The officials and citizens of the Ming Dynasty were indeed shocked and unable to accept the final scale of bond issuance.
Like Xie Jie, many people began to denounce Liu Quexian because of this.
Because they found that Liu Quexian was more radical and bold than Wang Xijue.
After all, everyone knows that the cabinet originally set an amount of only 30 million taels.
But Liu Quexian increased the debt for building the Beijing-Gansu Railway to 50 million taels!
Therefore, the memorial to impeach Liu Quexian flew into the palace like snowflakes.
But Zhu Yijun was indifferent to this.
Because he came from a later generation, and through his understanding of some later countries, he actually only felt that Liu Quexian's level of borrowing money from people in the world was still conservative compared to a certain country in later generations, and his desire to plunder the world was obviously not that great. .
Therefore, Zhu Yijun disapproved of this.
But he can understand the resistance of people in this era to this kind of behavior that is not afraid of owing more debt.
After all, thousands of years of farming civilization have already made them accustomed to a lifestyle of diligence, thrift, and savings. Suddenly they find that their country is in serious debt, which will naturally make them panic.
thus.
Zhu Yijun was not very angry about this, and didn't pay much attention to it. He still only enjoyed his imperial life in the palace, and had decided to go to the southwest in the next period of time to see the situation of returning to the land, and start again A journey around the world.
Although the emperor did not pay attention to this, many officials and people could not sleep at night because of it.
Guo Zhengyu, who returned home, was not in the mood to enjoy his retirement life. After learning about this important decree, he sat up from the collapse and asked his grandson Guo Youkai:
"What are you talking about? Wang Taicang issued subscription coupons worth fifty million taels to raise funds?"
"Yes, Daming Bank has purchased the 10 million taels of subscription coupons."
"The post office has already used this silver money to attract business and recruit railway soldiers. I heard that all the people received are silver dollar coupons."
Guo Youkai replied.
Guo Zhengyu immediately stood up, stamped his bare feet on the ground, and said eagerly:
"How can this happen? How can this happen!"
"The ones who will destroy our Ming Dynasty must be his Wang Taicang and his Liu Shangyuan!"
"They are all people who bring disaster to the country! It is not an exaggeration to divide them into pieces!"
Guo Zhengyu then raised his head and cursed loudly, and then said:
"no!"
"I can't sit back and watch them harm the country like this. I want to write to friends in the DPRK and China, asking them not to let government-run banks and commercial banks buy it, and not to buy it themselves, so as not to impoverish the country and the people in the future!"
Guo Youkai replied: "But many people in the court have already bought it. The Imperial Bank under the imperial court bought five million taels, and the major local industrial banks set up by the governors also bought more than ten million taels. There were also many nobles from the clan, as well as the bureaucrats in the court and the local gentry who bought about three million taels in total, and the nobles such as Zhang and Shen also bought more than two million taels."
"What?!"
Guo Zhengyu looked at his grandson Guo Youkai in shock, as if he didn't want to believe that this was the truth.
Guo Youkai said: "How could my grandson lie to you? Now he is rushing to buy it."
"how so."
"Aren't they all opposed to the imperial court's excessive issuance of bonds and excessive debt?"
"Why are they still competing to buy it? Aren't they afraid that the court won't pay it back?"
Guo Zhengyu couldn't help but say something.
Guo Youkai replied: "They all said that they were loyal to the imperial court. Although they objected, the imperial court wanted to raise funds. How could they not spend all their money to fund the state?"
"fart!"
Guo Zhengyu cursed and said: "This is flattering the people in power! They are waiting to lend money to the court and then use the power given to them by the court to make money. A truly loyal minister should not listen to him at this time From Wang Taicang!"
After hearing this, Guo Youkai asked: "So, we don't buy it?"
"buy what?"
"To squander the people's wealth and people's anointing to him, Wang Taicang, is disloyal to the country and weak-willed. We cannot imitate them."
"Even if Wang Taicang puts a knife on our necks, we can't buy it! Our allegiance is not to this."
Guo Zhengyu said: "Save all the silver dollar coupons at home, and save what you can spend on what you eat. Try not to let any of it go to the market, lest others take it and lend it to the court and let Wang Taicang squander it!"
"Delay your marriage for a year as well. Tell your father and ask him to talk to your future father-in-law's family!"
Guo Youkai was young and had no self-confidence, so he had no choice but to follow the instructions of his grandfather, who was a minister, and then he only deposited silver dollar coupons in the bank.
However, because there were many people buying subscription coupons, and a large amount of silver dollar coupons were used to pay for projects and repay bonds, they flowed into the private sector. Therefore, for a while, the subscription coupons continued to rise, and the value of the silver dollar coupons themselves began to fall.
This also caused more people to buy subscription coupons and lend silver dollar coupons to the court, which were depreciating day by day.
For a time, the subscription bonds rose faster, and the silver dollar bonds also depreciated faster.
Many people are becoming more and more panicked, and they are increasingly reluctant to lend money to the court to hold the court's bonds.
"Mr. Qiao, don't write a memorial to impeach Wang, Liu and others. If you do, it will be in vain. Hurry up and take the silver dollar coupons in your hand to buy subscription coupons. That's the serious thing!"
"Otherwise, if you don't buy it, all these years will be in vain!"
this day.
At the end of the dynasty, Wang Jiao, the Langguan of the Literary Selection Department of the Ministry of Personnel, couldn't help but persuade his good friend Qiao Yun to come.
Geng Suilong, who was walking with Wang Jiao, also said: "Yes, now you can buy a Korean maid with a thousand taels of silver coupons, but I'm afraid I can only buy a Japanese maid next month!"
Qiao Yun sneered disdainfully and said: "I won't buy it. I would rather watch the silver dollar coupon in my hand turn into waste paper than listen to the mercy of those who are causing harm to the country and the people!"
"Why so."
"Why so!"
Wang Jiao just sighed and walked out of the palace first.
Wuchang Jiangxia.
Guo Mansion.
Guo Zhengyu, who returned home frustrated, had not fully recovered from the anger of the 50 million tael subscription coupons. His grandson Guo Youkai came to him again and mentioned the subscription coupons and silver dollar coupons, and said:
"Master, how about we buy some subscription coupons?"
"Can't buy it!"
"We cannot follow the example of those disloyal and unfilial fools."
Guo Zhengyu still insisted not to buy the subscription coupons and rejected his grandson's proposal.
Guo Youkai had to say: "But, the silver dollar coupons have been depreciating now?"
"What do you young people know!"
"This is just a trick used by Wang Taicang and Liu Shangyuan to fool everyone in the world!"
"Now it seems that silver dollar coupons have plummeted and subscription coupons have surged. In fact, they are all paper. They are deliberately manipulating them like this. Sooner or later, they will cause the country to be in complete chaos because they cannot repay their debts. By then, what? Subscription coupons are not worth silver dollar coupons!”
Guo Zhengyu criticized his grandson.
Guo Youkai had no choice but to say yes.
Guo Zhengyu snorted, then looked at the north and sneered: "Everyone in the world is so crazy and restless. I'm afraid you can't sleep well now, right?"
…
"Yuansuke didn't sleep well?"
On this day, on the way to the Imperial Palace, Liu Quexian saw Wang Xijue's eyes full of bloodshot eyes, so he asked him this question.
Wang Xijue smiled and said: "It's not a gift from the Lord!"
Liu Quexian chuckled: "What does this have to do with me?"
"The subscription coupons worth fifty million taels have now been sold to a price of more than two billion taels. Even if I, the Wang family, copy them ten times, they still won't be able to cash in on this price!"
Wang Xijue said and asked: "I'm afraid that a lot more silver dollar coupons will be printed because of this. Is this really okay?"
Liu Quexian said: "Don't worry Yuan Fu. I just got the news that Uncle Guo and the others have returned from Europe. This time they brought back two million taels of gold. In addition, our central bank has shipped it back from Japan and Luzon." Five million taels of gold, so there is no need to worry about overprinting of silver dollar coupons."
"real?"
Wang Xijue asked.
Liu Quexian nodded: "I also just received the news yesterday. His Majesty ordered me from the Central Bank of Ming Dynasty to send people directly to Guangzhou to deposit gold and return it to Beijing."
After hearing this, Wang Xijue said curiously: "Why is there so much gold in Europe?"
"This can only show that the Taixi people really mined a lot of gold in a place called Golden Island, so we can only exchange porcelain and silk for so much gold after we went to trade with them."
Liu Quexian said.
Wang Xijue nodded and began to read thoughtfully:
"Golden Island!"
…
"Nowadays, Jinyiwei from all over the country are reporting that large amounts of gold deposits have been discovered in places like Java and Papua in the South Ocean and Cape Verde in the West."
"I'm thinking that instead of these gold mines hanging overseas, which may be abandoned or ceded by unscrupulous descendants who are obsessed with pleasure and no longer enterprising, it is better to mine them back quickly."
"What do you think, sir?"
On this day, in the Shiyu Department, Zhu Yijun also talked about gold mining.
Zhu Yijun has always left the supervision and exploration of minerals in the world to Jin Yiwei.
Even talents for mining exploration and mining have been recruited to the Jinyiwei system.
The schools that train mining talents are also part of the Jinyiwei system.
Because according to the ownership system of the Ming Dynasty, the mountains, rivers and rivers in the world are the private property of the emperor, and the minerals in the mountains, rivers and rivers are naturally the private property of the emperor.
Therefore, although Zhu Yijun only banned mining internally and not externally, Jin Yiwei was still in charge of the exploration of minerals outside, and the supervision of mining conditions and statistics of mineral vein reserves were also in charge of Jin Yiwei, a close official of the emperor.
It can be said.
Jin Yiwei knows best how many gold and silver mines Ming Dynasty can now determine contain gold and silver.
Back to the topic.
After Zhu Yijun said this, Wang Xijue raised his hands and said:
"Your Majesty is wise! We should try our best to mine back all the gold mines outside."
"Then it is up to your cabinet to prepare the new mine, the Jin Yiwei to monitor and provide information on the mineral veins, the Central Bank of the Ming Dynasty to issue the subscription coupons for the development of minerals, the Privy Council to assist with force, and the Three Law Departments to formulate new regulations on criminal liability based on the conditions of offshore mining. .”
"In short, don't let your gold become someone else's gold."
Gold is related to the destiny of the country.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun does not want a large amount of gold to flow into the homes of wealthy private citizens.
(End of chapter)
