The end of the first month of the fifteenth year of Wanli.
After Ma Gui met the saint on the platform, he officially took the soldiers and horses that had been mobilized from the Beijing camp and the emperor's personal guards and had been trained, and headed north in a mighty manner.
At various post stations from Yongping to Busan, troops began to gallop along, reporting to various official posts the progress of the army.
At the same time, after hearing the news, the official posts in various places also began to pour fodder into the manger and started to light a fire to cook.
This is a logistics system established during Liu Yingjie's time in the cabinet. A large number of disaster victims were organized into post soldiers to replace the people at the post stations. The post soldiers were responsible for preparing food and fodder for the passing armies at various post stations during wartime, and at the same time delivering messages. In normal times, it provides postal services for both the government and the public, and charges are naturally charged to the public to cover the cost of the post station.
This way.
The army can obtain supplies while marching, and does not need to wait for the grain and grass to be transported before leaving. It can speed up the time to get to Busan, and then go to Japan. Yu Japan begins to carry a large amount of grain and grass for field use.
As for the opening of the postal service function of the inn to serve the people, it is because the Ming Dynasty has already abolished the road guide system and provided legal status to the people who moved to other places, that is, the residence ticket system, which has strengthened the mobility of the people and increased the demand for postal services.
In addition, the increasing affluence of domestic people has also made many people willing to spend money to send letters and various items, including money, back home.
So the inn began to open to the public.
Wherever there is a post station, there are inns and corresponding shops that serve travelers. Naturally, there are a large number of service personnel. It is like a market town with a large population gathering. Therefore, when a large number of troops will stop here, there will also be a large number of passers-by. These are places to rest.
When Ma Gui and his army stopped at a post station in Liaodong, a large number of people were buying subscription coupons for the newly launched North Korean iron mines.
The Ministry of Commerce of the Ming Dynasty has decided to develop North Korea's iron mines first. Because the population is concentrated in various inns, subscription coupons will also be sold at the inns.
Since the last sale of mining profit subscription coupons, which brought a lot of profits to many people, many people have begun to know through various information channels that the imperial court really wants to make a fortune together with the people of the world, and many people have become enthusiastic about it. Take out the money kept in the bank or cellar and buy subscription tickets.
However, the main buyers of subscription tickets were scholars and wealthy households.
One is because information channels in this era are limited.
People all over the world mainly obtain information through newspapers and periodicals and word of mouth.
The people who can first know the benefits of this subscription ticket must be people from powerful officials or people who have connections and contacts with them, and the worst of these people are naturally rich people with some connections.
Second, even if the imperial court deliberately asked the imperial guards and officials to read newspapers and preach subscription tickets to the people, the common people would be more cautious because of their lack of financial resources, and the poorer the people, the more stubborn and difficult to be persuaded. Therefore, if we want the majority of ordinary people to participate, we still have to wait for more wealth myths to emerge and allow many ordinary people to see that people around them are also getting rich from subscription coupons. Only then will they be willing to take out their own money and buy the imperial court of subscription coupons.
Therefore, most of the people who bought subscription tickets were scholars and wealthy households, except for the powerful and powerful bureaucrats.
But just like the imperial examination, the common people witnessed with their own eyes that people of the same race and hometown became prominent because of their achievements, which made the common people very enthusiastic about the imperial examination, and even borrowed money to study for the imperial examination. Even relatives and friends were willing to lend money to help them study for the imperial examination. Just as the imperial examination is regarded as the right path in life, as more and more people become rich through subscription tickets, it will naturally lead more people to believe that subscription tickets are profitable.
And it can enable the court to tie more people's interests to the cart of external expansion.
Ye Agui increased his income by a hundred taels by using subscription coupons, quit his job at the paper mill, bought a second-floor house in Qingjiangpu, and opened a paper shop. Naturally, he and his family no longer lived in a shack. I started living in a brick house.
Ye Agui's father-in-law, Wang Chenglin, also began to live with his daughter and son-in-law, helping to look after the shop and stopped making money from sex.
Wang Chenglin likes to hang out with his hands behind his back outside the shop when he has nothing to do. He stops his old slimming friends who are passing by to reminisce and chat, and by the way, he praises how capable his daughter and son-in-law are. They actually changed from a shack to a brick house with a facade and a backyard. The process of progressing to a mud hut is saved.
On this day, the spring was bright, the sky was clear, and the canal was filled with golden light.
Wang Chenglin once again clasped his hands behind his back, chewing fennel beans, and carrying a pot of rice wine. When he saw his old friend Ren Yong passing by, who was returning to the shack, he hurriedly stopped him: "Old Ren, are there many boats lately? Come and have a rest." Bar."
Ren Yonggang watched Wang Chenglin touch the brick wall behind him over and over again, and only said: "How dare I rest? I am not as lucky as you, Mr. Wang. I have a good son-in-law who can make money, and I live in a brick house. , they do good business, and they also let you follow the store, so you don’t have to do any hard work.”
"As for what he did, he just got lucky and bought some subscription coupons."
Although Wang Chenglin was modest in his words, his face was full of brilliance. He went back to the house and took an earthen bowl and poured a bowl of wine for Ren Yonggang: "Come and try this. My son-in-law gave me the new Shaoxing rice wine to relieve my fatigue."
"You can still drink Shaoxing rice wine. You are lucky now! In the past years, I only drank this stuff, but never drank it."
"Thanks!"
Ren Yong just said with a smile, then he took the bowl of wine and started drinking it. After finishing the drink, he licked the corner of his mouth and said, "Mr. Wang, can you have another bowl? I drank too fast just now and didn't taste it."
"I don't have much, maybe next time."
Wang Chenglin hurriedly snatched the bowl away and went in holding the rice wine.
Ren Yonggang looked at Wang Chenglin's back and the thick silk clothes on his body with a complicated expression.
Immediately, he returned home, opened the cellar, got in, and soon took out a bag of silver and walked to the place where subscription coupons were sold at Qingjiangpu Station.
There are many common people like Ren Yonggang, and more and more surplus money among the people is flowing into the hands of the court through subscription coupons.
But this is a heavy loss for some powerful people who own money houses because of their greed for money and benefit greatly from financial industries such as lending.
"The bank's money has been taken away, how can we continue to lend money to Huguang officials and collect interest?"
On this day, the King of Chu, Zhu Huakui, spoke about this matter to the clan member Zhu Yunqian and the chief historian Wang Bihe.
Wang Bihe said: "It depends on whether His Highness is willing to make concessions in favor of the court."
Zhu Huakui said: "I can't give up this advantage!"
"Unless all the iron ore subscription coupons belong to our Prince Chu's Mansion, they will not be able to offset the losses of the Prince's Mansion Bank."
"Then what are you waiting for, Your Highness? Your Highness has already had a jade seal dug up from the sky in Hanyang, which means that the destiny of your life is yours!"
"Otherwise, Your Highness really has to wait for the dissatisfied clan in the government to inform you about your loan and bribery. Based on the results of your treatment of Prince Chong, I am afraid that your Highness will not end well."
Wang Bihe said.
After hearing this, Zhu Huakui asked Zhu Yunqian: "Have you really contacted me to support us in doing this?"
Zhu Yunqian nodded: "There are also many military attachés from Jingzhou who are also willing. Now we can gather at least 30,000 troops!"
Wang Bihe said: "Your Highness, the people of the world have been dissatisfied with the emperors of Jie and Zhou for a long time! Now they are even more aggressive, raising armies in Japan, and even recruiting soldiers and civilians in Donglai. The central land is therefore empty, which can be said to be a good opportunity to raise troops, so it is difficult for Tian Jing not to do so at this time. , when will Fengtian provide peace?"
"This is true, and the reason is ready. The conquest of Japan is against the ancestral system. According to the ancestral system, Japan is a country that cannot be conquered. Now Zhu Yijun does not want to liquidate the powerful traitor Zhang Juzheng, but he is happy with his success, burdening the people and abusing the soldiers, violating the ancestral system. To control it, it’s just a matter of worshiping Heaven and calming the world down!”
Zhu Yunqian said.
After hearing this, Zhu Huakui suddenly jumped up and said, "Then Fengtian Jingnan!"
"I really can't stand him, Zhu Yijun, for the sake of the so-called interests of the country and the nation in Xinlili, subjugating his own clan, and even imprisoning his brother and killing his brother!"
After Zhu Huakui made his decision, he also spoke his mind and gnashed his teeth: "This is against the ancestral law!"
"Since Your Highness has decided, you should first create another auspicious sign to confuse the ignorant people!"
After leaving the Chu Palace, Wang Bihe came up with a new idea for Zhu Yunqian, who was complicit in the matter.
Zhu Yunqian nodded.
(End of chapter)
