After dispatching three leaders of the business group, Hong Jinglai summoned Zhao Wanyong, Cui Zhengji, Han Que, Jin Zaichang and others for a second round of discussions. The previous round was to listen to the opinions of the masses from the perspective of industrial and commercial people and obtain professional opinions.

Suggestion. The current round is to judge the feasibility of the matter from a political perspective, and to look at the matter from the perspective of the bureaucratic system.

First, as the Hucao counselor who actually handled specific financial affairs as an agent, Cui Zhengji made an opening speech, roughly making a report on Hong Jinglai's personal thoughts and the suggestions of the three major business groups.

Zhao Wanyong didn't know much about market circulation, currency transactions and other issues, and said he would listen to everyone's opinions first. Han Que had just collected this year's autumn grain tribute rice and still had some opinions on the in-kind tax system implemented by North Korea.

The most clear point is that the imperial court needs cash income, and current physical income, especially grain, must be sold at a discount to obtain the funds needed for various expenses of the imperial court. Although expenses such as salaries, military pay, and rewards can all be paid with rice.

As a means of payment, cash is needed to pay for daily operations, office maintenance, paper, pen, ink, firewood, firewood, etc.

Of course, the imperial court also had institutions such as the Customs and Excise Department, which levied commercial taxes, and mines in various places paid smelting furnace fees, but the cash was completely insufficient to cover the expenses everywhere.

This also allowed tribute merchants, including Park Xianyu, to make a fortune. They could not only make profits by undertaking official procurement affairs, but also profit from the discount between money and rice, making double money from one transaction.

The merchants in Beijing in those days relied on this stuff to make their fortunes, and they accumulated an unknown amount of wealth over the years.

In a word, the court needs cash, and the more you, Hong Jinglai, can mint it, the better!

Secondly, within the entire bureaucracy, if Hong Jinglai can distribute his salary in the future in a half-money-rice ratio, it will not only ensure that Hanyang officials have rice to cook at home, but also ensure that they can get cash to buy other daily necessities. I want to come to the entire Hanyang court.

The officials in the capital would raise their hands and feet to support Hong Jing in minting new money.

As for those who are officials in other places, their salaries are theoretically spent from the local government offices. And they are all local officials. They face the people directly and have many ways to make money. There are no

A few people are concerned about the small salary that the court should pay. A dozen or twenty kilograms of rice a year is enough to do anything. Even if they want to feed and clothe the whole family, they can't do it.

Of course, Han Que also raised the issue that Li Xizhuo and the others were also concerned about: whether the content of the new money could be guaranteed!

You have good intentions and mint new money, but it turns out that the money is still good in the first few days, and the rest is just shoddy garbage. The civil and military officials in Hanyang can tear your heart to pieces.

When people's support changes, it's not just a simple word or sentence.

Others basically agreed with what Han Que said. The Li Dynasty was a cheating court. Their salaries were reduced and reduced again and again, and they were all paid in kind. It’s okay if you have a big package and you can get paid for everything. In winter, you can burn charcoal at home.

You don't care, you don't care about the Gebu clothes you need to wear in the summer, as if those ten or twenty kilograms of rice are worth the gold.

There are some people in a big country who are stupidly criticizing their bosses. They feel that the 3,000 to 5,000 yuan they were given were not RMB but US dollars, but gold. They feel that they are already the most conscientious capitalists in the world, and they pay such high wages to their employees.

Wages move the universe!

Pooh!

Jin Zaichang is the one who has been an official in Hanyang for the longest time among all the people here. He is the same year as Min Jingxue. In theory, Hong Jinglai would have called him uncle. He really hated the fact that the imperial court could not pay him salary. If he hadn't been in the official position

When Cao was an official, he could earn a little filial piety from local officials every month, otherwise he would not be able to continue to be an official.

It is difficult to be a Beijing official, not only because you may be involved in political struggles at any time, but also because the expenses in Hanyang are high. You have to maintain the dignity of a two-shift official, and you have to take care of the food, drink, and shit of the whole family. The family has no money.

People like this really may not be able to make it in Hanyang.

Therefore, Jin Zaichang was completely happy to see the success of minting new money. At the same time, he also made a straightforward suggestion to Hong Jinglai: it is better not to mint money by yourself.

In the past, money was minted in the training camp to pay for the army, so we did not dare to pass it off as inferior quality. After all, there were thousands of people in the training camp killing Han people, but those who knew how to kill officials for pay had knives in their hands. As for coining money in the palace, then

It must be for palace expenses, and no one will accept the bad money. Moreover, we need to give rewards to those poor clan members. If we give out bad money, we are going to let our clan members starve to death.

After all, due to some scruples, several minting institutions in the past were relatively restrained, and the quality of the copper coins minted was generally relatively guaranteed.

The imperial court has always been in a state of severe crackdown on private castings. There was once an official craftsman who cast an extra Changping Tongbao privately just because he made it for fun. After being discovered, he was still sentenced to death. As for private castings by private people,

Not to mention, his wife, son and daughter were even involved in the death penalty and exile.

Although private casting has been banned repeatedly, under severe suppression, the private casting situation in North Korea is not serious. Of course, the deeper reason is that Japanese silver and red copper were very cheap in the past, and the entire North Korea was too lazy to develop its own country.

To obtain minerals, just exchange silk from the Ming and Qing dynasties for precious metals from Japan.

This directly led to the slow development of North Korea's domestic mining industry and the scarcity of talents!

If it hadn't been for the halcyon years of King Yeongjong and Jeongjong, as well as the fact that Japan itself discovered that the outflow of precious metals was serious and began to regulate the outflow, forcing North Korea to train its own craftsmen and develop mines, North Korea might not even have the craftsmen to develop the Gapsan copper mine on a large scale.

Hard to find.

Thousands of words condensed into one sentence, today's bureaucracy is rotten, top to bottom. Let's just think about this matter. If we really want to handle it, we should leave it to other reliable people.

"The Xuanhui Department will take the lead and unite with the three major business groups to set up a new money chest. It will also operate coinage, distribute civil and military officials' salaries, and collect and exchange bills?" Hong Jinglai felt that his opinion was not too mature.

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"Turn it all over to the private sector? It doesn't seem right..." Zhao Wanyong just naturally felt that this didn't work.

Although he followed Hong Jinglai step by step, he was also a person who could hold on to power. Even though the Hanyang Mansion Yamen was in great turmoil, it was still in the hands of his old Zhao family.

"If the government supervises the affairs of the people, the authority of the government will be too strong, and in the end it will be the same." Hong Jinglai had seen this before.
Chapter completed!