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Chapter 591 Brothers, Come Live

Silver in the Qing Dynasty can be freely circulated and exchanged. The problem is that silver is not a national legal tender in any dynasty.

From beginning to end, copper coins have been the legal tender of all dynasties.

Of course, banknotes that appear briefly in individual periods also count.

Copper coins are generally divided into two types. One is called copper plate among the people, that is, copper coins printed with the words "Yuanbao" or "Chongbao" and "Tongbao", which are similar to ten yuan, 20 yuan, or even 50 yuan banknotes in later generations.

The other is ordinary small copper coins, which are round on the outside and square on the inside, commonly known as "Brother Kong Fang", similar to the one yuan, five cents and one cent coins of later generations.

At present, copper coins cast in the late Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong periods are mostly used in the market, and there are fewer copper coins in the Shunzhi period.

The reason is the long history and loss factor.

The circulation of silver is mainly in bulk transactions. Because silver is inconvenient to carry and transport, it is derived from the product of the financial system of bank notes.

The common silver on the market is not silver ingots, but mostly the kind of broken particles that don't know how many knives have been cut, and the weight is calculated by money.

Or the kind of specially made silver beans.

Basically every shop that does business has a small scale for weighing.

Silver must weigh this congenital deficiency, which is destined to be more convenient in the people's livelihood market than simpler copper coins with no face value.

There is only one way to make silver have the same currency attributes as copper coins and circulate on a large scale, and that is to create silver coins in the copper coin format.

Before leaving Beijing, Heshen had a secret meeting with Heshen in the yamen of the temporary commander of the Chongwenmen Infantry Army. Heshen showed Brother Dongge a silver coin from a Westerner.

Heshen hoped that Dongge Xiandi would support him to speak to Fulehun after he took office as the governor of Zhili, and try to produce silver dollars at the Ministry of Households to issue the world, so that whether it is domestic trade or overseas trade with foreigners, the imperial court can get huge profits from it, so as to solve the problem. The current economic problem is that the treasury is seriously short of money.

If you don't want to find a way to open up sources, the Huguang War alone can drag the Qing Dynasty into the bottomless abyss.

When Jinchuan used troops before, the military pay already accounted for sixty-seven percent of the national tax.

Now, this ratio is as high as seven or eight out of ten.

If you don't make money, the Qing Dynasty will go bankrupt.

At that time, Jia Liu was very moved.

He Shen is really patriotic, no wonder he supported his home for more than ten years in the late Qianlong period by himself.

Economic thinking is not an ordinary job, but a special one.

If Jiaqing's idiot used Heshen like his Ama, it is estimated that the Opium War would not have broken out at all, because Heshen was a rare supporter of foreign trade among high-ranking Manchurian officials, and he knew the situation of Western countries very well.

Typical pragmatist.

Margani's mission was led to the capital by He Shen, but unfortunately it was rejected by his master.

It's hard to say that the [-] million taels of Heshen's property confiscated by Jiaqing was not prepared by Heshen for him.

Therefore, killing chickens and taking eggs is perfect for Jiaqing.

This is also one of the reasons why Jia Liu tried his best to keep He Shen as the Minister of the Household Department. On a macro level, he, Guizi Liu, dared to say that he was the second in the world, and no one dared to be the number one in the world.

But in terms of specific details, it has to rely on the elites of this era to advance.

After all, his personal energy is limited.

As long as he can help him lead this country to prosperity and strength, whether it is Manchuria or Han people, Jia Liu will use it freely.

Even if He Shen is a royalist in his bones, he is fundamentally opposed to himself, a conspiring usurper.

Of course, Jia Liu supports the constructive idea of ​​silver dollars, but he does not plan to support the Qing court. Instead, he plans to try it out in Zhili first, and then interact with Chairman Li's Bank of Sichuan.

Now that it's called Shikai, it's time to get Jia Datou to come out.

There is even less gold in circulation, most of which are made into jewelry, and the circulation in the currency field may only account for one percent of the country's total currency.

Jia Liu is a person who does not love money, which history can prove.

But he is also a person who loves money, which can also be proved by history.

Not contradictory, in line with dialectics.

Because not loving money is a personal virtue, and loving money is a public heart.

From a personal point of view, Jia Liu, the second-rank governor, raises up to [-] million yuan a year for honesty and integrity. As for corruption, does he still want to engage in corruption?

If the official achieves a certain position, money is really just a number.

But compared with the road to lead China to revival, his salary is nothing compared to a drop in the bucket, let alone a drop in the bucket.

Therefore, the heavy burden of revival made him love money.

But this time he really didn't like money, so he changed his name.

If you want to promote the New Deal in Zhili, you need not just have the army, but also have enough prestige and matching qualifications.

As far as the army is concerned, Jia Liu can currently directly control about 40,000 people, which is not many compared with the nearly [-] people in Zhili.

In terms of prestige, he has invincible military exploits, which is enough to scare the gangsters in Zhili.

The problem is that the qualifications are really lacking.

With all his calculations, he is only 22 this year, which is only one year older than the 21.

Its development process is also accompanied by many coincidences and irreproducible factors.

So a governor in his early twenties wants to break through his ancestors' established laws and implement some new policies that were unheard of at that time. The pressure can be imagined.

Then, it is necessary to start a great project on the first day of entering Zhili territory.

Packaging works.

Everyone in the world loves and believes in honest officials, and if they are willing to work under the leadership of honest officials, then Jia Liu must do what the world likes and make himself an honest official admired by everyone.

In order to be a good honest official, he specially set three rules for his subordinates, and prepared to lead by example from around him. Unexpectedly, the officials and gentry in Zhuozhou were so considerate and offered to send him a pillow.

On the way to take office, the new Governor-General meets local officials and gentry to pay filial piety as usual, but the Governor-General only needs copper coins and not silver ingots, and his image of being honest and upright can be established in an instant when word spreads.

It will not make the bureaucratic group in Zhili feel conflicted. Isn't this killing two birds with one stone?

Sitting in the carriage, holding the thermos pot in one hand and playing with the silver dollar given by Heshen in the other, Jia Liu's facial expression was extremely peaceful and his mood was extremely stable.

This place is still more than a hundred miles away from Baoding, and it still needs to pass through Ansu County on the way. At that time, the county officials and gentry will also come to pay their respects, so they will do the same thing again.

In this way, before arriving in Baoding, the image of the new Governor-General's incorruptibility may already be known to passers-by.

The packaged upright officials are also upright officials.

How did the upright officials come about?

Population pass it on.

Mastering the profound meaning of propaganda and knowing the preferences of public opinion can firmly suppress all monsters and monsters morally.

But he didn't know that his crouching dragon and phoenix chick had found a loophole in his self-packaging, and was going to collect dozens of tons of copper coins when he arrived in Baoding.

Where can I refuse to accept legal tender?

Just as it was beautiful, the carriage stopped suddenly, and then there was a noise in front, vaguely as if someone was crying.

"What happened up front?"

Jia Liu raised the curtain of the car and stuck out half of his head to ask.

Shuan Zhu, who was sitting in the front and acted as a groom, shouted, "I'll go to the front and have a look."

He ran away without waiting for the young master to speak.

Not long after, he ran back in a hurry and shouted anxiously: "Young Master, there are people blocking the way ahead and calling for injustice!"

"What, calling for injustice?"

Hearing this, the remaining drowsiness in Jia Liu's head suddenly disappeared, and he jumped up as if he had been injected with chicken blood, but his head hit the roof of a car with some pain.

"it's okay no problem,"

Regardless of the pain in his head, Jia Liu kicked the car door in a hurry and jumped down.

In a hurry, one of them didn't pay attention and fell down again, and the second-rank governor's hat with the flower feather on it fell off.

Standing up and picking up the hat, he patted his butt twice casually, pointing in front of Fan Wei anxiously as if nothing happened: "What are you doing in a daze, put the camera on your back and follow me!"

It was only after the lecture that I realized that something was wrong and the hardware was not perfect.

"Bring your notebook and pen, and take notes."

Before Fan Wei came back to his senses, Master Guijia had disappeared before his eyes.

The speed is so fast, it's the people of Kazakhstan.

(End of this chapter)