Hankyung.
In the imperial study, Li Shimin was listening to the report of General Jin Wuwei.
Jin Wuwei is one of the twelve guards of the Southern Ya, and the government soldiers of the Shangsu Guard are more responsible for the security of Gyeonggi.
This time, Li Shimin sent Jin Wuwei to raid the property of the Li family Hanjing.
Many ministers persuaded the emperor not to do this, which would force Li Chao to rebel.
But Li Shimin ignored it, Li Chao really wanted to rebel, and he wouldn't change anything because he did this.
On the contrary, at this time, it is even more necessary to strengthen control over the capital, and the Li family has a great strength in the capital.
Going deep into various industries, there are their people everywhere, and in the Gyeonggi Strongland, if Li Chao comes to the capital to rebel, it will also cause a lot of trouble.
It's better to start early.
The Li family's property was confiscated, and the Li family's money was drawn.
However, when the emperor heard that all the money houses of the Li family in Gyeonggi had been confiscated, the number of gold, silver and copper coins confiscated was still very angry.
Li Ji Qian Zhuang has been in business for more than ten years and has spread all over the world.
Their scale is huge, especially the credit of the treasure banknotes is excellent, far exceeding the gold coupons of the imperial court, and the money is stored and borrowed in Li Ji Qian Bank, and the turnover and exchange are also the most.
Nowadays, everyone is accustomed to using paper money, and copper coins are rarely used.
Gold and silver coins are not used much, although the banknotes issued by the money bank have the promise of being exchanged for copper coins and gold and silver coins at any time, but who will really exchange them.
There are fewer copper coins minted every year, and now copper bricks, silver ingots, and gold bars are directly cast into pure copper and stored in the vaults of the bank.
There are not many metal currencies in circulation, but only in small quantities.
Datang's economy today is huge, far from being comparable to the Wude period, and now it is an era of thriving commodity economy for industry and commerce.
The annual fiscal revenue of the Tang Dynasty reached more than 80 million yuan, which was still a few years earlier, and now it has moved towards the 100 million mark.
With such a huge tax, the tax on agriculture has accounted for a very small proportion, and it has been fixed, and the court shouted that it will never be taxed, which is the fixation of the field tax.
No matter how many new people are added and how many fields are newly cultivated, the total amount of land endowment remains unchanged, and then this total amount is apportioned to the number of fields every year, in fact, the annual land endowment per mu is still declining.
The industrial and commercial tax revenue of the imperial court has increased greatly, and the proportion of tax revenue of the customs of the city and the port of Wuhai has become higher and higher.
Monopoly taxes on salt, wine, sugar, tea, and iron have also increased greatly.
The imperial court has nearly 100 million yuan of revenue a year, so what is the currency circulation of the entire Tang Dynasty The household department has estimated that it is about one billion.
This amount of currency is relatively in line with the total economic volume of the Tang Dynasty today, especially the circulation of paper money, so that the silk of the Tang Dynasty has withdrawn from the monetary system, and even gold, silver and copper are less in circulation.
Paper money circulates, after all, no more than metal money.
Metallic money is easy to deposit and is not used when buried.
Paper money will not be done by anyone, nor will it be circulated abroad, nor will it be destroyed and cast into bronze objects.
And paper money also has the advantage that it can be overissued, which also greatly reduces the problem of money shortage.
In addition, it is convenient to exchange and deposit money in the bank, and there is interest on the deposit, so it can be said that almost all the money is in the bank.
Most of the money on the market is paper, and the gold, silver, and copper are all in the treasury of the bank.
Now the largest money bank in the Tang Dynasty is naturally Li Ji, followed by the bank of the imperial court, and then there are many money banks and silver numbers and the like, but the Li family is still the overlord of this bank, and one family monopolizes about seventy percent of the market.
Although the Li family has to pay a deposit to the central bank.
But in the Li family's treasury, there should still be a large number of gold bars, silver ingots and copper bricks.
Hanjing is the headquarters of the Li family's money village, and there must be a gold bar, silver ingot, and copper brick worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the vault.
However, after searching hundreds of branches in Gyeonggi, he only found about 10 million gold bars, silver ingots, and copper bricks.
"Where is the money," Li Shimin asked Dugu Yanyun, the general of Jin Wuwei, in a low voice.
There are a large number of treasure banknotes on the market, which are all issued by Li Ji, and these banknotes in everyone's hands are not real money.
Most of the gold bars, silver ingots, copper bricks, gold, silver coins and copper coins in the treasury of the Li family money village are actually the money of the common people.
Now that the money is gone, that's a big problem.
The minister checked the accounts of the bank, but found no problems.
However, there were at least hundreds of millions of gold bars, silver ingots, copper bricks, and gold, silver and copper coins in the vaults of these money banks in Gyeonggi, but now there are only more than 10 million points, and the rest are only stored on the books, and there are no gold in the treasury at all. ” Li Shimin was furious. 100 million pieces of gold, silver and copper, this is not a paper banknote, it is a real amount of gold, silver and copper, if it is 100 million copper coins, it can pile up a huge copper mountain.
Even if it is exchanged for more valuable gold bars and silver ingots, it can still fill several large warehouses.
It can't be that the people of Li Ji Qianzhuang are corrupt, they are not so bold, and Li Chao is not such a deceptive person.
The only possibility is that Li Chao secretly hid the money somewhere else.
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Or, they simply quietly transported the money out of Gyeonggi and somewhere else.
As soon as he thought that Li Chao had a full set of state-of-the-art military workshops in Nanyang, which could produce a large number of warships, artillery, swords, guns, armor, etc., he believed in this calculation even more.
Everything costs money.
"That bastard, the person who interrogated the money bank for me and traced the whereabouts of the money."
"Yes."
Dugu Yanyun retreated with a sad face, he didn't have a clue at all.
Li Shimin also had a headache.
Because of Jin Wuwei's seizure of the bank, many people have been affected these days.
Everyone is anxious to redeem money from the bank, and now there are rumors in Beijing that the prince and Li Chao have rebelled, in case the emperor seizes the Li family's bank, and the money bank falls, then the treasure banknotes issued by these bankers in their hands can still be cashed Everyone felt in their hearts that even if the imperial court confiscated the Li family's money, the treasure money would definitely be exchangeable, but who dared to be sure.
These days, when someone went to buy something with the Li family's treasure money, they were rejected by the merchant.
There were also people who took the treasure money to the bank of the imperial court to exchange it, but they were also refused.
There was a panic in Gyeonggi.
In the past, the treasure money that was extremely convenient, the credit is being lost, and their money may really become waste paper.
No one's money is blown by the wind, and many of the entire savings are stored in the bank.
Especially many ordinary people, thinking that they can still earn some interest if they keep their money in the bank.
If this is even folded, it can be repaid.
"Let's get in" "We're going to exchange treasure money" "Give me back my hard-earned money" Hanjing Inner City, the headquarters of Li Ji Qianzhuang.
This headquarters covers an extremely wide area, but it has a width of 100 acres in Hanjing City, where every inch of land is valuable.
Especially the gate, which is extremely magnificent, in fact, the headquarters of Li Kee is mainly office, and does not do business.
But everyone doesn't care, they just know that this is the headquarters of Li Ji Qian Zhuang.
In particular, there are two huge mountains of gold and silver in front of this gate, which are fenced off, and the gold mountain is said to have 8,888 catties of gold, and the silver mountain is said to be 9,999 catties.
Anyway, there are people guarding it day and night, so you can see it from a distance.
It is a scene of Hanjing in the past, and everyone who comes to Hanjing for the first time will come to see it twice. is also because although I can see it, I can't touch it, so I am called helpless.
In front of the gate, there are also two huge copper bulls.
Two copper-plastic bulls, with good looks, one is said to have more than 10,000 catties.
Jinshan Yinshan Big Bronze Bull, this is the live advertisement of Li Ji Qian Zhuang in the past, and when you look at these, you will know how rich Li Ji is.
Keep the money in Li Ji to reassure everyone.
Just because the gold and silver are still there, I don't know how much it's worth.
A mountain of gold can be worth more than a million yuan, not to mention a mountain of silver and a big copper bull.
But who would have thought that one day, this treasure money would be in danger of becoming waste paper.
Now many people have come here, thinking that since Li Ji has been sealed, then come to Jinshan to dig a piece and go.
Of course, such a good thing is not to be thought of.
The soldiers of the Golden Guard are guarding it.
A Kin Wuwei officer galloped up and gave an order to the guards.
We will cut this mountain of gold and silver and the big copper ox and transport it away.
When the people heard this, they quit.
Li Ji Qian Zhuang has been seized, so we can't exchange the treasure money.
Your bank won't change it.
Now this mountain of gold and silver is also the people's money, why do you carry it away?
"Nope" "Don't take away the gold and silver."
"Let's exchange the treasure money in our hands first."
"Exchange Money" "We're going to change money" The people's expressions were intense, and the atmosphere became more and more tense.
Many people even heard the news and surrounded the soldiers of the Jin Wuwei, and there was a great tendency to rush over to grab the gold.
When Yin of Hanjing Mansion received the report, he was also taken aback, and hurriedly dispatched the officials.
But when more than 100 officials arrived, they found that it was already crowded with people, and there were people shouting to exchange money everywhere.
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Runs No one has ever encountered this situation, and they will not know that the seizure of Li Ji Qian Zhuang will cause such a tricky thing.
If Li Chao was still in Beijing, he would tell Li Shimin that even if Li Ji was to be seized, he should not close the door and affect the business, let alone allow the market to refuse to accept treasure money.
The more times like this, the more the banks of the imperial court should come forward to cash the treasure money.
Now, the credibility of the treasure banknote has been shaken.
A run on the run also broke out.
Hanjing Li Ji Qian Zhuang Headquarters Gyeonggi branches.
The doors of each Li Ji Qian Village were crowded with merchants and people who came to exchange money.
Jin Wuwei couldn't control the situation anymore.
Hanjing Mansion Yin had to urgently report to Zhongshumen, and the prime ministers were also shocked.
"This is going to be a big thing," Fang Xuanling exclaimed.
Treasure money, by the way, everyone used it in the past, and even ignored some of the problems behind it.
Everyone's life has been inseparable from the treasure banknote, if one day the banknote can no longer be used, everyone back to the past with copper coins with silk days, I really dare not imagine.
"Hurry up and let Li Ji Qian Zhuang redeem the money" The eldest grandson Wuji also realized the seriousness of the matter, if it goes on like this, there will be a riot.
If it is because of the run on Li Jibao's banknotes, and then spread to the gold coupons of the imperial court, and even other banks, forming a comprehensive run, then the banknotes will really be finished.
Han Jingfu Yin cried with a sad face, "Duke Wei, Li Ji's treasury doesn't have that much money to redeem at all. ” "Then transfer some from the imperial court's bank first."
"That's not enough, in Li Ji's treasury, there is actually a deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars" The eldest grandson Wuji felt dizzy and almost fainted to the ground.
The deficit is 100 million What about the money Where did the money go "Didn't Li Ji have a guarantee in the imperial court before, hurry up and take it out, at this time, you must stabilize the situation first."
Taifu Siqing hummed and chirped like constipation.
"The deposit paid by Li Ji has long been misappropriated by us."
"It's over," Fang Xuanling sighed. t1706231537: