Edo Traveler

v11 Chapter 38: Increase rural cash flow

Seeing at Chuyouemon, I couldn't ask why, and Matsudaira Qimin didn't force it. He wasn't someone who knew how to get to the bottom of things. When he thought about it, it was normal for a royal family minister like Chuyouemon to be familiar with complicated and complicated affairs, and not knowing the specific situation.

I don't know, I don't know, as long as the customs clearance at the end of this year can be solved, and the Xingye Club can take care of the insufficient part of the primary school, then it will be over.

All the members of the shogunate, as long as they can get through, they will be fine. Songping Qimin is now in charge of finance, but it is just a perfunctory. He is not a man from heaven, and he can eliminate disadvantages and make profits.

"Yanjiro, another Jiro." After dismissing Matsudaira Qimin and walking away, Chuemon also called Shimadzu, who lived in front of him and walked slowly.

You are not allowed to run in Edo Castle, of course you are Tokugawa General. Others are in the city. In theory, they should move slowly in small steps without making any noise. Now the rules are not so strict, you just do it slowly.

Naturally, everyone retreated out of the palace together, and it was all about the front and back feet.

"En?" Hearing Chuemon's call, Shimadzu stopped and stood aside, waiting for Chuemon.

"After Yajiro became the head of the house, can you know the situation at home?" Chuemon looked for Shimadzu's definition, of course it was something.

"I've only looked at it for a while, but it's not completely clear." Shimadzu didn't understand what Chuemon asked this for.

The financial power of the Shimadzu clan has always been in the hands of Hirogo. Because of Chuemon's little wings, Tiaosuo Guangxiang is already eighty-two years old, and he is still alive and kicking.

It's just that his memory is not as good as when he was young, and he can't beat a good abacus. That hand trembled uncontrollably. Although there are steamboats now, it is very convenient for Satsuma to go to Edo. But he was too old to be able to withstand such a long toss. In the past two years, he has been in the administration of the country and no longer comes to the government.

According to Shimadzu Chukayo, the Hiroko Township is also handing over the family's finances to the younger ones, that is, the auspicious lord Komatsu Kiyoshi who we said before, who gave it to the 2,600-stone auspicious lord. you. Now he is called Komatsu Qinglian, and the official name is Mr. with a knife, so he is generally called Komatsu with a knife.

When Shimadzu Qibin and Shimadzu Tadashi were in an infighting, Komatsu stood firmly on Shimadzu's side with a knife, so the Shimadzu Tadashi who finally won would naturally reciprocate, and this was the second elder of the Shimadzu clan. It is also a matter of course for the old man of the pen to kick his legs in Guangxiang, etc.

And now the Shimadzu family is also bells and whistles, because the reform has begun to be strong, so the position of Komatsu, the elder of the family, is the job of the family elder, the reformer, and the imperial family.

The chief cabinet secretary of the Shimadzu family, the minister of reform and revitalization, the president of the national university, the director of the national machine factory, anyway, a long list. Basically, in Satsuma's business, he was in charge of the rest except for the Guangxiang management of the adjustment institute.

"Laughing at Zaemon's old age, Komatsu now manages politics with a sword, right?" Chuemon continued to ask.

"Exactly." Shimadzu nodded in definition.

"How is the output of Hishigaki Jinshan now?" Everyone else left, and there were only two people left, and Zhongyouemon asked boldly.

"Hmm..." How could Shimadzu answer, this is one of the top secrets of their Shimadzu family.

Except for Hirogo and Komatsu with a knife, as far as his father Shimazu Tadashi knows. Others only know that there are gold mines, but the exact number is completely unknown.

It is true that Jinshan was discovered by Chuemon, but the Shimadzu family spent a lot of money on exploration back then, and the "Golden Eyes of Satsuma" from Chuemon had already been paid, so why are you asking now?

"Don't worry about anything, I want Satsuma to exchange gold for the shogunate to increase the minted currency to enrich the market." How can his own brother be pitted, Shimadzu is not a real brother, he is better than a real brother.

Chuemon was thinking that the shogunate was using money now, and constantly adjusted the currency system to collect the bad coins that were sent out in the past. Although the Sado Jinshan and Hongzhiwu Jinshan of the shogunate are producing gold, it is not enough.

I also thought of this when I was in the imperial front. Now the foreign trade of the shogunate is generally considered super, so theoretically foreigners still have to bring real money to Japan and settle with Japan. But this part requires real money, all of which are classified as repayment and posted directly.

So don't look at the surplus of customs every year, but in fact there is still gold flowing out. Fortunately, when the unequal treaty was signed before, foreign merchants were prohibited from freely converting currency in the shogunate, and only the general settlement was allowed at the customs. Therefore, the recent outflow of gold is not serious and is still within the normal range.

At present, the finances of the shogunate, including the three major corporations, have increased on a large scale, both in terms of income and expenditure. In order to ensure the exchange of Japanese taels and British pounds in equal proportions, the Shogunate's stock will gradually appear to be in short supply.

Taking advantage of this time to re-establish the shogunate's budget and at the same time increase expenditure, Chuemon wanted to increase the minting of currency, increase the cash circulating in the market, and further activate the market.

The agricultural reform experiment has begun, and this market must not be matched!

Rural sideline industries will increase, including sericulture, wax industry, paper industry, and paint industry. UU reading www.uukanshu.com will be promoted in the agricultural reform experiment, and more currency will enter the rural market. So that the rural areas can also have enough money to trade and circulate.

In the end, it is convenient to correct the rent, and make it difficult for the farmers to make them all change from a tax in kind to a tax in cash.

Instead of letting the Shimadzu family directly carry the gold to trade with foreigners and trade the gold in vain, it is better to take a little trouble and go through a procedure. The shogunate exchanged raw silk for gold from the Shimadzu family, and Shimadzu exchanged raw silk with the British for pounds, and then took the pounds to buy foreign guns, cannons, and steam ships.

The Shimadzu family is nothing more than running a little longer, spending a little more work, and there are flowers both horizontally and vertically, not much difference. The shogunate obtained a large amount of gold and silver from the Hishigashi Jinshan, and was able to mint more currency and enter the market to ensure sufficient circulation in the Japanese domestic market.

Don't worry, precious metal currency is only one benefit. As long as you dare to invest in the market, the market will never be enough. Whether it is Japan or other foreign countries, one of the reasons for the final change of banknotes is that there are gold and silver in circulation, which really cannot keep up with the speed of economic development.

It's just that the shogunate was not able to issue banknotes, because with this approval from the shogunate, issuing banknotes would definitely become addictive, and it would die faster in the end. Or think of a way from cash, which is more reliable.