In the imperial study room of the Xingqing Palace, an interest group that would dominate the world in the future was quietly formed, and this interest group had a profound impact on the Great Xia Empire, and even after the division and destruction of the Great Xia Empire, this group was still active in the entire history of the Chinese Empire.
Every dynasty has a day of prosperity, but also a day of destruction, when most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people, it will cause the people at the bottom to live poorly, in order to survive they have to resist and overthrow the court, a shrewd ruler qualified court should learn to always let its people fill their stomachs, as long as they can survive, the people will not rebel; Li Liangzuo would not have thought that he would personally plant the seeds of destruction for the Great Xia Empire.
Li Liangzuo continued to say to everyone: "In order to better control the issuance of banknotes, I plan to set up Longtai Bank, and the entire bank is responsible for the issuance, storage, and transportation of banknotes; Five-tenths of the profits of Longtai Money House shall be allocated to the treasury, three-tenths shall be allocated to the royal family, and the remaining two-tenths shall belong to all of you, and as for how to distribute these two-tenths among you, we shall discuss separately, and the shares owned by each shall not be exchanged or transferred; As for the printing of banknotes, the royal family is responsible for it, and of course these shares are not given to you in vain, everyone in what we are doing has their own responsibility, the royal family must use the army to protect our wealth, and as for all of you and your family, you must perform your duties to serve the royal family."
Li Liangzuo used his interests to unite all the big families in the entire Great Xia Kingdom, and as a traverser, Li Liangzuo understood that these people followed him for nothing more than fame, wealth, and women; To let these people be loyal to themselves and the entire Tuoba Li clan forever, Li Liangzuo has to give enough benefits, Li Liangzuo is confident that he has absolute authority to control them, but whether future generations can still have such authority Li Liangzuo does not know, so Li Liangzuo did this not only for the sake of obtaining wealth in a short time, but also for the sake of the future of the Great Xia Kingdom, without the support of these big families, the royal family alone would not be able to control such a big country; No matter what era, there will always be a ruling class and a ruled class in the world.
Just do it, after Li Liangzuo decided to use banknotes to set up a bank, he immediately took action, the first thing to do with banknotes is anti-counterfeiting marking, there is no watermark and other advanced anti-counterfeiting signs in this era, so the only thing Li Liangzuo can do is to work the pattern of banknotes, Li Liangzuo used a large number of words on banknotes, including party items, Khitan, Huifu, Tubo, Chinese characters, etc., in addition to the pattern banknotes should be stamped with special ink.
In addition, the paper on which the money is printed is also a special paper, and the workers involved in printing the money are all death row prisoners in order to keep it secret.
Under the auspices of Li Liangzuo, in a valley on the east side of Helan Mountain, a small city was secretly built, which will be the location of the banknote printing factory of the Great Xia Kingdom, which is located in the core area of the royal hunting ground, with the Royal Forest Legion responsible for security, the small city is not big but complete, the city is full of papermaking and printing equipment, papermaking is easy to print but not simple, in order to ensure that the printed banknotes are basically the same, Li Liangzuo adopts engraving printing, rather than advanced movable type printing.
"Your Majesty, this is where we print banknotes, and there is no name yet to ask Your Majesty to give your name."
Zhou Shengcai said to Li Liangzuo.
Li Liangzuo said without thinking: "Let's call it a banknote printing factory."
"Your Majesty Shengming, this name is good."
Zhou Shengcai patted his ass; "Your Majesty, Weichen has a suggestion that I don't know if to say or not."
"What does Aiqing say, just say it."
Li Liangzuo said to Zhou Shengcai.
Zhou Shengcai said to Li Liangzuo: "Your Majesty, what Weichen means is that you see if we should issue different banknotes for different countries, otherwise once there is a depreciation of banknotes, it will inevitably affect the people of our Great Xia Kingdom, and it is very likely to cause turmoil."
"I understand what you mean."
Li Liangzuo said to Zhou Shengcai: "But in this way, the paper money will depreciate, and others will immediately think that it is my Great Xia Kingdom that has made a ghost; As for the depreciation of paper money, I have already thought about it, and once this happens, it will be over if the imperial court comes forward to give the people a certain amount of subsidies. ” "Xiaofuzi, this banknote printing factory will be supervised by you in the future."
Li Liangzuo said to Xiao Fuzi who was standing aside.
"Yes, the minions obey."
Xiaofuzi replied.
At the insistence of Li Liangzuo, it is still issued using a kind of banknote, the banknote was named Huayuan by Li Liangzuo, and began to be printed in large quantities here, a month later, Huayuan first began to be used in Guanzhong, and at the same time Longtai Commercial Bank began to set up money in various places and supported the use of Huayuan transactions, for a while there are Longtai money in all parts of the world, which benefited from the expansion of Longtai Commercial Bank in recent years.
After the establishment of Longtai Commercial Bank, it also implemented the business of saving money, and as long as the money was deposited in the bank, there were different interest rates according to the length of time of the deposit, at first everyone did not believe it, but when someone tried, a large number of people began to go to Longtai Money Village to deposit money, and merchants began to exchange Chinese yuan, after all, paper money is convenient to use, much better than gold and silver; In the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, it took only a few months for Huayuan to defeat Jiaozi and become the only paper money that could still be used in the Great Song Dynasty; After all, Huayuan is a silver standard that can be exchanged for silver at any time, while Jiaozi is just an official legal tender.
After everyone began to trust Hua Yuan, all merchants, people, landlords, and even some ministers began to exchange Hua Yuan for Longtai Money, and Hua Yuan began to gradually replace copper coins and silver in the market; There are seven denominations of Hua Yuan, 10 Hua Yuan, 5 Hua Yuan, 1 Hua Yuan, 10 Wen, 5 Wen and 1 Wen, and Longtai Qian Zhuang stipulates that one Hua Yuan is equal to one tael of silver, that is, two pieces of money.
Since the Chinese yuan could be exchanged in various places, it soon became the main currency of merchants' transactions, and a large amount of wealth was still concentrated in the hands of merchants and large landowners during this period; Huayuan began to be exported to the Liao State, the Thirty-Seven Vassal States in the Northeast, the Great Xia Kingdom, the Black Khan Dynasty and Tubo through the mode of commercial circulation; Many years later, the entire Silk Road began to use the Chinese yuan for trade, and the Chinese yuan even circulated to the Byzantine Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire.
A few years after the Chinese Yuan replaced silver and copper coins as the main currency in circulation, the Song and Liao imperial courts saw that the Chinese Yuan was so strong that they even began to store the Chinese Yuan in the treasury.
In today's words, at this time, Longtai Qianzhuang began to play the role of a central bank in the Xia, Song, Liao, Northeast 37 vassal states, Dali and other countries.
Huayuan circulated in the market, so that a large number of silver and copper coins were deposited in Longtai Money, and these silver and copper coins began to flow into the Great Xia Kingdom through special channels, and at the same time, Longtai Commercial Houses in various places also prepared some reserves for exchange and circulation; In addition to exchanging silver and copper coins, Longtai Commercial Bank and the use of Huayuan to carry out large transactions, buying all kinds of goods from all over the world, grain, cloth, medicinal materials, tea, etc., these materials also flowed far and constantly to the Great Xia Kingdom, at this time the Great Xia Kingdom was like a parasite crazy absorbing the wealth of all the countries in the world, and these riches began to flow into the pockets of Li Liangzuo and his ministers.
In later history, later generations called the interest group established by Li Liangzuo the Ningxia aristocratic group.
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