"Lord Wang, 10 million silver dollars is not a small number." Lu Weizhang said, "The imperial court is like a bottomless pit, no matter how much money we throw into it, we can't afford a blister." ”

Lu Weizhang had just arrived in the capital, and he entered the capital with his daughter and grandson. Before Liu Jun entered Beijing, when Chongzhen was alive, Chongzhen sent Dongchang to Hubei to pick up Liu Jun's family members into Beijing. Lu Weizhang also followed the north, because the child was young, the road was very slow, halfway to the road, he had heard that the emperor had died, and then rested on the road for a few days, and when he arrived in Beijing, Liu Jun had already entered Beijing, and he was a minister who took care of his life, and he was also promoted to the king of Liaodong County.

The imperial court does have a bottomless feeling on the side of the sinkhole, but Liu Jun thinks that the current investment is valuable, this is not being pitted, but copying the bottom, and when the low price is swept into Daming shares, everything is worth it.

"It's been a good ride, right?" Liu Jun handed his father-in-law a cup of ginseng tea, he had already gone to see Lu Xueqi and his son. Shen Man, Chen Yuanyuan, and Liu Ru also entered Beijing together, but Shen Man and the three failed to enter the palace.

Lu Xueqi insisted on the bottom line she had told Liu Jun at the beginning, that she could accept Liu Jun's women outside, but they were not allowed to enter the house. When they entered Beijing this time, although Shen Man and the three of them also entered Beijing, they were always not allowed to travel together one day apart. However, Shen Man and the three of them have been operating the Red Sleeve Workshop for the past two years, engaging in chain management, the brand is very loud, and there is no shortage of money in their hands.

Now Liu Jun is in the county king's mansion, a new mansion given by the emperor. Lu Xueqi's mother and son, as well as Yaoyao and Bao'er's two concubines.

As for the Korean princess Li Hui, she is also a wife, but she is the daughter-in-law of the Liu family. Therefore, she did not live in the county king's mansion, but in the Liu mansion, which was not far away. Liu Jun's brother Liu Jian has moved out of another house. As a result, Liu Jun has three homes in Beijing.

Lu Weide sat there, still feeling a little trance.

When Liu Jun was promoted to the commander-in-chief, Lu Weide was shocked. But now that only two years have passed, Liu Jun has been promoted to the minister of Gu Ming, the governor of Zhili, and even the king of Juejia.

Take a look at the mansion in the inner nine gates. Lu Weizhang has a feeling of dreaming. However, in the past few years, he has managed the business for Liu Jun, and there are thousands of flowing water every day, and his horizons have been much broader. After the initial shock, it has gotten a lot better.

"It's okay." Lu Weizhang took the tea and replied. "In Hubei, it is still very stable, and there were many rumors of banditry before, and people were also panicked, but later Mr. Zhang broke the thieves in Yunyang. Thousands of beheaded, the thieves retreated into Henan, and Hubei settled down again. ”

"It's just out of Hubei, and other places are not as good as it. Henan and Shandong are all chaotic scenes, with displaced people everywhere along the way, barren fields, and constant bandits. It was either bandits or rebels, and there were many officers and soldiers who extorted money along the road. Fortunately, it was escorted by people from Dongchang, but no one dared to disturb us. ”

It's really messy everywhere.

In front of Liu Jun's case, there were piles of reports, most of which were reports on various parts of the Central Plains. The southeast side is relatively good, although on the surface it sounds like the landlords and businessmen are reading people to resist taxes, but it is only a big noise. It's not actually messy. It's just that they don't want to pay taxes, at least there is no chaos, Zhang Guowei, Li Shuchu and others are still good, at least the situation has not been messed up.

The situation of the two lakes is also very good, which is Liu Jun's base camp. There are soldiers and horses in two towns, and there are no bandits rushing in, although there are many famine people, and there are many guards who are secretly disgruntled, but they can't set off the wind and waves, and they are still honestly dormant.

But other places are very different.

Especially in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan, and Shandong, many soldiers and horses were transferred to Guanwai, and suffered heavy losses, and then in order to strengthen the defense of Gyeonggi, the few remaining troops were also transferred to Gyeonggi.

Nowadays, these places are really quite empty, and the few remaining soldiers are all arrogant officers and soldiers such as He Renlong, Zuo Liangyu, and Huang Degong, plus local corrupt officials and corrupt officials are rampant, and there is a famine in disaster years, and a large number of displaced people make the situation in the Central Plains extremely unoptimistic and tense.

Now the Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan, and Lu areas are like a powder keg, which may be ignited at any time.

"A lot of hungry people came east, many along the canal north into Beizhili, and many on the southeast coast. Like locusts, wherever they go to eat, wherever the homeless people go, there is chaos. If one is not well controlled, it will definitely be chaotic again. Lu Weizhang sighed.

After staying in Hubei for a long time, I sighed more and more that it was not easy to be stable in Hubei.

When he entered the Beijing Division, he was surprised to find that the Beijing Division was full of homeless beggars, the streets were messy, pedestrians even defecated on the streets, and they were ruined everywhere, it was a mess, and he couldn't imagine that the Beijing Division was such a scene.

How can Jingshi have any prosperous scene of the land of hundred virtues under the feet of the Son of Heaven? It is like a big refugee camp, I heard that there are more than 600,000 people in 100,000 households in Shuntianfu, if you add the garrison, eunuchs, palace people and craftsmen, etc., plus these merchants, homeless beggars and monks who flow in Beijing, the population of Jingshi has already exceeded one million.

But most of them have neither jobs nor savings, and either do odd jobs or rely on begging to cheat or simply rob every day.

Many people have neither jobs nor shelters, so they build sheds everywhere, making a Beijing master even more smoky.

"Now that a peace agreement has been reached outside the Guanwai, Huang Taiji is dead, and the little emperor of the Tartars has succeeded to the throne, and they were also greatly injured in the last war, and in a short period of time, it is difficult for them to invade the Ming Dynasty again. The imperial court can then withdraw to solve many problems such as internal banditry. ”

"Can it be solved?" Lu Weizhang said, "I think this Ming is already terminally ill. ”

"You can salvage it again." Liu Jun said with a smile.

Lu Xueqi came over with her son in her arms, and since she gave birth to her son, she has become plump and more feminine.

"Husband, when I see you go home, I pull my father to talk endlessly, you don't have time to hug your son, it's been nearly two years since you went out, your son has grown up so big, you still don't kiss well, he doesn't know you anymore."

Liu Jun smiled and reached out to take his son and hold him in his arms.

Tiger head and tiger brain, long and strong.

"It is worthy of my Liu Jun's son, and it is not worthy of the fact that I named you Little Tiger, you look at this appearance, it is really a milk tiger."

Although the father and son have not seen each other for a long time. When Liu Jun left, he still couldn't speak. However, the little tiger didn't see much life, Lu Xueqi said on the side, "Call Dad." ”

"Daddy." The milky cry made Liu Jun very excited. My son will call me Daddy.

The happy Liu Jun teased his son, and it took a while. The kid was impatient, and directly soaked the boy's urine and spilled Liu Jun's body, and when he felt the heat on his body, he knew that something was wrong, but he still couldn't prevent it.

"Okay, you kid, you actually know about the raid, there is a kind, you will definitely be a good billet to lead troops to fight in the future."

Seeing this, Lu Xueqi also covered her mouth and smiled, "As soon as this kid comes, he will soak your father's urine." Beware of him spanking you. I'll wait for you. With that, Lu Xueqi hugged the child and went to clean up.

After Lu Xueqi left with the child in her arms, Liu Jun just wiped her body, but she was not in a hurry to change her clothes.

"I need Sihai Bank to immediately transfer a batch of silver money into Beijing, and I don't want silver dollar coupons, I want silver dollars and copper dollars, and I need real money and silver, and the amount is very large. At least 10 million yuan, the more the merrier. Meantime. You help me to contact the East India Company and ask the company to prepare at least five million stone of grain, and then transport it to Tianjin by sea ship. ”

"So much money?" Lu Weizhang was surprised.

"It's all urgently needed and useful." Liu Jun crossed his fingers together and put them on the table. Although there is a lot of money and food, Liu Jun has also carefully estimated it, and Sihai Bank can completely transfer this money. The East India Company also had so much grain.

"Don't feel distressed, the money will be worth it." Liu Jun said with a smile, in fact, not all the silver of Sihai Bank is Liu Jun's, and a lot of the money is bonds. It's more about the people's savings. Up to now, Sihai Bank has become the trust of Daming's financial circles, a giant in a complete monopoly position.

Through Liu Jun's relationship, he monopolized this emerging industry, and now the branches of Sihai Bank are all over the world, absorbing countless deposits, Liu Jun used these deposits to issue commercial loans, which not only supported the maritime merchants in the southeast, but also made a lot of money, and at the same time let these maritime merchants and their suppliers hand over the settlement business to Sihai Bank.

On the other hand, Liu Jun took advantage of the minting privilege obtained from Chongzhen to wantonly melt and mint all the silver stored by the depositors he had absorbed into silver dollars and silver auxiliary coins, minted a large number of copper dollars, and also issued a large number of silver dollar coupons and copper dollar coupons, and implemented silver tickets.

Now it can be said that most of the gold and silver of the Ming Dynasty have flowed into the Four Seas Bank and minted into silver and copper coins. The Bank of the Four Seas used this silver as a reserve and issued a large number of banknotes and bills.

When the bank reaches the scale of Sihai Bank, and such a monopoly position, the speed at which Sihai Bank makes money is already extremely amazing. The most powerful thing is not only to make money, but to influence control.

Originally, everyone hid the money in cellars for storage, or used it to buy land, which not only reduced the circulation of silver, but also increased land annexation.

Now, with the benefits of interest on money and convenient and safe storage, a large amount of gold and silver eventually flows into the bank, and the bank has these reserves to issue silver dollar bills that can be exchanged at any time, which greatly increases the amount of money in circulation and further promotes the development of commerce.

In particular, banks use the deposits they attract for commercial loans, which not only supports business development, but also makes banks profitable.

In the past, a tael of silver was only equivalent to a tael of silver. Now, a tael of silver can be minted in the bank, and a higher value of silver coins can be minted, and then this can be used as a reserve to issue more silver dollar coupons.

One or two pieces of silver are deposited in the bank, and through the minting process, the bank reaches 10 percent of the profit, and after the coinage, it becomes two yuan and two dime silver dollars, and then these two yuan and two silver dollars are used as the principal to issue silver dollar coupons, and the reserve is 25 percent.

Therefore, two yuan and two dime silver dollars are used as the principal, and the bank can print and issue eight yuan and eight diagonal silver dollar coupons.

Then the Four Seas Bank lent the money out, and the deposit reserve was also 25 percent, and the deposit of one or two pieces of silver could finally be loaned out with 8 yuan and 8 jiao.

Although silver dollars and silver dollar coupons can be exchanged at any time, as long as the bank maintains credit and can be exchanged at any time, then more silver dollar coupons are circulated in the market.

In fact, it also proves that the silver and copper dollars issued by Sihai Bank have basically replaced the silver ingots and copper coins in the past. And now, the vast majority of people are accustomed to using silver dollar coupons, copper dollar coupons, or large silver tickets, instead of using silver dollars and copper dollars, which are inconvenient to carry.

Inhale one or two pieces of silver, release eight yuan octagonal silver dollar loan, plus the middle silver minted silver coins, and the silver coins are used as preparation funds to issue silver dollar coupons, which are actually equal to one or two in the end, and become more than 30 silver dollar coupons.

Later generations have understood the fact that currency is a tiger, and the more it is raised, the bigger it gets.

As long as the bank's credit is maintained, Liu Jun's bank can use such leverage to build a larger market.

Moreover, in addition to the bank, Liu Jun still has a lot of capital. Not to mention the complete set of military industrial system in Hubei, this is a big industry with huge profits. And there was the East India Company, in which he had a stake, which was also a monopoly on the maritime trade of the trust giants, which was also very profitable.

Moreover, Liu Jun can also control many resources through the East India Company. For example, now, Liu Jun needs grain, and the East India Company has always had this piece in his hands, not only buying grain from the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, but also having channels to purchase grain from Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea and other places, plus the East India Company's maritime transport fleet, buying grain from all over the country, and then transporting it to Tianjin, the cost is not more expensive than Cao grain, and there is no need to limit the grain output of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, Liu Jun has robbed Liaodong for two years, and he has really grabbed a few gold and silver mountains.

In the past few years, he has continued to vigorously develop Taiwan, constantly bringing people who moved from Liaodong and captive Manchu and Mongolian people, and constantly recruiting and transporting people from the Central Plains to Taiwan through official and non-governmental forms, and now Taiwan's population is more than 2 million.

Taiwan's agriculture has begun to take shape, and although handicrafts and textiles are not yet available, the grain grown in the fields has been completely self-sufficient for the military and civilians on the island, and they can also export grain in exchange for various other commodities. In addition, in addition to growing grain, Taiwan has also vigorously developed sugarcane cultivation and a sugar industry, and the sugar produced is also a sought-after material for export to foreign maritime merchants.

Liu Jun is very rich in resources, but Liu Jun's nine-headed bird, his military industry, and even his bank, money and business system are all very tightly tied to Daming.

If the Ming Dynasty is in chaos, he will also suffer a lot of losses, and if Liu Jun directly forcibly rebels, these systems behind him will also collapse. Because of this, Liu Jun is also a bogeyman, and finally chose a curved road to steal the country and usurp the throne, which is relatively gentle. borrowed the shell of the Ming Dynasty to finally seize the world in a more hidden way.

Since he has chosen this path, Liu Jun no longer hesitates.

The current situation is still very good, and after careful planning in secret, although I was careful all the way and walked on thin ice, I finally succeeded.

Chongzhen, who was the biggest threat to him, died, and left an edict for him to be the minister of life. Liu Jun successfully led his troops into Beijing and stabilized the situation.

The next step for Liu Jun is to further control Gyeonggi, control the Gyeonggi army, and then control the central government of the Ming Dynasty. But to do this, he needs to send a large amount of money and food to Beijing now.

Through these gold and silver, Liu Jun was able to fully intervene in the military and political affairs of the DPRK and China and further exert his influence. He knew very well that although he entered Beijing as a minister of care, everyone was still very vigilant against him. If it weren't for the special needs of everyone who wanted to rely on him, he wouldn't have been able to stay in Beijing for a long time.

"Get the silver dollars and food ready as soon as possible." Liu Jun reiterated again. (To be continued.) )