Mingshi

Chapter 1524
There were quite a few people who paid New Year greetings to Luo Xin in previous years, but never as many as this year.Moreover, in the past years, the Luo Mansion only accepted famous assassins, and those who paid New Year's greetings also knew that Luo Xin could not receive them, so they just asked the concierge to pay their respects and let Luo Xin know that they had come.

However, this year is different, they are here to inquire about news, and Luo Xin also knows their purpose, if he does not receive them, people will hate them.Not only will it become an obstacle for officials to defect to Luo Xin, but it will also make their own people feel that they are not valued, and if they don't regard him as their own, they may switch to others, so they have no choice but to receive him.

Since people are allowed to come in, they can't just leave after a visit, they must have something to drink, this is the rule.And he had to let his son Luo Yu come out to pay New Year's greetings, which was also a rule.

Luo Yu was very excited at the beginning, because he could receive red envelopes for New Year greetings.However, after only half a day, Luo Yu was exhausted.But still had to continue to pay New Year's greetings, which means that Luo Yu practiced martial arts since childhood, and the children of other families would be exhausted.

After the third day of junior high school, I finally calmed down.Luo Xin also went to Gao Gong, Ma Fang and Yan Na to pay New Year's greetings.Then he thought about how to stop the new treasure banknote at home.

After thinking about it for a day, Luo Xin came up with an unsure way.That is to publicize the new treasure banknote in advance.It is said that there is a money shortage in Ming Dynasty, Xu Jie and Zhang Juzheng are preparing to issue new treasure notes, and in the future officials' salaries will also be issued treasure notes.What's more, the old treasure banknotes talked about things, and they said all the disadvantages of treasure banknotes.

In fact, Luo Xin thought things were complicated, while Zhang Juzheng thought things simple.

Today's treasure banknotes are already smelly on the street, not to mention that no one recognizes the treasure banknotes, as long as they are next to the treasure banknotes, no one recognizes them.Both the officials and the common people hated the treasure banknotes.

What Zhang Juzheng thought was that as long as the court announced the abolition of the old banknotes, and then the court issued new banknotes, and the court promised that the new banknotes would not depreciate, the reputation of the banknotes could be revived.

However, no one believed it!

Not to mention ordinary people, even officials can't accept it.At the beginning, the imperial court gave them treasure notes as salaries, so that they couldn't get enough to eat.After much difficulty, now because of Luo Xin's series of measures, the Southern Maritime Shipping Department and the Northern Mutual Market.Disarmament, etc., made the court's finances better, and finally no longer needed to open treasure notes, and got real money.At this time, if you want to use precious banknotes instead of real money, even these officials are very resistant.

If Xu Jie and Zhang Juzheng made a sudden move, and then forced orders from top to bottom, and then got a better start, maybe this new treasure banknote might still be implemented.However, being stabbed out by Luo Xin in advance, this formed a rolling wave.

In just a few days, the entire capital was in a panic.From the officials to the common people, everyone fell into a panic before they got out of the excitement of the new year.

Is the court going to issue new banknotes?

Does this keep people alive?

No one knew where the news came from. Lu Cuiqiao was familiar with doing these things, and the spread was fast and wide, and people couldn't find the source.

All of a sudden, every household tightened their money and kept all the copper coins at home, unwilling to spend them, and the money shortage suddenly intensified.And this kind of panic is spreading from the capital at an extremely fast speed to the south, north, and sixty-thirteen provinces.

The entire officialdom was discussing this time, and some officials even went to the cabinet to block the door, demanding that the cabinet give a clear statement.

Now that the Ming Dynasty's finances are improving, why did the cabinet make such a contradictory policy?

Gao Gong received those officials who blocked the door in a high-profile manner, and said righteously:

"The cabinet doesn't know about the new banknotes. It has never been discussed. I don't know where you got the news from?"

"Old Gao Ge, do you dare to make sure that the cabinet has no such idea here?"

Gao Gong pondered for a while and said: "I'm sure that the cabinet has never discussed this matter, and I have never heard of it, and I have never thought of it. If it is someone else's idea, I will I no longer know."

"Old Xu Ge, tell me something, does the cabinet really have this idea?"

Xu Jie was really devastated, and he already keenly knew in his heart that the matter of the new treasure banknote was over.The voice of opposition has formed a general trend. At this juncture, whoever dares to block the general trend will be smashed to pieces.

Xu Jie is also a decisive person, so he said simply:

"Neither I nor the cabinet have ever had this idea. This is a rumor, and it is a rumor with ulterior motives. The cabinet will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly, and once it is found out who made the rumor, it will be severely punished."

Speaking of this, Xu Jie glanced at Luo Xin intentionally or unintentionally.

After this incident happened, Zhang Juzheng immediately found Xu Jie. Seeing Zhang Juzheng, Xu Jie immediately asked:

"Tai Yue, who else have you told about the new treasure notes?"

"Roxin!"

"You..." Xu Jie pointed at Zhang Juzheng and said, "You are confused!"

"The students want to get his support and a whip!" Zhang Juzheng said with his head down.

Xu Jie's expression froze, then he sat down and slowly regained his composure.He can understand Zhang Juzheng at this moment.When Zhang Juzheng proposed a whip, he wanted Xu Jie's support.But Xu Jie opposed a whip.Thinking about it now, this is forcing Zhang Juzheng to gain the support of others.

When Luo Xin proposed a whip in the court, Xu Jie knew that Zhang Juzheng and Luo Xin had cooperated.He was a little annoyed, but also a little relieved.

Annoyed that Zhang Juzheng actually deviated from his own wishes, but gratified that Zhang Juzheng had his own thoughts.

A chief minister of the cabinet cannot be a respondent, he must have his own ideals and his own methods.Therefore, in the end Xu Jie also agreed to a whip, and fought for Zhang Juzheng to take charge of the pilot and finally the power to take charge of the south.It was precisely because Xu Jie did this that Zhang Juzheng felt guilty and respected Xu Jie even more.

"What happened later? How did you get involved in the new treasure notes?"

"We..." Zhang Juzheng looked up at Xu Jie, then lowered his head in shame and said, "Then Luo Xin and I argued a whip, and finally predicted the money shortage, and I proposed a new treasure note."

"How does Luo Xin think about the new treasure?"

"He firmly opposes..."

Zhang Juzheng recounted what Luo Xin had said in detail.Xu Jie sighed and said:

"It seems that this rumor was spread by Luo Xin."

"Why would he do that?"

"Because he predicted that you and I would probably go the way of Baochao."

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