Chapter 575: War bond

The Qingzhou camp was crowded with people.
At this time, Xiao Ming, Fiji and others stood in the barracks and looked at everything with smiles.
Pang Yukun said: "Congratulations to your Highness. I didn't expect that King Wei's atrocities helped His Highness condense the hearts of the people. Now, from top to bottom, it is the unity of the people."
"This is indeed a bit of a surprise, and it's actually not difficult to explain. The people now don't want to go back to the time when they were oppressed by the wealthy." Xiao Ming said in a deep voice.
Fiji and Pang Yukun nodded, and Fiji said, "Although the people are very angry, we can't recruit so many soldiers. The finances of the country can't be afforded, and the soldiers are not expensive."
Although Xiao Ming ordered the expansion of the army this time, more people came to sign up for the army this time. However, it can be seen that during this period of time, the country and ethnic education of the people have begun to bear fruit.
Such numb remarks about the country and me can no longer influence the people's thinking.
"Yeah, this time Yangzhou was slaughtered. Our idea of ​​obtaining a large amount of supplies from Yangzhou City fell through. Even the recruited army and our treasury might be stretched." Xiao Ming asked.
Pang Yukun and Fiji looked at each other and sighed.
Xiao Ming felt angry. Wang Wei's scorched earth policy turned the original war dividends into negative equity. Now he has to find a way to reverse the situation.
With this in mind, he said to the two of them: "This king has an idea, the government has money and food, but the merchants and the people in Qingzhou have it. This king is going to issue war bonds. As long as those who buy war bonds will be able to get trophy dividends in the future, you What do you think?"
"War bonds?" Fiji and Pang Yukun were both startled.
Xiao Ming came back to his senses. He remembered that the two of them didn't even know what war bond was, so he explained.
In fact, his war bonds are only equivalent to national bonds. It is only because it is a war period and the war has been won successively, and the people are confident that he will decide to issue war bonds.
Similar to the national debt, the purpose of the war bond is to raise supplies in advance. The strategic goal set below is half a year later, so he will take advantage of this half a year to raise war supplies.
In fact, he had already done this kind of thing. This was during the Northern Expedition, but at that time it was only a few big businessmen who benefited, and now these businessmen almost monopolized the pastures of Yanyun Sixteen Prefecture.
Out of vigilance against monopoly capital, Xiao Ming did not recruit merchants this time. Instead, he decided to issue them in the entire country. People could receive war bonds even if they took food.
In this way, he can prevent his feudal state from being swayed by war capital. After all, taking history as a mirror, he doesn't want to be controlled by fanatical war capital.
After an explanation, Fiji and Pang Yukun understood that this war bond is nothing more than borrowing money from merchants and the people to fight, and when there is a war dividend, they will return the dividend to the people and pay interest.
Pang Yukun was stunned, and Fiji shook his head again and again. He didn't know what Xiao Ming thought of this wonderful method.
According to the normal system of Dayu State, the way that the treasury has no money is very simple, and that is to levy heavy taxes.
Now Xiao Ming didn't consider this option at all, but directly adopted this gentle method.
"Do you understand now?" Xiao Ming asked.
"The minister understands. After returning, the next official will ask the Chamber of Commerce to sell the war bonds." Pang Yukun said.
Xiao Ming nodded, "But you have to control it and limit the quantity of purchases so that very few merchants will make big purchases and make huge profits."
What Xiao Ming is now worried about is no longer the issue of unifying the Great Yu country, but with the reform of the country, social changes may go to an uncontrollable stage.
With the blossoming of the people's wisdom, all kinds of advanced ideas will be mastered by the people. What he is most worried about is that the people's opinions will be used by those who are interested, leading to the division of the country due to thinking.
And the person most likely to take advantage of public opinion is the big capitalist. Qingzhou is just staying in the budding stage of capital. Once he reunifies Great Chongqing and enters the ocean, capital will inevitably grow rapidly like a wild horse. How should he tame this? A beast?
After all, in this era when news is blocked and savage, it is not as easy to maintain stability as in modern times.
Having said this, Xiao Ming remembered that Princess Pingyang had entered the house yesterday and talked about the royal clan. He was with Concubine Zhen at the time. Princess Pingyang brought up the matter after giving gifts to Fei Yueer and Concubine Zhen.
So he asked: "What do you think of the royal clan members in Qingzhou this time? Now they want to reach out for money."
When Fiji heard the words, he looked at his nose and his heart, and pretended to be confused. He was an old fox and he didn't want to offend these people.
Pang Yukun said sternly: "His Royal Highness, you can no longer support these royal family members in vain. Since Gaozu, the number of royal family members in this great Yu country has reached more than 100,000, and these more than 100,000 people have become the national treasury. A heavy burden, if your Highness wants to raise this group of people, it will not take long for the country to be overwhelmed."
Xiao Ming deeply believed it. This reminded him of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, these royal family members were also a heavy burden on the court, but the Ming Dynasty at that time would rather raise them than let them support themselves.
"Fei Zhongshu, what do you think?" Xiao Ming looked at Fiji. He didn't believe these Tang Guogong, the Rong Guogong had never contacted Fiji.
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"His Royal Highness, there are not many royal family members in Qingzhou City. In fact, there are only more than a thousand people. The others are distributed in various places in the country, but these thousand people are people with relatively high titles." Fiji Said.
Xiao Ming actually wanted to force Fiji to express his ideas, but now it seems that Fiji is in favor of supporting this group of people.
"Elder Fei, you know exactly how much silver is in the treasury now, aren't you adding to the chaos?" Pang Yukun naturally heard the overtones of Fiji.
Fiji was calm as usual. He sighed, and said: "Pang Shoufu, don’t worry, I say that, of course, there is a reason for me to say that. These people can't let them starve to death in the streets. Familiar, let’s just say that these people are relatives of His Highness. Even if His Highness does not pay to support them, we must find a way out for them. Moreover, the subordinates are doing this so that His Highness can successfully ascend the throne in the future. These people are needed to preside over the ancestral temple. At this time, they seem to be more important. Moreover, with the support of these people, the throne of His Highness can be more stable."
Xiao Ming glanced at Fiji and said, the thinking of this Fiji is still at the level of family management of the country.