"Is the old money going to be spent?"

A new currency issuance policy was set, and Yang Tong asked Yang Shidao and Ling Jing. As early as when he said that money was worthless, Yang Tong had already made five preparations for the issuance of new money:

1. Statistics unify Zhuojun Cang, Liyang Cang, Lushui Cang, Linshuo Gongcang City, Linyu Gongcang City, Beiping Warehouse, Tongding Town Cang, Jinyang Gongcang City and other warehouse copper coins, and sort out the Kaihuang five baht with heavy weight and ten percent copper;

2. Take away the emperor's five baht and silver to pay salaries to soldiers, officials, teachers, and workers, and recover domestic bad currency through tax collection and other means;

3. Except for the authentic Kaihuang five baht, it is forbidden to bring all coins into Jizhou;

Fourth, strive for perfection and improve the coinage process, melt the excess Kaihuang five baht that exceeds the domestic economy into copper, and re-mint new coins;

Fourth, the big business money and other bad money, unified in Liyang warehouse;

Fifth, the Ministry of Commerce set up a 'civil' caravan and took bad money such as Daye money to the Central Plains, Guanzhong, Jiangnan, and Bashu in exchange for physical goods.

"Your Highness, due to the problems of many bad coins, few caravans, heavy copper coins, and continuous recycling of bad coins, the consumption is very small, and at most ten percent is used up to one percent."

"I also know that there is no such thing as the best of both worlds, and it does make it difficult for you, so be it."

Yang Tong thought for a while, and then smiled: "We have a lot of bad money, few people, and slow spending. But it's easier to do it another way. ”

"Another way?"

"First, relax the scope of procurement, as long as there are channels, iron ingots, copper ingots, grain, oil and salt, cloth, silk, timber, spices, livestock, pearls and other things can be bought."

The officials stared wide-eyed, they understood what Yang Tong meant, to this day, the major princes are using the current currency, except for the Northern Sui Dynasty, which does not allow bad currency to enter the country, no one else has banned business and trade, and there is no prohibition of bad currency. And Yang Tong did this, which was nothing more than using bad money to hollow out the families of the major princes.

Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "No one is aware of this problem now, I suggest that you don't touch the three strategic materials of iron ingots, copper ingots, and grain at the beginning, these things are too sensitive, easy to be detected and forbidden, you can start with cloth, silk, livestock, medicinal materials, wood, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and other things, and don't buy them on a large scale, and break up the caravan, so that it is not easy to be discovered, maybe the major princes are still very happy." For them, trade is booming, commercial taxes are greatly increased, and money is rolling in, and when the bad money is almost spent, they can concentrate on buying copper, iron and grain, regardless of whether the sky will fall. ”

Yang Gongren nodded heavily, but said again: "Xuan Ling's method is good, but the problem of too many bad coins and fewer caravans still exists. ”

Yang Tong said: "Relaxing the scope of procurement is the first way, second, send capable personnel to contact big businessmen around the country, tell them, everything useful we buy, and how much to buy, let them deliver to the door, don't worry we don't accept, the premise is not shoddy." In this way, we will solve the problem of many people with less money, and those big merchants will deliver the goods to the door, and the method of copying the bottom is more secretive, and we don't have to take risks. ”

Everyone laughed and gave a thumbs up, "Your Highness has thought it through!" ”

"Speaking of money! Rather, I think we are missing a key department. Yang Tong said seriously: "The money of all dynasties is passively spent, for example, where there is a drought, flood, and then to help, the army reports how many troops, and then the full amount of military salaries is issued, if there is a disaster in a year, barely support the past, if there are natural disasters, man-made disasters, and wars for two or three consecutive years, so everyone is dumbfounded, I don't know where to raise money for disaster relief, I don't know where to throttle...... The Ministry of Civil Affairs is in charge of the country's land, taxes, household registration, military quarters, salaries, and fiscal revenues and expenditures, but it lacks foresight in spending money. So, I decided to set up an audit supervisor! ”

Yang Gongren asked: "What is the function of the audit supervisor?" ”

Yang Tong said: "Statistics on the expenditure in the first three years, statistics of which department spends more money and which department spends less, and in-depth analysis of the reasons for spending more money and less money!" Then we will analyze each department by department, under the same population and land situation, why did we spend less money this year but much more last year, and what is the reason? If several departments encounter a year with a lot of money at the same time, how much money will the DPRK and China need to deal with? If it costs a lot of money for three years, how much money does the DPRK and China need to avoid social unrest? If this is the case this year, how should we spend money next year? Is it to give officials a raise or to build places? ”

"To give a simple example, in the past, the local government reported that it was going to build a canal, and the court thought it was a good thing, so let's repair it, but no one has ever calculated how much it will cost to build this canal! When the whole country was building, and finally asked the court for money, the court was dumbfounded and found that the money was not enough, what should I do? Reduce wages, or directly do not pay, in this way, the people will definitely stop doing it, and the court will lose its trust to the people, and the consequences will not be difficult to imagine. ”

Everyone was silently thinking.

"If there is an auditor, it will be different! When counties across the country reported that they were going to build a large number of buildings, he would assess from past projects: how much would it cost to build a mile of road and a mile of canal, and how much would the imperial court need if various constructions were to be completed at the same time and within a year. In order to complete the project, a lot of money can be distributed to the people. If he sees from the income data of the Ministry of Civil Affairs that the imperial court does not have so much money, he has the responsibility to tell everyone that part of the project should be cut! In this way, the project was successfully completed, and the people were promised to pay a lot of wages, and the people were happy; As for the imperial court, there is no need to tear down the east wall to fill this loophole in the west wall, and it will not affect the progress of other aspects, and everyone is happy. All in all, the function of the audit supervisor is to let the imperial court spend money in a planned way, calmly spend money, spend money with clear priorities, and spend money without affecting the overall situation. ”

"The minister agrees!"

"The minister agrees!"

“……”

This new and planned way of spending money, as well as this whimsy, made everyone amazed and admired. If the audit supervisor can do this, the troubling financial problems will no longer exist, and even if there are major changes, they will be prepared to deal with them in advance.

Audit and supervision can be called the great steward of a country and a party's forces.

"Auditing and supervising the correction of the auditors, from Laiji, give him more talents who are proficient in arithmetic."

"No!"

"In the future, all ministries and counties should make a statistical book of expenditures, and attach the ins and outs of expenditures, what is the purpose of expenditures, and what is the use? In quadruplicate, one to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, one to the Imperial Ministry, one to the Audit Superintendent, and one copy to keep for yourself. ”

"Although there are some more procedures, it is very necessary, and it is very necessary to fill in the statistical form designed by His Royal Highness, which is not only trouble-free, but also clear and clear at a glance."

"That's it!" Yang Tong laughed, this is the advantage of the traverser, the first income and expenditure data presented by Yang Shidao is simply a long speech with tens of thousands of words, not to mention it, I still know it, I don't know why. Yang Tong was annoyed and helpless, so he popularized the data statistics table, and now implements this kind of form reporting system, saving time and trouble, and there is no need to rack your brains to conceive articles, everyone says yes.

Then they went into the temple to discuss the issuance of new money and the matter of oversight. With the unanimous approval of everyone, Yang Tong divided the territory under his rule into five patrol areas.

1. Shanggu, Zhuo County, Yuyang, Beiping, Baitan, Shuangliao, Xiangping, Lushun, and Pegasus County, which focuses on horse breeding, were carved out of Jizhou and Youzhou was established, and the center of the patrol area was located in Zhuo County!

2. The inspection area of North Jizhou includes seven counties of Hejian, Boling, Hengshan, Zhaojun, Xindu, Pingyuan and Bohai, and the inspection area is located in Xindu.

3. The patrol area of South Jizhou includes six counties: Xiangguo, Qinghe, Wu'an, Wuyang, Wei County, and Ji County, and the inspection area is located in Wuyang Guantao County.

Fourth, the North and Prefecture Patrol Area, including Dingxiang, Mayi, Yanmen, Loufu, Lishi, Taiyuan, Xihe seven counties, the patrol area is located in Taiyuan.

5. The inspection area of Nan Bingzhou includes eight counties: Longquan, Wencheng, Linfen, Shangdang, Hedong, Jiangxian, Changping and Hanoi, and the inspection area is located in Linfen.

The patrol area is a resident agency, and there are only two departments: the Criminal Department and the Imperial Department. This district-level criminal department has one principal and one deputy criminal envoy and ten people engaged in it to supervise the county-level criminal department; The district-level imperial department has one principal and one deputy imperial envoy and 20 people engaged in supervising the county-level imperial history.

Everyone discussed it until the evening, and then everyone dispersed. And Yang Tong has to stay up all night to review, if he wants to really manage the 37 counties of Jizhou, Bingzhou, and Liaodong, it is not a simple matter, from the system and law to the military training, the promotion of officials, the budget of revenue and expenditure, and then to the supervision of local and official governance, none of them is an easy job.

If you want to do a great career, you need to work hard, and to achieve the emperor's business, you have to work hard, in a word: the superior can not be refined, not specialized, but must be well-read and memorized, and know everything a little bit.