"They...... Their business is not honorable, they are taking advantage of loopholes! Lian'er didn't seem to have thought about this question very carefully, and suddenly she was a little confused.

I stared and thought about it, but I didn't find a single illegality, but I can't say that they are legal, so I didn't slap myself in the face. So the common disease of mankind comes, attacking the morality of the enemy! As long as you stand your ground in this regard, you will win whether it is right or wrong.

"It's not illegal to exploit loopholes, no matter how strict the law is, there will always be loopholes to exploit. If no one takes advantage of the loopholes, are you still interested in working hard to improve the law? From this point of view, people who are good at exploiting loopholes should be friends of the government. They worked tirelessly to help us pick out the flaws in the law, and they didn't pay for it. ”

"Hmph, officials are eccentric!" This is Lian'er's complaint, she has always felt that the colt likes Monday and Sunday, otherwise how could she be the governor, I am afraid that there is only one female Zhizhou in the entire Great Song Dynasty.

But I really can't catch the colt and the adultery on Monday, because the colt has very little time in Huangzhou, and every time he comes back, he lives with him, and basically has no chance to commit adultery. But women understand things in a strange way, as long as they decide in their hearts that they don't care about the actual situation at all, they will stubbornly maintain their original intentions.

"Hey, hey, hey......" This is the low laughter of other people, everyone doesn't hate this Mrs. Lian, she is a little rushed, but she doesn't have any bad intentions, she treats people very sincerely, dares to love and hate, is one of the few people who have the courage to resist Hong Tao's tyranny and will not be retaliated against, even if it is verbal resistance, it makes everyone happy.

"Hear me out...... It is true that these gold merchants should be strictly regulated according to common sense, but the situation in Huangzhou and Ganliang Road is more special. The original commerce here was not developed, and it seems that I am exalted to say this, and it is not accurate, it should be called commerce without money, and barter is more common. Although in the past two years, with the establishment of various workshops, there have been more caravans to Huangzhou, and everyone has made some money on hand, but the total amount is still not large. The gold merchants don't have to worry about us, because the copper coins here are almost all exchanged by them, and the gold in the interior is not produced in large quantities like copper. If there are more people selling and the production does not increase, the price of gold will become higher and higher, and they will find it unprofitable to change it, and they will naturally not continue to operate this kind of business, and they will spend the money they make here, or simply invest here and pay taxes honestly. In other words, Mrs. Lian is even happier, they have been busy for a long time to help us earn money. It also contributes to the gold reserves of the Bank of Huangzhou, isn't it? ”

Being a person who knows everything will definitely arouse everyone's instinctive disgust, which Hong Tao has begun to taste from the Youth League. Even children who have been raised by themselves since childhood sometimes love and hate themselves, because as long as they are there, they will not see the day of transcendence.

Didn't later generations say that the back waves of the Yangtze River chased the front waves, and they had to beat the front waves to death on the beach. If the front wave is always in front of the back wave, and it can't be killed, what is the feeling in the back wave?

As for the matter of the gold merchant, Hong Tao knew about it earlier than most people, because he had two news trees, Wang Shi and Wang Hao. The local movements in Huangzhou and Ganliang Road Wang Shi's postal system has been secretly monitored, and the news outside Huangzhou and Ganliang Road, Wang Hao, as a businessman, has direct sources, plus his dart game, the news is more accurate.

After a period of calculations and observations, Hong Tao has come to the conclusion that these gold merchants are not trying to cause trouble with a special purpose, and their actions will not have too much negative impact on the currency reform, on the contrary, it will help.

Their business practices have inadvertently helped them purify the old coins of Huangzhou, and at the same time provided a lot of gold sources, so why not.

Of course, there are pros and cons to everything, and conniving at this kind of behavior will also give outsiders the illusion that there are too many loopholes in Huangzhou's law, and Huangzhou people are very well fooled. In the future, I am afraid that more adventurers, careerists, and speculators who hope to get rich overnight will gather in Huangzhou.

But this shortcoming can be dealt with, and speculators are not useless, they are a bit like additives, and the right dosage will have a positive effect, such as activating the local economy, especially in the early stage of development.

"It's still the officials who understand it, where you know how to open your mouth and shut up all day long, the law, the law, hum!"

The same sentence is a fallacy, which comes out of the mouth on Monday and Sunday, and is the truth when Hong Tao says it. Lady Lian is such a person, and she can't change it for a while, or she doesn't realize that she needs to change it.

"If someone brings a lot of gold, will our gold become worthless?" Naturally, I wouldn't deliberately gamble with Lian'er on Mondays and Sundays, which was a very unwise choice. Mrs. Lian is not called in vain, and Lord Shuai Si will not take his wife even if he is fair.

But she didn't make promises, compared with Lian'er, she has a very unreasonable and unoriented thinking mode, and she is completely picking loopholes for the currency reform, and wants to be perfect.

"Well, if you think that way, you're one step ahead of most people. This kind of thing will not happen for the time being, our special products are relatively sufficient, and there is not much wealth around, as long as the production can keep up and continue to innovate, the price of gold will rise steadily, and the purchasing power of gold coins will be higher and higher. ”

Zhou Ri's worries are indeed not blind guesses, China has historically suffered too much loss from the difference between domestic silver prices and foreign silver prices, which is the main reason why Hong Tao does not use the more easily available silver as a currency. Its production is too high, and the production of gold is far less than that of silver, which is more stable over a relatively long period of time.

Another reason why you don't need to worry about currency depreciation is technology, no matter what currency must always have a physical backing, the essence of money is actually the value of the physical object. In later generations, it was very popular to play the virtual economy, but if the real economy could not hold it, the virtual economy would be a mirage.

Huangzhou and Ganliang Road don't look at the underdeveloped agriculture, but it has special products that are difficult for others to imitate. With the advancement of machinery and chemistry, there will definitely be more unique products in the future.

As long as the output of these high-tech products is guaranteed, the currency issued by the Bank of Huangzhou will not depreciate, but will only become more and more valuable. The value of money is not dictated by anyone, it is a true reflection of supply and demand.

With the propaganda in place and the people's approval, the first step of currency reform can be regarded as a steady step. From the beginning of the issuance of the new currency on 10 May to the use of the new currency for a month on 10 June, there was not much resistance except for some small complaints among the people on the issue of exchanging the old and new currencies.

At present, more than 80 percent of the merchants in the Huangzhou department store are using new currency transactions, although the government does not allow the acceptance of old currency, but the merchants have a way to circumvent it.

When you come to buy something with new currency, they greet them with a smile, and those who hold the old currency either lower the exchange or simply say that it is out of stock. It's not that they don't want to do more business, it's that the money system of old money is too annoying.

Many small traders who are herders are not very good at arithmetic, so it is difficult for them to figure out the various exchange rates. So they'd rather do a few less business, and they don't want to spend that brain. If you make a mistake, your income will be wasted for several days.

In addition, it has to be said that Huangzhou businessmen are really not afraid of having no business to do. The caravan from Qingtang alone could buy up most of the small merchants' stocks in the market in an instant.

Light sweaters and trousers, gas lamps that can illuminate a family's camp, inexpensive cans that can be stored for a long time, stainless iron farm tools and steel knives, light and durable iron pots, small cast iron stoves that are easy to carry, tents made of waterproof linoleum, soap that can easily wash away oil, oil necessary for gas lamps, etc., are all necessities.

People are this thing, once they have enjoyed happiness, it is difficult to live a hard life. After the use of gas lamps, the leaders of all ethnic groups are no longer satisfied with the candles that are thick with their arms, and the lighting of butter lamps is not worth mentioning, and hanging a glass lamp that cannot be seen directly in the felt tent can show their identity.

This time, the gas lamp and oil were easy to sell, but the paraffin workshop suffered. The sales of all kinds of candles they produce have dropped dramatically, the rich have gone to buy gas lamps, and the poor are still reluctant to light wax.