Chapter 577: Robbery from the rich and giving to the “poor”
Just when Zhu Gaotian was about to celebrate the night with the ministers, Zhang Yingzhen suddenly appeared next to him and nudged him with her elbow.
And he whispered in Zhu Gaoyan's ear.
"Your Majesty, the treasury is empty now, and you don't have much money in your hands. Although I have concubines, they are not enough to cover such a large expense!"
Zhang Yingzhen clearly remembered the bills Zhu Gaotian carried. For such a large expense, even if she sold the jewelry, she could only just collect it.
After all, there are hundreds of thousands of people involved in the construction of the railway. The money given to them cannot be too little, otherwise it will appear that the royal family is stingy, and if it is given too much, they cannot afford it.
Your Majesty, it’s true, you know the current economic situation, but you still say this, what on earth do you want to do?
Zhu Gaotian gave him a reassuring look.
"My beloved, you are worrying too much. I will naturally find a way to solve this problem!"
Because in just a few days, it will be time to issue banknotes. Most of the money in the treasury has been used to build trains, and now there is not much left. It is not enough to give them the reward. At most, it can barely include today's dinner.
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However, I just said that I would reward you, but they didn’t say when I would reward you!
Is it possible that you, a minister, dare to ask the emperor directly when the reward will be given? Even a small leader in a company would not dare to talk to the boss directly.
What's more, the relationship between monarch and ministers is now more hierarchical!
Although there is not much food and money in the national treasury, Lao Zhu's family still has enough gold!
Although gold will not be spent easily as a last resort, but now it is just necessary to use gold as an item of equal exchange!
The banknotes produced have different denominations. These banknotes can be exchanged according to these denominations. Larger denominations, such as banknotes worth fifty taels of silver, can continue to be exchanged for higher denominations that can be linked to gold.
Big banknotes!
Only this part of banknotes can be directly exchanged for gold, but other banknotes cannot!
Wasn't there a reform for businessmen some time ago?
Improve the status of merchants, allowing them to trade freely and allow their children to become officials and join aristocratic families, and even have the opportunity to become relatives of the emperor!
But the premise of all this is that you need to exchange part of your property into an equal amount of banknotes and voluntarily increase the tax on doing business!
And what Zhu Gaoyan wants to wait for is the first person to eat crabs.
Businessmen are shrewd and stupid at the same time. As long as they set a small trap, they will fall into the trap of profit.
After all, the finance of later generations is not something that current businessmen can understand.
With banknotes and this convenient means of transaction, Zhu Gaotian can develop finance in this world.
Even the most ordinary financial analyst in finance in the Ming Dynasty could defeat the vast majority of businessmen and even make them bankrupt.
Of course, there must be many talented businessmen who can analyze the mystery at a glance and then follow suit.
Although it is impossible to harvest too much in a short period of time, it is still possible to let these merchants make a wave of blood. It can completely make the Ming Dynasty's treasury extremely abundant within two or three years!
And after that, Zhu Gaoyan will let Mr. Feng set up a bank similar to the current one, with the ability to save and loan. This can also greatly enhance the financial output of the entire Ming Dynasty!
And with banks and banknotes, what is the path that can quickly make a country rich and powerful?
Of course, it is to develop industry, develop infrastructure, and the ultimate means-real estate.
I have to say, real estate is really a good thing. It can even expand the total industrial value of your entire country several times, or even dozens of times!
If the total output value of the country's industrial, agricultural and service industries is only 500 million taels of silver, but if real estate is added, this value is likely to soar to 2 billion, or even more!
Although not all living in Westfield appear on the market, even if it is only 10%, it is a full increase of more than half of the original number.
As for what to do if this economic bubble collapses? Don’t be afraid, there are other countries helping them shoulder the burden anyway!
Because the surrounding countries do not have the conditions and qualifications to carry out this kind of economic construction, they will not even think of this.
Therefore, after stabilization, we will first develop a support policy and directly provide economic assistance to surrounding countries, building factories and so on.
When the time is up, we will burst this bubble directly, and then significantly transfer its impact to surrounding countries.
Although this approach kills ten thousand enemies and damages one thousand, it is still better than the burst of the economic bubble, which directly results in half of one's own losses. It is much better to be in a situation where it cannot be relieved within a few decades.
So first break out the surrounding area and seal off the roads of the princes and kings, and then...
Zhu Gaoyan couldn't help laughing when he thought of this.
"Your Majesty, what are you thinking about? I am so happy for you. You can barely express your happiness on your face!"
"Haha, it's nothing, I just remembered something very satisfying, so I couldn't help but laugh!"
But, can everything really be like this?
Zhu Gaoyang was not worried that he would not be able to harvest their leeks, but that he was worried that these countries would be destroyed by his generals before they were harvested!
"In less than two hours, we have already arrived in Tianjin from the capital!"
It is about three hundred miles from Beijing to Tianjin Port, but the train only took an hour and a half on the road.
"Your Majesty, this is the first time that the Snow Dragon has traveled for a long time. Weichen calculated the time and distance used and found that it can travel approximately two hundred miles per hour!"
Twelve hours in that day is 2,400 miles!
This is a speed far beyond what a thousand-mile horse can match, and a thousand-mile horse needs to rest. This huge steel creation will not feel tired at all. As long as there is enough coal, it can keep going!
"well!"
Zhu Gaoyang was very happy, and the ministers also felt proud of their names at this moment.
Zhu Gaoying wished that everyone in the Ming Dynasty would know about this, but unfortunately, the existence of the train was still an open secret.
You know, this kind of inspiring thing is a representative of the cohesion of a country and a nation, and it is also a booster of people's hearts!
"Strive to create the newspaper as early as possible, and then let this train pull the newspaper every day, and spread the news of the day to all parts of the country in one day!"
When we get back, let the Ministry of Industry rush to work quickly to develop new cheap paper and ink, and strive to print newspapers to a level that even poor peasants can afford!