Chapter 281 The return of Japan (Enji) attracts much attention
Gao Pangshi is about to return to Beijing to report on his duties. This is naturally the political trend that the courtiers are most concerned about at present, because his return to Beijing this time is not an ordinary report on his duties, but he is also responsible for the victory in the war to aid Korea, promoting the inward attachment of Korea, and planning to send troops to Japan.
Three major events, every move is even more eye-catching.
All forces are very concerned about this. Needless to say about the emperor, there are many detailed issues that need to be discussed just for the annexation of Korea, including the arrangement of the King of Korea and the Korean courtiers, the administrative and military system settings after the annexation of Korea, and the
How to start the post-war reconstruction and where the money came from, how to reward the various ministries participating in the war to aid Korea, etc.
In addition, the "divisions" mentioned above do not only refer to the military divisions, but also include the Mongolian Tumut, Ordos and Nenhorqin tribes, and the Jurchen tribes such as Jianzhou Guard, Jianzhou Left Guard, Jianzhou Right Guard, and Yehe Tribe.
, Hada Tribe, Ula Tribe and some small tribes, etc., they also sent troops with the conscription, and of course they would 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 highly pragmatic God of Wealth must be present for the discussion to be meaningful.
Otherwise, you have been discussing for a long time and finally come to a conclusion, but the word "household department" comes back to you. How shameless is that?
Which two words are you asking? Of course...no money.
Although it seems that since Gao Pragmatic took control of the Ministry of Revenue, it seems that there are very few - or at all - hearing the word "no money" directly said by the Ministry of Revenue, but it is not appropriate to assume that this is because the Ministry of Revenue has not said it before.
No one dares to ignore a highly pragmatic opinion. If you really ignore someone, see if he will kill you on the spot by saying "no money".
Otherwise, the most popular god in the world is the God of Wealth, because often a penny can really kill a good man.
The same goes for the imperial court. The most important thing in the world is nothing but money and food. If you really have unlimited money and food to throw around at will, no matter how much you, the emperor and officials, waste, things may not be as bad as life or death.
Of course, the problem often lies in lack of money and food, and that is generally the end of the world. How the Ming Dynasty was embarrassed in terms of money and food decades ago, most of the current generation of officials have experienced it, and they were generally not around at that time
From a high position, the experience is actually deeper.
Nonsense, will the salary of the cabinet ministers be owed? Of course those who are owed are the people below... Besides, the cabinet ministers are also not short of this salary. Just like Gao Gong was relatively poor because he was honest, but in the end he relied on the salary
When others write epitaphs and other things, they polish their pens.
To be honest, this money is much easier to earn than the salary from the imperial court. As long as Party A is not a heinous and pure scumbag, you can take this job, because if you just pick out some of the people's advantages and praise them and write them down, you will get a lot of money.
I got it, and because I didn’t write anything against my heart, I felt no guilt at all.
Of course, this job was not only accepted by Gao Gongjian, but also accepted by Gao pragmatism. The difference is that Gao Gongjian took this job to earn some easy money to support his family in Hukou, while Gao Pragmatic took this job in order to maintain connections and maintain relationships.
Appealing power, after all, he doesn’t lack the money.
Closer to home, when the court decides on major issues, it is indispensable to ask for pragmatic opinions on almost everything, because over the years, everyone has become more and more aware that no matter what ideas you have, you cannot disagree with the opinions of the Ministry of Revenue.
Otherwise, no matter how wise and powerful you think the idea is, it will be useless because you won’t be able to implement it.
As long as the Ministry of Accounts approves it and allocates money, then congratulations, this matter is basically done. If it doesn't work, well... please ask the Ministry of Accounts to allocate another amount, it can always be done.
The emergence of this situation has led to the current Xin School officials, especially the elders of the Xin School, becoming increasingly less confident when facing high pragmatism.
It's like people with certain functional challenges walking around the streets and willow alleys, thinking a lot, but if no one gives them a certain drug, they can only worry. In this way, the person holding that drug in his hand becomes
They find someone they can't afford to offend - even if they know they should be on the opposite side of that person, it's still hard for them to stand upright.
Why did the Ming Dynasty become like this? They are often so indignant in their hearts, but when they are faced with high pragmatism, they dare not say these words, or even feel this way.
No expression at all.
Just imagine, because you, the court official, offended Gao Pragmatic, the office funds in the yamen were not available. There was a lack of charcoal in the winter, no fans in the summer, and even the food was only enough to feed the dogs. So what do the people below think of you? How many people can there be?
Determined to follow you?
Therefore, some people in later generations said that the most basic job of a top leader is to get money from superiors. This is not unreasonable.
Now that Gao Pragmatic is coming back, and his attitude on these three matters is very clear, then the question comes to everyone in the DPRK: Do you want to object? Is it possible to object? What will happen if you don't object?
Do you want to object? Well, it’s best not to. The reasons have been analyzed above.
Is it possible to object? I guess it’s not possible, because the holy book of high pragmatism is obvious, and one of his characteristics over the years is that he will never engage in loss-making transactions.
By extension, Gao Pragmatic believes that North Korea's conquest is a good thing. No matter whether he discovers the good thing or not, Gao Pragmatic will definitely benefit the court from this matter afterwards to prove that it is indeed a good thing.
Does continuing to conquer Japanese pirates violate the ancestral system, and is it necessary? If Gao Pragmatic says no violation, then "no violation", anyway, I don't know how many systems he has changed now.
If you think about it, you will know that since he quoted "Although Zhou was an old state, its destiny was to be restored", there have been so many things about "following the will of the ancestors but not necessarily the system of the ancestors". What's even more terrible is that these "restorations" ended up being
All prove that it is necessary, and each has huge benefits.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Just take a look: the post station reform, the efficiency of the court post station has been greatly improved, and a huge expenditure of 1.3 million taels of silver has been saved every year, and even
It has actually made a profit in the past few years. The entire post system turned over 270,000 taels of silver to the Ministry of Household Affairs last year alone. When some veterans in the court heard about it, they almost collectively cried out for hell.
The War of Yunnan and Burma was a broken battle that would cost a lot of money no matter how you looked at it. Gao Pragmatic insisted on fighting it, and in fact it turned out that the court borrowed money to fight the war. As a result, after so many years, looking back, not only the principal and interest of the loan was
After all was paid, the imperial court still made more than one million taels, and the money has not yet been earned... The imperial court still has some gold, silver, and jade mines from Myanmar.
So far, no obvious profit has been seen, except for driving away the Chahar tribe. However, this is mainly because the investment after the war was quite large, such as rebuilding Daning City, which cost a lot. If it were not for these
, just judging from the income from the newly established ranches and horse farms for supplying horses and selling cattle and sheep in the pass, it may be possible to "turn losses into profits" in just a few years.
Well, this does not take into account the economic promotion effect of the increase in horses in the customs (equivalent to more convenient logistics), otherwise the benefits will definitely be greater.
Then there is the Ming Federal Reserve, which many people cannot understand so far. For many people, they can’t even figure out “what on earth is this yamen doing”, and many people just regard it as a unified big government.
As for banks, the problem is that the Federal Reserve does not lend directly to individuals. It only lends money to the imperial court and large banks registered in the European Union, and the interest rates are ridiculously low.
The annual interest it received on the money it lent to the imperial court was only one hundred and one. The annual interest it received on the money it lent to big banks was slightly higher and fluctuated, but it was generally only between one hundred and two to one hundred and three.
Although it requires borrowers to have collateral to borrow money, it has actually never asked for collateral from any creditor who cannot repay the debt. Instead, it usually takes the initiative to understand the situation before the debt defaults, or takes the initiative to extend the repayment period afterwards -
—But if it really gets to this point, it will require "business guidance."
Another problem is that no one knows how much money the Federal Reserve has in the Ming Dynasty. Anyway, a group of people once united to conduct a run, and at that time they came up with a huge amount: 11.39 million taels.
Not to mention a "joint bank", even the Ministry of Accounts may not be able to come up with such a large amount of money at any time, but the Federal Reserve Bank of China did not even blink an eyebrow, and completely spent it within one and a half months according to the Federal Reserve Bank of China's own regulations.
These more than 10 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 Dynasty Federal Reserve Bank.
There are more than ten million taels of silver bricks, piled there like a mountain of silver!
To this end, Nanjing's three giants brought more than 2,000 guns and live ammunition, and temporarily transferred the Zhenjiang Guard army from the next door Zhenjiang to protect the site. Jinghua Bank, the backstage of the Ming Dynasty Federal Reserve, also mobilized the Jinghua Ma'anshan Steel Plant Protection Team from nearby Taiping Prefecture.
Six hundred armed servants served as inner guards to ensure that the money would not be robbed by the crazy people.
This incident shocked the world. From then on, no one doubted the strength of the Ming Dynasty Federal Reserve, especially how much cash the Jinghua Group behind the Ming Dynasty Fed owned - well, this was because those silver bricks were all engraved with numbers, such as "Jinghua Group"
One hundred taels of Japanese silver 00032", "One hundred taels of Jinghua Lu silver 00065" and so on.
According to the information later revealed by some sources, "Japanese silver" refers to silver from silver mountains all over Japan, and "Luyin" refers to silver obtained from Luzon. However, these silvers do not seem to come from Luzon, but from Luzon.
"Red Barbarians" were transported across the sea from the "Far East" to trade with Beijing.
"Japanese Bank" is easy to say. Many people in the Jiangnan area have heard of the silver mountain in Japan, but Hongyi actually has so much silver?
So some people who live a life at sea jumped out to explain, saying that everyone who has been with the Jinghua fleet knows that the red barbarians discovered several silver mountains in the far east, and there was too much silver to dig out. If it were not true,
It's too far away, and there are many countercurrents (ocean currents) from our place to the "Far East", otherwise I really want to be a gold digger - oh, a silver digger.
At this moment, everyone was speechless. Everyone had heard about Jinghua's production capacity. Now that there is such a big buyer who has no shortage of money, of course Jinghua's money is too much, too much to estimate.
Of course, these are all folk 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 South Oceans were dispatched at the same time for this purpose, and Jinghua emptied half of its Beijing bank (but not all of it).
(empty), the Bank of Japan and the Bank of Luzon also urgently mobilized so much cash within a month and a half.
The danger in this matter is that at that time, Gao Pragmatic had received news that some chaebols in Jiangnan had joined forces to cause trouble, but many of their deposit certificates at the Ming Dynasty Federal Reserve were like "flying mail" and were not used by themselves.
Identity is saved, but when it comes time to run away, it is all concentrated.
As a result, the two cousins, Gao Guoyan and Gao Pingshi, misjudged the magnitude of the run. They thought the size of the run should be between five million taels and six million taels. Who knows in the end?
It doubled, almost causing the Federal Reserve to overturn.
Of course, no matter what, things were settled perfectly in the end, and the reputation of the Federal Reserve Bank of China as one of the richest in the world was completely established. Including Beijing Bank, the most important investor of the Federal Reserve Bank of China, there is no longer any doubt about its strength. Compared with the final result,
The risks I had taken before seemed worth it.
However, the Federal Reserve has money, but does it mean that the money of major banks and banks depends on the deposits of the capital itself? If the Federal Reserve itself does not make money, then what is the pragmatic purpose of establishing such an institution? Absolutely
Most officials still don't understand.
In their view, the lending interest rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of China is too low. Not only is it unprofitable to just collect the lending interest rate, at least it is making money while throwing it away.
But everything costs money.
But not being able to understand it does not affect a key judgment: only with the Ming Fed in hand and Gao Pragmatic, the head of the "big household department", can he truly control the world's financial power.
If the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue were replaced, apart from other things, would it be so easy to borrow money from the Ming Dynasty Federal Reserve Bank for emergencies? I'm afraid it would be difficult. However, it is a common occurrence for the Ministry of Revenue to have money for emergencies, just like the previous war in North Korea.
Who could have expected such an "unexpected surprise"? If a war is to be launched at the last minute, where the money will come from naturally becomes a big problem.
But now that the Federal Reserve is here, this problem is much simpler - the court can just fight this battle first, and just plan a separate payment for the tax in the next few years as repayment.
He controls the wealth and power of the world, is victorious in all wars, and has benefited from reforms time and time again, and he is only thirty-seven years old. For such an assistant minister to return to Beijing to report on his duties, the proposals he brought naturally attracted much attention.
For example, Zhao Zhigao and Shen Yiguan, the two newly promoted elders of the Xin School, had to have an impromptu meeting today to discuss at Zhao Ge's house what attitude they should have towards relevant major events.
Oh, by the way, the reason why it was at Zhao Zhigao's house was because the elder was in poor health and was almost a medicine pot. It was objectively difficult for him to see Shen Guangyi, because he was not good at what he did.
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