Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2021, the policy of using power for personal gain
In an elegant garden in the capital, many bigwigs from the old school gathered together again to discuss matters.

"The current business development of Huihai Bank is extremely difficult. On the one hand, because Huihai Bank was established not long ago, the number of branches is too small, which is not convenient for customers to use funds. However, the branches of Daming First Bank are spread all over the country, and depositors can use them conveniently. own funds."

"On the other hand, the circulation of banknotes and silver coins found by Huihai Bank is difficult. Everyone is unwilling to accept the banknotes and silver coins of Huihai Bank. This is also the reason why Huihai Bank's business cannot develop."

Liang Chu informed everyone about the development of Huihai Bank and the problems it faced.

"If there are not enough branches, it is easy to solve. It is nothing more than increasing branches to facilitate depositors to use funds."

"However, the circulation of silver notes and silver coins is difficult. If everyone is unwilling to accept them, there is really no good way."

Jiang Mian frowned and said.

The banknotes and silver coins issued by the First Bank of Ming Dynasty have been recognized and accepted by everyone, and it is very difficult to get another set.

"In my opinion, this still needs to be promoted by the government's decree. It can be easily promoted by forcing everyone to use the bank notes and silver coins of Huihai Bank."

Someone thought for a while and suggested.

"If we want to force the use of Huihai bank notes and silver coins, we must abolish the existing bank note and silver coin system of Daming First Bank. If this is not abolished, we may never be able to let Huihai Bank The circulation of silver notes and silver coins is recognized by everyone.”

Liang Chu thought about it and added.

"This is not easy to handle. Behind the Daming First Bank are today's princes and crown princes, as well as Liu Jin, British Dukes, Ding Guogongs, and Cheng Guogongs. They want to abolish the bank notes and silver coins of the Daming First Bank. It's simply not possible."

When Mao Ji heard this, he shook his head immediately.

The backstage of Daming First Bank is really too tough. If it is normal, they have a thousand or ten thousand ways to deal with it, but they are facing the most powerful group of people in Daming.

It is simply impossible for the emperor, prince, and military generals of the Ming Dynasty to be honored and honored.

"Everything is man-made, nothing is impossible."

"In the past, the princes in the court would always remind the emperor not to compete with the people for profit. The emperor has too much property, and he should give up some property to the people of the world."

Yang Tinghe took a sip of tea, thought for a while and said.

For these traditional conservative civil servants, they have never been afraid of the emperor, especially an emperor like Emperor Hongzhi. In the past, everyone was fighting against the emperor, wishing to spit on Emperor Hongzhi's face.

It seems that the sharp weapon of competing with the people has been used for a long, long time.

"Compete with the people?"

When everyone heard this, they were taken aback for a moment, thought for a while and said, "Can this work?"

This is to let the emperor abolish his martial arts, can the emperor agree?
A good Daming No. [-] Bank can bring huge profits to the emperor every year. Can the emperor agree to abolish it by himself, making it cheaper for others?
What's more, there are people like Liu Jin, Zhang Lun, and Xu Guangzuo. They are not fuel-efficient lamps, especially Liu Jin. He is very powerful. Everyone can't help but frown when they think of Liu Jin.

This Liu Jin is really retired now, living his own life every day, not caring about anything, and seems to have really put aside the affairs of the court.

"It depends on man's effort. What's more, there are some things where three people become tigers. As long as there are enough ministers to write a letter about this matter, everything is possible."

Yang Tinghe said very confidently.

"Ok!"

When everyone heard it, they nodded slightly.

In the past, everyone didn't play like this. Whatever the emperor wanted to do, he would encounter countless oppositions, and often it would be nothing.

For example, in the past, I wanted to revive the armaments, but the treasury had no money, and the emperor wanted to levy commercial taxes, re-inspect the land, etc., but these were severely opposed by the ministers, and finally there was no follow-up.

The imperial court still has no money, the emperor wants to revive the military, yes, he can take out the money from the internal funds.

Emperor Hongzhi took out hundreds of thousands of taels of silver that he had worked so hard to save and save, but officials at all levels were greedy for money.

Relying on this method, the former civil servants played with the emperor in their hands, and they could do whatever they wanted. The salt merchants felt that it was too troublesome to transport grain to the border areas every year.

So it was changed from Naliang Kaizhong to Nayin Kaizhong. In the first few years, it was able to receive a lot of money, which seemed to be very good, but soon found that the money in the Nayin Kaizhong was getting less and less, and the frontier army bought more money. However, the price of grain in the country is getting more and more expensive. As a result, the court has no money.

The army here is even more troubled, and they can't even eat enough. Can you still expect the frontier army to reach the Tartars in the north?
And the families behind those officials are expanding rapidly one by one, with more and more land in the family, and more and more money buried in the ground.

It seems that they have become richer, but for the entire Ming Dynasty, their energy is constantly being consumed, the contradictions are getting deeper and deeper, and the problems are getting more and more prominent.

"There are also oil and electricity. These two emerging industries have unlimited potential for money, but they are currently monopolized and occupied by industries under Liu Jin's command."

"We have to think of some extraordinary ways, otherwise it is impossible to snatch it over."

At this time, Mao Ji mentioned the two rapidly developing and rising industries of oil and electricity.

They are also interested in these two major industries, especially oil, as long as they find oil fields, they can sit and collect money continuously.

Now the demand for oil is also increasing, and the price of oil has always been very good. When the switch of this oil field is turned on, the oil will flow out like running water. It is all white money.

"Everyone needs more people to write letters to impeach Liu Jin. Even if it doesn't have any impact on him now, but water will wear away, as long as there are more people impeached, there will be more impeachments."

"There are always some miracles and cracks appearing slowly."

Someone thought about it and said.

"Well, this plan is very clever!"

Others also nodded one after another. Over the years, after the reform of the bureaucracy, it seems that everyone has no time to play impeachment and attack methods.

In the past, the memorials were basically this kind of memorials. Everyone impeached and attacked each other endlessly. The early court was basically occupied by these things.

Officials form cliques to fight each other, basically relying on these means.

"I think this oil and electricity should be operated in the same way as the previous salt. This oil should belong to the imperial court and should be operated and managed by the imperial court."

"If electricity is to be popularized, it should also be operated by the imperial court."

Yang Tinghe thought about it and said.

"What Yang Gong said is true, what he said is true!"

"The resources on the land of the Ming Dynasty belong to the court of the Ming Dynasty, and should be managed by the court."

When the others heard it, their eyes lit up immediately.

In the past, salt and iron franchises were all operated by the imperial court. For this reason, there were also special reef households and artisan households. The reef households specialized in boiling salt in the salt field, and the artisan households specialized in smelting and blackening iron for the imperial court.

Originally, it seemed to be a very good system, but everyone knows the result.

Yanhu worked hard all year round to cook salt, but he was so poor that he couldn’t even eat enough. The salt was sold to salt merchants by the officials in the salt field. The status has been sold at a high price, earning a lot of money, and making the world rich.

If the oil and electricity are also operated by the imperial court, then they will have countless ways to control the interests of the oil and electricity in their own hands.

It is also possible to manipulate oil and electricity in the same way as salt was controlled before, and then there is no need to pay taxes, because this is operated by the imperial court itself, so what taxes are paid.

"This plan is very good, this plan is very good!"

Everyone immediately laughed.

Playing market competition is definitely not enough for Daming Petroleum Company and Daming Electric Company, because these conservative officials never pay attention to this, they only use power for personal gain, and they are only good at doing this.

Do you need to operate?

There is no need for management at all, only power is enough, and power is used to formulate policies to exclude outsiders, and they can easily eat and drink in it.

"Haha, this matter still requires everyone to continue to speak up and clarify the key points. At that time, everyone will work together in the morning, and there must be no problem."

"In the final analysis, we are all waiting for the Son of Heaven, for Daming, and for the country."

Yang Tinghe said with a happy smile.

"Mr. Yang is righteous, I admire him!"

"That's right, we are all waiting for Daming's Jiangshan Sheji!"

The others also quickly complimented each other.

Yang Tinghe has regained the appreciation of the emperor, plus he used to be Zhu Houzhao's teacher, this future has a bright future, and now he is already a cabinet minister, and the future as the chief assistant of the cabinet is also a certainty.

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