On Halloween Day, Yang Shaofeng did not dare to fool Zhu Laosi with a bucket of Jiangshan and 300-year-old ginseng. Instead, he honestly offered an 800-year-old ginseng plant. In order to give away some more next year, he did not directly send one thousand-year-old ginseng.

Even so, Yang Shaofeng felt that he had lost a lot.

Since becoming this ninth-rank sesame official, I have not even seen any salary. I am better than the fifty personal soldiers who are paid by the clan’s mansion. At least they are getting money on a monthly basis.

What made Yang Shaofeng even more angry was that it would be fine if everyone gave gifts on Zhu Laosi’s birthday, but the court bosses and nobles could at least eat a little bit, so it was his turn to be a cook.

People do things?

Instructing the chefs of Guanglu Temple to change their knives and prepare dishes, Yang Shaofeng, who was in a very upset, simply moved a stool and sat down.

Zhu Zhanji, who was peeling the onion, said with a gloomy face: "Now many places are reporting that it is rain and hail to hurt the crops."

Yang Shaofeng nodded and said, "What about?"

Zhu Zhanji said: "Grandpa Emperor has a headache. Xiabutang suggested releasing grain and relief, and then said that he would bring you back from the border city to see if there is any good way."

Yang Shaofeng sneered and said, "Why did he think I am a god? God is going to rain, can I stop it?"

Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said, "Of course I can't stop you. Not to mention you are a slut, even if you invite Zhenren Zhang from Longhu Mountain, you can't stop him.

However, Liaozhou is also raining heavily this year, but it has not hurt the people alone. The crops are damaged very light, and the reserve warehouse alone is enough to deal with it. So what Xiabutang means is that the border city is almost stable anyway, so it is better to let you come back first and wait until autumn comes before letting you go back."

Yang Shaofeng picked up a green onion and spat, "This summer is really a talent. When it is hot, I have to run south. When it is cold, I will let me go back to the border city?

Also, who said that the border city is almost stable? When the new city is built, there are so many things that are placed there, and he, Old Xia, can't see it?

Oh, by the way, he really can't see it. This always stings around how he gets money into the treasury, otherwise the treasure money would not depreciate in his hands, and would not have been so hard that he would even wipe his butt."

After saying that, he was just finished talking, and he was just curious why Yang Shaofeng, who suddenly stood up, suddenly felt a pain in his butt, and then the stool fell to the ground, and he also fell to the ground.

Is there anyone who dares to kick my master’s stool?

Yang Shaofeng, who was furious, got up and patted his butt and planned to start scolding him. As a result, he faced Zhu Laosi's uncertain face and Xia Yuanji's gaze that was following Zhu Laosi's back.

Zhu Laosi snorted coldly and said, "Say it, continue, I listen, I also want to know who is still hard when he takes the treasure money to go to the toilet!"

Xia Yuanji followed and said, "Your Majesty, I also want to know who is brave enough to take treasure money to go to the toilet!"

Seeing Yang Shaofeng lowering his head and not speaking, Zhu Laosi couldn't help but kick him again and sneered: "Why don't you say it anymore? You don't even understand the principle of "not saying it behind your back?"

When Xia Yuanji saw Zhu Laosi protecting Yang Shaofeng in this way, he immediately cursed Yang Dianmai in his heart, and then bowed to Zhu Laosi and said, "Your Majesty, don't blame Yang Zhuangyuan. I am just curious, why does this treasure banknote depreciate so quickly? Why is the recycling of treasure banknotes not very effective?"

After saying that, Xia Yuanji bowed to Yang Shaofeng and said, "I hope the top scholar will give you advice?"

Shocked by Xia Yuanji, Yang Shaofeng hurriedly replied: "You can't be such a big gift from Xiabutang, let alone a message. Xiabutang will ruin the boy."

Zhu Laosi snorted coldly and said, "Damn it, why don't you go and move the stool!"

Taking advantage of Zhu Laosi's words, Yang Shaofeng quickly stepped down the donkey, moved two stools to brush, and said with a smirk: "Your Majesty, please sit down, Xiabutang."

After Zhu Laosi sat down, he spoke directly: "Tell me, what's going on with this depreciation? I couldn't explain it clearly in the last memorial. Today I can say it."

Yang Shaofeng bowed and said, "The last time he returned from the capital with His Royal Highness the Grandpa, His Royal Highness had treasure banknotes but had nowhere to spend them. Most of the folk shops refused to recognize them. Even if some shops agreed, they would still have one tael of silver to pay for one tael of silver. Just like in the 30th year of Hongwu, one tael of silver could be bought for four stones of rice, but if you buy them with treasure banknotes, it would take ten taels. This is the so-called devaluation."

Looking at Xia Yuanji's face as if he was black in the bottom of the pot, Yang Shaofeng whispered again: "In the past, the treasury was short of money, and the Ministry of Revenue would print and issue treasure banknotes. After these treasure banknotes were issued, the government took the treasure banknotes to buy private goods, but the people were not allowed to exchange treasure banknotes for silver coins. The value of the treasure banknotes naturally fell to the bottom.

There is also a method of pouring money into money. If you replace the old money into a new money, you will have to charge 30 cents of easy-to-change ink. You have lost more than a big fat chicken out of thin air. Who would like to replace it?"

Xia Yuanji couldn't help but snorted coldly and said, "Why didn't you recycle it? In the second year of Yongle, Chen Ying, the Censor of Shidu, proposed the method of salt banknotes. The people used Baochao to support salt. In the fourth year of Yongle, they even promoted the integrated Dingna banknotes to support salt. Will the Baochao return to the treasury?"

Yang Shaofeng shouted, "Yes, it's a good idea. Let the people of Jiangxi and Huguang go to Lianghuai Salt Transportation Bureau to support salt, and let the people of Kaifeng Prefecture support salt in Shandong, Shanxi Salt Train, hundreds or thousands of miles away. Xiabutang can match the people with somersault clouds? Of course, if somersault clouds are not good, it's okay to replace them with hot wheels, otherwise each household will be equipped with a good horse?"

As soon as Yang Shaofeng finished speaking, Zhu Laosi said with a gloomy face: "I agree to the Salt Banknotes Act. It was tried in Guangdong in the first year of Yongle, and it was promoted nationwide in the second year, and it was reiterated for the integration of Ding Na Banknotes to salt. In accordance with your meaning, I have caused trouble to the people, and I have even made this private salt in the people flood?"

Yang Shaofeng lowered his head and muttered in a low voice: "It was."

Zhu Laosi didn't hear what Yang Shaofeng was muttering clearly, but he felt something was wrong instinctively and shouted: "Roll louder!"

Yang Shaofeng bowed and said, "I think your Majesty is wise and the act of collecting treasure money shows your Majesty's love for the people. However, the scriptures were wrongly executed by the following, so that the Salt Banknote Law could not be implemented clearly!"

Zhu Laosi didn't take Yang Shaofeng's trick and sneered: "I see you, a dog, are just slandering me, and I should kill you!"

Xia Yuanji frowned and thought for a while, then stroked his beard and said, "Now the tax grain is allowed to be used to pay the money. The taxable amount is 70% of the money used to use treasure money, 30% of the money used to use copper coins, and all the less than a hundred coins are used to use copper coins. How can it not be possible?"

Yang Shaofeng spread his hands and said, "In the Song Dynasty, Jiaozi was issued, and the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty also issued Jiaozi. There are cases for reference in the previous article, and the problems of our Ming Dynasty are all the only ones. Why don't Xia Butang gather his thoughts and let all his colleagues from the Ministry of Revenue come up with ideas?"

Xia Yuanji sneered and said, "I won't bother the second master in one matter. Just now, Yang Zhuangyuan said that this treasure money was rotten in the hands of me, Xia, so I, Xia, don't have to bother others anymore, so I, Zhuangyuan, can give me a good idea!"

Yang Shaofeng glanced at Xia Yuanji and said helplessly: "Isn't Xiabutang difficult? The matter of Baochao involves all aspects. How can a little boy, a ninth-rank sesame official, be able to deal with it?"

Zhu Laosi said unevenly: "Without me, I have to promote you first and let you Yang Dazhao be a first-rank official?"

Yang Shaofeng said helplessly: "If you want to solve the problem of people not recognizing Baochao, the first thing to do is to increase the credit and purpose of Baochao.

If you want to increase the credit of Baochao, the best way is to open up the exchange of Baochao and gold and silver.

The current situation is that once it is fully liberalized, the biggest possibility is a full run. Those people and merchants who want to exchange treasure banknotes for gold and silver can empty the gold and silver of the national treasury in an instant.

When the treasury is unable to continue to exchange, the public will panic, and the situation will be even worse at that time."

Zhu Laosi nodded and said, "It's rare that you can think of these things. But what I want to hear is how to solve them, not letting you tell me about these difficulties."

Yang Shaofeng's eyes rolled and bowed and said, "Can it be recycled in batches?

The most important question now is how to reduce the amount of treasure banknotes held by the private sector. The Salt Banknote Law and tax deduction have recovered a part of them. Don’t release these treasure banknotes for the time being for circulating, and don’t issue new treasure banknotes.

Then, with the Baochao Department, the Baochao issued from the Hongwu year to the present was recycled in batches and converted into gold, silver and copper coins.

Only by recycling these two batches will the people naturally know that the court’s plan to recycle treasure money, and their confidence will naturally be enough.

And the people are confident about Baochao. Will it be easier to solve the problem of Baochao depreciation?"

Xia Yuanji said with a dark face: "Do you need gold and silver? Do you know how many treasures are there in the private sector? Now the national treasury is empty enough to run away, so what can I use to exchange for the people?"

Yang Shaofeng sneered and said, "Xiabutang needs a solution. I have already said that as for whether to use it or not, it is not my problem."

After thinking about it, Yang Shaofeng still couldn't help it. He pointed to the direction to the south and bowed and said, "There is copper in the exchange, and there is copper in Myanmar. There is no shortage of copper in many places in the Ming Dynasty, so the problem of copper coins is actually easy to solve.

As for the issue of gold and silver, did Eunuch Zheng get enough gold and silver after voyages to the West these few times?"

Now it was Zhu Laosi's turn to be unhappy: "It's really not many, it's mainly some valuable gadgets, so you can't treat them."

Looking at Zhu Laosi, who was not even blushing when he was lying, Xia Yuanji gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, I think how can some gold and silver be compared with the Baochao plan?"

Zhu Laosi said angrily: "Recycling in batches! This matter is led by Baochao Department. I will allocate 5 million taels of treasury. This is OK!"

Xia Yuanji tentatively said: "The folk treasure money is nearly 100 million, five million taels, and I really can't be regarded as anything.
Chapter completed!