Dahan first prince

Chapter 64 The money is there, but not completely
Hearing Liu Ying's question, Xiao He and Yang Chengyan were both taken aback.

Does Shaofu have any money?

In truth, there are.

——In the seventh year of the Han Dynasty, that is, three years ago, the emperor Liu Bang formally promulgated an imperial edict, allowing people to mint money privately, and endorsed the legitimacy of the three baht coin!
Since then, in just two years, the Shaofu has already cast millions of three-baht coins with its original inventory and the oral gifts collected every year.

At the very beginning, Shaofu did greatly improve the financial situation of the central government of the Han Dynasty under the money-casting model of "one life is two, two is three, three is all things".

At the beginning of the eighth year of the Han Dynasty, after the oral gifts from the previous year arrived at Shaofu, in just half a year, those 70 million Qin Banliang were melted into nearly [-] million three baht coins!

With the huge sum of money to buy food and other materials from the market, the Shaofu was able to sweep away the previous decline and accumulate a primitive family fortune.

But soon, the destructiveness of the three baht coin appeared in the Han Dynasty.

Because of the three baht money, not only Shaofu can cast it!
——After Liu Bang issued the edict of the Son of Heaven, endorsing the legality of privately casting three baht coins, the common people set up their own stoves, and they can also use Qin Banliang to cast Han three baht!
It can be said that since the emperor Liu Bang allowed the people to cast three baht coins privately, the value of money in the hands of almost every Han Chinese has become 30-50 times the original value.

There is more money in the market, but the quantity of goods on the market is still the same as before, and there is no objective condition for natural inflation.

Naturally, in response to the increase in the value of the currency, the market price will also rise accordingly, naturally rising to more than [-] times the original value.

To put it simply: You can buy a catty of grain from me with one and a half taels of money;
But now you take one and a half taels, and you can cast dozens of three-baht coins, and these dozens of three-baht coins can still only buy a catty of grain.

After all, no matter what you say, whether it is a Qin half-two or thirty or fifty Han three baht, the copper content is there: it is about seven to eight baht together.

Because copper coins are not paper money of later generations, but metal coins with their own precious metal properties as their own value.

Under the laws of the market, the factor that determines the value of a copper coin can only be the copper content of the coin itself.

Even if the emperor Liu Bang stipulated that "the value of a three baht coin is equal to a Qin half two", this reality cannot be changed at all.

Of course, if it was just like this, then Shaofu would still make money.

After all, at the very beginning, Shaofu bought a lot of things from the market with "three baht coins with a face value of half a tael".

Even if prices are rising now, and the exchange ratio of currency and goods is automatically balanced by the market, it is just that there will be no profit in the future. The part that was earned at the beginning has already been collected by the Shaofu.

But the problem is that today's three-baht coin doesn't even have the purchasing power of "one-thirtieth and a half-two coins"...

"This······"

Hesitating to speak, he looked at Liu Ying, but he didn't see Liu Ying's intention of "let it go". Xiao He and Yang Chengyan couldn't help looking at the Queen Lu Zhi behind Liu Ying for help.

The lively eyes of the two seemed to be eagerly pleading with Lu Zhi: "Queen, tell your silly son what's going on!"

Unexpectedly, seeing this, Lu Zhi only looked at Xiao He with a faint smile, and there was a little bit of banter in his tone.

"A few days ago, Your Majesty planned to hold a court meeting with the crown prince supervising the country, and I wanted to go with the crown prince. Didn't Prime Minister Xiao say that the queen is the mother of the world, and she is in charge of the affairs of the harem, so it is not appropriate to interfere in the affairs of foreign courts?"

"I think what Xiang Xiang said is true."

Saying that, Lu Zhi couldn't help but cast his eyes at Yang Chengyan beside Xiao He, then at Liu Ying beside him, and then raised his head again.

"Marquis Feng and Shaofu can speak out, don't worry about me."

"If the prince hadn't insisted that my relatives come here, I would have wanted the prince to come alone to discuss with the two of you."

"Even if it's here, I'm just listening."

Saying this with a faint smile, Lu Zhi lowered his head, casually picked up a roll of bamboo slips from the small table in front of him, and kept muttering: "Before your Majesty left, you were talking about the prince supervising the country, not the queen. Supervising the country..."

After saying that, Lu Zhi seemed to read the bamboo slips in his hand very seriously, and actually put on a posture of 'I am a transparent person'.

Seeing Lu Zhi's posture, Xiao He was taken aback for a moment, then lowered his head thoughtfully.

On the other hand, Yang Chengyan, who was at the side, saw that Lu Zhi was unwilling to speak, cold sweat immediately dripped from his forehead, and looked at Liu Ying with a terrified expression.

"Chen, minister..."

Moaning and chirping for a long time, the word "conviction" was not able to be exported by Yandao Yangcheng.

After such a moment, Xiao He finally turned his head, looked at Yang Chengyan sympathetically, and shook his head secretly.

"Ugh·······"

"It's also difficult for Shaofu..."

Sighing in his heart, Xiao He straightened up a little, and bowed to Liu Ying slightly.

"The family may not know something."

"Today in Shaofu, there are tens of millions of three baht coins; and the moneymakers in Shaofu are still working day and night to make three baht coins."

"However, today, no matter the three baht coins minted by the Shaofu or privately minted by the people, it is difficult for the people to trust..."

This is the reason why Xiao He and Yang Chengyan ignored the tens of thousands of baht in the Shaofu and subconsciously said that the treasury is empty.

——The purchasing power of three baht money is no longer a question of whether it is high or low, but a question of whether it is available or not!

Chang'an and its surrounding areas are better, with Liu Bang's golden rule that "three bahts are equal to half two renminbi", no one dares to refuse three bahts openly; when merchants see three bahts, they can only find another excuse, such as sold out , Closed doors, or 'I don't want to sell'.

But in some remote places, even in Guanzhong, as long as they are far enough from Chang'an, the situation of "bartering as the default means of transaction" has already appeared!
As for the cheap money that the Shaofu earned in those years, it was also spit out little by little with the three baht money that was handed over to the Shaofu in the name of "oral gift" every year.

To put it bluntly, today's three baht money, let alone thirty pieces for one Qinbanliang, even if it is piled up into a hill, no one is willing to regard it as 'money'!
The three baht coins lost all their purchasing power, which naturally turned Shaofu's tens of thousands of three baht coins into lead reserves.

When Liu Ying heard Xiao He's words, she was overjoyed!
"Waiting for this sentence!"

With a secret cheer, Liu Ying barely suppressed the joy in her heart, and looked at Xiao He pretending to be puzzled.

"Xiao Xiang's meaning is that the Shaofu has tens of thousands of dollars in money, but they can't use it in the market?"

Seeing Xiao Heman's secretive, almost invisible nod, Liu Ying finally tried to see it, and looked at Yang Chengyan with a puzzled expression.

"Since Shaofu's money can't be sold in the market, why does Shaofu want to melt half a tael and mint three baht?"

"Here, how can we not melt the available money, cast it and get nothing?"

(End of this chapter)