Greed is one of human nature. The target of Zhao Buxi's wave of leeks is human greed, no matter what class he is. Therefore, after Jiaozi's explosion, it was not only the people who were unlucky, but also the officials.
This time, under the guidance of Zhao Buji, Jiang Fu did a good job in keeping secrets secret.
Zhao Buxi initially planned to fire map cannons on all officials, but later he realized that it was too dangerous to fire map cannons, and if something happened, no one would speak for him, and his status would be unstable, and he might die without a burial place.
So, he decided to divide the officials into two groups.
Officials from foreign factions and officials from local factions in Sichuan and Shu.
The first people who were not very interested in him being emperor and were not very willing to cooperate with the Chengdu court were the locals in Sichuan and Shu. They wanted to protect their own interests rather than the interests of the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, the basic base of people who supported Zhao Buji as emperor were officials from other factions. The leaders were Ma Yongkang, who led the administration, and Wu Lin, who led the military. These two men supported the Chengdu court and his throne with their civil and military affairs.
Throughout the entire existence of the Chengdu imperial court, Zhao Buxi also saw clearly that the ones who most severely harmed his and the Chengdu imperial court's interests were local faction officials, who cared more about their own interests.
At present, generally speaking, the power of foreign factions is not strong enough, while the power of local factions is relatively strong. Especially at the local level, the situation is even more serious.
This is the main reason why the previous policies introduced by the Chengdu court were out of control.
Therefore, if you want to control more power and interests, you must make the foreign factions stronger and the base that supports you stronger.
Therefore, this wave of Jiaozi craze has also become an action to harvest officials from local factions and increase the strength of officials from foreign factions.
Zhao Buji personally came forward and used various methods to inform some core officials of the out-of-town factions of the news, so that they would have a clear idea.
Take a little care of some low-level officials who belong to the foreign factions. Don't explain it clearly, just let them know not to participate in this social craze.
Officials from foreign factions who have friends in their hands can sell them off, but it doesn't matter if they don't sell them off. After the court makes money, it will secretly compensate them with iron money.
All in all, if you follow me, Zhao Buxi, you will never suffer a loss.
At the same time, keep your mouth shut. Once the news is leaked, they will definitely die. I will never protect them when the time comes.
As the head of the court, Ma Yongkang was very worried about Zhao Buxi's operation at the time. He was worried that there was no airtight wall in the world. Once this matter was exposed, Zhao Buxi would face huge backlash.
Local faction officials have huge influence in the local area. If they become disloyal, then...
But Ma Yongkang didn't expect that Zhao Buxi had already had an idea.
"Then let them destroy me and join Su Yonglin. Let's see if Su Yonglin will accept them or liquidate them to the end and smash the tombs of eight generations of their ancestors! Humph, if Su Yonglin doesn't write that troublesome Hongwu political treatise , I didn’t even dare to do this, but now, I dare.”
Ma Yongkang was speechless.
Also, the liquidation policy of Su Yonglin and the Ming Dynasty was really scary. At the beginning, the dignitaries of the Southern Song Dynasty planned to abolish the Zhao Song royal family and sell the Southern Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty. As a result, the Hongwu political theory turned out.
After that, the officials of the Southern Song Dynasty united for an unprecedented period of time to resist the Ming army with all their strength... Of course, they were eventually defeated.
But the reason why the surrender faction of the Manchu Dynasty divided into a group of die-hard royalists was because of Su Yonglin's policy of liquidation to the end.
Surrender has changed from a profitable strategy to a high-risk matter. No one knows whether they will be liquidated or killed after surrendering, so no one dares to surrender rashly.
So of course there were "loyal men" everywhere who died fighting to the death.
In addition, in order to have a double insurance, Zhao Buxi also discussed with Ma Yongkang to let Ma Yongkang and other senior officials also suffer some losses, and take the lead in promoting Jiaozi to make Jiaozi more popular.
In this way, even after the incident, Ma Yongkang, who suffered heavy losses, could still speak in front of the angry local officials.
Use Ma Yongkang's mouth to tell the local officials what Zhao Buxi wants to say, and let them weigh the benefits and losses themselves. This will not only unite the officials from the local factions and stabilize their basic base, but also win over a group of local officials who will lose their teeth. The local faction that swallows it strengthens the power of the basic base.
Zhao Buxi only wants money, but Su Yonglin wants his life. Do you want money or your life?
Zhao Buji was very proud and felt that even if the incident happened, his status would not be substantially affected. At most, he could throw out a scapegoat to let everyone vent their dissatisfaction, and then the guys whose interests were harmed would still have to be respected. Be your own emperor.
As a result, Zhao Buji's conspiracy escalated from personal behavior to factional behavior. He involved an entire faction, which greatly increased his own security, and the number of local officials who were deceived also greatly increased.
So when there was a craze for Jiaozi among the people, a large number of local officials who didn't know the inside story waited and watched, and saw their colleagues taking money to buy Jiaozi one by one. They finally couldn't help it anymore and began to spend money. Money buys Jiaozi.
As for the real bosses who secretly controlled private financial institutions such as Dajieku and Dubi Shop, which had relatively strong capital, they saw that high-ranking officials such as Ma Yongkang were also taking action, so they finally took action in large quantities to gain access to their friends. , intending to enter this financial crisis and make a fortune.
Zhao Buxi was very happy when he heard that local officials were spending large amounts of money to buy Jiaozi in order to make money.
In the past, these damn corrupt officials used various manipulations to undermine his policies. He was very angry, but had to compromise. But this time, he was going to use a jiaozi craze to teach these corrupt bastards and let them know My own strength.
It can be regarded as revenge as an emperor.
Use power to retaliate against their greed.
Don't blame me. If you want to blame me, blame you for being too greedy.
In late May and early June of the seventh year of Hongwu, the Jiaozi craze ended and Jiaozi fell into a state of collapse. Jiaozi in the entire Sichuan and Sichuan lands were suddenly hated by everyone. All the surviving merchants only accepted iron coins, copper coins or other precious metal currencies. Paper money is not accepted.
People who lost all their money because of this Jiaozi fever fell into unprecedented despair.
Common people, middle peasants, rich peasants and landlords, urban industrial and commercial practitioners, financial industrialists, etc., regardless of whether they were involved in this action or not, as long as they held Jiaozi instead of coins, they all suffered losses to varying degrees.
Some people lose a small amount, some lose all their money, and based on comprehensive judgment, the vast majority of people suffer big losses.
Of course there are winners.
For example, the shopkeepers of the Jieku and Duibian shops who stopped early made a lot of money.
There are also those who borrowed money and accepted valuable items and land as collateral. Although they lost their money, they still had physical items and land, so they did not lose money.
The Chengdu court was the biggest winner, and Zhao Buxi was the biggest winner.
After a wave of leeks, Chengdu's treasury was replenished and there was money to do things again.
Zhao Buxi was deeply proud of his financial skills. He felt that he had made great contributions to saving the dying Chengdu court and the Song Empire with his unexpected and fierce operations.
But as Ma Yongkang said before, this matter is very risky and can easily suffer backlash.
He collected this money mainly for the military, but the military is very expensive, so the money of the poor is not enough, he also needs the money of the rich.
But rich people will not be willing to be made money, so except for the bankrupt rich people who committed suicide due to poor psychological endurance during the first wave of shocks, the remaining people quickly reacted.
Immediately afterwards, news spread like wildfire that the Chengdu court had concocted this conspiracy.
Zhao Buxi demanded that the secret be strictly kept. However, after keeping the secret for several months, it was still leaked. The bankrupts immediately pointed their finger at Zhao Buxi and the Chengdu court.
They did not hate their own greed, but they hated the despicable and shameless Chengdu court and Zhao Buxi.
The Tu court established by a Tu emperor should not have existed, but now it is still sucking their blood, causing them to lose all their money and lose everything.
They hate this court, this emperor, and these damn bureaucrats from the bottom of their hearts.
So, they decided to resist.
They would never die easily, and they vowed to teach this court and this emperor a cruel lesson.
