Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

"Go!"

Fang Zhenghua waved his hand, indicating that the two of them could leave.

He lay lazily on the rocking chair the whole time and never got up.

Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng, however, did not dare to neglect and repeatedly bent down to say goodbye.

After the ten secret guards followed the two of them and left, Fang Zhenghua's squinted eyes opened slightly, and his fingers tapped lightly on the chair handle.

……

"Reducing the price?"

The rocking chair swayed, and Fang Zhenghua seemed to be in a slumber, only whispering softly:

"They used dirty tricks earlier, but I sent out the hidden guards to defeat them!"

“Now, they are taking the approach of lowering prices, and I will follow that!

With the Huizhou merchants' warehouses, the supplies on display have doubled.

I am not afraid of losing money to them. My losses have been passed on to Huizhou merchants. The longer they stay, the greater the losses!

In this way, Hui people will definitely not be able to win over me simply by relying on price cuts.

At that time, they will use various methods to force me to purchase His Majesty's goods. "

“They don’t dare to use servants to force me, because no one can stop my secret guards.

Then, they must have taken advantage of the loopholes in the policy. "

Fang Zhenghua raised a smile at the corner of his mouth:

"Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng, although not very powerful, have managed to win over twenty ministers.

He is also a great contributor to Zhu Yousong's rise to power. Although he can't keep his word, he can still stir up trouble.

Now, they are doing things for me.

The Hui people want to use the Fu Chai Hall to put pressure on me, but they can't do it! "

Fang Zhenghua has sorted out his thoughts, and the smile on the corner of his mouth is getting more and more obvious:

"Then, at that time, using the court's taxes will become their only way - because the Huizhou merchants are aggressive, the Zhejiang merchants must be happy to see the joke, and naturally they will not help them."

"In other words, as long as I bite my tongue and don't let go, I can bring them down!"

"Besides, I still hold the killer weapon Zheng Hongkui in my hand!"

"As for today's merchant gangs, the Lu merchants were dilapidated due to the war; the Shanxi merchants abandoned their armor in the south of the Yangtze River and had to settle in the northwest, focusing on the Tatars on the grasslands; the Fujian and Guangdong merchant gangs have always been good at overseas trade in Southeast Asia and are almost not in the inland Intervene..."

“The Zheng family is the leader of Fujian merchants, and Zheng Hongkui is one of the leading figures of the Zheng family.

His Majesty had previously granted official positions to all the Zheng family members, so he would naturally express his support at this time. "

"I don't need Zheng Hongkui to invest money. As long as he stands up and says something at the critical moment, the Huizhou merchants will have no choice but to abandon their cars to protect their commander..."

Fang Zhenghua closed his eyes and his voice gradually became clearer:

"The big deal has been decided!"

……

There is already a fierce rivalry between Huizhou merchants and Hanjiang merchants!

In just ten days, the price of sugar has dropped from two cents per catty to five cents per catty.

The selling price is only 25% of the original price.

If sugar is not a necessity, cotton yarn is related to people's livelihood!

If you are a human being, you have to dress and eat.

When the price of cotton yarn was only half of its original price, everyone wanted to take the opportunity to buy some cotton yarn and take it back to weave it into cloth.

Although cotton yarn can only be stored for three or two years, as long as cloth is stored properly, it will have no impact if stored for more than ten years.

Under such a huge stimulus, the prices of goods throughout Jiangnan suddenly changed drastically.

At the beginning, small businesses had to follow suit and cut prices in order to sell.

However, in just half a day, these small businessmen could not bear the huge losses.

If they continue to play, they may just jump off the building...

Countless small and medium-sized shops are all closed, waiting for the winner to be decided between the two giants.

Stimulated by this huge profit concession, private Tibetan silver suddenly overflowed.

Although this is a fight between two business houses, it is also a carnival for the people.

Anyone can see that as long as the two parties decide whether to live or die, the price will inevitably return to normal levels.

They are unable to participate in the market, but they can take advantage of this opportunity to stock up on goods.

After all, at this price, if you really buy it, you will make a profit.

Rich people use ginseng to hang themselves, but poor people cannot afford ginseng. Sugar water can still save people's lives...

Even a poor family with only four walls can scrape together a few coins to buy a pound of sugar.

When you encounter a crisis, here is a life-saving medicine!

These are all good stuff at the bottom of the box.

……

Even though both sides wanted to decide the winner, they set a ridiculously low price.

You must know that this price is already lower than the cost price...

In order to avoid greater losses, both parties unanimously imposed sales restrictions.

The quantity purchased by one person at a time cannot exceed ten kilograms, and the amount of cotton yarn purchased cannot exceed five spindles.

This avoids the possibility of other stores taking advantage of the opportunity to stock up on goods.

Even though it was already at cost price, in just three days, Hanjiang Merchant alone received more than eight million taels of silver from its account.

If the sales from Huizhou merchants are included, this business war has stimulated at least more than 500 million private savings.

The wealth of the people in Jiangnan can be seen from this.

……

A piece of content discussed by Anhui merchants was placed on Founder's desk.

The all-pervasive former Jinyi Guard outsiders and current secret guard members are already in every corner.

The price that the Hui merchants negotiated at the last moment appeared in front of Fang Zhenghua before it could be implemented...

This loyal white-haired old eunuch was making constant deductions at this time.

Zhang Guoyuan stood respectfully in front of his white-haired husband and said:

"Director Fang, Huizhou merchants have bought goods worth 7000 million yuan, and used more than 300 million taels of banknotes.

Also, the news I just received: The Wang family's tax bank has been moved. They have mobilized 800 million taels of tax bank from the official treasury. "

Fang Zhenghua nodded.

After pondering for a while, he slowly said:

"The total amount of silver deposited by Huizhou merchants is approximately more than 8000 million taels. Of course, this does not include shops, gold and jade jewelry, antiques and the like.

Although the Eight Families are the top wealthy merchant families in Huizhou, the cash on hand does not exceed half of the total number of Huizhou people.

In other words, the limit that Wang Ranming and others can mobilize is 4000 million taels.

Now, only 300 million silver has been mobilized, which is still a bit unsafe..."

Fang Zhenghua frowned slightly, the matter entrusted by His Majesty was of great importance, and there must be no omissions!

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Ps:

As for the total amount of silver in the late Ming Dynasty, some big guys have clearly dug it up. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, China's self-produced silver was about 5 million taels. In the more than two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, overseas imports were about 3.5 million taels.

If the previous overseas imports and proceeds from private smuggling are included, the amount of silver in China is about 12 billion to 15 billion taels.

(Regarding the previous paragraph: All dynasties have tried their best to recover heavy metals, such as the Silk Road of the Han Dynasty, and the overseas trade of the Tang and Song Dynasties. Although the currency in use at that time was copper coins, the precious metals obtained were not small amounts.

After nearly 2000 years of accumulation, there are still hundreds of millions of taels.

If you study this carefully, you will find that it is very interesting. The shrewdness of the Chinese people is vividly displayed.

For example, the official bad money trade in the Song Dynasty, the lead coins issued by the people in Guangdong and Guangxi in the Ming Dynasty, and the unspeakable means of our dynasty... If we study it carefully, it is really interesting!

What’s that sentence called? Before the Qing Dynasty, our ancestors used yellow mud, leaves, and silk to exchange for many good things, but they still only had access to the kind that they couldn’t get out...)

This silver data is currently recognized as relatively accurate.

Most of this silver has been hoarded. Some studies say that the hoards of official and gentry clans accounted for about one-third, and wealthy merchant families accounted for about one-third. The amount of silver in circulation at the end of the Ming Dynasty was about [-] to [-] million taels. .

With that said, you understand why I specifically wrote about the reasons for casting silver coins, right?

Of course, "gentlemen", in that ridiculous record, the statement that Chongzhen's internal treasury was 187.5 billion taels is just kidding.

After all, the total amount of silver in future generations will not be that much in the world combined...