Chapter 21 Double Ninth Festival - Treasure Banknotes II
Just a few steps away, a young eunuch, whom Yunxi had seen beside Lao Zhu, came over to salute Yunxi and said: "Your Majesty, Third Highness, Your Majesty wants your Highness to go to the Chunhe Palace." Yunxi was puzzled.
What is Zhu looking for? And he has already seen him today.
However, Yunxi believed that no one in the palace would dare to falsely convey the imperial edict, and no one would dare to kill him like this, so he took Wang Xi and snacks and followed the young eunuch.
Lao Zhu didn't think much about it when he left the Double Ninth Festival party today, but when he went back to review the memorial, he always recalled Yunxi's expression at that time. It was a tangled look, and it felt like Yunxi had something serious to say but didn't.
I knew whether I should say it or not, so I ordered Yunxi to be passed on.
It was reported that Yunxi had gone out today. Lao Zhu decided to solve this problem today and asked the young eunuchs to wait at the Donghua Gate where Yunxi might go. They must wait until Yunxi.
When Yunxi came to Chunhe Hall, it was already evening time. Lao Zhu had already been notified, and he had no intention of continuing to judge the memorial. He simply sat quietly and closed his eyes to rest. So what Yunxi saw when he came in was
Lao Zhu sits quietly with his eyes closed.
Yunxi was surprised. Zhu Yuanzhang, the famous workaholic emperor in history, stopped working and closed his eyes to rest. This style of painting was wrong! But he was also standing by. Lao Zhu must have heard the sound of him coming in. He opened his eyes and stood
He stood up and said in a caring tone: "What did you do this afternoon?"
Hearing Lao Zhu's tone, Yunxi took advantage of the situation and acted cute. Well, you can still be cute if you are under fifteen years old. He said: "Back to Grandpa Huang, I went to the streets this afternoon to see the people.
They are all like that. I also ate a bowl of noodles and bought some pastries. I tasted some and they were quite delicious. Grandpa Huang, please try them too." At the same time, he handed a few packages of pastries to Lao Zhu.
Lao Zhu took it and said, "Grandpa is not hungry now, we will eat it later." Then he put the things on the table.
After chatting for a while, Lao Zhu asked: "Yunxi, when you finished talking to Yunwen about the treasure notes this morning, you seemed to have something to say?" Lao Zhu may not have noticed that his tone has changed.
changed.
However, Yunxi noticed it and thought that this was because Lao Zhu had transitioned from the role of grandfather to the role of emperor. He could no longer act cute and had to be serious. So he said seriously: "Going back to Grandpa Huang, my grandson has something to say.
Said. My grandson thought that we could not let the treasure banknotes depreciate like this, so we had to think of some way, but the second brother’s way was wrong; if he followed his way, the money in the treasury would probably be exchanged, so we can’t do that.”
"So what do you think we should do?"
The reason why Yunwen's method cannot be used is that the current circulation of treasure banknotes is too large. According to historical records, Lao Zhu once rewarded Zhu Di with 500,000 treasure banknotes. At that time, the country's total annual tax revenue did not exceed 4 million yuan.
There is also a large amount of food and other supplies, and there is not enough silver money to exchange for treasure banknotes. Even the 30% reserve in the Western gold standard era is not enough.
"I wonder who Grandpa Huang thinks the main users of treasure banknotes are?"
Lao Zhu was startled and said: "What does this have to do with it? Treasure money should be used by everyone in the world."
Seeing that he couldn't say that, Yunxi refused to cooperate! He said directly: "Grandpa Huang, in my grandson's opinion, the advantage of this treasure banknote compared to silver money is that it is light in weight and easy to carry, so the people who use treasure banknotes are mainly
Businessmen and officials, as well as some citizens, farmers and rural landowners will not use it, because no matter how strong the treasure banknotes are, they are not as good as gold, silver and copper coins."
Lao Zhu thought about it carefully and found that this was indeed the case.
"So to enhance people's trust in treasure banknotes, we must start with why businessmen and officials need to use treasure banknotes."
"Sun'er believes that the following three things can be done: first, allow merchants to use treasure banknotes to pay taxes at all banknote customs; second, suspend the issuance of treasure banknotes; third, allow treasure banknotes to be exchanged for a kind of currency that is very unsuitable to carry and keep.
It still takes up space and is easy to break when stored for a long time, but it is something that everyone can use. Sun'er feels that the only thing in the country that meets this requirement is food. Special shops can be opened in all the locations of the chief ministers across the country, even if
At the beginning, we should also open stores in important cities such as Beijing, Wuchang, Shudu, Xi'an, Peking, and Suzhou, and allow the purchase of one stone of rice at the price of a regular banknote to stabilize the currency value."
"The advantage of this is that for businessmen, if the treasure banknotes can pay taxes, at least half of the tax, they will not think that the treasure banknotes are useless and will be happy to carry the treasure banknotes; secondly, it will temporarily reduce the issuance of treasure banknotes.
The quantity can make people think that the court is sincere in restoring the credibility of Baoqiao; thirdly, food is useful to everyone, Baoqiao can be exchanged for grain, businessmen are willing to trade with Baochao, and officials returning home are also willing to bring Baoqi back home with them.
Home, food is always available anyway, and can be exchanged in my hometown."
"By the way, in order to prevent people from maliciously exchanging treasure banknotes, we can announce that each person can only exchange one stone of rice a day on the grounds of preventing grain merchants from hoarding, and at the same time limit the amount of exchange, so that people can exchange for rice every day without all the rice being wasted.
Exchange it and go.”
"When everyone has restored their trust in treasure banknotes, then the circulation is restored, and the currency value is slowly increased, then we can continue to collect seigniorage from the people."
He plagiarized the material capital quota system implemented by various base areas during the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation to ensure the stable value of the banknotes issued. At that time, the Shandong base area in particular ensured that it had enough to exchange 6% of all "Beihai coins" issued by it.
10% of the cotton and 40% of the grain, so that as long as someone takes the "Beihai Coin" to buy grain or cotton, they can buy it immediately. Therefore, the "Beihai Coin" is also the strongest currency in all base areas.
The soldiers of the East China Field Army who were carrying "Beihai coins" were unwilling to exchange "Beihai coins" for "Border Area Tickets" and other banknotes from other base areas.
Going a step further, Lao Zhu heard what Yun Xi said. How should I put it? This was the fourth time that Lao Zhu was shocked by Yun Xi. This time, although he had never heard of the word seigniorage, he still understood the meaning.
This is a good idea.
Although Lao Zhu's reason told him that it was impossible, Lao Zhu really felt that Yun Xi seemed to know everything. In the past four political discussions over a month, Yun Xi could come up with something that others could not think of, but it made sense.
, there are feasible plans or solutions. These four problems are almost completely incompatible. So for a while, Lao Zhu looked at Yunxi blankly and said nothing.
After Yunxi finished speaking, after waiting for a long time without seeing Lao Zhu speak, he looked up and saw Lao Zhu's appearance. He was a little scared and said softly: "Grandpa Huang?"
Lao Zhu came back to his senses and looked at Yun Hei carefully up and down. His gaze was so unusual that Yun Hei felt terrified.
After a while, Lao Zhu withdrew his gaze and said: "I immediately ordered to reduce the issuance of treasure banknotes, and allowed the banknotes in Beijing, Wuchang, Shudu, Xi'an, Peking, Suzhou, Hangzhou and Guangzhou to collect half of the treasure banknotes.
The tax amount, as for the strategy of exchanging grain for treasure banknotes, we will think about it before implementing it."
Then Lao Zhu said in a very weak voice as if he was suddenly exhausted: "Yunxi, please go back." Yunxi left very puzzled. Lao Zhu asked all the eunuchs to go out and stayed alone in the house.
Yunxi went back to the Wenhua Hall and met Yunwen at the Wenhua Gate. In this situation, the two of them had nothing to say, so they just nodded and left. However, Yunxi immediately guessed that Yunwen must have gone to see his good friend.
My friend Huang Zicheng is convinced.
However, who Yunwen went to see could not affect Yunxi, so he gave up. After returning, Yunxi silently evaluated the current situation and believed that his chances of winning should be very high. Moreover, it seemed that there was no harem showdown as he had originally imagined.
Lao Zhu suddenly brought the competition venue from the harem to the front desk, leaving the harem with no place to use it. In fact, there is no need for him to continue to win over Concubine Li. But he should be kinder to Wenying in the future, after all, it is his own