In order to deal with possible food problems, the experienced Zuo Ming requested in advance that some storage grain and water were transported from Henan Province and other places to Sichuan Province.

When you come, you should make great contributions, beat drums and make publicity, so that everyone along the way can see, know, and understand how huge amounts of food the Ming government transported from other places.

In this way, it can not only increase food savings, but also increase the trust of the people who have just joined the Ming Dynasty in Sichuan and Shu, and improve their perception of the Ming government.

After all, he had never accepted the rule of the Ming Dynasty. He believed that these people were somewhat wary of the Ming government.

This vigilance mentality needs to be eliminated by benevolent politics, and the best benevolent politics is to ensure that everyone has food to eat and that no one will starve to death.

This is the best thing in the feudal agricultural era. As long as agricultural production resumes, commercial and economic activities can be restored sooner or later. In the end, the scale is still small and involves small. The highlight of the national economy is still agriculture.

Therefore, as long as we make every effort to develop agriculture and resume production and encourage agriculture and farming, people will not starve to death. Then it is only a matter of time before the restoration of stability in the Sichuan and Sichuan area will eventually return to the established track.

As for the business economy issues, Zuo Ming, who has been in charge of Henan for five years, also has many ideas about this.

What the people in Henan trusted was not Jiaozi and Huizi used by the Song State, but copper coins, and white notes borrowed and issued by the Ming Dynasty court to the people due to insufficient funds.

Baitiao has almost become synonymous with paper money in Henan, and is no longer a symbol of government debt.

Zuo Ming knew very well that with the soon-to-be-completed Yellow River project, the lifespan of Jiangnan Kingdom would end, and Jiaozi and Jizi would become history.

The Ming court did not like the attitudes of Jiaozi and Huizi very much. In the main social and economic activities of the Ming Dynasty, the government never accepted any currency except copper coins, including Jiaozi and Huizi. The Ming government never accepted it.

Therefore, even if there are people using Jiaozi and Huizi, they still exist in transactions with Jiangnan Kingdom.

Judging from the news that Zuo Ming has received, the Zhongdu court is planning to fully rectify the national economy after destroying Jiangnan Kingdom, and gradually withdraw the white strips from the circulation field and switch to the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes with copper coins as reserves.

Su Yonglin held several national economic meetings in the early eighth year of Hongwu to discuss economic issues after the basic unification of the country, including crucial currency issues.

The result of the meeting was that before the great voyage achieved certain results and before the country could obtain a large amount of gold and silver stably, there must be a temporary currency strategy that could replace the current monetary system.

After many discussions, the Economic Conference gradually reached an agreement.

That is, iron coins, Jiaozi and Huizi were abolished, and copper coins and Daming Baochao were mainly used as official legal currency of the Ming Dynasty.

And after a period of preparation, all the copper coins of the Northern and Southern Song dynasties and any other era excavated were gradually recast and recast, forming a brand new copper coins [Da Ming Tongbao].

Through the proposal and research of the Shanghai data of the meeting, the Zhongdu court economic meeting basically determined that the increasingly serious money shortage in the north and south Song dynasties was related to China's own insufficient copper reserves, but it was not the main problem of this period.

During this period, the productivity level and the development of the commodity currency economy in the North and South Song dynasties were not enough to make the problem of copper shortage the main reason for the money shortage in the North and South Song dynasties.

The economy that operates normally during this period will not expose the insufficient copper reserves as its main disadvantage, or in other words, the problem of insufficient copper reserves will not be exposed at all.

In addition to the problem of insufficient copper reserves, the economic conference also summarized three main reasons: [copper coins outflow], [the prevalence of hiding money] and [money destroying and casting tools].

The outflow of copper coins is easy to understand.

Song copper coins are well-cast, stable in quality, and have strong economic strength as the background of Song's strong economic strength, so they have strong purchasing power and are generally trusted in international trade. The surrounding countries use Song copper coins to engage in trade due to their own casting technology and economic scale.

In addition, the purchasing power of Song copper coins abroad is stronger than that of domestic ones. Therefore, even though the Song Dynasty courts strictly prohibited the outflow of copper coins, a large amount of copper coins still flowed abroad through trade, smuggling and other channels and circulated abroad.

Among them, overseas is not the main direction of copper coins flowing out. The Song copper coins taken away through maritime trade are far less than as many as imagined.

The Liao Kingdom, Xixia, Goryeo, Japan, and later the Jin Kingdom, these coherent countries in mainland China were the main directions for the outflow of copper coins. In other words, these countries and regions were important driving forces for the shortage of money in the Song Kingdom.

They would take away a large number of copper coins from the Northern and Southern Song dynasties through annual monies, livestock trade, etc. to circulate, which made it impossible for the Northern and Southern Song dynasties to circulate.

There is no doubt that this is one of the important reasons for the shortage of money.

Regarding this issue, the Zhongdu Economic Conference believed that the Liao Kingdom had long been destroyed, the Jin Kingdom and the Xixia Kingdom had been destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, and the economy and coins in these regions had been unified by the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming Dynasty obtained a large amount of official copper coins stored by various countries.

Although the Goryeo and Japan still exist, these two countries are small in size and the number of copper coins they take away is far from being compared with the number of copper coins they owned by the Jin and Xixia, so the problem is not very big. No matter how much they are, it is no big deal.

Therefore, the problem of copper coins outflow has been partially solved.

In the future, with the advancement of military affairs, this problem will be further solved. The external cycle of division in the mainland will eventually be solved by a unified internal cycle, and the outflow of copper coins will no longer be a problem worth discussing.

The issue of the prevalence of money hiding is also easy to understand.

In the middle and late periods of the Song Dynasty, the government was in chaos, the administrative efficiency was inefficient, and the economic problems were increasingly overwhelmed.

Especially after the Song Ting found that paper money was profitable, it always over-issued paper money led to unstable currency value and often collapsed, making the people no longer trust paper money. The instability of paper money value led to the popular collection of copper coins among the people for risks.

Copper coins are the hardest hard currency.

Therefore, the people all began to store copper coins to resist risks.

On the other hand, of course, the corruption and incompetence of the Song Dynasty made the privileged class gain a lot of wealth, and they held huge amounts of wealth but did not consume the corresponding goods. Therefore, this part of the money was accumulated and became their savings.

Their money storage scale is often 100,000 yuan, like a terrifying gold-swalking beast, swallowing a large number of copper coins circulating on the market but not spitting it out, which makes the money shortage on the market even more serious.

As for this issue, the Zhongdu Economic Conference believes that under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, this issue was well solved.

Because the Ming Dynasty carried out a land revolution, the gold-swalking beasts were eliminated on the physical level. After the gold-swalking beasts were eliminated by the revolution, their property and the huge amount of copper coins they stored were also included in the Ming Dynasty's national savings.

Through pursuit, the Ming government unearthed a huge amount of copper coins from the homes of landlords and powerful people. As time went by, more and more copper coins were discovered, and the number was astonishing.

The Ming government did not have the bad habit of swallowing gold beasts and was keen on construction and restoration.

Through the years of great construction movement, the Ming government has continuously invested the huge amount of copper coins it has obtained into the public, and spent hundreds of thousands, millions and tens of millions of dollars into the public, bringing the money back to the circulation field.

There was plenty of copper coins in the circulation field, so there was no shortage of money in the Ming Dynasty.

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