Gold is very important, because the conditions for the formation of gold in the entire universe are very harsh. Even if there may be a planet with an entire planet made of gold, relative to the total mass of the universe, its The quantity is definitely a rare material.
Therefore, Li Ke will retain the gold and store it secretly, and the key to adopting the silver standard lies in Datang's goods.
When your trade with all countries is a trade surplus, everything you say counts.
This is essentially different from the trade surplus more than a thousand years later. If it is still a trade surplus more than a thousand years later, it is not good news, because the domestic currency will be under huge appreciation pressure. At the same time, a large trade surplus means that your goods It relies heavily on external market demand, which is not good news.
But the difference in the Tang Dynasty is that all trade must be in kind, that is, silver or gold, or other things, such as... land and other resources.
Resources may not be realistic in the short term, but land is.
As for the goods sold by the Tang Dynasty, most of them were porcelain, silk, tea and other luxury goods. These items were all consumables. In the absence of a huge improvement in external productivity, the Tang Dynasty actually had an absolute Advantageous.
When the Tang Dynasty continued to export these things, it meant that a large amount of silver would enter the Tang Dynasty from overseas. And if it was a war, some countries would purchase certain materials from the Tang Dynasty without a large amount of silver. If so, it can only be paid in gold.
But they chose to use gold. Datang would not collect gold according to their domestic gold and silver ratio, but according to Datang's.
As long as there is not enough silver in the market, an inflow of gold will be inevitable sooner or later.
Li Ke wants to first search for all the silver in the world through the silver standard plus trade. As long as the amount of silver purchased is enough, it is reasonable for gold to be forcibly devalued.
Regardless of whether you think gold is more valuable than silver, the Tang Dynasty does not recognize it anyway, and as long as the Tang Dynasty is strong enough, silver will become valuable.
When most of the silver is monopolized and gold starts to be collected at a gold-silver ratio of 1:5 or even 1:3, then sooner or later the gold will be monopolized by the Tang Dynasty and flow into the Tang Dynasty.
For example, in the Ming Dynasty, through foreign trade, almost most of the world's silver flowed into the Ming Dynasty, which became the fundamental reason why the Ming and Qing dynasties used silver as currency in later generations.
During the Ming Dynasty, Spain mined at least 80% of the world's silver in the Americas, but this did not happen during the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, with Li Ke's current size after industrialization, the world's silver is expected to flow into Datang soon.
At that time, Li Ke could appropriately increase the income of the people in the Tang Dynasty, and then gradually partially depreciate the copper coins.
The current value of copper coins is too high, and when the currency value is too high, it is not conducive to the circulation of goods. Therefore, copper coins also need to be devalued appropriately. When copper coins depreciate to a certain level, banknotes for ordinary people can gradually be circulated.
The entire plan is coming step by step, and now the initial plan can be implemented.
The most critical policy of currency is nothing more than acceptance and credit. If there is no problem with acceptance, then naturally there will be no problem with credit.
In fact, the exchange coupons of Youjian Mall have been the biggest example in the past two years. Now because they are not afraid of imitation problems and Li Ke's credit, the exchange coupons of Youjian Mall can be circulated among the nobles of Chang'an City. Currency comes to use.
"As long as you know what's going on, there's a problem. You still have to tell Fang Xuanling. If you don't tell Fang Xuanling about such an important matter, he will go crazy." Li Shimin said helplessly.
"Um...that's for sure." Li Ke was a little embarrassed. This really couldn't be cheated by Fang Xuanling. He was equivalent to the prime minister of a country. As a result, if he didn't even know that there was an extra central bank under him for no reason, Then this Prime Minister is too bad.
Moreover, Li Ke also needs the cooperation from the treasury, so not only Fang Xuanling, but also the current Minister of Finance Huangfulin must also rule.
Not only Huangfulin, but also Doulu Kuan, who was transferred from the Minister of Rites to the Minister of Audit, was also notified.
"Okay, then I will ask Chang Lin to inform Fang Xuanling and tell him that it is about financial and monetary matters. It depends on who he informs and let him bring people over." Li Shimin thought about it, but he was too lazy. After thinking so much, I left it to Fang Xuanling to decide.
"Okay." Li Ke nodded simply and acknowledged the matter.
Hurry up and finish it.
Chang Lin went to inform, and Fang Xuanling came very quickly, but when he arrived at Liangyi Hall, Li Ke was a little speechless. There were a lot of people calling Lao Fang.
Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, and Changsun Wuji are all here. Are you three bound? Then Fang Xuanling’s ministers came from the Ministry of State Assets Supervision, Liu Zhenghui, the Ministry of Finance, Huang Fulin, the Ministry of Commerce, Tang Jian, the Audit Ministry, Dou Lukuan, the Ministry of Land and Resources, Gao Jifu, and the Ministry of Industry, Duan Lunhe. Qin Qiong, Minister of Public Security.
Good guy, almost all the ministers from the main departments came over.
"Your Highness, I heard that you were looking for me." Fang Xuanling said directly when he came in.
"It's something." Li Ke said speechlessly, "That's it. I just discussed it with my father and prepared to set up Datang Central Bank."
"Qianzhuang?" Fang Xuanling and the others were stunned for a moment.
Li Ke was not polite and directly told them the main role of the central bank.
"Banknotes? Can paper be used as money?" Everyone was dumbfounded, and Wei Zheng didn't even turn around for a while, looking at Li Ke and asked.
"Why not? In the past two years, have fewer people in Chang'an City used the exchange coupons from Datang Youjian Mall? Isn't that just paper money? As far as I know, many people have directly traded it. Just use my exchange coupons to purchase things." Li Ke said calmly.
Everyone was shocked when they first heard that paper could be used as money, but when they heard Li Ke talk about the exchange coupons, everyone reacted instantly. Although they didn't want to believe it, in fact, what Li Ke said was true. That's right.
Oh, it’s understandable that Wei Zheng didn’t know. After all, everyone knew that Duke Zheng was poor.
But other ministers are not poor. Although they may not have members, they have all used exchange coupons. After Li Ke said this, they thought about it carefully and found that some people have really used exchange coupons to buy things, at least they have heard of it. , I just didn’t think much about it when I first heard about it.
At that time, in their minds, exchange coupons were equivalent to money in a shopping mall, so it was normal to use them to redeem money.
