Yan Lao Jiansheng was at a loss for words at this time. He obviously underestimated Hai Rui's reputation among the people.
Therefore, when Mr. Yan was disappointed, he did not chat with Wang Chenglin for long, but returned home and said to his family:
"Take the silver dollars and buy more subscription coupons. Don't expect to rely on the government to buy property."
For the powerful bureaucrats, there is really no other way now except to reduce the losses caused by the sharp drop in silver dollar prices by purchasing subscription tickets.
This is because the New Party bureaucracy pays too close attention to matters of plunder and robbery, and deals with them very strictly.
Moreover, Hai Rui also directly reformed the official system, abolished the system of subordinate officials, and dug out the roots of their internal plunder.
Therefore, if they want to prevent the large amount of silver dollars they have accumulated in their hands from continuing to shrink due to depreciation, they can only buy subscription coupons.
It's just that internal robbery is basically exploiting the common people of one's own country, and buying subscription tickets is basically external profit.
External seizure means that the objects of exploitation must change. Once the objects of exploitation change, the system and the ideas that underlie the system must also change.
However, these changes are not too significant.
At present, the entire Ming Dynasty society is only showing that a large number of wealthy people are buying subscription tickets.
Because the Ming Dynasty is now strong and its interests in external development have been increasing, the value of subscription tickets has been increasing, and it has always been a channel worthy of investment.
Especially after the first batch of subscription coupons related to naturalized mining profits were sold and proved to be indeed profitable, more and more people were willing to believe in the subscription coupons and believed that the court did not want their money, so they continued to issue subscriptions. Coupons plunder private wealth.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi was captured, and his 250,000-strong army was defeated. Iwami Ginzan was occupied by the Ming Dynasty. Many of his subordinates left and no longer served Toyotomi Hideyoshi as their leader. In order to apologize to the Ming Dynasty, they actively begged for peace negotiations, which led to the subscription of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The value of the coupons is further enhanced.
By the way, the rich people in this era are actually not stupid. When it comes to speculating on subscription tickets, they also know that military and political victory means that a large amount of economic benefits will be owned by the Ming Dynasty, so they further increase their efforts at this time. Purchasing subscription coupons finally returned a large amount of silver dollars to the court in the form of purchasing subscription coupons.
And the imperial court had to prepare to start a new round of large-scale infrastructure construction and carry out new welfare protection activities in order to let these silver coins flow to the market for trading.
Of course, this is something.
It is worth mentioning that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was taken to the Imperial Gate after being escorted to the capital, and became an important prisoner to be sacrificed in a new large-scale prisoner sacrifice ceremony.
On this day, with the scorching sun in the sky, Toyotomi Hideyoshi knelt outside the Imperial Gate, as if he had been placed in a fire, with sweat pouring down from his body.
"Lingchi!"
After Zhu Yijun saw Toyotomi Hideyoshi kneeling below, who was getting smaller and smaller like a monkey, he announced his decision to deal with Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi didn't understand what "Lingchi" was for a while, but he could feel the majesty from the loud sounds one after another, and he knew that his end would not be good.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi's body could not help but tremble slightly as if a basin of cold water had been poured on him suddenly.
Only now did he realize that he had overestimated his capabilities, and found that he had indeed been overconfident before. He even began to regret his past actions, and even thought that his past actions were a bit funny.
He had to admit that he would not fully appreciate how big and powerful the Ming Dynasty was without seeing the endless high towers of the Great Wall and going to the Ming Dynasty to see everyone wrapped in silk.
The current Toyotomi Hideyoshi even hopes that Oda Nobunaga is still alive, because in that case, it is not him who may be taken prisoner today, but Oda Nobunaga, and he can continue to be a leader by showing his goodwill to the Ming court. Daimyo.
After all, he is actually good at being a low-key person.
But it was too late to regret, and his next result could only be executed by Ling Chi.
After Zhu Yijun finished offering the prisoners, he specially asked Toyotomi Hideyoshi to be escorted to the imperial court.
Mainly out of curiosity, he wanted to see what Toyotomi Hideyoshi looked like, and also wanted to ask Toyotomi Hideyoshi why he wanted to destroy the Ming Dynasty.
"Your literati told me that you Tang people are the best to be conquered, because you Tang people have known etiquette for many years, will actively suppress your sharp edges, and will behave moderately."
Toyotomi Hideyoshi replied when Zhu Yijun asked him why he wanted to enter the Tang Dynasty.
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun didn't say much, he just ordered: "Pull it down!"
"yes!"
At this time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi loudly said in Japanese: "Your Majesty the Emperor! Please make me the King of Japan. I am willing to rule Japan for you forever, and let everyone in Japan become your slaves. Let me be your slave." Be a retainer!"
After Zhu Yijun listened to the interpreter's translation, he said: "Tell him that Ashikaga Yoshiaki is more suitable than him."
That's right.
In order to prevent the annexation of Japan from being affected by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang's stipulation that Japan was a country without conquest, Zhu Yijun specifically asked the Imperial Guard to secretly arrange for Ashikaga Yoshiaki to return to the country before he defected to the Mori Terumoto tribe. And he asked the Ming Dynasty to submit a memorial for the conquest of Japan.
The reason why Zhu Yiyi did this was because in the past, the Japanese king that Zhu Yuanzhang named was an Ashikaga family, and now Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the orthodox Japanese leader of the Japanese country, was exiled by Oda Nobunaga and abandoned by all the famous names of the Japanese country. As the suzerain country, the Ming Dynasty naturally had to take charge of it. No matter.
Therefore, when the Ming Dynasty conquered Toyotomi Hideyoshi this time, it could be regarded as the troops invited by Ashikaga Yoshiaki on his own initiative. They were well-known soldiers. They did not violate the Taizu system, and they were naturally able to force the Japanese lords to surrender politically.
Even when Japan was appointed as the chief secretary, Zhu Yiyi also asked Ashikaga Yoshiaki to sign a letter of willingness to donate the Matsuura Peninsula to the Ming Dynasty as a gift to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so that the Japanese ruling class had to admit that Japan was indeed included in the formal way. In the Ming Dynasty territory.
After hearing this, Toyotomi Hideyoshi closed his eyes and was speechless, and did not bother to scold Ashikaga Yoshiaki for betraying his Yamato nation in order to make a comeback for himself.
Soon after, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was beheaded in the city.
After Toyotomi Hideyoshi was beheaded, the price of subscription tickets skyrocketed again, and many old parties regretted not hoarding as many subscription tickets as the new party did.
During this period, the Ming Dynasty was also selling new subscription coupons, and the latest one was about the mining of Maoshan iron ore.
In order to exploit the Musan Iron Mine, Ming Dynasty asked North Korea to return the territory of North Hamgyong Province to the Ming Dynasty, and the condition for North Korea's agreement was to allow their people to work in the Masan Iron Mine.
The person in charge of the negotiations was Xu Zhenming, the left minister of the Ministry of Commerce. When he met with Shen Chengmin, an official sent by North Korea, Shen Chengmin said to Xu Zhenming:
"Angel Rong, we have another request, that is, when the kingdom determines and adjusts the wages of the people of our kingdom, it must discuss with our royal court!"
"Because we have to prevent a large number of industries in this kingdom from having no one to hire because the wages paid are too high, so that they are dissatisfied and even the fields are not cultivated. In this case, our kingdom's treasury will be empty and we will not be able to station troops for the Celestial Empire. Providing enough food is a big deal.”
(End of chapter)
