The Duke of Rakshasa Morozov reluctantly signed the negotiating table. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Both languages, one Chinese and one Russian, had to be signed with his own name.

Although the pen in his hand weighed less than half a tael, when Morozov held it, he felt like a thousand pounds, and he knew that from the moment on, he would become the greatest sinner in the history of Tsarist Russia, and also bring the first indelible shame to Romanov, and his name would be permanently engraved on the pillar of shame in the history of the Rakshasa country.

Morozov's forehead couldn't help but be soaked with beads of sweat, he knew that he couldn't help it, from seeing the huge chariots and the artillery that moved at will in the far east, as well as the firearms that could fire in bursts and were not easy to mute, plus the magical gas that could make thousands of people lose their resistance in an instant, he knew that if he didn't sign this shameful unequal treaty today, he would bring even greater disaster to his country.

I don't know if he comforted himself like this when Yishan, the Heilongjiang general who was originally a member of the Manchu royal family, signed the "Aihui Treaty" and the "Sino-Russian Beijing Treaty", but in this era, it is impossible for such a phenomenon to occur again.

Qi Changguo, the governor of Zuodu, was very satisfied and proud of the contract, the indemnity of 50 million taels of silver, plus the interest paid in installments, was about 70 million taels of silver, and the total wealth of not less than 100 million silver dollars was undoubtedly a great boost to the military expenditure and scientific research investment and infrastructure construction of the Ming Dynasty.

At the very least, this indemnity would allow the Ming Dynasty to rapidly increase its development speed by ten years, just as the original historical Japanese invaders were able to rapidly develop into one of the world's most powerful industrial countries after signing the Treaty of Shimonoseki and receiving a huge indemnity from the Qing government.

Since ancient times, the increase in a country's capital wealth has been either due to the improvement and development of productive forces, or to the plundering of more resources by a powerful and violent machine to feed itself.

Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty is no exception, and it naturally depends on the development of science and technology in terms of productivity improvement, but it can also naturally allow the wealth accumulated by generations of dynasties of the Rakshasa Kingdom to contribute to the rapid development of the Ming Dynasty.

Qi Changguo didn't care about how the Rakshasa Kingdom itself increased the exploitation of the low-level serfs in order not to compensate 70 million taels of silver without affecting the lives of the wealthy class.

As an upper-level official of the Ming Empire, he would not care about how the people of the Rakshasa Kingdom lived.

As for the Western Siberia ceded by the Rakshasa Kingdom to the Ming Empire, it is not a big loss for the Rakshasa Kingdom.

After all, the current Rakshasa country has just entered Siberia, the development foundation is not deep, and the cost of investment is not high, and now Siberia is still a wild land, and the mineable mineral resources found are also limited, but it is a very valuable treasure land for the Ming Dynasty, which has entered the era of steam industry and urgently needs the rapid development of productivity.

The mineral resources of West Siberia are very considerable, covering almost all the metal and non-metallic materials required by the current industry and the future development of industry, and its coal, natural gas, and oil reserves are extremely rich, so to speak, with the current consumption of mineral resources in the Ming Dynasty, the development of the Ming Dynasty in the next hundred years does not have to worry about the shortage of any industrial raw materials.

And in Western Siberia is not only mineral resources, forest resources and the corresponding biological resources are also extremely rich, the future Ming people's table is not only the southern sea fish and the northwest mutton, when there is Western Siberian wolf meat, even the Ming Empire's marine resources have officially expanded to the Arctic Ocean coast, perhaps the Arctic Ocean at this time does not have much development value, but it can be used as a treasure trove of reserves for future generations of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the concession and most-favored-nation treatment, it is naturally the Ming Dynasty in order to better plunder and manipulate his domestic market in the economic and trade with the Rakshasa in the future, after all, although a country like the Rakshasa has been cut off a large part of its territory, it is still a major power in Europa, and its market potential consumption value is not small, so it is necessary for the Ming Dynasty to extend the hand of capital to his economic center - Moscow.

The Duke of Rakshasa Morozov was disappointed to return to Moscow Castle with the treaty, and when he showed the treaty to the people, it was not surprising that he was scolded by countless Rakshasa people, and his family's reputation for hundreds of years was ruined.

But for the treaty, Tsar Mikhail still had to carry it out, he knew that with his current strength in the Rakshasa country, he could only recognize and fulfill this treaty, otherwise he would be reduced to a prisoner in a moment.

Therefore, Tsar Mikhail levied money and grain on all the nobles and farmers, and these nobles and farmers, in addition to complaining, also increased the exploitation of their serfs, and these serfs did not complain, they only endured until they could not survive until they suddenly broke out.

Unlike the Rakshasa country, which is now full of scolding and resentment, the first batch of huge indemnities was sent back to the Ming Dynasty, and when the treasure land of Western Siberia was completely withdrawn by the Rakshasa people, the Ming country was simply cheering.

Especially the capitalist class of the reformists, this was a great encouragement to them, and they swept away the haze caused by the demotion of their reformist leader, Li Mingrui, a scholar of the Zhongji Temple, and the dismissal of Guo Yunhou, the secretary of the household department.

They can't wait to share the plundered wealth.

Looking at the first batch of silver that was loaded in Taicang, Zhu Youxiao was also very excited.

Although the current Ming Dynasty seems to be more than ten times more prosperous than in the Wanli period of Longqing on the surface, only he knows that because of his investment everywhere and the huge military and scientific research expenditures, the net income of the Ming treasury has not increased much, and he has not yet built a royal garden that can collect the essence of global architecture.

And now with this batch of compensation, Zhu Youxiao feels that he can spend money boldly.

"Send a decree to the Royal Bank and the Ministry of Households, immediately consider how many silver dollars need to be minted, and bet this indemnity on the entire Ming market as soon as possible, so that the entire people of the Ming Dynasty, whether it is the gentry officials or the workers, can enjoy the benefits brought by this indemnity.

If there is no large-scale investment in infrastructure and engineering to consume this wealth in the short term, all officials and Guozijian, Jingshi University Hall, Royal Military Academy, etc., as well as various workers, will be given additional benefits and subsidies, and some rewards for special talents and special contributions can also be set up in the local government, and the Ministry of Rites and local governors can also establish some new benefits, so as to know how to benefit and create wealth for the people.

In short, we can't let this reparation be idle, but let them be transformed into productivity and consumption power! ”

Lu Xiangsheng and other cabinet ministers now also have a certain knowledge of economics, so they can understand Zhu Youxiao's will after listening to it, so they nodded yes, saying that when they return to Beijing, they will immediately study how to use this huge amount of compensation.

For a time, as the Ming Dynasty's financial expenditure, the Ministry of Household and the Royal Bank began to show extraordinarily generous, whether it was loans or appropriations, how much loans or how much was allocated, and for a while, the local officials actively asked for the repair of water conservancy and roads, and even the officials of the old school were not willing to be lonely, and they did not denounce the Ming Dynasty's plundering of the wealth of the Rakshasa Kingdom, and they were also anxious to ask His Majesty for permission to expand the Confucian Temples and Palaces in various places.

Zhu Youxiao also allowed it, because for the current Ming Dynasty, there was a period of rapid increase in wealth for a short period of time, and if you want to stimulate production and consumption, you have to quickly consume this money, so Zhu Youxiao and the Ming court will become so generous, because only in this way can this indemnity quickly become a physical value in a short period of time, if it is just a pile of gold piled there, it is just a pile of metal, no different from copper and iron.

Not only did Zhu Youxiao and the central court of the Ming Dynasty become more generous, but even the local government became generous, as long as the officials who were not too greedy would also do a few meritorious deeds with the people while enriching the small treasury, such as giving some money and food to the elderly and above, and giving some festival fees to the widowed and lonely, and even officials in developed areas directly announced that the tuition fees of students in their counties or prefectures would be borne by the government within ten years.

Of course, there are also gentry officials who are more arrogant and lascivious, for a time the fight for wealth has become fashionable, luxury goods and antiques are even more popular, even some ordinary people have begun to take out some spare money to play some treasure appreciation and competition for beauty, the royal industrial company produced up to hundreds of silver dollars of inlaid silver mirrors are sold out in January, Tang Bohu's spring 0 palace picture is auctioned for tens of millions of silver dollars at a high price.

Originally, the wealth of the Ming Dynasty has entered a period of rapid development, and now it has obtained sufficient benefits from the Rakshasa country, under the regulation and control of the central court, the wealth of the entire people has naturally increased, the rich can be white jade for the hall of gold horses, and the rich can also play a few pieces of jewelry to visit the green building, and thus promote the rapid development and growth of the tertiary industry.

There are more and more people who make a living by composing music, poems, novels, dramas, storytellers and other professions without labor production, and even some are extremely rich because of this, which is naturally the inevitable result of the further increase in the entertainment demand of the Ming people.

In short, since the end of Wanli, the wind of competition and luxury in the world is becoming more and more intense, but its decadence and depression is becoming less and less, although the whole society is impetuous and prosperous, but it is full of sunshine and vitality, social class contradictions began to gradually ease and weaken, there are ideal officials began to try to build a Datong society, and there are also realistic officials began to accumulate fame.

The agile businessmen have already set their sights on these newly acquired lands, especially the resources of Western Siberia and the consumer market of the Rakshasa country, and after a few years, various business legends have emerged, such as Wang Peng, who borrowed 30,000 silver dollars from the Yunnan branch of the Royal Bank and went to the Rakshasa country to do business and earned back millions of silver dollars, which became a beautiful talk for a while, and such stories happen every day.

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Wang Siyuan, who was still diligently teaching in Dongxiang County, Suiding Prefecture, under Daba Mountain, was also summoned to the county government by the new county magistrate Gu Danfeng at this time, and was directly rewarded with 3,000 silver dollars by the magistrate Gu Danfeng, but the reason was that among the students taught by Wang Siyuan, there were actually three students who passed the Sichuan Township Examination of Jinke, and one of them had just passed the Jinshi.

This is simply a major event worthy of being recorded in the county chronicles for Dongxiang County, and Wang Siyuan is naturally indispensable, so Gu Danfeng, as the county magistrate, rewarded Wang Siyuan with 3,000 silver dollars.

However, Wang Siyuan didn't expect this county magistrate to be so generous, and let him have three thousand silver dollars at once, you must know that in a place like Suiding Mansion, having the purchasing power of three thousand silver dollars is equivalent to having six or seven taels of silver, which can be described as getting rich overnight, but now Wang Siyuan, who teaches in a barren county like Dongxiang County, doesn't know what to do even if he is rich.

And when he was forcibly invited by the magistrate to have a dinner party gathered by the county officials and well-known squires of Dongxiang County, he was even more stunned, because the scale of this dinner was no less than the Luming banquet he attended after the middle of the year, but he clearly remembered that when he first entered Dongxiang County, Suiding Prefecture, he was also grandly entertained by the magistrate because he was already a famous man in the literary world, but it was just five dishes, one meat and one soup.

"The officials of the small Dongxiang County can also be extravagant and wealthy, what has happened to my Ming Dynasty", Wang Siren couldn't help but sigh like this, and when he saw the people working hard to reclaim the mountain roads in the east of the county after leaving the county office, he couldn't help but ask the servants: "Why is the road suddenly going to be built here again?" ”

"Back to my lord, this is because Gu Zhi County responded to He Zhifu's order to enrich the mountain people under his jurisdiction to be able to extend in all directions, and recruited the people to build a bluestone road between Dongxiang County and Suiding Mansion City that can be passed by large carriages, I heard that for this reason, Gu Zhi County also personally went to the provincial capital Royal Bank Branch to apply for a loan, and actually applied for it, otherwise it would not have started construction so soon."

As soon as the servant said this, Wang Siyuan just nodded helplessly, and then sighed: "This world has really changed, ten years ago, although it was a gentry and wealthy family, its luxury was no less than now, but the people were not able to eat six or seven times out of ten, the water conservancy was not prosperous, the roads were not smooth, and it was the norm in the south of the Yangtze River, but who would have thought that now Dongxiang County, a poor and remote country, would also build a bluestone road directly to the city, where did the money come from?"

Coincidentally, Chen Jiru, who is close to the age of sixties, after cultivating three jinshi and one special student who entered the Beijing Normal University, was specially awarded by Zhu Youxiao as a bachelor of Nanjing Hanlin Academy to recuperate, and on the way back to Jiangnan, Chen Jiru also found that the entire Ming Dynasty has changed, not only the gentry are ten times more luxurious than before, but also the ordinary people are competing for wealth and enjoyment.

And he passed by Huguang before and lamented that Qu Yuan Temple was in disrepair and decayed by a pile of wild grass, and now when he passed by again, he found that the entire Qu Yuan Temple has been renewed, the trees are lush, the stone steps are neat, and the exquisite pavilions and mausoleums made of stone will highlight Qu Yuan more majestic, and he Chen Jiru also had to sigh that after the Jiangnan literati represented by his Donglin Party and Fushe were expelled from the political arena, Daming will become better!