Wanli Youming

Chapter 513 The popularity has increased, and everyone shouted long live the emperor!

Chapter 513 The popularity has increased, and everyone shouted long live the emperor!

"Your Majesty!"

"The problem of insufficient silver dollars on the market is indeed getting worse!"

"First, the inflow of silver from outside is not enough to meet the needs of the dynasty, so although the technology of casting silver dollars is becoming more and more sophisticated and the casting scale is getting larger and larger, the domestic silver itself is insufficient, which will still limit the output of silver dollars;"

"The second is that Haoyou is more willing to hoard silver dollars and not spend them because silver dollars are getting more and more valuable, so that fewer and fewer silver dollars flow into the market."

"Because of the lack of silver dollars, the price of grain is not high, and the people who work in the countryside are seriously abandoned, and they are unwilling to cultivate a lot, especially in places where a whip is promoted, because the income from farming is not enough to pay taxes, and it is difficult to pay taxes. I don’t want to farm, but simply abandon the wasteland and go to the town to work;”

"Even if one whip is not implemented in some places, they are only willing to grow enough food for life because they can't make much money from growing food, and they are not willing to cultivate more;"

"This has also resulted in, although food prices are not high, but food shortages are getting worse and worse, and many people have become hungry because of this. Last year's famine in Guangxi, Shaanxi, and Shanxi was the result of this."

"besides."

"In the city, the shortage of silver dollars has also caused many goods to be sold far away, and it cannot solve the problem of making a living for the unemployed in large quantities;"

"Nowadays, the problem of the shortage of silver dollars is getting more and more serious, and the business routes are getting more and more blocked. Many workshops that were originally of a certain size have closed their doors because of the decrease in buyers. As a result, the number of unemployed people has increased sharply. According to Ying Tianfu According to the report, the phenomenon of thieves in the Southern Metropolis is more serious than in previous years."

Shen Shixing talked to Zhu Yijun about the shortage of silver dollars in front of the emperor.

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this: "Didn't I ask your political affairs hall to discuss how to solve this matter, did you come up with any strategy?"

At this time, Shen Shixing said: "Going back to Your Majesty, there is a strategy."

"Say it."

Zhu Yijun said.

Shen Shixing said: "Your Majesty, please let Mr. Zhang Ge report."

Zhu Yijun nodded: "Then let Zhang Qing tell the story."

Zhang Xueyan, who was in charge of the internal affairs, got up and held the wat and said: "Return to Your Majesty, the ministers and others have discussed five proposals:

One is to open mines to get silver. There are few silver mines in the pass, so go outside to look for them;

The second is to reduce taxes, so that more silver dollars can be kept among the people, so that they can be circulated more, especially tax cuts for goods exported from customs, so that they can be exchanged for more silver;

The third is to promote water conservancy and transportation projects. By recruiting more people to work, the silver saved by the imperial court will be spent and circulated among the people. After all, there is not enough silver in the market. The very important reason is that many silver dollars are being collected After the tax was collected, it was stored in Taicang;

The fourth is to care for the orphans of the fallen soldiers and the widowed and lonely, so as to ensure that the disadvantaged will not starve to death due to the lack of food caused by the lack of silver dollars;

The fifth is to crack down on profiteers who maliciously collect silver dollars with huge sums of money and profits, and confiscate all silver dollars for profiteers who dare to directly collect silver dollars at high prices on the grounds of disrupting the court money law. "

"Very good."

"Mines for silver are often sent out to explore; tax cuts can be reduced as much as possible;"

"It is also a way to carry out infrastructure construction such as water conservancy, but since it is to increase the amount of silver dollars on the market, it cannot simply be a labor relief, but a large-scale infrastructure construction so that more people can use it in a short period of time. There are more silver dollars, so that more silver dollars can be circulated; as for the increase in relief for the weak, it is also necessary, and it is better for nursing homes, nursery halls, etc. to provide food directly, so as to avoid officials embezzling their benefits."

Zhu Yijun made his own instructions on this.

"According to the order."

Regarding the problem of insufficient circulation of silver dollars on the market, Zhu Yijun's ruling ministers have actually been committed to solving this problem.

Because of this.

Just before this, the cabinet asked the Ministry of Households to change the salary of this spring to its original color, that is, to distribute rice, in order to distribute more silver dollars saved to the people in the form of infrastructure construction and welfare and charity.

Anyway, behind the bureaucrats are the landlord class, and there is no shortage of silver dollars, let alone food.

However, the cabinet formally requested the decree within a few days after Zhu Yijun agreed to their five solutions to deflation, and spent 500 million taels of silver dollars to carry out large-scale dredging of major rivers in the country, and to repair the above-ground rivers in the Henan area. The dam will avoid the destruction of a large area of ​​farmland and the displacement of a large number of people after floods in Henan in the future. At the same time, 200 million taels of silver will be used as a special fund to distribute the purchased grain to nursing homes and Yuyingtang in counties across the country. Orphans and widows of fallen soldiers will receive a one-time supplementary pension of 20 taels of silver.

But Zhu Yijun's imperial decree made Miao Chaoyang object to the matter and denounced the state's money to increase welfare for the orphans and widows of the orphans and widows of the fallen soldiers. The degree of laziness makes it even more incapable of self-reliance, which increases the financial burden on the court, and the impeachment of Shen Shi is too extensive and wasteful of state funds, so he should be dismissed.

"I give a lot of salaries to the ministers and workers, so why not say that it will aggravate their laziness?"

"I think Miao Chaoyang's performance is really malicious!"

"And the problem of insufficient silver dollars, he has never mentioned it in the affairs of the household department. I think he is very lazy in politics. In this case, it is better to let him work hard first, and transfer him to Daning to take up a miscellaneous job experience. , to punish him for the crime of slandering our people."

After Zhu Yijun received Miao Chaoyang's memorial, he directly ordered to deal with him severely.

Zhu Yijun couldn't accept Miao Chaoyang's behavior of not wanting the disadvantaged people in his own country to live better, so he was not too polite to him.

After Miao Chaoyang received the imperial decree, his whole body became ill in an instant, and he couldn't help but slander: "Of course I don't work hard, but the Holy One doesn't have to be so strict!"

Miao Chaoyang's slander belongs to his slander, but he still had to obediently wait for the appointment from the Ministry of Officials and then went to Daning to take up his post.

During the period when Miao Chaoyang went to Daning to take up his post, the problem of money shortage became more and more serious.

Because Gu Xiancheng and other Haoyou deliberately raised the price of silver dollars in secret, such as deliberately exchanging various antique jade articles and even land for silver dollars.

The circulation of silver dollars in the market is still decreasing.

In addition, the emperor just issued a decree to carry out infrastructure construction and increase welfare subsidies, so the effect of the imperial government's regulation has not yet appeared, and the tyrants have already begun to speculate on the price of silver dollars.

Therefore, in June of the 15th year of Wanli, during the hot summer, a large number of factories began to close down even in the capital area due to the reduction of large orders.

Simultaneously.

A large number of non-governmental grain merchants also stopped buying grain into Beijing because there were too few silver dollars and the price of grain was too low. is increasing rapidly.

Ever since, many hungry people without money and food appeared in the capital city.

But on the sixth day of June, many scholars began to organize many hungry people to come outside the Daming Gate, knelt down, and shouted loudly: "Please send food to the court, we want to eat!"

"Please let the court release food, we want to eat!"

"Please let the court release food, we want to eat!"

……

Brothers Gu Xiancheng and Gu Yuncheng, who had already entered Beijing, also came to Daming Gate on this day to watch this scene, and laughed triumphantly because of it.

Gu Yuncheng first asked Gu Xiancheng: "Brother, do you think the court will release food?"

"Of course it will! Wouldn't it be contrary to humanity if you don't let go?"

"It's just that there must be a limited amount of food in Beijing now, how long can these hungry people be fed?"

"Shenwu County should think about this issue."

Gu Xiancheng said with a smile at this moment.

Shen Shihang and his cabinet were indeed well prepared. Immediately after the hungry people appeared, they immediately sent pre-arranged officials with food and paperwork. They not only distributed food to these hungry people, but also recruited them on the spot to participate in infrastructure construction. The wages are not low, the lowest is as high as two or two silver dollars a month.

These hungry people were very happy, and the resentment caused by unemployment was swept away, and they all kowtowed and shouted long live the emperor.

"Long live the emperor!"

"Long live the emperor!"

"Long live the emperor!"

……

Gu Xiancheng lowered his face when he heard this voice, and couldn't help saying to Gu Yuncheng: "Shenwu County is wantonly using silver dollars from the state treasury to flatter the emperor!"

"That's right!"

"It's really a crime to pay such high wages to the hungry people!"

"I really don't know how long the silver dollars of the national treasury can be held up for being so ruined by the remnants of Zhang's party. I'm afraid that when the public is in full swing in the future, the court will have no money. At that time, the idea of ​​internal money will really be used." .”

Gu Yuncheng also said at this time.

Gu Xiancheng suddenly smiled and said, "I have also thought of a countermeasure!"

As he said that, Gu Xiancheng said to Gu Yuncheng: "Brother, I went to see some old friends in Beijing Kedao, let them come out to speak, and we can't let the national money be misused by the cabinet!"

(End of this chapter)