"Where can I find a stable source of money?" Liu De paced and thought.

This is undoubtedly a difficult thing to do.

Since Liu Bang, the national policy of the Han family is to rule by inaction and rest with the people, but what is not prohibited by the law, the people will play whatever they want, and the government will not care.

As a result, industry and commerce developed rapidly.

Big businessmen are emerging.

With the wealth in their hands, their flexible minds, and the connivance of the government, these people have seized almost all the industries that can make money.

They excavated rocks, smelted iron ore, boiled the sea to make salt, and traveled the world.

The merchant group was so strong that even Sima Qian's later historical records had to be passed on to them separately.

Undoubtedly, the prosperity of industry and commerce has brought trouble to Liu De to open up financial resources.

Basically, all the profiteering industries have now been carved up by businessmen in collusion with officials.

It is difficult for Liu De to take food from the tiger's mouth.

Moreover, even if he made a decision and ran to grab business with businessmen, Liu De didn't think he could compete with any businessmen.

Because capital is dirty and ugly.

For example, the most lucrative salt and iron trading right now.

The merchants did not regard the workers and servants they hired as human beings at all, and in many mines and salt ponds, the overseers employed by these merchants forced the workers to work with whips and butcher's knives, and those who toiled for a day were paid very little, and even the black-hearted merchants would not even be paid, but would only take care of two meals.

In this way, their costs are naturally greatly reduced.

But Liu De can't do this?

Not only can you not abuse the craftsmen under you, but you even have to treat them favorably and preferentially.

In this way, the cost of the same thing Liu De is countless times higher than that of businessmen, and it can be said that he lost at the starting line.

But then again, these merchants are now living a chic and happy life, but they don't know that they have already dug their own graves with their own hands.

In his previous life, after Liu Che came to power, he slashed all the knives on the bodies of the merchants.

Inadvertently, Liu De saw a coin taped to the wall.

It was a coin of the Eight Sentences, which was minted in the later period of the Lu Dynasty and is no longer in circulation.

Liu De walked over, took the coin in his hand and weighed it, and suddenly smiled: "The monk can touch it, can't the Taoist master touch it?" ”

He knew that he had found a steady source of money.

The financial policy of the Han family is still very chaotic.

When Liu Bang ascended the throne and became the Son of Heaven, the first thing the Han Dynasty did after the founding of the country was to divide the heroes, and the second thing was to reform the coins.

However, Liu Bang was just a pavilion chief of the Qin State back then, and his culture was not high, and he had been fighting people on the horse after he raised an army against Qin.

Therefore, he does not understand anything about economics and finance.

It's just that as a pavilion chief back then, Liu Bang knew about the hateful situation of Qin's coins, and the coins issued by Qin were called half two coins, one inch and two cents in length and width, and weighed twelve baht.

This kind of half-tael is heavy and large, and it is a bit heavy to put a few in your pocket, and if you encounter a large transaction, you usually use an ox cart to pull money, which is extremely inconvenient for the people to use.

So, immediately Liu Bang, the son of heaven, waved his hand and patted his head and made a decision, changing the Qin Dynasty half two coins and twelve baht to three baht, so that the size and weight of the coin will decrease, and the people should be happy and happy to use it.

It's a pity that Liu Bang made this decision to ignore the most basic common sense - he changed the weight and size of the coin, but did not change the value of the coin, and the weight was only a quarter of the Qin coin's three baht, but the value of the currency remained unchanged, and he still used it as half a tael.

Ordinary people are not stupid.

How is it possible to use such coins?

And what added fuel to the fire was that in order to buy people's hearts, Liu Bang actually opened up the right to mint coins and allowed private coinage.

A capitalist is a thing?

For the sake of profit, the capitalists can sell the ropes that hang them!

In order to make money, black-hearted merchants mixed lead and iron with the already tragic new money, and the coins minted were not only light and pitiful, but also extremely thin.

So, the economic crisis came suddenly.

The finances of the Han family suffered a heavy blow, so much so that in the early period of the founding of the country, even Liu Bang could not gather six horses of the same color to pull a cart for him......

After Liu Bang's death, Empress Lu came to the dynasty to weigh the system.

Lü Hou carried out a certain reform of Liu Bang's financial policy.

The first is to mint eight baht coins to replace the three baht coins minted by Liu Bang.

At the same time, in order to prevent bad money from driving out good money, the money law and the golden cloth law were promulgated to regulate the financial market, and private coinage was prohibited.

This stabilized the financial economy.

By the time Empress Lü died, the Han family's treasury had become full, and the country's financial situation had greatly improved, and it was even possible to have spare money to train new armies and form cavalry.

However, after the princes and ministers destroyed Zhu Lu and helped Liu De's grandfather Liu Heng to sit on the throne of the Son of Heaven, the situation changed again.

Because the position of the Son of Heaven was given by the princes and ministers, Liu Heng was just a puppet for a time, and the country's major politics were controlled by Zhou Bo and Chen Ping.

To change this, take real authority.

It is necessary to buy people's hearts and give sweetness to the ministers and princes.

As a result, the eight-baht coin was abolished, the four-baht coin was changed, the money theft order was abolished, and private coinage was allowed.

This Dahan Finance has returned to the Liu Bang period.

Only this time the capitalists and the princes and nobles learned the hard lesson of the previous one, and did not mix lead and iron too ruthlessly in the coins, and basically the coins minted looked to be made of copper.

Since princes and kings can mint money, nobles can mint money, and even merchants can mint money.

Then Liu De can naturally mint money!

How profitable it is to mint money, I don't know if I know it.

For example, the state of Wu of Wu King Liu Bi, with a standing army of more than 100,000, is strong and strong, dominates the south, and beats Dongyue with his feet, as if he is the overlord of the southern princes.

Liu Bi's Wu Kingdom is not a place of ointment, otherwise it would not be his turn to be the king of Wu.

So what did he do to feed his huge army.

The answer is coinage and table salt.

Relying on these two profiteering industries, Liu Bi, the king of Wu, not only raised an army of 100,000, but also countless robbers and bandits.

It's just that this coinage is also exquisite.

Most of the money circulating in the market now is half a tael of the Qin Dynasty and the four baht coins prescribed by the first emperor.

Half a tael is too heavy, although the credit is high, but the circulation is small.

The four-baht money is too light, and the quality is not good, so the credit is relatively low.

"Let's learn from Liu Che!" Liu De calculated that the five-baht coin minted by Liu Che in his previous life can be described as a classic case of Han finance, as soon as the five-baht coin came out, with the decree prohibiting private coinage, the original four-baht coin and half-tael coin were all driven out of the circulation market in a few years.

Even during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the five-baht coin was still in circulation!

The advantage of this five-baht coin is that it is heavier than the four-baht coin and lighter than the half-tael coin, which takes into account the needs of transaction circulation and does not make the people worry about depreciation.

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The first update is sent, and I'm afraid it will be late for the past two days~

The main reason is that the mother-in-law is coming, and the mother-in-law has a two-day birthday, you know, coax the mother-in-law, and the wife will be happy.

Well, there are 2 more at night~