Appoint me as a spy, but the contact person is actually the empress

Chapter 86 I know you are in a hurry, but don't be in a hurry

"What is inflation?"

Insufficient public trust and collusion between top and bottom, Jiang Ling can still understand the literal meaning, but she doesn't understand this inflation.

"Go back to your lord."

"Inflation has a simple meaning."

"For example, if there were only [-] people in the Great Wei Dynasty, they could produce [-] pancakes a year."

"Then the imperial court will issue [-] treasure notes, and one treasure note is worth one pancake, so that the common people can exchange one treasure note for one pancake."

"This is a reasonable thing, and the banknotes will not depreciate because of this, but will stabilize the value of the currency."

"But as the imperial court needs silver taels, issuing [-] treasure notes means that ten treasure notes can be exchanged for one pie."

"However, the face value of the banknotes cannot be changed, and the value of the goods cannot be depreciated. In this case, the currency begins to depreciate."

"Once the currency depreciates, the troubles it brings will be like a tsunami landslide, which will cause a chain reaction in an instant, and the most common is panic selling."

"For example, my lord, you sell cakes. At the beginning, you sold one piece of cake for one treasure note, but you found that more and more people bought cakes. Even a beggar had hundreds or thousands of treasure notes on hand. And when you go to buy cakes with treasure notes and find that you can’t buy them at all, what do you do?”

"Should we continue to sell at the original price, or simply not sell?"

Xu Shouyun gave an inappropriate analogy. After all, he was explaining finance to the ancients, so the analogy is very troublesome.

"Understood. Inflation means that once the banknotes are issued in abundance, the common people will not recognize them, so the value of the banknotes will become lower and lower, and finally turn into waste paper?"

Jiang Ling was not stupid, and instantly understood the truth.

"exactly."

Xu Shouyun nodded.

If you really talk about inflation, you can talk about it for three days and three nights, but the principle is very simple.

Currency is worthless because the 'gold standard' or 'silver standard' gives currency value, and with long-term development, national credit is also included in the currency value.

Issuing currency is not a difficult task, a three-year-old child can do it.

Isn’t the leave note just a certain currency, some big companies have all the leave notes, and whoever has a good performance this month will issue two leave notes, exempting you from full attendance.

To put it bluntly, the little red flower at school is also a currency in a sense, and whoever has more little red flowers can exchange for fairy tale books.

With the help of this gadget, improve everyone's enthusiasm, read books honestly, sleep when you are told to sleep, and sweep the floor if you are asked to sweep the floor, be good.

But what is really difficult?
The hard part is 'currency stability'.

If the distribution right is in the hands of individuals, wouldn't that be a mess?Printing without money, who will perish if the country does not perish?
"It's very simple. The Great Wei Academy of Arts controls the right to print banknotes, and prints according to the current situation of the Great Wei."

Jiang Ling looked very calm, she thought it was some kind of trouble, so that was it.

"grown ups."

"It's useless to let anyone come. Once the currency is issued, it's like a flood bursting its embankment, and it can't be stopped."

Xu Shouyun shook his head, this idea is too naive.

"You look down on the Great Wei Wenyuan too much."

Jiang Ling couldn't help but refute.

"Forgive me for speaking bluntly, it is because the adults think too highly of the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, and also think too highly of the Great Wei Empress."

Xu Shouyun bowed his head, he didn't want to fight at first.

But the matter is so big, if you really follow the leader's words, if you don't get things done, you will be the one who is unlucky, so you can just talk about the matter, if you really want to put yourself in small shoes because of this kind of thing, then Xu Shouyun can't help it.

"Empress Wei?"

Jiang Ling couldn't understand it now, why did it come to him again?
"My lord, think about it."

"Where is there no shortage of money in the six departments? It is said that the control is strict, how strict?"

"Let's talk about each department, assuming you are the emperor."

"The official department came to look for you. The salary of officials in the Great Wei Dynasty is extremely low. Now that you have money, do you want to increase your salary? Do you agree or not?"

Xu Shouyun asked.

"Agreed." Jiang Ling thought for a while, then nodded. It is also a good thing to increase the salaries of hundreds of officials, at least it can keep the bottom line of Qingliu.

"Okay, 5000 million taels of silver a year is gone."

Xu Shouyun spoke up, and Jiang Ling immediately stopped after saying this: "5000 million taels of silver? Why do you need so much? I definitely don't agree to that."

"My lord, it's really not your turn not to agree. I've just looked through it. There are 49 officials registered in the Great Wei."

"According to the average salary of these 49 officials, the annual expenditure is about 60 taels per person. After all, this is an increase in salary. One hundred taels per person is not too much, and 5000 million taels is not too much. This is because the Minister of the Ministry of Officials is not dark."

"If the heart is darker, and the court has money, do you want to adjust the firewood, rice, oil and salt for the holidays?"

"To tell the truth, if I were the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, I would be sorry for my status if I said less than 8000 million taels of silver."

Xu Shouyun is very pragmatic, don't mess with this and that, so many people eat with him, if he doesn't get some benefits back, how will he mess around in the future.

"You keep talking."

Jiang Ling nodded.

"The Ministry of Officials is going to leave 5000 million taels, and the Ministry of Punishment wants 3000 million taels, isn't it too much?"

Xu Shouyun spoke up.

"What does the Ministry of Punishment want for 3000 million taels?" Jiang Ling frowned. You said that the Ministry of Officials at least raised the salaries of hundreds of officials.

"The Ministry of Punishment is in charge of all the criminal cases of Great Wei. The manpower and material resources needed are not a small amount. What's more, the Ministry of Officials took 5000 million taels of silver. Explain below."

"To put it bluntly, the people who work in the Ministry of Criminal Justice will not do some criminal things if they are paid enough money and have a good life when they go down."

"If life is poor and you go thousands of miles away to handle a case, and a rich man comes to your door and gives you 3000 taels of silver to ask this lord to help you, will this lord help you or not?"

"So the Ministry of Punishment wants to give it instead. After all, it represents the laws of the Great Wei. No one can suffer from the Ministry of Punishment. Can you give the 3000 million taels?"

What Xu Shouyun said was also very reasonable.

"Give it."

Jiang Ling sighed, agreeing with these words.

"Okay, the Ministry of Punishment gave 3000 million taels, and the Ministry of Rites wants [-] million taels, isn't it too much?"

Xu Shouyun continued to speak, but as soon as he said this, Jiang Ling's voice sounded.

"what?"

"Your Ministry of Rites wants ten million taels? Why?"

Jiang Ling's voice was louder, and his eyes were full of displeasure.

You say the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Punishment needs so much, so what is your Ministry of Rites?Another ten million taels of silver?
Go grab it.

"Don't worry, my lord."

Xu Shouyun knew that the other party was in a hurry, but don't worry yet.

"The Empress Dowager's birthday is approaching, and all countries are visiting. Now that the court has money, do you want to show the spirit of a big country? Do you want to spend money?"

"Due to the emptiness of the national treasury, the scholars have not distributed money and silver for several years in a row, which is not conducive to the development of the country, especially when it comes to the national fortune. Do you want to give sweetness to these scholars?"

"Big Wei's group of scholars combined is much larger than the number of officials. The average expenditure per person is five taels of silver, and the sum may be tens of millions of taels of silver."

"In addition to miscellaneous expenses, ten million taels of silver is not excessive. Of course, if you feel inappropriate, you can do less, 8000 million taels."

What Xu Shouyun said made Jiang Ling very upset.

"Then why don't you tell me?"

Jiang Ling lost his temper.

"No? It's too simple if you don't. In three days, all the scholars in Wei Dynasty will start writing small essays."

"When the imperial court has money, it raises the salaries of officials as soon as possible, but forgets that they are poor scholars. This kind of country doesn't matter."

"My lord, how do you think His Majesty will deal with this kind of gossip?"

Xu Shouyun wasn't talking nonsense, but was stating the facts.

At this moment, Jiang Ling was numb.

(End of this chapter)