Silver coins replace silver, which is inevitable for social development!

The understanding of modern history made Zhu Mingzhong very clear about this. The silver quality brought by two as unit of measurement and the weight chaos of several two systems were extended from the "one-whip method" to the tax of silver until the 1930s, and it was not until the "abolition of two and the change of the original state".

For the people, "fire consumption" is the real evil policy, and even "fire consumption" in Jiangbei is also a way for the government to make profits.

"...In the process of casting silver, there will inevitably be losses. Fire consumption was mainly the wages of casting silver, but its losses were far less than 10%, and at most only 3%-5% would be great. But for local officials, they found that this was a good way to make money, so they made up their minds, and the fire consumption increased more and more, and most of them were in the private pockets of local officials. As for how much fire consumption was increased? It all depends on the conscience of the officials, and the extra ones were his own! Even if it was a honest official, the amount added was no less than 15%.

When Yao Xiang, the owner of the house, mentioned "fire consumption", sighed and raised his voice slightly, then clasped his fists and said.

"Since Jingli entered Jiangbei, he felt that the Qing emperors had slaughtered the people so much, so he decided to spend 10% of the "fire consumption to be given to the public". The people in Jiangbei are all good at managing. It can be said that the current fire consumption is not much burden to the people in Jiangbei!"

As soon as Yao Xiang finished speaking, Fu Shan, who is the general manager of the Military Pay Bureau, said directly.

"There is no burden, but it is still a burden!"

As the General Officer of the Military Pay Bureau, Fu Shan knew very well that Smith's suggestion of issuing "silver coins" would fundamentally cause a devastating blow to the money dealer industry engaged in silver and money exchange business, and attacking the money dealer industry is also his goal. After all, the only money dealer can compete with it.

"The land taxes received by the Jiangbei prefectures do not exceed one million every year, and the consumption of fire is nearly one hundred thousand. How can this not be a burden to the people? If salt taxes, merchants and miscellaneous taxes are added, the collection will not be three million a year, and the consumption of fire is 300,000. Will the burden of the people not be included in the eyes of Yao's commander!"

Fu Shan's return was extremely powerful. Faced with his return, Yao Xiang did not feel any anger at all, but just asked back.

"It is better to use silver coins instead of silver, but General Fu's office should not forget that the people paid a lot of land, taxes and miscellaneous donations are often only a few silver coins and hundreds of dollars. In this way, the government needs to collect fire consumption in order to cast broken silver ingots. If the construction of General Fu's office is based on the one-two, all the money will be made, then the taxes collected by the local land, taxes and miscellaneous donations will be made. In this way, will the government office have no silver? How can there be silver for the yamen to pay for the money?"

After saying that, Yao Xiang politely said to the strategy.

"Taixi has a method of Taixi, and China has a method of China. We practice two silvers to consume fire. Although fire is consumed and harms the people, the strategy of "fire consumption is returned to the public" has already made the people in Jiangbei clapping and saying that it is good. When the Qing captives are driven out of the pass in the future, the strategy can ask for an order to promote the "fire consumption is returned to the public" method. In this way, the people in the world will no longer be harmed by "fire consumption".

As the owner of the household house, Yao Xiang naturally had his considerations for opposing the promotion of silver coins. One of the most fundamental reasons was not only for public purposes, but also for private purposes. Now he has felt the pressure of the Military Pay Bureau. The current Military Pay Bureau not only controls the payment of officials and soldiers, but also holds the power of settlement and other settlements, and even the bank treasury of the household house is thick. Seeing that the other party advocates promoting silver coins, he is afraid that he will take away the bank treasury of the household house on the excuse, how could he not object?

"In addition, the Chinese people are used to silver coins. If they use silver coins, then what should the people cut the edges of silver coins as they are now? Is it possible to still exchange money for the full value and it? If they do not exchange money for the full value and weight, what is the difference between it and silver coins?"

When the successive reasons were revealed from Yao Xiang's mouth, Fu Shan just frowned from time to time. Occasionally he would turn his attention to the strategy. The most important thing now is the strategy attitude. He did not speak. As for Smith, because he did not answer questions fluently in Chinese, in this case, only Fu Shan could only rely on himself.

"Silver coins are cut, so they can only be converted by weight. Just like if the money is broken, it can only be sold as miscellaneous copper? This is true for money, why can't silver coins?"

"At least no one deliberately cuts and grinds to make money, but silver coins are different. The traitors can get money by cutting and grinding with silver coins! How can they stop the people from cutting and grinding at that time?"

"If you cut and grind silver coins, you have to weigh the silver coins for a silver or exchange them for the military pay bureau. The shop can directly refuse to accept them, and the tax collector can also refuse to accept them! Since the shop can refuse to break the money, why can't you refuse to accept the cut silver coins?"

It is related to interests. A housekeeper and a general office of the Military Pay Bureau. For the benefit of their respective departments, they were verbally quarreled and had no intention of giving in. As the final decision-maker, Zhu Mingzhong just looked at the two. With his knowledge of being more than three and a half centuries ahead, he knew very well the inherent disadvantages of silver. Of course, he also knew the shortcomings of the silver coin system proposed by the Military Pay Bureau. However, he was not prepared to make a decision immediately. He needed to let them solve the problem by debate. Only in this way can they truly stand alone, rather than throwing the problem to him every time they encountered a problem.

Although to some extent, as a decision maker, Zhu Mingzhong sometimes would rather stay in the workshop in the backyard for a few hours than listen to them here that they had already known the answer and knew the pros and cons, but... the truth becomes clearer the more they argue.

"...How do ordinary people tell that the silver coins are just a little cut and grind? If only a little bit of each silver coins are ground and sand is gathered under the tower, it will make a huge profit!"

Yao Xiang pointed out some shortcomings of silver coins without hesitation. Since he learned about the silver coins plan of the Military Pay Bureau, he has been studying how to prevent silver coins and prevent the erosion of the power of the Military Pay Bureau from the households. Of course, in addition to this, the natural shortcomings of silver coins are also the fundamental reason why he opposed it.

"... Besides, this silver coin also has anti-shearing methods, just like the teeth on both sides of the silver coin are to avoid shearing. If the teeth on the edge are found to be damaged, they can naturally be rejected directly. In this way, even ordinary people can identify them..."

Fu Shan's response asked Yao Xiang, who was prepared, to take out two silver coins, hand them to Fu Shan and then said.
Chapter completed!