"Liu Dacai, what you are talking about are the consequences for you personally and your family, and what I am talking about are the consequences for the country and the people of the world."
What are the consequences for the country and the world?
Liu Dacai's eyes flashed with confusion, what about ordinary people like them.
What does it matter?
Gu Chen looked at Liu Dacai, who didn't understand anything, and explained softly.
"If there are too many treasure notes, they will start to depreciate and become worthless."
"Let me put it more simply and bluntly. The more you print, the less valuable the banknotes will be. From now on, a single banknote may only be enough to buy seven or eight yuan worth of things."
"At that time, people's lives will be even harder than they are now."
"Although you are earning four dollars now, you won't enjoy it right away. You will save the money, right?"
Liu Dacai nodded immediately. Of course people like them have to save money desperately.
Gu Chen continued: "In the future, if Guo Huan and the others continue to print money, then your four dollars may only be worth one pound."
"You think you are a common man and you only need to take care of your own life. Matters involving your family and country have nothing to do with you."
"But when that time comes, you will find that your behavior of helping Zhou not only hurts the interests of others, but also hurts your own interests."
It's none of your business, just hang it up high, I don't know when it became a famous saying.
But if you think deeply, you will know that such an approach will only make the exploiting class more and more arrogant and excessive.
"Is this... so serious?"
Liu Dacai trembled when he heard this. In this case, had he committed a serious crime?
"Don't be afraid either."
Seeing that he understood the pros and cons, Gu Chen stopped scaring him.
"Your Majesty loves the people the most. As long as you all know your mistakes and are willing to turn back and testify against Guo Huan and others, Your Majesty will naturally not have trouble with you."
What's more, there can't be many workers for printing banknotes, and the court is most in need of workers when it comes to war.
Lao Zhu's butcher's knife will only be aimed at officials and landlords, not the common people who don't understand anything. Those who don't know are not guilty.
Gu Chen arranged Liu Dacai's residence and began to follow Biao'er's instructions.
He and the supervisor of the inner transport warehouse came to cooperate with each other inside and outside, and caught Lu Ai who was cheating on others.
"Godfather, godfather, my son knows he is wrong. Godfather, please save your son."
Lu Ai, who was pinned to the ground, looked up and saw his godfather Lu Cheng crying and begging for mercy.
"My son was blinded by lard, and he never dares to do it again..."
He...he just wanted to change some money to spend, so why was he so unlucky to be caught?
Lu Ai looked at his godfather expectantly, hoping that he could save his life.
"Ai'er." Lu Cheng folded his hands and looked at him with disappointment on his face: "You have always been clever, but you have used your cleverness in the wrong place."
"You dare to even think about the emperor's internal funds. It's not just the lard that has deceived you. You are looking for death. Our family will definitely not be able to protect you, nor can we protect you."
"We advise you to cooperate well and say whatever you are asked."
"How many things were taken, where they were sold, and was there anyone to take care of them?"
"If you tell me everything, you might be able to enjoy yourself, suffer less, and avoid so much torture. These were the last words from your godfather."
Lu Cheng had more than one godson. He had more than ten or twenty little eunuchs under him, and they all called him godfather.
It was impossible for him to ask His Majesty for a so-called godson.
The eunuch has no roots and no backbone. After a few whips, Lu Ai can't say anything.
"Not only did he steal treasures for Guo Huan to resell, he also smuggled a lot of gold and silver out of His Majesty. After calculation, it was almost seventy or eighty thousand gold."
"A total of forty-five thousand banknotes were found in his own house, and the rest was spent by him, saying that he bought Miss Cha Ling from Qingfeng Tower."
"Most of that money was used to make that girl happy."
"I sent people to look for her, but they couldn't find her. They said she was ransomed by a wealthy businessman. Mr. Gu, why do you think this eunuch is keeping a girl?"
Qiu Ye was particularly puzzled by this. If the bell is gone, can he still feel happy?
"I don't know. Otherwise, why don't you try to experience what Lu Ai feels like?"
Qiu Ye waved his hands repeatedly, but he was not interested in experiencing it with his own body.
This price is too high.
Gu Chen felt a little sympathy for the wealthy businessman who redeemed the woman.
But if you have a romantic relationship, there is a high probability that your family property and everything will be confiscated.
Gu Chen held a pen in his mouth and asked Yu Min and Ding Ting to settle the accounts.
"Lord Gu, it is roughly estimated that Guo Huan and others have caused a total loss of more than 24 million shi to the imperial court."
You must know that the imperial court's annual tax revenue is only 23 million dan of rice and 4.7 million dan of wheat. In the few months since Guo Huan took office, the imperial court has actually lost a year's total tax revenue in vain.
Gu Chen played with the pen in his hand and sighed leisurely for a long time.
"It's not difficult to impeach Guo Huan. It's rare to recover stolen goods. I don't know how many people will be involved."
It's a lot of work, but luckily I don't need to do it all by myself.
"Even if it's difficult, you have to pursue it." Yu Min sat next to Gu Chen, picked up the glutinous rice cake and ate it: "It's impossible to give up money just because it's difficult."
"This is all about the people's wealth and the people's anointing. It's not like the court has too much money to count. As for the people who are implicated, they deserve their misfortune."
Who got them involved and accidentally took and used the court's money?
"yes."
Gu Chen nodded, this was the purpose of Lao Zhu and Biao'er.
But, after this incident, won’t there be enough money to build a small warship?
And for the land that was taken back, the people in various parts of Jiangnan can probably buy some fields at a fair price.
With these fields and less powerful gentry, life will always be easier.
Guo Huan's case will kick off tomorrow. Gu Chen was reading the confessions from all parties in the study, and it was midnight before he knew it.
My wife, who was embroidering at the side, has now fallen asleep leaning against the bookshelf.
Gu Chen bent down and carried his wife back to the room to rest. After he made the quilt for her, he was very sleepy but felt that he couldn't sleep anymore.
"Ms. sir, can't you sleep?"
Su Wanying didn't know when she opened her eyes, and her white and tender arms were wrapped around her husband's waist.
"How about, Sir, please tell me. I have also read the Four Books and Five Classics since I was a child, and Zizhi Tongjian Shi Ji. Please don't look down on me, Sir."
Even though her husband didn't talk about the matters in the court, she knew it was troublesome.
"I have never underestimated you." Gu Chen lowered his head, kissed the IKEA wife, and asked, "Madam, let me ask you, how many tenants does your father-in-law have?"
Before the Qing government implemented the idea of dividing households into acres, most people collected a "head tax", so household registration management was particularly important.
Some people became tenants of landlords after losing their farmland.
In order to pay less taxes, the landowners would hide them all.
Most of them became the 'property' of the landlords, and the court's tax revenue began to decrease sharply. Although Lao Zhu's household registration system had obvious effects.
But those landowners still had a way to avoid the court's eyes.
"Why are you suddenly asking about this?" Su Wanying thought for a moment and then said, "My parents' family is relatively small, with only more than sixty tenant households."
However, her family's fields are all of the best quality, so the harvest every year is no less than other families', and sometimes even more.
"Then, are there any tenants hiding?"
