Lin Dan Khan did not meet Liu Jingting and the others in the Liuli Gold and Silver Palace, because on the day of the capture of Guihua City, the Liuli Gold and Silver Palace had already been tossed by the rebels.

Although Lin Dan Khan wanted to restore the palace, due to financial difficulties and insufficient materials for craftsmen, he only repaired a few resident apse. However, the Silver Buddha Temple, because of the problem of faith, no one dared to enter the temple to mess around, but it still maintained the same appearance as before.

In a side hall cleaned up by the Silver Buddha Temple, Liu Jingting saw Lin Dan Khan sitting upright, and on the left and right stood more than a dozen nobles and dignitaries of the Chahar Department.

After Liu Jingting met Lin Dan Khan, in addition to reiterating the issue of the alliance between the Ming and the Chahar Ministry, and the issue of the Ming Dynasty's willingness to provide supplies for the Chahar Ministry's troops.

He also added a new condition, "... For the troops on this expedition, the Ming is also willing to pay a part of the remuneration, calculated at 5 yuan per person per month, and we will not ask the Great Khan to send more than 3,000 troops..."

Liu Jingting's new conditions immediately aroused the discussion of the Mongolian nobles who were listening in the palace, and Lin Dan Khan's uncle Mao Naoda crossed Lin Dan Khan and asked Liu Jingting first: "Five yuan per person per month, how do you plan to pay this reward?" ”

Liu Jingting glanced at the people in the hall, and then replied unhurriedly: "In the past year, you should have realized that the banknotes issued by my Ming Dynasty are no different from real money and silver, and they should even be said to be better than real money.

As long as you have paper money, you can not only buy things from Han merchants, but also directly enter my Ming Dynasty to purchase various materials, except for some contraband, other goods can be transported back to Huacheng.

Let's take the 3,000 troops sent this time as an example, of which 2 yuan will be given to the Great Khan to subsidize the loss of ordnance and horses of the expeditionary troops, and the other 3 yuan will be directly distributed to the soldiers on the expedition.

Of course, in order to simplify the procedure for the payment of honorariums, we ask the Great Khan to lift the restrictions on the opening of branches and currency exchange points of our banks in the Chahar tribes. ”

Since last year, Mongolian tribes such as the Chahar and Tumut began to accept paper money as a market reward, and the circulation of paper money among Mongolian tribes has developed rapidly.

Before paper money circulated in the steppe, the Mongol tribes were still engaged in trade in the exchange of goods, and as for precious metals such as gold and silver, they were mainly used by the Mongolian nobles as a means of decoration or as a means of payment for important material trade with Ming merchants. There were no gold and silver mines in the steppe, and the Mongols did not have the technology and facilities to develop precious metals, so the Mongol tribes did not have much silver and gold in their hands.

In exchange for the various living materials needed by the Mongols in the hands of the Han Chinese, they could only use cattle and sheep and livestock products produced in the steppe as a means of payment. In this situation, the Mongols were tantamount to being exploited by the Han caravans, once selling their livestock products and the other selling daily necessities.

As a nomadic people with an extremely backward commodity economy, the Mongols naturally did not understand why they were getting poorer and poorer, while the Han Chinese were getting richer and richer. When they found that they could not obtain enough subsistence materials through trade, they would resort to the use of force to plunder the wealth of the Han Chinese.

In fact, this was not only the case of the Mongol tribes in the steppe, but also the people of the northwest region of the Ming Dynasty who were exploited by the merchants. In the final analysis, it is the insufficient amount of money in the market to exchange commodities that causes the price of commodities to deviate from their own value. A merchant who has the money in his hands has the pricing power of the market.

However, when the Ming people issued paper money to the grasslands, the situation of the Mongols was greatly improved, and the merchants could not hoard paper money, because the paper money itself had little value, and they could only use the paper money to exchange for gold and silver in the bank.

Therefore, in the market, the circulation speed of paper money is several times faster than that of silver taels, and the number of paper money issued is more than the bank's deposits, which is closer to the sum of the value of various commodities on the market, so the price of commodities has gradually fallen.

Although the Mongols did not understand that money was essentially a means of payment for goods, they soon discovered that by using paper money as a means of payment, their cattle and sheepskins could be sold for a better price, and they could buy more of the goods of life than in previous years.

With the exception of a small number of Mongolian nobles, most Mongolian herders are not interested in exchanging paper money for gold and silver, and they only want to buy the items they need for their daily lives.

As a result, the Bank of Shanxi soon discovered a new source of profit, which was to purchase cattle and sheepskin goods from the large-scale issuance of banknotes on the grasslands, and then recycle these banknotes with various domestic commodities.

In this trading process, they only need to lend paper money to those merchants who are out of the village, and they can get a lot of profits.

As long as it is profitable, the motivation of the businessman is naturally the highest. In particular, this way of making a profit is simply a business without capital. Because the bank only pays the cost of printing some paper money, but what it receives is real money.

The only thing that displeased the shareholders of these banks was two things, one was the paper money issuance margin system; One is that Lin Dan Khan is only allowed to set up a branch in the Naturalization City, and it also restricts the commercial taxes of the Naturalization City from being paid with paper money.

The former limited the issuance of paper money from keeping up with the growth rate of border trade, while the latter prevented paper money from becoming the real currency circulating on the grassland.

Prior to the Houjin Bypass invasion, several shareholders of Shanxi Bank had privately negotiated the establishment of a banknote that could be issued without a deposit outside the bank, so as to circumvent the management of the account opening department and monopolize the profits of the foreign trade.

It's just that the outbreak of the Zhangjiakou Eight Families Liaison Case suddenly made these shareholders who were fascinated by Houli wake up to the fact that if there is no powerful force to protect them, even if they monopolize the trade outside the mouth, they will be violently lifted by others.

This person could be the imperial court, or it could be a Mongol tribe outside the mouth, such as Lin Dan Khan of the Chahar tribe, who was unlikely to be happy to see it, allowing a group of merchants to control the trade in the steppe.

Moreover, the outbreak of the case of collaborating with the enemy also made everyone tremble among the Shanxi businessmen, after all, the business of the eight joint accounts was not small, and most of the goods transported to the customs were organized through Shanxi businessmen from all over the country.

As soon as this case broke out, it was equivalent to including most of the Shanxi merchant gangs. Some people were still holding on to the luck of not being held accountable by the law, but when the news of the emperor's personal conquest came and the army in the border town of Xuanda began to purge them, these merchants suddenly knew that things seemed to be going in the worst direction.

Although Shanxi merchants had considerable influence in the bureaucratic system of the Ming Dynasty, no matter how big the case, there was a possibility of escaping punishment. But there is only one case in which they are powerless.

That is the rebellion case, when Chongzhen led the army to go out in person, the case of the businessmen in Zhangjiakou who collaborated with the enemy has begun to develop into the rebellion case. Providing war materials for Houjin and trying to murder the emperor, even the group of Shilin Qingliu raised by Shanxi merchants did not dare to exonerate the merchants on this issue.

The Jin merchants, led by Sandetang, had the closest relationship with the eight merchants, and in fact, Fan Yongdou was the main person who was supported by Sandetang at the beginning and smuggled goods out of the mouth. Of course, after Fan Yongdou took the Houjin line, he quickly broke away from the smuggling network of Sandetang.

But at this time, who will seriously investigate this matter? Jin Yiwei, who came down from the capital to handle the case, needs credit and extra money, not any truth.

If it weren't for the fact that these businessmen had a big business, it would be really difficult to escape, and they would have learned from Fan Yongdou and ran away.

Liu Jingting, a close confidant of the emperor, sent an envoy to the Chahar Ministry to raise a sum of money from the Bank of Shanxi to buy off the Mongol magnates. Soon regarded as a lifesaver by these Jin merchants, Chang Wanchun sent his most powerful fourth son to assist Liu Jingting on his trip, hoping to untie the noose that the enemy case put on their heads.

After learning a lot of information from these Shanxi merchants in the naturalization city, Liu Jingting felt that instead of coming over to buy these Mongolian magnates every time, it was better to slowly control the economic lifeline of the Mongolian tribes from now on.

As a Ming person, Liu Jingting knows very well that if paper money loses its purchasing power, it is no different from waste paper, and Daming treasure banknotes are the best proof.

Once the Ming Dynasty banned trade with Mongolia, the paper money in the hands of the Mongols naturally became a pile of waste paper. Therefore, the more banknotes they have, the closer they will get to the Ming Dynasty, and it becomes a logical thing.

After understanding this, Liu Jingting automatically changed the mission of this mission, the first was to persuade Lin Dan Khan to send troops, and the second was to persuade him to relax the restrictions on bank outlets.

Regarding Liu Jingting's employment proposal, the Mongolian nobles in the field were more in favor of sending troops. Although it is difficult to send troops in winter, it is a good thing if these subordinates who have nothing to do at home can earn extra money. Moreover, it was the people who went out to suffer, and they were not them.

After listening to Liu Jingting's remarks, Lin Danhan listened to the persuasion of the leaders in the palace, looked at the expressions on their faces, and finally interrupted them and said, "You guys retreat first, I want to talk to the envoy of the Ming Kingdom alone." ”

With Lin Dan Khan's voice, the leaders of the various departments in the hall looked at each other suspiciously, and finally retreated without saying anything.

When there were only four people left in the hall, Lin Dan Khan, Gui Tu Taiji, Gui Yingcha and Liu Jingting, Lin Dan Khan slowly said to Liu Jingting: "I can promise to send troops, and I can also relax the restrictions on the establishment of bank branches, but I have a request, I don't know if you can agree on behalf of the Emperor of Ming."

Liu Jingting cautiously asked, "I don't know what the Great Khan's requirements are?" ”