Chapter 414 Sun Chunming wants to mint coins
Sun Yue personally cooked and arranged a hot pot that night, intending to entertain Han Derang and arrange for him. After all, many places involved in this union reform need to cooperate with him.
As a result, he and Murong Yan and his wife sat awkwardly on the table and waited for nearly an hour.
After all, Han Derang was too busy. He was no longer lazy than Sun Yue. He was so arrogant that he even dared to be fooled by the position of deputy envoy of Privy Councilor. In addition to the introduction of commercial banknotes and salt, as Sun Chunming became the salt and iron envoy, and became more and more convenient, many of the Sun family's previous commercial layouts began to move forward in great strides. Sun Chunming and Sun Yue did not have time to take on these things. Lao Cao and Lao Fang were obviously inadequate. No one could take the lead except him.
Well, their family has done the best collusion between officials and businessmen.
This is very embarrassing. It’s not that Sun Yue can’t wait for half an hour, but that his hot pot has been prepared. The copper pot is filled with rich and sweet soup, and there are already cut lamb, venison, beef, and goose meat. The key is that they are still hungry.
This is a crime.
Sun Yue and Murong Yan were so hungry that they had no choice but to eat and wait while waiting, so they could only helplessly start to chew each other. As soon as they were chewing, Han Derang came, and Sun Chunming was still following him.
It seems even more embarrassing.
Fortunately, Sun Yue is quite thick-skinned, and Murong Yan is not a person who can't hide his face. Soon they both became like nothing happened, and even arranged for Han Delang to drink.
"I'm sorry, I'm so busy and there are too many things to do."
Sun Yue asked, "What are you busy with? You haven't made time to have a good chat. It's rare for a family to be so busy with our family."
Sun Chunming sighed in a special manner, and then said, "There is no way. What we carry on our shoulders is the trust of the court and the government. Behind us are millions of people in Luoyang and even the entire Song Dynasty. I am afraid that there will be any mistakes in my work. I am in charge of the economy and it is related to the welfare of the lives of millions of people. No matter how small the matter is, it is a big deal for me. I am trembling and walking on thin ice. Oh, it's difficult. Sometimes I really want to resign and abandon my seal, buy a few acres of thin land in the countryside, and live a simple life. Haven't you also said that I worry about the world first?"
Sun Yue said speechlessly: "Speak well, you are all family members, who are you pretending to show me?"
Sun Chunming laughed and said, "I have said too much of this kind recently and I'm used to it."
Sun Chunming was accused of the government in his previous life. His best attitude was to sing high-profile songs. After several years of traveling, he had already changed it because his service to the people was too stupid in the Northern Song Dynasty and he didn't know anything about it. Therefore, it has basically been changed over the years. But now he has become a deputy prime minister, and people around him are becoming more and more respectful to him. No one except Zhao Kuangyin seems to be his leader, so he is so proud that he is a little old-fashioned and reborn.
After all, in ancient times, there was no entertainment. Women have been playing for so many years, both physically and psychologically, so what fun is there except pretending to be?
As for resigning from office and lingering, it was like Ma's father regretting his creation of Ali. Brother Liu didn't know that his wife was beautiful.
Han Derang squeezed out a smile helplessly. Although he was used to it, he still couldn't accept it when he saw the funny daily life of the Sun family and his son since childhood.
"I'm going to open a money shop, thanks to Brother Han, otherwise my mind would have exploded."
Sun Yue was stunned for a moment, "So fast? I thought I had to prepare for a year or two before. Are you sure the economic foundation of this thing has reached? With our family's financial resources, we can eat it?"
"Why should I use our own money to build a national credit system with my own money? I have too much money? I don't have such a way to sacrifice my family for the country. Just do it a little bit, I plan to mint the money first."
"………Isn't this better than opening a money shop? Dad, it's easy to commit suicide by monetary reform. If you can't fix it, it will be a mess in the world. No one can save our family by then. Are you sure the official agrees?"
"It's not that serious. I plan to mint silver coins, and I use them voluntarily, not to scrap the copper coins. In the past few months, the Salt and Iron Company did nothing else and almost collected all the silver in the country. This thing was not circulated on the market. As long as the exchange ratio with copper coins is determined and the money shop can be exchanged, Han Ge'er has joined forces with all the wealthy merchants in Luoyang and Kaifeng, and will use it together. The money shop also try to open one in each state."
OK, Sun Yue understood that this means using silver coins to temporarily replace the flying ticket. As long as the basic value is in place and the credit system is in place, it will not be too big of a problem to say that this thing is 70% or 80% of the premium.
You should know that at this time in the early Song Dynasty, silver was not a mainstream currency on the market, or even a currency at all. Most of them were placed in the treasury. Because there was almost no silver produced in China, almost all silver was tributed by ethnic minorities to the Tang Dynasty. In the mid-Song Dynasty, a large amount of silver appeared on the market came from trade with Japan. Naturally, there was no such thing as large-scale transactions on the market. It was already the case in the Ming Dynasty.
So at least at this moment, in the early Song Dynasty, silver was a rare thing, and 99% of them were under the control of the court, that is, the control of the Salt and Iron Department, and Sun Chunming. This was also his confidence in doing so.
To put it bluntly, whether it is copper coins or gold and silver, the value of money has never been determined according to the physical value. Otherwise, the tyrants of all dynasties would not have plundered the people by minting large and small coins. The whole piece of silver becomes a currency, which was originally an accident in historical development.
Let me explain more. The economic policy of the entire Ming Dynasty, especially the monetary policy, was not something that could be summarized in a bad word. It should be said that the Ming Dynasty had almost no monetary policy. Paper money was basically cheaper than paper, and copper coins were basically only used as copper. Other dynasties occasionally issued a foolish monarch to cast large and small coins. In the Ming Dynasty, every emperor was storming eight to cast them.
In order to survive, the people could only find another way to use other things, so this thing became currency and used in whole lots. Only in this way could the court not exploit them.
In fact, the most commonly used currency on the market in the late Ming Dynasty was Spanish Yayingyang, which means the Spanish Yayingyang currency, which is seven cents of silver. The people are very happy to use it. They all think it is more convenient than a whole piece of silver. Well, it is almost equivalent to giving the right to mint coins to others.
The court's credit is not as good as the red-haired Japanese pirates. Such a court has been withered for more than two hundred years and can still be poor and poor. If you meet someone, I have to say that the literati and officials are still quite capable, which is a miracle.
It's gone far.
There are naturally many benefits of minting silver coins. At the national level, even if the credit issue of the money house is not considered, at least 30% of the wealth can be added out of thin air. For Sun Chunming, this is his achievements and the most important thing is to continue to compete for power with Chu Zhaofu. If this matter becomes the so-called Three-Secret Service, it will basically be a joke.
Of course, the real ambition is that Sun Chunming wants to establish an East India Company.
Chapter completed!