The waiter smiled and said, "Young Master, I'm sorry. The shop does not have those scattered treasure money, only ten or ten of them. It's probably the same for other restaurants."

Emperor Chongzhen was so happy that he simply laughed and said, "Okay, I'll reward you with these broken silver, so please keep it."

After picking up more than two taels of broken silver for free, the waiter naturally thanked Emperor Chongzhen repeatedly. Seeing that attitude, he wanted to pay Emperor Chongzhen to be his biological father.

Emperor Chongzhen felt that he had found some reason.

The Chongzhen Baochao issued by the Baochao Bureau before was too high, but it turned out that ordinary people could not afford to exchange it. Instead, it made it easier for large merchants to pay commercial tax after exchange.

Just like the RMB in later generations, in addition to the hundred-yuan bill, there were also one cents and two cents. In the early days, even one cents and two cents were flying all over the ground.

In contrast, the treasure banknote with a consistent face value is about a few hundred yuan, which naturally makes it convenient for the rich and eliminates the poor who have no money.

This is very unscientific.

Even if you change to later generations, you use a hundred-dollar bill to buy a tea egg, and you can try whether the seller will look at you with the eyes of a fool.

Since we have found the root of this problem, the rest of things will be much easier to deal with.

From the 9th year of Chongzhen to the beginning of spring of Chongzhen in the 10th year of Chongzhen, the entire Ming Dynasty was basically relatively stable, and there were basically not many natural disasters.

The famine that had originally occurred in history did not happen after Emperor Chongzhen tried his best to get food.

The most direct change is that the people of the Ming Dynasty were spoiled, and they were not very active in the distribution of land and land in Liaodong. It was not until later that some people were willing to go, and they were spoiled and bad.

It can be said that Emperor Chongzhen drew blood from other small foreign countries to raise the Ming Dynasty, ensuring the stability within the Ming Dynasty.

As for the fact that the foreign countries that were familiar to Nanyang a year were sold to everyone at a high price, Emperor Chongzhen obviously did not take it seriously.

In March of the 10th year of Chongzhen, the Baochao Bureau issued another 10 million taels of new Baochao, but the issued face value made the merchants waiting to rule out the exchange of Baochao.

This time, let alone a hundred and ten cents, there is not even a one-month period. Instead, it is all one-month period, five-month period and ten-month period. The largest one is only fifty period.

There is no problem in exchange for these treasure money to pay taxes, but is it disgusting to go back with a bunch of small denominations?

The number of lights has to count for half a day!

Especially those so-called bank branches are even more disgusting: "Master, if you change, the villain will count it slowly for you, so you can sit down?"

Xu Chengshun, the owner of the Zuixianlou restaurant, which is a number of restaurants in the capital, originally tricked Jiannu with Yang Qiqi in Liaodong, but now he has completely become an ordinary Ming people. Now he misses Jiannu from Liaodong extremely.

When I was in the Jiannu territory in Liaodong, as long as I had money in my hands, would this mere minor official dare to talk to me like this?

He had already discounted his legs!

But now it won't work. This little official is like a bird to everyone. Not only targeting himself, but also making a lawsuit to the government is useless. There is nowhere to be fired.

After returning to the Zuixian Tower with anger, Xu Chengshun said with a dark face: "Send the message, and if you want to pay the bill in the future, you can pay the bill according to the normal silver, but try to avoid the bill out as little as possible."

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "Master, Baochao is just paper, it's fine if you use it to pay taxes. It's not necessarily a good thing to keep it too much in your own hands, right?"

Xu Chengshun said with a dark face: "You can do whatever you tell me!"

Xu Chengshun is not stupid. Through the piles of treasure money that cost a few cents when he exchanged it today, he had already guessed that it would definitely be the world of treasure money in the future.

Although silver is good, it is not as convenient as Baochao after all. It doesn’t matter whether the people recognize it or not. As long as the government can recognize the face value of this thing to pay taxes.

It would be great if I could get some silver notes worth a thousand taels!

As Xu Chengshun sighed, these treasure moneys of one or two were constantly being redeemed by some small merchants in the capital.

The old man from the Jinyiwei said that he would go to the bank branch to exchange these treasure money and take them back directly to pay the messy management fees, which were all useless.

Regarding the reputation of the Jinyiwei, the people of the Ming Dynasty generally recognized that the whole family would kill the whole family, and they never lost their trust.

And with the first hawker who exchanged and successfully paid taxes with the treasure banknotes, perhaps only a dozen cents of so-called stall management fees, these small-degree treasure banknotes became popular.

However, this kind of fire situation is only limited to small vendors who pay taxes or simply call it health management fees and stall management fees, and it has not officially begun to circulate.

What really made this thing circulated was the Jinyiwei exchanged the silver for a small denomination of treasure money and went to these merchants to spend some, and the thing was officially circulated.

Things are so fucked sometimes.

The Jinyiwei took the treasure money in the unit of literature to consume, and no merchants dared to refuse to accept it.

Moreover, if you accept these treasure money, you can pay these messy fees, which saves fire consumption.

But what should I do if I exceed these fees?

Not to mention waiting for next month to use it, because no one of the old men of the Jinyiwei now uses silver, and they have all used treasure money, including buying eunuchs in the palace.

This means that each merchant receives much more treasure money than the taxes or other fees they need to pay.

Based on the principle of not wanting to throw risks into their own hands, many people try to exchange them with treasure money for silver, even if they lose some copper coins.

What I thought was very troublesome was exchanged easily after I arrived at the so-called bank branch. There was no difficulty or trouble as I imagined.

In this way, some brave people dare to hold more treasure money in their hands, and then the treasure money on the market gradually tends to be insufficient.

But it was useless. Although Emperor Chongzhen, who didn't understand economics, had more knowledge than his brother's carpenter, he was not necessarily better than the carpenter when it comes to Baochao.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was not brave enough, simply decided to issue as much treasure money as the treasury and treasury had. The face value was mixed. Even if Guo Yunhou repeatedly stated that the treasure money could be issued at all, he would never be issued more.

The consequence is that the folk treasure money is always in a situation where it is almost the same, but it always seems to be insufficient.

Because of the Baochao incident, the tycoons in Southern Zhili wrote a letter to Emperor Chongzhen for the first time, asking the north and the south to treat each other equally and not to give priority to the north.

The treasure notes issued by the imperial court before Zhengde may be almost equivalent to waste paper, but are they still the same in the Chongzhen Dynasty?

It is obviously different. First of all, the court treats Baochao as real money and silver, so the people will naturally have more confidence in Baochao.

In the south, where commerce is prevalent, especially in places such as Nanzhili and Songjiang Prefecture, they have a more sensitive sense of smell about such things.

Then the merchants in the south felt wronged.

Is the south of the Ming Dynasty? Are we the emperor's people?

Why is Baochao issued in the capital first? There is no one in the south? Could it be that Nan Zhili was not the capital of the Ming Dynasty?

As long as your court recognizes this thing, if you don’t send out tens of thousands of taels, who would be disgusting if only a few thousand taels are you?

Why do people in the capital take over this benefit?

The large merchants in the south are more good at playing than those in the north, and simply convey their demand for Baochao to the Ministry of Revenue and the Cabinet in Nanzhili.

In short, it’s just a matter of saying that the south is the south of the Ming Dynasty. Baochao cannot just give the Yankees the advantage!

Regarding the reaction of the south, Emperor Chongzhen’s first idea was that these grandchildren wanted to play with fake money!

But after thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen felt something was wrong again.

If these bastards might have the courage to say that they have that courage now is purely funny.

Just like the case of the North and South List, it was a method that Zhu Yuanzhang had used to win over northern officials. If the person who jumped at the beginning was a southern scholar, what would the result be?

The most recent typical examples are the Donglin Party and the Fushe.

Before Liaodong was pacified, there were still many people in the Jiangnan area secretly summoning the Donglin Party and the Fushe Society.

After Liaodong was completely pacified and 100,000 households were moved to Liaodong in Jiangnan, who else in Jiangnan would summon the Donglin Party and the Fushe Society?

Now, aren’t you praising the emperor’s wisdom and then completely slander the Donglin Party and the Fushe River?

Of course, it would be even better to get a few places to go to Liaodong for your family. This kind of good thing that Liaodong sends a concubine must be mixed.

What's more, after more people in Liaodong, the transaction can be done in Liaodong, which is equivalent to finding another source of wealth for your family, right?

As for the fact that Liaodong is too far from Jiangnan, that's it.

It is indeed far enough to take the land route. First, from Jiangnan to Tianjin Wei and then to Shanhaiguan, and also through Guangning Wei before you can reach Haizhou Wei and then to Liaodong.

But there are sea routes! Whether it is from Songjiang Prefecture, from Fujian or Zhejiang, you can go directly to the South Four Guards. Even if it is for supply, there is also Denglai Guard in the middle!

The most active person to go to Liaodong now is not Shaanxi, Shanxi, but Jiangnan, especially the aristocratic families in the southern Zhili area.

Now Nanzhili is so well-behaved. They said they had the courage to target Baochao and wanted to play counterfeit coins. They didn't believe that even if they dared, the Jinyiwei would eat vegetarian food?

Since it is not someone who wants to play any conspiracy, that is to say, the South’s need for treasure money is real.

But there is only so much money in the treasury and treasury in total. Will it depreciate if it is issued more?

Isn’t there always been any economic crisis in future generations accompanied by depreciation of banknotes?

Damn, you are just making things difficult for me, the programmer!

After cursing in his heart countless times, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly remembered another way to play the Bretton Woods currency system in later generations.

I have read too many novels from later generations, and I have remembered this word and its general meaning.

It's nothing more than the US dollar and gold, and the currencies of other countries are linked to the US dollar.

But how much gold and silver does the Ming Dynasty have now?

There is no way to calculate an accurate number!

It is initially estimated that it is still no problem to get tens of millions of taels of gold and silver.

However, these gold and silver are scattered among the people and are not directly controlled by the government.

And isn’t the purpose of creating a bank by yourself to control these gold and silver through banknotes?

After cursing the pig's head a few times, Emperor Chongzhen finally allowed the Baochao Bureau to print some more treasure money.

Of course, the number of additional printings depends on the Ministry of Revenue. The Baochao Bureau only carries on printing, regardless of anything else.
To be continued...