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[[File:Dà Qīng Hù Bù Guān Piào (大清戶部官票) 01.png|thumb|right|A Xianfeng era Da-Qing Hubu Guanpiao (大清戶部官票, ''dà qīng hù bù guān piào'') of 1 ''[[Tael|liǎng]]'' (壹兩).]] The '''Hubu Guanpiao''' ([[Traditional Chinese]]: 戶部官票, "Ministry of Revenue Government notes") is the name of two series of [[Paper money of the Qing dynasty|banknotes produced by the Qing dynasty]], the first series was known as the ''Chaoguan'' (鈔官) and was introduced under the [[Shunzhi Emperor]] during the [[Transition from Ming to Qing|Qing conquest of the Ming dynasty]] but was quickly abandoned after this war ended, it was introduced amid residual ethnic Han resistance to the Manchu invaders. It was produced on a small scale, amounting to 120,000 [[String of cash coins (currency unit)|strings of cash coins]] annually, and only lasted between 1651 and 1661. After the death of the Shunzhi Emperor in the year 1661, calls for resumption of banknote issuance weakened, although they never completely disappeared.<ref>[[Lin Man-houng]] (2006) ''China upside down: currency, society and ideologies.'' [[Harvard University Press]], [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]], pp 1808–1856, p. 40.</ref><ref>Xiao Qing (萧清) (1984) ''Zhongguo gudai huobishi'' (中國古代貨幣史). Renmin chubanshe, [[Beijing]], pp. 292–294. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref> Over the course of its 268 years, the central government of the Qing dynasty (1644–1912) issued traditional Chinese paper money (vertically printed) only twice. The second time was included the second series of the Hubu Guanpiao which was introduced under the [[Xianfeng Emperor]] in response to the high military expenditures there government had to spend during the [[Taiping Rebellion]], this second series was introduced alongside the [[Cash (Chinese coin)|copper-alloy cash coins-based]] [[Da-Qing Baochao]] (大清寶鈔) banknotes. However, the government did not keep adequate reserves of [[hard currency]] to back the new banknotes up and many provincial governments didn't allow for taxes to be paid using paper money, after a few years the government started refusing to convert the new paper money into hard currency and the Chinese people started to distrust it as a valid [[medium of exchange]]. In response to the ever more expensive military expenditures because of the Taiping Rebellion the government started producing more and more high denomination banknotes which were not convertible causing [[hyperinflation]], in the year Xianfeng 8 (1858) the government completely depreciated the Hubu Guanpiao series in favour of the Da-Qing Baochao. By the year Xianfeng 9 (1859) the Da-Qing Baochao had also become completely depreciated and was ultimately abolished. == Early issues == During the [[transition from Ming to Qing]] the Manchu government issued banknotes known as ''Hubu Guanpiao'' (戶部官票) or ''Shunzhi Guanpiao'' (順治官票) or ''Shunzhi Chaoguan'' (順治鈔貫)<ref name="ExclusiveCoinsShanghaiMuseum">{{cite web|url= https://exclusivecoins.blogspot.com/2012/11/did-you-know-series-14-shanghai-museum.html?m=1|title= Did you know Series (14): Shanghai Museum :A treasure trove of ancient Chinese , Indian and Islamic coinage.|date= 23 November 2012|accessdate=14 May 2019|last= Prasad|first= Rajeev|publisher= Exclusivecoins.Blogspot.com|language=en}}</ref> which were first issued in the year 1651 on initiative of the Minister of Revenue, [[Wei Xiangshu]] (魏象樞) during the war with [[Southern Ming dynasty|the remnants of the Ming dynasty]] to cover the more immediate expenses of the Manchus as the finances of the Qing during this period were in dire distress, these banknotes were declared void only a decade after their issued. An annual amount of 128,000 ''[[String of cash coins (currency unit)|guàn]]'' (貫) were issued, with a total sum of 1.28 million ''guàn'' being produced before they were abolished. The denominations of the Hubu Guanpiao followed the pattern of the [[Da Ming Baochao|Ming dynasty period paper notes]], but as historiographical sources about the early Qing era paper money are scarce, not much can be known about them.<ref>Nei Menggu – [[Inner Mongolia]]n numismatics (1992): Pl. 16. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref><ref name="QingPaperMoney">{{cite web|url= http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Terms/money-qing-baochao.html|title= Qing Period Paper Money.|date=13 April 2016|accessdate=27 March 2019|last= Theobald|first= Ulrich|publisher= [[Chinaknowledge]].de|language=en}}</ref> After the Hubu Guanpiao it was only rarely suggested by [[Mandarin (bureaucrat)|court officials]] to reintroduce paper money to the Qing Empire, among these were [[Cai Zhiding]] (蔡之定) in 1814 and [[Wang Yide]] (王懿德) in his treatise on money known as ''Qianbi Chuyan'' (錢幣芻言).<ref name="ChinaKnowledgePaperMoney">{{cite web|url= http://chinaknowledge.de/History/Terms/papermoney.html|title= Paper Money in Premodern China.|date=10 May 2016|accessdate=27 March 2019|last= Theobald|first= Ulrich|publisher= [[Chinaknowledge]]|language=en}}</ref> [[Peng Xinwei]] suggested that the Manchu rulers of the Qing were very much atavistic towards the inflationary pressure that the [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|earlier Jurchen Empire]] experienced after they had abused their ability to print [[Jiaochao]] banknotes. Modern scholars argue that the banknotes issued during the Shunzhi period, while only brief, likely entrenched the reluctance of the Qing dynasty to issue banknotes because this issue also proved inflationary confirming their fears.<ref>Wei Jianyou (魏建猷) (1986) Zhongguo jindai huobisi (中國近代貨幣史). Huangshan shushechuban, p. 83. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref><ref>[[Peng Xinwei]] (彭信威) (1958) [rev. 1970, 1988, 2007] Zhongguo huobishi (中國貨幤史). Shanghai renmin chubanshe, [[Shanghai]], pp. 556–559. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref> It has been suggested by [[Taiwan]]ese economic historian [[Lin Man-houng]] that Chinese money shops did not start with the production of their own private banknotes until the end of the [[Qianlong Emperor|Qianlong period]], these shops were very likely to have been more developed in [[Northern China]], where these money shops produced banknotes which were mostly denominated in cash coins while banknotes from [[Southern China]] tended to be denominated in taels of silver.<ref>[[Lin Man-houng]] (2006) China upside down: currency, society and ideologies. [[Harvard University Press]], [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]], pp 1808–1856, pp. 36–37.</ref> It is also possible that private-order banknotes could have emerged earlier in the 18th century and that their presence would become very common by the 1820s.<ref>Hou Houji (侯厚吉), Wu Qijing (吴其敬) (1982) Zhongguo jindai jingji sixiang shigao (中國近代經濟思想史稿). Heilongjiang renminchubanshe, [[Harbin]], vol. 1, p. 11. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref> == Xianfeng era == The Xianfeng era Hubu Guanpiao (戶部官票) tael-based banknotes were created out of [[Da-Qing Baochao#Economic and monetary background|the same situation]] that created the [[Da-Qing Baochao]] (大清寶鈔) [[Cash (Chinese coin)|cash coins-based]] banknotes, with the main difference being in what form of currency these banknotes could be redeemed in.<ref name="HoreshQing">{{cite book|title= The Monetary System of China under the Qing Dynasty.|pages= 1–22|date=28 September 2018|author= Niv Horesh|publisher= [[Springer Nature|Springer Link]]|language=en|doi= 10.1007/978-981-10-0622-7_54-1|author-link= Niv Horesh|isbn= 978-981-10-0622-7}}</ref><ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> === Economic and monetary background === {{See also|Da-Qing Baochao#Economic and monetary background}} The precursor of [[paper money]] (紙幣) known as "[[Flying cash]]" were issued by the [[Tang dynasty]], however these bills of exchange could in no way be considered to be a form of paper money as they weren't meant to be a [[medium of exchange]] and were only negotiable between two distant points.<ref>Kann, Eduard: ''The Currencies of China'', [[Shanghai]], 1926, [[Kelly and Walsh]], Ltd.</ref> The first true paper money in the world was issued under the [[Song dynasty]], these were [[promissory note]]s issued by merchants in [[Sichuan]] known as the [[Jiaozi (currency)|Jiaozi]],<ref>Glahn, Richard von (2006). "Re-Examining the Authenticity of Song Paper Money Specimens", Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, 36: 79-106.</ref> under the reign of [[Emperor Zhenzong]] (997–1022) the government of the Song Dynasty granted a monopoly for the production of Jiaozi notes to sixteen wealthy merchants in Sichuan, as these merchants were slow to redeem their banknotes and inflation started affecting these private banknotes the government [[Nationalisation|nationalised]] paper money in the year 1023 under the Bureau of Exchange. As these paper notes were backed by the government they were instantly successful and the people regarded them to be equally trustworthy as [[Cash (Chinese coin)|cash coins]], other types of paper notes issued under the Song dynasty include the [[Huizi (currency)|Huizi]] and the [[Guanzi (currency)|Guanzi]].<ref>Chen, Chau-Nan, Chang Pin-Tsun, Chen, Shikuan. "The Sung and Ming Paper Monies: Currency Competition and Currency Bubbles", Journal of Macroeconomics, 17/2: 273-288.</ref> Before the [[Mongol Empire]] conquered China the [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jin dynasty]] also issued paper money.<ref name="Inner Mongolian">{{cite book |last1=The Inner Mongolian Numismatic Research Institute |title=A Compilation of Pictures of Chinese Ancient Paper Money |date=1992 |publisher=The China Finance Publishing House |location=Beijing |isbn=7-5049-0861-4 |edition=Bilingual |pages=9–33 |ref=Inner Mongolian}}</ref><ref name="DailyHistorySongPaperMoney">{{cite web|url= https://dailyhistory.org/How_Did_the_Creation_of_Paper_Money_during_the_Song_Dynasty_Impact_China%3F|title= How Did the Creation of Paper Money during the Song Dynasty Impact China?.|date=2019|accessdate=28 July 2019|author=DailyHistory.org |publisher= Daily History|language=en}}</ref> Before the establishment of the Ming dynasty the [[Mongol people|Mongol]] [[Yuan dynasty]] had suffered from a severe case of [[hyperinflation]] which made the paper money issued by them worthless.<ref>Bernholz, Peter (1997). "Paper Money Inflation, Prices, Gresham's Law and Exchange Rates in Ming China", Kredit und Kapital, 30/1: 35-51.</ref> Under the reign of the Yuan dynasty [[Yuan dynasty coinage|copper cash coins]] remained in circulation with the inscriptions Zhida Tongbao (至大通寶), Dayuan Tongbao (大元通寶), and Zhizheng Tongbao (至正通寶) forming the majority of the circulating issues and "[[String of cash coins (currency unit)|strings of cash coins]]" remaining a currency unit.<ref>Glahn, Richard von (2010). "Monies of Account and Monetary Transition in China, Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries", Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 53/3: 463-505.</ref><ref>Yang, Lien-Sheng (1975). "Monetary Terms in Chinese History", T'ung Pao: Journal of the Society for Oriental Numismatics, 1/2: 47-54 [reprinted from Chinese Culture, 1/4 (1958)].</ref> [[Silver]] then started to occupy a paramount place in the Mongol economy and was supplemented by [[Chao (currency)|government issued paper money]].<ref>Li, Kangying (2007). "A Study on the Song, Yuan and Ming Monetary Policies against the Context of Worldwide Hard Currency Flows during the 11th-16th Centuries, and their Impact on Ming Institutions and Changes", in Angela Schottenhammer, ed. The East Asian Maritime World 1400-1800: Its Fabrics of Power and Dynamics of Exchanges (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz), 99-136.</ref> Under the reign of [[Kublai Khan]] the Zhongtong Jiaochao (中統交鈔) was issued whose value was based on the fabric [[silk]]. Under the reign of [[Külüg Khan]] in the year 1308 the Zhiyuan Baochao (至元寶鈔) was issued which was supplemented with the silver-based Zhida Yinchao (至大銀鈔), but these circulated only for a year. The final series of paper money issued by the government of the Yuan dynasty from 1350 were the Zhizheng Jiaochao (至正交鈔). A major difference between how paper money was used under the Mongols and under the Song dynasty was that, in certain regions of the Yuan dynasty, paper notes were the only acceptable form of currency and [[Fiat currency|could not be exchanged in either copper cash coins or silver sycees]]. Exchanging paper money into copper or silver was known as ''duìxiàn'' (兌現, "convert into specie") which was the main reason why earlier forms of paper money were deemed reliable. As these regions were completely dependent on paper money inflation hit them more severely as their notes could not be converted into a currency based on any [[Intrinsic value (numismatics)|intrinsic value]], for this reason the Mongols allowed their subjects to continue using copper-alloy cash coins and issued new ones every now and then. During the last few decades of the Yuan dynasty the inflation caused people to lose their trust in paper money and [[barter]] became the most common means of exchange.<ref>Williams, S. Wells (1975). "Paper Money among the Chinese", T'ung Pao: Journal of the Society for Oriental Numismatics, 1/2: 38-40 [reprinted from The Chinese Repository, 20 (1851)].</ref><ref>Davis, Andrew McFarland : ''Certain Old Chinese Notes'', [[Boston]], 1915, [[George Emory Littlefield Company]].</ref> During the beginning of [[Manchu people|Manchu]] rule over China in the year 1644, the total imperial revenues of the Qing dynasty were an approximated 30,000,000 [[tael]]s. Imperial Government expenditures at the time were correspondingly modest. During the balanced periods in Qing dynasty history of the 17th and 18th centuries imperial revenue consistently exceeded government expenditures, which resulted in a tidy cash surplus in the Imperial Chinese Treasury. The vastness of China created poor communications across government offices and a general looseness of administration encouraged all sorts of irregularities across the country. During the course of the [[Taiping Rebellion]] China would see ⅓ of its people die utterly devastating its economy in the process. Of China's 18 wealthiest [[Provinces of China|provinces]] 12 were left in ruins, this would put a heavy strain on the resources of the government of the Qing dynasty putting it near breaking point as the rebellion had sowed the seeds for further calamities which would hurt the [[economy of China]] even more and ultimately led to the downfall of the Qing dynasty during the next century. The main source of income for the government of the Qing dynasty was taxation.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes">{{cite web|url= http://thecurrencycollector.com/pdfs/Ching_Dynasty_Copper_Cash_Notes_-_Part_II.pdf|title=IMPERIAL CHINESE CURRENCY OF THE TAI'PING REBELLION - Part II - CH'ING DYNASTY COPPER CASH NOTES by John E. Sandrock.|date=1997|accessdate=20 April 2019|author= John E. Sandrock|publisher= The Currency Collector.|language=en}}</ref> The Taiping Rebellion was the largest civil war that China had experienced up until that point. The Qing dynasty Army of the Green Standard and its bannermen had long since fallen into decay, revealing the decrepit state of the Chinese military.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> Near the end of the year 1851, the Ministry of Revenue in Beijing promulgated the ''Statutes for Raising Military Funds'' (餉事例).<ref>[[Lin Man-houng]], ''China Upside Down: Currency, Society, and Ideologies, 1808–1856'' (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006), pp. 147–201.</ref><ref>Richard von Glahn, ''Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000–1700.'' ([[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]]: [[University of California Press]], 1996), pp. 70–83.</ref> After repeated defeats on the field of battle suffered by the Chinese government, new armies and new types of armies had to be raised. For this task the Emperor was forced to turn to the provinces. Eventually the imperial Chinese government had no recourse other than to place full responsibility in these newly formed units led by local warlords and aristocrats. [[Zeng Guofan]], the architect of eventual victory over the [[Taiping Heavenly Kingdom]], was given unprecedented powers in this pursuit. By January of the year 1862 conditions had worsened.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> Zeng's troops now only received 40% of their pay, and even so, payment fell as much as 15 months behind. Desertions now began occurring for the first time in 9 years of fighting.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> The government withdrew from conventional modes of centralised war financing as it has been proven ineffective. In turn, it allowed the Chinese provinces a greater flexibility in raising revenues than before, mainly by greatly expanding [[Office selling (China)|office selling]], a time-honored Chinese fiscal emergency measure of the Ministry of Revenue in the capital city but this was never used on such a scale by provincial and military administrations. The offices being sols were those of ''jiansheng'' (監生) and ''gongsheng'' (貢生).<ref name="Brill2015">[https://www.academia.edu/28400259/_Silver_Copper_Rice_and_Debt_Monetary_Policy_and_Office_Selling_in_China_during_the_Taiping_Rebellion_in_Money_in_Asia_1200_1900_Small_Currencies_in_Social_and_Political_Contexts_ed._by_Jane_Kate_Leonard_and_Ulrich_Theobald_Leiden_Brill_2015_343-395 "Silver, Copper, Rice, and Debt: Monetary Policy and Office Selling in China during the Taiping Rebellion," in Money in Asia (1200–1900): Small Currencies in Social and Political Contexts, ed.] by Jane Kate Leonard and Ulrich Theobald, [[Leiden]]: Brill, 2015, 343-395.</ref> Silver ingots known as [[sycee]]s have been a part of the [[History of Chinese currency|Chinese monetary system]] since around the [[Tang dynasty|Tang]] and [[Song dynasty|Song dynasties]], but due to the natural scarcity of silver in China were rare and the use of silver currency was limited to the upper classes of [[Chinese society]] and their use was to be given as tribute, to pay bribes, to give away as gifts, silver sycees were also used as a method of transporting large funds over long distances as well as for hoarding wealth, and was used by the government to pay military expenses.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes">{{cite web|url= http://thecurrencycollector.com/pdfs/Ching_Dynasty_Silver_Tael_Notes_-_Part_III.pdf|title=IMPERIAL CHINESE CURRENCY OF THE TAI'PING REBELLION - PART III - CH'ING DYNASTY SILVER TAEL NOTES by John E. Sandrock.|date=1997|accessdate=29 June 2019|author= John E. Sandrock|publisher= The Currency Collector.|language=en}}</ref> This all changed when [[China-Portugal relations|the Ming dynasty started trading with the Portuguese]] during the 16th century, large amounts of European silver would enter the trading port of [[Guangzhou]] leading to a large surplus of the metal in China as merchants began using silver to pay their taxes with. The amounts of silver flowing in increased dramatically after the Qing dynasty was forced to open more ports following the [[Opium Wars]]. Since the circulating silver sycee in China was rarely of the same degree of fineness, a standard unit of account had to be devised, this unit of exchange for accounting silver came to be known in [[English language|English]] as the "[[tael]]" (which is pronounced the same as the English word "tail").<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> The tael itself was not a form of currency, but rather a weight used to represent one pure ounce of commercial silver. As China was a rather large country where local customs tended to vary widely, an ounce would oftentimes in one place not necessarily be an ounce in another part of China. Consequently, a large variety of different scales were employed all over China by different trades, each of these scales varying somewhat from the other scales that were used in different fields of commerce.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> The [[Xianfeng Emperor]] can't be completely blamed for the monetary crisis the Qing dynasty experienced during this era. The monetary policy of the Qing government had been effective for over 160 years, yet under the [[Daoguang Emperor]]'s reign, which preceded that of Xianfeng, inherent problems to the system were becoming evident. 3 principal issues with the system arose.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> First, [[Cash (Chinese coin)|cash coinage]] became debased due to dishonest officials and the failure of the copper supply dependent on the copper mines of [[Yunnan]] which had been interdicted by the rebels. Secondly, the Chinese silver sector, with its system of [[Loofang]] (which was the private smelting of sycees),<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> was never able to adequately fulfil the demands of Chinese commercial sector; and thirdly, the Qing dynasty was ruled by a government which proved incapable of enforcing the monetary policy which had worked so well for previous dynasties.<ref>Glathe, Harry: "The Origin and Development of Chinese Money", The [[China Journal]], [[Shanghai]], Vol. XXX, March–April, 1939.</ref> All these factors reached a climax around the year Xianfeng 3 (1853).<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> By this time the rebel armies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had conquered the city of [[Nanjing]] and established their capital there. Which called for measures beyond traditional solutions.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> By the time of this occurrence the imperial Chinese treasury was as good as empty. Zeng Guofan realized that his army could not survive off the land in rebel infested Anhui, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang provinces. Since the around the end of the year 1858 Jiangxi province had been molested very little by the Taiping rebels, Zeng became dependent upon the province of Jiangxi for his military supplies and made its defense an essential part of his counter-rebellion strategy.<ref>Pong, David: "The Income and Military Expenditure of Kiangsi Province in the last years (1860-1864) of the Tai'ping Rebellion", The Journal of Asian Studies, [[Ann Arbor, Michigan|Ann Arbor]], [[Michigan]], Vol. XXVI, November, 1966.</ref><ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> The main sources of income of the province at the time were agriculturally based; however, the collection of statistical data collected by the bureaucratic apparatus upon which the taxation system was based was often completely disrupted during Taiping incursions into the area, thus depriving the Ministry of Revenue of its base upon which to collect these taxes. This resulted that land taxes and grain tributes which were the 2 principal sources of revenue, were in large measure not paid to the central government in Beijing.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> additionally, taxes that were collected were often diverted to the local provincial treasuries to defray provincial military expenses. To make up in part for these losses, the lijin tax was introduced. During the entire Taiping Rebellion there were never sufficient funds to run the Chinese government and pay the army to crush the rebellion.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> These [[Taxation in premodern China|taxes collected by the imperial Chinese government]] took many different forms; the most important of which were the land tax system, the grain tribute, the imperial customs revenue system, the tax on the salt monopoly, lijin, and miscellaneous taxes and duties imposed on the people. From ancient times the land tax had produced up to ⅔ of the Chinese government's total revenue.<ref>{{citation |last1 = Myers |first1 = H. Ramon |last2=Wang |first2=Yeh-Chien |year=2002 |contribution=Economic developments, 1644–1800 |editor=Peterson, Willard |series=[[The Cambridge History of China]] |volume=9 |title=The Ch'ing Empire to 1800 |pages=563–647 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn = 978-0-521-24334-6}}</ref><ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> In China, historically all land within its territory was considered to be the property of the [[Emperor of China|Emperor]], the monarch having acquired it through conquest. How this land was used, however, was left to those that occupied and lived on it in return for a yearly tax based upon the rental value of the land in question. In the year 1713 the [[Kangxi Emperor]] had fixed the rent collected by the imperial Chinese government at ¾ tael per 6 mou (or 1 acre) of land and issued a decree that this ratio should stand for all time unchanged.<ref name="CambridgeInflation">{{cite web|url= https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies/article/hsienfeng-inflation/54A8F1ADDC871CC18F4DCFA828730DEB|title= The Hsien-Fêng Inflation (Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009).|date=October 1958|accessdate=28 July 2019|last= Ch'ên|first= Jerome|publisher= [[SOAS University of London]]|language=en}}</ref><ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> From time to time however the actual land tax collected by the Chinese government was reduced in some areas where necessary as a result of natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes and human disasters such as rebellions and insurrections.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> The Chinese provinces most devastated by the Taiping Rebellion which were [[Anhui]], [[Zhejiang]], [[Henan]], [[Jiangxi]], [[Jiangsu]], [[Guizhou]], and [[Sichuan]] enjoyed a governmental sanctioned "tax break" for decades due to the destruction that was wreaked upon them by the Taiping Rebellion.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> This "tax break" accounted for much loss of imperial government revenue which it had previously gained from those provinces. The proceeds of the land tax money collected during this era at the provincial level were substantially decreased. Severe irregularities and mass extortion commonly took place on the part of local tax collectors.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> The second most important tax collected by the imperial Chinese government was the grain tribute.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> Yearly quotas were set, but these quotas were limited to only the 15 provinces with fertile soil which were all situated along the basin of the Yangtze river. The quotas set up by the Imperial Chinese government were assessed based upon local grain productivity in these provinces.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> The Chinese government levered duties on customs and goods which entered China since ancient times dating to the same era as the land era. With the forced opening of the Qing dynasty's doors after the Opium Wars and the following increase in maritime trade with foreign nations, the customs duties took on a vastly expanded level of importance in the Chinese taxation system. Before the year 1854 the same rather lax administration and sleight of hand was practiced with the collection of the import customs as the Chinese government exercised with the land tax.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/><ref>Elisabeth Kaske, ‘Fundraising Wars: Office Selling and Interprovincial Finance in Nineteenth Century China’, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 71/1 (2011), pp. 90–96.</ref> In September 1853 an event happened which would change the way these customs were collected forever, and in the process this event resulted transforming the Chinese maritime customs into a competent and highly efficient force for acquiring tax revenue for the Chinese government. In September of the year 1853 the Taiping rebels, fighting their way down the Yangtze valley while leaving a lot of destruction in their wake, threatened the port city of [[Shanghai]].<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> The loyal Chinese government officials lost no time in fleeing to [[Shanghai International Settlement|Shanghai's International Settlement]] which was protected by guns of foreign warships stationed there. The Customs House of Shanghai by this time had been abandoned.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> Foreign traders and businessmen, refusing to pay duties to unauthorized Chinese officials, came to declare their imported goods instead to their representative consulates in the city until the Chinese Customs House could be reopened. This resulted to a considerable amount of workload for these foreign consulates, as the funds raised through customs duties were based upon a 5% ''[[ad valorem]]'' tax on all imports and exports in Shanghai.<ref>Guttag: ''Guttag's Foreign Currency and Exchange Guide'', [[New York City]], [[United States|USA]], 1921, Guttag Brothers.</ref><ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> The foreign consular officials, who were unable to cope with this high volume, set up the Maritime Customs Service to be run by [[United Kingdom|British]], [[United States|American]], and [[France|French]] consular representatives and gave this office the task of collecting all customs duties on traded goods. As at the time only the British inspector was able to speak [[Mandarin Chinese]], he was handed the office of the Inspector General.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> It was very rare for contemporary Chinese merchants who came into the Shanghai International Settlement to have had any prior contact with Western people. These people now could now observe western business practices and their administration at very close quarters. Some of these refugees who fled into the International Settlement were quick to realise that their country would benefit if China was to follow the West's example. These impressions of foreign business acumen gained during this era, together with cooperation arising out of need in this chaotic time in Chinese history, would lead to the creation of the first native Chinese modern shipping companies and similar business enterprises.<ref>McElderry, Andrea Lee: ''Shanghai Old Style Banks (Ch'ien Chuang) – 1800-1935'', [[Ann Arbor, Michigan|Ann Arbor]], [[Michigan]], 1976, Center for Chinese Studies, [[University of Michigan]].</ref><ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> The Imperial Maritime Customs was organised so well that it would become a model of efficiency, so efficient in fact that the British would never relinquish their control of this system during imperial China, the Manchus would continue this arrangement to the end of the Qing dynasty.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> Since ancient times in China the salt trade was treated as a government monopoly. [[John E. Sandrock]] described the administration of this commodity to be "so complicated, that by comparison, it would make a [[Rubik's cube]] look like mere child's play."<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> As the commodity of salt was not uniformly distributed throughout Chinese territory, China was divided into many districts in an attempt to equalise natural conditions in various places.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> A timetable of tax collection was composed such as the Chinese salt traffic would bear. Consumers near the sea were taxed much higher, for example, this fact would be motivational to everyone to inspire them to evaporate their own salt, while in places where no salt was produced too high a tax would drive consumption down thereby reducing the revenues made. By this act of fine tuning the Chinese salt tax the Imperial Treasury of China kept up a steady flow of income of significant proportions.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> The 5th of the imperial revenue sources was also by far the most diversified. These were the "miscellaneous taxes and duties", this category included everything imaginable to be taxed. There were separate taxes on deeds, [[wine]], [[tobacco]], [[tea]], [[sugar]], and [[timber]] to list a few. Operating a business was taxed. There was a mining tax mining, a butcher tax, a pawnshop tax, and a fishing tax. In reality, only very little has actually changed over the years. Duties were levied on goods such as grain, silk, cattle, wagons, oil, cotton, camels, bamboo, sulfur, cloth among others.<ref>Whelan, T.S.: ''The Pawnshop in China'', [[Ann Arbor, Michigan|Ann Arbor]], [[Michigan]], 1949, Center for Chinese Studies, [[University of Michigan]].</ref><ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> Despite the large range of the above taxes and duties, each tax in and of itself was very minor and of small consequence to the individual in China, however in the aggregate, it was of great significance to the Chinese government. Collecting and accounting for this diverse revenue constituted a real nightmare of administration for imperial Chinese government tax agencies.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> As a way to enhance the revenue the Chinese government introduced the [[Likin (taxation)|Lijin tax]] (釐金, "a contribution of a thousandth" in Mandarin Chinese, or 1‰) which would prove to be very successful; however, this tax severely hampered trade and commence.<ref>Edwin George Beal – [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1tg5hw3 The Origin of Likin, 1835–1864], Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs - Volume: 6 Copyright Date: 1958, Edition: 1, Published by: Harvard University Asia Center, [[Harvard University]].</ref><ref name="ChinaAndManchusC8">{{cite web|url= http://www.romanization.com/books/giles/manchus/chap08.html|title= Chapter 8: China and the Manchus - Romanization.|date=1912|accessdate=30 July 2019|author= Herbert Allen Giles|publisher= Romanization (originally [[Cambridge University Press]]).|language=en}}</ref> The lijin was a tax imposed upon traded commodities. Lijin collection points were established along all highways and waterways in China.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> Additionally, the lijin tax was collected at every border crossing between Chinese provinces and at all city gates. Lumber originating on the upper Yalu River and bound for the capital city of Beijing has to pass through no less than 68 inspection stations to be taxed. The lijin collected added no less than 17% to the cost of this material. The lijin tax limited the amount collected in any one province to 10%. The tolls collected on passing commodities substantially slowed the flow of business within China.<ref name="CambridgeInflation"/><ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> The lijin system would survive the fall of the Qing dynasty as it was a major source of revenue. The lijin tax would constitute the principal source of income for the Chinese provinces and was most essential to the military operations conducted by Zeng Guofan. The Ministry of Revenue assigned which funds had to be sent to the central government in Beijing and which could be retained for local provincial use. The fact that, at times, the military payment of provincial troops was 8 to 9 months in some areas established that the money more often went to Beijing than to the coffers of the provincial governments.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> One scheme the imperial Chinese government introduced to raise funds was to allow provincial governments to sell Imperial Academy degrees, the profits from this were collected into a fund known as the jiansheng silver fund (監銀). Under the reign of the [[Daoguang Emperor]], provincial treasuries kept approximately 48% of the money made from this scheme in provincial grain reserves known as Changpingcang (常平倉) and provincial silver reserves known as fengzhuyin (封貯銀), the Ministry of Revenue was attempting to get their hands on ⅓ of these reserves, factually borrowing against the predicted income of the provincial Jiansheng silver funds which was feeding these reserves.<ref>Tang Xianglong (湯象龍), ‘Daoguangchao juanjian zhi tongji (道光朝捐監之統計)’, in Shehui kexue zazhi (社會科學雜志), 1931/2.4, pp. 437, pp. 440–441. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref> This scheme was only functional if the imperial Chinese government had status awards (which were symbolic capital) which people would actually want to purchase using real economic capital, the imperial government would have to be able to arbitrarily dictate the prices for these symbolic awards, and would also have maintained complete control over the selling process for these awards.<ref>Iwo Amelung, ''Der Gelbe Fluss in Shandong (1851–1911): Überschwemmungskatastrophen und ihre Bewältigung im China der späten Qing-Zeit.'' ([[Wiesbaden]]: Harrassowitz, 2000). (in [[German language|German]]).</ref> Chinese censor [[Huashana]] (花沙納) was highly critical of the Ministry of Revenue's profit generating plan to start selling provincial examination degrees and titles (舉人), this had in the history of China never been allowed to be sold before showcasing how desperate the Ministry of Revenue was at the time for generating money to continue fighting the expensive war. Huashana praised the idea of producing paper money as a far better alternative to selling offices and degrees, but despite his anti-office selling stance he did not advocate for it to be abolished.{{sfn|Ch'ên|1958|p=582}} [[File:Blank form of a remittance note of the Weishengzhang Bank (蔚盛長), size 115×230 millimetres.jpg|thumb|left|A blank form of a remittance note of the [[Weishengzhang Bank]] (蔚盛長), one of the [[Shanxi bank]]s.]] During the 19th century Chinese trade in commodities such as tea, silk, and grain was of such a large volume that this trade actually taxed the capabilities of the copper-alloy cash coins-based currency system of China. During this period imperial Chinese revenues had to be remitted to the capital city of Beijing and provisional salaries paid. At the time the transportation of large sums of precious metal bullion was both expensive and risky to undertake.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> However, with the outbreak of the Taiping rebellion the business of transacting funds and revenue became even more dangerous. In order to overcome these new difficulties the existing [[Shanxi bank]]s (票号, "draft banks" or "remittance banks", which had earned this nickname as most remittance banks were owned and operated by [[Shanxi merchants|merchants]] from the province of [[Shanxi]],<ref>Shanxi Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, ed., ''Shanxi piaohao shiliao'' (山西票号史料) (Taiyuan: Shanxi jingji chubanshe, 1992), pp. 36-39.</ref> meanwhile foreigners in China called these institutions "native banks" to describe the both the Shanxi banks and large [[money lender]]s whose businesses had accumulated a sufficient of capital to make loans) were greatly expanded to accommodate this demand. The principal function of the Shanxi banks under normal circumstances was that to send currency to more distant places in payment for traded [[goods and services]].<ref>Vissering G (1914) On Chinese currency: preliminary remarks on the monetary and banking reform in China, vol 2. De Bussy, [[Amsterdam]].</ref><ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> For this service the remittance banks charged a fee which ranged from 2% to 6%. During the usual course of business, these banks also held Qing Chinese government funds for disbursement. As the Shanxi banks were strongly represented in the north of China, the Chinese government saw it as only natural that these banks would be chosen to disburse the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes through their services.<ref>Pomeranz K (1993) ''The making of a hinterland: state, society and economy in inland North China'', 1853–1937. [[University of California Press]], [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]].</ref> The Shanxi banks were often active in the assigned [[treaty ports]] cultivating the business of both Chinese merchants and foreigner traders alike. The Shanxi banks tended to be very competitive in their nature and cooperated extensively with other branches of banking corporations within their own sphere, they would often send crucial banking-related news to member banks by [[carrier pigeon]].<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> Prior to the introduction of the [[railroad]] to China, the Chinese economy relied heavily on Shanxi banks to finance inter-city commerce. In [[Northern China]] the preferred method of land transportation was the [[camel]] due to the fact that these animals could cope with the conditions of Northern China while many other animals couldn't, and the Shanxi banks employed camels in the north for transportation.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> The Shanxi banks and other Chinese banking companies were essential in connecting the various monetary systems that circulated in China at the time by facilitating interregional trade and commerce, providing credit for merchants, and cooperating in times of crisis. It was customary for example for the Shanghai banks to make advances to [[Junk (ship)|junk]] owners who were engaged in the trade of carrying tribute rice to the north, holding their vessels as collateral. These junks after having unloaded their rice in the port, would return with shipments of oil, peas, bean cakes, and other products for trade.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> In the year 1858 a crisis occurred when the Shanghai banks would let the merchants borrow money to pay for the import of various foreign products and merchandise with the expectation that the tribute junks would return with oil and foodstuffs with a value that would be sufficient to offset the advance paid by the Shanghai banks. However, at this time the [[Second Opium War]] was being fought with the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] and [[France]] in the northern parts of China.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> The tribute junks were sunk on their voyage back to Shanghai. Had bullion in precious metals such as gold and silver have been demanded immediately to cover the loss that had occurred during this crisis, then the Shanghai banks would have gone bankrupt. Being allied with the Shanxi group, the local Shanghai banks were given time by the holders of the notes to obtain the necessary funds from other Chinese cities and the crisis which could have severely affected the [[economy of Shanghai]] negatively was thereby averted.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> The Taiping Rebellion had caused the government of the Qing dynasty to fall into an extreme debt spiral which forced it to reconsider introducing paper money as a medium for exchange.<ref>Kann, Eduard: "The History of Chinese Paper Money", Far Eastern Economic Review, [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]], Vol. XXII, March, 1957.</ref> This was advertised by the imperial government as a necessary evil because of a shortage of bronze which meant that the production of cash coinage had to be heavily scaled doen. The pauperised Chinese public was for centuries uncompromisingly minded against the idea of paper money emissions in any way, shape, or form and would not accept it for any reason.<ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> Half a century earlier in the year 1814, when [[Cai Zhiding]] (蔡之定, Ts'ai Chih-Ting), who was a high official in the Ministry of State, petitioned to the court of the [[Jiaqing Emperor]] advocating the resumption of a paper money currency, this request was denied. Cai was later severely rebuked in the Jiaqing Emperor's memorial in which he pointed out that neither the Chinese government nor any individuals in the past had experienced benefits from the circulation of a paper money.<ref>Elisabeth Kaske, ‘The Price of an Office Venality, the Individual and the State in 19th Century China’, in Thomas Hirzel and Nanny Kim (eds.), Metals, Monies, and Markets in Early Modern Societies: East Asian and Global Perspectives ([[Berlin]]: LIT Verlag, 2008), pp. 279–304.</ref> The Jiaqing Emperor was not fully without justification in asserting his stance against paper currency, as the era Ming banknotes from their introduction had been inconvertible into metal currencies. With no government backing into any other forms of currency these banknotes were swiftly depreciated. While this may seem only logical today the Chinese had to learn this lesson the hard way.<ref>Kann, Eduard: "Copper Banknotes in China", Far Eastern Economic Review, [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]], Vol. XXVII, January 1958.</ref><ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> The first radical change to the Chinese monetary system involved the authorization and introduction of "big cash coins" (大錢 - known today as multiple cash coins).<ref name="CambridgeInflation"/> This measurement was seen as one of the only remaining options left, and simultaneously the Qing government decided to reintroduce paper currency.<ref>XIV International Economic History Congress, [[Helsinki]] 2006 Session 106 [http://www.helsinki.fi/iehc2006/papers3/Kuroda.pdf Too Commercialised To Synchronize Currencies: Monetary Peasant Economy in Late Imperial China in Comparison with Contemporary Japan] by Akinobu Kuroda ([[University of Tokyo]]) Retrieved: 11 June 2017</ref><ref>Peng Xin-Wei, (1958) Zhongguo Huobi Shi (Monetary History of China), second ed., [[Shanghai]], Shanghai Renmin Chubanshe, (Peng pp. 833–838).</ref> Xianfeng's paper money consisted of two types of paper bank notes, the first of which was denominated in qian, or copper cash; and the second type, in silver taels.<ref>Smith, Ward D. and ''Chinese Banknotes'', [[Menlo Park, California|Menlo Park]], [[California]], 1970, Matravers, Brian: [[Shirjieh Publishers]].</ref><ref name="SandrockCopperCashNotes"/> After [[Battle of Nanjing (1853)|the Taiping rebels had captured Nanjing]] the Qing government realised how big the rebellion had become and started issuing new currencies including the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes. The decision to introduce the Hubu Guanpiao was made in a rush during the spring of 1853 due to the enormous shock of losing Nanjing.<ref name="Brill2015"/> Because [[Nanjing]] fell to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom payments of salaries in the city were referred and a debate began to rage within the Ministry of Revenue, speculations began to spread about the implementation of an imminent prohibition of convertible cash banknotes issued by private banks from Nanjing (錢票) and the creation of a shop tax (鋪稅).<ref name="Brill2015"/> Sojourning merchants, and especially the merchant Shanxi banks, which tended to handle the empire-wide remittance business, left Nanjing. This resulted in people attacking local banks to withdraw their savings in a [[run on the banks]] resulting in many of them going bankrupt.<ref name="Brill2015"/> During this time a contribution campaign was stated among local Chinese banks as well as major silk and tea merchant houses in July of the year 1853. Until the end of the year, this campaign yielded 339,000 taels of silver and more than 190,000 strings of copper-alloy cash coins.<ref>Huang Hengjun (黃亨俊), Qingdai guan yinqianhao faxingshi (清代官銀錢號發行史) ([[Taipei|Taibei]]: Guoli Lishi Bowuguan, 2001), pp. 156–159. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref> In response to the ongoing turmoil the Xianfeng Emperor issued a degree which made three promises, the first promise was that all debates about implementing merchant contributions (商捐), a merchant tax (商稅), or issuing levies per household (按戶收錢) should cease, the second point stated that middle- and low ranking officials should continue to receive their salaries, and thirdly that government paper money (鈔) should be issued, while at the same time privately produced banknotes would continue to be accepted.<ref name="Brill2015"/> == XUN YAN<br>([[London School of Economics and Political Science]]) == ; === Introduction and circulation === {{See also|Da-Qing Baochao#Introduction of the Da-Qing Baochao}} [[File:咸豐五年（1855年）戶部官票伍兩.jpg|thumb|right|A Hubu Guanpiao (戶部官票) with a lot of endorsements, as is typical for earlier issues as this indicates that these banknotes were widely accepted.]] The [[silver]] sycee-based Hubu Guanpiao were introduced [[Da-Qing Baochao#Introduction|alongside the copper-alloy cash coins-based Da-Qing Baochao]] by the Chinese government during the third year of the Xianfeng era (1953) with their main difference being into what they could be converted. Because of this they were also referred to as "Yinpiao" (銀票, "silver notes") by the Chinese people.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> The introduction of the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes largely followed the original proposal set forth by [[Huashana]], the original government tael notes were issued in smaller denominations and their distribution was handled by paying 20% of the salaries of civil officials using them.<ref name="Brill2015"/> While both the Hubu Guanpiao and Da-Qing Baochao were introduced in 1853, the Hubu Guanpiao would be discontinued earlier in the year 1858 (Xianfeng 8) with some denominations being discontinued before the series ended starting in 1856 (Xianfeng 6).<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> The Hubu Guanpiao were originally intended to be used to pay the salaries of government officials, this was because the Ministry of Revenue reported that its actual silver stock in its vault was too low for these immediate payments.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan">{{cite web|url= http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3307/1/Yan_In_Search_of_Power.pdf|title= In Search of Power and Credibility - Essays on Chinese Monetary History (1851-1845).|date=March 2015|accessdate=8 February 2020|author= Xun Yan|publisher= Department of Economic History, [[London School of Economics|London School of Economics and Political Science]]||language=en}}</ref> In the summer of the year 1853, the use of the Hubu Guanpiao was extended to all other government expenditures in order to replace actual silver.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> The Regulations for the Trial Introduction of Guanpiao (試行官票章程) stated that the Hubu Guanpiao banknotes were redeemable in specie in both silver sycees or copper-alloy cash coins (or banknotes denominated in cash coins) at local banks.<ref name="Brill2015"/> When the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes were first used to pay the salaries of government officials in the second month of the year 1853, the government of the Qing dynasty had made the promise that, after a period of six months, people could take the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes to the imperial Treasury to have them redeemed for their stated value in silver.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> Apparently by the eighth month of the year 1853 this promise by the government had not been kept.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> This did not turn out to be enforceable as official money shops in Beijing refused to pay out in silver, and merchant banks could not be forced to pay either.<ref name="Brill2015"/> This effectively meant that the banknotes were non-redeemable.<ref name="Brill2015"/> The Hubu Guanpiao were issued in the denominations of 1 [[tael]], 3 taels, 5 taels, 10 taels, and 50 taels.{{efn|They had their official exchange rate with the copper-based currencies set to 1 tael of silver sycees for 2000 cash coins in actual coinage or Da-Qing Baochao banknotes.}}<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> Despite their face value, the Ministry of Revenue prohibited provincial governments from paying out actual silver for the Hubu Guanpiao. Only military officers and civilian employees at military headquarters were actually allowed to exchange their tael notes for silver.<ref name="Brill2015"/> The circulation of a Hubu Guanpiao bill was confined to its province of issuance and provincial governments were further prohibited from returning the banknotes back to Beijing as a part of the payment of their yearly tax quotas.<ref name="Brill2015"/> These policies all led to a humongous confusion over what should actually be done with the Hubu Guanpiao.<ref name="Brill2015"/> Provincial governments refused to follow the stipulations set by the imperial Chinese government, provinces like [[Jiangsu]] and [[Zhejiang]] paid parts of their taxes using Hubu Guanpiao banknotes and the province of [[Fujian]] allowed them to be redeemed in silver specie within its borders.<ref>He Wenkai, Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State: England (1642–1752), Japan (1868–1895), and China (1850–1911) (Ph.D. dissertation, mit, 2007, [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]] - [[Harvard University Press]], 2013), chapter 6.</ref><ref>Zhongguo jindai huobishi ziliao, di yi ji: 1822–1911 (中國近代貨幣史資料，第一輯)：1822–1911, ed. by Zhongguo renmin yinhang zonghang canshishi jinrong shiliao zu (中國人民銀行總行參事室金融史料組), page 222. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref> Not all exceptions were positive for the people, while in theory, 50% of all taxes could be paid using Hubu Guanpiao tael notes, some provinces and some local magistrates accepted only 30% or would even reject payments made in Hubu Guanpiao altogether.{{sfn|Peng Zeyi (彭澤益)|1983|p=90–91}} In the summer of 1853 the military headquarters and various provincial treasures were given 2,000,000 taels in Hubu Guanpiao banknotes from the Ministry of Revenue, this was a change from the failed plan by the Ministry of Revenue to borrow the silver against provincial contribution funds. The new plan was to use the silver saved by not paying out portions of the statutory salaries, this would serve as a cash reserve to back the Hubu Guanpiao.<ref name="Brill2015"/> The Hubu Guanpiao banknotes rather than being smoothly introduced to the local markets were "dumped" (Lanfa) on purveyors of [[goods and services]] to the bureaucracy of the Qing government and were not as easily accepted back in tax payments to the government by these same purveyors.<ref name="HoreshQing"/> In the Qing dynasty capital city of [[Beijing]] the circulation of these banknotes was extensive and the government used three different channels to distribute them into the market namely the already existing Beijing Metropolitan District and the newly established provincial treasuries and the military commissary.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> By utilising the already existing bureaucracy of the Beijing Metropolitan district, the new banknotes were more easily and swiftly introduced into the Beijing market, this way all government officials in the city and private contractors operating there would receive a percentage of their pay in the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> To distribute these banknotes into the provinces outside of Beijing the Ministry of Revenue would utilise the services of special banks which were specifically appointed by the government for the purpose of bringing them onto local markets.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> Because of the paramount importance of the "[[Shanxi banks]]" to the Chinese economy the Ministry of Revenue decided to use these banks for the purpose of handling the silver tael-based Hubu Guanpiao banknotes and the transactions made using them.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> The third and final way the government of the Qing dynasty distributed the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes into general circulation were the various commissary departments of the Chinese military as these institutions were responsible for paying the salaries of the army and navy.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> As soldiers and marines were paid partially using the Hubu Guanpiao this ensured that at the places where they were stationed these banknotes would see greater circulation, this was especially true for the areas surrounding the [[Grand Canal (China)|Grand Canal]] as one of the primary military strategies employed during the war with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was to hold this waterway at all costs as it was extremely vital for warfare.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> The Hubu Guanpiao tael notes were sent from Beijing to the other provinces of China as a method to pay for imperial government expenditures on military or construction projects.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> Government regulations regarding the usage of the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes stated that 80% of all government expenditures should be paid using real silver while 20% was to be paid out using the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> This rate was later adapted to 50/50 somewhere in late 1853.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> The Hubu Guanpiao tael notes saw limited circulation on the Chinese market, this was largely because of their high nominal values, which meant that they proved inconvenient for the rather daily exchanges.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> Furthermore, they were not backed by any actual silver which meant that they were not convertible into actual silver money.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> The Da-Qing Baochao cash notes and Hubu Guanpiao tael notes weren't the only solutions the Chinese government offered to fix it's financial crisis, but the actual implementation of these solutions varied greatly from province-to-province.<ref>Yixin (奕訢) and Board of Revenue, xf 5.2.11, Zhongguo jindai huobishi ziliao, vol. 2, pp. 408–410. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref> Scholarly studies surrounding the effects around the introduction of these many new types of monies and what effect they had all played into the new monetary system, however, while the Da-Qing Baochao cash notes and Hubu Guanpiao tael notes weren't actually convertible into hard currency they had a fixed rate to each other and did circulate throughout the Machu Empire.<ref>Peng Zeyi (彭澤益). ‘1853–1868 nian de Zhongguo tonghuo pengzhang 1853–1868 (年的中國通貨膨脹)’, in Peng Zeyi (彭澤益) (ed.), Shijiu shiji houbanqi Zhongguo de caizheng yu jingji (十九世紀后半期中國的財政與經濟) ([[Beijing]]: Renmin chubanshe, 1983). Page 88. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref> During the ninth month of the year 1853, official government banks were established by the Qing to exchange the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> However, these official government banks refused to exchange these notes for any real silver.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> Instead, the official banks would exchange the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes, as well as Da-Qing Baochao cash notes, for [[Daqian]] and their own banknotes.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> During the ninth month of the year 1853, a 1 tael Hubu Guanpiao note could be exchanged at these banks for 200 specimens of 10 ''wén'' Daqian. On the same day, the market exchange rate for a real silver sycees against standard copper-alloy cash coins was 1 tael of silver for 2,500 ''wén'' in [[Zhiqian]].<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> Additionally, at this point the Daqian had already depreciated by more than 40%.<ref>Zhang Dechang, ''Life of a Qing Mandarin in Beijing'' ([[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]]: [[Chinese University of Hong Kong Press]], [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]] 1970), page 233.</ref><ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> Some officials working for the Ministry of Revenue has argued that the government should be very conservative with issuing the Hubu Guanpiao into circulation, as they claimed that the use of silver-based banknotes as a means of overcoming the shortage of silver due to the ongoing war with the Taiping rebels was effective as long as the banknote issue was limited to only 20% of all payments conducted by the government of the Qing dynasty, a notable exception was made for people like the generals and the imperial princes who traditionally received their payments entirely in silver.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> Critics who supported paper money in their memorials to the Qing throne stated that the Ministry of Revenue was too undecided on their monetary policies and that they came too late.<ref name="Brill2015"/> Many critics demanded that government-issued banknotes would be made fully convertible in specie and that they should be treated as legal tender in 100% of all government transactions and could circulate throughout the Qing Empire without the restrictions that were currently set on them by the Ministry of Revenue. Some critics suggested that the Hubu Guanpiao should be forcefully introduced to the people as tax bonds, which would be repayable by the Chinese government over a few years in the form of discounts on the land tax.<ref name="Brill2015"/> Many of these officials also stated their disapproval of the circulation of private cash shop notes and that this practice must cease to prevent the general over-circulation of paper currency.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> At the same time there were fears that the banknotes which were issued by private companies would become a threat to the credit of the government issued Hubu Guanpiao tael notes, in the case that the private banks would go bankrupt. Lastly, some government officials urged that the circulation of Hubu Guanpiao should be confined only to the capital city of Beijing.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> [[Wang Maoyin]], an imperial censor who was a strong proponent of this more reserved policy in circulating paper money, he feared that the private banks would be forced to continue to make payments on the interest on the government deposits while not being able to recoup the actual silver needed for the reserves. Wang did not know that the Chinese provincial contribution funds would not stay as predictable as time went by.<ref>Wang Maoyin, 3.1.8, Zhongguo jindai huobishi ziliao, vol. 2, pp. 329–331, cited from Zhou, Wan-Qing caizheng, pp. 194–195. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref> Wang Maoyin also criticised the plan by the Ministry of Revenue to take funds from the jiansheng silver fund (監銀) early in 1853, his largest objection was the lack of control the ministry had over the contributions which would later be necessary to refund the capital. The total emission of Hubu Guanpiao tael notes proposed by the Ministry of Revenue was 2,000,000 taels. The majority of the appropriated funds would come from bank deposits of provincial governments of which the imperial Chinese government planned to appropriate one third of to finance these emissions. At the time the bank deposits of provincial governments in China proper amounted to 6,114,000 taels of silver and 710,110 strings of standard cash coins in total (⅓ of this would be 1,833,000 taels of silver and 213,033 strings of standard cash coins).<ref name="Brill2015"/> He was expeditiously moved to the Ministry of War for his suggestions for enforcing a more conservative note issuing policy.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> The criticism put forth by Wang Maoyin was notably mentioned in [[Karl Marx]]' ''[[Das Kapital]]''.<ref>[[Karl Marx]] – ''[[Das Kapital]]: Kritik der politischen Oekonomie, Erster Band, Buch 1: Der Produktionsprocess des Kapitals'' ([[Hamburg]]: Verlag von Otto Meissner, 1872), p. 108, n. 83. (in [[German language|German]]).</ref> The newly introduced Hubu Guanpiao tael notes circulated alongside preexisting local currencies as well and was traded with them from the beginning, this changed after 5 months when the imperial Chinese government decided to suspend making them convertible into real silver sycees effectively making them a [[fiat currency]]. According to [[Frank King (historian)|Frank King]] the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes were still theoretically convertible into copper-alloy cash coins and Da-Qing Baochao cash notes, this convertibility could not actually be enforced.{{sfn|King|1965|p=150.}} There is in reality very little evidence which suggests that the Hubu Guanpiao was actually used in any private transactions for business, they were even likely to have ever been used in retail transactions which were dependent on cash coins.<ref name="Brill2015"/> At the end of 1853 the private banks in the city of Beijing has ceased paying out copper-alloy cash coins for the Hubu Guanpiao, the effect this had on those that had received these banknote as a part of their salaries in Beijing was completely devastating. A contemporary observer of the situation at the end of the year 1853 said of it:<ref name="Brill2015"/> {{Quote box | quote ="Among families in Beijing who have received government notes, the wealthier ones have already paid them as contribution [i.e. bought offices], the poorer families hold the bills in their hands without a place to exchange them into copper cash, so they are forced to sell them at discount prices to treacherous dealers who have monopolized the acquisition of contributions and in this way return the bills [to the Treasury]." | source = - Extract from Zhou Yumin (周育民). ''Wan-Qing caizheng yu shehui bianqian'' (晚清財政與社會變遷) ([[Shanghai]]: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2000). p. 196. | width = 50% | align = center }} Near the end of 1853 the Ministry of Revenue introduced the non-convertible Da-Qing Baochao cash notes in order to meet the demand for small denomination banknotes in salary payments, to use at central government construction sites, and to ensure that the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes had the opportunity to be redeemed in cash notes which was pegged at fixed parity of 1 tael to 2000 ''[[Chinese cash (currency unit)|wén]]''.<ref name="Brill2015"/> However, like the Da-Qing Baochao cash notes, the actual value of the Hubu Guanpiao was severely discounted on the market. In the year Xianfeng 3 (1853) the Ministry of Revenue gave authorisation to the local provincial governments of China to directly issue banknotes denominated in copper-alloy cash coins and silver taels, these banknotes bore its official seal and were valid throughout the empire.<ref name="HoreshQing"/> === Inflation and depreciation === {{See also|Da-Qing Baochao#Inflation}} Rather than showing restraint the government of the Qing dynasty had ordered larger denomination banknotes to be produced to match their towering expenditures.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsDebinMa">{{cite web|url= http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/41940/1/WP159.pdf|title= Money and Monetary System in China in the 19th-20th Century: An Overview. (Working Papers No. 159/12)|date=January 2012|accessdate=26 January 2020|author= Debin Ma|publisher= Department of Economic History, [[London School of Economics]]|language=en}}</ref><ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> Both Da-Qing Baochao cash notes and Hubu Guanpiao tael notes were increasing forced upon the provinces of [[China proper]] in growing numbers until the point that they were circulating in most of the provinces of this region.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> Some people were actually willing to purchase Hubu Guanpiao tael notes (at a discount), and they would later use them as part of their payment of taxes or for other things like title purchases.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> However, the difficulty of paying taxes with the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes would further undermine their credibility on the market.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> This made sure that they depreciated quickly in the exchange market:<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> by the end of the year 1856 a 1 tael Hubu Guanpiao note could be exchanged only for an amount between 800 to 900 ''wén'' in Zhiqian, this meant that they had suffered a depreciation of more than 60% on the market.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> Furthermore, in the year 1859 Hubu Guanpiao tael notes depreciated to only 5% of their nominal value.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> As the amount of inflation affecting the bills increased, more pressure was placed to help enforce the Ministry of Revenue's stringent policies.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> If after an investigation irregularities were discovered, then the government would issue a punitive action as the result. After corruption among the note issuing banks was discovered by [[Sushun (Qing dynasty)|Sushun]], who was the president of the Ministry of Revenue in the year 1859, 100 arrests of corrupt notables and wealthy merchants were made.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> That year a fire at the offices of Ministry of Revenue offices destroyed most of the records.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> As it was suspected that corrupt officials complicit, the government arrested more people.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> There were measures taken and police actions were made to enforce the new currency laws that were more in the Manchu military tradition than that of the Chinese civil authorities of the Qing dynasty.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> However these enforcements which were done when the Chinese public refused to accept the banknotes happened without correcting the root cause of the problems and prove to only hasten the weakening and eventual abolition of the Da-Qing Baochao and Hubu Guanpiao banknote series.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> Government-issued banknotes and other currencies would continue to lose their market value to the point that the government itself started to refuse accepting Hubu Guanpiao tael notes as a form of tax payment for the land tax and grain tribute payments, although the Hubu Guanpiao were still accepted in customs and salt taxes as well as a form of payment for office selling and they continued to be issued as part of government salaries and stipends in the city if Beijing.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> This policy resulted in the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes being depreciated more rapidly ultimately leading to their abolition.<ref>Yixin and the Board of Revenue, xf 5.2.11, in: Zhongguo jindai huobishi ziliao, vol. 2, pp. 408–410. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref><ref>Mianyu et al., xf 10.2.9, Zhongguo jindai huobishi ziliao, vol. 2, pp. 412–415. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref> In the year 1856 the Da-Qing Baochao cash notes had replaced the Hubu Guanpiao in land tax payments, this was done in order to avoid exchange rate losses for poorer peasants as generally their tax obligations were often calculated to only be fractions of taels making the Hubu Guanpiao disadvantageous for them to use.<ref name="Brill2015"/> The Hubu Guanpiao would remain a form of legal tender for the payment of salt taxes, tea taxes, and customs as these taxes usually involved larger sums of money, but the domain of the tael notes would be severely limited by this step.<ref name="Brill2015"/> The practice of office selling was still mostly done using Hubu Guanpiao tael notes and to purchase offices using them remained very secure, this made office selling contributions the most reliable way to withdraw the Hubu Guanpiao by the government after they came into circulation via salaries.<ref name="Brill2015"/> The Hubu Guanpiao banknotes tended to be heavily discounted in exchange due to their inability to be redeemed and would eventually be entirely repudiated by the Chinese government. At their inglorious end the Hubu Guanpiao banknotes became completely worthless and disappeared completely from the market by the year 1863.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> Up until the year Xianfeng 4 (1854) many endorsements were made on the reverse side of Hubu Guanpiao tael notes confirming the fact that they were still generally accepted by the Chinese public as a form of payment.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> However, by the year Xianfeng 5 (1855) it appeared as if the Chinese people had turned against them as a valid bill of exchange due to inflation as banknotes produced after this period had fewer and fewer endorsements, by the year Xianfeng 9 (1859) people would refuse to accept these tael notes altogether. By the spring of the year 1859 their value had fallen to only 5% of their [[nominal value|face value]].<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> At the end of their official circulation period, the leftover Hubu Guanpiao banknotes were being traded on the streets of Beijing at a 99% loss compared to their face value.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> Prior to the year Xianfeng 7 (1857) Hubu Guanpiao banknotes were rarely used in the purchases of offices, however, by the year of Xianfeng 10 (1860) silver prices have become relatively low and the main use of Hubu Guanpiao tael notes was as debentures for unpaid salaries, recipients of these salary debentures, whether they were (theoretically) redeemable Hubu Guanpiao tael notes or so-called Xiangpiao (餉票, "pay bills"), mainly sold their claims to a salary in silver to office purchasers who used these bills to buy offices. There is no evidence that these Xiangpiao bills were actually circulated in the economy neither is there any evidence that they were redeemed for salaries. So by this time tael notes were used more commonly used to purchase office titles through the Qing government's office selling scheme. Like the Hubu Guanpiao, the Xiangpiao were used until the year 1868, when an edict issued by the imperial government outlawed all government backed banknotes. As in the capital city of Beijing the use of these banknotes led to a depreciation of office prices, but conversely, they partially alleviated the social fallout that occurred from unpaid military salaries.<ref>Mao Hongbin (毛鴻賓), xf 11.9.24, in Mao Chenglin (毛承霖). Mao shangshu (Hongbin) zougao 毛尚書 (鴻賓) 奏稿 ([[Taipei|Taibei]]: Wenhai chubanshe, 1971), vol. 1, pp. 387–391. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref><ref>Liu Kun (劉坤), tz 7.10.29, Junjichu lufu zouzhe, 364–1973. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref><ref>Liu Rong (劉蓉), tz 4.4.30, in Liu Qingbo (劉晴波) (ed.). Zuo Zongtang quanji (左宗棠全集) ([[Shanghai]]: Shanghai shudian, 1986), vol. 2, pp. 9, 709–711. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref><ref>Liu Rong (劉蓉), tz 5.1.13, Junjichu lufu zouzhe, 363–1455. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref><ref>Yingqi (瑛棨), xf 8.8.28, Junjichu lufu zouzhe, 296–1320. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref> Before their valued had dropped as significantly as it did, the Ministry of Revenue had already given the orders to cease the production and distribution of the Hubu Guanpiao in the year Xianfeng 7 (1857).<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> During the final year that the Hubu Guanpiao banknotes were issued, the Chinese government produced 60,2000,000 silver taels in paper money onto the market. During this same period the total tax revenue collected by the imperial Chinese government amounted to only 86,600,000 taels in silver. After the [[Tongzhi Emperor]] ascended to the throne of the Qing dynasty, this monetary policy was ended.<ref>Ji Zhaojin (2002) ''A history of modern Shanghai banking''. M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, p. 20–32.</ref> A total of 9,780,000 taels in Hubu Guanpiao banknotes had been printed by the time that they had been officially deprecated. After this point all further emissions of official Chinese paper money were the Da-Qing Baochao denominated in copper-alloy cash coins as the tael notes started slowly disappearing from the market.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> In a 1962 study [[Yang Duanliu]] cited memorials which were written to the Xianfeng Emperor which attempted to show him that his order to the provinces to keep fifty percent of their reserves in silver was ignored by provincial authorities and that the actual ratio of reserves varied substantially across different provinces. Meanwhile, some Chinese provinces did not keep any silver reserves at all, while the province of [[Henan]] (a province very close to the capital city of Beijing) did not even accept the Hubu Guanpiao banknotes they themselves issued as a form of payment for provincial taxes. Yang claims that these inadequate reserve ratios and local insubordination to imperial government laws and edicts were to blame why by the year Qixiang 1 (1862) government banknotes had completely disappeared from circulation.<ref>Yang Duanliu (楊端六) (1962) ''Qingdai huobi jinrong shigao'' (清代貨幣金融史稿). Shenghuo, [[Beijing]], pp. 112–113. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref> [[Jerome Ch'en|Jerome Ch'ên]] meanwhile suggested that the Ministry of Revenue made the rampant inflation a lot more worse by insisting that no more than half of individual tax remittance could be made with either Da-Qing Baochao cash notes or Hubu Guanpiao tael notes with the remainder of the taxes being demanded in either cash coins or silver.<ref name=" Ch'ên1958">[[Jerome Ch'en|Jerome Ch'ên]] (October 1958). "The Hsien-Fêng Inflation". [[SOAS University of London]]. Chapter 21, pages 578–586.</ref> [[Niv Horesh]] suggests that the reason the Qing dynasty suffered from hyperinflation during the reign of the Xianfeng Emperor was not only because of the fact that the banknotes issued by the government at the time were inadequately backed up by [[hard currency]], but that the Xianfeng Emperor approved the issuance of heavily debased and ill-fated Daqian. Horesh blamed the 9,200,000 taels in war indemnities imposed on the Qing by foreign powers following the Opium Wars that were demanded from the Qing in March of the year 1850 as a strong motivation for the Xianfeng regime to start debasing its currency despite the fact that high denomination low intrinsic value cash coins has had a tainted reputation throughout Chinese history.<ref name="HoreshQing"/> In December 1850 a way larger threat to the rule of the Qing appeared in the form of a major [[civil war]] during the Taiping Rebellion meaning that the issuing of Daqian and paper currency were seen as a last ditch emergency measure which the government had to undertake for its continued rule.<ref name="HoreshQing"/> According to Ch'ên many of the court officials that voiced their support for using banknotes were also in favour of issuing the Daqian and even iron cash coins as a means to alleviate the fiscal crisis as well as the general shortage of copper cash coins that were caused by the Taiping rebels expanding through [[Southeast China]].<ref name=" Ch'ên1958"/> Both the Da-Qing Baochao cash notes and Hubu Guanpiao tael notes continued to be accepted in the practice of office selling and would continue to circulate in the provinces of China proper as non-interest bearing debentures until the years 1867–1868, when all government-issued banknotes were officially declared invalid.<ref>Zhengce yanjiu (清代財政策与貨幣政策研究) ([[Wuhan]]: Wuhan da xue chu ban she, 2008), pp. 638–639. (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]).</ref> === Aftermath === There was a gradual return to the bimetallic traditional currency system and by the year 1861 all new currencies of the Xianfeng era were given up, with the notable exception being the 10 ''[[Chinese cash (currency unit)|wén]]'' Daqian which continued to be produced until the abolition of cash coins themselves.{{sfn|Peng Zeyi (彭澤益)|1983|p=88.}} According to a memorial issued by the Ministry of Revenue, the total amount of Hubu Guanpiao tael notes issued during the years 1853 until 1860 was 9,781,200 taels.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> This number is not particularly high, and a large share of the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes was used outside of the city of Beijing.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> The Qing Treasury Records bookkeeping from this period also did not distinguish the notes denominated in taels of silver from real silver.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> In the Qing Treasury Records all transactions that use "taels" as the unit of account were always recorded as "silver taels" without distinguishing or not whether these "silver taels" were real silver or Hubu Guanpiao tael notes, so the actual annual figure of Hubu Guanpiao tael notes that were pumped into the Beijing market through the expenditures of the imperial government remain unknown.<ref name="LondonSchoolOfEconomicsXunYan"/> After the abolition of the Da-Qing Baochao and the Hubu Guanpiao banknotes the government of the Qing dynasty did not produce any banknotes anymore for decades. The final phase of Qing banknote issuance lasted from 1897 right until the [[Xinhai Revolution]] ousted the monarchy in 1912. These later issues were substantively different from the earlier two issues because, by then, banknotes had been imported from Western printers. These new banknotes were often horizontal-shaped in design which were novel in Chinese terms. Because of their horizontal designs and better security issues harder to forge by Chinese counterfeiters. The majority of these new banknotes were disbursed by semiofficial modern Chinese banks based on the models presented by Western and Japanese banks in China.<ref>Cheng Linsun (2003) ''Banking in modern China: entrepreneurs, professional managers and the development of Chinese banks''. [[Cambridge University Press]], [[New York City|New York]], pp 1897–1937.</ref><ref>Ji Zhaojin (2002) ''A history of modern Shanghai banking''. M.E. Sharpe, Armonk.</ref><ref>[[Niv Horesh|Horesh, N.]] (2009) ''Shanghai's Bund and Beyond: British Banks, Banknote Issuance, and Monetary Policy in China, 1842–1937.'' [[Yale University Press]], [[New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven]], [[Connecticut]].</ref> The Ministry of Revenue established a [[central bank]] called the [[Ta-Ching Bank of the Ministry of Revenue]] (大清戶部銀行) in the year 1905, which was later renamed the [[Ta-Ching Government Bank]] (大清銀行), this bank would issue the last government backed banknotes of the Qing dynasty until it was overthrown.<ref name="QingPaperMoney"/><ref>Bruce, Colin - Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Volume 1, [[Iola, Wisconsin|Iola]], [[Wisconsin]] 2005, [[Krause Publications]].</ref> == List of banknotes denominated in silver taels issued during the Xianfeng era == List of banknotes denominated in silver tael sycees issued during the Xianfeng era:<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> {|class="wikitable" style="font-size: 100%" !colspan=4| Xianfeng tael notes (1853–1858) |- ! Denomination !! Years of production !! Approximate size<br>(in millimeters) !! Image |- | 1 ''[[Tael|liǎng]]'' || [[Xianfeng Emperor|Xianfeng]] 3, Xianfeng 4, Xianfeng 5, Xianfeng 6 || 151 x 250 || [[File:Dà Qīng Hù Bù Guān Piào (大清戶部官票) 01.png|75px]] |- | 3 ''liǎng'' || Xianfeng 3, Xianfeng 4, Xianfeng 5, Xianfeng 6, Xianfeng 7, Xianfeng 8 || 152 x 248 || [[File:大清戶部官票 3 Taels (Liǎng) - Ministry of Interior and Finance, Ch'ing Dynasty (1854) 01.jpg|75px]] |- | 5 ''liǎng'' || Xianfeng 3, Xianfeng 4, Xianfeng 5, Xianfeng 6, Xianfeng 7 || 154 x 250 || [[File:大清戶部官票 5 Taels (Liǎng) - Ministry of Interior and Finance, Ch'ing Dynasty (1854) 01.jpg|75px]] |- | 10 ''liǎng'' || Xianfeng 3, Xianfeng 4, Xianfeng 5, Xianfeng 6 || 190 x 315 || [[File:大清戶部官票 10 Taels (Liǎng) - Ministry of Interior and Finance, Ch'ing Dynasty (1853) 01.jpg|75px]] |- | 50 ''liǎng'' || Xianfeng 3, Xianfeng 4, Xianfeng 5, Xianfeng 6 || 190 x 310 || [[File:大清戶部官票 50 Taels (Liǎng) - Ministry of Interior and Finance, Ch'ing Dynasty (1855) 01.jpg|75px]] |} == Design, security features, and design elements == {{See also|Da-Qing Baochao#Design, security features, and design elements}} [[File:Layout of a Hubu Guanpiao (戶部官票), Board of Revenue - John E. Sandrock.jpg|thumb|right|A layout of Hubu Guanpiao banknotes.]] The Hubu Guanpiao tael notes were block printed in dark blue ink on [[Handicraft|handmade]] paper and the Chinese characters on them were written in the vertically and its appearance was similar to that of all ancient Chinese paper money that came before it. The official [[Seal (East Asia)|seals (or "chops")]] on them were vermilion in colour and the dates and serial numbers on them were handwritten in black ink by the issuing parties.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> Like the [[Da-Qing Baochao]] the date appeared on the left side of the banknote and was written vertically within a column, unlike the Da-Qing Baochao the Hubu Guanpiao didn't only contain the reign year (or "era date") such as "Xianfeng 5", but also specified on which day and month the banknote was issued.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> The [[nominal value]] (or denomination) of the banknote represented in [[tael]]s of pure silver appeared in the middle of the banknote, while its block and serial number were placed on the right side. The frame of the banknote had five five-fingered (or imperial) [[Chinese dragon]]s, on the bottom of the banknote was a mountain made from precious stones surrounded by waves of water and branches of [[coral]]. At the top of the banknote were the Chinese characters for "Ministry of Revenue Government Note" or "Hubu Guanpiao" (票官部戶) written [[Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts|vertically]] from [[right to left]].<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> At the bottom of every Hubu Guanpiao was a box containing a text which stated:<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> {{Quote box | quote = "This official banknote is authorised by the Ministry of Revenue of the Great Qing Empire. The nominal value of this banknote is equal in exchange to the silver tael. It is permissible to pay official government taxes with this banknote. Counterfeiters will be severely punished to the full extent of the law" {{clr}} {{Vtext-css3|戶部奏行<br /> 官票凡願<br /> 將官票兌<br /> 換銀錢者<br /> 與銀一律<br /> 並准按部<br /> 定章程搭<br /> 交官項偽<br /> 造者依律<br /> 治罪不貸 }} hù bù zòu xíng <br/> guān piào fán yuàn <br/> jiàng guān piào duì <br/> huàn yínqián zhě <br/> yǔ yín yīlǜ <br/> bìng zhǔn àn bù <br/> dìng zhāngchéng dā <br/> jiāo guān xiàng wěi <br/> zào zhě yī lǜ <br/> zhìzuì bù dài {{clr}} | source = | width = 75% | align = center }} It is notable that the Hubu Guanpiao contained a warning to currency counterfeiters while the Da-Qing Baochao did not, the earliest Chinese paper currencies such as the [[flying cash]] from the [[Tang dynasty]] and the [[Jiaozi (currency)|Jiaozi]], [[Huizi (currency)|Huizi]], and [[Guanzi (currency)|Guanzi]] all contained these warnings. [[United States|American]] numismatist [[John E. Sandrock]] speculates that the [[Xianfeng Emperor]] thought that it was unnecessary to issue a warning on the Da-Qing Baochao as they were of comparatively minor value, while those who would make counterfeit Hubu Guanpiao banknotes would be executed through [[decapitation]]. Foreigners residing in Shanghai in the year 1857 reported that the Chinese government commonly decapitated currency counterfeiters, which would indicate that the practice was a common occurrence.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> The Hubu Guanpiao series were generally richer in ornamentation than the Da-Qing Baochao cash notes. [[Buddhist symbolism|Buddhist symbols]] decorated the Hubu Guanpiao, these symbols include the [[lotus flower]] representing [[Gautama Buddha]], the [[endless knot]] representing the Buddha's temporal power, the [[wikt:canopy|canopy]] of the universe, two wheels and a [[bamboo rattle]], and many seeded [[pomegranate]]s which represented fertility.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> While the [[flaming pearl]] representing divine knowledge and truth was present on the Da-Qing Baochao series it was not featured on the Hubu Guanpiao.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> Hubu Guanpiao banknotes from the province of [[Zhili]] typically carry vermilion two character red overprint at the top left centre to indicate their point of origin.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> Hubu Guanpiao tael notes were printed by having a sheet of paper that was bigger than the banknote itself was pressed against the block to receive the impression.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> This large paper sheet would contain both the note and a tally, the tally was the portion of the banknote that remained with the Ministry of Revenue that was used to facilitate redemption. After the banknote had been printed, the various officials in charge of issuance would place their seals in a way so that they would overlap with the counterfoil on the right. Thus, parts of the seal impressions remained on the tally. After this was done the block series and serial number were then duplicated on the tally for identification and redemption purposes for when the banknote would later be redeemed, this way officials could compare the serial numbers on both the circulating banknote and the tally kept by the Chinese government to see if it was a genuine specimen by checking their alignment.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> === Serial numbers === [[File:Table of Hubu Guanpiao (戶部官票) Tael Note Serial Number Prefixes.jpg|thumb|left|The numbering systems based on the [[Thousand Character Classic]] and the [[Five Confucian Virtues]], respectively.]] As the government had created a plurality of issuing offices across China a system was created in order to keep track of which Chinese government agency issued any particular banknote. This was seen as necessary as it would be able to be used to tell which banknotes were genuine and which ones were fraudulent when they would be presented to the government to be paid out in taels of silver sycees.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> The area in which the Hubu Guanpiao series of banknotes actually circulated at any given point in time was mostly determined by the fortunes of war and the leftover areas still held by the imperial Qing forces at the time. As more territory formerly held by the [[Taiping Heavenly Kingdom]] was retaken after 1853 the government of the Qing dynasty was quick to release Da-Qing Baochao and Hubu Guanpiao banknotes into these retaken areas for local circulation.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> Both the Da-Qing Baochao cash notes and Hubu Guanpiao tael notes employed a device which used a series index, or prefix ideogram. This index of characters was based upon an early [[classical Chinese]] literary work known as the [[Thousand Character Classic]] (千字文, ''Qiānzì Wén'').<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> The Chinese character used as a prefix that would appear in the series block which preceded the serial number on each Hubu Guanpiao tael note was one of these thousand ideograms. Additionally, early emissions of the Hubu Guanpiao teal notes which were issued through the military commissaries used a different system that was based upon the [[Five Confucian Virtues]] (五常, ''wǔcháng'') rather than the thousand character classic.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> Generally speaking more characters from the Thousand Character Classic were used for the Da-Qing Baochao series than for the Hubu Guanpiao. The Thousand Character Classic was already employed for both the capital city and the provincial markets, while the military offices would use the Five Confucian Virtues.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> The Five Confucian Virtues system is a bit more straightforward than the system based on the Thousand Character Classic. In this system only a total of 5 Chinese characters were used and they were employed without regard to the year of their issuance. These five Chinese characters each represented one of the Confucian virtues, these virtues were benevolence (仁, ''rén''), righteousness or justice (義, ''yì''), proper rite or decorum (禮, ''lǐ''), knowledge or wisdom (智, ''zhì''), and integrity (信, ''xìn'').<ref name=Runes>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of Philosophy|editor-last=Runes|editor-first=Dagobert D.|year=1983|publisher=Philosophical Library|isbn=978-0-8022-2388-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofphil0000unse}} p. 338</ref> "Rén" was assigned to all banknotes with the denomination of 1 tael, "Yì" to the 3 tael, "Lǐ" to the 5 tael, Etc.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> John E. Sandrock stated that he hasn't seen the Five Confucian Virtues prefix system used after the year Xianfeng 5 (1855), which lead him to speculate that either this system was abandoned or that the Chinese government stopped using the military to bring these banknotes into circulation, Sandrock also stated that it was possible that the military issuing offices also started employing the Thousand Character Classic at this time.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> The Beijing Metropolitan District and the provincial treasuries both utilised the characters from the Thousand Year Classic to identify their banknote issues. This numbering system allowed people to ascertain from which source region any particular Hubu Guanpiao banknote came by knowing which Chinese character prefixes were assigned to each of these areas.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> In this series characters chosen among the first 20-odd characters in the Thousand Year Classic were used to represent the city of Beijing. Meanwhile, Chinese characters chosen from among character numbers 425 to 450 represented the issues from the provinces of China proper. A major difference between the Thousand Character Classic and the Five Confucian Virtues system is that while the Five Confucian Virtues system only identified the denomination the Chinese character from the Thousand Year Classic also identified the year of issue. Because of how this system works each denomination of the Hubu Guanpiao series of tael notes issued either by the Beijing Metropolitan District or by one of the Chinese provinces can have 1 of 4 different characters assigned to it which was dependent on whether it was issued in year Xianfeng 3 (1853), Xianfeng 4 (1854), Xianfeng 5 (1855), or Xianfeng 6 (1856).<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> An example would be a banknote bearing block prefix "Lin", which was the 440th character in the Thousand Year Classic, would always represent a banknote with the denomination of 5 taels that was issued by one of the provinces in the year Xianfeng 5.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> [[Hong Kong]]-based numismatist [[Sup Loy]] developed a table to organise these numbering systems.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> The final Hubu Guanpiao tael notes were issued in the year Xianfeng 7 (1857) and appear to rather be an afterthought than an official issue as these are only released in the denominations of 3 tael and 5 tael. Furthermore, they do not fit either serial numbering scheme, neither using the Thousand Character Classic or the Five Confucian Virtues, but instead using an entirely different character system altogether for the block prefix. It is unlikely that these banknotes saw much circulation as by this time the general Chinese populace had stopped accepting them.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> American numismatist John E. Sandrock claimed that when observing the quantities of Da-Qing Baochao cash notes and Hubu Guanpiao tael notes containing the serial numbers 733, 734, and 735 that these had no endorsements whatsoever. These banknotes are termed as "remainders" by Sandrock as they were never placed into general circulation.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> After the year Xianfeng 4 the imperial Chinese Ministry of Revenue had attempted to re-number previously issued Da-Qing Baochao cash notes and Hubu Guanpiao tael notes for a to date unknown reason, the new serial numbers were placed in black ink using character prefixes which are not from the Thousand Year Classic at the bottom left corner of the banknote.<ref>"Chinese Banknotes" by Ward D. Smith and Brian Matravers. Publisher: Shirjieh Pub. Publication date: June 1, 1970. {{ISBN|978-0912496122}}</ref> It remains a mystery why certain banknotes were renumbered late during the [[Taiping Rebellion]]. These re-issued banknotes are notably listed separately in the [[Standard Catalog of World Paper Money]].<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> == Seals, overprints, and endorsements == {{See also|Da-Qing Baochao#Seals, overprints, and endorsements}} [[File:Board of Revenue seal found at the centre of all Hubu Guanpiao (戶部官票) tael notes - John E. Sandrock.jpg|thumb|right|The seal of the Ministry of Revenue seal found at the centre of all Hubu Guanpiao (戶部官票) tael notes.]] The [[Banknote seal (China)|seals (or "chops")]] used on the Hubu Guanpiao tael notes differed from [[Da-Qing Baochao#Seals, overprints, and endorsements|those present on the Da-Qing Baochao cash notes]], the main seal placed by the Ministry of Revenue was red in colour and contained the text "Ministry of Revenue Government Note" in both [[Mandarin Chinese]] and [[Manchu language|Manchu]], this seal was found on every banknote in the Hubu Guanpiao series.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> Another seal present on every specimen in this series was that of the "[[Ministry of Revenue Issuing Department]]", the name of this department is somewhat confusing, as it did not actually place any banknotes into circulation.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> There were 3 other agencies actually designed for the issuing of these banknotes into circulation the government of the Beijing Metropolitan District, provincial treasuries, and the various military commissaries. These agencies would all affix their own seal, these seals were either shaped like a square or a rectangle and were found on both the obverse and reverse sides of the tael notes, the presence of these seals meant that the banknote had entered circulation through one of these agencies.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> It was also common for orange provincial overprints to br placed on Hubu Guanpiao tael notes, the name of the province was written vertically using two Chinese characters, with the exceptions of overprints from [[Manchuria]] which had three characters (三東省).<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> American numismatist [[John E. Sandrock]] has stated to have seen [[Zhili]], [[Henan]], [[Anhui]], [[Liaoning|Fengtian]], [[Taiwan under Qing rule|Taiwan]], and [[Manchuria under Qing rule|Manchuria]].<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> Another commonly applied form of overprint on the tael notes are the military overprints.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> They appear in colours orange, vermilion, or maroon and are shaped like vertical or horizontal columns of Chinese characters, or at times take the shape of four Chinese characters surrounded by a box, military overprints were exclusively placed on the obverse (or front) side of the banknote.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> An example of a military overprint from the province of [[Gansu]] reads: "This banknote is for exclusively circulation in Gansu province. This banknote may be used by merchants or civilians for payment of official taxes or to pay other market transactions".<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> Some Hubu Guanpiao banknotes were re-issued using hand-stamped overprints, the overprint of this kind most commonly found is red in colour and rectangular in shape with an 8 character inscription which would read something like "Reissued in the 10th month of the year Xianfeng 6" (i.e., October 1856)., this overstamp was used on banknotes with the denominations of 10 taels and 50 taels.<ref name="SandrockSilverTaelNotes"/> == See also == * [[Silver certificate]] == Notes == {{Notes}} == References == {{Reflist}} == Sources == * Dai Zhiqiang (戴志強), ed. (2008). Zhongguo qianbi shoucang jianshang quanji (中國錢幣收藏鑒賞全集) ([[Changchun]]: Jilin chuban jituan). (in [[Mandarin Chinese]]). * King, Frank H.H. ''Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1845–1895.'' 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