Liu Song Hanque

Chapter 171
As the workshop's plates got bigger and bigger, Liu Yizhen also showed his final fangs.

"In the future, all workshop taxes collected by the government will be settled with newly minted five baht."

As a general equivalent, ancient currency has only two essential values——

Scarcity and government credit.

Scarcity is naturally to mint good coins so that bad coins are no longer recognized by the people and the government.

Government credit is to make people believe that the coins in their hands are valuable and can be exchanged at the government at any time.

Now Liu Yizhen is going to use the fact that the large-scale transactions between the government and the aristocratic family are limited to the new five baht coins to restore the already somewhat chaotic currency system in the market.

Only the new five baht is collected when collecting taxes, and only the new five baht is used when paying tenants' wages.In this way, the new five baht will naturally circulate in the market on a large scale and regain market share.

However, the value of the exchange of goods alone is not enough. Liu Yizhen also needs to find a stable exchange mechanism.

Who else but gold?
In fact, gold and silver were legal weighing currencies in ancient China for most of the time.They all rely on their own value to function as currency, and the same is true for food and cloth.

The main reason why it has not evolved into a "gold standard" is that there is too little gold to support an economic market with tens of millions of people.

Fortunately, Liu Yizhen knows that China's gold reserves are basically located in Shandong and Henan. As long as Liu Yuneng succeeds in the Northern Expedition and completely ensures the safety of these two places, Liu Yizhen can take out all the gold in these two places as the "gold standard" The foundation, meets the plate of dynasty.

As for now, of course it is as much as you can do.

Seeing Liu Yizhen take away the truckloads of gold, the people in the household department almost knelt down to Liu Yizhen.

"Money is only money when it circulates. Otherwise, it's all waste."

Thirty percent of the gold in the treasury was taken away by Liu Yizhen, and all of it was minted into gold coins.

"According to the market price, this gold coin can be exchanged for ten pennies and five baht."

"In the future, all Jiankang and Gyeonggi areas can use five baht coins to exchange for gold coins."

The truly prosperous areas in the Southern Dynasties were Yangzhou and Jingzhou.

Therefore, Liu Yizhen did not intend to make the stall too large. As long as the Gyeonggi area is well controlled, other things can be continued when the central government has the strength in the future.

Now Liu Yu doesn't care about the money at all, leaving it to Liu Yizhen, and he is just curious about the gold five baht and took a few for fun.

In addition, these gold five bahts used for exchange were also named "Yongchu treasure money" by Liu Yu.

The appearance of Yongchu treasure money reassured some aristocratic families who were still holding a wait-and-see attitude towards the new five baht coins, and even took the initiative to throw out the old five baht coins for the government to recycle and recast them into new five baht coins to stabilize the market.

Taking advantage of the price difference between the loss of the old and new coins, the government made a fortune in it, and the treasury became rich again in a blink of an eye.

But before Liu Yu was happy, Liu Yizhen took the money away and asked someone to survey the future Zijinshan gold mine.

The gold and copper mines there are enough to maintain Liu Yu's funds for the Northern Expedition. This is the way Liu Yi really wants to raise money for Liu Yu.

For this important matter that is related to the lifeline of the country, Liu Yizhen also specially asked Wang Maide to go to Zijin Mountain for investigation.

Zijin Mountain is located in Mindi, which is the future Fujian. From Jiankang to there, it is usually through the inland water system, first to Suzhou, and then to Fujian along the Qiantang River system.

But this time Liu Yizhen asked Wang Maide to go by sea boat.

The current sea-going ship technology is actually quite advanced after experiencing the development of Soochow.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Soochow could find Yizhou, and even opened up sea routes to Liaodong, South Vietnam, and even poisonous sea routes.After the Eastern Jin Dynasty, sea-going ship technology advanced by leaps and bounds.

For example, when Liu Yu first faced the "Fajia Dungeon" Sun Enlu Xun Rebellion, he fought from the sea to Jiankang.

In particular, the invention of the watertight bulkhead technology is to decompose the hull into several airtight cabins, so that even if one of the cabins leaks, it will not affect the progress of the ship.

This technology has greatly reduced the accidents of shipwreck due to the dangerous sea and ensured the safety of navigation.

Although Wang Maide didn't understand what Liu Yizhen meant, but since Liu Yizhen spoke, he naturally set off with his guards.

But he didn't know until he got on the Shanghai ship Wang Maide that this was not something he, a native of the north, could adapt to!
Fortunately, in the Yangtze River, once out of the Yangtze River, the kind of bumps made Wang Maide lie groggy in his cabin every day.

The turbulence was fine, but what broke Wang Maide the most was the smell on the ship.

Just as southerners can't stand the smell of mutton on northerners, northerners can't stand the smell of sea from sea-going ships.

Coupled with the dark and damp cabin of the ship, Wang Maide spent the most difficult half month in his life.

Fortunately, he finally completed the task assigned to him by Liu Yizhen——

The Zijinshan gold mine was discovered.

With the help of Liu Yizhen, it is very easy to find something without long legs.

After finding the Zijinshan gold mine, Wang Maide immediately contacted the local officials to block the gold mine, and after mining part of it, it was transported to Jiankang again by sea ship.

With the support of Zijinshan Gold Mine, Liu Yizhen's economic reform situation is very good, and the imperial court's finances have soared to an amount sufficient for Liu Yu to carry out the Northern Expedition in just a few months.

Now everyone is convinced.

Even Xu Xianzhi sighed, "Even if Fan Li comes back to life, it's nothing more than that."

Even some aristocratic families came out to sing praises to Liu Yizhen, as if Liu Yizhen had cut their flesh before and it didn't exist.

No matter how much Liu Yizhen did before, if Liu Yizhen helped the family clean up the hidden tenants, Liu Yizhen was their reborn parent.

Not to mention that the people who made money in promoting the new five baht coins and opening workshops are from aristocratic families, which made them feel even more——

The king of Qin can get along well, and if he has money, he will really lead everyone to make money.

It is also helpless to cause this situation. The aristocratic family itself has accumulated a solid wealth, and they must expand very quickly when they encounter opportunities.

But Liu Yizhen just wanted them to swell up.

How to make them crazy without swelling up?
Only when they are crazy, can they do those daring things, instead of guarding their own one-third of an acre of land all day long to live.

There is money.

There is no shortage of soldiers.

A lot of food has been accumulated in the absence of large-scale military operations in the past two years.

Now Liu Yu is in high spirits, and just wants to hurry up to carry out the great cause of the Northern Expedition.

But maybe the heavens don't want to see Liu Yu complete this great cause through the ages, and then make a fool of himself.

"General Fuguo, governor of Jiaozhou, Du Huidu, reported to the emperor—"

"There is civil strife in Linyi country. This is a great opportunity for a thousand years to recover Rinan and Jiuzhen's old counties. Please also send troops to the south!"

Nanzheng...

(End of this chapter)