"Anton's second trouble is this..." Wu Bei took something out of his arms and put it on the table.
Xu Jiu took a closer look and found that it was a standard five-baht coin.
Since the birth of the five-baht coin in the second year of the First Emperor's reign, its circulation has continued to expand throughout the world.
As of today, there are at least more than 450,000,000 five-baht coins in circulation around the world!
In Guanzhong and Sanhe areas, the five-baht coin has completely eliminated the three-baht coin, half-liang coin and all other private money.
Because of its lightness, beauty, and high copper content, it is very popular and has become a hard currency recognized by the entire world.
Even in the Xiongnu country, it is said that the five-baht coin was recognized and welcomed and became the currency of trade among many tribes.
But now Wu Bei said that the five-baht money has become a big problem for Anton?
Xu Jiu couldn’t believe it!
Both Confucianism and Legalism are opposed to money, or at least have a negative attitude towards it.
Confucians believe that money is the root of all evil, while Legalists believe that gold, pearls, and jade are useless, and only food and cloth are the foundation!
But Zajia doesn’t see it this way. In Zajia’s thoughts and theories, money has always been neutral.
People like Xu Jiu, in particular, have always believed that in the hands of a gentleman, money can benefit the country and the people, but in the hands of a villain, it will cause disaster.
There is even a view in the Pyongyang Academy today that even if someone was a heinous villain in the past, as soon as he becomes rich, he will start to do good deeds.
This is the so-called "when people are rich, then they are benevolent and righteous".
This led to the idea of enriching the people. Scholars at the Pyongyang Academy almost all agreed that most of the problems in the world today lie in the poverty of the people and the hardship of life.
If it were possible to have land for the tiller, for the elderly to have support, and for the young to have support, every household in the world would be able to manage a hundred fields with one man and five people.
Then, there will be no problem.
A peaceful society will also come, and the rule of the Three Generations will naturally appear.
Therefore, Pyongyang Academy is committed to making people rich.
No matter what means are used, as long as one becomes rich, it is successful, just and moral.
Therefore, Xu Jiu looked at the five-baht coin and asked, "What do you mean, brother Xian?"
"The money is too little..." Wu Ban looked at Xu Jiu and said: "The five baht coins circulating throughout Anton are at most 150,000,000..."
"And at least half of them will be taken back inland..."
"There are too few coins circulating in Anton, but people will definitely need more and more coins..." Wu Bei played with the five-baht coin and said in a deep voice.
Among the hundreds of schools of thought, Zajia is the one who is the least shy about money, and is even a school that advocates money.
By the time of the Pyongyang Academy, Wu Bei and others had an intuitive impression of the role and powerful ability of money.
There are seven disciples under Wu Bei, and six of these seven disciples are people who have studied Anton's economy, especially finance.
When they were sent to Jinban in the military, they spent half a year going deep into the markets and grassroots in Pyongyang, Incheon, and Sinhwa, and conducted extensive investigations and understanding of the wealth held by various classes in Andong and the circulation of this wealth.
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Finally, they jointly wrote a "Lun on Ping Jia" and submitted it to the Yamen of the Anton Governor's Office.
In this "Ping Jia Lun", they put forward a surprising conclusion that Anton was short of money, and it was a huge shortage of money.
Unfortunately, this article did not attract much attention at the time.
Many people even think this is a joke!
How could Anton be short of money?
Anton is a sacred place in the world, rich in products and gathering the world's elites.
There is a Shaofu outside, who is clamoring all over the world with five baht every day in order to buy dried fish, whale oil and whale bones, which are specialties of Anton.
There are eleven gold-rich mining rivers including Jinsha River, with an annual output of tens of thousands of gold.
In the fifth year of Yuande, Cang Haijun took the Haoren nobles to Yunyang Mountain in Qi State to worship their ancestors. Hundreds of Haoren nobles and officers boarded eleven large ships, carrying a shipload of gold, silver, pearls, gems and
A large number of other sacrificial vessels landed at the port of Jiaoxi Kingdom.
The whole Qilu were frightened.
The wealthy businessmen shocked the world by holding gold as if it were gold.
When the King of Han, Chu Zhun, married his daughter to the King of Korea, he gave her 10,000 pieces of gold, 3,000 Japanese slaves, 2,000 pieces of silk, and an entire piece of land of a hundred miles as a dowry.
As for today, the big dog owners from all over Anton are even more wealthy.
The Wuheng people once raised a peerless fierce dog, which caused a sensation throughout Anton.
In the end, Chen Xu, the crown prince of Tangyi, spent a lot of money to buy the fierce dog.
A dog can be sold for thousands of gold.
You told me that Anton is short of money?
Be funny!
But Wu was informed that his disciples were not wrong.
At this moment, he looked at Xu Jiu and explained: "Anton is rich, not rich..."
"On the contrary, if no measures are taken, Anton will face a huge difficulty..."
"Well..." Xu Jiu couldn't understand, isn't being rich just about having money?
Wu Bei held the coin and said slowly: "Anton is not as good as China. In China, in addition to five baht coins, there are also three baht coins, half a tael coin and various miscellaneous coins..."
"And Anton was newly established. In the old years, there were no coins at all. When the cavalry generals settled Anton, there were only tens of millions of three baht coins and half a tael in the whole territory of Anton, and most of them were in Wei.
The reverse hand..."
"When I, the Chinese people, came to Andong, five baht coins also circulated..."
"In the past six years, the Shaofu, merchants, and princes' descendants have brought a large amount of five baht money..."
"However, even so, the coins in Anton are very few compared to the population of Anton..."
"In the land of Andong today, there are three thousand miles of mountains and rivers, and there are millions of Han, Korean, Zhenfan, Fuyu, Xianbei, and Wuheng ethnic groups, but their five baht is only more than ten million..."
"On average, each person earns at most several hundred dollars..."
"Today, a stone of rice in Anton is worth forty-five yuan, a stone of salt is worth several hundred yuan, a stone of dried fish is worth more than two hundred yuan, and a pound of iron is worth more than ten yuan..."
"Didn't the Governor discover the problem?"
"I, Anton, have an output of four stones per mu and are rich in products, but I don't have enough money to keep prices down..."
"I'm worried that if my brother doesn't know the harm, something will happen sooner or later..."
Xu Jiu frowned as he listened and asked, "Is this really true?"
He knew in his heart that this was probably the case ten times out of ten.
"That's true!" Wu Bei nodded.
"But why has nothing happened in the past few years?" Xu Jiu asked, Anton is short of money. If it is true, why has no one cared about it, and has it not even become an obstacle to Anton's development?
"Because, there are the Reclamation Corps and the Jinsha River..." Wu Bei said calmly.
"The Reclamation Group has nearly one million immigrants. They are all self-sufficient. The excess food and wealth they produce are all transferred to the Shaofu..." Wu Bei explained patiently.
The Reclamation Corps was not only the anchor of Anton’s society, but also the anchor of Anton’s economy and finance.
It is like a huge sponge, constantly absorbing all excess water and maintaining society, economy and finance.
However, the reclamation regiment will gradually be disbanded.
In fact, next year, there will be the first reclamation regiment that turns the army into the people.
Although, the country has been continuously building and establishing new reclamation groups in recent years.
But all in all, in the future, the dismantling speed of the reclamation corps will be faster than the construction speed.
More importantly, once the Reclamation Corps is abolished, a huge production and consumption market will be released.
In the past, they have always been in a small circle controlled by the Shaofu, Duhufu and the military.
Money is of no use to the Reclamation Corps.
They can be self-sufficient in food, produce and sew their own cloth.
Even fish salt can be adjusted through the Shaofu and Duhufu.
There is no dependence on the outside world, and there is no need to spend or receive money.
However, when they are disbanded, they will sell their output to merchants, and then use the money from the sales to buy the supplies they need.
What was once a sponge has now become a bottomless pit that is devouring five baht coins crazily.
Without spending too much time thinking, we must come to the terrible conclusion that deflation will occur in Anton.
Of course, nowadays, the Han Dynasty has no concept of inflation and deflation at all.
But the lack of this concept does not mean that people are not aware of the harm and seriousness of these things.
At least, in the eyes of the Zajia family, they clearly understand how terrible this problem is.
People want to buy and sell their own products, pay taxes, serve and purchase various necessities.
However, there is a serious lack of equivalent coins on the market.
By then, the price of five baht will be artificially high.
In the Mainland, one stone of rice costs tens of dollars, but it may only be sold for more than ten dollars.
But this is just the beginning, because today Anton has very close trade with Qilu, Yanzhao, and the Anton people are very sensitive and good at looking for opportunities.
At that time, someone will bring coins from China to buy Anton's grain, fish and salt at a cheap price.
At that time, Anton will become a big fat sheep, eaten and divided by all parties, both internal and external.
Anton's economy will collapse and even return to the primitive era.
The credibility of the five-baht coin will collapse, and people will vote with their feet, returning to the age of barter.
When Xu Jiu thought of this, a shiver ran through his body.
Undoubtedly, once something like that happened, as the governor of the Protectorate, how would he explain it to the emperor and the world?
By that time, he might even want to bow down and step down, but he won't be able to do so!
More importantly, Zajia and Pyongyang Academy will also be turned into powder in such a shock.
This is no joke!
How did Lu Ru end up?
Everyone knows it!
Nowadays, Lu Ru has only been dead for a few years, but the appearance of his death is still clearly visible and vivid, and even the corpse is very fresh.
Hundreds of schools of thought and various factions have studied the reasons for the destruction and decline of Lu Ru.
Although, on the surface, Lu Ru suffered bad luck because he was disliked by the emperor.
But in fact, everyone knows privately that the death of Lu Ru was due to the times and politics.
"In addition to the reclamation group, the gold earned by the gold diggers every year also supports Anton's economy..." Wu Bei continued: "Although this generation is vicious and cunning, doing all kinds of evil, and is a trouble to Anton, but his gold mining,
But it supports Anton’s economy and society..."
"Without this generation's tens of thousands of gold every year, Anton would have collapsed today..."
Back then, the rangers and heroes came with dreams of gold.
They fought in the wild, fighting to the death in rivers and valleys.
Some people succeeded and brought back a large amount of gold, even a truckload of gold.
But more people died in the barren mountains and glaciers.
The corpses were covered in ice and snow. A pioneering team from the Protectorate Palace once went up the river and saw countless corpses lying dead in the ice and snow along the way.
These people are victims of their dreams of wealth.
However, what no one expected was that these perverse, free-spirited, and evil-doing people eventually became the pillars of Anton's society and economy.
Many people have even become the pillars of the Pyongyang Academy.
At least 30% of the donations that the Pyongyang Academy receives every year come from donations from these knights and heroes.
Today, more than ten sections of the Fujinsha River in Andong are still asura fields and hells.
Armed rangers, riding horses and carrying bows, fight to the death for a small stretch of gold mining river or even a small gold mining position.
They left their lives in the rivers and valleys in exchange for countless tiny gold sands.
Both Confucianism and Legalism vigorously condemned and condemned such behavior of wasting life and even corrupting morality for something as useless as gold.
But who knows that without these gold diggers, today’s Anton order would have collapsed long ago?
Without the gold they obtained from gold mining, the Anton Protectorate would not even have been established!
Even today’s Anton is impossible!
but……
Wu Ben looked at Xu Jiu and said worriedly: "The gold in the Jinsha River will not be there forever..."
In fact, there is still a lot of gold in the various golden sand rivers in Anton.
However, it is rare to find river sections where gold can be mined without any effort like in the beginning.
The gold content of the two most important gold sand rivers is declining.
Gold will be mined out one day.
Moreover, even now, when tens of thousands of gold are obtained every year, the role played by these gold outputs is actually declining.
Because the population of Anton is constantly increasing.
Especially once the reclamation corps is eliminated in large numbers, a middle class of 100,000 to 200,000 people will be released.
If you are not careful, Anton's economy will collapse!
Both Wu Bei and Xu Jiu had read in books about how miserable a country or region would be if it experienced economic collapse, especially financial collapse.
Far away there was Guan Zhong, who used his power to make Chu bow its head.
Recently, Emperor Gao was in a hurry to collect money, but Guanzhong's economy collapsed. A stone of rice cost three thousand yuan, and the people exchanged their children for food. The tragedy!
But this problem has no solution for Anton.
Wu Bei had thought about it for countless days and nights, but could not think of a solution to the problem.
Because today's Han Dynasty, even if you count the three baht coins, half a coin, private money, etc. in the past, the total circulating dishes are only more than one million, or at most two million.
But now, the Shaofu is desperately trying to recycle all kinds of old money and recast it.
At the same time, we were looking for copper mines everywhere.
However, the total amount of money minted each year has been hovering around one hundred million.
Last year, only 50 million were minted in one year.
The money shortage is not only happening in Anton, there is also a similar money shortage in China.
This means that, in fact, the court may also be worried about this matter.
This can be seen from the fact that the emperor gave five baht of gold as a reward.
