Dahan first prince

Chapter 319 Salt 'planted' in the field

"The matter of Shanglinyuan should not be delayed for too long; at the beginning of spring in the late Ming Dynasty, you should play it on the court."

"If this is not the case, there will be no room for Shaofu to smelt soldiers, cast money, etc.; and the official land of Shanglinyuan can accommodate the peasants and tenants who have lost their land, so as to start with the people and recuperate."

After the slightly heavy exchange just now, Yang Chengyan's face became more serious;
Hearing Liu Ying's explanation, Yang Chengyan just lowered his head and quickly remembered these things in his heart.

"As for Fengqu, the construction of the court has been planned to start in autumn and September, with the Marquis of An Guo bringing the internal history as the mainstay, and Qing bringing the young mansion as assistants."

Liu Ying said indifferently, but Yang Chengyan frowned slightly, and asked a little tentatively: "Your Majesty."

"Although the canal is a gift from His Majesty to the grand master, it is ultimately a matter of water conservancy;"

"According to the past practice, the national treasury should also contribute to the construction of water conservancy canals..."

"No!"

Before Yang Chengyan could finish speaking, Liu Ying suddenly raised her hand, her face full of determination.

"The construction of the canal this time is all done by the joint efforts of the internal history and the Shaofu, and the Xiangfu must not interfere!"

Said these words in a serious manner, seeing Yang Chengyan's face tightened in fright, Liu Ying pondered for a while, and then explained perfunctorily: "You don't need to worry too much."

"Today the Grand Master is seriously ill, and the Marquis of Pingyang has not yet taken up his post, and the affairs of the Prime Minister's Mansion have not yet been clarified."

"If Pingyang Marquis and the Prime Minister's Mansion were to do it for the Pingqu Canal, there might be something wrong."

"Therefore, you don't have to worry about it. You just need to cooperate with Marquis Xiao Yu'an to become Marquis of Bing."

As she said that, Liu Ying did not forget to take a deep breath, and then she turned around casually, and continued to walk forward, saying as she walked, "Now you are the Duke of the court, but you are a little older than me."

"When it's done, Qing will start building the four walls of Chang'an."

"Um······"

"It was the work of digging the canal and building Chang'an, and he also built the Zhengguo canal and the second palace of Weiyang in Changle..."

"Thousands?"

"Um······"

"Thousands of five hundred households are all right..."

"Mumbling to herself" as if referring to something, Liu Ying did not forget to pick up a long sword casually, pretending to be an expert, and carefully scrutinized the forging process of the sword body.

But even if she didn't turn around to look, Liu Ying could guess: what kind of joyful expression was on Yang Chengyan's face.

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty..."

After stumbled and stumbled for a long time, unable to say the word "Your Majesty" completely, Yang Chengyan finally suppressed his excitement, and bowed to Liu Ying solemnly.

"Chen! I will live up to your Majesty's entrustment!!!"

In an instant, Yang Chengyan forgot about 'the state treasury should also pay some money' and 'the price of grain should be raised'.

From this moment, Yang Chengyan, Minister of the Shaofu, also completely turned into a tireless and passionate warrior.

Because Yang Chengyan understands that after he succeeds, what awaits him is something that Chinese men will never be able to resist;

——Be the first to open a line, and be the ancestor!
Liu Ying was not surprised by Yang Chengyan's sudden seriousness, she just smiled indifferently, and put the sword in her hand back to its original position.

Continuing to walk forward, Liu Ying did not forget to care about other affairs of the Shaofu.

"Five baht of money is related to the lifeblood of money and goods in the world. Therefore, when the Shaofu made money, Qing looked at it at that time and must not miss it;"

"Shaofu's government-run grain and rice should also abide by the system of 'only accepting five baht money', no matter what the goods are bought, it should be the same."

After uttering these words cryptically, Liu Ying turned her body slightly, and finally felt at ease when Yang Chengyan nodded without changing his expression.

It is inconvenient for Liu Ying to say some things too bluntly.

——The war at the end of the Qin Dynasty caused the financial order of the world to fall into chaos, and even ceased to exist;
And the three baht coins that the former emperor Liu Bang had no choice but to promote completely defeated the only remaining market order, and the financial status of "coins" was also completely destroyed.

At that time, the poor central treasury of the Han Dynasty could starve mice to death, and there were continuous rebellions by princes of different surnames in the Kanto. It was not a good idea to destroy the financial order in exchange for social order.

But now, after the Kanto has been completely pacified, the burden of rebuilding the financial order of the Han Dynasty market has fallen on Liu Ying's shoulders.

The value of the currency is comparable to the three baht coins of the Tiandi Bank of later generations, the inflation rate is 3000% higher than that of the Qin Dynasty, and the extreme shortage of materials all make Liu Ying, a financial idiot, miserable;

Fortunately, today's Han Dynasty is still in the early stage of backward feudal civilization, and the role of financial order in the social system is not so critical, and it was completely destroyed by the war at the end of Qin Dynasty.

To put it simply, Liu Ying does not need to achieve any specific financial goals, nor does she need to improve any specific situation, but only needs to draw on a piece of white paper.

For example, in the financial system of later generations, it is almost an irreversible process for a certain monetary system to completely lose its credibility;

But in the Han Dynasty, Liu Ying was able to re-support the credit of coins with the phrase "waste three baht coins and use five baht coins".

For future generations, this may be incredible, but in fact, there is nothing difficult to understand.

——The currency system of later generations supports the value of currency through reserves of heavy metals such as gold and silver;
In other words, although a five-yuan banknote in later generations is essentially just a piece of paper, the value of this piece of paper lies in that it can be exchanged for precious metals of the same value, such as gold, at any time from the bank that issued the coin.

This is the core of the financial system of later generations: a monetary system built on the gold standard.

The credit collapse of the monetary system is often due to the fact that the coin issuer no longer has enough precious metal reserves, that is, the precious metal reserves are not enough to exchange the issued banknotes.

Coupled with human nature, it is difficult to re-establish credit, which leads to the loss of currency credit, which will often become an irreversible process in later generations.

But for the "backward" Han Dynasty, the re-establishment of currency credit was not so complicated.

——The copper content of the three-baht coin is low, and the common people do not recognize it, and the reputation of the court is lost; the copper content of the five-baht coin meets the standard, and the people recognize the value of the five-baht coin, and the currency reputation of the court can be regained.

Because it is different from the banknotes that 'support their face value with precious metals', the coins of the Han Dynasty today are precious metals!
After getting a five-baht coin, people don't have to think about 'how much precious metal can this five-baht coin be exchanged for' like later generations. They just need to look at the weight of copper in the five-baht coin itself. .

In this way, the currency system is re-established;
But immediately after that, Liu Ying was so annoyed that she didn't even dare to make big moves and could only cautiously test the inflation.

Although she has little knowledge of finance, Liu Ying, as a later generation, also knows that: apart from human factors, inflation often comes from currency depreciation;
Currency depreciation is also due to the increase in currency issuance and the reduction in the total amount of materials.

To put it simply, when the money becomes more and the goods become less, the money is naturally worthless, and the goods are naturally more valuable.

However, the hyperinflation faced by the Han Dynasty today is obviously not caused by the "indiscriminate issuance of banknotes", but the decline in production capacity caused by years of war, the shortage of materials, and the relationship between supply and demand is "in short of demand".

——After all, even if Liu Ying wants to "distribute coins indiscriminately", she can't produce so much copper with almost no cost...
So after realizing this problem, Liu Ying took the first step to eliminate the group of grain merchants who contributed to the inflation.

As for the reason, it is also easy to understand: in this era when the vast majority of people have just come out of the war and the primary goal, or even the only goal, is to "fill their stomachs", the only material that can serve as a value reference is food.

The price of food will directly determine the price of other materials.

Therefore, eliminating the group of grain merchants and controlling the grain market with the power of the state is the first step for Liu Ying to stabilize grain prices;
Immediately afterwards, it is to increase productivity and return the supply relationship to normal levels, thereby bringing down market inflation by lowering food prices.

This is also easy to understand: no matter when, farmers are always willing to take out the extra [-] catties of grain to change into a suit of clothes;
Or, in exchange for other necessities of life, such as salt, vinegar, or farm tools.

And this is why Liu Ying deliberately told Yang Chengyan to artificially promote the rate of decline in food prices to speed up the rate of price decline.

Because from the perspective of supply and demand, when the world is completely stable, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the court is actively promoting water conservancy projects, the price of food no longer meets the conditions of "rare things are more expensive";

It's like the tall buildings in the later generations, which are obviously enough for everyone in the world to live in, and there are even some left over.

In later generations, due to the existence of banks and "construction costs", housing prices can only be stabilized at a high point as much as possible even if there is no condition for "rare things are more expensive", so as not to damage the financial order.

But for the Han Dynasty, there is no such concern.

——There is no cost for the common people to farm the land, or in other words, the common people don't care about the cost at all!
What the people care about is whether they can feed their only son with the food they get from farming, whether they can be fed by their wives and children when they are in good times;
The common people do not owe the bank a 'grain loan', do not need to pay a monthly payment, and no one will use food as an investment method, or a 'financial product for preserving value';
After Liu Ying bloodbathed the group of grain merchants in Guanzhong, there was no such group as "fried grain customers".

In this way, it is imperative to bring food prices back to normal levels as soon as possible, thereby bringing the entire market back to normal.

After all, for the common people, there is no difference at all between selling the grain grown at 150 renminbi per stone, buying at 20.00 renminbi per shi, and selling it at [-] renminbi per shi or [-] renminbi per shi. They all lose [-] %Fives.

Coupled with the fact that Shaofu stores grain on behalf of the people, the living needs of the vast majority of the people can be met through grain storage. Although the money that can be exchanged for selling grain has decreased, the price of goods has also decreased at the same time, so there will be no influential.

——This is like a salary of [-] and a house price of [-], and a salary of [-] and a house price of [-].

Thinking of this, Liu Ying thought of a major event that was handed over to Yang Chengyan a year ago.

"How about the matter of the Wu Kingdom?"

The slightly abrupt question made Yang Chengyan suddenly vigilant, and looked around with warning eyes.

After the officials of the Shaofu and the warriors of the Forbidden Army all retreated a bit, Yang Chengyan lowered the god and said with joy, "Thanks to Your Majesty's blessing, everything will go smoothly!"

"Since His Majesty personally ordered the King of Wu to 'Ride Xu Shaofu', the King of Wu and his ministers have done everything they can;"

"So far this summer, Supervisor Yang has reported that [-] mu of salt fields have been opened on the coast of the East China Sea, a hundred miles west of Guangling!"

"If there are no variables, by the end of the year, the [-] mu of salt field should be able to get no less than [-] shi of coarse salt!!!"

As he said that, Yang Chengyan's face became more and more excited.

——With [-] mu of salt fields, one hundred thousand stones of crude salt will be obtained!

This output alone is almost comparable to the grain output in Shangguanzhong and Weibei!

What surprised Yangcheng Yan the most was: the "planting" of this salt field is salt!

Grain is sold by the stone, but the salt is sold by the catty, or even the tael! ! !

Nowadays, a stone of grain in Guanzhong is only worth 350 yuan;

But a catty of salt can be sold for nearly [-] yuan!
Still in short supply! ! !
Although the salt that Shaofu 'planted' in Wu State was coarse salt, it was still salt!
Even if it is sold at [-] or even [-] renminbi per catty, this is a hundred thousand stones, a total of tens of millions of catties of salt! ! !

As for the common people, salt worth [-] yuan a catty, not to mention coarse salt with a poor taste, even if it is mixed with half of the soil, some people still buy it to eat!

Thinking of this, Yang Chengyan couldn't help but become more enthusiastic when he looked at Liu Ying.

"Your Majesty thinks that if the minister sends an order to Yang Jianling, he will open another [-] mu of salt fields next year..."

After saying something tentatively, Yang Chengyan even rubbed his hands excitedly, impatiently waiting for Liu Ying's reply.

——After seeing the efficiency of 'planting salt', Yang Chengyan at this time has been worshiping for five years, and the Shaofu has built several warehouses dedicated to saving money for a better future.

Liu Ying calmed down a lot, only smiled slightly, and then slowly turned her head.

"Yang Jianling was in the state of Wu, and he has been doing salt for a long time."

"At the beginning of the year, let him return to Chang'an."

"I have other uses."

If Yang Chengyan didn't say anything, Liu Ying would almost have forgotten: under her own hands, there is still a 'Mo family remnant' who is rooted in red!
"As for the opening of the salt field, Qing will decide at his own discretion."

"Just one thing, you must remember it."

"—The benefits of Yantian must not be left in the hands of others!"

"Whether the king of Wu or the king of Chu has doubts about the Guandong county, or even the treasury of the prime minister's mansion, they are not allowed to intervene!"

"All the salt produced by the state of Wu should go into the Shaofu's funds, and no grain of salt should flow out!!!"

It was a strong request, but it made Yang Chengyan feel a little embarrassed.

Seeing this, Liu Ying didn't make any detours anymore, and just nodded slightly.

"In the next day's court meeting, you should play the empress dowager: please establish a salt and iron department, which belongs to the Shaofu; set up a captain, with a rank ratio of two thousand stones, and two prime ministers, with a thousand stones."

"And the choice of Captain Salt and Iron..."

"Well, Qing will ask Marquis Li to do it."

After leaving these words indifferently, Liu Ying turned around and walked towards the imperial chariot in the distance.

But behind Liu Ying, recalling Liu Ying's words just now, Yang Chengyan's face slowly showed a look of astonishment.

"Salt Iron..."

"Captain?!"

(End of this chapter)