After he found out, he learned a lesson, cut his finger, wrote a letter in blood and sent it to the cabinet, stating the interests and dangers, every word was filled with tears, and it was a wake-up call for everyone.
This folder was handed to Hanlin who was handling it. Hanlin opened it and broke into a cold sweat when he looked at the bloody book. When such a bloody book was sent to His Majesty, the trading of kitchen knives would be prohibited, and those caught in Zhang's consortium would be severely punished.
He wiped his sweat, hurriedly exchanged the zhezi secretly, and jointly ordered a Hanlin official to imitate the handwriting of the official to write another non-painful zhezi and send it to the prime minister.
The prime minister saw that the language was crude and useless, so he kept it in the middle without submitting it to the emperor.
The matter ended like this, and the officials continued to go offline to make money. The prime minister then asked his brother-in-law to make money and then divided the account.
Most people don't want to consider the interests of the court in the face of huge interests, and they don't think this matter is as serious as the official said.
Although it will end when most people in the world buy kitchen knives, they have made enough money before that, and the court has also made enough money.
At that time, the closed shops can be opened again, and the people who have lost their livelihood can continue to make a living. It is no big deal.
As for the dispersion of people's hearts, how can it be so easy for people's hearts to dissipate?
Half a year later, the Zhang family's popularity reached its peak, and the person in charge of the Zhang family could even meet with emperors of various countries to discuss mining metal mines.
Forging black iron kitchen knives naturally requires a large amount of ores and metals. The person in charge of the Zhang family said sadly that they were short of raw materials and feared that the business would be unsustainable in the future.
When the emperor and ministers heard that this was not possible, they still wanted to make a lot of money. How could they do it without a kitchen knife? They just wanted ore. Can I sell you the ore mountain?
Of course, the people in charge were very willing to spend money, and spent twice the market price to buy real black iron ore, concentrated iron ore, copper ore, black gold ore, and even mithril ore.
After Zhang obtained these ores, he mined them day and night and smelted them on the spot. A small part of the forged metals was kept in the local area to hide from others, but most of them also flowed into the Great Shang Dynasty.
At the same time, Zhang used the official connections he had established to purchase countless magical herbs, elixirs, timber, and fairy grains that were left unharvested in the fields.
People in the Four Dynasties don't know why, but the price of storage items has increased dramatically recently. In order to prevent price speculation, local governments are not allowed to increase prices by more than 30%. As a result, the supply exceeds demand, but it is still not particularly expensive.
Mu Qianyu's Fengtian Palace was filled with storage rings, and she couldn't even see what was inside. That's when Nannan's puppets came in handy.
These dolls already have mental powers and can hear slightly more complex instructions. It is easy to help count and record the number of things in each category.
Mu Qianyu was very pleased with this. It was better to be a doll, which could work without revealing any secrets.
Now it has been more than half a year since the establishment of Zhang's consortium. She has received hundreds of billions of spiritual stones in total, and almost 50,000 spiritual stones have been taken out of the pockets of most people from the four major dynasties.
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The combined population of the four major dynasties is almost 50 billion. If she had not returned a lot of commissions, her current assets would be at least tens of billions. But this is enough, after all, she has brought back many resources.
The economic sanctions imposed by these dynasties on large merchants are now in vain. Of course, these dynasties have not yet reacted. They are still addicted to the dream of getting rich selling and buying kitchen knives. They have not realized that this was a problem from the beginning.
A huge scam.
The more commissions you get, the more people will be deceived. Everyone wants to be on the top of the tower, but the vast majority of people are the people who are cut off from the bottom of the tower.
These people are obsessed with getting something for nothing and give up the career they depend on for survival. In the end, they will find that everything is in vain.
Ten months later, Beiyan was the first to realize that something was not right. The Ministry of Revenue received reports from officials from various places saying that tax collections were no longer coming in and suddenly they were no longer being collected.
What had originally been a sudden increase of dozens of times was now suddenly reduced to even one-tenth of the original amount. Most of the shops on the street were closed because there was no supply of supplies.
Mining workers no longer work, casual cultivators who collect herbs start to stop collecting herbs, mercenaries who used to do tasks and experience no longer go to the Dark Forest, alchemists and weapon refiners no longer refine, and even those in shops no longer
The guys have all gone on strike, and many bosses no longer want to open stores. They just want to sell kitchen knives and make a lot of money.
However, as most people in the entire imperial court bought kitchen knives, the vast majority of people became upper-line people, with nowhere to develop and lower-line people. The shortcomings of the previous false prosperity were instantly exposed.
There is no money. The money in people's hands is not only to buy kitchen knives, but also after these months of squandering. Before, everyone thought that they would make a fortune soon. Who would be prudent at this time?
Moreover, many of them have not done anything to make a living for many months. After investing, they get very little return, and even some of the returns are squandered, waiting to make more money.
However, the market became saturated in a short period of time. When I stopped, I found that not only did I not make any money, but I also lost a lot of the money I had saved before.
It's so difficult to find something to do quickly. The shops are not open and there are no raw materials everywhere. How can it be so easy to start from scratch?
The Emperor of Beiyan still did not realize the seriousness of the problem. After all, the Zhang family's kitchen knife business had made the court so much money before. It is understandable that the economy is now somewhat depressed, as long as it gradually recovers.
Officials at the lower levels followed the instructions to support people's livelihood, but when people started their jobs, they not only had to face an industrial chain that had not yet recovered, but the most difficult one was the psychological one.
Because of this turmoil, many people have really made money. They have seen with their own eyes that some people are making a lot of money just because they bought kitchen knives in the first place. They can enjoy the food and drink at home without having to go out to make a living.
They just missed the opportunity to make money because they bought it a little late. Now they not only spend so much money, but also have to do things all over again to make a living. Naturally, they will be mentally unbalanced, and they still keep thinking about finding sideways ways to make money.
It was at this time that another kind of cloth became popular, using the same commission method as before, and selling 10,000 spiritual stones per piece of cloth.
The chamber of commerce that issued the cloth this time was still the Zhang Consortium, which gained the trust of the people from the beginning.
And this time the people responded more actively than before. They must go online this time to make money. If they hesitate, they will still end up in poverty.
So another wave of fabric fever swept across the four great dynasties.