As soon as Liu Che's voice fell, the courtiers suddenly began to buzz and discuss.

Anything else is set aside.

The purchase price of this wheat is on par with that of corn?

What does this mean?

Many people's hearts are pounding.

As long as you're not a stupid person, you know what to do when you go back.

Hurry up and harvest the wheat!

Collect as much as you want!

Now the price of grain in Chang'an, because corn is protected, fluctuates very little.

Generally speaking, between 50 and 60 yuan per stone of corn is basically the same as last year's level -- if it is higher, the Shaofu will have to intervene.

And wheat, a stone of wheat, is currently on the market for up to thirty yuan, and sometimes, even twenty-five yuan.

If the price of wheat is the same as the price of corn.

So......

Many people are quietly turning their small abacus in their hearts.

After all, it is not easy to live in Chang'an.

Whether it is food, clothing, housing, transportation, or social banquets, it is a huge expense.

Relying only on Yulu, everyone would have starved to death a long time ago.

Even the former prime minister An Hou Shen Tujia, who had always been known for his honesty and uprightness, could only turn a blind eye to the greedy behavior in the officialdom as long as it was not too excessive.

Liu Che looked around at the ministers and said, "Gong Cen, this matter will be handed over to Qing to be personally responsible!" ”

"No!" Cen Mai hurriedly came out of the column to worship.

But the heart is extremely bitter.

When today's son ascended the throne, the speed of spending is too fast!

The fast Shaofu can't keep up with the speed of spending money today.

What's the deal with going on like this?

Emperor Taizong Xiaowen and Emperor Renzong Xiaojing saved up the treasury for thirty years. I'm afraid it won't take ten years to bottom!

It's just that. The name of the Shaofu is Jiuqing, but in fact it is just the personal butler of the Son of Heaven.

All owned by Shaofu. It is the private property of the Son of Heaven.

Not to mention that he wants to use it to do these things that are beneficial to people's livelihood today, even if he is building a large number of buildings and wine ponds and meat forests, he will also do it.

Liu Che looked at Cen Maiwei's trembling appearance, and also felt strange and pitiful.

He understands that Shaofu also wants political achievements.

If he continues to spend so lavishly, I'm afraid that Cen Mai, a poor old minister, will be driven crazy.

Thereupon. He comforted him: "Duke Cen doesn't have to worry about the treasury, the day before yesterday, I received a note from the father of the domestic history of Jiangdu, saying that he had built salt fields along the coast of Jiangdu according to my intentions, and I have issued an edict to assign the salt fields of Jiangdu to Shaofu!" ”

The master father Yan was ordered to go south to Jiangdu, with a mission. In addition to supervising the construction of ships that can sail offshore and even far sea for fishing, another responsibility is to develop salt pans in Jiangdu.

The salt drying method is not a high-tech one.

At the beginning, Liu Bi, the king of Wu, mobilized more than 100,000 people to boil the sea for salt. With the abundant sea salt in Wudi, it monopolized most of the salt trade of the Han dynasty and made countless profits.

The boiling salt used by Liu Bi is still too primitive. And it's a waste of manpower.

Liu Che asked his master father to take dozens of Shaofu craftsmen and two disciples of the Mo family to the south, and explained that they would lead the sea water to the salt pans. Use the sun to dry the salt.

As for how to operate it, it depends on their continuous trial and operation.

Anyway. The technical difficulty of this matter is not high, as long as you are patient and try a few more times, you can always find a way.

No, the main father Yan wrote to Liu Che a few days ago to report the good news.

The salt drying method has been successful!

Along with the music, there is also a whole bag of dried sea salt.

Liu Che has seen it, the sea salt that the master father has dried is actually coarse salt, and it may take several processes to remove impurities, harmful substances, and so on before it becomes salt for future generations.

But for the pre-AD peasants, coarse salt was also salt!

As long as you can eat it, you won't die, why bother so much?

In China's long feudal era, the salt eaten by the vast majority of the people was coarse salt.

As for refined salt or something, it was only the eunuch family and the wealthy landlord class who could afford it.

In other words, the salt that the Lord Father has dried can be sold directly.

And the profit of salt and iron, regardless of asking, not to mention, the cost of drying salt, in addition to labor and land, is almost equal to zero.

When Cen Mai heard this, his face was a little better.

Finally, can there be one more entry, right?

After deciding on this matter, Liu Che looked at the other courtiers, Liu Che knew very well in his heart that these people would definitely use the news they knew in advance to buy wheat.

However, this was what Liu Che expected.

If you want to promote winter wheat, it is difficult to achieve results by raising the price alone.

It is necessary to win the support and agitation of the landlord class in Guanzhong.

Without the promotion and help of the landlord class, and relying only on the spontaneous actions of the peasants, it may take several years for the scale of winter wheat cultivation to be increased to the scale of corn cultivation.

This is still Guanzhong!

I don't know how much time it will take to spread to the whole of the North!

Of course, more importantly, Liu Che has been laying out, starting from the protective price of corn, he has been laying out.

Subsequently, the Longshou Canal, the railroad carriage, and even today's winter wheat were all part of his layout.

The ultimate goal, Liu Che's idea is very simple: log Ericsson!

At that time, Shang Ying presided over the reform of the Qin State, starting with the log Lixin, which established the people's confidence in the government's credit.

It can be said that the success of Qin's reform of the law is inseparable from the government credit established by Shang Ying.

From then on, the common people believed in all the promises and goals of the Qin regime.

And today, hundreds of years later, the world is declining, the people's hearts are not ancient, and it is no longer the era when you can win the trust of the people of the world by relying only on logs.

Especially the emperor of the old Liu family, in the past fifty years, he has done some things to eat what he said back into his stomach.

For example, at the beginning, Liu Bang and the meritorious generals were allied with the white horse: if it is not the Liu family, it is not the king, it is not meritorious, it is not as good as the appointment, and the world will fight together.

And then......

Emperor Taizong Xiaowen named Bo Zhao as a marquis, which opened the prelude to the marquis of Qi outside the Han Dynasty.

Later, in order to go down the steps for himself, he made the uncle of Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, a liehou......

That's it......

Anyway, it's a promise to the noble ministers.

However, accept the mistakes of the building yì. Adopting the model of donating corn to the lord, of course, a large amount of grain was obtained. alleviated the food shortage in the border counties, but. But it also ruined the credibility of the Han family.

As for the later little pigs, they completely used the country's credibility as a tool to collect money.

He issued a white deer skin coin, a foot of white deerskin, as a pound of gold, the highest face value, reaching 400,000 yuan! The number is platinum......

And then......

When merchants, nobles, and landlords holding white deerskin coins demand cash......

The goods flipped the table and denied it.

Countless people died in the pit......

This is the first successful case in history books of fraud with national credit.

The banknotes of the Mengyuan in later generations, the treasure banknotes of the Ming Dynasty. In fact, what I learned was the means of the little pig.

Liu Che remembered this incident because this white deer skin coin case was the fuse that directly led to Yan Yi being killed by Zhang Tang for the crime of slander.

Liu Che naturally kept the lesson of the little pig in his heart.

But on the other hand, it can be reversed that the issuance of a large denomination currency is not some wishful dream.

With proper planning, it's doable.

Liu Che is not as stupid as a piggy. Not as undisciplined as he was.

Liu Che's temporary plan was to first determine the gold standard and set the price of gold and five baht.

In other words, he had decided to take back the coinage. The financial power will be returned to the state, and private money will be prohibited.

Then, look at the situation again. First, some large-denomination currencies were issued that circulated only in the circles of nobles and eunuchs.

As for paper money?

Before there was sufficient anti-counterfeiting technology, the regime that issued banknotes. Either you want to dig your own grave, or you're brain-dead.

Liu Che has now even made a batch of that kind of large-denomination currency.

This currency is based on a silk script specially made in the imperial palace for writing the edict of the Son of Heaven. It is one foot and one inch long and five inches wide. Its opening chapter is: I was ordered by the sky, herding and hunting Kyushu, now there are ministers XX, meritorious society, and he gives 100,000 yuan. It is stamped with the seal of one of the three seals of the Son of Heaven.

When it comes to the level of anti-counterfeiting, no one can counterfeit!

For this currency is not so much money as a decree of reward.

According to the system, this kind of edict is in triplicate, and it is kept by the Lantai, the prime minister, and the edictee.

Especially the Lantai Imperial History of Shiqu Pavilion, if there is no such paper edict in the edict of the Son of Heaven in their custody, then it is fake.

Not to mention cashing in, the holder will definitely lose his head, and even harm the family.

And why is it said to be currency?

Because Liu Che's plan stipulates that this kind of edict or currency can be withdrawn at any time, and can be directly used to buy gold offerings in Shaofu.

This kind of provision of withdrawing at any time and exchanging huàn gold at zero discount as a discretionary gold, Liu Che believes, will definitely be sought after by the princely class.

You must know that the most headache for the princes is the ancestor worship presided over by the imperial court every year, and if you are not careful, you will be charged with unfilial piety, and you will be stripped of your title and feudal country, and demoted to the common people.

The princes would have been glad to have such an edict, which could be withdrawn at any time and converted into gold or gold.

And Liu Che was even happier, because he could take advantage of this to slowly and simply turn the money into this kind of edict.

Then, through the edict of guò, which did not require money, a large amount of money was collected from the hands of the princes. (At first, this kind of edict will definitely be a reward, but when the princes taste the sweetness, they will definitely exchange money for this kind of edict, after all, compared to copper coins, the gold that can accompany the burial underground is obviously more precious)

And this kind of system, Liu Che knows very well, will inevitably become the germ of paper money in later generations.

To do this, Liu Che must establish the image of him, a son of heaven, who speaks his word and never speaks.

After the establishment of national credit, not only the financial field, but also other civil, judicial, and military aspects will benefit a lot.

Even, in the future, when fooling some alien races, such as the third brother and the monkey, an imperialism with credibility and doing what he says will obviously win the support of the local aristocracy and upper-class rulers more than an imperialism without credibility. (To be continued......)

PS: I'm sorry, there was a copy error when I copied it yesterday, and then I was careless and didn't pay attention to it, but now it's been corrected, you can go and see it~

Well, it looks like I drank a little more yesterday~