Lin Zexu (August 18, Daoguang)
Further, the minister received the advice of the Ministry of Approval: "According to the actual xingxing, in recent years, the price of silver has been rising day by day, and the silver one or two easy money has been made into a string of six or seven hundred yuan, because the money tickets issued by the profiteers, stationed in writing foreign exchange words, tossing and turning, and there is no cash money, please strictly prohibit the money shops from not allowing them to be used and exchanged, and always trade with cash money to prevent fraud and so on. He was the commander of the infantry army, the Yamen, the Shuntianfu, and the Five Cities Conference, and the governors of the provinces who presided over the regulations and handled them clearly. 'Thanks. ”
The disadvantage of the courtiers checking the money tickets is that they have empty tickets and no cash, and the people who cover the money are afraid that it is difficult to carry the money, and every time they use the ticket as a convenience, the profiteer thinks that it is profitable. When there is a person who issues an invoice without taking money, he will pay a high price, and he will try to exchange paper for silver, and the foolish people are greedy for small profits, so they are willing to be deceived by it and do not realize it. When the tickets he issued accumulated to a large surplus and there was no real money to support, he absconded at dusk, and the silver exchangers held the tickets to control and chase, and finally became nothing. This profiteer cheated the silver with tickets. The courtiers are foolish enough to think that the evils are inherent, and it is not difficult to cure them, but they must have five money shops connected with environmental protection knots, and if one of them is in a bad position, order the five families to share the compensation, and the five small shops are knotted with each other, and the old shops and the solid silver trumpets are added to the knots and sent to the officials, and those who do not have the knots are not allowed to open the shops, if they violate the strict punishment, and detain the shops who have escaped, according to the example of cheating property and calculating the crime of serious crimes, they can curb their flow. However, this disadvantage is only a fraud of the sick people, and it has nothing to do with the state's expenditure.
The passage of money stamps has been passed for many years, not always today, that is, when the silver in the former stripe was every two exchanges of money, the shops did not have no tickets, why is silver not as expensive as it is? Even if the treacherous merchants have recently become more cunning and specialize in deceiving people at high prices, they can only make a few words and a dozen pieces of money every two or more, so how can they suddenly raise the silver that can only be exchanged for a string of money to a string of six or seven hundred yuan because of the use of tickets? I'm afraid it's not reasonable. And the profit of the market servants, no matter how expensive the silver is, can be profitable in and out, not necessarily waiting for the silver price to be very high and then profitable. If a restriction is set at this time, every two allowed easy money a string, why not be more willing to obey, but the person who redeems the silver suffers more, if the price of silver is suppressed and it is cheap, it is said that there is no leakage, and its credibility is credible? Checking the recent tattoos of silver, all the branches of the money, grain, salt, and tariffs have been operated at great expense, just like the passage of private money tickets, which can help the people's shortage. If they are not allowed to use tickets, they are afraid that they will be stretched to the limit. The circulation of silver is under the heavens, and the popularity of judah is in the earth, and the operator of the boat will be shallower and deeper than the water, and the chocobo may not ask; the trader will explore the news of silver, and the official may not know everything. For example, the water of the sluice river, once the drought has passed, the board is heavily set to prevent leakage, and it is afraid that it will not be enough to save the boat. If the locks are not closed strictly, let them leak out, but blame the sailors of each ship to dig shallow, even if this section is shallow, can it still ensure that the previous section is unimpeded? Silver short, why different. Successive ministers, such as Nanhao in Suzhou and Hankou in Hubei, are all places where Khotan gathers, and they are secretly visiting the shops and shops, saying that the sales channels of various goods have been tired recently, and all the goods that were about 10,000 gold traders twenty or thirty years ago are now only half better. Q. What is half of the sale? In a word, opium smoke is enough. This is also like a boatman checking the water of the lock river, and knowing that the water leaked out of the lock, it must not be that the boat has not run aground at present, and Gu Gou is at ease.
The courtier thinks about the daily diet needs of life, and in the rich and extravagant, it is impossible to determine its accuracy, if the poor are eaten, among the mature, about one person has four or five points of silver, he can live a day, if he has silver and a dollar a day, then all are generous. Opium addicts, in addition to food and clothing, need to pay at least one dollar in silver every day. It is a separate fee of thirty-six taels per person per year, which is played by the household department in the past year, and the number of people in each province is counted, which is more than forty million people, and if only one percent of the people in one percent smoke opium, then the omission of a year is more than ten thousand taels, which can be verified. What about those who suck at the moment, and what about one in 100 percent? Hongxu Temple Qing Huang Jue Zi original music cloud years leakage of tens of millions of taels, is still a very small number of ears. How can it be conceived that the cream of the mainland will be so stripped away year after year? And the addict Fang and call on friends to attract the class, to tempt the addictive as the ability, the deeper the drowning, the more unscrupulous. To play with one's heart and return to decadence is to be strict with the people who suck it.
Or if you reopen the establishment of a museum and sell it, opium will be cut off, and it may as well be a little less than the number of smokers, and it seems to be equal. And the provisions of the minister's previous proposal, please increase the integration of the opening of the museum and the sale of goods, but still dare not forgive the article of smoking, cover the most in the yamen, such as the curtain friends and officials with the book office, eight or nine times out of ten opium addicts, all of them can cover up the traffickers, if they do not start strictly from now on, they are trying to sell smokers for the source of help, and Anken breaks the road? It is that the opening of the museum should be planned to be hanged, the law has long been clear, but over the years have not heard of the hanging of a person, handled a case, several cases are the same as the false, which is known as a cover-up. Even if it is difficult for the public to agree at this time, I am afraid that it may not be impossible to help this. If the smoker is dead, it is not too much to open the museum and increase it to the slaughter of the wolf. If the vain is heavier than the other and lighter than this, it is still not beneficial to the ear. For example, if the children of a family wander outside, do nothing evil, and treat those who seduce them in vain and do not restrain their children, they have no fear, so why do they dare not invade? Therefore, if you want to forbid it, you must first cure smoking. And if the charge of smoking is not discussed, 'although the staff of the disciple is stopped now, I am afraid that I will be sentenced to a heavy sentence in the future.' If it is not possible to discuss it in the end, or if it is increased, and it has nothing to do with life and death, and the other addict knows that there will never be a heavy law from now on, who is wary? I am afraid that the more food I eat later, the more profits the sellers will have, even if they risk death and break the law, someone will do it. It is a proposal to open a museum and sell it, which is intended to be flat and the medicine is not in the disease, and the old formula that is still ineffective has been heard. Proverb Yun: "The city of the foot has no job, and the monks and squatters do not have a beard", if there is no smoking, why open the museum and sell it?
Or it means that the crime is heavy, and the blackmail is more, and this is also similar. Even misdemeanors can be blackmailed, but innocence is not blackmail. Instead of using the common law and having no real name, blackmail is in the end, how can it be as if the law is enforced and vigorous, and the smoking can be immediately decided, and the blackmailer is at ease? If it is not easy to break the fear, then the present instrument is already a clear sign; if the fear is not enough, it is difficult to change the one-year time limit, and it is especially determined whether the practitioner is willing to seriously listen to it. Sincerely make The Chinese and foreign people one heart, vow to eliminate this harm, not to be confused by appeasement, as a document, will see everyone cleansed their hearts, fear of punishment, although there is a law of death, there is no one to execute during the term. Even if the term cannot be without the execution of the people, and the people who are preserved thereafter are invincible, in order to raise the carbuncle and the plague, what is the gain and the loss? The Shundian has an order to punish the thief, and the Book of Zhou has a clause on mass drinking and killing, and the ancient saint King Zheng is not happy to use it, but he cannot but be strict with legislation. The severity of the law is weighed by the severity of the evil, so it is said that the punishment of the world is light and the world is heavy, and it is necessary to cover the conditions of the times. When opium was not prevalent, the addicts were only harming themselves, so the rods were enough to cover them. If it is poisoned in the world, it will be extremely harmful, and the law should be strict. If you leak it, it will mean that after several decades, the Central Plains will have few soldiers who can resist the enemy, and there will be no silver that can be fed. Thinking about this, can be strandless!
He who is rich and rich, the original of the billion trillion to nourish his life, should be a billion trillion and pity. The fruits are scattered in the hinterland, so why not lose the upper and lower benefits and hide the wealth of the people. If it is not as if it leaks out to the outside world, is it not advisable to steal money through Kou Capital? The courtiers are shallow in knowledge, but they are deeply favored by themselves, and they are prepared to seal their posts, and when they see this stake, they are afraid of building a room and a conspiracy, and they cannot be recovered even if they are even if they are not presumptuous, and they would like to attach a piece of secret information to them. The Book of The Beg. Sincerely.
(Excerpt from Lin Zexu Ji Song Manuscript, Zhonghua Bookstore, 1965 edition, pp. 598-601)
