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

At the high court, Lu Mou officially announced his plan to decentralize power and rule the world together with his ministers. This immediately filled the officials' faces with excitement. After being an official for a lifetime, I could finally take the initiative and do something.

After the ministers pretended to give some false advice that they did not believe, such as that the emperor should be arbitrary, that the emperor should be diligent, and other nonsense, everyone truly accepted the imperial power and ministerial power, and the dream of ruling the world together.

In the royal study, he summoned his younger brother and Sun Bin, the general manager of the central bank who asked to see him.

Sun Bin came to plead guilty because the bonds he promoted were not going well. It has been released for half a month, but only a few thousand copies have been sold. This was purchased by the royal eunuchs out of loyalty to their master's family, but to the public, almost no one was sold.

This is wrong.

The Ming Dynasty that I control now has a prosperous people and a strong country, but it is fundamentally different from the prosperous people and a weak country in the Chongzhen period of Tianqi.

The original Ming Dynasty actually implemented the policy of hiding wealth among the people starting from Zhu Yuanzhang, but later this path gradually went astray.

Wealth is hidden only in the gentry class and among the huge group of businessmen. They have huge wealth and land, but they don’t pay taxes or grain. These two classes are getting richer and richer.

However, Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue also continued to rise over time, and these fiscal revenues and expenditures could only be obtained from ordinary people. What ended up happening was that the people at the lower levels were miserable and displaced, and their finances became increasingly tight. Finally, under the double blow of natural and man-made disasters, they completely collapsed, almost to the point of ruining the country and the family.

However, Lu Mou came through time and implemented the imperial decree, which truly reduced the burden on the people. In addition to collecting taxes from the people, most of the revenue of the treasury came from plundering from outside and commercial tax revenue. Coupled with the favorable weather, the people have truly become prosperous and the country has become strong, and the people have real savings in their hands.

Not to mention anything else, the eight Shanxi merchants alone scattered more than 20 million taels of silver among the people.

This is a huge amount of money. In addition, the government continues to use the stolen money to purchase surplus grain from the private sector, hire people, pay military salaries, increase officials' salaries, and other measures to stimulate the economy. This puts the people in the hands of the people. Surplus money.

At this time, according to common sense, as long as the family is diligent and frugal, there is no problem in purchasing war bonds of 10 silver dollars each.

What's more, this time it is paid with interest, and it is guaranteed with salt, backed by the bank, and can pay taxes and land rent to maintain its value. People should not not buy it.

Lu Mou was confused: "It shouldn't be. This is obviously an opportunity to make money, but why are the people responding so coldly? Is it because my reputation is not good?"

"Your Majesty, everyone's trust in your Majesty is absolutely undeniable."

"Isn't it also bad for the court's credibility?"

Sun Bin said: "I have to say something disrespectful. If it were left to the Chongzhen Dynasty, the credibility of our Ming Dynasty would indeed be gone. The people would only have resentment towards the court. But since the regent came to power and implemented the emperor's order, we The reputation of the Ming Dynasty among the people is really at its peak. "

This is indeed true. Let’s not talk about the previous dynasty, when Lu Mou was in power. Even when the Manchu and other coalition forces were suppressing the territory, the court still implemented the method of hiring common people as civilian husbands, and its credibility was absolutely perfect.

"Then what happened?"

"This slave is incompetent. I really can't figure out the reason."

Lu Mou pondered for a moment: "I seem to understand. When you sell bonds, do you just sit in the hall and sell them instead of going out and actively promoting them?"

Sun Bin was puzzled: "Isn't it supposed to be like this?"

Now Lu Mou finally understood what the problem was.

First of all, the vast majority of businessmen in this era just sit in the hall and wait for customers and rarely promote or promote. For this reason, not many people know about the issue of their own bonds. Moreover, ordinary people do not have the habit of saving money. They like to bury their money at home to feel at ease, so they are even less proactive about buying bonds.

At the same time, due to the above two reasons, and the branches of our own bank are only in a few big cities, the issuance of bonds is even less known. "Go out and explain sales to the people. If we take the initiative, we can open up the situation."

"Your Majesty, can you mobilize the power of the government? That would be faster." Sun Bin made a cautious request.

Lu Mou shook his head firmly: "This matter is based on the people's voluntariness, and the power of the government must not be used. Once the power of the government is used, the people will once again think that the government is going to marry by force again.

And when the power of the government is used, those officials will make things difficult for others. Whether they can afford to buy or not, they must buy. This would ruin the good reputation we had just built. "

Sun Bin quickly apologized: "I am short-sighted. I know I was wrong."

At this time, Zhu Cizhen suddenly proposed: "Since all the eunuchs in our family have subscribed to our bonds, this is a favor. Then the maids we married before were all soldiers or officials' families. Now our natal family If you are in trouble, why don’t you mobilize them to help us buy some?”

Lu Mou's eyes immediately lit up at such a suggestion: "Yes, in the past few years, I have been working as a matchmaker, but I have married palace maids worth twenty to thirty thousand. They married soldiers, and they got dividends from the military and wars over the years. , the life of the soldiers is prosperous. And they are married to the children of officials, and their lives are quite prosperous. Also, they have quite a lot of status in their respective families, as long as they offer to help our family to survive. This is how their family and husband will go against their wishes."

"The servant is here."

"Now you immediately mobilize the palace maids and eunuchs to visit the relatives of the original sisters and ask them to buy bonds. At the same time, also ask the married sisters to mobilize their relatives and friends to sell bonds for us. As my uncle, I promise them, For every bond they sell, I give him a penny of benefit, the more the better.”

Then the more he thought about it, the more excited he became: "And you tell our sisters to develop offline and continue to promote for us. And as usual, for every share sold, I will give him a penny, and ask them to give it to those who help him Sisters selling bonds.”

This is the template for MLM. If you kill him, it will bring you disadvantages.

After understanding the emperor's tricks, Sun Bin was overjoyed at the time: "It's great that the emperor's generous act can help our sisters who promote bonds earn a little bit. In this way, I think our Bonds can be a hit.”

"Then you hurry up and get it done, our court is still waiting for the money."

Using pyramid schemes to issue bonds, you can first get married to the sisters, and the effect will be immediate.

First of all, if the sisters know that their parents' family is in trouble, what else can they say? They must help. As the saying goes, a daughter is half a thief. Good things have to be transferred from her husband's family to her mother's family. To buy bonds, you have to buy more.

For this reason, they cried, made trouble, and hung themselves to mobilize their parents-in-law to help.

He also used his distinguished status to blackmail his husband into paying.

Then I started going from house to house, looking for relatives, friends, and sisters. As soon as I entered the house, I could talk about the bonds in a few sentences, and then I told you forever, that is my determination that I will never leave if you don’t buy the bonds.

Everyone has a tendency to lose face. Although he is unwilling to lend money to others, he cannot withstand the teasing of the royal daughter. Don't be impatient.

Buy it as a favor to the royal daughter.

As a result, the MLM industry chain that flourished in Ming Dynasty was born.

In just one month, more than 200 million bonds that were originally unsold were sold, which can be said to be a good start.

At that time, various expenses until the end of the year were alleviated.

Wu Sangui's army construction also accelerated the reorganization and expansion of the army because of abundant money and food. (End of chapter)