The next day.
Yang Shiqiao came to Wang Xijue with bloodshot eyes and said to Wang Shimin, "Brother, please tell Yuan Fu that I'm here."
"My eldest father went to bed too late, so he is still sleeping now."
"You can come back later."
Wang Shimin replied.
Yang Shiqiao smiled and agreed: "Okay!"
But Yang Shiqiao did not leave. He only waited outside the chief minister's official residence and did not dare to leave because he was afraid that Wang Xijue would suddenly get up again and blame him for not getting the list in time.
He knew that Wang Xijue must now intend to use himself as the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs to establish his authority and let the world know that the Ministry of Civil Affairs did not dare to compete with the cabinet for power. If he neglected in the slightest, he might not get any good results.
Moreover, he also knew that being a high-ranking official would kill people, and now that Wang Xijue had the power to embarrass him, he would definitely make it worse than death!
Who made him not realize it before?
What's more, according to his experience, if a person has new power, it is impossible not to use the new power to embarrass those who can be embarrassed by his new power.
This is just like if a swordsman gets a good sword, he can't help but dance with the sword to test its edge no matter what.
Therefore, Yang Shiqiao had to be careful.
Yang Shiqiao waited until the afternoon, when the autumn cold was gradually dispelled by the scorching midday sun, before Wang Xijue met him.
"My lord, please forgive me."
"My memory is obviously not as good as it used to be. They had obviously told me that you were coming, but I forgot about it because I was dealing with an urgent matter when we came together. So I only remembered about the government now."
"I even made Gongbai wait outside for a whole day."
"What a sin!"
Wang Xijue first apologized to Yang Shiqiao.
Yang Shiqiao smiled and said: "Yuan Fu is diligent in the king's affairs, and he is so busy managing everything that he forgets to sleep and eat. Everyone in the world has always known that. The subordinates can only admire him, how can they dare to hold grudges."
"Ming Gongguo is a loyal person!"
Wang Xijue said with a smile and then asked: "Has the list been drawn up?"
Yang Shiqiao handed the department ticket to Wang Xijue: "It's ready."
"The official department is indeed much more diligent than before. All the officials in the official department have passed the examination and become excellent!"
Wang Xijue smiled and praised him at this time, as if he wanted to show favor to the officials after embarrassing them.
"Thanks to Yuan Fu for his high opinion, I am very grateful."
Yang Shiqiao smiled and replied.
Wang Xijue waved his hand and said: "Anyway, not only I, but also Your Majesty, see the hard work of the officials in the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Since the Holy Lord is a benevolent king, naturally Your Majesty will not treat you badly."
"yes!"
Then, Wang Xijue circled the list, circled some lists, and stood up and said to Yang Shiqiao: "Please help yourself, Sir. I have to go to the cabinet to discuss some of the candidates with several other cabinet ministers. I'll excuse you." .”
"Yuanfu is busy with his own business. There are still matters in the subordinate department, so he left first."
After Yang Shiqiao answered with a smile, he really returned to the Ministry of Personnel, and squinted his eyes in the duty room of the Minister of Personnel to catch up on his sleep, just waiting for Wang Xijue to bother him again.
Wang Xijue quickly finalized the list of new ministers with several other ministers in the cabinet, and then inscribed the name of the new minister in the name of the cabinet to handle the matter.
Zhu Yijun approved the cabinet's request and held a court recommendation.
And soon, in the court recommendation, Wang Xijue nominated a list of candidates who he thought were worthy of being the chief officials of various yamen.
Although many ministers who participated in the court recommendation did not agree with Wang Xijue's views on governance, they had no choice but to choose from the list proposed by Wang Xijue, and they could only choose some less radical people.
But no matter what, the people selected are in line with Wang Xijue's wishes.
In the end, Yang Junmin was promoted to the Minister of Hubu, Li Dai became the Minister of Rites, Zhang Jiayin became the Minister of War, and Xiao Daheng became the Minister of Punishments.
And because they were recommended by the court, it is difficult for the bureaucrats to say that Wang Xijue controlled the emperor through invitations and favors and made these become ministers of corresponding key departments.
Only some officials such as Qiao Yun complained secretly about this.
Qiao Yun said to a group of colleagues: "Why don't the officials insist on it and really give Wang Taicang the opportunity to be appointed as the nine ministers according to the order?"
"Still insisting?"
Wang Jiao, the official of the Ministry of Personnel, laughed and said: "In order to flatter Wang Taicang, this old guy Yang Shangrao forced us to discuss these people overnight, and then he went to the chief minister's official residence early in the morning to offer them. Selected as a list of ministers of various ministries!"
"So, how can you expect our officials, led by such a spineless Otsuka Zai, to be able to compete with the powerful ministers? It's too fanciful!"
"So, the Ministry of Personnel really can't compete with the cabinet?"
At this time, Geng Suilong asked another question.
Wang Jiao nodded: "Why don't we just hope Si Yin makes Liu Gong fight with us?"
The first bank envoy designated by Zhu Yijun was Liu Quexian, who had previously been in charge of Daming Bank and Central Commercial Bank.
On the day Liu Quexian first became Si Yinshi, Xie Jie, the Minister of Academic Affairs, found him: "Next, whether we can prevent Wang Taicang from causing too much harm to the country depends on whether you can fight with him."
"What I can fight for, how much debt I can lend and how many bonds I can lend, I have the final say based on my own data."
"I just have to respect the facts."
“When we need to fight, we will naturally fight for the long-term interests of our country.”
Liu Quexian replied with a smile.
Xie Jie nodded: "That's good. We, Su Zhigong, are not afraid of power, and everyone in the world will feel at ease when we have him in charge of the world's money!"
Liu Quexian smiled and said: "Ashamed!"
On Wang Xijue's side, after getting confirmation from all ministers, he quickly agreed with the cabinet ministers and the Minister of Household Affairs Yang Junmin on a plan to raise funds for the construction of a large railway line from Ganzhou to the capital. A bond totaling thirty million taels of silver was submitted to the Central Bank.
Liu Quexian immediately came to see Wang Xijue because of this and said, "Do you really only plan to issue additional subscription coupons worth thirty million taels of silver?"
"Is it too much?"
"This is not because His Majesty said that he would strengthen his control over Hexi in order to completely transform the entire Western Region into a land-governed country in the future. Therefore, after the cabinet meeting, he prepared to build a railway line between Ganzhou and the capital."
Wang Xijue started talking after asking.
Liu Quexian placed a document in front of Wang Xijue:
"It's missing!"
Wang Xijue stared at Liu Quexian.
At this time, Liu Quexian took the initiative to hand a stack of papers to Wang Xijue, then picked up the tea again, took a sip of the hot air, sipped the rim of the tea and said:
"Yuansuke is still too cautious!"
"Just take a look at this scroll!"
Wang Xijue was already flipping through the papers in his hand: "Is this still prudent?"
"Cheng Rusi (Cheng Dawei) in our industry used mathematics and financial law to calculate. According to his calculation, it is not a big problem to use this railway line to issue an additional 20 million taels of subscription coupons."
"Numbers are sincere and these numbers are not deceiving."
Liu Quexian said at this time.
After Wang Xijue read the scroll, he placed it in front of Liu Quexian:
"Although the country now has many so-called scholar-bureaucrats and technocrats who specialize in studying the reliability of various laws and plans, it has also begun to habitually listen to their suggestions first when formulating national policies, and then make so-called A scientific arrangement, but have you ever thought about it, just letting the court owe more debt than the national treasury savings is enough to make the people of the world uneasy, and if they actually issue bonds according to their calculations, wouldn't it make the people of the world even more uneasy?"
"Anyway, we will use silver dollar coupons to pay off the debt. The worst we can do is print more, which is just paper."
Liu Quexian replied at this time.
Wang Xijue chuckled: "To put it lightly, if too many silver dollar coupons are issued, they may be worth less than the paper used to make the same silver dollar coupons."
"But the current situation is that there are still not as many people using silver dollar coupons as there are silver dollars."
"So, it won't be a big problem to issue more silver dollar coupons. The big deal is to mint less silver coins and copper coins, and gradually let the whole world use banknotes as soon as possible."
"As for large transactions, just print more silver dollar coupons of large denominations. In the past, silver dollar coupons worth ten silver dollars were the most numerous. In the future, silver dollar coupons worth one hundred silver dollars will be the most common."
"In this way, we can completely realize that everything that enters the middle-earth of our Ming Dynasty is real gold and silver, and everything that goes out is just paper! In this way, our Ming Dynasty only exchanges paper for the real gold, silver, and iron ore from outside. Coal, petroleum.”
"As for the people in the world being more uneasy, then they don't have to buy it!"
"Anyway, the imperial court will only issue more silver dollar coupons to its creditors. Those who don't buy silver dollar coupons can only sit back and watch as the subscription coupons in other people's hands become more and more valuable. Instead of increasing, the silver dollar coupons in their own hands become more and more valuable. It’s becoming less and less valuable.”
"And smart people will know that not only must they not buy subscription coupons at this time, but they should also buy more, and they should even spend all the silver dollar coupons in their hands as soon as possible!"
"The imperial court only needs to print more on a regular basis, and then destroy them regularly to ensure that the stacking capital exists. It can use the method of issuing more bonds and printing more banknotes to let everyone in the world buy and sell them."
After Liu Quexian said this, he asked Wang Xijue: "I wonder what Yuan Fu thinks?"
"As the saying goes, running water does not rot the household hinges, nor does it cause beetles. This is indeed more conducive to the long-term prosperity of the country."
Wang Xijue stood up and said, "Then you send a receipt and I will ask the cabinet to do what you want."
Liu Quexian said "hmm" and left Wang Xijue.
It didn't take long for the cabinet to resubmit to the central bank the amount of money it wanted to issue bonds.
And everyone in the world soon knew this number.
Snapped!
"Fifty million taels, isn't the current government crazy?"
"It's just a railway line that runs from east to west, but it's going to issue subscription coupons worth fifty million taels of silver dollars."
"Before this dynasty, it would have taken two or three years of annual income for the court to pay off this debt. How dare they borrow money when they are in power!"
During the incident, Qiao Yun couldn't help but slap the table and get up after seeing the decree to issue fifty million taels of subscription coupons.
Xie Jie, the Minister of Academic Affairs, also darkened his face after reading this important decree. He suppressed his anger and said:
"Liu Shangyuan, a duplicitous and shameless villain, clearly told me that he would try his best to curb Wang Taicang's indiscriminate issuance of bonds, but he turned out to be more radical than Wang Taicang. The government originally proposed 30 million, but he increased it to 5,000. Wan, it’s simply shocking!”
(End of chapter)
