After Gu Xiancheng said this, he sat on the chair with a pale expression, his eyes were empty, and for a moment he seemed unwilling to believe that this was true, so he asked Gu Yuncheng: "Is this true?"
Gu Yuncheng nodded and said, "It should be true."
"Our slave at least won't hide it from us!"
"In addition, there is also a letter from home saying that the Shen family in Dinghai, who are related to us, has been buying back fields on a large scale. I think the Shen family must have known something in advance. After all, they have always been in close contact with the merchants in the Japanese country. of."
Gu Xiancheng's expression became even more dejected: "It seems to be true, we lost, badly!"
Gu Xiancheng's hands started to tremble as he spoke, and when he wanted to stand up, he suddenly felt that his legs were weak.
Gu Yuncheng hurriedly helped him up: "Brother!"
"I'm fine, I just feel sorry for my ancestors!"
"Yes, after all, we sold so much ancestral property at such a low price, we are all unfilial!"
"It's too bad that the Shen family didn't notify us in advance."
"Of course he wants to lose less."
"Don't blame them yet, tell your family immediately and stop selling things from home!"
Gu Xiancheng said.
"Okay, then do we need to inform the Ye family and An family who are married to us?"
Gu Yuncheng asked.
Gu Xiancheng looked at him: "Why inform them? If we don't take advantage of this moment to react, we should entrust overseas Chinese businessmen who are friendly with us to collect their antiques and jades to reduce the losses. How can we let more people do this at this time?" Are people eager to sell silver coins and make the silver coins fall even more severely? Then you and I will be even more embarrassed to see our ancestors in the future!"
Gu Yuncheng nodded and said yes.
"Falled again?"
"Are there so many fools? They know that silver is expensive, but they still spend silver dollars?"
When Lu Yinchang, a member of the Literary and Selection Department, saw the price of silver dollars exchanged for grain published in the "Di Bao", he muttered to himself with great disappointment. Then he suddenly saw another news published in the "Di Bao", Ma Gui News that nearly 20 million taels of silver were copied in Japan.
Lu Yinchang's eyes widened immediately.
"Why is it happening like that?!"
"Poor my maid Ruiya, I sold her to a man for a cheap price, and now I'm afraid she's no longer a virgin!"
Lu Yinchang suddenly looked up to the sky and roared several times, then fainted and fell to the ground.
Seeing this, Lu Yinchang's servant hurriedly helped him up, and then accidentally glanced at the contents of the "Di Bao", so that night he packed up a bunch of antique jades that he had not had time to sell according to the master's order and left for a foreign country. .
The imperial censor Wang Zhixiang saw the news directly through the Tongbao, and he became devastated on the spot. He threw the bullets that he was going to hand over to impeach Shen Shixing and other people who wantonly used up the national funds after the new year directly into the brazier, and With a wry smile, he took a few steps back and said:
"It's over, everything is over!"
"I have five thousand acres of water to irrigate my fields!"
Dongning's younger brother Jiao Zhaolong also burst into tears after seeing the newspaper and chose to hang himself that night, mainly because he really couldn't accept the result.
"The price of silver coins is really still falling. It has fallen to the level of the Wanli decade. Many workshops have begun to resume production."
"Especially in places like silk shops and jade shops, which are frequented by rich people, the price of Shu Jinlu silk has increased by 50%, and many wealthy households have begun to exchange silver for these things."
Gu Yuncheng came back and said to Gu Xiancheng.
Gu Xiancheng smiled helplessly: "Why did you suddenly copy so much silver from Japan!"
"Now, His Majesty's prestige as the master will be greatly increased. Not only will he have martial arts, but he will also have a reputation for benefiting the people and benefiting the people. More importantly, it will further prove that the Holy Will is God's will."
"Because our new party can completely say that it is because the people need silver coins, so Your Majesty knows that the Japanese country has a large amount of silver. Even in the war against Japan, Your Majesty does not need to bear the name of militarism, but only the name of Shengming Zhuzhao. "
"yes!"
"We cannot do anything about state affairs, and family affairs are now starting to have hidden worries. Once the clan blames us for selling the 800 acres of Taihu Lake land that our ancestors finally obtained at a low price in order to speculate in silver coins, how should we face it?"
Gu Yuncheng agreed and asked about Gu Xiancheng.
"How do I know!"
Gu Xiancheng suddenly lost his temper and yelled, grimaced, and then said:
"Besides admitting defeat, what else can I do? I can only find a way to redeem myself in the future."
"But the redemption price may not be that cheap."
Gu Yun Chengdao.
Gu Xiancheng said: "It still needs to be redeemed! After all, it is the land left by the ancestors."
"yes!"
…
As a large amount of silver coins flowed into the market, and the news that the imperial court had obtained a large amount of silver from the Japanese country began to gradually spread at the bottom, in addition, many vigilant large households also began to buy back assets, so many people began to react and started to buy back assets. Start spending the silver dollars in your hand while the price is high, and some bold ones even borrow money to spend.
There is no way, as more silver dollars are circulating in the market, inflation has begun to occur.
However, the inflation has not reached a serious level, just a slight inflation.
Because the imperial court has been releasing silver dollars in a controlled manner, and the Ming Dynasty is already short of silver, it will be very difficult to cause major inflation in the Ming Dynasty through silver dollars, a silver-based currency, unless the world's silver is really They all grabbed it.
It is worth mentioning that food prices did not rise on a large scale, but only in a slight and orderly manner, and it was also under the control of the imperial court.
In the past, the Ming Dynasty took advantage of the powerful gentry to sell high-quality assets at a low price and bought back a large amount of grain, so that the warehouses everywhere were full of grain and rice. Now it can release a large amount of grain through government-run grain stores to stabilize the situation. The purpose of grain prices is to encourage farmers to farm, but it does not completely suppress the rising trend of grain prices, but only allows them to rise slightly, so that the wages of ordinary people can keep up with the increase in wages and can bear the increase in grain prices.
As the New Year's Eve of the 16th year of Wanli approaches, the price of silver coins has fallen to a very low price. This has stimulated the silver coins of the 8th year of Wanli and the 9th year of Wanli that were originally hidden in cellars by many large households. They have begun to appear in circulation on the market.
The market did prosper again, the unemployment rate began to decline, and many workshops began to actively borrow money from the newly established Daming Bank under Zhu Yijun's decree, and then actively resumed work and production.
Hai Rui, who heard that the price of silver coins had plummeted, went out to inspect the market with Wang Yongji in civilian clothes. When he saw that there were no more unemployed homeless people lining up to receive relief porridge in the porridge shed in Shuntian Prefecture, many families in Shuntian Prefecture were spinning yarns. He couldn't help laughing when it started to squeak and squeak, and he smiled at Wang Yongji who was walking with him and said:
"The country is peaceful and the people are safe again."
"yes!"
Wang Yongji also laughed and said, "Not only is the country peaceful and the people are safe, but the situation of annexation has been greatly improved. In the past, the father-in-law and the gentry were responsible for paying grain and cleaning up Buddhist temples. In the end, the fundamentals of annexation were not changed. But this time, the root cause of serious mergers has indeed been disturbed in the name of controlling the price of silver dollars.”
Hai Rui smiled and said, "It's not because of the greed of those big right-wing households. They don't care about the country, they only work like flies and dogs. That's why we are like this today. Good land and shops are occupied by the common people, which is also detrimental to the country's tax policy."
"But thinking about it, they won't just accept the loss."
Wang Yongji said at this time.
After hearing this, Hai Rui turned around and looked at Wang Yongji.
(End of chapter)
