Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

Emperor Chongzhen simply ignored this matter.

If the common people ask for more hair, they will have more hair?Is it up to me or the common people?

It is very simple to print some more treasure notes now, but once more are issued, the consequence is likely to depreciate the value of the treasure notes, and fools will issue more!

It wasn't until Chongzhen's ten-year spring tax came up that the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty once again shyly printed 1000 million taels of treasure notes.

This time it's even more ridiculous, not only the merchants in the capital are already watching the issuance of this batch of treasure banknotes, but even some big merchants in Nanzhili are also following the release time of this batch of treasure banknotes, and even deliberately brought money Come to the capital to exchange a batch of treasure banknotes.

No one is a fool, and no one is willing to pay hundreds or thousands of taels more than others for no reason when paying taxes.

This time, not only the newly printed 1000 million taels of treasure banknotes flowed out, but also the previously issued 1000 million taels were used by merchants in the capital to pay taxes and flowed back to the treasury, so it was equivalent to 2000 million taels of treasure banknotes. Notes can be exchanged.

However, it is useless. 2000 million taels may seem like a lot, almost catching up with Chongzhen's ten-year spring tax, but in fact, many large merchants exchange tens of thousands of taels at a time.

It was too easy to find [-] large merchants in Daming, so the treasure notes that were just issued did not last even a day, and were exchanged again.

The banknotes that were exchanged were still collected by these big merchants and planned to be used to pay taxes, but they still did not circulate in the market.

The sourness in Emperor Chongzhen's heart, which was rewarded, was beyond description, and in the end it could only be reduced to three words - Ma Mai Pi!

Has the banknote been issued?

It was issued, and the face value met my expectations. One tael of silver is equal to a consistent treasure banknote, and the entire Ming Dynasty has already recognized it.

But what about in practice?

This thing has not been circulated in the market at all. All these things are held in the hands of merchants waiting to pay taxes, and then wait to exchange silver for precious notes after paying taxes. Gold, silver and copper plates are still in circulation!

Slapped in the face by the fucked up Daming society?

Emperor Chongzhen couldn't figure out where the problem was—even the cabinet and the eight ministers couldn't figure it out.

Emperor Chongzhen was very upset.

Based on the confidence that he still had a few thousand taels of silver in his internal funds, Emperor Chongzhen simply issued another 1000 million taels of Chongzhen treasure banknotes.

The result was that Emperor Chongzhen was slapped in the face again, and the 1000 million taels of treasure bills were still not even turned over, and they were all swallowed up by those merchants.

This time, Emperor Chongzhen did not dare to print more precious banknotes again.

There must be something wrong here. If you don't find the root of the problem, printing more precious money will not solve the problem, but will make this thing depreciate invisibly.

The problem lies with the merchants as well as the people. Emperor Chongzhen planned to go out of the palace to have a look, find out the root of the problem and then solve it.

Otherwise, if it continues like this, I don't know when this thing will really circulate.

After arriving at a restaurant that had nothing to do with Jinyiwei and Dongxichang, Emperor Chongzhen's wicked taste once again occurred: "First boil a pot of wine, and then serve some of your specialty dishes, and by the way, two catties of sauced beef. "

The waiter looked at the precious banknotes dangling in Emperor Chongzhen's hand, but his face was full of bitterness.

I know this treasure note, and the shopkeeper has already let me see it, but this treasure note is not so easy to pick up.

The imperial court was collecting cattle all over the world like crazy, and now no cattle dared to fall to their death by themselves.

Even if there is, it is only the restaurant that has relations with those honorable lords who dare to let the cow fall to death, and it only does business for regular customers.

These guest officials who are not regular customers order beef, and it is very likely that the cow will fall to death on the front foot, and the government will come to the door on the back foot.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the tangled expression on Xiao Er's face, and said with a smile: "Forget it, if you don't have beef, you don't have any. Serve a few of your specialty dishes and make them ready."

The waiter in the shop responded with a happy smile: "Okay, don't worry, my lord, the food and drink will be ready in a while, please sit down."

When it was time to check out, Emperor Chongzhen took the few dimes of silver that the waiter had found, and asked curiously, "Why don't you find the treasure notes? This way, it's convenient for me to carry it with you?"

Chapter 522 Not Enough Treasures

The shop waiter laughed and said: "My lord, forgive me, the small shop doesn't have those scattered treasures, only hundreds of coins and ten coins. I guess other restaurants are the same."

Emperor Chongzhen had fun now, and simply smiled and said: "Okay, you will be rewarded with these pieces of silver, and keep it."

Picking up more than two taels of broken silver for nothing, the waiter in the shop naturally thanked Emperor Chongzhen repeatedly. Seeing his posture, he really wanted to confess to Emperor Chongzhen as if he was his own father.

Emperor Chongzhen felt that he had found a reason.

The face value of the Chongzhen treasure banknotes issued by the Treasure Banknote Bureau was too large. As a result, ordinary people were useless and could not afford to exchange them. Instead, it was convenient for large merchants to pay commercial taxes after exchange.

Just like the renminbi of later generations, in addition to the hundred-yuan bills, there are also ten and two cents. In the early days, even one and two cents were flying all over the ground.

In contrast, the usual denomination of precious banknotes is roughly equivalent to several hundred yuan in RMB. In this way, it is naturally convenient for the rich and excludes the poor without money.

This is very unscientific.

Even in future generations, if you take a hundred-yuan bill to buy a tea egg, try to see if the seller will look at you like a fool.

Now that the root cause of this problem has been found, the remaining things will be much easier to handle.

During the period from the ninth year of Chongzhen to the beginning of spring in the tenth year of Chongzhen, the entire Ming Dynasty was basically relatively stable, and there were basically no major natural disasters.

The great hunger that originally occurred in history and the rebirth of man-made disasters did not appear after Emperor Chongzhen tried his best to obtain food.

The most direct change is that the people of Ming Dynasty have been spoiled, and they are not very active in such things as land distribution in Liaodong. It was not until after the distribution of concubines that some people were willing to go.

It can be said that Emperor Chongzhen drew the blood of other small foreign countries to support Daming, ensuring the internal stability of Daming.

As for those fan countries in Nanyang who cooked several times a year because they sold their grain to everyone at a high price and caused their people to starve to death, Emperor Chongzhen obviously didn't care.

In March of the 1000th year of Chongzhen, the Bureau of Banknotes issued another [-] million taels of new banknotes, but the face value issued made the merchants who were waiting to be excluded to change the banknotes curse.

This time, not to mention the denominations of hundreds of pennies and ten pennies, there are not even consistent ones.

There is no problem in exchanging these precious banknotes to pay taxes, but is it disgusting to go back with a bunch of small denomination banknotes?

It takes half a day to count!

Especially those so-called small officials at bank outlets are even more disgusting: "Master, if you change, the villain will slowly count for you, just sit down?"

Xu Chengshun, the owner of Zuixianlou, one of the most famous restaurants in the capital, originally cheated Jiannu with Yang Qiqi in Liaodong, but now he has been completely whitewashed into ordinary Ming people, and now he misses Liaodong Jiannu terribly.

When he was in the land of slavery in Liaodong, as long as he had money in his hand, how dare this mere official talk to him like that?

His legs have already been discounted!

But now it's over, this little official treats everyone like a bird, not only against himself, it's useless to sue the government, there is nowhere to get angry.

After returning to Zuixian Tower angrily, Xu Chengshun ordered his shopkeeper with a dark face: "Send the word, in the future, those who bring treasure bills will be paid in normal silver, but try to keep the treasure bills out as little as possible. "

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "Master, treasure banknotes are just paper. It's fine for paying taxes. If you put too much in your hands, it may not be a good thing, right?"