Chapter 298 A big profit! The money on the street is envious of the ministers and ministers!

After hearing this, Wu Zongda and Qian Shisheng and his friends smiled knowingly: "The Da Zongbo can indeed make money!"

Qian Shisheng even sarcastically said: "Whoever is greedy and who is honest is obvious!"

"This cake is so hard!"

Kong Zhenyun said and looked at Chen Zizhuang and said, "Brother Dazong has never eaten it."

As he said that, Kong Zhenyun said again: "The common people often eat this cake."

Then, Kong Zhenyun exposed his patch sleeves and wiped the corners of his eyes: "Today I know the difficulties of the people!"

"Georg Kong is really honest and loving the people!"

Qian Shisheng said at this time and snorted at Chen Zizhuang.

Soon, it was time to go out to court.

As soon as he arrived at the hall, the civil and military officials were well-known, and Tianqi talked about the sale of Maoshan Iron Mine stocks, and encouraged all civil and military officials to actively buy stocks. The Shengkou personally said that this was a good thing for the subjects of the world to share the benefits.

Because after listening to Bi Ziyan's report last night, Tianqi learned that except for several ministers on duty in the Department of Policy and Policy that supported the reform and reform, there were not many people coming to buy stocks, so he decided to hold a morning court for the first time today, and said:

"Although a gentleman is ashamed of making profits, it is also a way to serve the country that is beneficial to the country and people's livelihood. It can be said that both righteousness and profit are obtained, and you should subscribe actively."

At this time, Wu Zongda first stepped out of the elephant scepter, raised his head, exposed a large patch on his chest and neck, and said, "Your Majesty said very much. Although I have always been poor, I have pawned all my family funds to serve the country, and raised up 500 taels, and am willing to subscribe for some stocks!"

Kong Zhenyun also left the list at this time. After waving the patched inner sleeve, he said, "Your Majesty, I have also pawned all the family funds and collected 200 taels. I am willing to subscribe to some stocks."

Bang!

As he said that, when Kong Zhenyun returned, he deliberately dropped half of the hard cake in his sleeve on the gold brick.

After seeing this, Apocalypse asked, "What is it falling?"

Kong Zhenyun pretended to be panic and crawled on the ground, saying, "Your Majesty forgives your crime, this is my breakfast."

"breakfast?"

Apocalypse asked.

Kong Zhenyun nodded: "It's a breakfast that I haven't finished yet. I thought I could keep it for dinner and then eat it for dinner, but it accidentally fell out."

Tianqi nodded and said, "As a great master, you are honest and frugal! Get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Tianqi asked at this time: "Who else wants to buy the shares of Maoshan Iron Mine?"

Qian Shisheng also stood up and exposed the patch, and said, "Your Majesty, my family is poor, and my salary is often used to help the poor in the clan, so he has long been unable to make ends meet. Now he only borrows twenty taels of silver, and is willing to subscribe for some stocks."

Obviously, Qian Shisheng was even more ruthless and said directly that he was in debt and paid for the court.

Then, another official came out and said, "I am poor and I only borrowed thirty taels."

"My family has a large population, only fifty taels left, so I am willing to take them out and subscribe to the stock."

"Twenty taels of me."

"I'm a little bit!"

...

When Apocalypse looked at it, many ministers were wearing patches, and they couldn't help but sink their faces in half a piece of cake and a cold bun from their sleeves.

He can accept other people's rejection, but he really can't accept other people's teasing, or even humiliating him.

At this moment, Apocalypse asked directly: "Who else is so poor that she can come to court in patches! All of them stand up!"

Many court officials stood up for a moment.

After seeing this, Tianqi laughed out loud: "It's so good. It seems that there are many honest officials in my court! No wonder they can only take out hundreds or dozens of taels of silver, and even one can only take out three taels!"

"His Majesty!"

At this time, Chen Zizhuang walked out with a box in his arms: "I want to buy another 1.18 million taels of stock!"

Yuan Keli also stood up at this time and said, "I am willing to buy another 960,000 taels of stock."

Han Du said: "I will add another 750,000 taels!"

Then, Lu Xiangsheng: "I will add another 560,000 taels!"

Bi Ziyan: "I will add 190,000 taels!"

...

For a time, only the ministers who truly supported the reform and cared about whether Maoshan Iron Mine could be mined stood up. When they had already purchased stocks, they also took out at least 100,000 taels of silver to buy stocks.

Only then did Tianqi feel much better and ask, "Why are you taking out so many?"

Chen Zizhuang said: "Your Majesty, I have also sold my property."

"I'm almost the same."

Yuan Keli replied at this time.

Apocalypse nodded and smiled with relief.

Wu Zongda and others couldn't help but turn their faces apart.

They deliberately pretended to be honest at this time, so they naturally did not want to spend too much money to buy Maoshan Iron Mine stocks, which in turn gave the emperor a chance to make money. At the same time, they did not want to truly reveal their wealth and let the outside world know.

What's more, the values ​​of this era advocate honesty.

Therefore, Wu Zongda and others intentionally showed their poverty and frugality.

But they did not expect that these officials who supported the reform and reform would not even pretend to be poor in the openly, and actually took out all their real property to buy stocks in order to carry out the new policy.

This made them feel that they were particularly ugly in front of the emperor.

The actions of Chen Zizhuang and others did arouse the anger of the officials.

You should know that in history, when Chongzhen wanted to raise a million taels of military expenses on the eve of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, all the officials pretended to be poor, and even the royal relatives pretended to be poor.

But now, because some officials did not hide their property for their own political interests, Wu Zongda and others suddenly seemed particularly embarrassed.

After all, unless they can prove that Chen Zizhuang and others are corrupt officials, they cannot explain why they are so poor.

As a result, after the court dispersed, Wu Zongda, Kong Zhenyun and others were still angry.

"For the sake of the new policy, Chen Jisheng can really not even want the family business! Take out so much silver money! What do they mean by doing this? Is His Majesty thinking that they are more loyal?"

After going to court, Wu Zongda muttered to Kong Zhenyun and Qian Shisheng.

"That's what they mean!"

Kong Zhenyun replied at this time and said, "We might as well buy a little more."

"No! There are so many iron ore in this Maoshan iron ore. Even if there are, they will benefit the subjects in the world? No one will believe it! Who is willing to tell others what is really good?"

Qian Shisheng rejected Kong Zhenyun's proposal at this time and said, "The following officials see that they are just doing this to seize gold and silver from the people of the world."

Kong Zhenyun nodded: "Yes!"

So Kong Zhenyun gave up the idea of ​​buying more Maoshan Iron Mine stocks, and after returning to the house, he handed half of the cake to his wife: "Please hold it away, I have to bring it with me to the cabinet tomorrow."

"yes!"

As Kong Zhenyun said, he walked towards the table full of delicious foods that had been prepared in front of him. As soon as he approached, he shouted: "Remove! Make another seat! This bear's paw is wrong! How can I take off my chopsticks!"

"yes!"

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"Uncle Guo, because there are not many people buying stocks of Maoshan Iron Mine, and in order not to affect iron ore mining, it will affect the new policy! But I really pawned all my property and sold my ancestral land! You can't cheat me, suddenly say that the value of the iron ore mined by Maoshan Iron Mine is not worth so much money."

After going down the court, Chen Zizhuang suddenly smiled bitterly at Zhang Gui with a heartache.

Yuan Keli also said: "Yes! I actually didn't plan to really rely on this to make a profit. After all, there is no such a large iron ore in this world. Just for the court to continue the new policy, I had to give a large sum of money first. Now I saw that there were not many other court officials to buy it, so I had to take out all the deposits at home, and all the dividends given by the Industrial Department over the years have been taken out."

Wei Zhongxian also said: "Our family is the same. Now I hope that the Maoshan Iron Mine you said is really worth so much money, otherwise our family will have to search a few more houses."

Zhang Gui said: "Don't worry, even if you lose money at that time, your Majesty and your country's Duke will lose the most. What are you afraid of!"

Chen Zizhuang nodded and said nothing.

After Chen Zizhuang returned to the mansion, he said to Liu: "Is there any white porridge? I'm hungry."

Liu said: "I'll let Yunxiang spread it now!"

Not long after, a bowl of white porridge appeared in front of Chen Zizhuang. When Chen Zizhuang saw the white porridge, he couldn't eat it, but his stomach was very hungry, so he had to force it to swallow it.

Next, Chen Zizhuang's family ate porridge almost every day.

After receiving the silver payment obtained from the first batch of stocks, Bi Ziyan began to carry out larger-scale mining activities.

By the first month of the tenth year of the Tenth Year of the Apocalypse, the first batch of iron ores had been mined and delivered to the Industrial Department. The Ministry of Revenue obtained the first silver from the revenue of Maoshan Iron Mine.

"It smells so good!"

“This is the scent of venison!”

"Isn't this Kong Ge Lao so poor that he can only use half a cake for breakfast? How can he still have such a strong smell of venison?"
To be continued...