Although it seems to be unstoppable and seems to be a natural thing, things that are beyond one's control develop and grow naturally, which is undoubtedly an exciting thing in itself.
After thinking about it... Pei Ji felt that he had to do something.
Anything is fine, but doing nothing is definitely wrong. However, when Pei Ji found Wang Jing and others, called everyone together for a meeting, and started to speak, Pei Ji himself was confused...
Because he started brainstorming, Pei Ji remembered something.
Mud, everyone has signed a treaty with Li Tang's people, and they are not allowed to boycott the circulation of banknotes!
And in the treaty, there is not only this line of clauses, but under this clause, there is also a "sparing discussion", which is similar to the "details" in the judicial field in later generations.
It was stipulated above that everyone from the southeast to the princes down to the common people could use banknotes at their own discretion, but they were not allowed to obstruct others from using them!
In other words...
At the beginning, Pei Ji naturally thought that he wanted to control the banknotes. It would be best to ban them directly, and discussed with the King of Siam and others that no banknotes would be accepted for tax payments in the country. However...
However, now that we have discovered this treaty, we have no choice but to give it up, but, but...
However, it was precisely when he suddenly realized that this treaty still existed that Pei Ji suddenly became alert.
Damn...
Could it be that this is the result of Li Er and his gang of unscrupulous people?
If so, then this... Thinking about how proliferated banknotes have been in Southeast District recently, Pei Ji felt like his scalp was exploding.
When he thought about the appearance of the banknote, Pei Ji's eyes widened even more. Suddenly, the thing seemed to have turned into something black, glue-like and venom-like...
This Li Erxun is so vicious!
It's just that Pei Ji couldn't figure out what the evil was for a while, but there was always a voice in his mind... an extremely strong voice, repeatedly telling himself that this matter was definitely of great importance.
But I really had no clue, so I had to give it up. Such an exchange...
Of course, Pei Ji's thoughts were shared with Wang Jing and others, and Wang Jing and others, as well as a group of people headed by the King of Siam, naturally felt danger and nervousness in their hearts.
The crowd was furious, but they couldn't express their emotions... because no one knew what kind of thing Li Er was hiding under the surface of this thing called banknotes.
but……
Now that the matter has come to this, even if everyone feels anxious and nervous, there is no good way, so... there is no "so", we can only stare and listen... let's see what happens next, and we will talk about it then.
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This situation is similar to swallowing something you shouldn't when eating, and it seems like there are fish bones stuck in the throat.
No one knows what will happen. They can only wait and see, and slowly feel whether there are any thorns in the throat... Wang Jing and others, as well as the kings of Southeast Xiang, waited like this for a month.
This month comes...
...something extraordinary really happened.
It's just that... "something happened" was not as Wang Jing and others thought. The banknote suddenly melted and flew away, or Li Er suddenly did something, and the banknote was some kind of glass used to break the cup.
The "cup"... played such a role.
Instead, after waiting for another month, everyone discovered that people from all walks of life in the southeast area, the homes of nobles and wealthy families... were using more and more banknotes.
There were even so many that Wang Jing and others, as well as the kings of Southeast Asia, had to make a choice whether to accept banknotes or not!
The reason is very simple. Wang Jing and others are from a wealthy family. To operate in this area, they must do business, and the amount of money coming in and out is naturally huge.
Not to mention the kings of Southeast Asia, taxes are placed here, which is the annual revenue of the treasury. At the same time, they also have to collect and send people to do various things, allocate grain and grass, etc... This requires financial expenditures.
In other words, in the final analysis, although Wang Jing and others are large households, and although the kings of Southeast Asia are princes, it is precisely because of their special status that their intersection with the entire Southeast Asia economic system is more profound.
...or rather, in an agricultural society, the economic connections between people are inherently thin, and those who can really have in-depth economic exchanges with people all over the world are actually these large households and treasuries.
In short.
Now the problem has finally arisen, seriously. Whether taxes and transactions should accept banknotes from the hands of the people, this issue is finally unavoidable for everyone. Because...
Wang Jing and others were running their family business in Southeast Bay, but it was difficult to do all kinds of business because there were really too few plates and the most important thing was... the people here in Southeast Bay were much poorer than the Tang Dynasty, no, than China. In other words
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No matter in which era, when local tycoons don't know what to do, they have only one way to reproduce class: lending.
And Wang Jing and others were lending a lot in China, whether it was when they were first managing fields or later when Li Er and Li Sheng were rising and the news was getting tighter. And now...
Since there was no other way to make a living in Dongnan Diao, of course the only thing left was to engage in lending business.
However... although the current loan business is going well, most of the money earned from the Southeast Asian people's trade so far has been earned in the form of interest, except for collecting some from the Southeast Asian kings. But now...
It is impossible to end such a beautiful business, but it is equally difficult to accept accepting banknotes...
And if the kings of Southeast Asia were concerned about the treasury, they had nothing to say.
In short, the situation has reached an almost "critical" moment for the entire Dongnan Diao group. On the one hand, they have to give up various gains in the past, and on the other hand, they have to face banknotes that no one understands...
This feeling is suddenly like a person facing an abyss.
Thinking about it...
This time Wang Jing and others decided to compromise and bring him down!
After all, the risks of banknotes are something that will be faced later. And losing the income from lending... and at the same time facing the situation of violating the "treaty" and being detained by Li Tang's army, this is something that can be faced at any time.
possible situations.
The right way is to choose the lesser of two evils. As a normal person, why should we worry about the distant future...
Moreover, this decision was not only proposed by Wang Jing, nor was it only responded to by everyone, but also supported by Pei Ji, everyone's think tank.
In other people's eyes, it's two evils, but Pei Ji naturally thinks more than the average person about the quality of banknotes themselves. And these days...
According to Pei Ji's investigation, all the ministers in Li Tang's internal court had used banknotes, and they were widely circulated among wealthy families in Hangzhou and Chang'an.
