Chapter 741: Why is it so decided
"So, Your Highness, did you have this idea two years ago?" Fang Xuanling's whole person was a little confused, His Royal Highness two years ago, it didn't seem to be anything, at that time, when a shopping mall had just been launched, His Royal Highness King Qin was still the King of Shu, and at that time he didn't even have a Tang Weekly or anything like that.
Has His Royal Highness King Qin even thought of Qian Zhuang? Such an unprecedented form of money?
Not only Fang Xuanling, but even the others were a little shocked, because this far-sightedness was too far, and at that time, did His Highness think of today's situation?
"That's not true, I only thought of it after the voucher was introduced at that time." Li Ke waved his hand very casually.
Fang Xuanling and they were all a little speechless, you see whether we believe it or not.
When Li Ke didn't say it before, they didn't think anything about it, but now after Li Ke said it, everyone is still a little difficult to accept now, after all, the change of concept is not so easy, the problem is that they find it unbelievable, but in fact, His Royal Highness King Qin has been testing it for two years to prove that this matter is completely feasible.
"Although this is unbelievable, since Your Highness has verified the possibility, it can be executed, but it is some of the shortcomings of paper money, Your Highness should have thought of it?" Huang Fu Lin hesitated and asked.
"The biggest advantage is that for the development of Datang's commercial activities, it is too inconvenient for businessmen to buy materials now, and tens of thousands of copper coins have to be loaded in horse-drawn carriages, not to mention hundreds of thousands, and hundreds of thousands of copper coins."
"After the adoption of paper money, it means that a person can carry a sufficient amount of currency for trade between merchants, and there is no need to worry about the counterfeiting of paper money, no one can make paper for currency at present, not to mention that we have multiple anti-counterfeiting marks." Li Ke said lightly.
"This ...... That's true, but what if people out there don't believe it? Wei Zheng hesitated for a moment and asked.
"The role of the central bank of the Tang Dynasty is to exchange currency for all the people, all the paper money can be exchanged for silver taels in the bank at any time, and the Tang Dynasty will adopt the silver standard system, the so-called silver standard is that the paper money is linked to silver, and the national reputation of the Tang court is used as a guarantee."
"The official exchange ratio is that 1 copper coin is equal to one tael of silver, and public weights will be placed inside each bank, one tael of silver is equal to 50 grams, one catty is equal to 500 grams, one kilogram is one kilogram, and one kilogram is one ton, and the original weight of one pound in Datang is 596 grams." Li Ke also took out the new weight unit directly.
Something tied to money is the easiest to expand and enforce standards.
"In the future, all official material conversion must use a new unit of weights and measures, at present, the total of Datang Ten is close to more than 1,000 counties, and I have arranged for someone to prepare relevant weights in each county, don't worry, including a new length unit, volume unit is the same, these units can be converted to each other." Li Ke said.
"In addition, everything in the world has density, and knowing their density can calculate the weight from their volume or the volume through weight, which are the basic subjects in the new school." Li Ke opened his mouth to explain, "Because of the relationship between the density of these objects, our new weights and measures must be introduced. ”
"With the country's credibility as a guarantee, all the imperial court institutions must use new weights and measures and new currencies for settlement and use, so it doesn't matter to the outside world whether they use it or not, whether they use it or not." Li Ke shook his head and said.
"Your Highness, according to your new standards, isn't the new copper coin worth more than silver? Will there be a lot of people coming to exchange silver with you? Huang Fulin asked.
"Let them change it, I'll change as much as they want." Li Ke said lightly, want to exchange the silver in his hand?
Li Ke wants to know how many people in the world can have this strength, the domestic gold reserves are indeed average, but the silver reserves are not low, but many large silver mines have not been discovered.
As soon as Li Ke said this, everyone knew that Li Ke had this confidence, and there was no need to worry about the risk of being squeezed.
"Besides, you don't have to worry about this kind of thing, there used to be a mall even with my own credit, there were so many people who believed in exchange coupons, and now Datang Central Money Bank is guaranteed by the national reputation, it can't be that the reputation of the Datang Imperial Court is not as good as my private reputation." Li Ke comforted everyone again.
The expressions of the crowd were somewhat weird, this thing ...... It's hard to say.
"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this matter is very important, money is the foundation of a country, the biggest problem of Datang before was that the money was not enough, so the Datang treasury had to collect other cloth, silk, silk and linen, grain, etc. as taxes, and now that paper money has been introduced, then presumably the copper money problem will not be a problem, and the treasury will definitely only collect money at that time."
"There is no doubt about the importance of the Central Bank, and the minister feels that the helmsman of the Central Bank should be His Royal Highness the King of Qin. And the importance of the central bank is equal to that of the other fourteen departments. Fang Xuanling turned directly to Li Shimin and said.
"I don't do it." Li Ke didn't say a word, and said directly.
"Your Royal Highness, please ask the ministers to say, this you have worked hard to promote paper money, and the trust of the people in the world in you is much stronger than the trust in the Tang Dynasty, of course, they don't believe in Your Majesty, but they don't believe that the ministers and other ministers are from these family families, if it is announced by the imperial court, they may think that we pushed out the money bank, which conflicts with Your Highness's plan."
"So Your Highness, if you are the secretary of the Central Bank, then everyone will naturally believe in you very much, and you don't have to do any work! You will serve as a nominal secretary, and the specific matters will be handled by the other deputies of the money bank! Fang Xuanling understood Li Ke too well, so he directly stopped Li Ke first and suggested.
"Well, you don't have to work, that's fine." Li Ke thought about it, Fang Xuanling's words made some sense.
"Okay, that's it." Li Shimin, who was next to him, spoke directly.
No, what is decided, Li Keren is stupid, I haven't finished speaking, you will decide. It's just that he promised the words himself, and he can't directly renege at this time.
"Also, Your Highness, according to your current statement, your money bank is not ready to face the people for the time being?" Liu Zhenghui thought for a while and asked.
"Why don't you face the people? The minimum amount of this banknote is 10 yuan, and about a year or two later, there will be a limit of 1 yuan, so people can't have 10 yuan? Li Ke glanced at him.
"Of course you can, but after all, the people didn't use it much in the early stage." Liu Zhenghui said, "That's no problem with promotion." ”
"Well, of course there is no problem, for the time being, the main cities of the ten provinces in the world will set up an exchange point of the central bank, and after the other party exchanges the relevant money tickets in Chang'an, you can go to the Guangzhou Mansion in Lingnan Province to exchange the cash through the money bank. As the price of promoting the money bank in the early stage, there is no handling fee for the non-local exchange for the time being, and after three years, the non-local exchange will be charged 1% of the handling fee. Li Ke said.