Renminbi?

Zhu Yun was stunned for a moment.

What a name!

It will be the world's first currency in the future.

Oh.

Wrong.

It should be the only currency in the world!

The Ming Dynasty was hundreds of years ahead of the world and was the first to achieve industrialization.

Where else in the world can there be room for other currencies?

In the future, seigniorage will be collected, and you will be able to receive hand cramps.

It's beautiful to think about.

Zhu Yunxi nodded with satisfaction.

"When you're ready, let's publish it in the newspaper!"

Prior to this, all the things announced by the imperial court were announced by Zhang Bang.

Now, with the "People's Daily", it is only natural that it will be published in the newspaper.

Compared with the announcement of the list, you can see more people in the newspaper, and the faster the news spreads.

Of course, the list still continues.

After all, it's a long-standing habit that can't be abolished all of a sudden.

There are always some people who are still used to watching the list, and they have to wait for them to get used to it.

It's just that the status of Zhang Bang is not so important!

"Big news, the imperial court carried out currency reform, issued new banknotes, and recycled Daming treasure banknotes. New banknotes can be exchanged for silver! ”

"Big News ......"

……

With the shouts of the newspaper sellers, the news of the issuance of new banknotes soon spread throughout Jinling and then to the whole country.

The first to boil is officialdom.

Lao Zhu's salary for officials is not low.

At least for them to meet the basic food, clothing and shelter, there is no big problem.

It's just that I never raise my salary.

And it is often issued in treasure money.

There are too many copies of the Cobao banknote, and its paper value is too far from the actual face value.

It turned out that a hundred taels of silver was sent to you a treasure note with a face value of one hundred taels of silver, but in fact it was only worth more than twenty taels of silver, who could bear this?

Later, when the currency completely collapsed, it was even more of a pile of waste paper.

Corrupt officials or officials with a strong family foundation are fine.

If the family is poor and still a clean official, then there is really no way to live.

The price at which the new banknotes return the old ones is set at 1:4.

However, the distribution of money to officials was entirely based on the face value of the new banknotes.

Compared with the previous issuance of treasure money, it is equivalent to a fourfold increase in their actual salary at once.

It doesn't matter if an official doesn't live on a salary.

The poor officials who live on their salaries are really happy.

The most important thing is that the new banknotes can be exchanged for silver for a five-percent fee.

Many officials are not reassured.

As soon as he received the salary of the new banknotes, he hurriedly went to the People's Bank of China and exchanged all of them for silver.

Tong Su is not bullied.

It can really be redeemed!

Many officials burst into tears of joy.

It's not easy to be an official for the old Zhu family!

If you can receive a full salary, it can be regarded as the sun hitting the west!

The reaction of the common people is even more exaggerated.

A pile of Daming treasure banknotes, rotten in the hand, is difficult to use.

I can only watch it depreciate.

Now Taisun is in charge, and the currency reform is carried out, and all can be exchanged for new banknotes.

This has never happened before!

In the past, the imperial court had always been only in charge of issuance, regardless of recycling.

People frantically poured into the People's Bank of China to exchange money.

After all, after the redemption period, you can't exchange it.

After getting the new banknote, many people were also uneasy and exchanged it for silver.

In this regard, the People's Bank of China will pay all of them.

Besides.

Zhu Yunxi also ordered that the official grain price should not be raised, but only RMB should be collected, not silver.

Suddenly there is a lot of money on the market, and normally food prices will rise.

Even if the imperial court forced the price to be stabilized, it would be difficult to stabilize it.

But this year, the situation is a little different.

Sweet potatoes have been successfully planted, and they will be promoted on a large scale next year.

The common people got the news from the newspapers, and many people also got the sweet potato seeds distributed by the imperial court.

The officials of the imperial court witnessed it with their own eyes.

What a high yield of sweet potatoes!

Since ancient times, those who spend a lot of money, rush to buy food, and hoard are big and wealthy.

How can ordinary people have that ability?

There was neither enough money nor a granary large enough to store grain.

Only the big and the rich can.

But they already know the news that sweet potatoes are about to be promoted and planted, isn't it stupid to stock up grain at this time?

The sources of the big and wealthy are not just newspapers like the People's Daily.

In order to confirm the authenticity, they also showed their magic powers and inquired with the court officials.

On that day, digging sweet potatoes was the official of the imperial court.

Naturally, it is easy to verify the authenticity.

After knowing that sweet potatoes are really high-yielding, there are no big rich households to stock grain.

On the contrary, they also want to sell most of the grain they have in their former tun.

After all, it is easy for them to judge that if sweet potatoes are really high-yielding, even if they cannot replace staple foods, they will only use them as a supplement, which will reduce the demand for staple foods and reduce food prices.

If you don't sell now, when?

Zhu Yunxi ordered that the granaries of the imperial court in various places should still be purchased at the original price, and they were not allowed to take the opportunity to lower the price.

Rice is expensive and hurts the people, and grain is cheap and hurts farmers.

The most important thing for food prices is stability.

Neither too expensive nor too cheap.

This can only be regulated by the state.

At the time of the harvest, the surplus grain is purchased and stored.

In a disaster year, the grain is released.

Nowadays, cement has been invented, which can be used in the construction of cellar granaries.

The renminbi can be freely exchanged for silver, and it can also be used to buy grain.

In this way, there is a double guarantee.

But problems also arise at the same time.

There are many wealthy families who take advantage of this opportunity to sell a large amount of grain stored at home, and anyway, there is a guarantee price from the imperial court to buy it, and they will make a steady profit without losing money.

After exchanging it for RMB, it went to the People's Bank of China to exchange it for silver.

on this.

Zhu Yunxi's reaction was to receive.

Collect them all!

He has enough confidence.

The reserve of 100 million taels of silver is absolutely enough.

It is necessary to establish the credibility of the renminbi in one fell swoop.

What's more, in exchange for them like this, the People's Bank of China can still earn a lot of fees.

In addition, the country's grain reserves can also be greatly enriched.

It was exactly what he couldn't ask for.

Therefore, those big and rich people dare to sell, he dares to collect!

At the same time, the "People's Daily" also mustered up all its strength to publicize the various benefits of the "renminbi."

How is silver inconvenient, difficult to cut, difficult to distinguish between real and fake, and difficult to carry......

The newspapers made up stories one after another.

For example, it tells the story of a merchant who encountered a huge loss because of the inconvenience of cutting and being manipulated by the other party from the scale.

There are also crooks who pour lead and tin into fake silver, and mix it with real silver, deceive the merchants, and take away great wealth.

There were also two merchants, one of whom was carrying silver, and was robbed, and after a search, all the silver was robbed.

And because the other person was carrying a renminbi, which was sandwiched in his clothes, it was not as hard and heavy as a silver tael, so he did not find it and escaped by luck.

……

All of this, many stories, of course, are side-by-side, telling from all angles how silver is bad and how paper money is good.

Don't underestimate the power of this propaganda.

Even in later societies, because there was too much propaganda, everyone already had a strong resistance.

It is still inevitable to believe.

What's more, in this era, the more simple people of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, the use of banknotes is really convenient.

Soon, the amount of silver and copper coins circulating in the Jinling market was greatly reduced, and paper money took over.

The same is true in Suzhou, Yangzhou and other cities with developed commodity trade.

"People's Daily" began to publicize that some people exchanged all the silver for yuan.

Slowly, someone followed.

Gradually, more and more.

Swap in and out, but you have to pay up to 5% of the handling fee.

Let the People's Bank of China make a lot of money.

"It's better to be in RMB!"

"It's so much more convenient than silver!"

"Now I use RMB to buy things."

"Haha, so do I!"

"Who still uses silver and copper coins these days!"

……

Rigid payment of silver, guarantee of grain purchase, and public opinion propaganda.

Three-pronged.

In just a few months, the renminbi was finally widely recognized by society.

Where it goes, it is even more popular than silver.

The Ming Dynasty also firmly controlled the "coinage right".

Finance is the country's top priority.

Without money, nothing can be done.

We can't afford to raise an army, and we can't build a ...... Even disaster relief is powerless.

Only by controlling the right to mint money did the finances have a basic guarantee.

Money is also the heart of finance.

Whoever has the right to issue money will have the whole world in charge.

Soon it will be the end of the year.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was full of treasury and grain was piled up.

To Zhu Yunxi's surprise, the widow who assassinated him seemed to evaporate from the world, and there was no movement.

And Zhu Yunwen, Chang Mao and others have never made any moves.

But.

He's not in a hurry.

The lion and tiger hunt deer, and the hunter hunts, all of which are compared to patience.

They didn't move, and Zhu Yunxi didn't move, concentrating on building the Ming Dynasty.

In a blink of an eye, the New Year is approaching, and it's time to meet Lao Zhu again.

On the one hand, he had a hunch.

If the Japanese want to attack Lao Zhu, when the New Year comes, it will be a good opportunity.

On the other hand.

Take the opportunity of the New Year to meet Lao Zhu, and no one will be suspicious.

At the end of the year, it is natural for the younger generations to greet their elders.

Furthermore.

Now, he has money, an army, and public opinion propaganda tools, and Zhu Yunxi's confidence is getting stronger and stronger.

He's going to make a big change like never before!

(End of chapter)