Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2030, it turned out to be tied to the capital train
In an elegant garden in the capital, many old-fashioned bigwigs gathered together, each of them frowning and sighing.

"The No. [-] Bank of Daming doesn't give us any loans now. There is a huge shortage of money now. If we don't pay, the factories, commercial banks, land, etc. will all belong to the No. [-] Bank of Daming."

"Isn't it? My family also has a shortfall of 200 million taels of silver. Now I'm worried that my beard has all fallen out. Where can I get the 200 million taels of silver?"

"Even if there is money to make up the gap, it will not help now. My family's textile factory can't even buy cotton now, and no one wants the cloth it produces. It seems that everyone has been offended overnight."

"That's right, the oil in my oil field can't be sold, so worry."

"The real big thing happened here in Huangjinzhou. My son was beaten to death."

"They are really deceiving people too much, they simply don't give us any way to survive."

"Not only is it not giving us a way to survive, but we are fully prepared to swallow up our property, leaving nothing behind."

Everyone talked about the difficulty in their own family one by one.

At first, everyone thought that the counterattack of the hard-working faction must come from the court. After all, they kept attacking Liu Jin, Wang Shouren, Han Wen, Zhong Fan and others of the hard-working faction, and the hard-working faction would definitely fight back.

Unexpectedly, the situation above the court was calm and there was no counterattack or response. However, outside the court and the opposition, the people of the practical faction launched a counterattack like a storm.

Directly drawing salary from the bottom of the pot will immediately make these conservatives frown.

Although the old school is the old school, in such an era, these old school officials often get involved in profitable factories, commercial firms, overseas colonies, etc.

As a matter of fact, the current Ming Dynasty has long since lost those traditional gentry who passed their farming studies to their families. The development of capitalism for more than two decades, overseas colonization, and the emerging industrial revolution have already penetrated into all aspects of the Ming Dynasty, affecting all aspects of the Ming Dynasty. All levels and fields of Ming Dynasty.

Above the ruling and opposition parties, even these conservative officials have many factories, commercial firms, plantations, overseas gold mines, silver mines, etc. in their families.

This is also one of the reasons why the Practical Sect has always stood firm, because the officials of the Practical Sect have also been converted from traditional conservative officials. They clearly know what kind of policy is really beneficial to Daming and the industries under their command development of.

As far as the outside world is concerned, in the past, the Ming Dynasty always paid attention to peace as the most important thing to the outside world, and did not lightly start wars. The Confucian way of governing the country did not mention the concept of war and foreign plunder.

However, to this day, Ming Dynasty is extremely tough externally, pursuing a policy of external expansion and plunder, and can also receive a lot of support.

The fundamental reason is that the cost of external expansion is small and the income is large. Over the years of expansion, Daming has acquired a huge land, a vast raw material production area, and opened up a huge market.

As far as cloth is concerned, the cloth currently produced by Daming cannot be digested by itself. It is very necessary to use overseas markets. Overseas vassal states, Europe, the Middle East, etc., need to rely on the huge global market to digest Ming The output of a large number of textile factories.

At the same time, huge textile factories also need huge raw materials. Naturally, Daming's own cotton and wool products cannot meet the needs of the textile industry, so it is necessary to use Tianzhu, Africa and other places to produce cotton to meet the huge demand for raw materials from Daming's domestic factories.

This all determines that Daming must be tough enough in the external world.

Because only if it is strong enough, it can force all parts of the world to continuously open their markets and become Daming's raw material origin and product dumping place.

Taking the Ottoman Empire as an example, there were many handicraftsmen in the Ottoman Empire at that time, and the amount of cloth produced by itself could not only meet its own needs, but also be exported to European and Mediterranean countries.

However, with the impact of cheap cloth from the Ming Dynasty, the handicraftsmen of the Ottoman Empire closed down one after another, a large number of handicraftsmen lost their jobs, and even lost their main source of income.

The Ottoman Empire saw this and wanted to ban the inflow of Ming cloth, but they were repeatedly defeated in the war with Ming, and had to sign a treaty that humiliated the country and opened its own market.

The huge Ottoman Empire, with its large population and vast territory, is an extremely large market and an important source of raw materials.

Daming knocked on the gate of the Ottoman Empire with his own muskets and cannons, and a flood of silver continued to flow into Daming, bringing a steady stream of orders and benefits.

More and more officials have clearly seen this, and they also clearly know that the faction of hard work is the path that best suits the development and prosperity of Ming Dynasty, and it is also the path that truly conforms to the interests of all classes in Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, there will be more officials who support the hard-working faction, and even the emperor and military generals are on the side of the hard-working faction.

What the Practical School pays attention to is to make the cake bigger. In this way, all classes can eat more cakes, and the entire Ming Dynasty will be richer and more prosperous.

Officials of the traditional conservative school are more here to cut and divide the cake, and want to divide as much of the cake as possible into their own hands.

In this way, the contradictions in various aspects will naturally be intensified, the contradiction between the civil service group and the imperial power, and the land contradiction within the Ming Dynasty. These two main contradictions have always run through the entire Ming Dynasty.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty in history, many chaotic phenomena were actually caused by these two contradictions, the contradiction between the civil official group and the imperial power. The emperor used the power of eunuchs and factory guards to fight against the civil official group. There are also Wanli and Wei Zhongxian who have not been in court for [-] years.

The intensification of land conflicts led to endless peasant uprisings, which seriously dragged down the already precarious body of the Ming Dynasty and eventually led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

"Mr. Yang, you just said something, what should everyone do?"

Someone looked at Yang Tinghe and said anxiously seeing that he was silent.

"say what?"

Yang Tinghe frowned. At this moment, he was also very annoyed. His family's property had also been taken care of. The factory couldn't find enough talent.

Those newly learned talents are unwilling to work hard for their family's business, and they can't recruit people even if they are given high salaries. Don't worry about it.

They are often huge factories invested with millions of taels of silver. The family managed to scrape together the money to run them, and they just count on these factories to earn money for the family.

Now it's even a problem to start work. People can't be recruited, and work can't start at all.

"How much money does Huihai Bank have?"

"Why don't you get out the money from Huihai Bank for everyone's emergency?"

Someone thought about it and asked.

"Huihai Bank doesn't have any money anymore."

When Liang Chu heard this, he also said helplessly.

"what?"

"This Huihai Bank has collected 5000 million taels of silver in it. How long has it been? The 5000 million taels of silver are gone all at once?"

When everyone heard this, they immediately asked in surprise.

"The development of Huihai Bank has not been going well, largely because there are too few branches and it is inconvenient for customers to spend money. Therefore, it has been expanding on a large scale during this period of time, and new branches have been established in various places in Daming."

"It costs tens of thousands of taels of silver to build a new branch. It is also for buying a building, decorating and purchasing various equipment, etc. There are places where money is spent everywhere."

"In addition, although the bank does not have any deposits, the loan business has never stopped, and a lot of money has been loaned out, so there is not much left of 5000 million taels of silver."

Liang Chu said helplessly.

"Quickly ask the lender to return the money. We are all waiting for the money to save our lives. At this time, we can't control so much."

"Yes, yes, if there is no more money, factories and commercial banks will be confiscated."

"What kind of bank did you open at the beginning? There were not many deposits, and the banknotes and silver dollars issued were not recognized by anyone. Now it's better, and it's a blood loss."

When everyone heard it, they couldn't help complaining immediately.

"It's useless to say these things now, everyone should think of a way to overcome the difficulties in front of us."

Liang Chu also sighed.

This is good, originally thought that the hard-working people could be completely killed, but who knew that the other party's Jedi counterattack directly drove everyone to the cliff.

If this is difficult, they may be really destitute in the future.

After a lifetime of hard work, I will soon return to before liberation.

"This matter, it seems that it can only be resolved at the court."

Yang Tinghe thought about it and said.

"The court can solve it?"

"Are we bowing our heads to the doers?"

"If it's too late to have a chance to stand up, once Liu Jin and Wang Shouren come back, we won't have a chance to hold them back."

Upon hearing this, Liang Chu said hastily.

"It's okay to bow to them temporarily, the key is to overcome the difficulties in front of us first."

"Everyone's property was built with the savings of several generations. Could it be that they are willing to be taken away by others?"

Yang Tinghe looked at everyone, and it is necessary to make appropriate concessions and concessions. The key is to keep his own property and wealth.

I just hope that Liu Jin can temporarily let everyone go first and leave a way for everyone to survive.

"It's not what it used to be!"

Yang Tinghe sighed helplessly in his heart.

I think back when I left the court, where were there any hard-working people, where were there any big factories, commercial firms, etc., the court was dominated by civil officials like them.

Today, times have changed, and everyone has been tied to the train of capitalism without knowing it.

(End of this chapter)