Guangzhou.
Although Banyuetan, Datang's best-selling newspaper, was closed down in the Central Plains, several branches in Guangzhou, Qinzhou, Jiaozhou, and Fuzhou were still in place, and now the Guangzhou branch has become the headquarters of Banyuetanbao.
In addition, many newspapers, such as the Times, Hanjing Evening News, and Imperial News, also moved their positions and set up a new headquarters in Guangzhou.
Many editors and reporters of various newspapers in the mainland have also tried to find ways to come south to Guangzhou.
The major newspapers were very unhappy and resentful of the imperial court's ban on newspapers.
After coming to Guangzhou, they were all in full swing and criticized the newspapers, and the court was incomplete.
The headline of the newspaper published early in the morning by Banyuetan was: "The Central Plains Imperial Court has banned the use of gold, silver coins and copper coins, and forced the people to use gold coupons."
At present, 100 gold coupons can be converted into copper coins.
Prices are skyrocketing, goods are in short supply, and workshops around the country are closing their doors one after another.
Excuse me, why has the prosperous Central Plains now become a ghost domain in the last days, and why is all this?"
One stone stirs up a thousand waves.
Today, half a month and a half talk about the whole newspaper, all talking about this matter.
From multiple angles, we will talk about the inflation and depreciation of gold coupons in the Central Plains from all aspects.
The information is detailed, and there are also many well-known people who have given interviews to newspapers and made remarks.
"The economy of the Central Plains has collapsed."
"Within a month, the price of grain in Hanjing has actually risen 300 times" "Merchants went bankrupt, factories closed, and a large number of workers lost their jobs."
"Is the imperial court opening a banknote printing factory and issuing gold coupons indiscriminately?"
"What reason does the imperial court have to prohibit the use of copper coins?"
"The court is doing the opposite."
"Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize a boat" The Times, Hanjing Evening News and other newspapers have also followed suit.
The people were shocked when they saw the astonishing report in the newspaper.
Looking at the peace and stability around us, everyone feels like a dream.
It's better to follow the prince and follow King Zhao.
Looking at the people of the Central Plains, they can't eat.
The price of rice has risen three hundred times, who can afford to eat.
"What is the emperor tossing around?"
"It's the emperor who has a traitor around him."
"Hey" A sigh.
In fact, Lingnan has also been affected a lot, many ports in the north are blocked, and cargo is no longer going south, which has a great impact on coastal commercial ports such as Guangzhou.
The ships and goods from the north could not get off, and many of the goods sold in the country could not be transported to the north.
Fortunately, there is no shortage of grain, the Pearl River Delta, the Red River Delta, and Liuqiu and other places are all important grain-producing areas, and a lot of grain is transported and sold to the Central Plains every year, and there is also a lot of grain stored in the local area in recent years.
In addition, Zhang Chao has been prepared for a long time and has made a lot of plans, and now the grain price is still very stable.
As for the treasure banknotes in the south, although they have also been affected, many people are worried.
But Zhang Chao has always been very resolute, allowing the people to exchange and withdraw, and there is still a big difference between banknotes and money.
Now everyone panics to exchange money, but as long as it holds on, then everyone looks back and finds that the banknotes are still the same strong, and the copper coins are still so inconvenient to use, and everyone will continue to use the treasure money in the end.
Now the south side is using the latest version of the treasure banknote, and he is not afraid that the court will get counterfeit money, they don't have this technology yet.
Besides, now that there is a war between the north and the south, it is forbidden to carry money in and out of all passes.
In Ganzhou, Jiangxi, which is close to the Great Luling Mountains, many people are looking forward to the southern army being able to pass the pass day and night.
"I can't live this day, why hasn't the prince come yet."
"This court has just ordered that copper coins will be collected instead of collecting money in the summer tax this year, where can we get so many copper coins?"
"But no, it is also said that the autumn tax should be collected in kind, and no money will be collected."
"This day is going back and forth."
Chekiang.
Zhejiang Xuanfu envoy looked at the official document that had just been issued, and his face was full of wrinkles.
The imperial court issued an edict requiring local governments to confiscate the gold, silver and copper coins in the hands of the common people.
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No more than 5,000 copper coins and 100 gold or silver coins may be kept in the homes of the people.
Those who exceed the private possession must be handed over to the government and exchanged for gold coupons.
"What the hell is this stupid guy who came up with a stupid plan?"
The political envoys and envoys of Zhejiang Province next to them were also dumbfounded.
At present, the local situation is so tense, and the imperial court has to make such a will, isn't this going to add fuel to the fire "The court is going to rob money" "Let's loot the gold, silver and copper coins in the hands of the people, and then hand them over to the imperial treasury, which is to be pointed out by the thousands of people."
"What does the imperial court want so much copper money for?"
"Don't you know, now that paper money has plummeted, depreciated and depreciated, it is worthless.
The consistent gold coupon can only be exchanged for ten copper coins.
Nowadays, there is not even a single copper coin in the Hanjing market, and everyone has collected it.
Paper money is depreciating more than once, the people of Hanjing are now bartering, paper money can not be used at all, even if it has been folded ten cents, it may not be able to buy something. ” "Paper money can't even be paid, whoever uses it is stupid."
An official said indignantly.
The power of money is so great, after the bankruptcy of paper money credit, there is a great shortage of metal money, which leads to the chaos of today.
Hankyung.
The Imperial Study.
Li Shimin was speechless for a long time after listening to the following recital.
He didn't expect things to go so badly.
"In the past, when there was no paper money, we didn't live the same well, but now we can do both money and silk, why can't we?"
asked Li Shimin.
"Your Majesty, the past is the past, the present is the present, this time, that time.
In the past, there was no great industrial and commercial development, and it was still a relatively simple agricultural economy.
But now, it's different.
Moreover, coins are scarce these days, and there should be many copper coins on the market, but there is not a single one to be seen.
The imperial court has taken out all the copper coins in the treasury, but no matter how much it is taken out, it will soon sink to the bottom of the river like a stone, and it will be swallowed cleanly. ” Li Shimin doesn't know what bad money means to drive out good money, but he also knows that if it goes on like this, it will be doomed.
"So what solution do you have?"
Whether it is to stop exchanging money for money, or to pay taxes and money, to prohibit the private collection of too many copper coins, and so on, it is of no great use, but it has made the situation in various places more and more tense today.
The imperial court said that it was not allowed to hide more than 5,000 copper coins privately, so those people tried to dig a cellar and bury it, but they simply did not use it, and they did not exchange it with the imperial court.
The imperial court also took out a lot of silk to circulate, but there was still a shortage of money.
Now even food has become hard currency.
But that's not enough.
"The minister thought that he could mint iron money" The reason why copper coins can be so strong is because copper coins themselves are also precious metals, and even if the copper coins are melted, the copper obtained is very valuable, and may even be more expensive than the copper coins themselves.
The same goes for gold and silver coins.
Although Li Chao reformed the coinage process before, so that gold and silver coins are no longer weighed and measured but circulated in denominations, they are still very valuable.
But paper money is different, paper money originally had credit, because everyone believed that paper money could be exchanged for copper money at any time, and paper money was just a substitute for copper money.
But now paper money can't be exchanged for copper coins, so it's worthless.
At this time, the imperial court should circulate copper coins, but the Tang Dynasty has always lacked copper, and copper coins cannot be minted so much.
Even if silk is used for circulation now, it is not enough, because today's Datang has a population of 60 million, which is extremely large, and the circulation of goods is large, and the demand for currency is more.
At the same time, the people are now desperately storing copper coins and gold and silver coins, which makes the market even more scarce.
"Issuing iron money" Li Shimin hesitated.
"Your Majesty, minting iron coins in the same way as minting copper coins and then circulating them can greatly alleviate the problem of insufficient copper coins today."
Iron is also a metal, and although iron is no longer as scarce as it used to be over the years, iron itself is a commodity.
"But will the people approve of it?"
asked Li Shimin.
The difference between iron and copper is huge, and copper coins have always been six catties and four taels, and the weight of one pound of iron coins may not be much different, but can the price of copper and iron be the same?
The people are not stupid.
"Your Majesty, iron money is better than paper money."
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One of the ministers came one last word.
These words made Li Shimin very speechless, but he also agreed.
Yes, iron money has to be better than paper money.
"Exactly."
If an iron coin is also minted and weighs a penny, the iron coin is always the same as six catties and four taels.
If the imperial court casts 10 million guan, it will get 64 million catties of iron.
How much iron does it take?
And 10 million yuan doesn't seem to have much effect on today's market.
"Every iron coin is worth ten."
Li Shimin quickly calculated the account in his heart, 10 million iron balls would cost 64 million catties of iron, and the cost was too high.
Moreover, 10 million is not enough to alleviate the current situation.
In the end, he made a ruthless move.
Each iron coin weighing one penny is ten cents of ordinary copper coins.
In this way, 64 million catties of iron can be minted into 100 million pieces of iron.
"Your Majesty, we don't have so many iron reserves."
The Ministry of Industry Shangshu reminded the emperor.
Nowadays, there is chaos everywhere, and many mines, steel mills, etc. are also unstable.
The original reserves are not so many at all.
You must not melt the swords and iron armor of the arsenal into cast iron money, and collect the iron pots and iron plows of the people's houses with cast iron money "Then mix the iron with something else, and use half or a third of the iron for an iron coin, so that you can use less iron to make more iron coins."
Li Shimin said.
This is something that the ministers can't refute.
There's really nothing wrong with that.
But Wei Zheng blew his beard and glared and jumped out.
"Your Majesty, this iron coin is minted, and who is willing to use it is afraid that it will be the same as treasure money and gold coupons, and it will soon be rotten on the street and discredited.
Your Majesty thinks about it for yourself, an iron coin that only contains half a penny or even less of iron, but it should be ten normal copper coins, and His Majesty thinks that the people are so stupid" "Iron is actually more expensive than copper, even twenty or thirty times more expensive" "Your Majesty, don't make any more iron money, stop it.
If this continues, I am afraid that the world will be boiling back, and the people will rise up."
Li Shimin gritted his teeth and almost ran away.
"Wei Zheng, what is your best plan?"
"The minister has a good plan, which can reassure the people and protect the community."
Wei Zheng stood there, "The solution is very simple, please ask Your Majesty to give the minister a will, let the minister go to Guangzhou and negotiate peace with the prince" "Get out" Li Shimin roared, let him make peace with the prince, this is absolutely impossible.
No matter how bad his situation is, he hasn't gotten to that point yet.
As for Wei Zheng's statement that iron money is twenty or thirty times more expensive than copper money, he considered it from another angle.
Iron money is not exactly in denomination, but is equivalent to credit money, but it is better than paper money, and it is not full credit money.
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