Emperor Zhengde of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 123 Countermeasures
Shen Wanqian walked out of Hulong Villa weakly, and walked directly towards Cao Zhengchun's mansion.

Now, he felt empty in his heart, and the wealth he had struggled for all his life was destroyed in an instant. This kind of blow was unacceptable to ordinary people.

Zhu ignored sending people to protect him from a distance, and secretly ordered his subordinates to deal with him on the spot if Shen Wanqian behaved abnormally.

However, since Shen Wanqian walked out of the Shenhou Mansion, his eyes have been dull, his heart has been bleeding, as if he was about to overdraw his body.
"Reporting to the governor, a middle-aged man with dull eyes came outside. His expression seemed to be stimulated by something. His subordinates asked him a few times. He only said that he saw you when he saw the governor, and he didn't say anything else. .”

Cao Zhengchun was thinking about how to save this economic crisis. After all, he was responsible for this disaster. In the future, even if His Majesty does not hold him accountable, he will not escape the impeachment of those civil officials. I am afraid that something will happen this time. Sullenly, he locked himself in the room.

After Cao Zhengchun listened to the report from the housekeeper outside, he felt very uncomfortable. Who is this governor? Do all idiots and fools come to see him?

But on second thought, isn't there a few civil servants in the court who have dull eyes?Those civil servants have nothing to do all day long, and they just find topics to write bullshit articles, and their purpose is to win a good reputation as a virtuous minister.

After being bored for a whole day, Cao Zhengchun couldn't think of a way out, so he could only think of going out for a walk and meeting this idiot by the way.

When Cao Zhengchun came to the hall, just as he sat down firmly, that idiot middle-aged man walked in generously.

"Meet Eunuch Cao!"

Cao Zhengchun slightly raised his head and glanced at the middle-aged man in front of him, he couldn't help but gasp. This man was definitely not from the imperial court. He remembered everyone's faces as an official in the court. He looks like a rich official with a big belly.

"What's your name? Why are you here to see the miscellaneous family? Tell the truth."

Shen Wanqian arched his hands and said, "I'm sinking Wanqian"

puff!
Just as Cao Zhengchun drank a sip of water, he spurted it out of his mouth, then hurriedly put down the tea bowl, and carefully looked at the person in front of him.

It's really hard to find a place to break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it!
"What? Are you Shen Wanqian? Which Shen Wanqian?" Cao Zhengchun asked again, deliberately digging his ears, so as to confirm his identity.

"Before I came down, I ran a shop in the first village in the world, and now"

Cao Zhengchun also confirmed the identity of this person through Shen Wanqian's face. The reason Jin Yiwei hadn't caught this person before was that many people in Jin Yiwei had received benefits from Shen Wanqian.

Shen Wanqian is an extremely smart person. He has bribed many officials in the imperial court. Of course, he has to keep a group of thugs under his command. He has more or less connections with those generals and Jin Yiwei.

Cao Zhengchun had never met Shen Wanqian, when he heard Shen Wanqian's self-reported name, he was startled at first, and then he secretly believed in the reality in front of him.

"Come here, tie this person up quickly!"

Several of Cao Zhengchun's subordinates trotted in quickly, and tied Shen Wanqian tightly with straps.

"Eunuch Cao, is this how you treat guests? Although Shen knows his status is inferior, he doesn't know what crime he has committed?"

Cao Zhengchun had regained his energy now, let alone how to interrogate this person, he first threw out the most difficult problem in front of him, to see if Shen Wanqian had the ability to solve it.

"The miscellaneous family doesn't talk nonsense with you. You are also a smart person. If you want to survive, cooperate with the miscellaneous family's questioning truthfully. Maybe the miscellaneous family will go around you when they are happy."

Shen Wanqian looked around, then at Cao Zhengchun, and motioned for him to dismiss all his subordinates, so that the latter could speak.

Cao Zhengchun felt that what was being discussed was a major issue and he must not leak any information, so he nodded and told everyone around him to back down.

"The miscellaneous family asks you, all your business names are blocked right now, and many people have lost their money. If this matter were replaced by you, how would you solve it?" Cao Zhengchun asked anxiously.

"Hahaha, Eunuch Cao, if it were me, I would ease it up for a month or two. When those who have money but no food can't make it through, they will naturally take out the money in their hands. Buy food, so that the economy of the capital will recover."

"However, what should we do with the ordinary people who are surrounded outside?"

"Open warehouses for relief! In fact, most of them are just making up money, and there are still a large number of people who have money in their hands."

"If Eunuch Cao can be trusted, you might as well observe it for a month, and the capital's economy will recover."

Cao Zhengchun rubbed his hairless chin, thinking that this was the only way, and this was the best way, because Shen Wanqian knew more about the economy of the capital than he did, and this reason seemed to be quite right.

At the same time, inside the Golden Luan Hall.

All civil and military officials were summoned to the court by Zhu Houzhao, asking them to find ways to restore the economy that had suddenly declined.

Cabinet ministers Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian all held different opinions.

Liu Jian led the rapid launch of the national emergency plan, first opening warehouses to stabilize the people in the capital, and then thinking about the next countermeasures.

Li Dongyang believes that officials should be dispatched to appease these people, gather rich people in one place, and find a way to get them to spend money to stimulate consumption.

Xie Qian's point of view is to directly send Jinyiwei, let those who take the lead in making troubles detain them, use force to resolve the crisis, and then increase the popularity of imperial court firms, which will solve the current economic pressure.

The three points of view brought out three kinds of forces, and for a while Zhu Houzhao didn't know who was the most correct.

"Long live Qi Zuo, a large number of people gathered outside the Meridian Gate, they asked the imperial court to release Shen Wanqian, and asked the imperial court to release their business names."

Zhu Houzhao was full of doubts when he heard it. This is obviously my business name in the Ming Dynasty. Why is it monopolized by Shen Wanqian?

Besides, hasn't Shen Wanqian been caught yet?How could he have such great power?

Zhu Houzhao stood up from the dragon chair, looked around the group of officials, and said, "My dear friends, who can share my worries?"

The ministers stopped discussing immediately, and the entire court became quiet.

Everyone knows that once the currency in circulation outside the world decreases, the result will be that the items are worthless. In the words of later generations, it will be deflation. No matter how many things you make, they will be worthless and will only rot in the end.

Especially in this era dominated by agriculture, food rot means that the lifeline of the entire daimyo will be completely broken.

Outside the Forbidden City, a fast horse was rushing towards here.

Zhu Hou took care of the officials, and none of them spoke, feeling very disappointed, especially those censor officials, who usually had endless words to say, but now they didn't say a word.

"Your Majesty, in the opinion of my ministers, it is formal to send officials and troops to use force and appeasement to stabilize the hearts of the people. Afterwards, the cabinet will issue a policy to use the treasury's treasury for circulation in the market first, and then think about the next step." Method."

Li Dongyang, the second assistant to the cabinet, stepped forward and expressed his well-thought-out views.

Zhu Houzhao also accepted this view.

(End of this chapter)