A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 661 Domination of the World
Wang Xuanjing did not agree much with Confucian governance, so he still adopted the law-based governance of the Daqian period.

Of course, after so many years of development, Wang also knows that this set of Confucian things still has many merits.

For example, the aristocratic families have now formed a high moral restraint. Of course, at least on the surface.

Even if men steal women from prostitutes secretly, breaking their bones and sucking their marrow, at least they can't do it openly. To put it bluntly, it's all about face, so many aristocrats and high-ranking families at least don't go too far.

Coupled with the legal restrictions established by Wang Xuanjing, there are very few wealthy and powerful families who dare to mess around.

After the imperial court distributed the mother money, mint supervisors in various places began to mint Kaiyuan Tongbao and Zhenguan Tongbao. Guanzhong naturally minted the most coins.

Because a large number of bronze statues from temples and Taoist temples were confiscated, the imperial court minted as many as one million coins for the first time. Among them, Guanzhong and Luoyang account for half, and Hebei and Jiangnan account for most of the rest.

These places are the most prosperous areas in the world now.

After years of development in Jiangnan, due to the climate, most of the land in Jiangnan can produce two crops a year. Coupled with the fertile land, it has now begun to gradually catch up with the north.

However, because Jiangnan is a smoggy land, the probability of illness and death is still higher than in the north.

The imperial court issued a decree that in the next few years, copper coins other than Kaiyuan Tongbao and Zhenguan Tongbao would no longer be allowed to circulate in the market.

In this way, more new money will be released, and you can also take this opportunity to establish a constant position system. As for the bad money in the hands of the people, it is recycled at a discount. Of course, because the people are in poverty, the discount of bad money is not too low.

These are the real big numbers. For powerful people from these aristocratic families, if they want to exchange them for new money, they have to discount them by at least half, or even higher.

Seeing this situation, Wang Xuanjing immediately ordered local governments to use copper coins to purchase various supplies from the people.

However, sericulture farming in Jiangnan has surpassed that in the north, and the quality of silkworm cocoons in the south is better. In addition, sea salt was shipped from Yangzhou to Guanzhong, which made Jiangnan salt merchants very profitable.

Of course, in order to prevent those nobles and powerful people from taking the opportunity to exchange bad money for good money to make profits, the court had a limit on the exchange of copper coins.

How much money do ordinary people have? Basically, they can't exchange the limit of three to five guan of copper coins given to one person, and none of those powerful families has tens of thousands of guan of copper coins in their hands.

Li Shimin originally thought that directly minting one million guan of copper coins was too much, thinking that it would cause copper to be cheap and grain to be expensive. However, the actual situation was completely opposite. One million guan of copper coins sounded like a lot, but after the money was distributed to the whole world, it did not turn over at all. What a wave.

Therefore, the currency minted by the imperial court entered the market and was highly sought after.

In recent years, people have suffered greatly due to currency chaos. In many cases, people would rather barter than use copper coins. It is because these copper coins have different values, which gives even professional businessmen a headache, let alone ordinary businessmen. The common people.

With a large amount of currency, commercial and trade activities around the world began to gradually prosper. Coupled with the continuous advancement of land equalization by the court, the people began to settle down and farm when they had acres of land.

By recycling a large amount of bad money and old money, the imperial court began to mint large quantities of copper coins.

The first batch of one million copper coins was all exchanged in just half a month. However, there was not much good money circulating in the market. People were scared of bad money, so they kept the good money in their hands. Be willing to spend it.

For this, Wang Xuanjing had already prepared. Mint supervisory committees in various places would continue to mint new money and put it on the market while restricting the circulation of bad money. We need to let the people see that the court is constantly minting new money and give them confidence.

The implementation of the money law and land system was carried out together with the crackdown on religion. After all, who gave these monks and Taoists money and land? Moreover, under Wang Xuanjing's blow, he became politically isolated and helpless.

The liquidation of the temple moved forward steadily without a large number of officials standing in the way.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the only people with large amounts of money, food and land were temples, Taoist temples and local nobles and powerful men. Noble, powerful and noble families can be squeezed, but there must be a suitable reason, and they cannot be suppressed too harshly.

After all, the world still needs their cooperation in governance. If they are squeezed too hard, these high-ranking families and nobles will take the opportunity to cause trouble. When the place becomes unstable, the court will send troops to quell the rebellion. Then the gains outweigh the losses.

Wang Xuanjing's use of bad money to depreciate and exchange for new money has already cost many nobles from high-ranking families. And monasteries and Taoist temples without force or political power are the best choice.

Of course, the imperial court did not beat Buddhism and Taoism to death with one blow. Wang Xuanjing knew very well that these religions were basically inexhaustible.

If you eliminate Buddhism, other religions will appear. This time we are suppressing these temples and Taoism because these religions have gone too far.

Next, the court also needs to vigorously crack down on the wild gods in various places. For example, the origin of the Wutong God believed in some places is unknown, but this Wutong God is the temple of evil gods.

With the help of faith, he made a lot of money, raped women, and took advantage of others.

The imperial court needed to crack down hard and all the temples were destroyed.

All gods in various places that have not been canonized by the imperial court must be demolished, and people in various places are not allowed to worship them.

In addition to suppressing religion, the imperial court also had policies to encourage religion. Buddhism is a religion spread from Tianzhu. Since Buddhism can spread from Tianzhu, it can naturally spread to other places.

The imperial court restricted the development of religion at home, but it always encouraged the spread of religion abroad.

The imperial court encouraged monks and Taoists to spread Buddhism and Taoism to frontiers and barbarian lands. Because during the Daqian period, the Wang family discovered that the Hu people and barbarians in the barbarian lands believed in these religions more than the Xia people in the Central Plains.

So the imperial court wanted to use the power of religion to subtly educate those barbarians and barbarians.

Once these religions develop in barbarian and border areas, they will inevitably occupy a large amount of wealth and means of production. This is a disguised weakening of those barbarians and barbarians.

For those monks and Taoist priests who had the courage to spread religion to the outside world, the court would confer titles and honors on them. Among the outstanding ones, the court would even decree to confer them the title of Arhat, Bodhisattva or Immortal.

This kind of reward endorsed by the imperial court is much better than the gods and Buddhas created by those people themselves.

When Buddhism and Taoism were originally suffering from being suppressed by the imperial court, they were overjoyed when they saw that the imperial court suddenly pointed out a way to become a god. Many monks and Taoists gritted their teeth and applied directly to the court to preach in border areas and barbarian lands.

(End of this chapter)