"Cloth ticket?"
"What is a cloth ticket?"
"Guan Jia, which cloth are you talking about? Which ticket? How to write it?"
A group of collection ministers all asked questions one after another. No one knew what a cloth ticket was?
Why don't you even know about cloth tickets? You are so ignorant! Zhao Kaixin said: I, born in 2000, have seen cloth stamps, food stamps, etc. from my grandparents’ inheritance. How come you don’t know about them? Oh, by the way, you were born early! You didn’t catch up with that era, and you people are all super-large bureaucratic landlords. Even if you were born in the right era, you probably wouldn’t see a ticket...
"The cloth ticket," Zhao Kai pondered for a moment, "is money that can be exchanged for silk in the future... The Shu brocade handed over from Shu is used as a guarantee, and the year and month of redemption can be printed on the cloth ticket. First. Let’s issue 50 to 60 million horses to offset the cost of land expropriation.”
Is he issuing tickets? He seems to want to find guaranteed banknotes!
"Guan family," Cai Mao, the right minister of the East Palace, suddenly lit up after hearing Zhao Kai's explanation, "Isn't the cloth ticket you mentioned similar to salt and tea tickets? They can also be used as money. .... However, 50 to 60 million yuan seems to be too much at one time, and I’m afraid the price will drop! It’s better to issue it one term at a time, so that it is easier to maintain the market price and build credit.”
Yeah?
Can this cloth ticket be used as money? Zhao Kai thought about it and realized that this was paper money, similar to Qian Yin and Jiao Zi!
Thinking of this, he asked again: "How to distribute the money one term at a time?"
Cai Mao thought about it and said: "This year's cloth tickets are issued according to the number of Shu brocades that can be received next year... After receiving the Shu brocades next year, they can be used to redeem the ticket holders. At the same time, After discovering the cloth tickets for the new term, they will redeem them to the holders after receiving the Shu Brocade the following year. This goes on for several years, and the reputation of the cloth tickets will increase.
This matter must be done step by step, but we cannot rush it, otherwise the people will not believe it, and our cloth tickets will be useless paper when they are sent out. "
Not to mention, this Cai Mao was very knowledgeable about how to use paper money to defraud... The civil servants of the Song Dynasty were very knowledgeable about playing with this paper money.
"The maximum number of tickets for that session was several million," Zhao Kai frowned, "It's not enough to redeem the land!"
Cai Mao smiled and said: "Installation! Divide it into ten installments, one installment a year. It only takes ten years to pay it off. At worst, we will give you some interest."
That's right, it's time to spread it out before it's over. It turns out that Cai Mao can do this trick.
Zhao Kai thought for a while and asked, "Is ten years too long?"
Cai Mao said with a smile: "If the officials feel that ten years is too long, they can shorten it by a few years... After the cloth tickets have credibility, we can issue two or three-year cloth tickets, and even We can pay more. We can repay less in the first few years and more in the next few years. In this way, in five or six years, we can probably repay the 60 million yuan used to buy the land."
Yue Fei interjected at this time and asked: "I have issued cloth coupons, how will I redeem the silk at that time? If there is no silk, won't the credibility of the court be ruined again?"
When Cai Mao heard Yue Fei's question, he sighed inwardly - Yue Fei, a warrior, could not only participate in court meetings openly, but also ask questions to the Prime Minister in public... If it were the original Song Dynasty, how could he be accused of being domineering? All are indispensable!
But now... He is the official's sworn younger brother, and the official is his sworn elder brother!
Moreover, the Song Dynasty now adopts the "Twelve Ranks System", which has the greatest military merit! Yue Fei has great achievements and has now been promoted to the rank of Shangqing. His rank is higher than that of Lu Yihao and Cai Mao, Zhongqing. He is even qualified to be a prime minister.
In addition, Zhao Kai is also planning to establish five titles such as duke, marquis, uncle, son and male, which will be used to confer meritorious officials who have been promoted to the rank of minister. And the nine ministers including Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, Huang Wuji, Xiang Ke, He Guan, Wang Yuan, Li Xiaozhong, Qu Duan, and Li Yongqi must be the first batch of knights!
By that time, Yue Fei would be two levels older than Cai Mao!
Thinking of this, Cai Mao had no choice but to put aside his contempt for the warriors and explained with a smile: "As long as cloth stamps are allowed to be used to offset commercial taxes and cloth stamps are allowed to be exchanged for salt and tea, private merchants will naturally collect cloth stamps and make more Some are nothing.”
"Will the money be sent out?" He Guan, a veteran general who had just entered the court from Chang'an and was about to take up the post of Privy Councilor (Chen Ji will be sent to Sichuan), also asked. Although he was a martial artist, he was an old Bianliang man and a martial arts scholar. In fact, he was also a scribe. Moreover, he has also served as a governor of a local state and county, and is no outsider in economics and people's livelihood.
"hair."
"Don't send it!"
He Guan's question elicited two completely opposite answers.
It was Cai Mao who said "fa".
The one who said "no hair" was the official Zhao Kai.
Cai Mao suddenly felt a little embarrassed. He was a financial expert in Zhao Kai's camp. He is related to Cai Jing and is also the backbone of Cai Jing's New Deal team. Although Cai Jing ranks among the Six Thieves, his financial management skills are not weak. He even surpassed Wang Anshi, the leader of the New Deal at that time. He supported Zhao Ji's prosperous Henan University without too much trouble. Cai Mao, who can become the backbone of Cai Jing's party and has served as chief minister many times, is thought to be quite capable in financial management. In the camp of Zhao Kai, who values martial arts over literature, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is an authority in financial management... But now the person who disagrees with him is Zhao Kai!
Zhao Kai glanced at Cai Daquan and said with a smile: "Since cloth tickets and money can be regarded as paper money, there is no need to coexist. Just distribute the cloth tickets. It is convenient for the people to use, and it is easy for us to manage it." ...and there is no book for money currency, but there is a book for cloth tickets. I think people will still recognize cloth tickets instead of money banknotes. So I feel that there is no need to issue any money coins or official letters in the future, as long as there are cloth tickets. It’s enough.”
He thought for a while and then said: "But which yamen should issue these cloth tickets? Should we set up a yamen that specializes in banknotes, copper coins, iron coins, gold and silver?"
Cai Mao and Lu Yihao looked at each other and saw the other party nodded slightly. This official is right! There must be a special Yamen in charge of money matters...and this Yamen must be in control!
"In the official family," Lu Yihao reported, "I suggest that we set up a Qianqiao Department under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs, which can be managed by a minister."
Zhao Kai has no idea of setting up a central bank and building a financial system... Even if he does, he doesn't know where to start?
So he thought Lu Yihao's suggestion was good, so he asked, "Who can be this minister?"
Lu Yihao immediately recommended a talent to Zhao Kai, "I recommend Zhao Kai, the transfer judge of Chengdu Prefecture, to be the Minister of Money and Invoices of the Household Department. This man is from Sichuan and was a Jinshi in the third year of Yuanfu. He is known for his good financial management. In Chengdu Prefecture, Lu was appointed as the transfer judge and made outstanding achievements during his tenure. This time when the King of Hanzhong entered Sichuan, he received a lot of help. For this reason, the King of Hanzhong even made a special memorial to ask for his merit."
"Then where is this Zhao Kai now?" Zhao Kai asked.
"This man is in Luoyang." Chen Ji, who was about to go to Sichuan, interjected, "The King of Hanzhong ordered him to escort three million pieces of Shu brocade, one million catties of Sichuan iron, and five hundred thousand catties of Shu tea to the court. Ten days ago, he had arrived Luoyang."
"Oh...I remembered it." Zhao Kai nodded, "I read a memorial a few days ago, which was about discussing the harm of tea and horse buying. It seems that he was the one who did it."
"I have also read this memorial, and it is quite insightful to discuss the five evils of buying horses for tea." Chen Ji took over the words and said, "So after I arrived in Sichuan, I planned to stop discussing the method of buying horses for tea and use it in the second year of Zhenghe. The treaty created by the Tokyo Tea Service was printed on Cha Yin, so that tea merchants and tea farmers could trade with each other."
"Yes," Zhao Kai smiled and said to Chen Ji, "I remember you are my brother. The civil affairs of Sichuan are at your disposal. Starting next year, we only need to send six million pieces of Sichuan brocade, one million catties of Sichuan iron, and five pieces of Sichuan tea every year. One hundred thousand catties, two million copper coins are sent to the court, and three million stone rice are transported to Jiangling (these rice will be transported to Xiangyang by Jinghu Transshipment Department)... As for the horses in Sichuan, they are really not big. Use it, no need to buy it.”
The Song Dynasty that Zhao Kai reopened focused mainly on military affairs, and did not pay so much attention to local civil affairs, criminal and prison matters. Therefore, we will promote the Criminal and Prison Division and the Changping Division, two yamen that were originally on the same level as the Transfer Envoy Division. They were all merged into the transfer envoys department or the camp field envoys department, thus forming a situation in which the transfer envoys and camp field envoys managed the people (fu soldiers and households), and the pacification envoys managed the army.
In addition, Zhao Kai also completely overlapped the jurisdictions of the pacification envoys and the transfer envoys (Yingtian envoys). There was a pacification envoy and a transfer envoy (Yingtian envoy) along the way, turning the road into a province-like existence. .
There were only six roads under the control of the Luoyang court: Hebei, Hedong, Jingxi, Shaanxi, Jinghu, and Sichuan.
Among them, Sichuan Road is the road with the largest territory, the largest population, and the most developed economy. It is also far away from Luoyang and is somewhat out of reach. Therefore, it is necessary to use the king to guard and manage the army, and at the same time, use the important ministers to manage the civil affairs.
While delegating power, we must not let go of the search for Sichuan. Although Zhao Kai's court has six roads, four of them can't collect much money. Only the Sichuan and Jinghu roads can be scraped.
And Jinghu Road only has four states, two armies and one government. Although it covers the richest Jianghan Plain on the north and south sides of Jinghu Road, the area is so small, how much can be scraped? Therefore, Zhao Kai only set targets for Jinghu Road: 3 million shi of rice, 1.5 million bolts of silk, 200,000 jins of tea, and 800,000 guan of copper coins.
Together, these two roads will provide Zhao Kai's court with 6 million shi of rice every year (the actual maximum shipped to Luoyang is only 5 million shi), 7.5 million bolts of silk, and 2.8 million copper coins. , 700,000 catties of tea, one million catties of iron... equivalent to an income of 15 million yuan.
It seems like a lot, but it is not enough to support the armies of Jin, Xixia and Southern Song Dynasty with three to four hundred thousand people relying on this income. And part of the millions of stones had to be used for military food and disaster relief... Without the military system linked to the land, Zhao Kai's court would not be able to survive at all.
Therefore, the subsequent division of land can be said to be directly related to the survival of the Luoyang court!
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