Steel Dynasty - Chapter 579

[Chapter 579 War Bonds]

The Qingzhou camp was crowded with people.

At this time, Xiao Ming, Fiji and others stood in the military camp and looked at everything with smiles on their faces.

Pang Yukun said: “Congratulations to Your Highness, I didn’t expect that King Wei’s atrocities helped His Highness unite the people’s hearts, and now everyone in the feudal country is united from top to bottom.”

“This is indeed a bit unexpected, but it is actually not difficult to explain. The people now don’t want to go back. It’s time to be oppressed by the wealthy families,” Xiao Ming said thoughtfully.

Feiji and Pang Yukun nodded, and Feiji said: “Although the people are furious, we have no way to recruit so many soldiers. The country’s finances cannot afford it. Soldiers are expensive but not expensive.”

Although Xiao Ming ordered this time The army was expanded, but this time there were really more people coming to sign up to join the army. However, it can be seen that during this period, the national and national education of the people has achieved initial results.

Insensitive words like “What does the country have to do with me” can no longer influence the minds of the people.

“Yes, Yangzhou was massacred this time, and our idea of obtaining a large amount of supplies from Yangzhou City fell through. Even with the troops we have recruited now, our treasury will probably be stretched thin.” Xiao Ming asked.

Pang Yukun and Fiji looked at each other, sighed and said yes.

Xiao Ming felt angry. King Wei’s scorched earth policy had turned the original war dividend into negative equity. Now he had to find a way to reverse this situation.

Thinking of this, he said to the two of them: “I have an idea. The government treasury has money and food, but the merchants and people in Qingzhou have it. I am planning to issue war bonds. As long as those who buy war bonds will be able to get the spoils of war in the future, you What do you think?”

“War bonds?” Fiji and Pang Yukun were both stunned.

When Xiao Ming came to his senses, he remembered that the two of them had no idea what a war bond was, so he explained.

In fact, his war bonds were nothing more than national debts. He decided to issue war bonds only because it was a war period, and the wars had been won successively, and the people had great confidence.

Similar to national bonds, the purpose of war bonds is to raise supplies in advance. The strategic goal set below is six months later, so he will take advantage of this half-year period to raise war supplies.

In fact, he had already done this kind of thing, during the Northern Expedition, but at that time the only ones who benefited were a few big businessmen. Now these few businessmen have almost monopolized the grassland in the sixteen states of Yanyun.

Out of vigilance against monopoly capital, Xiao Ming did not recruit merchants to raise money this time, but decided to issue it throughout the feudal country. People could receive war bonds even if they took food.

In this way, he can prevent his feudal country from being controlled by war capital. After all, taking history as a guide, he does not want to be controlled by fanatical war capital.

After explaining it, Fiji and Pang Yukun understood that the war bonds were nothing more than borrowing money from businessmen and people to fight the war. When the war dividends were obtained, the dividends would be returned to the people and interest would be paid in addition.

Pang Yukun was immediately amazed, and Fiji shook his head repeatedly. He didn’t know what Xiao Ming thought of such a wonderful method.

If we follow the normal system of Great Yu, the solution to the treasury’s lack of money is very simple, that is, to impose heavy taxes.

Now Xiao Ming did not consider this option at all, but directly adopted this gentle method.

“Do you understand now?” Xiao Ming asked.

“I understand. After I return, I will ask the Chamber of Commerce to put the war bonds up for sale.” Pang Yukun said.

Xiao Ming nodded, “But you have to control it and limit the purchase quantity to prevent a few businessmen from buying indiscriminately and making huge profits.”

Now Xiao Ming is no longer worried about the unification of the Chongqing Kingdom, but the expansion of the feudal country. Reform and social change may move towards an uncontrollable stage.

As people’s wisdom blossoms, various advanced ideas will be grasped by the people. What he is most worried about is that public opinion will be used by people with malicious intentions, causing the country to be divided because of ideas.

The people who are most likely to take advantage of public opinion are the big capitalists. Now Qingzhou is just in the budding stage of capital. Once he unifies the Chongqing Kingdom and enters the ocean, capital will inevitably grow rapidly like a wild horse that has escaped the reins. How will he tame it then? A beast?

After all, in this information-blocked, backward and barbaric era, it is not as easy to maintain stability as it is in modern times.

After saying this, Xiao Ming remembered that Princess Pingyang came into the house yesterday and talked about the royal clan. He was with Concubine Zhen at that time. Princess Pingyang mentioned this matter after she gave gifts to Fei Yue’er and Concubine Zhen.

So he asked: “What do you think of the royal family members of Qingzhou this time? Now they don’t even think about asking for money.”

Hearing this, Fiji immediately looked at his nose and nose, pretending to be confused. He is an old fox. Don’t want to offend these people.

Pang Yukun said sternly: “Your Highness, we must no longer feed these royal clan members in vain. From the time of Emperor Gaozu to the present day, the number of royal clan members in the Chongqing Kingdom has reached more than 100,000, and the offerings of these 100,000 people have become the national treasury. It’s a heavy burden. If His Highness wants to raise this group of people, the feudal country will be brought down soon.”

Xiao Ming thought deeply. This reminded him of what happened in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, these royal family members were also a heavy burden for the imperial court. , but the Ming Dynasty at that time would rather raise them than let these people fend for themselves.

“Fei Zhongshu, what do you think?” Xiao Ming looked at Fiji. He didn’t believe that these Tang Guogong and Rong Guogong had never found Fiji.

Compared with Xiao Ming, these people have a closer relationship with Fiji, Luo Quan and others.

“Your Highness, there are not many royal family members in Qingzhou City now. In fact, there are only more than a thousand people. The others are distributed in various places in the Great Chongqing Kingdom, but these thousand people are all people with relatively high titles.” Fiji said.

Xiao Ming actually wanted to force Fiji to speak his mind, but now it seems that Fiji agrees with feeding this group of people.

“Mr. Fei Ge, you know exactly how much money there is in the treasury now. Aren’t you adding to the chaos?” Pang Yukun naturally heard the implication of Fiji.

Fiji remained calm as usual. He sighed and said, “Don’t be anxious, Chief Pang. Of course there is a reason for what I say. These people can’t be allowed to starve to death on the streets. After all, they fled all the way to Qingzhou, where they were born. Familiar, to put it bluntly, these people are all relatives of His Highness. Even if His Highness does not pay for their support, there must be a way out for them. Moreover, the official is doing this so that His Highness can successfully ascend the throne in the future. After all, when the time comes to worship, they must find a way out. When the ancestral temple still needs these people to preside over it, they become more important at this time. Besides, with the support of these people, His Highness’s throne will be more stable.”

Xiao Ming glanced at Fiji, and after all, this Fiji. The thinking still remains at the level of family management of the country.

(End of chapter)