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

Gao Jie's death affected everyone.

Handu mobilized defenses everywhere.

A group of marching soldiers rushed to various places.

One by one, the generals rushed to all directions on the occasion of the Lantern Festival.

Even on the way back to Beijing, the emperor issued an order to recruit another [-] troops.

All officials in the Han capital were shocked.

God!

At the beginning, His Majesty had less than 20 troops, and another [-] were newly recruited soldiers and horses.

His Majesty only mobilized 6 people and achieved a brilliant victory.

Today, after Li Zicheng surrendered, Dashun's hundreds of thousands of troops became the guarantee of the emperor's force.

Li Zicheng himself is still in Handu!

How could he not cooperate with the emperor's words?

It can be said that with just the soldiers and horses in his hands, the emperor can pacify the entire world...

However - His Majesty actually recruited another [-] troops?

……

The officials and people of Handu were shocked!

The news spread like wildfire and soon spread throughout the world.

The world shakes.

Countless spies came to Handu.

Not only were those sent by the Qing court in the north, but also those from the south of the Yangtze River.

Even Westerners have an undercurrent.

Zhu Youjian's order to expand the military affected forces from all directions.

Except for Zhang Xianzhong, who was trapped in northern Sichuan, everyone's eyes were directed towards Handu, regardless of the center or the outside.

The impact was so great that it even overshadowed the news of Gao Jie's assassination.

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But when Zhu Youjian returned to Handu, the old god was preparing for the Lantern Festival celebration.

After Zhu Youjian returned to Handu, he did not summon a group of civil and military generals immediately, but first summoned a group of large-scale workshop owners.

Inside Chengtian Hall.

Hundreds of workshop owners, large and small, gathered together.

Seeing the emperor coming out, he shouted three times, shouting "Long Live Long Live", which almost shook the roof.

Almost all of these workshop owners have doubled their investment in just over half a year!

Earlier, Zhu Youjian used a knife to force them to invest.

Today's wealthy families in the Ming Dynasty even have their heads sharpened and want to join in!

However - the emperor began to screen them.

After paying the accumulated tax arrears, it is just a ticket...

"Be flat!"

The emperor spoke softly and calmly.

Zhu Youjian sat on the chair. After everyone got up, he slowly said:

"I give you a task. No matter what industry you are engaged in, double your production within two months. Is it possible?"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

Double production?

That means we need to recruit at least twice as many workers to do it!

Although the goods from the Handu workshop are indeed very popular.

But - the market is so big!

They were able to make money because of Eunuch Fang's several attempts in Jiangnan.

Rushing to expand production scale...

Can it work?

Who will sell the goods produced?

Eunuch Fang can’t eat so much food!

If you transport it to other places yourself, it is a business with your head in mind...

Today, they are seeing a huge amount of money rising every day. It is the time to maintain stability, so they cannot expand rashly!

Transporting goods to other places - the bandits along the way are enough to drink a pot...

Everyone hesitated...

Zhu Youjian clapped his hands.

Zhang Shutang walked out.

As a model investor of this era, Zhang Shutang invested several years of his life in the young King of Tang.

After the Tang king succeeded to the vassal, he not only reused Zhang Shutang, but also promoted him.

He even made him a partner of Tang Wangfu Industry.

Everyone in Nanyang knows that Zhang Shutang made all the profits from his worthless investment.

Coupled with the fact that he was the first to invest in the emperor's textile workshop and successfully squeezed into the wealthy families of the Han capital in just over half a year, Zhang Shutang became the object of everyone's desire.

Looking at the fiery eyes of everyone, Zhu Youjian smiled.

Zhang Shutang is Zhu Yujian's man.

And Zhu Yujian is his man.

In other words, Zhang Shutang is still his!

In addition, this person's vision is indeed outstanding.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian decided to hand over the first president of the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty to Zhang Shutang.

"Zhang Shutang, how are you preparing for the bank matter?"

Zhang Shutang leaned forward and said:

"Go back to Your Majesty, everything is ready and we are about to open for business!"

bank?

Everyone looked at the emperor in surprise.

Zhu Youjian motioned to Zhang Shutang to sit down, and then explained to everyone:

"My Ming Dynasty money consists of precious metals, mainly gold, silver, and copper, as well as Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes."

"I won't talk about treasure money...

Because we are crossing the river by feeling the stones, the treasure banknotes are already equivalent to waste paper. "

"I don't need to hide this. This is something everyone knows."

As soon as Zhu Youjian said these self-deprecating words, everyone chuckled.

The biggest drawback of Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes is that they cannot be easily circulated within the court.

Treasure notes were distributed by the imperial court through official salaries and other means.

As for officials, because of their status, they would immediately circulate the treasure notes to merchants' homes.

Naturally, the merchants would not hold it in their hands, so they put the treasure notes into the hands of the people in various ways.

However, it is extremely difficult for ordinary people to spend their treasure money.

Except for Jiangnan, which can use treasure banknotes to pay [-]% of taxes, other places cannot use treasure banknotes to pay government taxes.

This also led to the rapid depreciation of treasure banknotes.

To this day, except for Jiangnan who still uses treasure banknotes to pay taxes, even the imperial court has almost completely stopped printing treasure banknotes.

Zhu Youjian looked around, smiled and said:

"You all come from wealthy families and are businessmen.

I ask you, if you want to go to other provinces to buy supplies in large quantities, how should you bring money there? "

Li Shusheng stood up immediately:

"Your Majesty, if it is a large transaction, in addition to gold and silver, you can also exchange it for silver notes."

The correct term for the banknote at this time is "vote exchange."

Bank accounts that exchange bills are usually jointly operated by several shops.

The circulation of exchange notes is not as common as the "bank notes" that appeared in the Qing Dynasty.

Because the geographical limitations of this era are really too great.

Except for Huizhou merchants, who can be found all over the world, at this time, there was a great lack of large national business names.

It was not until after the Qing Dynasty, with the spread of Shanxi merchants' bank accounts that specialized in handling bills, that bank bills became circulating "money".

The exchange of notes is liquid within familiar merchants, but between unfamiliar merchants, a guarantee can be used in order to use "exchange of notes" for settlement.

This thing is essentially a "credibility" certificate.

Its ability to circulate is entirely based on the reputation of the company.

Zhu Youjian nodded and asked:

“Not to mention gold and silver!

This thing is so unsafe!

Whenever the news is leaked and known to outsiders...

You will encounter bandits!

When the time comes, not only will the money be lost, but one's property and life will also be at risk.

Therefore, it is more common for most merchants to bring banknotes, right? "