A week later, the Dragon Essence was distributed.
Liu Yu knew that in the future, after the opening of the sea, a large amount of silver from the European continent would flow into China.
Thus, the Great Han Dynasty's Dragon Essence wasn't distributed on a silver standard, but on a gold standard.
However, this was meaningless to the common people.
Whether it was the gold standard or the silver standard, it was meaningless to the common people.
They were not afraid of anything else, but they were afraid of the flood of paper money.
The Jiaozi of the Song Dynasty and the Baoqian of the Ming Dynasty were all printed to solve the problem of metal shortage.
In the end, the imperial court printed a large number of banknotes, and the banknotes really became paper.
This time was no exception. The Great Han Dynasty had just taken over the territory, and they had already started printing paper money. The people under their rule were very panicked.
They were really panicking. What if the Han Dynasty was destroyed and the money in their hands turned into paper?
Therefore, on the first day of the release of the Great Han Dragon Essence, no one went to the bank to exchange it.
"My lord, should we take forceful measures?”Li Ji asked.
Liu Yu shook his head. The issuing of paper money could not be enforced. That would only arouse the disgust of the people.
It wasn't compulsory. If no one went to exchange notes, what was going on?
"Lord, I have a way. As long as the salt is linked to the Great Han's Dragon Essence, it will be fine.”Shen Fu said.
"Salt is linked to the Great Han's Dragon Essence? That's right, this is a good idea." Liu Yu was stunned for a moment before he immediately reacted.
The salt of this era was different from the future.
In ancient times, salt was similar to gold. Ordinary people could not afford to eat salt.
However, salt was a necessity, so every dynasty used salt as the main means of taxation, and private sales of salt were not allowed.
The Great Han Dynasty was the same. Liu Yu was not stupid. The Great Han Dynasty definitely could not abolish the salt tax. That would be brainless.
After discussing the countermeasures, Liu Yu also bought a large amount of snow salt from the trading market.
The next day, the snow salt was sent to various regions.
Buy it with silver?
Not for sale, only for Long Yuan.
In order to buy salt, people could only go to the Great Han Royal Bank to exchange for Great Han Dragon Coins.
At the same time, the Ministry of Commerce also issued an order that all merchants were not allowed to reject the Han Dynasty's dragon essence, nor were they allowed to collect additional fire consumption. Otherwise, their families would be confiscated and their families would be exterminated.
The commoners didn't go to the bank to exchange silver for the Great Han's Dragon Yuan, but it was much more convenient to exchange copper coins.
There were even some merchants who exchanged copper coins for the Great Han Dragon Essence, and then exchanged it for silver.
Fortunately, Shen Fu was well prepared. Otherwise, things would not be easy to handle.
At this point, the macho dragon essence first replaced the copper coins and began to circulate in the market.
In fact, there were some things that no one accepted in the beginning. Once everyone accepted it, it would become a habit.
Before long, the Great Han Long Yuan would truly enter thousands of households.
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After the Great Han Dragon Essence was released, Liu Yu took out 10 million Great Han Dragon Essence notes to top up.
Needless to say, the system did not approve of these papers.
Of course, it wasn't that the system didn't recognize the macho man's dragon essence. It was just that the macho man's dragon essence that had just been printed couldn't be considered money.
The money recognized by the system was taxes.
If the 10 million Han Dynasty Dragon Essence was the tax revenue of the Han Dynasty, then the system would acknowledge it.
Therefore, if Liu Yu wanted to spend money, he still needed to wait for a while.
However, at this time, he could already take out some silver to buy things, as long as he did not take too much.
"Let's first replenish the equipment of the three special troops.”
Liu Yu spent more than 7 million taels of silver to buy all the equipment for the three special troops.
At this time, Zhang Hai, Cao Yu, and Du Yao's troops had finished their training. With the help of the system barracks, every soldier of the Han Dynasty was an elite.
With enough troops in his hands, Liu Yu began to implement the new national policy.
Equal land exemption!
Once this policy was announced, all the landlords in the world would go crazy.
The Chinese people's feelings for the land were something that no country in the world could understand.
Land was the life of the Chinese people.
The area under Liu Yu's control was still alright. Li Zicheng had already helped him clean up most of it.
After all, Li Zicheng was the one who proposed this policy.
However, Liu Yu's execution was more thorough and extreme. He wanted to capture all the gentry in one fell swoop.
Scholars with achievements were still given land.
In the future, they would have to pay taxes on time like ordinary people.
The number of restless people in each household was calculated according to one household, and the land was divided equally.
Moreover, from then on, the common people of the Han Dynasty would not have to serve the corvee.
No matter what it was, the Han Dynasty would no longer levy corvee, and the common people would no longer work for the court for free.
If the imperial court wanted to gather the commoners to work, they had to pay them.
As soon as the Han Dynasty announced this policy, the people of the four northern provinces were all excited.
In the entire southern region, scholars, landowners, and merchants were in an uproar.
Originally, the Donglin Party was prepared to surrender. After all, they really could not defeat the Han Dynasty, not to mention that the Han Dynasty had sent more than 200,000 troops.
However, the policy of equal land and tax exemption was simply killing their Donglin Party.
The scholars of the Ming Dynasty, as long as they obtained an official rank, who didn't have 1,800 mu of fertile land?
Without these fertile fields, how could they live freely?
If these fertile fields were distributed to the farmers, they would not be able to live.
"Your Majesty, Liu Yu is a traitor and has caused chaos in the world. Please send troops to eliminate him.”
"Your Majesty, the Great Ming Dynasty has been around for more than two hundred years. Taking advantage of Liu Yu's lack of achievements, I believe that we should send troops to eliminate him to restore the prestige of the Ming Dynasty.”
"I agree!"
At this moment, in the palace of Nanjing, the Donglin Party was united as one and requested the Nanming Emperor to send troops to eliminate Liu Yu.
Of course, the Donglin Party wasn't stupid. They didn't naively think that Nan Ming could destroy the Great Han.
However, as long as they blocked the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty would not be able to cross the Yangtze River.
Nanming regarded the Yangtze River as a natural barrier. As long as they could defend Jiangnan's territory, it would be fine.
As for why they had to send troops now, in the eyes of the Donglin Party, the Great Han Dynasty had just destroyed Li Zicheng and Dorgon. No matter how strong they were, they would suffer heavy casualties.
The 200,000 soldiers that had just been formed were all new recruits, so they were not a threat.
As long as Nanming attacked, they didn't need to take down much territory. They just needed to be able to fight evenly with the Han Dynasty on the battlefield, even if it was a 30 - 70 ratio.
For this, they would not hesitate even if the imperial court sent hundreds of thousands of troops, even if they had to bleed.
However, as long as they could stop the Han Dynasty from moving south, they would win.
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