As soon as Liu Che finished speaking, the courtiers immediately started talking in a buzzing manner.~
Put everything else aside for now.
Is the purchase price of this wheat the same as that of corn?
What does this mean?
Many people's hearts were pounding.
As long as you are not a fool, you will understand what you should do after you go back.
Harvest the wheat quickly!
Collect as much as you can!
The price of grain in Chang'an now fluctuates very little because corn is protected.
Generally, the price of one stone of corn is between fifty and sixty yuan, basically maintaining the same level as last year - if it is any higher, the young government will intervene.
As for wheat, one stone of wheat can currently be sold for up to 30 yuan on the market, and sometimes, it can even be sold for only 25 yuan.
If the price of wheat and the price of corn are equal.
So……
Many people are secretly rattling the abacus in their hearts.
After all, living in Chang'an is not easy.
Whether it's food, clothing, housing, transportation, or socializing and entertaining guests, they all cost a lot of money.
Relying on salary alone, everyone would have starved to death long ago.
Even the former Prime Minister Shentujia, the late Anhou Shentujia, who was always known for his integrity and uprightness in the government and the public, could only turn a blind eye to corruption in the officialdom, as long as it was not too excessive.
Liu Che looked around at the ministers and said, "Mr. Cen, I will leave this matter to you personally!"
"No!" Cen Mai quickly came out of the queue to pay his respects.
But my heart was extremely bitter.
Since the emperor came to the throne, money has been spent too fast!
The young master is so fast that he can't keep up with the speed at which Jin Shang spends money.
What's the big deal if this continues?
Emperor Taizong Xiaowen and Emperor Renzong Xiaojing have accumulated treasury for thirty years. I am afraid that it will bottom out in less than ten years!
It's just that the young man's name is Jiuqing, but in fact he is just the emperor's personal butler.
Everything owned by the Shaofu is the private property of the emperor.
Not to mention that he wants to use it to do things that are beneficial to people's livelihood, even if it is to build large-scale construction projects and create wine ponds and meat forests, he will also do it.
Liu Che looked at Cen Maiwei's trembling appearance and felt pitiful.
He understands that the Young Master also wants political achievements.
If he continues to spend as lavishly as he does, I'm afraid Cen Mai, a poor old minister, will be driven crazy.
So he comforted him by saying: "Master Cen does not need to worry about the treasury. The day before yesterday, I received a memorial from Fu Yan, the domestic historian of Jiangdu, saying that he has followed my wishes to build salt fields along the coast of Jiangdu. I have issued an edict to move Jiangdu to
The salt fields are owned by the Shaofu!"
Zhu Fuyan was ordered to go south to Jiangdu with a mission. In addition to supervising the construction of ships that could sail and fish in offshore and even distant seas, another responsibility was to develop salt fields in Jiangdu.
The sun salt method is not a high technology.
At the beginning, King Wu Liu Bi mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to boil the sea into salt. With the abundant sea salt in Wu, he monopolized most of the salt trade of the Han Dynasty and made countless profits.
The boiling salt used by Liu Bi is still too primitive and a waste of manpower.
Liu Che asked his master Fu Yan to take dozens of Shaofu craftsmen and two Mohist disciples south, and told them to lead seawater to the salt fields and use the sun to dry the salt.
As for how to operate it specifically, it depends on their continuous testing and operation.
Anyway, the technical difficulty of this matter is not high. As long as you are patient and try a few times, you can always find a way.
No, the master's father Yan wrote to Liu Che a few days ago to announce the good news.
The salt field drying method has been successful!
Along with the memorial came a large bag of sun-dried sea salt.
Liu Che has seen that the sea salt dried by his father is actually coarse salt. Before it can become the table salt of future generations, it may need several processes to remove impurities, harmful substances, etc.
But to BC farmers, kosher salt was still salt!
As long as it can be eaten and no one will die, why bother?
During China's long feudal era, the salt most people consumed was coarse salt.
As for refined salt, only officials and wealthy landlords could afford it.
In other words, the salt produced by Master Yan can be sold directly.
The profit from salt and iron is self-evident, not to mention that the cost of drying salt, except for labor and land, is almost zero.
After hearing this, Cen Mai's face became better.
Finally, I can get one more income, right?
After deciding the matter, Liu Che looked at the other ministers. Liu Che knew very well that these people would definitely use the information they knew in advance to purchase wheat.
However, this was what Liu Che expected.
If you want to promote winter wheat, it will be difficult to achieve the effect just by raising the price.
It must be supported and instigated by the landlord class in Guanzhong.
Without the promotion and help of the landlord class, relying only on the spontaneous actions of farmers, it may take several years to increase the scale of winter wheat cultivation to the scale of corn cultivation.
This is still Guanzhong!
I don’t know how long it will take to promote it to the entire north!
Of course, more importantly, Liu Che has been making plans, starting from the protective price of corn.
Later, Longshou Canal, railway carriages, and even today’s winter wheat were all part of his layout.
The ultimate goal, Liu Che's idea is very simple: log trust!
At that time, Shang Yang presided over the Qin State's reform, starting with the logs to establish trust, which established the people's confidence in the government's credibility.
It can be said that the success of Qin's reform was inseparable from the government credibility established by Shang Yang.
From then on, the people believed in all the promises and goals of the Qin regime.
However, today, hundreds of years later, the world is declining, and people's hearts are not as old as before. It is no longer the era where trust can be won by people all over the world just by relying on logs.
Especially the emperor of the old Liu family, in the past fifty years, he has done some things that made him take back what he said.
For example, at the very beginning, Liu Bang made an alliance with his hero and general by punishing him on a white horse: if he were not the Liu family, he would not be king; if he had no merit, he would not be the king; if not as promised, the whole world would attack him together.
Then……
Emperor Taizong Xiaowen granted Bo Zhao the title of Marquis of Zhi, which kicked off the process of granting the title of Marquis to Qi outside the Han Dynasty.
Later, he even made the uncle of Huainan King Liu Chang a marquis for his own sake...
That's all...
Anyway, it is a promise made to noble ministers.
However, by accepting Chao Cuo's suggestion and adopting the model of losing millet and donating noble titles, although a large amount of grain was obtained and the food shortage in the border counties was alleviated, it also completely ruined the credibility of the Han Dynasty.
As for the later Xiaozhu, he completely used the country's reputation as a tool to make money.
He issued white deer skin coins, one foot of white deer skin, priced at one pound of gold. The one with the highest face value reached 400,000 yuan! It was named platinum...
Then……
When merchants, nobles, and landowners who hold white deer skin coins demand cash...
This guy flipped the table over and refused to admit it.
Countless people have been tricked to death...
This is the first successful case in history of using national credit to defraud.
The banknotes of the Mongolian Yuan and the treasure banknotes of the Ming Dynasty in later generations were actually learned from Xiaozhu's methods.
Liu Che remembered this because the White Deer Skin Coin case was the direct trigger for Yan Yi to be killed by Zhang Tang for slander.
Liu Che naturally took Xiaozhu's lesson to heart.
But conversely, it can be inferred that issuing large-denomination currency is not some wishful dream.
As long as it's planned properly, it's doable.
Liu Che is not as stupid as Xiaozhu. He is not as unruly as him.
Liu Che's temporary plan is to first determine the gold standard and stipulate the price of gold and five baht coins.
In other words, he has decided to take back the right to mint money, return financial power to the state, and prohibit private money.
Then, look at the situation. First issue some large-denomination currencies that are only circulated within the circles of nobles and officials.
As for banknotes?
Before there was sufficient anti-counterfeiting technology, the regime that issued banknotes either wanted to dig a grave for itself, or it was stupid.
Liu Che has now even produced a batch of large-denomination currency.
This kind of currency is based on the silk script specially made in the palace for writing the emperor's edicts. It is one foot and one inch long and five inches wide. Its opening line is: I have been ordered by heaven to herd and hunt the nine states. Today, I have ministers xx, who have made contributions to the country.
He gave him 100,000 yuan and stamped it with the seal of one of the emperor's three seals.
When it comes to the level of anti-counterfeiting, no one can fake it!
Because this currency is not so much currency as it is an edict of reward.
According to the system, this kind of edict was made in triplicate and kept by Lantai, the prime minister and the person receiving the edict respectively.
Especially the Lantai censor of Shiqu Pavilion. If the emperor's edict in their custody does not contain this edict, then it is fake.
Not to mention cashing it out, the holder will definitely lose his head and even bring disaster to his family.
And why is it called currency?
Because Liu Che's plan stipulates that this kind of edict or currency can be withdrawn at any time and can be directly used to purchase gold sacrifices in the Shaofu.
Liu Che believes that this provision of cash withdrawals at any time and the possibility of exchanging gold for gold at zero discount as a means of spending money will definitely be sought after by the noble class.
You must know that the biggest headache for the princes is the annual ancestor worship hosted by the court. If you are not careful, you will be charged with unfilial piety, and you will be stripped of your title and title, and demoted to a commoner.
If there is such an edict that can be withdrawn at any time and converted into gold or gold, the princes will definitely be very happy.
And Liu Che was even happier, because he could use this to slowly turn all his money into this kind of edict.
Then, through this kind of free edict, a large amount of money held by the princes was recovered. (This kind of edict must be a reward at first, but when the princes taste the sweetness, they will definitely use money in exchange for this kind of edict.
After all, the edict is obviously more precious than the gold that can be buried underground compared to copper coins)
And this kind of system, Liu Che knew very well, would inevitably become the germination of paper currency in later generations.
To do this, Liu Che must establish his image as an emperor who keeps his word and never talks nonsense.
After the national credit is established, not only the financial field, but also other civil affairs, judicial and military aspects will benefit a lot.
Even in the future, when trying to deceive certain foreign races, such as Third Brother and Monkey, an imperialist who has credibility and does what he says will obviously be more able to win the support of local nobles and upper-class rulers than an imperialist who has no credibility. (
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ps: Sorry, I made a copy error when copying a section yesterday, and I accidentally didn’t pay attention to it. It has been corrected now, and everyone can check it out~
Well, it seems I drank a little too much yesterday~
