In China, 520 million silver bonds were issued, which directly led to the instability of large financial institutions. Not only did the prices of various bonds drop one after another, but also caused a run. Finally, the Guangfu Bank Law suspended the paper money to deal with the decline of government banks. The main reason for the decline was the purchase of too many government bonds. Finally, the government had sufficient reasons to introduce laws to support Guangfu Bank to stop redeeming paper money and give it legal tender status. After acknowledging that Guangfu paper money has the ability to pay taxes and buy government assets, it was officially confirmed that it was a big official currency. All businessmen and people in the world had to refuse to accept paper money.
The government has given Guangfu paper money legal status, allowing it to stop dealing with cash, so the government can issue more bonds and then be bought by Guangfu Bank paper money, and the government gets paper money to buy more materials, which is equivalent to the government printing money directly, so devaluation is inevitable.
Although we can’t refuse to accept paper money, prices are going away and the country’s economy is in chaos
In Zhu Jinglun’s view, this is the biggest price to pay, and the financial market, which has been painstakingly built for many years, has been completely disrupted and has been burdened with huge foreign debts. In the end, it will be the general public who will bear these costs. It can be said that the government has been built, adhered to industry and encouraged to accumulate business for more than ten years.
However, if we can save tens of millions of lives and calculate the price, it is a good deal.
According to the statistics and estimates of various relief funds of railway companies, although there were cases of starving people in Shandong and Zhili last year, they were all cases. Most of the disaster areas were relieved because of the support of railway transportation, and there was no tragedy of starving people in the whole area.
However, because the railway construction needs a process, the situation in Henan and Shanxi is more serious. In the first year, the famine in these two places was actually not as serious as that in Shandong, but in the end, because Shandong is more likely to get large foreign aid, the phenomenon of starving people in Henan and Shanxi is more serious.
It is impossible to make accurate statistics, but it is estimated that the number of starving people in both provinces last year was 100 thousand through going deep into the disaster areas one by one
The drought in the north has continued this spring, and it is obvious that the famine will continue to be even more serious.
Obviously, the cost of disaster relief has not been borne yet, and it will be borne even more this year.
According to the feedback from the disaster area, the disaster relief government decided to continue issuing foreign debts at all costs.
Debt is afraid to borrow again. This time, 100 million pounds of bonds will be issued in London, which will raise the equivalent of 400 million dollars. In the United States, bonds will continue to be issued as much as 300 million dollars. The same tax mortgage can be said that if the big economy does not develop in the future, the sea will be controlled by Britain and the United States and lose its autonomy.
At the same time, owing such a huge foreign debt will make the big financial institutions more influenced by European and American financial groups in the future. If they cannot develop as soon as possible, the big economy will be colonized.
This may be the biggest price to pay.
The world is fair, and if you pay, you will get a return. This return is not equivalent, but in most cases, this return will be much higher than the input.
Section six hundred and seven The price is not high
Issuing foreign debts has always been the biggest resistance of big officials who are deeply influenced by the idea of controlling the inflow and outflow.
It can be said that Chen Zhiting’s government really has no choice but to issue foreign debts on such a large scale.
The big government has raised money through various methods, such as increasing various taxes, ending the export tax rebate for tea and raw silk, and the export tax for tea has reached 1%, and the export tax for raw silk has reached 15%. In the past, industrial enterprises have also levied operating tax as high as 1%, plus transaction tax, and other tax items. The tax borne by large industrial enterprises has reached 3% of sales.
This practice has made it even more difficult for the silk reeling industry, which is deeply affected by the international economic downturn, to continue to invest and set up factories, and even a large number of factories have stopped working.
In this case, it is obviously impossible to continue to increase taxes.
All kinds of guilds and chambers of commerce are the main fundraisers.
The big government called on all walks of life to raise funds, but this kind of fund-raising still can’t compare with the government, and it also raised 20 million donations last year.
The government also saved money by reducing expenditure. Chen Zhiting took the lead in donating half of his salary until the end of the famine.
Zhu Jinglun expressed his support for this. He also announced that before the palace was reduced by half, the government gave the emperor 302,000 yuan a year. In addition to the maintenance of various facilities in the palace, more than 500 male and female servants paid 102,000 yuan for Zhu Jinglun’s family expenses. This is a huge sales for ordinary people, but it is quite frugal for an emperor with a population of 10 million, which can’t be compared with Empress Dowager Cixi.
Zhu Jinglun not only reduced the palace to support disaster relief, but also auctioned royal property this year to raise money.
All kinds of palaces have been taken out, and a large number of calligraphy and paintings that were transferred from the Forbidden City to big antiques have appeared in various places, and various auctions have been held. This is the last batch of high-value gold, silver, pearls and jade hidden in the Qing Palace, which have been sold in batches in these years.
However, these antique calligraphy and paintings have not been sold for fear of being destroyed. Now they have changed hands through the big royal family, which is not only the secret collection of the Qing palace, but also the imperial property of the big emperor. As the rule of the big government has become more and more stable in recent years, Zhu Jinglun’s popularity has also increased day by day, and he has been carefully building his prestige, not only in the west, but also in the west.
Now his prestige has greatly added value to these treasures. After so many years, the industrial development has achieved a certain degree. In fact, the commercial field has accumulated more. After all, it is a country with ten million people and it is relatively rich. Just knocking on the door to do business in the south has given several businessmen huge business opportunities. Therefore, in recent years, many of these people have emerged. The beneficiaries of the new country have burst into identity, craved status and psychologically risen. Nothing can show their taste better than collecting literary works. At this time, buying can also respond to the call of the government to win a benevolent and famous person.
So this batch of Tibet was sold at a good price, adding 32 million silver to the government’s disaster relief funds.
However, Zhu Jinglun continued to support charity and disaster relief. He once again lived a pro-farming life. This is not a show or a wild interest. It is purely to raise money. Because the rice grown by the emperor himself can be auctioned at a sky-high price, almost equal to gold.
Some wealthy businessmen buy them to honor their parents or give gifts to others.
So the palace garden was a seedling, and Zhu Jinglun took people to level the land, plowed the land again, planted rice, and raised ducks and fish. However, a brand that had been flowing for a long time from Zhu Jinglun got all kinds of praise, but it was actually an ordinary duck, so there was nothing special except keeping a name and being benefited by businessmen.
Because of the difference between the people’s duck method and Zhu Jinglun’s personal breeding of ducks, it is absolutely authentic that the emperor ducks can be exchanged for no funds
After the emperor cultivated the land, he fought in the harem all the year round, and the two concubines also had their own ideas. The second princess Gao Yuan first told Zhu Jinglun that the emperor was a man and could earn money to farm the land. She was a woman and could also work as a weaver, so she took the lead in saying that she would spin and weave in the palace, and all the woven materials would be sold for disaster relief.
In hindsight, the eldest princess realized that since Gao Yuan wanted to spin and weave, she would weave. Eva bought cocoons for reeling and weaving, and she bought cotton for spinning and weaving.
So the two men bought hand looms in the harem, respectively, and made a show of male ploughing and female weaving.
Not to mention the cotton cloth and silk hand-woven by them, although the quality can barely be shaped, many people are enthusiastic. Some people are willing to spend money to collect this kind of materials made by the imperial concubine, which can make the imperial concubine treat herself. Although no one dares to say it because of the imperial thoughts, it is even more exciting to occasionally have the idea of breaking the ban in their hearts.
Of course, the emperor’s family also made some old people feel very uncomfortable. This is a recognition that the emperor loves the emperor. They think it is too difficult for the emperor to worry about money in this way. Those die-hards who finally don’t accept the Zhujiajian dynasty will satirize the big royal family. The emperor has no rules, and it is simply a generous smile.
In the emperor’s family, people were encouraged to raise more money this year, and many ordinary people also donated one, and there were actually 32 million yuan.
In fact, the efforts of Zhu Jinglun’s family have only sold for several million taels, but the impact caused by this way can’t be exchanged for 100 million taels of silver
In this way, Zhu Jinglun proved that the people tried their best to save the lives of compatriots in the north, the big government tried its best, and the big emperor tried his best.
Of course, Zhu Jinglun’s biggest purpose in disaster relief is to save lives, but if he has mixed political purposes with it, it is to express a meaning to the literati and businessmen who ruled the Manchu Dynasty through this move, that is, the big government and the emperor treated the Manchu people as their own people.
For the common people, it is necessary to launch this civilian participation disaster relief operation to let everyone feel that the common people and the Manchu people are still brothers and sisters and should help each other in the same boat.
In fact, it is through this way that the people in the north and the people in the south can recognize each other and enhance the national cohesion of China.
Zhu Jinglun was finally worried that if the international situation did not permit, it would be possible for France to unify the country for a long time. In that case, with the economic gap between China and Manchu, the educational and cultural gap gradually widened, which would easily create a sense of estrangement among the same people in Qing Dynasty. When this sense of estrangement lasted long enough, one nation would split into two.
East Germans were discriminated against for a long time during the East-West Germany period, and a group of people on the Korean peninsula did not regard North Koreans as a national voice. China and Taiwan Province compatriots were separated from the mainland, and Hong Kong people rejected the mainlanders. These were all caused by the separation.
If we can make up for the alienation caused by a gap through a disaster relief operation, it is very cost-effective. What is the financial burden, what is the economic difficulty and what is the huge foreign debt?
In the future, whenever people recall this difficult period, officials will lament how hard they worked for their compatriots in the north. Businessmen will recall how heavy the taxes of the compatriots in the north were, and the debts with hundreds of millions of dollars in their books are telling again and again how great the big government has made efforts to help its compatriots, and further establishing the image of the big East Asian continent as the only responsible government in the western world, so that the unified country in the future will gain greater support from public opinion.
Once the total cost is linked to saving lives and uniting the nation and reunifying the country, it will not seem so expensive. Compared with the possible benefits in the future, this cost theory is not too big.
Of course, investment is risky. If we can’t unify the country in the future, even if the investment fails, once the reunification is completed, the potential benefits brought by this investment will be extremely rich, and whether the goal of unifying the country can be achieved has never been doubted in the minds of the great monarch and ministers.
In recent years, the Northern Expedition has never been cut off. Many people think that the University has the power to unify the sky, and this natural disaster in the North has made everyone feel that the opportunity has come. The unique concept of China’s long-term separation has also issued a strong public opinion call.
Among them, the younger generation presided over the big army, and the enthusiasm for the Northern Expedition was the highest. The military published periodicals and newspapers for various military renderings of the Northern Expedition, which condensed a strong will to unify the Northern Expedition in the army
This phenomenon made Zhu Jinglun extremely worried that the blind optimism about war, which was a common problem in the armies of all countries in the 19th century, even appeared in the big armies!
Section 600 Great militarism
Blindness, arrogance, self-recognition of natural enemies and enthusiasm for violence are all characteristics of militarism.
It is typical that Prussia Germany respects and imitates Prussia Day, but in fact, most countries in modern times are more or less militaristic, which is inseparable from the historical environment.
Just coming out of the Middle Ages, it is obviously impossible for European countries to have any other ideas to solve problems. The most advanced country in Britain has developed a modern diplomatic concept, while in the long history, China has recognized that the treatment of Yidi should be softened and economic measures should be taken to control the surrounding nomadic people. Although China did not have a unified diplomatic concept and procedure, there is still a peaceful solution to the problem. This peaceful attitude is not intense enough and passionate enough, but it is a mature manifestation.
What kind of countries are prone to the outbreak of militarism, and will place great emphasis on military affairs? Only those countries with a long history of humiliation and frequent victims of military invasion will form this idea.
The typical example is Prussia. Although Germany lost in two world wars, the military performance of the Germans is obvious to all. Therefore, there are a large number of fans in the world who believe that Germany is not defeated in the battle, but its comprehensive national strength is inferior to that of people. However, if we look at the history of Europe, Prussia or Germany as a whole is the country with the worst bullying in Europe, which is second only to Poland and even Prussia history. It has long been necessary for Wang Fengchen, a Polish state, to bow down when he meets the Polish king in Prussia.
Sima Qian said that humiliation is often the driving force for a country and a nation to strive for self-improvement. China has several idioms to describe this phenomenon, such as knowing shame and then being brave, knowing shame is almost brave, and so on