Chapter 1194 Fundraising
The support of the two is very strong.
These are silver coins, not copper coins.
Both of them also went back to help Zhang Yu with work, and it would not be in vain.
Didn't Mi Zhu help Zhang Yu, and then Zhang Yu went to Xuzhou Mi's house to live for a few days.
Although I only lived for a few days, the benefits are very great, which is an intangible reward.
When the two returned, they had many connections in the capital, so it was very easy to spread the news.
At the same time, Zhang Yu's court also immediately sent letters to the government along the way.
In particular, someone specially assigned to take a dozen fast horses to the south immediately.
Jiangdong and Xuzhou are important places, and the news must be delivered.
Now Zhang Yu's "corvement" is very heavy.
All prisoners, regardless of gender, as long as they are able to work, are not kept in prison, but go directly to the construction site.
A large number of roads need to be repaired, and some cities need to be built. Now that the canal is being opened, hundreds of thousands of people are needed.
It can be said that there are probably nearly 10 million people working on construction sites in China.
Even if a person pays one silver coin a month, that is ten million.
In addition to the consumption of food and materials, if there are no hundreds of millions of silver coins in a month, it is impossible to get them out.
Zhang Yu has almost used up the large amount of wealth he captured from the various princes.
Now rely on selling some land to maintain this large amount of consumption.
For the Ying Empire, Zhang Yu couldn't afford the 30 million extra budget now, so he could only rely on the power of the people.
The spread of the news mainly aroused the ideas of major businessmen.
Zhang Yu directly issued bonds, but many people were willing to subscribe.
This is also an investment, and at the same time allows the canal to open as soon as possible.
If it really takes ten years, they can't wait.
additional funds,
The canal could be opened at least five years in advance.
Now these businessmen also understand that Zhang Yu has no money.
The disk is too big, although the income is a lot, but the use is also a lot.
Some businessmen began to mobilize.
"I didn't say anything, the pledge is voluntary, but everyone here must buy this bond, the minimum must be 1,000 silver coins."
In Xuzhou, more than 30 businessmen were gathered together, and one of the big businessmen proposed to say.
Everyone didn't feel that there was anything wrong. The canal passed by them, which was of great benefit to them.
"My Huang family pledged to donate 500 silver coins, and at the same time subscribed for bonds of 5,000 silver coins."
"My Li family invested a large amount of money last month. They subscribed for 3,000 silver coins and donated 500 shi of grain at the same time."
"My Liu family, subscribe for 10,000."
More than 30 merchants expressed their opinions one after another, and there were more than 200,000 silver coins in total.
They are just ordinary businessmen, not big businessmen.
More than 30 people expressed their opinions. These people all know the basics, and probably know the situation of each family.
After a round of pledges, it is also very good to be able to collect more than 200,000 yuan.
The news spread slowly, and in the capital, more than one million subscriptions had already been made.
There are many big businessmen in the capital, some are waiting and watching, and some have already made a move.
This time the amount is too large, it is silver coins not copper coins, thirty million is not a small amount.
But more merchants joined in.
In Xuzhou, a large number of businessmen also gathered together. After Mi Zhu knew what the Zhen family and the Qiao family were doing, he directly subscribed for one million, and then donated another two hundred thousand.
Xuzhou businessmen are also very active.
Then there are some businessmen related to shipyards who are also more active.
The shipyard is basically monopolized by Zhang Yu, but Zhang Yu does not do any supporting industries.
For example, processing wood, and some lacquers and glues, etc., Zhang Yu purchases them through.
At the same time, Zhang Yu began to hand over most of the small boats to private capital.
Zhang Yu specializes in the research and manufacture of large ships. These are large ships that can go out to sea.
For small boats, although they can make money, there is little progress in technology.
Zhang Yu asked his craftsmen to concentrate on the research and production of large ships, and to continuously improve the craftsmanship.
But this time Zhang Yu wanted to open the canal, and a lot of ships were needed to travel between the north and the south.
The inland rivers are all small boats, which are in great demand, and they will have great benefits, so they are also willing to promote the development of the canal.
This canal will damage large shipyards to a certain extent, and at the same time affect shipping to a certain extent.
However, all large ships are in the hands of Zhang Yu, so they have little influence on the people.
Those who go by sea can also take the lower-cost inland river.
Merchants in Jiangdong are even more excited. The sea route is also very seasonal. In winter, it will take a lot of trouble to transport the goods to the north.
Therefore, based on this calculation, they are more willing to transport goods directly through inland rivers to the north.
In this way, many merchants along the road began to subscribe.
Zhang Yu only asked for 30 million, but he let the bank not refuse anyone who came, as much as he could have at that time.
If it is less than 30 million, then Zhang Yu will recruit fewer people, if there are more, then recruit more people.
Anyway, Zhang Yu had to borrow money or use other methods to fix it, but this time the businessman is willing to contribute, so there is no reason for Zhang Yu not to take advantage of it.
Many merchants along the entire Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal actively subscribed, fearing that Zhang Yu would not be able to raise so much money.
There are very few pledges, after all, they are donated for nothing.
However, a donation of one or two hundred silver coins per person adds up to a lot.
A large amount of money was sent to the bank, and the bank didn't have to transport the money to the capital, it just allocated the money to the construction site when the time came.
Zhang Yu is busy building the Grand Canal.
Shuchuan and Ma Teng are very happy to receive a lot of negative news about Zhang Yu recently.
In Shuchuan, Pang Tong has been collecting information on Zhang Yu, and has sent many spies all over the place.
Is this Zhang Yu going to abolish his martial arts? Give up this great situation?
"Rebellions" continued in various places, and there were many troublemakers.
Zhang Yu's "excessive taxation" broke out in many places, and I don't know how many corvees were conscripted.
According to Pang Tong's statistics alone, there are as many as 20 million corvee workers across the country.
This is a very large force, affecting countless families.
"Zhang Yu is indeed very happy. When your people's grievances boil, I will send people to light fires everywhere. When the time comes again, the great empire will collapse in an instant." Pang Tong said.
Pang Tong's data is actually very watery.
Since the spies from all parties have not been able to obtain valuable information for a long time, they falsely report these in exchange for credit.
Therefore, this made the information Pang Tong received very false.
Pang Tong naturally also considered this situation, so he carefully analyzed that a piece of news may come from different channels.
These news are summed up, some of which are too different are removed, and some of which are similar are very credible.
Now, he has received news that there are more than a dozen "rebellions" in one day. Although the scale is small, if it goes on like this for a long time, it will definitely turn into a greater danger.
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