Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

There was an institution called Shaofu in the Great Han Dynasty, and it was considered abandoned when it came to the puppet Yuan Dynasty. Naturally, the Great Ming Dynasty did not set up this institution again.

However, Emperor Chongzhen once again set up this institution to take charge of matters related to people's livelihood, such as salt administration.

It is equivalent to a state-owned enterprise that later generations will go to Yangma to cry for help when they have nothing to do.

Of course, the Shaofu in the Ming Dynasty is not exactly the same as the Shaofu in the Qin and Han Dynasties and the state-owned enterprises in later generations.

The Shaofu in the Qin and Han Dynasties had two functions. One was responsible for collecting taxes on mountains, seas, pools and lakes and collecting local contributions for the use of the court;

Many state-owned enterprises in later generations are really troubled.For example, if you can't move and you can't connect, they are all under the control of the evil mother-in-law of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and you have nothing to say.

The Ming version of Shaofu combined these two parts into one.

To put it simply, it is necessary to engage in money-losing things like salt administration and money-making things like perfume.

If the demand for things like salt is not very high, or if the common people are not sensitive enough to this price, rumors of the remaining perfume and other messy Shaofu franchised things will also spread, but if you really want It's dead.

The wives and concubines of many wealthy families in the capital have discovered that the price of perfume has increased. It was already expensive, but now it is even more expensive.

If this goes on like this, if you can't afford perfume, how can you get the favor of your master?Without grace, how would you live this day?

As for those wealthy businessmen who are constantly entangled with the official masters, they are very anxious.

The decision to recycle the fire consumption has already been made, and the matter of the treasure banknote is also a certainty, but the treasure banknote has never been seen. When the business tax is due to be paid one day, the fire consumption will be fatal.

The tax of one or two taels of silver is a waste of money, but who the big guy only pays one or two taels of silver every month?Who doesn't pay taxes of several hundred taels, thousands of taels, or even tens of thousands of taels?

It doesn't look like much fire consumption for a month, but what about a year?

The white money has lost a lot of money inexplicably, and my heart hurts!

However, what is so frustrating is that until the ninth year of Chongzhen, this new treasure was still only heard and disappeared.

It wasn't until the New Year of Chongzhen's tenth year, when Emperor Chongzhen rewarded his ministers, that Chongzhen treasure banknotes came out after a long wait, and were rewarded by Emperor Chongzhen to some courtiers.

Then?There is nothing after that.

No treasure banknotes were issued, nor were there any folks. As for the ministers who got the treasure banknotes, they planned to spend these treasure banknotes at the very beginning, but they gave up this idea after they got them.

Even a fool can see that Emperor Chongzhen will definitely issue this thing in the future, and the ones in his hands can be said to be the first batch. The number Ming Chongzhen Nine Years Jia XXXX on the banknote alone means that it is The first batch.

For such a precious banknote, don't you take it home and give it up or spend it?Stupid isn't it?

Then Emperor Chongzhen looked at Manchu's civil and military coquettish operations with a dazed expression, and could only express a capitalized service.

Starting to play collection now?

But after thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen was also relieved.

Youdao is the golden age of antiques and troubled times. Daming, which lasted for more than 200 years and nearly 300 years, should be regarded as a small prosperous age. Although natural disasters are always constant, the trend of playing antiques and collecting them has already risen.

Even his mother's collection of books in the palace was inexplicably passed by a large part of the ministers, and Jin Yiwei is still tracking down the whereabouts of these books.

Then Emperor Chongzhen also became ruthless, planning to exchange all the treasure notes issued during and before Zhengde.

Equivalent exchange, you can exchange one tael of silver with the usual treasure notes.

For this reason, Emperor Chongzhen also specially took out 3000 million taels of silver to be used as a reserve fund.

There is only one purpose, no matter what, the credit of Baochao must be hyped back.

However, what surprised Emperor Chongzhen was that after the folks exchanged less than 500 million taels of treasure banknotes at first, no one exchanged them anymore.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Guo Yunhou with a dark face: "Didn't Guo Aiqing say that the exchange of treasure notes used to cost about 3000 million taels? Now it is less than 500 million taels. Why?"

Guo Yunhou also had a bewildered expression.

According to the inspection by the Ministry of Households, the treasure banknotes issued from the Zhenghongwu period to the Zhengde period were not to mention 3000 million taels, even 30 taels.

Even if it was damaged in various ways and was wiped by someone, the rest would have to cost 3000 to [-] million taels to get them all back.

Moreover, after it has been declared that these precious banknotes can no longer be circulated, who would the common people want to keep these waste papers?

In short, there is a strangeness everywhere in the issuance of treasure notes this time.

Seeing that Guo Yunhou was speechless, Emperor Chongzhen simply ordered Wang Chengen: "Let the Tianergeng Ministry find out the reason."

No, you have to figure out the matter of Baochao, the matter of 500 million taels is too damn evil, don't someone hold it back, right?

After all, it is only normal for the nobles in the capital to have tens of millions of taels in their hands. Wouldn't these people be exchanged for silver?

But the news of Jin Yiwei's return made Emperor Chongzhen even more distressed-most of them had been wiped away, and they were gone.

As for the rest, the big guys have them in their hands, but if they don't exchange them, they plan to pass them on from father to son and from generation to generation.

The principle that things are rare is more expensive, and these nobles in the Ming Dynasty played more sneaky than later generations-now the folks don’t have this thing, and the court wants to take it back and burn it uniformly. What does this mean?

It means that the previous treasure banknotes will be extinct and will never be found again.

Although it is said that this thing is not very valuable now, who can say what will happen in the future?As long as the Great Ming is not destroyed, this thing will be worth money sooner or later, right?

Now one tael of silver and want to take back the treasure notes that have always been face value?Pooh!

Emperor Chongzhen was helpless, he could only admire the people of Ming Dynasty for being able to play -- the concept of collection wouldn't be hyped up by these bastards now, would it?

At the same time, Tian Ergeng also reported another piece of news - the folks are not very enthusiastic about the issuance of Chongzhen treasure banknotes, but merchants large and small in the capital are eagerly waiting for the release of Chongzhen treasure banknotes.

After asking Guo Yunhou, Emperor Chongzhen finally decided to issue 1000 million taels of treasure banknotes first-there are more than 3000 million taels of silver in the treasury, just enough to take out 1000 million taels to issue those banknotes in the capital, or Bank outlets.

Thanks to the blessing of Emperor Chongzhen who studied at the Traverser Training Center, a new policy came out that made merchants in Daming feel sick or felt that there was no room for them to exploit.

In the so-called bank outlets, exchanging banknotes and silver also requires additional fire consumption.

That is to say, one tael of silver can be exchanged for treasure banknotes of the same denomination, and the exchange of treasure banknotes of the same denomination for silver will cost five cents.

Many merchants who first came to line up to see if they could exchange it gritted their teeth and stomped their feet, I won’t change it anymore!

Merchants have their own plans - now treasure banknotes and silver are of equal value in the government, so there is not too much room to exploit!

How to take advantage of this loophole?

Lao Tzu accepts money normally, can I use these precious banknotes in my hand to pay taxes?

In this way, wouldn't the money still fall into his own hands?Wouldn't it be enough to go to those so-called banks to exchange treasure bills when needed?

As for those precious banknotes with clay legs, where did they get the precious banknotes in their hands?

Then, Tian Ergeng reported the reaction of the people in the capital to Emperor Chongzhen: "The people asked for more precious banknotes, and now some of them have fallen into the hands of those merchants. It’s very dissatisfying to have more firefights.”