As Zhu Youxiao expected, when officials of the Ministry of Rites hosted a charity association under the order and mobilized scholars and people from all over the world to donate money and materials to save the suffering people on the Western Expedition, there were indeed many people who actively showed their kindness.

Rich businessmen who made it through charity were also very active in charity.

Not long after, the Ministry of Rites received a large amount of money and supplies.

This reduced the national fund expenditure on the Ming Dynasty's Western Expedition a lot.

The chief minister Bi Ziyan had to admit that his emperor was the one who was truly good at engaging in money and food. He understood the human nature of the people so well, and in this way, turned a war of external expansion that was logically only for profit-worshipping into a just war of support from the whole people.

Wang Zaijin, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, has been worried that the money and food would be insufficient to support the Western Expedition.

For this reason, he had to intercept and deport the money and food he had entered Beijing to deal with the emergencies.

Wang Zaijin even said to the officials of the Shaanxi and Gansu Department in this way: "If the court blames the blame, I will bear it alone. You can hand over the memorial to impeach me. You can hand it over now. I will have no complaints and push everything to me alone! But we must be able to prepare enough money and grain in Suzhou Guards. In this way, if something happens on the Western Expedition, we can use the money and grain immediately without waiting for the court to transfer from far away places in Jiangnan! Besides, no one knows whether the court still has any money and grain surplus. After all, the court is now building railways, disaster relief, training troops, building armed warships, and building cities everywhere outside the border. It must have cost a lot of money. Even if the court has a gold mountain, it is probably almost dug."

"But if the court really lacks money and food, I'm afraid I'm even more reluctant to intercept the money and food delivered to the West Factory Branch?"

Shaanxi Governor Zou Weilian replied.

"Report! Your Majesty's order is delivered to you."

At this time, Li Shichun, the general of the Biaoying camp under Wang Zaijin, walked in and sent a telegram from a wired telegram to Wang Zaijin.

"The capital's national treasury is still abundant, and the money and grain donated by various provinces has been received by more than 5 million yuan in silver coins. It was originally used as a fee for the west expedition, but it will definitely be depleted. If this fee for the west expedition is left for the capital, the money and grain handed over to the Shaanxi Xichang Branch can be temporarily retained as the fee for the west expedition."

When Wang Zaijin read the content of the telegram, he was quite surprised: "The court actually had money and food! It was really unexpected, and it was donated by various provinces. It seems that my scholars and people of the Ming Dynasty really believed what was reported by Chongwen Temple and believed that the Ming Dynasty's Western Expedition was a just and kind act."

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"The Western Expedition only gave the scholars and people of the Ming Dynasty a spiritual gain. This is not enough. The scholars and people have to gain economic benefits in their external expansion. They have to raise private funds from the court by issuing bonds to use the benefits generated by external expansion. At that time, they will use the benefits generated by external expansion to lend debts to the scholars and people of the court, so that they can truly feel the benefits brought by external expansion."

Zhu Youxiao mentioned a new idea at this time.

All of them issued state bonds, allowing the court to have more money for military and construction.

"Bond? Is this possible with your majesty?"

Liu Hongxun is still unfamiliar with the concept of state debt, so he couldn't help but ask.

And he has always been conservative, preferring that the court can rectify its internal affairs more and give more surplus to the national treasury in case of emergencies, rather than crazy increase in military and construction expenses like now. Now he even has to borrow money from the people, so he continued to ask:

"Your Majesty, I wonder, will this lead to the court's expenses too much for a while, and eventually the phenomenon of eating the food of the Yin and the people will be poor at that time?"

"Now there are telegrams, and the message has been communicated and updated very quickly. In addition, steam-engine printing machines have also appeared, and more anti-counterfeiting patterns can be printed. Therefore, it is no problem to issue bonds. In my opinion, in the future, the Ming Dynasty Bank can issue some notes representing the value of silver coins. Like the Baochao in the past, it can be used as money, but it must not be issued indiscriminately like Baochao. There must be reserves. I believe that in the near future, the Ming Dynasty will gradually use banknotes as the main currency for trading."

"In addition, it is beneficial for the court to eat the food of the emperor properly, because this can mobilize the enthusiasm of the people for production, but it cannot be too much. This depends on how the court itself controls it. Only when the court properly owes some debts from wealthy businessmen can they hope that the Ming Dynasty will continue to flourish and not be able to afford the debt interest."

"Of course, the court cannot eat the grain of Mao at will. It must have sufficient tempting and untapped rich land or minerals as capital, otherwise it will only lead to the phenomenon of eating the grain of Mao at Yin and becoming more and more serious!"

"So what I mean, I will try to issue bonds on the vast farmlands of the Indian plains. After the imperial court completely occupied the land there, they will repay these bonds by selling them to wealthy businessmen in China to see if it is feasible."

"The farmland in the Indian plain is ripe three times a year and is of great value. It is completely possible for the imperial court to borrow money from private places for military expenditure to occupy the place."

Zhu Youxiao said.

Liu Hongxun was quite shocked after hearing this. He did not expect that His Majesty the Emperor would say that banknotes were trends, but he could not deny that according to the news brought back by the Ming World Development Company on the Indian Peninsula, there were indeed many fertile land there, and His Majesty wanted to borrow money from the scholars and people of the world to seize the land there first, and then sell it to many wealthy businessmen and tycoons in China who were obsessed with land. They could indeed have enough money to repay.

"Your Majesty, I think that you can try this way. This will make it seem that the external expansion is not something that some unknown people say, but only related to Your Majesty, you, but also to the entire world. You don't have to wait until the court has spare money before conquering the place, and then move the people over. This will make the Ming Dynasty easily lose the opportunity to seize these fertile lands. After all, the situation is changing at all times!"

Bi Ziyan understood Zhu Youxiao’s meaning and agreed.

Zhu Xieyuan couldn't help but say: "In this way, while the imperial court was expeditioning the west, it would have to use large-scale troops on the Indian Peninsula?"

"This, this is really a very new thing, and it's hard for me to know the pros and cons."

Liu Hongxun followed.

Zhu Youxiao answered Zhu Xieyuan's question just now, saying: "Whether to use troops on a large scale to the Indian Peninsula, we must first see the reactions of the Ming people, first educate the indigenous Indian people, and avoid them being persecuted by barbarians because they were too ignorant and tried to issue bonds to "strike against the Mughal pseudo-imperial Empire" because they were too ignorant;"

"The Ministry of Justice tells the people the rules to repay the interest on this coupon, and lists the little development value of India in detail. In addition, we must first draw an order to inform the world from all aspects. It is said that the Ming Dynasty does not recognize that the Mughal Empire is qualified to rule the Indian Peninsula! Let's take a look at the reaction of the Ming people. If the scholars and citizens are willing to pay for bonds, it means supporting the imperial court to send troops!"
Chapter completed!