However, when Zhou Shixiang happily told Song Xianggong about his plan to stabilize prices and accumulate wealth, he was fiercely opposed by the other party.
"This military ticket is just a piece of thin paper, using thin paper as money, which of the people recognizes the idea of the handsome is good, but we also used this thin paper as money at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, called treasure money.
However, after the use of this treasure banknote, the military and the people do not recognize it, depreciation every year, Hongwu treasure money has always been able to buy rice and a stone, Xuande year is not even worth five pennies, so Zhengde simply abolished the banknote law with silver and two copper coins I know that now the silver money is spent too much, the marshal has to prepare for the westward expedition, everywhere to use money, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is flowing water, but then there is a lack of money, the marshal can not come up with this method of using paper as money, although the sergeants and the people are illiterate, but how to collect this piece of paper Marshal really wants to force this law, I am afraid that the heart of the army and the people will be shaken” Song Xianggong's words made Zhou Shixiang pour cold water on his head, thinking about it carefully, the implementation of military tickets is indeed a little taken for granted, but if military tickets are not issued, how to solve the problem of shortage of money.
Song Xiang said fairly: "In addition to collecting taxes and exploiting the people, the ancient method of collecting money was to mint money. ” Zhou Shixiang asked: "How to mint money" Song Xiang said fairly: "Of course, it is to mint silver coins and copper coins."
The silver and copper coins in the folk circulation are different in color and weight, so the marshal may wish to recycle these silver taels and copper coins, open a new coin foundry, and recast the collected silver and copper coins into new coins with a unified system.
There is money interest when you mint money, silver seven tin three, or even silver six tin four.
As long as the new money we mint is full of color and new style, the people will inevitably accept it, and once the new money is circulated, it is equivalent to doing nothing, and we can earn 30% of the money interest from each new coin. ” After Zhou Shi listened, his mind flashed "Yuan Datou" and the one-yuan coin and five-dime coin used in his previous life.
After thinking about it carefully, he immediately accepted this coinage method, but how to cast this money is embarrassed again, Yongli is about to end, do you want to cast "Yongli Tongbao" can't be "Casting the Great Ming Tongbao" Song Xianggong saw that Zhou Shixiang was worried, and told Zhou Shixiang that when the Shaowu regime was established in Guangzhou, the university scholar Su Guansheng had the intention of casting new money to pay the military salary, so he asked several officials who escaped from the Nanjing Ministry of Industry to organize a group of craftsmen to prepare to mint new money.
The officials and craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry also called Shang Kexi to arrest them, and after the Taiping army broke through Guangzhou, these people fell into the hands of the Taiping army.
They had never been able to use them before, but now that they decided to mint new money, these ready-made manpower would naturally come in handy.
Zhou Shixiang was overjoyed, with a ready-made money craftsman, it is naturally not difficult to cast new money, as long as the amount is guaranteed to be sufficient, and the style is new.
However, there is another problem, and that is how to recover the silver and copper from the hands of the people.
This Song Xianggong didn't have a good idea for a while, Zhou Shixiang thought about it and told Song Xianggong that he still had to issue paper stamps, but this paper stamps were called food stamps, and they did not indicate how much they were worth, but how much grain they could buy.
In the past, the credit of treasure money was too poor, and it was too whimsical to use paper as money in the eyes of the people, but if this food stamp can actually buy food, it will become a convertible currency in disguise.
The Taiping Army is now implementing a series of systems of building villages and townships, collective farming, and ensuring grain output, so in addition to the land taxes that the people should pay to the government, the remaining grain must also be sold to the Taiping Army on a priority basis, so the public treasury in various places is responsible for storing grain in addition to keeping the spoils captured by the Taiping Army.
In other words, the public treasury is actually a combination of a grain depot and a silver depot.
And in this world, grain is the real hard currency, no matter how much silver you have, you can't buy food, and if you can't spend it, it's a useless pile of metal.
Zhou Shixiang wanted to issue grain stamps to avoid the direct issuance of paper money that could be used as money envoys and not be recognized by the people, so that the credit of the Taiping military government would be hit, and to make the people recognize and accept grain stamps, the first thing was to ensure that those who held grain stamps could buy grain from the nearest public treasury anytime and anywhere, and that there was no deduction.
This point is related to whether food stamps can become a disguised currency, so Zhou Shixiang must strictly control it, and at the same time build large and small grain depots in various places to facilitate the people to accept and buy grain, and reduce consumption.
At the same time, buying grain with food stamps is 10% cheaper than buying grain with silver money, and people are greedy for cheap, so long as they can buy more grain with food stamps, they can make the vast majority of people choose and trust food stamps.
As long as the Taiping army had enough food reserves for the officers and soldiers and the people to exchange, the people would not keep the food at home.
Grain will spoil after a long time, and it is of course good to exchange the public treasury sold to the Taiping Army for money or for food stamps that can be exchanged at any time.
For Zhou Shixiang, the food stamps are issued for profit, but in the eyes of the people, the food stamps issued by Zhou Dashuai are a great virtue and politics, which can not only allow them to earn actual benefits, but also allow them to reduce the risk of grain storage, after all, no one of the people's ability to resist risks can be higher than Zhou Dashuai, who has tens of thousands of soldiers.
Few people know that the now widely publicized reincarnation of Grandpa Yue, Xingping Bo Zhou Dashuai actually started a robbery, if the risk on his head is big, Zhou Dashuai will immediately transfer the risk away.
The Qing court called Zhou Dashuai a thief.
As long as it can be exchanged, the credit of food stamps will be established, and goods of the same price as grain can naturally be used.
Over time, the people would give up the silver and copper coins in their hands and use food stamps to buy all kinds of daily necessities.
And at this point, a large amount of silver and copper coins will flow into the hands of the Taiping army.
The Taiping army then made profits by minting new money, and the new money could also go to the Qing occupied areas to buy supplies, and even bribe Manchu officials, so as to achieve the goal of economic cannibalization.
In addition, the Taiping army could also use the new money to buy guns and guns in Macao, hire Western technicians, and carry out overseas trade to make huge profits.
In this way, the silver could play a greater value than in the hands of the people, and it could also make the Taiping army's finances more abundant, and having a generous treasury meant a sustainable war mobilization capacity.
After several battles with the Qing army, the Taiping army did not win by how much its combat effectiveness exceeded that of the Qing army, but won in the organization and mobilization ability that was many times higher than that of the Qing army.
If it is worse, the Taiping army is definitely not as bad as the Qing army.
Of course, it is certainly not possible to directly distribute food stamps to the people, and any new things will be suspected, so Zhou Shixiang decided to first use the food stamps to pay the military salaries of the officers and soldiers, and then the soldiers and their families will take the food stamps and go to the public treasury in various places to exchange for food.
In the early days, when military salaries were paid, they could not all be given food stamps, but they were left to the choice of whether they wanted food stamps or money, and when they actually bought grain and tasted the benefits of food stamps, they would naturally choose to take food stamps directly instead of asking for money.
As for possible future fluctuations in food prices, there is no need to consider them for the time being.
Most of the officers and soldiers are illiterate, so how can they think about the long term.
If food prices fall sharply, it will mean peace in the world.
Only when grain production is high in peacetime will there be low food prices, and vice versa, high prices.
Grain hurts farmers, but Zhou Shixiang is willing to see grain hurt farmers, which means that he has succeeded.
Of course, cheap grain hurts the peasants, but it is better than being starved to death and enslaved.
After repeatedly discussing the specific details with Song Xianggong, Zhou Shixiang decided to divide the local public treasury into two and set up two institutions, the grain office and the silver village.
The former specializes in issuing food stamps marked with a number of catties, while the latter is responsible for minting money while assuming the role of a private bank.
Like the grain depot, Yinzhuang can be stored and withdrawn at any time, and can be paid to deposit stamps and grain stamps.
And when the people taste the benefits of food stamps, the deposit stamps will naturally decrease.
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In this way, large quantities of gold and silver can be recovered, so that the mint has enough raw materials to recast new coins.
As long as the stamps can be redeemed at the food depots, the credit of the stamps will remain strong.
The biggest enemy of issuing food stamps and new money is the private minting and forgery, so Zhou Shixiang in the establishment of the grain depot and silver village at the same time, issued a strict order, all those who have privately minted silver coins and forged food stamps are all spies of the Qing Kou, Ling Chi himself, the adult male in the family will be executed, and the rest will be exiled to Qiongzhou, and they will not return in case of pardon.
If it is verified, the whistleblower can be rewarded with half of the whistleblower's property.
Under these strict orders and the joint investigation and office mechanism of villages, townships, counties, governments, and provinces, those who dared to forge Taiping Army food stamps and private minting could only be on the side of the Qing court, and how to effectively avoid being forged was the business of the officials and craftsmen who had decades of experience in coinage in the mint.
Zhou Shixiang tried his best to instill some anti-counterfeiting knowledge he knew in his previous life with the reality of this era, and asked the political envoy to organize the rotation training of county officials, and the content of the training was how to distinguish between real and fake food stamps.
Zhou Shixiang hoped that his portrait could be engraved on the newly issued Daming Tongbao silver coin, but Song Xianggong rolled his eyes and said that you can't rebel Zhou Shi laughed at each other, and the carving of his Zhou Dashuai's head on the Ming Tongbao was indeed a bit excessive.
Instead, he asked for his face to be printed on the newly issued food stamps.
This request is not excessive, the food stamps are only issued by the Taiping Army itself for the soldiers and people to buy food, so it is not taboo to print his Zhou Dashuai's head on the food stamps, but Song Xianggong kindly persuaded Zhou Shixiang not to do this, because it is a very unlucky thing for the living person's head to be printed on paper.
Song Xianggong reluctantly agreed, and asked the painter to come over and draw a portrait for Zhou Dashuai, and then asked the craftsmen who cast the money to paint the portrait and strive to print the best effect.
The blind man Li also shouted that the handsome avatar can't be blindly printed, this is to fold Yang Shou, but it turned out that it was Zhou Shixiang's turn to glance at him, and then snorted coldly: "The bird's ambition to know the bird" oshow7 t1706231537: