Wang Xijue and other officials in power all looked at each other in shock.
Zhu Yijun wants to establish a self-recommendation system for the first assistant, which undoubtedly makes them very difficult.
It's not that they don't want to be the chief minister, but that according to the traditional scholar-bureaucrat's point of view, a gentleman should be modest and indifferent, and should be ashamed of actively seeking fame and fortune.
Although most people have been pursuing fame and fortune for thousands of years, they all feel that they should be "indifferent to clarify their aspirations, and tranquil to reach far". They believe that this is the demeanor that a gentleman should have, and there is no reason to actively seek official positions.
However, if the emperor wanted to do this, they could only accept it.
Unless they really don't want to be the first assistant and have lost their desire for power.
But this is obviously impossible.
If they weren't obsessed with power, they wouldn't still be working in the court.
What's more, they can't say that they don't want to do things for the country. That is not what a gentleman would do. After all, governing the country and bringing peace to the world is also a Confucian requirement for traditional scholar-bureaucrats.
Therefore, Wang Xijue and others had to carefully write a memorial to appoint themselves as the chief assistant, and had to make it clear to the emperor that they wanted to be the chief assistant, wanted to do things for the country, and wanted to achieve something.
This also means that before becoming the first assistant, Wang Xijue and others had made a promise to the emperor and promised what goals they would achieve once they became the first assistant.
And their promise to the emperor is equivalent to a promise to the world and history.
In this way, it would be difficult for them to sit down and have a vegetarian meal, and it would be even worse for them to shift all the blame to the emperor while doing so, saying that they were forced to become the first assistant. Originally, they had no ability or ideas, even if the emperor was not active and As a result, he was a little stressed because he had accomplished nothing during his tenure, and he even wanted to persuade the emperor to cheer up.
Wang Xijue, Zheng Luo, Shen Yiguan, Chen Yubi, Shen Li, etc. all wrote memorials inviting themselves to be the chief assistant.
Zhu Yijun also read their chapter memorials.
In the end, Zhu Yijun appointed Wang Xijue as his chief assistant.
Because Li Chengliang had received Zhu Yijun's hint in advance, he did not write a memorial this time and recommended himself.
"I appointed you as the chief assistant mainly because you proposed a unified global currency."
"I deeply agree with this, but I still want to hear your specific thoughts. What are the benefits of allowing all transactions in the world to only use the money of this dynasty?"
After Zhu Yijun said that, he looked at Wang Xijue.
Wang Xijue replied: "Your Majesty, if the whole world can use Ming Dynasty silver dollar coupons, your Majesty and even future generations can maintain the national destiny through wanton borrowing."
"Yeah?"
Zhu Yijun asked.
Wang Xijue replied: "Yes, Your Majesty, generally speaking, when parents borrow money from their children, they don't have to worry about repaying it, so it is not considered a debt. Only money owed to others is a debt and needs to be repaid;"
"The same is true for the country. As long as the world uses Ming silver coupons, it means that the wealth of the world is represented by Ming silver coupons. In this way, it is equivalent to all the wealth of the world being generated by the Ming court, and the Ming court will be the world's wealth. Parents and everyone in the world are all children of the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming Dynasty naturally does not need to pay back the money borrowed from the people of the world to do things. Otherwise, once the Ming Dynasty really falls, the source of wealth for the people of the world will not only be gone, but they will have to bear it together. A debt that cannot be repaid after the fall of the Ming Dynasty."
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this: "This means that domestic debt is not debt, external debt is debt. As long as the Ming Dynasty uses its own silver dollar coupons in the world, then no matter how much debt the Ming Dynasty borrows, it will be equivalent to having no debt. .”
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
"Now, whether you want to immigrate people from the north to the south or continue to be kings, you need a lot of money. The annual treasury income is not enough to provide this money. You can only borrow it from people all over the world, so that more and more people can buy Ming subscription tickets. The more people do this, the more people don’t want the Ming Dynasty to fall."
Wang Xijue replied.
Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "You are worthy of being a wealthy businessman in Taicang. This is a very good strategy!"
"Your Majesty is so complimentary!"
Wang Xijue replied.
Zhu Yijun then ordered: "I have decreed that from now on, only silver dollar coupons with a face value of one hundred yuan will be accepted for buying and selling subscription coupons."
"yes!"
Wang Xijue's goal promised to Zhu Yijun is that in the future he will strive to have only one currency in the world, and this currency is the Ming Dynasty silver dollar, and he must first achieve global monetary unification!
As a wealthy businessman, Wang Xijue knew the importance of currency very well, and he also knew that the quality of the currency system was related to the rise and fall of a country.
Therefore, Wang Xijue focused his governance efforts on money and law.
Zhu Yijun also cooperated with him. He first ordered the imperial court to sell subscription coupons and the organization responsible for reselling subscription coupons to only recognize silver dollar coupons with a face value of one hundred yuan.
This means that the status of banknotes has been further enhanced.
The current Ming Dynasty is still in a period of rapid growth in national power, and the subscription tickets equivalent to investing in the country are still valuable, and have even been in a state of high prices.
Because of this, I don’t have to worry about selling the subscription tickets, I just worry about buying them.
Basically, people without background and channels still find it difficult to purchase subscription coupons through normal channels.
This is inevitable.
Who allowed the Ming Dynasty to have more and more people with extra money waiting to invest, while the growth rate of new projects that the court needed to develop through the sale of subscription coupons could not keep up with this speed?
Therefore, when Zhu Yijun issued this decree, many citizens who wanted to buy subscription coupons for investment had no choice but to follow the arrangement and exchange for silver dollar coupons.
For a time, the demand for silver dollar coupons increased significantly.
This increased the value of silver dollar coupons, so that they could be exchanged for more foreign goods in daily life.
Therefore, more and more people are beginning to accept silver dollar coupons.
Even the army began to accept silver dollar coupons as military pay.
"This time all the military pay has been turned into silver dollar coupons. The officers and soldiers are very happy because there are merchants accompanying the army who will directly exchange the silver dollar coupons in their hands for silver that is more valuable than the equivalent silver dollar."
"And because of this, many people in the army began to lament that paper was actually more valuable than real money and silver. They all said that this was a reflection of the improvement of national power, and many officers and soldiers were unwilling to exchange silver dollar coupons for merchants accompanying the army."
Dhaka.
Liu Wei, the Marquis of Nanchang, was a local feudal landowner who conquered the lower Ganges delta and was close to the area that later became Bangladesh. While resting in the local city of Dhaka, he saw many officers and soldiers happily receiving silver dollar coupons, riding horses and holding muskets. , and after going to sweep away the remaining Mughal soldiers scattered throughout the Ganges Plain, he wrote such a secret memorandum to Zhu Yijun, and sent someone to quickly pass it back to the country for the emperor to see.
After Zhu Yijun saw Liu Wei's secret performance, he couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth slightly and replied:
"The sergeants are right. The officers and soldiers accept silver dollar coupons as military pay, and the merchants are also willing to exchange real gold and silver for military pay. This is because they are optimistic about the future of the country, and the future of the country lies in the hands of the soldiers who opened up the territory. Therefore, you should do your best to conquer, use kindness and power, give more rewards and less punishment, do not be lazy, do not advance rashly, and do not kill blindly. You should maintain military discipline to make it easier to become a king, and prepare taxes, money and food for the future migration of more people. "
As officers and soldiers began to accept silver dollar coupons as military pay, it also greatly reduced the loss of military transportation, further avoiding corruption in the military pay distribution process, allowing Zhu Yijun to turn the saved losses into silver rewards, and increased his support for the army. The amount of rewards makes the army more powerful.
certainly.
As Zhu Yijun replied in his secret message to Liu Wei, the increasing popularity of banknotes such as silver dollar coupons is essentially because the Ming Empire is becoming stronger and stronger, and its fiscal revenue has been increasing, making people all over the world willing to invest in purchasing the country. of subscription coupons.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun asked Liu Wei to complete the conquest of the Mughal Empire and bring greater benefits to the country's external expansion.
At the same time, in order to truly achieve global currency unification, Zhu Yijun also allowed Wang Xijue to increase the sale of subscription coupons after he became the chief minister of the cabinet.
Not only were they issuing more subscription coupons and raising funds from the private sector for the Beijing-Beijing railway project that had long been under construction, but also in June of the 30th year of Wanli, not long after Wang Xijue became the chief minister of the cabinet, Wang Xijue and Li Chengliang came together I originally asked Zhu Yijun for permission to start the major construction project of the Andong Border Wall Project, and therefore continued to increase the sale of subscription coupons and borrow more money from the private sector.
According to Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang's idea, all the people in the north, regardless of Han or Yi, should be driven south as much as possible. Most areas in the north will only have troops stationed in the future, and at most some Han people will be left in some big towns.
Zhu Yijun also agreed with this.
Because Wang Xijue wanted to achieve currency unification as soon as possible, and to achieve currency unification, paper currency must be more widely promoted, so he also supported this strategy after becoming the chief minister, and also agreed with Li Chengliang to build a border wall in Liaodong .
The specific idea of Wang Xijue and Li Chengliang was to first gather the people of all ethnic groups in the Northeast by building a border wall, because only by gathering together can they assimilate and migrate, and it would be more difficult for ordinary people within the border wall to go north. At the same time, The side wall also served as a garrison.
As a result, Li Wenquan, Marquis of Wuqing, left Beijing again and began to go to the northeast to build border walls for the Ming Dynasty.
Building a border wall means building a Great Wall.
Of course, this does not mean that after it is built, the border line will really be the border line of the Ming Dynasty. In fact, it is the line where the Ming Dynasty allows people to move and live freely.
According to Zhu Yijun's decree, a border wall was to be built from Shenyang to North Hamgyong Road, so the Han and Hu people in this area quickly received the news of recruiting them to work.
The Han and Hu people here did not know the original intention of the court at first. They only found that the wages given by the court were very good, which was higher than the wages paid by the local Jurchen and Mongolian nobles to dig ginseng and hunt, so they came one by one. Apply.
Only the local Jurchen and Mongolian nobles were dissatisfied with this and began to seek explanations from Li Hualong, the governor of Jiliao.
Yang Jinu of Yehe tribe asked Li Hualong: "Uncle Guo has recruited all our people, how can we trade and pay tribute next year?" (End of Chapter)
