The first axe was just a stick, no arrest, no fine, in order to remind those merchants who took the opportunity to raise prices, your affairs are already known to the court.

Since the imperial court has already started to rectify, it stands to reason that it should be fearful, but now the problem in Beijing is that it cannot be governed unless it is a heavy canon.

Enke is common, but it is rare to add so many officials at one time, and it may not be able to catch up with it in the next two hundred years.

The inns and restaurants they have in the capital, but all the places with accommodation functions have crazy price increases, and they are one price a day.

Originally, the price of a restaurant in the capital was three coins of silver a night, which means that most people can afford the average inn price.

Now those general inns, the location is not particularly good, they are already more than one or two silver to stay overnight, after the imperial court's Enke holy decree was announced to the world, it ushered in a wave of competition to increase the limelight.

For example, Gulou Street, a restaurant that goes directly to the examination room and is located in the most prosperous area of the capital, where the lowest floor and worst room for a night also costs at least thirty taels of silver.

What is this concept?

Give thirty taels of silver to a family of three, the normal expenses can't be spent in a year, and you can only live here for one night.

As a result, housing prices in the entire capital began to rise.

In the Ariake generation, housing prices have never been a problem.

At this time, people only regarded the house as a place to live, and it was good to live in a good place, but it didn't matter if they lived in a poor grass house.

The main reason is that the bride price of people nowadays is very simple, and finding a partner also pays more attention to the character and talent of the other party, and things like a house are not a necessity for marriage or life at all.

Even in the city of Beijing, a house on the outskirts of Beijing with a relatively spacious entrance and exit and a courtyard usually only costs about 30 taels.

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However, now, if you stay on Gulou Street in Beijing for one night, you can actually buy a big mansion in the suburbs of Beijing or other places, which is really an exaggeration.

In fact, the household officials can also guess what these people think, after all, everyone came here like this, risking their lives to make money.

After opening Enke, students from all over the country flocked to the capital, and the accommodation was in short supply at all, and some inns even vacated firewood rooms were not enough at all.

At this time, the price is no longer a problem, no matter how high it is, there will be people living in Chaoyang.

It's like Gulou Street, thirty taels of silver a night, which is really a huge amount of money in ordinary people's homes, but the natural advantage of going out of Gulou Street to the examination room is incomparable.

The scholars from the south of the Yangtze River are all generous, and they don't know where they got the money, and spending thirty taels is like sprinkling water.

Even some high-end green buildings on Gulou Street, the sky-high price of two or three hundred taels a night is now in short supply, and it is even scheduled for next month.

In this case, mild measures have no effect at all.

Therefore, the second axe of the household department was put into effect.

Arrest.

Within a few days, the household department found that it was useless to beat sticks and farts, and immediately issued new official documents to various state capitals and counties.

For all localities, the main thing is to strictly control the price rise caused by the fluctuation of prices in Beijing.

The Ministry of Household Affairs of the Beijing Division stipulates that all kinds of goods handed over by the local officials must be reported to the list at the same time from now on, and they must be strictly classified, and the goods of different classifications shall not be mixed with other items.

For each item, the local price must be clearly marked in the previous three months, and the quality of the goods handed over must be indicated to prevent shoddy and confusing prices.

There is another one, which was added by Jin Lian, the head of the household department.

That is, the list of goods reported to Beijing must be signed by the officials of the local clearance department, and the unit of origin will be added to it, and the household department will check it accordingly, and if there is a discrepancy in the price and quality, it will be reported to the criminal department for investigation and handling.

Now the Shangshu of the Criminal Department is Jiang Yuan, who is also a ruthless character, who has been able to protect himself in the floating officialdom of the Jingshi from the first year of Jingtai to the present, and has repeatedly jumped between the imperial party and the Wenchen group.

This is the household department's policy of suppressing the prices that the local government has not had time to rise, and it is to take precautions to stabilize the local government before controlling the prices in Beijing.

In fact, the household officials did not know the method proposed by Jin Lian, but no one mentioned it, and the problem was that the household officials did not want to offend too many people.

Jin Lian doesn't care about this, his temperament is very similar to Yu Qian, he is jealous and hateful when he does things, but he has a high emotional intelligence, and he will not offend people so much if he is not out of necessity.

But when it comes to righteousness, there is no hesitation.

Jin Lian brought it up, in other words, there was already a backstabber, and the officials of the household department naturally did not resist, and directly through discussion, they were delegated to the locality.

Under the first official document of this second board axe, all the local officials who received the official letter began to follow the new policy step by step.

Prices in Shandong, Henan and other places, which are close to Beijing, also quickly stabilized.

The impact on local prices was minimal, and the main problem that the household department had to deal with was the behavior of these unscrupulous businessmen in the capital who took the opportunity to raise prices.

The second plate axe continues.

The local official document is also applicable to the goods of Jingshi, but this is not enough, and the household department immediately issued an official document on "price supervision in Jingshi".

The official document separately introduced measures to deal with the recent problem of soaring prices in the Jingshi and Kisuke areas, especially the problem of the rooms in the inns and restaurants in Jingshi rising several times or even dozens of times.

The official document stipulates that the household department will set up a "supervising officer".

The supervising officer will have a supervision team composed of household officials, who will be responsible for each Shifang sub-district in Kyoshi, and will assess the prices in the Kyoshi area every 10 days before the end of Enko.

At the end of the official document, the second axe was provided for more severe punishment measures, and since the moderate policy of the first axe did not work, it began to convict and arrest people.

"Those who evaluate the price of unevenness in the cities of Beijing will be considered expensive and cheap, and they will sit on the stolen goods; Those who enter themselves are judged as thieves. ”

The supervision team took the stone fang and each street in the stone square as a unit, and assessed the price of various goods and accommodation in the Ming Dynasty over the years.

If it is found that the price of goods exceeds one to three times the original price, it will be punished as embezzlement and the criminal department will be arrested for questioning.

If the price exceeds three times but not more than ten times the original, it will be punished for stealing people's property, and the criminal department will be caught and questioned.

If the price exceeds 10 times, it will be transferred to the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town for review.

There is an article in this, and those who generally do business, even if they dare to raise their prices hard, they will not rise too wildly, because that is fatal.

But anyone who dares to increase the price to more than ten times, the background is not simple, especially those owners on Gulou Street, all of which are based on the background of large chambers of commerce in various places.

The president of the chamber of commerce is generally a local wealthy businessman, and the wealthy businessman chaebol is a collusion of local officials and major magnates in the DPRK and China, and the general method of adjudication is not effective for them at all.

To deal with this kind of person, the household department can't do it, but the Ming Dynasty has a special agency to deal with them, that is, the factory guard, the brocade guard is backed by the imperial power, and it is specially to punish those powerful people who are not afraid of heaven and earth.

No matter how big the backer is, can he be bigger than the emperor?