That night, there were quite a few people tossing and turning. After Huang Qiong left, he went directly to Wende Hall without going to anyone else. Maybe distance really brings beauty, or what you can’t get is always the best. Huang Qiong, who had not seen Nangong Mei again for almost more than a year, was not only having enough fun today. The quarrel with Nangong Mei inspired Huang Qiong to deal with the matter.
After returning to the Wende Hall, I looked at the story between Zhao Wuye and Guo Chen and pondered for half an hour. Huang Qiong only picked up his pen and approved in the memorial that he only asked Shan Chanhou for food. For those tribes, a combination of purchase and conquest was used. If you want to spread the word to those tribes, the Heavenly Army's expedition is only targeting the Shanchan Marquis Mansion. As long as the tribes do not help the tyrants, the heavenly army will never touch their interests.
The first article of this instruction is actually not very creative. Although it is a bit cryptic, the central idea is to tell the two people on the front line that as long as the food belongs to the Shanchanhou Mansion, they can use it directly. All he had to do was tell the two of them directly that they could grab the grain and grass from Shanchanhou Mansion directly. Although Huang Qiong did not explicitly state the scope of the Shanchanhou Mansion, he told the two of them in a very subtle way.
This includes not only the grain and grass stored by the Shanchanhou Mansion, but also those officials at all levels of the Shanchanhou Mansion who have fought stubbornly and dared to fight against the heavenly soldiers, as well as everyone who is attached to the Shanchanhou Mansion by the party. But for the latter sentence, Er Zhao Wushu and Guo Chen probably need to think carefully about it. We need to adopt a method of combining purchase and expropriation, but what the hell kind of method is this?
Among them, what is the difference between buying and expropriating? What kind of tribe can be purchased, and what kind of tribe can be collected? This Lord didn’t give any hint at all. Guo Chen and Zhao Wushu were probably confused after receiving this ambiguous statement. Of course, now in Jingzhao, thousands of miles away, it is impossible for Huang Qiong to fully grasp the trends on the front line, let alone adapt to changes.
In fact, Huang Qiong's comment on the book has only one central idea. That is, if when the imperial court attacks Shanchanhoufu, they stay out of the incident and do not cooperate with Shanchanhoufu in fighting the Heavenly Army, or if they cooperate with the Heavenly Army to fight side by side with Shanchanhoufu, the imperial court will take measures to collect grain and grass from them. How to buy. If you cooperate with the Shanchanhou Mansion and fight against the Heavenly Army, then don't blame the Heavenly Army.
It's just that some of the words are vague and difficult to state clearly in the memorial. Since the founding of the First Emperor, even if everyone actually has the same virtue, the emperor will not give public instructions in the memorial. Even during the Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms, those foreign emperors did not know how to do it. Therefore, Huang Qiong could only play with Chunqiu's brushwork and make things more obscure.
He believed that both of them could understand what he meant. For this reason, Huang Qiong also called the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue over the next day and approved 100,000 guan of money for the two people on the front line. Although the Dali Kingdom itself also minted currency, because the coins minted by Daqi were more exquisite and less prone to wear and tear, their outflow was quite widespread. Especially in Beiliao, they did not mint any money at all and used Daqi money instead.
Smuggling Daqi coins to Beiliao has become a hugely profitable industry. Even if someone is caught smuggling coins to Beiliao, there is no need to report it to the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple. They are always executed directly. But it still couldn't completely stop the smuggling of coins to Beiliao. In order to make a lot of money, Huang Qiong's second brother smuggled items to Northern Liao, Japan, and Korea, and Daqi's money-making accounted for a large proportion.
Use the money made by Daqi to buy blister copper and silver from Japan, and buy blister copper from Korea, and then sell it for five times the profit. Da Qi's money production in Japan can be five to seven times that of China. In other words, the same amount of money can buy five to seven times the amount in Daqi. Wouldn't it be a huge profit if it changed hands like this? In particular, Japan is rich in copper deposits, but due to technology it can only smelt blister copper.
Japanese people are good at making an item perfect, but they cannot mass produce it on a large scale. Therefore, although Japan itself also casts and makes money, the output cannot meet the needs and the quality is really not good. Up to now, Dongying is similar to Northern Liao. They simply no longer mint their own money and all use Daqi's money. As for Goryeo, although internal trade was mainly based on barter, it was also short of money.
The Koreans were even more backward than the Japanese in coining money. So simply import and make money directly from Daqi every year. The output of copper in Goryeo was astonishing, and even the people’s bowls and spoons were all made of copper. When King Jing first started his business, he used money to buy blister copper from two countries, and then resold it to Baoquan Bureau of the Ministry of Household Affairs or private copper casting merchants. The profit from this transaction was several times or more than ten times.
At present, Japan is known as Treasure Island because of its rich gold and silver. There are numerous gold, silver and copper mines on the island, and the mining and purity are higher than the same minerals in Daqi today. The output and quality of sulfur used to make medicine far exceed that of Daqi. The same goes for Korea. The copper mines are far superior to Daqi in terms of mining and quality. By controlling the trade between the two countries, one can make a lot of money from copper alone.
Relying on the money made by Daqi, it is almost a costless business to go through middlemen. At this point, the only thing missing was the imperial household department. Obviously, King Jing would not pay a penny of tax to the court for his large-scale smuggling activities. On the contrary, he had to pay a high price to buy rough copper from the prince. Because even so, these coppers are much cheaper than those mined from Dali and domestically.
And the quality is better than that mined domestically. As for the one who handles these things, naturally it will not be King Jing himself. King Jing relied on these means to exchange shiploads of gold and silver, shiploads of rough copper, and shiploads of Korean ginseng from Japan and Korea, and made a fortune from the special products of Korea and Japan. Huang Qiong took over the King King's property handed over by Ma Rui and found out how much money was in it.
My second brother alone has thirty thousand taels of gold in a secret vault on Shandong Road, all of which are ingots of twelve taels each. The amount of silver reached three hundred thousand taels. And this is just one of several secret storage locations in King Jing's hands. When Huang Qiong's second brother was alive, he relied on smuggling goods to Korea, Japan, and Northern Liao via waterways. He accumulated huge wealth within a few years of leaving the palace.
Moreover, my second brother only values gold and silver. As for making money, my second brother doesn't like it. In King Jing's opinion, these things are all used for business. These gold and silver, which are more valuable than making money, are truly used as reserves. It was precisely because of the huge profits gained from smuggling that his second brother was able to suppress the former prince.
King Jing in the north is like this, and Guilin County Prince's Mansion in the south is almost the same. Although he gave up his smuggling channels to Japan and Korea to King Jing. But in the Nanyang countries, Daqi's money making is also extremely popular as hard currency. Guilin County Prince's Mansion, which controls Wuwei Bank, relies on the mountains of money stored in the bank to make money, without even using the most basic capital.
When purchasing supplies from Nanyang, the price difference will be several times higher when they are sold back. The most important thing is that Guilin County Prince's Mansion has a business that even King Jing can't keep up with. He exchanged money and silk from Da Qi for gold and silver coins from the far western countries. Because these gold and silver coins are easy to carry on Guangnan East-West Road, Fujian Road, and even in parts of Jiangnan, their circulation is quite large.
A gold coin from Jixi Dashi can be exchanged for at least thirty guan of money in Daqi. One silver coin can also be exchanged for five strings. As for these currencies, they used well-made money made by the dynasty in Tianzhu to exchange for food, or crudely made local silver coins in Tianzhu, but they basically always exchanged one silver coin for one or two. This price comparison can almost be said to be nothing more than an open grab.
And there have always been rumors that the Guilin County Prince's Mansion not only collected a large amount of copper coins from the market, but also secretly casted them to make coins. They used the copper purchased from overseas and Dali to secretly cast a large amount of money. Compared with the money cast by the Ministry of Household Affairs, the copper coins cast by the Guilin County Prince's Mansion reduced the proportion of copper and increased the proportion of tin, making the casting cost lower.
The Guilin County Prince's Mansion put these fake money into the domestic market, exchanged it for real money minted by the court, and then exported the real money. Originally, Huang Qiong thought this rumor was just a rumor. But after the Jingjiang Mansion was conquered, in the basement of a courtyard in the Guilin County Prince's Mansion, not only the money molds were actually found, but also the mother coins of every reign from Taizong to Lizong. A large amount of counterfeit money was also discovered that had not been removed.
As well as furnaces for melting various metals, and a batch of blister copper. According to Lu Mengzheng's report, the imperial court minted about one million coins per year on average, and the peak of the Xuanzong Dynasty was about two million coins. But the amount of money minted here every year is around 200,000 to 300,000 coins. In other words, 20% to 30% of the money minted by the Baoquan Bureau of Daqi Hubu every year was exchanged for fake money by the Guilin County Prince.
In addition to replacing real money in circulation in the market, these fake money also openly entered the vassal treasury at all levels of the Qi Dynasty and even the imperial treasury because of the imperial court's tax collection. The coin counterfeiting project of Guilin County Prince's Palace was at its peak during the reign of Sejong and Huang Qiong. 30% of the tax money collected by the court in a year was actually counterfeit money.
Coupled with the money flowing to Japan, Goryeo and Northern Liao, it is no wonder that this dynasty, whose own commerce is not developed, mints so much money every year, and the money on the market is not enough. It's a big joke when you think about it. The Guilin County Prince's Palace replaced real money with fake money. The fake money that was sold to the market by the Guilin County Prince was taken away by his second brother and sold to Japan and Korea in exchange for the copper needed to mint the money.
Then these coppers are purchased from outside and then sold to the Baoquan Bureau of the Ministry of Household Affairs for minting to make money. This has almost become a vicious cycle. The real money minted by the Baoquan Bureau was exchanged by the Guilin County Prince's privately minted fake money, and the cycle started again. The consequences of such a continuous cycle include the death of the Guilin County Prince's Palace, the death of his second brother, and the suffering of the imperial court and the people of the world.
Maybe the little savings in my hands are all fake. And every year, the imperial court's already increasingly difficult income has to eliminate even less fake money. The helpless Ministry of Accounts, unable to completely identify fake money, often has no choice but to turn a blind eye and allow it to circulate. You know, Wuwei Bank, the largest bank in Daqi, has never accepted counterfeit money.
Even these fake money were minted by the largest owner behind Wuwei Bank. Although the emperors of the Qi Dynasty all issued imperial edicts to strictly prohibit the outflow of money produced by the dynasty. In order to stop this evil trend, it was once ordered that only specially minted iron coins could be circulated in the border areas of Qi and Liao, as well as in the border areas of Daqi and Huihe. But this caused chaos in the market because a large amount of this iron money returned to the mainland.
In the end, this was not a solution and had to be left alone. Nowadays, the Qi Dynasty has even developed to the point where the border troops on the Qi-Liao border immediately go to Wuwei Bank to cash in the money every year after receiving it, and then sell it to smugglers, or directly buy cattle, sheep, camels from Northern Liao, or Other properties are being resold back to the mainland. At least the return rate every year is double the military salary received.
