Chapter 407 Money and combat power
Daya didn't understand the nature of "money", and was extremely worried that he would do anything nonsense, and that countless soldiers were full of resentment.
Her concerns were not unreasonable. If Dong Hu was the emperor and used the state machinery to do such things, even new things that had never happened before, they could still try it. But then again, the banknotes first appeared in Sichuan and Shu. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song soldiers entered Sichuan and Shu and plundered all the copper coins from Sichuan, which forced some big merchants to create "Jiaozi" to circulate, which was the earliest banknotes.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, copper was also short of, but the emperor did not use the state machinery to issue paper money forcibly. Instead, merchants from Sichuan and Sichuan issued "Jiaozi" paper money for circulation. This is somewhat similar to choosing a special zone for exploration and attempt. There has never been a paper money, and it always requires the first person to try it out.
Dong Hu scratched his head constantly, and Da Ya became more and more worried. He knew that he had made paper money with cotton, fine linen and bark in the early years. At that time, he was happy and depressed for several days. Now that he was thinking about "liaring" paper money, he couldn't help but worry...
"well……"
Dong Hu sighed. He knew the danger of being the first to eat crabs, but his lack of copper coins is a fact. It is impossible for the soldiers to hide so many copper coins. More or less, they also need to take out part of the copper coins for rewards. Moreover, he snatched copper coins from the entire Liangzhou. Liangzhou is different from Pingcheng, which is relatively concentrated. The people of Liangzhou need to be scattered in various counties. In this way, there must be certain copper coins to participate in economic activities. Injecting some money into the gold and galaxy without any copper coins is also a must-do.
Thinking of the fact that he lacked copper in his hand, Dong Hu pulled Da Ya in his arms and explained the essence of "currency" with a wry smile...
"Whether gold or copper coins are valuable, they are valuable themselves. What is valuable is the food they eat and clothing they wear. Money itself has no value. Their meaning is only the credibility of goods and goods. Therefore, as long as paper money is guaranteed, as long as people recognize the credibility of paper money, they can still be used as copper coins."
"There are roughly two ways to replace copper coins by paper money. One is to force government orders, such as the court or our compulsory recognition of the credibility of paper money, and the other is to use real gold and silver as the credibility of paper money. Paper money can be exchanged for copper coins equally, and slowly establish the credibility of paper money to replace copper coins and gradually alleviate the fact of copper shortage."
"For example, after the people recognize paper money, although some people will exchange paper money for copper coins, there will definitely be people who will not exchange it. After all, paper money is much lighter and easier to carry than copper coins, so one million copper coins can be printed with two million paper money, and can be used as two million copper coins."
Da Ya, San Ya looked shocked and incredible...
"Build exchange banks in various counties in Liangzhou so that the people can exchange copper coins with paper money. At first, the people definitely did not trust paper money, but as long as they can exchange copper coins from the money house, the longer the people will recognize paper money. The more they recognize our paper money, the fewer people exchange copper coins, the less copper they need. It is normal to use a copper coins in the money house as five coins. The only risk is to ensure the credibility of paper money, and it cannot be printed randomly, and there cannot be large-scale exchange copper coins. For example, if you only have ten copper coins in your hand, but others have to exchange twenty copper coins at one time. Without so many copper coins, the credibility of paper money will disappear suddenly, and the people will no longer trust paper money, and paper money will become a pile of waste paper."
"So, we have to try to make the copper coins and paper money in the market again, and we have to set up some stores in each county, such as when we send copper coins to soldiers, we have to try to make the money back, farm tools, cloth shops, grain shops, wineries... and so on. Only by collecting the scattered money back can we not affect the reputation of the paper money due to insufficient copper inventory."
"Our family has countless cattle, sheep, grain, and control the salt fields, iron mines, and wine making. We can use our own advantages to purchase a large number of cloth, grain, use rights, money and connections in the hands of the people to control many industries. It is very easy if we want to make money."
"The paper money issuing the left hand, and the right hand makes the paper money back. Others don't want to squeeze our copper coins. After a long time, people believe that paper money can buy agricultural tools, cloth, and grain... and will not exchange copper coins in the warehouse."
"What is the result of doing this? We have paid military pay to the soldiers. There are countless shops in various counties and crowds... We have used very little copper coins to support countless people and create a prosperous and prosperous Liangzhou."
Dong Hu held his son with one hand and the woman's waist with the other, talking about the prosperous scene he had been looking forward to...
"The east wind blooms at night, thousands of flowers and trees blow down, and the stars are like rain. The fragrance of BMW carvings is everywhere. The sound of phoenix flutes moves, the light of jade pot turns, and the fish and dragon dances overnight..."
"Liangzhou is the real paradise on earth..."
Listening to the man's murmur and looking at the desire in his eyes, Da Ya was in a moment of infatuation...
In Bingzhou and Liangzhou, the total amount of copper coins in stock is one million. According to the taxes of the Han Dynasty, adult males have to pay at least hundreds of coins of "military expenses" taxes every year. One person needs at least one thousand coins to circulate. According to the population of one million, the Liangzhou market needs 100 million coins to circulate. This is when copper coins have not flowed out of Liangzhou. After the chaos in the world, no one knows how many people will flow in. With the inflow of the population, some copper coins must be injected to ensure the stability of the market.
For Dong Hu, who had one million yuan in money, tens of million yuan was nothing. However, Liangzhou had experienced several years of war and chaos. Not only did the remaining women and children occupy an absolute number, but more importantly, millions of people were empty-handed.
Ten thousand million yuan is the normal working capital of Liangzhou market. If you inject ten thousand million yuan every year, there will be no problems in a short period of time. People have the habit of saving money and hiding money. Liangzhou is very poor now. Even if Dong Hu injects one or two million yuan into one million people, he will never inflation because of "more money". However, if you continue to invest money because of "soldiers", the disguised depreciation of paper money is inevitable, so you need to recover some money from the market to stabilize the market.
After seeing so many copper coins in the warehouse, Dong Hu was considering this issue. People were illiterate and would cause great trouble to the circulation of paper money. If the tax policy of the court was implemented, taxes could indeed be used to recover the currency on the market. However, Liangzhou was poor and the people who had suffered from war needed to recuperate, and some taxes must also be cancelled.
The land tax of 30 taxes and one tax must be retained. The tuition for the age of 5 to 14 is to support the royal family. This is to be cancelled. The tax is calculated, and the tax is also the "military expenses". He implemented the military farming system. The military farming system implemented in Bingzhou and Hehuang Valley is actually more like the military farming system. The military farming system is to support the land and the military farming system. The military farming system is to ensure the living expenses of the soldiers' wives and children, and the military farming system is to ensure the food and clothing of the soldiers. The people in Hehuang Valley and the entire Bingzhou are actually military households.
Now, he is planning to implement the system of government troops in Liangzhou, which is to support one soldier every 500 acres of land. Although some troops will also support the soldiers on military farming, the daily training of government soldiers, all of which are soldiers and armor come from the "five hundred acres" of land. Dong Hu does not need to pay much. Except for the recruitment of government troops and the recruitment of "recruitment and disbandment after war" that he will give soldiers a sound, including rewards for rewarding government soldiers, he is not prepared to give soldiers.
The collapse of the Tang Dynasty's government soldiers was because the "six households" lost their land and could not afford to support a soldier. It was because the Tang Dynasty had lost land and rewarded them with the government soldiers, and the government soldiers system completely collapsed.
Dong Hu's current approach is to combine the practices of recruiting troops from the Han Dynasty, soldiers from the Tang Dynasty, and soldiers from the Mingwei.
The recruitment of soldiers in the Han Dynasty was to recruit and disband after the war. This practice has two obvious benefits: one is to save military expenditure and do not need to support so many soldiers all year round; the other is to avoid generals taking charge of soldiers all year round and controlling soldiers. However, the disadvantages of doing so are also very obvious, that is, the combat power of temporary recruitment of soldiers is uneven.
The Tang Dynasty's government soldiers were regular militias and were militias that participated in regular training, and their combat power was relatively stable. However, because the government soldiers were based on land, after the privatization of land, no matter what the policy was, the land would eventually be concentrated in the hands of a few people. After the "land" was gone, the government soldiers would no longer exist.
The Ming Dynasty's garrison not only supported the soldiers, but also needed to pay a lot of taxes to the court. Although the garrison also maintained training for many years, as for whether the real situation was training, it was an unfavorable supervision issue, and it had nothing to do with the "constant training" system of the garrison. However, the garrison and the government soldiers also had a fatal flaw, that is, the foundation of the garrison was also land, and land loss would directly affect the combat effectiveness of the garrison soldiers.
Dong Hu first determined the ownership of the land and first took all the ownership of the land. If the land ownership of the people cannot be guaranteed, the ownership of military farmland must be guaranteed to the minimum.
The military farming was to ensure the cost of the "main soldiers" in service. A thousand soldiers who fought for many years had to supply land for one thousand people. The military farming had nothing to do with a thousand soldiers marrying a few women and having children. The soldiers' families were supported by their own fields, and the military farming only supported the soldiers' rations, which also ensured the food problem of soldiers.
The second is to reduce the military expenses and reduce the danger of rebellion. The Han Dynasty's wartime recruitment and disbandment after the war could reduce a large amount of military expenditure. Dong Hu was also prepared to do so. During the war, the military was temporarily recruiting soldiers from the military office, and after the war was disbanded for the people. Moreover, the soldiers brought their own swords, guns and arrows. All he needed to pay was the wartime rations for the military farmland and the military expenditure after the recruitment. The wartime recruitment and disbandment after the war also reduced the dangers brought by the generals in commanding soldiers all year round.
Chapter completed!