Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 414 Young Mansion Meeting (2)

This imperial court meeting held in the Palace of Qianqing was not known to the foreign ministers headed by the cabinet. Many plans and arrangements formulated and promoted by the Shaofu were all centered around Beizhili. The external name was to supervise the palace affairs, so the foreign ministers had no idea. Chao Yousi has no right to intervene or interfere.

This is the result Zhu Youxiao wants to achieve.

Since the system inherited from the early Ming Dynasty showed strong corruption, low efficiency, abuse of power for personal gain, and malpractice for personal gains, we should closely focus on the royal industry and create a new group of civil servants with high efficiency and integrity. Develop clear rewards and punishments to achieve the plan he wants to promote.

The most important point is to deprive the eunuchs and eunuchs in the inner court of power, temporarily retain the privileges of factory guards, and give them supervisory powers to form an extremely delicate balance relationship to ensure that these systems can all move around his will.

There will probably be a lot to talk about in this young master's meeting.

After entering the palace with the emperor, Chen Qiyu found a corner to stand and looked around at the officials of the young master's office gathered in the palace, feeling deep in his heart.

Chen Qiyu's intuition told him that what he heard next would definitely shock him greatly!

"Start your Majesty!"

While Chen Qiyu was thinking about it, Sun Guozhen, one of the senior officials of the Shaofu, walked out of the courtroom, held the imperial hut in his hand and bowed in obeisance: "As of the end of October, bonds will be issued to external parties in the name of the Shaofu, and the land of Huangzhuang in various places under Zhili will be Anchoring, the first and second tranches of bonds collected a total of 2130 million taels of silver."

"There is a deviation from the expected situation, and there is a lack of follow-up in the second-phase bond issuance. The Bond Clearance Department is currently stepping up to resolve this matter."

"Through comprehensive accounting, Huahui Bank accounts for 300 million taels of the first and second bond bonds obtained from the above-mentioned bank recruitment. According to Huahui Bank's announcement, the above-mentioned banks are all stock reserves, and Tianjin No. 350 Bank accounts for 500 taels. Ten thousand taels, most of this part is five-year bonds, and each department in the southeastern provinces is suspected to account for 1150 million taels. This part is also mostly five-year bonds, and the above is the large group of Shaofu bonds, totaling million taels."

"Of the remaining 980 million taels, nearly 2% were purchased from various places in Zhili Province, and the rest were purchased by small retail investors, mainly with one-year and three-year terms. According to the current allocation situation, by the end of next year When the term is due, the Shaofu will not be under great pressure to pay and can repay the principal and interest in full."

Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting on the Dragon Throne, listened to Sun Guozhen's report, leaned forward and said: "The total amount of bonds issued in the first and second phases, if I remember correctly, is 3000 million taels, and not all of them have been paid yet." After all the sales, it seems to have been greatly influenced by the DPRK."

"Your Majesty, this is not the only factor."

Sun Guozhen replied: "This is also related to the expansion of Huahui Bank. In addition, there are big problems in river governance in Henan, Lianghuai and other places. Xijishi Factory issued a batch of river management bonds before Shaofu. Although This money was eventually used to regulate the river, but the price of grain in the above-mentioned areas has increased significantly, so when the Shaofu goes to the above-mentioned places to sell, it is inevitable that he will be met with a cold reception."

"The biggest factor is that since Tianjin opened its sea to trade, there has been a tendency for large numbers of people to flock in. According to the speculation of Shaofu Yousi, there may be a large amount of gold and silver that has not been deposited in the Huahui Bank, nor has it participated in the transaction. In purchasing bonds, Shaofu Yousi has not yet predicted what these people want to do."

After hearing what Sun Guozhen said, Chen Qiyu immediately felt very alert in his heart. Originally, he was shocked that the Shaofu was able to obtain 2130 million taels of silver through the bond sale, but when it came to Tianjin, Chen Qiyu discovered something. It's not that simple.

"continue."

On the contrary, Zhu Youxiao didn't care. From the time he set up a special Shaofu, Zhu Youxiao understood that the process of what he wanted to do must be tortuous and arduous.

In particular, if the intensive handicraft manufacturing industry wants to take root in the treasure land of Beizhili, if nothing else, the vested interests in the southeastern provinces alone will never be able to sit idly by.

Don’t think that because Ming Dynasty has inconvenient transportation, there will be no industry suppression.

In fact, there are too many factors behind the fact that the southeastern provinces can always remain prosperous and serve as the main tax-paying areas of the Ming Dynasty.

Perhaps in the southeastern provinces, the top class groups will see the phenomenon of renewal and iteration, but the decline of the old and the rise of the new will not represent the interests of the control, and will be annihilated accordingly. The concept of the old and the new will It cannot be defined according to common sense.

If I really want to summarize it, it would be that the dragon-slaying warrior eventually becomes the evil dragon!

In the face of absolute interests, not everyone can always maintain their original intention. It is ridiculous to compare the original intention with human nature.

"Start your Majesty!"

Lu Guanxiang immediately walked out of the courtroom, bowed with the imperial hut and said: "As of the end of October, the major projects promoted by the Shaofu include the rectification of the Haihe River system, the development of military industry directly under the central government, and the construction of government bureaus in various parks. Pan-Gyeonggi light industry, pan-Gyeonggi heavy industry, development of ship manufacturing, grain storage under the direct jurisdiction of Shaofu and many other major industries.”

"Many of the large-scale industries identified above are distributed in various prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Beizhili. In addition, they also involve coastal areas such as Liaodong and Shandong. These are all related to shipbuilding, and a small part is related to Tianjin. The main ones involving Tianjin are The purpose of light industry is to resettle some of the widows.”

"Many of the major projects promoted above have allocated more than 2500 million taels of internal funds, and have gathered bankrupt groups from Beizhili, Liaodong, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places, with a total of more than 400 million people, and this trend is obviously rising. If If the government does not reduce the amount, I am afraid that next year there will be a lot of pressure, not only the pressure on internal funds, but more importantly, the pressure on food supply!"

"Even if we wait until next year, all the industrial parks, the pan-Gyeonggi light industry, the pan-Gyeonggi heavy industry, and the development of shipbuilding can all be completed and put into production. But how can such a large group of unemployed people be able to safely produce in various fields of industry? Monetization becomes a big problem.”

"Although Tianjin opened the sea for trade, and Western barbarians have gone north to trade, their needs are mostly concentrated on tea, porcelain, silk, cane sugar and other in-demand products, and the negotiations with the vassal Korean envoys are limited to the exchange of what they have. , as for the establishment of a port on Jeju Island..."

This pressure is not ordinary.

Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting above the dragon, frowned slightly as he listened to what Lu Guanxiang described. In the Ming Dynasty, where the small-scale peasant economy was the mainstay, the Ming Dynasty wanted to develop an intensive handicraft manufacturing industry and faced severe class conflicts. Coupled with the background of serious land annexation and frequent disasters, there is no experience to touch this, and we can only cross the river by feeling the stones.

After all, the Ming Dynasty was a feudal autocratic imperial power. This is not the same nature as the feudal overview of the European continent. The two cannot be confused!

(End of this chapter)