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Chapter 13: The First Step of Reform - Sending Money

"What's going on in the court now?"

"In recent years, the total amount of currency issued by the imperial court has been 19231 billion taels, and the total amount of new currency issued each year is between 3 and 1 billion taels. I wonder how much this year the supervisor plans to issue?"

In general, Dachu's financial policies are still conservative, but Xiong Yan can understand them. After all, the risks are too great and it is related to the lives of the people. If you are not careful, it will be a trivial matter to lose your official hat. If the whole family dies, it will be a big problem!

"Well, it doesn't take too much. Just print 10 billion taels first." Xiong Yan said indifferently.

Now the total amount of currency in the entire Great Chu is about 2 trillion taels. Of course, a considerable part of this is not in the human world, but in the hands of the true immortals in the heavenly court and the ghost immortals in the underworld.

In fact, this currency with a hint of humanity is more popular in the three realms.

Now, it has even become the most popular and widely accepted currency among the three realms.

Even if the True Immortal himself may not be able to use these currencies, what about the True Immortal’s disciples? Where are the family members?

Moreover, if the true immortal in the Heavenly Court wants to do business with the ghost immortal in the Netherland, but there is nothing the other party wants in his hands, in this case, the general equivalent - a currency issued by Da Chu, which is difficult to forge, will become a good thing.

This is like in later generations, there was a need for economic exchange between a small country and another, but they were very skeptical of the ability to buy each other's currency.

As a result, after research and decision, these two small countries have made it possible to use the same economic exchanges as the US dollar or RMB.

The money hidden in the hands of the true immortals and ghost immortals, and the money hidden in the cave heaven and buried in the ground by the powerful sects of the aristocratic families was actually only 700 to 800 billion taels of silver circulating throughout the world.

In Xiong Yan's opinion, there has been a shortage of money in the entire Three Realms. Since the shortage of money, it would be great to print some money, which would benefit the country and the people. Unfortunately, the Chief Minister Huang Da seems to have different opinions.

"How many?"

"The country cannot be supervised!"

The one who made a surprise sound was the director of the Money Department, and the one who directly blocked the Chief Minister Huang Da.

"The regent, the annual income of the imperial court is only 12 billion taels. If you print 10 billion taels directly, isn't it too much?"

It’s only 10 billion, I haven’t printed 4 trillion for you yet!

"And this printing of money is essentially a robbery. Although countless scholars have advocated for the court, it is enough to fool ordinary people, the amount of 10 billion at one time is still too large. You can take this matter slowly, print a little this year and print a little next year..."

Of course, this is a secret message, and the Prime Minister Huang Da will not say it in public.

"Ahem, that's it. These 10 billion orphans are planning to give out 5 billion to the people directly as a gift to the orphans this year."

"There will be another 4 billion taels, and the benefits of civil officials, military generals, nobles, and royal families will be given to the court. What do you think of the chief minister?"

Of course I looked at it with a smile! I thought that you wanted to own the 10 billion taels by one person, but now that everyone is sharing the same, and you still don’t take any money on the throne, then there is no problem.

"Your Highness the Superintendent doesn't want any part of it?" "The entire Great Chu is a wealth of the lonely, so why should it be so clear?"

Yours are mine, and mine is mine. Moreover, this time it was just to make the people who were on the gossip to accept the fact that the imperial court printed money on a large scale, so they did not take a penny.

When I waited for a while, I would definitely not be short of money.

After Huang Da Shou Sui also agreed, things became very simple.

This time, in the face of one billion taels of welfare, the bureaucrats in Dachu immediately took the initiative to work overtime.

Because Xiong Yan made a small request before dividing the money, that is, the money from civil servants must be divided in the end, and the money distributed to the people in the first batch must be free of corruption.

So a large number of civil servants took the initiative to go around the streets and supervise the entire money-distribution operation. Similarly, the spies from the censor's department, the spies from the Shaofu, etc. also started working and began to jointly launch a crackdown.

Whoever dares to extend his hand in this money-giving action will just buy it! Don’t stretch your hand, you will be caught!

Xiong Yan held a grand ceremony on Xiaonian on this day, and he decided to pay for it on this day. The next day, 10 billion taels were found by the money company working overtime.

Originally, it was impossible to be so fast, after all, the money department had limited personnel. But later, after the news spread, many nobles, royal families, civil officials, and military generals came to help.

They don’t need extra subsidies or too good benefits, they just need to take care of their food. So they made a complete 10 billion taels the next day with united forces.

Three days later, the money I gave to the people was paid out. This year I really enjoyed the people!

Within 10 billion taels, most of the Gift Tian Xungui were very happy. Gift Tian Xungui was also a Gift Tian Xungui, but it really didn't cost much. Ten billion taels were given to the Gift Tian, ​​and although the final result was not many, there were also quite a lot.

After all, farming is not profitable these days. The protection price of the court is only 100 cents for a stone of food.

Similarly, the people are very happy. For the poorest and most miserable farmer family, one or two taels of silver is almost the reward for their hard work for three months.

The civil officials were happy, the military generals were happy, the nobles were happy, the royal family was happy, and the people were happy together, so Xiong Yan naturally became happy.

However, with a command, spies from all over the country started to mobilize with all their might.

According to the recorded information, after the people received the money, they began to buy a lot of New Year’s goods.

When the people suddenly had a lot of money, many shops even sold out of stock.

This New Year, the rail truck has never stopped. A large amount of raw materials were sent to workshops in various places through the rail truck. After processing, it turned into goods. It returned to the shelves and was purchased by the people.

The court distributed 5 billion taels to the people. For the sake of the New Year, the people used about 3 billion taels. The people's shopping generated taxes. Merchants bought goods from big merchants, and once again taxes. Merchants bought raw materials, and again...

After taxes again and again, the court made a lot of money in the end. Even one tenth of them returned to Xiong Yan's treasury.

Of course, Xiong Yan doesn’t like this little money. But this test this year is perfect, let’s continue next year!

As for the act of wealthy families continuing to hide their money, Xiong Yan doesn't care.

As long as you print money quickly, it won’t take long to make the money worthless, and the total assets of the powerful families will shrink quickly.

In the end, in order not to continue to lose money, the powerful families would take the initiative to take out the hidden money to spend.

With this amount of money, business will definitely be more prosperous, and it is almost time for urbanization to begin. By then, my own reform will be a complete first step!
Chapter completed!
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