Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 282 Empress Sun lost control of the Forbidden City
Except for Wang Cheng, Shu Liang, Zhang Yong, and Wang Qin who are undoubtedly Zhu Qiyu's people.The remaining seven eunuchs changed their positions back and forth.

Even the Empress Dowager Sun, who has been in charge of the harem for many years, can't understand. Of these seven eunuchs, who is neutral, who is loyal to the Supreme Emperor, who is surrendering to the new emperor, and who is still swaying?

It's hard to say clearly, even those who were loyal to the Supreme Emperor in the past may have secretly accepted the certificate of honor and changed their families quietly.

So Empress Dowager Sun suddenly discovered that the entire harem had become untrustworthy.

This is too ironic. Originally, the harem was the territory of the Empress Dowager Sun, so the emperor was so scared that he trembled and dared not set foot in the Forbidden City.

It's all right now, and Empress Dowager Sun has also become suspicious and restless.

This has turned into beating wolves with hemp sticks again, with fear at both ends.

But the problem is that Zhu Qiyu is afraid of returning home, but he doesn't have to live in the Forbidden City.

Empress Dowager Sun is different. If you can't trust the eunuchs and maids in the harem, and think that everyone may have joined the emperor, then how can you do things? Wouldn't the manpower you have cultivated for decades be completely abolished?
And the most important thing is that a big fire burned all the belongings, and now the Empress Dowager Sun has no gold, silver and treasures to buy people's hearts.

In the inner court, a place full of reality, not even a chicken can't be coaxed without rice.

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At noon the next day, the 23rd of the first month.

Zhu Qiyu convened a court meeting again.

In order to be able to retire in time after being emperor for more than 20 years, Zhu Qiyu is still very concerned about reform.

At this court meeting, Zhu Qiyu was concerned about one issue: minting coins.

Now the shameless means of stealing money from Daming Baochao was forcibly stopped by Zhu Qiyu.

This led to a sharp increase in the financial pressure on the court.

In the past, [-]% to [-]% of the salaries of courtiers were paid in precious notes.

For example, if a minister has an annual salary of [-] shi, he only needs to pay [-] shi in real money, and the remaining [-] shi is covered by waste paper, which is equivalent to no need to pay.

Well now, starting from the first year of Jingtai, not only will all be paid, but the salary will be increased by [-]%.

The same minister with an annual salary of 120 shi will receive [-] shi this year.

In other words, the total amount of salaries paid out today is about three times that of last year.

After calculating this account, Zhu Qiyu scratched his head.

Zhu Qiyu came up with two solutions: one is to eliminate the Shanxi smuggling group raised by Xuanzong and Sanyang in collusion with Wala.

The other is minting coins.

Large-scale casting of Jingtai Tongbao, as long as there are copper mines, copper coins can be continuously produced to exchange for food.Or take copper coins directly to pay salaries to hundreds of officials.

In the eyes of all the officials, an emperor like Zhu Qiyu is really cute and stupid. He can print treasures to rob easily, but he is there to mint copper coins solidly.

However, the officials would definitely not oppose the emperor because of this, after all, the salaries received by all the people had literally doubled and skyrocketed.

As the saying goes, cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents.

Now Zhu Qiyu has turned around and doubled the income of all the officials, so he has become the food and clothing of all civil and military officials.

Zhu Qiyu was not satisfied with this, and Emperor Jingtai, who was determined to rejuvenate Daming, would be the food and clothing parent of all the people in Shuntian Mansion, so Zhu Qiyu asked everyone:
"Jingtai Tongbao has already started casting, and I plan to distribute it to the army of Beizhili and the people of Shuntian Mansion first. It can be regarded as a reward for all the soldiers and people who have contributed to the defense of the capital.

It’s just that you are all talking about how to actually distribute these copper coins to the hands of the people?

I want to make sure that all the people get their money without a hitch, and that no one is pocketing their own money. "

Chen Xunwen replied: "I would like to inform Your Majesty that it is His Majesty's virtue to distribute money to the people and benefit all people. It's just that this has never happened before, and there is no precedent. Or should we distribute money according to the household registration registered in Shuntian Mansion?"

Zhu Qiyu shook his head: "The household registration is not accurate. There are several 10 people in Shuntian Mansion, and it will be messed up."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Qiyu looked at Zhou Chen again.

Zhou Chen shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, our Ministry of Industry is in charge of casting money and various projects, and we are already very busy. Don't let our Ministry of Industry figure out these things.

Your Majesty has formulated a strategy, and our Ministry of Industry can only implement it. "

Zhu Qiyu also knew the difficulties of the Ministry of Industry, so he didn't continue to entangle.Looking at them one by one, Jiang Yuan, He Wenyuan, and Luo Tong all shook their heads.

When it came to He Yi, he still shook his head.Recently, He Yi has been staring at the military newspapers in the south, getting dizzy and dizzy, and he doesn't want to bother thinking about these things in the capital.

The last one is Huang Pu, Zhu Qiyu emphasized helplessly: "Chengji, you are now serving as an envoy to patrol Beizhili, and matters related to Shuntian Mansion are also within your scope of responsibility, you can no longer shirk."

Upon hearing this, Huang Pu replied: "I want to report to Your Majesty, I believe that the people of Shuntian Mansion can be mobilized to participate in the construction of the outer city of Beijing.

Let's make them work less and pay more.And as long as people come, they will be charged. Even if they are beggars, as long as they come to participate in the construction of the city, they will be paid; Food and vegetables are also distributed to Jingtai Tongbao.

If you give money directly to the common people, they will not cherish it.If all the people are allowed to participate in the construction of the outer city, we will provide generous wages, which will make the people even more grateful.

At the same time, the cast Jingtai Tongbao can also be distributed to the common people.

Moreover, seeing that Jingtai Tongbao can be used to pay wages and purchase materials, people will naturally trust the new copper coins.It won't be long before Jingtai Tongbao can be fully circulated in the capital. "

Zhu Qiyu nodded again and again when he heard the words: "Replacing relief with work is a good way to distribute Jingtai Tongbao. Let's use Shuntian Mansion as a practice first, and if the effect is good, we will spread it to the whole of Beizhili."

Huang Pu went on to add: "Your Majesty's replacement of precious banknotes with copper coins is a great good governance. The people of Ming Dynasty usually carry scales and scissors with them when they go out.

When buying and selling items, it is extremely inconvenient to cut pieces of scattered silver from the whole silver ingot and weigh it with a scale before completing the transaction.

In order to promote the treasure banknotes, the imperial court seldom minted copper coins.

As a result, copper coins could not be circulated, and the value of precious banknotes depreciated sharply. The court gained real benefits, but the people were overwhelmed.

Your Majesty harmed his own interests in order to benefit the common people. This is what the Ming emperor and the Holy Lord did. "

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "Let's suffer ourselves first, this is the labor pains we must endure for reform. In three to five years, when the world is settled and the government is on the right track, Ming's national strength will soon flourish and become strong again.

At that time, we will not sit here every day and worry about money, and our children and grandchildren will not curse us. "

Hearing the emperor's last words, everyone present laughed tacitly.

Everyone knows that the emperor kept cursing in his heart against the former emperor who had harmed the country and the people.

In fact, not only Zhu Qiyu scolded in his heart, but also the ministers present also dismissed the former rulers in their hearts.

Xuanzong and Sanyang, Zhengtong and Wang Zhen are all typical examples of the harmony between the monarch and his ministers, and their mutual harm to the country.

And the kings and ministers of Jingtai Dynasty who are present here have to wipe their predecessor's ass endlessly, and they can't live in peace for a moment.

Sure enough, Zhu Qiyu just took a sip of tea, and then continued to ask: "What happened to Wala, can you send envoys to ask for peace first?
What about the Miao chaos in the south, is the [-] new army sent by the imperial court in place? Does Uncle Jingyuan have the latest battle report? "

(End of this chapter)