"Huh? Industrial and commercial silver number? The big shopkeeper? ”

Zheng Zunqian was stunned when he heard this, this is really unprepared.

Didn't you say that we should be on an errand in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, why do we suddenly want to be some kind of big treasurer?

Chongzhen said again: "Zheng Zunqian, the Shizi Camp discusses every day that there is no farming, no work, no wealth, no business, no life, and there is no need to say much about the truth, you know everything." ”

"And this industrial and commercial silver number is specifically to support the development of industry."

"A winemaking workshop like your Zheng family is in the ranks of support."

After saying this, Chongzhen told Zheng Zunqian the operating principle of the industrial and commercial silver number again.

Zheng Zunqian is worthy of being a child of the Shangjia family, but after listening to it once, he understood the essence of it, and said at the moment: "Holy Lord, the student is willing to be the big treasurer of this industrial and commercial silver number. ”

"Okay." Chongzhen said happily, "You go to Ma Mingluo to ask for twenty scholars, choose a site as soon as possible, and then hang up the silver number plate of the industrial and commercial industry, and as soon as the share capital of 50 million taels is in place, you will immediately take action for me." ”

After a pause, Chongzhen said to the businessmen present: "There is also the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce, and we must also pay close attention to it." ”

Hearing this, everyone, including Kang Million, stood up in unison: "The grass people are waiting for the order." ”

Chongzhen said to Kang Million again: "Uncle Guo, it's almost time for dinner, I have to ask you to invite you to the banquet on my behalf, I am busy with state affairs, so I won't participate this time." ”

In fact, I just don't want to give out money.

"Commandment." How dare Kang Million refuse.

After sending away the merchants Jia and Zheng Zunqian, Chongzhen asked Zhu Cihong and Kang Xi again: "What about the account book of the royal silver number?" ”

Kang Xi hurriedly asked the silver number guys waiting outside to bring in the account books, although the silver number has only been established for half a year, it has already accumulated two large boxes of account books.

However, Chongzhen will not look at those detailed account books, he only looks at the general ledger.

Judging from the accounts, the largest depositor of the Royal Silver is still the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with a total deposit of more than 40 million taels of silver.

At one time, the amount of silver deposited in the account of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reached more than 70 million taels, but a lot of silver was spent before the war in Xuzhou, and nearly 10 million taels were spent to repurchase the first phase of bonds.

So now, there are only more than 40 million taels left in the account of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In addition, the second largest depositor was the Kang family, who deposited three million taels in the account of the Royal Silver Horn.

None of the depositors below exceeded one million, but there were quite a few between one million taels and five hundred thousand taels, adding up to dozens.

The number of depositors under 500,000 taels is even higher.

Up to now, the total silver deposit of the Royal Silver is 130 million taels.

If the reserve ratio is 30%, it means that 90 million taels of silver can be used for various expenses, so what Daming lacks now is not capital, but the planning of industrial development!

There's nothing to say about this, Daming must be the whole industry.

Looking at the account again, the largest sum was 200,000 taels, which was borrowed by a silk merchant and used silk and satin as a countervail.

Then there are tens of thousands of taels or even thousands of taels of loans, and the scale of loans can only be described in two words, which is bleak.

Therefore, before the industrial and commercial industry of the Ming Dynasty developed, the Ming royal silver could only lose money, or the Ming Dynasty also engaged in overseas colonization like the West, lending silver to adventurous merchants, and waiting for these adventurous merchants to earn huge profits from overseas colonies and then come back to repay the principal.

It's a pity that Da Ming doesn't have these two money-making businesses.

Therefore, the Daming Royal Silver is almost not profitable, and it has been losing money.

Kang Xi took the opportunity to complain to Chongzhen: "Father, why don't you stop the money?" ”

Chongzhen asked noncommittally: "What is the amount of money you have given to deposit silver for different periods now?" ”

Kang Xi said: "The ten-year principal and interest are sixteen, the five-year principal and interest are twelve, the two-year period is one hundred and six profits, and the one-year period is one hundred and two interests. ”

After a pause, Kang Xi said again: "After a while, my daughter-in-law wants to reduce some more profits." ”

"Profits don't have to go down." Chongzhen said that the annual interest rate of two percent is not as high as the future fund.

After a pause, Chongzhen said again: "You don't have to worry about the silver number will lose money, it is absolutely impossible to lose money if you lose money, and when the industrial and commercial silver number is established and starts business, the royal silver number will have a large amount of income." ”

The industrial and commercial silver is just the beginning, and there will be shipping and shipbuilding silver, road engineering silver and even overseas development silver, Daming Royal Silver will undoubtedly become the largest shareholder of these silver.

Therefore, the main business of Daming Royal Silver is not a small loan business at all.

Chongzhen had already said this, and Kang Xi could only say yes and not say more.

"Okay, you go back, I won't leave you to eat." Chongzhen quickly finished reading the general ledger and sent Zhu Cihong and his wife back to Kangfu.

said that it was Kangfu, but in fact, Kang Million had already given this annex to his daughter.

This is also the dowry that Kang Million gave to his daughter, worth at least 500,000.

……

At the same time, Shi Kefa, Xie Xuelong and Lu Zhenfei came to Gao Hongtu's cell again.

"Gao Hongtu!" Shi Kefa said with a dark face, "The servants who should say and don't say things have already told you, and now the servants will ask you one last time, do you write or not write this confession?" ”

"Don't write." Gao Hongtu said coldly, "The old man will never write this confession." ”

Xie Xuelong, who was next to him, became impatient and said angrily: "Shou Yu, if you still talk nonsense with him, just do what you say." ”

Gao Hongtu's heart tightened when he heard this, what do you mean by this? What do you want to do? Find someone to write a confession in the handwriting of an old man?

Shi Kefa turned around and said, "Shiqiao, then I have to work for you." ”

"Shiqiao?" Gao Hongtu looked at it urgently, and saw Shi Shiran, the former secretary of the Ministry of Rites, who had already walked in.

Xie Xuelong said aloud: "Gao Hongtu was unable to hold the pen because of the shackles, so he asked the famous calligrapher Wang Shiqiao, the former secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to write a confession on his behalf. ”

Gao Hongtu was furious when he heard this: "Xie Xuelong, do you really dare? ”

Xie Xuelong didn't pay attention to it at all, and Gu Zi said: "Gao Hongtu, the former deputy minister of the Ming Dynasty's cabinet, asks for guilt. ”

"Xie Xuelong, you are shameless! Wang Duo stopped, who allowed you to write for the old man? Gao Hongtu was furious and wanted to pounce on Wang Duo, but was stopped by Lu Zhenfei and Xie Xuelong.

Shi Kefa continued: "The criminal minister Gao Hongtu is respectful: the criminal minister is also from Jiaozhou, Shandong, and he is a jinshi in the thirty-eighth year of Wanli, and he was awarded the imperial history at the beginning, and at the beginning of the apocalypse, he patrolled the Shaanxi ......"

“…… Because the ministers are guilty of great sins, they are deeply repentant......"

“…… I hope that the saint will not sin the world because of the fault of one of the sinners, and I am a great scholar with many wind and bones, and I can use them to be the pillars of the country...... In this way, the guilty minister died without regret. ”

"The criminal minister Gao Hongtu, bow his head at once, and worship on the twenty-first day of August in the eighteenth year of Chongzhen."

Wang Duo walked the dragon and snake with the pen, wrote it quickly, blew dry the ink, and handed it to Shi Kefa.

Shi Kefa took the invitation and said, "Gao Hongtu's request for guilt has been written, let's go." ”

After speaking, Shi Kefa turned around and walked out, and Xie Xuelong and Lu Zhenfei let go of Gao Hongtu.

Gao Hongtu jumped to his feet and scolded angrily behind the four of them, but he couldn't change the result, and whether the confession was written by him was no longer so important.

……

That night, Shi Kefa personally sent the confessions of Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang and others to Guozijian.

Chongzhen roughly flipped through it, put down the petition and said: "Send these petitions to the National History Museum for archiving for future generations to use when compiling the history of the Ming Dynasty." ”

"Commandment." Shi Kefa asked after a long pause, "Holy Lord, there is also a case of killing the monarch and planting false accusations......

"Let's stop there." Chongzhen said solemnly, "Find a time to behead a criminal to show the public, in addition to the confiscation of all family property, the families of these criminals will not be investigated, I said that the crime is not as good as the family, so I will definitely do it, I can't do this kind of thing without faith, Shi Ge Lao, just do it according to this charter, as soon as possible." ”

"Commandment." Shi Kefa received the holy decree and turned to leave the Guozijian.

Before going out, Shi Kefa looked back at the Guozijian who was hidden in the dark.

The heart said that the saint is really benevolent, and even the murder of the king can not be punished by the family.

……

Two days later, more than 20 prisoners, including Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang, Zhang Youyu, Zuo Guangxian, Yuan Pengnian, Liu Zhengzong, and Li Jinglian, were escorted to Caishikou by Ying Tianfu's officials in prison cars.

Along the way, the citizens of Nanjing City have been waiting early.

Seeing more than 20 prisoner vans coming around, the citizens threw out the filth prepared in advance.

Gao Hongtu and several other first offenders looked indifferent, indifferent in the face of the angry Nanjing citizens, and the more than 20 officials and officials behind them were dejected and annoyed.

More than 20 death row inmates were soon taken to the entrance of the vegetable market.

In charge of the beheading were Lu Zhenfei, a scholar of Dongge University and a scholar of the Criminal Department, Zhang Shenyan, the right governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Jin Xuan, the governor of Yingtian.

As soon as the hour came, Lu Zhenfei personally executed the prisoner and threw down the killing order.

More than 20 executioners raised their knives at the same time, and in an instant, the knives fell, and more than 20 human skulls fell to the ground.

The citizens of Nanjing, who were watching around, applauded, and many even applauded enthusiastically.

There were also a few old women who rushed into the court desperately, took out the white-flour steamed buns prepared in advance, dipped them in human blood, and then rushed home like a treasure.

With Gao Hongtu and more than 20 other people beheaded for public display, the Yangzhou murder case and the planting case have also come to an end.

Officials from the Donglin Party, such as Lu Daqi and Qian Qianyi, also returned to the DPRK one after another after publishing a statement in the Huangming Times, and the government of the DPRK, which had been chaotic for almost half a month, finally resumed normal operation.

At the same time, there was another silver number on the banknote street.

On the right side of the Daming Royal Silver Number, there is another Daming Industrial and Commercial Industrial Silver Number.

There are three silver numbers and two city shops on the banknote street, from left to right are the royal city trade office, the household city change office, the Daming household silver number, the Daming royal silver number, and then the Daming industrial and commercial silver number.

(End of chapter)