How to mend the rift between consciousness? The best way is of course to promote education, but this is a slow way and cannot be effective in one or two years.
The second method is much simpler, but unfortunately the cost is too high. That is to spread money and use profits to lubricate the social barriers as much as possible!
No one has a grudge against money. You, Zaichun, have won a series of political struggles and have established your prestige. If you continue to suppress it later, I am afraid things will turn against you!
Your reforms will ultimately benefit the majority of people, and only then will people support you. Although industrialization will definitely make money in the future, there is indeed a large group of short-sighted people within the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
These people can’t wait that far, and they don’t even believe in the sweetness of the future, so what should they do? There is only one way, and that is to sprinkle sugar!
You have to create a continuous wealth-making plan for them. It cannot be too difficult, it must be simple and effective, and the best way is to imitate the Dutch Merchant Republic, which is the story of the sea coachman I told you.
At that time, in the face of the cruel reality that European feudal forces and religious forces jointly suppressed it, the Netherlands, a depression in Europe, was able to gather the power of the people across the country to form the East India Company and issue stocks.
The benefits of colonization were shared by all the people, and this country actually became able to compete with Britain and France within a few hundred years!
This is a good method in front of you. You should borrow it. Jiangnan stock market has a very mature system and a group of investors with financial resources. They need more investment plans!
The railways and industrial zones in the Qing Dynasty were both worthy of investment projects. Why not demutualize them?
Pull those old diehards to make a fortune together. Only by making them rich will they be determined to work with you in the future. Remember that you are in great danger now, and there are too many people who oppose you!
Xiao Letian is still very concerned about this apprentice. He says he doesn't care, but when Zai Chun is in danger, he will still take action!
No matter what, I can't watch Zai Chun jump into the fire pit!
It was with Xiao Letian's clear instructions that Emperor Tongzhi began to speed up the issuance of stocks. Before the completion of the Jingshi Iron Works and the railway, the stock was already being prepared for issuance.
After Fu Qing left, the Qing Times began to prepare a column on the stock market to introduce what this new thing is, how it works, and how good the Jiangnan Chinese are.
On the one hand, it increased publicity, and on the other hand, the Ministry of Internal Affairs also set up a sales point in Dashilan for consultation by merchants and people coming and going!
At this time, the Qing Dynasty was no longer as conservative as in real history. First of all, the business class had begun to open their eyes to the world. After the Beijing-Tianjin Railway stock sales point was established, only half a month passed. Many Han people The wealthy businessman tried to take action.
The first one to take action was the Shanxi Merchant Group. After all, there were successful examples of the Fan family in the past. How could other business families not study Western learning? They were only afraid of few opportunities, not afraid of high risks.
After all, these people are inextricably linked to the Fan family, and they have even been intermarried with each other for hundreds of years. With nepotism involved, why can't we get some information!
Soon these Shanxi merchants started to take action. This one was worth 80,000 yuan, and that one was worth 100,000 yuan. In just over ten days, the Shanxi merchants alone sold more than one million silver yuan worth of stocks.
The gap is getting smaller and smaller, and the share left for the officials and people of the Qing Dynasty is getting smaller and smaller, but at this time, the nobles of the Eight Banners are getting angry one by one.
People's hearts are really unpredictable. When Beijing-Tianjin Railway stocks began to be issued to the people and businessmen in Dashilan, these princes became more enthusiastic.
"Look, look...what did I say? No, this thing definitely won't work..."
"They are all reduced to being bought by peddlers and lackeys, which shows that the emperor's business is simply not good and no one wants it!"
"Damn it, we were all deceived. I had no choice but to buy a thousand yuan! That's one hundred shares... woo woo!"
The more people-friendly the issuance of stocks is, the more fearful the nobles at the top will be. The inertial thinking they have developed over hundreds of years is that good things and good opportunities to make money cannot be distributed to the people!
Any opportunity to distribute profits to the people is not an opportunity, it is a scam!
The rumors spread more and more fiercely, and spread more and more brightly. In the end, the people in the Eight Banners were so disturbed that they did not dare to make trouble with the emperor, so they could only go to the homes of their respective banner lords to complain.
Today he said that his family couldn't take the blame, and tomorrow he said that his child was sick and he had to spend money. Anyway, he was putting pressure on the prince, hoping that he would step forward and force the court to return the money.
Who among Prince Li, Prince Zheng, and others would dare to touch this bad luck? In their eyes, the little emperor is already the reborn tyrant Yong Zheng. Are they going to find reason with the emperor? Aren't you afraid of losing your head?
They dare not go to the emperor, and they don't stand up to the prince. Now the dandies of the Eight Banners are dumbfounded. They feel that the sky above their heads has fallen. Those ignorant women are making trouble with them every day, smashing pots and bowls without stopping.
It has been more than 200 years since the founding of the Qing Dynasty. Many Manchus actually lived together with the Han people. In an alley, these Han people saw the Manchus' families fighting every day. They asked carefully about the stock issues. Now they were scared. .
Many Han people were originally interested in buying some stocks to try to make a small fortune, but they did not dare to do so. The good sales situation was disrupted by these bannermen.
Just when these Eight Banners dudes were regretting it, something new happened to the stock. The sales point in Dashilar suddenly closed.
And there was a note clearly written on the door panel that the stock had been sold out!
"Sold out? How is this possible! I have people in the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, all of whom have connections..."
"The stock sale of ten million silver dollars was short of two million the day before yesterday. How come it was sold out in three days?"
"It's broken...could the imperial court want to blackmail our capital? The imperial court closed down the business as soon as the situation turned bad!"
"My grandma Huangtian! You are trying to smash my bones and drink my blood. My coffin is gone!"
These bannermen are reluctant to begin with, and buying stocks is also a showdown task. They are full of fear, afraid of the slightest disturbance.
There are even times when there is a lot of noise, and even if there is no news, they can scare themselves and come up with a rumor.
The stock market is really an amplifier of human nature. There is essentially no difference between people in the 21st century and people in the 19th century!
Rumors are flying all over the sky. Most of the good and bad things are made up by people themselves, or they use chicken feathers as arrows. Even the smallest and irrelevant things can be made up to make huge bad things.
Master Fengxiu's stock sales point completed its task ahead of schedule and closed down. Just such a small thing caused this group of chicken-like Eight Banners disciples to fabricate a huge loss for the emperor to blackmail their principal!
This is great. As long as there are people in the capital day and night, there will be crying. Everyone is being wronged!
