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Chapter 632 Minting Power

Creaking, the door opened, King Qin came out of the room with a smile, and met Princess Changyu with a worried face.

"Brother Wang, are you alright?"

King Qin looked at Princess Changyu and said with a smile, "Oh, Ah Ruo, I'm fine."

Princess Changyu heard the words: "My husband didn't make things difficult for brother, did he?"

"No, no." Qin Wang waved his hands and said, after hearing this, Princess Changyu said: "Then brother Wang gave all our family property to my husband?"

The king of Qin said: "Yes, but the county lord is a man of faith. Although I want to give all our family property to the county lord, I didn't expect the county lord not to want it. Instead, he gave me 100 million silver dollars. As well as one hundred acres of fertile land, and a mansion in our Lantian County, which is only two streets away from your home, from now on, sister, if you miss your mother, or if your mother misses you, it will be much more convenient to visit each other."

After hearing this, Princess Changyu said: "It's a good thing that you and your mother and concubine are going to move to Lantian, but Brother Wang, why are you so happy after all the wealth of your family has been given away? This isn't like you, brother?"

"Did you scare me, Mr. Jiafu, into a fool?"

Princess Changyu asked worriedly. After hearing these words, King Qin said: "I was not frightened by the county lord. On the contrary, I am very grateful to the county lord."

"gratitude?"

Princess Changyu looked puzzled. After all, it was a large sum of money. To give someone else a large sum of money from her own family, not only did she not hate others, but she was also grateful to them. Isn't that a bad idea?But my brother is not stupid, is he?
How can it be like this?

"Okay, I won't tell you anymore, I will tell my mother the good news."

King Qin ran away cheerfully, ignoring Princess Changyu, Princess Changyu looked confused, and looked at the door of the study room that had not been closed.

Pushing open the door, seeing Li Chaosheng reviewing documents there, he took two steps and walked over.

"Husband."

"Oh, weak, you haven't slept yet."

Li Chaosheng responded, and then continued to approve the documents. Seeing this, Princess Changyu responded, "Well, my husband, may I ask you something?"

At this time, Li Chaosheng swiped a pen on a document applying for funds, yes!
Now that I have money, I don’t need to search for things.

Immediately after, he raised his head and smiled and said, "What's the matter, Ah Wei?"

"Did my brother give all the family wealth to the husband?"

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng paused, and then said with an apologetic expression: "Ah weak, you should understand this matter, husband, our Lantian has developed to the point where it is now, and we will not allow another bad boy to appear on our land in Lantian." The existence controlled by Lantian, the existence of Qin Wangfu, it hinders..."

"Stop, stop, husband, I know what you said, and I agree with the confiscation of the property of Prince Qin's Mansion."

"Oh, you agree, then you were just now?"

Princess Changyu heard the words: "I just said, why my brother handed over his property and is so happy, I don't understand."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "Oh, it's nothing, I left him 100 million."

"That's not the case, is it?"

Princess Changyu was still puzzled, Li Chaosheng said with a smile: "In addition, an official was arranged for him."

"Officer? Have you arranged an official position for my brother Wang?"

Princess Changyu's eyes widened, and he said, "Husband, my elder brother is not capable of governing. You can't just agree to give him an official position just to take care of my feelings. If he can't do well, then wouldn't it be Missed your husband's plan?"

"No, no, husband, you can't do this."

Seeing Princess Changyu's nervous look, Li Chaosheng said, "Hehe, are you also afraid that your brother Wang won't do well, and I'll find a reason to kill him then?"

Princess Changyu shook her head and said: "My husband is not that cruel person, and if my king brother hadn't committed a crime that must be killed, my husband would not kill him. It makes me sad."

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng laughed and said: "My princess is still smart, but you should also reflect, your elder brother is not as miserable as you imagined, and he will definitely be competent for the official position I gave him."

"Oh, what official position is it?"

Princess Changyu asked Li Chaosheng curiously when he heard the words, and Li Chaosheng laughed after hearing this, "Lantian Grand Court Officer, in charge of Lantian banquet envoys, presiding over ceremonies, and other related matters."

"Oh, this..."

Princess Changyu's eyes lit up a little when he heard this. For other official positions, such as the administrative side, being the head of a village, the head of a middle village, etc., his elder brother can make a mess of it, but the official of ceremony is simply a professional to the King of Qin. Matched.

As a member of the royal family, etiquette is very important. It can be said that you have to learn it from an early age. As for Lantian's civil and military skills, if you want to talk about the ability to govern the country, they may have left the king of Qin by thousands of miles, but for etiquette, pay attention to it. It will be found that King Qin's professionalism in this area is much higher than that of these so-called important ministers from Lantian who were born with mud legs.

King Qin is really competent for this position. Thinking of this, Princess Changyu looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Husband, I'm really sorry for you. Brother Wang, you have bothered."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng turned his head to look at Princess Changyu and said, "Oh, since you know I've bothered you, how will Madam plan to repay me?"

Princess Changyu blushed immediately after hearing this, and said in a mosquito-like voice, "Husband, it's not good."

"What's wrong, your husband hasn't touched you for a month, and today he turned over your brand."

"Then...then thank you husband, the servants will go back to the house and wait for husband."

Princess Changyu turned around and ran away after saying that. Li Chaosheng shook his head helplessly when he saw it. They belonged to old couples. As for making it so exciting?

I couldn't help laughing when I thought about it. To maintain the relationship between husband and wife, sometimes you have to use some tricks.

Turning around and going back to the table, there are still five documents to be approved. Whoever said that being an emperor is good, unless you are a foolish emperor and want to be a wise emperor, even if you try your best to delegate power, there are still a lot of things to deal with every day.

Fortunately, these officials in Lantian have been well trained, and they usually talk about things, instead of approving a bunch of nonsense papers every day like the current and future emperors.

In fact, looking at the excerpts approved by the emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they can be roughly divided into four categories, one is memorials, the other is greetings, gratitude, and congratulations.

In fact, it can be seen from the name that except for the first one which is considered to be more useful, the rest are a bunch of nonsense.

Complaints are the kind that the emperor often criticizes in TV dramas, such as which minister has been impeached, where a flood has flooded and needs to be rescued, and what parts of the court need to be improved.

This is all written in the report.

And except for the story, the rest of the books are basically her mother's nonsense.

For example, ask An Zhezi, what is this? It means that the minister has nothing to give the emperor a zhezi. What is the content? To sum it up, it is the emperor, hello, who am I~
Of course, these ministers will quote the scriptures and write this paragraph beautifully, and show off their writing skills crazily, but after reading the whole article, the last few words are still those words, "Hello, Your Majesty, who am I?"

To put it bluntly, it may be a sense of presence.

And the emperor usually approves three words for such a memorial, I know~
The emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties have the most. Among the cultural relics preserved in the Palace Museum, there are many such excerpts approved by Qianlong.

The above approval is straightforward, and there is no such combination of classical Chinese and prose as imagined.

This is to ask Anzhe, in addition to asking Anzhe, there is also Xie Enzhe.

It's also very simple, the emperor appointed you as the governor of a certain place, and you wrote a note to thank you, to the effect that, thank the emperor for his cultivation, I will devote myself to the emperor and die...

Anyway, it's full of nonsense.

The last is the congratulatory fold, this is straightforward, the emperor celebrates the birthday, the queen mother celebrates the birthday, the Chinese New Year, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Lantern Festival, in order to express, the ministers put up a congratulatory fold to congratulate the emperor, which is about the same as a greeting card.

It's all nonsense anyway, so I often see that the emperor has hundreds of memorials to approve a day, of which there may be only a dozen or less that really talk about things, and the rest are all nonsense.

And Li Chaosheng doesn't have so many nonsense notes, but when Lantian is waiting to be done, there are still a lot of things that Li Chaosheng needs to deal with. Therefore, in addition to some official business during the day, there will be various kinds of things almost every night. There are more than a dozen documents that need him to deal with.

He hates this very much. Didn't we agree not to work overtime?

It's a pity that the 007 blessings are a luxury for Li Chaosheng. What Li Chaosheng wants to accept is the [-] blessings. There is no rest day. If I want to take a vacation for myself, I need to start preparations half a month in advance to clear the backlog. Handle official affairs in advance, save yourself a day off to accompany your wife and children.

Let's continue to approve, although the beauty has prepared everything and waits for me in the bedroom, but I can't be greedy for women, the official business is important, thinking that Li Chaosheng will start correcting the documents here.

It's just that the speed has been significantly accelerated by a few points.

……

Lantian's young master made a lot of trouble with the full moon wine, and the happiest thing was the finance department in Lantian. The finance minister was very happy at this time, seeing the boxes of silver moved into the finance department, it was a joy.

The silver will be sent to the mint for refurbishment as soon as possible, and the silver will be exchanged with some other metals to make Lantian silver coins unique to Lantian, also known as Lantian silver dollars.

The purchasing power of this silver dollar is the same as one or two taels of silver, but the silver content in it is only about eight qian, and the rest are other metals. In the past, this kind of silver dollar was not recognized by the people in Lantian. They preferred to have a silver content of more than ten qian Lantian old silver dollar.

However, with the development of Lantian getting better and better in recent years, the word of mouth is getting better and better, and Lantian silver dollars are more and more recognized, especially with the existence of Lantian Bank, this silver dollar is even more recognized by the people of Lantian.

Why?
Because the silver dollars issued by Lantian can be traded in the private sector according to the normal silver taels. One silver dollar is equal to one tael of silver, and you can go to the bank with the silver dollars. When you arrive at the bank, you can directly exchange the silver dollars for one tael of silver.

This gives the common people a high degree of trust, and when Lantian pays taxes, the silver dollars can also be used to pay taxes, and the Lantian government also recognizes it.

With these two items, the Lantian silver dollar has a large market among the people, and now it can basically be used as a normal currency. right.

Some people will ask when they see this, does the Ming government have no right to print money?
The answer is yes, no, the Ming government does not have the right to print money, and cannot manipulate the market by printing money, and this right is handed over to the common people by the Ming government itself.

Why did the Ming Dynasty die? Some people say it was the establishment of slaves, some people said it was the peasant uprising, and some people said it was the land annexation by the gentry.

That's right, in the late Ming Dynasty, it was caused by the financial collapse of the Ming Dynasty. In the officialdom, the gentry colluded with officials to annex land, and successfully fooled Chongzhen into not collecting commercial taxes. Sucking the blood of Daming Finance, the entire Daming Finance Game collapsed.

The gentry colluded to annex land, officials deceived Chongzhen, and forced Chongzhen not to collect commercial taxes. As a result, Ming's tax revenue dropped sharply.

To build slaves and customs, Ming Dynasty needed to organize and train the army, build a defense line, and needed money.

Officials and businessmen did not give money, so they could only collect money from the common people. This forced a group of self-cultivating farmers to sell their fields to pay taxes.

What would happen if Daming had the right to mint coins?
That's very simple, just release the water, step up printing money, and just get over this difficulty.

But Daming did not have the right to mint coins.

Where did the coinage go?
In fact, at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there was the right to mint coins. Zhu Yuanzhang once made Daming banknotes, but it was precisely because of the Daming banknotes that the entire Ming Dynasty lost the minting rights for more than 270 years.

Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention was correct. Silver is heavy and inconvenient to pick up. It is better to use treasure banknotes, which are easy to carry. However, Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't know whether he is completely ignorant of economics, or he is holding back on purpose. When he issued treasure banknotes, he did not Reserves, let alone anti-exchange institutions like banks.

In other words, silver can be exchanged for treasure notes, but treasure notes cannot be exchanged for silver.

Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang did not control it, and printed and distributed treasure banknotes crazily. As a result, the treasure banknotes became Zimbabwean currency, and a stack of treasure banknotes could not buy a biscuit among the people.

Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang also stipulated that when people pay taxes, they can only use silver and copper coins instead of precious banknotes. Isn't this a clear money grab?

No matter how stupid the common people are, they will realize that this is just playing with people and treating us as a big wrong, so the common people directly boycotted the banknotes, and once again returned to using the most primitive silver as currency.

Zhu Yuanzhang played with the country's credit, and you played it so big when you founded the country, so that the common people no longer believed that the banknotes printed by the country were better than real silver, so the entire Ming Dynasty used silver as the currency unit.

The final result is that the country cannot mint coins. If it wants to increase silver money, it can only rely on the production of silver from silver mountains, and the output of silver mountains is limited. This leads to the fact that the entire country cannot play the currency economy, thus making the country lose control of the market. In the end, Daming broke his fortune and died.

Therefore, Lantian is constantly establishing Lantian's currency authority, first replacing silver coins with silver coins, and then replacing silver coins with banknotes. When banknotes occupy the main circulation position in the market, Lantian's minting rights will return, and Li Chaosheng can use this to control the market up.

(End of this chapter)