I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 631 Company
The Dutch East India Company's stock market collapsed in the second half of this year.

The West India Company declared bankruptcy, and the Netherlands suffered successive defeats in the Far East. It was first expelled from Southeast Asia by the Ming Dynasty and had to retreat to Sulawesi and the South Philippine Islands. The subsequent break between the Governor and Parliament further affected the East India Company's stock price, and Chinese merchants continued to squeeze the Dutch spice market.

Investors lost confidence in the company and chose to sell their stocks.

The Dutch headquarters finally realized the crisis and directly dismissed the original governor. The parliament and the governor fought openly and covertly for a year or two, but still won.

There was a power struggle between the local faction of the East India Company and the local faction from the Dutch headquarters, with the local faction further gaining the upper hand.

However, the Dutch don't care so much anymore. The East India Company is currently frantically renovating merchant ships. They have reached an agreement with the British to cooperate and prepare to jointly launch a war against the French in India.

The British promised to give one of the French ports to the Dutch after the war. As long as they could get a French colonial port, it would give the company a little breathing space.

Otherwise, the East India Company would go bankrupt sooner or later, and the Dutch would no longer have any overseas colonies to play with.

The delivery time for Chittagong agreed between the Ming Dynasty and the British was after the beginning of next spring, and the war with the French was also scheduled for next year.

But the British couldn't wait first. Ming China, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the United Kingdom of Denmark and Norway were all pulled onto the coalition's chariot.

The French East India Company has now begun to arrange the transfer of personnel and property. Without the support of the French government, the French East India Company is simply a toy used by the king to disgust the British.

Now, even if the king's conscience finds out and he provides support to the East India Company, it is estimated that when the support arrives, the war here will be over.

The five-nation coalition, the main force of the French navy, is here, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to defeat them.

The British joined forces with the Five-Nation Alliance not just to fight against the French.

Instead, they were on guard against the Chinese emperor, the French were driven out, and India was divided between China and the British. Britain knew that its strength was insufficient and it would definitely not be able to defeat the Chinese emperor, so it naturally had to recruit some allies to protect its bottom line.

Moreover, the British also needed these allies to help them attack the Mughal Empire and the Maratha Indians in South India, and rob and carve up the colonies here.

They are all smart people!

Bringing a shit-stirring stick doesn't really only stir shit.

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Nanjing.

Time flies by and it’s the end of the year and winter.

The weather turned cold quickly, and citizens bought coal and made fires to keep warm.

In the homes of wealthy families, more expensive charcoal is still commonly used.

Although coal has become cheaper and cheaper nowadays, it is precisely because it is cheap that it does not show off its identity. Moreover, even if it is anthracite coal, if it is lit in a room for a long time, there is a danger of carbon poisoning.

The imperial court, through newspapers, would tell the people every year when autumn and winter came, that people should be heated with coal and must be ventilated to prevent carbon poisoning, but there would still be accidents every year.

The reason is that the progress of natural science is too slow and the people do not understand it. Nanjing is already relatively well-educated. There are generally relatively high levels of education. There are not many cases of carbon poisoning caused by heating in winter, and those poisoned can often be treated.

In the Forbidden City, Zhu Yijiong, wrapped in fur, was reviewing memorials in Jinshen Hall.

In fact, it should be warmer and more comfortable in the harem, and there are concubines and maidens waiting on you. But Zhu Yijiong still knew how to be principled. The harem was just a political appendage of the imperial power, and they would certainly not be given any opportunity to come into contact with the politics of the outer court.

No matter how comfortable the harem is, you can't really work and approve memorials in the harem, so the Manchu and Qing Tatars are messing around, and the Qianqing Palace (Bedroom) can be used as an office.

After approving a few letters, I saw a memorial submitted by the cabinet regarding Nanjing coal quotation. Compared with previous years, the price fluctuation has been somewhat obvious, and the overall increase is still within the acceptable range of the people.

This is because the imperial court promptly raised interest rates along the coast to attract people to deposit silver into bank accounts, and also absorbed private silver at the rate of silver yuan.

However, this still made Zhu Yijiong vigilant. He thought about it briefly and wrote down the instructions: "Read it. Always pay attention to the market price of coal, as well as things related to people's lives such as rice, cloth, salt, etc., and they need to be regulated by the government when necessary. "

Nanjing is backed by the Yangtze River and is the capital of the Ming Dynasty. It has direct access to Shanghai, so it is natural that it will be the first to be hit by the aftermath of coastal prices.

We can only deal with this situation forcefully, and we must insist on absorbing private silver deposits along the coast, and then purchase grain overseas and transfer silver to places such as northwest Shaanxi and Gansu. It further strengthened the circulation of gold and silver currency and indirectly transferred China's inflation to overseas vassals, thereby buffering the impact.

This winter, more and more people in Nanjing are scolding those who are dishonest and unscrupulous. Some workers in spinning workshops also started to stir up trouble, clamoring for their bosses to increase their wages. Naturally, those businessmen and bosses were unwilling, so the two sides argued endlessly about it. In the end, the lawsuit was brought directly to the Yin Yamen of Yingtian Mansion.

When it comes to the spinning industry, the country has no relevant laws, and officials are afraid of making bad decisions. It not only affected the spinning industry of the country, but also left a bad impression on the emperor as being unkind to the people. It also easily left a bad reputation among the people for collusion between government and businessmen.

The lawsuit was dragged on, but the emperor was still alarmed.

After repeated discussions with the cabinet, the law was finally revised and added. In the future, merchants must register with the government to open workshops, instead of the original simple filing, and a company must be formally established.

The word company was not coined by Emperor Zhu, but by the cabinet.

From Confucius's "Datong Liici Zhuan": "Gongzhe means the wealth of several people, and Secretary means operation."

And Zhuangzi also said: "Accumulating shortcomings and making them high, combining small things to make big things, merging them to make things public, this is called a 'company'."

After establishing a company, you must abide by the corresponding laws of the country and set wages for workers. Not only must you sign a formal labor employment contract, but it also involves all aspects such as salary increases, benefits, vacations, and working hours.

This new law was led by the emperor and the cabinet, and then jointly compiled and revised by various ministries, and finally jointly published by the Propaganda Department.

The city of Nanjing was the first to bear the brunt, and businessmen who got the news rushed to understand the contents of the new law.

After some understanding, the businessmen were quite dissatisfied that the new law was so biased towards the working people. On the other hand, I felt that the dynasty had laid down laws, so that in the future, it would not be so troublesome to open workshops and factories, and we would have to send money to officials at all levels.

From now on, there are laws to follow and there are fewer gray areas, which also makes it easier for businessmen to further expand production.

The workers here in Nanjing were "arguing for a salary increase". Yin Gaodeng of the Shuntian Prefecture of Beizhili impeached the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Army in Beizhili and determined that Yang Gong, the Duke of the country, was dictatorial and domineering.

Although Northern Zhili is no longer the capital of the Ming Dynasty, Shuntian Prefecture is still there, and as the headquarters of the Northern Chinese Army Governor's Office, if it wants to dominate Northern Xinjiang, its political status must not be lowered, but must be raised.

Like Chen Hongmou and Liu Tongxun, although Gao Dengju was only third in rank, he was the first subject to study and was a disciple of the emperor.

Moreover, his personal ability was not bad, he could keep up with the emperor's political actions, and his official career would not be smooth sailing, but it would be smooth sailing.

Chen Hongmou and Liu Tongxun were serving as the governors of Liaoning, and he was also serving as the governor of Shuntian, with only one rank difference in official rank.

With such a background, it is not nonsense for Gao Deng to impeach Yang Gong for being authoritarian and domineering.

According to the memorial, the military rations delivered from Nanjing were directly taken over by the army of the Chinese Army Dudufu without going through him, the Shuntian Prefecture. Moreover, the Mobei Grassland Military Information and the Monan Dusi also repeatedly bypassed Beizhili. The civil service system is directly responsible to the Chinese Military Governor's Office.

In addition to not intervening in the civil affairs of the Beizhili Yamen, as well as the Hebei bureaucracy, the Chinese Military Governor's Office was indeed somewhat authoritarian and domineering. It can also be said that it did not allow the civilian system to have any chance of encountering military power.

The military power of the Dudu Mansion was not in the hands of civilian officials. This was decreed by the emperor. Therefore, Gao Dengju's impeachment mainly focused on the food delivered from the south, as well as the detailed military affairs between the Monan Dusi and Mobei.

Zhu Yijiong only glanced at it a few times and instantly understood that this was his Governor Yang, who was deliberately trying to give him, the emperor, a loophole!
It is false to be authoritarian and domineering, but it is true to leave behind excuses and prepare for retreating to the second line in the future.

If he was really domineering, Gao Deng would not have the guts to file an impeachment petition. The whole of Beizhili would probably become the mouthpiece of the Governor's Office.

Gao Dengju's impeachment was also not simple, it was more like a test of the civil service system. Yang Gong threw a bone out. The civil servants were eager for military power. Even if they knew that the bone was wrong, they would bite it twice.

Civil and military competition, even holding each other back, is the norm.

If there was harmony between civil and military affairs, that would be a big problem for the emperor and the country.

Zhu Yijiong thought for a while and wrote Zhu Biao: "Read it. When the Central Military Governor's Office delivers military rations, it should notify the Beizhili government office to register and register them in accordance with the regulations, and it is no longer allowed to receive them on its own. The military situation in Mobei is related to important military matters, and the Yin of Shuntian Prefecture We should pay more attention to people’s livelihood.”

A reply struck both sides.

Regarding Yang Gong's exposure, Zhu Yijiong neither recognized nor reprimanded him. As for the impeachment of Sunchon Fuyin, the attitude is also ambiguous.

As the days passed, it finally snowed in Nanjing.

Torgut's envoy took an official ship and arrived in Nanjing along the Grand Canal.

(End of this chapter)