nanming man

Chapter 515 Want to print some money to spend

After discussing with many staff members, Gao Yihuan quickly made many resolutions.

The first is the establishment of a military government, the establishment of its own official system, and a system for selecting talents.

In this way, the area under Gao Yihuan's rule is equivalent to an independent regime, a country within a country.

This is conducive to strengthening Gao Yihuan's strength and can better unite the entire interest group. However, it also makes Gao Yihuan's heart known to everyone, and makes a group of people who are interested in the Ming Dynasty very disappointed in him, and also makes many people scold him. He was labeled as a traitor and traitor.

But this is not necessarily a bad thing. After these people saw his actions, many of them hung their seals and left, which caused him to lose a lot of talents, but it also resolved a lot of hidden dangers for the future.

Gao Yihuan originally thought that his actions would cause relatively large turmoil, but in fact it didn't seem to have much impact.

This surprised Gao Yihuan, but then Gao Zurong solved his doubts.

The Sima family was Cao Wei's vassals, and they were deeply favored by Cao Wei. They usurped the throne, and they would naturally bear a bad name.

Our old Gao's family didn't receive any favors from the Ming Dynasty, and we were able to rebel, so it's a bit far-fetched to say sorry to the old Zhu's family.

Of course, it is certain to be scolded, but it will not be that serious.

In addition, the hearts of the people have been turbulent in the past few years. Many people surrendered and surrendered. Of course, those who surrendered to the Shun army are not easy to scold him. The eldest brother does not laugh at the second brother. Gao Yihuan is still under the banner of the Ming Dynasty. Compared with those who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Gao Yihuan was not so hateful.

Not many people scolded Gao Yihuan in Henan and Huguang. Even the Nanjing side knew Gao Yihuan's wolf ambition after knowing Gao Yihuan's actions, but did not make any reaction, turned a blind eye and pretended not to see it. .

After the Qing army drove Mobei Mongolia out of Shanxi, the Ma army went out to pursue and returned with a big victory.

Now that the Qing army has sent more troops to Shandong, Nanjing feels the pressure. It doesn't know who the Qing army will target when it goes south next time, and Nanjing has no means to deal with Gao Yihuan, so it can only swallow its anger.

After Gao Yihuan returned to Nanyang, he promulgated a series of government orders, established academies, opened courses to recruit scholars, organized militia armed forces, recruited new soldiers, reorganized the Shun and Zuo armies, and also ran an official residence newspaper.

Gao Yihuan's actions mainly have two goals, one is to maintain his own rule, and the other is to eliminate the influence of the Ming Dynasty on him.

The expansion of the army was to maintain the rule, resist the Tartars, guard against the Ming Dynasty, and prevent external forces from overthrowing his rule by force. The establishment of an official system, opening courses to recruit scholars, and running residence newspapers was to stabilize the interior and eliminate the influence of the Ming Dynasty.

After these policies are formulated, they need to be implemented and put into practice, which will naturally cost a lot.

It costs a lot of money to run academies, train militias, recruit new soldiers, and reorganize the army. Even the establishment of an official system and custom-made official robes for civil and military officials also cost a lot of money.

In addition, Gao Yihuan also ran a residence newspaper as an important propaganda tool in his hands. It was printed by the government and then distributed to yamen at all levels for free every month, as well as scholars who had the reputation of being a student under the rule.

Southern Henan and Huguang are not as good as Jiangnan. There are very few people who can read and write, and the folks don't like to discuss state affairs. The residence newspaper has no basis for charging, and Gao Yihuan can only deliver it for free.

In addition, Gao Yihuan also needs to hire some literate people to take the mansion newspapers to every village and town, read these mansion newspapers to the people, and explain the contents above.

Gao Yihuan saw that the chorus team was good, and he planned to recruit a few opera troupes, and set up a department of education and culture in Liqian to manage these troupes, recruit literati to arrange operas, and let the troupes go to various villages and towns to perform for free, saying that Marshal Gao invited everyone to watch the opera , That is to enrich the lives of the people, and at the same time play a very good role in publicity.

It's just that these are things that need a lot of money to do, and they need continuous capital investment. Seeing the money being spent like flowing water, Gao Yihuan is a little anxious.

Southern Henan and Huguang are both large agricultural provinces with limited taxation. Gao Yihuan appears to be confident and calm, but in fact he is like a blanket of needles.

This time he has already touched the bottom line of the Ming Dynasty. If he wants to send troops to extort money from the Ming Dynasty again, Nanjing will have to fight him like a donkey.

Gao Yihuan wants to fight for the world, and he has no legal advantage, which is his shortcoming. There are only two things he can rely on, the morale of the army and the morale of the people.

To seize the hearts and minds of the army and the people, he can't break his word, default on the military's salary, and can't extort money and plunder the people's wealth.

In this case, there are limited ways to solve the financial difficulties.

But who is Gao Dashuai, as long as his thinking does not slip, there are always more solutions than difficulties.

The first thing Gao Yihuan thought of was food. Under normal circumstances, the value of food is lower than that of economic crops such as mulberry seedlings and cotton. Therefore, many lands in the south of the Yangtze River have been replanted with mulberry seedlings and cotton.

Many places in the south of the Yangtze River need to buy grain from Huguang. Gao Yihuan plans to build a market in Yuezhou to buy and sell bulk grain, and maybe even get grain futures.

Another way is to establish a complete bank system and use more covert means to search for people's wealth.

In Nanyang City, the original Tang Palace has become a heavily guarded coin-making workshop.

What is the most ruthless and invisible method to search for people's wealth?Naturally, it is printing money!

As early as last year, Gao Yihuan began to make money, and handed over the money casting to the old man Gao Zurong to manage.

Before Gao Zurong managed the official Cao, but later Gao Yihuan gradually recruited a large number of talents. Li Yan, Chen Mingxia and others took refuge in successively.

When he came to the money-making workshop, Gao Yihuan cut to the chase and said, "Father, I want to take advantage of the millions of taels of silver in the treasury and use these silver as a reserve to print paper money directly?"

Now the folks are circulating real gold and silver, which is as much as there is, and there is no water.

Printing paper money is different. With 400 million taels of silver, it is not a problem to print 800 million taels of paper money. It is not easy to get money.

Hearing Gao Yihuan's words, Gao Zurong threw his cane on the ground, and wanted to scold Gao Yihuan for being a prodigal, but considering Gao Yihuan's identity, he should save some face, "You have to learn from the old Zhu's family to print treasures and do this kind of thing that cuts off children and grandchildren. ?”

It is too easy to get money by printing paper money, so once paper money is printed, how to control the greed of the rulers and not print more is a problem.

China's paper money existed in the Song Dynasty, much earlier than in the West, but it did not evolve into modern currency in the end.

A very important reason is the greed of the rulers, which is out of control. There is no money to build a palace, and there is no money to print paper money.

Gao Yihuan hurriedly explained: "My paper money is different from treasure banknotes. I have a reserve fund, and paper money can be exchanged for silver at any time. I am also planning to make unlimited legal compensation!"

"Speak human language!" Gao Zurong didn't quite understand, and impatiently stuck on his crutches, with the urge to hit someone.

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