Chapter 507 The trend of bank runs spreads all over the world
Yuan Tan's plan is of no use. This month, he pays 20 times the monthly salary, which allows the soldiers to barely support themselves. But next month, the banknotes depreciate, and even if he pays 30 times the monthly salary, the soldiers still cannot support themselves.
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In just three months, the monthly salary of Yuzhou soldiers exceeded that of General Liu Bei. However, even so much money was of no use. Paper money could no longer buy anything, and Yuzhou soldiers still could not support themselves.
The credit of banknotes in Yuzhou has collapsed. Although people can't get copper coins, they simply barter to reduce losses. At the same time, Yuzhou's economy has completely collapsed!
If paper hadn't been considered a precious material in this era, I'm afraid the people of Yuzhou would have to pay a sack of money to exchange for a sack of grain.
At this time, Yuan Tan was really smart. He directly learned the Arabic numerals of Hebei and added 0 directly on the banknotes. Soon, Yuzhou's banknotes had a string of 0s behind them, which was very similar to the style of Tiandi Bank.
Liu Bei, who was in Jingzhou, was dumbfounded as he watched what happened in Yuzhou! Even Yuan Tan's banknote collapse had affected him.
This time Yuzhou's banknotes collapsed, the people who suffered the most were not the people. They didn't have much money in their hands. At most, all the food they had saved in the past two years was taken away by Yuan Tan.
But the merchants in Yuzhou were in bad luck. They managed to escape from Dong Zhuo's indictment, and it took several years of self-cultivation to recover a little bit of their strength. But this time Yuan Tan's actions completely robbed them.
Yuan Tan's soldiers were issued paper money, and they didn't care whether the paper money was valuable or not. After the soldiers got the money, they went to the merchants' shops to buy things. If they dared not sell them, they would just rob them. In the end, they left a pile
Useless banknotes are given to these businessmen. They make these businessmen cry without tears!
The commerce in Yuzhou was completely destroyed. No businessman dared to do business in Yuzhou anymore. The wealthy nobles also closed their shops one by one to reduce their losses.
And Yuan Tan didn't care about such things. The food and goods were already concentrated in his hands, and it didn't matter whether there were merchants or not.
The soldiers under him now no longer issue paper money, but directly distribute food. However, in the past, a soldier could feed a family, but now they can only feed themselves. It is impossible for Yuan Tan to help the soldiers support their families.
But the merchants all over the world were frightened by Yuan Tan's actions, and could no longer believe in the banknotes in their hands. Whether it was issued by Liu Bei, Cao Cao, or even Lei Gong, through the spread of the businessmen, people all over the world were very interested in the banknotes.
The understanding is like waste paper!
Jingzhou, Xiangyang City, General’s Mansion!
Liu Bei summoned all his confidants to his mansion!
"Lord, merchants from all over the country are exchanging our banknotes. If we can't get out the goods and gold and silver, I'm afraid what happened in Yuzhou will happen in our Jingzhou!" Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping said with fear on their faces.
The banknotes in Jingzhou were issued by the two of them. Of course they knew that the copper coins confiscated by Liu Bei were made into artillery, he recruited hundreds of thousands of troops, and recruited millions of southern barbarians. The money was almost completely spent.
Now the people want to exchange the banknotes in their hands for copper coins, and it is impossible for them to get them.
Zhang Fei said angrily: "Yuan Tan is trying to kill us and devalue it dozens of times. Back then, Dong Zhuo was only robbing businessmen at most, but now he doesn't even spare the common people!"
Yuzhou's economy has completely collapsed. In this month alone, 100,000 people from Yuzhou came to Jingzhou.
Liu Bei said coldly: "Now is not the time to talk about this."
Then he looked at Su Shuang and asked: "How many banknotes have we issued?"
Su Shuangdao: "It's about five billion. With the current situation in Jingzhou, if there is no more than two billion in money and currency to restore its credibility, what happened in Yuzhou will also happen in Jingzhou."
Jian Yong said helplessly: "The copper coins we collected have already been cast into artillery. If it hadn't been used to expand the army, replenish food, grass and weapons, where would we be able to get it now? Two billion yuan, Yuan Tan really killed us this time
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After saying this, Jian Yong and the others all looked at Yuan Ji, asking, "Why do you, the Yuan family, come up with so many useless people who are more than capable of getting into trouble?"
Yuan Ji was already used to being cheated by his two younger brothers, and now it didn't matter if he was cheated by his nephew again.
He said solemnly: "General, banknotes are related to the life and death of my court. Hebei is the best at deceiving people. With the current situation in Yuzhou, if the army of Thunder Lord attacks, Yuzhou will definitely be defeated like Jizhou back then. If
We, the people of Jingzhou, don’t believe us either, we’re just afraid that Lei Gong’s army will take the opportunity to attack Jingzhou this time!”
Liu Bei remembered the Battle of Jizhou that year, where his teacher died tragically. Although there were more than 200,000 troops in Jizhou at that time, most of them became the helpers of Lei Gong. They followed Lei Gong and hanged the noble families of Jizhou.
It was because this lesson was so profound that it aroused panic among the entire Han gentry, so they were willing to take out their own fields and hand them over to Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and Liu Bei to raise their troops, so that the land equalization system in various places could continue!
Liu Bei thought for a while and said: "If the people want to exchange money, we can't give it, but the imperial court has a large amount of military supplies. You take out the military rations, salt, and cloth from the warehouse and give them to the people! You can't let the imperial court break its trust with the people!"
In order to cope with the attack in Hebei, Liu Bei has prepared a large amount of food, cloth, medicinal materials and other materials in the past few months. These materials prepared for the war have become Liu Bei's confidence. Now he can only exchange them for the people first. Yuan Tanzhu has no teammates
There is a way to save it.
But Su Shuang said helplessly: "My lord, these are far from enough. With the paper money in the hands of the people of Jingzhou, I am afraid that if we exchange all the grain, cloth and salt in our hands, they will still have a large amount of paper money in their hands!"
Most of this money was spent by Liu Bei, and even the goods in his warehouse could not be exchanged for the currency of the entire Jingzhou.
Jian Yong said: "My lord is going to find the heads of the major clans in Jingzhou. They should have a lot of food and money in their hands. As long as we explain the current situation in Jingzhou clearly to them, they will definitely be stingy with the money if they don't want Lei Gong to occupy Jingzhou."
Five billion may seem like a lot, but it’s just more than 20 million shi of food. Although we don’t have it, the Jiangnan nobles must have this food in their hands!”
Zhao Yun also said: "General Guan can also be asked to mobilize Yangzhou's salt to exchange for banknotes in the hands of the people. There is a large amount of salt in Yangzhou. With the current level of panic among the people, I am afraid they would rather have salt than banknotes. The money in our hands
The salt should be enough to digest a lot of banknotes!"