Of course, only businessmen are sighing at present, because businessmen are definitely the most sensitive to changes in currency. There is no doubt about this.
For several days in a row, the number of customers gradually decreased, and they could immediately feel the panic and crisis.
It will take some time for ordinary people to feel it.
Then again, this is also due to the fact that the clan and Enyin incident has come to an end for the time being, which has led to many people's attention starting to turn to the public.
Looking at this situation, many people began to consciously reduce their monetary consumption, and they were the main monetary consumers in the capital.
They start to tighten up, and the merchants get immediate feedback.
In addition to businessmen, Wang Anshi and Han Jiang also felt that because other states and counties had just begun to collect this exemption tax, some people were already complaining that they did not have much copper coins in their hands and could they use other goods to replace it.
So Wang Anshi didn't have time to come to Zhang Fei to congratulate him today. In fact, if he didn't have anything important to discuss with Zhang Fei, he had no intention of coming. Moving is not a major life event, and both he and Sima Guang disliked such occasions very much.
At this time, Wang Anshi was discussing matters alone with Emperor Zhao Xu in the palace.
Wang Anshi first informed Zhao Xu of this situation.
Zhao Xu already knew about it and was preparing to discuss it with Wang Anshi. Now that Wang Anshi took the initiative to mention it, he pretended not to know, "What's going on?"
Wang Anshi immediately said: "I think this is probably because the powerful people in the court are dissatisfied, so they resorted to this trick in an attempt to arouse public resentment and oppose the tax exemption.
It is conceivable that once the autumn tax is collected, the people must exchange grain for coins, and if the price of coins is relatively high at that time, this will inevitably make the people resentful."
Zhao Xu immediately said angrily: "It's really unreasonable. They lost the lawsuit and they came up with this trick again. It's not over yet."
Wang Anshi smiled in a very relaxed tone: "How can they be willing to pay so much tax for a mere lawsuit? Moreover, they will definitely be worried about how the tax will be calculated in the autumn, so they will
Taking advantage of the autumn tax, we started to counterattack, making officials and ministers afraid."
This kind of trouble was all within his expectation, and he really didn't want Zhao Xu to be upset by it, which would shake Zhao Xu's determination.
It's fine!
This is all expected.
Zhao Xu asked: "Sir, do you have any solution?"
Wang Anshi said: "In my opinion, with their financial resources, it is not possible to say that they can set off this storm in just a few days. This is mainly because there is not enough money in the market, so that they have a little bit of money.
If you take action, there will be a shortage of money.
I have also been paying attention to the coins of our dynasty, and the lack of coins has also made it difficult for our dynasty's wealth to increase. In this case, as long as the court mints one million more coins, the income gained can reach millions.
So much."
Zhao Xu asked: "Millions?"
Wang Anshi explained: "For example, some customers want to buy land and become their own owners, but because they lack money and only have grain, they have to buy the grain first and exchange it for money before they can buy the land. But in the end, it is not easy.
The grain was sold, and the fields he wanted were bought.
Furthermore, when merchants do business among themselves, due to the lack of money, they can only barter, which is obviously difficult. In the Jiangnan area, this situation is very common.
But if there are enough coins, the wealth of both the court and the people will increase. This is what I said about the people not paying taxes and the country using money."
Zhao Xu nodded, "So what I mean, sir, is to mint more coins to alleviate this crisis."
"Even if this does not happen, the imperial court should increase the amount of coins minted to improve its finances." Wang Anshi added: "But increasing the amount of currency minted will take time and cannot solve the urgent need. I suggest that the imperial court first order the allocation of copper coins and then hand over the coins.
The coins are first put into the market in the form of coins. After the coins are minted, they can be handed over to be exchanged for coins.
In fact, buying goods with jiaozi is more convenient than coins, and can promote private transactions. At the same time, an additional 10% can be issued in the middle. In addition, the coins collected by Sinong Temple must be released in time and cannot be hoarded in the warehouse.
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After Zhao Xu thought about it for a moment, he nodded and said, "Okay, just follow what the teacher said."
As Wang Anshi himself said, this was not his response, but something he had planned for a long time. If he wanted to manage finances, the first thing he needed to do was to get money in the hands of the people, so that he could manage finances.
If they are all goods, this is unreasonable.
In addition, Wang Anshi was from the Jiangnan area, not from the north. Jiangnan generally lacked coins, which left a deep impression on him, and he also saw the reason. If sufficient currency was used, it would be beneficial to Jiangnan's finances, and
Jiangnan finance was the top priority of the imperial court's finances.
When Sima Guang criticized him for saying that the people did not pay taxes but the state used spares, he never thought of using this point to refute him. In fact, this was the most powerful refutation.
In fact, as long as you play well with currency and based on the system of the Northern Song Dynasty, business will inevitably become prosperous.
Since land transactions are allowed, sufficient currency must be used to support this transaction.
Wang Anshi had long planned to issue more currency, and he had also thought of using paper money for a long time, because he believed that copper in the Northern Song Dynasty was relatively expensive and scarce, and could not support his entire reform system.
Therefore, after this happened, Wang Anshi was not panicked at all. He had already seen the fact that there was a shortage of coins, but you only aggravated the phenomenon, which in turn gave him a reason to issue more coins.
.......
However, the economic downturn has also dampened a lot of Zhang Fei's joyful atmosphere of moving.
A lot of people came, but everyone gathered together to talk about the shortage of money. The merchants were the most miserable because of the shortage of money.
The whole new house was filled with gloom and misery.
Fortunately, Zhang Fei is used to it. Every time he moves, he will always encounter something. As long as he doesn't suffer any physical pain, he is very satisfied.
Lawyers are not afraid of being forced, but they are afraid of taking action directly.
When the other party does not follow the law, the lawyer is useless.
At this time, Zhang Fei was talking with Li Bao, who came to congratulate him, on the sofa in the backyard.
Of course, Li Bao did not bring any good news. Instead, he told him that the other party was now even more crazy about using food to siphon away the coins from the people's hands.
"What's more serious is that the number of copperware in the market is also decreasing rapidly. If nothing unexpected happens, they should try to convert copper into coins. When the autumn harvest comes, the coins in the hands of the people will be seriously scarce, and they may use bad coins to convert the coins in the hands of the people.
If the grain is collected and the tax exemption is collected, you may receive a lot of bad money."
"Do they have the power to mint coins?" Zhang Fei asked.
"Of course there is no power, and this kind of thing rarely happens in the capital, but in the local area, many wealthy families often have coins. If the people are very short of coins, minting coins can make a lot of money."
"Um."
Zhang Fei put his hands on the pillow, leaned back on the sofa, and crossed his legs. Here, he could finally return to his familiar posture. After thinking for a while, he suddenly asked: "I heard that the price of salt is also rising?"
Li Bao was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "Although the price of salt has risen sharply at present, it is probably only for a while. After all, the court is not short of salt, but due to the sudden stagnation of private salt, Kaifeng Mansion
There is a temporary shortage of salt, and those legal salt dealers see the opportunity and raise the price of salt."
Having said this, he added: "But it is also possible that someone will take the opportunity to cause trouble, deliberately raise the price of salt, and put pressure on the court. After all, the cause of this incident is because of the last lawsuit."
Zhang Fei asked: "How much information does the Taxation Department currently have on private salt dealers?"
Li Bao thought for a moment and said, "It seems like two."
"Only two?"
Zhang Fei frowned slightly.
Li Bao whispered: "We just wanted to scare people at that time, so we only investigated one or two aspects of it in case of emergencies."
Zhang Fei nodded, "Then can you get me the information on all private salt dealers in a short time?"
Li Bao said: "Actually, most of these private salt dealers know each other. We can use those two to find other private salt dealers, but it is very difficult to find evidence of their crimes."
Zhang Fei said: "I don't want evidence of guilt. I just want to find their people. It's best if I can find out how much salt they have in their hands."
Li Bao nodded and said, "This should be no problem."
For the tax department, this person is easy to find. The difficulty lies in the evidence. After all, under the law, evidence is the key.
This is also the reason why people are afraid of the tax department.
I don’t know where the tax department’s evidence was found.
...
After talking with Li Bao, Zhang Fei came to the front yard again. By this time, the guests had already dispersed. After all, it was a troubled time and their store was also very busy. It was impossible to stay here all day and make each other miserable.
Comparing who was worse, then went home.
In the huge courtyard, there was only one person sitting at the table, eating the Zhang family's secret hot pot. Behind him stood three or five idle people, drooling and watching him eat.
Only Cao Dongdong can have such momentum.
Zhang Fei walked forward and sat aside. He looked at Cao Dongdong with an expressionless face, focusing on eating meat, and seemed not very happy. He couldn't help asking: "Ya Nei, why are you so depressed? Are you infected by those businessmen? Or are you infected?
Say, Pony isn't here?"
Cao Dongdong glanced at him, drank the wine in his glass, and sighed: "What's the point of being happy? Nowadays everyone is afraid of the Taxation Department, but no one takes us Royal Police seriously anymore."
It turned out that this kid stole his limelight in the strange office. Zhang Fei finally realized it and said with a smile: "This tax department is the one who collects taxes. During tax collection time, what are we talking about if we don't talk about the tax department?"
Cao Dongdong hummed: "Is it also the tax department's responsibility to arrest Chen Xiaoer?"
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "What should we do? You also go and capture a wanted criminal."
Cao Dongdong drank another drink and said aggrievedly: "It's not that we can't catch him, we also have the means, but...but we have a father, so we have to look forward and backward in everything we do, which is really boring."
As he said that, he glanced at Zhang Fei again, "I heard that someone recently recommended you to go to the northwest to build the Public Security Bureau?"
Zhang Fei was stunned and said: "You already know it."
Cao Dongdong said: "Can you take us with you?"
Zhang Fei said with a question mark on his face: "You want to go to the northwest."
"Yes I do!"
Cao Dongdong said: "I am always watched by my father here. If anything happens, a group of uncles and uncles will come to my house. They make me kneel down to talk several times. I have not done anything in this way. What if?
If you go to the northwest, then we have the final say. This will affect your life, not to mention your father's life. I will also do the work of the tax department."
You guys are so idle. Zhang Fei suddenly had an idea and said: "It's just talk for now, but you take it seriously. Besides, the responsibilities of the police department to the tax department do not overlap. The police department actually has many things.
You can be busy, it’s just that you don’t do it.”
"What's the matter?"
Cao Dongdong asked anxiously.
Zhang Fei said: "For example, this private salt, or the occupation of government land and private land, these are all the responsibilities of the police station. This is an infringement of other people's interests and an illegal act. It is not the responsibility of the tax department. You should know that these
The charges were all investigated by the procuratorate on their own initiative, not by the tax department.
Now that this matter is such a big deal, your police station can give some arrangements to check these salt shops and salt dealers. After all, the tax department only wants money, but you can directly kill them, and people will be afraid of you."
"Yes! Why didn't I think of this? I was just thinking about catching the wanted criminal." Cao Dongdong's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he stood up immediately, "I won't tell you anymore, I will go back and make arrangements now."
"Hey, I'm about to leave the office now. Come have a few drinks with me before you leave!"
"Drink some other time."
Cao Dongdong's voice came from outside the door.
"This brat!"
Zhang Fei laughed and cursed, then poured himself another glass of wine, holding the glass and thinking to himself.
"Zhang San. Zhang San."
"ah?"
Zhang Fei looked back and saw Xu Zhiqian walking over.
"Why are you alone, where is Yanei? He was still here just now."
"Just went back."
Zhang Fei said: "You came just in time to have a few drinks with me."
"Okay!" Xu Zhiqian sat down and asked again: "By the way, what are you thinking about? You are so absorbed in thinking."
"without...!"
As soon as he said a word, Zhang Fei suddenly said, "Zhi Qian, if the government really sends me to the northwest, do you agree or not?"
Xu Zhiqian was stunned and said: "That depends on you. If you are sure, then of course I agree. But if you are not sure, then you should not go. If there is trouble in the northwest, it is not a trivial matter."
Zhang Fei nodded thoughtfully.
Xu Zhiqian asked again: "Didn't you say before that you definitely wouldn't go? What? The officials still want you to go?"
"no!"
Zhang Fei shook his head and said, "It's just that the situation has changed a little now."
Xu Zhiqian asked: "Is it about coins?"
Zhang Fei nodded.
Xu Zhiqian asked curiously: "But what does this coin have to do with the northwest?"
Zhang Fei thought for a while and said: "I can't decide for the time being. Let's see and then decide. But if I really want to go, you might have to suffer with me."
Xu Zhiqian immediately said: "I'm not afraid of this hardship, but I still want to go somewhere else."
"real or fake?"
"real."
Xu Zhiqian said: "I have been following my father everywhere before. Originally, I wanted to go to Dengzhou with my father. But when my father saw that I was getting older and getting married, he wouldn't let me go.
Living in Beijing can be really boring sometimes.”
Zhang Fei smiled and shook his head: "You, the children of officials, are so lucky that you don't know how lucky you are!"