What is the function of money? We have seen the means of circulation and the means of storage, and a large number of cotton cloth on Jingxi Road this year has been listed, which immediately caused a shortage of copper coins, which is the lack of circulation means. There is another important item in the www.biquge.info of pen, fun and pavilion, that is, as a value scale, there is no clear understanding in this era.

The natural agricultural economy is dominant, commerce is only a supplement, and the function of the value measure of money is less important. There is no currency, but also food, silk silk is used as a measure of value. The Tang Dynasty once dominated silk silk, which was directly linked to copper coins as part of the currency. Not only did it not cause chaos, but it also effectively controlled the chaos caused by the issuance of heavy treasures. It is only under the conditions of a commodity economy that the role of money as a measure of value is indispensable.

The reason why there are all kinds of discomforts from the local to the central government after a large number of cotton cloths are listed this year, and even cause a certain degree of chaos, is because cotton cloth has been commercialized and traded in the market from the very beginning. With such a large scale, it is strange that the impact on the original natural economy can be carried out safely.

This is exactly Xu Ping's purpose, he wants to use the commodity economy to impact the natural economy, so that the commodity economy can get rid of the old shackles and become the mainstream of society. The more intense the impact, the more impressive it will be on officials across the country, and the more it will force them to adapt to new things and think of new solutions. As long as a new system adapted to the commodity economy is established, it will be irreversible from then on, and a new era will surely come. In this sense, everything is worth it.

Lu Yijian is obviously not aware of this revolutionary change, and stubbornly sticks to the old track. According to the old vision, the prosperity of the cotton cloth business did not bring much grain through the imperial court, and the increased income was only left on the books, and everything on the books was not empty? Compared with this empty money, the trouble now is real.

All these troubles were brought about by Xu Ping's willfulness on Jingxi Road, and it just so happened that Wang Zeng even spoke to Xu Ping, so suppress it together, which will be of infinite benefit to himself. In the past two years, Lu Yijian has been smooth sailing, and his ability to control the government is much stronger than when Xu Ping was in the capital, and the last thing he wants is to change. If the current development continues, even Wang Zeng will soon be marginalized, and Lu Yijian's position will be as stable as a rock.

When Xu Ping was the deputy envoy of salt and iron in the capital, it was Wang Zeng who opposed the change, because the emperor had just made a new deal, lacked political experience, and young people were impulsive. Now that Xu Ping is on Jingxi Road, the harm of change is not as great as before, and Wang Zeng's attitude has become tolerant.

And Lu Yijian has just begun to control the government, and the new changes will have the greatest impact on him, and any slightly bigger changes will not be allowed by him. Whether it is to promote the new policy of Qianzhuang or to promote silk silk, it will impact the examination courses of current officials, which will affect the promotion of officials. This is not allowed by Lu Yijian, and personnel rights are the top priority in his eyes.

Seeing the solemn atmosphere in the hall, Zhao Zhen coughed lightly: "What Xu Ping did on Jingxi Road is not Meng Lang, the trouble now is still the trouble caused by too much money after all, and it is not a big deal." This year, there are hundreds of millions of cotton cloths on Jingxi Road, which are all real achievements, and it can't be said that there is no money and grain. Because of the sale of cotton cloth, even the Kaifeng government collects it, and the commercial tax is a lot more than in previous years, and the world is still looking at it these days. It's just that there are a lot of copper coins in the world, and there are so many cotton cloths in exchange for money at once, it seems that there is less money. Today's discussion is about this alone. ”

Lu Yijian said: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, Xu Ping is known to His Majesty, and he is bent on doing something, and his intentions are always good. But after all, I am young, and I can't tell the difference between what is important and what I do. Cotton cloth is a good thing, but how can the world stand it when it is sold like this all of a sudden? In the opinion of the minister, it is better to take it step by step and increase it slowly. ”

Zhao Zhen saw that Wang Zeng didn't speak, so he had to say to Lu Yijian: "I don't know what good plan the minister has?" ”

Lu Yijian said: "The cotton cloth is on the market, first, it suppresses the price of silk silk. And silk and copper coins are the same as the foundation of the world, once the price suddenly changes, into the field will be shaken. The second is that cotton cloth is very different from silk silk and ramie, silk and ramie cloth are produced in private households, and the imperial court collects taxes and goes into the treasury, and there is no money. The silk silk is put into the treasury, which can be used as money when it is stored, and it can be used as money when it is released, and it is a two-way move to collect the people's copper coins into the treasury. The cotton used in cotton cloth is produced in the camp field, and the cloth is woven in various fields in Henan Province, and everything has nothing to do with the people. Money is used everywhere in the middle, even if cotton cloth does not have eleven of the number of silk silk in the world, the money required is far from being comparable to silk silk. How much cotton has been produced on Jingxi Road this year? Compared with the two taxes, it is naturally more, but for the silk and ramie cloth produced in the world, the number is not worth mentioning. The amount is not large, but the money is huge, and there is obviously something wrong in the middle. ”

Song Shou said on the side: "What Lu Xianggong said is very reasonable! In fact, judging from the quantity alone, cotton cloth is far from being compared with silk silk and ramie. Xu Ping was in Yongzhou, and Yongzhou's ramie cloth was also spread all over the world, but when had you ever heard that there was a shortage of money because the amount of ramie sold was too much? According to the minister's opinion, there must be something strange in this! I heard that Jingxi Road sells cotton from the camp, to the spinning yard to the yarn, the weaving yard to the cloth, and the dyeing yard, all of which are settled with copper coins, which is very different from before. In the past, whether it was silk or ramie, the cloth itself was money, and I had never heard of changing it to copper money. It is precisely because Jingxi Road did not allow cotton cloth to be used as money from the beginning, so it often used a huge amount of money, resulting in today's predicament. ”

In fact, this has begun to slowly get to the crux of the matter, Xu Ping wants to engage in a commodity economy, and the possibility of using cotton cloth as currency has been cut off from the beginning, and this industrial chain needs a huge amount of copper money. If cotton cloth is also used as currency like cloth, the copper coins needed for the intermediate link will be greatly reduced. When the foreign state armies traded, if they allowed the exchange of cloth and silk, and retained a part of the barter trading method, it would not have caused such a large shortage of copper coins.

But in that case, it was far from Xu Ping's original intention, and in the end it became an unclear and confused account. The production chain of cotton cloth is absorbed by the original natural economy, and it is difficult to establish the chain of commodity economy.

After Song Shou's words were finished, Yan Shu and the others nodded one after another, which made sense. If the cotton industry is slowly rising, and gradually forming a fixed exchange ratio with the original cloth, it will not have such a violent impact on the original economic system, where is there so many things now? Speaking of this way, it is indeed Xu Parallel that is too radical.

Zhao Zhen also felt that this made sense in his heart, and his trust in Xu Ping couldn't help but be a little shaken.