Chapter 75: The First Step of the Great Reformation: The Monetary System
Puyang, Hong Chengchou in the military tent.
The atmosphere is serious.
Hong Chengchou sat upright, staring at the young man in front of him with a pair of tiger eyes.
That was his opponent, the enemy who made him suffer in Puyang City.
Fu Zhichun.
"You're not anti-people." The first thing Hong Chengchou said was this: "Your temperament is not like a rebel who crawled out of the mud and rebelled, and he was a soldier before?" ”
Fu Zhichun smiled and did not respond to this question, but found a chair to sit down.
"Is Fu's background important to the general?"
"Yes, it doesn't matter." Hong Chengchou was no longer entangled, and still continued to press: "You are so bold, dare to come to Ben Shuai's military camp alone, you are not afraid, you can't get out?" ”
"Will the general?" Fu Zhichun looked up at Hong Chengchou without fear: "My condition is not something that the general can agree, since the general said that he agreed, that is to say, this matter is agreed by the court and the emperor, and what the emperor promised, General Hong naturally has to obey and obey the order, so Fu, does the general dare to kill?" ”
Hong Chengchou showed anger on his face, and slapped his palm on the big case: "Fu Zhichun, you dare to be so rude in front of Ben Shuai." ”
"The general should be called Fu, Fu Fantai!" Fu Zhichun also raised the tone: "The court agreed to Fu's conditions, and even the appointment documents covered with the jade seal were sent to Fu's hands, and now Fu is the political envoy of Henan, and the court official of the third grade!"
The general is self-respecting, don't take a bite to say about his own official name, let alone use the power to intimidate Fu, everyone is an official in the same dynasty, and it is not clear who is higher and who is lower in the future. ”
Hong Chengchou sneered, raised his hand and pointed at Fu Zhichun a few times, and finally put it down quite reluctantly.
"Don't send it!"
"Farewell."
Fu Zhichun got up and left, without dragging his feet.
Although Hong Chengchou was very unhappy with Fu Zhichun, in the end, he could be regarded as recruiting, and he could focus on continuing to suppress the rebellion.
There are so many rebel forces in Henan that are not all hard nails, at least not as hard as Fu Zhichun.
Not every common people under the anti-army forces can fight the court to the end with the determination to see death as if they were at home, like the people of Puyang.
This made Hong Chengchou regain the feeling of killing Gao Yingxiang in northern Shaanxi.
This was what he knew about a rebel army of outcasts.
It will collapse at the first touch, and the trick of dividing Zhao'an has been tried and tested.
It is precisely because of this that Zhu Youzhen came up with a Fu Zhichun, but he is not afraid that others will follow suit.
Fu Zhichun can have the desperate support of the common people, and even do not hesitate to play with the court for this, even if others want to learn, can they have this kind of mass base?
It is true that the credibility of the imperial court is gone, but how many of those leaders who oppose thieves and rebel against the party have credibility?
Do they know how to hold the hearts of the people?
Do you really think that Gao Yingxiang's so-called slogan of 'the king comes and doesn't pay for food' can deceive the illiterate people, and can make the people die?
It's not that simple.
If Gao Yingxiang's two slogans can pull out a revolutionary army with faith and regard death as home, then this rebellion is too child's play.
Fu Zhichun is a single special case, his success is irreproducible, because he is the only one taught by Zhu Youzhen, in this world, except for Zhu Youzhen can copy, no one can do it!
From the policy, organization, discipline, politics and other aspects of planting soil and cultivating sources, Fu Zhichun pulled out a rebel army that could face Hong Chengchou.
It's a pity that only Fu Zhichun can use these methods taught by Zhu Youzhen to Fu Zhichun, and Zhu Youzhen can't use them.
The two have different identities and different directions.
Fu Zhichun is a rebellion, and he is going in the direction from the bottom up, and the core of the rebellion lies in the foundation of the people.
Zhu Youzhen wants to carry out reforms, and he is going in the direction of going from top to bottom, and the core of reform lies in political stability.
Therefore, Zhu Youzhen tossed and turned, came up with a Fu Zhichun, and came up with a glorious study abroad plan, which was all preparing for his own reform.
If the reform fails, at least, he will leave two different ideological fires for the Ming Dynasty and the entire land of China.
Whether it is Yan Yingyuan, a group of students who will come back from studying abroad, who rebel in the future, or Fu Zhichun simply carrying forward the rebellion technique he taught him, and making his own independent door bigger and stronger, this country will not be the turn of Huang Taiji!
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"Wait until next year, that is, the third year of Chongzhen, a whip law will no longer be used, and at the same time, in order to stabilize people's livelihood, get through the difficulties as soon as possible, and stop all miscellaneous taxes, miscellaneous taxes and forced labor."
In the Wenyuan Pavilion, Zhu Youzhen summoned Qi Jiuqing and began to make the first step for next year's drastic reform.
"Restore the tax in kind, and at the same time follow the policy of discounting in kind, pay officials and pay for work, except for the Guanning Army and the Beijing Camp in Liaodong, the military salaries of the general military towns in all provinces are all paid in grain and cloth.
Now the private merchants hold a large amount of cash in their hands, the amount is extremely huge, even immeasurable, if the effective value of silver as the main currency is maintained, then it is equivalent to increasing the influence of these merchants, officials, and families who hold a large amount of silver.
What I and the imperial court have to do is to make the silver worthless, and the household department can restore the treasure source bureau, let the mint department mint more copper coins, and then study and study to see how we can print a batch of new treasure banknotes that are not easy to forge.
In addition, I plan to start reorganizing the post station and the transshipment envoys of the provinces, these two yamen affect the passage and are the core of the link for the movement of goods, and we should pay attention to it.
In this way, with COFCO, China Cotton, and China and Hong Kong, we can grasp the clothing, food, housing and transportation needed for people's livelihood, and grasp the four most critical points, and the overall situation will be stabilized.
Use this stable overall situation to ensure the purchasing power and credibility of the new treasure banknote, let the new treasure banknote gradually replace silver as the circulation currency of the Ming Dynasty, force silver to gradually withdraw from the market, and rebuild a new national economic and monetary system. ”
Bi Ziyan carefully spoke: "Replacing silver and recasting a new monetary system is not a small movement. ”
"It's definitely not going to be small." Zhu Youzhen said directly: "But no matter how big the movement is, this thing has to be done, without the courage of a strong man to break his wrist, the court can only be led by the nose of the people, this is not good, how can there be a reason for microeconomics to lead macroeconomics." ”
Microeconomics?
Macroeconomic?
This word is too fresh, and no one in Jiuqing can understand it.
However, the advantage of the vernacular is that no matter how fresh the words are, you can literally take them apart and touch them, and you can feel a little bit of flavor.
tiny, tiny; View, perspective.
The economy from a small perspective is not the private economy of the common people.
Grandiose, grandiose;
The economy from a national-level perspective.
Look, isn't that easy to understand?