Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 517 Catch up with a good time

It is not difficult for the smelter to increase the purity of gold, silver and copper to a certain level. Moreover, as long as the steel mold is carved, the smelter can use the means of the smelter to produce gold, silver and copper coins of equal weight and appearance. It's not difficult, a production line can produce tens of thousands of them a day, and any large idle workshop in the smelter can be equipped with many production lines.

After Sun Xiangfu handed over the head portrait of Li Shimin he had drawn with the sketch method to the craftsmen, he waited for them to produce samples. The copper coins will be divided into three types in the future. Wenqian, and ten Wenqian that is ten times heavier than it.

Both silver coins and gold coins are only one or two coins. One silver coin is worth one penny, and one gold coin is worth ten pennies.It may not be necessary to smelt all the gold, silver and copper into money, because after Sun Xiangfu went to the smelter, he would go to the printing factory.

Banknotes similar to cash deposits in banks have also begun to study printing. The process in this area is more complicated than smelting coins and requires some exploration. In the future, banknotes will have ten, twenty, fifty, and one hundred coins. There are seven settings of money, consistent money, five consistent money, and the highest amount of ten strings of money. If you want to pay with a larger amount, you have to get a cash check from the bank, which is the previous cash deposit check. It is a big amount, starting with a hundred strings.

This kind of deposit check can be registered or unregistered. Registered means that only designated people can cash it with their household registration, and unregistered ones mean that anyone can cash it. Zhang's highest cap is [-].

This kind of banknotes and cash deposit certificates are mainly for the convenience of the people to carry and large-value transactions. After the entire currency system is established, the people can go to the bank and exchange paper money for gold, silver and copper coins at will, and gold, silver and copper coins for paper money. , but if the amount is high, you need to make an appointment a few days in advance.

After the new currency is fully implemented, the official taxation of the court, as well as incoming and outgoing money, will all be settled in the new currency. That is to say, the existing copper coins in the hands of the people must be exchanged for new money in the bank. , must also be sent to the officially opened mint to cast city coins before they can be used.

The imperial court did not issue banknotes directly to the market. Only when it received the corresponding exchange of gold, silver and copper coins, would it give corresponding banknotes of equivalent value.

Three days later, Sun Xiangfu returned to Chang'an with all the samples of the new currency designed and produced. Anyway, he didn't need to spend much brains to copy the general appearance of later generations. It is the coin that Datang is about to implement in an all-round way.

"Your Majesty, the gold, silver and copper coins of this quality are much higher than those used in the past. Moreover, after incorporating gold and silver into the currency system, it can greatly increase the circulation in the market. I suggest implementing it immediately."

After the ministers circulated the samples of coins, Gao Shilian, Minister of the Ministry of Finance, gave a lecture.

"The minister seconded the proposal, not only that, paper currency can greatly alleviate the problem of too much money and the inconvenience of people carrying it, the minister suggested that it should be implemented as a whole." Changsun Wuji also came out of the class.

The more convenient the transactions on the market, the larger the transaction volume will naturally be, and the larger the transaction volume, the more taxes collected by the household department.

"Second by the ministers..."

Li Shimin's face is printed on the coins!As far as the political meaning in it is concerned, who would dare to object?

Moreover, the use of gold, silver and copper as the standard to issue new currency was actually expected by the imperial court early on. If you want to say who has the most precious metals, of course it is the dignitaries represented by these ministers in the imperial court. The imperial court implemented a monetary policy, and took all the gold and silver in their families to the official coin workshop, and recast them again. They liked the fineness of the new money very much.

"In this way, under the Ministry of Finance, I will set up a coin casting department, and open a large smelting workshop in Weinan to be a coin casting workshop. I will start casting money from the bank warehouse, the national treasury, and the inner treasury. The issuance of new currency and the new monetary policy are also implemented simultaneously.”

Sun Xiangfu had communicated with Li Shimin about casting coins long before he went to court. If a large workshop was opened in the smelter dedicated to casting coins, copper coins that can be formed by pressing a press can cast more than 20 copper coins in one day. Gold and silver coins are even more incalculable. Two or three months are enough to produce tens of millions worth of money for market use.

Moreover, not only Weinan can mint money, Shanyang, where coal prices and wages are relatively low, and Lingnan, where gold and silver mine reserves are relatively large, will also send people from the coin minting department to organize coin minting, based on the money that Datang is currently using for currency. Counting gold, silver and copper, about one year is enough to replace all the money with new money, and it will expand the currency that can be circulated in the market by more than several times, because the current gold and silver in Datang are actually no longer Less, Lingnan alone is worth at least over [-] million guan of gold and silver, and a large amount of gold and silver are flowing in from the Western Regions every year. There is no way, whoever said that thing is valuable, one tael of silver is consistent, and Lingnan brought back the silver from the Japanese kingdom. , but they are all calculated according to the ship. A ship costs several thousand shi, or even more than ten thousand shi. The gold shipped from the Western Regions to pay for the goods is all carried by camel teams. A camel can carry four hundred catties. Gold, how much does it cost?

After announcing this decision, Li Shimin seemed very excited, because Sun Xiangfu told him that once this monetary policy was implemented, the money minting department in charge of minting money would at least earn money to build [-] miles of cement roads.

Calculated on the basis that the Wang family spent 500 million guan to build 500 miles of cement roads, that is to say, just a coinage reform can earn [-] million guan.

Want to ask why do you make so much money?

Then I have to talk about why the coin samples brought back by Sun Xiangfu are so beautiful. The Marseille group in Xingfu Village specializes in smelting, but they started playing with alloys two or three years ago.

Moreover, after the implementation of this new currency system, it is tantamount to a kind of sanction against the country rich in silver like Wa, and many countries in the Western Regions rich in gold.

Because their silver and gold can no longer be used as money in the Tang Dynasty. If you want to cast them into coins that can be used in the Tang Dynasty, you have to find the official minting department. Then, they should be the minting department. People have figured it out, Datang’s money foundry can cast money for its own people for free, but it will not cast money for foreign countries. If they don’t have Tang money, they can’t buy any goods from Datang. All goods in the world are from Tang. In this era, it basically means that trade has been frozen.

Of course, they can also find some local forces, give them certain benefits, and ask them to take their gold and silver to the money minting department to mint money. In this way, they will definitely be cut by the local forces of Datang. It is large and easy to be found.

The mint, when minting money, will still earn them a little bit, just as Sun Xiangfu predicted before, if they go back to the furnace to mint 500 million guan coins, the mint company will earn more than [-] million guan, which is close to [-]% profit.

The matter of money is very sensitive. A yamen like Zhuqian Division is destined to be managed by Li Shimin's confidant ministers, and other courtiers can't get involved in projects controlled by internal servants and secret guards.

But now that the Tang Dynasty is on the rise, there are simply too many projects that everyone can talk about. Soon, a whole set of pensions for fallen soldiers, and even new burial regulations were finalized and announced to the world.

Li Shimin not only agreed to the super-high pension plan proposed by Sun Xiangfu and the others, but also decided to build a martyr's cemetery in Yushan and bury the bones of the fallen soldiers with high courtesy. He also stipulated that he and his descendants must go to the martyr's cemetery every year. Pay homage to these soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country.

This action immediately moved the family members of the soldiers who died in the battle to tears again. Their family members' names will remain on the tombstones of the martyrs' cemetery forever, and they will be worshiped by generations of emperors. What could be better than this Higher glory?

All of a sudden, the voice of the people singing praises of Li Shimin rose again, and this kind of momentum will create a very intuitive phenomenon, that is, the people are more harmonious.

Feudal society is like this, people feel that the emperor is good, and they are more willing to abide by the rules set by the emperor, including those foreign lords who surrender.

Therefore, even Li Shimin stipulated that children over the age of seven, regardless of gender, must be sent to county schools to start receiving basic education, and the common people follow like a cloud.

As for the lords of those small countries who surrendered, they are in Chang'an, they eat well, live well, and have all kinds of strange tricks to watch. They are much more comfortable than they are on their own one-acre three-point land. After staying for a few days, they agreed without even thinking about it. Li Shimin asked their children and grandchildren to study in the Guozijian to study Chinese culture, and they even raised their hands in agreement.

This is a great thing!If you have learned the culture well, you will be able to be an official in the Tang Dynasty. The emperor wants to serve their descendants as officials. This is the performance of not treating them as outsiders. The prince was also studied in Chang'an by Qu Wentai, who was newly named Duke of Gaochang County.

In addition, there are many lords who have only been granted the title of county prince and county marquis, and directly request to settle in Chang'an. They are already reluctant to part with the prosperity and wealth of Chang'an. When they are sick, they can still get timely treatment. For many minor illnesses, they can recover immediately after taking the pills. This is simply amazing to them.

With such a living environment, they have no ambitions and can't make a fortune, why should they go back?
Of course, Li Shimin agreed to such a memorial request, and gave mansions and a certain number of third-class citizens to serve as servants to those who applied to stay, so that they could directly become the pleasure-loving people with houses, servants and high salaries in Chang'an City. class.

Of course, it doesn't mean that they are completely useless. There are some local customs, some information, and identity suppression that they provide, which is also beneficial to the government's management of the local area.

Having finished speaking, Li Shimin made a final decision on the new regulations on officials' salaries under Fang Xuanling's suggestion. To put it simply, the officials of Datang will raise their salaries again. This time, the rate has reached Thirty percent, and, in the future, like the workers, there will be a steady increase in seniority wages. Officials who have served the court for a long time will have a correspondingly higher salary. Moreover, the living allowances for intern officials will be doubled to reach Two consistent money per month was paid, and a large number of intern officials who performed well were turned into regulars.

In the imperial examination for the third year of Zhenguan, 5000 people were selected at once. Due to the shortage of manpower, Fang Xuanling made a batch of regular candidates, almost 1000 people. , either because of his poor appearance, he is not suitable to be an official, or he has other ideas and does not want to take an official career.

Not to mention, some people in the industrial and commercial department are appreciated by the proprietors of the industries where they practiced, and they have achieved middle and high-level management, but they may not be willing to go to the imperial court to be a low-level official. Status, moreover, the salary is much higher than that of court officials, and the things in charge are also to their own appetite. There are also some people who give up being sent by the court to serve as officials in remote places.

This action immediately emptied the intern officials in the society. However, with these more than 3000 people, it was much easier for Datang to manage the surrounding areas.

At the same time, it also allowed the people all over the world to see the road of official career, which seems to be quite easy to walk now. In just over two years, so many people who were originally white, or even humble, have become serious people. Officials of the Eight Classics, this is great news for those poor children who have entered the county school in the past few years!

This can only be said that they caught up with a good time when Datang was developing rapidly, just like many people in later generations got on the express train of reform and opening up, and quickly achieved prosperity.

(End of this chapter)