It’s not surprising that Jia Qijin was suspicious, the main reason was that the reputation of Ming Baochao had really been ruined.
The team officer shook the voucher in his hand and said with a smile.
"This thing is not a treasure!"
"This voucher can be taken directly to the bank and exchanged for a corresponding amount of silver coins. It can also be used to pay taxes. It is much more reliable than the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes!"
"Besides, if you look at it, it has the official seal of the imperial court on it!"
"With the court's credit guarantee, what else do you have to worry about?"
The reason why the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes were damaged!
One is the credit collapse caused by excessive printing and over-issuance!
The second reason is that Ming Dynasty banknotes cannot be used to pay taxes!
To put it bluntly, the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes are nothing more than the imperial court using its own credit to endorse and use pieces of waste paper to harvest the wealth of the people in the world.
This operation is even more rogue than the old US printing of US dollars.
After all, Americans can still use U.S. dollars to pay taxes. Once they are printed, they still have to recycle some of them.
But Comrade Zhu is not prepared to recycle it at all!
Use the credibility of the Ming Dynasty to play money-making games!
When the over-issuance reaches a certain level, won’t the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes become useless?!
But the vouchers created by Zhu Hongyu are not like this.
While ensuring that the vouchers can be redeemed for gold and silver at any time, he is also using taxation to recycle and issue vouchers.
Coupled with the endorsement of the court's credit, the issuance of vouchers is relatively stable at present!
As long as Zhu Hongyu is not stupid and floods the government with vouchers, there is no problem at all in over-issuance to a certain extent to ease the financial pressure on the court when the government's finances are tight.
Moreover, in order to prevent counterfeiting, Zhu Hongyu also printed the official seal of the imperial court on the vouchers.
It’s not that after the official seal is printed, the technical requirements for counterfeiting coins become more difficult.
But the cost of crime has become higher!
The vouchers have official seals printed on them. Anyone who dares to make counterfeit coins will be guilty of playing Jiuzu Xiaoxiao!
Privately printing counterfeit currency may not necessarily lead to the crime of confiscating one's family and exterminating a clan, but privately printing the official seal of the imperial court is a sure sign of rebellion.
"Why doesn't the court give you silver coins?"
Jia Qijin asked his team officer curiously.
The team officer shook his head and said.
"The ones that were issued were because I thought the silver coins were too troublesome, so I took the initiative to apply for the vouchers!"
The team officer then explained.
"The imperial court has opened a special supply and marketing cooperative. The prices of the goods there are almost 30% lower than the ordinary prices outside, but they only accept vouchers when collecting payment."
"To put it bluntly, that is a benefit given to us soldiers by His Highness the Governor!"
"Ordinary people can't get vouchers even if they want to, so they can only go to the bank to exchange them with real money and pay handling fees."
“I’m not sure whether I can change it!”
"Therefore, most of the soldiers in the army ask for vouchers when receiving military pay and rewards. When they want to save money, they have to exchange silver coins for vouchers."
Jia Qijin scratched his head and asked.
"Then why do we from the Guiyi Army receive only silver coins and not a single voucher?"
The team officer laughed and asked meaningfully.
"What do you think?"
Seeing Jia Qijin's expression that seemed to understand but not understand, the team officer then opened his mouth to explain.
"The number of vouchers printed by the imperial court every year is very limited, and there is no way to get them."
The meaning of the team officer's words is very clear. The number of vouchers is limited. Before it is your turn to join the rebel army, all the vouchers will be distributed among the various units.
Therefore, you can only receive silver coins!
Suddenly, Jia Qijin looked at the real money in his hand and felt that it didn't smell so good anymore!
To put it bluntly, the reason why the number of vouchers appears to be scarce is because Zhu Hongyu is deliberately engaging in hunger marketing.
Everything is worthless if the quantity is too much!
Zhu Hongyu wants to use this method to keep the vouchers out of stock, and then increase their gold content.
People, they are all a bit bitchy!
The less you can get something, the more you will cherish it and the more you will care about it.
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Zhu Hongyu once again summoned representatives of local officials in Guangzhou at the military government office.
After asking them about the recovery status of local production and life, the organizational status of militia training and other issues, Zhu Hongyu commended local officials with outstanding performance.
Those who deserve a promotion should be promoted, and those who deserve a reward should be rewarded!
However, he was not blindly tolerant of local governments. Zhu Hongyu kept a small ledger of the bad things done by local officials who had gone over the line.
Now that the threat from the Qing army is the top priority, Zhu Hongyu can turn a blind eye to the dirty choices made by the local government.
But when the military threat from the Qing army was gone, haha, it was time for Zhu Hongyu to settle the score.
At that time, the small account book in Zhu Hongyu's hand will be the roll call list of the Lord of Hell!
When the officials all resigned and left, Zhu Hongyu rubbed his eyebrows vigorously, with an expression on his face full of helplessness and faint aggrievedness.
“These people really don’t have a clear idea of what they do!”
He couldn't hold back his murderous intention anymore!
Zhu Hongyu's face looked really ugly when he saw the bad things that happened in the local area reported by Jinyi Guardian.
Wang Ruxian stood quietly on the side without saying a word.
This kind of thing is not something he can interrupt!
Zhu Hongyu took a deep breath and asked as if he remembered something.
"How is the situation over there in Luzon?"
Wang Ruxian compiled a stack of reports and handed them to Zhu Hongyu.
The first thing Zhu Hongyu saw was the report on the current situation of Li Lingxiu's mother and son.
Zhu Hongyu is still very concerned about his only son.
However, due to the tense war situation on the mainland, Zhu Hongyu wanted to stay in the mainland and could not return to Luzon.
Moreover, the child is still too young to withstand the hardships of traveling by sea, nor can he come to the mainland.
Therefore, even if Zhu Hongyu is interested in his son, he will never see it.
I can only express my thoughts through letters!
Seeing the report on Li Lingxiu and the child's health status sent from Tai Hospital, Zhu Hongyu's originally gloomy expression became slightly better.
Although Li Lingxiu wrote him a letter, Zhu Hongyu also read it and knew that everything was fine with their mother and son.
But regarding the specific health status, Zhu Hongyu still thinks Tai Hospital’s report is more reliable!
After all, Tai Hospital is the professional one!
And more importantly, due to the selfless dedication of those Spanish prisoners of war.
The current Da Ming Tai Hospital has taken a big step forward in the development of modern medicine.
The medical skills of those doctors are even more superb!
After reading the health reports of Li Lingxiu, mother and son, Zhu Hongyu continued to read other reports.
Land development, industrial and commercial development, tax increase, population resettlement, soldier recruitment, etc. in Luzon...
Zhu Hongyu does not need to participate in everything, but he must have a simple understanding of many things.
As a ruler, if you don't even know how many people you have under your command, how many acres of land you have, how much tax you can collect, and how many soldiers you can recruit.
Then this ruler is not far away from Wan Duzi!
After reading more than half of the report, Zhu Hongyu stretched himself and felt a little tired.