Chapter 1054: The benefit of the country
Montage is an act that symbolizes state authority, and naturally only the court can do it, although the Ming court did very unqualified in the matter of minting coins and making money.
If the Sanjiang system wants to do something similar, it is too easy for people to be charged with it, so it needs to be adapted and find another way to blur the past.
First of all, the word "coin" cannot be used, but this is also simple. Wang Tong initially planned to use the unit of "liang", half a tael of silver, one tael of silver, five taels of silver and ten taels of silver, two taels of gold, five taels of gold and ten taels of gold.
Money, two, this is the only one that is used. However, because of different provinces, different measurement objects, and even different measurement institutions, there are countless different types of "two" and "jin" of different specifications." What is more ridiculous is that the units of measurement of the national capital and the Hushan State are different.
Of course, everyone understands that the less clear the unit of measurement, the more opportunities the parties will have to do, but Wang Tong cannot do this. Moreover, the exchange ratios between gold and silver and gold and copper coins set by the official are all fixed, so there are too many opportunities to take advantage of loopholes. Now, because of the Xingwangda of Tianjin Wei and Songjiang Prefecture, as well as several commercial communal communications in the north, gold and silver sneak into the Ming Dynasty in large quantities. In fact, the price of gold and silver is constantly falling. If you still follow the original ratio, it would be a joke.
Wang Tong first set a unified unit of measurement, and then used this unit of measurement as the basis to start minting coins. Other places cannot control it. It can still be done if it is unified in the Sanjiang system first.
Tianjin Wei Jiangfang was the first to use hydraulic machinery in the Ming Dynasty. Over the years, many Ming craftsmen have been reluctant to accept the Western practice of numerical accuracy and everything has fixed specifications. They have gotten used to this rule and have received rich rewards in the Sanjiang system. The enthusiasm of the smart and talented Ming craftsmen was aroused and immediately burst out with the energy of creation.
Hydraulic machinery has been greatly improved compared to ten years ago. Whether in terms of structure or details, the merchant ships from Portugal and the Netherlands traveled between the Ming and Europe. Several merchants got rich because of the Wei Cai family in Tianjin. They also had a task to regularly bring European machinery and knowledge from all aspects to the Ming Dynasty. Over the years, many European craftsmen have come from Europe. All major European countries are fighting. However, this prosperous East has great attraction. Whether it is Arabia, India, or South China, they are too backward, but the Ming Dynasty is very advanced than the European level.
According to the craftsmen who came and the crew who were traveling back and forth, the manufacturing industry in Tianjin and Wei is more advanced in technology than in Europe.
With such a technical basis, coins can be minted. There are raised edges around the coins, and the front is the two regular scripts "Sanjiang" and the capitalized coins. The back is the four small characters "Loyalty to the Lord and serve the country" and the Arabic numerals designed by Wang Tong himself.
In name, these are all circulated in the Three Rivers, so there is no need to be too complicated in the word "Father" and as clear as possible to achieve the unity of the weight of the money.
The exchange of gold coins and gold coins, silver coins and gold coins themselves is easy to say. The exchange of gold and silver and copper coins is different from each month in the current situation. It is necessary to set an official price comparison within the Sanjiang system and timely distribution.
At present, the intersection of large amounts of gold and silver in the world is nothing more than Beijing, Tianjin and Jiangnan, and Tianjin Wei and Songjiang are the leading places of these two places.
If you know the price comparison changes in these two places, you can formulate a relatively accurate exchange rate as the benchmark number within Sanjiang Commercial Bank.
However, it is indeed not easy to quickly deliver messages thousands of miles apart from Tianjin Wei and Songjiang Prefecture. Wang Tong used a stupid method to set up a station of Sanjiang Commercial Bank along the way to quickly deliver messages. A station is set up every few dozen miles, and the station is equipped with horses. The message is delivered on the station, day and night. If there are no natural disasters on the road, you can arrive within ten days.
How many stations should be set up along the way, how many people should be managed, how many horses should be raised, and how much wages and forages for people are really expensive, but now the Sanjiang system is also a big business, and this consumption is nothing compared to the loss caused by the exchange rate.
The machinery, venue and personnel for minting coins must be prepared again, and the Dashan Fen must be moved from Tianjin Wei. This matter is of great significance. To be on the safe side, Wang Tong must put this by his side and manage it nearby.
No matter how you look at it, this time the coin is a loss of money, and a lot of money is required to be posted. When Sanjiang system delivered this letter, it also mentioned that using money tickets within a wider range can solve this problem. Wang Tong still has to work hard to mint coins.
The minting of coins is of great significance. The explosive development of industry and commerce in the Ming Dynasty, with Tianjin Wei Kaihai as the end, has expanded rapidly. The privately cast copper coins of the sea owner and Japan can no longer satisfy the needs of honor. Of course, it is indeed ironic to say this.
Although Wang Tong's coins are only circulated within the Sanjiang system, for the sake of his own convenience, in the current situation, when he started, the gold and silver coins on the shelves of standard weight and quality will immediately become one of the circulating currencies. Moreover, the Sanjiang system network is everywhere. I don't know how many people in the world rely on this system to live in wealth and life. They will naturally get used to using these gold and silver coins from Sanjiang.
The foreseeable future is not even a hundred years later, ten or twenty years, or even shorter, such coins will be accompanied by cities with a slightly larger scale in the Ming Dynasty. Industry and businessmen and wealthy people will also be used to this kind of coins because it is much more convenient than the current copper coins.
To achieve this is equivalent to mastering the financial system of the Ming Dynasty and mastering the upper structure of the Ming Dynasty's industry and commerce. The Sanjiang system was originally a giant with absolute advantages in the Ming Dynasty. If this system is available, what it means is self-evident.
And if they can do this, the fathers and eunuchs in the court will not even be afraid of suspicion. They do not have this knowledge or even say that they do not have this consciousness and they do not understand this aspect at all. If they understand, they will not be seriously lacking in coins until now. To make privately minted coins popular, one by one, by the way, privately minted coins are better than those made by officials.
To be more detailed, mastering the finance of the Ming Dynasty and the upper structure of the Ming Dynasty's industry and commerce are of great significance. The coin itself will also be of great profit in the long run.
Half a tael of silver, one tael of silver to ten taels of gold. After this coin is established, the value of the coin material itself will be diluted. The value of the coin printed on the coin is its value. In other words, when the credit is established, gold and silver coins may not be minted with sufficient amount of gold and silver, and can be mixed with a certain ratio of other metals. However, with the credit of the Sanjiang system, even if there are only three taels of gold, it can still be traded as five taels of gold. The difference between a coin, think about how many coins Sanjiang Bank wants to mint, and how big the total amount of the difference will be.
As for the establishment of credit, this is not a problem for the Sanjiang system. There is too much gold and silver in his hand, enough to deal with any degree of exchange and transaction.
These are not something that can be done in a day, and it is a blessing to be done within one or two years. However, money and silver bills can be handled first, which is relatively simple.
The head office of Sanjiang Bank is located next to the mansion of Liao Guogong of Songjiang Prefecture. People in the Sanjiang system are used to calling Sanjiang Head Office. Although this title is abbreviation, it also shows the status of Sanjiang Bank. The original situation of independent industries in Sanjiang, including commercial banks, money houses, insurance banks, ship shops, craftsmen, etc. is over. Next, they are headed by Sanjiang Bank, which is a veritable head office.
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There were many news from the capital. What attracted Wang Tong the most attention was that Emperor Wanli reopened the Huwei Martial Arts Hall, and everything was carried out according to Wang Tong's rules back then. He selected the young men from Xuanfu, Jingjun and Jizhen to train with the emperor. But this was not the time, and Emperor Wanli didn't have much time to be with the young men. He just went there once at the beginning of school and once again in a few days. This was to bring the relationship closer. I guess he would have to go there once when he graduated.
As for instructors, the imperial guards and the military eunuchs in the inner court were naturally chosen, but the Huwei Army's combat power was unparalleled in the world, so they would not let it go. It is said that Han Gang, Li Hutou, and Ma Sanbiao were both selected as instructors and took turns to give lectures.
It is estimated that when these young generals graduate, they will be arranged to be among the imperial guards, the Beijing camp and the Huwei Army. However, with such training and such contact, it is hard to say how many people's hearts can be captured by Emperor Wanli.
All the Huwei Army regiments had been sent out. According to the plan proposed by Wang Tong before leaving, each regiment was expanded locally, and then reformed the border towns, retaining the elite model soldiers in the hands of the governors and generals, and the rest were transformed into households, so that they could become the tenants and long-term workers of the generals reasonably.
This policy actually has great benefits for the senior figures in the border town system, which is considered to be a pacification of the reform military town. However, there are those who have benefited and those who have been damaged. The warriors cannot swallow their anger. If there are few losses, they will inevitably make trouble. If such troubles are put in the past, they will generally cause rebellions in the local area and make as big as possible, or they will rush outside the border wall and collude with the Tartars to cause trouble for the Ming Dynasty.
In this situation, it is impossible to go outside. What other Tartars on the grassland are already the territory of the Ming Dynasty, so they have launched rebellions and chaos in the local area. The governors and governors everywhere are not very enthusiastic about the reform of border towns advocated by Wang Tong. They also have rich benefits in the current system of border towns. Once the reform is made, the generals and generals are not bad, but they are missing a lot out of thin air. How could they be willing? When they see such a scene, they all report impeachment one after another, and for a moment they feel a little panic.
Wang Tong's estimate of this matter was very comprehensive, otherwise he would not have been relieved to go to the island to "vacate" for a few months. The facts proved that his judgment was correct.
Li Tao is in Shaanxi, Tan Bing is in Shanxi, and Sun Xin is in Ningxia. The merchants in Shanxi are extremely powerful, and they have close ties with the merchants in the border towns. Before the officers and soldiers even went to wipe out and attack, they collapsed first. Otherwise, they would be defeated by the local merchants and tyrants, and there would be no chance of expansion. As for Ningxia, the biggest one in Ningxia is the Xiao family. The Xiao family has been moved to Guihua City now, and the rest cannot be brought up. There are two places that have just made trouble. One place, Sun Xin led his troops to wipe out, and the other place is directly won by the business bank, and the business bank's guards went to clean up.
The more troublesome one is Li Tao’s side. Among the three sides of Shaanxi and the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, there are three border towns in Shaanxi, Guyuan, Yannei and Yulin. Shaanxi is also a self-contained place, and its forces are mixed, because this incident has really started to make trouble one after another.
Compared with Shanxi and Ningxia, Li Tao can get very little support in Shaanxi and is relatively difficult. However, it was not unreasonable to place Li Tao in Shaanxi at that time. Although Li Tao is not old, he is extremely cruel and decisive in his work. He led the elite troops of the Huwei Army.
Around the end of the year, he led his army to fight four times along the border wall for ten days, quelling the rebellion in succession, killing almost 3,000 heads, and more than 20 villages were razed to the ground. The villagers in the villages were moved to the inner six, and the situation in Shaanxi was settled in an instant. Shaanxi had been peaceful for a long time. I haven't seen so many people die and shed so much blood. Everyone was terrified and settled down.
Wang Tong had a private judgment on Li Tao. Li Tao was the coldest among the generals of the Huwei Army, and his pursuit of power was incomparable to others. He finally had the opportunity to leave the battlefield, so he would definitely not ruin this opportunity.
But Shaanxi is also bigger than other places, and the situation is more complicated. The rules of three regiments in each place are obviously not suitable. There have been rumors in the court that it is to turn Shaanxi's imperial guards into four regiments.
The opening of Liaoning has been underway, but the ones who have the greatest opinions on Liaoning are local officials in Henan and Huguang. The written lawsuit has been fought for more than three months. Liaoning and Beizhili, Beijing and Tianjin are the same faction, Henan and Huguang are the same faction, and Shandong are inclined to Henan and Huguang.
The reason is very simple. Most of the people recruited from the pioneers outside Liaoning and Liaoning are poor people from these two places, and there are also many in Shandong.
Chapter completed!