The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

This is an era of capital expansion. Capital has brought about a huge revolution. The power of this revolution far exceeds anyone's imagination. It seems not to be controlled by anyone's will, but at the same time it is controlled by anyone's will. This is capital.

South Korea's rapid economic development is inseparable from the power of capital expansion.

Qin Shangwen's reforms, especially the major reforms in financial capital, greatly unleashed the power of capital expansion.

The first thing that the Qin State changed was the change in the objects of tax collection. This was very important for the liberation of capital in the Qin State. Before the Qin State, the objects of tax collection were physical objects or labor, with the exception of military service. Even at the height of the feudal dynasty, The Tang Dynasty was still dominated by physical goods, but military service was divided. This was still the case in several subsequent feudal dynasties.

But it was not until the Ming Dynasty that Zhang Juzheng's one-whip tax reform initially changed this situation. In other words, it was not until the Ming Dynasty that currency established its role in taxation. In any previous dynasty, this was not the case. Currency is used as the unit of settlement, which is why in Chinese history, the development of capitalism only began in the Ming Dynasty. If currency cannot lay a foundational role in national taxation, and national taxation cannot be settled in currency, Then the role of currency cannot be established.

The first item of Naofumi's reform was to highlight the role of currency. The object of national tax collection suddenly became currency, and collecting taxes in currency units was of great significance.

First of all, after the emergence of currency, the country will no longer treat currency as an auxiliary tool. At the end of the period, the country will pay attention to the role of currency. Unlike the Han Dynasty, the country's coinage rights were in private hands at the beginning. This is really It is unimaginable that after the country attaches importance to currency, the currency will be linked to the credit of the national government. In this way, the country's currency will have a stable foundation. This foundation will directly affect all aspects of a country's life. Therefore, the currency The emergence of the Qin Dynasty linked everything together, which promoted the close economic connection of a country. The Qin State was the first to do this. This is also the main reason why the Qin State's Qin Banliang banknotes have rapidly expanded in various countries. The Qin State Banliang represents the State of Qin, and the strength of the Qin State is represented by Qin Banliang, just like the gold coins of Rome.

Secondly, after the country lays the foundation of currency, all taxes will be settled in the form of currency. In this way, the objects of the country's tax collection will suddenly expand into many areas, such as commerce. Moreover, in order to be able to tax more, the country , naturally began to tilt some taxes on business, these are obvious.

Commercial activities are where the most taxes are generated. Especially since the tax rate cannot be increased, only efforts to expand tax sources can increase the total amount of taxes. After the Qin State figured out this problem, it began to slowly change the original basic national policy of the country. The government began to slowly intentionally support some commercial projects. As long as they could make money, the government would encourage and even actively guide people on how to participate in them. This is also the secret of Qin's commercial development. If it were put in the past, Qin would not have been able to change such a situation. It has been a national policy that has been implemented for more than 130 years.

At the beginning, Naofumi wanted to challenge this national policy. The difficulty of changing such a national policy had exceeded Naofumi's imagination. However, Naofumi's change in taxation turned out to be unintentional, which Naofumi could not imagine.

The impact of the tax reform using currency as the unit of settlement was that the Qin State encouraged the expansion of commercial activities and began to use capital activities to serve the country. This further created a large development space for the expansion of capital. The scope of this space The expansion further promoted the Qin State to become more powerful.

Finally, the revolutionary impact brought by currency is extremely broad. The significance of currency is that it can connect everything. Currency begins to truly represent wealth, and the specific meaning of wealth becomes concrete. In the previous Qin State, wealth The meaning of money is very vague. Real gold, beauty, power, and beautiful buildings are all symbols of wealth, but there is no unified standard for measuring them. The meaning of the emergence of currency is to combine these When wealth is unified, there is a stable scale. What it means is that people no longer blur various social resources, such as beauties, gold, and various construction resources, etc. These have a standard to measure, and this standard is currency. , it can be said that the significance of currency is extremely important.

Throughout the feudal dynasty, due to the blurring of social wealth, people's ability to utilize resources was not very high, because the symbolic meaning of wealth was very blurred. Shangwen's reform was to concretize wealth, and currency connected the entire Various resources of society, which brings great convenience to the resource allocation of socialized large-scale production.

With the reform of currency as a tax unit, various strata of Qin society began to carry out various commercial activities around currency, and slowly, a kind of currency-based business appeared in various commercial activities. Business, the emergence of this kind of business, gave birth to the early capital market, which is the bank. The significance of the bank is to centralize and use social currency, and then redistribute the currency. This effective allocation method indirectly promotes the development of social resources. The emergence of this distribution makes social resources more reasonable and scientific.

The emergence of banks has extremely far-reaching significance for the Qin State. It can be said that without banks, the Qin State would have no capital. Without the multiple uses of these capitals and the distribution of capital flows in various industries, the Qin State would It will take at least three hundred years to develop, and these three hundred years will bring great changes to the Qin State.

The emergence of banks brought Qin's capital onto the stage of history. Banks gathered a large amount of currency from all aspects of Qin. These currencies came from various businesses, including arms business, grain business, slave business, and leather business. , meat business, etc. These businesses are all based on the exchange of currency. At the same time, the reaction force of the emergence of banks has given these businesses great development.

People became accustomed to borrowing the capital they needed most from banks. This capital was enough to more than double their business. In fact, this was indeed the case. Qin's capital expansion largely came from the expansion of the power of capital.

The reason why the pastures in the north of Qin State expanded so much at once was because banks provided a large number of loans. It would have taken Qin State fifty years to establish ranches of various sizes there just by relying on immigrants without any foundation. , these pastures could slowly control the captured grassland resources, but after the emergence of capital, the immigrants from the Qin State relied on capital to greatly purchase their own land. At the same time, on these lands, they continued to purchase various Various social needs, slaves, breeding cattle and sheep, and various means of living, these things undoubtedly expanded Qin's capital a lot, and at the same time, accelerated Qin's ability to control the northern grasslands. Similarly, These capitals also appeared in the northwest direction of Qin, as well as in other directions.

With the rapid development of banks, Qin's domestic infrastructure construction was also quickly launched with the help of banks. The role of banks is to gather the limited currency in society and then redistribute it.

This is also the reason why, at the beginning, the Qin State did not issue enough Qinbanliang banknotes. This was because the Qin State needed a certain amount of currency to circulate. As the Qin State invested a large amount of banknotes, the capital then began to operate.

It is worth mentioning that the role of paper money in this process is very significant. The role of paper money is that the Qin State got rid of the hidden relationship between paper money and currency. Through the issuance of paper money, the Qin government can control social wealth at will. Resources, the government can accumulate wealth by issuing more banknotes, which can better play the role of the national government.

Qin's power was further amplified by the use of paper money. In fact, it was true that Qin relied on the power of paper money to win one war after another. However, Qin did not suffer much from these wars. On the contrary, Qin State received much more benefits than before, and war became a virtuous circle for the first time.

In the past, after the Qin State launched another large-scale continuous war, it needed to rest for a long time, because the war extremely depleted the national power, especially in terms of population power. The history of the Qin State has proved this. King Qin Zhao continued to He launched wars against Wei, South Korea, Chu, and Zhao, which caused the Qin State to be silent for a considerable period of time in subsequent history. This was because the Qin State's national power was severely depleted, and the Qin State was unable to regain its strength. Then proceed to war on the basis of victory.

The same was true for Qin Shihuang's unification war. The ten-year unification war had actually destroyed the Qin Empire's family fortunes. However, due to the new national defense strategy and security needs, the Qin State did not make timely corrections at this time. The result was a tragedy. This is what happened.

Shangwen's approach actually allowed Qin to avoid such a situation, and war could actually be a virtuous cycle.

Moreover, the emergence of banks has also prompted capital to extend into several other forms of capital, such as bonds, stocks, and various futures. These financial products can even be said to have enriched the power of Qin's capital, allowing Qin to In terms of capital expansion, it has a more offensive and outward nature. This is why the Qin State adopts a diplomatic approach of supporting other countries.