My life skills in Daming Liver - Chapter 624

c616 Li Rubai fights a tiger

In the capital.

News of the fall of Henan has spread throughout the capital along with the scholars who fled Henan.

In the past, when a place fell, there would not be so many scholars pouring into the capital. This is because the situation in the world is almost clear now, and there are not many die-hard loyalists left in the Ming Dynasty. Everyone knows that the Ming Dynasty will be in decline.

But this time, because Su Ze no longer appointed scholars from the Ming Dynasty, a large number of officials and staff in Henan did not hesitate to leave their hometowns and come to the capital.

Some of them had committed many evil deeds. They knew that staying in Henan would be a dead end and they would definitely be liquidated, so they fled to the capital.

There are also some who were coerced by public opinion and finally fled to the capital.

In short, these people flocked to the capital. The officials gathered in the civil service department to discuss their explanations. The officials also gathered near the guild hall, clinging to their officials, hoping to find a way out in the capital.

The arrival of these people made Li Chengliang feel happy and worried.

What he was happy about was that Su Ze did something so absolutely, which was tantamount to launching a war against all the scholars in the area controlled by the Ming Dynasty, leaving absolutely no room for error.

In the past, most of these civil servants believed that they still had a way out. As long as they surrendered the city at that time, they would be able to receive the same treatment in the southeastern system. In many cases, they would obey Li Chengliang’s orders.

But now Su Ze refuses to appoint surrendered officials, which is equivalent to cutting off the future of all scholars serving the Ming court.

In today’s world, scholars are not as valuable as they used to be.

The imperial examination system, legal system, and administrative system in the Southeast are all different from those of the Ming Dynasty. Even if these officials went to the Southeast to take the exam, it would be difficult to pass the exam. You must know that the competition in the Southeast itself is already fierce.

How can these officials who have been enjoying themselves for many years have the confidence to start from scratch?

That’s why they made trouble in the capital, hoping to get a new position.

Li Chengliang naturally had no new positions for them, but these people greatly sounded the alarm to other officials in the Ming court, telling them that there was no way out.

Various departments in the capital became unusually efficient. Officials who were dissatisfied with Li Chengliang’s policies in the past also put aside their resistance and began to seriously maintain the operation of the court.

After all, compared with Li Chengliang, Su Ze seems to be a bit too extreme and does not give scholars a way out.

But this is one of the few benefits that the fall of Henan brought to Li Chengliang.

After the fall of Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Gyeonggi Province have all opened their doors.

Henan is the land of the Central Plains and is connected to various places by passages. The fall of Henan will inevitably create more strategic gaps, and these gaps need to be closed immediately.

The biggest characteristic of the Southeast’s army in fighting is that they are good at breaking through weaknesses. As long as they catch a hint of weakness, they will immediately break through the blockade and rush in.

With so many places to defend, the military pressure naturally increased, and Li Chengliang needed to divide the already insufficient troops on hand again.

The length of such a long defense makes people desperate just thinking about it. Military orders are issued one after another. This is another large amount of military expenditure, which is shaking the Ming court’s shaky financial system.

Under such circumstances, a piece of news appeared in the streets of the capital. Hou Liang, a businessman from the Qingyuan Bo Li Wei family, lost money investing in stocks in the southeast with the money of many powerful people in the capital, and committed suicide by jumping off a building in the southeast.

The money of those powerful people was taken away, and the losses were huge.

This incident caused quite a stir.

On the one hand, the Ming court plundered the Southeast Silver Dollars from the common people and prohibited the people from using other currencies. However, the dignitaries of the Ming Court used Southeast Silver Dollars to invest in the Southeast. Isn’t this an act of capitalizing on the enemy?

It’s no wonder that the Southeast is always getting richer as it fights. The dignitaries on our side are all investing in the Southeast. How can we win the war?

Ordinary people know very well that sometimes they should not look at what the powerful are saying, but rather what they are doing.

If they only recognized the Southeast Silver Dollar, how could the common people trust the Ming court’s currency?

On the other hand, trade with the Southeast is expressly prohibited, let alone investing in stocks in the Southeast.

This also brought Qingyuan Bo Li Wei to the forefront, and some powerful people even came to his door directly and demanded compensation for the losses.

Naturally, Li Wei would not compensate for this loss. He himself also lost a large amount of money.

Li Chengliang was naturally furious when he got the news. These guys wanted to jump off the ship while they were still on the ship, and ignored his own ban to hoard so many Southeast Asian silver dollars.

However, Li Chengliang did not shout for help this time, because those who participated in this investment actually included a large number of nobles and military generals, and these people were friends with him.

But because of this incident, people began to hoard Southeast silver dollars again, and the market did not recognize any currency issued by the Ming court.

The shaky monetary system of the capital was once again facing collapse, and Li Chengliang could only find Hao Xian.

Nowadays, Shanhao has lost a lot of weight. From the high-spiritedness when he came to Beijing to what he looks like now, Shanhao has lost his former energy.

“Mr. Shan, I heard that you were ill a few days ago. Would you like to ask the imperial doctor to take a look?”

Shanhao Xian said quickly: “I have an old disease. I don’t need to ask a doctor. I just need to take care of it and it will be fine.”

Only then did Li Chengliang talk about his purpose:

“Mr. Shan, the situation in the imperial court is in chaos now. I invite you here to ask for advice on how to stabilize the Ming Dynasty silver dollar.”

Shanhao Xian said almost rudely: “The Ming Dynasty silver dollar has been credit bankrupt and is completely useless.”

Li Chengliang was a bit embarrassed by Shan Hao Xian’s direct words. Shan Hao Xian said:

“Today, the problem is no longer the problem of the Ming Dynasty silver dollar, but the entire system is full of corruption, and the people simply do not believe that the Ming Dynasty silver dollar can be used.”

“The powerful government-run or private workshops and shops openly refuse to accept Ming Dynasty silver coins, or do not sell goods in accordance with official price limits.”

“Officials from Shuntian Prefecture rushed into ordinary people’s homes to search for southeastern silver coins.”

“In this case, what possibility does the Ming Dynasty silver dollar have for circulation?”

Li Chengliang was shocked and said: “Is there such a thing?”

Shanhao first said: “If we want to save the Ming Dynasty silver dollar, we must completely overthrow this system and issue new currency with government credit.”

“Of course, the more important thing is to crack down on those powerful people who are struggling to make money for the country. As far as I know, many of the workshops of Bo Li’s family in Qingyuan purchase goods from the southeast. There are too many powerful people in the capital doing business secretly with the southeast, and Many dignitaries in the capital are also transferring their assets out.”

“General, these people are the tigers of the capital. If these tigers are not killed, there will be no way to restore currency and credit.”

“I invite the second young master Li Rubai as the imperial envoy to thoroughly investigate the unscrupulous businessmen in the capital who are collaborating with the enemy!”