Chapter 573 Banknote issuance
But before doing this, there is still a problem to be dealt with.
Because ordinary people can obtain more materials and merchants also make a fortune, which creates a very important problem.
Ordinary people receive more supplies in a month than officials.
The key to this is that before the reward system, the salaries of all officials were calculated according to multiples of ordinary people.
The ninth-rank official has obtained twice as much as the eighth-rank official, and it has increased step by step. Even if it is a first-rank official, it is only ten times that of ordinary people.
The salary standard is terrible, but the officials did not think there were fewer ones without references from other courts, and they were anyway more than ordinary people.
But now, different people, ordinary people, can obtain the same supplies as the ninth-rank official. A small number of guys with particularly strong abilities and strong energy can obtain the same supplies as the eighth-rank official.
So the officials couldn't stand it anymore. How could they get less than ordinary people? If they get less than ordinary people, why should I be an official?
So the dissatisfaction came out. Is this problem serious enough?
There is even more serious one! That is the team of 1,000 people. What are they joining the team? What are they officials? In their eyes, what are they officials? They are to get more supplies and enjoy people's respect. Most of them are ninth-rank officials who have been awarded, because one team of ten people is impossible to be awarded a high-ranking official.
I have fewer supplies than ordinary people, but I have to leave this center of prosperity and go to live with wild animals and nature. Then I will start over and build a town. This is too hard!
Why should they leave? Since they are not as good as ordinary people as they are to be a ninth-rank official, why should they become this official?
Some people have begun to try to withdraw and see if they can give up the quota.
The problem is really serious. I have been training for two years, and I plan to play on strike at this time?
So in the morning court, all the officials immediately discussed the matter repeatedly.
"We must also change our reward and punishment system. We cannot just remember great achievements. It will take too long. We may not be promoted to the official position in a few years. We have to get some quick!"
Zhang Er also expressed his positive statement: "According to the food chain, you are the first. Only when you are full can we eat enough. Only when we are full can ordinary people eat enough. Now that ordinary people are full, we are not full, the result of pushing up is that you are not full either! So in order for you to eat enough, you have to let us eat enough first!" This is the difference between a damn theorist and a practicalist, but I have to say that according to logical theory, this is correct.
If the people of a country become rich, then those who are officials will not be poor, and those who are officials will not be poor, and the king will definitely be very rich.
If the people become rich, those who are officials will become poor. There will be problems in this country. If the officials are poor, talents will not be willing to be officials, and there will be no one to be able to be a monarch. Can't they be ruined?
But this is a theory! This theory is also based on economics. First of all, the people need to be rich. When the people are rich, they will pay more taxes. So why are the people rich? Because officials do well, are willing to implement policies and develop the economy, they need to reward officials, so the officials become rich.
In the end, the country became stronger.
But in fact, there are two types of wealth: one is earned, and the other is given by others. You can’t say that you want the people to be rich, so you divide the treasury, and the people are rich and the country is over.
Now all officials are in the second situation. Wang Yang is asked to get more supplies from the treasury and increase welfare, so he changed his concept and wanted to mislead Wang Yang.
Wang Yang is both angry and funny, treating me as a child? Am I that easy to fool?
So should we raise the "wage" for all officials? It is still necessary, because the policy has been implemented and ordinary people are rich, they should reward officials and increase their treatment.
"You will naturally have to reward merits, but don't change the concepts, why not make up the food chain!" Wang Yang glared at Zhang Er, and Zhang Er smiled dryly with guilt.
"But no matter how you reward me, don't ask me. You can solve such trivial matters by yourself." Wang Yang didn't want to deal with trivial matters.
"No! The treasury is yours! Of course, you have to decide. If we take less, won't we lose too much?" Zhang Eryi was anxious and wrote down his heart.
"What?!" Wang Yang glared again.
"I mean, it's not good if I get too much." Zhang Er quickly changed his words.
"Shoucang, you are the Minister of Revenue. Please discuss it with everyone. I have no time to take care of it."
Shuocang nodded and responded.
After the matter is handled, the last thing is to do, so that the team of 1,000 people can be sent out to build a town.
"What I want to discuss with you today is is issuing currency and replacing materials."
"Currency?" Everyone was very confused.
"Yes, currency is a kind of thing that replaces materials and is convenient for carrying around. As long as you take out this thing, you can exchange it for materials."
After briefly explaining the significance of money, Wang Yang asked Xiaohong to take more than a dozen booklets and distribute them.
"The booklet records the currency usage of another civilization and the various benefits. You can take a look at it. If you don't understand, you can mention it."
Everyone looked at the records in the booklet, which gave special examples.
And all of these currencies are paper currencies without exception.
As for money, there are many kinds and a long history. The earlier ones are very famous, and the sword coins.
The ones behind, gold, silver, and copper coins are all currency.
But these things can not only be currency, but also precious metals. Wang Yang can't make a bunch of copper coins and send them out. Copper has to be used as tools. Isn't it nonsense to use it as money?
So the currency he promoted was paper money.
For example, when a landlord from another civilization fled, he had a lot of money and a lot of silver and gold, and could only be taken away by car, but where could the heavy carriage go fast? So he suffered.
He even took out the story of three hundred taels of silver here.
One thing to note is that you cannot use valuables as money. First of all, it is not convenient to carry them. Secondly, what if the country just needs these metal objects in a certain period of development? You can't rob everyone of money, right?
Therefore, banknotes that are easy to carry and are not expensive have become Wang Yang's first choice.
However, paper money has one disadvantage, which can easily cause inflation. There are two situations. The less harmful one is that in war years and unpeaceful times, paper money will not work.
The more harmful one is the overflowing printing.
The first situation...it basically doesn't happen. It's too stable.
The second situation is even more unlikely. How could Wang Yang be able to print paper money by eating enough and having nothing to do?
There are no hidden dangers, paper money can be implemented, especially paper money has another advantage.
Ordinary people will lose more materials and cause waste, especially if they send so much materials, they may not be able to use them.
If paper money is used instead, the materials can be stored uniformly, with less loss and easier to use.
After reading the booklet, the officials had no objection. In fact, they would not have any objections at all. Paper money is a new thing for them. Since it is a new thing, as long as it is not harmful, then use it!
"You send the announcement and let everyone get familiar with it first, so as not to get messy one by one." ...
"The printing of paper money must be cautious. Your Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Revenue are responsible for the conversion of paper money, the Ministry of Works is responsible for the printing of paper money, and the Ministry of Justice is responsible for the style of paper money, so you must ensure that everyone cannot forge it."
After giving the explanation, Wang Yang felt relaxed and he didn't have to do anything else. He just needed to be in charge of the central government and assign a good job. This is what a leader needs to do the most.
The news about the banknotes was immediately made public on this day, and everyone gathered in front of the notice and looked at it again and again.
"What's the situation? Do you buy a piece of paper for items?"
"It's clear above, that's it."
"But how can a piece of paper be exchanged for items?"
Everyone's doubts arise in every country that has just promoted paper money, and it is not a big deal.
So soon after, another notice was sent, this time it was the size and purchasing power of the banknotes.
The purchasing power is the same, and the size of the banknote is one yuan, two yuan, five yuan to one hundred yuan.
The problem of purchasing power is that it has come down. People still don’t believe it. What should I do if I don’t believe it? I won’t do what for the time being.
After a while, the style of the banknotes has also been reduced, made of special paper, and there are anti-counterfeiting measures, so everyone still just checked it out.
A month later, the official banknotes were finally sent, and everyone could exchange the items for banknotes.
But no one went, because everyone couldn't transfer the concept, how could paper get something? It can't be because it says one hundred and one hundred, and I still write ten thousand.
The civil servants were very smart and they sent another notice to talk about their interests.
"If you take the supplies, the supplies must be kept by you. If they are placed for a long time, they will fade. If the food is stored for a long time, they have to be eaten or dumped. These are your losses."
"But if you change the money, you won't have these losses. After two years of one hundred yuan, you can buy new cloth. However, after two years of cloth fading, can you still exchange a new cloth with others? No, right?"
This is very serious. When talking about future events, although it is very far away, it is right. If you keep the goods, you will suffer losses and you will bear them directly.
Isn’t it great that the country will help you bear the losses now?
Then everyone exchanged the banknotes with a skeptical attitude, and then used them immediately to find Wang Yang to buy supplies.
Now all the supplies are in Wang Yang's hands, and no one will buy them if they don't ask him to buy them. So they bought them hard and found that they could really use them, so the currency survived the initial crisis of trust.
"Now, we can send someone out." Wang Yang narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the dawn in the distance.
Chapter completed!