Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 193 Seeing the huge gains after the rebellion! Zhu Yuanzhang had a great realization!
When a whale falls, all things are born.

Zhang Cheng and other rebels destroyed the Hu Yuan regime that had controlled Jiangnan for nearly a hundred years, causing Hu Yuan's powerful bureaucrats to lose their assets here.

And these assets originally controlled by Hu Yuan's powerful bureaucrats have become a feast for people from all walks of life in Jiangnan to share their interests.

During this period, there were many wealthy gentry and wealthy businessmen like Xia Xie who began to spend more money to purchase goods, especially from Huimin.

Because Huimin Commercial Bank was a government-controlled commercial bank that operated various civilian industrial products, handicrafts and other commodities for Zhang Cheng and others since Zhang Cheng and Zhu Yuanzhang conquered Chuzhou.

When Zhai Guangsen, the director in charge of running Huimin Trading Company, met Zhang Cheng after the rebels captured Jiqing, he showed Zhang Cheng the new payment for goods he had received:

"Currently, there are more than 11.2 million taels of silver worth at a discount!"

"Especially in the past few days, because the rebel army captured Jiqing, many of Hu Yuan's powerful and powerful officials were made prisoners. They also gave the people food, clothing and wages, and even divided the land among the people. This caused the merchants to aggressively increase their orders to Huimin Commercial Bank, so that In recent days, the purchase price has increased to more than 3 million taels of silver!"

"Sure enough, it's easier to get rich by rebelling."

"No wonder people have not been allowed to rebel in all dynasties. As long as the rebellion succeeds, the benefits will be much greater than serious farming and doing business!"

Zhang Cheng couldn't help but sigh a few words to Zhu Yuanzhang who was also here.

Zhu Yuanzhang, on the other hand, rested his elbows on the tables and said thoughtfully: "You don't know if you don't rebel, but you will know when you rebel. Now, those of us who just captured Jiqing City will be confused." Less money.”

"It's not just the money."

"Although the Prime Minister and Mr. Zhang decided to divide the private lands of Hu Yuan, noble officials and bureaucrats in Jiangnan among the people, their properties such as shops and workshops in Jiangnan, as well as those slaves and livestock, as well as houses, cars, grain, fodder, and weapons , and even the gold, silver and jewels have not been divided yet. If these are not divided among the people and are only divided into the private treasury of the Prime Minister and Mr. Zhang, it will be a huge sum of money. "

Zhai Guangsen smiled and expressed his opinion.

"Why don't you use it all to benefit the people? Either divide it or keep it for relief purposes!"

Zhu Yuanzhang suggested at this time.

Zhang Cheng asked Zhai Guangsen: "I would like to hear what you mean."

Zhai Guangsen looked at Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang also said: "Yes, since you took the initiative to mention these industries and assets, you must have your own ideas, but it doesn't matter."

"Then the villain will speak out boldly."

"Shops and workshops are naturally not suitable to be distributed to the people, because they cannot run them. It is best to sell them to merchants who can run them. However, it is best for the Prime Minister and Mr. Zhang, who are prominent people in the rebel army, to continue to participate in the share distribution."

After Zhai Guangsen said this, Zhu Yuanzhang asked: "Why do we still need to participate in the stock split?"

Zhai Guangsen said with a smile: "If ordinary merchants don't have a backer, they won't be able to continue their business. The government officials can find various ways to seal your shop and seize the goods."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhang Cheng and said with a smile: "It seems that we can continue to sit here and collect money!"

"Of course! I just said that the benefits of rebellion are huge."

Zhang Cheng asked Zhai Guangsen to continue talking.

"As for houses, cars, gold, silver, jewelry, grain, fodder, and livestock, it is not appropriate to distribute them to the people. It is mainly distributed to the people, which is not conducive to the people's struggle."

"When people get these, they will become arrogant and lazy and unwilling to work anymore."

"Besides, it's not easy to divide. It's hard to define who gets gold, silver, jewelry, and who gets just food."

After Zhai Guangsen said that, Zhu Yuanzhang asked: "What about dividing the points among the soldiers according to their merit?"

"The Prime Minister's idea is naturally excellent, but the Prime Minister doesn't know that the wealth held by Hu Yuan's nobles and bureaucrats is not a small amount. If they really want to distribute it all to the soldiers, the soldiers will probably not want to go to battle to kill the enemy again."

Zhai Guangsen said.

Zhang Cheng nodded and said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "That's right. The property that is being copied now is owned by the Huben Camp of Huayun. It is also temporarily managed by the Huben Camp. According to the Huayun Newspaper, the gold alone now exceeds thirty Ten thousand taels, and the grain exceeds tens of millions of dan. Now it is not a problem to give each rebel a hundred dan of food. If the gold, grain and other assets are really divided, they will probably just want to live as rich landlords in Jiangnan. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang washed his face. He believed what Zhang Cheng said.

Because he also ransacked homes in Chuzhou.

It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang is now immune and is no longer shocked by this.

He just didn't expect that one day, in order to let the soldiers and civilians continue to fight, most of these assets would only be possessed by a few leading figures in the rebel army, including himself, who would undoubtedly occupy a large part. This will undoubtedly allow his family to have food and clothing for generations to come.

The thought of this.

Zhu Yuanzhang was even a little ecstatic. Not only Zhu Yuanzhang was ecstatic, but Zhang Cheng himself was also ecstatic.

Because he will also get a large part of it, and then through some operations, it will become the capital for him to enjoy long-lasting wealth in the modern world.

But Zhang Cheng and Zhu Yuanzhang quickly recovered their senses.

After all, they are people with lofty goals.

Zhu Yuanzhang even came to his senses earlier than Zhang Cheng and said to Zhang Cheng: "Mr. Zhang, we think we cannot forget the beliefs of Datong Society!"

"nature!"

Zhang Cheng nodded solemnly, and then said: "How to divide these properties, as well as the division of land mentioned before, will still have to wait for other ruling parties to decide, so as to avoid discord and internal divisions, but in any case, I hope, At least everyone must be willing to give the private lands left by the powerful bureaucrats of Hu Yuan to the people. This is the most basic requirement for long-term peace and stability in the world. "

"That's the truth."

"It will not be detrimental to the common people's struggle if they get a piece of land. After all, the land will not produce crops on its own."

"If this benefit is not given to the people, there will be nothing to say. Then we can only speak with the sword!"

Zhu Yuanzhang agreed.

Zhang Cheng looked at Zhai Guangsen and said, "You go back first. In addition, tell the merchants for me that our rebel army is about to hold an investment fair, involving investment promotion and auctions of various properties left by the former powerful officials of the Hu Yuan Dynasty. Let them prepare funds and corresponding plans in advance!”

"The purpose of our rebel army is to benefit the people, so even if we have to trade and sell many of the confiscated assets, we will only sell them to him because he will be more beneficial to the people after acquiring these properties!"

"So, they need to write a plan and express their business blueprint. For example, after acquiring a certain weaving mill, what scale will it reach in a few years, how many jobs will it create, how much tax can it pay, and where can it open? I don’t like the kind of businessmen who just want to rely on the big tree of our rebel army and eat the rice bowl of monopoly, instead of being enterprising, they just want to take advantage of opportunities! "

When Zhang Cheng said this, Zhu Yuanzhang also appreciated it: "Mr. Zhang's words are absolutely correct!"

"Even if it is to be beneficial to business, it must essentially be beneficial to the people. We can distribute dividends to be your backer, but you cannot make shoddy products, buy and sell by force, and pay high prices just because we are your backer."

"We have suffered from many monopoly merchants before. With the support of a certain Hu Yuan official, they monopolized the salt market in a county and forced us to buy bad salt at high prices."

Zhu Yuanzhang agreed, and because he was from a lower class background and had traveled among the people for many years, he knew how collusion between government and businessmen was harmful to the people, so he wanted to let businessmen only be pure businessmen, so he asked Zhai Guangsen:

"If we rebel leaders don't take shares and pay dividends, you businessmen really can't run your own business and just make money for yourself?"

"Prime Minister, this is really not good!"

"Unless I'm related to the Prime Minister or Mr. Zhang, or the rebel army gives me an official position."

Zhai Guangsen replied with a wry smile.

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a stern face: "Don't you believe in the administration of our rebel army? Don't you believe that Mr. Zhang and I will not strictly control the official school of the rebel army and not make it difficult for you to operate normally?"

"This one……"

Zhai Guangsen couldn't answer for a while.

Seeing this, Zhang Cheng advised: "Sir, please don't embarrass him. You and I actually understand that in this world, who doesn't go to a dock first to do business? After all, in the land of China, there are many people and few businesses, so power has always come from the top." So, don’t the few who can do business have backers? It’s impossible for ordinary people to accumulate wealth and achieve wealth purely through doing business freely! They have to find backers and train their children to study and become officials, even if they are temporarily supported. After accumulating wealth by doing business, they have to quickly buy land, participate in mergers, and deprive other people of their livelihood, so that their children can earn rent, go to school, and then become officials. Generally speaking, people want to become rich only through business. Might as well just rely on rebellion!”

When Zhang Cheng said this, Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned, and then murmured to himself: "It has to change! Mr. Zhang, we have to change this situation. Business profits can only be obtained by those with property rights, which is not conducive to the long-term peace and stability of the world." of!"

"Then we need to develop industry and provide the principle of distribution of income for work, so that people can accumulate wealth by working in factories even if they have no land! Then compete for business profits!"

Zhang Cheng replied.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and looked at Zhai Guangsen: "You go back first and do as Mr. Zhang wants. For the time being, we and Mr. Zhang, the rebel leaders, will buy shares to support you, as long as you are doing business for the country and the people!"

"That's right. It's just how to invest in the shares and in what form. We have to discuss it before telling you."

Zhang Cheng said.

Zhai Guangsen raised his hand and said yes.

Then, Zhang Cheng said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Ordinary businessmen with no background naturally hope that those of us with military strength will cooperate with them, but we have to be careful ourselves and cannot just jump in just because we can get dividends in vain, in order to prevent At that time, the rebel army only wanted to support businessmen, but not the people. The entire rebel army became the general backstage for corrupt officials to join forces with profiteers to exploit the people. We must seriously discuss this after Feng Guoyong and Li Shanchang arrive. "

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "That's right, after all, we are people who want to be united, not just for our own wealth."

"Then, let's strengthen the social rights first! Before the political meeting, let's ventilate the atmosphere within the Datong Society and let the members be prepared to forcibly eliminate those who are rebels and have non-Datong ideals! Use an organized and premeditated team to rectify the situation Unorganized and faithless rebels!”

(End of this chapter)