That is, when the feudal overseas incident caused an uproar in the court and the public, the urgent documents sent by the Nantianmen were sent to the Colonial Division and then to the cabinet. The cabinet ministers were shocked. They were not worried about the safety of Mingshang, but were worried about whether it would lead to a war. After all, that man was not angry with this!

When the cabinet ministers were wondering how to prevent this from happening.

Bi Gongchen is here to meet His Majesty in Wenhua Hall. Unlike in history, Bi Gongchen did not die in Taiyuan. He did not even go to Taiyuan to serve. Instead, he was changed to Nanjing’s assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, the Six Ministry of Revenue, and Prince De killed more than half of the people. Someone must make up for the amount of vacancy.

Even Zhao Jianji, the Shanxi governor who was supposed to be killed in Taiyuan by Li Zicheng, survived because he was renamed the Six Ministry of Nanjing.

Perhaps this is also an unexpected gain from killing the six ministries in Nanjing to demote officials.

After all, many of the surviving people are loyal and capable ministers. Like Bi Gongchen, he is a master of learning both Chinese and Western cultures. As the Minister of Revenue, he is holding a pack of things in his hand. After entering the palace, he saluted His Majesty and said:

"Your Majesty, I'm sending you new money."

Zhu Guoqiang did not answer his words immediately, but turned around and ordered the eunuch Wang Xi:

"Speak a few cabinet ministers come here."

The determination to cast new coins was a major event for the dynasty.

In fact, when he first ascended the throne last year, he had already started to cast the money making of "Qian Sheng Tongbao", but Zhu Guoqiang was not very satisfied with the imitation-style minting.

In fact, as early as Dalian, this kind of copper coins weighing 1.25 yuan was minted. At the beginning, it was the "Chongzhen Tongbao" that was popular among the people because of its high copper content and exquisite casting. Later, it was the "Da Ming Tongbao" of the mechanism. This kind of copper coins pressed by a steam coin making machine with 46 brass was also popular among the people.

As for the "Qian Sheng Tongbao" that changed to the mechanism last year, it was to establish the legitimacy of the regime. The reason why minting coins in all dynasties was not only because of the interests of minting coins, but because minting coins represented orthodoxy. When the people accepted a kind of copper coins, the legitimacy of the regime was invisibly established.

Even when the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, it was cost-effective to cast copper coins with high weight and high copper content. Why did it do this? It was to run the circulation of Ming coins and establish the legitimacy of the Qing Dynasty's regime through the circulation of coins. When the people generally accepted the "Shunzhi Tongbao" and refused to use Ming Dynasty copper coins with low copper content, the legality was established invisibly. The originally legal regime turned into illegal.

The war of currency... In fact, the ancients were using it.

Of course, when he arrived at Zhu Guoqiang, he was not immune to the common people, but to declare the emperor of the world to be replaced by Emperor Qian Shengye. In fact, it is the same for printing the imperial calendar like this.

When Wang Xichuan asked the cabinet ministers to come, Zhu Guoqiang picked up the new money presented by Bi Gongchen and looked at it carefully. Unlike the previous "Qian Sheng Tongbao", the new copper coins had no holes in the middle, and were made of the copper coins of later generations, so the appearance was different from the square-hole copper coins of previous dynasties.

The newly made "Qian Sheng Tongbao" shines brightly and reflects the light. The coins made of brass even look like gold coins, which makes people feel comfortable when looking at it. Especially when looking at the dragon patterns on it, Zhu Guoqiang said proudly.

"With such exquisite money making, it will be impossible for the people to make private money in the future."

"Your Majesty said very well. The new money is made very exquisitely, thick and regular, and the text and patterns are beautiful and generous. Without a steam money making machine, it is impossible for the people to make it!"

What was the biggest problem in the government's money system in the past?

It was private casting among the people. Even in the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years, the circulation of the people was entirely private casting. Why? It was cheap! It was profitable. On the contrary, the more the court minted money, the less it was, because the private casting of the people was enough, and the profits of the money were all obtained by the people, and the government failed to make profits from the minting of the money.

But now, through new craftsmanship and complex patterns, the problem of private casting has been successfully explained. As the Minister of Revenue, Bi Gongchen, of course, knew what it meant to the court without private casting.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Revenue uses low-priced Japanese copper coins. The profit for making coins is about 40%. If these money bureaus are minted at the same time, they can pay 3 million taels of silver a year. Even if the expenses of transporting to Sichuan and Yunnan and Guizhou will not be less than one million taels of money a year..."

When Bi Gongchen was muttering this number, he felt emotion in his heart!

As the Minister of Revenue, he only felt that the current Qiansheng Dynasty was completely different from the Chongzhen Dynasty in the past. The late emperor was poor at that time, and the late emperor was so poor that he was so poor that he was able to save money, but the Qiansheng Dynasty was rich! Not to mention anything else, just the Lianghuai salt tax, it was levied no less than five million taels last year.

The salt merchants in Lianghuai dare not refuse to hand in the deal!

After all, Emperor Qian Sheng’s first knife was slashed on the head of the Lianghuai salt merchant.

Last year, before the Emperor Qian Sheng changed the salt law, they took the initiative to pay the full amount of taxes and silver. Not only did they pay the full amount, but even the gentry of various provinces who were used to arrears in previous years could delay for hundreds of years.

What are the regular taxes and what are the three taxes?

The new official took office and the new emperor ascended the throne... The Shanxi merchant's head was placed there.

If you don't hand it over, try it!

I don't want to be this one.

Everyone paid taxes so consciously, and the Ming Dynasty's national consumption became much more abundant at once. Moreover, so many gentry retired from the fields this year, and the extra money and grain from those withdrawn were also gone.

In the future, no one will owe the money and food of the Qiansheng Dynasty!

Of course, the Qian Sheng Dynasty is not afraid of their owes. After all, this emperor is different from the emperors of all dynasties.

Soon, the cabinet ministers also came, and Zhu Guoqiang asked Bi Gongchen to give them the new money.

As he looked at it, while praising the exquisite new money, Song Xuezhu suddenly asked:

"Bi Shangshu, why is our "Qian Sheng Tongbao" the same as silver dollars? Why don't we use square cave money?"

Starting from the Qin Dynasty, the square hole coins that are "round and round in the sky" are taken, which is the fixed pattern of copper coins in previous dynasties, and the same is true for the "Qian Sheng Tongbao" that was made before.

Bi Gongchen quickly explained:

"The Chief Auxiliary, our coin making is different from the past sand casting. All of them are made of mechanical copper coins, which are made of copper plates. When using machine pressing, a process of hitting the center coin hole is needed. Not only is it labor-consuming, but the quality is difficult to guarantee, the cost is too high and the efficiency is reduced. The more coin is minusculated, the greater the loss, so the casting volume is limited. Therefore, in order to save expenses, copper circles similar to silver dollars are used."

"Oh, so that's it, but the people have long been used to square hole money. Will it cause inconvenience to switch to this kind of copper circle?"

In fact, the silver dollars of the Ming Dynasty also originated from Liaodong and from the silver dollars of "Liaodong military pay". Those exquisitely made "one tael of silver dollars" are popular in the market because of their uniform silver content and weight. Not only will merchants not melt it, but they will also use it as a unified silver mark.

After the first year of Gansheng, the Ministry of Revenue successively manufactured one qian, two qian, five qian and one liang of "gansheng silver dollars". These silver dollars with uniform weight and uniform quality have been very popular with the people since the day they were put on the market.

Bi Gongchen replied:

"Since the people are used to using silver dollars, they will not find it inconvenient to copper dollars. Besides, its copper color and weight are the same as the old coins. Moreover, as His Majesty said, it is just a kind of auxiliary coins. In essence, it is no different from making money. It is customized money from the court."

What is the difference between the officials of the Gansheng Dynasty and the officials of the Chongzhen Dynasty? It is that they do not talk about either the ancestral system or the morality of the Gansheng Dynasty. It is extremely realistic for the officials of the Gansheng Dynasty to forget the famous saying "The superiors have something to like, the subordinates must be more important"?

Since His Majesty has made a decision, they naturally agree with it. Moreover, this is indeed beneficial to the court, with a profit of millions of taels a year. Such a good thing... Of course, I have to support it.

Seeing that His Majesty seemed to be in a good mood, Song Xuezhu said tentatively.

"Your Majesty, I have something to say, and there is an urgent report from the Nantianmen Gate to say..."

When Song Xuezhu reported, he carefully considered the words, but as soon as his words fell, His Majesty said angrily...

"What? They dared to kill my people after taking the courage of the leopard!"
Chapter completed!