So Yang Guoshi finally gave Zhu Yuanzhang three tricks to prevent depreciation.
First, dollarization.
With the current military strength of the Ming Dynasty at its peak, forcing the younger brothers to take over Baochao, this can certainly be done at least in part.
After all, everyone around him was trembling under Zhu Yuanzhang's knife at this time.
And more importantly, these small countries all lack currency. North Korea has also been printing money since last year, which is their currency.
Vietnam is currently in the last years of the Chen Dynasty. In fact, the powerful minister Hu Jishen had the final say. He soon also issued banknotes in the original history, called Tonghui Baobao.
There was a shortage of copper during this period, even from the Song Dynasty, so the Song Dynasty cast iron coins. Now with the extensive use of firearms, copper is even more scarce. In this case, paper money has become the best choice, and compared with
When it comes to copper coins, banknotes are obviously more suitable for looting. After all, everything is available as soon as the printing press is turned on. In this case, Zhu Yuanzhang used force to force these subjects to use Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes.
But this requires supporting opening up to foreign trade.
So essentially he asked Zhu Yuanzhang to open up foreign trade.
After all, if he wants people to use Baoqian, he has to provide them with the source of Baoqi and let them sell goods to the Ming Dynasty. Only in this way can the Baoqi enter their market and people can have Baoqi flowers. But let them sell things to the Ming Dynasty.
They have to let people buy things from Ming Dynasty, and eventually trade will be opened up. As long as Ming Dynasty forces them to use treasure banknotes for transactions, even if they are just to be second-rate dealers, they will do their best to sell to Ming Dynasty the goods that Ming Dynasty can accept...
Even if I go to Luzon to haul a load of rice.
It doesn't matter whether they make money by transporting to Ming Dynasty or not. What matters is that they can go to Ming Dynasty to exchange for treasure notes, and then use the treasure notes to buy what they really want.
That's what makes you rich.
Then Zhu Yuanzhang can set what they need to input.
As for where they got grain, sulfur, spices, and even cotton, it has nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty.
But they can only import these things that His Majesty the Emperor wants, exchange them for treasure money, and then buy silk and porcelain and resell them to make a fortune. This allows them to plunder the country to supply the Ming Dynasty. They must believe in the integrity of the monarchs and merchants of these countries.
If you make a fortune as a second-rate dealer, you won't mind causing famine in your own country.
Second, open a bank.
This is relatively difficult.
But it is simple to combine it with the third one, which is the reserve system.
As long as you allow free exchange while accepting deposits, it will be fine.
Moreover, this kind of exchange agency is not an invention. It already existed in the Song Dynasty. Jiaozi in the Song Dynasty actually had a deposit.
This is a true metal-based currency.
It's just that our Song Dynasty progressed too fast. It just came up with a metal-standard currency, and it was very regular at the beginning. It had 360,000 guan of iron coins, but only 1.2 million guan of jiaozi was printed. But it didn't take long for them to
You can smartly find that you can take bigger steps. Why do you need to maintain such a high reserve ratio?
Then I started to imitate the bald guy.
One step for a thousand years!
I have to say that the officials of the Song Dynasty are really smart.
What Zhu Yuanzhang needs now is to go back to the metal standard, and seriously go to the freely convertible gold standard, or gold and silver bi-standard, and this has also been proven by history. It is the most stable currency system. The only problem is Zhu Yuanzhang's current gold standard.
There is not much silver. But fortunately, he is also the most ruthless knife, so he can completely make this symbolic, that is, he decrees that it can be freely exchanged, and sets a few examples of exchange, even for small amounts of exchange.
but……
If you dare to exchange a large amount, you will find an excuse and get killed!
Anyway, he has been doing this to those wealthy families over the years, and he doesn't mind copying a few more.
but……
"You still have to go out and grab it."
Yang Feng said as if Master Tang spoke with sincerity.
His Majesty the Emperor is thinking deeply...
"Just because you can suppress it does not mean that your descendants can suppress it. This system was originally used by countries in the West and the West. The first one was called England. They relied on this system to maintain the country for more than two hundred years.
Hegemony. They have only one trick to maintain this system. They go out and rob non-stop. Wherever there are gold mines, they grab them all. Those countries with gold and silver beat them down and force them to hand over, or even simply kill people.
Kill them all and go up and grab them.
Let’s take the example of the Manchu Qing Dynasty who destroyed your Ming Dynasty.
The first time, England defeated them. Their capital was in Peiping and they relied on canals to transport grain. The British sailed warships to Zhenjiang and occupied Zhenjiang to block canal transportation.
Then they were forced to pay compensation, which amounted to more than 20 million taels in one fell swoop.
More than ten years later, they teamed up with another person and fought directly from the Bohai Sea. After landing, they broke into Peiping and drove away the Manchu Emperor. They robbed the treasure garden and set it on fire.
Then they forced the Manchus to pay an indemnity of 8 million taels to the family before leaving.
A few decades later, together with several other powerful countries in Europe and the West, they fought again and occupied Peiping. In the end, do you know how much compensation they forced the Manchus to pay?
Forty-five million taels.
It has to be paid not all at once, but divided into several decades, or paid in advance. However, if interest is calculated during this period, the actual final compensation will be 90,000 taels plus interest.
Gotta grab it.
A horse cannot grow fat without night grass!
A country cannot be rich without windfall!"
Yang Feng said.
"Isn't that like a robber?"
Zhu Yuanzhang said obviously even he felt hypocritical.
"Your Majesty, whoever steals the hook is a thief, whoever steals the country is a prince, whoever blocks the road and beats the enemy is a bandit, and whoever opens up the territory is the Holy Lord."
"My Ming Dynasty will eventually embrace all directions..."
"Huairou? Do you believe this? Did you rely on Huairou to win the Ming Dynasty? Did you rely on Huairou to move Chen Youliang to commit suicide, and then give the territory to you? Did you rely on Huairou to make Emperor Hu Yuan feel sorry for us?
Give up the Central Plains by yourself? Are you relying on Huairou to let Li Chenggui be your dog? You obviously rely on the knife, so why do you want Huairou? You killed millions of soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River, and the sword in the box is still bloody, and you conquered these thousands of miles of country.
What do you mean by Huairou now?"
"Well, you're talking more and more nonsense."
"Your Majesty, what I taught you was done by the most powerful country at that time. This country was originally a group of abandoned people. Because they couldn't survive in their hometown, just like you, they finally chose to live far away.
They crossed the ocean and arrived in America. When they went there, they had no food to eat, so they relied on the local natives for help, so they settled there. Then they began to kill the natives because they had firearms. The natives could not defeat them and were killed by them.
He had no choice but to leave his home and run away.
In the end, all the good land became theirs.
Then they continued to kill the natives, and continued to seize their good land. They continued to kill in this way, and it took more than two hundred years to kill the natives until they were almost extinct.
Even in order to kill natives, a reward was publicly offered, and a native could be scalped in exchange for money, including the old, weak, women and children.
In the end, they monopolized the original land of the natives and became the strongest country at that time. The land was vaster than the Ming Dynasty. Most of it was plains suitable for farming, and it was the most fertile black land. The fertile land was drained.
Oil.
Tens of millions of tons of grain are produced annually.
One ton at our time was about 1,600 kilograms at your time.
You see, this is the one who succeeds."
Yang Feng said.
Of course, he also knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was just pretending.
After all, His Majesty the Emperor has been the emperor for almost thirty years, and it is no longer the time to fight and kill in the past.
At this time, I have put on my crown, assumed the posture of the Holy Lord and Mingjun, and sat in the main hall to maintain my dignity. It is not easy to open my mouth to snatch it.
hypocritical!
Despicable!
"On that map, clearly mark all the good places that produce gold and silver, just in case you need them!"
His Majesty the Emperor said.
"Don't worry, I've given you clear signs. In fact, what Japan has is that they have a gold-producing island on the sea and a silver mountain on the coast. But even they may not know it now. After all, these things are underground.
It still needs to be dug out and refined. As long as you can capture these two places, your Ming Dynasty will not be short of gold and silver for fifty years. The other is the Americas I mentioned before. If you can capture the silver mines there, your Ming Dynasty will be at least
There will be no scarcity in two hundred years.
But that one is too far and requires long-term preparation and a long journey across the ocean."
Yang Feng said.
"In the Japanese country, the Japanese king Huai Liang has always been arrogant and rude."
"Your Majesty, Huai Liang died a long time ago. He died more than ten years ago and retired twenty years ago. The Huai Liang who later paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty was just a local daimyo on Kyushu Island. In order to trade with the Ming Dynasty, he lied
He is said to be the envoy of Huai Liang, and the real boss of the Japanese country now is their shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu."
"Minamoto Yoshimitsu?"
"right."
"His envoy came to the Ming Dynasty. The ministers thought that Huai Liang was the Japanese king and that he, a general conquering barbarians, should not pay tribute alone, so they ignored him."
"Their serious king is the emperor, but he is just like the emperor of Zhou and no one cares about him.
The place was divided among the feudal lords, that is, those daimyo. The strongest daimyo was General Zhengyi, who was the real leader.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu has indeed always wanted to trade with the Ming Dynasty.
Then you might as well send someone to confer him the title of King of Japan. He actually likes this title. Later, your heir conferred it on him like this, and he was quite satisfied. Then we will also allow him to trade. In this way, we can first clarify the route and clear the route to Japan.
All the sailors on this route have been trained. When that's done, you can find an excuse. For example, if he hid the emperor, he was deceiving the emperor, and then attacked him. We don't need to occupy all his territory, including the gold and silver mines.
That’s it.
The place where they live is actually very poor, and there is not much land available, otherwise they are all so small.
Even if there is a lack of food, generations of hungry people will be raised by hungry people. At that time, they were able to eat meat by working as dogs for the most powerful country, and they were also raised by that powerful country. They were all the same as
We're almost high.
There’s no need to waste too much effort in a place like this.”