silver can be used in industry.

——Li Cun, who knows the general trend of history, knows very well that with the development of industry, with the expansion of the application field of silver industry, the consumption of silver will be more and more large, and one day the world's silver will even be eaten by industrial demand, and there is also a saying that silver may be the first metal in the world to be consumed by human beings, so no matter how much silver there is, there will be no place to use it in the future. Gold, on the other hand, is rarely consumed for industrial purposes.

In other words, if Li Cun chooses the silver standard, the gold of the Daqian Dynasty and the large amount of gold exchanged in the future will be useless, but if Li Cun chooses the gold standard, the silver of the Daqian Dynasty and the large amount of silver exchanged in the future can be used to develop industry in the future, killing two birds with one stone.

To sum up, Li Cun chose the gold standard.

The main advantage of the gold standard is that its face value is equivalent to that of gold, and unless precious metals are mined in large quantities in a short period of time, the purchasing power of the currency can be seen as approximately stable and less prone to inflation.

Of course, there are advantages, and there are definitely disadvantages.

The disadvantage is also that the total amount of gold is basically fixed, and as the demand for money increases with the increase in productivity, it will make the world's gold insufficient.

However, this will certainly not be the case in the short term, after all, this is an ancient time when the productive forces were very backward.

Taking a step back, if that day really comes, the Daqian Dynasty can also learn from the United States in later generations, decouple the banknotes issued by the Daqian Dynasty from gold, and then bind them to the financial revenue of the Daqian Dynasty.

One might ask, what if this road ends up dead?

Then you can only leave it to fate.

Or, then, it will be time for the decline of the Daqian Dynasty.

All in all, after obtaining Japan's gold, Li Cun resolutely promoted the abolition of the gold and silver double standard system and replaced it with a gold standard.

In this process, powerful people like Li Cun have encountered a lot of resistance, and even some businessmen who took advantage of the difference in the price comparison of gold and silver in Eurasia to obtain huge arbitrage transactions and obtain huge commercial profits even wanted to assassinate Li Cun.

As a result, these businessmen failed to assassinate Li Cun, but Li Cun took this opportunity to slaughter a large number of merchants, adding billions of yuan to the treasury of the Daqian Dynasty, and this is not counting the huge income obtained by Li Cun personally.

This made Li Biao, whose pockets bulged again, laugh whenever he saw people, and then vigorously developed a series of plans such as the big railway plan, the big industrial revolution, the big navigation plan, and the big agriculture plan planned by Li Cun......

In the spring of the 24th year of Hongwu, the navigators sent by Li Cun to explore the South China Sea returned, and they succeeded in finding the future Australia and the islands along the way.

When these navigators returned, they said: "There are men and women who are alien, who do not weave or clothe, who cover themselves with bird feathers, who eat without smoke and fire, but who drink blood and dwell in the nests." ”

And he said, "The men and women there wore five-coloured silk shirts, and tied them with a single skirt of ponga thorn cloth." ”

This is the indigenous people of Australia.

These navigators also wrote about some species in Australia, such as the crane: "There is a crane, six feet high, which feeds on the coffin, and when it hears people clapping its hands, it flutters with its wings, and its appearance is impressive, and it is also a foreign object." ”

Another example is kangaroos: "There are strange rats, with small eyes, big ears, long faces, and black whiskers on both sides of the nose." There is a bag on the belly that can hold the cubs. The forelimbs are short, while the hindlimbs are strong. Timid and alert, march with a jump. They like to gather in groups of thirty or twenty and feed on grass and fruits. ”

Based on the descriptions of these navigators, Li Cun determined that these navigators had really found Australia.

In the autumn of the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, Li Cun personally went to Australia, and then named Australia Kunjiao.

——The twenty-four characters of the ancient compass, namely "Jiamao Yichen Xunsi" in the east, "Bingwu Ding Weikunshen" in the south, "Gengxi Xinxu Qianhai" in the west, and "Renzi Gui Chou Genyin" in the north, starting from Quanzhou, Australia is located in the "Kunjiao" position.

Li Cun divided Kunjiao into sixty vassal states, and the islands along the road were also divided into sixty vassal states by Li Cun, preparing to divide them to his son in the future.

At this time, the vast territory of the Daqian Dynasty has become:

The northernmost reaches the Arctic Ocean;

The easternmost part is not the Pacific Ocean east of the Japanese archipelago, but the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean east of the United States.

southernmost, reaching the Tasman Sea in southern Australia;

The westernmost part is bounded by the Ural Mountains - the Himalayas - the southern part of Indochina - Sriwijaya - the Indian Ocean in western Australia.

It can be said that Li Cun has already occupied half of the world's territory that is still bending.

Today, the vast territory of the Daqian Dynasty can definitely be said to be that there is no one before it, and there is no one to be afraid of in the future.

It was suggested that Li Cun hold a grand banquet to celebrate this historic moment.

Li Cun also felt that he was really awesome, and he could really celebrate.

Think about it, if the emperors and kings of various countries gather together and have a hundred emperors banquet or something, it will definitely be recorded in the annals of history.

"If I let the queens of various countries accompany me, and I have a hundred queen's nights in the evening, then ......"

The more he thought about it, the more excited Li Cun became.

As a result, Li Cun, who was not too fond of banquets, was allowed to play, and ordered the Ministry of Rites to organize a grand banquet, which could be attended by hundreds of civil and military officials in Beijing, and the royal families and clans of various countries, especially the emperors and kings of various countries, must participate.

At the same time, Li Cun also asked a group of female officials to inform the queens of various countries, let them put on their original phoenix robes, and prepare to accompany Li Cun to participate in this Hundred Emperors Banquet......

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