The Great Song Dynasty of the Golden Age 369_The Golden Age of the Great Song Dynasty Full Text Free Reading_Chapter 369 The means of finance come from ()

Ai Qili agreed to Xiao Ming, and the national firm of the Great Song Dynasty, which is dominated by Richanglong, as well as various factories and farms, Taiping Yinzhuang and Richang Longsheng Bank and other directly affiliated units all received Xiao Ming's secret letter, and the head of the national large firm of Richanglong Holdings also received instructions from the major shareholders above.

All operations were carried out throughout the country, starting with the large-scale commercial ships under the direct control of Xiao Ming, who began to stop importing grain products in the trade, and at the same time, the grain exports of the two major immigrant production areas of Qiongzhou, Hainan Province, Taiwan's Daliuqiu Island, were all stopped, and the rice exports of Goryeo and Japan also naturally stopped.

Immediately after that, the major merchants, mainly Richanglong, began to purchase and hoard grain on a large scale at the same time, and the price of grain began to soar within a few days! And all commodities related to grain are once again facing a wide range of price increases, and even pig farming, which has gradually risen because of the need to feed pigs with grain, is suddenly facing closure.

This situation spread rapidly, and in just a few days, it spread all over the country from the south of the Yangtze River, and even many people spontaneously began to hoard because they were afraid that the grain would still rise in the future.

In the inner city palace of Kangjing of the Great Song Dynasty, the Chengde Hall was brightly lit, and the large palace lamps made of glass crystal were lit again due to the lack of kerosene, and Gaozong Zhao Gou was watching some important tables presented in various places, because Xiao Ming established a cabinet, the secret province would choose some inconvenient solutions to be submitted to the emperor for review when dealing with the important tables in the country.

When Xiao Ming presided over the cabinet, basically Gaozong was lazy and did not look at the watch, except for the state affairs of the Western Regions Autonomous Province and Dali, the cabinet presented the emperor with the sparse and recital, all the big and small things, basically the cabinet handled, Gaozong was happy to have a leisure, writing and painting every day, and touring the mountains and rivers was very leisurely.

After Xiao Ming was gone, this whole system was followed, but I knew that recently, Gaozong Zhao Gou suddenly had a whim and began to care about state affairs, and always went to the cabinet to inquire about political affairs, so during this time, Fan Zongyi and others in the cabinet also handed over some mundane matters to him for his attention.

Gaozong has been lazy for a while, and he is naturally not interested in looking at those boring trivial things, but he is now very fond of money, so he began to pick out some of the household financial aspects of the watch, in the past month, the business is shady, the people's livelihood is unstable, he has also found something, and then there is a watch handed over, he has to let people report to him, if it is not good news, he is too lazy to look at it.

This afternoon, the new waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Xin Shan, was in a panic to see Emperor Gaozong, and he ran in person to naturally be anxious, and when he ran into the gate of the Wende Palace, he was slipped by the granite terrazzo marble floor on the ground, and then shouted loudly: "It's not good!" Your Majesty! ”

Such frustrating words naturally made Gaozong displeased, but he still patiently asked: "When is the specific time to panic, Aiqing will report it to the widow first!" ”

"Your Majesty, the price of grain in Guangdong, Fujian and other places has risen too much, and the grain stocks in the state capital have been exhausted, and the local government has asked the officials to raise rice and grain from the south of the Yangtze River to support, otherwise within half a month, there will be a food shortage in the entire Guangnan Road!"

Gaozong frowned and said, "My Great Song Guang has money and grain, how can I not have rice and grain?" Is there an unscrupulous profiteer hoarding and preparing to make huge profits? ”

Xin Shanyang replied with a watch in his hand: "Hoarding is indeed there, but it is not a single thing, but all the merchants are hoarding, not only that, but the ordinary people have also begun to hoard grain, if the price of grain is not stabilized, the grain of the two Zhejiang and Jiangnan will flow to Liangguang and other places, at that time, I am afraid that Jiangnan will have to make a food shortage!" ”

"The people also began to hoard?" Gaozong was a little incomprehensible, he took the Xinshan's recital table, read it carefully, it turned out that the hoarding wind in Liangguang and other places was very powerful, not only food, tea, salt, sugar and other things, everything closely related to life was all in the ranks of hoarding!

At the beginning, the government felt that it was profitable, so it sold the materials in the treasury in exchange for a large number of guanzi banknotes, and deposited them in the bank to eat interest, but because the banknotes depreciated one after another, and the bank changed according to the timely exchange rate, the banknotes were deposited not only without interest but also shrinking!

After all the stocks and materials in the treasury were sold out, this wind of hoarding began to blow more and more! Grain and materials from other provinces and other provinces are flowing into the Liangguang region like a tide, but the overall trend of grain price fluctuations is still rising, and there is no shortage of people of insight in the local government, who know that if this situation does not change, when there is a grain shortage in Jiangnan and Liangzhejiang Road in the future, their own guilt will be inescapable, and not only that, but they will also be the culprits!

So they took out the money in their hands and began to buy grain on a large scale, and then sold it to the market to reduce the price of grain, but this always felt a bit of a drop in the bucket, and later, because the currency had depreciated to a certain extent, the government had no money to use! And many merchants do not accept paper money when selling grain, but only accept gold and silver, which makes the local government even worse!

Things have reached the point where they can't be suppressed, except for Liangguang and now Fujian Road! In desperation, they had no choice but to go to the court to ask for support, if they did not support, at that time, the price of grain will be out of control like a wild horse, and then not only in Jiangnan and other places, but also in Liangzhejiang Road and even in the production areas of the Lianghe area south of the Yellow River, there will be a grain shortage.

The only solution now is that the imperial court immediately allocates and transfers grain to Liangguang and Fujian roads in large quantities, so that grain prices can be stabilized and grain prices plummet, so that grain flows to those areas with slightly higher prices, otherwise this situation of single flow will continue to develop, and a nationwide grain shortage will inevitably occur.

Gaozong finally realized the seriousness of the matter, at present, many things have risen in price, which makes him very helpless, the regulation and control of the imperial court and the decree do not work at all, but fortunately, the things that affect the society and people's livelihood are not among the price increases, and my merchants and factory owners all over the country have turned to the grain that can obtain huge profits!

If it is not solved at this time, the entire Great Song Dynasty will definitely be in chaos, so he has the behavior of staying up late at night to check the past sparse table, and this check does not matter, the result is that he is dripping with cold sweat, and he knows that the economic situation of the whole country has reached a very bad point!

At present, the entire industrial production of the whole country has reached a state of stagnation, all kinds of industrial products have been sharply reduced, a large number of factories and businesses have closed down, many workers have lost their source of livelihood, and have to return to the land to cultivate in order to have enough to eat, but now there is no land left!

In order to obtain a little land, there are endless incidents of conflicts with the government and large merchants, but fortunately, the price of grain has not risen, but now if even the price of grain is not spared, it will immediately cause a large number of hungry people and displaced people in non-disaster years, and the homeless people have become thieves and rebels since ancient times, if this kind of thing appears in the Jiangnan and Liangzhejiang Road, the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty, it is almost a fatal thing, so it is urgent to ensure that the grain in these two places does not flow out and maintain the stability of grain prices.

At the cabinet meeting the next day, Gojong made an exception to attend the meeting, and gave instructions on the sharp rise in grain prices on Liangguang and Fujian Road, and instructed the household department to immediately allocate money and grain for support, and was asked to come up with specific measures to curb the price increase!

Lu Yihao did not agree with this, and he said to Gaozong: "The imperial court's finances are currently affected by the depreciation of the currency, and the wealth has shrunk greatly. However, once the reserve gold of the First Bank of Royals is used, it will inevitably cause the credit of the entire bank to be reduced again, and if it causes a run, the bankruptcy of the First Bank of Royals will be small, and the resulting unrest of depositors will be inevitable! ”

This kind of thing is simply anxious, Gaozong really has a little headache, he asked, "What is the best plan for all Aiqing?" ”

Fan Zongyi said: "When Xiao Taishi was there, the limit of the annual issuance of banknotes must be strictly controlled, and when a certain limit is reached, it is resolutely not issued, and now to stabilize prices, it is necessary for banks to recycle banknotes on a large scale to destroy, and after the market currency is reduced, the banks will make subsidized loans to factories and merchants to encourage them to produce more wealth, but since this year, the loan rate of the First Royal Bank has been zero, which is ......!" ”

Gaozong said angrily: "What Taishi Xiao, he is no longer here, now you are managing the government, you come up with a way, the deadline is three days, and if there is no good way at that time, you will not do it!" ”

The emperor was angry, Shen Gai and Tang Siwei hurriedly rounded the field, claiming that according to Gaozong's intentions, they would first call the bank's reserve gold to save Liangguang and Fujian Road, and then talk about other things, and the cabinet needed to study and decide on other things! Please rest assured that the Great Song Dynasty is far from the point of exhaustion!

This matter passed like this, Gaozong left angrily, everyone stared at each other with big eyes, no one spoke, the evil consequences of excessive money have been highlighted, and now they are still unwilling to do remedial measures, let them come up with a solution within three days, isn't it difficult for a strong man?

The First Royal Bank of the Great Song Dynasty officially used the gold reserves to start buying grain from Liangguang and Fujian Road, and sold it at a low price, but the results were not ideal, and at this time, the Richang Longsheng Bank began to purchase a large number of gold and silver, and the gold and silver that flowed into the market were collected by Richang Longsheng.

At the same time, the market suddenly began to use the popular use of silver taels as currency, and the first bank of the Great Song Dynasty due to the lack of gold reserves, this news has been leaked, causing many depositors to go to the bank's outlets to exchange gold and silver and other hard currency, which makes the bank's gold reserves even more insufficient.

A few days later, there was news that Richanglong officially withdrew its shares from the First Bank of the Great Song Dynasty, which was even worse for the already very difficult First Bank, and it was on the verge of bankruptcy! The run on the market continued, but Gojong, as the majority shareholder, did not know that his wealth was rapidly decreasing.

Xiao Ming is going to use financial means to crush the imperial power in the hands of Gaozong, the transfer of many assets of Richanglong is being carried out unconsciously, the weaving mills are all suspended, and the situation reported by the mines and iron factories is beyond their means! But the real biggest source of profit is the fleet of Niksho Takashi overseas trade and other trading firms!

At this time, Gaozong was learning the news that Xiao Ming was in Shuri from Xue Bingchang, which surprised him, Xiao Ming's existence is indeed Gaozong's biggest threat, but in terms of the current economic crisis, Gaozong already knew that Xiao Ming was operating behind the scenes, and he was determined from conjecture.

For this reason, his resentment against Xiao Ming is not ordinarily big, so he ordered to check all the businesses and factories in the entire Richanglong, which is a preliminary preparation for nationalization, Gaozong wants to cut off Xiao Ming's financial resources, but he doesn't know that Richanglong has become an empty shelf at present!

At the same time, in order to crack down on the Ilchang Longsheng Bank, Gojong decided to stop using the paper money of Guanzi and use silver coins as the currency instead, and let the mint start the first phase of the process of minting silver coins, but on the day he asked the local government to post notices to abolish the paper money, the riots finally broke out!

The Great Song Dynasty of the Golden Age 369_The Golden Age of the Great Song Dynasty Full Text Free Reading_Chapter 369 The means of finance have been updated!