Chapter 2094 Flower dispute (2)

There is a scene in "The Plum in the Golden Lotus" where the official Ximen once talked about farming with Uncle Wu: "Now in the Jeju administration, except for the port pass of Baohuangweichang, there are a total of 27,000 acres of farming land, and the autumn tax is levied on each hectare.

The summer tax only collected one tael and eighty cents, less than 500 taels of silver, and it was all collected at the end of the year. It was paid to Dongping Mansion, and it was used to attract investment for the purpose of preparing military supplies, horses and grass."

"Jiaozi" appeared in Sichuan in the early Northern Song Dynasty. It was somewhat similar to a money order. It was a voucher for merchants to withdraw money elsewhere when it was inconvenient to carry large amounts of cash on the road. With the development of commerce in the Song Dynasty, the issuance and exchange of Jiaozi became more and more important.

More and more, even to the point of paying the price directly with Jiaozi. According to the measurement unit of the Song Dynasty, one catty is 16 taels, and five hundred taels of silver is 31.25 catties. Such heavy silver can be carried by the official Ximen and Uncle Wu.

Move?

Water Margin was written in the early Ming Dynasty, and Jin Ping Mei was written in the late Ming Dynasty, probably during the Wanli period. Since Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty has implemented a real economy. Even the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes were printed by the Ministry of Household Affairs, unlike the Song Dynasty.

The issuance of Jiaozi is completely left to the bank.

Those factory owners who asked Bolton to mint coins did not count how many coins were minted. Similar to the Song Dynasty, when banks issued Jiaozi, they found that they could print more. As long as there was no run, there would be more money.

This would be a lot more comfortable and convenient. It is a bit like Spain, which obtained a large amount of silver from South America, but the money did not make them rich.

The trickles of water merged into rivers and seas, which eventually led to inflation. If it was a benign inflation, it would be conducive to commercial development, but later it developed out of control. Jiaozi in the Song Dynasty expanded from the initial circulation area of ​​Sichuan to

Shaanxi and other places.

Qinghe County in Water Margin should be a fictitious place name, but the place where Wu Song became famous is in Yanggu County, Shandong Province. Moreover, Wu Song hunted tigers in Jingyanggang. Jingyanggang is located to the east of Yanggu County, Shandong Province. Jingyanggang is

Wu Song's only way to visit his brother.

In this way, it is very reasonable to think that the official Ximen and Uncle Wu used silver to settle the settlement, because the Northern Song Dynasty had very strict control over Jiaozi. In the Southern Song Dynasty, because they had to deal with huge financial expenditures, including the use of troops and natural disasters against the northern nomads, some

Prudent financial policies were ignored. At that time, the issuance of Jiaozi had been completely returned to the Jiaozi Mansion in Yizhou, and the excessive issuance of banknotes changed from private to government. Similar things were done by the Bourbon Dynasty, but at that time the treasury

There is no longer gold or silver as reserves, only land.

The current denomination of banknotes issued by the Bank of France is 500 francs, which are mainly used to pay merchants. Once the banknote printing machine starts printing unlimitedly, the inflation rate caused by the 500 franc denomination will be much faster than that of the 10 livre denomination.

After all, printing a 500-franc note takes much faster time than printing a 10-livre note of equivalent value.

It is not that easy for the Bank of England to take back the right to mint money. In the Middle Ages, the British king regarded the right to mint money as part of the royal power. However, before the Normans landed, Britain was divided into at least 7 countries. Each small country had its own mint.

, when the royal power was unified, the British king could close the local mints and mint all currencies in London. During the reign of Stephen of the Plantagenet dynasty, civil war broke out again, and local nobles set up mints to issue currency privately.

It was not until Henry II came to the throne to suppress the rebellion that the mint they established was banned.

Bolton also minted several tons of copper coins for the East India Company. His steam mint machine indeed saved costs. During the Qianlong period, the cost of official minting was about 15% of the face value. This made official minting unprofitable, and private minting was prevalent.

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The participation of multiple currencies in competition is not conducive to the implementation of monetary policy by sovereign currencies. In other words, even if the Bank of England wants to issue more currency, people will change to other currencies if they find that the value of the pound has depreciated significantly. This goes back to the original problem, withdrawing

The right to mint money, and then there is Rothschild's saying, "As long as I can control the country's currency issuance power, I don't care who is the puppet on the throne."

In other words, whoever controls the right to issue currency is the uncrowned king. After the Salem incident, the person elected as the king by Parliament at that time was a Dutch orange. The son of the tyrant James II was deprived of his inheritance rights. If William II

If the world doesn't swear according to the document given by the parliament, then they can change it to another one.

It was almost impossible for the high-ranking officials of Ximen in Jin Ping Meili to negotiate the price of silver during the Northern Song Dynasty. Silver was a tribute in that era and was generally made into silverware, jewelry and the like. At that time, folk bargaining was done in units of copper coins. Lin Chong in Water Margin spent a thousand guan

I bought a precious sword. Yang Zhi sells the sword for 3,000 guan. How much does Sun Erniang’s bun cost?

In the Song Dynasty, it was illegal to eat cows. Those "heroes" would eat pounds of beef at every mouth. In fact, the places where they ate were in rural taverns. In big cities, the number of times heroes ate beef could only be counted on one hand. After all, there were many officials in the city.

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These people are "bandits", and the high-ranking people in Ximen are "officials." Five hundred taels of silver converted into copper coins would probably have to be hauled by cart, which would be enough for Wu Dalang, who was selling cooking cakes, to keep him busy for several years.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, often used extralegal punishments to deal with official corruption, including peeling off the skin and the grass. Zhu Yuanzhang was once a Buddhist, and the punishment of peeling the grass and peeling the grass originated from the hell of Buddhism and was a torture for the souls who committed the most heinous crimes.

, for example, if a county magistrate accepted four hundred guan notes, he would be sentenced to the punishment of peeling off the skin and making straw.

Guan Chao is the unit of measurement for Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes. Bao Banknotes are made of mulberry bark. Unlike Jiaozi, which has a reserve fund, it relies entirely on the credit of the court. Initially, Guan Chao was priced at 1,000 copper coins, or 1 tael of silver, and private use was prohibited.

Gold and silver trading.

Do you believe that that piece of mulberry bark paper is money? If you believe it, then how do you know that the money you got is not counterfeit money?

Within a year, more and more people were trading with gold and silver, and it was not until the Ming Dynasty that people began to use silver to negotiate prices.

Not only silver, but also silk, hematoxylin, and pepper were used as currency. In the 25th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, in 1392, Zhu Yuanzhang inspected Zhejiang Guanhai and other shipbuilding companies and gave each shipbuilder one or two peppers.

What Zheng He brought home from his voyages to the West was not only the tributes from the vassal countries, but also the living prisoners of Chen Zuyi, and countless peppers.

The advantage of traveling by boat is that you don’t have to be as tired as traveling on land before, and there is a kitchen on the boat where you can cook. Their lunch is black pepper steak.

In the afternoon they would pass by Ambretus, one of France's naval shipyards, and Bonaparte would disembark for inspection.

The territory within three nautical miles belongs to France. Anyway, all their frigates are French warships. In fact, even if they reach the high seas, they may not encounter British warships. However, it seems that they are in the dark, and it is not as "just and fair".

Some……

"asshole!"

She was so angry that she slapped the table decorated with mother-of-pearl flowers and birds, then covered her head, feeling so upset that she wanted to jump directly into the sea.

Her face was flushed with embarrassment and her toes seemed to be burning.

After scolding me, I thought about it, no, he is not a bastard.

"Bad thing!" she yelled again.

Unfortunately, she was the only one in the cabin at this time, and the person she scolded was blowing wind on the deck.

This time he was not as seasick as the last time he set out from Marseille to Egypt, and he was still in the mood to enjoy the coastal scenery.

After all, things are different now. There is peace now.
Chapter completed!