Pure money is 20 million yuan. What does this mean?

When the Northern Song Dynasty unified the world, the total income of the country was 1,600 jin (just copper coins). Emperor Taizong of Song was very happy. This was twice that of the Tang Dynasty!

From this we can see that 20 million guan is such a big figure for the entire court. No wonder the Song Dynasty continuously extracted taxes from Shu in decades. The accumulation over the past few decades is indeed extraordinary.

The three million people in Houshu have accumulated over the past 30 years, so it should not be underestimated.

"How much has the Ministry of Revenue taken?" Li Jia took a breath and said.

"The Ministry of Revenue is not greedy and wants to take it all. All over the world is the king's land. This money is of course His Majesty. We will argue with General Pan's righteousness, and all the copper coins are with them, just gold, silver, calligraphy, painting, etc., as well as the Wanlihuang imperial fields, are all from our Shaofu Temple."

Li Anguo smiled and said, "Shall the objects, there are almost seven or eight million, and the fields are infinity!"

"That's right. The Ministry of Revenue has been spending continuously in the past two years and is very poor. In the past two days, I'm also anxious. Now that I have this money, I can live a few years of relaxed life!"

Li Jia shook her head, sighed, and said, "I issued three million guan of new money in the past two years, and now there are more Jiangnan and Shu Kingdoms. But these two places are so scarce about copper, and there are not enough copper coins on the market!"

Although the money bank in the world has alleviated some money shortage, it is only a bit credible in Hunan and Lingnan, and it does not recognize it in Jiangnan and Shu. It only knows about the copper coins of Huang Chengcheng and Red Chengcheng.

Once this business has been traded, copper coins will naturally flow to these two places. The population market has expanded several times, and copper coins will instantly decrease.

There are few copper coins, but there are more physical items to collect taxes. Merchants have no choice but to pay with cloth, but the goods are heavy and the shelf life is not long, so how can copper coins be as cute as they are?

"How much money have you saved in Shaofu Temple?" Li Jia asked, looking at Li Anguo's chubby body.

"Not much!" Li Anguo laughed.

I sent this housekeeper to Shaofu, but my stingy personality has not changed yet, and I don’t know how much money I can save.

"Don't be too slow, say it!" Li Jia kicked him and washed his face and said with a smile.

"Okay, your majesty will make me feel comfortable!" Li Anguo said with nostalgia:

"Although Xiling has been searching for it over the years, I still haven't found that there are even larger ore than Jinshan. There are not many scattered ones. In addition to the accumulation of money houses, the treasury of other prefectures and counties, and the output of Jinshan, Shaofu Temple probably has about 1.3 million taels of silver and more than 700,000 taels of gold!"

Because Lingnan has a lot of foreign trade and the Maritime Silk Road is popular, one tael of silver is worth 1.5 guan, while in the Central Plains, it is two guan, that is, the storage of silver is one million. guan, which is equivalent to two million guan.

During the Song Dynasty and Renzong period, the annual output of silver was only 200,000 taels, while the Liao Dynasty's tributes that were modified at that time were 200,000 taels of silver and 300,000 pieces of silk.

Silver is equivalent to 600,000 jin of copper coins, one piece of silk cloth, two pieces, that is, in fact, 1.2 million jin of silk was paid, plus fifteen pieces of silk rewarded to the Western Xia, 70,000 taels of silver and 30,000 jin of tea, worth about 500,000 jin.

In addition to some of the mining labor, that is, the Northern Song Dynasty paid nearly 2 million tributes every year, and the financial resources during the Renzong period were 30 million tributes, which was equivalent to one-fifth of the financial income.

For example, if we had to give more than 1 trillion yuan of fiscal revenue last year, who would feel happy?

Besides, as mentioned earlier, the annual output of silver in the Northern Song Dynasty was only 200,000 taels, and I had to pay 70,000 taels, so the price of silver has been rising.

As for trade income, haha, there is nothing short of Khitan or Xixia. It is enough to have your tribute. Instead, you need to buy salt from Xixia, sheep from Khitan, and copper coins from copper every year.

Note that the copper coins here refer to the copper coins with a copper content of more than 70% of the copper content of Shenwu Tongbao. The copper coins from the Central Plains and other countries must be exchanged according to the quality.

The exchange ratio between silver and gold has actually been rising. At present, in the Tang Dynasty, one tael of gold can be exchanged for seven taels of silver. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, silver poured in, so it became a familiar ratio of one to ten.

Gold is worth more than 7 million guan and silver is worth 2 million guan. Together, it is almost 10 million guan.

"How much gold and silver are currently invested?" Li Jia asked with her eyes narrowed.

"Mainly it's gold mountains, and other mines are also added together, almost half a million taels of silver and one hundred thousand taels of gold. If there are a little more people, it can increase even more!"

"By the way, there are also copper ores found near Jinshan City. Although they are small, they contain a lot of copper!"

An Guo said happily.

"Enough, enough!" Li Jia murmured, "These gold and silver remain in the treasury and can only produce ashes. It is better to forge them and circulate them in the market!"

Even if silver coins contain 90% of silver, they are profitable, not to mention that they can alleviate the tension in coins and promote business development.

Everything in China is good, but it is short of money (copper, silver, gold). The huge market makes the output seem particularly small.

It would be exciting to think about it if I wanted to become the first emperor in China to forge gold and silver coins.

In this way, the control over Japan cannot be relaxed, but it is more important. Just one Kyushu Island is not enough...

"Circulation?" An Guo said in surprise: "Your Majesty, gold and silver are generally rewarded by wealthy families, and ordinary people cannot afford it!"

"I don't plan to use it for ordinary people!" Li Jia waved his hand and said, "I have a conclusion. You can clean up all the gold and silver and wait for my order!"

"Here..." An Guo said in a daze.

Since he didn't know what the emperor thought, he could only agree. Anyway, he had become accustomed to it over the years, especially after he conquered the world and became the emperor, he could only obey.

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Li Jia is calculating money because she can’t spend too much.

Zhao Kuangyin was also calculating money, but he was too short of money.

God knew that he threw a bet and sent tens of thousands of infantry and cavalry to travel to Shu Kingdom for a long distance. He wanted to make a big profit, but then he fell into it. He had no choice but to support Guanzhong another 20,000. No matter how much he had, he could not prevent the Dangxiang people.

"How much money does the court still have now?" Zhao Kuangyin asked with a dark face, resisting the urge to curse.

"The money is less than 100,000 guan, and the grain is only 30,000 shi. At the beginning of next month, the salary of all officials will not be paid!"

Wei Renpu looked at Zhao Kuangyin's shiny black pie face, lowered his head and said helplessly.

"Bah, dog, it's like this!" Zhao Kuangyin walked away, feeling worse and worse.

When he thought of Wang Quanbin losing tens of thousands of elite soldiers, he felt ache in his heart. When he thought of the money and food he had spent in vain, his heart became more and more painful.

"Your Majesty calmed down!" Wei Renpu, Fan Zhi, and Wang Pu were the prime ministers of the previous dynasty, and were not as friendly as Zhao Pu, so this voice could only come from Zhao Pu.
Chapter completed!