Yes, listening to the factory company, this matter is not only a matter of whether the people are willing to lend, but also the problem of some people obstructing, so it is no wonder that there are branches in various provinces that cannot get loans.

Since we have to talk about the rules and regulations, how should we do this? They knew that the emperor would definitely ask them later, but in such a short period of time, they didn't seem to be able to think of a way.

Sure enough, Emperor Chongzhen asked them again, what should I do about this?

As soon as they heard this, they were a little anxious, if the emperor couldn't get a solution to the problem, would he re-approve Wang Chengen's request and give the factory guards the power to run rampant?

Emperor Chongzhen's eyes glanced at them, and when he saw that they were all meditating hard, and there seemed to be a little worry in their expressions, he knew that everything was going according to his prediction.

These officials, no matter what, do not dare to let the factory guards have the power to break the rules, otherwise, the factory guards themselves have the responsibility to supervise hundreds of officials, and if they can break the rules and act, the consequences will be absolutely disastrous for them.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen actually understood that if he really wanted to do that, it would mean that the imperial power was no longer enough to deter the world. In fact, neither the power of civil officials nor the power of factory guards can be out of control, and once this happens, it will be disastrous for the stability of the Ming Dynasty.

In the early part of the Apocalypse, civil officials had too much power; In the middle and later periods, in order to deal with civilian officials, the power given to the factory guards was too great, which all caused turmoil in the government.

Emperor Chongzhen estimated that it was almost over, so he looked as if he had just thought of a solution, and said to his ministers: "I have remembered, or I can lend out the money from the bank and use it for the people, so that the people can benefit from it!" ”

As soon as they heard this, many people breathed a sigh of relief, if there is really a way, then the emperor will definitely not let the factory guards mess around, so it would be the best.

So, the first assistant Xue Guoguan first played the right words: "Your Majesty is wise and martial, you must have a good idea, and please ask Your Majesty to speak clearly, and the ministers will listen to you!" ”

"Yes, listen to Your Majesty, it must be right!"

“……”

The other courtiers also followed suit and patted the emperor's ass by the way.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he said: "My idea is that since it is difficult for the private sector to obtain loans, then according to the royal textile factory, the royal or local government will come forward to take out loans, open factories according to the situation in various places, and hire local people to create wealth, so that the people can have another income in addition to farming, so that they can get rich faster!" ”

As soon as they heard this, Xue Guoguan and the others couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

If this matter had been said at the beginning, it would definitely have been considered by the civil officials that this was a matter of competing with the people for profit, which was inappropriate and inappropriate!

However, Emperor Chongzhen had already asked them to think about the trick first, but they couldn't think of it. The admiral of Dongchang said that someone was making trouble and wanted to kill chickens and monkeys, but after all, others were doing something within the rules that affected private loans, if the factory guard did this, the rules would be messed up, and the tiger of the factory guard would be unscrupulous.

After a while, Xue Guoguan, the first assistant, asked their doubts on behalf of the civil officials: "Your Majesty, if this is the case, then the bank can collect the collateral, what should I do if I can't pay the money, and what if I lose money when I open the factory......

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he immediately said without hesitation: "Of course, you must follow the bank's loan rules, even if it is the royal and local governments, it cannot be an exception. The same is true, what factory to open must be cautious, how to run a large-scale factory, but also cautious, these things, can be carefully discussed! ”

In fact, what he said is still the model of state-owned enterprises. In the context of the concentration of power, if you want to make Daming's economy take off, state-owned enterprises are the best engine.

Yes, state-owned enterprises also have shortcomings, but nothing can be perfect! As long as state-owned enterprises can help Daming's economy take off at this stage, it will be enough.

Since the people do not have loans for any reason, it is up to the state-owned enterprises to do this, and the factories are opened and the people are hired to do it.

At this time, the farmer, as soon as the farm is finished, basically has nothing to do, and this labor force is purely wasted. If they still have a place where they can make money, I believe they will definitely be willing to do it. As a result, the people will become richer, and the goods of the Ming Dynasty will also increase. Those Xiyi don't really want Daming's goods, no problem, give as much as you want!

After Emperor Chongzhen explained a little and compared the two things, these officials naturally chose the thing that had the least impact on them. This is also the skill of doing things, and only by doing so can the courtiers support this matter.

After all, Emperor Chongzhen is not a god, and he is so energetic that he can do anything himself. In such a large territory as the Ming Dynasty, there are countless things happening every day, and officials must help him deal with things. And whether the officials who work at the bottom are attentive and responsible, these are the keys that affect whether a thing can be done well.

Emperor Chongzhen knew this very well, and therefore, he had already thought of a way himself, but he still had to discuss it with these courtiers and make them feel that it was good to do so, so that things could be arranged smoothly.

For specific details, Emperor Chongzhen talked with them for a long time, and finally came up with a framework. This matter should be done from the southern provinces first, and it will play an exemplary role.

If the local government did this, it would use the tax money retained in the local area every year as collateral to start with tea, silk, raw silk, ceramics, etc., and establish local state-owned enterprises; And if the royal side comes forward, then the annual local collection of gold and silver as collateral, loans to engage in tea, silk, raw silk, ceramics and other businesses.

In this way, if the local government does not seriously manage the business and loses money, and does not pay the bank, then the tax money retained in the local government will be gone, and it will inevitably affect the local government itself, and they will not be careless. The same is true on the royal side, gold and silver are a major source of income in the palace, and once they are gone, they are also losses.

Of course, just doing this is not enough. This kind of state-owned enterprise was only a royal textile factory led by the queen in the Ming Dynasty. At least at the local level, there is no similar experience, and if state-owned enterprises in various places use their power to oppress workers and viciously compete with their peers for the sake of profits, it is also unbelievable.

Since it is a state-owned enterprise, the leaders of this state-owned enterprise can be managed by officials sent by the government, and at the same time subject to the supervision of the local metropolitan procuratorate and the factory guard, so as to control it, and the original intention of the establishment of the state-owned enterprise will not deviate from the direction.

This matter, under the leadership of Emperor Chongzhen, was finally decided.

Because of the matter of the Martyrs' Shrine, Emperor Chongzhen first paid attention to economic matters. At this time, as soon as the results were available, he immediately paid attention to the disaster prevention and relief situation in the provinces. At least in his impression, the natural disasters of the Xiaoice River period in the late Ming Dynasty lasted until the Manchu Kangxi period and slowly ended.

Sure enough, just by looking at it, he found that there was a new arrival, news about the great drought and locust plague in the south of the Yangtze River.

Because of Emperor Chongzhen's attention, the local government immediately reported it as soon as it found signs of a major drought. On the Nanjing side, Sun Chuanting, Lu Jiude and others, who were in charge, immediately discussed and began disaster prevention and relief in accordance with the strategy set by Emperor Chongzhen.

First, concentrate the people's forces and dispatch the army of the guard to fight the drought; second, food control, which is distributed according to rations; Third, food and other materials were immediately mobilized from other places to support Suzhou Prefecture and other disaster-stricken areas. At this time, Emperor Chongzhen saw for the first time that among the relief materials, there were a large number of sweet potatoes transported from Zhejiang and Fujian.

Sweet potatoes, on the side of Daming, were first planted in Fujian and obtained a large amount of output. The governor of Fujian at that time was overjoyed and immediately made every effort to promote it, but due to the influence of various factors, it did not succeed in the end.

In the past few years, Emperor Chongzhen, who came through the time, personally came forward to vigorously promote, especially the output of cash crops such as sweet potatoes, as one of the indicators for local officials to evaluate their political performance, and the difficulty of promotion has been greatly reduced. Naturally, Fujian, Zhejiang, which have already begun to grow sweet potatoes, have much more output than other provinces.

Seeing that sweet potatoes began to appear in the list of relief materials, Emperor Chongzhen finally smiled, and his years of hard work were not in vain. Sweet potatoes and other supplies will be promoted earlier than the original history, and will be known to the people, saving more people's lives and helping them survive the famine.

This famine, in the original history records, said that in the spring of the fifteenth year, there was a great drought in Taicang Prefecture, and the rice money was 110 Wen, and the people had children eaters. The relics of the temple and the Longfu Temple set more than 1,000 hungry people, the day of death is not a sage, the tax grain is urgent, the rice is one-third, the wheat is discounted, one or two or five dollars per stone. Winter rice is four taels per stone, starving to death, and floating corpses are rolling in the river. At the entrance of the city gate and alley, a hundred and ten children were abandoned, or someone led them away, or regarded them as dead, and abandoned them in the graves, or gathered and burned them, or dug pits and buried them, and there were countless covers. Fortunately, those who did not die, peeled the bark of the elm tree for bread, the bran bark for porridge, and looked at the village, the bark was stripped away, and it was a famine that had not been seen for decades.

When there is a great drought, there is often a plague of locusts.

History also records that the Huzhou Mansion is in a great drought, the locusts cover the sky and go down, where the place is gathered, the seedlings and reeds are exhausted, and the people cut the bark and sawdust mixed with chaff to eat, or dig the white mud in the mountains for food, which is called Guanyin powder. On the left side of Hanshan, the place name Liang Village, hundreds of strongmen gathered to make a rebellion, fortunately it was extinguished in a few days, but the plague followed, but the government not only did not give free money and food, but severely punished and urged the department. The price of rice in Wu County, Suzhou Prefecture is as expensive as 323 coins per stone of silver, and 222 coins of wheat stone. The people are struggling to eat, they are displaced, the old children abandon the roadside, the urban and rural houses are dumped in the air, and the dead are resting on their backs.

Such a human tragedy, in this plane, under the national policy of Emperor Chongzhen's vigorous disaster prevention and prevention, the local government worked together and acted at the first sign of it. When the disaster broke out, the people had relief food to survive, and it did not cause a wide range of vicious events such as starvation, which made the people who had experienced the previous famine even more grateful to the government, the imperial court, and Emperor Chongzhen.

It can be said that every time a natural disaster is defeated, the prestige of the government, the imperial court and Emperor Chongzhen among the people is higher. Those local gentry wanted to influence the people, to influence the people, to influence the people, and to do something unfavorable to the court, which was becoming more and more difficult.

From the experience of this disaster, we can also know that natural disasters are not terrible, as long as the government and the people work together to overcome the famine, people will definitely be able to conquer the sky! At the end of the original Ming Dynasty, the reason why natural disasters were out of control was the result of the government's inability to provide disaster relief.

The disaster treatment in Suzhou made Emperor Chongzhen very satisfied, so he issued an order to commend the relevant people. Sun Chuanting, Lu Jiude and others have also been promoted. Among them, he was named a scholar of the Eastern Pavilion of the Emperor of the Imperial Court, that is, he became an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, but continued to serve as his official secretary in Nanjing. And Lu Jiude, who was also named the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch Bingbi, also continued to perform his duties as the eunuch of Nanjing.

For Zhang Pu, who was still on an errand in the south of the Yangtze River, Emperor Chongzhen also replied to his recital, commending him for his courage to know his mistakes and change them, and daring to break the oath, and made it public in the newspaper, calling on officials everywhere to learn from Zhang Pu, to admit mistakes, to be a famous minister who is honest and honest, and to be famous for generations!

At the same time, he also personally wrote an article to criticize the atmosphere of human relations in officialdom. It is also responsible for the Metropolitan Procuratorate to evaluate the exchanges between officials and come up with specific regulations to eliminate hotbeds of corruption.

These things have little to do with the people of the Ming Dynasty. However, it caused a great shock to the Ming officialdom.

In particular, the Metropolitan Procuratorate gave specific measures, which were reported to Emperor Chongzhen for approval and promulgation of the world, such as officials are not allowed to invite guests to dinner, are not allowed to visit the Qinglou, summon women to accompany the wine, and are not allowed to collect anything worth more than ten taels of silver under any pretext, etc. All these things have a great impact on the daily life of officials, and as a result, the business of Qinglou Restaurant, a place where you eat, drink and have fun, has plummeted.

If this matter had been in the past, even if it could be promulgated nationwide, it is estimated that it would be just a dead letter.

However, now Emperor Chongzhen's prestige is no longer the same as before.

The increase in prestige brought about by successive battles, the prestige brought about by disaster relief and prevention, the ability to observe and judge people's hearts, and even the ability to infer some myths have greatly deterred officialdom. Moreover, the iron blood and strength he has shown since he personally took charge of the army made the Ming officials dare not do such things that are contrary to the yang and the yin.

The matter of Zhang Pu triggered the rectification of the Ming officialdom, which was in full swing; At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen's rectification of the factory guards was also carried out again. On the one hand, Wang Chengen, the commander of Dongchang, and Li Ruolian, the commander of Jinyiwei, were strictly ordered to conduct self-examination of their respective subordinates, and those who were promoted with meritorious service were allowed to report if they were punished. Among them, Jiang Dong, the stall leader next to Zhang Pu, is also famous with this incident with Zhang Pu. Emperor Chongzhen specially promoted him to be the manager of the East Factory, and he was responsible for the internal supervision of the East Factory.