The beggar emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty - Chapter 561

In fact, there are plenty of cloth, grain and salt in the north. Even if they can’t be replenished, they are enough to last until November.

But that’s just a normal situation. We can’t rush to buy maliciously. Now people begin to buy more food and salt after they can’t buy cloth, which has triggered a chain reaction and forced businesses to restrict purchases.

However, this purchase restriction has made the people very nervous. After all, everyone is hungry and afraid, even the landlords and gentry are no exception, so they have intensified their crazy purchase. They are afraid that they will be slow, and there will be no such cheap food and salt in the future.

Because the registered residence system in the north is not perfect, the purchase can only be done by buying one person at a time, so the stock of all the businesses is in urgent need when people buy it again and again.

This exacerbated the panic of the people. Although the shopkeepers of local businesses repeatedly promised that there would be some soon and persuaded the people to buy other goods, such as iron, at this time, the people didn’t even want cloth. They just wanted to buy grain and crude salt. Where would they buy iron?

After all, without cloth, it’s a big deal to hide at home naked. When you work without iron, you’re a little tired at most, but without food and salt, you’ll die. As long as you experience it again, no one wants to try again.

It has to be said that sometimes the ancients were really stupid, especially the ordinary people. When they saw that the treasure money in their hands could not buy food and salt, they no longer ate the food and salt at home, but saved it. They would rather spend a lot of money to buy steamed bread in the County and take the big cake home to eat.

The landlords and gentry were also not smart enough. They began to reduce the cost of food and salt at home. They went to restaurants every day and every day, trying to spend the treasure money in their hands first, and then eat the food at home.

This naturally made the local merchants, vendors, restaurants and restaurants overjoyed. In less than half a month, they became rich one by one. The treasure money in their hands was dozens of hundreds of Liang less and hundreds of thousands of Liang more, while the treasure money in the hands of the people, gentry and landlords almost ran out and began to eat their own food and salt.

But at this time, the grain, salt and cloth in the south of the Yangtze River just made a detour from Huguang to the north. The speed is not bad. With the commercial agents around the country selling cloth, salt and food again, and the price remains the same, countless people and gentry and landlords are about to regret.

The small stall owners who sell food and the big bosses who operate restaurants are all laughing. After all, there are more people eating and they can’t buy food at that time. They must have to raise the price. Even so, the people and the gentry and landlords are gnashing their teeth and accepting it.

The food is broken at that time. Anyway, treasure money can’t be eaten to fill the stomach. It’s better to buy a cake and steamed bread now to save some food at home.

The people regretted that although the food and salt at home were enough for a month or two, the hard-earned treasure money was spent. At this time, the winter wheat was planted and could not be harvested until next summer. All their faces were covered with ashes. They didn’t know how to survive until next summer.

Originally, the precious banknotes circulating in Hebei, Shandong and Shanxi were scattered in the hands of the people, and only a small part circulated in the market. Now they are all concentrated in the hands of a small group of people. In addition, everyone has no habit of saving money. The precious banknotes have only been circulating in the north for less than a year, so almost all the stall owners and bosses intend to use the precious banknotes they earn, Most of them are converted into Yuanbao locks at home, and a small part is reserved.

From the winter of last year to the autumn of this year, with loans and wages, in fact, the whole North has only released less than 50 million treasure bills, and even a province in the south of the Yangtze River. But now at least 40 million are concentrated in the hands of small losers, and the total amount of Yuanbao insurance of local banks is only 10 million. Therefore, in a short time, local banks are like previous commercial banks, It was swept away and was forced to stop exchanging Yuanbao.

Similarly, bank managers everywhere almost failed to beat their chests. Within half a month, the silver will arrive. We don’t have to worry at all, but the bad thing is that everyone came from the Ming Dynasty, so they crowded around the door of the bank and made a noise. Therefore, officials at all levels had to let the National Guard maintain governance.

Those stall owners and Tavern owners naturally did not dare to rebel or attack the Royal Bank of the Qin Dynasty. Instead, they moved to the commercial bank next door and couldn’t exchange the yuan treasure. Then they would buy all the food, salt and cloth. Anyway, these things are similar to silver, and this time they issued all the treasure bills and didn’t dare to keep them for standby.

Some other vendors who still hoard a small number of treasure bills naturally follow suit. As a result, in a short time, three items of commercial banks were sold out again, and they were forced to stop selling. The shopkeepers of commercial banks all over the country wanted to cry without tears. The banks hurried to report level by level and requested to dispatch Yuanbao quickly, The report at the same level requested that grain, cloth and salt be dispatched quickly.

Local officials also have to report the situation up at one level. They simply don’t know how to manage such things that have never happened before. Moreover, they have no right to intervene in banks and commercial banks.

As the saying goes, good things don’t go out, bad things spread thousands of miles. There is no bank convertible in all parts of the north, just like half of the wings and quickly spread to the South and northwest provinces.

The reason why the Royal Bank has always had a good reputation and the treasure notes are strong is not because they are issued by the Royal Bank, but because there has never been a case that the treasure notes can not be exchanged for Yuanbao. Now there are not one or two in the north, which naturally causes the tension of everyone in the south.

So he began to exchange the surplus treasure notes into ingots. At first, he was a merchant and landlord, then an ordinary people, and finally even generals and ordinary soldiers were no exception. They all ran to the bank like the wind.

There’s no way. The most unreliable thing since ancient times is the royal family. At the beginning, Lao Zhu won the world and printed treasure money indiscriminately. In the end, he not only didn’t admit his account and didn’t collect treasure money, but also forced everyone to collect treasure money. Therefore, we must take warning from the past.

Who knows if Qin Huan did the same?

After all, it seems that they both came from beggars. This kind of shameless thing that is almost robbing silver can definitely be done. After all, beggars are not generally thick skinned when they beg for food.

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“Stupid pigs are a group of pigs. I finally understand that they are not poor, but stupid!”

In Kaifeng mansion, which had already been cleaned up, Qin Yu was furious and scolded when he hammered the case table. He almost died of anger.

Zhang Yan’s daughters, who had just arrived for two days, were frightened by Qin Yu’s appearance and dared not speak, because they had never seen Qin Yu behave like this before.