But soon...
They vented their anger on the gentry and merchants who were unwilling to cooperate.
In their view, it was the non-cooperation of these people that caused their own interests to be damaged.
In retaliation, they launched a commercial war against the uncooperative gentry merchants.
The fights between businessmen are always so plain and simple.
They smashed the other party's signboard at night, urinated and defecated in front of the other party's shop, and poured swill, hired thugs to cause trouble, poured boiling water into the other party's money tree, and hired people to make trouble to protect their rights when the other party's business was booming...
Business in Shaanxi is in chaos.
As the situation escalated, Lu Daqi could no longer stand it.
He and Cao Huachun gathered all the prominent gentry and businessmen together to discuss countermeasures.
After some discussion, the Shaanxi gentry and merchants were given two options.
1. Continue the internal fighting, it’s a life-and-death battle!
Second, cooperating with the court early on can not only preserve life and property safety, but also obtain rebates from the court.
Everyone instinctively seeks benefits and avoids harm.
In addition, some gentry and merchants had already taken the lead in the exchange, so the rest of the people compromised and took out the silver in their homes and exchanged it for Ming Yuanbao.
At the end of April in the 22nd year of Chongzhen, Lu Daqi wrote down the progress of Shaanxi's currency reform in an official document and sent it to the capital.
"Your Majesty, Lu Daqi said in the official document that more than 90% of the gentry and merchants in Shaanxi have expressed their willingness to exchange their silver for Ming Yuanbao! However, due to the slow coin minting speed, it will take about a year to exchange all of them."
Inside the Qianqing Palace in the capital, Wang Chengen excitedly read the official document.
"Well," Chongzhen did not show much joy, but stared at the map in front of him and asked, "According to the plan, will Li Xingzhong and Liu Zhaoji send troops to conquer the Western Tumed tribe today?"
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