Lord of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 362 The Problem of Gold and Silver Coins

When it comes to serious things, Zhou Porridge started to get serious. He has a good memory, and he doesn't need to bring materials, and he doesn't need to read the report content of those vertically written memorials.

In the Huaxia Army, Zhang Qiang advocated simplified characters, mainly to spread knowledge to the largest area and increase the literacy rate of the territory. People with knowledge will be less likely to be exploited by others, and the communication between the government and the people will be smoother. It is easy to cause conflict.

But the literati that Zhang Qiang uses are old people, scholars, scholars, and intellectuals from the Ming Dynasty or the Southern Ming Dynasty. It is impossible for them to change their habits to adapt to you, and it is too late.

People like Jin Sheng, Zhu Dadian, Qian Bingdeng, and even You Haibo are all very old, at least over 40, and their knowledge level has been fixed. It is very difficult and difficult for them to learn more. In reality, they still write in the traditional traditional Chinese characters or vertically, so they work in office, or play books. It’s just because Zhang Qiang emphasizes sentence punctuation, so they still learn simple things such as punctuation marks and sentence punctuation, so that they can pass a sentence through sentence punctuation. Make it clear so that no one can guess.

Zhou Congee is quick to accept these things, because he also has this foundation. He has strengthened his studies a little bit, and asked those scholars to ask someone to give him a supplementary lesson, and he can usually sentence sentences and read. Zhang Qiang is not as good as him, so far. , Zhang Qiang would not be able to understand or have ambiguity if there is no sentence break.

Sometimes, Zhou Porridge was simply explaining to Zhang Qiang the memorabilia handed in by these courtiers.

"In general, our expenses have increased, but because of the good coping methods, the solid business foundation laid in the early stage, and the ever-expanding caravan scale, both at sea and on land, our income is still profitable. Quite a few."

Zhang Qiang nodded slightly, listening to Zhou Porridge's report.

"From last year to this time this year, we have achieved financial revenue of 5000 million taels of silver and 100 million taels of gold in one year. These are counted as Jinhua yuan, which should now be changed to Huaxia yuan. The total is about 6000 million yuan. The income of Wanhua Xia Yuan has doubled compared to our 8000 million taels in the first few years."

"The money used for infrastructure construction is about 2000 million Huaxia Yuan, and it only provides some start-up funds and funds for the purchase of basic materials and land. Some later funds are collected from merchants in the territory and proceed through the form of shareholding."

Zhang Qiang smiled at him appreciatively, "It's a good job. I know how to use private funds, so that they won't let them cast all the silver they earn into silver ingots and bury them underground, which improves the flow efficiency of funds. It can also make the people have money to spend, so that they will not be rich, but there is no money to spend in the market."

"Yes, Chief Governor, one after another money-making methods were used, and everyone swarmed up. Boxes of silver were carried out, entered Huaxia Bank, and entered the Finance Department directly under our Ministry of Grain. Let’s support the circulation of our paper Huaxia Yuan, now our Huaxia Yuan has become the main currency in the territory, and most people accept Huaxia Yuan.”

Adjusting his posture slightly, Zhou Porridge continued: "However, because some adherents who came to Daming successively, they still don't really believe in Huaxia Yuan, which made the circulation of Huaxia Yuan in the bottom layer still somewhat difficult. People believe that those large Huaxia Yuan Yuan, because they regard these as silver bills like Shanxi bank notes, but most of the small Huaxia Yuan people exchange these for minted silver coins and copper coins, and they always carry a large bag of silver coins and copper coins to buy items and trade. Some transactions are not very smooth."

"So they can accept silver coins and gold coins like the Portuguese and the Spaniards, that's fine. They don't have to accept paper Chinese Yuan. The two complement each other and can also strengthen our currency with the outside world. communicate,"

Zhang Qiang interrupted.

Zhou Porridge said with some distress: "But some people are very cheap, because our gold coins and silver coins are of good quality. Although they have beautiful patterns, there are tooth patterns around them to prevent some unscrupulous traders from making trouble, wear the weight on them, and reduce the gold coins. The value of the silver coin, causing a disorder in the value of money.

But they still have capable people who can imitate our gold coins, silver coins, and the gold and silver in the transfer bag, and fill them with other metals. In this way, a silver coin is worth one hundred yuan, and they can make it worth eighty or ninety yuan. , They made [-]% to [-]% of the profit. "

Zhang Qiang sighed, "The masters are among the people!"

Zhang Qiang pointed at Zhou Congee and said, "Intensify the attack, if caught, beheaded, property confiscated, family members thrown into a prisoner camp, let Lin Chenggong train them."

Zhou Porridge smiled wryly, "I did all of these, but it made them even more rampant. The quality of a batch of gold and silver coins seized recently was actually less than [-]%, and some were even [-]%. Moreover, they knew that they couldn't do it in the county. The battlefield has shifted to some remote towns, villages, and villages to fool the poor people. When these poor people take these gold and silver coins to spend in the towns, the trained clerks and waiters in the towns can see through them at a glance, and increase the number of gold and silver coins. civil disputes."

"What's going on?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Zhou Porridge said with a smile: "The gold and silver coins we make are fine, complex, and clean. Most merchants and gentry like to collect them and pay close attention to them, but the common people only know a general idea. The rough patterns on them make rough silver coins. Gold coins are basically Can’t get into their pockets, but the common people accept the rough gold and silver coins made by those people, in their eyes, they are all gold and silver anyway, there is no difference.”

"We haven't done enough work. Send people down. The Grain Bureau and the Finance Department all send professional personnel down to give lectures from village to village, and get some small rewards. People who know and accurately identify people will be rewarded. Those who don't know The people punished them with a bucket of grain or a piece of land.

Those who know each other will reward a bucket of grain, and those who don’t know will allocate their land to the village and township to become public land. These things that are closely related to their lives and passed down from family to family must be cherished, and it will be easy to promote them when the time comes up. "

"My lord, Gao, why didn't I think of it?" Zhou Congee looked at Zhang Qiang in surprise.

Zhang Qiang smiled very complacently.

"These are all palliative measures. In addition to communicating and exchanging with the outside world and conducting commercial transactions, we still have to promote the Huaxia Yuan in our territory. Try to collect gold and silver coins into the bank as a credit guarantee, store them, and only put a part of them in the bank. The bank shops in the town branches below allow them to meet the exchange needs of the people."

Zhou Porridge nodded, "For the copper coins, they can be temporarily used as a supplementary supplement to Huaxia banknotes. Fifty, twenty, ten, five, and one pennies are used as change for the common people. Combined with the use of Huaxia yuan banknotes, Let the people maintain a kind of currency exchange with other places, isn't that the way to be a governor?"

"Yes, it seems that you are quite good. You have learned a lot, and your comprehension has improved a lot. I can no longer see the shadow of the servant of the Zhu family." Zhang Qiang teased Zhou Congee with a smile.

Zhou Porridge scratched his head in embarrassment, "These are all taught by the governor."

The attendant knocked on the door, walked in, and whispered to Zhang Qiang and Zhou Porridge: "Li Dingguo sent someone here."

"Li Dingguo?" Zhang Qiang asked in surprise.

"Yes, I heard that it has something to do with our arms deal with Feng Shuangli." The attendant said.

Chapter 363 Meet Wang Shangli

Who is Li Dingguo?

I believe that people who read Time Travel Overhead will know this person, but no one describes him, and not many people pay attention to him. Compared with Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, other famous people like Hao Yaoqi, Liu Zongmin, and Niu Jinxing , Li Yan, and Hong Fu Nu, these characters with outstanding personalities, don't necessarily have much research or love for Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son.

Adopted son, in the understanding of modern people, has the same derogatory meaning as the words godwoman and godson, but to be honest, the adopted son in history was once very respected or admired, because as a adopted son , especially as the adoptive son of a person with great energy, it is equivalent to half-son status. In the future, he may assist the son of the old master, or directly inherit the inheritance of the old master. by chance.

As for Li Dingguo, Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son, what is Zhang Xianzhong? History doesn't evaluate him well, so this person is full of righteousness, national righteousness, wisdom and courage, but because he is the adopted son of a person who has been vilified, become anonymous.

In fact, he has been supporting the sky of Yongli Nanming. Without him, Yongli Nanming would have perished long ago.

Compared with Zheng Chenggong's selfishness, Li Dingguo still has an overall view of helping the nation's righteousness. Zhang Xianzhong's people and Yongli Nanming people got together. How much sacrifice and compromise did he make for the continuation of Yongli Nanming? , struggling to support the last dynasty of the crumbling Han people.

Li Dingguo used his own strength to fight against the three kings of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the four traitors, Kong Youde, Geng Jingzhong, Shang Kexi, Wu Sangui, and the last betrayal Sun Kewang. Such heroes of the Han people are not publicized, but the traitors are given to them To set up a stele to write a statement and sing praises made the descendants of the Chinese nation who are Han people feel very embarrassed.

Although no one can deny that the next dynasty is the successor of the previous dynasty, but such a denial of one's own main nation's behavior is beyond everyone's understanding.

Hearing that Li Dingguo sent people to visit, Zhang Qiang put down his work and followed Zhou Porridge to visit them.

The person Li Dingguo sent was Wang Shangli.

Several people greeted each other for a while, counted the anti-Qing incidents over the years, and after boasting to each other a few words, Wang Shangli said to Zhang Qiang: "Master Hou, I Dingxi Wang hopes to join forces with the Huaxia Army to fight against the Qing Dynasty, attacking the Qing army from east to west, so as to brighten the country."

Zhang Qiang was once named Marquis of Jinhua by Zhu Yujian of Longwu, so it is reasonable to be called Hou Ye. After the death of Li Dingguo and Zhang Xianzhong, he and three other people, Ai Nengqi, Sun Kewang, and Liu Wenxiu, called themselves kings, and later became Emperor Yongli Zhu Youlang's acknowledgment made it justifiable that he, the king, also came.

It’s just that this name is not a good thing for his Huaxia Army, because the Huaxia Army is incompatible with this era. He is a country established by later generations of traversers. If it is agreed, it will be integrated into history. If not, it is a traverser Invading the historical world, he didn't know how Li Dinghui, who was a Han Chinese and valued the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, would think of him and his Huaxia Army.

Because people with a discerning eye can tell that his actions are similar to those of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. Will not tolerate him.

Even my Great Heavenly Dynasty in later generations has actually changed from a humble person to an aristocrat, a country ruled by a consortium. Their contempt and disgust for the peasant uprising army or people without any foundation comes from the heart. Their superiority The feeling comes from the fact that they are officials, they are nobles, and they are rich.

Not allowed by the world, not tolerated by the sky, this is the biggest crisis for Zhang Qiang and his Huaxia Army at present.

But obviously, Wang Shangli did not come here for condemnation or questioning. Like Feng Shuangli, he came here for the weapons and equipment and assistance of the Huaxia Army.

None of this involved a battle of orthodoxy.

The two sides can still cooperate.

Hearing Wang Shangli talk about such a big topic, Zhang Qiang smiled, "This is unquestionable. The Manchus are a foreign race. Our China can let him blend in, but it can't change the Han people in our China as the main body and the root of Han rule. Otherwise, China is no longer China, but a land conquered by foreign races. After a hundred generations, I, China, will face the world with a peaceful face? Do you say that you are a hodgepodge? Do you have to be inclusive? So who can represent the voice of China? Who can represent it? China?"

Zhang Qiang said loudly.

"Okay, okay, Marquis Zhang Qiang really understands the righteousness. My Chinese family has suffered many catastrophes because of being mixed with too many impurities, which made my Chinese man weak and hesitant, without blood. Seeing how the Marquis behaved now, I am also relieved, and King Dingxi is also relieved." Wang Shangli liked Zhang Qiang's verbal performance very much.

After finishing speaking, he turned to say in a deep voice: "I, King Dingxi, have been very concerned about the rise of the Huaxia Army's rebel army, but because of the great power of the Qing Dynasty, the cowardice of the Han people, and the many treacherous villains, they are like fish in the sea." My son, although I have all the skills, but I was entangled by them and couldn't go out half a step to the southwest. I came here today. King Dingxi sent me to ask for help from Lord Hou. Please, Lord Hou, for the sake of the people of Daming, give me help in this difficult situation. The Dingxi army in the middle will help."

Zhang Qiang stretched out his hand to let Wang Shangli stand up. Wang Shangli bowed to salute and sat upright. Zhang Qiang said to him, "I can help your army with [-] dans of food, [-] stones of aquatic products, [-] weapons, big knives, and simple knives." , with spears, bows, and crossbows, I wonder if Lord Wang is satisfied with such an arrangement?"

Wang Shangli bowed and saluted, "Thank you for the support of the Marquis, but here I have an unfeeling request. I heard that the Huaxia Army started with firearms and is proficient in firearms. I wonder if you can help our army with some firearms?"