Chapter 205: Bet
"It's better to take a state to conduct an experiment and see if the sage's reform plan can benefit the people!"
"If this plan is successful, why not roll it out to the whole country?"
This is the suggestion given by Liu Bowen, first conduct a small-scale experiment and see how the effect is?
If the effect is significant, then slowly spread and gradually replace the original system, so that all the problems will be solved?
This is a compromise method, I believe that everyone else will give in, otherwise, after tearing their faces, they still have to carry out reforms, and Cen Changqian and they will retire early!
"I think it's possible, but which state to do this experiment?"
After a moment of silence, Di Renjie spoke.
"Since you want to choose a state, then choose a state far away from Chang'an, if something really goes wrong, it won't affect Chang'an!"
Hubu Shangshu Ge Fu Yuan Road.
As long as he is far away from Chang'an, he doesn't care where he chooses to do the experiment, if he chooses to be too close to Chang'an, because the currency reform will trigger a chain reaction and cause problems in Chang'an, that is the worst.
On the contrary, as long as Chang'an can be ensured, no matter how earth-shaking the outside is, there is still a chance to remedy, and the imperial court can still stabilize the situation.
"This can't work, if you stay away from Chang'an, it is not conducive to controlling the situation, once something really goes wrong, the imperial court wants to remedy it, and it is beyond the reach of the whip!"
"In my opinion, it is better to choose not to be too far away from Chang'an, it is better to put it in the eastern capital, if something really goes wrong, it will be too late to stop!"
Li Jing vetoed Ge Fuyuan's proposal, but still felt that it was beneficial for him to control the situation by doing the experiment close to him, and if something really happened, he could stop it at the first time!
If you put it too far, you can't react to the problem, and if it eventually leads to a collapse, wouldn't it be a waste of all your previous efforts, or put it in front of you to help control it.
In this regard, both sides refused to back down, and a new round of quarrels began again.
Cen Changqian's side insisted on staying away from Chang'an, if something really happened, it would endanger a state at most, even if there was a big chaos, Datang would have the ability to settle it.
If it is placed in Chang'an, the capital division, once something goes wrong in Chang'an, it will cause a lot of chaos, and the local government will take the opportunity to cause chaos, and there may even be people who will challenge the imperial court.
At that time, even if Chang'an can solve the trouble, the price to pay is too great, and it may even make Datang's strength decline, for the sake of safety, it is better to put it as far away as possible!
The weight of the two benefits is from the weight, and the weight of the two evils is from the light!
In the opinion of Cen Changqian and others, this is a harmful thing to Datang, of course, we must choose the less harmful one.
But in Li Jing's view, this is a thing that is beneficial to Datang, and of course we must choose to maximize benefits.
Both sides felt that they were not wrong, and they both felt that their own choice was really beneficial to Datang.
After a fierce competition, the imperial power finally prevailed over everything, and the location of the experiment was held in the eastern capital!
Cen Changqian and the others were depressed and helpless, who called Li Jing the Son of Heaven, and had to bow to reality.
"Sage, you want to reform the currency system, but I don't know if there is a specific plan?"
Liu Bowen asked the question that everyone is most concerned about at the moment, if there is a plan, maybe they can consult one or two, and they can also grasp the rhythm and not get off the track.
It's better than having no plan at all, and it's much better to be completely blind and feeling the elephant, and it's much better to have a plan than to have no plan.
"I plan to adopt the gold and silver standard, with copper coins as the mainstay, supplemented by gold and silver to carry out reforms, and unify the weight of copper coins to the same weight, and one Kaiyuan Tongbao is set at five grams."
"1 tael is equal to 50 grams, 1 catty is equal to 500 grams, 1 tael of gold is equal to 10 taels of silver, and 1 tael of silver is equal to 1,000 Kaiyuan Tongbao, which is consistent copper coins."
"In order to make it easier to carry, I plan to open a money bank and issue silver tickets, so that even if you carry more, there will be no problem."
Li Jing said his plan, which was a reform he adopted with reference to the methods of later generations, and silver tickets were easier to circulate than copper coins or something.
"Dare to ask the saint, what is the silver ticket?"
Hubu Shangshu Ge Fuyuan wondered.
This is also the question that everyone wants to ask.
Li Jing turned around and nodded to Ximenyang beside him, Ximenyang immediately bowed down and went to take the silver ticket prepared by Li Jing, and Li Jing asked Ximenyang to take the silver ticket to Cen Changqian and the others to see.
Cen Changqian picked up a silver ticket, on which was written the number of money: 100,000 yuan, which was the largest denomination of copper coins and silver tickets.
That's it?
Everyone frowned slightly, just a piece of paper can be exchanged for 100,000 copper coins, isn't this money village going to lose money?
"You must think that if Qian Zhuang really exchanged money for silver tickets, if someone imitated and forged silver tickets, wouldn't Qian Zhuang lose money?"
Li Jing said lightly.
"That's right! It's just a piece of paper, and the handwriting on it can be imitated, and if the saint wants to rely on this silver ticket to reform the currency, I think it's better to do so!"
Hubu Shangshu Ge Fuyuan shook his head, and suddenly felt that Li Jing was too child's play, if he really came according to his request, maybe the entire Datang would collapse tomorrow!
"Even you can think of it, don't I think of it?"
Li Jing asked rhetorically.
"I want to hear about it!"
Cen Changqian crossed his hand.
"I do anti-counterfeiting on the silver ticket, even if you take this silver ticket to copy the exact same, it will definitely not be real, if you don't believe it, you might as well take it and give it a try, if you can exchange it for 100,000 yuan with the fake silver ticket, how about I give up reforming the monetary system?"
Li Jing smiled slightly, how to judge the authenticity of this silver ticket by virtue of handwriting, as well as fake passwords and watermarks, it has its own set of identification methods, and it is impossible for outsiders to know.
Even if you take it and copy it, you won't be able to withdraw the money, and you don't have to worry about someone forging fake silver tickets and harming the bank.
"Is this true?"
Ge Fuyuan hurriedly asked, if he could use this to make the Son of Heaven sober up, it would not be a good thing!
"It's true, you have no jokes!"
"If I win, you can't stop my monetary reform, what?"
Li Jing nodded and replied, you are not afraid of the shadow, dare to fight him, you will only lose badly!
"Good! If the saint can win with dignity, the minister should fully support the saint's reform!"
Cen Changqian was also out of the way, he still didn't believe that it was difficult to get them with a piece of paper.
It is also good to rub the sharp spirit of the saint in this way, so that he can understand what it means to have people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the sky!
Not everything can be done by his temperament, Cen Changqian and others seem to see the hope of victory.
"Good! I hope you don't break your word!"
Li Jing sneered.
"No!"
And they answered, bowed, and withdrew.