I am the king of the dead

Chapter 356 Jingtai Tongbao
Yu Qian smiled without saying a word, watching His Majesty be sloppy.

According to his understanding of the imperial court, "Nothing in the world is selfish, and no one is selfish. At the beginning of life, everyone is selfish and everyone benefits. Only your majesty has the public ear." According to the theory, the king is selfless.

But he knew that it was impossible, how could a king be selfless?
Do you have to know how many bowls of rice Your Majesty wants to eat?
It is true that His Majesty has made a lot of money from his internal funds, but most of His Majesty's begging for money is spent on the Beijing camp, and in many cases, this is the basis for the stability of the court.

The army is the ballast, and His Majesty finally took control of the Beijing camp with a method that Yu Qian could not even think of, and continued to reward generously to prevent the army's military discipline from being corrupted. On the other hand, it strictly prohibited the army from engaging in financial affairs.

Many things in this world are based on seeking the best and getting the best. If His Majesty is really a saint, the world would have been in chaos long ago.

Yu Qian is a very simple and pragmatic person, which is very compatible with His Majesty.

We are all pragmatic people.

Your Majesty is already very good, if you want to just go in and out like Emperor Taizong Wen, using the money of the court to make money inside, it is too much.

There is a distance between the ideal and the reality, and the ideal and the actual state system must be clearly distinguished.

Your Majesty must have the loyalty of the army, otherwise how can he be called a king?
this is the truth.

Therefore, Yu Qian is always happy when His Majesty makes money. As long as he does not forget that the court still has a share, he never makes a sound, standing on the dry bank to watch the excitement.

"Okay, isn't it just 740 million taels of silver? Is it a lot? Is it a lot?" Lin Xiu patted the table and said, "This is the Wenhua Palace. If we want to quarrel, go to the Yantie Conference!"

Wang Hu stood up abruptly, and said angrily, "A mere 740 million taels of silver? Lin Xiu! How dare you say those two words?!"

"Did you know that during the orthodox years, every year the various prefectures changed colors, only 130 million taels of silver!"

"You don't know, you only care about yourself!"

"Mere?!"

Lin Xiu didn't care much and said, "You can't collect taxes yourself, so you have the nerve to say so!"

"Your Majesty worked hard and mobilized everyone, and even personally conscripted, why didn't you see your Shangshu come!"

Wang Hu was really stunned by these words and had nothing to say. He said angrily, "Your Majesty, the eunuch of the inner transport depot speaks so irritatingly!"

Lin Xiu's combat effectiveness is much stronger than Wang Hu's. Lin Xiu's quarrels with the foreign court are all straight to each other's heart, and they will match their expressions for fear of being too light.

That kind of three-point sarcasm, seven-point disdain and slap, made people's blood pressure drop, and they came up.

Moreover, Lin Xiu also specially wrote a "Book of Anger" about how to irritate people and make the courtiers lose their sense of proportion, so that later generations will know how to quarrel with these scholars.

Jin Lian never took part in quarrels, and Jin Lian was not too young, so if he quarreled with Lin Xiu, he might get angry.

Zhu Qiyu quickly stopped the quarrel between the two, and he asked curiously: "Didn't you fight when you were in the capital?"

Lin Xiu's eyes lit up. In terms of boxing skills, this Wang Hu is definitely no match.

Wang Hu was a literary scholar, and he sat down angrily and said, "Fisting and kicking are insulting to gentlemen."

Even Yu Qian laughed.

The Wenhua Hall is full of happy air.

Zhu Qiyu said to Wang Hu: "After this account returns to Beijing, we will slowly and carefully calculate it. Now we still have business to do."

"The resistance of Nanjing City on financial affairs is now mainly resistance to silver coins."

"They still hope that Yu Douhu, balance, talisman, and benevolence will still look like they used to be, and be firmly controlled by them. This is something I will never allow to happen."

"But the main use of silver coins is their powerful and powerful families. Do you have a good way?"

The idea of ​​the middle-aged man in the Jiawu room was to exchange his own copper coins for scattered silver taels on the market, and then use the scattered silver taels to forge gold flowers and silver.

The basis of imperial silver coins is Jinhuayin. Controlling Jinhuayin is equivalent to controlling the circulation of imperial silver coins.

This is the current dilemma.

The common people don't need silver coins with a face value of seven cents per cent, but copper coins.

This can be regarded as "be polite to common people" in financial affairs.

Common people don't need such a large denomination, one silver coin is equal to two thousand flying coins, and equal to seven hundred Yongle Tongbao.

That's why the person in the Jiawu Room said, let His Majesty try it out.

"Do you think the Daming Banknotes can be reissued?" Wang Hu raised a point and took out a few samples of banknotes.

The household department itself has a treasure banknote lifting department, with one lifting, one deputy lifting, and one history.

The Daming banknotes were completely corrupted, and the banknote lifting department gradually had only one person to lift.

But that doesn't mean they're out of power.

The struggle between imperial power and ministerial power has never stopped, and the Ministry of Households is also trying to find a way to regain the power that originally belonged to the Ministry of Households, the right to print money.

"I have summed up several shortcomings of Daming banknotes." Wang Hu said very seriously: "First of all, the banknote paper is easy to break, so the banknotes have to be replaced in a short period of time."

"Jin Shangshu asked the ambassador of the Banknote and Paper Bureau of the Ministry of Household Affairs to remake the banknotes."

"Banknote paper has been changed from grass pulp in the past to fine and soft cotton pulp, and hemp pulp is added to make it resistant to folding. It can be folded at least hundreds of times and nearly a thousand times."

"I suggest adding a cinnabar ribbon to prevent counterfeiting."

Zhu Qiyu took the banknote in his hand and rubbed it. It was indeed resistant to folding, with a cinnabar ribbon, because there was cinnabar in the pulp, which made the banknote red, and there were very clear cinnabar stripes.

Wang Hu continued: "This printing also uses gravure printing, using ink. When printing, the entire page is inked, and then the page is scraped to leave ink only on the graphic part, making it easier to argue."

"The ink is mainly made of pine smoke and colloid, which is not easy to fall off, and can be attached to the metal engraving, making it easier to print."

Zhu Qiyu stroked the surface of the board with his fingertips, and it was indeed uneven. He nodded and said, "This ink is good, and the engraving and gravure printing are also good, very good."

The overall banknote paper is still mainly embossed with ink, but in some places, engraved intaglio is added to make the banknotes more anti-counterfeiting.

Special paper, offset embossing, watermark, and ink are all the outstanding features of this precious banknote from the Ministry of Accounts.

Zhu Qiyu held it and looked at it for a long time. As far as the production process of this banknote is concerned, the Zimbabwe currency will cry.

In fact, even in later generations, there are not many countries that can print money independently.

For example, there is a banknote printing factory in England called Delaru Banknote Printing Factory, which has signed contracts with more than 140 central banks around the world. About one-third of the banknotes in the world are printed by this company.

The new version of the treasure banknotes is extremely exquisitely made, and the Ministry of Finance has put in a lot of effort.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "The new treasure banknotes of the Ministry of Households are extremely exquisitely made, in line with the purpose of minting coins that are not exquisite, which is equal to not minting coins, and they have printed banknotes that are generally of general nature and have certain anti-counterfeiting properties."

"Moreover, the most important thing is that the face value has been greatly reduced. The largest one is only twenty copper coins."

Twenty copper coins are roughly equal to one catty of pork and one penny of silver.

The military pay of the Daming Beijing Camp is only one silver coin per month, which is two thousand copper coins, and about three cents of silver per day.

Zhu Qiyu highly affirmed the work of the household department, but he sighed and said: "But it can't be used, put it away in Xing'an."

Wang Hu blinked and asked dully, "Why..."

Wang Hu went to Nanya with the expectation of the household department, just to convince His Majesty!
Silver coins have a huge denomination and can be used for maritime trade, silver distribution, salary payment, and large expenditures, but they are still somewhat inadequate for daily use.

The Ministry of Household Affairs made a lot of investigations, and finally summed up the lessons of the failure of the Daming Banknote, and took out a banknote that His Majesty nodded in praise.

But why does His Majesty refuse to use it?
Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said: "It's not that I don't want to use it, the corruption of the Ming Dynasty's banknotes is shocking."

"In the 13th year of Hongwu, the method of reversing banknotes was established. Although the banknotes are broken and soft, they are clearly marked. They are not picked, drawn, and mended. Private trade and government courses are accepted and used. If the banknotes are faint, they can be stored in the treasury. Change."

"Since the 23rd year of Hongwu, when Emperor Taizu Gao dumped banknotes and stopped in May, Daming treasure banknotes are not even wiped buttocks in the hearts of the people!"

Why did Zhu Qiyu want to kill King Qin, King Zhou, and King Jin?
Originally, the foundation of the Daming Treasure Banknotes in this era was extremely shallow, and they would be ruined if they were not careful.

Not only did their Three Princes' Mansion not maintain the foundation of the treasure banknote, but they dug up the foundation of the treasure banknote one after another.

In the 23rd year of Hongwu, the exchange of banknotes stopped, that is, the Ming Dynasty government issued less than 500 million guan banknotes, but more than 3000 million guan banknotes were running rampant.

The corruption of Daming treasure banknotes almost represented the bankruptcy of the reputation of the Ming court.

Is the new banknote good to use?easy to use.

Even to a large extent, it solves the problem that the people have no money to use now, and even if the powerful family is printing money, such a small face value is not worth the loss.

But Baochao has no basis for credibility.

Banknotes are folded into silver, and market ships are folded into silver. Banknotes are waste paper.

Yu Qian was full of emotion, His Majesty wanted to promote the precious banknotes, because His Majesty held those banknotes for a long time before he was willing to put them down.

Your Majesty is not a monarch who is difficult to understand, whether he likes it or not is written on his face.

Of course Yu Qian knew that banknotes were a giant wheel of financial affairs, and once treasured banknotes were carried out in an orderly manner, it would represent that Ming had stepped onto a new level.

Your Majesty still owes Daming 400 billion copper coins, 80 years in debt.

Printing money can pay off quickly, but His Majesty refuses to print it.

His Majesty held back.

Xing'an is full of smiles, His Majesty has memorized what Chen Yi said back then for so long, boasted to the heavens, boasted that he made a big stride, His Majesty does not care about these words on the surface, but actually cares a lot.

Wang Xi, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, sat up straight and said, "Your Majesty, I have a good plan."

"Tell me." Zhu Qiyu nodded and said.

Wang Qianju was born in a family of craftsmen at the end of the Song Dynasty. He built Beijing City with Kuai Xiang in the early years of Yongle. He was the minister of the Ministry of Industry in the Zhengtong period.

Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty did not hold the powerful weapon of the country, but gave others his own hands. Wang Zhen was in charge of power.

Yu Qian recommended Wang Qiang in the 14th year of Zhengtong, saying that he was responsible for building and repairing, mastered the five materials and models, and had a lot of insight into construction.

Zhu Qiyu appointed him, and Jingtai returned to the court as an official in the first year.

Wang Xie took out a sandalwood box, opened it and said, "Your Majesty, Wang Bingfu, director of the Baoyuan Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, Xu Siqi, general manager of Shijing Factory, Kuai Xiang, general manager of Shengzhou, and Shi Pu, minister of the Ministry of Industry, present Jingtai to His Majesty." Tongbao."

The Ministry of Industry, the end of the Six Departments.

Although the Minister of the Ministry of Industry is a Shangqing, most Jinshi disdain to go to the Ministry of Industry to be an official, so the heads of the Ministry of Industry are all craftsmen. .

The Hai Bijia Hai Rui of the Ming Dynasty was also born in Juren, and the second rank of the official Zhizheng also went to Nanjing to be the Minister of the Ministry of War, not in Beijing.

One can imagine Wang Cheng's ability.

The fact that silver coins can only provide large-value transactions and large-value expenditures has been a Nikkei issue at all financial affairs salt and iron meetings since the implementation of the imperial silver coin.

Your Majesty does not want to be usurped of power, so is the imperial court willing to let the powerful family hold the copper coins that the people must use?
The Ministry of Households wants to issue banknotes, while the Ministry of Industry wants to mint money.

"It's not copper coins, it's not flying coins, it's iron, copper and tin coins." Wang Qiang opened the sandalwood box in his hand, took out the copper coins, handed them to the crowd and said, "This is ancestral money, so it's a little bigger."

"The ancestor's money is used as a model, and the mother's money is recast. The mother's money is made into a mold and then recast to get copper coins."

"Iron is easy to rust, add tin to prevent rust, and red copper is the base color, so the money has a square and round outline."

"This is small money, not the big money of Yongle Tongbao, but after thinking about it, combined with the summary of His Majesty's financial affairs, I think that small money is what His Majesty needs."

"Is there any copper?" Zhu Qiyu picked up the ancestral coin, which also conforms to the principle that if the coin is not exquisite, it is equal to the principle of not minting it. It even has a pressed edge, which is quite outline.

Wang Qian hurriedly said, "Diantong, the Duke of Qianguo is in Yunnan, and he is loyal and loyal. I think this is not difficult."

"There is also Haitong, Mizhou Shipping Division also has Haitong merchants. Although there is still a shortage, there are still enough for now."

Zhu Qiyu nodded and asked, "How much have you prepared? How much can you produce in a year?"

Wang Qian hurriedly said: "The Shijing Factory has approved 30 billion pieces, mainly iron, and can produce about 30 billion pieces a year. Your Majesty wants more money if the ancestor's money is recast into the mother's money."

Wang Qiang was activated in the first year of Jingtai, which was in November of the third year of Jingtai.

"When can I get to Nanjing?" Zhu Qiyu smiled.

Zhu Qiyu had to see Xu Siqi every month, and knew that they were working on iron coins, but he didn't know that such a large-scale casting was possible.

Wang Qian replied immediately: "It will take more than a month to follow the canal to Nanjing."

"Very good!" Zhu Qiyu looked at Yu Qian and asked, "Yu Shaobao thinks this iron money is worth it?"

Yu Qian bowed his head and said: "I think the banknote method can also be used, and Jingtai Tongbao can also be used, it depends on how your Majesty wants to use it."

From Yu Qian's point of view, His Majesty is still a little cautious about the banknote law.

But it is a good thing for His Majesty to act steadily, and it depends on His Majesty's choice.

If you want to go faster, you can use money method, if you want to go slowly, you can use money method.

Zhu Qiyu thought about it for a long time before he said: "Financial affairs involve people's livelihood, so it's a big deal. I think we should be more cautious when it comes to people's livelihood. I can't be selfish. I'd better do the money law first."

"Focus on stabilizing people's livelihood."

Banknotes can easily be abused, which is not what Zhu Qiyu wants to see.

Financial affairs cannot be built into castles in the palace, otherwise there will be demons and ghosts usurping the power of the court and the emperor.

All the ministers bowed their heads and said in unison: "Your Majesty is wise."

Zhu Qiyu sat up straight and said in a vibrating voice: "I know the obedience of the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry, and I have worked hard to pay off my debts."

Zhu Qiyu has an unrepayable account. In 30 years, a total of 400 million silver coins will be issued, which is 80 billion copper coins, which is a debt owed in [-] years.

This is a trade-off and a fight, Chao Gang is down to business.

The people rule the court, and the world is short of money and there is no money to use. This is out of order, and the debt must be repaid.

The Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry have also spent a lot of effort in order for His Majesty to pay off the debts.

Zhu Qiyu said quite gratified: "Jin Lian, Minister of the Ministry of Households, Wang Hu, a doctor of the Du Branch of the Ministry of Households, and others, I will bestow the first merit card."

"Wang Bingfu, the head of the Baoyuan Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, Xu Siqi, the general manager of Shijing Factory, Kuai Xiang, the general manager of Shengzhou, Shi Pu, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, and Wang Xie, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, I also bestow the first merit card."

"When I return to Beijing, I will personally grant it."

Wang Hu and Wang Cheng bowed their heads and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."

It is as difficult for a hundred officials to get a badge, and His Majesty rewarded him with a badge for his first merit. This is an affirmation of their hard work these days to pay off His Majesty's debts.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Then play with them before Jingtai Tongbao enters Nanjing."

After the court meeting ended, everyone took orders to leave.

Xing'an was a little hesitant, but he still asked, "Has Your Majesty asked Chen Wanniang to change her mind?"

This involves the question of whether to give Chen Wanniang an identity, and also involves rules, such as whether Chen Wanniang is called His Majesty or Husband.

Tang Yunyan and Li Xi'er, it was because His Majesty changed their name to husband that they became nobles, and Tang nobles were promoted to concubines only when they were pregnant.

There are many court ladies with warm quilts around here, and many noble people are two different concepts.

Really tell the rules to the end, in fact, only Queen Wang can be called Her Majesty's husband.

But there are not such big rules in Tai'an Palace, and Queen Wang never stopped other people from calling her husband.

Empress Wang wronged herself, let the harem be peaceful, not to cause trouble for His Majesty, the harem is peaceful, and His Majesty does not need to be distracted.

This means that the husband is honored in the court and the wife is honored in the room.

Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said, "Never."

Chief Xing'an breathed a sigh of relief, bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty is wise."

This is the only court lady serving His Majesty's bedside. During the orthodox years, more than 300 palace maids were selected at a time.

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