Chapter 642 Although the overall strength of Liaodong has surpassed the mainland of the Ming Empire, nominally, Liaodong is still the Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty, and Quan Xu is Chongzhen's most trusted minister.However, Chongzhen's trip to Liaodong is really hard to say whether it is a blessing or a curse for Liaodong."
If Your Majesty is willing to inspect your own territory, then there is naturally no problem, but there is no Your Majesty's palace in Liaodong!"
Quan Xu muttered: "If you can give the minister three months, the minister can build a palace for His Majesty in Liaodong!"
”This is not a loss-making business.Liaodong really has the most rich people, as long as they take out the mansion closest to the palace, this publicity gimmick, and just sell land and real estate, they can make a wave of blood.Liaodong has a large group of rich gentry who are so poor that they really have money left, don't look at Quan Xu and the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, they are fighting to the death, but they don't delay, Liaodong is making money from the Ming gentry.Schools, commodities, and living environment are all things that Daming does not have.For example, Huang Zongxi, the eldest son of Huang Zunsu, one of the most famous educators, thinkers, geographers, historians, and economists in the late Ming Dynasty, and Gu Yanwu, who proposed the rise and fall of the country and the responsibility of the husband, the three major thinkers of the late Ming Dynasty, two of whom lived in Liaodong and launched fierce academic exchanges.The academic atmosphere in Liaodong is very open, and in open classrooms, anything can be said, and there is no problem with any ideas, especially Huang Zongxi, who has always wanted to limit the power of the monarch and put forward the democratic idea of "the world is the main thing, and the king is the guest".He said that "the rule of chaos in the world is not the rise and fall of one surname, but the sorrow and happiness of all the people", and advocated replacing the emperor's "law of one family" with "the law of the world", thus limiting the power of the monarch.It can be said that the founding father of the Chinese constitutional monarchy, of course, has now replaced Li Xin, the auditorium of the Industrial Party, and is responsible for the propaganda of this part.In fact, it is also a good thing to let Chongzhen go to Liaodong to see, let him see what the real folk are like, Chongzhen is different from Quan Xu, Quan Xu grew up in the people, and Chongzhen lived in Beijing for most of his life.Liangxiang County, south of Beijing, was already the second farthest to arrive, and in fact, this was the second time Chongzhen had left the city.Chongzhen looked at Quan Xu almost without thinking, and directly agreed, but hesitated.Now he is in a stalemate with the ministers, in case this side leaves the capital, and the ministers behind him will support a new king, which is not impossible.Otherwise, Yingzong was captured, and they immediately supported Daizong."
I'm afraid that something will happen in the capital!"
Quan Xu understood Chongzhen's worries, but smiled easily: "The mountain is high and the moon is small, and the water can only come out, if Your Majesty has been sitting in the capital, how dare those ghosts show their minions?"
”Quan Xu also intends to fish for law enforcement once, as long as Chongzhen gives an order, he doesn't mind killing and taking the opportunity to make a lot of money, these bastards who are officials, one is counted as one, and nine times out of ten they are all very rich, and everyone is worth more than millions of taels of silver."
However, I'm afraid that the end will be difficult to clean up!"
Chongzhen said worriedly: "If they move fast enough, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”"They dare, the minister can send troops to defend His Majesty!"
Quan Xu said: "Your Majesty, you have to imagine the loyalty of the Tianxiong Army and the Liaodong New Army to Your Majesty, once the capital changes, the Tianxiong Army will go from west to west, and the Liaodong New Army will be divided into two roads, all the way from east to west, cross the Liao River, and go straight to Shanhaiguan, and the whole way can be reached by the navy to Beijing and Tianjin!"
”And so the matter was settled at this dinner table.Chongzhen is preparing to inspect Liaodong after the autumn harvest."
The minister is going south to return to Defu, is the prince going with him?
Or go straight back to Liaodong?
”Zhu Cihong said without thinking: "This palace wants to follow the master!"
”Chongzhen smiled bitterly and said: "Quan Aiqing, you want to bring him back to Nanyang, I have no opinion, but you have to take some time to come out and teach him something!"
I sent Cihong to Quanqing, but I didn't let him play with you!
”"At his age, he should play with other children, live happily, and force him to read the Four Books and Five Classics all day long, so he won't read him stupidly?"
Quan Xu pointed at the prince and said, "He is only six years old, and he is still a child!"
”"Didn't you say that 'half of the Analects rules the world', what do you read if you don't read the Four Books and the Five Classics?""
Taizu and Chengzu have not read the Four Books and Five Classics, but they still created a prosperous era comparable to the Han and Tang Dynasties!
According to me, the most important thing for the ruler of an empire is not how many saints he has learned, but to understand the people's feelings, have his own opinions, and have the courage to do things.If you don't even know how much a stone of rice costs, you will definitely be bullied by the ministers, these things can't be learned in the palace, let alone in books, you have to go outside!
”Chongzhen was persuaded by Jeon Xu again.In late April of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Quan Xu and his rocket army began to carry out artificial rain on Guide Mansion, but when they arrived at Guide Mansion, it was already late.The crops in the field have withered, even if it rains again, the reduction of the yield is a foregone conclusion, at this time, the only way is to replant, but unfortunately, the people are poor ghosts, they have no seeds at all.This kind of thing is extremely difficult for others, but for Quan Xu, it is not even a trouble.As the radio waves arrived with Quan Xu's order, those merchants in Liaodong seemed to think that sharks had seen bloody ......
Natural disasters and man-made disasters are an excellent opportunity for landlords to collect money in the past, and for Liaodong businessmen, of course, it is also a business opportunity, compared with landlords, Liaodong businessmen are simply saints.Everything is afraid of peers.Liaodong merchants carried out crazy enclosures in Guide Mansion, Henan Mansion, and Daimyo Mansion, and it was not a circle of townships and villages, but a circle of the entire state and county: there was no surplus food at home, so I was very worried, right?
It doesn't matter, let's sign a contract, this season, you can worry about the potatoes and sweet potatoes you grow, and the seeds you grow, we will give it, and leave part of the grain you get to eat for yourself, and sell the rest to me, okay?
Fair price guaranteed!
Come on, come on, sign this contract, these hundreds of catties of potato flour is a deposit, sign it, you will have potato noodles and flatbread to eat, sign it quickly!
The potato flour in Liaodong is naturally not fresh, some of them have been aged for two or three years, and they are about to pass the expiration date, and it is difficult to find buyers.Take out these things that are about to expire, the vast majority of the people are quite suspicious of the businessman's discipline, but as soon as they see this bag of flour, without saying a word, they immediately press their fingerprints, and eat these hundreds of catties of flour in their mouths first.Quanji Bank also took the opportunity to lend, the key is that this is not the silver that was released, but the paper money produced by the Quanji Bank in Liaodong.This money was printed by the central bank of the small island country of Dobra Santa Tomei, which is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea in Africa, with an area of only 1,000 square kilometers, which is not even as good as a county in China, and most of the counties are as much as 1,000 square kilometers, such as Lao Cheng's hometown county, 2,076 square kilometers, which is almost the same as Tobra Santo Tomei.The monetary unit of the Dobra São Tomé is the Dobra, one yuan can be exchanged for three thousand and four Dobras, and there are no coins in the country because the currency is depreciating, which is too loss-making.Quanxu had the trading company enter into a printing contract with the country's central bank worth 10 million US dollars, and printed 100 tons of currency in the country's currency paper and color-changing ink, which were in taels, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 500 taels.This currency, which was printed and manufactured in the name of the practice scroll, is different from the currency of any other country in the world, and now it is officially introduced by taking advantage of this enclosure movement.In this time and space, it is possible for anyone to imitate, unlike anti-counterfeiting watermarks and color-changing inks, even paper, which are not capable of being imitated in the Ming Dynasty.In fact, the people don't care, this is a special loan, it can only be used for special purposes, not to mention giving them paper money, even if they open a note and let them take it to buy supplies, they are willing.In this way, the issuance of Quanji's banknotes went quite smoothly.For Quanxu's banknotes, the merchant liked it very much, it was too convenient, to give a very simple example, 10,000 taels of silver, that is, 370 kilograms, and it took a carriage to pull it.Of course, if you take a banknote, especially the largest denomination of 500 taels, only 20 pieces, the total weight is only 20 grams, but the weight of half a tael of silver, even if it is the smallest denomination of one tael, it is only about eight kilograms, and a person can carry it on his back.Those Liaodong businessmen who are attached to Quanxu's banner have smelled the huge opportunities hidden behind the crisis, and have dispatched to buy a large number of land to build factories at a lower price, and then recruit workers.In fact, in the final analysis, these businessmen are still taking advantage of the fire to rob, using ridiculously low prices to absorb labor, buy real estate, land and other real estate, what is this not taking advantage of the fire to rob?
But the people who were robbed were grateful, because there was such a group of guys who took advantage of the fire to rob, they at least had hope of continuing to live.It's just that in the eyes of many people, these guys are either taking advantage of the fire to rob, and they are clearly disrupting the situation!
In the crisis, it is not only the people represented by Quan Xu who see business opportunities, everyone can see it.In the year of the catastrophe, the price of grain skyrocketed, a stone of brown rice soaked with two percent of sand is not sold for eight or nine taels of silver, you are embarrassed to go out to greet people, in order to buy food to fill their stomachs, a little real estate of the common people can only choose to go to the underground money village to borrow usury, and even sell their children and daughters; If the disaster is more serious, and a large number of people are starved to death, the fields of these poor ghosts will become borderless land......
What a profit!
To put it bluntly, for some people, this terrible natural disaster is a feast, and for hundreds of years, a huge chain of interests has already been formed.