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Chapter 149 Emergency Measures

After seeing off Wang Bowen, Xu Ping and Wang Yaochen returned to the Houya Flower Hall to cook the fire.

After roasting her body warmed up, Wang Yaochen said: "Yunxing, have you noticed that Deputy Envoy Wang is not very interested in your money house rules booklet, it seems to be just for handing in the form of a dealer."

Xu Ping smiled and said, "It's normal. If I encounter such a thing, I can only do this. The people in Sansi are not familiar with the money shop. It is impossible to implement it with a booklet. Not implementing the money shop system is nothing more than the trouble now. If the money shop system is implemented, it may cause even greater trouble. What do you think they will do?"

"Then why did he run to Xijing? I have also seen it as Deputy Envoy Wang arrived at the Yong'an Imperial Tomb these days. The so-called worship of the imperial tomb is just an excuse. He should have come for this booklet."

Xu Ping was silent for a while and sighed: "Because now that cotton cloth is on the market, Henan Prefecture's flying tickets cannot be exchanged, and a lot of troubles are pressed on Sansi. Chen Zhizhong should have known that there is no immediate solution to the problem. He could not let it go while sitting in the seat of Sansi envoy, so he asked Wang Bowen to use me and Jingxi Road to block others' mouths."

Emperor Zhao Zhen gave Chen Zhizhong the task of maintaining success and protecting Xu Ping's reform achievements that year. Of course, Chen Zhizhong would not make major changes. He would push the problems he encountered, and would delay them if he could. Zhao Zhen, Xu Ping, Chen Zhizhong knew this clearly, but outsiders would not know it. Therefore, when Wang Bowen came to Xijing, Xu Ping cooperated with him and gave him a booklet that was as detailed as possible. Chen Zhizhong could push the responsibilities and let the officials of the Zhengshi Hall get headaches.

But on the other hand, Xu Ping was also annoyed by Chen Zhizhong's complete inaction. He could ignore the problem completely, but it was what he should do to mitigate the crisis. Xu Ping wanted to squeeze silk out of the currency circulation field and prepare for future financial reforms, and this time there was a crisis inevitable. In this case, Chen Zhizhong should also help Xu Ping and let the silk in the official hand push the silk to the market to add fuel? Chen Zhizhong is from a noble family, and his father Chen Shu is the minister in charge of finance for the longest time. He said that he did not understand these things. In this case, the three departments should come forward to restrict the flow of silk in the official hand, and use gold and silver to purchase silk when necessary, minimize the impact of the changes in the currency system and achieve a soft landing. Even if the impact of this change is only two or three years later, all parties can free up their hands, and the situation is very different.

The art of chanting was just a name in the Northern Song Dynasty, which only means the official adjustment measures for various currencies. The theory of real popularity and becoming the guiding principle of currency must wait until the Southern Song Dynasty’s paper money is fully used. The earliest system was proposed and implemented by Shen Gai during the Shaoxing period. In that era, Emperor Gaozong of Song Zhao Gou was determined to use a million yuan capital to stabilize paper money. The stability of currency was crucial to the economy. As the three envoys, Chen Zhizhong could not know this truth.

Social existence determines social consciousness, theory must be linked to practice, and only theory rooted in practice is meaningful. The world has not deviated from reality and is always correct for thousands of years. The economic reality of this era determines the monetary theory of this era. The art of citation was developed to address the fact that paper money was just a supplement to copper coins in this era, ensuring that although there were various problems with paper money in the Southern Song Dynasty and frequent vicious inflation, it did not collapse. Later, the situation faced by the Yuan and Ming dynasties was much stronger than that of the Southern Song Dynasty, but the paper money policy failed very much and eventually collapsed completely.

As long as the banking system has not been established, the financial theories learned in Xu Ping’s previous life will be useless, and they are far less effective than the art of raising the word in this era. If you really take out the theories in his previous life, you will not only not convince others, but you will also be in trouble in practice. Theories must reflect reality before they can guide practice.

The crisis we are facing now is not a theoretical problem, but a problem with Chen Zhizhong, which intensified the situation.

These complex relationships in the court are not what Wang Yaochen now knows. After listening to Xu Ping's words, he remained silent for a while and stopped talking about this topic.

The small ice particles outside slowly turned into snowflakes, and before I knew it, the first snow of this year came.

Looking out the window, Wang Yaochen said, "It's snowing, the weather is getting colder, and the cotton coats in the business are sold, and Xijing City will be lively for a while. But now the world is short of money, and I don't know if there will be a good business like cotton."

"The people of Jingxi Road are not short of money now. At least the road can be sold well. As for the outside road, let's leave it for the future."

Wang Yaochen smiled and said, "Actually, the cotton cloth business has absorbed money from the foreign country's prefectures and troops to Jingxi Road. The people have a lot of money in their hands. What they lack now are the governments of various prefectures and counties, and the various yamen in Xijing City. What you owe me, I owe him, and he owe you, making a mess. Yunxing, it is not possible to continue like this, and you still have to find a way."

Xu Ping said: "The army outside the country will not care about it. It is best for Chen Zhizhong to wake up and stabilize the price of silk. Even if it falls to half of the original price, as long as it is stabilized and does not continue to fall, it is not a major event. If our Jingxi Road is really not good, we have to issue invoices from the money house first, and use unhealthy flying tickets to make the book, so that the three departments can be used as insurance, and it will be difficult to talk about it before we get through the difficult things in front of us."

Wang Yaochen asked in confusion: "Is this OK? The bills are false after all, and they cannot be really used as money."

"It's okay if you can't. If you have the capital and have three departments as a guarantee, you can barely use it as money. As long as it is used between the government offices and the offices of Xijing City, there will be no trouble. Please help me for the time being."

If you cannot repay the flying tickets in Henan Prefecture, what Jingxi Road lacks is payment methods, and it is limited to the official yamen and business, which does not affect people's livelihood, but affects the economic operation in the coming year. The triangular bonds cannot be removed, and everything will be urgent. If you lack working capital, you will still be short of production. The actual economic chain is broken. The Transportation Office comes to issue money bank notes, as long as it is guaranteed to be only a proof of wealth and circulation within a limited range will not affect people's livelihood. With this payment method, each yamen can prepare for production in the coming year and will not experience an economic depression.
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