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Chapter 690 The Frog
"What is Aaron worried about?"

Seeing that Li Xia was deep in thought, Han Chengxu finally asked.

He is better at strategy, and he doesn't understand the matter of coins, so he feels that whether the gold and silver are used or not is not a serious matter.

"Because I can't think of a better way." Li Xia's eyes became more pensive, and he said slowly: "I can't think of a way to recover from the sharp depreciation of Huizi."

Han Chengxu said: "But after Sichuan and Shu didn't have a meeting, the prices have stabilized."

Li Xia said: "This is the problem. We don't use banknotes. This is going backwards and overthrowing the original currency system. Sichuan and Shu are sparsely populated and poor in materials. In the short term, a simple currency system can be used. But gradually There are many problems, we need to trade with other places, it is impossible to only use gold, silver and copper coins."

Yan Yunyun said: "That's right, especially the trade with Huguang and Liangzhe Dazong, it is almost impossible to do it without using money tickets."

"The gold and silver pass is the best way. Behind every bill, there is corresponding gold and silver."

Li Xia saw that Han Chengxu still didn't understand, so he said again: "Simply put, the money in the Northland and the meetings of the Song court are guaranteed by the court's credit. But this gold and silver pass is different, it is based on the actual Gold and silver as a guarantee."

"In that case, what's wrong?"

"If the gold and silver pass is issued by the banks of those giant merchants, it will be difficult to guarantee that every one is genuine."

Yan Yunyun said: "I mean, attract them, and finally control them."

She obviously has made a lot of progress, and she already seems to be eloquent and eloquent.

"At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Wang Changyi united sixteen giant merchants to issue Jiaozi. Zhang Yong, the magistrate of Yizhou at that time, also noticed something wrong. Jiaozi's ability to exchange copper coins was equivalent to merchants' ability to mint coins. This is the right of the princes and must not sit idly by.

And how does Zhang Yong do?First approved Jiaozi Tongxing, and asked merchants to repair river embankments, build granaries, and save the poor. After four years of accumulation, the Yizhou government used a large number of Jiaozi to run against Wang Changyi and sixteen giant merchants.Get a lot of coins.

After Zhang Yong left office, Xue Tian knew Yizhou and continued to run against Wang Changyi until the people could not exchange money in the bank with Jiaozi.

This is the beginning of Jiaozi. In the next 130 years, Emperor Gaozong and Ningzong successively issued Huizi, making Huizi gradually become a folk banknote.I think that Alang can emulate Zhang Yong and Xue Tian's method to control the current gold and silver gate..."

"Shallow."

Li Xia said: "Let me ask you, more than 230 years ago, Zhang Yong knew that the merchant's issuance of Jiaozi was equivalent to the right to mint coins. Even today, the temple chief still doesn't know?"

Yan Yunyun was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "Ah Lang is worried...the imperial court also controls the gold and silver gates, and if we circulate the gates, the price of goods will be restricted by the imperial court?"

Han Qi'an frowned, and said: "At that time, it will be equivalent to replacing Huizi with Jinyinguanzi, and the coins of Sichuan and Shu will be under the control of the imperial court again."

"Is it 'time'?" Li Xia pondered, and said slowly: "If this gold and silver pass is really only issued by more than [-] giant merchants, you can still get this 'time'. It’s the imperial court reforming the currency.”

Yan Yunyun frowned in thought, and suddenly exclaimed.

"Jia Sidao?!"

She no longer had that contemptuous attitude, and no longer ridiculed the other party as "Jia Cricket".

After meeting the other party, she couldn't help but feel that Jia Sidao was not enough, and it was too easy to forget the gap between herself and Zai Zhizhi.

It was only at this time that I suddenly realized...

"Could it be that Alang is saying that this gold and silver pass is actually written by Jia Sidao?"

"Let me ask you again, at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Wang Changyi issued Jiaozi, but was eventually run on and seized by the government. Today's giant merchants still don't understand? If they pass the gold and silver pass, they would never have imagined that the imperial court might take action against them?"

"The best way is to find a backer? Even, was their backer let them do this in the first place?"

Li Xia said: "Jia Sidao wants to reform, and meetings are a hurdle he can't get around. The situation in the entire Song Dynasty is different from that in Sichuan and Shu. If it were me, there would be no better way to rectify the currency."

This is what Li Xia meant when he said "I can't think of a better way".

He knew that he was unable to restore the currency system of the Song Dynasty that had reached the brink of collapse, and many famous officials including Wu Qian had already tried it.

Now if he is asked to do it, he can only abolish the Eighteenth Realm Association and issue brand new banknotes.

……

Ever since Li Xia regained Guanzhong and the strategy of the Han-Tai shogunate changed to a struggle with the Song court, Yan Yunyun felt that it would be smooth to compete with the Song court.

Following Li Xia's wishes, she used the business in her hands to reject the meeting and lower the price, so that the merchants in Sichuan and Shu could only refuse the meeting.

In addition, Li Xia hadn't reconciled with the buyer for two years, and there were not many folk associations, and grain and copper coins had become the currency of Sichuan and Shu.

Therefore, after prohibiting the acceptance of the Song Ting's indiscriminate meeting, Sichuan and Shu were prevented from taking off in prices.

In the first round, Yan Yunyun won, cutting off any involvement with Song Ting.

But soon, she realized that it was really impossible without banknotes, so she entered the second game. Chuanshu needed to be more able to control the banknotes than Song Ting.

She didn't find it difficult at first.

Then, the Gold and Silver Gate was placed in front of her, as if the giant merchants from Huguang, Zhejiang and Zhejiang came to the door with a large amount of gold and silver, and wanted to help revitalize Sichuan and Sichuan.

But when Li Xia said it, she realized it.

Once the gold and silver Guanzi was released into Sichuan and Shu, there would indeed be gold and silver inflow at the beginning, but with the circulation of the Guanzi, the coinage rights would return to the imperial court.

All the previous efforts were for naught.

To use an analogy, Song Ting sent out meetings indiscriminately in order to collect money, which caused prices to soar and the people were in dire straits.It's like a pot of boiling water.

Chuanshu, like a frog, jumped out of the boiling pot after banning Huizi.

However, in the 25 years after Kuoduan slaughtered Shu, there were endless wars in Sichuan and Shu, with insufficient population and poor supplies.The frog in Chuanshu is also extremely short of water.

It needs to find water, and it looks for it, as if it has found a clear spring.

Jinyinguanzi, the currency circulated by merchants in the Song Dynasty for self-help, is backed by a large amount of gold and silver as a guarantee. It is a huge trading field in the most affluent place in the world, just like a bay of clear springs.

The frog explored the edge of the spring water, the water temperature was just right, and the clear flow was sweet.

However, it is still a pot, and the dry firewood of Dasong Sheji is still placed under it.

Boil frogs in warm water.

Yan Yunyun suddenly realized that Jia Sidao had already made a move.

"But this is a conspiracy? It is impossible for us not to trade with various places..."

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Lin'an.

An exquisite gold and silver gate was picked up, and the sunlight outside the window shone on its front, rippling a strange ink color.

The engraving on the top is like a character 'Xi'; the three red seals in the middle are like a character 'Mu'; and there are small long black seals on each side of the bottom.

"Does this money note look like the word 'Bao' or the word 'Jia'?"

"Naturally it is a 'treasure' word." Jia Sidao replied calmly.

Cheng Yuanfeng sneered: "It looks like the word 'Jia' to me."

"Perhaps... the right minister judged the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain?"

Cheng Yuanfeng showed sullen expression, threw the gold and silver guanzi in his hand on the desk, walked a few steps, finally raised his head and said, "I will never agree!"

Jia Sidao was not in a hurry, and said: "The price of grain last year was two thousand guan, and now it is seven thousand guan. , seems to be an irresistible situation. The Eighteenth Realm will be abolished."

"How do I not know?"

Cheng Yuanfeng was becoming more and more irritable now, and it was as if he had been ignited by a word.

"Sichuan and Sichuan have not transferred money and food for two years, and they spent 4000 million yuan last year; in Lianghuai, Li Fen attacked the three states on the right and left of Huaihe River, and the war stopped; Above, the official family plays and sings every day, rewards crony ministers wantonly, acts like a leader, and is greedy... Who on earth is indulging the Lu family army?! Who is whitewashing the official family and presenting beauties?!"

"Then please tell me what you can do, besides imprinting the meeting, what else can you do?!"

Jia Sidao stopped Cheng Yuanfeng with a word.

Afterwards, a sneer appeared on his face, and he said again: "I'll tell Prime Minister Right what to do, take out the treasures in Fengchen's treasury, take back the private associations, and discard them. Using gold and silver Guanzi as new money, fundamentally Cut off the scourge of skyrocketing prices.”

"No!"

"Why not?"

"You are too hasty." Cheng Yuanfeng's eyes were already bloodshot, and he said solemnly: "The matter should not be rushed, and the first thing to do is to reduce the cost. Come with me and ask the officials to set an example and spread the style of simplicity to the world, okay?"

"It's useless, the right minister knows what is a drop in the bucket? You can't save Da Song by saving those few copper coins."

"Rivers and seas don't choose trickles, so they can be as deep as they are! National use should be economized in detail. What's the use of changing to a kind of Chu coin without reducing expenses?"

"Therefore, the public land law and planning law are needed."

"Enough! It's just crazy... I can't tell you!"

Cheng Yuanfeng flicked his sleeves anxiously, feeling that Jia Sidao was unreasonable.

Jia Sidao sneered, and felt that Cheng Yuanfeng's rotten wood could not be carved.

The thoughts of the two were already incompatible like fire and water, and there was nothing to say at all.

Being able to get together today, Jia Sidao has other purposes.

"In that case, Prime Minister Right doesn't intend to agree to replace the Eighteenth Realm with Jinyin Guanzi?"

"Never promise!"

"What about Sichuan and Shu? Li Xia doesn't listen to the court's orders, doesn't transfer money and food, doesn't go through the meeting, and self-armies without authorization, as if he has a country of his own, and the right minister doesn't care about it?"

"How are you doing?"

"I want to use the gold and silver pass to circulate Sichuan and Shu..."

"I said before that I don't promise to replace Chu coins."

Jia Sidao said with a smile: "Your Prime Minister will neither do this nor that. He will neither rectify the long-standing abuses nor eliminate the troubles of the feudal town. I propose a solution, but I object? How about letting your majesty and the officials judge?"

Cheng Yuanfeng closed his eyes, his face was full of bitterness.

He knew that he had been cornered by Jia Sidao.

"I will eliminate the troubles of the feudal town as soon as possible, and then gradually rectify it."

"That being the case, wait and see..."

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When Cheng Yuanfeng left the public house, Jia Sidao sneered again.

The reason why I said this to Cheng Yuanfeng today is because he really couldn't stand Cheng Yuanfeng's gentle way of dealing with Li Xia, so he had no choice but to force him.

"It's not that you haven't been allowed to try your hand. You're a trash who occupies the latrine and doesn't shit. Get out of here early and replace me..."

(End of this chapter)