Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Everyone in the Huagai Palace could see it clearly.

The young man named Wen Mang counted the treasure notes and found that there were about ten pieces, that is, ten strings.

And the appearance of this treasure note is very familiar to them. After all, who among you here has never received a reward from His Majesty today?

The only difference is probably that this year, following the Hu Weiyong incident, His Majesty issued an edict to abolish the Zhongshu Province.

For this reason, the function of printing treasure banknotes that originally belonged to the Zhongshu Province was transferred to the Ministry of Household Affairs. Therefore, from this year onwards, the title of the treasure banknotes on the page has changed. It is "printed by the Zhongshu Province." It became "Printed with the approval of the Ministry of Household Affairs". Other than that, there is no difference between the old and new banknotes.

It's just that this junior's casual words couldn't help but make everyone's hearts arouse:

Treasure money? Waste paper?

Feeling that the husband next to her was about to get angry again, Queen Ma grabbed her and said:

"Don't be impatient. Let's see what the younger generation has to say."

Zhu Biao also comforted him:

"The next generation is not the Ming Dynasty, and dad's treasure money will not be collected by the government in the later generations. Although this younger generation's words are a bit excessive, but..."

Tomorrow's anger subsided a little and he defended himself:

"We are not indifferent people, we just want to get up and move our bodies."

"Besides, this treasure banknote is the foundation of our Ming Dynasty. How can it be compared with waste paper?"

But as if hearing what he said, Wen Mang on the light screen also babbled:

[That’s not right, waste paper is worth more than this thing.

What did you say before? Hey, what is devaluation? Devaluation means that if you print a piece of paper into a treasure banknote, the treasure banknote cannot buy a piece of white paper. This is called depreciation.

What is the economic and financial level of Ming Dynasty? Can he play at Lao Zhu's level? He can't play, you know he's not at that level.

How does he know what a credit system is, what value expression is, and what margin is? It can be said that from the beginning, it is inevitable that treasure money will become waste paper.

Hey, let’s take a look at these handmade boxes and chairs, folks, this handiwork, hey, is really authentic.

So this is the end of our unboxing vlog. We can save the issue of treasure notes for now. After all, it is unavoidable to talk about the Ming Dynasty. 】

〖Personally, I think it is better to call it Ming Dynasty counterfeit banknotes than to call it Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes. I can print them for people to consume, but people can't use the treasure banknotes to deduct taxes. It's a joke.

It cannot be said that the early treasure banknotes during the Hongwu period were still strong for a while, but by the 28th year of the Hongwu period, they had only depreciated tenfold.

The value has depreciated tenfold in twenty years... and that's it?

You have to understand it and you will know that it is really slow. Someone has made special statistics on this. In the sixth year of Chenghua, it was always two cents, which depreciated five hundred times. In the first year of Hongzhi, it was one cent, which was depreciated a thousand times. It only took eight years. Time, by the time of Jiajing, one thousand guan could only wait for 280 wen. It had depreciated nearly four thousand times. To say it was waste paper was an exaggeration.

Why is the Ming Dynasty not as good as the Song Dynasty? Even the Jin Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty knew that a deposit was required.

Let’s analyze the specific issues in detail. One of the Ming Dynasty’s banknotes was the inheritance of the Yuan Dynasty law that had undergone banknote changes. The margin had actually been abolished by the Yuan Dynasty itself, and during the time of Kublai Khan, there was a practice of frequently withdrawing the margin. The Ming Dynasty was I have lost my studies, and the most important thing is that during the Hongwu period, there was much less interest in taxation than in corvee labor. There were craftsmen, doctors, and military households. You could just extract people and give them food for whatever you wanted to do. Another thing is that in the early Ming Dynasty, currency It's not enough. Although the treasure notes are bad, it alleviates this problem.

To put it simply, not having a deposit was not really a big problem under the social system at that time, but being able to get out but not get in was really a big problem.

The main feature of the Ming Dynasty Baochao is that it will benefit the emperor in the upper reaches, disadvantage the officials in the middle, and disadvantage the common people in the lower reaches.

Just highlight one and use it as you wish. Don't look at the summary of success or failure. Just focus on one and let it take its course.

Another problem that cannot be ignored is that the meager output of precious metals in ancient times does not match the rapidly prosperous population and private economy of the Ming Dynasty. There are also arguments in economics that with the limited silver production, as the economy The prosperity of silver will gradually raise the price of silver, which will cause the ancients to reduce their desire to consume silver and instead hoard it, which will eventually plunge the country at that time into deflation.

It’s so impressive. No wonder others say that ancient Chinese governance has nothing to say, and only the ups and downs were experienced in troubled times. Only the Ming Dynasty, although it can be considered a governance, was as wonderful as the troubled times. 〗

Zhu Yuanzhang stared at the light screen steadily, and finally landed on the words "Like troubled times" at the end. His eyes followed this line of words from right to left, until they disappeared to the left as if scrambling for the first place.

As the voice fell, the image faded, and the words disappeared into the left side of the light screen. There was silence in the Huagai Hall.

Tomorrow's son staggered and fell back into his chair, which immediately made Empress Ma, Zhu Biao and other princes worried.

"Dad...Dr. Dai!"

Zhu Biao subconsciously wanted to call the imperial doctor over for inspection, but Zhu Yuanzhang immediately waved his hand to stop him:

"It doesn't matter to us."

Putting his hands on the armrests of the chair with a little force, Zhu Yuanzhang stood up again and took two steps.

Although the light curtain said many things, it only lasted a little while. Judging from the sunlight outside the Huagai Hall, it was not yet noon.

The door of the palace faces due south. The sunlight at this time only touches the palace slightly, but it shines on the floor and makes the palace a little brighter. When Zhu Yuanzhang looked back, he could clearly see the back door of Jinshen Palace from the corner of his eye. The light can also sweep through the cornices of other palaces and pavilions.

It was obviously a very familiar scenery, but Zhu Yuanzhang felt as if he was in another world for a moment.

An hour ago, he had summoned his ministers, brothers and families with a bit of boasting to watch this true destiny together.

An hour later, he learned about the death of his wife and son, the enemy of a hundred years later, the changes around him, and the competition in the world. Everything he thought of before was ruthlessly reshaped, and in the end, even the current Hongwu years were clearly ridiculed by future generations as treasure notes being worse than waste paper.

He had even prepared his words, saying that ten strings of coins were not a small amount, saying that this young man should not indulge in the pleasures of gold and silver, but should practice more and strengthen himself, saying that it was not easy for Zhu Hongwu to start his career, etc.

But all these thoughts have become empty talk. In the Jiajing period, one thousand strings of coins were worth two hundred and eighty coins. Then the ten strings of treasure notes he gave to his descendants were calculated based on this... less than three coins?

Then this treasure note is indeed not as valuable as the chair and the box, and it is not even as expensive as the ten sheets of high-quality paper used to print the treasure note...

"Dad!"

Zhu Biao's anxious call interrupted Zhu Yuanzhang's reverie. Looking down and seeing the worried eyes of his wife and sons, Zhu Yuanzhang laughed:

"It's okay."

"It's never too late to mend the fence after the sheep have been lost."

"Now that I know it, I should choose to change it."

"No, Dad."

Zhu Biao said anxiously:

"The light screen hasn't disappeared yet, and there are words showing that there is a playback function."

"Ah? Oh." Zhu Yuanzhang coughed slightly with embarrassment:

"Let's take a look now."