Anfu was beaten dumbfounded by his master.
At this time, the owner Qiao Yun scolded Anfu and said, "Did you know that their master is from Hu Ke? If you have his connections, you can buy more subscription coupons!"
"But Master, didn't you say you won't buy the subscription coupons?"
Anfu asked confusedly at this time.
"Who says I won't buy it?!"
"If you don't lend your money to the imperial court, to whom will you lend your allegiance?"
Qiao Yun scolded a few words and then said: "Prepare the sedan and go to Geng Mansion. I will go to the door in person to apologize!"
As the price of subscription coupons continues to rise, the price of silver dollar coupons continues to fall.
Not only Qiao Yun, but also many die-hards began to waver.
After all, this is a real loss of profits, and those who no longer want to borrow money from the court have to borrow money.
Guo Zhengyu of Tai'an also became more and more uneasy in his dormitory. He was already uneasy because the court had borrowed too much, and now he is even more depressed because of it.
Boom! Boom!
On this day, he couldn't help but bang his crutch on the ground again after reading the newspaper, and looked up to the sky and said: "How could this happen? How could this happen!"
"Grandfather, we can no longer save silver dollar coupons. If we continue to save, your official accumulation over the years will be reduced by more than half!"
Guo Youkai couldn't help but find Guo Zhengyu again, and he was so anxious that he told him that the depreciation of the silver dollar coupons would affect the assets of the Guo family.
After hearing this, Guo Zhengyu said: "Then exchange it for silver coins."
"Silver coins can no longer be exchanged. The imperial court intends to promote paper currency, and silver coins are no longer minted."
Guo Youkai said.
Guo Zhengyu said: "Where are the copper coins?"
Guo Youkai said: "Copper coins have stopped long ago, don't you know?"
"No wonder the imperial court only allowed you to be the Minister of Rites, but not the Minister of Household Affairs, let alone the cabinet to head a branch."
"Besides saving money, you really don't know anything about other financial management methods!"
"But the rulers of the imperial court and the people of the world are not stupid. You all know that silver coins and copper coins are valuable. How can others not know?"
"There is a reason why people now have to buy subscription coupons to borrow money!"
"Besides, it's not that you don't know that the people don't fight with the officials."
"But now that you have become an official, you are a citizen rather than an official. So now the government wants you to buy subscription coupons. It is impossible for you to survive without buying them."
Because Guo Youkai began to doubt his grandfather's ability, he became more confident and took the initiative to express his opinion.
After hearing this, Guo Zhengyu became furious and threw the crutch in his hand at Guo Youkai on the spot: "You bastard! Your father doesn't even dare to contradict me, but how dare you! Believe it or not, I'll call your father and let him beat you to death, you bastard!" "
Guo Youkai covered his bruised forehead and froze on the spot for a moment.
Guo Zhengyu felt a little distressed when he saw this, but his anger was mostly gone. At the same time, he began to question himself, thinking:
"Is it true that the experience of the ancients is not necessarily correct, or am I really too pedantic?"
"Forget it, since my grandchildren don't believe me anymore, then you can do whatever you want. I won't care about this family anymore!"
Therefore, Guo Zhengyu simply said a word and left here.
Guo Zhengyu's indifference actually meant that he agreed to Guo Youkai's purchase of the subscription tickets, which was considered a compromise with reality.
certainly.
Guo Zhengyu also knew that he could no longer persist.
Because he has found that his family no longer supports him, and even his grandson, who admires him the most, is beginning to question his authority.
Guo Youkai also knew what Guo Zhengyu meant, so he quickly took out his family's savings to buy subscription coupons.
But when Guo Zhengyu saw his grandson Guo Youkai's renewed joy because he bought the subscription coupons, he sighed, looked up to the sky and shed tears, thinking:
"Now, everyone in the world will die with the country. After all, they have lent all their money to the country. If the country dies, wouldn't the debt be wiped out?"
"But it is obvious that a noble family like me, the Guo family, can survive the death of the country and the family!"
Guo Zhengyu cried heartbrokenly, and then cursed in his heart again:
"Wang Taicang, Wang Taicang, do you really think that I am against you because you are causing harm to the country and the people? Isn't it because you are just for your own merits and do not hesitate to let the people of the world live and die with the Ming Dynasty! Wow! !”
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"Haven't you seen enough of the tricks of changing dynasties?"
"Although it is said that being frugal can enrich the country and bring peace to the people, how many monarchs and ministers have been able to do this since ancient times?"
"Most of them are used like sand, and they use up all the baht, especially in the later period when only the husband is seen but not the farmers."
"Basically, by this time, the country will be subjugated or even the family will be destroyed! Although among the clans of officials and ministers, the family members will be in the minority, or just one family and one family, but in the end there will be losses, and it is no better than the real long-term peace and stability. "
"Now that there are so many gold and silver treasures outside the four seas, and the country has all kinds of new great knowledge and sharp weapons, why can't we change our approach, completely enlarge our sights, and take all the wealth from the four seas first?"
cabinet.
When Wang Lin, Shen Yiguan and other ministers and ministers wondered why he suggested that the emperor build the Zhonglie Temple and the Zhonglie Monument to be particularly luxurious and extravagant, Wang Xijue brought up the situation of global overseas gold deposits provided by Jinyiwei.
Wang Lin and Shen Guanyi nodded after hearing this.
At this moment, Chen Yubi even smiled and said: "The situation has really changed, and our country really has hope for a long life in the future!"
"That's exactly what he said."
Wang Xijue smiled and nodded.
After Wang Xijue said this, the cabinet ministers had much less doubts about the grand construction of the wonders.
However, many other ministers are still worried.
For example, not long after, the Minister of Industry, Yao Jike, came to see him and asked: "Yuanfu, do the Zhonglie Temple and the Zhonglie Monument really need to be built with white jade on the outside and gold on the inside?"
"No need to ask, hasn't His Majesty already sanctioned it?"
Wang Xijue asked.
Yao Jike hurriedly said: "Where can there be so much white marble and gold in the inventory of the Ministry of Works? You should know that most of the gold in the imperial court went to the Central Bank, and there is not much white marble in existence. It has to be kept for future repairs. It’s for the palace!”
"The world is so big, and there is not enough white jade and gold, why don't you know that I would like to ask for orders to send people to find it?!"
"Why just focus on that little inventory?"
Wang Xijue asked Yao Jike a few questions.
Yao Jike was speechless after hearing this, so he had to hold his hands and say yes.
Yao Jike thought about it carefully next and felt that instead of organizing government forces to mine, it would be better to purchase from the private sector, let the people contract the minerals, and then let them sell the mined minerals to their own Ministry of Industry.
In this way, how to save freight and mining costs is left to the people themselves, and it is beneficial to their relatives and friends to make profits.
Therefore, Yao Jike only asked for funds to purchase gold and white marble, and used silver dollar coupons to purchase white marble and gold from the private sector.
Zhu Yijun naturally approved of this. After all, silver dollar coupons are just paper. Using paper to exchange gold and other things back to the court is profitable no matter how you look at it.
Next, the Ministry of Industry really only purchased gold at high prices and did not mine it directly.
Therefore, the Nuggets craze soon started.
After all, not everyone has precious metals like gold. Now that the court is purchasing large quantities of them at high prices, they can only dig for gold in overseas areas where gold can be mined.
only.
If anyone in the world wants to mine the gold mine that Jinyiwei has discovered, they have to pay a mining deposit, register and log in to the corresponding family information, apply for a contract, and pay taxes.
Most people think this is too troublesome and do not have the financial strength, so most people go directly to find new gold mines. Therefore, there are even Han people who do not hesitate to take risks and go to Australia and Africa to find gold.
Those who are willing to contract the existing gold mines are basically relatives, friends or other powerful bureaucrats in Jinyiwei's own system. First, they are more likely to know the location and good conditions of the gold mines through various relationships. Second, they have more capital strength. Third, they evade taxes. The ability is stronger.
But in any case, starting from the second half of the 30th year of Wanli, the national gold mining craze began to set off.
At the same time, there was a craze for people to buy subscription coupons and spend a lot of money.
If it weren't for the fact that the subscription coupons kept rising, and the increase was always greater than the silver dollar coupons, the people would not be active in mining gold and selling it to the court.
After all, everyone wants to live a better life, not just to live a lifetime of gold.
As a result, many commodities are being purchased crazily.
This caused the supply of goods to increasingly exceed demand, especially after inflation caused the prices of goods to continue to rise. The people of the Ming Dynasty became even more crazy in shopping.
Many places have begun to stop making their own clothes and only buy clothes to wear. Ready-made clothing stores are springing up everywhere.
Every family buys a car and raises a horse.
Weddings and funerals are becoming more and more particular, and every banquet is extravagant.
There is even a pre-sale model.
Especially in the trading of houses, vehicles, and slaves, in order to raise funds in advance to buy subscription tickets and make money, large merchants would not hesitate to directly pre-sell or use cheaper methods during pre-sale to pool the funds first, buy subscription tickets or lend money, and then use The money earned is used to prepare pre-sold goods.
"Pre-sale of gardens! Ten new gardens built by the Qinhuai River in the southern capital, built by Wu Qinghou Mansion, designed by Ji Cheng, and funded by Wei Guogong Mansion, are now available for sale."
On this day, when autumn was cold and the flowers were yellowing, ten gardens in Nandu City that were only on drawings were sold by the Duke of Wei at the lowest price of 50,000 taels of silver coupons.
Within a month, the price of the ten gardens in Nandu City increased from a minimum of 50,000 taels of silver yuan to a minimum of 60,000 taels of silver yuan.
Because there were so many buyers, it seemed that the people of the Ming Dynasty were no longer short of money.
It can be said that the overcapacity caused by the steam industrial revolution has been completely solved.
"reward!"
When they first arrived in Guangzhou, Galileo and Matteo Ricci were shocked by the scene on the stage in front of them.
Because they saw the theatergoers dumping baskets of silver dollar coupons onto the stage after a kid from a rich family laughed and shouted.
"Their people are so wealthy, they value culture so much, and they are willing to spend so much money on culture!"
Galileo couldn't help but say something to Matteo Ricci at this time.
Matteo Ricci also nodded: "It's indeed amazing! Although it's not my first time to come to China, I haven't seen it in a few years, and I didn't expect that people in Guangzhou now dare to spend money more than before. I really don't know. How rich has the Ming Dynasty become in recent years?" (End of Chapter)
