With the end of the bicycle competition, Zhu Yunwen did a live broadcast to bring goods, so that the bicycle as a means of transportation quickly became popular.

As soon as more than a dozen bicycle dealers in the city started to sell, they didn't even resist the situation for a day, and the bicycles priced at 1,500 wen were sold out.

A full 30,000 vehicles.

In this era when two yuan can buy a big white flour steamed bun, the purchasing power of 1,500 yuan is equivalent to 500 yuan in later generations.

This is a figure that any family in Nanjing can afford.

But Xu Buji was still not satisfied.

The newly appointed cabinet chief assistant waited for Zhu Yunwen for several months, and did not wait for the latter to attend the court meeting, so his full stomach of the new deal plan could not be launched, and the latter, who could not sit still, simply left the Wenhua Hall with the main officials of the cabinet and various ministries, and went to various places in Nanjing to conduct the first cabinet investigation.

The first place Xu Buji investigated was the bicycle factory with the hottest sales at the moment, and the first issue he was concerned about was the guide price of bicycles.

"Can the price continue to be lowered and controlled to about 500 Wen."

On the outskirts of Nanjing, the person in charge of the bicycle factory almost cried: "Ge Lao, isn't it a joke for 500 Wen, even the cost is not enough." ”

The price of 500 Wen really hasn't even reached the cost, let alone making a profit.

"When a bicycle is assembled, six workers are required to assemble the parts in different production lines, and the cost of raw materials, the wages of the workers, and the sale of a bicycle should leave a part of the profit margin for those underwriting merchants.

If the price is 500, our manufacturers also need to lease the façade for direct sales, which requires a rental fee, and it is a salary to open a merchant to sell a car. ”

The officials who accompanied Xu Buji to inspect the bicycle factory were silent, but everyone felt that Xu Buji's proposal was simply impossible to realize.

"How high are the workers' wages now?"

"It's about fifty a day."

Fifty wen, that is to say, more than one tael of silver a month, nearly twenty taels a year?

A worker's income is close to that of a junior soldier (without allowance), nearly double what it was more than a decade ago.

Work is still more earning than farming.

Xu Buji bowed slightly, the increase in workers' income is in line with the country's next national policy line, after all, it is necessary to prepare for a large-scale industrial revolution, and the income of workers is the first to bear the brunt of the foundation that needs to be consolidated.

"What do you mean by left and right?"

Suddenly, Xu Buji remembered the fluctuation in Fang Cai's answer: "How much money is given a day, is it still floating?" ”

"It's not the working hours system that makes a fuss."

The person in charge of the manufacturer smiled bitterly, and saw that Xu Buji didn't understand it very well, so he took the initiative to talk about the reason.

"In the past, it was a fixed amount of money for six hours a day, but some workers who were weak could not bear it, and shortening the working hours would inevitably reduce their wages, and those young and strong workers were unwilling, they would rather work more and earn more money.

There is no way to make trouble, the factory has to engage in a working hour system, work more and get more, give ten cents an hour, and earn more if you do more. ”

Xu Buji didn't say much, he left after a general understanding, and his all-day itinerary today was to run all over the factories in Nanjing.

Bicycle factory, cement factory, daily necessities factory, spinning factory, garment factory, steel factory.

After all kinds of factories were finished, Xu Buji followed and went to the major merchants in the city to investigate the prices of goods.

From salt, oil, sauce and vinegar to all kinds of clothing, to fruits, vegetables and meat, I almost asked once.

In the end, these numbers were written down by Xu Buji and brought back to the Wenhua Palace.

And as soon as he returned to the Wenhua Palace, Xu Buji's mood became heavy and he said such a thing.

"Now it seems, not to mention the situation in various provinces and localities, even at the foot of Nanzhili, there is a gap between the people's living price expenditure and income, and we can't even achieve a full guarantee of the minimum daily supply, which is obviously not possible, and we must find a way to lower the price of various materials."

This kind of words came out of Xu Buji's mouth, and all the officials attending the cabinet meeting almost didn't lift the table.

Millions of people in Nanjing, food and clothing are already the basic living guarantee, you can easily eat a few meals of meat every month, not to mention this kind of life in the so-called Zhenguan, Kaiyuan prosperous era, even in the book, thousands of years have not lived this kind of life.

Still not satisfied?

You don't have to take such a step, and there is no reason to take such a step.

It is true that the current Ming Dynasty is supported by the entire Ming Federation, more than a dozen feudal states, and hundreds of millions of people are raising a country in the Ming Dynasty, but the traffic situation is here, ocean shipping, not that you can send the fruits and vegetables of the South Seas to Nanjing within one day.

It takes time and manpower.

Manpower, on the other hand, will inevitably require the expenditure of wealth.

The cost price of raw materials is clearly placed here, if you want to control the sales price of merchants in Nanjing, it is necessary to control the price of raw material supply, how do you control this price?

This is not something that can be solved by building a few hundred more seagoing ships.

It is even said that if you really want to build hundreds of more ships, you need to recruit thousands more shipwrights, and you can't pay less than you should pay every day.

The actual cost expenditure, pulled down to the average, is also a small disparity.

"Ge Lao, the current guide price is already the lowest price after being determined by many parties."

The Shangshu of the Ministry of Commerce had no choice, so he could only tell Xu Buji the truth: "If you suppress it again, the businessmen will not be profitable, and they will simply not do it, and then the blank in this area will be handed over to the imperial merchants or the state-owned merchants directly under the jurisdiction of our Ministry of Commerce, even if the treasury of the imperial court does not earn a penny, so as to benefit the people, but the price reduction will hover around one to two hundred Wen."

For the sake of this money, the impact on the current increasingly mature commercial market, resulting in the collapse of private businesses, the gains outweigh the losses. ”

As soon as the Ministry of Commerce, which has a professional counterpart, made a statement, all the ministries and their counterparts with the Ministry of Commerce, including the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Taxation, and the Ministry of State-owned Resources, all spoke one after another, expressing their support for the Ministry of Commerce's behavior of rashly carrying out large-scale and large-scale forced policy intervention on various commodities and lowering prices.

In the end, even Xia Yuanji had no choice but to speak.

"Commodity prices conform to the laws of the market, and the guiding price policy is also based on the laws of the market and the calculation of various expenditures in business activities before being introduced.

In the face of these doubts and objections, Xu Buji groaned for a long time before slowly speaking.

"The people don't have money, but the country has it, and the gold and silver from India and Japan have been transported in like a sea and stored in the official warehouses, and these gold and silver have reached the point where they can't be saved.

For this reason, Ge An told me that when a large amount of hard metal currency such as cash and cash exceeds the normal tax revenue of the state, it is likely to lead to the collapse of the private currency (copper coin) exchange system, because one tael of silver can be exchanged for a thousand wen, and one tael of copper and gold can be exchanged for ten taels of silver, not to mention the purified gold of more valuable purity.

The country's wealth has increased wildly because of the existence of the abnormal mutual trade system of the Minglian Political Agreement, which is actually not a good thing, and the country's wealth growth is too hot and the private wealth growth is too slow, which can easily lead to the collapse of the exchange system after the wealth is inflated.

The state can take out 100 million or even one billion taels of silver for infrastructure construction and boost the domestic demand market, but the people do not have so many goods and channels for consumption to digest the astronomical amount spent by the state, which creates a surplus of wealth, and money is worthless.

Since the wealth of the state is far greater than that of the people, I plan to give or subsidize some of it to the market free of charge. ”

As soon as the words came out, the audience was shocked.

Contribute money from the treasury and put it on the market in the form of gratuitous or subsidized money?

Another shocking policy for thousands of years.

"I call this kind of imperial policy behavior an economic stimulus bill."

Xu Buji looked around and introduced in a shocking manner: "Ge An has come up with a specific plan, and within five years, he will successively invest no less than one billion taels of cash and silver in all provinces and localities across the country.

What I want to see is that within five years, all walks of life can purchase raw materials from Minglian countries and build more processing production lines.

I want to smash down the prices of various commodities so that the common people can live a more stable and comfortable life.

After the prosperity of the private economy, a large number of copper bills were printed, and all the cash and silver were sealed, so as to realize the self-sufficient economic internal circulation with full market vitality.

Even, once the market allows, gold and silver can be put into the market to make jewelry to sell, in addition to retaining the vast majority of gold to the national treasury as a strategic economic reserve, a small part of gold and all silver, will flow into the market as a commodity, gradually reduce the relationship between silver and private copper coins, so that the influence of the exchange system of silver and copper coins on the national economy gradually declines, and finally to a point that is not too slight but not too important! ”

The new official took office three times, and after waiting for Zhu Yunwen's appearance, Xu Buji finally revealed the tip of the iceberg of his new policy.

The economic stimulus bill is the first major thing that Xu Buji wants to do.

(The past two days have been busy again, and after these two days of busyness, I will continue to write ten thousand days, in fact, ten thousand days are happier than this.) ）