Chapter 845 A theoretical way to make money that can be used forever.
Zhu Yijun looked at the title in front of Taibai Tower. Today, the content of the Taibai Tower talks was that how about is it distributed to the people of the Ming Dynasty every year?
"Ban Feng, I am still too kind on weekdays. Look at these literati and doctors, and you are eyeing my vault!" Zhu Yijun sighed a little. He never expected that the literati and doctors of the Ming Dynasty were so bold! The Wanli Baochao is Zhu Yijun's gold bond. This year, he got the money from Zhu Yijun, the king and father.
Feng Bao pinched his fingers for a long time and whispered, "Your Majesty, you can't afford it, you can't afford it at all."
There are now 130 million people in the Ming Dynasty. Each person will issue 12 guan treasure notes a year, which is 1.56 billion treasure notes a year, that is, 1.56 billion taels of silver, and more than 300 million taels of gold, that is, 11,600 tons of gold.
These scholars and officials really don’t learn anything. If they learn something, they know that the emperor can’t get 11,600 tons of gold a year. Not to mention 11,600 tons, even 0,600 tons, Zhu Yijun can’t get it.
"I think I think of me. Where can I get hundreds of millions of gold in a year?" Zhu Yijun shook his sleeves and walked into Taibai Building and waited for the start of the talk.
Zhu Yijun met an unexpected person in Taibai Tower, Li Chengliang, the Marquis of Ningyuan, and he also came, and the emperor directly announced him to the Tianzi box.
"Marquis Ningyuan also likes to listen to the talk?" The Emperor of Ming Dynasty signaled Li Chengliang not to be too polite and asked him to sit down and speak.
Li Chengliang smiled and said, "Report to Your Majesty, it's just a fun place. It's fake to listen to the talk. What about me, just look at which a slutty scholar is not good at looking at, talk nonsense, and beat him up."
Li Chengliang feels that his retirement life is really great!
I eat and drink delicious food every day, and when I wake up, I look for cheap scholars everywhere, which has been angered by scholars for so many years! Finally, I have a chance to vent.
For Ningyuan Marquis Mansion, the more Li Chengliang beats the lowly scholars, the safer the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion. Doing so is a separation between the military and civil officials, especially the martial merits who are both very good at Li Chengliang and Li Rusong, so you must be extra careful.
However, according to the observation of the Dongchang Fanzi, Li Chengliang beat up the villain not to protect the safety of the Yuanhou Mansion in Ningning, but more to vent his anger. Li Rusong made great achievements in his war, and His Majesty had a prosperous Spring and Autumn Period, and His Majesty had no reason to kill the donkey.
So it's purely personal grudges.
"So that's it." Zhu Yijun and Li Chengliang talked about the war situation in Japan, especially Qi Jiguang's conquest of Nagato, Ishimi and Izumo.
As a Marquis of Ningyuan, Li Chengliang should have gone to the Wenhua Palace Court to discuss every day, but he refused to discuss it on the grounds that he was old and sick, just like Wang Chonggu became the second assistant, but never sat in Wenyuan Pavilion.
Li Chengliang's purpose was quite simple to avoid the right and wrong in the court, and to pass on the Marquis of Ningyuan he had earned. Moreover, he did not go to the Wenhua Palace for Li Rusong's future.
If he went today, Li Rusong would not be able to go to Wenhua Palace in the future. Yan Song and Yan Shifan had to be guarded against.
Li Chengliang was not aware of Qi Jiguang's plan. After hearing the emperor's remarks, he added a little bit of his own point of view, from both military and political perspectives.
Military, this narrow and long coastal territory is easily cut off and defeated in half, so the navy needs to be in charge. The navy is properly rescued, which can greatly change this dilemma;
Politically, Li Chengliang felt that the Ming army must strictly abide by the ban and hand over the evil things to the Japanese brokerage comprador and daming. The Ming Dynasty should not interfere too much in these dirty things. First, it will not let the Ming army's moral decline, and second, it will reduce the Japanese's resistance to the Ming army's garrison.
"Let the Japanese hate the Japanese and let the Japanese fight against the Japanese. This way, it will last for a long time. I still think that the Ming Dynasty should not come forward to collect heavy taxes and urge them too quickly to prevent the old things in Annan back then." Li Chengliang summarized his views.
Zhu Yijun was silent for a while and asked with a smile: "Is the Japanese who hate the Japanese? Does the Marquis of Ningyuan do the same in Liaodong?"
"I will have such a trick that I don't have to dominate." Li Chengliang admitted that he was in Liaodong to deal with the seven tribes of Haixi, the Savages, the Jianzhou Jurchens, and the Outer Khalkha tribes, and let them kill each other. This is a relatively cheap way of rule.
The only disadvantage of doing this is to raise a Gu. It will be difficult to end if it is raised to raise a Gu King that the Ming Dynasty cannot handle, but the Ming army has entered the era of all firearms.
The tactics of "queuing and shooting" that cooperate with each other are already very skilled. There is no Gu King that can't be controlled by artillery. If there is, it means that artillery is not enough.
"The Ming Dynasty was still too free when these Confucian scholars were not arrested." Li Chengliang looked at the Confucian scholars who entered the market. He was extremely dissatisfied with many of the remarks of these conservative scholars. He mainly had some conservative scholars who had not learned to speak contradictoryly, and he was a castle in the air when he opened his mouth.
These people sat in the warm pavilion of the capital, pointing fingers and pointing at the things outside the border, and often said that the general of the border criticized the barbarians, wanted to cultivate literary virtues and be gentle to the distant people. Although they had never seen a few barbarians, they were full of fantasies about them.
Only when you really arrive in Liaodong will you know how rampant these barbarians are? Raising these barbarians into the soil to compose them is the greatest kindness.
"For you to appreciate your face, today's talk will be held next. I am a native of Tong'an County, Fujian Province. I am a remote countryside. I am not fluent in the official language. I am also kind to you." Cai Xianchen bowed to the four sides. He is from Fujian and speaks with a little accent and is often sneered because of his accent.
But this official language is not so skillful in a short while, and the accent is indeed a bit difficult to change.
The Dongchang's novel has already investigated the eighteen generations of the speaker Cai Xianchen's ancestors and summarized them into a memorial and placed them at the hands of His Majesty.
Cai Xianchen passed the juren in the 13th year of Wanli. In the 14th year of Wanli, he entered Beijing to take the imperial examination and did not pass the examination. He became a disciple of Wang Yuanmei in the capital and was actively preparing to get the imperial examination in the 17th year of Wanli. This time, Wang Yuanmei asked Cai Xianchen to come to Taibailou and talk about his views on Baochao.
Wang Yuanmei felt that studying hard was not a big deal, so she would rather travel thousands of miles than let Cai Xianchen go out and read thousands of books.
"There is no disadvantage in the world that is merger. In the 16th year of the Wanli Reform, the land and land production can no longer satisfy the appetite of the powerful and powerful people, so merger is a monopoly." Cai Xianchen began his own talk.
Zhu Yijun found it interesting. Cai Xianchen had at least read the Contradictory theory and read the class theory, because the second volume of class theory is the distribution volume.
In the case of small peasant economy, the world is trapped in annexation, the land is concentrated and abandoned, and the grain output is insufficient. If there is a slight natural disaster, it means that the people are desperate and can only rise up.
After the small peasant economy transformed into a commodity economy, the word "merger" became a complex distribution problem, and eventually changed from distribution problem to monopoly.
The specific manifestations of mergers in the commodity economy are: monopolizing means of production and tools of production; converting from physical land deeds to equity certificates; turning people into slaves through debts, just like the past medics and tenants who were forced to rely on; high concentration of market share, technology, capital, industry, etc.; transferring their own risks to the majority to bear, etc.
To solve the problem of monopoly, we must solve the distribution. At least Cai Xianchen's discussion is not empty and humble Confucian remarks.
Cai Xianchen continued: "Annexation is monopoly. How to solve monopoly? Naturally, we work hard on distribution, and let's take a look at this sentence. How about is it issued to the people of the Ming Dynasty every year? This sentence contains several prerequisites."
"First of all, it is regular, annual; the goal, individual, and everyone in the Ming Dynasty; the number is twelve steadily, that is, basic living security; finally, there is no prerequisite, no matter whether it is a young or a person, it will be issued."
Twelve secrets are twelve silvers, which is the median income of a strong laborer in the Ming Dynasty who works for a year.
In other words, Cai Xianchen wanted the Ming Dynasty court to issue basic living security to every specific individual unconditionally, annually.
The content Cai Xianchen wants to talk about is universal, basic, regular, unconditional, and personal, a social guarantee mechanism.
Cai Xianchen continued, "It seems a bit amazing. Even if it is printing money, 1.5 billion jin of money and 300 million taels of gold a year, it will not be realized no matter what."
"But we should note that the anchor of Baochao is now gold, but not just gold, but also the goods of the Ming Dynasty. With the continuous improvement of productivity, the treasure money that the Ming Dynasty can issue is definitely not six million guan or sixty million guan a year, but six hundred million guan and six billion guan."
Cai Xianchen had long noticed the problem that can be seen at a glance. The current productivity cannot be achieved at all. The anchor of Wanli Baochao is just gold, but it can be goods in the future. It is difficult to find 300 million taels of gold, but you can still think about the goods that produce 300 million taels of gold.
The purpose of his topic was to discuss the future of credit currency, and whether it can maintain basic social fairness by issuing money to everyone under the premise that the productivity is high enough and the material is abundant in the future.
This is the issue that Cai Xianchen discussed.
"If we stand on the standpoint of the court and provide basic economic guarantees, we can effectively reduce dissatisfaction, and we will not rise up. The Ming Dynasty will naturally be unwavering forever." Cai Xianchen said with a smile on his face: "You guys, we seem to have found a way that will last forever, at least in theory, feasible."
"It is worth noting that this way of paying money is a distribution method and is very effective because it does not require tedious and extremely troublesome review and can significantly reduce administrative waste. Especially when the people have money, they will buy various goods, thereby promoting the prosperity of business."
In theory, a way that can be used to make money unwavering in the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yijun leaned lazily on the back of the chair, looking at Cai Xianchen without any intention. This statement looked very wonderful and was very attractive to the emperor, but Zhu Yijun knew clearly that it was impossible to send money forever.
A Confucian scholar reached out and stood up and said with confusion: "You said it very well, but if you send money, doesn't it mean that you didn't send money? Because you send money, the total amount of money will increase, and the Sun Shangli's index will continue to increase. The more you send, the more you increase."
The Sun Shangli Index mentioned by this Confucian scholar was proposed by Yao Guangming, the magistrate of Shanghai County. It is divided into two types: cheap necessary commodity prices increase and more expensive non-essential commodity prices increase.
The increase in the total amount of money will inevitably cause the Sun Shangli Index to soar. The more it is issued, the more it will rise.
"You asked very well." Cai Xianchen nodded and said, "If it is simply giving money, it will definitely lead to a surge in the Sun Shangli Index. Because the products that can be provided in the market have not increased accordingly, we cannot simply giving money. This is the issue I have been emphasizing. What we need to do is distribution."
"This money must not be generated out of thin air. Once it is generated out of thin air, it is not a basic guarantee, but a debt."
"Xu Heng said in "Book of Paper and Coins": Using the money of paper and ink, we can get the goods of the people of the world; printing and making is easy, and it will be endless and endless. How can the world say that gods refer to rubble and gold? How can this be overcome?"
"Paper banknotes are debts. As long as they are debts, they must be paid back. If the Ming Dynasty ignores the anchor and issue large amounts of money, the Wanli Baochao will be the end of the Hongwu Baochao, which means that the Wanli Baochao method has failed again."
Zhu Yijun was very convinced of Cai Xianchen's words, and he issued money at will without an anchor, and the Ming Dynasty itself was the one who suffered in the end.
Xu Heng has discussed in detail the relationship between currency and debt in "Book of Paper Currency Notes". Paper banknotes are debts, and debts are paper banknotes. The essence is the same and is also the basic principle of the Ming Dynasty's issuance of banknotes. The court wrote an IOU and borrowed gold from the palace, but the treasure banknotes were borrowed.
As long as we do not deviate from this basic relationship, the Ming Dynasty can maintain the quantity of treasure not being issued excessively.
Such a system design is to protect the lower limit of the empire.
Cai Xianchen wanted to have a talk and talk, but he didn't understand anything. He was also a joke when he went to the stage. He was really very educated and had a very good understanding of banknotes.
The Confucian scholar frowned and said, "You also said that if you want to issue 12 slabs of treasure money a year, it will cost at least 300 million taels of gold. Even if the Wanli treasure money uses goods as anchors, it can support such a scale."
"What should we do to prevent Baochao from being produced out of thin air? A simpler and clearer question: Where does the money come from?"
Cai Xianchen said with great affirmation: "There are many sources. We can increase taxes on the power of the country, impose taxes on inheritance, and increase profit tax; take out a portion of the profits paid by the official factory; we can also put this huge amount of money on the investment in trading banks or overseas plantations, and distribute the profits to the people."
"In any case, this money cannot be generated out of thin air, otherwise it is better not to pay it, which is even more harmful."
Cai Xianchen was very convinced of the Ministry of Rites that as long as it was a debt, it would have to be paid back. It would be that the power would have to be paid back, or that would have to be paid back by the poor and hardworking people. In reality, this is often the case. The gentry's money is returned in full, and the people's money is 30% or 7% of the money.
The treasure money produced out of thin air was like a boomerang, hitting everyone's eyebrows. "School." Li Chengliang thought for a while, sneered, and leaned on the back of the chair. Cai Xianchen was not a slut, but he was a little ignorant of the world, and his ideas were a little simple.
Zhu Yijun asked curiously: "Oh? Marquis Ningyuan has other ideas?"
Li Chengliang shook his head and said, "The biggest problem of this Confucian scholar is that he thought the court too omnipotent. If the court is so powerful, how can there be any change of dynasty?"
"And money, no matter at any time, you will get oil in your hands after passing it once. Your Majesty gave 1.5 billion yuan, which may not be lost in Wanmin's hands."
"Things like money are like water, and always flow to places where you don't lack money."
The court is not omnipotent. It is a mistake to regard the court as an omnipotent god. The court is also composed of individuals, rather than mastering an absolutely fair god and dealing with everything impartially.
Moreover, if the court issues money, it will breed corruption. It is unknown whether the money will eventually be in the hands of the people, but those who are not short of money will definitely be richer, resulting in the poorer the poorer the richer the richer.
That's why Li Chengliang thought that Cai Xianchen was naive, and this naive disease was easy to treat. As long as you really did something, you would know how difficult it would be to realize this unrealistic fantasy.
Zhu Yijun sighed and said, "I have introduced some wormwood from the country of Ross. The flowers of wormwood can be used as medicine. Whenever the flowers bloom, all kinds of thieves will surge into the fields."
"Most of these thieves are old people and children. They break into the fields like crazy and grab the Artemisia flowers."
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"These thieves are all drug dealers looking for some wandering people and clamoring them to enter the park. The purpose is also simple, to destroy the fields so that the drug dealers can continue to sell their arsenic instead of pagoda candy."
"What do you think the Agricultural College can do?"
"When the Grand Secretary told me, he was heartbroken, because these wandering people had no way to pick them, and they often messed up the grass fields, and the Artemisia arborist was expanding production. This destructive picking brought great trouble."
"It's all the elderly and children. They can't be beaten or scolded or punished. The local government can only advise, like locusts, and just drove them away, and they came again."
"The key is that these drug dealers deliberately let these thieves, mainly elderly people and children, trampled on and destroyed the fields, so that the scale of Artemisia abortion cannot be increased."
Li Chengliang asked curiously: "How did Your Majesty solve it?"
"I had no choice but to arrest a group of people and found the drug dealer. The drug dealer was not finished yet. I also caught the owner behind them and hung the owner in the grass field. No one stepped on the grass field again."
Zhu Yijun said helplessly: "I don't think about it either, but I don't have a good way to do it. These bosses will also let these drug dealers clamor to deceive the fallen people and destroy the land."
Zhu Yijun used several owners and hung them in the fields. Since then, no one has destroyed the fields.
Using this word means killing people for sacrifice, such as the Shang king used Qiang.
The reason why Zhu Yijun killed people was because of the fact that these bosses had a lot of death. The pharmacies of these bosses sold fake medicines and were full of bad things under their butts. They dared to provoke the imperial power in the farming and sericulture affairs led by the emperor himself. This is seeking death.
These bosses were lucky and thought that they would not be found by clamoring for the fallen people, but seriously underestimated the Tiqi's ability to handle cases.
The investigation process is very tortuous, but these Tiqi, who are from Duntai Yuanhou, are best at finding the culprit from clues.
This is the reality. Everyone has their own interests. Even some couples have different dreams in the same bed, and they can sleep in the same bed and be free from the renunciation.
"Isn't this seemingly absolute fairness unfair to the hardworking people?" A famous Confucian scholar stood up and asked loudly. He quickly realized the big problem behind this seemingly reasonable system, that is: this fantasy system is actually raising lazy people.
Absolute fairness is often unfair. This is an oppression to the hardworking and capable people. The more they do, the more they earn, the greater their grievances they suffer.
Because these hardworking and capable people have become the supporters of lazy people. If this continues, no one will be willing to work hard and the entire Ming Dynasty will lose its vitality.
Cai Xianchen smiled and said, "You are right, so there are still too many twelve silos, so we have to cut it into half of the value, and we can only barely live. If we have a little bit of turmoil, we will be in great pain."
Twelve guan is the median of a strong laborer in a year, half of which is one quarter, and three guan notes are just a bite and can’t starve to death. In this way, the scale of lazy people is reduced.
The Confucian scholar said very disagreeably: "This is not a matter of how many, but a matter of raising lazy people. So what if you cut it by half? The fallen people may do evil everywhere, forcing and robbing these newly issued treasure money."
"I will not mention the people who have been living in the world for now. You still have not been able to solve the problem of not worrying about being indifferent. Why should I raise him as a lazy person?"
After saying that, the Confucian scholar stood up and chose to leave. Cai Xianchen prepared a speech but could not convince him. Then more than a dozen Confucian scholars chose to leave the seat, which was a expression of disagreement with the content of the talk.
The Tao is different and does not make plans, and there is no too much quarrel. They leave directly, make noise, and insult the courtesy.
"I send 12 stakes to the public. Why not send 10,000 stakes directly? In this way, everyone will have a fortune." A Confucian scholar stood up, spread his hands, and asked everyone.
He raised more sharp questions, and directly made a lot of money, which could achieve the so-called fairness. Once everyone has money, there will be no poor people.
"Of course this doesn't work. If you issue 10,000 guan, how much should rice, flour, grain, oil and coal rise? No, no." Cai Xianchen waved his hands repeatedly and said.
The Confucian scholar looked at Cai Xianchen and said seriously: "So, I don't agree with your statement. Sending money cannot solve injustice, but instead creates greater injustice. This is the reason I object."
After calmly stating his reasons, the Confucian scholar left Taibai Tower. There were dozens of people leaving with him, and less than fifty people were left under the stage.
Another Confucian scholar stood up and asked with a frown: "I have a place of doubt. When you are hungry and cold, can you survive by eating your own meat?"
"Of course not, you will only die faster." Cai Xianchen did not mess around, but answered this question positively.
The Confucian scholar shook his head and said, "Your Majesty's annotation of "Theory of Contradictions" says: One yin and one yang are called Tao. The principle of infinite things is one and two qualities. If you get it in the east, you will have to pay for it. If you take the jade, you should give up the jade. The sun and the moon are bright and the dark and the new, and the cold and heat are moved, and the prosperity and withering are born."
"You want to give everyone money, so what is the price? This is what we must consider. History tells me that the people who bear the price are often the laborers of the poor, not the powerful and powerful."
"So, I don't agree with your statement. Your idea is good, but the final result may be in the opposite direction of what you imagined."
After saying that, the Confucian scholar left Taibai Tower, and several others left with the Confucian scholar.
"Have I commented on this sentence?" Zhu Yijun looked at the Confucian scholar who left and asked Feng Bao. The conflict had been a bit long, and he didn't remember that he had said this.
Feng Bao did not look up the memorandum, and directly bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, of course there is. This minister will also betray this. The latter is: the wise observe changes, the excellent ones keep the middle, the tooth or the tooth, and the two-purpose ones are held."
A wise person is good at discovering and perceiving the changes in everything; a skilled person will stick to the way of being upright. Excessiveness and inadequacy are both useless. We must grasp the two extremes and use the middle way.
In the dual purpose, this word comes from "The Book of Rites: The Doctrine of the Mean" is Confucius' praise of Shun, and it is also the core idea of the Doctrine of the Mean.
"Mr.'s conflict is too obscure. Everyone learns conflict theory and only considers His Majesty's annotation." Feng Bao explained why he recited this passage, not to facilitate the emperor's flattery, but mainly to understand the conflict theory.
Zhang Juzheng was a great scholar. When he wrote contradictory words, he was too careless and he was like gold. Some logical changes made people confused. However, His Majesty's annotations are explained from the perspective of children and students, which is very easy to understand.
"So that's it. The Master said: Review the old and learn the new. I still have to open the old books and read them again, so as to forget them." Zhu Yijun was somewhat moved. Some scholars and officials had almost surpassed him, the emperor.
Reviewing the past and learning the new is indeed an excellent way to learn.
"Your Majesty has said that if you don't plan to revive your career, it will cause trouble to the people; if you don't change the system of labor, helping things will eventually be false." A Confucian scholar stood up and shook his head and said, "Any strategy that cannot promote the change of production relations and increase productivity is false. In the end, it will bother the people, and the people who suffer losses must be the people."
"I don't agree with your ideas, so I'll say goodbye."
After the Confucian scholar left, there were very few people under the Taibai Building's gathering stage.
"I think Cai Xianchen's words are very good. Although I can't afford to support all the people, I can also give widowed, widowed, orphans some treasure money so that they won't be so difficult." Zhu Yijun looked on the stage, and Cai Xianchen looked anxious and confused. His views seemed to be unrecognized by most people.
Zhu Changzhi had a coach Qian San who had only one eye. He was bullied in the Yangjiyuan and was arranged by Zhu Yijun to Zhu Changzhi. Zhu Yijun gave him the famous Qian Zhizhong.
Feng Bao whispered: "Your Majesty, widows, widows, orphans are the minority after all, and these treasures are likely to be defeated."
"What you said makes sense, but the Ming Dynasty is still not strong enough." Zhu Yijun said with great approval that the five large tiled houses in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty were not even dug well, and it was not the time to slack off.
Li Chengliang glanced at His Majesty. In fact, His Majesty was not aware of one thing at all. Distributing money was not particularly important to the state. What seemed to be the most terrifying thing about Li Chengliang was that His Majesty killed a large number of Confucian scholars who should have become inferior Confucian scholars with contradictions.
Because the imperial examination is to be taken, these Confucian scholars have to read the contradictory theory, but once people learn to look at a problem from the perspective of positive and negative, they cannot be a lowly Confucian scholar.
The theory of contradiction is completely different from class theory, and the theory of contradiction is a way of thinking about problems.
Li Chengliang has been watching for so long, and he knows very well that when these scholars and officials are gathering together, they always talk about contradictions, which will prevent the entire talk from being out of reality, and at least it is meaningful.
This is a very terrible phenomenon, because these scholars and officials were the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty in the future, and the officials were selected.
At least for twenty or thirty years, the imperial examination system was still the most effective means and method for the Ming Dynasty to select talents. The young scholars and officials who are still slightly immature and immature will be selected in the future, which will determine the fate of the empire.
At least it is much better than those lowly scholars who talk about their hearts and minds.
(This chapter ends)