In the fifteenth year of Wanli, midsummer.

On the outskirts of Beijing, as soon as a heavy rain stopped, the cicadas resounded among the lush green trees.

A large number of migrant workers are sweating like rain in the noisy cicada chirping, but these migrant workers are not irritable because of this, but are very peaceful in ramming earth and transporting stones.

The lack of circulation of silver dollars caused a large number of private workshops to close down, which in turn led to a large increase in the number of unemployed vagrants, and the imperial government had to increase the scale of infrastructure construction.

And now, these migrant workers are doing this project.

The reason why they felt satisfied was that they were not more irritable in the summer heat because they were unemployed, but because the wages given to them by the imperial court were really high, not lower than their income in private workshops, and it was difficult for them to be instigated by some literati to make trouble.

Under the deliberate propaganda of the official newspapers, they only believed that it was because of the emperor's benevolence and the emperor's willingness to make their lives more prosperous that they were given higher wages.

But what they didn't know was that the imperial court was more about getting more silver dollars circulating in the market by issuing them to them.

After all, no matter how high their wages are, compared to the rich, it is not much, and most of the wages are still used to support their families, even if they save some, the savings will be used to send their children to study.

Therefore, the Ming court did not mind giving them more money to these migrant workers, because as long as they were issued more, the circulation of silver dollars in the market would increase, rather than saving them after getting them.

Of course, Zhu Yijun is willing to spend a large amount of state money to send to the small people, which is not something that any emperor is willing to do.

Because this is actually equivalent to spitting out what you have eaten in your mouth, which is really not something that anyone can do.

Zhu Yijun can do it, firstly, because he comes from later generations, and ideologically he prefers to treat the people as human beings, and secondly, because he knows that there are still many global interests in this era that are worth tapping, and he can greatly increase his wealth value, and the loss at this time is just based on the needs of long-term interests.

More importantly, the promotion of Xinli for so many years has also made many ruling bureaucrats accept the idea that the Han people are more expensive than Yi, and believe that since the wages given to Fanyi are all because Xinli advocates benevolence and morality and wants to ensure its basic survival, then the Han people are more expensive than Fanyi, and as the son of heaven, they naturally have to be more preferential, and the treatment given cannot just let them ensure their basic life.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun can make the court feed back to the people.

However, although Zhu Yijun and the bureaucrats who supported the Xinli Party were willing to use the state funds to build a large fund to feed the people, a large part of the bureaucrats were still unwilling and opposed them one after another.

"The people have not reached the state of starvation, although the famine is just the result of seeking ease and laziness, such as today, there is actually a lot of karma such as reclamation in the borderland, such as pulling fiber, such as for the long work of large households, such as the sedan chair man, etc., and the reason why the small people are not willing to do it is just because they think they are hard and poor and do not know how to be thrifty, so they make trouble;"

"However, the imperial court connived at his nonsense, and did not hesitate to increase his wages, so that the laborers and the laborers had the same surplus money to drink tea and listen to music, and did not hesitate to spend a lot of national money."

"If the national treasury continues to be consumed like this, I really don't know that it will be consumed in time! What's more, now that the affairs of the Japanese and Luzon are imminent, there is already a lot of money, and now the project is being carried out in a big way, and it is prosperous in a high-priced way, I am afraid that within a few years, the imperial court will be exhausted, and once there are natural and man-made disasters, I don't know how the imperial court should deal with it? ”

"What's more, the mountain mausoleum is still not built at the moment, although His Majesty advocates frugality, but from the perspective of etiquette, the mountain mausoleum must be built, so much money is wasted, I really don't know where the cost of the mountain mausoleum will come from in the future?"

"Today's Shoufu Shen Shi deceives His Majesty to be benevolent, spends a lot of money on the country, and promotes his personal good name, but ignores the future fortune of the country, his heart can not be said to be insidious, and his deeds can not be said to be shameless, please Your Majesty choose Shi Xian, and stop this government of the country as soon as possible!"

Yushi Wang Zhixiang is on such a note.

However, Zhu Yijun did not report his handling of these omissions, and still allowed the cabinet to continue to spend state funds on a large scale and build projects.

This makes it difficult for bureaucrats who oppose the move.

Many of them hoped that the price of silver dollars would continue to rise sharply, but now because the imperial court has been distributing the silver dollars in stock to the people in the form of large-scale projects and various welfare benefits, the silver dollars circulating in the market have not been reduced on a large scale, and the price of silver dollars has only risen slightly, and the increase has not been as low as the expectations of the bureaucrats.

As more and more projects appeared, and more and more state funds flowed into the hands of small people, more and more officials began to sit still.

Du Yushi Wu Shilai and Hu Ke Du Yang Yuting all came to the cabinet on this day, asking when the cabinet was going to spend the state money.

Yang Yuting even asked Shen Shixing directly: "When the state treasury deposit is almost exhausted to the red line set by the Ministry of Households, if you continue to spend money like this, can Yuan Fu think about the consequences?" ”

Shen Shixing said with a calm face: "The cabinet and the household department are measured, so you don't have to worry about giving advice." ”

Yang Yuting sneered: "I really don't know what kind of proportion you have." ”

Wu Shilai saw that Yang Yuting's words were a little heavy, so he hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Yang is so rude to give him a rest!" The cabinet will have an answer to this matter, and we will talk about it when it really reaches the red line! ”

Yang Yuting listened to Wu Shilai's persuasion, and said: "Okay, I'll throw the words here first, you don't have the long-term safety of the society in your heart, I have it in my heart!" If it really reaches the red line, I would rather be relegated to the extreme borderland, and I will also have the right to refute it! ”

"The minister took the liberty of being presumptuous today, and I would like to ask you to forgive me and say goodbye!"

After Yang Yuting finished speaking, he turned around and left.

"When you continue to collect cash dollars at a high price, take land, houses, and beautiful maids, these more valuable items, and exchange them for silver dollars on the market!"

"Even if the beautiful maids of the Guangsha who are exchanged out are matched with the puppet traffickers, we only need less silver dollars now, so that the war against the Japanese will also be affected, and the silver shortage in the world will be more serious, so that the imperial court will have to pay the military salary in its true colors, and even its true colors will not be issued."

Gu Xiancheng also said this to Gu Yuncheng when the cabinet released the silver dollars in the treasury of Taicang and other countries into the hands of Xiaomin, and sneered:

"In this way, there will be a mutiny of soldiers and a civil uprising, then Shenwu County will fall because of this, and the Son of Heaven will at least get an unknown evaluation, either kill Shenwu County to save its reputation, or reprimand the internal treasury, the former will chill the new party advocating reform, and the latter is also in line with the will of the righteous men and gentlemen in the world, and the Son of Heaven will benefit the world."

Gu Yuncheng also said with a smile: "As my brother expected, the powerful officials and gentry who are secretly dissatisfied with the new party are doing this, and Uncle Dongning sold his 3,000 mu of watered fields to the local people at a discount of less than 1,000 taels, and the name of the small people is in response to the new ceremony, self-restraint and merger, and the name of benefiting the small people, so many people in Nandu are praised for this, and there are Nandu Taoist officials who want to ask for a table for them, and the court has to make a table, and it cannot be blamed for its malicious cashier." ”

"This is the benefit of speculating on the silver dollar and doing it, learn from him Zhu Yijun does not need to conspiracy, use the new gift to deal with the new ceremony, so that the Son of Heaven can't abandon the new gift if he wants to, and he can't use the righteous man and gentleman."

Gu Xiancheng said with a smile.

At the moment, the elite and bureaucrats are indeed exchanging their own high value-added assets for silver dollars in the market.

At this time, Lu Yinchang, a foreign minister of the Wenxuan Division, discounted the price of a beautiful concubine he brought to Beijing and distributed it to Ren Yonggang, a commoner who came to the north to work, in order to get more silver dollars.

Ren Yonggang had long wanted to have a wife, and he really coveted his beauty and the price was indeed very low, so he gave up the plan to buy a subscription coupon, and took his part-time job income and unused savings and borrowed some silver dollars from his co-workers to buy this beautiful woman.

This is naturally a great loss for Lu Yinchang, you must know that he spent thousands of taels of silver dollars just to cultivate the ability of this beautiful woman, qin, chess, calligraphy and painting.

But Lu Yinchang didn't feel a loss, what he wanted was to see Shenwu County fall because of the silver shortage, and the Ministry of Literature and Literature Division returned to the era when they could sell their official beards.

And the powerful bureaucrats do have a lot of high value-added assets, after all, they have been merged for more than 200 years.

Therefore, when they chose to sell cheaply, the imperial court was really unable to resist for a while, and when they saw that the deposit of the treasury was really about to reach the red line, Wang Xuan, the head of the household department, had to take the initiative to say to Zhu Yijun:

"Your Majesty, the price of silver dollars is still rising now, if you want to stabilize it, you can only rely on internal funds, and the treasury cannot come out again!"

(End of chapter)