Chapter 389: True prosperity, create some imperial achievements!

Then, Zhang Gui looked at Tianqi with excitement and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, it seems that the wealth of the major powerful officials in the capital is indeed immeasurable."

Tianqi nodded: "And, under normal circumstances, it is difficult for them to take out so many assets! This guy named Zhao She and his father Zhao Shichun are actually a great contribution to this!"

"What Your Majesty said is that the Ming Dynasty has been peaceful for more than two hundred years, and most of the wealth given by the world is probably in the hands of these powerful officials."

"Now that we can return to the court in this way, and then the court will redistribute the wealth donated by the world for more than two hundred years of peace in the Ming Dynasty, it will undoubtedly make the world more prosperous.

And it will take another hundred years to pass this huge amount of wealth to the powerful and powerful bureaucrats in the world.”

Zhang Gui echoed.

After hearing this, Tianqi looked at Zhang Gui and asked, "What do you mean is that if this money is redistributed properly, the Ming Dynasty can last at least a hundred years?"

Zhang Gui nodded and said, "But if the distribution is not appropriate, it may aggravate the conflicts within the Ming Dynasty! After all, hundreds of millions of taels of silver are not hundreds of millions of stones of grain, and they cannot be eaten directly. If they are squandered directly, it will only lead to a sharp rise in prices.

, on the contrary, it increases the burden on people to eat and dress.”

Although Tianqi had never learned financial knowledge, he was not stupid. He quickly understood the problem and continued to ask Zhang Gui: "You just said that the wealth in the world must be distributed to those engaged in production so that they can do it.

The country is prosperous, but that's what it means?"

Zhang Gui continued to nod: "Yes! The producers are mainly the people of the world. The court must use the method of labor-based delivery to let wealth flow into the hands of the people. Or let the prices of necessary food, meat, vegetables and cloth for the people are lower.

, in this way, we can avoid new problems caused by this money after spending it."

"You can say more details."

Apocalypse seemed to have realized that how to deal with these hundreds of millions of silver was a big problem, so he said one more thing.

"Abide by the order!"

After responding, Zhang Gui said, "First, the imperial court organized large-scale basic construction projects that benefit people's livelihood, such as building more bridges, more roads, more canals, and more dams; let the people who work in farming work

Life is more convenient and labor is better, farming is less affected by natural disasters, and income is also increased!”

"When the world's wealth is concentrated in the hands of powerful and powerful gentry, most of these things are done by some powerful and powerful gentry, but they will only carry out various basic projects for their own land and industries, which will naturally only make the poor poorer and richer

Those who are richer; if the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the court today, they will naturally be done by the court and try their best to benefit all the people in the world."

"Second, increase efforts to purchase and hoard food, salt, iron and other things that the people in the world must and must be necessary to the court, especially grain, and cultivate the world to keep the warehouses closed to avoid the impact of natural disasters and man-made disasters on the food prices. In short, exchange the silver for money

To become something more useful. You can’t let the Ming Dynasty have only silver.”

After hearing this, Tianqi laughed: "If this is the case, it is not a problem for many Han people, but a good thing."

Zhang Gui nodded: "This is natural. If you don't have money, there are many people. But if you have money and have a lot of money, it will be easier to do things. Perhaps in the future, you will feel that there are not enough Han people, and you will be worried about it, and you will not be able to do it.

Disenchantment is not encouraged.”

Tianqi said: "I hope there will be such a day."

Then, Tianqi looked at Zhang Gui, unable to suppress his excitement and said, "Don't I have something to tell you. What I want to tell you is that Song Yingxing and the others have already made the steam pump run successfully!"

After hearing this, Zhang Gui was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "So, the current tens of millions of silver is more suitable! And the third place where you can spend a lot of silver is added."

“Where?”

Apocalypse asked.

Zhang Gui replied: "After the steam engine pump comes out, we naturally have to continue to spend money to reduce the cost of the steam engine pump, which will really benefit the world's farming, irrigation and mining. At the same time, steam engines of other uses are also needed, such as steam powered ships.

Steam-powered car; in short, all equipment in the world should be steamed. Let the silver flow to these aspects, and thus achieve a significant increase in the world's wealth, so that the increased silver will not be spent in vain."

After hearing this, Tianqi pondered for a while.

He could realize that if the world's vehicles and ships were steamed without human and animal power, it would undoubtedly mean that people would be harder to be regarded as cows and horses, and cows and horses would be used more as food and food, and thus make the world

A real big change can make the world really rich. The Ming Dynasty may really be able to form a larger army and open up more territory!

"This Zhao She must be kept in a close watch and not to reveal the news. The billion taels of silver plus the copied silver will be returned to the national treasury and will no longer be returned to the treasury. You, Han and Yuan Keli, some ministers in charge of the policy, find a way.

, How to make this money specifically used for the three uses you mentioned just now! And let these money flow to the hands of laborers."

Apocalypse suddenly ordered.

"yes!"

So, the Department of Construction and Planning officially requested an order to add a civilian benefit warehouse, which is specifically used to store money for benefiting the people and benefiting the people. In fact, it is used to store this silver. At the same time, it will be added to the civilian Ministry, which will be managed by the civilian Ministry.

Benefit the people's wealth, and plan the world's affairs.

It is worth mentioning that there was originally a Ministry of Civil Affairs in history.

The Ministry of Revenue in history was the Ministry of Revenue. However, in order to avoid Li Shimin's taboo, the Ministry of Revenue was changed to the Ministry of Revenue, so they were used to calling it the Ministry of Revenue later.

But now the newly established Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Ming Dynasty is naturally not the Ministry of Revenue. Its function is more like formulating development plans and engineering plans, and then paying money from a special bank to work with the company.

Those who didn't know it only thought that the court was just trying to practice the reform concept of "benefiting the people" and took out money from the national treasury to benefit the people.

In fact, it was just because the court now had a huge amount of property, which needed to be distributed specifically to the people of the world.

This is also Zhang Gui deliberately asked Tianqi to do so.

Based on what he learned in later generations, Zhang Gui knew that if the national economy wants to develop in a better direction, the most important thing is that the wealth increased by society needs more popular producers.

Only in this way can a society's economy develop healthily.

Otherwise, if the social wealth increased by the national economy is more popular, it will definitely be a minority of powerful and bureaucrats.

In this way, it will lead to the national economy of a society that does not develop well. Even if the economy is prosperous, it is a kind of abnormal prosperity, that is, the prosperity of vested interests.

Just like the original middle and late Ming Dynasty in history, the commodity economy and society seemed to be becoming more and more prosperous, and various prosperous towns emerged one after another, especially the wealthy servants of the literati and officials in the Jiangnan area, but in fact it was a deformed prosperity.

This prosperity did not make the country strong or the people rich, but instead allowed the Ming Dynasty to quickly defeat Li Zicheng in a short period of time, and then was stolen by a small number of Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhang Guicai took advantage of the opportunity that the wealth in the hands of the powerful and powerful bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty was controlled by Tianqi, and suggested that Tianqi distribute more of this wealth to the people of the world.

The reason why Tianqi agreed was naturally because as an emperor, he also wanted to make the Ming Dynasty strong. In addition, he had too much money to spend, so he kept the money himself and was just a pile of silver. He also wanted to

If you use this money to exchange for what he wants more, it is to have a real imperial achievement!
Chapter completed!