Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 534
His Royal Highness the King of Chu is only responsible for the general direction. The general framework has been finalized. As for the specific terms, someone will naturally discuss with them.

In the next few days, Zeng Tai led the provincial government officials to conduct arduous negotiations with the Suzhou Textile and Dyeing Bureau on the long-term lease of 30 hectares of official land.

Don't look at the generosity and generosity of Gu Yuanchen and others in front of the King of Chu, but when you really talk about business with this group of people, it's another face that you want to take advantage of it and don't want to suffer. .

Relying on His Royal Highness the King of Chu as the backstage, ordinary officials will not care about them, and they will give in if they make concessions.

However, he ran into Zeng Tai, who had a tougher backstage, and he was still a good guy, and now the two sides were like one back and forth, not giving an inch.

The two sides have disputes on almost all terms, but there are two biggest differences.

One is the 30 hectares of land. The Weaving and Dyeing Bureau hopes to concentrate it as much as possible, and divide it into three or five pieces at most, so that it is convenient to send people to manage it.

Zeng Tai said how is it possible, the source of the 30 hectares of land is confiscated hidden fields scattered in every county in the province.There must be as many as hundreds of places, how to concentrate them into three or five yuan?
When the matter got into trouble with the sixth child, His Royal Highness the King of Chu gave them the mud and let both parties take a step back. The Weaving and Dyeing Bureau should not be so demanding; Jiangxi Province should not just think about saving trouble, it must be replaced.

At least to ensure that the official fields in each county are concentrated together.It would be even better if the official land in neighboring counties could be connected as much as possible.

This one is settled.

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Another more troublesome point is the payment method. Jiangxi Province actually only wants copper coins, not banknotes!

The government of a province dared to refuse to accept the precious banknotes issued by the imperial court, which is simply out of line.Naturally, the Bureau of Weaving and Dyeing would not indulge them, and brought the complaint to Lao Liu.

"Zeng Tai! You are going too far! Jiangxi Chief Secretary is still not the government of Daming, and dare to reject Daming's precious banknotes!" The sixth child was also very angry when he heard this, and called Zeng Tai to him, and yelled at him.

Zeng Tai waited for His Highness to finish scolding, and then explained with a bitter face: "Your Highness, if this money is given to the lower officials, then I will definitely not say anything, but the problem is that this money is used to buy resettlement materials and directly pay the immigrants. , Those people will not be used to us."

"Why, will they reject it?" Zhu Zhen asked with a dark face.

"It's not impossible to reject it, but it's definitely not reluctance." Zeng Tai said with a wry smile: "And it must be discounted. At the current market price in Jiangxi, the consistent banknote can only be exchanged for [-] copper coins, and now it will be discounted by [-]%. It's really a shame."

"That's because His Highness helped to make patches and persuaded the emperor to implement free banknotes, which stabilized the value of the precious banknotes." Gu Yuanchen seized every opportunity to flatter the sixth son. "No one understands banknotes better than His Highness, and the value of treasured banknotes will rise back soon."

"I dare not talk nonsense." Zhu Zhen gave Gu Yuanchen a white look.

Although the people have no choice but to use banknotes because of deflation.However, after the banknote law collapsed at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the common people were always in fear of precious banknotes.Use it for use, but don't want to keep it.Instead, he tried every means to exchange the precious banknotes for copper coins and kept them at home.

There is a professional saying for this in later generations. It seems to be called "moon cake drives out cold skin"?
So in the long run, it is still a big trend that money is expensive and banknotes are cheap.

And what drives Zhu Zhen crazy is that the old thief's stingy character is simply the natural enemy of Baochao.Although Boss Zhu issued an decree on the one hand to announce free banknotes, but on the other hand, he did not allow the Bureau of Banknotes to invest too much new banknotes into the bank...

Because Boss Zhu found out that after the announcement of the free banknote rebate, the common people flocked to the banknotes with their precious banknotes in their hands. Many of the intact banknotes that were obviously only slightly stained and wrinkled and did not affect the use of them were all exchanged for new ones.

In an instant, the banknotes in the bank were replaced cleanly.The cost of printing banknotes is so high, Boss Zhu is not willing to part with it, so he stipulates that all treasured banknotes with "distinct characters and complete four corners" will not be considered stupid banknotes, and will not be dumped for free.

But there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, and the common people will rub the treasures that do not meet the conditions until they meet the standards before exchanging them...

Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he thought it was a malicious dumping of banknotes, so the amount of banknotes dumping should be strictly controlled, and there would be long queues in front of the warehouse every day.He thinks that those people who have "new" banknotes in their hands will find it troublesome and give up dumping the banknotes...

For this reason, Lao Zhu still blamed the sixth child a little bit, thinking that this kid is not in charge of the family and does not know how expensive he is, so he gave himself a bad idea.

In fact, in Zhu Zhen's view, this is just a normal manifestation of the people's lack of confidence in the court.They don't know how long this free dump will last, so they flock to it.Change the peace of mind first.

As long as the imperial court insists on "exchanging everything" for a period of time, at most a year and a half, the common people know that they can exchange banknotes at any time, so they will not be in a hurry to exchange them, and they will not worry about receiving old banknotes. This is the peak period of banknote exchange It's over.

As it is now, by controlling the amount of new banknotes in the bank to slow down the people's money dumping, it will only intensify the people's distrust of precious banknotes, and greatly reduce the effect of free banknotes...

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Baochao is in such an annoying situation right now.What's more, the amount of transaction between the two parties is so huge. There is a difference of 800 million yuan in the price of receiving money and receiving money. No one will do it.

It is understandable that Zeng Tai is unwilling to accept the treasure notes.

In fact, the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau insisted on paying with banknotes for the same reason.

"I don't understand. Just like His Highness said, how dare you refuse to accept the precious banknotes when you are a provincial government?" Gu Yuanchen flattered the horse's leg and quickly shifted his target.

"If it's the same as what you said, why do you insist on giving money instead of paying money?" Zeng Tai snarled.

"Because they are all the same, so I will pay whatever I want!" Gu Yuanchen quibbled.

"Then we want whatever we want!" Zeng Tai confronted him again...

"All right, all right, shut up!" Seeing that the two sides were arguing again in front of him, Lao Liu was furious.He really wanted to say that you should pay with food stamps.It's a pity that people in Jiangxi don't even recognize the small ticket he issued. The sixth child is purely thinking about peaches.

"Let's do it this way." Finally, Lao Liu angrily advised them: "The Weaving and Dyeing Bureau pays with half copper coins and half precious banknotes."

"Your Highness, this kind of thing can't be reconciled!" Zeng Tai was dissatisfied, because they would still have to discount three or four million guan.

"Your Highness has taken care of you enough, are you still not satisfied?" Gu Yuanchen said angrily, apparently also dissatisfied.

"What's the rush? Let me finish my sentence!" Zhu Zhen stared and said:

"Most of the money received by the Chief Secretary is spent! Buying seeds, farm tools, cattle, rations, etc., these businesses can be given priority to the inspection team!"

"Aha, Your Highness is such a good idea." Zeng Tai suddenly regained his spirits, and smiled at Gu Yuanchen: "Since you said that there is no problem with the treasure banknotes, then we will always use treasure banknotes to pay you!"

"You!" Gu Yuanchen was annoyed for a while, but he couldn't refute.If he said there was a problem with the treasure notes, how would he explain his insistence on paying the treasure notes?But if he just agreed, he would make the people below scold him to death later.

But he is an old man who has always been quick-witted.After a long pause, he choked out a sentence: "We want food stamps!"

"Food stamps?" Zeng Tai had heard of this thing, but had never seen it.

"Yes." Lao Liu's face is so realistic.How could treasure money be as important as his food stamps?
"Okay, as long as you promise to take as much as you want, you can use part of the food stamps instead." Zeng Tai still trusts the King of Chu. He believes that with him, these Suzhou guys dare not play tricks.

(End of this chapter)