In 1368, the Ming Dynasty was established, and Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed emperor. During zhu Yuanzhang's reign, the rule of the entire Daming can be said to be quite in place. Economically, Zhu Yuanzhang stabilized the economy of the Ming Dynasty at that time, so he unified the monetary system.
As early as the unification of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang began to unify the weights and measures and currency in the economy, which shows how important the unification of money is for a country. However, the emperors of each dynasty encountered different problems during their reign, and for this reason, the monetary system was also very different at different times.
Before the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the currency problem was quite serious. At that time, due to the corruption of the officialdom, many imperial court officials were not clean enough in their posts, and in the court of the Yuan Dynasty, the number of corrupt officials and corrupt officials was quite large.
In order to collect more people's fat and people's ointment, these officials began to change their methods to squeeze the common people, for example, when doing farm work, they wanted money for farm work, and at the New Year, they wanted New Year's money, and so on.
In this case, the life of ordinary people can be said to be quite difficult, especially in the case of disasters. Because of these corrupt officials, even if the imperial court allocated money for disaster relief, very few of them finally reached the hands of the common people.
Before the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang had already experienced this kind of thing, at that time, he was just a child of an ordinary family, and he saw too many corrupt officials and corrupt officials oppressing the people. Therefore, after he established the Ming Dynasty, the intensity of suppression of corrupt officials was considerable.
At that time, the punishment of corrupt officials was quite severe. According to relevant historical records, during the Zhu Yuanzhang period, the number of officials killed reached 150,000. Everyone can get a specific understanding of this in "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty".
Economically, after zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he confiscated all the currency of the previous dynasty, and later unified it into "Hongwu Tongbao".
In the beginning, the order of the money market was still very good, but when it came to minting money locally, various problems arose.
Cutting corners is the most serious problem. With the passage of time, a large number of low-quality currencies appeared on the market at that time, which seriously affected the financial order of the Ming Dynasty at that time. Because there was more such shoddy money, the entire economy of the Ming Dynasty was chaotic.
In this process, Zhu Yuanzhang also encountered a difficult problem, when investigating the problem of currencies, there is no way to start, because the source of these currencies is not known. So, he couldn't find anything.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that in the future, when all currencies are minted, the abbreviation of the province should be written out behind the back, so that when encountering problems, they can be traced back to specific provinces, find the corresponding responsible person, and find out where the problem is.
Therefore, since then, there has been one more word behind the "Hongwu Tongbao" - the abbreviation of the province where the origin is located.
According to the "Wuling Treasures" record, there are four types of sixty-one kinds of Hongwu Tong treasure money, and fifty-eight kinds of extant visible people.
There are nine kinds of Hongwu Tongbao coins, including Beijing (Yingtian), Beiping (Hongwu changed Daxing Province to Beiping Province in August of the first year of the Hongwu Dynasty, and in the second year, the north parallel Zhongshu Province), Hubei (Hubei Province), Zhejiang (Zhejiang Province), Ji (Shandong Province), Gui (Guangxi Province), Fu (Fujian Province), Yu (Henan Province), and Guang (Guangdong Province), each with Xiaoping, Fold Two, Dang Iii, Dang Wu, Dang Fifteen, and so on.
Among them, there are two kinds of gui and "gui yi" on the back of the gui, a total of forty-six kinds. Most of the names of the notes of the Small Flat Money to the Fifth Fourth Grade Money are cast on the wear, and only the characters of Fu and Yu are worn, and the words of the back of the Guang are worn on the right.
Since Zhu Yuanzhang implemented this method, the order of the Daming currency market has become better and better.