Chapter 954: Emperor Store, Coinage and Mission to Liaodong
With the new ideas and new tricks provided by Gao Jingfei, the imperial shop of Emperor Ming Dynasty became the hottest new trend in the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century. Whether it is the new style of cloth circulating in the imperial shop, or the various things that have never been seen before.
The equipment and objects of the country have become the fashion that high-ranking officials and wealthy families have been sought after.
Especially these items created by the royal family are still commodities circulating in the market, rather than those of the past that the emperor gave could not be bought, sold and traded, which made the rich people even more scruples.
Even officials, nobles and wealthy merchants who were unwilling to disclose their assets could send agents to buy them on their behalf. So in just a few months, the Xinhuangdian had added hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to Emperor Tianqi's treasury.
income.
After another proposal from Gao Jingfei, Wei Zhongxian personally supervised it, and ordered the Baoquan Bureau to cast all the gold and silver in the treasury into gold and silver coins to use it as the silver coins given to the emperor's subjects and the inner palace.
Because this batch of gold and silver coins are exquisite in style, it is convenient to use a complete range of large and small currencies, especially silver is an unofficial currency mainly circulated among the people in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. New silver coins do not need to be changed with silver as in the past, and they also need to be cut. There are anti-theft measures.
Therefore, this kind of silver coins soon became popular among the people, and some officials even wrote a letter to the emperor to ask the Ministry of Revenue to mint the national treasury silver into silver coins, which was issued and circulated as a currency of the Ming Dynasty.
After all, this thing is not a waste paper treasure banknote, but real gold and silver, and the silver content is more than 85% of the silver content, which is more valuable than many people's inferior silver 70% or even 60% of the poor quality silver.
Emperor Tianqi was naturally happy, but he pretended to be reluctant to agree after several letters from his ministers. After a few years ascending the throne, he understood the nature of these civil servants. He was not a business, but he agreed too much.
It was so satisfying that these big turbans would be suspicious, and then they changed their attitude the next day.
As long as you are not so willing to show your performance, after seeking the emperor's consent, these civil servants will finalize the matter as soon as possible, as if they are afraid that the emperor will regret it.
After the deposited silver in the treasury and the national treasury were minted into silver coins, the emperor alone had a profit of more than 200,000 yuan, and he made money from trading with the imperial shop.
The combined silver has already reached one million taels of income.
This is still a profit of less than half a year in just a few months. This amount is nearly ten times the annual income of the imperial shop in the past. Although the emperor ordered the factory to receive more mining taxes than this amount, it was unexpected wealth.
And it can flow slowly, how can you not make the emperor's master and servant happy?
In fact, it’s not that the imperial shop is not profitable, but that the original imperial shop has a group of eunuchs working on it. In addition, the goods are not particularly scarce, so of course the profit is low.
However, after Gao Jingfei's guidance, the goods were sold at high prices. In addition, the eunuchs and young prisoners led by Wei Zhongxian have been staring at the Xinhuang Store for a while and are very concerned about the income of new products, so few people dare to overdo it.
When making money, the emperor's profits will naturally be higher.
During the second half of the fifth year of the Tianqi period, Gao Jingfei not only guided the emperor and Wei Zhongxian to make money, but also went to Liaodong August before, and accompanied him with the eunuchs and Jinyi Guards sent by the emperor.
This trip was the emperor who rewarded the Liaodong military soldiers. After all, the emperor made money, so he became generous and directly distributed 300,000 silver coins of the treasury. He did not hand over the money or grain to civil servants or military generals, but adopted Gao Jingfei's
It is recommended to send it directly to the soldiers stationed in Liaodong.
Although this move made the officials feel resentful, it was highly praised by all the soldiers.
After all, in the past, when military pay was in their hands, at least more than 50% would be deducted, which is much better than the soldiers in other areas of the Jiubian area.
In other words, Liaodong was able to give enough money and food during the war, but this is only literally, at most 70%. After all, military pay was issued from the Ministry of Revenue and was wiped out twice when it was issued by the Ministry of War.
It's oily.
If it is 70% possible, most of the bosses above made the relationship between them and the subordinates restrained them.
Even the chief minister of the cabinet would not dare to let the people below avoid taking advantage of the situation, otherwise they would be angry!
Of course, it was not Gao Jingfei's main purpose to prompt the emperor to send the waiter to work in the army, because Zhu Youxiao and Wei Zhongxian already had great trust in him. This was not only because he could make money for the emperor, but also because the magic weapons he gave to the emperor were successively issued during this period.
The emperor found out three imperial physicians and eunuchs who tried to poison them, which could be said to have saved the emperor's life.
So when Gao Jingfei heard that there was a change in Liaodong, the emperor immediately gave him a gold medal and an imperial edict to act cheaply. Although it was just the emperor's order and there was no signing from the cabinet, I think the relationship between Sun Chengzong and the emperor should be based on his relationship.
Will not fail to comply.
With the recognition of the Supreme Leader of the Civil and Military Affairs of Liaodong, Gao Jingfei felt that he could make his arrangements based on the emperor's orders.
Throughout late July, Gao Jingfei did not do anything involving military and political affairs in Liaodong. He was just ashamed of the hard work of the people, so he took the initiative to use magic to help Sun Chengzong build city walls of various defense lines.
With Gao Jingfei's magical magic of turning soil into walls and turning mud into stones, the already outstanding defense lines of Linghe River in Liaodong and the fortresses in various cities and cities have become at least ten times stronger than in history.
The average city wall height, thickness and perimeter of the city wall are far beyond historical records. After all, Gao Jingfei's Gen Department prohibition method calls earth and stones just like a child building a sand castle, playing with mud, and it only took a few hours to expand a city.
Most of the time spent on design.
This made all civil and military officials in Liaodong, as well as soldiers and common people, regard Gao Jingfei, a Taoist who was mixed in the ranks of the court, as a god.
Especially the people of the people have erected tablets, portraits and statues of gods.
To them, this is a real god!
Of course, it is no problem to say that. With Gao Jingfei's current Taoist practice, not to mention that he can also transform into a god template, even if he is the incarnation of the Yuanshen and the human immortal, he can still bear the word "immortal".
What's more, these powers of faith can be transformed into the purest power through the altar of the heavens, without fearing the incense poison in the faith of sentient beings like other immortal practitioners.
In this way, it was August. Until a Liaodong student came to report the news, Gao Jingfei invited civil and military officials led by the Liaodong governor Sun Chengzong to visit Ningyuan City and ask the Liaodong student Liu Boli.
Although Sun Chengzong and other civil and military officials wondered why this Taoist angel had to do this, due to the emperor's face and the other party's high ability, they all gathered in Ningyuan City on this day.
"Zhengren Qin? Do you want to spread the word that Liu Boliu came up?"
Seeing Sun Chengzong sitting in the top head speaking, Gao Jingfei, who was sitting in the bottom left head, nodded and said:
"Everyone follows the arrangements of the supervisor."
In the Ming Dynasty, the left was respected. Because this trip to Liaodong, as an angel, the eunuch of Silijian who was sitting in the upper right head was instructed by the emperor and Wei Zhongxian to take everything to be led by the Dao Ren of Qin, so Gao Jingfei was respected everywhere.
, and also let Liaodong officials understand who is the one who has the right to speak in the angel team.
When Sun Chengzong saw that he still gave him face so much, he felt satisfied.
Originally, he had some doubts about the emperor sending a Taoist to come. After all, not to mention counting the dynasties in history, even the Ming Dynasty had several incidents of the evil monks and demons chaotic politics. He was afraid that the emperor would be the same as his ancestors.
, and was also bewitched by this demon.
But the facts proved that this Taoist not only had real skills, but also made great contributions to his plan and the defense line of Daming, but also rarely involved in Liaodong's military and political affairs. This made him very satisfied as the top leader, otherwise he would not have agreed to this
The trip to Shanhaiguan.
When Liu Bozhi came to the hall and saw so many officials sitting on it, his body trembled for a moment.
"Who is below?"
"Liao, Liaodong student Liu Boliu, visited the commander Sun..."
Seeing this man pretending to be calm, Sun Chengzong was not a literati who was stupid in studying. With his decades of experience in officialdom, he immediately understood in his heart that this man was probably having problems, and at the same time he guessed roughly.
When it comes, why Dao Ren Qin mobilized everyone to come.