Universe dominance

After the founding ceremony, the empire was officially established. For this nascent empire, the test had just begun. Whether it was the emperor Li Fu, the prime minister of the empire, and other cabinet ministers, they all began their busy lives. Although the empire was established, In all aspects, it is still not on track.

With a huge population of tens of millions of people, the original system of a company has transformed into a country, and it also has two huge living planets, sitting on the entire Centauri galaxy. There are many problems that need to be faced.

The Imperial Palace is not large in area, covering an area of ​​tens of thousands of square meters. It is the only one in the entire empire that is different from other residential buildings. It can also be regarded as the special treatment that Li Fu has as the emperor of the empire. Others, even the imperial palace Prime Minister Fang Zheng also lives in a unified planned villa like ordinary people.

Due to time constraints, the palace was relatively crudely built. It did not have the splendor and luxury that an imperial emperor should have. It was even simply painted. The decoration was ordinary, but it was cleaned very well.

In the back garden of the palace, it is the summer of Yanhuang Star. Because of its long revolution, Yanhuang Star takes more than 2 years to complete one revolution, so every season on Yanhuang Star is longer than on the Earth. .

The hot summer lasted for nearly half a year, and the city of Chang'an was shrouded in a heat wave, except for the coolness under the giant leaf trees.

The giant leaf tree is a tall tree native to Yanhuang Planet. It can grow up to hundreds of meters high. The trunk is very strong and can grow to more than ten meters in diameter. Of course, this number is comparable to the number in the original rainforest on Kyushu Planet. Tall trees seem insignificant in comparison.

But this giant leaf tree has another characteristic, that is, its leaves are very large, one leaf is as big as a square. In addition, the leaves are dense and the trees are tall, so in summer, its dense leaves will It forms a very shady area.

This kind of giant leaf tree has become one of the favorite plants of the original indigenous orcs on the Yanhuang Star. Anyone who enjoys the coolness under the shade of the tree knows that the coolness under the shade is simply not comparable to that of an air conditioner. When the natural and gentle wind blows, my upper and lower eyelids fight inside in the summer.

There is also an old giant-leaf tree in the back garden of the Imperial Palace. At this time, under this giant-leaf tree, Li Fu, Fang Zheng, Zhong Yun, Cao Haitao, Yang Yiping and other senior officials of the empire gathered together to enjoy the giant leaf. The coolness provided by the leaf tree was enjoyed while discussing national affairs while enjoying the delicious fruits from Kyushu Star.

"Tsk tsk, this giant leaf tree is really nice. It must be very comfortable to take a nap under the tree or something. I will plant one in my back garden later."

Cao Haitao felt the cool breeze under the shade of the trees, which was really a pleasure in this hot summer.

"It seems that your science and education work is very easy. You still have time to sleep in. I am very busy now. I can only sleep for 6 hours a day at most. I don't have time to take a nap at all."

When the Imperial Finance Minister Zhong Yun heard this, he smiled bitterly. He has been really busy during this period. The military, the government, the Academy of Sciences, and other agencies and units are all looking for him for money and resources. Who is calling him? He is the finance minister, but he can't do anything without money or resources.

But now the empire's economy has not yet been formalized. It has not even issued its own currency. Everything is still implemented according to planned needs. There is no market economy at all. Everyone does not have to pay when they go to the supermarket to buy things. Regarding money, everyone has no salary income from work and so on.

It doesn't matter in the short term, but it definitely won't work in the long term. This time everyone gathered together. It was also Zhong Yun's suggestion to call everyone together to discuss how to get the empire's economy back on track. In fact, the most important thing It is to issue the empire's own currency.

Without currency, there is no way to start this economy. Once you have your own currency, everyone can earn income from work, pay for things, etc., and the entire economy will quickly get on track.

"Lao Zhong has been quite tired recently. He called everyone here this time to discuss major issues related to the empire's economy. We must get the empire's economy back on track as soon as possible and restore normal economic order. The core point is that we must Issue our empire’s own currency as soon as possible.”

Fang Zheng also looked tired. Being the prime minister of the empire is much more tiring than being the CEO of a company. There are more and more comprehensive things to consider. In addition, the empire is newly built and there is a lot of waste to be done. All kinds of things are really too much. Much more. Just setting up a complete government agency and getting it running has already made Founder's head spin, not to mention all kinds of other things.

"Old Zhong, please tell me your plan first?"

Li Fu nodded after listening and said to Zhong Yun. Zhong Yun is the Minister of Finance. He must be very familiar with this area. He should at least know a little bit about it. He knows better than other laymen about how much currency should be issued and how much money should be issued. The face value, etc. all require professionals to operate, and it is difficult for laymen to do it well.

"As the core of commodity exchange and social and economic circulation, currency is an indispensable thing for modern economy. Currency itself has no value, but we artificially give it value and use it as a general equivalent to promote the circulation of goods trade. ,economic development."

"In ancient times, currency was generally made of precious metals such as gold, silver and copper. However, in modern society, with the rapid economic development, gold, silver and copper can no longer be used as currency, so credit currency was born."

"So credit currency means that the paper money issued can be worth a certain amount of things with the credit of the country as a guarantee, and can be used for buying and selling. However, this kind of credit currency generally needs to be reserved by gold. Currency without gold reserves can be forced to circulate in its own country, but other countries will not buy it if it is put internationally."

"So before discovering currency, we must first determine what to use as currency reserves. Gold is generally used as currency reserves on the earth. Uncle Sam's currency was once used as world currency because Uncle Sam has the largest gold reserves in the world. This is a very important reason."

Zhong Yun nodded, and then began to slowly talk about currency-related knowledge, making people around him who did not understand currency knowledge nod their heads, and they also had a certain concept of currency.

"That's bad, we don't have any gold at all!" Yang Yiping shouted immediately after hearing this. He heard that issuing currency actually requires gold as a reserve. When he came from Earth, he brought everything with him, but he didn't stock up on gold. "It doesn't necessarily mean that you have to use gold. Generally, any precious metal is fine. Of course, gold is the most suitable because its output is rare and its value is high." Zhong Yun smiled and continued to explain. "I remember that the currency on Earth is constantly depreciating, right? What's the knowledge in this?" Fang Zheng kept thinking in his mind, and when he thought of this question, he asked Zhong Yun immediately. "Well, that's right. On this side of the earth, no matter which country's currency, it is basically depreciating. Even the once strongest dollar has not depreciated for a long time, but this is only relative. In fact, it is also depreciating, but the depreciation is very small. In addition, Uncle Sam's economy was very prosperous at the time, so this depreciation is not noticeable at all."

"There is a profound reason why countries around the world continue to depreciate their own currencies. Human productivity and production efficiency have been rising, and the result is that the supply of goods is becoming more and more abundant. If the money supply does not increase but the goods increase, then the purchasing power of the currency will rise, that is, the price of goods will fall abnormally, corporate profits will decline, people's enthusiasm for investment will decrease, and then companies will reduce production scale and workers will begin to lose their jobs."

"At this time, it is a more rational choice to continue holding the currency, because as time goes by, it It is becoming more and more valuable. This will further lead to a decline in market demand, and deflation will occur. "

"Severe deflation is a devastating blow to the market. At this time, the best investment target in the market is money itself. Money will withdraw from the circulation link in large quantities, and commodities will lose the general equivalent of "money". As a result, transactions become very difficult. "

"Moderate currency depreciation will reduce people's willingness to hold currency all the time, promote the completion of market transactions, and thus drive economic prosperity, while continuous currency appreciation is not conducive to market transactions. "

"Of course, these are some of the benefits brought by currency depreciation. In fact, currency depreciation also has the function of reducing the government's fiscal burden, and invisibly taking away the wealth in the hands of the people. "

"Zhong Yun thought about it, sorted out his words, and then began to talk about the relevant knowledge of currency depreciation, which made people who had never understood why the currency was always depreciating suddenly realize it.

"So, do we think we will continue to devalue the currency in the future?" Fang Zheng frowned when he heard the last part. Relying on currency devaluation to plunder the wealth of ordinary people is really not a fair means, because I have heard too many, too many similar things. Some farmers don't know how to manage money and just save money. A few thousand yuan a few decades ago could have played a big role, but after decades of depositing it in the bank, when you want to use it for retirement, you find that these few thousand yuan are insignificant. You can imagine how terrible the degree of plunder of ordinary people's wealth by currency devaluation is. "Our currency will never depreciate. If the government has no money, it will cut spending, financial resources, and impose taxes, etc., but it will never pass on the fiscal burden through currency depreciation." Hearing this, Li Fu also spoke up and said it with finality. As a rural person, Li Fu is very clear about the views of ordinary people at the bottom on money, especially in rural areas. Ordinary people work hard, are reluctant to eat, and are reluctant to wear, and slowly save money one cent at a time, and put it in the bank for decades. When they get old, they find that the amount of money has not changed, but its value has long been far different. Li Fu has seen and heard the old people in the village crying with his own eyes and ears. The old people can't figure out why the money is becoming less and less durable, even though it is all money. In the past, one dollar could buy a lot of things, but now you have to look at what kind of water it is to buy a bottle of water. The information and investment channels that the people at the bottom have are too little, too little. They want to save money because they think that the more numbers, the more wealth they have, but they don't know why the money is becoming less and less valuable. Invisibly, the hard work of a lifetime is plundered cleanly.

After hearing Li Fu's words, everyone present nodded. They were all children from poor families. They all knew about the same things as Li Fu and had heard of some things. Currency depreciation was an invisible blood-sucking thing. Leeches rob people of their wealth without even realizing it.

“So what exactly do we use as currency reserves?”

Zhong Yun thought for a while and changed the topic back.

"We are a brand new empire, and we will develop into the stars in the future, so I think we can abandon some of the past things and innovate when issuing currency."

“Since we don’t have gold reserves in our hands, we can use other things, such as using energy as a reserve, and we issue constant-value energy currency.”

Li Fu thought about it for a long time, and slowly spoke out the experience of the super-civilized Han Technological Empire. Powerful civilizations in the universe generally use energy currency.

Because the reason is very simple. When civilization develops to the stage of interstellar and cosmic civilization, various spaceships, aircraft, etc. will become popular, and slowly even spread to individuals, and these require energy, so constant energy is used. Currency is quite appropriate.

And because the universe is so vast and vast, and the territories of some huge cosmic civilizations are very vast, if this currency continues to depreciate, the impact on the economy will be huge. On the contrary, constant-value energy currency can better promote interstellar, Trade and economic circulation in various regions of the universe, because when you hold currency, you don’t have to worry about the currency devaluing.

Even if you travel across the ocean, spend several years traveling to other alien galaxies to do business, etc., you don't have to worry about the currency in your hands suddenly becoming worthless. You can go to the universe to do business with peace of mind.

"Constant energy currency?"

When everyone heard Li Fu's words, their eyes widened instantly, because they had never heard of this before, and the constant value currency was understandable. This was the first time for everyone to hear this energy currency.