Why did Zhang Xi insist on naming Liu Ba? Because Zhang Xi knew that directing a hundred dollars would be an offending thing, both now and in the future.
Zhang Xi is already disliked by the natives in Jingzhou because of the fish scale album. He can't let the natives in Yizhou hate him anymore because of the money issue, right? !
If this really happens, Zhang Xi's popularity will be completely ruined.
Therefore, Liu Ba, the owner, had to bring up the matter of directing a hundred dollars.
Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang were both a little surprised by Zhang Xi's name. Didn't Zhang Yuanchang usually dislike Liu Zichu? !
Why did you specifically speak out today to pave the way for him to come up with ideas? !
But similarly, both Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang knew that Zhang Xi would not do this without purpose, so they both looked at Liu Ba.
When Liu Ba saw this posture, he could only stand up, bow to Liu Bei, and then said, "Ba has something to say, please listen carefully, my lord."
Then, he expressed his idea of making money.
Of course, Liu Ba didn't just ask Liu Bei to cast hundreds of coins and then put them directly into the market for circulation. This would be more harmful than Dong Zhuo's making iron coins and small coins.
On the one hand, Liu Ba's suggestion was to cast more exquisite straight money. On the other hand, Liu Ba suggested that Liu Bei establish a special official market. All bulk commodity transactions must be carried out in the official market. At the same time, official market transactions must be forced to use straight money. One hundred coins, but among the people, one hundred coins are not in circulation for the time being.
This is done to reduce the harm of direct money as much as possible. At the same time, the targets of harvesting are also obvious, those wealthy families with the ability to buy and sell bulk commodities.
Liu Ba really doesn't even have to pretend anymore. This matter is aimed at Yizhou's powerful people.
After hearing this suggestion, Huang Quan almost quarreled with Liu Ba, knowing that these outsiders from Dongzhou were not well-intentioned. Aren't they trying to harvest the wealth of the powerful Yizhou family in disguise?
Immediately, the powerful representatives of the Yizhou faction stood up to express their opposition, and by the way, they launched a very strong character attack on Liu Ba.
But Liu Ba was not moved at all.
Now that he has made this suggestion, he is already ready for this.
Squirt if you want, we don't care.
Indeed, there is no need to care, because the person sitting in the chief position and making the decision now is not Liu Zhang, but Liu Bei.
Liu Bei is not a soft-hearted leader. No matter how much Yizhou's powerful men dance happily, they dare not be too presumptuous when facing Liu Bei, a man who entered Yizhou with his fists.
And the most important thing is that Liu Bei is smarter and more decisive than Liu Zhang.
Liu Bei knew his current situation, and also knew that Liu Ba's method was the best and most labor-saving method now. Looking back, Zhang Xi and Zhuge Liang didn't speak, Liu Bei immediately agreed on the spot to cast hundreds of coins.
It's just a matter of direct money. It is not a simple matter of casting money. It also requires a complete set of supporting plans to ensure the circulation of direct money. Liu Bei has not yet thought about it.
Therefore, after the meeting was over, Liu Bei stayed with Zhuge Liang, Zhang Xi, Liu Ba, and Huang Quan to continue the discussion.
As for Pang Tong and Fazheng, it's not that Liu Bei doesn't want to keep them, but they both feel that when it comes to governing the place, their ability is not as good as these four, and they can't come up with any good ideas. It's better to go to the city to patrol the city in place of Liu Bei to stabilize the situation. It is better to restrain the soldiers in this place.
Liu Bei didn't force it, so he discussed with four people how to improve this straight money.
Needless to say, Zhuge Liang was Liu Bei's most trusted steward, managing from Jingzhou to Yizhou. His high level of governance was recognized within Liu Bei's group.
As for Zhang Xi, he often has fantastic ideas, he is also a fish scale atlas, and he is the one who opened up wasteland in Changsha, showing a certain ability to govern the local area.
Liu Ba is the proposer of Zhibaiqian, and his ideas are the basis of this discussion.
As for Huang Quan, as the representative of the Shu family, Liu Bei could not ignore his opinions.
Therefore, Liu Bei had carefully considered the composition of this meeting.
Regarding the concept of Zhibaiqian, Liu Ba once again explained
He recounted it once, and at the same time discussed with Huang Quan the gains and losses of the Shu families.
This group of Shu families, taking advantage of the war some time ago, hoarded a large amount of grain and grass in order to make profits, which caused the price of grain in Chengdu to remain high until now.
Now that Liu Bei has conquered Chengdu, will these aristocratic families really continue to hoard them? Are they really not afraid that Liu Bei will find a few typical people to scare the monkeys? !
Since some benefits will have to be vomited out sooner or later, why wait until everyone looks bad in the future and be forced to vomit them out? !
Huang Quan understands what Liu Ba means to some extent, but when it comes to money, he, Huang Quan, can figure it out, but the aristocratic families in Chengdu don't necessarily think so.
Another thing is that Huang Quan is from Bajun. Although he also owns some land in Chengdu, the Huang family is mainly based in Bajun. Strictly speaking, this time the Shujun family is hoarding food, Huang Quan’s degree of participation is not the same. Not deep.
He can use the grain he has hoarded to support the operations of Liu Bei Group, but he is not sure that he can convince the aristocratic families in Chengdu to use the grain he hoards to support Liu Bei's operation of Zhibaiqian.
Huang Quan had no choice but to spread out these things, crush them into pieces, and explain them one by one to Liu Bei.
After Liu Bei heard this, his face looked a little bad and uncertain.
As for Zhuge Liang, he was actually a little hesitant, but he was not worried about the noble family.
As for this group of Shu County aristocratic families, when Liu Bei has just entered Yizhou, they may indeed make some small moves in private to disgust Liu Bei and remind Liu Bei to protect their interests.
But if you say that they will rebel on the spot, it is impossible. If they have this confidence, they will not follow Liu Zhang to open the city and surrender.
As for the aristocratic family, Zhuge Liang is actually not worried. Zhuge Liang is more worried about the harm that direct money will do to the people.
Although Liu Ba said that money was only circulated in the official market and would not enter the private market, everyone knew that this was uncontrollable.
The aristocratic families in Chengdu suffered losses in the official market and would definitely pass on these losses to other people.
As the largest city in the entire Bashu region, Chengdu is also the largest goods distribution center. Bulk commodities throughout Bashu must be traded here. Once Liu Bei establishes an official market and does not allow private transactions among the people, the aristocratic families in Chengdu will definitely take their money. Just a hundred dollars, traded with powerful families from other regions.
After all, this is Liu Bei’s new policy, and our Chengdu families have all supported it. Don’t you, the local powerful, still accept it? !
In this way, the direct money will quickly circulate through the aristocratic families, to all parts of Bashu, and then to the people.
In Chengdu, Liu Bei may be strict and the aristocratic families will be wary, but the further away from Chengdu, the greater the power of the aristocratic families. The aristocratic families in remote areas will not care too much about Chengdu's policies. They will only care about it. Did you suffer a loss?
The aristocratic families from all over the country are not good at making mistakes. They suffered losses in Chengdu, so they will naturally pass the losses on to the local people and circulate direct money to the people privately.
It is true that people nowadays mostly barter, but if aristocratic families use hundreds of dollars to trade with the common people, given the unequal social status of the two parties, the common people have no right or ability to refuse the aristocratic family's use of direct money. Exploiting them for hundreds of dollars.
As a result, the common people became the ones who ultimately suffered hundreds of millions of dollars.
This is Zhuge Liang's biggest worry.
As for Zhang Xi, he actually supports Liu Ba.
It's just that Zhang Xi's support is limited, and he is also worried about the people being harmed.
However, from the perspective of later generations, Zhang Xi looked a bit like the prototype of credit currency.
As for credit currency, its actual purchasing power has nothing to do with its face value, but only to the credibility of the Liu Bei Group.
To ensure the credibility of the Liu Bei Group, in this era, it is not linked to gold, but directly linked to money and food.
Once the direct money is used, it is necessary to ensure that Liu Bei has enough money and food in his hands to deal with the consequences of the circulation of the direct money.
As for the common people, if they have hundreds of dollars, it is impossible for them to use it to buy some things for enjoyment.
What they need most is still food. As long as the government can guarantee at any time that they can use the money to buy a similar amount of food as before, then the inflation caused by the money can be greatly reduced, and at the same time, the money can be used to buy food in the same amount as before. Once it is truly circulated, it will no longer become a tool for harvesting private wealth.
Although Zhang Xi was not an economist in his previous life, he only had to think about it for a moment to realize that it was impossible for ordinary people to have a crazy run. At this time, he only needed to guard against aristocratic families getting in the way.
The premise for all this is that legislation must be established - a complete law that can be effectively implemented.
Use the rule of law to ensure the smooth implementation of direct money.
In the Bashu land under Liu Zhang's rule, there was no rule of law.
When Liu Zhang was governing Bashu, the aristocratic families in Bashu were completely spoiled and spoiled. Everyone was very domineering and lawless.
When Liu Zhang appointed Dong He as the magistrate of Chengdu, Dong He practiced frugality, severely punished the powerful, and made decisions for the people. As a result, the powerful families in Chengdu united and asked Liu Zhang to transfer Dong He.
The people in the city cried and begged Liu Zhang not to transfer Dong He. Liu Zhang then kept Dong He for two more years. Two years later, Liu Zhang still failed to withstand the pressure of the Yizhou families and transferred Dong He. Transferred.
Since then, the entire aristocratic families in Chengdu have completely let themselves go, even to the point of daring to hoard private soldiers under Liu Zhang's nose.
Now Liu Bei is here, leading his army into Chengdu City - he is not a "weak" master like Liu Zhang.
Although Liu Bei did not want to fall out with the aristocratic families just after conquering Chengdu, Liu Bei would not continue to let the powerful people of Shu continue to ignore the law and oppress the people like Liu Zhang.
Therefore, the legislation proposed by Zhang Xi is itself what Liu Bei hopes to do.
Therefore, as soon as Liu Bei heard that Zhang Xi proposed legislation to use perfect laws to ensure that local powerful people would not cause trouble, and at the same time ensure the implementation of direct money, he immediately sent people to rectify the law, and Li Yan was called in.
Liu Bei wanted to revise the law and revise "Shu Ke".
