Today is the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the exchange has closed. According to the announcement from the exchange, the exchange will be closed until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and will officially open on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.
Years ago, stocks rose slightly. Because the Xungui Group got inside information from Yang Fan, they bought a large amount even when no one dared to buy, causing a slight rise in the stock price.
Many people who had the courage to buy stocks in the early days found that they had made a profit of 15% in less than half a month. Suddenly, they were all happy.
Today, Chongzhen has finished handling the political affairs and can take a holiday. He can return to the harem to celebrate the New Year with peace of mind.
The ministers all took a holiday early on the New Year's Day. Now the six ministries and the cabinet have stopped all official activities except for the ministers on duty.
Chongzhen closed the last few memorials with a heavy heart. This year is the first year of Chongzhen, and it is said to be the beginning of a lot of waste. But this year's situation is so serious that it makes people's scalp numb just looking at it.
This year, I defeated the Wei Zhongxian clique, eliminated the Wei clique from the central government, and took the political power into my own hands. This was the biggest achievement this year. However, it was only after I truly took power that I realized that the world was already a crater.
The annual fiscal revenue is 4 million taels of silver, but only 7.5 million taels are spent on military expenses. The cost of supporting the clan king is as high as 8 million taels, and the court's salary requires more than 2 million taels. The palace expenses also cost one million taels.
The fiscal deficit is a full 14.5 million taels.
Such a big hole made Chongzhen lose his hair in grief. The reason why it can still be maintained now is because officials' salaries were misappropriated to pay military salaries. Of course, only part of the arrears of military salaries can be paid. The arrears of salaries to the feudal princes and clans are not paid, and the palace is also in arrears.
Try to be frugal as much as possible and try not to do any kind of sacrificial activities.
This year, the disaster in the north has intensified. North China and northwest China have experienced less rain than last year. However, due to the great development of the iron smelting industry in Zunhua and other places, the development of mines has been accelerated, and the metal products processing industry has also prospered.
This resulted in a large number of refugees from the north entering the factory. On the contrary, it made Beizhili seem more stable.
This year, the capital's road widening and rail transit construction, as well as Yang Fan's development of new residential and commercial blocks, have used a large amount of labor, giving priority to the poor in the capital. At present, there are basically no unemployed people in the city with household subsidies. There are even
Tens of thousands of people were hired from outside the city.
In addition, Xinghe Supermarket focuses on ensuring low-priced food supply in the capital and Yang Fan's own territory. Anyone with a grain book can purchase a certain amount of ground corn and corn flour at the price of one penny and three pounds. This greatly solves the problem in the capital.
food shortage problem.
In this era, three kilograms of grain is enough to feed a family of five. The poor people add some pickles to the meal, which will make them happy. It only costs thirty cents a month. The money saved can be used for other expenses in life.
This, on the contrary, led to signs of prosperity in the capital's business.
Chongzhen visited incognito several times, and all he saw was the peaceful scene of residents living and working in peace and contentment. This gave him a lot of comfort. Although he knew that Yang Fan did this to fulfill his original promise to him. He always insisted on selling grain at low prices and did not sell grain at low prices.
Profit is the purpose.
However, he also began to bear increasing pressure. Ministers were quite critical of this.
Because the people in the capital have the opportunity to buy low-priced food, it will influence them to drive up food prices. The food they steal from major warehouses in the capital and the food that floats out of the military rations must be sold.
Their domestic slaves and relatives opened grain stores in various places in Beizhili to sell stolen goods.
Now in Beijing, the largest consumer market in Northern Zhili, two-thirds of households, mainly poor people and military households, can buy grain at such low prices, and they cannot afford to speculate on it.
Every day, Chongzhen would receive a large number of memorials impeaching Uncle Dingyuan for competing with the people for profit. They even requested the closure of Xinghe Supermarket.
Especially the civil servants of the Sixth Ministry were the most fierce. Their interests were greatly harmed. The grain system had done too much harm to them.
There is no way they can blend in with the civilians to buy low-priced grains and then sell them at high prices in the disaster-stricken areas. Because there are photos in the grain book, and the grain stamps are like stamps, with holes punched in them. Tear them off one by one, and you will get the food stamps for this month.
Yes, it is only valid this month.
Even if they buy food stamps, it's useless. Because food stamps can only be used by yourself.
These strict measures make them hate it with itch, but there is no way, they can't imitate food stamps at all, because they don't have such good printing technology, they can only stare at it.
Chongzhen stood on the Yongding Gate several times and looked out, and found that the outside and the inside of the capital were completely two worlds. Outside the city, victims from all over the mountains and plains came to the capital to seek survival.
Because they heard that everyone in the capital has a job and everyone has food to eat.
The imperial court now has no money at all to provide disaster relief. No matter how miserable it is outside, Chongzhen can only watch.
This is why he quickly agreed to Yang Fan's construction of the railway.
He was also eager to find some places to eat for these refugees who surrounded the capital in a dense crowd. The crowd of hundreds of thousands of people in the dark was so violent that it made his scalp numb.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty was in the Ming Dynasty's Little Ice Age. From the late Wanli period to the Tianqi period, China's climate became significantly colder, wind and sand accumulated in the north, droughts increased year by year, and agricultural harvests dropped sharply.
During the same period, the temperature in the Central Plains and the rainfall in the northern agricultural and pastoral belt also reached the lowest point since the Qin and Han Dynasties.
The entire late Ming Dynasty was always accompanied by droughts, cold snaps, locust plagues, floods, plague, plague, etc. After that, the climate in the Central Plains continued to decline, and the world was in chaos and war.
Chongzhen put down the memorial and massaged his temples a little tiredly. He felt a sudden jump somewhere.
Beginning last year (1627), hungry people in Cheng County, northern Shaanxi, went into massacre, and then riots continued in northern Shaanxi. He kept receiving bad news.
Chongzhen had been paying attention to the civil uprising in Shaanxi. He ordered Luo to cultivate his character and find out the situation of the civil uprising in Shaanxi as soon as possible.
Today, Luo Yangxing's report finally came in. The secret report from Jin Yiwei made it very clear.
In March of the seventh year of the Apocalypse (1627), there was a severe drought in Shaanxi. Zhang Douyao, the county magistrate of Chengcheng, regardless of the life and death of the hungry people, still pressed for taxes and exploited the peasants.
Wang Er, a hungry citizen of Baishui, gathered hundreds of peasants who could not survive. He asked everyone: "Who dares to kill the county magistrate?"
Everyone said in unison: "I dare to kill."
So Wang Er led the hungry people to rush to the county seat, killed Zhang Douyao, and then raised the flag to rebel.
With Wang Er taking the lead, rebellions have begun in various places, and this year has formed a situation of starting a prairie fire.
In July, Wang Jiayin, Yang Liu, Bu Zhanni and others raised the flag of righteousness for the first time in Fugu, Shaanxi and other places.
Wang Daliang of Hannan, Ansai Gao Yingxiang and others successively gathered people to rebel, and the whole Shaanxi responded.
Zhang Xianzhong also rioted in Mizhi, Yan'an, and Jinyiwei secretly reported that this person has now joined Gao Yingxiang's army.
At present, the largest group of rebels is Wang Jiayin's army. They once occupied Fugu, proclaimed themselves king and established officials, and established a temporary court.
At this time, Chongzhen could only hope that Yang Fan would wipe out the Tumuts and Ordos as soon as possible, so that the nine general soldiers under the trilateral governors of the northwest region would be free to suppress the rebellion in northern Shaanxi.
Only by pacifying the rebel bandits in northern Shaanxi can they be mobilized to leave the fortress.
He knew very well that the drought was now sweeping across the entire north.
Henan, Shanxi, Beizhili, and Shandong also suffered severe production cuts. If the rebels in northern Shaanxi are not wiped out, once the corruption spreads to the entire north, the imperial court will be in danger.
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