Chapter 074 Seigniorage
Under the special national conditions, the household department of the Wu Dynasty is the ultimate version.
All matters related to money cannot bypass the household department, including the inner government, which nominally controls the wealth of the imperial family, and in practice, it must also follow the advice of the household department Shangshu.
In addition to this, the household department also has subordinate personnel who are used to collect taxes.
Under the pouring of a large number of resources, the Hubu Shangshu of the Wu Dynasty was more known as "complementing the prime minister", and the status of the court was only below the prime minister.
It's a pity that with such a strong department, the overall environment is not good, and the household department can't do anything.
Looking at her younger brother who was full of approval, the empress really didn't know what to say......
Praise it!
She is qualified to be the head of the household, that is a supplement, and it is definitely a great thing that ordinary people can be praised, but she is the emperor of the Wu Dynasty.
Loss, it doesn't seem like it!
After a short silence, the empress asked with puzzlement, "Through the liquidation system of grain and grass, it will be transferred to the external affairs of Qianzhuang, and a mechanism similar to liquidation should be set up, through which the copper coins flowing into the territory will be mediated, and the domestic shortage of money will be transferred to the Wu Dynasty, and the domestic shortage will be tightened, so as to comprehensively balance the copper coins circulating in the domestic market!" ”
"But the question is, how? The liquidation system solves the direction, can not solve the people's hearts, the mechanism is not set well, it is tantamount to letting the mouse look at the position, especially the interest storage, this piece of hands and feet is too easy to do. ”
"At the same time, the benefits, you can't see or touch, only time can give the answer, but how long is this time, the patience of people who are related to wealth is very little, every powerful explanation, the court is not good, even if you have the support of the palace!"
The Wu Dynasty was poor, and the matter of spending money had to be considered repeatedly, and the matter of losing money was even more difficult to do.
The Wu Dynasty is about to face a situation where copper coins in the market have skyrocketed, and at this time, copper coins from abroad will definitely not be able to come in again.
If the money doesn't come in, it will be intercepted, and the interception needs to pay interest, so what about the reason?
The Wu Dynasty who gave money, in the eyes of the martial arts, this is the one who gave it to outsiders for nothing, and it was also a ruthless Song person.
The former rots in the pot, it's just a matter of when to eat it, and the latter ...... With the character of the Wu Dynasty who is eager to eat everything up, how can he allow the meat stewed in the pot to be taken away by outsiders?
"For this problem, it is not difficult to figure it out, but it is rare to know how to accept it!" Equation spread his hands, "Anyway, in the long run, everything you do now will be beneficial to the Wu Dynasty, you don't object to this, sister!" ”
"No objection!"
The empress didn't bother, and directly turned to the next question, "There is another question, if there is a ban in front of you, how can overseas merchant groups consume?" ”
As an emperor, she has to ask questions and finalize answers, but she doesn't need to care where the answers come from.
"One problem at a time!"
The equation sticks out a finger.
"Let's start with the last question, how do overseas business groups consume, this consumption is not big, it is not small, it is not bad to have a few hundred thousand taels in the coming year, this money will not affect the domestic currency market!"
Hundreds of thousands of vehicles are astronomical for a family, a family, but for a dynasty that costs tens of millions of taels to operate a year, the market is only a single percentage in the Wu Dynasty of 10,000,000 taels of silver, not to mention the currency market corresponding to the Wu Dynasty, and the waves can't be lifted.
"However, out of consideration for the prevention of microaggressions, what should not flow in should not flow in, and the solution to this point is very simple!"
"In order to solve the problem of gold, silver and copper transshipment, the Song people made a bill of exchange for large transactions, and the Ming Dynasty also made a treasure banknote, and we want to do it is to design two sets of small paper bills, which are exclusively for overseas business groups, one for post station consumption, road traffic, customs and taxes, and one for personnel wages, so I have three considerations......
"First, reduce the trouble in the process, let these merchant groups use cash copper and silver in the territory, not to mention the trouble, you have to prevent these people from doing tricks, such as buying some people, or stuffing money into their own pockets, the number of road traffic is not limited, he will change it for him, the limit of personnel, the exchange location can only appear at the border gate, the market, and other places, don't hesitate, kill directly!"
"Second, cultivate a habit, the habit is terrible, you should feel it when you think about my sister?"
Hearing this, the empress nodded, "Habit is a very terrible thing, once it is formed, it is easy to overthrow!" ”
Can it not be scary?
Under the intensive cultivation of the Song people, there are now more warriors who eat rice than noodles, and in the early days, it was because of the price difference, and now it may not be effective to let the younger generation eat noodles.
I don't want to know this kind of thing, but I can feel the horror in it when I think about it.
"Once the habit of small paper bills is formed, when foreign businessmen leave, it is possible that it is not exchanged for gold, silver and copper, to the smallest, accidents are everywhere, and it is a big risk to go to business, as soon as people die, the ticket is lost, these gold, silver and copper will fall into our hands, to the big one, the whole world is worse than rotten, the Song Dynasty's Jiaozi, the Ming Dynasty's treasure banknotes, are inevitably depreciated, bad money can drive out good money, because the price of doing good is too great, but when these are replaced by a few pieces of paper, we can't afford to pay this price?"
The Empress opened her eyes suddenly, "What do you mean ......?"
"That's what you think, sister, but it's still the most important step away from flipping the table, and this step is called free exchange!"
"Through the border gates, the money bank in the household, the free exchange, is a limited exchange, not the real freedom, to achieve real freedom, we need to launch a wider circulation, higher value preservation, not afraid of imitation, with a unique currency!"
"To meet all the conditions, there is only one currency, that is, silver coins, once the new silver coins minted by our dynasty are launched, circulating in Kyushu, then paper tickets and silver coins can be truly free to circulate, anytime, anywhere, with people, this convenience, will completely break the existing monetary pattern, and the Wu Dynasty, which has mastered the right to mint money, is the master of all this!"
"When the time comes, we only need to ensure that we don't have problems, and the wealth of Kyushu will continue to flow into the Wu Dynasty!"
The right to mint is too important, but it is too difficult to get it.
This set of curves to seize power is the best plan that the equation can think of, once it succeeds unless someone comes up with a credit currency, but the prerequisites for credit money are not available in Kyushu today.
As for the gold coins, the total amount of gold is not settled, everything is in vain.
The Empress blinked, "Minting rights? Fire consumption? ”
"Fire consumption is only an intuitive extension of the coinage right, the core of the coinage right is the seigniorage, a word or two can not explain the seigniorage, but you can refer to the Western Han Dynasty Jiayi's "Advice to the People and Private Minting", which has written a lot of things, but it is only a small part of the summary, the greater benefit, only time will be able to tell the answer!"
Seigniorage, this kind of tax is too difficult to solve, in order to counter hegemony, how many countries and forces have worked hard for this in the previous life?
The equation is to cast this kind of hegemony, privilege, once the whole of Kyushu is cast, it will be transformed because of this.