Richard's behavior is undoubtedly crazy, and it is a waste of money and money!

Since the court's finances were always deficits, the civilians who transported the government could not get their wages at all, so they could only eat enough.

Not enough to eat, no energy to work...

Because the war never stops, we have to continue to collect grain from the local area.

This undoubtedly further deepened the burden on the people.

However, after hearing the cabinet's estimated report and knowing that this did not exceed the limits of the people, Richard continued to launch a troop.

In this way, the surplus grain that the people had just accumulated in their homes was forced to be collected...

Moreover, as long as the southern expedition continues, this policy of increasing grain collection will not stop.

This is the war tax issued by the Ming court.

Of course, this war tax is not a new type of tax, but a spontaneous name initiated by the people, because the court did not collect grain free of charge, but issued white slips.

Or the exquisitely printed white strips...

This white note can be used to pay taxes!

The white strips of the Ming Dynasty were not ordinary white strips. They had anti-counterfeiting capabilities. They also had values ​​and marked with various numbers. The larger the denomination, the more anti-counterfeiting marks, the higher the difficulty of counterfeiting!

This is the prelude to the "paper currency economy" used by the cabinet to plunder people's wealth!

As the former Tang Dynasty was destroyed by green skins, the economic system dominated by Tang coins completely collapsed.

Later, new countries generally used gold and silver as trading currencies.

However, the precious metals currency market is relatively mixed, with good quality gold ingots and silver ingots, while those with poor quality are inferior silver and impurities mixed with impurities.

Later, after the situation in the Northern Ming and Southern Song dynasties formed, both courts rectified the precious metal currency market. Large-value transactions generally use gold, silver or gold, bricks, silver and bricks and other forms that are easy to store and transport.

The small denominations were printed by the imperial court and settled with other cheap metal gold, silver, copper coins.

Among them, copper coins have the highest moisture content, with less than 20% copper content...

It is said to be a copper coin, but it is actually more valuable than an iron coin.

Of course, copper coins are the cheapest currency, and it doesn’t matter if they are less valuable.

After all, copper is a strategic material and can be used to cast cannons and build copper-shelled bullets in the future. Richard naturally does not allow it to flow out in large quantities.

The Ming Dynasty cabinet has been implementing the copper reserve plan.

As a result, both the Northern Ming and Southern Song dynasties obtained huge profits in coinage.

After the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty naturally accepted the profit of minting.

The market is full of gold, silver and copper coins.

However, precious metal currencies have costs and limited reserves. The Ming Dynasty was able to meet the situation because the market economy was weak and the demand for money was not large.

The best way to plunder people's wealth is not to use expensive metal currency, but to print paper money!

Why did Richard print banknotes in his previous life?

It’s not because the cost of paper money is terrible!

Even if there are many exquisite anti-counterfeiting signs on the painting, the cost of paper money cannot be compared with precious metals such as gold and silver!

What's more, paper money does not determine its value according to its weight, but based on the patterns and numbers printed on it...

Writing a hundred means a banknote worth one hundred yuan, writing a hundred thousand means a banknote worth one hundred yuan!

With the huge profits of printing currency, the paper currency economy naturally entered Richard's vision early.

What is the simplest and most rude way for the country to plunder people’s wealth?

Paper money depreciates!

This is simply the currency that Richard longs for the most for fiscal deficits!

Of course, the people of this era are not fools. You think it is valuable if you say a piece of paper is light and fluttering?

Who believes it!

This is not the 21st century that has become accustomed to using banknotes!

As for the so-called national credibility...

Well, this Ming Dynasty of Richard is pretty good. Under the leadership of Richard, the Ming Dynasty has been invincible in the East Asian continent, so its credibility is naturally great!

It is precisely because of this credibility that the cabinet government dared to issue a policy of collecting grain in white pieces, paving the way for the paper currency economy!

No new policy can avoid resistance, but it’s a pity that the resistance of the people has no effect.

Holding a few pieces of Qingpiaofiao in your hand that can be tax-deductible is better than being taken away by the surplus grain if you can't get anything.

If you don’t give it, will the police really not arrest people?

In this centrally dictatorial country, Richard's will is the law. If he dares to disobey Richard's order to collect grain, it is nothing to be punished with treason...

Of course, generally speaking, ordinary people will not be convicted of treason for the issue of collecting food. After all, treason is to be confiscated and beheaded.

What can ordinary people pick up at home?

As for beheading, it is even more cost-effective. This is all the population and labor force. Who will farm after killing all the land?

Therefore, the people who disobey the collection of grain are generally not serious, and at most they are exiled to East Burj Alberta and immigrated to open up land.

Of course, you can also choose to open up land in the unmanned area west of the Palacio Mountains in the Western Regions, and you can also choose to open up land in the Liaodong Peninsula, which is uninhabited.

Ming Dynasty is very big. As long as you dare to break the law, some places will ask you to open up land...

As long as it is not really rebelled and faces a head-on battle with the local government, there will be no death penalty.

In terms of death crimes, the Ming Dynasty's law was quite tolerant. Apart from rebellion, 90% of the serious crimes were not required to be killed.

However, if you rebel, the crime of death is not just a beheading. The leading man is a must-have package, and those with high status among the siege are inevitably torture before they die.

There are not many charges for being cut into the head and dying happily...

This is the law of the Ming Dynasty. In order to deter the death penalty, many death penaltyes require a first experience of life worse than death.

However, the death penalty is rarely used for the judgment of the crime, and most of them are exiled.

Both Richard and the cabinet realized the importance of labor in the population in East Asia. Criminals are also laborers, so they naturally need to make reasonable use of them.

Even if management is difficult, it doesn’t matter. You can be exiled to the Eastberian ice sheet in the snow!

Throw it into the no-man's land, and you can still find flowers if you are guilty of it?

When the people of the Ming Dynasty complained about the Baitiao grain collection policy and dared not speak out, Richard finally collected the first wave of food and supplies to go to the expedition.

Now Richard's system army has only more than 20,000 people left, but in fact it consumes not much food and grass. The main part is the people who transport food and grass and ammunition, as well as the reserve soldiers who collected on-site.

The recruited reserve soldiers were all military farming soldiers. After following the army to fight, no one was responsible for the land that was responsible for, or for others to cultivate, which was a considerable loss.

Therefore, the imperial court needs to provide wartime subsidies.

These reserve soldiers have to work hard on the battlefield, so they naturally cannot be used to use white strips. They need real money and silver and food to feed them!
Chapter completed!