Chapter 182: Moving the border and banning the sea
Wang An opened his mouth and said.
"Then what requirements does the Grand Governor have for the specifications of silver coins and copper coins?"
Zhu Hongyu touched his chin and said.
“The coins must be made from sufficient materials, the appearance must be exquisite enough, and they must be difficult to cast, and they must not be easily copied!”
"Coins are the face of the military government and the Ming Dynasty. You must not be sloppy!"
Making money must be profitable. Whether it is copper coins or silver coins, it cannot be made entirely of silver or copper. It is certain that it will be mixed with other metals.
The proportion of these metals is where the profit from minting lies!
However, although Zhu Hongyu was short of money, he didn't want to do anything like squandering the benefits.
Making money by minting bad money can indeed make some money for a while, but in this way, it is easy to destroy the credibility of Ming Dynasty coins!
Once your credibility is gone, it’s not easy to build it back up!
Wang An bowed and said.
"Don't worry, Governor, the institute promises to come up with a result as soon as possible!"
Zhu Hongyu nodded to express his relief, and then he led the team out of the research institute.
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On the way back to the military government office, Zhu Hongyu was riding on horseback, thinking about things.
In fact, regarding coins, Zhu Hongyu was not only thinking about minting coins, but also planned to print banknotes.
But, because Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes have a shabby reputation that is equivalent to wiping paper.
Zhu Hongyu could only quietly change the concept and make some small moves.
For example, Zhu Hongyu started to build a bank.
Compared with a real bank, there are a lot fewer businesses, and there are only a few businesses such as gold, silver and precious metal exchange, collection, lending, and investment.
When Zhu Hongyu distributed salaries to officials and soldiers within the military government, he used banknotes.
However, Zhu Hongyu did not follow the example of his ancestors and did not let others use precious metals. They had to use the waste paper he handed out.
Moreover, Zhu Hongyu did not directly say that they were banknotes, but only said that they were vouchers!
As the name suggests, vouchers can be used instead of gold and silver.
Of course, if you want gold and silver, you can always take the voucher to the bank to exchange for gold and silver.
If someone finds it troublesome to exchange gold and silver, the vouchers can be used directly as money.
Because in the bank, when exchanging vouchers for gold and silver, you don’t look at the person, only the voucher, and the voucher is exchanged for whoever holds it!
It doesn’t have to be officials, businessmen, common people, craftsmen, farmers, anyone can change it!
Of course, banks also provide the business of exchanging gold and silver for vouchers!
Through this method, Zhu Hongyu gave the voucher value, making it no longer an ordinary piece of paper.
In addition, Zhu Hongyu also had other means. The military government specially set up supply and marketing cooperatives for the whole society, with a full range of goods at high quality and low prices.
However, the supply and marketing cooperative accepts vouchers, not gold or silver.
And the most important thing is that the vouchers can be used to pay taxes!
Zhu Hongyu took great pains to build the credibility of banknotes.
When the vouchers are deeply rooted in people's hearts and the credibility of the Ming Dynasty is re-established, Zhu Hongyu will almost be able to make banknotes.
The road is long and full of difficulties and obstacles, but the final result must be quite wonderful!
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At the same time, due to the defeat in the Xiamen naval battle, the Qing navy was almost completely wiped out, and for a time the Zheng family was arrogant at sea.
In order to prevent Zheng's development from obtaining population and materials from the coast.
The Qing government issued a decree to move borders and ban seas!
People at that time recorded that the deadline was only three days. Those who were far away did not know it in time, and those who were close knew it but did not believe it.
After more than two days, the horsemen arrived, but they staggered for a while. The rich people abandoned all their inheritance, while the poor man's husband carried a cauldron and his wife carried a child, carrying a bucket of rice and a bunch of manuscripts, looking at the door to rest.
Starting from Jiangsu and Zhejiang and arriving in Fujian and Guangdong, thousands of miles of fertile soil were donated as basil, and all the native people moved away.
Translated into vernacular, it means that the migration is limited to three days. People far away have no time to know the news. Even if people close to know the news, they don't believe it.
Two days later, the army and cavalry arrived, so the rich all abandoned their wealth, and the poor took their pots, wives and children, and all moved inward. From Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Guangdong and Fujian, the fertile soil for thousands of miles along the coast was all turned into
Wild basil.
As you can imagine, even modern people can definitely not complete the move from planning to implementation and specific operational preparations in three days.
However, at that time, China's coastal residents were forced to move away from their homeland without any warning and under the coercion of the Qing rulers. The miserable and miserable situation was obvious.
The description of the people at that time is: "On the same day, the people took their wives and children and carried them on the road, put their houses on fire, and burned them without leaving any stones. More than half of the people died, lying on their pillows in the road. Even those who could reach the inland by one or two had no food to burn the stones.
, death from hunger is already here..."
At the same time as moving, it was burned.
"Later, the army's cavalry galloped and fired, rockets burned their houses, the emperor's birds and beasts scattered, and the fire did not go out for months. Thousands of warships of the navy were also burned at the same time, saying: they have no use for the invaders."
Countless people who had no time to migrate were brutally killed by the Qing army!
Countless people starved to death in this process, or died tragically at the hands of the Qing army!
From dozens of miles to hundreds of miles away, the entire southeastern coast, which is the richest, most fertile, and most densely populated, has turned into a scorched earth.
The southeastern coast, which had finally calmed down, was once again in chaos. The people along the coast, who couldn't bear it anymore, launched a vigorous anti-Qing uprising.
It can be said that the rulers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not do human affairs at all. If they had been less troublesome, the wars in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties would not have lasted for such a long time.
When the Qing army entered the pass, the northern land was quickly pacified, and the southeast was attacked by the wind. The Ming army could only linger in the southwest.
As a result, Dorgon's decree of shaving one's hair and making it easier to obey was carried out, and the first wave of resistance against the Qing broke out in the Central Plains, Shanxi, Southeast and other places that had been pacified long ago.
If Dorgon didn't do something about shaving his hair and changing clothes, Nan Mingming would be done for!
Can you still hold on until now?
As a result, now that Yongli had just been captured, the Qing government came back and moved the border and banned the sea, forcing the already settled southeast coast to rebel again.
I just don’t understand, what the hell are the Manchus and Qing Dynasties doing!
At this time, the war in the southeast has just ended, and it is a time when the people feel at ease. Even if they do not move the border and ban the sea, how many people will follow the Zheng family?!
In the end, he insisted on making trouble and forced Southeast to rebel again!
Also, by doing this, the Manchus and Qing Dynasties completely cut off the possibility of China developing into the ocean.
The Chinese power in Nanyang has completely lost the subsequent population replenishment, allowing the Western colonists to become completely bigger!
Not only that, it also completely wiped out the primitive capital accumulation since the late Ming Dynasty!
It transformed China from a country with only one foot in the door of capital to a semi-slavery and semi-feudal country.
What's even more disgusting is that some slaves in later generations will forcefully whitewash their masters, saying that the Ming Dynasty's maritime ban was the root cause of China's backwardness in modern times, and that the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were just the Qing Dynasty's inheritance of the Ming Dynasty.
Good guy, the Ming Dynasty has been dead for more than two hundred years, and I still have to take the blame for you!
This pot dumping is really authentic~!
But the problem is, since the Ming Dynasty switched to Longqing, there has been no such thing as a sea ban!
The most typical example is that in the East Asian waters in the late Ming Dynasty, it was not the Western colonists who had the final say!
But Zheng Zhilong, Yan Siqi and other Han Chinese masters of the sea!