Finally, I made it back to Jinyang before the Winter Festival.
Looking at the familiar city wall, Li Shushi suddenly felt at ease.
At least compared to Cao Cao, who had to fight with the emperor, courtiers, outside princes, and even those local powerful men in Xuchang, Li Shushi in Jinyang was obviously much more relaxed, at least he didn't need to return from an expedition.
When I saw the two big characters representing the place name at the top of the city, I frowned, my temples bulged, and then I felt like I had a splitting headache and almost fainted.
So, this feeling is probably the so-called feeling of going home.
A bucket of hot water can wash away the dust from your body. A hug can wash away your tiredness.
In fact, if we talk about the war itself, the battle that took place in the north of Pingcheng was not the most intense, nor was the pressure on Li Shushi the greatest. At least when he was in the Western Regions, he had to bear much more pressure on the battlefield than this time.
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It's just that this time the war is over, Li Shushi still feels very tired. After all, the pressure from outside the battlefield this time is the greatest in all previous wars. The opponents who are quite destroying the three views really caught Li Shushi somewhat unprepared.
Feel.
How to deal with those changes, how to protect his hard-won achievements, without history as a reference, Li Shushi once again realized his shortcomings as an ordinary person, unable to keep up with this hugely changing world.
Fortunately, although some things have changed dramatically, some things are destined not to change much.
The Winter Festival is always joyful. Yes, how can it not be joyful? After all, the conditions of the land under Li Shushi's rule this year are acceptable. Maybe some places have still suffered disasters, but in most areas they have maintained an average level.
Under the circumstances of the above harvest, some relief through work-for-work relief will not only allow the people to live a reasonably good year, but also take the opportunity to repair local water conservancy and roads, both of which have always been considered by Li Shushi to be the foundation of the country.
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Of course, by the way, some trees were planted on the barren slopes, but if there are no accidents in this method of sowing seeds, it would take one or two generations to see the forest scene, so it is no wonder that there are
The saying "predecessors planted trees for future generations to enjoy the shade", without the support of industrialization, it is really difficult for the north to cultivate fast-growing forests that can grow into forests in three to five years.
A lot of changes have taken place in the land of Guanzhong this year.
For example, the small coins that were prevalent in Guanzhong were abolished, recycled and recast, and while the five-baht coins became the mainstream of the market, the newly minted hundreds of coins began to appear on the market and became the new currency in circulation.
The weight of this large coin worth a hundred is four times that of a five-baht coin, and its diameter and thickness are slightly smaller than the previous five-baht coins of the Han Dynasty. There is a seal script on it "a hundred and five baht", which expresses the meaning of this straight coin.
When a hundred five-baht coins are used, one is equivalent to one hundred ordinary standard five-baht coins. This means that the weight is only increased by three five-baht coins, but the currency value is equivalent to one hundred five-baht coins.
Well, just doing this is equivalent to forcibly increasing the value of ninety-six five-baht coins, causing the currency to depreciate significantly.
It stands to reason that such an approach would have a huge impact on the market and seriously affect people's lives. However, the people in Guanzhong did not feel that their lives were greatly affected by the policies that followed. Even slightly.
Rising - While casting large sums of money, according to Li Shushi's instructions,
The Bingzhou Mufu issued a series of decrees, among which the ones that had the greatest impact on the people were probably the following: unifying the selling prices of major commodities under Bingzhou military rule, implementing a limited public sale system for key commodities, and establishing a minimum purchase price for grain. Crack down on
For private money making activities, taxes must be paid in five baht or new money.
Articles 1 and 2 are mainly to ensure that prices will not fluctuate significantly and avoid anyone planning to launch a large-scale currency war under the rule of the Bingzhou Army - don't think that the ancestors of the Chinese people do not understand economic warfare and assisted the Spring and Autumn Five Periods.
Guan Zhong, the famous prime minister of Duke Huan of Qi, the leader of the hegemony, used economic leverage many times to successfully collapse the economies of small neighboring countries and achieve the result of defeating the enemy without fighting. Moreover, the profit-seeking nature of businessmen also determines that if the government does not intervene, freedom
The market will definitely move towards monopoly and chaos.
Monopolies in this era are not easy to solve directly because they involve local issues. They can only use some encouraging methods to gradually dismantle them. However, this method of behavior is a bit too slow. Anyway, these are troubled times, and Li Shushi can't even use power.
There is no big problem, but it can just clean up a group of local powerful and disobedient businessmen and reward those who are obedient.
In addition, as a new generation who breathed the air of China and grew up on the soil of China, Li Shushi had a very deep understanding of national socialism-perhaps such behavior would create a bloated and uncompetitive behemoth, but if some key points cannot be
If the industry is controlled by the state, and it is controlled by others, it may once again be counterattacked by those powerful and powerful families with deep roots and intricate connections. Anyway, under the strict inspection system, there will not be too many problems in a short period of time.
The third article is also derived from the experience of the Celestial Dynasty that gathered the experience and lessons of all dynasties in Dacheng.
I have said before that Mr. Ye Shengtao's "An Overcharge of Three or Five Dou" is really profound and profound. How can we avoid this situation? Looking at the past dynasties, ancient and modern, this grain protection price system is already the best.
As for the agricultural subsidy policy of a certain alliance, Li Shushi said that the historical facts of big pot rice prove that the ingenuity and ability of the Chinese people to exploit loopholes can defeat any subsidy policy, but it will only lead to a group of lazy people.
The war needed the support of grain and grass. Li Shushi hoped to produce as much grain as possible while ensuring water and soil under his rule. How could he choose a policy that was likely to create a group of lazy people or even a group of monsters and tyrants?
Of course, such a policy will definitely not satisfy those businessmen who like to hoard, but as the saying goes, in troubled times, the law must be used. If those businessmen dare to go against Li Shushi, Li Shushi will not mind letting those businessmen taste the power of national socialism, and if
Those businessmen dared to use force, and Li Shushi did not mind adding new revenue growth points to his private property.
At least those powerful families from Bingzhou have fully understood Li Shushi's toughness, so they will only obey Li Shushi's policies, and then negotiate new profit growth points with Li Shushi based on their own losses - whether it was coal mining or cotton planting before,
Or because of the popularity of wool spinning, the powerful families in Bingzhou have become accustomed to Li Shushi's style in rounds of games.
As for those who are not familiar with it and plan to resist, the powerful Bingzhou family who have been tied to Li Shushi's chariot will also help Li Shushi raise the butcher's knife against those people, and this is why any force must establish a solid core rule.
Because of the layers.
As for the last two, they cooperate with each other in order to push the new money faster.
Li Shushi believes that basically these policies can ensure that the government will recycle the pod money and small money that have lost credibility in the market, and earn a certain amount of profit from this recycling, and then earn a large amount of profits through the sale of large money. This will enrich the national treasury.
, but because the price has been stabilized, people do not need to worry about the money becoming worthless the next day after adapting to the new money.
And this is why Li Shushi dared to issue large amounts of money to devalue the currency, because the Guanzhong area had been disrupted by various inferior coins issued by Dong Zhuo, and prices were changing three times a day. The people in Guanzhong no longer had enough confidence in the old currency system.
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The only thing that supports the circulation of those currencies is just a habit and people's instinctive resistance to new things.
In fact, the powerful local businessmen used this mentality to block the newly issued currency at the beginning. They used various reasons to obstruct it. They trumpeted the new currency to plunder people's wealth, and even prepared for the last "bad currency to drive out the good currency".
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In fact, Li Shushi knew very well that except for some fools who fell into trouble, most of these guys knew very well. Because the ratio of converting pod money to five baht was very low, these businessmen and powerful people would obviously lose a lot of money.
They may not completely intend to boycott the new currency, but they just want to use this method to force the Bingzhou Mufu Government to lower the exchange ratio and obtain more benefits. Some people even borrow money. Some people privately purchased a lot of money and
Huo Huo plans to make a big fortune with a small amount of money.
It has to be said that during the Eastern Han Dynasty, powerful families had considerable authority in the local area. Although Li Shushi had cleaned up his act, many counties still resisted the new money. If the new money had not been partially recognized in Chang'an, or
If it is said that for the sake of Bingzhou Mufu's face, some recognition has to be given, perhaps the situation will be even worse.
However, with the implementation of other supporting measures, when the people learned that the government only charged five baht and refused to accept small coins and small coins. The main commodities on the market were also priced based on five baht, and any products that did not implement the pricing range
All merchants will be punished, and the people's enthusiasm for new money is quickly aroused, making the resistance of those powerful merchants rootless.
In the end, according to the intelligence that had been investigated, Jushu, who was in charge of the matter, went on a killing spree, which brought an end to this small disturbance. The people in Guanzhong also became more and more angry after discovering that prices had stabilized.
support the new monetary policy.
As new coins continue to penetrate into people's lives, this kind of exquisitely made new coins, with beautiful seal characters and fine serrations on the outer edges that are extremely costly to imitate, are even sought after by businessmen from other places who go to Bingzhou under the rule of the Mufu.
Gradually spread to other areas.
After that, the Bingzhou Mufu once again issued gold and silver coins with larger currency values based on Li Shushi's ideas. This kind of precious currency with the currency value and year number on the front and the portrait of Han Emperor Liu Xie on the back was no longer the traditional five baht.
The outer circle is square inside, which is convenient for the currency shape tied together with a rope, but it is a complete piece of round metal currency without any holes.
This currency is extremely valuable and almost impossible to use in daily life, so its main function is to facilitate the settlement of large transactions.
It's just that compared to copper, gold and silver were more scarce in the Han Dynasty, and the heavy burial customs of the Han Dynasty increased this shortage. Therefore, both gold coins and silver coins only exist as auxiliary large-value currencies for the time being, and it is difficult to dominate the circulation field.
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So I just hope that merchants can bring more gold and silver back to the country through the Silk Road in the future. Anyway, Li Shu is not afraid of the negative consequences if there is a huge trade surplus in Bingzhou these days. If there is a war, maybe it can be started.
What about expanding territory?
In addition, Li Shushi also took the opportunity of this currency reform to use the exchange offices that exchanged new currencies to establish many banks for currency deposits and withdrawals. In addition to the ordinary deposit business that charges a certain fee, the most important thing is
It is the long-distance remittance business between banks. In other words, merchants no longer have to worry about the transportation of large amounts of funds.
Anyway, this was originally the "sharp weapon" that made Shanxi merchants famous all over the world in the history of another dimension. Now Li Shushi has used it in advance. Although there are some piracy and infringement, he still has not left the land of Sanjin.
However, this business is still in its infancy stage. Even though Li Shushi can provide some experience, the circulation of goods under his rule is far from reaching the level of extreme demand for this business. Therefore, this advanced "invention" is destined to not be popular in the early stage.
There is so much to gain.
Of course, this "currency war" did not leave some aftermath, because Li Shushi's trip to the frontier, coupled with the fact that many families in this "currency war" lent money to businessmen for various purposes to resist the policy
After Li Shushi returned to Jinyang, he immediately met with Cheng Yu, Ju Shu and others to discuss whether the two industries of loan sharking and casinos should be banned.
Even taking the opportunity of this winter festival, Li Shushi gathered Zhong Yao, Du Ji and other state governors together to join the discussion.
"There is nothing wrong with abolishing casinos. It's just that there are some frontier areas that are beyond the reach of the government. It is difficult to eradicate them. Moreover, gambling houses are extremely profitable. Even if they are banned explicitly, it is difficult to ban them secretly. If this is the case, the government order may be shamed.
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"Although this loan thing hurts the people, it ranges from wealthy families to rich farmers. Lending spare money to others for profit has been a common practice since the ancient Han Dynasty. If it is suddenly banned, no matter how powerful it is,
The people still have no way to make money, and I'm afraid it will easily lead to trouble. Unless the lord has a new idea and wants to make the forces give up the benefits of borrowing and lending."
"Where there are mutual markets, casinos can be preserved as special ancillary facilities in the mutual markets. I think it's okay to ban the rest. As for those guys hiding in the dark, if they can stay safe and honestly avoid creating all kinds of
kind of trouble,
No matter what they are capable of, if there is a situation where girls are forced to sell their children and daughters for prostitution, I don’t mind using more ruthless means to deal with those guys who dare to reach out despite my repeated orders. Just like these businessmen and powerful people who are not smart enough this time.
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Gambling houses may provide a lot of tax revenue, and it is unknown whether there is a large amount of filial piety in private, but these benefits are unlikely to be enough to make the core bureaucrats of the Bingzhou Army oppose Li Shushi's decision. For this kind of thing
, when Li Shushi just puts forward a motion, they may put forward various reasons to try to sway Li Shushi's idea. This is the default room between both parties, but if they cannot shake Li Shushi's idea, then in this case they can only
You can choose to support.
Of course, this is limited to resolutions that will not shake their fundamentals, but if it were the next issue, it would be completely different.
"In fact, I have no objection to things like borrowing. After all, there is no one who doesn't lend a hand. If it is just thirty or fifty copper coins for emergencies, then it can be obtained among relatives and friends, and there is no need for loan sharks.
Just sit back and enjoy the gains. But if you want to get a large amount of money to make a profit, then there is nothing wrong with the lender asking for interest. But if this loan
If the interest rate is too high, then rich people will just lend money and enjoy the profits. As a result, the rich will become richer and richer, while the poor will become poorer and poorer because of the high interest rates. Over time, the land will also become poorer.
Both the good and the wealth are concentrated in the hands of a few people. This is probably one of the reasons why both the former Han Dynasty and the current later Han Dynasty declined."
"My lord, this statement does make sense. The reason why merchants have been suppressed since the pre-Qin Dynasty is because it is easier for them to obtain huge benefits. If everyone becomes a merchant, then no one will cultivate the land, and the country will lose
It is like the two people mentioned in "Guanzi" who gave up land cultivation as the foundation of the country because a certain specialty product was very valuable for a while, which made the country easily destroyed by the powerful Qi State. So Qi felt that this
Things do have to be restricted.”
"Bohou is generally right. Even businessmen have to bear the changes in price differences, various situations encountered in the transportation of goods, and the risks brought about by various other changes. If you are not a smart person, you will not be able to become a
A qualified businessman. But only this usury, the input and output are completely disproportionate, and the risks and returns are also completely disproportionate. Many tragedies in the world are caused by this, so it must be resolutely cracked down and the interest rate must be controlled at an acceptable level.
Within the range!”
"As mentioned just now, companies everywhere are making profits from this. If it is removed out of thin air, I'm afraid the rebound will be worse than the issuance of new money."
"Well, I've been thinking about this a lot during this time, and there happens to be a piece of information here that everyone can take a look at."
Li Shushi handed a few pages of tissue paper to Cheng Yu on his right and Zhu Jun on his left, and then sat there with his eyes closed to relax.
When Li Shushi closed his eyes like this, it was naturally impossible to see the expressions of those who read the contents on the paper, but he could feel from the gasps from time to time that these were considered long-lasting.
The old bureaucrats who had experienced the storm were also shocked by the news that Li Shushi threw out. From the increasingly heavy breathing, it could be felt that these people could no longer sit still, because the information that Li Shushi threw out,
What exactly it means is clear to everyone present.
They were originally considering whether to do something about the amount of interest, but when Li Shushi revealed such information, everyone knew that even a small change in interest could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but
In the face of the piece of information that Li Shushi threw out, the hundreds of millions of dollars that were originally as high as a mountain turned into something inconspicuous.
Finally, everyone should have read the information, and Li Shushi could feel that everyone's hot eyes were turned to him.
"You don't need to doubt the source of this information." Li Shushi opened his eyes again, with a confident smile on his face.
"This information was originally a few words I heard from the Flying Bear Army on the way when I led the troops to the Western Regions. Because I found it very interesting, I asked Wen He to try some exploratory work with his caravan. As for you,
What you see is part of the results.
The resources there are rich, but the forces are also a bit complicated. The most important thing is that it is the territory of the Qiang people. If I intervene there as the Bingzhou Mufu, it will easily cause a backlash from the Qiang people, and then there will be another war.
The protracted war caused Emperor Huan to
The war against the Eastern Qiang has depleted the treasury of the entire Han Dynasty, which has created some special habits of Emperor Ling. He never forgets the past and the past. I don't want to repeat the mistakes that the late emperor made, let alone
We have even tougher enemies."
Everyone's eyes turned to Jia Xu, and the old fox nodded in time, acknowledging the content of Li Shushi's information, so everyone's eyes completely lit up, no, it should be said that they turned red.
Light bulb.
"My lord, just tell me how to settle this matter!"
No one will doubt what was written in the application, and no one will doubt how much benefit this matter can produce. The only question is how Li Shushi plans to distribute this huge benefit.
Yes, everyone is very clear that this huge benefit cannot be monopolized by one family, and Li Shushi's taking it out already means giving up a large part of it to each family, but how should it be divided specifically, Li Shushi still needs to give it to each family.
A guiding opinion.
This can be regarded as everyone's gratitude to Li Shushi for giving up such a big piece of cake, and it is also everyone's acknowledgment that Li Shushi, who gave up such a big piece of cake, enjoys some degree of control.
"Any family can participate in this matter as long as they have the ability. As for the entry threshold...either use a small part of the proceeds as a 'road and bridge construction fund' to build roads from Chang'an to anywhere, or give it to me
Find enough road builders. In terms of taxation, it will be the same as the existing resources. As for the price, there will be no restrictions in five to ten years.
Of course, these are just things in principle, and we have plenty of time to slowly finalize the specific details during this long winter."
At this time, a wisp of breeze blew in from nowhere, gently blowing up the pieces of paper filled with information. Although the papers were quickly pressed down by a hand, they were still able to be read.