Zhuge Sanhe was really right!
If you only look at the "bankbook", Zhu Heji was indeed the poorest among the Zhou family bosses in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Because Zhu Heji's treasury only had a mere one million yuan in silver deposits... Fortunately, the Customs Department of the Ministry of Household and the Dongyin Coin Factory established last year are two relatively capable yamen. Each of these two yamen Every month I can pay more than 300,000 yuan (two) in customs duties, vehicle and vessel taxes (also collected by the Customs Department), and interest taxes. Otherwise, the one million taels of silver in savings would not be enough for the Ming Dynasty to circulate!
After Emperor Kangxi received donations from a group of Eight Banners disciples who had destroyed their families to provide relief, his household deposits had exceeded 18 million taels, a full seventeen times more than Zhu Heji!
He is truly "the richest in the world"!
And Burni, the destined emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, gained a lot from plundering Beijing, and now he has saved a "huge sum" of seven to eight million taels of silver.
As for Wu Yingxiong, he inherited his father Wu Sangui's many years of savings, and there were three to four million taels of silver in the national treasury.
Zhu Heji, who had just taken a boat trip on the Qinhuai River with Yang Ziyun and Miss Yang, had dinner, listened to a play, exchanged gifts, and even held hands (really holding hands), now realized that he was actually The poorest person in the world, half of his good mood suddenly disappeared.
Okay, why are you the poorest?
He originally had a lot of fun with Yang Ziyun, so he wanted to come to Zhuge Sanhe and Yu Zhongxian to discuss the matter of proposing marriage. Unexpectedly, he found that he had become "the poorest in the world"!
Now he had no intention of talking to Zhuge Sanhe and Yu Zhongxian about taking a concubine. So he pulled up a chair and sat down in Zhuge Sanhe's study, ready to discuss financial issues with the three in front of him.
"Your Majesty," Ma Chenglong, Master Ma, also spoke with a face full of tears, "If the imperial court spends strictly according to the budget, then there should still be some money saved by the end of this year, and the national treasury's silver deposits can reach 2.5 million taels. Otherwise, If so, there will be 2.5 million taels in the national treasury! At that time, there will be no money in the treasury of Hubu, only IOUs... I don’t know how to be the owner of Hubu. "
Household Bank? Zhu Heji thought to himself: "There is a bank in the household department? There is only an accounting room in the household department!"
"Your Majesty," Yu Zhongxian said, "if there is a deficit in the Ministry of Revenue's bank account, there will be no way to replenish the capital... Either you use the internal funds to lend it to the court, or you stop the major construction work in Nanjing. "
"Internal funds?" Zhu Heji glared at the old man, "Master Qi, don't you know if I have any money in my internal funds?
Although I own shares in Dongchang Guanyin, Bei Distillery, Nei Gunpowder Factory, West Saltworks Factory, Nan Instrument Factory, and Nanyang Trading Company, the dividends from these banks, factories, and companies are not large. Moreover, I also spent my own money to repair the Imperial City and the Heavenly King's Mansion, as well as the Vega Palace, build a plaster factory, a brick factory, an iron factory, and open iron ore and coal mines... I have to spend a lot of money on this. Invest money! "
Zhu Heji created many businesses, but not many were truly his own. Among the factories, banks, companies and factories in which he owns shares, only Beijiu Factory, the factory that produces Daming Chun Liquor, Daming Royal Liquor and Daming Royal Perfume, has Zhu Hesi holding a large share... He takes 50% of the shares are taken, and the remaining 50% are "body shares", which are shares that distribute money to the current management and employees.
Moreover, it has only been a few years since these businesses were launched, and they are still in a period of rapid growth. A large amount of money needs to be invested every year to expand production, and the dividend rate is not high.
In this case, Zhu Heji will not get much dividends.
After he arrived in Nanjing, he immediately started a new entrepreneurial project. The industries he is targeting this time are steel, cement, coal mining, masonry and textiles... The stalls are very large and require a lot of investment.
In addition, Zhu Heji also spent his own money to build the Forbidden City and Tianwang Mansion in Nanjing.
These are two quite big expenses!
Therefore, Zhu Heji's own capital chain was also quite tight, and he had no spare money to lend to the court.
Zhuge Sanhe's face was solemn, as if he was having an ideological struggle. Now that he heard Zhu Heji said that he had no money, he had no choice but to sigh: "Your Majesty, if it doesn't work out, we can only increase the salary!"
"No!"
"You must not send more troops or recruit more troops!"
Yu Zhongxian and Ma Chenglong immediately raised their objections loudly.
How did Emperor Chongzhen die?
It was not because they forced the Shaanxi people to rebel by sending three extra wages, which made them trapped internally and externally, exhausted, and finally had no choice but to die in Meishan.
"What's the extra mission for?" Zhu Heji waved his hand, "There's no need for it."
"Your Majesty is wise," Ma Chenglong said, "Then please live within your means and maintain a balance of income and expenditure no matter what."
"How is it possible to balance the books?" Zhu Heji smiled and waved his hands, "It's war time! And it's still a war between the four countries, competing for the throne. The fight is so big, how can it be possible to live within one's means?
Now is the time to spend money. Whoever spends more and spends more will gain the upper hand! "
Zhuge Sanhe shook his head repeatedly, "But..."
Mr. Yu was very worried, "Qi Zai, where does the money come from?"
Ma Chenglong looked helpless, "Your Majesty, we can't conjure money out of thin air!"
Zhu Heji laughed: "The imperial court can borrow it!"
"Borrow?" Zhuge Sanhe was stunned, "Borrow from whom?"
Zhu Heji said with a smile: "Borrow from the merchants! Does King Nan of Zhou, who is heavily in debt, know about it? The Gu family is going to learn from King Nan of Zhou and use a strategy to build debt!"
A plan to build up debt? Does this mean whether you have borrowed something or not paid it back?
No one can do this!
Zhuge Sanhe, Yu Zhongxian and Ma Chenglong didn't know what to say.
"If we give 4 million to Dengzhou and 1 million to Wu Yingqi...how much is the deficit of the Ministry of Revenue?"
"At least a loss of 3.5 million..." Ma Chenglong said, "This is a loss this year."
"There will be a big Enke program this year!" Zhu Heji said, "Now the equalization of land in Jiangnan, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang cannot be promoted. In the final analysis, there is still a lack of capable officials. To solve this problem, we can only open a subject to obtain scholars, and also You need to be generous to others!"
"The deficit will be more than four million!" Ma Chenglong almost gritted his teeth and reported the number.
Zhu Heji nodded: "Four million is not much...issue five million national bonds!"
"Five million in national debt?"
"This, this, this..."
"Your Majesty, why are the merchants willing to borrow it?"
Zhu Heji smiled: "You don't have to worry about this matter, the Gu family will take care of it... When we hold the small court meeting in Wuying Hall tomorrow, let's discuss how to spend money together!"
...
Zhu Heji's daily court meeting was to hold meetings with the heads of the two mansions, six ministries, and nine ministers in the Wuying Hall, plus a few ministers. Including Zhu Heji himself, there were probably more than thirty people present at the meeting.
These people sat around a rectangular table. Zhu and Ji sat at the head of the conference table, facing north and south, while the others sat on both sides.
As for the important content to be discussed at the meeting, the Attendant will inform the following officials in advance through formal documents.
So everyone already knows that today they are going to discuss with Zhu Heji how to spend the "non-existent" money!
This is really a bit ridiculous!
Therefore, when the meeting started, the people below didn't know how to speak for a while, and the scene was a bit cold.
"Zuo Chunqiu," Zhu Heji was as confident as ever, and simply named Zuo Chunqiu who was about to go on an envoy to Wu Yingqi, "The Gu family has prepared a list... There are things on it that can be provided Give Wu Yingqi a list of supplies and the upper limit of each kind of goods he can get. In total, he can get supplies worth one million taels!"
Zuo Chunqiu stood up and hugged Zhu Heji, "Your Majesty, can Wu Yingqi really get so many things?"
"Of course!" Zhu Heji said, "But the Gu family will not give him cash...he doesn't need it! The output of Shaanxi and Gansu is limited, and fortunately the price is relatively low. If the money flows in all at once, There, if there is no increase in goods, the price will definitely rise greatly. So it is the same over there in Dengzhou, they only give materials and banknotes, not cash!"
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