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The exchange of new currency suddenly dropped a lot, which is of course not a normal phenomenon.

Wu Changqing has been paying attention to the issuance of new coins. After noticing this situation, he asked Qin Fen from the Intelligence Department to ask a few questions, and then he knew that the businessmen were engaging in tandem.

After all, this kind of thing is really easy to find out.

The difficulty is how to deal with it.

It is obviously not feasible to directly decapitate those businessmen who are engaged in tandem.

The merchants in the entire Jinling Chamber of Commerce control the most important businesses of Dahua, and most of them are still in a monopoly position.

Once they cause their collective resistance, I am afraid that there will be some civil unrest in Dahua.

Although this kind of turmoil cannot shake the foundation of Dahua, it will stagnate Dahua's economic development, which is unnecessary.

Moreover, even if this group of merchants were killed, the next group of merchants would probably have this kind of virtue, a unique attribute of their class, which was difficult to change.

Compared with the simple and rude decapitation, Wu Changqing has other methods.

To put it simply, you can force those people to exchange them for new coins and forcibly collect the silver bars circulating on the market.

Relying on the current Dahua's powerful force, it is not difficult to do this.

But this is still not a good idea. Forcibly persecuting it will inevitably make people dissatisfied.

This kind of dissatisfaction may not have any negative impact in the short term, but it will definitely have a negative impact in the long run, at least it will affect the image of the court, giving people a domineering and arrogant impression.

It is precisely because of the checks and balances that governing a country is not an easy task.

After pondering for a long time, Wu Changqing decided to adopt some milder methods.

First of all, the salaries of officials will be distributed in new coins in the future. This alone can increase a large number of new coins on the market.

Secondly, he also stipulated that the tax department must only accept new currency when collecting taxes.

If you want to pay taxes, ok, come with Singapore dollars. The silver in the past, sorry our government does not recognize it.

This regulation seems to be detrimental to the issuance of new coins. After all, the taxation accepts the previous silver and can also be used to mint new coins. Now, instead of accepting the previous silver, there is a shortage of sources of raw materials for coinage.

But in fact, the most fundamental part of the issuance of new coins is not how to get the raw materials for minting coins, but how to make everyone accept the new coins and rely on them.

No matter how much silver you get, the new coins you mint will be wild without anyone to exchange them.

However, if in some way, those people are forced to use the new currency, those people will have to exchange the new currency.

This regulation by Wu Changqing is to create a demand for new coins for those people.

Paying taxes is a hurdle that most Chinese people cannot escape.

If you want to pay tax, bring it in Singapore dollars.

No SGD, sorry not accepting tax.

Don't think it's a good thing that the government doesn't accept paying taxes. Some of them cry when the tax department comes to the door and fines them to raid their homes after a while.

At that time, you can't blame the government. After all, the government is doing things according to the law, and there are laws to follow, but it does not belong to the category of unreasonable.

As soon as this move came out, the merchants were dumbfounded.

Especially for those businessmen who just arrived at the tax payment deadline, they are about to cry out at the tax bureau in Dahua.

The silver and old-fashioned bank notes will not be recognized, only new coins will be accepted.

If you fail to pay taxes on time, the least you have to do is pay an extra fine.

As a result, these unbearable people can only rush to the Royal Bank to line up to exchange new currency.

For a time, there were more people exchanging new coins.

Even worse, because the minting speed of new coins is limited, the new coins are quickly exchanged.

And what about those who have not converted into new currency and need to pay taxes?

There is no other way but to go to the street and raise a sign to buy new coins. It is not uncommon for one hundred taels of silver to be bought for ninety-eight yuan, and one hundred taels to be exchanged for ninety-five yuan.

Those who have exchanged new coins before, see, oh, there is such a good thing.

So who the hell still goes to work, and then goes to the Royal Bank every day to queue up to exchange new currency to make money, won't it be over?

There are many people who have this idea, and some people's brain circuits are more novel, and a rumor is born directly about this phenomenon.

It is said that the silver of those who put up placards for exchange is all miscellaneous silver of insufficient quality. If they want to cheat money in this way, they will definitely suffer if they exchange it with them.

It is also said that the government will issue new coins in a limited amount, and will stop issuing them after a part is issued, so they are very precious and should be treasured as family heirlooms.

It is also said that the one-dollar new currency issued by the government now contains more than one or two silver coins, and then black-hearted businessmen found out that they wanted to buy them and melt them to make money.

In short, many versions of the rumors were born in a short time, some of which are so outrageous that people can't look directly, but there are still people who believe them.

No matter how many rumors there are, in short, these rumors have led to a result, that is, the common people are more and more recognizing the new coins, and they are unwilling to exchange the new coins with others for old-fashioned silver bars.

This situation made those big businessmen cry without tears.

They could not explain the rumors one by one to the people. They wanted to publish a few articles in Dahua Daily to refute the rumors, but they were all rejected by Dahua Daily as "the matter is too small and unqualified".

Dahua Daily is the mouthpiece of the government, and businessmen want Dahua Daily to speak for them, which is simply a dream.

Of course, businessmen actually control a newspaper dedicated to serving them, that is, the Commercial Daily.

The point is, the business newspapers are all businessmen, and the common people don't pay much attention to such newspapers. There is no point in publishing articles that refute rumors on this.

After all, people who can read the Commercial Daily know that it is a rumor without reading their article.

The merchants still wanted to struggle, but after a conflict with someone from the tax department when a merchant was fined for paying taxes too late, the merchants stopped.

The businessman who had a conflict with the tax department was put on a tax-resistant hat and ransacked his house.

Everyone knows that the businessman is not guilty of this, because the government is killing chickens to show other monkeys.

If the other monkeys are ignorant, they may suffer.

The government won't clean up too many profiteers at one time, but it's okay to knock out a few at a time.

No one can guarantee that the unlucky one is not himself.

As a result, the tandem activity disappeared overnight, and the number of merchants who went to the Royal Bank to book the new currency was numerous.

And Wu Changqing also took the opportunity to launch a bank note, and clearly stipulated that the bank note can be used to pay taxes, and the old-style silver can be directly exchanged for the same amount of bank notes.

As soon as this order came out, those merchants who were eager to pay the tax began to exchange banknotes one after another.

Wu Changqing's decree not only solved the issuance of new coins, but also completed the issuance of bank notes.

Moreover, this decree also made it difficult for those businessmen to pick out too many problems.

Dahua's businessman, lose another game.

The last time I lost to Ruan Dacheng, this time I lost to Wu Changqing.