After discussing with the ministers about the operation of the bank, Li Ke left a little angry. He also wanted to prepare dividends for all shareholders. As for the operation mode of the bank, it goes without saying that the initial staff of the bank are naturally provided by Li Ke's Yuelai Trading Company, because Fang Xuanling and the others do not have enough staff even if they want to recruit people.
So when he left Liangyi Hall, Li Ke was a little unhappy because he was tricked by Fang Xuanling! Damn it, why do I serve as the minister of a central bank? I don’t have to work and let the people below do other things.
At first, Li Ke thought it was not a big problem, and the bank's problem was indeed very important. Li Ke didn't react at the time, so he agreed.
When the discussion came to the specific personnel composition later, Li Ke suddenly realized, what the hell does it matter if I am the entire minister? Because the people in the bank are all my damn people, shouldn’t I be the one who works for this minister?
When my people make specific arrangements for things, don’t I still have to direct them? He wants to stop working. The problem is that if Li Ke doesn't work, no one can make the decision for him. After all, this is related to the foundation of a country and the national currency. It is impossible for the people in the bank to make this decision. of.
If it were Fang Xuanling, they would definitely be able to make the decision directly, or go to Li Shimin to make the decision. Anyway, it's not Li Ke's turn, but now that he is the minister, if his people submit the issue to Fang Xuanling, do you believe If he didn't believe it, Fang Xuanling handed it over to Li Shimin, and then Li Shimin threw it back.
At that time, Li Ke couldn't even think about not working. If he wasn't the minister, Li Shimin would definitely not throw him back.
How sloppy!
They are all a bunch of old foxes. They tricked themselves into it with just a few words. Wait, I am a tricker, right?
I'll let you know what it means to show off! Force me to use bigger moves, and I'll see how you deal with it then.
With a cold snort, Li Ke left the palace.
"Your Highness won't be angry, right?" When Li Ke left, Fang Xuanling couldn't help but ask in a low voice.
"Why do your words sound so sinister?" Wei Zheng glanced at him.
"Ahem, how is that possible? But Your Majesty, Your Highness's opinion on this bank is too good, and there is no doubt that it will promote the entire Tang Dynasty." Fang Xuanling looked at Li Shimin and said.
"A good thing must be a good thing. Later, the salary and salary of the courtiers will be paid according to this. Starting from this year, some welfare benefits and other aspects of the ministers will be converted into currency with reference to the selling prices of goods on the market, and then increased by 10%, except for some special products Except for spices and other items, let these ministers go to the market to purchase other items. All salaries will be distributed with banknotes." Li Shimin nodded.
"Yes!" Fang Xuanling also agreed.
"Okay, let's have a good discussion when you go back. The execution of the bank will definitely gradually expand to the entire Tang Dynasty in the future." Li Shimin waved his hand. In fact, he and these ministers knew that the early promotion of banknotes was not at all question.
First of all, in the short term, banknotes are not targeted at the most ordinary people. Anyone who can use banknotes must have assets at home. And these people currently want to move around the Tang Dynasty, and almost all of them cannot avoid Li Ke.
In other words, they can't avoid the industries related to Li Ke. As long as Li Ke's own industry uses paper money wherever paper money can be used, others can only use this regardless of whether they accept it or not, unless you don't want to talk to His Highness the King of Qin. do business.
Or after you got the banknotes from His Highness King Qin in the early stage, you quickly ran to the bank to exchange them for silver or copper coins.
As long as you don't mind the trouble, you can change it at will. After changing it a few times, I believe people who often do business or use money will be too lazy to change it.
As for those who don’t need money and have to save it, these are inevitable.
Everyone knows that all members of the aristocratic family have the habit of hoarding cash. After the banknotes come out, they will mostly convert business money into banknotes. Their own money warehouse will definitely store some silver and copper coins.
But this does not affect personal choices. You cannot influence them in any way, as long as they start to acknowledge and use them.
When the rich people in the entire Tang Dynasty are accustomed to using these, it will be much easier to promote it to ordinary people in the future.
"Yes." Fang Xuanling and others immediately saluted and left. After leaving the Liangyi Palace, Fang Xuanling thought for a while and said, "Your Highness is still far-sighted. Everyone, you must be careful when doing things in the future. Especially your Ministry of Finance. , Audit Department and these."
"What did Duke Liang say?" Huangfulin and the others asked with some confusion.
"Isn't this simple? The simplest thing is that although all the revenue of the national treasury will be placed in one warehouse in the future, almost all of it will be banknotes when used externally. This means that whether your Ministry of Finance allocates money to any other department, it must go through the bank. Go through a procedure.”
"Do you think things like the treasury corruption that His Highness discovered before will happen again in the future? Of course, they will happen. To be precise, do you think it will be that easy this time?" Fang Xuanling looked at it. They spoke.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then took a deep breath. This... this is indeed what happened.
The Ministry of Finance's appropriations will definitely have to go through the central bank's account in the future, which means that the accounts will be recorded in the two departments, and it will be easier to check the accounts at that time.
"There is another simple question. In the past, for example, the Ministry of Civil Affairs allocated 100,000 guan to the military. In fact, among the 100,000 guan, if there were 50,000 guan, each of them only had 999 copper coins. This means that 50 guan of copper coins have been embezzled. , and do you think the person who usually takes over the handover will count everything? And even if there is a problem with the counting... it will be too difficult to pursue."
"But it's different if all the materials are deposited in the central bank in advance. The bank is where the money is deposited. They must have enough personnel to do the quantity counting." Changsun Wuji also nodded.
"What Mr. Zhao Guogong said is absolutely true. In the past, it was always difficult to avoid such losses during the continuous transfer of money. It would be impossible for the people below to secretly take more than a dozen coins and be discovered. But now if paper money is adopted within the army, That would be great to be discovered." Wei Zheng also nodded.
Corruption that has always been short of money has been too common in all dynasties and is difficult to put an end to. All dynasties have tried various methods, such as weighing. The problem is that the size and style of currency in each dynasty are different, and the weight There is no standard weight that is so small. The most important error is somewhat large, and there are errors in weighing and so on.
This is also the reason why the transportation and casting of these coins have a fire cost, and in some dynasties the fire cost can even be as high as 10%!
"Everyone, I think what you should be worried about now is... His Highness King Qin has set a trap. How will His Highness King Qin counterattack... I can't do it anymore." Doulu Kuan said with a wry smile.
