The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

For people's livelihood, the greatest credit of a society is economic credit. Therefore, from the day when the banknote was born, it has been printed with credit stamps, anti-counterfeiting measures, and credit guarantees. The collapse of the private Jiaozi is precisely due to credit.

The loss of guarantees. "official exchanges" can be replaced because its credit reliability is higher than that of private printing.

The increase in the issuance of paper money, especially in the late Xuanhe period, the imperial court ignored economic laws and forcibly protected and promoted paper money through administrative power, which led to inflation. However, the depreciation of currency was not all bad. Moderate depreciation can stimulate consumption, but in the past years

However, the feudal dynasties almost used it as a way to transfer contradictions, and what they lost was not just economic credit.

What Zhou Xingji was worried about was not unreasonable. Now the old banknotes are over-issued. In fact, the court does not have that much money. If they accept all of them, the court will definitely not be able to pay so much money, and will lose credit and affect the circulation of paper money.

Even if it goes public, it will depreciate rapidly, resulting in the financial market's re-turbulence and falling into an endless vicious cycle. Therefore, Zhao Qiong must think too much and take it with caution.

"Your Majesty, then can we discard the Jiaozi issued by the previous dynasty and replace it with new banknotes?" Zhou Xingji saw that the official family was silent and thought he was in a difficult position, so he came up with another idea.

"Not feasible!" Zhao Qi said hurriedly. When Japan surrendered, the people in Northeast China held a large amount of Japanese counterfeit banknotes, and the Kuomintang government refused to admit it. The people were mourning and resentful. Later, the Kuomintang government printed more banknotes than the Song Dynasty.

Of course, this is incomparable, but its depreciation is much greater than that of the Song Dynasty, which is related to the lack of credit caused by the Kuomintang government's actions back then. Since he knew, he could not repeat the same mistakes.

"Your Majesty. Then we only have iron coins, or ten coins to be used as urgent use!" Zhou Xingjiu said that the official family was not satisfied with his answer and came up with an idea.

"This method is also a way to quench thirst. It is not a long-term solution to save urgent matters!" Zhao Qi shook his head and said.

"Your Majesty, in addition to using metal currency to collect banknotes, using banknotes to offset taxes, selling goods, and selling official land and official titles to collect old banknotes to calm down this matter!" Zhou Xing saw that the official family shook his head frequently and was anxious.

All the old examples from the past have been brought up.

"Mr. Gong, would it be feasible if we use the method of using silver instead of copper coins or goods to collect silver vouchers in the Fuzhong Guifang?" Zhao Qiong saw that Zhou Xingji was anxious and looked like he was sick and was even selling official positions and titles.

All the despised ways were shaken out, and I said.

"Your Majesty is not allowed. Now there are more than 5 million taels of silver and more than 240,000 taels of gold in the treasury of the court. Most of them should be owned by the inner government, and even if exchanged, it is not enough to issue it.

Count!" Zhou Xingji thought for a while and said that he had participated in the early planning and issuance of the Kuifang in Fuzhong, and it has been operating very normally. This time, the military resources and funds required for the Central Plains were huge. They were all raised by Kuifang, which was very effective, but among them

There are still gaps.

"There is no need to discuss this in the inner treasury or the treasury!" Zhao Qi waved his hand and listened to the following.

"Your Majesty. Using silver as the principal can indeed solve the problem of exchange, but our silver production is low, and the consumption is very large. It is not enough to support Jiaozi's issuance for a long time!" Zhou Xingji's eyes lit up, and the official's idea is good.

It is still possible to implement within the scope, but it is still difficult to spread it across the country. I couldn't help but sigh again.

"If the shortage of gold and silver can be solved, can it be possible to restart the issuance of Jiaozi?" Zhao Qiong said. He also knew that Zhou Xingji was right. Since China launched foreign trade, it has been luxury goods until the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

Mainly, China purchased a large number of overseas treasures, spices, and medicinal materials, causing a long-term trade deficit. The large outflow of gold, silver and copper coins has become a serious problem. All dynasties have strictly prohibited metal exports, but their effectiveness is not great, and domestic silver mineral resources are poor.

Constraints, the price of silver has always remained high. In the market, one tael of silver is exchanged for money by the government, but it is often traded at a premium.

"Your Majesty, if the outflow of silver is reduced, this matter will be halfway!" Zhou Xing said, but he also knew that this matter was not easy. It was impossible to satisfy the exchange by producing tens of thousands of taels a year, and the result was also a collapse.

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"Well, the outflow of silver mainly involves two ways, one is to reward tribute envoys, and the other is to trade. To solve the problem, we must handle this matter well. In the future, we will reward foreign vassals with goods as the main source, and we will no longer give silver, and we will open a port.

To increase foreign trade, we sold silk, porcelain, etc. to other countries and traded with silver!" Zhao Qi nodded and expressed his thoughts.

"Your Majesty is wise, some people in the previous dynasty once mentioned this. Some illegal merchants along the coast often go out to sea to buy goods and then return to China to purchase goods. They make more than twice the profits during the trip!" Zhou Xing said, the official said it was right.

The court officials have also clearly realized this. Since the maritime trade carried out among private merchants operates more according to market laws, the actual time of occurrence should be earlier.

During the tribute trade, the Song court gave silver to the foreign countries through regular gifts, special gifts, and answers. Among them, the Song court always gave etiquette and return gifts. The Song court stipulated that all states would be subject to

, the foreign countries have given me the words of the dentist school. The money and goods they gave me were given more than two systems, and even if there were hundreds of them, there were two to three hundred to tens of thousands of them.

There are constants, and silverware is usually included in the common gifts for the worship of the foreigners.

The countries that export goods to the Song Dynasty, such as Goryeo, Jiaozhi, the latter such as Dashi, Sanfoqi, Sujidan, Dengliumei, Chameng, etc., may produce silver without using silver as currency, or in spice trade.

Silver has long been used as currency. Therefore, for merchants engaged in international trade between the Song Dynasty and overseas countries, they traveled thousands of miles to sell spices and other people in the Song Dynasty, and sold silk, porcelain and copper coins to overseas countries.

Only by achieving both profits in exchanges.

But if all the spices sold by the traffickers were exchanged for silver and then sold out of the Song Realm, they would face the risk of losing profits for return trade. Therefore, they would sell silver from the Song Realm, which had strong purchasing power to the South China Sea, where silver had already been used.

For many merchants, it was a last resort. On the contrary, while selling spices and other goods, people in Song bought more silk and porcelain, and even exchanged silver into copper coins to take it out of Song territory.

It is even more profitable to transport it to countries like Sujidan that urgently need copper coins in the Song Dynasty.

"I am planning to open ports in Mingzhou, Quanzhou, Dengzhou and Haizhou, allowing private merchants to participate in transactions to expand trade, instead of monopolizing the court again, and at the same time setting up a Maritime Bureau in four places to withdraw taxes, which has been supplemented by the state!

"Zhao Qi blushed and said, after the establishment of the Maritime Trade in the Song Dynasty, it was clearly prohibited. Foreign trade outside of Maritime Trade, and private merchants did not have the right to engage in foreign trade directly. In this regard, the Song court had clearly stipulated

'If a merchant goes overseas for foreign countries, he ordered him to go to Liangzhe Shipin Bureau to request official tickets, but no one will be violating the goods.' Later, he repeatedly declared the relevant ban.

However, because the coastline of Song Realm is very long, Song Ting cannot completely control the coastal merchants going to sea, and foreign ships cannot help but stop at the port where the market has not been set up for the weather, due to the weather, escaping the market, Bo Mai and other reasons. Sheng Zhongtang is

I have made a lot of money for myself through smuggling trade, and I don’t know how the profits are.

"Your Majesty is wise, it is better to lose money than to block it. This move can not only increase the transaction volume, but also charge a large amount of commercial taxes to reduce the "two taxes". It is indeed a matter of benefiting the country and the people!" Zhou Xingji became excited after hearing this, and the old man was furious and said with a smile.

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"Mr. Gong, all these things must be handed over to the Ministry of Revenue. Thank you for your hard work!" Zhao Qi said with a smile. He could only propose a framework, and the details of them must be improved by these men. Once they succeed, the benefits will be absolutely great.

Not only will the immediate problems be solved, there will be great benefits in the future. The development of overseas trade will surely promote the comprehensive development of handicrafts, attract a large number of surplus labor to engage in it, solve the problem of small land and large population, and slow down the annexation of land.

Speed ​​weakens the conflicts between the court and the people.

A large amount of trade will also bring rich taxes, make the country rich, and at the same time it can also support more troops and support subsequent military operations. It is impossible to say that the world will be unified by accident. Zhao Qi can't help but fantasize and wait.

Your own better life, realize your greater dream...

Next, Zhao Jie made further discussions, and the issuance of new notes, establishment of the Maritime Bureau, and formulation of rules must be done first.

However, Zhou Xingji suddenly found that the officials seemed to be prepared for these things. Now the four caravans in the mansion have set up cabinets all over the country. They not only have rich experience in their work, but also have ready-made network and financial support and good

Reputation, what you are doing now seems to be the only way to hand over the printed Jiaozi to them to assist in issuance and acceptance.

As for whether to share profit or not, it seems that it is not very important. In the past, the official family was still the prince, and these four churches were his private property. Now they have ascended the throne and the entire country is his. The money they earn is not all officials.

Is it home? The four halls only need to change the sign and become a state institution and become a department under the Ministry of Revenue. Everything is natural. Now the rest seems to be waiting for the hall to pass the approval and issue an edict to be executed, and it is self-sponsored.

It is also necessary to rectify the organization and formulate detailed rules.

When Zhou Xingji thought of this, he looked at the sly smile of the official family. It seemed as if he thought that the official family had been dispensable in the past. Was he also prepared to expand foreign trade today?

A powerful navy can not only wipe out the siege of the coastal gangs, but also escort the fleet, capture smuggling merchants, and even send troops to blow open the gates of the country that were closed to the Song Dynasty!

"With yours, it is a blessing for my people in the Song Dynasty!" Zhou Xingji became more and more shocked the more he thought about it, but it seemed that all the officials had started planning when he was a teenager. He had never thought of these things, and what else would he have if he had known as a child prodigy.

What about the amazing move? He couldn't tell whether the official family in front of him was a god or a demon... (To be continued...)