Chapter 280, Chapter 123: The trap of "wealth" falling from the sky
Although the decline of the bullfighting country is the result of many factors, it is generally believed that silver is definitely one of the reasons that cannot be ignored.
After obtaining a large amount of silver, the bullfighting country thought that it had great wealth. Everyone was poor. I am the only rich bullfighter in the world, and you all are poor. Who knows that if silver is to be equal to The wealth they expect depends on whether other countries are willing to recognize it.
If other countries recognize it, then silver is a metal. If other countries do not recognize it, then silver is a metal.
After seeing that the Bullfighting Country became rich and owned so much silver, other countries were envious and envious, so they began to maliciously raise the prices of the Bullfighting Country’s commodities. What was originally sold for one silver coin was bought by the Bullfighting Country. You have to charge two silver coins, who makes the bullfighting people rich!
The Bullfighting Country knows that other countries are targeting them, but they don’t pay much attention. If you don’t need this little money, you will continue to play music and buy. You don’t even have to worry about your own domestic construction. Anyway, if you are rich and arrogant, you will buy whatever you need. What.
But when one day, other countries restrict or stop selling goods to the bullfighting country, the bullfighting country tycoons are instantly confused, and then they become "The most painful thing for people is that the people are still there, but the money is still there." "But the money can't be spent." There is silver but it is difficult to buy goods.
Li Nian concluded: "We often confuse the value of copper as a metal with its role as a currency carrier. In normal times, it is actually nothing and has little impact. But in some special times , but it is a very dangerous thing, and may even affect the rise and fall of a country!”
Hearing Li Nian’s serious tone, everyone in the hall also listened attentively. Some people had actually thought of Li Nian’s words! mean.
The ancients were not stupid, they were just limited by the times and could not think of things in some aspects. But as long as you give them a start and pierce the window paper, they can think of it themselves.
Li Nian was the one who helped them break the window paper!
Li Nian raised another question: "Your Majesty and everyone might as well imagine, if a large amount of gold, silver, and copper suddenly flowed into Da Qin, what would you think?"
Feng Qu Ji replied honestly: "Before I heard from the minister, I might have thought that Da Qin suddenly became rich overnight. From then on, Da Qin will be extremely powerful."
Feng Jie continued: "But in fact, these Things can neither be eaten nor Not being able to drink it will not change the population, weapons, food, and silk and hemp of the Qin Dynasty. Therefore, except for the increase in gold, silver, and copper, the national strength of the Qin Dynasty has not changed."
Wang Wan also said: "But if not If you can see this clearly, you are in danger! You think that having gold, silver, and copper means having a lot of money. Even if Da Qin is short of food and weapons, Da Qin is rich and can buy enough food and weapons from outside..."< br>
Li Si added: "However, if other countries do not sell food and weapons to Da Qin, or do not recognize gold, silver and copper as coins, what is the use of more gold, silver and copper?"
Wei Liao again Added: "Even he We can design a trap and sell grain and weapons to Da Qin first, so that Da Qin will have the idea that "everything is available in the outside world, but there is no money, but I have money, everything can be bought outside, and there is no need to work hard on farming and production." idea, then no more Sold items to Da Qin, thus putting Da Qin into trouble."
Wang Jian also interjected: "At that time, Kong was facing a pile of coins, but he had no food, weapons and other items, and he had been raised by others. I have money and everything It is really dangerous to think that everything can be bought from outside and waste one's own production."
Although everyone deduced the result that Li Nianxiang told them, he believed that there was a chance of this happening in China! Not high.
Because... there is a piece of land here. If you don't plant something on it and it stays empty all the time, you will always feel uncomfortable.
This kind of thinking is almost engraved in the Chinese blood. Even modern people will have an idea when they see a piece of wasteland, what can be planted on this land?
If you want to grow vegetables in the cracks between bricks, what other land can you not want to grow?
And Chinese people also have a habit of always stocking up supplies for emergencies. In this regard, many Westerners are drunk today and even buy tomorrow’s and the day after tomorrow’s supplies on credit. Drink.
Feng Quji sighed and said: "This deduction can indeed affect the rise and fall of a country. We must remember and not make this mistake." Li Si and others nodded one after another, but the First Emperor, Meng Tian, and Meng Yi knew This is not a deduction. It must be that some countries in later generations really declined because of this.
Judging from what Li Nian said in the past, it should be the first empire on which the sun never sets!
After sighing, Feng Quji looked at Li Nian and said: "But everyone in the world today thinks that gold, silver and copper are both coins and wealth, so they hoard them. What should the minister do? "Reform the law?"
Li Niandao: "Li has no intention of changing this idea. As long as your majesty and you all can understand the difference."
"Because this kind of thinking is beneficial to Da Qin, especially to the countries outside Da Qin, it will not only make it difficult to understand the difference, but also deepen it."
Everyone thought about it and understood the meaning of Li Nian's words.
Let the Huns and Baiyue people know what they are doing so clearly, so that they can convert the real assets in their hands into Da Qin coins and be controlled by Da Qin.
If they understood and were unwilling to convert real wealth such as food, land, and mineral deposits into Da Qin coins, but wanted to keep it in their hands, it would be troublesome for Da Qin.
Just like those rich people in Mao Xiong, they converted their assets into Dao Leer and stored them in Western countries. Then they were frozen by a group of Western countries headed by Yingjiang, and they were done for.
Of course, those rich people don’t have many choices. They can’t keep the wealth they have obtained through various means in the country, right? It may be more dangerous at home than abroad.
Wang Wan spoke up again at this time. He pointed out several key issues: "But if you want to do what the minister said, you must also solve the following matters:"
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“First, we must be able to mint an appropriate amount of coins for private circulation, because people will hoard coins.”
“General people are fine, but those merchants will hoard a lot of coins.”
These words made everyone nod. Some merchants wanted to hide all the money they earned at home and not take it out even if it rotted away.
This will lead to many consequences, one of the more obvious ones is: the court obviously minted enough coins, but the people just had no money to circulate, and a money shortage occurred.
Da Qin's current coins are made of copper, but Da Qin's copper is not that rich. It is really difficult for these people to hoard the coins.
Wang Wan pointed out the second point: "Second, how to make the countries willing to deposit coins in Da Qin? If the method mentioned by the Minister can be realized, it will indeed benefit Da Qin, but why should the countries want to Put the coins in Da Qin? "< br>
“If this matter cannot be resolved, Shangshu’s method will not be achieved, but even if it can be achieved, the impact may not be as great as what Shangshu said.”
(End of this chapter)