Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

Gold is very important, because even the conditions for gold to form in the entire universe are very harsh. Even if there may be an entire planet in the universe that is gold, but compared to the total mass of the universe, its The quantity is definitely a rare level substance.

Therefore, Li Ke will keep the gold and store it secretly, and the key to adopting the silver standard lies in the goods of Datang.

When you have a trade surplus with all countries, whatever you say counts.

This is fundamentally different from the trade surplus after more than 1000 years. If there is a trade surplus after more than 1000 years, it is not good news, because the domestic currency will be under huge pressure to appreciate, and a large trade surplus means that your goods will demand external markets. Dependence is greater, these are not good news.

But the difference in this era of the Tang Dynasty is that all trade must be in kind, that is, silver or gold, or other things, such as... land and other resources.

Resources may not be realistic in the short term, but land is possible.

As for the goods sold by Datang, most of them are luxury goods such as porcelain, silk, and tea. Advantageous.

When Datang continues to export these things to the outside world, it means that a large amount of silver will enter Datang from overseas, and if it is a war period, some countries will buy some materials from Datang without a large amount of silver. Under the circumstances, it can only be paid in gold.

But they choose to use gold, and Datang will not collect gold according to their domestic gold and silver ratio, but according to Datang's.

As long as there is not enough silver in the market, the inflow of gold is inevitable sooner or later.

Li Ke wants to search the world's silver first through the silver standard plus trade, and then say that as long as the amount of silver purchased is large enough, it is reasonable for gold to be forcibly devalued.

Regardless of whether you think gold is more valuable than silver, anyway, my Tang court does not recognize it, and as long as Datang is strong enough, silver will become valuable.

When the vast majority of silver is monopolized and gold starts to be collected at a ratio of 1:5 or even 1:3, the gold will sooner or later be monopolized by Datang and flow into Datang.

For example, the Ming Dynasty, through foreign trade, almost caused most of the silver in the world to flow into the Ming Dynasty at that time, and it also became the fundamental reason why the later Ming and Qing dynasties used silver as currency.

In the Ming Dynasty, Spain mined at least 80.00% of the world's silver in the Americas, but not in the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, with Li Ke's current post-industrialized size, it is estimated that the world's silver will soon flow into Datang.

At that time, Li Ke can properly increase the income of the people in the Tang Dynasty, and then gradually depreciate part of the copper coins.

The current value of copper coins is too high, and when the currency value is too high, it is not conducive to commodity circulation. Therefore, copper coins must be devalued appropriately. When the value of copper coins depreciates to a certain level, banknotes for ordinary people can gradually circulate.

The whole plan has been carried out step by step, and now the initial plan can be implemented.

The most critical policy of currency is nothing more than acceptance and credit. If acceptance is no problem, then credit is naturally no problem.

In fact, the exchange coupons of Youjian Mall are the biggest example in the past two years. Now, because the exchange coupons of Youjian Mall are not afraid of the problem of imitation and Li Ke’s credit, they can be circulated among the nobles of Chang’an City. currency to use.

"It's fine if you know what's in your mind, but there is one problem, you still have to tell Fang Xuanling, if you don't mention such an important matter, he will go crazy." Li Shimin said helplessly.

"Um...that's for sure." Li Ke was a little embarrassed. This really couldn't cheat Fang Xuanling. After all, he was equivalent to the prime minister of a country. In the end, he didn't even know that there was an extra central bank under his staff. That Prime Minister is too bad.

Moreover, Li Ke still needs the cooperation of the treasury, so not only Fang Xuanling, but also Huang Fulin, the current minister of the Ministry of Finance, must also rule.

Not only Huang Fulin, but also Dou Lukuan, who moved from the Minister of Rites to the Minister of Audit, also notified him.

"Okay, then I'll ask Chang Lin to notify Fang Xuanling, and tell him about financial and currency matters. It depends on who he notifies, and let him bring someone here." Li Shimin thought about it, and he didn't bother After thinking so much, let Fang Xuanling decide for himself.

"Okay." Li Ke simply nodded his head, acknowledging the matter.

Hurry up, it's okay to finish it.

Chang Lin went to inform, Fang Xuanling came very quickly, but when he arrived at Liangyi Hall, Li Ke was a little speechless, the old house called a lot of people.

Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, and Changsun Wuji are all here, are you three bound?Then Fang Xuanling's ministers came from the Minister of State Assets Supervision Department Liu Zhenghui, Minister of Finance Huang Fulin, Minister of Commerce Tang Jian, Minister of Audit Dou Lukuan, Minister of Land and Resources Gao Jifu, Minister of Industry Duan Lunhe Minister of Public Security Qin Qiong.

Good guy, almost all the ministers of the main department came here.

"Your Highness, I heard that you are looking for me." Fang Xuanling said directly after entering.

"It's something." Li Ke said speechlessly, "It's like this. I just discussed with my father about the establishment of the Datang Central Bank."

"Qian Zhuang?" Fang Xuanling and the others were stunned for a moment.

Li Ke was also polite, and directly told them the main role of the Central Bank.

"Paper money? Can paper be used as money?" Everyone was dumbfounded, and Wei Zheng didn't turn around for a while, looking at Li Ke and asking.

"Why not? In the past two years, have people in Chang'an City less used the exchange coupons of the Youjian Mall in Datang? Isn't that just paper money? As far as I know, many people have directly traded. Just use my exchange voucher to buy things." Li Ke said lightly.

Everyone was shocked when they first heard that paper could be used as money, but when Li Ke finished talking about the vouchers, everyone reacted instantly. Although they didn't want to believe it, in fact, what Li Ke said was true. That's right.

Oh, it's understandable that Wei Zheng didn't know. After all, Zheng Guogong is poor and everyone knows it.

But the other ministers are not poor. Although they may not have members, they have all used exchange coupons. When Li Ke said this, they thought about it carefully, and there were really people who used exchange coupons to buy things, at least they had heard of it. , I just didn't think much about it when I first heard this.

At that time, in their consciousness, the exchange voucher was equivalent to the money in Youjian Mall, so it was normal to use this to redeem the money.