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Before Guo Peng went on tour, Guo Jin and Guo Peng learned about the war between Rome and Anxi.
At that time, there was no winner between the two sides, and it was a while after Guo Peng set off that the news came that Anxi had lost the battle and the situation was very bad.
Guo Jin quickly told Guo Peng about this matter. After Guo Peng knew about it, he wrote back to Guo Jin urgently, telling him to make a series of arrangements.
Guo Jin didn't know what an economic crisis was, and only after receiving Guo Peng's guidance did she realize how terrible the economic crisis was, so she immediately started preparing and researching countermeasures.
He called Wang Can, Minister of the Ministry of Finance, and some experts in the Ministry of Finance who are engaged in the economic development of the Northwest to study this matter together, and drew many conclusions from the accounts of the imperial court.
Guo Jin originally planned to rescue the market and stabilize the situation in the northwest, but the conclusions he drew were all pessimistic.
Everyone believes that before Anxi restores peace, the Northwest can only live with a tight belt. There is no substitute that can provide as much demand to the Northwest as Anxi, and stimulate the business of the Northwest to flourish.
Although Anxi is not as big as the Wei State, it is very rich and is particularly willing to spend in the Wei Empire. Therefore, together with the Guishuang Empire, it gave birth to the prosperous commercial scale in the northwest of the Wei Empire.
Because of this, the cost of Guo Jin's attempt to rescue the market is too high, let alone who will bear the cost, how long it will be borne is another question-who knows when Anxi will restore peace?
Therefore, taking action to save the market is the worst policy. The only way is to reduce the scale of business as the demand shrinks.
At most, some money should be paid to help the Northwest to cover the bottom line, avoid the excessive debt that is easy to drive people to a dead end, and limit the scale of debt to the affordable range of the people.
After much deliberation, Guo Jinsi felt helpless, so she had to make such a decision.
So he issued an order to the cabinet, followed by the Ministry of Finance to study and pass his decision, pay money to the Northwest, and start taking action to prepare before the crisis spreads and causes greater damage.
As a result, the Ministry of Finance was the first to make a fuss.
Many people expressed their opposition, thinking that such a large-scale debt forgiveness would make the already tight finances even more tense. Although it would not be stretched, if there were any emergencies, the treasury would be overrun.
The money in the national treasury has a purpose, and the annual expenditure must be budgeted. Exceeding the budget is not a matter of one or two sentences, and it may cause a terrible chain reaction, so the emperor cannot make a rash decision.
Back then, Guo Peng was so arrogant, he would not hastily mess up the Ministry of Finance's budget according to his own ideas. No matter how arrogant he was, he would use his own internal treasury to bypass the court to handle affairs, so that the court could only stare blankly.
But now the emperor actually wants to use the money from the treasury to make up for the deficit in the Northwest?
Did the Wei Empire ever have such a rule?
And more importantly, how can the money from the national treasury be used to benefit cheap businesses?
Business is cheap!
How can there be any reason for the treasury money to be used to save the market for businessmen?
There is no such reason in the world!
When there is a crisis, we should be the first to take action before the crisis spreads completely, hacking this group of fat pigs to death, and making the crisis stand in the face, how can we take action to save the market and help these businessmen through the crisis?
Have you forgotten the traditional policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business?
The courtiers found it incredible.
Wang Can actually understood Guo Jin quite well. He knew that Guo Jin would be very angry because of the objections of his courtiers, but what could he do alone?
When it came to the fundamental ideology of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce, Wang Can was helpless.
Helpless, he could only bite the bullet and confess to Guo Jin, saying that it was unrealistic to completely cancel the commercial debts of Yongliang and Liangzhou and the three western regions.
Not only is it unrealistic, but the Ministry of Finance also believes that agriculture is the main industry and commerce is a cheap industry. It is better to use the money from the national treasury to give preferential treatment to farmers in the northwest than to use the money from the national treasury to cover the bottom line for cheap businesses.
If this is done, profiteers all over the world will feel that it is profitable, and they will act recklessly, and the country's finances will soon be messed up and out of control.
Before Guo Jin had time to get angry, the news that he was going to use the treasury's money to cover the northwestern merchants spread throughout the court.
By the way, there was a war between Rome and Anxi, and the news that Anxi was defeated was not good, and the news that the result of this war would affect the business in the Northwest immediately triggered a great controversy in the entire court.
The long-dormant conservative forces, just as Guo Peng expected, climaxed collectively.
The opposing performances flew into Guo Jin's south study one by one like bullets, and soon filled his entire desk, which annoyed him and felt very troublesome.
He is determined to save the business in the Northwest, and he will give a little help to the merchants in the Northwest, so that they can stop their losses and get out of the whole body, so that they will not be seriously injured and unable to recover from a setback.
The fragile economic situation in the Northwest requires them to maintain their vitality, otherwise the ten-year construction of the Northwest will be ruined.
As a result, such an idea was strongly opposed by the officials. They were headed by Shangshu Zaoyi of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and a large number of officials came to the table one after another, setting off a frenzy of opposition.
They strongly demanded that the emperor depose Northwest commerce, end the Northwest's attempts, and bring the Northwest back to the "right track" of agriculture.
It is unheard of that Northwest commerce will be affected by the war between the Roman Empire and the Parthian Empire. It is simply leaving the country's economic development to others to decide. How can such a thing happen to the Kingdom of Heaven?
Do not agree!
Waves of opposition came one after another. Seeing the crisis approaching, Guo Jin couldn't bear it anymore and held a grand court meeting.
Guo Jin angrily reprimanded Zaozhi in court, and successively dismissed three officials who led the opposition to his policies, coercing the officials with the authority of a real emperor.
The officials were hit head-on, but still refused to compromise. It seemed that they were determined to fight Guo Jin to the death, and they would not give in. No matter what, they would not let Guo Jin use the treasury to rescue the market.
Either you depose all of us and choose your own people, or you use your own internal treasury to handle affairs, we will not stop you, didn’t you bring a lot of silver?
Although Guo Jin has a lot of money in his internal treasury, he can't squander most of it in one go.
He still has to complete the reform of the currency system, how can he use the reserves in the internal treasury at this time.
The two sides are deadlocked.
In the end, Cao Cao, the chief assistant of the cabinet, and Guo Yi, the secretary of the Ministry of punishment, came out to smooth things over, acting as middlemen, and proposed a proposal that both parties made some compromises.
It is to let the local Ministry of Finance cooperate with the local government, and the imperial court will come up with a standard, and all shops that meet the standard will be closed, so as to reduce the scale of business in response to the economic crisis.
As for commercial loans, the imperial court can also make concessions. According to the loan amount and the repayment ability of the merchants, the merchants are allowed to repay the loans in installments instead of all at once, so as to reduce the pressure on the merchants and prevent them from being driven to a dead end.
As for the bailout requested by Guo Jin, the imperial court has also made some concessions, allowing some of it to be squeezed out of the budget. Of course, this amount is definitely far from what Guo Jin requested.
The rest depends on how much Guo Jin can take out of the inner treasury.
Generally speaking, the imperial court is still timid in the face of imperial power. Guo Peng is still alive, and Guo Jin is strong enough.
However, Guo Jin did not meet the initial requirements.
But Guo Jin was not as angry as Guo Yi and Cao Cao expected, because he knew that the impact of the economic crisis had not yet been revealed.
When the impact of the economic crisis is revealed, especially in Yongliang and Liangzhou, the attitude of the officials must not be the same as it is now.
"If you don't get money out of the treasury now, when the situation in Yongliang and Liangzhou is in turmoil, the ministers will not have the current attitude. They may carry the coffin in front of me and fight against me."
Guo Jin summoned Guo Yi, Cao Cao, Lu Yi and Lu Yu in private.
He expressed his concern to them with a worried face.
"Now take a sum of money from the national treasury, and then I will collect some more myself, and send it to Liangzhou to hand over to Lu Qian when I need it. Maybe it can save the overall situation. The situation in Liangzhou is too dangerous. This money The most important thing is to use Liangzhou, as long as Liangzhou can be stabilized, the other places can be stabilized."
The four looked at each other.
Cao Cao stood up.
"Your Majesty, did the battle between Loumo and Anxi really have such a big impact?"
"It's quite big, and the entire Northwest will be shaken. After this time, until the rest of the country is restored to peace, the business in the Northwest will be sluggish for a while, and it will no longer be as prosperous as before."
Guo Jin took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and said, "Now the ministers don't know the real influence. I just tested it a little, and the reaction is so great. Once they know the turmoil in the northwest, the reaction will only be greater. "
The four of them lowered their heads and secretly said in their hearts——were you probing a little?Such a large sum of money is scary!
After the slander, Guo Yi took a step forward.
"Since this is the case, Your Majesty needs to make preparations early. Zaobutang is old, but he is very persistent and tough. What he believes will not change. If the situation in the northwest is turbulent, Zaobutang will definitely make another request. Depose Northwest Commerce, and then..."
Guo Yi didn't finish, but Guo Jin already knew what it meant.
Zaozhi is the leader of the opposition, but he is different from those opposition.
Other opponents always have their own little thoughts, whether it is economic or political, and they always have some needs, so they oppose it.
Jujube only made a fortune by farming, and he simply hated business and businessmen to the extreme, thinking that business would degrade people, so it was a cheap business, and businessmen should also be cheap.
He is not for personal interests, but purely political behavior. He attacks businessmen from the traditional moral level, and by the way, attacks Guo Peng's business policies, only for political ideals.
He is very clean and has nothing to catch. Guo Peng set off four major political storms but failed to deal with Zaoyi. Zaoyi repeatedly attacked Northwest Business in the later period of Guo Peng's reign. , ignore him.
When it was Guo Jin's turn, Zaoyi's political qualifications became a big problem for him.
This kind of experienced, smelly and tough old bureaucrat is difficult for any emperor.
Chapter 1568 One thousand four hundred and eighty eight Lu Qian's last battle
Guo Peng is the founding emperor, and Zaoyi is his subordinate, so he can be ignored, and Zaoyi can be suppressed by his own prestige.
No matter how loudly Zaoyi shouted alone, he couldn't get benefits under Guo Peng's hands.
Now that Guo Peng has abdicated and Guo Jin is the emperor, without strong suppression, Zaozhi's voice gradually becomes louder.
Those opponents in the court who did not dare to stand up during Guo Peng's rule also rose up one after another, hiding behind Zaozhi, and using Zaozhi's political prestige to seek benefits for themselves.
In the second year of Xingyuan, there were not many people in the court who could compete with Zaozhi in terms of political qualifications and status.
Wang Can is just a soft-legged shrimp in front of Zaozhi, which is useless at all.
Guo Jin instructs Wang Can to debate with Zaoyi, suppressing Zaoyi's arrogance, but Zaoyi's arrogance is well-founded, and Wang Can is rendered speechless by citing scriptures, and Wang Can has no power to resist.
Guo Jin is now becoming more and more dissatisfied with Wang Can. A financial steward who can't stand up to the wind and rain for him should simply not exist, let alone this guy who lost the debate and can't beat others with his words.
Guo Jia is still a member of the staff desk, and does not interfere in government affairs, otherwise Guo Jia can make a move to confront Zaoyi.
After looking around, Guo Jin found Guo Yi. Guo Yi was an old official from Yuan Cong who joined Zaoyi at the beginning. Later, he worried that Guo Yi could not fight against Zaoyi who was fully armed, so he called Cao Cao. Together, use your status as a foreign relative to suppress Zaoyi.
The two teamed up to barely suppress Zaoyi and stirred up the muddy water, but at present, once the impact of the crisis expands in the future, it is hard to say whether these two people can suppress Zaoyi.
Otherwise, Guo Jin and Zaoyi will face each other head-on.
This is not what he should do as a powerful emperor.
Cheng Yu was the weapon of last resort, and Guo Jin didn't want to use Cheng Yu as a weapon unless it was absolutely necessary.
Guo Jin now really hopes that those people will be more aware of current affairs, and not really push him into a hurry. If he is pushed into a hurry, he will let Cheng Yu out.
"Wait and see the situation right now, but pay close attention to the northwest. Boyan, pack up and go to Guzang immediately. Zi's house, pack up and get up and go to Chang'an immediately. If there is any disturbance, I will know as soon as possible."
"According to the order!"
Lu Yi and Lu Yu immediately started to act.
Guo Jin sent two of his absolute cronies to Liangzhou and Yongzhou as his eyeliners, and activated Linziying's organizations in Liangzhou and Yongzhou, and decisively used six hundred miles to expedite it if necessary!
He must get the latest first-hand news at the first time, so that he can make a judgment, predict the enemy first, and grasp the key information first, so that he can remain invincible.
Later, Lu Yi was stationed in Guzang County, Wuwei County, and Lu Yu was stationed in Chang'an City, passing on first-hand information to Guo Jin at any time.
In March, what happened in the Zhenxi Protectorate Mansion was rushed to Luoyang by Liubaili to let Guo Jin know. Baili rushed to Luoyang.
In May, when the Annan Governor's Mansion and Beiting Governor's Mansion both stabilized the situation and came out of the shadow of crisis, and when Guo Peng was about to set off to return to Liangzhou from the Annan Governor's Mansion, the Liangzhou crisis officially broke out.
Before that, Guo Jin had already learned the latest news, and decisively sent people to support Liangzhou, and handed over the money he had prepared for Lu Qian to Lu Qian, so that Lu Qian could prepare early.
Lu Qian rectified Liangzhou's business in accordance with Guo Peng's order very early.
However, in the past few years, under Mao Jie's governance, Liangzhou has made great leaps towards becoming a commercial center. After Wang Can gave Mao Jie a platform, Liangzhou quickly leaped from one extreme to the other.
Leaping into the hands of Lu Qian, Liangzhou's economic situation has become a little out of control because of the lack of authority of the prefectural governor.
After getting the authorization from the central government, Lu Qian presided over the overall commercial rectification in Liangzhou, and this out-of-control situation was gradually controlled by Lu Qian.
Lu Qian first suspended the loan disbursement, rejected all applications, and then froze all the funds that had been applied but had not yet been disbursed in time, and stopped disbursement.
Then he forcefully demanded that the county guards and county magistrates in various places follow the requirements issued by him to forcibly close many shops within the imperial court standards.
The governor of Liangzhou is still a lame position, but Lu Qian has the special position of "Liangzhou Emergency Response Envoy" on his body, mastering all the administrative power of Liangzhou, and showing off his glory.
All officials in the local central government obeyed Lu Qian's command. If anyone did not obey, Lu Qian could be dismissed first and then reported to the police. He could also temporarily mobilize all the police in all counties and counties of Liangzhou.
Lu Qian suddenly became the most powerful person in Liangzhou. Once someone did not obey his orders, he would directly order that person to be dismissed from office and assign obedient people to take over.
Frightened by his power, the county guards and magistrates of various places had to bite the bullet and act according to his requirements.
In the process of handling affairs, Liangzhou officials encountered many resistance and opposition from the people. The county guards and county magistrates were frightened by the local criminal department and did not dare to force them. When Lu Qian learned that, he directly ordered the local criminal department to cooperate with the local government in handling affairs, and proposed to persuade first and then coercive approach.
I was advised twice, and those who did not obey the advice twice were directly dispatched by the police to enforce it.
Lu Qian is well aware of the chaotic economic situation in Liangzhou. If there is no strong medicine, Liangzhou's economy is likely to be destroyed by one blow, and it will directly return to the state where Liangzhou had just settled down in Yande five years ago.
Ten years of construction has been lost!