Brocade clothing as the country

Chapter 1055
Minting coins is an act that symbolizes the authority of the country, and naturally only the imperial court can do it, although the Ming court is very unqualified in minting coins and producing banknotes.

If the Sanjiang system wants to do similar things, it is too easy to be accused of crimes, so we need to be flexible and find other ways to blur the past.

First of all, the word "coin" cannot be used. This is simple. Wang Tong's preliminary plan is to use the unit of "two", silver and a half liang, silver one liang, silver five liang and silver ten liang, as well as gold two liang, Golden five taels and golden ten taels.

Qian, liang, and jin are common units. However, due to the different provinces, different objects of measurement, and even different institutions that use measurement, there are countless different specifications of "liang" and "jin". What makes people dumbfounded is , The internal treasury and the treasury of the Ministry of Households have different measurement units.

Of course, everyone understands that the less clear the unit of measurement, the more opportunities the parties will have to fight against each other, but Wang Tong can't do this here, and the official gold and silver exchange, and the exchange ratio between gold and silver and copper coins are fixed Yes, there are too many opportunities for loopholes.

Now because of the prosperity of Tianjinwei and Songjiang Prefectures, as well as several commercial exchanges in the North, a large amount of gold and silver have poured into Daming. In fact, the price of gold and silver is constantly falling. If the original ratio is still maintained, That's a joke.

Wang Tong first set a unified measurement unit, and then started to mint coins based on this measurement unit. Other places can't control it, and the Sanjiang system can still be unified first.

Tianjinwei’s workshop was the first one in Ming Dynasty to use hydraulic machinery. After so many years, many craftsmen in Ming Dynasty also reluctantly accepted the Western practice of focusing on precise numerical values ​​and fixed specifications for everything, and got used to this rule. , and received rich rewards in the Sanjiang system, the enthusiasm of the intelligent and talented craftsmen of Ming Dynasty was stimulated, and the energy of creation immediately burst out.

The current hydraulic machinery has been greatly improved compared to ten years ago. Whether it is in terms of structure or details, Portuguese and Dutch merchant ships travel between Daming and Europe. Several merchants made their fortunes because of Tianjin Wei. They also have a task, which is to bring European machinery and various knowledge to Daming on a regular basis. After so many years, many European craftsmen have come from Europe. All the big countries in Europe are at war, but this rich East has great potential. Whether it is Arabia, Tianzhu, or Nanyang, they are all too backward. On the contrary, this Ming Dynasty is very advanced, surpassing the level of Europe.

According to the craftsmen who came here and the people on the ship who went back and forth, the manufacturing industry in Tianjin Wei is now somewhat more advanced than Europe in terms of technology.

It is also with such a technical foundation that coinage can be carried out. There are raised edges around the coin. On the front are the two italic characters of "Sanjiang" and the capitalized value of the coin. The currency value in Arabic numerals.

These are nominally circulated within Sanjiang, so there is no need to be too complicated in the text, as clear as possible, and the weight of the coins is uniform.

The exchange between gold coins and gold coins, silver coins and gold coins itself is okay, and the exchange between gold and silver and copper coins, in the current situation, is different from month to month, so it is necessary to set a system within the Sanjiang system. The official price comparison will be released regularly.

At present, the places where large quantities of gold and silver meet in the world are nothing more than Beijing and Tianjin and Jiangnan, and Tianjinwei and Songjiang are the leading places of these two places.

With a clear understanding of the price comparison changes at these two places, a relatively accurate exchange rate can be formulated as the benchmark number in Sanjiang Commercial Bank.

However, Tianjin Wei and Songjiang Mansion are thousands of miles away, and it is indeed not easy to quickly transmit news. Wang Tong adopted a stupid method for this. Set up a post station ten miles away, and the post station is equipped with horses. The news is passed on from station to station, day and night. If there are no natural or man-made disasters on the road, it can be reached within ten days.

How many post stations to set up along the way, how many people are there, how many horses to raise, people's wages and fodder, it is really a huge cost, but now the Sanjiang system is also a big business. Compared with the loss caused by the exchange rate, It's really nothing.

To mint coins, the machines, venues and personnel for minting coins have to be re-prepared, and most of them have to be moved from Tianjin Wei.

No matter how you look at it, the coinage this time is a money-losing business, and a lot of money will be added to it. When the Sanjiang system delivered this letter, it also mentioned that the issue of money tickets in a wider range can solve the problem. For this problem, Wang Tong still has to work hard and spend money to mint coins.

The minting of coins is of great significance. The explosive development of industry and commerce in the Ming Dynasty, which started with Tianjin Wei Kaihai, has rapidly expanded the total economic volume. The privately minted copper coins of Haizhu and Japan can no longer meet the demand. Of course, it is true to say so. Very ironic.

Although Wang Tong said that the coins were only circulated within the Sanjiang system, for his own convenience, in the current situation, when he started to make coins, gold and silver coins of standard weight, quality, and quality on the shelves would immediately become currency in circulation One, and the network of the Sanjiang system is ubiquitous. I don’t know how many people in the world rely on this system to make a fortune and live. They will naturally get used to using these gold and silver coins from Sanjiang.

In the foreseeable future, it is not even a hundred years later, ten or twenty years, or even shorter, such coins will be used in cities with a small scale in Ming Dynasty, and industrialists and rich people will also get used to this kind of coins, because He is much more convenient than the current copper coins.

Doing this is equivalent to mastering Daming's financial system and the upper-level structure of Daming's industry and commerce. The Sanjiang system was originally a giant with an absolute advantage in Daming. If we have this system again, what does it mean? Self-explanatory.

And if this can be done, the civil servants in the court and the eunuchs in the inner court will not even be jealous. They don't have this knowledge. It can even be said that they don't have this awareness. They don't understand this aspect at all. If they understand it, by now There will be no serious shortage of coins, and privately minted coins should be popular. Incidentally, privately minted coins are actually better than government-made coins.

More details, mastering the finance of Daming, mastering the upper structure of Daming's industry and commerce, this is of relatively great significance, and the minting itself will also have great profits in the long run.

Silver half tael, silver one tael to gold ten tael, after these coins establish credit, the value of the coin material itself will be diluted, and the currency value printed on the coin is its value, that is to say, when credit is established, gold Silver coins may not be cast with a sufficient amount of gold and silver, and can be mixed with a certain ratio of other metals, but with the credit of the Sanjiang system, even if there are only three taels of gold in five taels of gold, he can still trade them as five taels of gold. For the difference in coins, think about how many coins Sanjiang Bank will mint, and how big the total difference will be.

As for the establishment of credit, this is not a problem for the Sanjiang system at all. The gold and silver in his hands are really too much, which is enough for any degree of exchange and transactions.

These are not something that can be done in a day, and it is lucky to be able to make it within a year or two, but the money and bank notes can be arranged first, which is relatively simple.

The head office of Sanjiang Bank is located next to the mansion of Liao Guogong in Songjiang Prefecture. People in the Sanjiang system are used to calling it Sanjiang Head Office. Although this name is an abbreviation, it also shows the status of Sanjiang Bank. The independent situation of banks, insurance companies, shipping companies, craftsmen and other industries is over, and Sanjiang Bank will be in charge next, which is a veritable head office.

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There were a lot of news from the capital, but what caught Wang Tong's attention the most was that Emperor Wanli reopened the Huwei Martial Arts Hall, and everything was carried out in accordance with Wang Tong's rules back then. The emperor trains together.

But this time is not back then, and Emperor Wanli didn't have much time to be with the teenagers. He only went there once when school started, and then again in a few days. of.

As for the instructors, the officers of the imperial army and the military eunuchs of the inner court are naturally the first choice, but the fighting power of the Tiger's Might Army is unparalleled in the world, so naturally they will not let it go. It is said that Han Gang, Li Hutou, and Ma Sanbiao were all selected as instructors, taking turns Lectures in the past.

It is estimated that when these young generals graduate, they will also be assigned to the Forbidden Army, the Beijing Camp, and the Huwei Army. However, with such training and contact, it is hard to say how many hearts Emperor Wanli can capture.

All the regiments of the Huwei Army have been sent out. According to the plan proposed by Wang Tong before leaving, each regiment will expand in the local area, and then reform the border towns, retain the elite pacesetters in the hands of the generals of the Governor General, and turn the rest into civilian households. Let them become the tenants of the generals in a reasonable and reasonable way.

This kind of policy actually benefits the high-level people in the border town system very much. It can be regarded as appeasement to the reformed military town, but there are people who benefit and those who suffer. Warriors can’t swallow their anger. When they started making troubles, if such troubles were in the past, they would usually set off a rebellion in the local area and make the trouble as big as possible, or they would flee outside the side wall and collude with the Tartars to bring disaster to Ming Dynasty.

In the current situation, it is impossible to flee outside. There are still some Tartars on the grassland, which are already the territory of Ming Dynasty, so they all set off rebellions in the local area, and there is chaos. The reform advocated by Wang Tong is not very enthusiastic about the border towns. They also have great benefits in the current system of the border towns. Once the reforms are made, it is okay for the generals to join the generals, but they have lost a lot out of thin air. How could they be willing? As soon as they saw such a scene, they all played impeachment one after another, and there was a sense of jitteriness for a while.

Wang Tong's assessment of this matter was very comprehensive, otherwise he would not have gone to the island for a "vacation" for a few months with confidence, and the facts proved that his judgment was correct.

Li Tao is in Shaanxi, Tan Bing is in Shanxi, and Sun Xin is in Ningxia. The merchants in Shanxi are very powerful, and the border towns are also closely related to the merchants. Several rebellions have not even waited for the officers and soldiers to go and wipe them out Crusades, I will fall apart first, or else I will be defeated by the local brave group gathered by the local businessman Hao. There is no chance of expansion. As for Ningxia, the largest family in Ningxia is the Qijia, and the Qijia has now been moved to Guihua City. Now, the rest of the people can't bring it up. There were two troubles just now, one was where Sun Xin led his troops to wipe it out, and the other was to win the trust of the business company directly, and the company's guards went to clean it up.

What is more troublesome is Litao's side. The so-called three borders of Shaanxi, among the nine borders of Ming Dynasty, Shaanxi has three border towns, Guyuan, Yansui and Yulin. Things really happened one after another.

Compared with Shanxi and Ningxia, Li Tao received very little local support in Shaanxi, and the situation was relatively difficult. However, it was not unreasonable to place Li Tao in Shaanxi at that time. Although Li Tao was young, he did things very well. He is fierce and decisive, and he leads the elite troops of the Tiger Might Army.

Before and after the New Year's Eve, he led his army to fight four times in ten days along the side wall, and quelled the rebellion continuously. He beheaded almost 20 heads, and more than [-] villages were razed to the ground. The situation in Shaanxi has been stabilized. Shaanxi has been peaceful for a long time. It has been many years since so many people died and so much blood was shed. Everyone was terrified and everyone settled down.

Wang Tong has a private judgment on Li Tao, Li Tao is the most cold-blooded general among the generals of the Huwei Army, and his pursuit of power is unmatched by others. This opportunity is spoiled at hand.

But Shaanxi is larger than other places, and the situation is more complicated. The rule of three regiments in each place is obviously not suitable. There have been rumors in the court that the forbidden army in Shaanxi has been reduced to four regiments.

The development in Liaoning has already been carried out, but the local officials in Henan and Huguang who have the most opinions on the development of Liaoning are the local officials in Henan and Huguang. The lawsuit has been going on for more than three months. Huguang is one school, while Shandong is inclined to Henan and Huguang.

The reason is very simple. Most of the people recruited for pioneering in Liaoning and outside Liaoning are poor people from these two places, and there are many in Shandong.

In the past, the local magistrates saw that there were so many fewer refugees and the place was stable, so they treated them by default. However, more and more people were recruited. Now the local powerful landlords and gentry are starting to worry about manpower. This situation Naturally, it is necessary to arouse conflicts, which is also inevitable in the development of the great era.——
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