"I don't know how long it will take to finish weaving so much raw silk."

"These silks are much thicker than the previous silks."

"I think the new silk is good, a little thicker, but it is much stronger. The silk thread is not easy to break."

...

At the Sima family meeting, everyone expressed their opinions one after another. Sima Kao, the head of the Sima family, asked: "Have you already exhausted the silk?"

The one who manages the warehouse immediately replied: "This is natural, we are selling silk overseas."

After hearing these bad words, Sima Kao had to say more accurately, "I mean, can you all out of stock?"

The Sima family made silk in the early years. After the price of silk fell overseas, they began to transform into high-value-added industries such as embroidery. Those who made embroidery must store some silk, and Sima Kao refers to these parts.

"Eighty percent of the inventory was released." The warehouse manager said guiltily.

"Eighty percent is not bad." Sima Kao did not pursue it in a scruple-minded manner. The output tripled in a year. No one completely believed this when a person like Zhao Guan family who never lie. Even if it was a hardcore Zhao Jiaren, Zhao Guan family like Sima Kao, had to rely on harsh intimidation to suppress the opposition below when holding family meetings. The family can produce 80% of the goods, which is already considered to be a gift to Sima Kao.

Seeing that the clan leader Sima Kao had no intention of reproaching, the manager sighed: "Shangshu, I really can't believe what the officials said."

"I don't believe it too much." Sima Kao told the truth. The Zhao Guanjia's demeanor was most admired by Sima Kao, so he tried his best to learn this style.

"But the Shangshu had to listen to the officials before." The people of the Sima family were speechless to the reaction of their clan leader.

"I don't believe what the officials say, I just believe in the officials." Sima Kao explained. This is the prestige accumulated by Zhao Jiaren for a long time. Even if it seems outrageous, the Zhao Guan family himself always makes people believe it. Just like the Zhao Guan family asked the Yellow River to change the route, Sima Kao would not believe it at all.

"Shangshu, what are we going to do next?"

"We will not use silk to lend money in the future. This time the official family lets all officials produce silk, which should be the meaning of this."

"But we have been using silk to lend money for so many years."

"If we had been using silk to lend money for so many years, it would be better to say that we could not earn so much money before." Sima Kao mocked the people in the family.

When the Sima Kao family heard this, they stopped talking for the time being. They became rich today after Sima Kao followed the Zhao Guan family. The commander they had followed for ten years has now clearly stated that the price of silk would plummet, and Sima Kao did not use silk as a currency for lending money, but wanted to follow the policies of the officials.

Everyone looked at each other for a while, and someone asked, "No silk, what do we use?"

"Sales money." Sima Kao's answer was neat and neat.

When everyone heard the word "Jiaochao", everyone's expressions became very rich. Five years ago, Jiaiaochao was still something that everyone wanted to take off immediately. This thing represents the court's ruthless plunder of the people, especially in the late Jia Sidao's reign. Under the rule of the Zhao official family, Jiaiaochao could pay taxes, and the public's grain shops and supply and marketing cooperatives only collected Jiaiaochao, forcing the face value of Jiaiaochao to achieve a huge increase among the common people. The purchase of grain and daily necessities was never the main part of the Sima family. The Sima family, which mainly engaged in the silk industry, has always used silk as currency.

"If we pay the money and depreciate, wouldn't we lose a lot?" Someone complained.

"There is no sign of paying money now, but Silk is about to be demoted. If we continue to hold on to Silk, we will immediately suffer a huge loss." Sima Kao gave an order to his tribe members.

When everyone heard the clan leader's words, their expressions were ambiguous. No matter how they looked, they didn't seem to listen to them sincerely.

Sima Kao did not force it. There were families in every era, and the situation of families in each era was different. In the Song Dynasty, the responsibility of the family patriarch was to coordinate the internal affairs of the family, point out the direction for the family, and promote the younger generation. It was a situation where there was a greater obligation, little power, and basically no privileges. It was very compatible with the Chinese culture without slavery.

At this time, Sima Kao had already made suggestions. As for whether the family is willing to accept it, it is not a question of Sima Kao, but a question of family members.

The family meeting ended. After the morning meeting of Simakao the next day, he caught up with Sun Qing, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and asked him if he had time to have dinner in the evening. Sun Qing looked embarrassed and said, "Xiong Shang also wants to take me to dinner today."

When he heard it was Xiong Shang, Sima Kao smiled slightly and replied, "It's okay, I'll accompany you."

So after get off work in the evening, the three Shangshu went to a restaurant called "Hangzhou Hot Pot" for dinner. The copper pot is a spicy hot pot base mainly made of hemp. If it were in the 21st century, this would definitely be considered Sichuan flavor, while the Song Dynasty at this time believed that this was the standard Hangzhou flavor.

Since Zhao Guanjia introduced chili crops from Fusangzhou to the Song Dynasty, Hangzhou has become an explosive area for spicy hot pot. Meat slices, gizzards, duck intestines, yellow throats and other things are very delicious in the spicy pot. The three ministers also ate their fill before they let someone cover the air vent on the copper pot.

He wiped his face with a steam-heated hot towel provided by the hotel. He picked up a cup of Sinhala black tea and drank two sips. Sun Qing sighed happily: "Every time I eat this spicy hot pot, I feel happy."

"I think Sun Shangshu drinks tea with great prosperity." Sima Kao smiled. In the past, the entertainment activities of the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty were mainly to visit the pleasure boat. The girls in the pleasure boat drank tea, drinking, and eating were very exquisite. The so-called three sips were the taste, and the tea should be less and exquisite. At this time, the amount of a cup of tea on the table was enough for four or five people on the pleasure boat to drink. Sun Qing and two sips almost drank a cup of tea, which in the view of the pleasure boat was a cow drink.

Xiong Shang was also a big cow drink, and wiped his face with a hot towel, then wiped his oily mouth clean. After throwing the towel down, Xiong Shangshu smiled and said, "I only realized that I had never eaten many foods that many people had eaten before. The food I had eaten so poorly in the past was that I could only pretend to be decent. Now I can eat happily and feel comfortable. This is decent."

"Good words. Come on, have a drink for decency." Sun Qing praised and picked up the beer glass.

All three of them are Shangshu, and they have their own freedom. In fact, Sima Kao also likes the current food and is very satisfied with the current food. As Xiong Shang said, he felt that he had tasted it after all the years he had followed Zhao Jiaren.

Putting down the wine glass, Xiong Shang asked, "Sun Shangshu, my family is doing silk trading. In this situation, silk is probably not worth the money. You have to give us money. Otherwise, we will have to lose nothing left."

"Isn't it because I have paid money? Why are you short of money? The government ordered that the government's raw silk and silk were only sold for money." Sun Qing's answer was very straightforward.

"What does the official family mean? To make money substitute for silk?" Xiong Shang continued to ask.

Sima Kao listened seriously, which was also a question he cared about. Silk has been used as currency for thousands of years. As mentioned in "Pipa Xing", Wulings fought for their heads at a young age, and there was no trace of red silk. What Zhao Guanjia did at this time was undoubtedly destroying the tradition of China for thousands of years. It was indeed terrible to think about it carefully.

"Didn't you also participate in the last class of the school? That time, it talked about financial discipline, which talked about one knowledge point and two major economic policies. Do you still remember this?" Sun Qing asked.

After hearing this question, Sima Kao and Xiong Shang shook their heads. There are countless courses in each time, just points, who can remember so clearly?

Seeing that the two ministers were so honest, Sun Qing did not keep it a secret. He explained: "The two major fiscal policies are: one is the monetary policy implemented by the general money house, and the other is the industrial policy implemented by the Ministry of Revenue. These two major policies determine the economic policy of the Song Dynasty. This is the case this time. The industrial policy adopts a positive policy, and the court directly invests in increasing silk production. The monetary policy is a negative policy. The court passively issues money to make up for the currency gap in it based on the decline in silk prices and output."

Seeing Sun Qing’s words proudly speaking, it was very powerful, but everyone could not understand things. Sima Kao said directly: “Can this silk be used as money?”

Sun Qing replied, "" "I can do it as a money entrant, that's not something I can manage. The official said specifically that this time he can only confirm that the price of silk will plummet. After the silk falls, you are willing to use silk as a money entrant, and that's your business. The official will not intervene in this matter. So you can judge for yourself."

After hearing this useless truth, Secretary Xiong Shang asked more directly: "Shangshu Sun, just say something clearly. Do you think it is reliable to put money at home in the future or silk."

"I think it's reliable for you to pay money. And I think you should not put money at home, but deposit money in the money house. Now put money in the money house and give interest." Sun Shangshu gave a clear suggestion.

"Can we buy what we want by paying money?" Xiong Shang continued to ask.

"In the past, the denomination of the deposit was relatively large, and the lowest was always the same. This time, the government has ordered the issuance of the deposit of the deposit with a minimum denomination of 50 cents. As long as this new version of the deposit was issued, we will need more official things to be traded with deposit. Do you think you can buy what you want?"

Xiong Shang was shocked by the news. He really didn't expect the government to carry out such a large reform of money transfer. Just as he was pondering, he heard Sun Qing continue saying: "In the future, rent land in the South China Sea and only money transfer will be collected."
Chapter completed!