Yuanqi is about to implement the gold standard, Yuanqi issued banknotes - Chinese currency directly linked to gold, Chinese currency per yuan gold content of 1.2825 grams, and will be in accordance with the real-time international gold and silver exchange ratio for a month to exchange silver and banknotes, and then will end the silver exchange banknotes. This news quickly spread and spread rapidly, and domestic and foreign countries have been eyed by it.

As the world's largest market, one of the largest economies, the Qing Dynasty, once the largest silver kingdom, implemented the gold standard, and the impact on the entire world's gold-silver exchange ratio was far from being comparable to Germany's implementation of the gold standard.

The fastest response is Shanghai's gold trading market, the gold-silver exchange ratio quickly rose from 1:23 to 1:25, affected by the Shanghai gold market, the international silver price has been falling, in just a few days, the gold-silver exchange ratio has climbed to 1:28.

The rapid rise of the gold-silver exchange ratio made the gentry and merchants who held a large amount of silver in their hands panicked, and they couldn't wait to go to Yuanqi Bank to exchange banknotes, no one wanted to watch the depreciation of the silver in their hands day by day, and they were even more worried that once Yuanqi terminated the exchange of silver, the silver in hand would be as worthless as the previous copper coins.

Kyoshi, Prime Minister's Office.

Su Shun walked into the office slowly, handed over an excerpt, and said: "The excerpt on Hu Guangyong of Yuanqi Bank, I implore the emperor to issue an edict and implement the gold standard in the Qing Dynasty." ”

After taking the fold and looking at it, Yi Yi said slowly: "This year's continuous drought undoubtedly confirms Yi Guocheng's previous prediction, this drought in the north will last for four or five years, and now it is only the third year, and there are still two years of drought.

The drought in nine provinces, more than 100 million victims, in addition to disaster relief, but also to resettle, invest in the construction of factories and mines, and start a large number of work-for-work relief projects, the king has been worried that Yuan Qi can not support to the end, and now it seems that it is too worried. ”

"Yuan Qi implemented the gold standard at this time, and I think it was also a foresight that the issuance of a large number of banknotes could cause a serious crisis." Su Shun pondered: "The disaster may last for two years, is it ....... to reduce the intensity of relief a little?" ”

"Not necessarily." Yi Yi waved his hand, "Yuan Qi really can't support it, Yi Guocheng will take the initiative to reduce the imperial court's loans, we don't have to make our own decisions." After a pause, he continued: "To implement the gold standard, the imperial court must give full support to Shengjing and let Sheng Jing make it clear to the world as soon as possible." ”

Liaodong, Shengjing.

The most in Liaodong is the Huangzhuang, the Huangzhuang is a manor dedicated to serving the royal family, belonging to the emperor's private property, Gyeonggi, Shengjing has a large number of Huangzhuang, but the size of the Huangzhuang in Gyeonggi can not be compared with Shengjing.

Shengjing Huangzhuang is almost all over the entire Liaodong, from Huludao Suizhong in the west, to Dandong Fengcheng in the east, there are Huangzhuang in various places, especially around Shengjing the most, according to the different items produced, Huangzhuang is divided into different categories, such as grain village, cotton village, salt village, orchard, herd, livestock, mountain farm, melon vegetable garden, bean grass straw village and so on.

The income of the Imperial Village has always been one of the main sources of finance in the palace. Huangzhuang is the emperor's private property, and its land, dingkou, products, etc. are all owned and controlled by the emperor. Regardless of the type of estate, a certain amount of taxes must be paid to the royal family every year, mainly in kind and silver.

Different from Gyeonggi Huangzhuang, Shengjing Huangzhuang in addition to the normal payment of taxes also has to bear the cost of the emperor's eastern tour to worship his ancestors, Kangxi and Daoguang Eastern Tour, the cost is provided by 92 large and small grain estates and 59 cotton, indigo and salt villages belonging to Shengjing.

Ci'an's eastern tour to worship the ancestors was in the northern drought, the imperial court symbolically allocated some funds is tantamount to a drop in the bucket, all the expenses are supplied by Shengjing Huangzhuang, with Ci'an living in Shengjing, the scale of Shengjing Huangzhuang continues to expand, but the taxes paid are getting heavier and heavier.

In addition to the increase in taxes, Prince Yiyun also followed the old practice of Kangxi when he suppressed the rebellion of the three feudatories, and transferred Zhuang Ding from the large and small imperial villages in Shengjing to expand his troops.

Shengjing Imperial Palace, Qingning Palace.

Ci'an leisurely looked at the records of the past dynasties sent from Chongmo Pavilion, the little emperor was getting older, and she planned to teach in person after some time, one is to let the little emperor learn the way of being a king from the records, and the other is to pass the time.

"The Queen Mother." Wang Li, the chief eunuch, tiptoed in and reported: "Prince Alcohol, the head of the household department, Erle and Bu, handed over a sign outside and asked to see him." ”

Tobe squire Erle and cloth? Ci'an frowned slightly, and groaned for a while before she said, "Let them in." ”

Shengjing as a companion capital, the imperial court has always attached great importance to the establishment of Shengjing General and Fengtianfu in charge of the people, in addition, in Shengjing also set up the internal affairs office, five departments directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, officials are full. The Qing Dynasty established the constitution, Shengjing did not change much, but the five departments of Shengjing were abolished, Ci'an toured the east, and Yiyun immediately restored the five departments, as if it was already a small court.

"The servants Yiyun, Erle and Bu Gong invite the Queen Mother Sheng'an." After the ceremony, the two got up and knelt down in front of the bead curtain, and Ci'an said in a flat tone: "Uncle Huang doesn't need to be formal, flatten, and sit." ”

"Thank you for the grace of the Queen Mother." After Yi Xun thanked him, he directly presented an excerpt and said: "Yuanqi Bank implores the Empress Dowager to issue an edict to implement the gold standard. ”

Yuan Qi wants to implement the gold standard, this matter has long been known to the government and the opposition, Ci'an naturally knows, casually flipped through the folds, she glanced at Yi Xun, this kind of thing is just a formality, Yi Xun Baba came to meet her, obviously opposed, groaned, she said slowly: "Uncle Huang thinks it's inappropriate?" ”

"Back to the Queen Mother." Yi Xun bowed slightly and said: "The household servant Erle and Bu are familiar with financial ........ ”

Hearing this, Erle and Bu hurriedly said: "The Queen Mother, there has been a great drought in the north for many years, and Yuanqi has provided large-scale relief, immigration, investment in factories and mines, and the implementation of work-for-relief projects, costing hundreds of millions of dollars.

Yuan Qi chose to implement the gold standard at this time, in order to prevent a large-scale run, and the slave dared to guarantee that even if the gold standard was implemented, Yuan Qi would not allow paper money to be freely exchanged for gold ........ ”

Ci'an glanced at Yi Xun and said coldly: "Uncle Huang should know that this drought will last for two or three years, without Yuan Qi's support, what will it be?" ”

Yi Xun said in a deep voice: "If you can make Yuan Qi collapse, it will be worth paying any price!" ”

"If you don't know how to issue a holy oracle, you can stop Yuan Qi from implementing the gold standard?" Ci'an laughed and said: "Didn't the imperial uncle forget that the military salary of more than 100,000 forbidden troops in Shengjing is still issued by the imperial court, and if this edict is not issued, the salary will be cut off next month." ”

"What about the cut-off?" Yi Xun said indifferently: "It's a matter of time before the salary is cut off, if you can pull Yuanqi off the horse, why not cut off the salary for a few months early?" ”

How could Yuan Qi easily pull off the horse? Ci'an pondered for a moment before he said tentatively: "Uncle Huang is planning to cause a large-scale run?" ”