AWB Chapter 377 The hidden heart of the powerful official!
Chapter 377 The hidden heart of the powerful official!
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**You asked the point. After all, he is an old man in the court and has more experience.
Gu Jingzhi smiled and said, "Whether to mint coins depends on the decision of the court. No one can make a decision privately, including His Majesty the Emperor!"
"Whether the imperial court's decision to mint coins can be achieved depends entirely on the gold and silver reserves. Without gold and silver to back it up, the decision to mint coins will not be passed! This order has been approved by Your Majesty and will be written into the royal ancestral precepts and the laws of Daxia!"
"In addition, the imperial court will also establish an economics course in the future, focusing on currency, and include it in the compulsory examination items!"
"what?"
After hearing this, the officials looked at Gu Jingzhi in surprise.
Even the emperor’s decree is not enough?
Brother, are you really that arrogant? That's the emperor's order!
Even currency will be included in the imperial examination? This is the first time in history...
Gu Jingzhi looked at the stunned expressions of the crowd and simply smiled. Their surprise was within his expectations. However, this was also normal. Under the premise of feudal imperial autocracy, Gu Jingzhi's proposal of this concept really subverted their cognition.
In fact, under the premise of feudal autocracy, Gu Jingzhi actually felt that the so-called ancestral teachings and laws... did not have much credibility!
Even a powerful emperor like the Hongwu Emperor had his ancestral precepts broken! Even a mere eunuch dared to destroy the iron laws set by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Therefore, the so-called ancestral teachings and laws are just an additional restriction on the emperor. The only way to truly solve this problem from the root is to gradually popularize knowledge about currency in economics.
Only by understanding can we truly be respectful when making decisions.
Although it is still not safe, nothing is 100% perfect. All Gu Jingzhi can do is to take precautions to the greatest extent possible!
Of course, this wasn't the only thing he was talking about. He smiled and said, "When I was formulating the currency law, I also emphasized the role of the Royal Bank!"
"The Royal Bank's original main responsibilities were to regulate currency issuance and supervision, and then to manage local banks!"
"The so-called regulation of currency issuance has two main points. The first is the release of currency into the market. We need to follow market rules before deciding to release new currency into the market!"
"Also, if the imperial court mistakenly decides to mint currency, banks can, based on legal provisions and risk control measures, refuse to accept the currency into their warehouses in writing!"
"..."
Everyone's mouth twitched when they heard this.
Is this still the government office under the rule of Daxia? This is simply a big boss!
However, they were too lazy to contradict Gu Jingzhi on something that even His Majesty the Emperor had agreed to. After all, the Emperor was willing to recognize this gentleman, so why should they rush to cause trouble?
However, after this incident, they finally understood the favor that Emperor Xia showed to Gu Jingzhi!
What was Emperor Xia’s purpose in suppressing the aristocratic families one after another?
Wasn't it because the existence of the aristocratic families seriously hindered the imperial power? The laws formulated by Gu Jingzhi even restricted the emperor, which also interfered with the monarch's centralization of power. However, Emperor Xia agreed!
If this isn’t honor and favor, what is?
How would they actually know?
Although the law hindered the imperial power, it was dedicated to the public good! The aristocratic families hindered the implementation of the imperial power, but only for their own interests. The two are fundamentally different.
Height determines thinking, butt determines the head...there is nothing wrong with this statement.
Although Emperor Xia was only a feudal autocratic ruler, this pattern still existed.
After Gu Jingzhi answered **'s questions, seeing that no one had any more questions, he gave Gu Yunzhi a look, and Gu Yunzhi immediately said, "My Lords, since the court has handed over the currency issuance to the Great Xia Royal Bank, then the Great Xia Royal Bank's main focus will be on..."
Gu Yunzhi recounted what Gu Jingzhi and his wife had discussed in the carriage. This was something Chen Yu and she had discussed when they were in Ningzhou. After getting Gu Jingzhi's approval, she simply modified the plan and put it into use.
The Bank's management of local banks was similar to that of the Ministry of Revenue, adopting a regional responsibility system and also divided by province. However, the establishment of local banks was all done through the Royal Bank holding... and local tyrants investing in the local area!
Those who can hold shares at the moment are naturally the powerful people who are close to the new policy, most of whom are big businessmen.
Gu Jingzhi thought this through very thoroughly. No matter who said in front of him that businessmen were only interested in profit, it was useless. People were the first to follow you to start a business, so you can't not even give them some benefits, right?
To improve the status of merchants, the bank is only the first step. Once the bank has achieved initial results in all aspects, he can gradually raise the status of merchants.
Of course, this plan can only be implemented if he can further gain greater power!
He was not worried about this at all.
He is only twenty-four years old now. In the officialdom, he has more potential than anyone else. Not to mention what will happen after the prince succeeds to the throne, even if the prince fails in the struggle for imperial power, Gu Jingzhi can still stand in the court with his achievements.
As to whether he would be suppressed in the future, there was no doubt about that, but as long as he survived the promotion of hybrid rice and books, he would be truly invincible.
Hybrid rice will bring him endless prestige. As long as the yield of hybrid rice can be verified, the emperor will have to consider the consequences if he wants to kill him.
As for book placement...
Although he was using the name of the imperial court, as the inventor, he should have gained some benefits, right?
What's more, his plan is not limited to this!
When he first came up with the idea of promoting economics, because business is the most important part of the economy, in order to reduce the resistance of the times, he transferred Wang Yangming's hard work!
As a great figure who was canonized as a saint after Confucius and Mencius, there is no need to question the power of Wang Yangming's philosophy in this era...
Even if a new doctrine emerges, it will be accompanied by many suspicions. People who can write books and establish their own school of thought without deviating from the teachings of Confucius and Mencius will still be respected by the times.
With the blessing of hybrid rice and Yangming's philosophy of mind, he not only has the most powerful amulet of this era, but can also promote economics smoothly!
Of course, there are also disadvantages!
With so much fame, he would inevitably be feared by the emperor in the officialdom, but according to Gu Jingzhi's idea, this would probably take some years.
But Emperor Xia could never have imagined that he thought he sent Gu Jingzhi to Ningzhou to protect his son, but Gu Jingzhi used these two years to plan so many things!
As a modern soul with the heart of a powerful official and a vision that transcends the times, how could he put himself under a dangerous wall?
After years of planning, Da Xia today really cannot do without him, unless Emperor Xia gives up the current good situation and lets Da Xia return to the previous situation of sharing the world with the aristocratic families.
This is obviously impossible!
Not only is it impossible, but even if Emperor Xia or the future crown prince ascends the throne, they will have to continuously elevate his power. By that time, he will be fully capable of competing with the imperial power.