I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 464 Hot
The north wind howls in winter, but it cannot withstand the bustle of the Beijing Stock Exchange today. From the day the exchange opened, there were crowds of people every day for five consecutive days.

Although the price of a few taels of silver per share is out of reach for the people of Daxia in other places, it is still affordable for people in Tianjing.

Ordinary families in this era had no habit of depositing money in money shops. They all saved it as a family asset for emergencies. The current popularity of the stock exchange, even if it only attracted one-tenth of the deposits of ordinary people in Tianjing, still pushed the frenzied stock market to a higher level.

The first is the most famous Railway Chamber of Commerce. The share price has soared from one tael of silver per share to eight taels of silver per share, and everyone expects that within one or two days, it will exceed ten taels of silver per share, making the entire Railway Chamber of Commerce worth 20 million taels of silver.

Moreover, the value of these 20 million taels of silver is recognized by everyone. Ordinary people are hesitating at this time, but some knowledgeable people have red eyes.

If Zhou Tieyi had not pressured the major families to sell another 200,000 shares in recent days, the price would have risen to the sky long ago. In just seven days, the profit was tenfold, and it was a carnival with the participation of the entire nation. Since the founding of Daxia, there has never been such a good thing.

With the help of newspapers, wealthy businessmen from all over the country, in addition to Tianjing and Liuhuan Machinery City, have come with large amounts of silver to buy stocks.

The popularity of the Tianjing Exchange had the most direct impact on an entire street nearby. Originally, the railway station and the Tianjing Exchange were both located on the outskirts of Zhuque City, and most of the tiled houses around them were for private use.

However, tea was not provided in the Tianjing Exchange or the railway station, so a street of tea stalls emerged.

Especially in the afternoon, the exchange has now introduced new rules that employees can take a one-hour break for meals, which has also caused people crowded in the exchange to flock to the surrounding areas to find food. Everyone’s favorite thing is to find a tea stall with dumplings or noodle shops, read today’s newspapers, and talk about their newly bought stocks. Newspapers have even spawned noon newspapers.

"Supplement to the Tianjing Daily: The Moshi case has been resolved!"

Due to special reasons, none of the hundreds of newspapers grabbed the headlines in today's noon papers. Even the newsboys were warned when selling the news that they only needed to shout about the ink stone case and were not allowed to mention anything else because it was related to the "Mingji Edict" of the Great Xia Emperor.

The Moshi case?
Many speculators, who are already accustomed to buying newspapers and now have greater financial resources, first order a newspaper, then pick up the supplement and start reading.

"The Mingji Edict?"

When the people saw this version, they couldn't help but exclaim slightly.

Only one person in the world can issue an imperial edict in this format, and that is the current emperor of Great Xia. Since the publication of the Tianjing News, even if there is a section on imperial edicts, most of them are written by the emperor, and most of them contain miscellaneous talks such as flower-growing.

Now that the first edict has been issued, named "Ming Ji", it makes people think more.

The smiles on the street were gathered by a newspaper. In this era, everyone's awe of imperial power was engraved in their bones.

After everyone read the entire edict, they were a little confused at first, because this edict seemed to be the self-blaming words of the Emperor of Great Xia. Although the text was not written in vernacular Chinese, but in the new classical Chinese that is now being promoted, it seemed a little obscure, but the people still understood the most important sentence.

"My fault is that I have not paid attention to state affairs for three years, ignored the people of the world, and neglected state affairs, which led to the arrogance of my ministers and their abuse of power. Now that the drum has been sounded and disaster has been sent down from heaven, it is my fault."

This makes people think of the big incident caused by Li Jianhu, when he sounded the drum to report the incident and brought up the Mo Shi case. At that time, when the Mo Shi case was being prosecuted, Li Jianhu was so bold that he held everyone from a small family in Shantong Prefecture to Zhou Tieyi and even the Emperor of Daxia accountable. At that time, the people of Tianjing had always been dissatisfied with Li Jianhu and thought that he was ungrateful.

But today, the release of the "Edict of Self-Reflection" by the Emperor of Great Xia seemed to have confirmed this matter.

With this thought in mind, everyone continued to read the newspaper at the back, which briefly described the cause, process, and punishment of the Mo Shi case, from the emperor's "Ming Ji Edict" to the accountability edicts of the generals, to the arrest, confiscation of property and exile of corrupt officials from local families. It involved tens of thousands of people and confiscated 6 million taels of silver, of which a large portion had not been recovered and was collateralized by the other party's industry.

One penalty after another involved all aspects. Even though there was not a mass killing as before, every person involved was punished.

The most important thing is that the Moshi case has a solution written at the end. For the vast majority of people, this is an acceptable result.

Many times when people argue about right and wrong, they don't want to be precise about how much responsibility each person should bear. Things in the world are too complicated and no one can grasp the degree accurately. But people still hope that there is an invisible and fair moral standard in the world that can reward good and punish evil.

Now that the Mo Shi case has been closed, from top to bottom, the Great Xia Emperor did not even protect himself, and even the eldest son of the Zhou family resigned because of his crime. This is the best sign. Sometimes they just need an attitude from their superiors.

"Your Majesty is wise!"

After reading the article, an old scholar suddenly fell to his knees and kowtowed in the direction of Yujing Mountain.

His bow immediately made the people around him sigh. It was a very good thing for the people that the Emperor of Great Xia could realize his mistakes. What's more, there were wise ministers like Zhou Tieyi who came up with solutions and implemented them effectively.

There is no doubt about this point. Several stocks traded in Beijing today are related to coal, iron and inkstone in Taihang Mountain. The people have actually benefited from them. This is the best conclusion to this case, which is far more beneficial than killing thousands or tens of thousands of people.

"This world is going to produce a saint."

In a small fenced courtyard of Tianjing Exchange, Zhang San drank wine with his head shaking, listening to people outside shouting "Sheng Ming".

Opposite him, a young scholar wearing a green Tongjinshi uniform interrupted, "Brother Zhang, it's the Holy Emperor." Zhang San looked at him and sneered, "You didn't know how to be pedantic when you took the imperial examination, so you were only a Tongjinshi. How come you learned to be pedantic in front of me? I won't give you an official position!"

The scholar, who was wearing the uniform of a Jinshi, had a broad forehead, deep eye sockets and slightly sleepy brows. Hearing what Zhang San said, he could not help but shook his head. This man still spoke as aggressively as before.

"This imperial examination is just a stepping stone for us. I have already entered the door, and Brother Zhang is outside. Do you still care about the difference between Jinshi and Tongjinshi? I am here today to guide you into the door."

Gao Wencan retorted sarcastically.

This is also the norm in the court of Daxia. Although Jinshi is one level higher than Tongjinshi, there have been more Tongjinshi than Jinshi who have served as prime ministers.

Later, Confucianism also studied the principles behind this.

There are two conclusions drawn. The first is that the number of people admitted as Tongjinshi is ten times the number of Jinshi.

The second is that Jinshi usually enter the Ministry of Education directly as editors. Although they have a high starting point, they are also prone to being too ambitious and hope to be appointed to powerful official positions around Tianjing. On the contrary, as long as there is a vacant position of county magistrate, the same Jinshi will fill it. Confucian practice is closely related to the law of pacifying the people. An editor of a ministry of education will actually practice more slowly than a local county magistrate.

However, even so, the Jinshi still despised the origins of their fellow Jinshi, and were unwilling to lower themselves to lower status. Even when they were alternate county magistrates, they would try their best to choose counties around Tianjing rather than remote and poor places.

At the beginning, Zhang San was so arrogant that he even gave up his Confucian cultivation. Naturally, he did not participate in this year's extremely difficult imperial examination, so he was ridiculed by Gao Wencan.

Zhang San cursed, "What? The dog inside the door is holding a bone and wants me outside the door to snatch it away? Gao Wencan, don't you see who you are?"

"Stubborn!"

Gao Wencan stood up indifferently, without saying anything more. He was not very sure about recruiting Zhang San today, but he decided to give it a try based on the fact that they met at the stock exchange. However, this man was still as ungrateful as before.

When he reached the gate of the courtyard, Gao Wencan suddenly stopped, turned around and said, "I thought you had the courage to compete with him since you founded the New Journal, but I didn't expect you didn't even have the courage to compete with him! How can you be called a madman?"

Both of them were smart people. They opened the north gate of the palace, and the Empress selected fellow Jinshi and students of the Imperial Academy and established the Hanlin Academy to compile the "Agricultural Code". This meant that the Empress' power truly and substantially extended to the outer court. The Empress was able to obtain the tacit approval of the emperor and all officials, of course not because of the unity of the monarch and his subjects as written in the newspapers. In fact, it was exactly the opposite of what the people saw. In the power struggle in Daxia, both sides never stopped for a moment, and Zhou Tieyi kept creating new power positions, which continuously enhanced the national strength of Daxia. Therefore, the emperor of Daxia could not simply abolish them, but could only let people take over these power positions, giving Zhou Tieyi a chance to breathe.

Zhou Tieyi is like a person who is constantly being carried by the state machine of Daxia. Once he stops, he will be crushed by the state machine.

Zhang San sneered disdainfully, and even tried to provoke him at this time, "I have long lost the title of madman. If you want it, why not give it to you? As for the courage you mentioned... You have the guts to bark in front of me because you have a master behind you, but if you really have the guts to bark, you should bark in front of 'him' you mentioned now!"

Gao Wencan looked at Zhang San deeply and said, "There will be a chance."

In Qilin Pavilion, Zhou Tieyi could already foresee the grand occasion of the stock market after the "Ming Ji Edict" was issued at noon today. When the people shouted "the emperor is wise", the voice of the emperor continued to echo around Yujing Mountain. At least the people in Tianjing believed that they were in an unprecedented prosperous era. Naturally, this would add fuel to the now booming stock market.

When the market closed in the afternoon, the share price of the Railway Chamber of Commerce had completely reached ten taels of silver per share. This was already extremely high for most people in Tianjing. At least for ordinary people, it was a price they could not reach. However, in Zhou Tieyi's view, this was just the beginning. The starting point of every bull market, ten times, was just a foundation. Later, under his stimulation, there would be various favorable factors.

At the same time, above this price, the stock price of the Railway Chamber of Commerce no longer needs to continue to rise, but can plummet, because this does not harm the people. At most, the ones that will be harmed are small and medium-sized businessmen and speculators with large funds. As for ordinary people who did not get on the train, Zhou Tieyi has prepared a safer investment method. This is also the beginning of how to convert the silver circulating in the stock market into production capital.

After handling the handover of duties, Zhou Tiege returned to the Zhou Mansion and came to his brother's yard. Just as Zhou Tieyi expected, Zhou Tiege was no longer suitable for the position of deputy commander-in-chief of the Yulin Army, so his resignation went very smoothly. No one from the ministers to the Emperor of Daxia tried to keep him. And as if it had been prepared in advance, as soon as he resigned, someone immediately took over, so the transfer of power was also very smooth.

Seeing that Zhou Tiege had returned, Zhou Tieyi didn't waste any words. He stretched out his hand, and the next moment he communicated with the Divine Court far away in Taihang Mountains. A half-real and half-virtual space portal appeared in front of the two. Zhou Tiege took the lead and stepped into the space portal, while Zhou Tieyi escaped from the body of the god in his body and followed him into the Taihang Divine Court.

Although he knew that Zhou Tieyi had been practicing Shinto in secret and had a solid foundation in Shinto, Zhou Tiege still took a deep breath when he saw the scene before him.

In the vast space of the Divine Court, copper and iron are used as pillars, and jade and stone are used as steps. Endless military evil spirits sweep in from all around the heaven and earth, and fall into the space outside the Divine Court, forming inch by inch of red soil, which continues to extend outward.

In the Divine Court, there were tens of thousands of warriors in armor with majestic auras and obvious totemic auras of gods. Between the side palaces, each god had built his own altar fire and embedded his own power of rules into the Divine Court of Taihang Mountains to help the entire Divine Court function, making each palace glow with colorful divine light.

In addition, there are nine huge red copper pillars reaching into the sky. Each copper pillar is connected to a kingdom of God. Nearly ten thousand people live in each kingdom of God.

Sensing the arrival of Zhou Tieyi's divine body, divine powers formed flying rainbows and landed in front of Zhou Tieyi. He bowed to the divine master in front of him whose face kept changing and whose back was the sun and moon soaring into the sky, and said, "Greetings, my Lord."

Zhou Tieyi nodded slightly, and first arranged for his brother, "The red soil outside is the condensation of the military evil spirit. I have buried countless precious ores in it. These ores will naturally form magical weapons under the nourishment of the military power. You can speed up the refining of some of these magical weapons, which will be of great benefit to your understanding of the military method."

Zhou Tieyi stretched out his hand again and drew a cloud pattern in the air. The next moment, the cloud pattern blossomed with the color of a burning cloud, and a gentle human light fell. "This talisman can use the fire of humanity, which will be of great benefit to your weapon training."

(End of this chapter)