armyinform Chapter 401 The King Takes Action
Chapter 401 The King Takes Action
Chapter 401 The King Takes Action
This is inevitable.
One is caused by poor information. Only those who are at the core of the central government are more aware of the true purpose of the court, so they will not follow others.
Second, under normal competition, aristocratic ministers with more power and financial resources themselves have more courage, strength, and motivation to cooperate with the imperial court.
Zhang Hong and Sun Bin, the eunuchs of the inner court, also bought some. They didn't want the emperor to think that they didn't know how to support such a new policy.
The British Duke Zhang Yuangong, Xing'an Bo Xu Rucheng and other nobles also bought some to show that since the emperor now values them and asked them to take on more powers, they should naturally express their gratitude.
However, these people paid less than Shenshi Bank, and it seems that what they value more is not how much benefit they can get from it, but not only expressing to the emperor their attitude of supporting the sale of the subscription coupons, but also expressing their support for the sale of subscription tickets to the emperor who is higher than themselves. The assistant privy envoys these, saying that he will not compete with you for favor, and take the initiative to lower the subscription specification.
Even when it comes to buying subscription coupons, there is also a hierarchy of order.
In this way, the subscription coupons with a total value of more than 210 million taels of silver dollars have not been fully subscribed, and there are still a lot left.
It's just that there are so many subscription coupons left, but almost no one cares about them.
Naturally, the reason mentioned before.
Ordinary citizens still don't dare to trust the subscription coupons, and believe that they can really bring benefits.
In addition, the material opinion is also intentionally or unintentionally dissuading ordinary people from trusting the imperial court.
"If you want me to tell you, don't believe the subscription coupon!"
"I don't even look at it, who are the people who are buying the subscription tickets now, either princes or nobles or ministers!"
"In order to keep their own power, they naturally have to flatter them with money, bribe power and rape! Or they deliberately pretend to lure us into the bait."
Tao Youxue, the official of the Ministry of Rites, talked about the subscription coupons to his colleague Wu Zunhui in Yiwasi that day, revealing his distrust of the court in his words.
After hearing this, Wu Zunhui frowned and said, "I'd rather believe that the above is the purpose, otherwise, once the people of the world really believe that they can earn interest by buying subscription coupons, who would want to earn interest by buying land?"
"Land like this is worthless, and farmers with a lot of land will be robbed of their profits in disguise, and agriculture is the foundation of the country. This move will seriously damage the foundation of the country!"
"What the public says makes sense."
"The former is to swindle the wealth of the world to enrich oneself, while the latter is the foundation of destroying the world."
Tao Youxue nodded in agreement.
He knew that what Wu Zunhui was worried about was that doing so would change the status quo of "Land is the most valuable" in Ming Dynasty, and cause serious losses to the interests of these big landlords.
And at the same time.
On the wall of Qipan Street outside Daming Gate, where the most people flow in the capital, there is also a poster posted.
The content of the exposed post actually directly stated that the imperial court used the purchase of subscription coupons to collect money from the people.
For a while, many people saw it.
Many people also talked about it.
"It's better to be more cautious. If the court uses this to collect money and take away our money, I'm afraid it will be difficult to get it back."
"In these years, the Japanese were first conquered, and then Burma was conquered. Many ministers said that wars cost the most money and food. However, this dynasty has fought a lot of big battles. I'm afraid it really cost a lot of money. Now Shenwu County Dang Guo, in order to solve the problem of lack of money, probably came up with this trick, you can't be fooled!"
"What a Shenwu County, he is really a profiteer, and he is better at searching than Zhang Taiyue!"
"At any rate, Zhang Taiyue was only using the name of Qingzhang to search for the gentry, but he wanted to use a blank paper coupon to directly search for the money of our gentry!"
"Do you think that Shenwu County will deceive His Majesty to force the officials and gentry to buy subscription tickets because he saw that not many people bought them, and threatened to remove the officials and titles?"
"If that's the case, then go up and remonstrate!"
"A real man is righteous to the death. He would rather be executed than let him apply to Wu County to seize the people's interests!"
In teahouses, restaurants and brothels, there are discussions about this subscription coupon.
After hearing these arguments, Yu Shenxing, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, was also worried that the imperial court would force the officials and gentry to subscribe, so he went to Shu to advise Zhu Yijun on the grounds that the country’s benefit to the people should not go against the wishes of the people, explaining the purpose of the subscription coupons. Everything is voluntary, and the Secretary must not force Shimin to subscribe.
As for the matter of persuading people to get rich, it is not appropriate to force it, otherwise it would be easier for people to think it is a fraud.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun approved Yu Shenxing's request, and asked the Minister of the Imperial Court to issue a decree to order the minister not to force the people to subscribe.
This reassured the civilians a lot.
But it was precisely because of this that some bold ordinary people had some ideas and began to subscribe for some mining subscription coupons.
Chen Jiuzhu of Fengyang government-run paper workshop saw such an imperial decree in the "Di Bao" and felt that the emperor's promise was not really for the benefit of the people. Instead, he took all the cash he earned from running the government-run paper workshop. , and the agency assigned by the household registration department to sell subscription coupons in Fengyang, Zhongdu, bought a batch of subscription coupons.
After hearing what Chen Jiuzhu said, Ye Agui also bought a subscription coupon for 20 taels of silver.
Wang Xiaocao even complained to him a little because of this: "Why are you following along to join in the fun? The 20 taels of silver is the hard-earned money you worked hard in the cold weather and hot summer in the Zhifang."
"It's okay, people should be grateful!"
"It is because the imperial court implemented the New Industrial Deal that I have the opportunity to rely on the government-run paper workshop to eat enough and marry a wife and have children. Now if such a good imperial court is really short of money, I will donate it to let the imperial court tide over the difficulties; if it is Really, it will naturally make money, after all, Master Chen and the imperial court can't be wrong."
Ye Agui shook the baby in his arms and said with a smile.
Wang Xiaocao sighed, and started to cook with an apron on, saying, "All right, you earned it anyway, so you can do whatever you want, even if you want to repay the favor!"
Some people buy subscription coupons based on the attitude of repaying kindness.
After Zhang Jingxiu heard about this on his way to Beijing, he told his servant: "Bring the 3 taels of silver from the mansion, exchange it for silver dollars, and buy subscription coupons! If it weren't for His Majesty Hong En, my Zhang family would not be able to return the money." Shancun has survived to this day, so how could he not support the imperial court and the New Deal?"
"Yes!"
Because of this, Zhang Juzheng's family also bought some.
……
Before I knew it, it was the beginning of March in the 13th year of Wanli.
The spring is becoming more and more obvious, and the jade steps of the Forbidden City are gradually embellished with more and more turquoise.
"How many subscription tickets are still not sold out?"
And on this day.
Si Yusi, Zhu Yijun, who had changed out of his winter clothes, came here specially, and since the sale of the subscription coupons was about to close, he asked the Minister of Household Affairs, Hai Rui.
Hai Rui replied, "There are still six hundred thousand taels of subscription coupons that have not been subscribed."
"Since that's the case, I bought it with internal funds! Then, let Xu Zhenming immediately open a new mine in Guihua!"
Zhu Yijun didn't say anything more after speaking, he just said in his heart: "It's really the current situation. In this golden age of monarchy, the monarch is destined to control most of the interests."
(End of this chapter)