Chapter 298 Big profit! The streets are full of silver, envious of ministers and ministers!

  After hearing this, Wu Zongda and Qian Shisheng smiled knowingly: "Uncle Da Zong will indeed make money!"

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

   "This cake is really hard!"

  Kong Zhenyun looked at Chen Zizhuang and said, "Uncle Da Zong probably hasn't eaten it."

  Speaking, Kong Zhenyun said again: "The common people often eat this cake."

  Then, Kong Zhenyun showed his patched sleeves again, and wiped the corners of his eyes: "Today we know the difficulties of the people!"

   "Master Kong Ge is really honest and loves the people!"

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

   Not long after, it was time to leave the court room and go up to court.

  As soon as he arrived at the main hall, civil and military ranks lined up, Tianqi talked about the sale of Maoshan Iron Mine stocks, and encouraged all civil and military officials to actively buy stocks, and Shengkou personally said that this is a good thing for all subjects to share interests.

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

   "Although a gentleman is ashamed of talking about profit, this is also an act of serving the country that benefits the society and the people's livelihood. It can be said that both righteousness and profit can be obtained. You should actively subscribe for it."

At this time, Wu Zongda came out to hold the elephant wat first, raised his head, exposed a large patch on his chest and neck, and said: "Your Majesty's words are true. Although I have always been poor, I want to serve the country. I have already pawned all the family assets and collected five hundred taels, and I am willing to subscribe for some stocks!"

  Kong Zhenyun also came out at this time. After waving the patched inner sleeves, he said: "Your Majesty, I have already pawned all the family assets, and I have collected two hundred taels. I would like to subscribe for some stocks."

Snapped!

   As he spoke, Kong Zhenyun deliberately dropped half of the hard pancake in his sleeve on the gold brick when he retracted his arms and came back.

  After Tianqi saw it, he asked, "What fell?"

  Kong Zhenyun pretended to be flustered and prostrated himself on the ground, saying: "Forgive me, Your Majesty, this is my breakfast."

   "Breakfast?"

   Apocalypse asked.

  Kong Zhenyun nodded: "It's the unfinished breakfast, because I wanted to save it for dinner after the court, but I accidentally dropped it."

  Tian Qi nodded and said, "As a dignified scholar, you are honest and frugal! Get up."

   "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

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

Qian Shisheng also stood up, exposed a part of his patched clothes, and said: "Your Majesty, my family is poor, and the salary I get is often used to help the poor in the family, so I have long been unable to make ends meet. Now I only borrow twenty silver. Two, I am willing to subscribe for some stocks."

  Obviously, Qian Shisheng was more ruthless, directly saying that he was in debt to pay for the court.

   Then, another official came out of the shift and said: "The minister is also poor, and he can only borrow thirty taels."

   "The minister's family has a large population, and there are only fifty taels left. I would like to use all of them to subscribe for stocks."

   "The minister is twenty taels."

   "Minister Sanliang!"

  …

  Tianqi looked inside, many ministers were wearing patched clothes, and half a pancake and a cold bun fell out of their sleeves, so they couldn't help but sullen.

  He can accept rejection from others, but he really can't accept teasing or even humiliating him.

  Tianqi also asked directly at this time: "Who else is so poor that he wears patch clothes to go to court! Stand up!"

   Many courtiers stood up for a while.

Tian Qi laughed angrily after seeing it: "It's very good. It seems that there are really many upright officials in my court! It's no wonder that each of them can only get a few hundred taels of silver, and even one You can get three taels!"

   "Your Majesty!"

  At this time, Chen Zizhuang came 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 Yu said: "The minister will add another seven hundred and fifty thousand taels!"

   Then, Lu Xiangsheng: "I will add another five hundred and sixty thousand taels!"

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

  …

For a while, only the ministers who really supported the reform and cared about whether the Maoshan Iron Mine could be mined stood up, and all of them had already bought stocks, and at least took out more than 100,000 taels of silver to buy stocks.

  Tian Qi felt much better now, and asked, "Why do you take out so much?"

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

   "The ministers are similar."

  Yuan Keli and others also replied at this time.

   Tian Qi nodded and smiled in relief.

  Wu Zongda and others could not help but blacken their faces.

  They pretended to be incorruptible at this time, of course they didn't want to pay too much money to buy the shares of Maoshan Iron Mine, so that the emperor would have a chance to make money, and at the same time, they didn't want to really reveal their wealth and let the outside world know.

   Besides, the values ​​of this era advocate cleanliness.

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

  But they didn't expect that these officials who supported the reform would go on for the New Deal, and they didn't even pretend to be poor on the surface, but actually took out their realest family property to buy stocks.

   This made them feel that all of a sudden they looked particularly ugly in front of the emperor.

  The actions of Chen Zizhuang and others did arouse official anger.

  You know, in history, on the eve of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen had to collect one million taels of military expenses and asked hundreds of officials for donations. All the officials pretended to be poor, even the relatives of the emperor pretended to be poor.

  But now, because some officials do not conceal their property status out of their own political interests, it suddenly makes people like Wu Zongda look particularly embarrassed.

   After all, unless they can prove that people like Chen Zizhuang are corrupt officials, there is no way to explain why they are so poor.

  Even after the dynasty was dispersed, Wu Zongda and Kong Zhenyun were still indignant.

   "Chen Jisheng, these people, for the sake of the New Deal, they really don't even have to give up their family business! They gave away so much money! What do they mean by doing this? Is it to make His Majesty feel that they are more loyal?"

  Wu Zongda therefore muttered to Kong Zhenyun and Qian Shisheng after he came down to court.

   "That's what they meant!"

  Kong Zhenyun replied at this time, and said: "Why don't we buy more."

   "No! How can there be so many iron ores in Maoshan Iron Mine? Even if there are, they will benefit the subjects of the world? No one would believe it! Who is willing to tell others about something that is really beneficial?"

  Qian Shisheng vetoed Kong Zhenyun's proposal at this time, and said: "The following officials see that they did this only to seize gold and silver from the people of the world."

  Kong Zhenyun nodded: "Yes!"

  Therefore, Kong Zhenyun gave up the idea of ​​buying more Maoshan iron ore stocks, and just handed half of the cake to his wife after returning to the house: "Put it away, I will go to the cabinet tomorrow, and I have to take it with me."

"yes!"

  Kong Zhenyun walked towards the table full of delicacies that had been prepared in front of him as he spoke, but as soon as he approached, he shouted: "Withdraw! Make a new table! This bear's paw is wrong! How can I let the old man use chopsticks!"

"yes!"

  …

"Uncle Guo, because not many people buy the shares of Maoshan Iron Mine, and in order not to affect the mining of iron ore, and thus affect the New Deal! I really pawned all my family property and sold my ancestral land! You can't lie to me, It suddenly said that the value of the iron ore mined by Musan Iron Mine is not worth so much money.”

  Chen Zizhuang suddenly said to Zhang Gui with a wry smile after his downfall.

Yuan Keli also said: "That's right! Actually, I didn't plan to make money from this. After all, there is no such a big iron mine in this world. It's just that I have to pay a large sum of money for the court and the New Deal to continue. Now seeing that not many other courtiers bought it, I had to take out all the silver deposits at home, and all the dividends given by the Industrial Division over the years."

  Wei Zhongxian also said: "Our family is the same, now I hope that the Maoshan Iron Mine you mentioned is really worth so much money, otherwise, our family can only copy a few more houses."

  Zhang Guidao: "Don't worry, even if you have to lose at that time, it will be your majesty and the country who will lose the most. What are you afraid of!"

  Chen Zizhuang and others nodded, but didn't say anything else.

   After returning home, Chen Zizhuang first said to Mrs. Liu: "Is there any porridge, I'm hungry."

  Liu said: "I'll let Yun Xiang pass it on!"

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

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

  Bi Ziyan, on the other hand, started larger-scale mining activities after receiving the silver payment from the first batch of stock issuance.

  By the first month of the tenth year of the Apocalypse, the first batch of iron ore had been mined, and the delivery was made with the Industrial Division, and the Ministry of Accounting thus obtained the first income from the Maoshan Iron Mine.

   "It smells so good!"

   "This is the smell of venison!"

   "Isn't this poor Kong Ge only able to eat half a cake for breakfast? How can there be such a strong smell of venison?"

  Chen Zizhuang's younger brother, Chen Zisheng, sat on the threshold with a bowl of porridge and said to his brother Chen Zizhuang.

  Chen Zizhuang said: "This should be more than one deer seed! It should be stewed with dozens of deer to have such a strong flavor!"

   "Brother!"

  At this moment, Chen Zisheng yelled, pointed to the deer heads piled up beside the waterway in front of the door, and glanced at the Confucian servant who had turned the deer head down, and said, "They don't even eat the meat of the deer head!"

   "It's not easy to eat! Brother, I didn't eat it before, but now I really want it!"

  Chen Zizhuang swallowed his saliva.

  Chen Zisheng nodded: "My brother wants to too!"

  At this moment, the slave of the Kong family chuckled, and looked at Brother Chen Zizhuang with contempt.

  But at this time, suddenly a large group of officials from the household department came carrying many long and large boxes, and the snow creaked under their feet.

  Bi Zisu, who was in charge of the Maoshan Iron Mine under the title of Wailang, a member of the household department, stepped out of the sedan chair, cupped his hands to Chen Zizhuang, and said, "Uncle Da Zong! This official is here to deliver bonus silver by order of the household department."

   As he spoke, Bi Zisu waved his hand and said, "Bring over Uncle Da Zong's money!"

   Not long after, soldiers brought Chen Zizhuang's due silver box by box and placed them in front of Chen Zizhuang, filling the entire street with no end in sight.

"Open!"

  When Bi Zisu gave an order, the soldiers of the household department opened all the boxes.

  Then, Chen Zizhuang and Chen Zisheng came because they saw the streets full of boxes full of silver shining brightly against the red lanterns in various houses.

  The big silver ingots are connected together like a silver dragon lying in front of your eyes!

  As Bi Zisu said, he turned to the servants of the Confucian Mansion and said, "Please come out, Mr. Kong Ge, and the dividends of the Confucian Mansion will also be distributed."

"Why!"

  The servant of the Confucian family hurriedly agreed, thinking that his family would get a lot of money, so he carried Kong Zhenyun out with his shoulders not long after.

  Wu Zongda and Qian Shisheng, who came to the Confucian Mansion for a banquet, also followed.

  Kong Zhen transported it out and saw the big silver ingots full of boxes all over the street, so she just spent the silver: "So much? Is it a dividend for servants?"

   "You misunderstood, it all belongs to Uncle Da Zong."

  As Bi Zisu said, he ordered someone to carry a small box, and after ordering someone to open it, he said: "This is the dividend of your government in Maoshan Iron Mine!"

  (end of this chapter)