4. Yuan Xiang borrowing chopsticks
Liu Yan’s third question is really difficult. If private minting will lead to currency counterfeiting, then private combo can directly tighten the currency, which is the most painful "money shortage" in medieval society.
Whether it is an official or a commoner, they just need to concentrate the copper coins on hand and melt the coin for a single coin to get twenty kilograms of copper, which can be used to cast copper ware or to re-cast other coins. Using the price difference between different coins, they can make three times or even more profits. Therefore, the trend of private hiding and private sales is constantly banned.
So Gao Yue simply said, "There are three methods."
At this time, Liu Yan's eyes began to shine, and he said which three methods were they? "Is it the method of limiting money and the method of banning copper?"
The method of limiting money and banning copper mentioned by Liu Yan means that the government comes forward to strictly prohibit officials from hiding too much copper coins. If they exceed the limit, they will be punished with heavy punishment. The rule of banning copper is better understood and the circulation of copperware on the market is directly prohibited.
Gao Yue shook his head and said that the two methods Yan Xiang said were just one of the "three methods" of late birth.
"Oh!" Liu Yan touched his beard with great interest.
"Yan Xiang set up patrols and salt courts in important places in various places to arrest private salt vendors. Then it is better to set up special supervision institutes in the mining and smelting and furnaces of various states. On the one hand, they collect gold, silver, copper and tin, and on the other hand, they set up checkpoints on the road of Helu. They charge heavy taxes on past copperware, which can make up for the cost of minting and suppress the wind of private melting. This is the method;
In addition, now I, Tang Xing three qian, namely Kaiyuan qian, Qianyuan qian and Chongyuan qian, are actually the cause of chaos in the currency system and private melting becomes wind. Please ask Yan Xiang to implement the law, leaving only one qian to ban the circulation of the other two qians. Once the currency system is unified, we will assist it to limit the money and prohibit the copper qian. The private melting wind can also remove the Taihalf of the wind. These two methods are the same. Please."
Liu Yan nodded, but still made progress and asked: "Your husband cannot return the capital of minting to the time when he opened the sky, but it is still possible to collect and manufacture the capital and capital. This is the fundamental solution. However, Yan seeks more convenient methods, is there any?"
“There are also.”
"Can you give me advice?"
"You can save Buddhist temples in the world, prohibit the destruction of Buddhism, return fertile fields, destroy water and dumplings, and get rid of temples, Jialan, bronze statues of Buddha, bells and chimes, copper cast coins, and iron casts them into agricultural tools and military tools." As soon as Gao Yue said this, even Liu Yan was shocked, and he couldn't help but tell Gao Yue not to continue speaking.
At this time, the sound of rain outside the Jinwu patrol shop in Pingkangfang seemed to have sparse.
Several Jinwu children had drunk enough wine, roasted warm fire, and fell asleep on the ground.
However, Liu Yan's question was left with two questions, "Four questions, since the beginning of the world, the textbook has been corrupt and the refugees have not been found. The state's military capital has relied on merchants. However, the previous generation stipulated that merchants must pay twice the household tax of the people, and an additional eleven tax was imposed to suppress the business. Now should we emphasize business or suppress business? Can you please tell me clearly?"
Gao Yue bowed and replied, "When businessmen and businessmen all get the benefits of farming. Instead of withdrawing their main taxes, it is better to equate the taxes of merchants with the people, and turn to the monopoly of tea, wine, iron and salt. The transactions, transactions, taxes on foreign markets and foreign markets must be ten times as high as before. I'm sure."
It turned out that Gao Yue meant that the so-called "ticketing those merchants to suppress laziness" in the early and middle Tang Dynasty was to raise the tax on merchants, making them more than that of ordinary people, and they rarely impose taxes in the circulation of merchants' goods. This was caused by policy makers at that time that they did not understand the laws of business operations. Gao Yue meant that the original "tax merchants" were changed to "commercial tax", focusing on the draw of taxes in commercial behavior itself, and changing direct taxes to indirect taxes.
Hearing this, Liu Yan quickly understood, and then he solemnly asked the fifth question, "Ask, now there are Xifan, Huihe, Nanzhao and other foreign barbarians outside the Tang Dynasty, and there are Heshuo, Huaixi, Ziqing, Xianghan and other Fangzhens. In the past, Yuan Zai once offered the strategy of "first west and then east" and "repelling foreign countries and pacifying the country". That is, to build a city in Yuanzhou and build a prefecture in Hezhong. First destroy the Western vassal, return to Longyou and Anxi, and then rely on Guanzhong to re-establish Jianling, sweep the eastward, pacifying the towns of the unofficial officials, and rebuild the mountains and rivers. What is the view of Yuan Zai's strategy?"
Good guy, Liu Yan intends to take out Yuan Zai’s plan and asks the right one. It is clearly a needle hidden in the cotton, and he intends to test me... If I say that Yuan Zai’s saying is wrong, Liu Yan will definitely say that I am distorted by others. If I agree with Yuan Zai’s plan, I am afraid that Liu Yan will criticize me again.
mmmp, this line of volumes is several times more difficult than "The Legend of the Orphan", "The Record of the Gourd", "The Record of Sadako in Japan", and "The Collection of Suspicious Cases in Huaibei"!
Fortunately, when he went to visit Xiao Xin and stayed in Nanyuan, Gao Yue had asked Xiao Xin in detail about questions like this. He had already listened to Xiao Sanqi's extremely valuable "life experience". Of course, he was very familiar with this fundamental national policy direction, so let me talk about it slowly.
"Yan Xiang, Yuan Zai's strategy is right and wrong. Right is the root of the strategy, and wrong is the strategy. Now Fangzhen is domineering, but each occupy one place. If the court is cut, it will form a thorn. If it is tolerated for a while, it will disperse like sand and gravel. And the court will use troops against the Western vassal states. Fanyang, Heshuo, and Ziqing in Youdian, all have to send troops to follow the imperial court. Once Hehuang is reopened, the Western vassal states will be driven away, and the fertile land in the Western vassal state will be re-owned by the state. Taxes can be increased, and good horses can be sheltered, and soldiers can be expanded. If the time goes by, the remaining towns will be insufficient to worry about.
Building a city in Yuanzhou is too far away, and the troops in Jingyuan and other places have already settled down, so they may cause trouble. In the foolish opinion of the young generation, they can choose a key place near Jingyuan, draw the Jingyuan camp, and build a city in succession. After success, they will choose one or two ministers to guard the border military, eliminate the ill-fighting policies, accumulate grain to train troops, and defend it like a rock in three years, and can counterattack slowly in five years, and achieve great results in ten years. Master said that if you want to be hasty, you will not be able to achieve it. If you build a city in Yuanzhou, you should not be frivolous or anxious. You must operate it for a long time to be a good strategy. Please be careful."
Gao Yue's opinion on Yuan Zai's own strategy was that he recognized his grand strategy, but did not agree with the specific tactics of rushing to build a city in Yuanzhou. He was too eager to achieve success. He believed that he should be more cautious and tolerant and set his foot in the Jingyuan area first to achieve the long-term.
Liu Yan nodded repeatedly, but then he looked at Gao Yue and raised his tone, "If one day, Xiao Yangshan people will be on the road again, change the wooden slips to elephant scepter, and the green robe will change to red purple, climb the main yamen of Xuanzheng Hall, and enter Yanying Hall to ask questions. He wants to inherit Yuanzai's legacy and is eager to build a city in Yuanzhou, and the ministers agree with it, and the Holy Lord approves. Gao Langjun dares to say this insight, and is willing to say it in front of Xiao Yangshan people?"
"I dare not!" Gao Yue replied loudly.
Seeing Gao Yue's appearance, Liu Yan finally couldn't help but laughed loudly on his back, "Gao Langjun, you are such a frank person."
Then Liu Yan took out the corner of the steel croak that Gao Yue gave him, "Actually, my biggest doubt is the few strange money from Lang Jun."
Gao Yue looked up and then cursed himself in his heart. He was so hungry that he was obsessed with it. He hurriedly gave Liu Yan a few steel pounds: Now the steel pounds in Liu Yan's hand are clearly engraved with the words "People's Bank of China" on the front, and the reverse is a brilliant chrysanthemum...
Chapter completed!