The Great Song Dynasty of the Golden Age 395_The Golden Age of the Great Song Dynasty Full Text Free Reading_Chapter 395 The Golden and Silver Seas Come from ()

The newspaper first started with a documentary article about a seafarer and sailor, and the focus of this article was the anecdotes and adventures of his sailors and merchant seafarers on his previous overseas voyages! In the following article, the large amount of gold, silver, and various jewels in the New Song Prefecture were described in detail.

This is of course an eye-catching thing, after all, in this era, there are not many people who can go on ocean voyages, except for those fishermen who grow up on the seashore all year round and sailors who often go to sea, there are not many people who can be recruited as seafarers, and even fewer seafarers who can use the experience of navigating in New Song Prefecture.

The publication of such articles in newspapers naturally aroused the curiosity of many people for novelties, so many people bought newspapers to read them, and as a result, the sales of several newspapers increased dramatically, which made the publishers of very economically minded newspapers like "Kangjing Tablid" immediately like a cat smelling fish, and began to chase after the author to prepare for the continuous publication of his articles.

Soon after, the exclusive printing and publication of the "Kangjing Tabloid Tabloid" in the New Song Prefecture Secrets and the mining of gold, silver and gems in the New Song Prefecture and other very detailed articles and reports were released, so that the sales of the newspaper continued to rise, and at the same time, several other newspapers also found a few seafarers who had gone to the New Song Prefecture, and some overseas secrets written by literati were also hyped.

At the same time, the news of Richanglong's formation of a large-scale trade fleet to New Song Prefecture also spread, and many merchants and trading houses asked to join, so that the original quota of more than 100 ocean-going fleets had to be increased to more than 300, and some very experienced fleet caravans have joined, making the fleet rapidly expand to the scale of more than 100 and 60 ships!

As the initiator of this operation, Ri Changlong publicly stated that the purpose of this trip to New Song Prefecture was the gold, silver and jewelry there, as well as a lot of local specialties, and the caravan of more than 100 large merchant ships was basically composed entirely of steam-powered ships!

This incident has brought three impacts, the first impact is that the illustrated book "Records of Overseas Domains" published by Xiao Ming at his own expense two years ago became popular again, and all bookstores had no stock, so they had to contact the printing house to print at least 50,000 copies again!

The second influence is that the Great Song Dynasty has sprung up in various parts of the sea and frontier to explore the sea, overseas exploration is not only the dream of young people, but also makes many old sailors are also ready to move, and the imperial cabinet has also issued some policies in this regard, that is, the foreign property is not as good as the city of the sea said that the tax is halved, this stimulus many people have formed a team to join the ship and prepare to go to sea to try their luck.

Of course, the third impact is the most important, that is, some people have been keenly aware that in the near future, the gold market in the Great Song Dynasty will definitely shrink significantly, so some people have begun to secretly sell gold, of course, the initiator of this is still the Ai Qili of Richang Longsheng Bank.

The gold of Richang Longsheng Bank began to flow to the market through a third-party relationship, at the beginning it was just a few hundred taels of scale inflow, but it didn't take long for the outflow of thousands of taels and thousands of taels, after a large amount of gold flowed into the market, it would definitely be eaten in the early stage, but as time went by, the gold in the market also became more and more.

Buyers who were able to eat a large amount of gold are now in a situation of shortage of funds, at the earliest, these will take advantage of some loopholes, that is, they go back to the bank for short-term loans, and use the loan money for gold speculation and storage and preservation, because the bank loan interest rate has been very low, that interest can not be speculated at all compared with the benefits brought by gold, so many people are using this system loophole to carry out market operations, which is why Yeai Qili feels the reason for the shortage of silver.

First of all, all customers who have taken out multiple loans are prohibited from taking out a second loan before paying off the principal and interest in a short period of time, which is one of them, when these people return the funds and interest they have collected to the bank, when they make a loan, they find that the original loan interest has been fine-tuned by a few percentage points!

Although it is only a few insignificant percentage points, but for those customers who operate in large amounts, the interest caused is also huge, which makes many large customers who intend to use bank loans to speculate on gold have to measure the value again, but the current gold price in the market has not dropped much, and there are still people gritting their teeth to lend.

However, with the large increase in the amount of gold in the market, the price is also declining, and those who have stored gold to preserve their value have taken out the gold for cash, which is a vicious circle process.

After about a month of such a thing, followed by the "Kangjing tabloid" published important news again, a merchant ship full of gold arrived at the headquarters of Richanglong through the port of Hangzhou, which was actually Xiao Ming's plundering of the gold of the Western Turks, but it was just a ship from Liaodong, but ordinary people do not know the truth, this news is undoubtedly a bombshell to the gold market, and the price of gold has fallen on a large scale again!

For a while, the market was full of gold selling, and the price of gold fell to the bottom in an instant, and at this time, Aichli had begun to absorb it on a large scale! The impact of this incident is quite far-reaching, and the people of the Great Song Dynasty seem to understand the complexity of the financial market for a while, and many big businesses and wealthy people have gone bankrupt!

Not only that, since the price of gold has always been linked to the currency, the fluctuation of gold prices will inevitably affect the changes in the price of currencies in the market, but this can be regulated, that is, the issuance of additional banknotes! Akiri is already familiar with this! Therefore, although the price of gold fluctuates, the value of paper money has not been affected much!

But after all, this incident has damaged the interests of many royal relatives and royal nobles, and the cabinet of the Great Song Dynasty must make countermeasures, so Xiao Ming set up a semi-official gold pricing committee through a cabinet resolution, and someone specially went to do the work of the market yellow price, once the fluctuation of gold prices exceeded the defined range, the imperial court needed to intervene.

Of course, the composition of the pricing committee must be the participation of senior people from big chaebols and big consortia such as the First Royal Bank of the Great Song Dynasty, the Richang Longsheng Bank, and the Royal Railway Company.

Under such a setting, the price of gold has gradually stabilized, maintained at a relative price, the general public can also participate in investment and speculation, but like someone large-scale speculation sitting in the village will never happen again, Ichli has absorbed more than 70% of the gold in the market, gold is still a precious metal!

At the same time, the role of gold as an industrial metal is also highlighted, gold coins as currency has been withdrawn from the market, the original gold coins have now become a collection in the hands of a person, its collection value is far greater than its own gold value, but the banknotes are still firmly linked to the value of gold.

The gold crisis that Ai Qili was worried about gradually calmed down, and three months later, the huge fleet organized by Richanglong returned from New Song Prefecture one after another, bringing back countless gold ore and silver ore, as well as a large number of precious stones! Although their return did not bring them the treatment of getting rich, it also made these merchants full of money!

This way of directly transporting ore back is naturally relatively costly, so gradually many people tend to build ore refining plants in New Song Prefecture, and merchant ships transport the finished gold and silver back, so the route between the Great Song Dynasty and New Song Prefecture is becoming more and more mature and smooth! A large amount of gold and silver were continuously transported from the sea, which also greatly promoted the development of industry and agriculture in the Great Song Dynasty!

Machinery manufacturing has become the most important industrial product, and the machinery manufacturing here covers a wide range of types, from large steam boilers, long arm tower cranes to general locomotive nest beds, and then to general metal buttons, all of which require a large number of machinery manufacturing, which is also the most mature industrial technology in the Song Dynasty.

At the beginning, from the manufacture of basic silk looms, the large-scale wool spinning and cotton spinning machinery in the later days were originally engaged in Richanglong himself, and the Mohists also fully supported Richanglong at that time, but later Richanglong himself was also doing industrial restructuring adjustment, and such loom manufacturing gradually became a way of technology transfer to be manufactured by others and Richanglong placed orders.

With the development of railways, the wide application of steam engines, the development of steel manufacturing, mining, machinery manufacturing, and other supporting industries is also vibrant, and a large amount of capital investment makes the railway construction planned by Xiao Ming at the beginning on a very high platform.

The sale of the sixth phase of railway bonds is also gradually on the track, Ai Qili listened to Xiao Ming's suggestion, not only increased the content of the sixth issue of bonds, but also bundled the development of the railway in Shu with the promotion of the entire Western Regions railway, so that the sales volume continued to rise, and the personnel he sent to Shu to carry out propaganda before this also made great achievements.

Their method is Xiao Ming's plan, that is, borrowing the function of modern print media, brushing large advertisements on various buildings, and printing a large number of giant advertisements at the same time! And the use of advertising leaflets in the way of universal investment, every household does not fall behind, every household has advertising.

It doesn't matter if you are illiterate, there is also the storyteller of the teahouse to help publicize, and the people have a volunteer propagandist to explain in the countryside after tea and dinner, this all-round three-dimensional advertising bombardment suddenly mobilized the interest of the entire Shu people and the enthusiasm of building the railway, and the sales situation of the debt roll in Shu is very good.

Among them, only Xiao Ming knows, the risk is actually not easier than leading troops to fight, and even very dangerous, according to his own calculations, if there is a slight mistake, there will definitely be a risk of disaster, and the economic recession brings the current Great Song Dynasty, which is still a monarchy, that is continuous turmoil!

This is what Xiao Ming doesn't want to see regardless of the day, but Ai Qili doesn't see it that way, he is very envious of Xiao Ming's experience in leading troops, and feels that all this is the kind of strategizing habit that Xiao Ming brought in exchange for leading troops, and his own way of thinking about things is far from keeping up, Xiao Ming even feels that if this continues, everyone treats themselves as gods It is very dangerous.

He didn't want to do this, but there was no better way at this stage, so he felt that he should go to Ding Jianpeng to talk, and it happened that Ding Jianpeng had a private letter sent through Fei Kite, which said that he wanted to surprise Xiao Ming! Xiao Ming naturally felt more curious, so he found an excuse to go to Hangzhou to ......!

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