Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Currency first appeared in the form of "agricultural tools".

That’s right, early currency itself was a tool of production!

When human society has become accustomed to this transaction method of "valuing and measuring third-party goods", money was born!

However, coins must be issued by someone!

(Isn’t there a famous saying in Woliang: No one dares to fake the money in my big book, because the denomination of one hundred requires three hundred or five hundred to make it!

hey!

Pooh!

This tongue has reached beyond the shit bun and into the stomach! )

When society becomes accustomed to using currency to settle transactions, currency will become streamlined and devalued.

Yes, currency itself is the way in which the ruling class expropriates the labor value of the ruled class by controlling the trading unit.

(Well, the evil regime in Dabenzi that sent women to Southeast Asia to sell their bellies and dumped nuclear sewage was so kind.

Spend three hundred, five hundred, make one hundred...

Hehe~~Oh!

What the hell! )

The emergence of currency is, in essence, the moderation of the violent ruling methods of the ruling class!

In essence, this thing is still plundering the production value of the ruled class.

It's just that the original violent means were transformed into economic means.

(Was Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty very capable?

The essence of currency robbery has long been played by others!

Of course, the first person to play this was Qi.

The difference is that Qi State was an economic means between countries, while Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was an economic means to internal wealthy families.

Why is it specifically said here that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had high methods?

It was because of the "skin coins" issued by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the fourth year of Yuanshou - using white deer skin as large-denomination currency.

It was the earliest means to check and balance the wealthy gentry through monetary means. )

Qin unified the six countries and issued half a tael based on the round coins of Qin and Wei.

This is one of Qin Shihuang's achievements - the unification of monetary units.

This thing is the source of the coin's common name "Brother Fang Kong".

However, as I said above, the essence of currency is the means by which the ruling class plunders the labor value of the ruled classes.

Therefore, in order to avoid being plundered, among private unofficial capital groups, the most primitive transaction method of "barter" will be adopted during large transactions!

This method of bartering is still a common method even in today's international transactions!

——Of course, what we can avoid is being plundered by those who issue green coins...

Are there any brothers and sisters who can't understand such a superficial explanation?

Simply put, there are two ways of social trading:

1: Direct bartering - you give me a cart of ore, and I will send you a cart of cloth.

2: Third-party transaction - that is, trading goods through various forms of currency.

The latter one is commonly known as "money".

Before the mid-Ming Dynasty, all Chinese dynasties lacked heavy metals.

Whether it is gold, silver, or copper coins, China is in short supply.

— is in short supply throughout the earth.

This is why heavy metal currencies were replaced by credit notes.

This phenomenon forces the "barter" transaction method to become one of the mainstream in society during large-scale transactions.

This refers to large-scale transactions between capital groups.

For ordinary people, coins are always the mainstream.

……

However, bartering is too inconvenient!

Coin trading itself is a robbed trading method.

In the Song Dynasty, when this kind of commerce was highly developed, it was changed.

"Jiaozi" appeared.

That is, paper money.

The earliest banknotes were "credibility currency" issued among merchants.

(Note the difference in text.)

As mentioned above - the essence of currency transactions reflects the plunder of the ruling class.

Therefore, this kind of banknote soon became the official currency.

(This is the main reason why the paper money trading system collapsed in the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties.)

During the Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, banknotes were one of the legal tender of the country.

During this period, the transaction method of using "paper money" for large-value transactions and "copper coins" for small-value transactions was formed.

In fact, during the Hongwu period, the currency in circulation in the Ming Dynasty included not only the treasure banknotes, silver and copper coins issued by the Ming Dynasty itself, but also copper coins of the past dynasties, and even the treasure banknotes of the Yuan Dynasty were still popular.

In the Ming Dynasty, ordinary people could use banknotes to deduct part of their taxes.

This point has been mentioned before.

Do you still remember the key points pointed out three times above?

Capital Group's operation is here.

In the early Ming Dynasty, when local governments paid taxes to the court, the standards for deducting banknotes from various places were changed.

In the Jiangnan area, banknotes can be deducted by 40%.

In other areas, there are only a dozen!

Not even—no!

So, what will happen?

——The collapse of paper money!

Because the country issues banknotes, which are credit currencies!

When credit standards are inconsistent, national credit will collapse, and paper money will lose the basis for its existence.

The collapse of the paper currency system in the Ming Dynasty was essentially the same as the abandonment of the "Kaizhong method".

How did the opening method become useless?

It doesn't matter. After the goods are transported to the border, you get the salt and go to the salt field to exchange the salt. Not only do you have to wait, but you also have to pay again!

It has something to do with it - directly reward the salt guide, or even take away two stones of salt with one stone of salt guide!

see it?

The same is the collapse of credit!

And who is the one who plays with this thing?

--bureaucracy!

Who are the bureaucrats?

——Big businessmen and big landowners!

The Song Dynasty built a garden...

The country is subjugated!

And the salt merchant builds a garden...

Brothers, each one has one!

Yangzhou’s gardens are the best in the world, and behind them, you can only get rich by riding on the head of the Ming Dynasty, eating, drinking and having sex!

Where does the wealthy family's money come from?

Why is it that an official in the Ming Dynasty can build a priceless garden after his father's birthday?

Isn’t it just the wealth that comes from usurping national interests?

……

Li Benzhen was very moved.

He knew how rich the salt merchants in Yangzhou were.

After all, when Gao Jie led them, he wanted to set up cannons outside Yangzhou City...

Li Benshen thought about it again and again, and wanted to agree to Lao Fu's proposal several times.

In the end, he held back.

"You can't chew too much!"

He shook his head:

"Yangzhou has the arrangements of Chu Xianzhang and Superintendent Chu. If you and I go there, I am afraid that we will disrupt the emperor's arrangement.

Let’s go to Haizhou and wait! "

Cooperating with Li Chengdong to obtain the Qing army's logistical supplies is the most important thing.

The old man sighed and nodded:

"Okay then, I'll go make arrangements for the boys to leave."

He stood up and started to walk out.

"correct!"

Li Benzhen called his lieutenant:

"His Majesty's intention is to transfer Xuzhou and Haizhou to Henan Prefecture.

It is very likely that after the Qing army goes south to the south of the Yangtze River, the focus of you and me will be on building the railway from Haizhou (Lianyungang) to Xuzhou (Xuchang).

You should know this in advance. "