468 Private Money Turned Out to Be a State Affairs
Hearing Li Er say the same thing, no fool present knew that Li Er was trying to win people's hearts.
Wang Jishan knew very well that this matter had nothing to do with him or the Seventh Family. But if he opposed it, he might arouse the hostility of the nobles, so he might as well support it.
Of course, Cui Junsu would also sell Li Yuanxing a favor.
"I have a suggestion!"
"Qing Jin said that as the Minister of Household Affairs, you must have experience in making money!" Li Er opened his mouth to support Cui Junsu.
Cui Junsu bowed his hands to the people around him: "Your Majesty, King Qin. I think that one or two gold coins are the image of the Holy Majesty, and five coins are the image of the Queen Changsun. This is very appropriate. In the Tang Dynasty, the Holy Majesty and the Queen are naturally respected by all people.
For this gold coin, I think that the portrait of the prince should not be placed, but that of His Highness the King of Qin."
"I second the proposal!" All the ministers immediately spoke.
"Ah, this should be like this. I just noticed that Wulang didn't make his own. Thinking about it in the future, this amount of gold coins should be the most circulated, and Wulang deserves it!" Li Er immediately spoke in support.
Just as Li Yuanxing wanted to flatter Li Er, Li Er would also carry Li Yuanxing's sedan chair at the right time.
"Brother Chen..." Li Yuanxing wanted to refuse.
Li Er pressed Li Yuanxing's hand and said, "Wulang, if you refuse, who among the officials of the Tang Dynasty would dare to leave a seal on this coin!"
Li Yuanxing had nothing to say and could only nodded.
"As the prince, Cheng Qian is naturally the crown prince of the country. One tael of silver coins is just right for him, and five taels of silver coins are given to Mingyue. Then there are twenty-four one-tael silver coins, and the candidates for these twenty-four meritorious ministers are,
The princes discussed carefully, arranged the candidates, and announced them to the world."
Even if Li Er has made a decision, this decision will be the final result of gold coins and silver coins.
"Your Highness, who is on this copper coin?" Fang Xuanling asked again.
"This is my old man Li Tou from Zhuangzi. He has contributed a lot to the good harvest in Luoyang regarding the fairy grain. I chose him not because of his merits, but because of this copper coin. I think that with one coin, the people can have a full meal."
.Farming is the foundation of the world, so this portrait is a little blurred, reflecting more of the appearance of a farmer."
Li Yuanxing's explanation is quite reasonable.
"Agriculture is the foundation of the world, Your Highness said so!" The ministers still supported it. Wang Jishan changed the subject: "However, the veteran thinks that this portrait is too clear and should reflect agriculture more than people. Therefore, I ask Your Highness to add more
Some designs, like sickles, or farm tools."
"I second the proposal!"
Li Yuanxing understood that this was a challenge from the nobles, and they would never allow a farmer's face to remain on the coins.
There was no way, it was impossible for Li Yuanxing to object to this matter.
"Your Highness, these five coins seem to be soldiers?" Wang Jishan asked again.
"Yes." Li Yuanxing didn't say who it was this time, because there was no need. This would definitely be blurred.
Wang Jishan turned around and said to Li Er: "Your Majesty, I think that your highness's ability to mint money must be unparalleled in the world. Then I think that adding two coins of copper coins to serve as soldiers. The Tang army can protect the family and the country. It is naturally a symbol of national strength. It is feasible.
.The five coins are the scholars, holding the book of the sage."
After hearing what Wang Jishan said, Li Yuanxing replied: "Scholar, farmer, worker, merchant, soldier!"
Li Yuanxing only said these five words, which means that he added scholars. Then workers and merchants should all be taken care of.
"What do you think, Your Highness?"
"I believe that adding a large amount of twenty cents, or one cent for merchants and soldiers, and five cents for workers and peasants, is nothing more than a matter of making an extra set of molds. We must let the people of the world know that the imperial court has not forgotten them.
"
"Your Highness is wise!"
These guys don't care about adding one more set or one more set of molds. What they care about is that if a scholar pays a big sum of ten yuan, this is enough.
Li Yuanxing doesn't even care. His purpose of making money is not to satisfy anyone or dissatisfy anyone.
The real reason is that Li Yuanxing needs to reform the currency system.
The first step is to squeeze out the miscellaneous money from the currency market. Let silk, a kind of alternative currency, withdraw from the monetary system.
"I would like to thank you for correcting the words on these coins. I may not have thought carefully enough. Naturally, my handwriting is also poor. I will ask Mr. Yu and other famous people to write it in handwriting."
"Your Highness has thought everything through, and I am willing to help with this detail."
After thinking about it, Li Yuanxing added: "In Chang'an City, one penny can buy four meat buns. There are many needles and threads and other small items, but one penny can buy a lot. I am considering steel-making money, which is very small and very thin.
I wonder if it’s necessary? For example, if someone wants to eat a meat bun?”
"Your Highness, fine steel coins are probably more expensive than copper coins. Moreover, coins made of fine steel will probably be exchanged in large quantities by foreign countries because they are made of fine steel!" Fang Xuanling hit the point in one sentence.
How many steel coins Li Yuanxing makes will disappear.
"What about iron money? The most common pig iron money?" Li Yuanxing asked again.
This time it was Cui Junsu who answered: "Your Highness, the cost of making money is not low. Unless Your Highness has a very clever method, it will not mean much. But I think that if Your Highness's iron coins are exchanged for one iron coin based on the price of rice in Chang'an,
A pound of rice, I believe this is a great good thing. If small-scale transactions among people increase, people's lives will be better, the business market will prosper, and small craftsmen will get more income!"
Who says the ancients didn't understand economics? They just looked at economics in a different direction.
What Cui Junsu said was extremely reasonable, even further than what Li Yuanxing thought.
Li Yuanxing just knew that one penny in modern times has the purchasing power of four yuan, so why not give change? In other words, you can only buy things worth four yuan at least, so for some products, the lowest price must be one penny.
This is not conducive to market circulation.
As for iron money.
Just add tin to pig iron, and then mix it with molybdenum. As long as it doesn't rust, you can make coins the size of a fingernail like a penny in later generations. Machine industrial processes and large quantities of production, although the cost may be close to, or even exceed, the
value, but it is beneficial to the entire Tang Dynasty.
But there is no one-minute coin in later generations.
There are two reasons. First, there is nothing that a penny can buy in the market. Let alone a penny, even a dime coin has almost disappeared. Because there is nothing to buy with a dime.
Another reason is production cost.
In the era of large-scale industrialization in later generations, the cost of one penny exceeded the value of the coin itself.
Li Yuanxing dared to do it, and he did it not for a penny, but for iron money worth almost fifty cents to one yuan. Calculated by the price of goods in the Tang Dynasty, the price of rice in Chang'an City was relatively high, while the price of rice in other places was relatively low.
One dou is almost twelve kilograms in modern times, which is about ten cents in Chang'an, and the lowest is five cents. One cent of coins purchased in the Tang Dynasty is four yuan in modern terms. That is to say, the price of rice in Chang'an is equivalent to four yuan in later generations.
One kilogram, the coins made by Li Yuanxing can be equivalent to one kilogram of rice, which exceeds the meaning of one yuan coin.
"You guys should retreat and have a rest. We will provide a detailed result as soon as possible on the matter of King Qin's money. Needless to say, the matter of the copper coin must have a result tomorrow."
Li Er drove people away, and the ministers quickly retreated.
When everyone left Li Er's study, they saw Qin Qiong standing outside the door.
There must be something going on, because it was His Highness the King of Qin who summoned Qin Qiong just now. He had doubts, but no one dared to ask. After politely saluting, all the ministers retreated one by one.
Li Er, who was in the study, waved his hand: "Everyone, get out."
Eunuch Gao immediately took the eunuchs, and the maids quickly retreated. Li Yuanxing touched his chin what he was thinking about. Before Qin Qiong came in, Li Er asked Li Yuanxing: "Wu Lang is thinking about the cost of the iron money."
"Brother Emperor, I had a waterwheel-driven stamping machine a few months ago, and now we have a steam engine. A hundred thousand kilograms of hammer is struck on an iron sheet, and the coins produced cannot be copied even if someone wants to. Wait until someone is really able to do so.
If they copy it, I will have new money, and the cost of copying the old money will be uneconomical."
Li Er shook his head: "Wu Lang always does things unexpectedly."
"Brother Imperial, but this is still my family's private money, I don't know when it will be!"
When Li Yuanxing talked about it, it was about becoming an official of the Ministry of Revenue. Li Er also understood that the matter had to be done step by step. At the moment, it was impossible for the Ministry of Revenue to reform just by talking about reforms. It happened that Li Yuanxing made private money, and he could also take a look at the reaction of the people.
, throughout the dynasties, because of this matter of coining money, people's livelihood was unstable, and the court suffered a lot of loss of credibility. Li Er had just ascended the throne, and he naturally did not want such mistakes to happen to his country.
Qin Qiong had already come in at this time, and Li Er turned his head to take a good look at Li Yuanxing.
Li Yuanxing let out a long breath and approached Qin Qiong: "Brother Shubao, the imperial seal of inheritance is with Empress Xiao!"
Qin Qiong's face turned pale when he heard Li Yuanxing speak. He didn't dare to repeat it, but looked at Li Yuanxing in horror. This news was so shocking. You must know that Empress Xiao has lived in Chang'an for several months. Such a treasure should be in the first place.
Just get it at once.
However, Qin Qiong knew what to ask and what not to ask.
That he is qualified to hear this news represents the royal family's absolute trust in him.
Li Yuanxing turned around and took the barrier sword of Emperor Li Er of the Tang Dynasty from the shelf. After Li Er nodded slightly, he put it in Qin Qiong's hand, and then took out the military talisman of his Tiance Admiral's Mansion and put it in Qin Qiong's hand:
"Brother Shubao, there must be no compromise in this matter. Chang'an City's military strength is at your disposal. If you can do it with force, don't use force."
"I understand, if anyone dares to get involved, kill him!" Apart from killing, there is really no other way.
Because it is the imperial seal, what do you want to do if you keep this thing? Rebellion?
However, Li Yuanxing also didn’t understand. History records that in the fourth year of Zhenguan, Empress Xiao was taken back to Chang’an, and she brought the Imperial Seal back to Chang’an, and dedicated the Imperial Seal to Li Er at that time. But this time, why did she bring it back?
She didn't offer it immediately, and she didn't dare to hide it secretly, otherwise Li Yuanxing would not misunderstand that Li Er had obtained the imperial seal. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)