Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 167 Infringement
After the turmoil of the run, people's credit to the Royal Bank not only did not decrease but increased sharply, especially when the tax collection was approaching and when the big businessmen wanted to do business with the Royal Bank, because the imperial court only recognized silver dollars, they were forced to These people had to come and exchange silver dollars.

However, Zhu Youxiao has made the Royal Bank to clearly establish the rules. Half a year ago, the exchange was exempted from all procedures, but now the exchange has to charge a handling fee.

Of course, in order to take care of the people and prevent the people from having to pay extra handling fees to increase the burden when exchanging silver dollars for tax payment, Zhu Youxiao asked the Ministry of Accounts to write a document, and the Royal Bank issued a notice that the exchange amount in the future will be below [-] silver dollars and ten dollars. Those above [-] will be exempted from the handling fee.

The former is naturally for the convenience of the people to exchange silver for tax without causing them to suffer losses, while the latter is to promote the exchange of more silver dollars by large households.

However, Zhu Youxiao's move has really brought benefits to the common people.

Moreover, once the newspapers and magazines publicized it, it was said that His Majesty is not only not competing for benefits with the people, but giving benefits to the people.

Some of the ministers who are sensible even wrote articles to praise this matter, but some bureaucrats and tycoons who also have large industries at home are very complaining. A large amount of more than [-] yuan, otherwise a large amount of money would have to be paid back, which forced them to accept silver dollars.

In fact, what everyone doesn't know is that Zhu Youxiao was at the beginning giving benefits to the people, but now he is fighting for benefits with the people.

In order to make the silver dollar, the new currency of China, be put into the market smoothly, Zhu Youxiao only wanted to earn some quality difference between the silver dollar and pure silver.

But who knows, in this way, there are several miscellaneous fees for no reason, first of all, the liquidated damages for depositors who withdraw silver in advance, and secondly, the handling fee when exchanging silver dollars. In this way, Zhu Youxiao earned a lot more than expected One million taels of silver.

This is an unexpected joy after surviving the run crisis. In order to express the help of the Ministry of Household Affairs and other officials to the Royal Bank in this run crisis, Zhu Youxiao also allocated a small amount to these officials. Extra rewards were issued, and the officials also received some rewards, but although most of them thanked His Majesty Long En on the surface, they complained endlessly in their hearts, because these were the money spit out of their mouths.

Rich and powerful officials don't care about these extra rewards, but for some poorer lower-level Beijing officials, it is a real benefit, and some officials even lament that they don't have to rely on pawns for the next month.

Even some officials who wrote articles in the newspapers to support Zhu Youxiao’s reforms or support the reform of the currency and the opening of banks received a bonus almost equivalent to half a year’s salary. Always follow His Majesty's path, His Majesty will definitely benefit you.

With the implementation of a series of measures to encourage the use of new currencies, silver dollars began to gradually circulate in the market, and currencies such as gold and silver on the market began to be recovered, and even treasure notes were recovered, and the financial order began to enter the right track. The scale of the Royal Bank has also begun to expand, and the reserve silver has exceeded [-] million, even more than the current Taicang.

At the same time, the Royal Bank began to lend and encouraged merchants to borrow.

Because it is the royal brand, many businessmen who do big business come to the Royal Bank to borrow money. In this way, Zhu Youxiao has another income.

On the side of Royal Industries, as the silver mirrors or glass monopolized by Royal Industries are so popular, some jealous businessmen have also begun to imitate Royal Industries, and plate the words "Royal Monopoly" on some of the more exquisite products. and the exclusive trademark of the Royal Industries Company, but completely ignored the latest notice issued by the Ministry of Revenue in late April of the eighth year of the Apocalypse,

The content of the notice is: From now on, new companies or workshops can register their exclusive trademarks in the households of the Ministry of Households or the government office of the state government. Once the registration is successful, they will be protected by the government. Anyone who dares to steal will be severely punished.

Shangbao Sicheng Liu Ming, relying on his background with several bigwigs in the court, did not take the notice from the Ministry of Households seriously, so he used the trademark of the Royal Industries Company for sale without any scruples, and even Deliberately lowering the price by half, some people who like to use the exclusive products of the Royal Industries Company to set off their status but don't have much money will come to him to buy them.

In this way, Liu Ming also made a lot of money, much more than those merchants who sold directly without brands.

But not long after, an official from the household department came to the door, saying that he had misappropriated the trademark of the royal industry company, and asked him to stop the infringement immediately.

This Liu Ming didn't take it seriously, he said that his father used to be the secretary of the household department, and now the household department official was single-handedly picked up by his father back then, and the head of the household department had no choice but to leave in despair.

As a result, Liu Ming became more and more proud, and even directly began to imitate the high-end products monopolized by the Royal Industries Company.

Gong Yonggu, the general manager of the Royal Industrial Company, who is the captain-in-law, couldn't stand it anymore, so he went to argue with Shang Bao Si Cheng in person, but Shang Bao Si Cheng Liu Ming ignored it.

In the end, Gong Yonggu went to find Wang Guo from Shuntian Mansion. Wang Guo had a close personal relationship with Liu Ming's father, and he didn't take it seriously. After all, in his opinion, people just used the title of "Royal Monopoly" and didn't really use the things used by the Queen, so it wasn't a big crime.

Seeing this, Gong Yonggu, the captain-in-law, had no choice but to ask His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youxiao directly. As the person in charge of the Royal Industrial Company, he really felt the loss that Liu Ming's move had brought to the Royal Industrial Company. He didn't believe it. The emperor doesn't care about it.

As he expected, Zhu Youxiao was furious when he heard about this incident. This registered trademark is a big business that can make money. A trademark registered by the Ministry of Households means that it is protected by the government. How can it not be taken seriously? In this way, how can some businessmen spend money to register trademarks in the future.

Zhu Youxiao called Guo Yunhou, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and Wang Guo, Yin Wangguo of Shuntian Prefecture, into the palace and scolded them severely.

Although Guo Yunhou didn't understand why His Majesty Zhu Youxiao was furious because of this incident, he would also blame him, directly explaining that the Ministry of Accounting had already warned Liu Ming, and Concubine Gong, who held the title of the right servant of the Ministry of Accounting, even personally took note of it Therefore, Liu Ming was allowed to steal the trademark of the Royal Industrial Company until now only because of the inaction of Yin Wangguo of Shuntian Prefecture, and has nothing to do with the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Hearing this, Wang Guo cried out that he was wronged, and he didn't expect this matter to be so valued by His Majesty.

Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao only gave him a reprimand, and only fined him half a year's salary as a punishment, and asked him to deal with the matter immediately. If there is any protection, Shuntian Mansion doesn't have to stay, and goes directly to Jinyiwei's imperial prison sitting.

When Wang Guo heard this, he couldn't be frightened, and quickly promised that this time the case of trademark misappropriation would be strictly dealt with.

That night, Yin Wangguo of Shuntian Mansion sent a note overnight to the censor of Xuncheng, planning to directly use the people from the Wucheng Army and Horse Division to attack Liu Ming, thus unveiling the prelude to the handling of the first trademark infringement case in Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)