Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1274 The new follow-up evolution of three people becoming tigers

  If Pang Tong is not smart, I am afraid that there are not many smart people in the world. This cognition can be regarded as a somewhat frustrating conclusion after Wei Duan and Du fought against Pang Tong in the open and in the dark several times.

  Young people nowadays...

   Wei Duan and Du Ji exchanged glances, then handed over the final result. "Report to Mr. Pang, after investigation, it was found that 37 households overreported their real estate, and 16,380 mu of land was confiscated according to the law, and a fine of 151,400 taels was fined..."

   "Hmm..." Pang Tong took the list, looked at it slowly, and motioned for Wei Duan and Du Ji to sit down.

Wei Duan and Du Ji can now use their toes to guess that the so-called fire on the pavilion is a pit. After the two exchanged a look, they were somewhat thankful that they did not act rashly, otherwise they would be on the list now. one of them.

  As for the loss of fellow daoists...

   Already showing mercy, okay?

At the beginning, Wei Duan and Du Ji were so frightened that they even thought that there would be another big cleansing, but they didn't expect that Pang Tong raised it high, but the force of falling down was not so strong, at least he didn't ransack his family and wipe out his family. Although it was also traumatic, which caused the property of these thirty-seven households to shrink by at least two-thirds, at least they were still alive, so it was a bit of luck.

"Well, that's all..." Pang Tong put the list on the side of the table, then stretched out his hand to ask for tea, and said casually, "Come on, you two have a taste of this buckwheat tea... This is a new tea developed by General Zhengxi himself Drinking it often can cleanse the heart and cleanse the stomach, making people light and healthy..."

   "Thank you, Mr. Pang." Wei Duan and Du Ji hurriedly picked up the tea bowls, took a few sips, and praised them all.

  Pang Tong laughed a few times, and then said with a smile: "The measurement and report of the Sansuke's land has been completed, and a certain time will be appointed to patrol the city and announce it to the fields, so that people know the land and make the land belong to them..."

  The corners of Wei Duan's eyes twitched involuntarily, and the tea soup he was holding almost spilled out.

  Du Ji coughed slightly, and said: "Mr. Pang, why don't you send some civil servants to inspect the city... most of them are illiterate. If you miss an errand, it will inevitably be unsightly..."

The city inspections are all composed of veterans who have been disabled and retired from General Zhengxi Feiqian, and they have taken General Zhengxi's salary and land property. That is really the army of General Zhengxi's close relatives and direct line. Eat, if these people are allowed to go down to the fields, there are still many small tricks in the details that cannot be hidden and will be exposed.

  For example, it was originally an acre of fertile land, but then it was reported as an acre of barren land...

  For example, it should be a land of nobles, and then scattered under the names of some unknown people...

  For example, it was written on the document that it was a forest and wasteland, but in fact it has been developed and turned into a field, and it has been cultivated for a long time...

These matters are not particularly serious crimes compared to those thirty-seven households who were deceived by lard, but the sum of all kinds of things is not a small number. Can't understand?

The clerks are more or less easy to talk, eat and drink, arrange a few beautiful maids, and add some benefits as the fee for brushing, so that everyone can live with it. City inspection?

  Pang Tong chuckled, and said: "Cultural officials need to count the autumn poems, and have no time for him. Besides, the city inspectors don't make articles, and they can count them roughly. It's okay to do these trivial things, so let's do it..."

  Wei Duan was silent for a moment, then said slowly: "Dare to ask Mr. Pang, do you know if Jingxiang has a city patrol?"

Pang Tong naturally understood the meaning of Wei Duan's words. He laughed a few times, but did not answer Wei Duan's question directly. Gong Sizheng, Fu Ning Xia Huang, General Qi Qunguo, with a wing of great merchants, and a large peng, and his merits are light...Well, I wonder if Wei Congcao can hear this poem?"

The corner of Wei Duan's eyes twitched again. How could he not know this poem? But this time it's not the thirty-seven households, but a large area. Even Webster was involved, so naturally he can't take it lightly. So he said rather forcefully: "Why does Mr. Pang do this, you must know that it is too late!"

  The law does not blame the public, this sentence is not empty words.

  Who made the law?

   Is it to safeguard the interests of which level?

  If there is no law to protect the distribution of social rights, should the most worried about is the propertied class or the proletariat?

  So when the "crowd" with the largest base starts to really stir up trouble, the ruling class will often not blindly suppress, but divide and win first, and only kill those diehards with a stick.

"Wei Congcao thinks this is inappropriate?" Pang Tong said lazily, as if he was saying that the tea soup was thick or weak, "If you sell a house to someone, you can't accept it any more. It is not allowed to buy a house if it is not comparable to its own house. For officials and eunuchs, you have to buy a house. The field house should be entered by the county magistrate, and those who fraudulently represent their households will be ordered to redeem the city and not enter the field house. Those who are not households , There are Tianzhai, attached to the person's name, and those who are named Tianzhai are all ordered to die at the border at the age of two, and are not allowed to enter the Tianzhai county magistrate. If you are named Tianzhai, you can first sue, except for the crime, and some people are named Tianzhai. , it is like laws and decrees. All of the above are "House Laws."

Wei Duan considered his words for a while, and said: "Knowing the good and evil of the people, serving first and last, knowing the rich and poor of the people, how much to pay for gifts, and equalizing their poor quality, is also the job of the village elders. Pang Shijun is talented and intelligent, and he is the man of the world. Jie, who is also in the position of Jingfu, will be in the hall of Sanhuai soon, and he will shine forever." After finishing speaking, he took a look at Du Ji.

Du Ji also cupped his hands and said: "Now that Guanzhong is initially settled, and it is worth the harvest in autumn, taxation should be the most important thing... Tian Xuan's matter, it is inevitable that there will be mistakes in a hurry, so why not... Wait for time and prepare more people before making a decision ?”

  Pang Tong stared at Wei Duan and Du Ji with a dark face, without saying a word. At first, the two of them still looked at Pang Tong, but after a while, the two of them lowered their eyes to avoid it, and kept silent. I don't know if it was because it was too ugly to look at.

"For a family of five, there are no less than two people who serve in the service, and those who can plow no more than a hundred mu, and the harvest of a hundred mu is no more than a hundred stones. Spring plowing, summer farming, autumn harvesting, winter storage, firewood cutting, government administration, and corvee service; Spring must not avoid wind and dust, summer must not escape heat, autumn must not avoid rain, winter must not escape cold and freezing, between four o'clock, the day of death rests." Pang Tong said slowly, "When the people suffer, the government will be chaotic, and if the people die, the country will perish. Two Do you take it for granted?"

Wei Duan was silent for a long time before he cupped his hands and said: "According to the people's will, there are three things to make up for, one is that the Lord uses enough, the other is that the people have less gifts, and the third is to persuade the farmers to do meritorious deeds. Pang Shijun wants to benevolent to the people, which is a great kindness. However, there is no shortage of Fu, and I have not done agricultural work. I only use prisons as prisons, hunting crimes and hunting responsibilities. Is it suspected of putting the cart before the horse? If the punishment is too small, it will also lose the way of benevolence and righteousness, and damage the virtue of conquering the West. Weak and lazy People, ten thousand acres of fertile land, are also empty and have nothing to leave to their children and grandchildren; the hardworking people, frugal in housekeeping, accumulate over time, and eventually have a shade for the younger generations. Is this too much?"

Du Ji said: "Your Majesty's love for the people is a lesson to be learned from heaven and earth, and we also deeply admire it. However, the people's hearts are not stable now, and they are panic-stricken. It is reasonable to stabilize the Quartet, stabilize the market, encourage agriculture and mulberry, and promote commerce. Pang Shi Why do you need to be in a hurry?"

Pang Tong looked at the two of them, suddenly laughed, and said, "Since the two of you are willing to serve as guarantors for Xianghuai, it is absolutely necessary to postpone the discussion...But, there is one thing that needs to be implemented immediately...Come here! Get Tong Baolai !"

In fact, at the beginning, in Pang Tong's plan, he didn't mean to wipe out all the gentry of Sansuke. Therefore, Pang Tong handed over this matter to Wei Duan and Du Ji, and they didn't think there was anything inappropriate.

  Anyway, aren’t the prefects appointed by the imperial court all the time like this?

  For local snakes, if they can't handle a strong dragon, they just lower their heads and endure it. It's not like they haven't survived it before. However, if they want to kill them all, they will jump over the wall when they are in a hurry, let alone people?

Pang Tong arrested thirty-seven households, and Wei Duan and Du Ji didn't have much to say. After all, among them, some people even reminded them, but they refused to listen and jumped into the pit desperately. Moreover, the fewer such idiots in the ranks of the Sanfu gentry, the better, otherwise they would not even know they were implicated that day.

  But Pang Tong's next move is to challenge almost all the Sanfu gentry, and Wei Duan and Du Ji are also in it. Of course, it is impossible to continue to support Pang Tong's move.

  Pang Tong himself was also from a noble family, so he didn't understand, so he put on airs before, but he just expressed an attitude to let the nobles in Sansuke know that they should either cooperate obediently or don't blame them for being rude.

   The Tongbao that Pang Tong asked to bring over is the most important economic reform that Fei Qian is planning to implement recently.

  Actually, this incident is also related to the rumors that Pang Tong, Jia Xu, and Xu Shu fabricated the rumor about General Zhengxi. Although it is not to say that killing one thousand enemies and self-defeating eight hundred, it still affected the previous economic and monetary system to some extent.

  The value system of Jiaozi previously promoted in Bingbei is still linked to copper coins, which means that although most people accept Jiaozi as a general equivalent, they still convert it into the value of the old five baht coins.

The value of modern banknotes is generally endorsed by the national credit. The banknotes themselves do not conform to the law of value. When Jiaozi was implemented, no one had much opinion. On a small scale, under the territory controlled by Fei Qian, and the personal reputation of General Zhengxi is guaranteed, some problems with Jiaozi are not serious. Anyway, the copper coin system collapsed, and the five baht coins depreciated a lot. Without a suitable substitute, the expensive and complicated paper temporarily acts as the general equivalent in the Bingbei area.

It’s like bartering among folks after the collapse of the copper coin system in many cases, except that Feiqian provided a more convenient substitute, but in Feiqian, he used the Jiaozi system to get through the most difficult and most difficult period at the beginning. After the stage of plundering wealth, Feiqian found that he was suddenly faced with a very embarrassing problem. There are certain difficulties in continuing to promote Jiaozi. After all, Jiaozi has problems in terms of acceptance and storage and use, and such problems As the jurisdictional distance increases, it will bring more inconvenience and even affect the order of the entire economy.

  The ancient Chinese currency system was based on the copper standard as the basis of exchange value. It was a currency system with strict regulations and norms. Otherwise, the copper standard would not have become the core of the Eastern currency system, and its influence radiated to neighboring countries for thousands of years.

The Jiaozi made by Feiqian is basically because of its strong technology on the one hand, and on the other hand, because the cost of imitation is too high, it is not worth doing, so imitations have not yet appeared, but this means that there must be no such products in the future. what? Must be safe and convenient?

A very obvious problem. During the use of Jiaozi for so many years, there must be daily wear and tear, just like the paper money of later generations. Feiqian is responsible for recycling these nearly abandoned Jiaozi. In the Han Dynasty, Qingyin was responsible for the exchange. The shops are not like the ATMs that can be found everywhere in big cities in the later generations, but some are like remote and poor villages, which may not be available for thirty or forty miles, and the number of silver shops is seriously insufficient, which will also limit the promotion of the entire Jiaozi.

The second aspect, even in Pingyang, sometimes some fake jiaozi are accidentally mixed in, not imitation, but five pieces, for example, but it is hard to identify because of the defacement, so it must be ten pieces. Yes, even when fifty's...

If all these moldy, damaged, and dirty things are not returned, Jiaozi's reputation will also decline, so we can only say replacement, but if we continue to do this, it will inevitably bring more problems. It’s not that there is no way to solve it, such as introducing a labeling system, etc., but this will increase the overall complexity a lot, not entirely in terms of technology, but also in terms of personnel.

  The final blow to the Jiaozi currency system was the rumors of Pang Tong, Xu Shu and Jia Xu.

  If you think about it, you know, when it is said that General Zhengxi died, what actions would people who still have Jiaozi on hand do?

Therefore, after Feiqian returned to Pingyang, after many considerations, he planned to gradually upgrade Jiaozi and evolve it into a large bill of exchange, and promote the evolution from China's original copper standard to the gold standard. Of course, copper was the mainstay at the beginning, but The important thing is to seize the casting right, that is, to formulate a legal standard for Tongbao.

Strictly speaking, Huaxia is actually not a complete copper standard at the moment, but a gold-copper double standard, but whether it is a gold-copper double standard or a gold-silver double standard, they are actually very unstable. It is better to directly implement the gold standard in one go. Gold is promoted to legal tender, and all other metals are auxiliary currencies. In this way, in addition to helping to standardize the original value of the copper coin system that was completely ruined, it can also better conduct transactions with the outside world and promote commodity exchange. circulation.

  In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Qin Ban Liang coins weighing twelve baht were used, but due to insufficient copper materials, copper coins were seriously scarce, so the minted half Liang coins were actually only eight baht in weight. Later, the weight was gradually reduced, and four and a half baht coins and three baht coins were cast; there was also a phenomenon that money weighing twelve baht was melted to make three and a half baht coins and used as twelve baht coins. The corruption of such a chaotic large-amount but insufficient-weight currency system directly led to the rampant behavior of stealing and minting coins among the people.

Dong Zhuo’s reason for the corruption of five baht coins in Guanzhong was the same as this incident. In order to make up for the shortfall, he even cast five baht coins into one baht at that time, which was called “corn money” by the people. The weight was reduced and the quality was reduced. But still want to act as the original value, who will accept it? A large number of five baht coins were withdrawn, and private casting became even more worthless fake money. It can even be broken by breaking it hard, so the copper coin system is completely collapsed, and it also gives the existence space of Fei Qianjiaozi.

  But a thing has its own development law, and Jiaozi is no exception. On the one hand, Feiqian needs large-scale education, so it is necessary to expand the production of paper, and it is also necessary to prevent the paper-made jiaozi from being imitated, leading to the collapse of the economic structure. Therefore, returning to the heavy metal currency system that adapts to production conditions has become Helpless choice. Although Fei Qian also knows that paper currency is the most profitable, but the conditions are indeed insufficient now, so he decided to re-standardize the currency value system before Jiaozi completely collapsed, using weight and quality as the standard to standardize the gold standard currency system. That is to specify the quality standards of gold, silver and copper, plus the final point, Feiqian's men discovered a rather large gold mine about four to five hundred miles north of Yinshan Mountain...

"This is gold, platinum, and red gold Tongbao." Pang Tong threw the newly minted coins on the table with a bang, and then said to Wei Duan and Du Ji, "I got the order to conquer the west, and I will get the money this autumn and autumn." For this opportunity, it is necessary to make all the places of Sanfu know about this Tongbao, so that it can be used as a substitute for Wuzhu."

  (end of this chapter)