Regarding the proposal of the imperial doctors, Zhu Youzhen accepted it after a little consideration. He then instructed Wang Chengen beside him: "Allocate 3,000 taels of silver from the inner treasury to the Huimin Medical Bureau, and let the Huimin Medical Bureau preside over the vaccinum vaccination of the people in the capital."

Vaccination is voluntary for those over 15 years old, and compulsory vaccination for those under 15 years old. Well, by the way, send someone to register all the vaccinated people, those with household registration are preferred, and those without household registration have to pay 1 penny. ”

"1 penny? Your Majesty, isn't this too low? This is simply not enough for the cost of vaccinia. The villain thought that it was better to be free, in order to show His Majesty's benevolence. Wu Youxing was a little stunned and said involuntarily.

"Vaccinia vaccination should be an obligation of the state to its citizens, and it should not have been charged. But now there are many people in the Ming Dynasty who hide their household registration in order to evade their obligations to the state, and this penny is just a symbolic punishment for them. But punishment is punishment, cowpox is still inoculated, that's all. ”

The attendants around Chongzhen are no longer surprised by the new terms and strange theories that pop up in the emperor's mouth from time to time, but Wu Youxing and other doctors from the Tai Hospital feel that the emperor's actions are simply taking off his pants and farting, which is too much.

However, no one wants to disagree with Chongzhen on such a trivial matter, and when Chongzhen was about to leave, the judge of the Tai Hospital, who came to inquire about it, suddenly said to Emperor Chen.

"Your Majesty, nearly one-third of the vaccinia inoculation of the people in the palace has been completed, and there are about less than 10 people who have adverse reactions, but none of them are life-threatening.

Now the news that vaccinia vaccination can prevent smallpox has spread in the capital, and after Xungui Wenchen heard that His Majesty, several ladies in the palace and palace people have all begun to be vaccinated with cowpox, they asked the Tai Hospital to send someone to vaccinate against cowpox.

However, the hospital was understaffed, and the number of requests from the noble ministers was too many. Because of the vaccination of cowpox sorting, these nobles and ministers' house slaves have been in trouble in the hospital several times, and many servants of the hospital have been beaten, and the minister implores His Majesty to issue an edict to vaccinate the family of the nobles and ministers in the court, so that the hospital can be at ease to treat the disease and save people. ”

"Damn, I didn't expect that there would be medical troubles in the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Youzhen thought speechlessly. He scratched his head, and then said: "Wang Chengen, you go and inform the Marquis of Fengcheng to let the House of Nobles set up a cowpox promotion committee, which is specifically responsible for cowpox vaccination, and the scope is the area under the Ming Dynasty."

By the way, I told the Marquis of Fengcheng that the order of vaccinia vaccination of the noble Wenchen family in the capital was based on the amount of money donated by each family to the committee. These donation funds will be used for the promotion of vaccinia vaccination for the people of Daming, and the list and amount of all donors will be compiled into a book and stored in the committee.

Every year, the 10 people with the highest donation amount are selected and awarded medals. As for the Tai Hospital, a special vaccinia vaccination team was arranged to conduct door-to-door vaccination according to the list provided by the House of Nobles.

For those who don't want to donate money, you can inform them to line up at the vaccination points in various squares to receive free cowpox vaccination, which is no longer provided by the hospital**. If you don't donate and continue to make trouble, the nobles will be handed over to the House of Nobles for punishment, and the civil officials will be called to the Metropolitan Court for punishment..."

"This is ridiculous, let's go and line up with those ordinary people, Your Majesty treats me so harshly." After listening to the order conveyed by Li Chengzuo, the Marquis of Fengcheng, Li Shouqi, suddenly shouted with some dissatisfaction.

"Is there any limit to this donation?" Sincerity Uncle Liu Kongzhao couldn't help but ask cautiously.

Li Chengzuo raised the gavel of the hand mountain and struck it a few times, finally quieting these nobles a little, which was still the method he learned from the emperor's maritime conference.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to stand it if he was asked to shout silence all day long. He looked at it with a little headache, and the following nobles, who have always been arrogant, said helplessly.

"The minimum amount of donations is 100 taels, as long as it is not less than this amount. With this number, don't you just need to go to Goolan Hutong once? ”

Chen Guangyu, Marquis of Ningyang, said dissatisfiedly: "You can't say that, a few days ago, Your Majesty asked me to donate money and land, and I used a stock to even exchange it for the future.

Don't look at the title of a marquis and uncle now, that is the scenery on the face, and there is no income in hand. Now who doesn't have hundreds of people to support, just let us pay for it and don't give an explanation, is it not possible for us to have a mountain of gold in our family? ”

With the attack of the Marquis of Ningyang, the relatives of the cadres immediately echoed. It was the first time for Li Chengzuo to see these nobles working together so much, and he asked in a small voice what happened to Deng Wenming, the Marquis of Dingyuan, who was beside him.

Deng Wenming looked at his colleagues below, and then turned his head sideways and bit his ear with Li Chengzuo and said: "Today, the stock exchange next door is newly opened, which contains eight stocks: Jiangnan Raw Silk Market, Beijing Sihai Commercial Bank, Huzhou Silk Reeling Factory, Xishan Glass Factory, Beijing Textile Machinery Bureau, Beijing Cotton Yarn Factory, Beijing Cotton Spinning Factory, and Taiwan Reclamation Company.

As a result, the shares of Sihai Commercial Bank rose by almost 2 percent, and the stocks of other companies rose slightly, but the shares of Taiwan Reclamation Company in our hands fell by 3 percent, and no one wanted it.

Although we didn't think that we could exchange it exactly according to the face value, but watching the stocks in other people's hands rise and our own stocks fall, this must not be comfortable, right? ”

Li Chengzuo suddenly realized why the nobles who were good years ago are now so full of resentment.

Although Li Chengzuo supported Chongzhen, he was not willing to resist the entire united Xungui group, so he had to lower his posture and ask, "So what do you want?" I can take this issue of your envoys on your behalf and wait for the Holy Judgment. ”

Chen Guangyu, Marquis of Ningyang, immediately said loudly: "We can wait for the matter of the mission, and now I have a small request, I implore Your Majesty to exchange the shares of the Taiwan Reclamation Company in our hands for other stocks, preferably the Four Seas Commercial Bank." ”

Obviously, this is not Ningyang Hou's idea alone, most of the nobles have this idea. In fact, they didn't want to trouble the emperor, but wanted to negotiate the issue with the stock exchange themselves.

It's just that when they found out that the person in charge of supervising the stock exchange was actually a minister, they gave up the idea of using power to force the other party to exchange stocks, after all, they couldn't compare power with the emperor.

Zhu Youzhen flipped through a letter in his hand, while listening to the report of Li Chengzuo, the Marquis of Fengcheng, who urgently entered the palace.

Tang Wenzheng, the minister in charge of managing the stock exchange, was also hurriedly called back and waited for Chongzhen's inquiry.

After Li Chengzuo finished speaking, Wang Chengen was a little angry. These stocks owned by the palace are nominally owned by the emperor, but after the abolition of the imperial store and imperial village system, a considerable part of the profits from the share capital will be used to supplement the expenses in the palace.

The nobles' proposal is undoubtedly to grab food in the bowl of their ministers, which is obviously intolerable to the ministers.

However, because Chongzhen had not spoken yet, Wang Chengen was not easy to speak, but he stared at Li Chengzuo sternly, as if he was a thief.

Zhu Youzhen put down the letter in his hand, and then stretched a big lazy waist, and then said to Li Chengzuo easily: "I thought it was a big deal, but it turned out to be just this little thing." ”

Tang Wenzheng was afraid that the emperor would easily agree to this unreliable request, so he hurriedly reminded: "Your Majesty, when the minister left, the stock of Sihai Commercial Bank had risen to 2 to 5, and the stock of Taiwan Reclamation Company had fallen by nearly 4 percent.

This comes and goes, the difference is 6 into 5, and 10,000 taels is a loss of 6,500 taels. Your Majesty must not accede to such a nonsensical request. ”

Zhu Youzhen was stunned, and suddenly remembered that he didn't seem to have formulated a price limit system, no wonder he became so crazy on the first day, but it didn't seem to be.

Zhu Youzhen asked with some confusion: "Is the stock exchange very famous now?" Who is buying the shares of these four sea commercial banks? Has anyone bought any other stocks? How many shares are denominations now? ”

Tang Wenzheng replied without thinking: "When the stock exchange was in the Taiji Factory, few people knew about it, but after moving to the Ten Princes' Mansion, the flow of people increased.

The minister questioned a few people, and found that they were all delegates who had come from other places to attend the merchants' conference, and they had only come to see them because they had read the newspapers.

However, the people who actually buy stocks are still mostly businessmen in Beijing, especially the owners of several large pawnshops in Beijing.

According to Xiao Chen's understanding, they think that the profits of the Four Seas Commercial Bank are very good these days, and there is a Changlu Salt Farm in hand, and the value of 2 million taels seems to be too low.

They thought that the Changlu Salt Farm alone was already worth this amount, so they bought a large number of shares of the Four Seas Commercial Bank.

As for the shareholders of Sihai Commercial Bank, some people took advantage of the rise in stocks to sell their shares. But after seeing that the stock kept rising, he began to reluctantly sell and not buy, so this led to the continuous rise of the stock of Sihai Commercial Bank.

All stocks, except for the Taiwan Reclamation Company, which is 121 shares, are 121 shares. Except for the shares of the Four Seas Commercial Bank, the number of shares bought and sold by other companies is not large. Taiwan's reclamation company has no transaction record. ”

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while, and then asked: "Now that the stock is traded once, how much fee do we charge?" ”

"One tael of silver for every thousand taels, and the buyer and seller each charge 05 taels." Tang Wenzheng said quickly.

"In this way, you will discuss with Zhang Yixian later, dismantle the stocks to a denomination of 100 taels and shares, and recycle and destroy the original large-denomination stocks. In addition, a banknote exchange point will be set up on the exchange, and in the future, stock transactions will be settled in banknotes, and there will be no cashier and gold. ”

For Chongzhen's request, Tang Wenzheng wholeheartedly agreed. The par value of the stock is too large, so that the number of people who make the transaction is greatly reduced. And the exchange of silver brought by those merchants greatly increased the burden on the exchange personnel.

More than the little benefit he could get from the fire, what worried him more was that the exchange was in deficit due to the lack of silver quality.