I am the king of the dead

Chapter 626 Your Majesty the Emperor, don't you feel ashamed?
Zhu Qiyu looked at the officials, he still remembered that Jin Lian's attitude was exactly the same as the attitude of the officials now when he first took the throne.

When it comes to increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, we often choose the simplest way to reduce expenditure.

Full of pettiness.

"A few days ago, when Li Aiqing was on the memorial, I was still wondering if Li Aiqing was worrying about nothing? After all, Li Aiqing has the universe in her heart and likes to look up at the starry sky, but we have already seen that the winter sequence has come." Zhu Qiyu sat up straight and said. .

At first no one paid attention to it, but as more and more memorials were sent to the capital and the six yamen of the Ming Dynasty, everyone felt the pain of the Winter Preface of the Ming Dynasty, like the cold wind blowing through a man without long johns. Like the legs, it makes people shudder.

Zhu Qiyu continued: "The main cause of this winter sequence is the money supply, which cannot meet the money demand caused by the overheating of the economy, which leads to an economic recession."

"What you said is that the reduction of labor remuneration is beneficial to the start of the workshop and ensures that the craftsmen will not lose their jobs. The reduction of labor remuneration is a positive correlation to the workshop, which can ensure the start of the workshop, reduce the cost of the workshop, Increase the profit margin of the workshop."

"But I would like to ask everyone, after the comprehensive reduction of labor remuneration by [-]%, it is guaranteed that at least [-]% of the craftsmen will not be voluntarily or involuntarily unemployed, so how can the people buy the goods produced by the craftsmen without money, or with reduced disposable income? ?”

"The goods produced by the workshop are piled up like a mountain, and the common people are discouraged from looking at the dazzling array of goods, and they are falling into a vicious circle of price competition in order to sell. This is the situation that the workshop owners want to see. The more they produce, the more they lose. Can the workshop continue to work?"

"By reducing labor remuneration and reducing costs, is it really possible to achieve the goal of ensuring the start of the workshop, maintaining the livelihood of the craftsmen, and maintaining the scale of the craftsmen?"

The only result of lowering the minimum standard of labor remuneration is to reduce the disposable income in the hands of the people. Without consumption, where does the market drive come from, and how can we survive the winter sequence?

Zhu Qiyu's words are very long. After each question is thrown out, many officials of Ji Province are more ashamed. Obviously, His Majesty is right. This is not the obedience of the courtiers, but what His Majesty said The reason is simple and clear, easy to understand.

Facts speak louder than words.

"I can't do it." Lin Xiu's face turned from flushed to ashen ashes amidst the reproaches, and when he heard His Majesty's question, he subconsciously answered.

Zhu Qiyu is a person who is very good at controlling the rhythm of the meeting. He immediately noticed that the ministers, especially the many officials of the Ministry of Finance who were interested parties, were all ashamed.

As the helmsman of the meeting, Zhu Qiyu clapped his hands and said: "Everyone, this is the Juxian Pavilion, the Yantie Conference, not the court meeting of Fengtian Palace, nor the court meeting of Wenhua Palace. We are just discussing financial affairs, so don't be anxious .”

Juxian Pavilion's speech has never been monotonous. This is the place for discussion. The more arguments are made, the more tense the atmosphere is, it will easily cause Zhu Qiyu to sing a one-man show, which is boring and meaningless.

After Zhu Qiyu's words, the expressions of the provincial officials became normal, and the atmosphere changed from extremely serious to relaxed.

Only then did Wu Jing come to his senses, and asked in a daze: "Your Majesty, it is not a good idea to cut labor remuneration in exchange for benefits, but without reducing costs, how can we ensure that the workshop will not go out of business?"

"Everyone talk about their own opinions." Zhu Qiyu didn't give an answer right away, but worked together, and everyone talked about their own ideas.

There was a lot of discussion, and several people put forward their own ideas one after another, and the context gradually became clear. The cost reduction should not start from ordinary workers, but from other aspects.

For example, from the perspective of improving production efficiency, think about problems from the perspectives of clarifying the division of labor, encouraging inventions, improving equipment, optimizing production efficiency, and increasing effective working hours.

For example, from the perspective of taxation, tax reduction, maritime trade, banknote customs, and branch bureaus, appropriately reduce taxes in certain industries, encourage the development of this industry, and reduce costs at the same time.

For example, from the perspective of business operation, joint operation of newspaper groups to keep warm, standardize the functions of chambers of commerce and general chambers of commerce, actively absorb experience from the same industry, increase exchanges between the same industry, reduce unnecessary disgusting competition, and so on.

Several stewards are writing down the records.

Yu Qian knocked on the table suddenly, and when many courtiers calmed down, Yu Qian said: "What about the court? What is the court going to do this winter? Just sit on the sidelines, have nothing to do with yourself, and hang up high?"

Zhu Qiyu finally showed some smiles. Yu Qian is especially good at the system of the country. In all the discussions, the imperial court has to do very little or even nothing. Everything is left to the people to adjust themselves and survive the severe winter.

To put it simply, it is as if an ostrich can avoid sandstorms by burying its head in the sand. When the winter sequence comes, it is wise to protect itself.

What Zhu Qiyu dislikes very much is comparing the imperial court to an enterprise, the emperor to the chairman, the prince, Wu Xun or the gentry to the shareholders, and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty to the employees of the enterprise, and then use various enterprise words It seems that the logic is self-consistent and reasonable to apply the technology to the enterprise.

However, the imperial court and enterprises are fundamentally different, and the responsibilities of the imperial court are completely different from those borne by enterprises.

The existence of the imperial court or political power is the rule-maker, which itself is to adjust the contradictions of various classes and prevent the contradictions of various classes from intensifying and ultimately self-destruction.

The existence of enterprises is profit-seeking, and their starting points are different, and their destinations are even more different, so there is no way to compare them, and it is not suitable to compare them.

The law of corporate governance has always seemed petty.

And Daming has always been a magnificent Daming.

Yu Qian's question is to ask, in this cold winter, can the court named Daming just watch helplessly?

"This question is a good question. If you look at the fire from the other side, you will end up getting caught up in the fire." Zhu Qiyu knocked on the table, positively affirming Qian's point of view.

"Then what should we do in terms of the court?" Zhu Qiyu asked guidingly.

The director of the Driving Division said excitedly: "Last year, we hardened the road from Shijingchang to Meishikou, and the price of charcoal per catty in Jingshi was reduced from eight yuan to six yuan."

"It's been reduced by two points!"

"And whether it's raining or snowing, the price of coal in the capital hasn't changed much, just like today's heavy snowfall, but the price of coal for ordinary people fluctuates by no more than one penny."

"Although I don't know what the meaning is, but it must have done something good?" the director of the Driving Department asked a little confused.

Zhu Qiyu showed a smile, it seemed that it was only two pennies, but the capital needed 5000 million catties of coal for just one year of government office.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the host of the driving department, he was a craftsman who was not good at speaking, and he had seen it many times.

Zhu Qiyu gave a very positive answer and said: "It is very meaningful and a great thing! The driving department has done a good job, Xing'an, and the Shijingchang driving department has two silver coins per person."

The rest of the ministries all showed envious expressions, and the head of the driving department was in full bloom.

In the past, the fluctuation of coal prices in Daming was easily affected by the weather. The roads were muddy in summer and slippery in winter, which was finally reflected in the price of coal. The price of Jingshi coal was like a roller coaster, soaring and plummeting.

It is said: [Daily trading coal is the business. Whenever rain and snow continue, the coal road is blocked, and the coal from Xishan cannot come, you can get several times the profit with one book. 】

There is another situation where coal channels are blocked, and that is military disasters.

During the battle of the capital, Yu Qian once wrote a letter requesting to store coal for [-] days, saying: [Shuntian Mansion should secretly know that the families of the aborigines and overseas Chinese living in Beijing, regardless of high or low, rich or poor, should store coal for [-] days in advance to prepare for emergencies. needs. 】

The speech of the driving department caused extensive discussion, and Zhu Qiyu watched them without saying a word, discussing what the court could do in the Winter Preface.

When it comes to the rhythm of the meeting, His Majesty the Great Ming Emperor has always been very careful.

Yu Qian smiled without saying a word, looking at His Majesty who was in the first place. He was in a critical situation at the time, and he only thought that His Majesty could sit in that position, even if he didn't sit on anything, to sit firmly. This is Yu Qian's greatest expectation.

As long as His Majesty can sit down, Yu Qian can guarantee that the Ming Dynasty will be safe. It is obvious that His Majesty has done better than expected.

The discussion gradually died down, Zhu Qiyu sat up straight, and said conclusively: "I have finished listening to your discussion."

"This Winter Preface is caused by insufficient money supply. First of all, we need to issue more currency, whether it is imperial silver coins or Jingtai Tongbao, we need to issue additional currency to meet the people's demand for currency."

Shen Yi, Minister of the Household Department, immediately echoed and said: "Your Majesty, the matter of the law..."

Up to now, the right to issue currency has always been in the hands of the Baoyuan Bureau of the Ministry of Industry. Jin Lian and Zhang Feng have done great things to withdraw the right to issue currency. The household department is getting further and further away.

Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said: "It's not the time, the law of money is still in place."

This is the fourth time that Zhu Qiyu disagrees with the courtiers on the matter of money law and banknote law. explained.

The banknote law is not good, no one says it is useless, and the courtiers have nothing to do.

Zhu Qiyu took a sip of tea, and he continued to say: "Secondly, we should reduce the cost of workshops, increase and protect the employment of craftsmen, then we need the court to intervene in financial affairs. In fact, we have been doing this all the time. of."

The imperial court intervened in the financial affairs and improved the financial affairs of the Ming Dynasty. This is the official duty of the imperial court that Zhu Qiyu has been unswervingly promoting since the war of the capital—Lishan.

The Ming Dynasty is strong, and in all aspects, only the financial affairs are really the shortcomings of the shortcomings.

Before Zhu Qiyu ascended the throne, the Ming court, which didn't even print and issue money, finally died of poverty.

During the reign of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting went out of Beijing to suppress the rebellion. Emperor Chongzhen gave Sun Chuanting 7000 taels of silver to Sun Chuanting to go to Yulin to form the famous Qin army. Xiongjun, that is to prepare their own dry food.

In the Battle of Songjin, Hong Chengchou fought for two years, and spent less than 300 million taels of silver in the army's food and grass, and nearly killed Hou Jin in the Battle of Songjin. Who will win or lose is still unknown.

If the food and salary are enough, the gods will be broken.

It is a true portrayal of the Ming Army.

But the Ming court was really too poor. The fundamental reason was that Ming never had a complete and executable economic taxation system in line with the national conditions of Ming Dynasty, and the poor became poorer.

Zhu Qiyu is not a money worshiper, nor does he think that all problems are economic problems, but he still understands that it is difficult to move without money, and a penny is difficult for a hero.

Zhu Qiyu didn't ask for more, but only asked him to continuously improve Daming's financial affairs while he was alive, so as to add a glimmer of hope to Daming's future.

"Then how did the imperial court interfere with Daming's financial affairs?"

"The Driving Department proposed to repair bridges, repair roads, harden roads, dredge waterways, build water conservancy, expand official roads and post roads, etc. These industries are all labor-intensive industries. Then after the Ministry of Industry discusses, come up with a specific plan. The method of labor relief will be decided by the court after discussion."

"The Department of Cherishing Salaries believes that labor remuneration should be strictly guaranteed to prevent the lack of private consumption desires, resulting in insufficient demand. This is very good. Guaranteeing labor remuneration is to ensure the fundamentals of Daming's financial affairs."

"The Ministry of Criminal Affairs and Dali Siqing just put forward the idea of ​​restricting malicious competition. I think this point is extremely well thought out. Appropriate competition is conducive to the transformation of Ming Dynasty into a commodity economy, but excessive malicious competition will only result in excess products and lower profit margins. , deterioration of the general environment, monopoly and a series of evil consequences.”

"The Ministry of Household Affairs and the Department of General Administration proposed to expand the scale of the farm law and establish more farms to prevent large-scale famine. On this point, I will make a decision after communicating with Yu Shaobao."

"Okay, this is my way."

After Zhu Qiyu finished speaking, he closed the question book, looked at the officials and asked, "Is there anything else to add?"

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Zhu Qiyu nodded very satisfied. He was very satisfied that no one in the current Salt and Iron Conference held the rhetoric of competing with the people to make the court refuse to perform its duties and interfere in financial affairs.

"The meeting is over." Zhu Qiyu stood up and ended the salt and iron meeting.

Many ministers and workers quickly stood up, bowed their heads and shouted together: "Respectfully send off Your Majesty."

Zhu Qiyu thought of competing for profit with the people, and then thought of Wang Fu who was far away in Samarkand. This fellow was obviously talented, but after reforming himself, he refused to return to the imperial court!
Talents, especially talented ones, Daming is also in short supply!
It was the first time that Deng Shun, a Jinshi in the second year of Jingtai and Hanlin of the Hanlin Academy, who participated in this kind of salt and iron conference, was a little dazed when he walked out of Juxian Pavilion. In it, like a handful of files.

But this kind of cold and pain was not as big as the impact of attending the meeting today. He walked towards the Imperial Academy step by step, thinking about what he had done in the past five years in the Imperial Academy.

Before Deng Shun participated in the meeting, he firmly opposed His Majesty the Ming Dynasty to compete with the imperial court and the people for profit.Where is the majesty of the court? !
Doesn't His Majesty feel ashamed to openly discuss things that smell like money?
However, after participating in the Salt and Iron Conference, I felt that "competing for profit with the people" was the duty of the imperial court, because only by competing for profit with the people could the rules be formulated in accordance with the times, and financial affairs could develop in an orderly manner.

Not competing for profit with the people is a kind of indulgence.

Deng Shun stood still a little dizzy. The conflict between the two concepts made Deng Shun a little confused. For the first time, he reflected on whether the views he had learned and those instilled in him by others were correct.

Once people start to doubt, they will start to think. This is the change from being me to having me. Of course, I can’t get the answer, that is, I can’t change it in my life. When I practice it, it is the change from having me to not having me.

"Teacher." Seeing the man standing in front of him, Deng Shun hurriedly bowed his head and saluted as a disciple.

Chen Xun stood motionless in front of the lecture hall, with a finger-deep snow piled up on his shoulders, he saw Deng Shun nodded and said, "Excuse me."

Chen Xun saw Deng Shun's confusion, and said a little absent-mindedly: "Deng Shun, if you don't know whether it is right or wrong, then let me tell you, Your Majesty is right."

"Okay, I'm going to face the saint."

Chen Xun patted Deng Shun on the shoulder, and walked towards Juxian Pavilion.

"Thank you for teaching me, Teacher." Deng Shun bowed to see him off.

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