Is the Ming Dynasty short of money?

Is the entire Ming Dynasty short of money?

The young Yongqing was really difficult to understand this problem, and even there was no such statement in history books.

Will Daming lack money?

You should know that the annual tax revenue of the entire Ming Dynasty was only more than 4 million taels, and the circulating silver and copper coins were nearly 400 million taels. Will the Ming Dynasty lack money?

Besides, you don’t have to use money to buy things these days, and it’s the same with food.

Yongqing was a little puzzled and said, "Mr., it seems that there is no problem with bartering, so why do you have to use money to buy it?"

He said this is indeed fine. These days, there have been more bartering. For example, in the countryside, it is normal to exchange a few eggs for some rice, or a bag of rice for coarse cloth, or a little rice for some meat or something.

After all, not every family has money, and there are even a few farmers who don’t have a copper coin at home. There are so many people who use grain to exchange for things, and no one says it’s inconvenient.

If this problem is limited to personal life needs, it will naturally not be a big problem. However, once the transaction of bulk goods is involved, the problem will be big.

Yang Cong gave an example calmly: "There are many cloth shops and silk shops in Suzhou Prefecture, so the emperor should have heard of them? At this moment, Suzhou Prefecture alone produces tens of thousands of cotton cloth every day, and there are thousands of silk satin and silk, which means that in Suzhou Prefecture alone, the cotton cloth, silk satin and silk produced every day combined is worth more than 100,000 taels, and in a year, it is at least 40,000 taels to 50,000 taels. Just this is just the weaving item. Suzhou Prefecture not only has cloth shops, but also produces other products such as tea and iron.

Feng, if the goods produced by Suzhou Prefecture are all included, it is more than 100 million taels a year. And the entire southeast is not only Suzhou, but also the five southeastern provinces and one capital together have hundreds of prefectures. How much silver does these hundreds of prefectures need to be circulated in a year? The emperor said that there is no problem in exchanging goods for goods, which refers to the transaction of personal daily necessities. This bulk item transaction cannot be exchanged for goods. It is okay to exchange a bag of grain for one piece of coarse cloth. If it is ten thousand pieces, would it be possible to exchange a thousand bags of grain for? If it is ten thousand pieces, would it be possible to exchange a hundred thousand bags of grain? "If it is ten thousand pieces, would it be possible to exchange a hundred thousand bags of grain for exchange?"

For 100,000 bags of grain, at least thousands of carriages are needed to pull, while Suzhou Prefecture can produce tens of millions of pieces of cotton alone in a year. In other words, if you exchange grain, at least hundreds of thousands of carriages are needed to pull the grain, which is too exaggerated!

In fact, Yang Cong didn't expect this problem at first. However, after he used most of the silver earned by the Yang family to exchange for antiques, calligraphy, paintings and land stores copied from Yan Song's mansion, he found that the Yang family's business was a bit difficult to do because they lacked cash and were very lacking.

Originally, the business involved in the Yang family was only part of many businesses in the Ming Dynasty, and it actually did not account for a lot of shares. The silver circulating in this part of the business was only tens of millions of taels. He gave Yongqing one or two hundred million taels. The national treasury was full, but he took out most of the silver circulating in the part of the business that the Yang family did.

His actions have caused a shortage of money in the entire industrial chain. The Yang family has also put together things and found ways to find money everywhere to slowly solve this problem.

Although the problem has been solved, Yang Cong also realized the importance of circulating currency. You must know that now the Ming Dynasty is in peace, and various businesses will definitely double under his deliberate push. Now that business is short of money, the phenomenon of shortage of money will become more and more serious when business doubles in the future!

So, he came to find Yongqing. As for the purpose, to put it bluntly, he was to make money and try every means to make money.

Yongqing didn't know this. He thought for a while and then said embarrassedly: "Mr., do you mean that we have to mine more silver ores and more silver ingots and copper coins?"

Yongqing actually considered this issue. At the beginning, he even naively thought that if he had no money, he would dig silver and copper mines to mint coins. Anyway, all the minerals were the emperor, so he wanted to dig as much as he wanted. The court was not very rich soon!

Unfortunately, he gave up this idea after a little understanding, because silver ore and copper ore can not be used by digging, and it also has to be smelted. The copper ore is better. If the tax supervisor did not exploit it, it would still be able to make some profits. The silver ore would be different because the silver ore in the Ming Dynasty was basically poor ore, and almost all those with slightly higher silver content were lit. The rest were those with a silver content that was low to a certain extent and could not even recover the cost after smelting.

In other words, even if he wants to cast more silver ingots and copper coins, it is useless, because no one is willing to mine silver or copper mines at all. Just kidding, it is clearly a loss-making business, who is willing to do it?

Of course Yang Cong knew about this situation. He shook his head slowly and said, "We can try to mine this copper mine. We don't lack copper coins. The main thing we lack is silver. Especially after the one-whip method is implemented, all kinds of goods will definitely be priced slowly with silver. At that time, there will be more silver needed. However, our Ming Dynasty did not produce a lot of silver, so mining will definitely not solve the problem."

When Yongqing heard this, he couldn't help but blurt out: "Mining cannot solve the problem, so what should I do? Should I grab it?"

Not to mention, Yang Cong thought of a way to grab it!

He nodded without hesitation and said, "The emperor is wise. In this situation, we can only solve the problem of lack of silver if we grab it!"

Damn, I really go grab it!

When Yongqing heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned: "Isn't it good to grab things? Besides, the silver we lack is not a little bit. Where can we go to grab so much silver?"

When Yang Cong heard this, he wanted to roll his eyes. This "robbery" is not the other one. How can a scholar's business be considered a "robbery"?

Besides, what he said about "robbing" does not mean directly robbing others, but grabbing them through various means.

He explained helplessly: "Your Majesty, what I said about robbing is actually robbing through various means. Just like when some people are doing a certain business and making money, others will say that they are robbing money."

Oh, it turns out that "grab" means this.

Yongqing couldn't help but say curiously: "Then where can we go to grab it?"

Yang Cong looked up straight and said solemnly: "Yang Dynasty!"

ah!

Where to rob the Japanese pirates?

Is this too much?

Yongqing was stunned again and said, "Yangdong? Do they have money? If they have money, will they not be afraid of hardships and cross the ocean and run to the Ming Dynasty to rob?"

Yang Cong still said solemnly: "The Japanese do not lack silver, but daily necessities. There are a lot of silver mines there. Moreover, the princes of all sizes are crazily mining silver for the sake of their hegemony. At this moment, there is a lot of silver over there. You can sell a ship of things at any time and you can sell it for more than ten times higher than the Ming Dynasty."

Is Japan really so rich?

If Japan really had so much money, it would not be an exaggeration to run over and grab them, because they have been robbing the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty for dozens or hundreds of years.

Yongqing couldn't help but tentatively: "Mr., what do you mean is we go to war with Japan and go and grab their money?"

Yang Cong nodded slowly and said, "Yes, let's find an excuse to start a war with them, and then try to seize their money!"
Chapter completed!