As Zhu Youxiao expected, when the officials of the Ministry of Rites were ordered to host a charity meeting and mobilize the people of the world to donate money and materials for the relief of the suffering people on the way to the west, there were indeed many people who enthusiastically showed their kindness.In order to get to know more members of the imperial court through charity, the wealthy businessmen and magnates were also very active in charity.It didn't take long for the Ministry of Rites to receive a large amount of money and materials.As a result, the state expenditure of the Ming Dynasty's western expedition was greatly reduced.Shoufu Bi Ziyan had to admit that his Emperor Majesty was the one who was really good at money and food politics, and that he would understand the humanity of the people so well, and in this way turned a war of foreign expansion that was supposed to belong only to rentiers into a just war supported by the whole people.The governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Wang Zaijin, had recently been worried that there would be a shortage of money and food to support the expedition to the west.For this reason, he had to prepare to intercept the money and grain that had been deported to Beijing, and prepare to meet the needs of the emergency.Wang Zaijin even said to the officials of the Shaanxi and Gansu Divisions: "If the court blames it, this official will bear it alone, you can hand over the impeachment of this official, and hand it over now, this official will never complain, and push everything on this official alone!"
But we must always be able to prepare sufficient money and grain in Suzhou, so that once there is an accident on the way to the west, we can immediately use the money and grain, without waiting for the imperial court to transfer it from a far away place in the south of the Yangtze River!
What's more, no one knows whether the imperial court still has money and food left, after all, the imperial court is now building railways, disaster relief, military training, building ordnance warships, and building cities everywhere outside the fortress, it must have spent a lot of silver, even if the imperial court has a mountain of gold, I am afraid that it is almost dug up. ”"But if the imperial court is really short of money and grain, I'm afraid it will be even more reluctant for us to withhold the money and grain delivered to the West Factory Branch, right?"
Shaanxi Governor Zou Weilian replied."
Report!
His Majesty's telegram was delivered. ”At this time, Li Shichun, a general of the standard battalion under Wang Zaijin, walked in and gave Wang Zaijin a telegram from a cable telegram."
The national funds of the Beijing division are still abundant, and the money and grain worth more than 5 million yuan have been received from the provinces, which should be used as the cost of the westward expedition, but there will be wear and tear when it is transported.When Wang Zaijin read the contents of the telegram, he was quite surprised: "The imperial court still has money and food!"
It is really unexpected, and it is also the money and grain donated by the provinces, it seems that my Ming Shimin really believed the content reported by Chongwen Temple, and thought that the Ming Dynasty's expedition to the west was a righteous and benevolent act. ”......
"The Western Expedition is only for the people of the Ming Dynasty to have spiritual gains, which is not enough, but also to let the people obtain economic benefits in the external expansion, and to raise private funds through the issuance of bonds for the external expansion of the imperial court, and when the time comes, the benefits generated by the external expansion will be divided into the debts to the scholars of the imperial court, so that they can truly feel the benefits brought by the external expansion." ”Zhu Youxiao mentioned a new idea at this time.All of them issued state bonds, so that the imperial court had more money to spend on military and construction."
Bonds?
Is this feasible, Your Majesty?
”Liu Hongxun is still relatively unfamiliar with the concept of state borrowing, so he can't help but ask.And he has always been conservative, preferring that the imperial court can rectify its internal affairs more, and make the state treasury have more surpluses in case of emergency, instead of increasing military expenditures and construction expenditures like now, and now even borrowing from the people, so he continued to ask: "Your Majesty, the minister thought, will this lead to too much expenditure for the imperial court for a while, and eventually there will be a phenomenon of eating too much grain, so that the country will be poor and the people will be poor at that time?"
”"Now there is a telegram, the news is conveyed and updated very quickly, and the steam engine-type printing machine has also appeared, which can print more security patterns, so it is no problem to issue bonds, and even in my opinion, next, Daming Bank can issue some bills representing the value of silver coins, which can be used as money like the previous treasure banknotes, but it must not be issued indiscriminately like treasure money, there must be reserves, I believe that in the near future, Daming will gradually use paper money as the main transaction currency.""
In addition, it is beneficial for the imperial court to properly eat grain, because this can mobilize the enthusiasm of the people to produce, but it is indeed not too much, this depends on how the imperial court itself controls it, and only if the imperial court properly owes some debts to some rich businessmen, they will hope that the Ming Dynasty will continue to prosper and prosper, and will not be unable to pay the debt interest.""
Of course, the imperial court can't just eat grain, it must have rich land or minerals that are attractive enough and have not yet been developed as capital, otherwise it will only lead to the phenomenon of Yin eating grain becoming more and more serious!""
Therefore, I will try to issue a territorial bond for the opening up of the vast farmland of the Indian plain, and wait until the imperial court has completely occupied the land there, and then repay the bonds with the money obtained from the sale of the rich merchant magnate in the country, and see if it is feasible.""
The farmland in the Indian plains is three crops a year, and the value is very large, so it is completely possible for the imperial court to borrow money from the people for military expenditure to occupy this place."
Zhu Youxiao said.Liu Hongxun was quite shocked after hearing this, he didn't expect His Majesty the Emperor to say that paper money is a trend, but he can't deny that according to the news brought back from the Daming World Development Company in the Indian Peninsula, there are indeed a lot of anointed land, and His Majesty wants to borrow money from the people of the world to seize the fields there, and then sell them to many rich businessmen and giants who are obsessed with the fields in China, and they can indeed have enough money to repay."
Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is okay to try it like this, so that it seems that the external expansion is not related to your Majesty alone, as some unreasonable people say, but it is related to the whole world and the people, and there is no need to wait for the court to have money to spare, and then go to the place, and then move the people over, that will make it easy for the Ming Dynasty to lose the opportunity to seize these anointed places, after all, the situation is changing all the time!"
Bi Ziyan understood Zhu Youxiao's meaning and echoed it.Zhu Xieyuan couldn't help but say: "In this way, while the imperial court is marching westward, it still has to use troops on a large scale in the Indian Peninsula?
”"This, this, is too new, and it's hard for the minister to know the pros and cons."
Liu Hongxun followed.Zhu Youxiao replied to Zhu Xieyuan's question just now, and said: "Whether or not to use troops on a large scale in the Indian Peninsula must first see the reaction of the Ming scholars, and first educate the indigenous people of India to prevent them from being persecuted by the barbarians because they are too ignorant and issue a 'crusade against the Mughal puppet empire' bonds;" "The author told the people the rules for the court to repay the interest on this coupon, and listed in detail the development value of India.
Yan Daming did not recognize that the Mughal Empire had the qualifications to rule the Indian peninsula!
Let's take a look at the reaction of the Ming people, if the people are willing to pay for bonds, it means that they support the imperial court to send troops!
”"However, I can let Chongwen Temple guide me and report more on the cruelty of the Mughal Empire and Western Fan in the local area, so that the people know that buying bonds is not only to make money, but also so that the spring breeze of Chinese civilization in my Ming Dynasty can blow over as soon as possible and save that land.".