Seeing Li Xiama deep in thought, Han Chengxu finally asked.
He is better at strategy and doesn't know much about coins. He feels that whether the gold and silver pass is used or not is not a serious matter.
"Because I can't think of a better way." Li Xia's eyes became more thoughtful, and he said slowly: "Huizi's sharp devaluation, I can't think of a way to recover."
Han Chengxu said: "But after Sichuan and Shu no longer have Huizi, prices have stabilized."
Li Xia said: "This is the problem. We don't use banknotes. This is going backwards and overthrowing the original currency system. Sichuan and Shu have a sparse population and poor supplies. In the short term, a simple currency system will be enough. But gradually it will
There are many problems, we need to trade with other places, we cannot just use gold, silver and copper coins."
Yan Yunyun said: "Yes, especially the large-scale trade with Huguang and Zhejiang, it is almost impossible to do it without using money bills."
"The gold and silver check is the best way. Behind every bill, there is corresponding gold and silver."
Li Xia saw that Han Chengxu still didn't understand, so he added: "To put it simply, the money in the North and the Song court's meetings are all guaranteed by the court's credit. But this gold and silver relationship is different, it is based on actual
Gold and silver as guarantee.”
"That being the case, what's wrong?"
"If gold and silver certificates are issued by banks affiliated to those giant businessmen, it will be difficult to guarantee that every piece of gold and silver certificates are authentic."
Yan Yunyun said: "What I mean is, attract them, and finally control them."
She has obviously made great progress and is already talking freely.
"In the early Song Dynasty, Wang Changyi united with 16 giant merchants to issue Jiaozi. Zhang Yong, the magistrate of Yizhou at that time, also realized that something was wrong. The ability to exchange Jiaozi for copper coins was equivalent to the ability of merchants to mint coins. This was the right of the princes and must not be allowed.
Sit back and watch.
And what did Zhang Yong do? First, he recognized Jiaozi as a passerby, and asked merchants to build river embankments, build granaries, and help the poor. After four years of accumulation, the Yizhou government office used a large number of Jiaozi to extort Wang Changyi and 16 giant merchants, and obtained a large amount of copper coins.
After Zhang Yong resigned, Xue Tian learned about Yizhou and continued to run against Wang Changyi until the people could not exchange money with Jiaozi at the bank. Xue Tian sealed up Jiaozi shop and reported to the court to set up an official Jiaozi affairs office.
This was the beginning of Jiaozi. In the next 137 years, Emperor Gaozong and Ningzong successively issued Huizi, making Huizi gradually become a folk paper currency. I think Alang can follow the methods of Zhang Yong and Xue Tian to control
Now this gold and silver gate..."
"Shallow."
Li Xia said: "Let me ask you, more than two hundred and thirty years ago, Zhang Yong knew that merchants issuing Jiaozi are equivalent to having the right to mint coins. To this day, temple officials still don't know?"
Yan Yunyun was stunned and asked: "Alang is worried that...the imperial court also controls the gold and silver guanzi. If we circulate the guanzi, the price of goods will be controlled by the imperial court?"
Han Qian frowned and said: "At that time, it will be equivalent to replacing Huizi with gold and silver Guanzi, and the coins of Sichuan and Shu will be under the control of the imperial court again."
"Is it 'the time'?" Li Xia pondered and said slowly: "If this gold and silver pass is really only issued by more than 30 giant merchants, we can still wait for this 'the time', I'm just afraid that this will not happen
It’s the imperial court that is reforming the currency.”
Yan Yunyun frowned and thought deeply, then suddenly exclaimed.
"Jia Sidao?!"
She no longer had that contemptuous attitude and no longer ridiculed the other person as "Jia Cricket".
After meeting each other, she inevitably felt that Jia Sidao was too incompetent and easily forgot the gap between herself and the former Prime Minister.
Only then did I suddenly realize...
"Alang is probably saying that this gold and silver pass was actually written by Jia Sidao."
"Let me ask you again, in the early Song Dynasty, Wang Changyi issued Jiaozi, but was eventually ransacked and seized by the government. Today's giant businessmen still don't understand? No matter how they pass through the gold and silver gates, they never thought that the court might take action against them?"
"Then the best thing to do is to find a backer? Or is it even their backer who asked them to do this in the first place?"
Li Xiandao: "Jia Sidao wanted to reform, and Huizi was a hurdle he couldn't get around. The situation in the entire Song Dynasty was different from that in Sichuan and Shu. If it were me, I wouldn't have a better way to rectify the currency."
This is what Li Xia meant when he said "can't think of a better way" before.
He knew that he was unable to restore the monetary system of the Song Dynasty, which was on the verge of collapse. Many famous officials, including Wu Qian, had already tried.
If he were to do it now, he could only abolish the Eighteen Realms Association and issue new banknotes.
…
Since Li Xia regained Guanzhong and the strategy of the Hantai shogunate changed to fighting with the Song Dynasty, Yan Yunyun felt that competing with the Song Dynasty was a good idea.
She followed Li Xia's wishes and used the business in her hands to refuse Huizi and lower prices, so that merchants in Sichuan and Sichuan could only refuse Huizi.
In addition, Li Xia had not made peace with Bian for two years, and there were not many private gatherings. Food and copper coins had become the currency of Sichuan and Shu.
Therefore, Sichuan and Sichuan were prevented from taking off after prices were banned from receiving indiscriminate products from the Song Dynasty.
In this first game, Yan Yunyun won, cutting off his involvement with Song Ting with one stroke.
But soon, she realized that it was really impossible without banknotes, so she entered the second game. Sichuan and Shu needed to control banknotes better than Song Ting.
She didn't find it difficult at first.
Then, the gold and silver pass was placed in front of her, just like in Huguang, giant businessmen from Zhejiang and Zhejiang came to visit with large amounts of gold and silver, wanting to help revitalize Sichuan and Shu.
But when Li Xia said this, she finally reacted.
Once the gold and silver pass is released into Sichuan and Shu, there will indeed be an inflow of gold and silver initially, but with the circulation of the pass, the minting power will return to the hands of the imperial court.
Then all the previous efforts were in vain.
For example, in order to make money, the Song Dynasty engaged in excessive social activities, causing prices to soar and the people to be in dire straits. This is like a pot of boiling water.
Sichuan and Shu are like a frog that jumped out of the boiling pot.
However, in the twenty-five years after Kuaduan massacred Shu, Sichuan and Shu were in constant war, with insufficient population and poor supplies. The frog in Sichuan and Shu was also extremely short of water.
It needs to look for water, and it looks like it has found a clear spring.
Gold and Silver Guanzi, the currency circulated by merchants in the Song Dynasty to save themselves, was backed by a large amount of gold and silver as a guarantee. It was a huge trading center in the richest place in the world, just like a clear spring.
The frog explored the spring water. The water temperature was just right and the flow was clear and sweet.
However, it is still a pot, and what is placed underneath is still the dry firewood of the Song Dynasty.
Boil the frog in warm water.
Yan Yunyun suddenly realized that Jia Sidao had already taken action.
"But is this a conspiracy? It's impossible for us not to trade with other places..."
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Lin'an.
An exquisite gold and silver seal was picked up, and the sunlight outside the window shone on its front, giving off a strange ink color.
The engraving on the top is like the word "西"; there are three red seals in the middle, like the word "目"; and there are small long black seals on both sides of the bottom.
"Does this money note look like the word '宝' or 'Jia'?"
"It's a treasure." Jia Sidao replied calmly.
Cheng Yuanfeng sneered: "It looks like the character 'Jia' to me."
"Perhaps... the right prime minister is judging a gentleman's belly with a villain's heart?"
Cheng Yuanfeng's face showed an angry expression, and he threw the gold and silver pass in his hand on the case, walked a few steps, and finally raised his head and said: "I will never agree!"
Jia Sidao was not in a hurry, and said: "Last year the price of grain was two thousand guan per stone, and this year it was 7,000 guan per stone. The higher the price, the more insufficient the government's expenditures, and the more seals were created... and the cycle continued.
, seems to be irreversible. The Eighteen Realms Association must be abolished."
"How could I not know?"
Cheng Yuanfeng is becoming more and more irritable now, and every word seems to be on fire.
"Sichuan and Shu have not transferred money and food for two years, and last year spent 40 million yuan; in Lianghuai, Li Fen attacked the three states on the right of Huaihe, and the war stopped; in Jinghu, the generals embezzled military supplies and demanded pay every year; that is,
Above the court, the officials sing and sing every day, lavishly awarding nepotistic ministers, following the rules and deeds, and corruption is rampant...Who on earth is conniving with the Lu family army?! Who on earth is whitewashing peace for the officials and offering beautiful concubines?!"
"Then please tell me, right minister, what can you do? Apart from sealing the seal, what else can you do?!"
Jia Sidao stopped Cheng Yuanfeng with one word.
After that, a sneer appeared on his face, and he said: "I will tell the right minister what to do. Take out the treasures in the Fengchen treasury, take back the folk gatherings, and discard them. Using gold and silver as new money, fundamentally
Put an end to the disaster of soaring prices."
"No!"
"Why not?"
"You are acting too hastily." Cheng Yuanfeng's eyes were already bloodshot, and he said solemnly: "It is better to slow things down than to rush. Reducing costs first is the basis. Follow me and ask the officials to set an example and spread the trend of simplicity in the world, okay?"
"It's useless. Does the Right Prime Minister know what a drop in the bucket is? You are trying so hard to save those few copper coins, but you can't save the Song Dynasty."
"Rivers and seas do not choose small streams, so they can be as deep as they are! The state needs to save in details. What's the use of changing to another kind of Chu coin without reducing the expenditure?"
"Therefore, public land law and planning law are needed."
"That's enough! It's just crazy... I can't explain it to you!"
Cheng Yuanfeng was so anxious that he flicked his sleeves and felt that Jia Sidao was unreasonable.
Jia Sidao sneered, thinking that Cheng Yuanfeng could not carve rotten wood.
The two people's thoughts are as incompatible as water and fire, and there is nothing to talk about.
Jia Sidao had other purposes for getting together today.
"Then it seems that the Right Prime Minister is not going to agree to my replacement of the Eighteen Realm Huizi with the Gold and Silver Guanzi?"
"Never agree!"
"What about Sichuan and Sichuan? Li Xia refuses to listen to the imperial court's orders, does not transfer money and food, and does not allow people to pass through. He launches troops without permission, as if he is his own country, and the right prime minister just lets him do nothing?"
"How are you doing?"
"I want to use gold and silver to circulate through Sichuan and Shu..."
"I said I won't agree to replace Chu coins."
Jia Sidao smiled and said: "The right prime minister does neither this nor that. He neither rectifies the long-standing abuses nor eliminates the troubles in the feudal town. I proposed a solution, but he objected? How about letting your majesty discuss it with all the officials?"
Cheng Yuanfeng closed his eyes, his face full of bitterness.
He knew that he had been forced into a corner by Jia Sidao.
"I will eliminate the troubles in the feudal town as soon as possible and then gradually rectify it."
"That being the case, let's wait and see..."
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When Cheng Yuanfeng left the public room, Jia Sidao sneered again.
The reason why he said this to Cheng Yuanfeng today was because he really couldn't stand Cheng Yuanfeng's meek approach to Li Xia, so he had no choice but to force him.
"It's not that I didn't let you try your hand. You are a waste who occupies the latrine and doesn't shit. Get out of here and let me do it..."