Chongzhen Chat Group

Judging from the member column of the elementary group, the people who joined this time include men, women, old and young, poor and rich. There is even a person whose name is written "Ba Thein Tin". Hu Guang saw that the English didn't look like English and the pinyin didn't look like pinyin, so he had to spend his achievement points and click the translate button, and the name was displayed as "Badending".

"..." Hu Guang was speechless. There seemed to be no difference between whether it was translated or not. He still didn't know the specific situation. He wanted to ask directly, but looking at the speed of the screen in the chat area, after thinking about it, he decided to forget it and wait until their madness stopped.

Suddenly, something moved in his mind, so he clicked on Ma Fugui's icon and found that the private chat button was available. In addition, under the private chat button, another gray button appeared, which turned out to be "forbidden".

awesome! Hu Guang couldn't help but make a comment in his mind, then switched to Hauge's icon and clicked the private chat button. Just when he was about to say hello to "Little Boar Skin", he heard the system prompt.

"Ding, the system prompts, does the host need to spend 5 achievement points to initiate a private chat?"

"..." Hu Guang was speechless. He didn't expect that this private chat function would be charged. Forget it, the wild boar skin seems to mean praising him in Manchu, so there is no need to spend the achievement points.

However, he quickly thought of a question. Since this private chat consumes achievement points, does that mean that members cannot initiate private chats?

With this in mind, he tried to ask the system to see if there was an answer. Unexpectedly, this time, the system actually has the answer: "When the host admires a certain member or is more than satisfied with a certain member, the other party will receive achievement points, which can be used for consumption within this system."

Upon hearing this, Hu Guang felt relieved, this is good. People like Hao Ge, Ma Fugui and Qian Fugui should not even think about chatting privately.

While he was thinking, he suddenly saw Wen Tiren's icon shaking. He works alone in a working group. No one in the group refreshes the screen, and he is not affected by the new function. If he wants to speak, he must speak to the emperor.

Hu Guang thought so, then he switched over and saw that it was Wen Tiren who was paying New Year greetings.

He immediately smiled and said: "I am poor and can't afford a red envelope!"

The sound was converted into text display, and Hu Guang suddenly discovered that words cannot express emotions like language. No wonder the system has to enable emoticons at the same time.

So, he clicked on the emoticons and sent a smiling face.

Wen Tiren was a little slow for a while, and then he also replied with a smiley face.

When Hu Guang saw it, he couldn't help but secretly praise: "As expected of the first assistant, he actually knows how to use emoticons right away."

At this time, a line of text appeared: Your Majesty, the Ministry of Revenue's 620,000 taels of silver have only been exchanged for about 15,000 taels. Moreover, the total number of soldiers in the capital camp and other troops in the capital city was only about 110,000 taels. I think it’s better to print another 490,000 taels of banknotes, so you don’t have to worry about cashing them out, okay? "

When Hu Guang heard this, he nodded at first, but then came back to his senses, shook his head immediately, and said to Wen Tiren: "No, in the early stage of the issuance of banknotes, credibility is the most important. Although as Wen Qing said, the soldiers of King Qin's army who accounted for the majority have returned. In the original residence, there will be no cash run for the time being. But if the imperial court prints nearly 500,000 taels of banknotes again, and there is no news that the imperial court has new income of so much silver, this kind of news will inevitably have a negative impact on the credibility of the banknotes. Influence."

Speaking of this, Hu Guang emphasized: "Although the imperial court is in urgent need of money, we still have to forget about it!!"

At this time, he felt that there were many flaws in the text, at least his tone and attitude could not be conveyed in real time, so he had to add an extra exclamation mark.

"Your Majesty is wise, I understand!" Wen Tiren replied immediately without pausing this time.

If the credibility of Ming Dynasty banknotes has been established, Wen Tiren's idea can be considered. Historically, this is also an inevitable process.

That is, after the silver standard is established, if the silver reserves are not enough at a certain stage, it will naturally transition to the silver bullion standard. The so-called silver bullion standard means that complete exchange is no longer allowed, but exchange is restricted. Of course, the mainstream in history has been the gold standard to the gold nugget standard.

Later, or repeatedly, it returned to the silver standard, then to the silver bullion standard, and finally gradually transitioned to the exchange rate standard and the credit standard.

In fact, among these systems, it is impossible to say who is better than the other. We can only say which standard system is more suitable at a certain period, because all have their shortcomings.

This knowledge is probably only known to myself in this plane. Hu Guang thought to himself, it seems that he still has to grasp this piece by himself.

Thinking of this, Hu Guang immediately remembered the most important thing, which was the food issue.

To be honest, at this stage, no, in this era, nothing is more important than food!

On a more personal note, the post-war capital is in urgent need of food; as well as Shaanxi and Gansu, after the New Year, piles of official documents and reports will fly to the imperial court like snowflakes, right? Among them, the most critical one is definitely the food issue. In the southwest, the Tusi Rebellion has not been completely settled, and food is also needed...

Broadly speaking, the whole world is in the Little Ice Age, and it will be at least twenty years away. During this period, natural disasters were more severe than before, and the biggest impact was the food problem.

Thinking of this, Hu Guang remembered what Liu Xingzuo had reported at almost noon today, and couldn't help but feel a little irritated.

If there is no food to be adjusted in the surrounding provinces, the food control that I have set before will cause a large number of people to starve to death in the capital. By that time, what was originally a matter of saving the people of Yongping had become a ridiculous strategy that was greatly hated by the capital.

If that happens, the capital will be in chaos. And if the capital is in chaos, let alone reviving the Ming Dynasty, whether he can keep his throne and his life is a question.

But if Hu Guang were to disregard the lives of the surrounding people and force his subordinates to rob the people of the surrounding provinces of their food rations, then the provinces surrounding the capital would inevitably break out in turmoil like the one in Shaanxi. At that time, although the capital side was temporarily saved, there is a question mark as to whether the capital can be saved in the final result!

Thinking of this, Hu Guang could no longer sit still. The food problem must not be solved until it breaks out. If so, it will be too late!

At this moment, I suddenly heard a surprise from Queen Zhou: "Your Majesty, the New Year is here! I wish your Majesty a happy New Year and all the best!"

The wheel of history is rolling forward, and the third year of Chongzhen has arrived!

The monthly ticket is 50 more, and one chapter will be added, so there will be a total of three chapters due, which will be updated later.