Chapter 020: Impure Motivation
"Your Majesty, Xu Guangqi is now the youngest secretary of the Zhanshi Mansion and the new official of the Henan Dao Censor, and is in charge of the new army in Henan. Not long ago, he wrote a letter to request to return to Tianjin to recuperate. This person is a faction of the Donglin Party, but he is not the core of the Donglin Party." Li Jinzhong investigated Xu Guangqi's situation and reported to Zhu Youxiao.
"Is Xu Guangqi from the Donglin Party?" Zhu Youxiao suddenly hesitated. At this time, the Donglin Party was about to destroy the Ming Dynasty! But then he felt relieved. The Donglin Party was not all the kind of people who were ill-hearted, but were divided into radicals and moderates. Xu Guangqi should be a moderate.
For example, Ye Xianggao, the chief assistant of the cabinet, is also considered a moderate.
The radicals are the guys **xing, Zhou Jiamo, and Yang Lian. In history, Zhu Youxiao purged the Donglin Party in the third year of the Tianqi period, which was obviously in a rage. In the third year of the Tianqi period, the queen gave birth to a stillbirth and the emperor was poisoned. How could he not be angry?
In a rage, he naturally cut a large piece of it.
Xu Guangqi was not cut, which means he was not caught. The Emperor of Heavenly Qi in history also extended an olive branch to Xu Guangqi, but Xu Guangqi did not accept this olive branch, so Emperor of Heavenly Qi asked him to "live in a leisurely position", that is, he did not take the position.
Xu Guangqi was considered a practical faction of the Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty, and it is still useful now. After all, Zhu Youxiao had not yet broken up with the Donglin Party at this time.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao immediately issued an order to summon Xu Guangqi to Beijing for an interview.
It was February of the first year of Tianqi. The opening of the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty was a major event in Beijing and had a great impact on the people's powerful people.
Ordinary people, even many powerful people, deposited their money into the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty to earn interest. But it was not good news for those Shanxi piaohao.
After the opening of the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty, the bank's business was obviously frighteningly good.
Bank staff treat people politely, and there is free tea supply in the bank, without any appearance of a store bullying customers. Yang Guorui, according to Zhu Youxiao's advice, tried his best to make the bank look crowded and lively. In this country, herd mentality is very common.
The one-yuan account opening in the bank has attracted a large number of ordinary people to deposit money in the bank.
When depositors come to the bank to withdraw money, if they are not assured of safety on the way, the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty will also send soldiers to escort along the way to avoid depositors being robbed by criminals.
The influence of Shanxi Piaohao has caused the cash bank of these money houses to drop significantly. Shanxi Piaohao is also doing fundraising, but they do not pay interest and charge service fees. Compared with the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty, there are only advantages in bills of exchange business left.
However, after Yang Guorui opened its four Royal Banks in the Ming Dynasty in Beijing, he began to train new employees without stopping, and has already selected locations and renovated in Baoding, Tianjin, Zhangjiakou and other places, preparing to further expand, and is already studying printing silver notes.
However, before the silver notes were released, the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty first launched a "gift notes", which were printed on red paper and used to give gifts to people.
What kind of wedding banquet should you go to? If you give money directly, it would look so cheesy! If you give this exquisitely printed gift ticket launched by the bank, it would look good and much more good.
Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but sneer at the scene in front of him. Obviously, these Donglin parties are not optimistic about banks. After all, in their opinion, under the 10% interest rate, the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty will inevitably have problems as long as there is a problem. At that time, as long as there is a problem, the royal shop and the imperial shop cannot make up for the losses of depositors, and then it will inevitably sell state-owned assets or even state-owned rights. Then, the rich merchants can benefit from it?
Therefore, the praise of the Donglin Party is actually because of impure motivation.
"Haha! I have so much money in my hand, can I still lose money in my business?" Zhu Youxiao was extremely calm. When he made all kinds of business bigger, don't cry and shout, just say that we can compete with the people for profit.
After the morning court that day, the deposits absorbed by the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty soared by more than one million taels on that day, and most of them handled long-term deposits for five years.
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Chapter completed!