People live in the Ming Dynasty, evil spirits are soaring into the sky

Chapter 401 It turns out that the Japanese devils have mountains of gold and silver!
Princess Ning'an seemed to know how to control the hearts of the people and the officials.

It is clear that these people will not release the eagle until they see the rabbit.

If they hadn't seen real gold and silver in front of them, they would never have believed it.

Of course, this cannot be blamed on them, because the treasure notes had previously caused too much harm to the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Ordinary people no longer trust any financial products created by the court.

Especially financial products based on paper money.

Everyone is really afraid that one day the things they take back will once again become a pile of waste paper.

This is because the price of Baochao fell too much before, and its value fluctuated greatly within one or two days.

As a result, the common people had long lost confidence in the imperial court and no longer believed that the court could produce anything good.

He was even afraid that his property would be made worthless again by the treasure notes.

So now people would rather carry heavy metal currency than use so-called lighter paper money.

In fact, no matter how gold, silver and copper coins change, their value is difficult to change.

But it’s different with paper money. It becomes worthless for no apparent reason, and the money in your hand can’t buy more things for no apparent reason.

This scared many people. Princess Ning'an was a businessman, especially since she had seen how Baochao plundered wealth from the people.

If you want to build a complete financial industry chain, you need to constantly change the mindsets of the people.

That's why they are so cautious now.

When she first built the money house, she did not ask common people to invest, so it is only now that it has such a reputation.

Otherwise, a money lender without a deposit would be acting like a rogue.

It is precisely because there have been so many negative cases before that the people are resistant to all national policies regarding Baochao and paper money.

Even if Princess Ning'an said so now.

Even though Princess Ning'an had already placed gold and silver in front of the people.

But the people are still worried.

Even discuss it in private.

"Although this is some new treasure note that the Duke has created, I still can't believe it."

"Who says it's not true? Wasn't the old man hurt enough by this treasure banknote before? I don't believe the court will change anything."

"Even if you are the Duke, you may not know at all how much harm the treasure banknotes have caused to ordinary people like us at such a young age."

"He only saw the convenience of using treasure notes to collect taxes for the imperial court, but he didn't see what kind of damage we would suffer in the process."

"It is indeed good for us that the Duke has cracked down on so many chaebols, but now our country is also saying that it wants to create a new treasure note. I really can't believe it. Do you believe it?"

As soon as this was said, everyone fell silent.

Although they all wanted to believe that the Duke could also bring about some new changes.

But after so much hurt before, they dare not say anything now.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Of course they knew at the beginning that this was done by the Duke and that there might be good stuff in it.

But no one dares to make such a guarantee, no one can believe it easily, no one dares to believe it easily.

So everyone was silent.

The officials were happy to see such performance.

In fact, they have always been opposed to anything Chen Han proposed.

Especially for them, reform and change are like a knife cutting themselves.

The reforms and changes they are now promoting according to Chen Han are nothing more than the pressure of the performance evaluation system.

It's nothing more than pressure from the Tax Inspection Department.

If they were allowed to make their own choice, they would never do it.

Now they are happy to see that ordinary people don’t believe them either.

Now we finally see that the people are of the same mind as them.

Even a few officials whispered about it privately.

"See? The common people don't agree either. These stinky people actually have the same opinion as us. It really makes me happy."

"I thought that no matter what Chen Han proposed, they would agree to it, but I didn't expect that these stinky people are sometimes quite smart."

"Don't say these things. If the Jinyiwei hears them, you will lose your head."

"I'm just whispering. I'm happy now. I'm going to make a few more dishes and have a few more drinks when I get home tonight."

"You, be careful. Trouble comes from the mouth. I don't dare to walk with you. People like you have a big mouth."

These people were talking about it, but the core idea was the same.

Now that everyone doesn’t believe in the new treasure notes proposed by Chen Han, this is a big victory for them.

As long as some of Chen Han's policies are resisted by the people, maybe everyone will be willing to stand with them in the future.

Especially Chen Han is really looking for death now.

Your future is so bright, but you want to touch something that is untouchable.

You have to know that Baochao is a thorn in the side of many people that they cannot afford to touch.

Ever since the Baochao was introduced during the Hongwu period, the people have begun to resist this thing.

It has been more than a hundred years now, and you are bringing it up again. Aren't you just opening up people's wounds and rubbing salt into them?
Of course, these officials would like to see Chen Han touch this precious banknote.

Touch the hearts of the common people.

Touch the wounds of the common people.

Let the common people know, oh, it turns out that what you, Chen Han, did before was actually just a prelude to get this treasure note.

We trusted you so much before, but now you turn around and want to use the treasure notes to plunder our wealth. It turns out that this is your purpose.

It turns out that your purpose is the same as those court officials who want to kill us.

We trusted you so much before.

If such a day ever comes, the officials will surely laugh out loud.

Because they want to see Chen Han and the common people become enemies. If the common people do not support Chen Han, then your reforms will be a joke.

Haven’t you always said that what the people support must be good?

What officials support may be bad.

It’s also good that officials oppose it.

Now the officials no longer oppose it, but the people do. It depends on what methods you have to solve the problem for the people.

Can you kill ordinary people just like you killed officials and scholars?
If you do this, everyone will laugh at you and wait for you to be overthrown.

When Princess Ning'an saw the emotions of the common people, she knew what they were thinking. She knew that they had been hurt by the treasure banknotes before, so now they are afraid of ropes for ten years after being bitten by a snake.

Now she wants to explain.

She wanted to explain to the people that the new notes were completely different from the old notes. The difference was that there was a deposit.

Princess Ning'an said loudly, "My fellow villagers, I am a businessman. I have done a lot of business and a lot of big business.

So I understand very well how important money is to us.

Money is not only important for businessmen, but also for our daily lives as ordinary people.

This princess also understands that you have been hurt by the treasure notes before, and you know that the treasure notes will become a piece of waste paper, so you are unwilling to believe it now. This is understandable.

But I am going to tell you right now that the new treasure notes are different from the old ones. Although they are both made of the same piece of paper, there is a huge difference between them. "

The people pricked up their ears and listened.

But some people are unwilling to believe it.

"Princess, please don't say so much. We know what a treasure note is. Isn't it just a piece of paper?
At that time, the imperial court can print this kind of paper at will, and use this paper to buy things in our hands, and then we will get a lot of paper, and finally find that these papers are worthless, then won’t we, the people, be hurt? "

"If you really want to do this, you might as well increase taxes. We are willing to pay more taxes rather than hold these worthless pieces of paper."

Princess Ning An stopped them loudly, "You haven't even finished listening to what I have to say, but you have already started to abandon yourselves.

Do you know the difference between the new and old notes?
You have no idea at all.

There are some people out there who I don’t know what you’re thinking.

Do you want to join these officials and scholars in opposing the Duke's reforms?

Do you think the Duke will harm you?
If he wanted to harm you, why would he turn against all the scholars, officials, and princes in the world? "

When this big guy was mentioned, he lowered his head.

That's true. If the Duke really wanted to harm them, he wouldn't have turned against all the scholars in the world and so many officials.

They all heard that when the Duke was in the capital, he killed all the scholars and officials, causing rivers of blood to flow.

So now when you hear Princess Ning'an say this, they lower their heads again.

It’s hard to refute.

But those officials gnashed their teeth.

Princess Ning'an, why are you telling these things to the people here?
Doesn't this make us look despicable?
Chen Han killed so many officials, but we didn't kill him. We have done our best.

We still have to work for him, you are really rubbing salt into the wound.

In order to please the people, you really have tried every possible means.

Princess Ning An continued, "The biggest difference is two things.

First, it is allowed to maintain the redemption of gold and silver;
Second, state-owned banks will set aside reserves. Do you know what these two items mean? "

The common people were indeed a little surprised after hearing this.

Because they were not allowed to redeem gold and silver before, they had to use treasure notes.

Even if the treasure notes became a piece of waste paper, they would have no way to exchange them for gold or silver.

They don't understand the second point about the so-called state-owned bank reserves.

Princess Ning An explained, "This so-called reserve means that a large amount of gold and silver will be stored in the state-owned bank.

Just like the 1.5 million taels of gold and 40 million taels of silver currently in the bank.

But in fact, there is more than that. The gold and silver collected from Japan or our Ming Dynasty will also be stored in banks in various places.

At that time, wherever you go, as long as you have the new treasure banknotes in your hand, you can exchange them for as much gold and silver as the money on them.

Change it on the spot and give it on the spot!"

After this explanation, the people now know what is going on.

If such a good thing really happens, then everyone would certainly be willing to use this kind of precious banknotes.

After all, carrying a few pieces of paper with you is convenient and safe.

If you carry dozens of gold and silver with you, you might get robbed.

The businessman then asked, "Is it really that good? We don't really believe in the treasure notes. We didn't allow them to be exchanged for gold and silver. That's why even if we knew the treasure notes were depreciating, we couldn't easily exchange them for gold and silver. We lost so much in vain."

If this can be achieved, we would certainly like to use Baochao."

Princess Ning An shouted, "The reason why we are showing you how much gold and silver there is at the dock is to tell you how powerful the imperial court is now.

The Duke is fighting outside now, but has he increased taxes?

no.

Did he take wealth from you?

no.

If he really wanted to do this, he could simply print banknotes to force the people of the world to stop using gold and silver and force them to hand over the gold and silver.

He can do it too.

But why would we go through all the trouble to go to Japan to fight?
Because the Japanese have mountains of gold and silver, but they themselves are not aware of it, or the Japanese pirates cannot access them.

But now our Duke has access to it and has even occupied one of their silver mountains.

Do you know how much silver can be dug out of that silver mountain?

The amount is at least eight million taels a year, a year!
It is said that the silver mine can be mined continuously for 400 years. Can you imagine how much money there is? How much silver is there? "

Here I have to admire Princess Ning'an's memory.

Because the lieutenant general had just handed over the letter that Chen Han wrote to Princess Ning'an.

After a quick read, she was able to sort out a lot of key information from it.

For example, the Iwami Silver Mine.

Chen Han told her clearly how much silver could be mined from the Iwami Silver Mine and the Sado Gold Mine.

After she extracted these two important pieces of information, she immediately displayed them in front of the people.

The common people were shocked at once.

If a silver mine can produce so much silver, does the imperial court still lack silver?
There is no shortage at all.

No wonder the Duke was able to bring back so much silver from Japan.

There is a silver mine there, and it is a silver mountain.

The common people were all stunned.

Even the officials couldn't believe their ears at this time.

I didn't expect that there are mountains of gold and silver in Japan.

They really don't understand, with so many mountains of gold and silver, why don't they go and mine them themselves and then purchase them in large quantities from the Ming Dynasty?
In fact, in the original history, the Japanese devils used these mountains of gold and silver to purchase a large amount of goods from all over the world.

It was from that time that large amounts of gold and silver began to flow into the Ming Dynasty.

In other words, 90% of their gold and silver flowed into the Central Plains.

But later they realized that this didn't work, so they cut off the line.

This caused the silver supply to stop in the Ming Dynasty, which led to a serious financial crisis...

(End of this chapter)