armyinform Chapter 518 Get 2 silver, the price of silver is stable!
Chapter 518 Get 2 silver, the price of silver is stable!
Chapter 518 Get 2000 million taels of silver, and the price of silver is stable!
Time flies by, and in a blink of an eye, it is the golden autumn and October of the 15th year of Wanli. With the first auspicious snow falling in the Forbidden City, secret reports from the Japanese kingdom are also delivered to the Forbidden City with snowflakes.
As a result, Zhu Yijun learned that Shi Jian Yinshan had obtained the news, and that the imperial court had obtained more than 800 million taels of silver this time, plus more than 900 million taels from the seizure of warehouses in various cities of the Japanese kingdom, and 200 million taels of compensation from Xianshi Xiujiu. Nearly 2000 million taels.
Zhu Yijun was overjoyed by this, and hastily summoned Shen Shixing and other ministers in power.
"Sure enough, the game is out of the game. Uncle Shuozhou did not disappoint me. He is about to bring back nearly 2000 million taels of silver."
Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Yue to report the memorial to the ruling ministers.
Shen Shixing was astonished after seeing it.
Naturally, they would not believe that Ma Gui's words were false. After all, military and political affairs are no joke. If Ma Gui and Dongying governor Xing Jie deceived the emperor in the secret concert and ruined the country's great government, they would undoubtedly be disregarding their own nine clans.
In addition to being astonished, Shen Shixing and others were also pleasantly surprised.
"For the nearly 2000 million taels of silver alone, based on the calculation of about 800% of the silver dollar participation in silver, and then throwing away the freight and labor costs on the road, it is not a problem to cast 500 million taels of silver dollars, so the [-] million taels of silver dollars invested in the past is not a problem." It can be earned back, even if it is considered as interest, it is still earned, and coupled with the recent increase in foreign money from various places, the money in the imperial treasury can be earned back, and at the same time, the private silver dollars can be dropped back to the point where the imperial court needs it.”
Shen Shixing started talking at this moment.
Zhang Xueyan said at this time: "Your Majesty, since you have this amount of silver, in the opinion of a foolish minister, you should reprimand the existing silver in Taicang and other treasuries, and distribute it to the city through various projects and welfare charities. First, the price of silver dollars will be reduced. Try to keep as many workshops and factories as possible that have not gone bankrupt and are still persisting, and keep some businesses."
Zhu Yijun nodded: "Yes!"
Liu Yingjie also said at this time: "Since this is the case, the foolish minister believes that it is possible to order the governors of various places to send troops to escort the silver dollars from the treasuries of various places to Beijing to invest in the market, further increasing the amount of silver dollars on the market. It takes a year or so to cast silver dollars, but the situation of the whole country cannot wait any longer. If we wait any longer, I really don’t know how many businesses will go bankrupt and how many people will become jobless.”
"In addition, because I knew that the imperial court would sooner or later fight against the Japanese nation, I have already transferred this year's military salary in advance in Liaodong Dusi, Jizhou, Datong, Xuanfu and other places, in order to avoid the occurrence of today's imperial court depositing silver to save people's livelihood. However, a large amount of silver dollars was released, resulting in insufficient military pay, and even a situation where the frontier soldiers were instigated by traitors and mutinied on the grounds that the military pay had not been paid. Sending it out will not only stabilize the morale of the army but also the hearts of the people, and stabilize the price of silver dollars."
"Your words are Lao Cheng's words for the country, and they must be accurate!"
Zhu Yijun said with a smile.
The corvee Dingyin of the Ming Dynasty belonged to the local tax and was not paid to the central court in order to facilitate local disaster relief and crisis response, while reducing transportation consumption.
Therefore, there are still silver deposits in the vassal treasuries of various parts of the Ming Dynasty.
However, the local treasuries are not all silver deposits, because Zhu Yijun did not force all regions to have a whip, and still allowed the local governors to choose whether to pay grain or use silver as a substitute for service according to the actual situation.
But there must still be a lot of silver deposits.
Therefore, Liu Yingjie only now proposes to use the silver deposits in various local treasuries to rescue the market.
"Your Majesty, in the opinion of my foolish ministers, I should conceal the fact that the Japanese land copied a large amount of silver, so as to facilitate the imperial court to curb the powerful and greatly reduce the disadvantages of the annexation of the country for more than [-] years, so as to prolong the prosperity!"
At this time, Hai Rui, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, put forward his own opinion, and said: "Because even if the rich and powerful families in the world abide by the law and do not take by force, they can still steal and annex the wealth of the world, so the government often cannot completely prevent them from annexing. It cannot be completely divided among the people, otherwise blood will be shed for thousands of miles, but now is a good opportunity, it is all greedy, and it is divided among the people."
"My minister agrees!"
At this moment, Wang Xijue followed up.
"The minister also agrees!"
Shi Shihang also followed suit.
"The minister also agrees!"
……
For a while, the ruling ministers all agreed.
Because it's not their family who cheated anyway, and this will not only help the country solve the problem of mergers, but also weaken the power of other rich and powerful, so why not do it?
"Then accept Haiqing's play, and all the news will be published after I approve it."
Zhu Yijun then said something.
"According to the order!"
Ever since, because of the nearly 2000 million taels of silver stolen from Dongyi, the imperial court continued to increase investment in infrastructure construction and welfare and charity.
More silver dollars began to flow into the market.
No matter how many high-quality assets the rich and powerful bureaucrats sold at a low price, they couldn't hold back and many silver dollars flooded into the market, which made the price of silver dollars really not rise, and many rich and powerful bureaucrats were also quite depressed.
"The land is almost sold out, so why hasn't the price of silver dollars changed much?"
"My more than 100 stores are almost sold out, so why don't they go up much?"
Many powerful bureaucrats felt strange because of this.
soon.
In the case of the account department, Yang Yuting discovered the clue when he was auditing the account department, and thus learned that the cabinet originally asked the account department to take out all the silver dollars at the bottom of the state treasury, and was still adjusting the silver dollars in the vassal treasury. Because of this, he was furious and slashed the military salary, and impeached Wang Lin, Shangshu of the Ministry of household affairs, for corrupting the state's finances, wanting to disrupt the community, and committing treacherous officials.
Zhu Yijun directly chose not to report this.
Yang Yuting's report also let Gu Xiancheng know the clues of the matter through his friends in the Secretary of General Administration, and he couldn't help saying: "No wonder, this is the last struggle of Shenwu County and other traitors! We can't give up at this time, we should continue to hoard money .”
Gu Xiancheng said to Gu Yuncheng: "Sell all the remaining fields by the Taihu Lake of our family, even for one tael of silver and one mu!"
"it is good!"
Gu Yuncheng agreed, and now rich households all over the world are hoarding silver and selling land, so he didn't feel that what his brother did was wrong.
Like the Gu family, many powerful bureaucrats of the old party are still insisting on selling high-quality assets, firmly believing that the court is fighting to the death.
As the news spread that the silver dollars from the treasuries of various places were escorted to Beijing, it made them firmly believe that the ruling party was holding on.
Gu Xiancheng even said with a smile to Gu Yuncheng, Wang Zhixiang and others because of this: "In this case, it is certain that not only the treasury will have no money, but even the vassal treasury will have no money at least by next year. Then Shenwu County and others will be imprisoned sooner or later." , if there are ever-greater foreign and internal troubles again, His Majesty will not even be able to clean up the New Party, and then it will be time for us to divide the New Party."
"Could they have other methods, such as getting a lot of silver by bullying the barbarians outside."
At this moment, Wang Zhixiang mentioned another possibility.
Gu Xiancheng was not completely lost in his mind because of the struggle, so he pondered for a moment, and said: "It is possible, let's persist until the end of the year. If the imperial court can stabilize the price of silver dollars after the new year, then we will only Can stop! It shows that Shenwu County and others really have the ability."
"However, during this period of time, we can't just insist on it. We have to impeach them for disorderly governance. After all, the advantage is now on our side, and the ruling has violated the rules! For example, the national funds below the red line are used to embezzle the Daxing Project , misappropriating the treasury arbitrarily, regardless of the locality, we can all be impeached, and His Majesty has no reason not to allow us to supervise and govern because we serve the country and the people."
Shen Shixing and other ministers in power also had a small gathering in the mansion compound on this day, and talked about the fact that many powerful bureaucrats are selling their assets at a low price.
Shen Shixing couldn't help laughing and said: "I didn't expect the treacherous people in the world to hate us so much. They hate us so much that they lose their benevolence and intelligence."
"After all, if we really ransacked our homes, we would get a lot of money."
Qi Jiguang said with a smile.
"Now it seems that His Majesty should have known that there is a big silver mountain in the country of Japan. No wonder His Majesty must not stay overnight every time he reviews the memorials of Japanese affairs."
Wang Xijue said something at this time.
Zhang Xueyan said: "It seems that Your Majesty really knows God's will, and God's will is really holy."
"Yes!"
Shen Shixing responded with a smile, and said: "However, they don't know that the imperial court has cards, and many ordinary people don't know either. In order to avoid the spread of panic and cause real turmoil, your Majesty will be asked to report the war against Japan at the end of the year. Let the Tang newspaper spread so that everyone can have a good year.”
The crowd nodded.
(End of this chapter)