Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1961 Return of the Dynasty to the Japanese Attachment (Yuan [-]) Attracts Attention
Gao Yushi is about to return to Beijing to report on his duties. Naturally, this is the current political trend that the courtiers are most concerned about, because his return to Beijing this time is not an ordinary report on his duties, but at the same time he is responsible for the victory of the war to aid North Korea, promote North Korea's internal attachment, and plan to send troops to Japan. With the three major events, its every move is even more eye-catching.

All forces are very concerned about this.Needless to say on the part of the emperor, there are many details that need to be discussed in just a North Korean enclave, including the arrangement of the king of Joseon and the courtiers of Joseon, the administrative and military system settings after the enclave of North Korea, how to start the post-war reconstruction of North Korea, and how to get money from it. Where did it come from, how to reward the various ministries participating in the war to aid Korea, etc.

In addition, the "ministries" mentioned above do not just refer to the various ministries of the army. Others include the three tribes of Tumed, Ordos, and Nenhorqin in Mongolia, and the Jurchen tribes such as Jianzhou Guard, Jianzhou Zuowei, Jianzhou Right Guard, and Yehe tribe. , Hada tribe, Ula tribe, and some small tribes, etc., they also sent troops along with the conscripts, and of course they should be given corresponding rewards after winning the war.

Almost all of these matters are prone to disputes, because in the final analysis, each item involves real money-since it is related to money, of course the God of Wealth, Gao Yushi, must be present, so that the discussion at this time can be meaningful.Otherwise, after discussing for a long time, you finally came to a conclusion, but the word "Ministry of Account" was given back to you. How embarrassing is that?

What two words do you ask?Of course... no money.

Although it seems that since Gao Yushi mastered the Ministry of Accounts, it seems that the Ministry of Accounts has seldom—or never at all—heard the word "no money" directly from the Ministry of Accounts, but this kind of thing is not a good assumption. No one dares to ignore high-level pragmatic opinions. You really ignore one, and see if he will nail the matter to you on the spot with the words "no money".

How about saying that the god with the best incense in the world is the God of Wealth, because often a penny can really suffocate a good man to death.

The same is true for the imperial court. The major affairs in the world are nothing more than money and food.If you really have unlimited money and food that you can spend at will, no matter how much you, the emperor and officials, waste, things may not be so bad that you will die or live.

Of course, the problem often lies in lack of money and food, and that is usually the end of the calf.How embarrassing the Ming Dynasty was in terms of money and food decades ago, most of the current generation of officials have experienced it. At that time, they were generally not in high positions, so the experience is actually deeper.

Nonsense, will the salaries of cabinet ministers be owed?Of course, those who are owed are all the people below... Besides, the cabinet ministers are not short of this salary.It's like when Gao Gong was relatively poor because of his incorruptibility, he ended up relying on writing epitaphs for others to get his pen.

To be honest, this money is much easier to earn than the imperial court's salary. As long as Party A is not a heinous and pure scum, this job can be taken, because it is a lot of money to pick someone's merits and praise it. I got it, and because I didn't write anything against my heart, I didn't feel guilty.

Of course, this job is not only high-level, but also high-level.The difference is that Gao Gong took this kind of work to earn some easy money to support his family, while Gao Yushi took this kind of work to maintain contacts and maintain his appeal. After all, he did not lack this kind of money.

Closer to home, the current imperial court decides on major issues, almost no matter what matters, it is necessary to ask for high-level practical opinions, because everyone has become more and more aware of it over the years, that is, no matter what your thoughts are, you can’t disagree with the opinions of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Otherwise, no matter how wise and powerful you think this idea is, it is useless, because it cannot be implemented.

As long as the Ministry of Households approves and transfers the money, then congratulations, this matter is basically considered a success.If it doesn't work, um... please ask the Ministry of Accounts to allocate another sum, it can always be done.

The emergence of this situation has caused the officials of the Heart School, especially the bigwigs of the Heart School, to become less and less confident in the face of high pragmatism.

It's like a person whose function has been challenged goes shopping in Huajieliuxiang, with a lot of thoughts in his mind, but if no one gives them a certain medicine, they can only worry about it.In this way, the person with that drug in his hand becomes someone they can't afford to offend-even if they know that they should stand on the opposite side of that person, it is still difficult to straighten up.

How did the Ming Dynasty become like this bird?They are often so resentful in their hearts, but when they face Gao Wu, they don't dare to say these words, and they don't even dare to express this feeling at all.

Just think about it, because you offended Gao Yushi as a court official, and as a result, the office funds in the yamen cannot be paid, there is no charcoal in winter, no fans in summer, and even the food is only for dogs, what do the people below think of you?How many people can be determined to follow you?

So some people in later generations said that the most basic job of a leader is to be able to find money from above, which is not unreasonable.

Now Gao Yushi is coming back, and his attitude on these three matters is very clear, so the question comes to everyone in the DPRK and China: Do you want to oppose it?Can you object?What if you don't object?

Do you want to object?Well, it is best not to, the reason has been analyzed above.

Can you object?Probably not very good, because the highly pragmatic holy family is obvious, and one of his characteristics over the years is that he will never trade at a loss.

The generalization is: Gao Wushi thinks that North Korea's attachment is a good thing, so no matter whether he finds out the good thing or not, Gao Wushi will definitely benefit the court a lot from this matter afterwards, to prove that it is indeed a good thing.

Is it against the ancestral system to continue to conquer Japanese pirates, and is it necessary?If Gao Pragmatism says that he will not violate it, then "no violation". Anyway, he has reformed the system and now he does not know how many.

If you think about it, you will know that since he quoted "Although Zhou was an old state, his order was restored", there have been many things that "follow the ancestral will but not necessarily follow the ancestral system".What's more, these "reformations" all proved necessary in the end, and each benefited enormously.

Let’s take a look at it casually: the post station reform has greatly improved the efficiency of the imperial post station, and it has also saved a huge amount of 130 million taels of silver every year.The entire post system turned over 27 taels of silver to the Ministry of Households in the last year alone. After hearing about it, some veteran officials in the DPRK almost collectively cried out to hell.

The Battle of Yunnan and Burma was a ruinous battle that would cost a lot of money no matter how you look at it at the beginning, but it was Gao Pragmatic who insisted on fighting, and it actually turned into the court borrowing money to fight the war.As a result, after so many years, looking back, not only the principal and interest of the loan were paid off, but the court also made more than 100 million taels, and the money has not been earned yet... The court still has some Burmese gold, silver, and jade mines with.

So far, no obvious profit can be seen, and the Chahar Ministry is probably driven away.But this is mainly because the post-war investment was a bit large, such as rebuilding Daning City, the cost was huge.If it weren't for these reasons, judging from the income from the newly established pastures and horse farms for supplying horses and selling cattle and sheep in the customs, it may be possible to "turn losses into profits" in the past few years.

Well, this has not taken into account the economic promotion effect of the increase in horses in the pass (equivalent to more convenient logistics), otherwise the benefits will definitely be greater.

Then there is the Ming Fed, which so far has been incomprehensible to many people.For many people, they don't even understand "what is this yamen doing?" Many people just see it as a joint big bank. The problem is that the Ming Fed itself does not directly lend money to individuals, it only lends money. The money was given to the imperial court and the registered big banks, and the interest was outrageously low.

The annual interest on the silver it lent to the imperial court was only one hundred and one; the interest on loans to big banks was slightly higher, with fluctuations, but generally only between one hundred and two to one hundred and three.

Although it needs the borrower to have collateral for borrowing silver, it has not actually asked for any creditor’s collateral because it cannot repay the debt. It usually takes the initiative to understand the situation before the debt defaults, or voluntarily extends the repayment period afterwards— —However, if this step is really reached, it is necessary to carry out "management guidance".

Another problem is that no one knows how much money the Federal Reserve has. Anyway, a group of people once united to carry out a run, and at that time they came up with a huge amount: 1309 million taels.

Not to mention a "United Bank", even the household department may not be able to take out such a large sum of money at any time, but the Ming Fed didn't even blink, and completely took it out within one and a half months according to Ming Fed's own regulations. The more than 1000 million taels of silver were all in the form of "silver bricks", and were delivered on the spot and in public at the Nanjing branch of the Ming Fed.

More than 1000 million taels of silver bricks, piled up there is simply a mountain of silver!
For this reason, the Big Three in Nanjing led more than 2000 armed and live ammunition troops from Zhenjiang, which was temporarily transferred from Zhenjiang next door, to protect the scene. Jinghua Bank, the big backer of the Ming Fed, also mobilized Jinghua Maanshan Iron and Steel Factory guard team from the nearby Taiping Mansion. Six hundred armed servants served as inner guards to ensure that the silver would not be looted by the crazy people.

This incident shocked the world. Since then, no one has doubted the strength of the Ming Fed Reserve, especially how much cash the Jinghua Group behind the Ming Fed Reserve actually owns—well, this is because those silver bricks are all engraved with serial numbers, such as "Jinghua Group Japanese silver one hundred taels 00032", "Jinghua Lv silver one hundred taels 00065" and the like.

According to the information disclosed later by some sources, "Japanese silver" refers to silver from various silver mines in Japan, and "Lu Yin" refers to silver obtained from Luzon. However, these silvers do not seem to come from Luzon, but "Red Yi" was transported across the sea from the "Land of the Far East" to trade with Jinghua.

"Japanese silver" is good to say, Japan has silver mountains, and many people in the Jiangnan area have heard of it, but Hongyi actually has so much silver?

So some people who lived and lived at sea jumped out to explain, saying that everyone who had been with the Jinghua fleet knew that those Hongyi had discovered several silver mountains in the far east, and there were so many silvers that they could not dig them out.If it wasn't really too far away, and most of the currents (ocean currents) go to the "Far East" from our place, otherwise I really want to be a gold digger—oh, a silver digger.

Now everyone is speechless. Everyone has heard about Jinghua's production capacity, and now there are such big buyers who are not short of money. Of course, Jinghua's silver is too much, so much that it is impossible to estimate.

Of course, all of the above are public opinions.In fact, it was not as easy for Jinghua to collect the money at that time as it seemed. The fleets of the North and the South were dispatched at the same time. They were all dispatched urgently, and this was the only way to mobilize so much cash within a period of one and a half months.

This matter is dangerous. At that time, Gao Wushi had received news that some chaebols in the south of the Yangtze River had united to make trouble, but many of their deposit certificates in the Ming Fed Reserve were like "flying mail", not using their own. The identities are saved, but when it is time to run, they are all concentrated.

As a result, the two cousins, Gao Guoyan and Gao Yushi, misjudged the magnitude of the run. They thought that the size of the run should be between 500 million taels and 600 million taels. Doubled, almost overturned the Ming Fed.

Of course, in any case, the matter was finally settled perfectly, and the Ming Fed’s reputation as the world’s richest was completely established, including Jinghua Bank, the most important investor of the Ming Fed, and its strength was no longer in doubt.Compared with the final result, the risks taken before seem to be worth it.

However, if the Federal Reserve is rich, it is rich, but do the money of the major banks and money houses all rely on the deposits of the capital itself?If the Ming Fed itself does not make money, then what is the purpose of setting up such an institution?Most officials still don't understand.

In their view, the Ming Fed’s loan interest rate is too low. It’s not profitable to just collect the loan interest rate, at least it’s making money while throwing it away. But it costs money everywhere.

But not being able to understand it does not affect a key judgment: with the Federal Reserve Bank of Mingming in hand, Gao Yushi, the head of the "big household department", can be regarded as truly controlling the world's financial power.

If you change to a minister of the household department, let alone other things, can you find the Ming Fed to borrow money for emergency so easily?I'm afraid it will be difficult.However, it is common for the Ministry of Households to need money for emergency, just like the outbreak of the Korean War before, who would have expected this kind of "surprise"?When a war is about to start temporarily, where the money will come from naturally becomes a big problem.

But with the Federal Reserve Bank of Ming Dynasty, this problem is much simpler-your court can just fight this battle first, and plan a separate payment from the taxes in the next few years as a repayment.

He holds the wealth and power of the world, is invincible in wars, benefits from reforms time and time again, and is only thirty-seven years old.When such a minister returned to Beijing to report on his duties, the proposal he brought naturally attracted much attention.

For example, Zhao Zhigao and Shen Yiguan, the two new elders of the Heart School, had to meet temporarily today to discuss their own attitudes towards relevant major issues at Zhao Ge's old mansion.

Oh, by the way, the reason why he was at Zhao Zhigao's residence was because the old man was in poor health, almost like a medicine jar. It was objectively difficult for him to see Shen Yiguan, because it was not good for behavior after all.
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