Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 139 Monetary Easing Policy
Hearing the specific figures mentioned by Tian Wei, Feng Quji and others were silent for a long time.

They know that the imperial court has been gradually replacing the bronze swords and spears in Xianyang's arsenal with forged iron knives and long spears, and even Fusu melted the whales on the orchid pond. They just laughed at Fusu for being poor and crazy Yes, with no regard for royal decency.

What they never expected was that after Fusu returned the bronze ware, what he got was not half taels, but a batch of small but well-made five baht coins!

However, they were not surprised by the amount of five baht coins, after all, they all remembered the size of the whale on Lanchi clearly.

What surprised Feng Quji and others was, where is the place to cast new money?

Feng Quji suddenly thought that, not long ago, Fusu conscripted Liangjiazi from various counties in Guanzhong on the grounds of performing a military parade, and stationed them outside Shanglinyuan to practice military formations.

As for the interior of Shanglin Garden, the guards of the palace gates under the command of Lang Zhongling were used to guard it, so as to prevent good families from encroaching on the inner royal garden.

He nodded slightly. The bronze whale was dismantled and sent to the Lantian Industrial Zone to be melted into copper ingots. After that, it must have been secretly sent to Shanglinyuan for casting new coins!
The two are close at hand, and the transfer of materials will not attract attention. Coupled with the army's drills, internal information cannot be transmitted!
Feng Quji sighed secretly. Although Wang Wan and Li Si were in power successively when the former emperor was here, he, the right prime minister, could still participate in state affairs, otherwise...

But now Fusu has set up an inner court, and only he and a group of people in the inner court participate in the formulation of state affairs.

Thinking of this, he glanced sideways at Wei Liao who was with the old god, Meng Yi who pretended to be shocked, and Young Master Yan who was expressionless, knowing that there must be them who are involved in political affairs.

In theory, the Right Prime Minister, who is under one person and above ten million people, has been completely reduced to the executor of state affairs except for a few months after the death of the first emperor, who briefly mastered the government affairs!
Feng Quji was clutching a five baht coin, his knuckles turned slightly white, it seemed that Yao Jia and his son's idle move was now about to come in handy!
Zheng Guo took a look at Feng Quji, whose face was sinking like water, then turned to Fusu and asked, "I wonder how Your Majesty plans to promote the new money?"

Fusu thought for a while, and relayed to Zheng Guo according to the rules discussed earlier:
"First take the counties of Xianyang as a pilot project, seal up half taels in the treasury, melt them into copper and send them to Shanglinyuan. Then set up an exchange point in front of the county government office, regardless of good or bad. Each half tael can be exchanged for three A five baht coin."

"Every Lidian (to avoid taboos of the first emperor, Lizheng was changed to Lidian) organizes people from Liju to go there, and the county government organizes Wen Wuhai (literary officials) to register."

"And at the time of exchange, Tingwei Mansion and Yushi doctor should send personnel to supervise, and copy the daily records to the palace for review."

"In order to promote the new money, wherever the new money exchange point is open, the new money will be used when the salt is sold, and everyone will be informed that after the exchange period is over, regardless of the new money or the old money, all will be priced at one money!"

Fusu said while observing the expressions of the people below.

The expressions of Meng Yi, Gong Ziyan, Wei Liao and others who knew the inside story remained unchanged, and they were even a little secretly happy, while Feng Jie, Yao Jia and others vaguely revealed expressions of mourning.

Obviously, this time they are going to be tool people again...

In Fusu's eyes, among the following three princes and nine ministers, except for the absent eunuch Meng Tian, ​​the remaining 12 people can be roughly divided into three factions.

One group is naturally the Lang Zhongling Meng Yi who has a close relationship with Fusu, the Shaofu son Yan and Zongzheng son Gun who are closely related to interests, and Zuo Prime Minister who just wants to retire for the elderly but has to get on the Fusu chariot for the sake of his family heirs. Wei Liao.

The second faction is the two-hearted party, headed by the prime minister of the right, Feng Quji, the official censor Feng Jie, the court lieutenant Yao Jia, and the governor Zheng Guo.

This is the key target of Fusu. Many policies introduced during this period are aimed at taking away the power in their hands.

The third faction is the wall-riding faction headed by Taiwei Qiang Li, and composed of Chang Hu Wujing, Wei Wei Yang Duanhe, and Dian Ke Dunruo. These people have fallen to Fusu in name, but what do they think in their hearts? , only they themselves know.

In Fusu's plan, after dealing with Feng Quji and others, the next step is to take them under the knife!

Zheng Guo thought for a while, then shook his head slightly and said: "The old minister thinks that His Majesty's move is inappropriate. Half a tael is worth twelve baht, and five baht is exchanged for one of three. It may be a waste of national power..."

Fusu raised his hand and stopped Zheng Guo's tirade: "It's too much to worry about governing millet internal history. I've been thinking about this matter for a long time. You and I will do it!"

Although five baht coins are exchanged for half and two renminbi, and the court will lose three baht for each coin exchanged, but...

The people of the old Qin really believed that although the promotion of half taels of money was for the purpose of collecting people's fat and people's ointment, they did not discount at all the materials used for half taels of money, and did not mix other ingredients into it like later generations to reduce the content of precious metals. .

But Fusu's new five baht coins are different. He absorbed the fine traditions of later generations, and set the copper content of five baht coins at [-] to [-]%, and made up the rest with lead and iron.

With such a three-to-one exchange ratio, the imperial court will not suffer.

Of course, this is a theoretical value.

After the exchange of new and old money, there will definitely be a lot of bad money flowing into the treasury, which is why Fusu asked Tingwei's Mansion and Yushi Doctor's Mansion to intervene.

Under the exchange of real names, Fusu will not care about the hundreds of thousands of money in the hands of the heads of Guizhou, even if they have bad money, but those big households who have built money cellars at home, and criminals who secretly minted fake money...

Ha ha!

Although Fusu is a man of engineering with half a bottle of water, and in later generations he is also a leek for stock speculation to become a shareholder, but in this era, the financial knowledge he has mastered has the tendency to crush the aborigines.

At this time, the state of Qin and its surrounding countries were not so much based on grain as they were based on salt.

Whoever controls the salt controls everything!
After the old and new coins were exchanged, Fusu only needed to adjust the price of salt to stabilize the prices of other commodities on the market, thereby maintaining the fragile private industry and commerce in Qin State.

The exchange ratio of one to three, in the words of later generations, is the magic version of the monetary easing policy.

With more currency in circulation in the market, private transactions can be done without bartering, which is conducive to Fusu's implementation of the Qin and Han system in the countries of the Western Regions!

In fact, in Fusu's view, it is a waste to cast copper materials into copper coins.

Rather than letting people use it as money, it is better to save it for making wires, or copper cannons!
The ideal currency in his mind is actually silver.

It's a pity that China is a poor country, but fortunately there is no unparalleled road.

Before Fusu crossed over, he heard that the Iwami Silver Mountain in a certain island country next door has rich reserves and is buried very shallow!

He decided to build a ship in Liaodong after the country was stabilized, set up a fleet to go to sea, and arrest Xu Fu for questioning!

By the way, organize the locals to dig some mines...

As for your own mine?

Mountains of gold and silver are not as good as green water and green mountains!
(End of this chapter)