Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Faced with the task of grabbing food from the Ming Dynasty arranged by his master, the head of the Qi family raised a key question: "Although we have enough silver in our hands, the people of the Ming Dynasty do not accept silver, but silver dollars. Now we How to turn silver into silver dollars is the key.”

Fan Wendou smiled: "I have already thought about this matter. The regent has set up central bank branches all over the northwest. One of their businesses is to absorb savings and exchange silver dollars. Starting tomorrow, all brothers will Go to banks everywhere to save money. After we save it, won’t it turn into silver dollars?”

"This method is good, but the central bank charges a one-cent fire fee for depositing miscellaneous silver. If we deposit such a large amount of silver, the fire cost alone is a huge loss."

In order to firmly control the minting power and to ensure the uniform quality of the Ming Dynasty silver coins, Lu Mou used his power for personal gain and transferred the minting power from the Ministry of Household Affairs and other departments to the Royal Central Bank of his private property, charging only a fire fee of one point.

People can pay the scattered silver into the bank and exchange it for a full amount of silver dollars.

Huohua has always been the result of corrupt officials exploiting the huge income of the people to enrich themselves.

Yongzheng promoted Huohuo's return to the public, but he was scolded and vomited blood. In the end, a diligent emperor turned into a licentious, cruel and unkind bastard.

Lu Mou cherishes his reputation, and the cheese of these officials must not be touched.

However, if you no longer have the right to mint loose silver into silver dollars, you will not receive the fire consumption. Lu Mou also used his power to stipulate that taxes across the country must be paid in silver dollars. Now, if the government collects taxes and the people don't pay in pieces of silver, how can you collect fire expenses? Naturally, when things are done smoothly, the opportunities for officials to exploit the people will be reduced.

Of course, Lu Mou still adheres to his principle of eating meat to leave food for others. As compensation, he earns the interest from the central bank, but he cannot keep it to himself, but he cannot keep the income from the fire. Just give it to those officials in the form of annual rewards. This allows officials to legitimately receive an extra income, which you can spend openly.

Therefore, this time, the Eight Great Families will bring nearly 20 million taels of silver from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which must be exchanged for silver dollars at the Central Bank by paying one cent of fire consumption before they can rush to buy food.

For this reason, everyone expressed their distress over this additional funding.

Fan Wendou sneered at his stinginess: "Now that we have had good harvests of grain in the northwest for many years, the price of grain has dropped to five cents of silver and one stone, and horse feed has dropped to three cents. And the price our master gave us is that grain is one cent. Two and a half, the horse feed is one and two and two. With such a big profit, do you still care about the penny spent? Let the little brat regent make a little, so what does it matter as long as we complete the task? It’s the glory and wealth that breaks the sky.”

Several family heads thought that the leader was right, so they no longer felt sorry for the little money.

Wang Bin from Taiyuan Central Bank feels that things are a bit strange recently. Because many people take large sums of money and go to their central bank to deposit money.

This is actually a good thing, because by collecting silver, not only can you collect one cent of the fire cost, but you can also take it to the backyard and earn another three cents of interest, which makes your bank's profits even more substantial.

But the strange thing is that these people who save money have no habit and willingness to save. They have just finished saving, and someone comes to take it from the back.

As a result, they sometimes took out the newly minted silver coins before they had even cooled down.

This is a bit abnormal.

Out of caution, Wang Bin did not keep his head down and blindly make money. Instead, he wrote a report on this strange phenomenon and reported it to the bank headquarters in Beijing.

Of course, this report was in Lu Mou's hands immediately. Then he ordered: "Order Wang Bin to find out as soon as possible the total amount of money deposited in the bank in the recent period, and then report it to me quickly."

Luo Binggong, who was sitting next to him, asked doubtfully: "Since the regent has understood their intentions and their traitorous behavior, why didn't he immediately go out to arrest them?"

Lu Mou shook his head: "One of my national policies is to vigorously support industry and commerce. You and I know that these eight people are traitors, but the people in the world don't know. Once I catch them here, the people in the world will think that I am going to attack the businessmen again. . That will make all businessmen tremble.

So this time my approach is, I will never arrest these 8 people in the country and let them toss around as much as they like. I want to intercept their supplies outside the Great Wall after they transport them out of the Great Wall. At the same time, I want to delay time and let the Great Wall defense line continue to consume the effective strength of the Qing Dynasty. For this reason, I just let him do whatever he wants. Anyway, the more fun they have, the better it is for our Ming Dynasty's economy, our tax revenue, and the delay in the war. Why don't we keep such pigs? "

Luo Binggong was really convinced by his regent. How could he be so sinister at such a young age?
The figures summarized by Shanxi Wang Bin came up. This figure shocked Luo Binggong and made Lu Mou happy.

What shocked Luo Binggong was that just in the past few days, they had used this method of saving to exchange, and they had a total of 20 million taels of silver. What is the concept? If they use this money to purchase the northwest at normal prices, The grain can be enough to purchase 40 million dan, which can completely devour the surplus grain in the hands of the people in the northwest.

When the time comes when the government wants to use money to acquire it, don’t even think about it.

And Lu Mou smiled happily: "Well, they buy the surplus grain from the people at high prices, making the people's lives richer. And they work hard to buy grain, aren't they working for us? For this reason, I I will personally put up a plaque for these 8 families, with four characters written on it, "For the benefit of the country and the people, what do you think?"

Luo Binggong smiled and said: "Giving them a plaque will not only reassure them, but also show the regent's support for business. But I'm sorry to say something disrespectful. If the regent personally inscribes the plaque, I'm afraid that 8 I will never let it go out, so I’d better ask the governor to write it himself.”

Lu Mou rubbed his nose in embarrassment: "Is my calligraphy that bad?"

Luo Binggong smiled and complimented: "It's not that the regent's calligraphy is bad, it's that the words you wrote are really terrible. To be honest, the regent said that the plaque of the technical school you mentioned at the beginning would have been looked at and guarded by me if I hadn't quietly told the Jin Yiwei to watch it. , I can’t tell you how many times it has been smashed.”

Lu Mou didn't want to talk about such embarrassing things, so he quickly changed the topic: "Has the route of the eight families' future grain transportation been determined?"

"It's confirmed that they are going to leave the Great Wall via Dingbian."

Today, the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty is almost unguarded, with only a few garrisons on beacon towers in various places. In fact, they are not soldiers, they are employees hired by the imperial court. They were only responsible for discovering that the Mongols were invading, lighting beacon towers, and then encircling and suppressing the invading enemies. They were the inland garrison in the northwest and the cavalry teams that moved together.

There is no other way to do this, because the Great Wall defense line is too long. It is really difficult to garrison troops as before. With the Ming Dynasty's current military strength, it is really difficult to do it.

In addition, the current central Mongolia has been transformed into the territory of the Ming Dynasty by the liberation movement carried out by Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang, and there is no need to garrison troops.

In addition, in this nationwide war, all the troops were invested in the eastern Great Wall defense line, so the entire Great Wall defense line was almost in name only.

This time, the eight families chose Dingbian to exit the Great Wall. He went to Wengniute Banner first, and then asked the ministry to send troops to escort them to the enemy's barracks on the eastern Great Wall.

It can be said to be a very sure route.

"You sent the Jinyi Guards to keep an eye on them. Now I will mobilize the mobile Qi Fei Department, ready to take advantage of them at any time."

"Yes."

"I will leave this matter to the old commander. Remember, the eight families will be held up for at least a month, and they will not be allowed to distribute food until a month later. Now, I have to go to Shanhaiguan, where I have been sent out again. What a fool. I have to go take a look, otherwise I won’t worry.”

Luo Binggong said: "Don't worry, Prince Regent. In fact, we don't need to mobilize Qi Fei. We can easily handle this job with the 2 Jin Yiwei in our hands. Just go with peace of mind."

When it comes to trapping people, they have to be the Jin Yiwei. Lu Mou is not as good as them. Besides, now that the capital is stable, he must go to the front line again.

Having no choice but to say goodbye to his brother who was even more seriously ill, Lu Mou flew to the front line of Shanhaiguan. (End of chapter)