The next day, the morning of May 20.

Qi Chunnian, who got the reply telegram, took his colleague Gu Tianci, president of the Beijing branch of Tianxiatong Bank, to the palace together.

He also brought a draft of the agreement.

The mood was a little low, because he miscalculated, Zhu Youzhen bumped into the luck, this time he did not suffer from the ruthless cold water of his wife, but luckily met the owner of the village at home, so this time Zhu Youzhen picked up the cheap, obviously everything Xu Jiazhuang did was legitimate and reasonable, but he lost some benefits.

"Qi Chunnian, what's wrong with you? Why do you look ugly, where is your hippie smiling face?"

In the Dongnuan Pavilion, Zhu Youzhen asked a little strangely, and sighed in his heart, he would not ask for anything from the royal family, and Xu Jiazhuang would not agree to any of them, and this Qi Chunnian was afraid of death, afraid that he would not be able to bear his anger, so he first put on a serious appearance, so that he would not be embarrassed?

"Your Majesty, I can only say that your luck this time is too good, Madame went out on a trip, and the owner of the village happened to be there, so almost all of Your Majesty's five requests were agreed, although they were all discounted to a certain extent, but for Your Majesty, this is definitely a big profit." Qi Chunnian said helplessly, and took out a document from his briefcase.

"Really?"

Zhu Youzhen's face was overjoyed, and infinite anticipation surged in his heart, and he said, "Quickly show me Xu Yuan's reply."

Qi Chunnian nodded, and handed the document titled "Agreement of Understanding between the Royal Family and Xu Jiazhuang" on the cover to Zhu Youzhen's hand.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't wait to open it and look at it, but the smile quickly solidified on his face, becoming quite gloomy and ugly, and he even felt huge dissatisfaction.

Because the core five answers are as follows:

1. The Xu family manor will restrict the participation of officials with a family property of more than 100,000 silver dollars, and agree to jointly enforce the law with the imperial court to bring the officials who murdered the people to justice, but other officials who are not too problematic, Xu Jiazhuang will not restrict their participation.

Second, the financial support has increased from 13 million to 20 million per year, but the imperial court must exempt 9% of the salary to reduce the burden of the people, otherwise there will still be hundreds of people who will break their heads and find a way to join Xujiazhuang, that is, the imperial court must take some measures to improve the lives of the people.

Third, favors can only offset one, the royal family still owes one, the previous construction of the railway does not meet the offset standards, and whether it can offset favors, Xu Jiazhuang said it.

Fourth, the mine can not give, but can give the agent exchange right of banknotes, Tianxia Tong Bank is about to issue banknotes, which will be more conducive to the circulation of money, and will also greatly stimulate the development of the Ming economy, and the royal family can get 1% of the agency fee as a reward, that is, the royal family can get 1 silver dollar promotion fee for each agent issuing banknotes worth 100 silver dollars - of course, it is paid with paper money.

Fifth, Xu Jiazhuang can make a guarantee of not expanding within the territory of Daming, but it is impossible to accept the people of Daming, and it is impossible not to occupy a piece of land, so it can only be guaranteed that no new large-scale collective manor will be built, and the validity period of this guarantee is 70 years, beyond this period, how will it develop in the future, Xu Yuan can't guarantee, because at that time he is probably no longer there, and he can't make a commitment for the afterlife.

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And after reading these replies and terms.

There can only be one word to describe Zhu Youzhen's feelings: uncomfortable.

A kind of discomfort that is erected up and can't go up or down.

This made Zhu Youzhen want to be angry, because the result he was expecting was too far away!

But it made him restrain this anger and failed to come out, because his five requests were indeed responded to positively, but they were only agreed to a small part, and the discount was too great, far from satisfying his appetite.

But it can't be said that Xu Yuan is insincere, because Zhu Youzhen knows very well in his heart that if he is replaced by that Fang Qingyan, he will only be greatly humiliated.

Xu Yuan finally gave him a step down and gave him a little face.

However, he still has to fight for the interests that should be fought for!

Zhu Youzhen said: "The first article of this agreement, I will not raise any objections to the matter of officials joining Xujiazhuang

, I can give in, but the second one, the financial support given by Xujiazhuang is too little, so it has increased by 7 million silver dollars, and the tax that Jiangnan can collect now is 30 million yuan of grain per year, and now Jiangnan has been hollowed out by you by one-third, no matter what, at least 10 million silver dollars must be compensated, and the cancellation of Liaoyu, I can agree, but the annual income of Liaoyu is 5 million, and Xujiazhuang must make up for it! Can't the imperial court lose money and food, and the reputation of caring for the people can be let Xu Jiazhuang get it, right?"

"In short, the loss of taxes in Jiangnan plus the loss of the cancellation of Liao's salary, the total is 15 million silver dollars per year, as long as Xu Jiazhuang makes up for these losses, I will never be dissatisfied, and my request is also reasonable, anyway, a silver dollar cannot be less, you must agree!"

"Your Majesty, your request is unreasonable."

Qi Chunnian arched his hand and said: "The cancellation of the Liao salary is something that His Majesty promised a few years ago, and now the threat of Liaodong Houjin is no longer there, and the rogues in the Ming Dynasty have also been exterminated, and the military burden has been greatly reduced, but the imperial court has lost its trust in the people, and has not canceled the Liao salary for a long time, so that the greedy officials have an excuse to continue to oppress the people, and let hundreds of people complain, no matter what, the time to cancel the Liao salary has long come, this is the obligation of the imperial court, and it is a promise that His Majesty must fulfill, without Xu Jiazhuang's compensation, it must be canceled quickly, This cannot be used as an excuse to blackmail Xu Jiazhuang."

"As for the tax loss in the land south of the Yangtze River, the owner of the village has increased his financial support by 7 million, and the other five royal factories can now bring in nearly 5 million silver dollars per year, and the profit of the royal shop has now increased to more than 300,000 silver dollars per month, as well as the income from the royal farms and overseas estates, and the income from the royal family's wealth management account, all of which are added together, and now the annual income of the royal family will not be less than 35 million silver dollars, which is already very wealthy, and does not need so much financial support, and now there is no shortage of moneyHow can you take us as the wrongdoers again?"

Zhu Youzhen immediately retorted: "Your words are extremely ridiculous, the royal family makes more money, but the expenses are also very large, and all aspects have to spend money, and the civil officials often extort me, the annual expenses are not less than 30 million, and they can't save any money at all, if Xujiazhuang doesn't come up with more financial support, the burden on the people of the Ming Dynasty will not be reduced much, and there will be a large number of poor people running to Xujiazhuang, if you want to avoid this situation, then give me more money to subsidize, instead of reducing the royal family's income."

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"Your Majesty, it is not the responsibility of the imperial court to pay light and improve the people's livelihood, it is not your Majesty's responsibility, is it still the responsibility of our Xu Jiazhuang? Are these words spoken by His Majesty like the words of an emperor and a wise monarch? Okay, since Your Majesty doesn't want to be a holy king, and only wants to enjoy it yourself, then the annual income of more than 30 million yuan is definitely enough, as for the people of the world, you don't have to take care of it, and the greedy officials don't have to support it, and you don't have to spend a penny on their heads, just exempt from all taxes and let the people take care of themselves, maybe this will be more popular and grateful to the people, and Your Majesty will still have the name of the holy king, I don't know how to arrange this?"

Qi Chunnian put forward hypotheses and questions.

"Bunch of gibberish! How could I abandon my people? Don't say such nonsense again."

Zhu Youzhen blushed and scolded dissatisfiedly.

But in his heart, there is a feeling of shame, what did Qi Chunnian say, I Zhu Youzhen asked himself is a good emperor who loves the people and values the people, how can he be so selfish and unbearable as he said, indeed, Zhu Youzhen also admitted that in the past two years, he has pursued copper smelly things too much, but he is not mainly for his own enjoyment, a considerable part of the money is still spent on raising soldiers and helping the people, and he never only cares about himself.

Of course!

After Qi Chunnian's words, Zhu Youzhen also realized that Liao's salary really had to be canceled immediately, and there was no reason for this tax to continue to be collected, but it had become a bad government that greatly lost the support of the people, and naturally it could not be used as an excuse to ask for compensation from Xujiazhuang, and the main reason was that the four or five million money and grain collected by Liao's salary every year all went to the treasury of the household department, not into the internal treasury, and he Zhu Youzhen could not make any gains, even if it was canceled, it would be a loss for the civil officials, and their lives would be a little sad.

Therefore, on the issue of financial compensation, Zhu Youzhen, who had been arguing with Qi Chunnian for two hours, could not occupy it

wind, can not find a sufficient, ask to increase to more than 20 million silver dollars of excuse, because the current royal family, is indeed not short of money, life is quite nourishing, no matter how much money is asked.

"Forget it, the financial support can't be increased, I won't insist on this matter, I don't care about it, I can make concessions, but Xujiazhuang must give me ten mines!" And it must be a bonanza, and if the royal family wants to enter the mining industry and increase a source of income, you must agree to this condition!"

Zhu Youzhen gritted his teeth, said with a tough attitude, and secretly decided that it was impossible for him to give in to this clause, the mine must be obtained, and the interests of the royal family could no longer be compromised and compromised! Otherwise, Xu Jiazhuang will feel that the royal family can be bullied, and he will definitely have to inch in the future and do even more excessive things!

"Your Majesty, let me interject, there are thousands of mines in the world, and it doesn't hurt for us in Xujiazhuang to send people to find ten rich mines and give them to the royal family."

At this time, Gu Tianci, the president of the bank, said, "However, do you know that mining is actually an industry with huge costs and easy reputation?"

"What does it cost to open a mine? Why does it ruin your reputation?"

Zhu Youzhen looked puzzled and felt very puzzled.

Gu Tianci gave him an analysis: "We have cooperative relations with many mines, and we have obtained a lot of data and information...... Mining and mining, first of all, is a labor-intensive industry, a large mine, if you want to get greater profits, you have to recruit tens of thousands of workers, offer not low treatment, the annual labor cost, are at least more than one million silver dollars; The second is the cost of equipment, if you want to improve the efficiency of mining, you need to buy a variety of advanced equipment, or buy hundreds of tons of explosives, the cost is not less than one million silver dollars.

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The last is the management of miners, because most people can not stand the pain of mining, although the salary is not low, but the labor intensity is high, the danger is high, once the mining disaster, dozens of deaths and hundreds of people, the death and injury of a few dozens, these are not mining disasters, just small accidents, so under normal circumstances, most miners will resign in less than three months, half a year will run away, and in order to make money, the mine will often take restrictions on the personal freedom of miners, use violence to manage the way, prevent workers from resigning, and even more, In order to pursue more profits, they will reduce the food and wages of the miners, or introduce gambling stalls and brothels to earn the wages of the miners, and often end up with injuries and illnesses, but they can't save a single silver dollar, or they will mine until they die in a mining accident, and their families will not receive any compensation, which is full of countless unconscionable things."

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At this time, Gu Tianci was in Zhu Youzhen's ear again, and said in an extremely tempting tone.

What?

Earn tens of millions a year?

When it lit up, Zhu Youzhen's eyes lit up, and he immediately couldn't wait to pull him and ask, "Tell me quickly, what's going on with this banknote agency?"

"It's Your Majesty the Exchange Agent for Paper Money."

Gu Tianci opened the briefcase in his hand, opened the zipper, took out three stacks of brand-new banknotes from it, and placed them in front of Zhu Youzhen.

There are three denominations: 10 Wen, 50 Wen, and 100 Wen.

10 paper money with a face value, only one-fifth of the size of an adult's palm, the front has a picture of the Great Wall, the back is a turtle picture, with watermark anti-counterfeiting, pattern anti-counterfeiting, gold line anti-counterfeiting, banknote material anti-counterfeiting, color ink anti-counterfeiting, numbering anti-counterfeiting and other six-fold anti-counterfeiting functions, the probability of being imitated is zero.

….

The banknote with a face value of 50 Wen is the size of a man's palm, with a picture of workers and peasants on the front, and a phoenix on the back, which also has six layers of anti-counterfeiting.

The 100-dollar banknote, which costs half a palm, has mythical characters Nuwa and Fuxi on the front and a dragon on the back, which is exquisitely made and has a unique feel, and is also impossible to be imitated.

"Your Majesty, with the rapid development of the economy in recent years, the aluminum light money with a face value of 1 Wen, although it has the advantages of light quality and non-decay, is welcomed by hundreds of people, but the purchasing power of the past two years has also decreased, in the past 3 Wen can buy a meat bun, but now it has to be 5 Wen, 8 Wen or even 10 Wen, the daily consumption of an ordinary person in the capital has also increased from 20 or 30 Wen a day to at least 40 or 50 Wen, except for grain, the price of most commodities has risen by three or five percent, Of course, the income of the people in Beijing has generally increased by more than 50%, and overall, the living standards have mostly improved."

"But the problem also arises, that is, the purchasing power of light money has decreased, in the past, in the people's money bags, as long as they bring one or two hundred light money, they can meet the consumption needs of a family for a day, but now it is a little insufficient, less to bring two or three hundred, more to bring four or five hundred, and the weight of one is one gram, with five hundred is the weight of one catty, although it is not very heavy, but it is still more troublesome, especially when spending money, counting money to find money is particularly troublesome, has affected the efficiency of economic exchanges, As a result, the demand for copper dollars in the face value of Baiwen increased, and the number of copper dollars was too small to meet the demand, which led to the emergence of counterfeit and shoddy copper dollars, which undermined the credit of copper dollars......

"In order to maintain the normal order of the financial market, the best way we have come up with is to issue banknotes with a higher face value than light money, which currently has three kinds of banknotes, such as 10 Wen, 50 Wen and 100 Wen, the denomination is not very high, not as good as the silver dollar worth 1,000 Wen, but it has the advantages of exquisite production, light quality and superb anti-counterfeiting, which is more in line with the needs of the people, so that they no longer need to carry hundreds or thousands of light money, which is more convenient to use, and can completely replace copper dollars and some light money."

It took half an hour to introduce the functions and characteristics of these three editions of banknotes.

Gu Tianci finally said: "Your Majesty, the purpose of Tianxiatong Bank to allow the royal family to act as an agent for these three versions of banknotes is to let the royal family take the lead in using them and play the role of credit endorsement; Secondly, if our banknotes are successfully issued and welcomed by the people, then the people can charge 1% of the handling fee when they come to the imperial store or the government to exchange banknotes with light money and copper dollars, and then give 1% of the promotion fee when they come to the bank, which is 2% of the profit, that is, the exchange volume of the people in the royal family, reaching one million silver dollars, the royal family can earn 20,000 silver dollars, and the exchange volume reaches 10 million silver dollars, and the royal family can earn 200,000 ...... The scale of light money circulation in the northern market of Daming is not less than one billion silver dollars, and your Majesty, even if you win one of them, you can also earn 2 million silver dollars, and the profit margin is very large...... I wonder if Your Majesty thinks our banknotes can be promoted?"

"Yes, of course, such a beautiful and useful banknote, of course it can be promoted." Zhu Youzhen nodded repeatedly.

"Then does Your Majesty believe that the money earned by the royal family from it can be compared to ten mines?"

"Of course it's comparable!"

Zhu Youzhen said excitedly, and making this money is clean money, easy money that can be earned while sitting, compared to a black heart

The mine is too much stronger.

"Okay, in that case, how about we get to work together?"

"Yes!"

Zhu Youzhen nodded, and the bright prospect of the exchange right of banknote agents made him smile with satisfaction and happiness, and his mood was suddenly very good.

Naturally, for the last negotiation, Xujiazhuang's guarantee of non-expansion, which can only last for 70 years, Zhu Youzhen did not continue to entangle and oppose it, after all, after 70 years, he will definitely be gone for a long time, how can he manage it for so long.

Chongzhen owes me a billion taels.

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