Chapter 862 Collapse(2/2)
But Zhang Dun had his own way. When he was halfway through the rules, he saw the eunuch beside him not paying attention. He suddenly turned his palms and stretched out to Zhao Xu. Zhao Xu saw five words on Zhang Dun's palms. He was too reserved and endured!
When Zhao Xu saw it, Zhang Dun turned his palms down, and the king and his minister looked at each other, smiling bitterly.
In fact, what Wang Ju said at the beginning is quite effective now. Facing his grandmother's domineering and ruthlessness and the jumping of these ministers, Zhao Xu has been holding back and pretending to be a good baby, which has caused him to suffer much less.
Now I have to endure it.
Although Zhao Xu was seriously ill, Wang Ju was as strong as the sun at that time, he did not dare to do anything to Gao Taotao. Han Qi was as strong as the sun, he did not dare to do anything to Zhao Xu.
However, if these ministers join forces with Gao Taotao, they will immediately endanger Zhao Xu's throne. Don't forget that he still has several brothers.
Then Zhang Dun started to tell Zuo Zhuan, which was a story in the second year of Duke Xuan. Duke Ling of Jin was unjust and killed innocent people. His minister Ji promoted him. Duke Ling said that I knew my mistakes and must be changed. Shi Ji was very happy to say that no one has any faults. If he can make mistakes, he will be very good. However, Duke Ling of Jin said that he would change but did not change in reality. He still killed him cruelly and was finally assassinated by his subordinates.
Zhang Dun made a seemingly wrong comment, but Zhao Xu understood it. This was a secret persuasion that he had to admit his mistake to his grandmother.
After the lecture, Zhao Xu found Gao Taotao and took the initiative to admit his mistake. He then met with Liu Zhi and other ministers, expressed his respect, and listened carefully to Liu Zhi and others' attacks on Wang Ju, and then sighed implicitly that the country cannot deprive the army of the army.
Liu Zhi and others were overjoyed. This was a good phenomenon, so the crisis was resolved.
Then continue to smear Wang Ju.
But something even worse happened.
In order to prevent counterfeiting and identification, Wang Ju used broad silk, Zhejiang silk, Shu silk, Rushi and wing silk respectively.
Now we are ready to use cotton, so there is no silk from anywhere. Besides, we are using northern silk, so isn't it better than southern silk?
It happened to be the season when the Northern Silk came up again.
The second is cotton. If cotton is officially popularized in the Yangtze River Basin, even in the north of the Yangtze River, there will be people growing cotton, and there will be no problem with cotton.
Finally, there is the loom. Various machinery and molds were still preserved at the beginning, but now many new textile machinery have appeared, and there are no problems with machinery and molds.
And from the idea, it is purely aimed at making profits, and 95% of the issued silk is paid in large denominations, so it is extremely fast.
When printed, everyone took the samples, because the complex process and various pigments were still retained. Although 80% of cotton fibers were mixed in, they still had strong anti-counterfeiting properties.
After everyone agrees, they will be used to repay the national debt immediately. The country will repay the debt in advance. Are you still unhappy?
The rest was handed over to various departments and shipping departments to buy and buy papers, and to pay salaries for officials and soldiers. All merchants handed over this new silk, and they were stunned. In order to make everyone recognize it, Wang Ju used many methods, such as using gold and silver as principal, complex craftsmanship, and high costs.
Without mentioning the principal, it is worth the denomination itself, so it is quickly recognized.
What's going on with this new silk now? It's not decades ago, when the Song Dynasty had no good cotton, and large cotton cloth was sold more expensive than silk. How much is cotton cloth worth now?
So someone inquired about how much new silk was issued by the court and how much principal was prepared.
Then he heard that the court did not prepare the principal and issued 100 million new silk coins for payment.
The so-called currency, as long as the people recognize it, is currency. Just like the primitive people traded with shells, this shell is currency. Before the Song Dynasty, it was also currency. At least this new silk exchange is better than paper exchange.
It is indeed strong, even if it has a large denomination, it is only 100, 80, and 50, but the original paper exchange is often a few coins.
Sun Jue and other ministers thought so, but in fact there was no comparison. It may be recognized by many people, but with the comparison, everyone is always feeling a little nervous. Moreover, the amount of issuance is so large that it is obvious that the court is trying to use it to make money.
So many merchants immediately exchanged it for gold and silver after getting it. The handling fee is not high anyway, at least the gold and silver are more insurance than this kind of cotton.
The new exchange was quickly emitted, but it quickly flowed back to all operations.
Because of the estimated shortage, the gold and silver in stocks of each business are different, and some business businesses are quickly exchanged for all gold and silver.
At this time, Sun Jue made another trick, ordering each business to limit the cash amount, limit each person's cash amount, and limit the total cash amount of each business every day. This mistake was too big, and the limit became more and more tense. Even the scholars and officials, after they got the new payment, asked their families to exchange it for gold and silver.
However, this is not the most terrible thing. Even if it is all cashed out, it is only 100 million yuan, and the value of gold and silver reserves in the bank's department is more than 100 million yuan. However, due to panic and the great changes in the government, many people took out old transactions and exchanged them for gold and silver.
In fact, Wang Ju also repeatedly explained this issue in the banking department. Don’t think that silk is strong now, but in the hearts of the people, what they believe most is metal currency, gold, silver and copper coins. If the people want to believe in silk, they must at least stabilize it for fifty years. After spending 50 years safely, the court gradually took back the copper coins. There were no copper coins. Silk transactions became the only choice for the people, and they did not issue them indiscriminately. Then silk transactions could completely replace copper coins.
At this point, only enough gold and silver reserves can be used as principal can be issued enough silk payments, which can also meet the needs of market currency circulation and can further stimulate the economic development of the Song Dynasty.
There must be this process.
Just like the British pound, first it was a paper currency, which was issued for more than a hundred years, but the people still did not recognize it. Then, gold was used as principal to issue British pounds. Each British pound must contain more than seven grams of gold, which was recognized and circulated by the people. Later, Britain dominated the world and used paper currency instead had no problem. This process lasted for hundreds of years. Even so, the country still reserved a large amount of gold as principal to stabilize its value.
Therefore, if there is no problem, no matter how exquisite the silk intercourse is, it will cause turmoil.
The most tragic thing is that although Wang Jue said it, after Sun Jue forced Zhang Shangying to leave the Banking Department, he also carried out a major purge on the main person in charge of the Banking Department, so no one told Sun Jue what Wang Jue said. But that's true, Sun Jue's disgust towards Wang Jue, and he couldn't listen to it.
Each business reserved a large amount of gold and silver, but soon the gold and silver of each business were exhausted.
Wen Yanbo is in retirement, but in fact, he overturned Wang Ju's laws so quickly. It was Wen Yanbo who stood behind the scenes. However, if something went wrong, Wen Yanbo would pretend that he couldn't see it.
In desperation, Lu Dafang had no choice but to come forward to question Sun Jue.
But Sun Jue was arresting someone. When Lu Dafang inquired, it turned out that all this was a bad idea from a disciple. This disciple named Lu was originally a clerk in the banking department. He heard that he had some ability, but because of his bad temper and lazy, he was forcibly fired by Zhang Shangying.
As soon as Zhao Xu died and the old party returned, the man defected to Sun Jue and then made random suggestions. Sun Jue himself did not know much about the procedures and principles of the banking department, but after inquiring, this Lu account was originally a capable general in the banking department and had a grudge against Zhang Shangying, so he completely believed his words.
Now there is a big problem. When the guest surnamed Lu saw that something is wrong, he quickly slipped away. Sun Jue was angry and asked Kaifeng Prefecture to search for this person everywhere.
When Lu Dafang heard about the incident, his face turned pale. The bank office had hundreds of millions of yuan in property. You Sun Jue, you actually thought it was a joke and believed that a clerk was doing it randomly?
He called Sun Jue over and was furious.
But getting angry is useless. All the gold and silver are empty, and then the copper coins are exchanged... There is no need to change it. The silk handover quickly depreciates. Because the old silk has good credit, it is better that all kinds of silk handover can be about 900 copper coins. As for this cotton handover, it is only 300 to 400 cents.
Then all the merchants reacted and went to the bank trust to borrow money from old dealers, and then collected cotton to repay them in order to obtain the difference.
All the cotton was handed over to business and had no choice but to change it, but merchants saw the opportunity again. Because the old silk was still depreciating, they took out loans and bought merchants and stocked up, which led to the old traders also depreciating at a rapid rate, and prices rose rapidly.
Zhang Dun finally couldn't stand it and stood up and asked: "Shen Kuoyuan denounced Zunyi Army and brought only a few followers. How could he change his territory and return to the remit? Why did the local people say that he came to Zunyi Army to change his territory and return to the remit before others arrived at Zunyi Army?"
Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the barbarians in Kuixia area have killed several Song Dynasty officials. However, Shen Kuo was finally a former high-ranking official in the court, and because of a motorcycle, he was granted by Zhao Xu to Duke Xu. A duke was killed. When the relevant officials on Kuixia Road heard this, their faces looked like earth and immediately reported the pass to the court with a fast horse.
With the situation of Zunyi Army, Shen Kuo went to Zunyi Army and clearly had to be the grandson obediently, but why were there rumors of a change of land and returning to the land?
However, Zhang Dun and Shen Kuo had a bad relationship. They just said by the way. What he wanted to say next: "The prince destroyed Jiaozhi, conquered Dali, accused Tubo, settled Xixia, and surrendered to Champa, forcing the Khitan to make concessions. Such great achievements were just because he spent hundreds of millions of stakes of money and silk and was repeatedly attacked by the ministers. Now hundreds of millions of stakes of gold and silver were instantly gone, prices rose, people were in trouble, and the people were in a rush, why was Sun Jueran safe?"
"Wen Yanbo has become treacherous and insidious since Xining, and has framed loyal and kind many times, obstructing the path of prosperity and strength of the late emperor. Why did the Empress Dowager reopen this treacherous minister? Why did the exiled ministers such as Liu Zhi, Wang Yansou, and Liang Tao re-enter the court one by one before they died!"
"The Empress Dowager, the late emperor is your biological son. This is a great country, but the country of the Zhao family and the country of your descendants. Why did you appoint these treacherous ministers to quickly lead the Song Dynasty to the road to decline!"
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Chapter completed!