Chapter 297 Bankruptcy to buy stocks of the imperial court

   "Your Majesty!"

   "Your Majesty!"

  Zhang Gui and Bi Ziyan hurriedly turned around and bowed to each other.

  Tianqi stepped in and asked, "How many people came to buy?"

  Zhang Gui looked at Bi Ziyan.

  Bi Ziyan said: "At present, Uncle Guo bought three million taels of shares, and he wants to add another two million taels."

  Tian Qi couldn't help raising his eyebrows after hearing this, and asked in surprise, "Could it be that my courtiers are all clean? Can't come up with money to invest?"

   Zhang Gui heard what Tianqi said, understood, and slandered: "These old foxes really know how to pretend!"

  At this time, Wei Zhongxian, who followed Tianqi Dynasty, gave an order: "Take out the prepared imperial paper and ink pen, add 20 million taels on it, and then hand it over to Bi Aiqing."

   "My lord?"

  Wei Zhongxian was shocked when he heard this. He didn't expect that his emperor would directly allocate 20 million taels from internal funds to buy the shares of Maoshan Iron Mine.

   "It's not about spending your money, what do you feel bad about, hurry up and fill it out for Bi Aiqing!"

   Apocalypse shouted.

  Wei Zhongxian had no choice but to quickly fill in the imperial note with a red pen, and the imperial note naturally became a hand edict, which Wei Zhongxian handed to Bi Ziyan.

   Bi Ziyan hurriedly took it.

  Having this Zhubi hand edict means that Bi Ziyan can directly use it to withdraw 20 million silver from the internal funds.

  Bi Ziyan was naturally overjoyed, and said: "Since Your Majesty is willing to spend so much internal money for the sake of the country, I would like to buy some shares for the country. I am willing to give out one hundred thousand taels."

   As he said that, Bi Ziyan really took out a bank exchange ticket from his sleeve, handed it to the subordinate officials, and asked it to be included in the register.

Seeing this, Tianqi sneered: "Sure enough, he is waiting for me to pay the money first. What are you afraid of! I will be the kind of person who thinks that anyone who has money is a corrupt official? Only Uncle Zhang Guo understands me, so there will be no such dissatisfaction." Rest assured."

  Bi Ziyan hurriedly cupped his hands: "Your Majesty, forgive me!"

   Tian Qi looked at Wei Zhongxian: "What about you, are you afraid that I may misunderstand you?"

  Wei Zhongxian hurriedly took out a stack of meeting tickets from his sleeve, and said with a smile, "The emperor has wronged the servant! How could the servant, the servant has long been prepared to buy it with one million taels of silver."

Tian Qi nodded after hearing this, and said to Zhang Gui: "Follow me to Xiyuan, and continue to talk about the principle of the steam engine. I will leave it to Bi Aiqing here, and I will pay 20 million taels to the Ministry of Households, which should be able to reassure many people. .”

"yes!"

  Zhang Gui responded.

   Sure enough, not an hour after Tian Qi, Zhang Gui, Wei Zhongxian and others left, Chen Zizhuang, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, came here on broken jade.

   Seeing this, Bi Ziyan hurriedly ordered his subordinates to make a cup of boiling hot tea, while he personally greeted him by the threshold, and asked with a smile, "Can you rest assured now?"

  Chen Zizhuang nodded.

  Tianqi himself took out 20 million taels to buy it, so that Chen Zizhuang believed that the emperor was not playing tricks, and deliberately waited for the money of the ministers to be revealed, so that he could find a way to embezzle it in the future.

  And this also let Chen Zizhuang know that His Majesty the Emperor and Uncle Zhang Gui really wanted to bring everyone together to share the financial pressure of developing the Maoshan Iron Mine.

   "I'm here to buy 200,000 taels. I don't know if there are any ministers who come to Da Sinong to subscribe for shares in person besides me?"

  Chen Zizhuang replied at this time, and asked Bi Ziyan about the sale of Maoshan Iron Mine shares.

  Bi Ziyan sighed, and said, "In addition to His Majesty and Uncle Guo, there is also Eunuch Wei, that's you and me."

   "How much is there?"

  Chen Zizhuang asked with a little disappointment.

  Bi Ziyan said: "More than 26 million taels."

  Chen Zizhuang said: "That's not enough!"

"That's right, even though His Majesty has given out 20 million taels of internal money to make people believe that the emperor is willing to contribute to Daming, there are still not many people who choose to believe that the mining profits that Uncle Zhang said are really enough to make huge profits. And I am worried that the money will be spent by the court, so I will not come back, but it is like donating silver to the court."

   "Of course, there may be some people who don't want the imperial court to succeed in mining!"

   Bi Ziyan said.

   After hearing this, Chen Zizhuang chatted with Bi Ziyan for a while, and returned to the mansion not long after.

  As soon as he returned to the mansion, Chen Zizhuang hastily asked someone to take off the scarlet cloak bestowed on him by the emperor, put on a cloth jacket, and stared at an ancient painting on the wall in front of the window in a daze.

  Chen Zizhuang's wife, Mrs. Liu, came and asked, "What would you like to eat, Master?"

   "It's better to have a bowl of porridge, no meat dishes."

  Chen Zizhuang said.

   Mrs. Liu asked in surprise: "Master doesn't eat roasted venison anymore? Even if you take out two hundred thousand taels, the family is not out of money."

Chen Zizhuang said with a smile: "I won't eat it. By the way, people will treat this ancient painting as well. It seems that not many people will support His Majesty and Uncle Zhang Guo to buy the shares of Maoshan Iron Mine. Let's not talk about Uncle Guo What is said may not be true, and it may lose money in the future. The point is, for many people, I am afraid that they hope that the recovery of Xianzhou and the establishment of the Maoshan Iron Mine will become a waste of money and money.”

As he said that, Chen Zizhuang said again: "The matter of recovering Xianzhou was proposed by me, my lord. In addition, whether the iron ore in Maoshan can be mined is to solve the urgent need of the Industry Department, which is related to the great cause of the reform of the entire Tianqi Dynasty! Therefore, Now it seems that it is impossible to expect those who oppose the New Deal to pay money, only those of us who support the New Deal will pay money. Even if we really want to lose money, we must support the imperial court to mine enough iron ore. "

   Liu said: "But this painting has always been the master's favorite."

  Chen Zizhuang smiled slightly: "Even if I go bankrupt, I can't just sit back and watch the New Deal fail. Millions of people in the Industrial Division will have to starve to death or be slaughtered from now on. That's against the law of heaven!"

   Then, Chen Zizhuang asked again: "Have you sold all the fields at home?"

   Mrs. Liu nodded: "The silver has been sent back to Beijing."

   "I have been preparing for this day. If there are not many people who support the New Deal, I will use all my property to support the court."

  Speaking, Chen Zizhuang turned around and held Liu's hands, and suddenly embraced her again: "I just want you to be a woman without rice."

   Mrs. Liu smiled lightly: "Marry a chicken as a chicken, marry a dog as a dog, what else can I say."

  It snowed heavily all night, and it didn't stop until dawn the next day. Chen Zizhuang held a box of silver exchange bills in his arms, looked at the vermilion palace wall, and came stepping on broken jade.

  Because the eunuchs came to deliver an edict last night, today's big rise means that all officials should go to the early court to discuss politics.

   Therefore, when he arrived at the imperial court, Chen Zizhuang saw Wu Zongda, Kong Zhenyun, the great scholar, Qian Shisheng, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites, and many other cabinet ministers waiting here to go to the imperial court.

  But Chen Zizhuang saw that many ministers in the imperial court were wearing patched clothes.

  Academician Wu Zongda was the most obvious. A large patch appeared on the inner garment of the round-neck official robe on the chest. The key point was that the large patch was made up of several pieces of cloth of different colors.

  At this time, the **** who was serving tea in the court room smiled and said to Wu Zongda: "Mr. Ge is really poor. This poverty is too much. Why do you still wear such clothes in the court?"

Wu Zongda shrank his neck and said with a smile: "Elder-in-law, you don't know, this is the best clothes I have now! Knowing that His Majesty called Daqi today to raise money to buy stocks, how could I not respond? Just **** everything in the family! Now I have collected five hundred taels of silver, and I am going to buy stocks."

Kong Zhenyun on the side took out half a piece of hard cake at this time, and while eating the cake with tea, he also intentionally revealed the patched clothes in the sleeve of the official robe and said: "Everyone in the world knows that Wu Ge is old and clean. But now I didn’t expect to be so honest. The servant is the same. In order to respond to His Majesty’s purchase of stocks, he pawned all his belongings and managed to scrape together two hundred taels. Now he can’t even afford the steamed buns in the workshop, so he can only eat half a piece of cake. Fulfill your hunger."

   "Is there half a dollar left?"

   Wu Zongda asked.

  Kong Zhenyun replied: "Leave it to my wife and children."

   After hearing this, Qian Shisheng, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites, came over to bow first and said: "Mr. Ge is really a breeze in his sleeves. He is a clean and honest official. I admire him!"

  Kong Zhenyun nodded and smiled: "Master Qian is too famous."

  Then, Qian Shisheng noticed that Chen Zizhuang was holding a big box, so he asked, "Uncle Da Zong, what is in this box?"

   "Silver ticket. I plan to buy stocks later."

  Chen Zizhuang said.

  Wu Zongda asked: "I heard that Uncle Da Zong went to the household department to subscribe for 200,000 taels of stocks yesterday. I don't know how much I want to buy today?"

  Chen Zizhuang said: "It's okay to tell the old man and the lords, I also pawned all my property, and I plan to buy stocks, a total of 1.18 million taels!"

  (end of this chapter)