Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 322 Minting Silver Coins

"Li Dazai, there is really a lot of silver in Japan!"

"A shipment of silver, a total of 800 million taels of silver, is just to buy an imperial edict. I sold the canonized imperial edict to him."

Zhao Huan first confessed to Li Gang that the canonization was a matter of negotiation.

But this ship of silver was unexpected by Zhao Huan.

Li Gang was silent. When his side was scratching his head for copper coins, his official side wrote a letter and directly obtained 800 taels of silver.

If it is converted according to the market price, ten taels of silver are equivalent to ten copper coins, and one tael of silver is about one guan copper coin.

But silver is not currency!

In fact, one tael of silver can usually be exchanged for two copper coins!

After all, the copper coins of the Song Dynasty are all iron copper coins, and they are very thin.

Li Gang was silent, the imperial decree in Zhao Huan's hands was first sent to Jingbei Road, and the state capital that Yang Yao broke through on Jingbei Road directly belonged to Bianjing.

Even the entire Jinghu North Road is attached.

And the second imperial decree was sent directly to Fujian Road and Guangnan East Road. Although these two roads are not rich, they are indeed the foundation of the entire Song Dynasty society, the salt-producing road!
And the third imperial decree sold 800 million taels of silver. Not only that, there are also 50 taels of silver in the account every year, which made Li Gang doubt his life.

"Officials have the right way to make money, and ministers are far behind." Li Gang bowed his head and said, anyway, if the official has money, the Song Dynasty has money.

"This is a state matter. The 800 million taels of silver should go to the state treasury." Zhao Huan decided to put the money into the state treasury. It was not easy for Li Gang to be a magistrate, and he was always worried about his internal money.

"The 800 million taels of silver are all beaten into silver cakes, and each tael of silver cake is equivalent to a consistent copper coin. I wonder what Li Dazai thinks?" Zhao Huan asked.

These 800 million taels of silver can be made into 1000 million silver cakes, which is 1000 million taels!
In fact, when forging, some tin is added to prevent corrosion, and iron and copper are mixed together.

"Government and private silver transactions are all through scales, and they have to be cut, which is really inconvenient. This is also the problem of silver being unable to circulate in the market for a long time. It is too difficult to count."

"Besides, silver's fineness varies, which also causes difficulties in circulation. Officials and ministers think that the government can make silver coins for the use of the people of the world." Li Gang thought for a while and said.

The silver cake transaction is really cumbersome, and because of the lack of fineness in various places, there are often problems in the silver cake transaction.

"The Guanzhong army pays a total of 40 shimi and 40 yuan, of which 10 yuan is converted into 5000 taels of silver and [-] taels of gold. It is feasible to convert one tael of silver into a consistent amount of money."

"Officials, if they can open the waterway and have long-term trade with the Japanese country, they can mint 1000 million silver coins every year, which can greatly alleviate the current situation of the lack of money in the Song Dynasty." Li Gang is still admonishing.

Zhao Huan thought for a while and said, "You mean to mint silver coins?"

There is a lot to do!
As long as there is silver, there will be a unified government to recover silver taels and forge silver coins, which can greatly alleviate the market's resistance to silver taels transactions!

Moreover, it is conducive to controlling money and controlling the world through money. Li Gang's suggestion is good.

Is he thinking of printing his face on the silver coin?
The technology thinks that it can be achieved, but this is probably the only way to think about it. In the value system of the Central Plains Dynasty, the ranking of money is not very high, and he is insulting his own identity by doing so.

Only the countries of Europa like to print their heads on silver coins for people to use.

But Zhao Huan can print something else, the purpose is to prevent counterfeiting.

"You can print Da Song Tong Bao, with seven points of silver, one point of tin, one point of iron and copper, and one point of tin plating. Let's call it the Great Song Silver Dollar." Zhao Huan decided to forge money, but the forged silver dollar was to stimulate the economy. , to raise taxes.

The purpose of tinning is to prevent the loss of silver. New coins are regularly put in, and the old coins can be used as new coins by recycling the tin-coated tin.

"One more thing, Dazai, what do you think of the Wa country wanting to use currency with the Song Dynasty?" Zhao Huan asked.

This matter must be carefully considered. Is the road of Da Song's currency internationalization suitable now?
Li Gang is also keenly aware of the seriousness of this problem, and there are many benefits from the common currency of the Wa Kingdom, but that is based on the strength of the Song Dynasty. At this point in time, the current currency is not advisable.

"Officials and ministers think that the currency can promote the commerce and trade between the two countries and increase the influence on the Japanese country. After all, the right to issue it is in the hands of Song Dynasty."

"The official canonization of the Japanese king is naturally a legal expansion of the territory. And the currency is popular, so it can expand the territory in terms of currency."

"But everything has advantages and disadvantages. Now the Song Dynasty is short of money. If the currency is used with the Wa Kingdom, the Song Dynasty itself will be short of money. In this way, it will be even more short of money."

"Furthermore, Da Song cannot supervise the currency circulating in Japan. It increases the loss of money for nothing, and I think it is not advisable to directly circulate currency."

"But officials, we have money to attract. It's okay to pass money to attract. Anyway, it's all paper." Li Gang finished his words.

Zhao Huan nodded, talking about Yin people, Zhao Huan felt that if he wanted to catch up with Li Gang in his life, it would be a waste of time.

As soon as Li Gang made a move, it was Jiao Zitongxing.

In Qianyin of the Great Song Dynasty, Jiaozi was always a toilet paper, and now Shuzhong’s attitude is extremely repetitive. Isn’t it because the matter of Jiaozi made Shuzhong feel dissatisfied?
Li Gang did not use currency, but Jiaozi. The goods shipped to the Wa country were settled in silver, and the goods shipped from the Wa country to the Song Dynasty were settled in paper money.

Zhao Huan looked at Li Gang, this person can turn his own sensory closure experiment into a black coffin, he really is a villain!
"I think it's okay."

"I have another suggestion, that is to send some craftsmen to the country of Wa to help the country mine gold and silver."

"The Japanese domestically produced silver and gold, but lacked survey and survey, and also lacked the technology to produce silver and gold. I think that it is reasonable to send some craftsmen to guide the mining, and dig out the gold and silver mountains as soon as possible and send them to the Song Dynasty." Li Gang said with a smile.

"Yes, Li Dazai arranged it." Zhao Huan nodded. This suggestion is good. It can increase the silver production of the country of Japan, so that the Song Dynasty can continuously mint money and stimulate economic development.

Li Gang continued: "The old mine is split between [-] and [-]%. The king of Japan Chongde has [-]%, and I have [-]%. For the new mine, I have [-]% and the king of Japan has [-]%. Officials think this ratio is appropriate."

"After all, without the survey and guidance of our Great Song craftsmen, it will take several generations for them to produce the 800 million taels of silver in Japan."

Zhao Huan was taken aback for a moment, this technology will cost [-]% of the profit?He hesitated and asked, "Is it a bit much?"

"Is it a lot? Let me start with [-]% of the income. If it is not [-]%, it can't be lower." Li Gang shook his head. Without the technology of the Song Dynasty, how many mines can they open in the Wa country?
They can only dig out some bare silver mines in the open pit!The silver ore in those deposits can only stare blankly, not only that, their forging technology is extremely poor, and the fire consumption is extremely high!
"Then Li Dazai and Heping Qingsheng talk about this technology shareholding, let's see if Waguo can agree." Zhao Huan nodded, but he didn't have much expectation for the share in his heart.

"Women will agree." Li Gang said very confidently.

One of Japan, Jin, and Liao counts as one, and Song Dynasty still has enough confidence in technology. This division is not just Li Gang just talking nonsense. There is a precedent for this matter.

In Champa, there is a silver mine opened with the help of Da Song, and the share is [-]%.

"Officials, there is really a lot of silver in the land of Wa!" Li Gang reminded Zhao Huan.

Zhao Huan savored this sentence carefully, and looked at Li Gang meaningfully, expressing that I understood the subtext of this sentence.

This silver belongs to the territory of the country of Wa. Now, the silver belongs to the country of Wa, but in the end, it still belongs to the Song Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)