For the preparation of the Huangming Jingshi Bank, Emperor Chongzhen did not prohibit the powerful businessmen from taking shares, and even encouraged the powerful businessmen of Jingshi to become shareholders, and his original intention was precisely not to turn this Jingshi Bank into another yamen of the household department.

After all, this is a bank, and it is to be operated commercially, that is, to make a profit as an important purpose.

If only the household department of the imperial court and the royal family themselves contributed, and there was no private capital involved, in the end, there would be eight or nine will become another yamen, which is of course contrary to the original intention of Emperor Chongzhen to propose the opening of a bank.

Fortunately, the news that the Wenhua Palace proposed to open the Huangming Jingshi Bank, and that the household Taicang and the emperor himself each contributed 5 million shares, soon spread in the harem of the Forbidden City and the circle of nobles of the Ming Jingshi.

As the saying goes, the world is bustling, all for profit, and the world is bustling, all for profit.

Especially those generations of noble and wealthy families, know what industry is the most profitable, and therefore it is no secret that the private money bank is profitable.

It's just that the imperial court now orders to prohibit the issuance of usury, once it is reported and exposed, it is a felony of stealing the family and killing the head at the worst, at the end of the first year of Chongzhen, when the Chongzhen Emperor rectified the noble family of the Jingshi, there were many families who were exiled because they were reported for issuing usury and forced the people to death, so there were many noble families, and they did not dare to put any usury to make a profit.

The buying and selling of farmland and land within the Beizhili area is now also heavily taxed by the imperial court, which clearly prevents the noble family of Jingshi Xun and wealthy merchants from buying land and hiring tenant farmers.

Therefore, since last year, in addition to investing in the emerging industrial and mining industries in Gyeonggi, a large number of powerful and wealthy families who have not been raided have sold the excess land they have occupied, and the gold and silver obtained have nowhere to be invested.

The emperor didn't let the people let the people lend usury privately, and he did it for a long time, this is to open his own money bank and release the money!

Jiading Bo Zhou Kui, who now runs several cement factories and coke factories near Beijing, entered the palace to find Queen Zhou within two days.

When encountering such a thing, Concubine Tian's father, Tian Hongyu, who was originally an imperial businessman, naturally couldn't miss it, because he had a lot of silver that needed to be invested in the new way.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the control of titles was very strict, even if it was a concubine favored by the emperor, as long as you were not the queen, it was basically impossible to get a title.

For example, this Tian Hongyu, in history until the fall of the Ming Dynasty, was just a Jinyi Wei commanding the affairs of the fictitious position, Emperor Chongzhen gave him many business privileges for the Tian family, but he did not give him the title until his death.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the only concubine in the harem who could compete with the queen Zhou was Concubine Tian alone, even so, it was even more difficult to get a title.

is also the emperor's father-in-law, and the reason why Zhou Kui was able to win the title of Jiadingbo was all because his daughter was the queen, and she was a typical father and daughter.

This time, I heard that the emperor himself had invested in Jingshi Bank, and these two money fans knew that this must be a good opportunity to make a fortune, so the next day after getting the news, they found various excuses and entered the palace one after another to meet their daughter.

When it was the turn of Empress Zhou and Concubine Tian to go to bed, of course, the two of them blew the pillow wind one after another, and the Zhou family and the Tian family were allowed to join the shares and became one of the shareholders of Jingshi Bank.

Today's Jiading Bozhou family and Guozhang Tian Hongyu family are all rich and noble people on the ground of Beijing.

Originally, as the father-in-law of the current emperor, after Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, the status of these two families was enough to provoke him, and no one dared to provoke him.

But in these days, it's useless to be noble, after all, you still have to be rich to live the rich life you want!

So after a new business opportunity appeared in Gyeonggi, Jiading Bo Zhoukui soon asked the empress for the recipe for civilian cement, as well as a license to mine coal and burn coke.

Not only did he have this permit, but he also got a group of craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry, and with the acquiescence of the emperor, he spent money to cut off the craftsmen's registration for these craftsmen and became the servants who signed contracts in Jiading Bofu.

After obtaining the license for cement and coke production from the hands of the emperor and the Ministry of Industry, although it was necessary to pay 10,000 silver dollars to the emperor and the Ministry of Industry as a production license fee every year, Jiading Bofu, which opened a coal mine and three cement factories in succession, as well as two coke factories, also made a lot of money.

When he came to the palace to see his daughter this time, he just brought in the tea, utensils, rouge gouache, gold and silver jewelry as gifts, and he was about 20,000 silver dollars as soon as he made a move, and he was no longer the Jiading Bo Zhoukui who was greedy for the private money of the Queen Mo in history.

Historically, when Li Zicheng's army marched into Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen was so poor that he couldn't take out the silver to raise the army, and in desperation, he collected donations from the ministers and nobles in Beijing, but a few days passed, no money was raised, and Empress Zhou did not want to disappoint the emperor, so she took out the thousands of taels of private money she had saved hard and handed it to Jiading Bo Zhou Kui, so that Jiading Bo Zhou Kui could set an example and take the lead among the nobles.

As a result, the queen gave her father 5,000 taels, but this Zhou Kui finally donated 3,000 taels, and also embezzled 2,000 taels from it, which made Queen Zhou so angry that she washed her face with tears for a few days.

However, when Li Zicheng finally entered the Beijing Division, although Jiading Bo Zhou Kui surrendered to Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin did not let him go, and for more than a month, he extorted and tortured 700,000 taels of silver from his Jiading Bo Mansion.

Jiading Bo Zhou Kui is such a person.

And this time, after Empress Zhou's pillow wind, Emperor Chongzhen agreed to let him invest 600,000 silver dollars, as for the final shares, it depends on how much share capital can be raised in the end.

As for Concubine Tian's father, Tian Hongyu, Emperor Chongzhen was not partial, and also allowed him to invest 600,000 silver dollars.

Today's Tian Hongyu has made more money in business under the banner of the royal family in history, relying on the four-wheeled carriage factory monopolized in Yangzhou, Jiangnan, and now he is one of the top figures on the list of the richest people in the Jingshi territory.

In addition to these two imperial relatives, Emperor Chongzhen's half-sister Princess Le'an also entered the palace to meet Empress Zhang of Yi'an, and thus successfully invested 200,000 silver dollars in the World Bank.

Although Gong Yonggu's family was wealthy, they were traditional merchants who ran the land and satin cloth business, and although they were rich, they were nothing compared to the monopoly business of Zhou and Tian.

In addition to these imperial relatives who are ranked in the eyes of the emperor, the British prince Zhang Weixian, the prince of Dingguo Xu Yunzhen and other wealthy families in Beijing have also successively found the emperor himself, or Bi Ziyan, Fang Zhenghua and others who took the lead in raising shares, and expressed their strong willingness to invest in the Jingshi Bank.

In the end, the British public Zhang Weixian took the opportunity to sell several of his controversial granges in Baoding, sold more than a dozen shops in Beijing in one go, and then added many years of accumulation to make up 500,000 silver dollars and buy shares.

The British Duke is the first to be honored, and the property he owns is naturally not only these, but even more than ten times, and the reason why he did this is naturally to show the emperor, as for the meaning, only Zhang Weixian himself understands.

Zhang Weixian, the British public in history, died of illness at the end of the third or early fourth year of Chongzhen, which belonged to the end of his life, and now it is June of the second year of Chongzhen, and Zhang Weixian is also the same as in history, since the spring of the second year of Chongzhen, he has always been sick and sick, and he is bedridden from time to time.

Maybe he himself now knows that it is difficult to get good when he is old, so he always cares about what happens after his death and the inheritance of the British Mansion, especially after Emperor Chongzhen cleaned up the Chengguo Mansion that was on a par with the British Mansion at the end of last year, Zhang Weixian was always worried about whether the British Mansion would be able to die well.

After all, now the emperor who has personally supported the emperor's throne is more and more different from the emperor he knew before, not only killing ministers without blinking, but also killing nobles without blinking, just because of a problem of occupation and annexation, how many noble families that have been inherited for 200 years have been raided and wiped out.

All this is not for him to be careless and cautious, so as to leave a way for his children and grandchildren to live.

Therefore, when the news came out that the royal family and the household department of the imperial court jointly opened the Huangming Jingshi Bank, he quickly sent his son Zhang Zhiji to find Li Guowei, and in addition to the well-documented fields given by the imperial court, the rest of the granges were also sold.

Not only to take a stake in this bank, but more importantly, to take this opportunity to show the emperor the determination of the British government to be loyal to the royal family forever.

Compared with this, Xu Yunzhen, the Duke of Dingguo, was not so cautious, anyway, the Weisho Tian, which had been annexed and occupied by the previous dynasties, had either been withdrawn or bought, and there was no taboo at this time, and he invested one million silver dollars and became the third largest shareholder in the World Bank, becoming the third largest shareholder outside the royal family and the Ministry of Households.

Other princes and princes of Beijing also subscribed for shares one after another, some 200,000, some 300,000, and before July, the imperial relatives and noble families in Beijing alone had gathered 5.5 million share capital.

For this, Emperor Chongzhen is of course happy to see it, he is worried that there is no way to tie the interests of these people with the interests of the royal family, the establishment of the World Bank, just to provide such a very rare opportunity.