Chapter 165 Infringement
After the bank run, the creditworthiness of the Royal Bank not only did not decrease but increased sharply, especially when the tax was imposed and when major merchants were going to do business with the Royal Bank, the imperial court only recognized silver dollars, so these people had to exchange silver dollars.
However, Zhu Youxiao has asked Royal Bank to clearly determine that there are rules. All procedures were exempted from redemption half a year ago, but now the redemption has to be charged a handling fee.
Of course, in order to take care of the people and not allow the people to exchange silver dollars for taxes, they have to pay additional fees to increase the burden. Zhu Youxiao asked the Ministry of Revenue to write a document and the Royal Bank issued a notice. In the future, if the exchange amount is less than 100 silver dollars and more than 100,000 yuan, the handling fees will be exempted.
The former is naturally to facilitate people to pay taxes when exchanging silver and paying taxes, while the latter is to promote the large number of investors to exchange more silver dollars.
However, Zhu Youxiao's move has really made the people taste the benefits.
Moreover, once newspapers and magazines were promoted, it was said that Your Majesty is not only not competing for profit with the people, but instead giving benefits to the people.
Some sensible ministers also wrote articles to praise this matter. However, some bureaucrats and tycoons with large industries at home were very resentful. If they wanted to do business with the royal family, they had to exchange silver dollars, and exchanged them with a large amount of more than 100,000 yuan, otherwise they would have to pay a large sum of money, which forced them to accept silver dollars.
In fact, what everyone didn't know was that Zhu Youxiao was concessioning with the people at first, but now he was competing with the people for profit.
In order to make the new currency silver dollars successfully put into the market, Zhu Youchao only wanted to earn the texture difference between the silver dollars and sterling silver.
But who knew that in this way, the income from several miscellaneous expenses was vain. First, the depositors withdraw the liquidated damages for the silver in advance, followed by the handling fees when exchanged for silver dollars. In this way, Zhu Youxiao earned millions of taels of silver more than expected.
This was an unexpected surprise after this bank run. In order to show his help to the Ministry of Revenue and other officials to the Royal Bank during this bank run, Zhu Youxiao also allocated a small part to give these officials additional rewards, and all the officials also received some rewards. However, although most of them were grateful to His Majesty Long's heart, they complained in their hearts because these were the silver spit out of their mouths.
Rich and powerful officials do not care about these additional rewards, but for some poor lower-level officials, there are real benefits. Some officials even lament that they finally don’t have to rely on pawnshops to spend next month.
Even some officials who wrote articles in newspapers to support Zhu Youjiao in implementing reforms or supporting the benefits of reforming currency and opening banks have received bonuses that are almost equivalent to their half-year salary. This has made some smart officials understand that following His Majesty's path at all times, His Majesty will definitely give you benefits.
With the implementation of a series of measures to encourage the use of new currencies, silver dollars have gradually begun to circulate in the market, and the gold, silver and other currencies on the market have also begun to be recycled, and even the Baochao has been recycled, the financial order has begun to go on track, and the scale of Royal Bank has also begun to expand, and the reserve silver has exceeded 10 million, even more than the current Taicang.
At the same time, Royal Bank also began to lend and encourage merchants to borrow.
Since it is a royal brand, many big-scale businessmen come to the Royal Bank to borrow money, so Zhu Youxiao has another income.
With the silver mirrors or glass sold by Royal Industries so popular, some jealous merchants began to follow the appearance of Royal Industries, and also had the words "Royal Monopoly" and the special trademark of Royal Industries, but they ignored it. The Ministry of Revenue issued the latest notice in late April of the eighth year of the Apocalypse.
The notice is: From now on, new companies or workshops can register exclusive trademarks in households in the Ministry of Revenue or the state government office. Once the registration is successful, it will be protected by the government. If anyone dares to steal the application, severe punishment will be imposed.
Relying on his relationship with several bigwigs in the court, Liu Ming, the chief of Shangbao, did not take the notice from the Ministry of Revenue seriously, he used the trademark of the Royal Industrial Company to sell it without any scruples, and even deliberately lowered the price by half. Some people who liked to use Royal Industrial Company's exclusive products to highlight their identities but did not have much money came to him to buy it.
In this way, Liu Ming made a lot of money, which was much more profitable than those merchants who sold directly without a brand.
But not long after, an official from the Ministry of Revenue came to the door and said that he had stolen the trademark of the Royal Industrial Company and asked him to stop the infringement immediately.
Liu Ming didn't take it seriously, saying that his father was once the Minister of Revenue and the current Minister of Revenue was still the one who promoted his father to the first hand. Then the head of the Ministry of Revenue had to leave in shame.
Liu Ming became more and more proud of this, and even began to imitate high-end products sold by Royal Industries.
The general manager of the Royal Industrial Company, the son-in-law Gong Yonggu, could not bear it anymore, so he went to argue with Shang Bao Sicheng himself, but Shang Bao Sicheng Liu Ming ignored it.
Finally, Gong Yonggu went to find Wang Guo from Shuntian Prefecture. Wang Guo had a close relationship with Liu Ming's father and did not take this seriously. He just persuaded the prince-in-law Gong Yonggu to turn things into small matters and small matters, so there was no need to be petty about it. After all, in his opinion, he just used the name of "royal monopoly" and did not really use the imperial object, which was not considered a serious crime.
Seeing this, the son-in-law Gong Yonggu had to go directly to see the Emperor Zhu Youxiao. As the head of the Royal Industrial Company, he truly realized the losses caused to the Royal Industrial Company by Liu Ming's move. He did not believe that the emperor ignored the matter.
As he expected, Zhu Youxiao was furious after hearing about this incident. This registered trademark was a big deal that could make money. The trademark registered through the Ministry of Revenue represents that it is protected by the government. How can it not be taken seriously? In this way, how can some merchants spend money to register trademarks in the future?
Zhu Youxiao called Guo Yunhou, the Minister of Revenue, and Wang Guo, the Prime Minister of Shuntian, to enter the palace and scolded him fiercely.
Although Guo Yunhou did not understand why His Majesty Zhu Youxiao was furious about it, he would also blame him and directly explained that the Ministry of Revenue had warned Liu Ming, and Gong Ma, who had the title of Right Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, also personally told Shuntian Prefecture Wang Guo. Therefore, Liu Ming was asked to steal the trademark of the Royal Industrial Company until now because of Shuntian Prefecture Wang Guo's inaction, and it had nothing to do with the Ministry of Revenue.
Wang Guo heard this and cried out for being wronged. He did not expect that this matter would be valued so much by His Majesty.
Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao only scolded him and only fined him half a year's salary to show punishment, and asked him to do this matter immediately. If there was any shelter, Shuntian Mansion would not have to stay there and just sit in the imperial prison of the Jinyiwei.
When Wang Guo heard this, he was so scared that he quickly promised that this case of trademark theft would be strictly dealt with.
Chapter completed!