Chapter 638: The Financial Crisis of Sichuan and Shu (2)
The people panic, Jiaozi and the salt banknotes plummeted, Cai Yan, who had the news, was shocked. When Zhang Jun saw Jiaozi, the salt banknotes plummeted ten times faster, he did something even more stupid. He printed Jiaozi and salt banknotes ten times faster, and used these printed banknotes to exchange for Ming banknotes with Suhe Bank. When the exchange personnel were discovered by the Jinyiwei, when they entered Sichuan, the Minsheng Daily was poked out in the newspaper, who printed them, how many were printed, who presided over them, and who...
The People's Livelihood News not only published these shocking secrets in Sichuan and Shu Prefectures controlled by the Ming army, but also made people publish eight hundred miles across the entire Jiangnan, Lianghuai, Henan, and Shandong. This is really a big deal. Not only did the people try their best to climb mountains and cross ridges to Fuzhou, Qianzhou, Zhongzhou, Wanzhou, Kaizhou, Yun'an, Kuizhou, Daningjian, and Shizhou. The soldiers and officials also ran to the prefectures and counties under the Ming army with countless Jiaozi and salt bills.
Suhe Money House released the news that it was impossible for Song State to exchange the real money and silver of Ming State forever. In Sichuan and Sichuan, it was only exchanged for Jiaozi and Salt Banknotes for one month. After one month, Suhe's merchants no longer recognized any Jiaozi and Salt Banknotes, and the entire Jiangnan, Lianghuai, Henan, and Shandong under the control of the Ming State only recognized Ming Dynasty or real money and silver.
The people are not unreasonable. After printing Jiaozi and salt banknotes in Chengdu, no one is willing to exchange their own real money for a pile of white paper, and they can only run towards the various prefectures and counties of Suhe Bank.
Sichuan and Sichuan have a complex terrain. In addition to the nearest Chengdu, most of the rest are mountains and ridges, and the places close to Fuling are better, but what about the farthest places? Is it enough to run to the place? If you can't go to the place and exchange money, can you make the salt banknotes become a pile of waste paper?
The Lizhou Road was in chaos, the Chengdu Road was in chaos, and even the Zizhou Road was in chaos near the Ming army controlled area. From officials to the people, all rebelled. Tens of thousands of soldiers gathered in the 10 to 20 prefectures and counties around Ba County turned back to attack Chengdu angrily. Zhang Jun fled north with 30,000 soldiers. If he had not escaped quickly, countless angry people would have killed him. Even so, when he fled into Guanzhong, there were only less than 5,000 soldiers left.
The people of prefectures and counties who were far away were afraid that the salt banknotes would turn into piles of waste paper. They all made flags hanging on the top of the city. Some were purple thorny flowers and flowers, some were Ming, and some were Cai. Anyway, they were messy. Thinking that they had become people of the Ming Dynasty, they would never exchange them for Suhe Bank, right?
The journey of Sichuan and Sichuan was difficult, and the news was relatively late. When Cai Yan received the news, the gates of all the prefectures and counties in Sichuan and Sichuan were opened, and they waited for the royal army to enter the city.
This era has experienced the salt crisis, the food crisis, the Bojin crisis, and the only one has never really experienced the financial crisis... This statement seems to be wrong. When Cai Jing made one ounce for ten ounces and hundreds of dollars, a financial crisis occurred, and Cai Jing was forced to step down because of this.
One qian is used as ten qian. The nature of a hundred qian is the same as the financial crisis caused by unlimited printing of paper banknotes. The literati of Song State were not unaware of the risks brought by printing large amounts of paper banknotes. However, the Song State was defeated again and again, and all the taxes were lost. Therefore, they were forced to print Jiaozi and salt banknotes to make up for the cost of Chang'an.
The officials of the Song Dynasty were treated very well, and only the officials of all the court were extremely terrifying numbers. In addition to the soldiers defending everywhere in the southeast, west and north, Cai Yan thought about it and knew that Zhao Gou could not afford such a huge expense. Apart from printing the junk and making "one qian as ten qian, a hundred qian", he had no choice but to do anything, unless Zhao Gou voluntarily downgraded the emperor to the prefect of Guanzhong, and used this to lay off countless officials, half of the soldiers, or let the Baojia Army, who did not spend money, replace all the imperial guards, but is this possible?
When he was in Jiangning, Cai Yan talked about friendship with Su Mei Niang and the cabinet masters in person, and there was Su He Money House, Minsheng Daily, and Jinyiwei entered Sichuan in advance.
When the seventeenth and Saner's vanguard was blocked in Sichuan and Shu, he knew that some things were not something that could be done by arrogance, and he could only find another way, unless he was really willing to spend twenty or thirty years in Sichuan and Shu, unless he really raised a butcher knife to the people of Sichuan and Shu.
Cai Yan did not like the people of the Song Dynasty who were profit-oriented, but Sichuan and Shu were an exception. When the Tatars advanced south to attack Song, Sichuan and Shu could stand in front of Jiangnan for seventy years and sacrifice tens of millions of people. In any case, he had to give him enough respect.
When Cai Yan was watching the letter, his eyes were distracted. Fang Jinzhi knew that he had the habit of being distracted and thought about problems. She turned her head to watch the letter, perhaps because she touched his arm and woke him up from the wandering.
"My husband, what did Shiqi say? He has been distracted for so long!"
"hehe……"
Cai Yan smiled, stuffed the letter into his hand, and said with a smile: "It's nothing, Seventeen just tells us that Chengdu Fu Road, Zizhou Road, Lizhou Road, and Kuizhou Road have all become the territory of our Ming Empire."
"Ah? So fast?"
Fang Jinzhi was shocked, and the generals were also surprised and puzzled. Anyone who knew the complex terrain of Sichuan and Shu would not think that the entire Sichuan and Shu had been captured in such a short time, Cai Yan just smiled without comment.
"It took only 66 days for the Song Dynasty to destroy Shu, but it took us half a year, which was not too fast."
Cai Yan turned his head and looked at Cai Ji, whose face was flushed due to excitement, and smiled and said, "Don't be rude to invite a representative of Sichuan and Shu to come."
"promise!"
Cai Jie straightened his body, and Cai Yan just smiled and nodded, then looked at the generals and said, "There are mountains and steep mountains around Sichuan. It is extremely difficult to conquer such a place unless it really loses the people's hearts like the Meng Shu Kingdom."
At this moment, a group of more than ten young and old people walked into the tent. When they were about to kneel down, Cai Yan stood up and strode to the old man in his fifties, reached out and pulled the old man, and smiled and said, "The old man does not need much politeness. My Ming Dynasty does not have any rituals to kneel down. You can reduce the displacement of the people in Sichuan and Sichuan wars, and run thousands of miles without hesitation for the livelihood of the people. You should treat you with rituals."
The old man dressed well and looked like he should be a more traditional literati. He was stunned when he heard Cai Yan's words.
Cai Yan helped the old man sit on the top of the more noble left, looked at the group of old and young Shu people, and smiled and said, "Don't be polite, everyone, these are all men in our army..."
When Cai Yan stood up, all the generals stood up. Seeing that he was quite polite with these people, they also followed him to greet each other with fists.
After some introduction, there were no celebrities in Cai Ling's impression, but they were all famous local families. The leading old man Li Dao is the representative of the prominent families of the Li family in Chengdu.
After the people greeted each other, Cai Yan sat back on the seat and looked at everyone and smiled: "The Meng family in Shu lost the people's hearts back then, and the Song State took only 66 days to take down Sichuan and Shu, but the Meng family lost the people's hearts, which does not mean that the Song State in Shu won the people's hearts back."
"Chuan and Shu are a country, and the people are stubborn and tenacious. If the Meng family is deeply loved by the people of Sichuan and Shu, even if they are ten times or a hundred times, the Song soldiers will not be able to win Sichuan and Shu in one fell swoop. There are countless elite soldiers in the world. However, the Sichuan army is the best at fighting hard and fighting to the death. If they win the hearts of the people, the soldiers in Sichuan and Shu can bear the power of the whole country. You should not take it lightly."
Chapter completed!