Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

When Zhu Youjian exchanged silver coins with them, he asked them to sign an agreement.

The silver coins in the hands of these two people cannot be exchanged in Zhu Youjian's control area.

Except within New Daming, they can be redeemed anywhere and in any way!

How much they can earn is up to them.

However, the money they earned must be brought back to Daming.

If the two of them put their gold and silver abroad in Ming Dynasty, then don't blame Zhu Youjian for being unkind!

These two people are the wolves in Zhu Youjian's hands.

If you give them more profits, you can better promote the silver dollar.

Therefore, the exchange ratio between these two people is the lowest.

In the area under Zhu Youjian's control, the silver dollar exchange business was directly under the jurisdiction of the inner court.

Even the Ministry of Revenue has no right to intervene.

This regulation puts the exchange ratio of silver dollars in the new Ming Dynasty in the hands of Zhu Youjian.

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The reason why Zhang Shutang proposed this exchange ratio is not due to technological progress...

The silver dollar is a suppressed coin, and it comes out with a "bang-dong" sound!

As long as the idea is broken through and the mold is made, there will be no problem of unfamiliar craftsmen...

It's true - Zhu Youjian exchanged too many silver coins, and the people no longer care about them, so the exchange ratio dropped.

In fact, it won't be long before the silver dollar will return to its face value.

That is, one silver dollar is equivalent to one tael of silver.

Of course, even at this price, Zhu Youjian still made huge profits.

Because the silver content of a silver dollar is only five cents...

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Because in Zhu Youjian's control area, only Zhu Youjian was in control of the exchange of silver coins, so Li Shusheng had no objection to this exchange ratio.

According to the provisions of the Ming Dynasty Commercial Law, if one carries a large amount of silver without any reason and leaves the Ming Dynasty (Zhu You's prosecutorial control area), he will be suspected of smuggling precious metals.

You could go to jail or even lose your head!

After controlling the outflow of gold and silver, this is what Zhu Youjian must do!

Unless these merchants hide the silver, Zhu Youjian has the final say on how much to exchange.

This is a major issue related to the right to issue currency!

This is the foundation on which the regime can be stable!

As a descendant, even if he doesn't understand economics, Zhu Youjian knows what to do.

And silver...

Zhu Youjian Controlled Area - Except for doing business directly with the government, no one can directly trade silver.

Once someone reports you, you will be fined more than three times or even sentenced!

This also led to the fact that aristocratic families had to exchange the silver in their hands for silver coins in order to circulate normally.

In this way, the silver dollar became a legal currency.

Zhu Youjian's financial war created an environment for success.

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Li Shusheng knew all this well.

Therefore, he did not dare to ask for one hundred thousand silver.

If you don't say you are coming, it will be of no use except for storage...

He alone still has 300 million share capital, which is in the hands of the emperor. Li Shusheng does not dare to lose big for small things.

Zhang Shutang pretended to do some calculations and said with a smile:

"In this way, the Li family can get a dividend of [-] pieces."

Zhang Shutang clapped his hands and said solemnly:

"Someone, take out the Li family's dividends!"

One hundred soldiers came out, each holding a tray in their hands. Inside the tray were three hundred shiny silver coins.

These silver coins that have just left the factory reflect the metallic light under the sunlight.

It blinded everyone's eyes.

A scene of hundreds of soldiers wearing leather armor, holding trays covered with red silk cloth, walking out uniformly...

It shocked everyone present!

"Oh my god!

Actually paid dividends...

God! "

The gentlemen of the aristocratic families cannot sit still.

Piles came together and whispered to each other:

"Thirty thousand silver dollars!"

“Oh my God!

Take it to Jiangnan, even if you don't do business, you just exchange money with them...

This is more than one hundred thousand silver! "

"yes!

oh my god.

The Li family has made a lot of money! "

The children of the wealthy family were so greedy that they drooled.

They thought the emperor was blackmailing the Li family.

But I didn’t expect that I actually gave dividends to the Li family?

And he gave so much directly!

God!

My master is confused!

This great benefit has been lost in vain!

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Before the Qing army entered Nanyang and strangled Li Zicheng's forces——

Nanyang is one of the six largest metropolises in the world!

It was a commercial hub at the time.

No matter whether you go east to west or south to north, you have to pass through Nanyang.

How rich was Nanyang before the early Qing Dynasty - Nanyang City alone did not return to its peak state until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the reconstruction of Nanyang City. The inner city wall alone was more than six miles wide!

Nanyang City in the Ming Dynasty in County Chronicles

This is just an inner city!

You can imagine how big Nanyang City was at that time!

According to historical records of the Ming Dynasty, the outer city wall of Nanyang extended for 72 miles!

Outside the outer city, there are a large number of streets, businesses, and residential areas!

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army fought a tug-of-war here for nearly 30 years with the remnants of the Ming army, Wang Guangtai and others (Yunyang Ming Army), and the remnants of Li Zicheng.

Until the early Kangxi period, when Li Laiheng set himself on fire, the thirteen Kuidong families passed through Gucheng Mountain several times and captured several cities in Nanyang.

In today's Nanyang People's Park, there is a dirt hill called "Wangxiantai".

Next to it is the "Stele of General Zhang's Withered Bones". (It is said that his name is Zhang Yingxiang.)

This was taken by a friend when I was writing the outline of this book last November when my wife was hospitalized.

This monument is still there!

These are the dead people buried by the Qing army after they completely occupied Nanyang.

There are over 10,000 dead bones buried under this mountain!

After the Qing army occupied Nanyang...

Nanyang, one of the six largest cities in the world, had no living people.

It is said in history: The fields are filled with bones and wild dogs are everywhere.

Zhang Yingxiang had to build wooden cages, place soldiers everywhere, and shoot wild dogs and wolves...

Even after more than 260 years of Qing rule, it only returned to the size of the inner city...

This is the origin of "Plum Blossom City"!

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Nanyang before the end of the Ming Dynasty was not the Nanyang that was positioned as an agricultural area in later generations.

This is a business hub!

Take the Li family as an example.

In the early Wanli period, cotton cultivation had just begun to spread in Nanyang.

When the Li Xian family planted cotton for the first time, they planted more than 1000 acres of cotton in a single season.

And the Li family was just one of a dozen big families in Nanyang at that time!

(Because there was a wise Prime Minister Li Xian, only the data of the Li family are recorded in the history books.)

During this period, the population of Nanyang...

History clearly records that it is 519 million people!

(The number of men and women aged 16-59 years old who pay Ding tax is not the total population. Recorded in the early year of Wanli.)

There are 33 banknote checkpoints (which can be understood as commercial and tax checkpoints)!

During the same period, Kaifeng, the capital of Henan Province, had only one.

You must know that the commercial scale of these two trade routes along the Tangbai River and Jingziguan Danshui in Nanyang was the largest in the country at that time.

Even higher than the canal!

(The canal is responsible for transporting grain from the south to the north, resulting in a significant increase in the passage time of merchant ships.)

If we want to compare it with later generations, Nanyang at that time was Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai in later generations.