Zhao Ziliang's remarks that the government wanted to spend more money made all the military and political officials present stunned.
The imperial court and local officials have always used the amount of money in the treasury to evaluate whether they are wealthy, and the treasury is empty.
Rats starved to death, then this piece The land must be very poor.
If there are mountains of money and grain in the government treasury, both the government and the people must be rich.
This is what everyone in the government and the public has always thought, but Zhao Ziliang's remarks overturned the military and political officials headed by Liu Tiao. .
While all the military and political officials looked dumbfounded, Liu Tiao stood up and said with his hands in hand: "Your Majesty, if you do this, once a war breaks out or there is a major famine, natural disaster, etc., when money is urgently needed, the government will take it.
If we don’t pay, we’ll be in big trouble.”
Zhao Ziliang pointed at Liu Tiao and said: "This is a good question.
This requires a good budget.
At the end of each year, the government makes a financial budget for the next year.
It lists the various projects that the government must spend money on and calculates the cost.
How much money is spent?
After listing it, submit it for review.
If it is reasonable, it will allocate funds; if it is unreasonable, it will be rejected and taken back to make a new budget to prevent extravagance and waste.
In order to prevent the need for urgent funds in the event of war or natural disasters, the government also reserves a part of the money as a fixed amount of money, which cannot be easily touched. a sum of money” Everyone looked at each other, thought about it, and felt that this method was good, but the budget was definitely not that accurate, and there would be some discrepancies, but these discrepancies should have little impact.
Dugujun stood up and raised his hands and asked: "Your Majesty, apart from paying salaries to officials, purchasing office stationery, and welcoming superior officials, there seems to be no other place where a lot of money needs to be spent.
How do we spend the taxes?"
Zhao Ziliang said: "The ancients have long said that what is taken from the people is used by the people.
From now on, if there are superior officials who go to the lower level to inspect, they are not allowed to hold banquets and eat and drink.
Including this king, if they want to go down to inspect local governance. , executive administration at all levels When ordering the situation and going to the army to inspect military affairs, each meal only has three dishes and one soup, but the management is full and no extravagance is allowed.
Food production is not high in the first place.
There are still many people below who don't have enough to eat.
You waste a meal.
It’s enough for the people below to eat many meals Yes, this is a requirement for everyone in the military and political circles.
Normally at home, you eat your own food and no one cares about you.
But when you eat public food, you can’t be extravagant and wasteful.
Of course, we advocate that except for holidays, we recommend eating food on weekdays regardless of the occasion.
You have to be diligent and thrifty.
Can you gain an extra pound of meat if you eat one more pound of meat?
Of course not, it’s just about appetite.
You have to learn to exercise restraint.
Eating too much is not necessarily a good thing.
Look at those people who are so fat that they can’t walk. , I usually eat more, but I also get more diseases and my life span is shorter.”
"Okay, we just talked about the issue of controlling extravagance and waste."
Zhao Ziliang took a sip of water and continued: "Let's continue to talk about how and where the government spends money.
As far as I know, many places in our Western Qin region are deserts. , desert, even when it doesn’t rain all year round, the drier the land is, the more desert it becomes.
The degree of desertification and desertification will intensify, and the area of deserts and deserts will increase.
This requires control and governance.
The government should put more effort into planting trees in deserts and desert edges to control the degree of desertification and desertification.
On this basis, Then think of ways to control deserts and deserts.
This is the first place where you need to spend money.”
"Second, many places are droughty and there is no water.
We have to find ways to organize the people to dig ditches to divert water or dig wells.
This will cost money."
"Third, every summer the glaciers melt and the river water rises, causing floods to submerge large areas of land, killing a large number of people and animals, and submerging fertile farmland.
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Can't the government find ways to control floods, clean up river sediments, and strengthen river banks and embankments?
Doesn't this require spending money?
Money?”
"Fourth, in our land of Western Qin, there are still many roads between towns that are dirt roads and sandy roads.
Once it rains, the roads will seriously hinder the travel of pedestrians, business travelers, and horses.
Our Western Qin is the middle station and transit point of the Silk Road.
Station, how can the traffic roads be so bad?
Building roads will not only facilitate business travel between the East and the West, but also facilitate our own people's travel.
This will not only benefit taxation, but also benefit the national economy and people's livelihood."
"In short, as long as it is beneficial to Western Qin and benefits the people, money can be spent."
"Let's talk about making money.
In addition to agricultural taxes and commercial taxes, how can the government make money?
We also need to encourage people to build their own workshops to produce silk, porcelain, cloth, tanned fur, etc. to make various daily necessities.
As long as there is a market for things, All available By setting up workshops for production and manufacturing, selling the manufactured things to the West and the Central Plains in exchange for money, and earning back the money from outside, we in Western Qin can be rich and the people can be rich.
If we are just self-sufficient, we will not make a fortune. of" After the Xiaochao meeting, Zhao Ziliang retained Liu Tiao and Dugu Wensu.
These two were the prime minister and deputy prime minister of the Government Affairs Council, and all government affairs in the Western Qin Dynasty passed through them.
Zhao Ziliang drank tea and asked: "How many currencies do our counterparts in Western Qin have now?"
Liu Tiao cupped his hands and replied: "Your Majesty, there are dozens of kinds of coins in circulation in Western Qin today.
This is mainly because our Western Qin is a transit station on the Silk Road.
There are many business travelers from various countries coming and going here.
Mainly there are coins from our dynasty and coins from our country.
The coins of the Eastern Roman Empire, the Frankish Kingdom, the Great Food Kingdom, and even many small kingdoms in the West are circulated here.
In addition, the coins of various kingdoms in southern Tianzhu are also circulated here."
Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said: "If the circulation of coins is chaotic, it will have a great impact on our economy in Western Qin.
We don't have a unified exchange ratio.
I have an idea to unify the use of coins in Western Qin.
Now Most of us use coins made by the imperial court.
In recent years, the economy has been greatly affected by the wars in the Central Plains.
If the political situation in the Central Plains is unstable or war breaks out, it will inevitably have a great impact on the economy of our Western Qin.
I wonder what you think about this.
Is there any good way?”
Liu Tiao and Dugu Wensu looked at each other, and Dugu Wensu raised his hands and said to Zhao Ziliang: "Your Majesty, Xianguan and Prime Minister Liu also discussed this matter during this time.
The use of our Western Qin coins is indeed too confusing. , we have also come up with some methods, but the most effective method is to forge coins ourselves."
"Oh."
Zhao Ziliang became interested after hearing this and asked: "Will the style, appearance, weight and composition of the coins I forge be the same as those of the imperial court coins?"
"No," Liu Tiao said with cupped hands, "It's about forging our own coins of the Western Qin Dynasty."
Zhao Ziliang asked: "Then what to do with the other coins currently circulating in our Western Qin territory?"
"After the official forged and began to issue our new coins, the government ordered that other coins be prohibited from circulating in the market.
Foreign business travelers, envoys, monks and other people who came to our Western Qin must exchange their own currencies into our new Western Qin coins.
Coins, our Western Qin official must set up a special bank to exchange coins for these foreign business travelers."
Zhao Ziliang was very happy after hearing this and said: "This is a good idea, but I don't think it is necessary to set up a bank specifically for currency exchange.
Let's do this.
I, the King of the West Qin Dynasty, established the West Qin Bank, and opened branches of the bank in various counties in the West Qin in an official capacity.
The main account is located in Hengluosi City.
The Western Qin Bank has several main functions: first, to cast and issue new coins of the Western Qin; second, to allow officials and people to deposit and withdraw money; third, to supervise other private matters. bank, After the establishment of the Western Qin Bank, we must strictly examine the qualifications of private private banks, control the number of private private banks, and require them to pay deposits to the Western Qin Bank to prevent them from going bankrupt and causing the people, officials and people to lose their savings and exchange them with foreign currencies.
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The business can be carried out by the Western Qin Bank and other private private banks.
If our people in the Western Qin want to go to foreign countries, they can go to the bank and the bank to exchange other foreign coins before departure."
Dugu Wensu cupped his hands and said: "The king's addition makes this matter more secure.
In this case, the officials will hand over the matter to Hu Si to prepare for it."
Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "Don't be too anxious about this matter.
You first draw up a detailed plan for the minting of coins and the establishment of the West Qin Silver Village, and then design the graphics, sizes, and patterns of several sets of coins for us to use."
The king will take a look before making a decision.”
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In the blink of an eye, in April of the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, Western Qin had not broken away from the rule of the Tang Dynasty after all.
It was still nominally under the jurisdiction of the Western Qin Protectorate of the Tang Empire, but it had already called itself a system politically and militarily, and the reign name used was no longer the same.
Use the Central Plains era name.
Two months later, Dugu Wensu came to see Zhao Ziliang with several sets of coins, the articles for minting new coins, and the establishment of Xiqin Silver Village.
Detailed instructions and samples of three sets of new coins."
Zhao Ziliang took a few sample coins from the guards and looked at them.
These sample coins did not meet his requirements.
He shook his head and said, "Is the mold used to make the sample coins too rough?"
The pattern fonts are blurry, too big, the weight is wrong, the pattern is too single, and there are no patterns.
Take it back and let the designer redesign it."
"Yes."
Dugu Wensu agreed quickly.
When he saw these sample coins, he didn't think they were very good, but Liu Tiao thought they were good, so he asked Zhao Ziliang to make a decision in ancient times.
However, Zhao Ziliang rejected them after just one glance.
Zhao Ziliang continued: "The coins must be made finely and have signs that can prevent counterfeiting.
If they are made so that others can tell whether they are genuine or not by imitating them, this coin is related to the credibility of our rule in Western Qin and to the reputation of Western Qin."
The overall economy cannot be careless” Dugu Wensu bowed his head and said, "Yes, Your Majesty."
Zhao Ziliang looked at the articles for minting coins and establishing the Western Qin Bank again.
They were well written, very detailed, and considered many aspects.
After reading them, he raised his head and said, "Okay, this article is well written.
I will give it to the next court meeting."
Just order the sample coins and take them back to redesign and make them, and bring them back as soon as possible to show me the king."
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