After hearing this, Li Dingguo thought it was reasonable, but he still asked, "What if Zheng Sen finds out and refuses to accept new recruits in the military academy... how can he deal with it?"

Xia Wanchun smiled and said, "Why do you need to deal with it? Zheng Sen is a minister, and the supply of the Eastern Expedition army is in our hands. Let me ask, will he dare not accept it?"

Li Dingguo looked at Wu Zheng in surprise, and then at Xia Wanchun, "It turns out... Your Majesty has already had a solution to you?"

Wu Zheng hurriedly shook his hand and denied: "The King of Jin is really wronged me... I said it in a mysterious way, but I didn't nod!"

Li Dingguo suddenly frowned again and asked, "Zheng Sen recruited the army of the Eastern Expedition, which was indeed under the control of the court... But if it was after the Eastern Expedition, or after pacifying Japan... Youdao is the mountain high and the emperor is far away, how can the court control him?"

Xia Wanchun smiled and did not respond.

Li Dingguo turned his attention to Wu Zheng.

Wu Zheng smiled and said, "First of all, before pacifying Japan, Zheng Sen needed the imperial court to provide military supplies, so he naturally did not dare to rebel... If after pacifying Japan... why should I worry about Zheng Sen's rebellion? Just let him rebel!"

Wu Zheng's words shocked everyone. There was no reason why the emperor could tolerate his ministers' rebellion and independence.

Wu Zheng swept around and then said lightly: "Born from suffering and death in peace... It may not be a blessing to have such an enemy eyeing him in the east!"

"Your Majesty's wise!"

....

Wu Zheng's strategic deployment has shown its prominence.

But the difficulties are huge.

Especially the treasury that was too empty to run away from rats became the most troublesome problem for the imperial court.

There is a saying that when a cannon fires, there will be ten thousand taels of gold. This is not to get ten thousand taels of gold, but to pay ten thousand taels of gold.

Wu Zheng, who had just ascended the throne, could not be able to make such a massive amount of silver in a short time.

But Wu Zheng still thought of a way to cash in!

He sold the shares of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce in his own hands and under the name of the imperial court to the public through the Hanming Bank in various prefectures and counties, and then promoted them in the Hanming half-month talks, and named them as loyal to the emperor and patriotism.

In order to prevent wealthy families and gentry from competing, Wu Zheng set a rule that the yellow household registration book shall prevail, and each person can purchase a maximum of ten shares and register and record.

This move quickly raised tens of millions of taels of silver for the war.

But this is not the point. The point is that Wu Zheng achieved the goal of tying the interests of the largest part of the people together.

After two rebellions in Hangzhou Prefecture, Wu Zheng had already registered and registered the shares of the people in more than ten prefectures under his jurisdiction. Later, Li Haiyue "collected" the Xia sisters to call on the millions of Weaver Girls in Jiangnan to rush to buy shares of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce.

With this sale, in fact, more than 50% of the shares of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce have been scattered among the people, and the people are the largest shareholders of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce.

The shares left under the names of Wu Zheng and the imperial court were only 10%.

This is Wu Zheng’s greatest purpose. It is not as simple as hiding wealth from the people, but rather deeply binding the interests of the people with the court and the country to achieve the goal of sharing good fortune and good fortune.

As long as the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce makes money, the people can get dividends.

Jiangnan is rich, especially after Wu Zheng has vigorously developed workshops in recent years. Jiangnan hired workers, and each person's monthly salary is more than ten taels, especially Jiangnan Weaver Girl, who earn more than fifty taels a month.

The average population of a family in Jiangnan is four or five, or one household, basically owns no less than fifty shares of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce.

If the Chamber of Commerce shares rise, when they return to their highest two years ago, it will be equivalent to the value they hold has doubled several times.

The Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce has always been a recognized money-making machine in the world. It has a unique right to prohibit trade, which is a state monopoly!

Therefore, except for the period when Mo Zhinian and the foreigners joined forces, whether it is a national or a foreigner, any Chamber of Commerce shares sold in the market will be purchased regardless of the price.

The dividends of the Chamber of Commerce shares were even more exaggerated. Before the outbreak of the Northern Expedition, the dividends that could be divided into 10% of the quarter were equivalent to 40% of the dividends per year. What a huge profit?

But the Chamber of Commerce is still making a lot of money, including salt, iron, silk, tea, etc. Not to mention anything else, for example, silk, the weaving department basically dumps it to foreign companies at a price of more than 80 taels per piece. But in fact, the cost of the weaving department is less than 30 taels per piece, and the profit is more than twice.

This is the fundamental reason that supports the crazy dividend distribution of Chamber of Commerce. 40% a year, even if it doubles in a year, it will not affect the expansion of Chamber of Commerce.

But Wu Zheng knew that this crazy expansion could not be sustained because after he ascended the throne and the world was unified, the expansion speed of the chamber of commerce would slowly slow down. The reason was very simple - saturation!

That requires the opening of new land and population, and that requires the launch of war.

But after ten years of war, people are determined. No matter how high Wu Zheng's prestige is, how many times can he make arbitrary decisions?

Wu Zheng knew that it was wrong to be a military force, but he couldn't stop. At least, he couldn't stop now, because once he stopped, all the prosperity would become a mess. The war in these ten years has consumed too much national and civilian power.

Although Jiangnan was rich, the rest of the land was extremely poor. Wu Zheng could only use Jiangnan's wealth to purchase grain and other crops from various places to supplement the poor people in various places. As a result, the price of grain rose rapidly and has doubled in a year.

Wu Zheng knew very well that the chariots must not stop.

Once the consumption decreases, the workshops in Jiangnan will lose orders. Once the orders are small, the workshops will go bankrupt, workers will lose their jobs, Jiangnan will become unstable, Jiangnan will become unstable, Jiangnan will become unstable, and the world will become unstable!

The pardon of Zheng Sen and ordered Zheng Sen to go south to recruit troops to fight in the east was not because Wu Zheng could not afford to wait, but because he had to rush to destroy the Japanese in the east. Instead, only by using this method can we solve the problem of poor people in the newly attached Fujian, Guangdong and the surrounding areas without any food.

But it is obvious that the upper limit of 80,000 new recruits is far from enough!

Therefore, after selling off shares of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce, Wu Zheng quickly issued an edict - to move the capital.

Strictly speaking, this is not a real capital migration.

The new city was designated as the capital and the entire Songjiang Prefecture was included.

After this edict was issued, the effect was not very good at first.

Because no matter whether it is a domestic powerful family, wealthy businessman, or a foreign businessman, he has been fooled by Wu Zheng once.

Although the land prices in Xincheng are still high, no one is willing to take over now, and it is just a book profit.

When the imperial court once again determined Xincheng as the capital by imperial edict, everyone was watching, for fear of being deceived by Wu Zheng again.

But then, after the Emperor and Princess of the Supreme Emperor and Princess were the first to purchase 600 acres of land around the new city, Shen Bancheng, the father of Shaoxing Boss Shen Zhiyuan, contacted dozens of wealthy businessmen in Shaoxing Prefecture to join in the purchase of land. Within a few days, more than 2,000 acres of land were purchased.
Chapter completed!