As both an economic worker, Jiang Fu felt that Zhao Buxi would not fail to understand the consequences of what he was about to do.
But Zhao Buxi decided to do this.
Therefore, as the Minister of Household Affairs, Jiang Fu felt that he had to say something.
"Your Majesty, this can certainly tide over the difficulties, but I'm afraid there will be some problems with private settlements and exchanges, and Jiaozi is also likely to depreciate on a large scale. By then... this Jiaozi may not be as good as waste paper, and private settlements If the Ku and Duibian shops suffered too heavy losses, it might really..."
Something is going to happen.
Something big will happen.
What Jiang Fu said is definitely the truth.
Facing the truth told by Jiang Fu, Zhao Buxi looked unhappy.
"Of course I know what problems will happen, but is now the time to consider these things? There is a problem with the Jieku and Duibian shops. That is a problem among the people. If the national treasury is empty, the court will be gone. The most important thing now is to protect the national treasury. ! So... let’s just stop doing one thing and two things!”
As Zhao Buxi was talking, he suddenly thought of something. After thinking for a moment, he gritted his teeth and made a very determined decision.
Jiang Fu was puzzled.
"If you don't do anything, you won't stop? What do you mean, Your Majesty?"
Zhao Buxi looked at Jiang Fu for a while and said in a low voice: "We can print more Jiaozi, and then send some people to pretend to be civilians as soon as possible, and use these Jiaozi to go to various places among the people to unload the treasury and exchange small amounts and many times at convenience stores. coins, or borrow money for various reasons, and all the coins obtained will be sent to the treasury for storage.”
Jiang Fu was stunned for a while after hearing this, and then turned pale with shock.
Zhao Buxi doesn't plan to take the initiative to detonate the mines laid by the people, right?
Isn't it too cruel to abandon the car to save the handsome man?
Not only do you want to make money from rich people, but you also want to send rich people to hell with your own hands?
"Your Majesty, this..."
"To protect the treasury or to protect the treasury, to protect the court or to protect the people, you don't need me to tell you how to choose, right? Jiang Butang, only with the court can everything be possible. Without the court, everything will stop!"
Zhao Buji looked at Jiang Fu with an unkind expression, and gave him the most severe warning and threat.
Jiang Fu swallowed, his heart pounding.
If others don’t know, don’t those who work in the economic field still know?
Don’t they know who are the backers behind these Jieku and Duibian shops?
Can any person with no background engage in finance these days?
Zhao Buxi did this, obviously because Xiang Zhuang danced his sword with the intention of Peigong. Obviously, under the repeated operations of the Chengdu court and bureaucrats, the poor people in Sichuan and Sichuan were at the end of their rope and had no money to squeeze out.
They are now just a group of skeletons wearing a human skin, trying to hold up a person. Even the bone marrow is gone. Knocking on the bones and sucking out the marrow can't do it. Knocking on the bones will immediately break into powder and nothing will be gained.
Therefore, Zhao Buji had no choice but to start targeting rich people for his own survival.
But……
Rich people are the foundation of the Song Dynasty. What is the difference between attacking one's own foundation and chopping one's own feet with a knife?
It’s hard to say who is behind these Jieku and Duibian shops, and what connections they have with court officials!
He felt that with the intelligence of those people, they would not be deceived so easily.
It might be okay at first, but as time goes on, the storekeepers at the warehouse and exchange shops outside will definitely find clues and find that someone is collecting private coins.
Although it still takes some time, during this period, as long as it is done properly, the court can obtain a large amount of coins from the private sector and deposit them in the national treasury, and the money shortage of the national treasury may be made up to a certain extent.
But if this happens, the entire private business environment is probably not far away from completely collapsing.
The previous economic blockade of the Ming Dynasty and the Lin'an Puppet Dynasty had severely damaged the economy of Sichuan and Sichuan. Many Jieku and Exchange Shops went bankrupt due to the loss of some commercial investments, and a large number of savers also went bankrupt because of this incident.
It was just that the Chengdu court at that time knew that it needed to stabilize the economy, so it did some work, such as arresting a group of owners of treasury and cashier shops who were unable to repay depositors, in order to ease public opinion.
Although it is impossible to pay back the money.
I don’t know whether the rice riots that followed were a good thing or a bad thing. Anyway, the civilians who went bankrupt due to this wave of economic blockade basically participated in the rice riots and were killed as resisters in the subsequent crackdown.
Without the troublemaker, this wave of financial crisis has passed without any danger.
The surviving Jieku and Duibian shops also felt that the situation was not good due to this wave of impact. Many of them took the initiative to close down. The remaining ones that were still open were either those with strong capital or those with courage.
In other words, it’s hard work in the background.
Before Jiang Fu became the Minister of Household Affairs, he heard that there were private treasuries offering ridiculously high interest rates to attract deposits from savers. He didn't know where they got the courage.
But there are really some greedy guys who are not right in their minds and put money into it, hoping to earn high interest rates.
Under such circumstances, if Zhao Buxi's method were to follow this guy, it is estimated that the entire private warehouse and cashier system would explode and collapse into ruins, and the backers behind them would also suffer heavy losses as a result.
Their resentment...
Can Zhao Buxi bear it?
"Your Majesty, the use of money by the court is certainly important, but the unity within the court is equally important, so I think..."
Jiang Fu felt that what he said was quite accurate, and he did not dare to continue.
"Why, is your family also involved in these things?"
Zhao Buxi looked at Jiang Fu with an unfriendly expression.
Jiang Fu shook his head repeatedly.
"No, my family members are all engaged in farming, studying and passing down family traditions, so they are not involved in these matters."
"Then do it. Suppressing the rebellion is the most important thing. Just survive it for a while. As long as you persist until the war is over, everything will get better."
Zhao Buxi waved his hand and said with a tired face: "Since we have decided to print Jiaozi, let's print more so that the soldiers will have greater incentives to fight more bravely, so that we can win faster. Let's The consequences will be smaller.
By the way, one more thing is that this news must be strictly sealed and no one can know it, especially people in the market. Don’t throw out all these friends at once. Take your time. If there is a little bit of news, Reveal it, Jiang Butang, you know the consequences. "
Of course Jiang Fu knew the consequences.
It's going to kill people, and many people will die.
Maybe, Zhao Buxi himself will be buried.
He didn't say this. He knew that he shouldn't talk too much. He would do whatever Zhao Buxi said, otherwise it wouldn't be a matter of not being able to secure his official position.
Whether there is a small life or not is debatable.
After returning to the Hubu Yamen, Jiang Fu slowly figured out why Zhao Buxi did this.
One of them is to do whatever it takes to survive, but if you think about it carefully, the most fundamental force for the court to maintain its rule is force.
As long as the Chengdu treasury has money and can provide money to the army, then the Chengdu court can be maintained and Zhao Buxi's status as emperor can be maintained.
As for the price, it is nothing more than scraping the oil and water off the bodies of the last group of people who still have some oil and water, and at the same time squeezing the oil from the fat backers behind them.
It doesn't matter what their status is.
Anyway, these guys are the richest at any time, with the most copper coins, iron money, gold, silver, pearls, jade, etc. in their hands. If you use Jiaozi to attack them once, they may not really lose too much. It will bankrupt them.
But it will definitely make them suffer a big loss.
For this group of people, they are the only ones who rob others, so how can others rob them?
Not even the emperor.
Jiang Fu could even imagine how hysterical these guys would be after the incident.
