To the north of the city, by the river, is the original village of Da people.
Zhao Ran sat in a wheelchair, looking at the river, and then at the river banks on the east and west sides, thinking all the time in his mind.
Beside him, Li Dayin was also sitting in a wheelchair, holding a thick planning plan in his hand and comparing it.
It has been more than two months since the riverside demolition operation started in August. The demolition within three miles extending from the bridge base to the east and west has been basically completed. The Xiuxianqiu Charitable Foundation has paid 280,000 taels of silver for this, 90% of which was spent
After purchasing the land, the remaining 10% was used to resettle fishing villages such as Damin and pay hired workers to clean up dilapidated houses.
As for nail households? This is absolutely impossible.
This large-scale land acquisition operation made all parties involved really crazy. Officials, big and small, dignitaries, gentry, and wealthy businessmen all tasted the feast. In these two months, all procedures were given the green light and everyone was united.
All matters were completed one month in advance, and Zhao Ran was very satisfied with the high efficiency.
I came to the river today to discuss the construction of the river bank. Zhao Ran plans to build a river bank landscape belt in an area two miles east and west and three hundred steps north and south. At the same time, he will build three-story villas with courtyards in it.
There are hundreds of small buildings in total.
Li Dayin was a little puzzled after reading it: "Aren't you going to build a bridge yet?"
Zhao Ran replied: "While building the bridge, we will also work on the landscaping. We will try to sell these 100 villas while building the bridge. I will offer two thousand silver for each building and get back two hundred thousand taels. Isn't that expensive?"
Li Dayin was a little surprised: "Two thousand silver? I'm afraid I can't sell it..."
Zhao Ran waved behind him, Suchuan Yao stepped forward and handed over a rendering of the riverside landscape villa. Li Dayin took it and glanced at it, and immediately couldn't take his eyes away: "This, this, this, this is scary
It’s not a fairyland! No, no, Zhiran, leave one for me, you can’t sell them all.”
"Can I sell it for two thousand silver coins?"
"Yes, it's so capable, tsk tsk tsk... beautiful..."
After admiring the drawings for a while, Li Dayin asked: "Zhiran said that two hundred thousand taels of cash silver would be recycled. What does this recycling mean?"
Zhao Ran said: "We just distributed more than 200,000 taels, what do you think these guys will do with the money they made?"
Li Dayin thought for a while and said: "Go back to your hometown to buy land, and..."
Zhao Ran said: "Make it into a big cake and bury it in the ground!"
Li Dayin smiled immediately, then nodded and admitted: "That's true."
Zhao Ran sighed: "So, no matter how much money is distributed, it will be buried in the ground. Lao Li, our Ming Dynasty is short of money!"
Li Dayin didn't know what Zhao Ran was referring to, and when he was thinking about it, he saw Liang Yougao, the magistrate of Shangyuan County who was accompanying him behind him, biting his ears at Ling Congyun, a disciple of Sanmaoguan. Ling Congyun came up and said: "Teacher, Master Zhao, Hubu Bao
Wei Ming asked to see him when he was promoted to Chao Si."
Zhao Ran said with a smile: "Invite him over."
A fat man squeezed out from the crowd behind him and was led over by Ling Congyun. He bowed and saluted: "Wei Ming, the official of the Baochao Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs, paid homage to Abbot Zhao and the envoy of Liyuan."
Zhao Ran introduced to Li Dayin: "Shi Tiju is an old man from the household department. Despite his young age, he is good at money and food."
Li Dayin nodded and said to Shi Weiming: "Nice to meet you, nice to meet you."
Suchuan Yao took out a wooden stool from the stored magic weapon. Shi Weiming sat down in fear and said: "Abbot Zhao is here to invite me. I am late, so I would like to ask Abbot Haihan. What the abbot said last time, I will
The official went back to check, and found that our Ming Dynasty Silver Mine is mainly concentrated in Huguang, Beizhili, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places. The larger ones include Dianzhong Silver Mine, Jizhou Bushui Silver Mine, Zhejiang Pingyang Qingtian Silver Mine, etc. Last year, the Ministry of Household Affairs Division
There are 38,000 taels of silver, and the silver class in central Yunnan ranks first, accounting for 19,000 taels..."
Li Dayin was in disbelief when he heard this: "Shi Tiji, wait a moment, the silver mine class in Ming Dynasty last year was less than 40,000 taels?"
Shi Weiming nodded: "Exactly, the situation last year was good. The year before last it was 33,000 taels, and the year before that was 30,000..."
Zhao Ran was also speechless and couldn't help but ask: "You haven't paid more than 50,000?"
Shi Weiming said: "There have been times when there were hundreds of thousands, and the Xuanzong Dynasty once had 250,000 taels, but after hundreds of years, the mines are almost exhausted."
The Daming Silver Mine is allowed to be run by the government or privately, and the Ministry of Households levies it at a ratio of 30%. This part is called the silver charge. Last year, the amount of silver charge was 38,000 taels, which means that the total silver output was just over 100,000 taels.
With one hundred thousand taels a year, Ming Dynasty was definitely a country short of silver.
Now that silver has replaced copper on a large scale as currency in circulation, this can well explain why silver has always been so expensive in the market.
After talking about the silver production of the Ming Dynasty, Shi Weiming asked cautiously: "Abbot Zhao, you placed your subordinate in the Baochao Department, don't you want to issue Baochao?"
Zhao Ran smiled and asked: "What do you think?"
Before Wei Ming could speak, Li Dayin had already spoken: "Zhiran, you can't do it. No one wants the treasured banknotes anymore. No matter how much money is issued, it's just waste paper. We can make money, but we can't do anything random."
Shi Weiming said nothing, but kept nodding his head like a chicken pecking at rice, indicating his position.
Zhao Ran said: "Bao Chao is actually a good thing, but unfortunately, its reputation has been ruined. When everyone heard that it was Bao Chao, everyone was terrified..."
Li Dayin continued to shake his head: "It doesn't matter if you change your name, as long as it's not gold, silver or copper coins."
Zhao Ran said: "Don't worry, I'm not trying to get treasure money, I just want to try to see if small-value banknotes can work."
Shi Weiming was startled: "Small banknote?"
Zhao Ran said: "Nowadays, the smallest denomination of bank notes is five taels of silver. These are issued by some banks in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In fact, the effect is not very good. The ones that are really popular are the bank notes of big banks, but the amount is only fifty taels."
, about one hundred taels. Such banknotes are meaningless to ordinary people and small businessmen and hawkers. Everyone still uses broken silver. My idea is to use the cultivation techniques of Maharaja Mountain to set up a small bank in the Baochao Department.
The banknote printing workshop specializes in printing banknotes of one cent, two cents, five cents, one tael, well, two cents. There are too many types, and the cost will increase. "
Li Dayin said angrily: "What's the difference between this and treasure banknotes? It's just changed from Wen, Guan to Qian, Liang."
Zhao Ran said: "Of course there is a difference. Baochao Company does not issue compulsory issuance. Baochao Company sells small-denomination banknotes. Who do they sell it to? To major banks. For example, Four Seasons Bank. When we print, we can use Four Seasons Bank's banknotes.
If the name is printed on the small-denomination bank note, it is called Four Seasons Bank's issuance. Since those merchants and officials who use Four Seasons Bank's bank notes can accept Four Seasons Bank's large-denomination bank notes, of course they can also accept Four Seasons Bank's small-denomination bank notes.
Right? In the same way, the same is true for other major banks. Whoever buys the small-denomination banknotes printed by Baochao Company, we will print their bank’s name on the banknotes.”