Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

"Hello, generals. My name is Li Xin. Actually, I think we can afford it, because what His Highness just said has already explained why we can afford it, because the food coupons are circulated within us."

"For example, if a herdsman works for a month, I will give him 100 catties of food stamps, but we not only provide food, His Highness also plans to provide them with linen clothes, salt, ironware and other materials, and these materials, as long as Setting a reasonable price means that the food stamps in their hands will eventually return to our hands again."

"Although it seems that we have paid all kinds of materials, these people have been working during the process. For example, this person has worked for a month and received 100 catties of food stamps, but he was in the blacksmith shop. Or the place where cement is produced produces products worth 200 catties of grain.”

"And the excess of this part is our profit, and for this part of the profit, we can definitely hire more people to expand production and obtain more iron, cement, salt and other materials. In this process, although we need food from It is transported from the outside world, but the value of the goods we produced is also enough to buy the food we transported, which is more than enough.”

"After the whole process, have we spent money? No! Because the money given to these herdsmen is what they buy, and now these things can be exchanged directly from us, of course they don't need money."

"But as time goes by, we will produce more and more steel, salt, and cement, and we can even hire these herdsmen to transport them to the place where the generals are stationed, and to the Yellow River wharf in Longyangxia, and even through commercial The team was transported to Longyou Road and other Datang areas. The funds in our hands have been increasing, but we have not spent any money." Li Xin said seriously.

What Li Xin said was very straightforward, and everyone naturally understood it.

But it was precisely because they understood that they were even more confused and shocked. In fact, they can't be blamed for this, but before their eyes were opened, all this was really amazing.

In Li Daozong's eyes, His Highness is like this, like this, and then like this, and then the whole Xizhou becomes rich and powerful, which is so amazing.

Li Ke was a little surprised. To be honest, he didn't expect Li Xin to be able to figure this out. Although what she thought was only superficial, she had actually revealed the essence of currency circulation.

The regulation of the National Resources Agency is actually a very difficult thing. In this era, it cannot be said that there is no such regulation, but it can only be said that there is almost no such regulation.

It’s like when all dynasties and generations want to build large-scale national projects, the first reaction is to play corvee, because in their view, the court has no money, and corvee does not need money. Isn’t this perfect?

But in fact, it doesn't matter that the court has no money. You can make money out of thin air, change money, and owe debts.

Why did later generations issue national debt?In fact, this is the truth!

When Yang Guang played the Grand Canal back then, if he had Li Ke's idea, oh no, or if Li Ke crossed over to Yang Guang, it would be, Great Sui: Cross Yang Guang, dig the Grand Canal and destroy the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, Yang Guang's project, if he had adopted a similar plan instead of corvee labor, could really revitalize the entire Sui Dynasty.

"This, although what Li Xin said is reasonable... But, can this really work?" Li Daozong still felt a little unbelievable.

Li Ke smiled, patted Li Xin on the head and said, "That's right. You go back first."

"Yes." Li Xin smiled, and then bounced back to her seat. Li Ke was a little funny, after all, she was still a girl of twelve or thirteen years old.

He sat down on his seat, smiled and said, "It's amazing, doesn't it?"

"It's true that His Highness's tactics are so powerful, we still don't understand the reason behind this, but from what Miss Li Xin said, it seems that it can be carried out." Xue Wanche nodded and said.

"Let me be straightforward with you today." Li Ke said with a smile, "First of all, this food stamp looks like a food stamp, but if you change it for something else, think about its function carefully. Do you think it resembles something else?"

Li Ke asked a question, everyone frowned, and then began to think. These people sitting in the main seat were thinking hard, and they couldn't think of anything like it for a while.

To be honest, looking at them, Li Ke can actually understand them. It seems that they are stupid and can't think of problems that any future generations can think of.

But this thing is also easy to understand. Times have limited their horizons, because later generations are used to paper money and take it for granted, but in fact the ancients have never seen paper money at all. In their minds, money has nothing to do with this piece of paper. equal sign.

Just like those old people who watched TV when the TV first appeared in the later generations, they all thought that people were locked in the box. over here.

"Money?" Pei Xingjian suddenly flashed a word.

Li Ke glanced at him, as expected of a famous person in history, plus Pei Xingjian is still young, and after following Li Ke for a while, his brain is more flexible.

Pei Xingjian's words woke everyone up, right, isn't this just money?They have all entered a dead end just now, always thinking that this thing is the same as something, but they didn't think about the money, or thought of it, and subconsciously ruled it out.

"Yes, it's money!" Li Ke nodded and said, "This thing, to a certain extent, I use it as money."

"Now think about it, if I have enough copper coins, then I will send them copper coins directly and let them buy food at the place where we sell food. Is that the reason? But do I have money? I don't have that so That's why I came up with the concept of food stamps." Li Ke said with a smile.

"But..." Li Daozong frowned.

"General Li, please tell me." Li Ke said with a smile.

"It's like this. We understand what Your Highness said, and we also understand what Li Xin said just now. There is one thing I don't understand, that is, why can this food stamp be turned into money? This, it is worthless Ah! It's just..." Li Daozong couldn't express what he meant, mainly because he couldn't find the right words.

"I understand what you mean." Li Ke said with a smile, because in ancient times, copper itself was valuable, and copper coins became currency because of the value of copper. Although paper is also valuable, the paper itself is easy to rot. In the eyes of many people it has no value.

It is difficult for them to understand why things without value can be turned into money. This is what Li Daozong is struggling with.

"What you want to know is why this piece of paper has no value, but it can buy things? Right?" Li Ke said with a smile.

"Yes." Li Daozong nodded.

"This is because during this process, one of the most important things has been overlooked by you." Li Ke said with a smile, and when they all looked at him, Li Ke continued: "This thing is, Your Highness's credit! "

"In short, it's not this piece of paper that serves as the currency, but my highness's credit. This paper is just the carrier of my highness's credit." Pointing to the food coupons in their hands, they said.

Li Daozong and the others suddenly realized that if you give them time, they can all figure it out, but it takes time to change their minds, and after Li Ke gave them some insight, they also understood that if His Highness does not recognize this piece of paper, then it is true. is nothing.

"So the plan I told you before can actually be realized through this piece of paper. For example, we will buy some of their specialties from Tubo, such as cattle and sheep fur, and then, taking this opportunity, we will sell ours. Some ironware, salt and other important materials."

"After the initial trust is established between the two parties, for example, my caravan sells some unique local products that are very useful to them, such as lattes. However, my caravan can only be exchanged with food stamps. What will happen when you come down?" Li Ke asked with a smile.

"Some people who need iron, they will find a way to get food stamps, and then buy ironware." After Xue Wanche and others reacted, their minds were opened.

"Yes, when this scale becomes larger and larger, these currencies will be regarded as money in the hearts of ordinary local people, because some people are willing to admit it, and many ordinary local people will use it to start buying things. Trade. And one day if Tubo fights with us, I will suddenly not recognize this thing." Li Ke held a piece of paper in his hand and said.

Speaking of this, Li Daozong and the others immediately thought of countless bad consequences.