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Go to Baoding
Emperor Hongzhi was silent.
He looked at the man in front of him.
This is a very ordinary person, unremarkable.
But now, his eyes are red.
The two women at home had their eyes red from crying.
In this small wooden house, there is also a spiritual tablet, incense is burning in front of the spiritual tablet, and words such as late father can be vaguely seen.
?That is to say, this man¡¯s father has passed away.
He is the only man in this family.
This is the backbone of the family, nine times out of ten, and the only one.
No one likes to leave their hometown, especially their mother and wife.
Not to mention how much inconvenience two women would have if they were here, how could a man have the heart to leave home?
Emperor Hongzhi was silent.
He has a great-grandmother and a wife. He can't imagine how painful it will be when he needs to leave them, and how heartbroken Zhou and Zhang will be.
Thinking about itif I hadn't reached the end of my rope, I would never have run away from home.
"Baoding?" Emperor Hongzhi said in an unusually calm tone: "Why are you going to Baoding?"
"I get three taels of silver to pave people's roads." The man seemed not to like being asked more questions.
Emperor Hongzhi stared at the man: "Isn't Tongzhou good? II heardin Tongzhou, poor people will be given silver coupons"
Hanzi gave Emperor Hongzhi a strange look: "Are you a foreigner?"
Emperor Hongzhi: ""
Xiao Jing couldn't help but said: "Bold, you are so bold"
Emperor Hongzhi's eyes suddenly turned red and veins popped out on his forehead. He became angry.
So he sternly said to Xiao Jing: "Get out of here!"
Xiao Jing was stunned for a moment, and suddenly he didn't dare to express his anger, so he quickly stepped back.
Fang Jifan stood aside and looked at Xiao Jing as if he was mentally retarded. This Eunuch Xiao is really getting more confused as he gets older.
Emperor Hongzhi said: "I am from the capital."
"It's no wonder." The man seemed to see something strange. The man in front of him was very extraordinary.
Fortunately, the man did not doubt anyone else. With his knowledge, it was even less likely that he would doubt that the person standing in front of him was the king and father of the world.
The man said: "What kind of silver coupons are they? They are clearly harmful coupons."
When Emperor Hongzhi heard the word "harm", a look of guilt appeared on his face.
The man gritted his teeth and said: "Originally, here in Tongzhou, children can still have a mouthful of food. In the past, I worked as a legworker at the dock. Although I could barely eat, I didn't let the whole family starve to death. I heard that Baoding Prefecture is a good place. It¡¯s a place, but I can¡¯t bear to leave my mother and my wife who are the spoils of the family. But ever since those dog officials gave out some kind of silver coupons, I can¡¯t live this life anymore.¡±
"At first, they collected business taxes. The merchants in the canal paid the taxes, but did not get any benefits. Some small merchants felt that the business could not be maintained, so they simply stopped and stopped doing it. The remaining ones worked hard. Keep wages low, and this business tax will eventually fall on people like villains."
"After that, it was said that the people were having a hard time, and the silver coupons were distributed. Many people were grateful and said that the magistrate and county magistrate were really good officials who loved the people like their own children. But who knew that the silver coupons were indeed issued, and they also said It was said that with silver coupons, one could buy firewood, rice, oil and salt, but all of a sudden, so many people had silver coupons in their hands. In just three to five days, prices in Tongzhou skyrocketed. It's so scary. Do you know? In the past, a pound of rice cost thirty copper coins, but within a few days, a pound of rice cost even one tael of silver coupons."
Emperor Hongzhi frowned, he couldn't understand: "Why is this?"
How can a man know why this is happening?
Fang Jifan said: "This is inflation. Your Majesty, think about it. There is only so much firewood, rice, oil, and salt on the market for the time being, but suddenly, everyone has silver coupons in their hands. You can imagine how high the prices will go." "
Emperor Hongzhi didn¡¯t seem to understand. He seemed to feel that he had read such a theory in The Wealth of Nations.
Production has not increased, supply has not increased, but there are countless more money on the market.
"But these silver coupons can be exchanged for real money in the future." Emperor Hongzhi frowned.
Fang Jifan smiled and said: "For ordinary people, they can't wait to exchange them for real money and silver. Come to think of it, it won't take long for these silver coupons to be exchanged for real money."?It will snowball into the hands of a few people. "
"Not bad." The man still gritted his teeth: "In the market, prices have skyrocketed. A pound of rice actually costs one or two silver coupons. In the end, the so-called issuing of silver coupons may mean that a whole family may not even have half a pound of rice. Unable to buy it, the rich households in the city and the gentry outside the city only had a little food and held a lot of silver coupons in their hands. Don't the people know that the silver coupons can be exchanged for silver in the future, but soon, Everyone discovered that not only did shopping with silver coupons cause prices to skyrocket, but even shopping with real money, the prices also increased a lot. Everyone was full and hungry, and if they didn't eat food, people would die. Except for the rich and gentry, Who has the leisure to save the banknotes?"
"As soon as prices skyrocketed, those who had grain in their hands became even more hoarding. They would mix eight ounces of sand and incense ash into two ounces of grain. Ordinary people, even if they had some wealth in the past, would just to survive. , I have to take it out, do you think you can still survive this day?"
Emperor Hongzhi¡¯s face was already shrouded in dark clouds.
He clenched his fists and was silent for a long time: "Why doesn't anyone go to the nearby prefectures and counties to buy grain?"
"How can it be so easy?" The man said: "Not to mention, the local gentry is so entangled here, how can they allow foreign businessmen to interfere? Do ordinary people like this have to walk for several kilometers just to buy a few more kilograms of rice? Is it a hundred-mile round trip? Sigh I really can't make it through life I used to be able to keep my family from going hungry by doing legwork at the dock, but now I can't even feed myself."
"People say that only when you go to Baoding Prefecture can you have a good life. If you don't go to Baoding Prefecture, you will really have no way to live this life."
Emperor Hongzhi was trembling with anger.
He suddenly remembered something: "Zhizhou Yang Yiqing, I heard that he is a good official who loves the people, how could he allow"
The man spat and said disdainfully: "What a good official? No matter what kind of official comes, those who really do things are not those petty officials. Who knows what happened under his nose? Anyone who can interact with him, Who is not a gentry? These gentry purchased a large amount of silver coupons and then exchanged them for real gold and silver. What a huge profit this was. How many people made a lot of money, and they would naturally praise this as good governance. Those The petty officials have long been in collusion with the gentry. These dog officials who have taken office do not rely on something to govern the place. What the petty officials say depends on what they believe. The people at the top and bottom are not rich people. Oil means the deaf and the blind"
The man said: "It's getting late, I'm leaving. No matter how late I am, I won't be able to reach Baoding Mansion tomorrow"
Emperor Hongzhi couldn't imagine it. The sky was getting brighter now, and he could see the man's face clearly. The man had a pretty face, and the two women were also sallow and thin.
??This Tongzhou is a land of thoroughfares. Who would have thought that right at the feet of the Emperor, there would be people who were hungry and cold.
Emperor Hongzhi said: "I am also thinking of going to Tongzhou, so I might as well go with you."
As he said that, Emperor Hongzhi wanted to take out some silver, but when he thought about it carefully, here I'm afraid the silver will be of little use for the time being. He turned his head and looked at Xiao Jing: "Did you bring any dry food? Here it is. Leave some in their homes.",
Emperor Hongzhi sighed, but felt that his eyes were a little red, and a ball of tears was spinning.
There are many things that he cannot imagine.
He originally thought that maybe Tongzhou had gotten better, but it was definitely not as good as the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty had boasted.
¡°But who would have thought that the New Deal would actually become a harsh government.
The business tax came, but in the endit was nothing but chicken feathers.
Xiao Jing was busy getting some dry food and left it behind.
When the man saw this, he no longer had any hostility and expressed his gratitude.
He said goodbye to the women and then went to Baoding with Emperor Hongzhi.
After leaving Baoding City, I found that on the bumpy road towards Baoding, there were countless people in ragged clothes, dragging their families with them, also traveling on the same road.
Emperor Hongzhi¡¯s face was ashen.
Fang Jifan just smiled bitterly, but he became worried in his heart, Baoding Mansion what will happen? Ouyang Zhi, don't harm your teacher. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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