As soon as Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, King Tang spoke before other members of the clan: "Your Majesty, the clan is going overseas. How many people can you take with you?"
This question was so important that other clan members who originally wanted to speak fell silent and listened attentively to the answer.
However, Emperor Chongzhen did not speak, but Wen Tiren, the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty cabinet, answered: "The imperial family has carefully considered the matter of Tibet overseas. Your questions will be answered by me."
When he said this, he looked at the Tang Dynasty king and said: "The imperial court has made a decision. Each vassal king will go overseas. He can take away a thousand royal guards and their families, and then recruit the people of the Ming Dynasty as their subjects. As many as they can recruit.
You can take it away."
"Can't the imperial court force the people belonging to the feudal prince's palace to leave together?" Crown Prince Fu interjected and asked.
Now it is related to the vassal king's vital interests in overseas affairs, and even the timid clan will start to bargain.
As soon as Prince Fu finished his words, several feudal princes echoed his words.
Wen Tiren allowed them to speak. After all, it was understandable that they fought for their own interests.
He waited for a while and saw that the scene had calmed down before saying: "The Ming Dynasty is now a troubled period. The rebels in Liaodong are rampant; the chieftains' unrest in the southwest has not long subsided, but they are ready to start again; the Qin region has not long since subsided; disasters occur frequently in various parts of the Ming Dynasty.
, millions of victims are crying for food. Under such circumstances, if the people are forced to relocate, it will inevitably cause turmoil, and the court cannot do this."
"Then we're afraid we won't be able to recruit many people?" King Tang sighed.
The people of the Ming Dynasty were the better for the vassal king who had just gone to North America to expand his territory. Therefore, the Tang King's lament aroused the echo of many people.
"Wrong, the current situation in the Ming Dynasty is the best time for you to go overseas and recruit the most people." Wen Tiren's voice was not very loud, but it was unusually loud to the ears of the feudal princes and clans.
"Why?" Prince Tang immediately asked.
Wen Tiren secretly praised Tuozhen's use for not straying off topic and following the pre-considered aspects: "Although the imperial court tried its best to provide disaster relief, its ability was limited, resulting in hungry people everywhere. To say something that is detrimental to the imperial court's face, those
Most of the victims are on the verge of starving to death. At this time, if you can provide them with a bite to eat and give them a bright future, you will surely be able to take away the maximum number of people at the minimum cost."
When the feudal princes and clans heard this, they thought so. If it weren't for the constant natural disasters, the people of the Ming Dynasty could live a good life on their own land. If they wanted to go to America to open up wasteland, it's hard to say how many people would go.
But in the current situation, if you stay in the Ming Dynasty, you are likely to starve to death, so it is better to go to North America to make a fortune while ensuring food and drink.
"What the chief minister said is that I can allow those people to have land after they arrive in America, and they will be my first-class subjects. If they perform well, they can also be my officials. I don't believe it. Those hungry people
Are you willing to go?" The King of Tang promptly stated his countermeasures, also to serve as a reference for other vassal kings.
Originally he would not say this, but Zhongxing Hou has explained that he has no choice but to announce these measures.
Some smart vassal princes and clans had already thought of this, and they despised the imperial court. They were incompetent and couldn't deal with the victims, so they asked them to help deal with the victims.
At the same time, they also admire the person who came up with this method of feudalizing them overseas. This is killing two birds with one stone, no, killing many birds with one stone.
Prince Fu was a young man who was relatively actively involved in the voyage to North America. He had also thought of another important issue, so he rushed to ask: "I'm afraid there will be a lot of ships going to North America. What should I do about this?"
After hearing this, the King of Tang glanced at him and couldn't help but murmur in his heart. The question he was about to ask was asked by him. Could it be that he was also someone who had been approached by Marquis Zhongxing beforehand?
Wen Tiren turned to look at Crown Prince Fu and replied: "Each vassal king himself must deal with a thousand ships to protect his guards and their families, and the imperial court will help you send out ships to transport the people."
"Why, can't they all be solved?" Another clan couldn't help but ask back. They were planning to invest more money in the plan to recruit disaster victims. Now if the ship has to be shipped by itself, wouldn't there be less money?
Recruit a lot of victims.
Wen Tiren was not unhappy by the question. He still maintained his previous attitude of neither being humble nor overbearing, neither happy nor angry: "Because these ships are the most basic, and you will continue to use them after you arrive in North America. The imperial court does not have the ability to give you these ships.
After all, one vassal king doesn’t have many ships, but all the vassal kings’ ships add up to a large number.”
At this point, Wen Tiren seemed to comfort them and said: "You can rest assured that no matter how many people you recruit, the imperial court will grit its teeth and provide corresponding ships to ensure that you can be transported to North America."
The clan of the vassal prince, who was not very clever, was frightened by Wen Tiren's guarantee. The people of all the vassal princes added up must be a large number. How many ships would be needed? No wonder the court was unable to provide ships for all the people.
Naturally, those smart vassal princes and clans knew that the imperial court would not ship too many ships. This was because they were definitely not going to die together, and the ships used to transport disaster victims could be used repeatedly.
Zhong Jinwei suddenly spoke at this moment, because he thought of something at the moment. He only heard him say: "As a reminder, if you princes feel that the money is not enough, you can go to various banks in Ming Dynasty to borrow money."
When the vassal and clan members heard this, they thought, yes, this is a good idea. Why didn't they think of it? In this way, they would have the money to recruit more people. Thinking of this, many people looked at Zhong Jinwei gratefully.
Emperor Chongzhen glanced at Zhong Jinwei from above and thought that he had never thought of this beforehand. Having Master Zhong attend this meeting would really help to check for leaks and fill in the gaps.
In the days that followed, the vassal princes and clans applied for loans from the Ming Dynasty Bank and other banks. They used the vassal resources or commercial and trade rights as collateral, so that the major banks almost emptied their own funds.
. The deposit interest had to be raised, which attracted more personal funds and indirectly benefited the people of Ming Dynasty.
In the end, when various banks were short of funds, at the suggestion of Zhong Jinwei, the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty lowered its reserve ratio and allowed various banks to lend to it, so that the Ming Dynasty Jiusi Baobao notes began to flow into the market continuously.
Due to the tight demand, the surge in productivity in various industries, and the flow of banknotes to various places and even overseas, these reasons ensured that banknotes are always in short supply, so they will not depreciate, and eventually the Ming Dynasty took a big step towards a credit financial system.
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In addition, an imperial edict issued by Emperor Chongzhen also played a key role, that is, each vassal state must allow the opening of Ming royal branches.
Now that the questions about people and ships were almost finished, King Tang started to ask another question: "The route to North America is so long. If we can ensure that all the vassals can go to North America smoothly, you have to know that there are many of us.
We don’t want the people we finally recruited to die on the road.”