Daming: I can’t kill such a greedy prince-in-law?

Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a deep voice.

In any case, Li Shanchang was a minister of the Ming Cabinet and a founding duke!
Being beaten like this was not only a slap in the face of Li Shanchang, but also a slap in the face of the Ming Dynasty and Zhu Yuanzhang!

"Li Shanchang, who beat you up like this? Just tell me. I will take care of the matter for you today!"

"Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, such a thing has never happened!"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked angrily.

After hearing what Zhu Yuanzhang said, Li Shanchang felt even more aggrieved and immediately looked at Ouyang Lun.

Forehead.
When Ouyang Lun saw Li Shanchang's look, he immediately sat up and said, "Li Shanchang, you don't want to say that I hit you, do you?"

"We held a meeting in front of the emperor earlier this morning, and then I went back to the Ministry of Revenue to prepare. I haven't seen you since. The Emperor, Your Majesty, and all the other gentlemen can testify to this. Don't think you can frame me just because you were beaten!"

At this time, Zhu Biao also spoke up, "Duke Hanguo, I can testify for Brother-in-law Ouyang that he has indeed been in the Ministry of Revenue since he returned from Fengtian Palace. Your injury should have nothing to do with Brother-in-law Ouyang."

"Your Majesty, the wound on my eye was not caused by Ouyang Lun himself, but it is indeed related to him. It can be said that if it weren't for Ouyang Lun, I wouldn't have suffered this disaster!"

Li Shanchang said aggrievedly.

"Um!?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a moment. "Li Shanchang, since you said that the injury on your eye was related to Ouyang Lun, then you should tell us everything. The emperor and I are here. If what you said is true, the emperor and I will naturally give you justice!"

"Of course, if you deliberately frame me, we won't let you off easily!"

"Your Majesty, I will not frame Ouyang Lun!" Li Shanchang said solemnly, "This is what happened."

Li Shanchang spent about twenty to thirty minutes telling the whole story.

It turned out that after Li Shanchang's sedan chair was robbed, he asked his subordinate Zhao Pu, the Minister of Dali Temple, to take people to find the traffic police brigade to get his sedan chair back. He originally thought that with the help of the people from Dali Temple, it would be easy to get his sedan chair back.

As a result, Li Shanchang soon received news that Dali Temple Minister Zhao Pu and his men not only failed to get his sedan chair back from the traffic police brigade, but were arrested by the traffic police brigade instead!

This made Li Shanchang angry.

He was originally planning to come to the Ministry of Revenue, and the traffic police brigade was right there at the Ministry of Revenue, so he went there in person, bringing with him hundreds of servants, vowing to take back the sedan chair and all the men from the Dali Temple.

When they arrived at the Ministry of Revenue Traffic Police Brigade, no matter how Li Shanchang threatened, the brigade runners ignored him. As a result, the two sides had a conflict and started fighting. In the end, Li Shanchang and hundreds of his servants were wiped out. Li Shanchang was punched during the dispute, and it was this punch that left Li Shanchang with a panda eye.

Li Shanchang saw that something was wrong so he walked away and finally came here.

"Your Majesty, the Emperor, you have to help me! Ouyang Lun has set up institutions everywhere. Not only did he confiscate my sedan chair, he also fined me. He even arrested officials from the Dali Temple. My servants have also been locked up by them!"

"This Ouyang Lun is so bold, what is he going to do?"

Li Shanchang cried and complained.

Forehead.
After listening to Li Shanchang's description, Zhu Yuanzhang and a group of cabinet ministers frowned.

It was the first time they heard of the traffic police brigade. Did they have such broad authority? They even dared to confiscate and fine the sedan chairs of cabinet ministers and dukes!

"Ouyang Lun, what's going on? What do you want to do by setting up this traffic police brigade?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Ouyang Lun with a gloomy gaze.

"Father, I am aware of the traffic police brigade established by my brother-in-law Ouyang. It is mainly for the management of road traffic. There must be some misunderstanding here?!" Zhu Biao quickly spoke up to speak well of Ouyang Lun.

"Emperor, please don't say good things to him. We want to hear what Ouyang Lun says himself!" Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Ouyang Lun.

"Your Majesty, how can I explain this? Your Majesty just said too much. This traffic police brigade was established to manage traffic. Lord Li Shanchang said that the traffic police brigade seized his sedan chair and fined him. He also said that the traffic police brigade arrested Dali Temple and his servants. It seems that these are all problems of the traffic police brigade, but Lord Li Shanchang did not mention what he did to him!"

Ouyang Lun spread his hands and said helplessly.

When these words were spoken, everyone at the scene suddenly realized.

Zhu Yuanzhang also reacted and turned to look at Li Shanchang, "Li Shanchang, what did you do to get targeted by this traffic police brigade?"

"This..." Li Shanchang was stunned for a moment, then he said: "In reply to the emperor, I just asked the sedan bearer to go faster, and the traffic police stopped my sedan and said that I was speeding and wanted to fine me."

"Speeding?! That's right!" Just when Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao and others were confused, Ouyang Lun said, "Your Majesty, I have received reports that horses, carriages and sedan chairs in the capital have been running rampant recently. It is very dangerous. Several people have been injured in a single day. In order to prevent this from continuing and improve traffic order, I have established a traffic police brigade to handle traffic violations!"

"Mr. Li Shanchang must have been punished because the sedan was moving too fast. You violated the rules first and tried to evade punishment by relying on your privileges. You repeatedly obstructed public duties. The traffic police brigade handled the case legally, compliantly and reasonably. The key point is that you lost both times and still came here to embarrass yourself. I am really convinced."

"I you." Li Shanchang was so angry that his face was distorted, and the wound on his eye was affected, making him grimace in pain.

"Okay, we've heard the whole story." Zhu Yuanzhang rolled his eyes at Li Shanchang. It was indeed quite embarrassing. "Li Shanchang, you violated the law first, so you were wrong first. But Ouyang Lun. The traffic police brigade should be more tactful when enforcing the law, try to avoid conflicts, and increase the publicity efforts for what should be publicized. We see that Li Shanchang didn't know it at the beginning, so let it go this time!"

"We'll release the Dali Temple and the Korean public servants later, but they must pay the fines!" "Do you two have any other questions?"

Ouyang Lun shrugged and said calmly: "Of course there is no problem. In fact, as long as you cooperate and pay the fine honestly at the beginning, the following things will not happen!"

"Besides, regarding matters related to traffic law enforcement, I have already published relevant notices in major newspapers a month ago, and notices have also been posted in conspicuous places throughout the capital. The reason why Lord Li Shanchang is not aware of it is that he is used to being a privileged class and has never felt that such rules would apply to him."

Although Li Shanchang was very unwilling, since Zhu Yuanzhang had already spoken, he could not say anything more and could only bow and say, "It is no problem for this old minister."

"It's settled now. Everyone must abide by the laws of the court!" After Zhu Yuanzhang said this, he did not intend to continue talking about this topic.

"Emperor, please tell us about the current currency problem. This is the focus today."

"Yes, father." Zhu Biao bowed and was about to stand up.

"Lie down, lie down. Let's talk while lying down today. The barbecue should be ready. Let's eat and talk at the same time!" Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand. "Also, bring a stool to Li Shanchang. Just standing is not good enough."

When everyone was ready, Zhu Biao also spoke: "Regarding the currency issue, I have already said a lot during the imperial meeting today!"

"Before coming here, I talked a lot with my father. According to the intelligence collected by the Jinyiwei, the currency problem may be more serious than we thought. Since there are many currencies in the Ming Dynasty, such as gold, silver, copper coins, treasure notes, silver bills, and credit seals, these gold, silver, and copper coins are divided into official coins and private coins, and there are even foreign currencies!"

"The conversion rates between various currencies are also different, which is very confusing. Many people have suffered losses due to currency issues!"

“It has a huge impact on transactions in various places!”

"Which currency do you think has the biggest problem?"

In response to Zhu Biao's question, a cabinet minister said, "Your Majesty, I think it is Baochao!"

After saying that, he looked at Zhu Yuanzhang cautiously, fearing that Zhu Yuanzhang would be angry.

"What are you looking at us for? Whatever the emperor asks you, just answer truthfully. Don't worry about anything. We won't eat you!" Zhu Yuanzhang said unhappily.

Zhu Biao also looked at the cabinet minister who spoke and said, "Lord Wu, please tell me more specifically. Today we are here to solve the problem. Since the emperor told you not to worry, then don't worry!"

As the emperor and the retired emperor spoke up to assure him, Lord Wu mustered up the courage to say, "Your Majesty, I think the Ming Treasure Notes are the source of the currency chaos in the Ming Dynasty!"

"Cough cough." Zhu Yuanzhang coughed twice.

Lord Wu quickly explained: "Your Majesty, I am not saying that the Ming Dynasty Treasure Notes are useless. At the beginning, the Ming Dynasty Treasure Notes were very good. They made the Ming Dynasty currency more convenient to circulate and gave the Ming Dynasty court a wider range of coinage rights! They relieved the economic pressure on the Ming Dynasty court!"

"But after so many years, the number of Ming Dynasty treasure notes has increased, but their value has been decreasing. Nowadays, ordinary people need to spend about 1.5 times more treasure notes to exchange for the same amount of gold, silver, copper coins and other currencies!"

"But the imperial court is forcing the Ming Dynasty's treasure notes to be pushed forward. The people are so afraid of them that they dare not speak out!"

"It is precisely because of this that the Ming Dynasty's currency became chaotic, which led to other problems. Even the popularity of silver bills, credit stamps, checks, etc. was due to the unpopularity of treasure notes!"

After Lord Wu finished speaking, he retreated obediently, while the other people in the hall looked at Zhu Yuanzhang. Obviously, things had come to this point, and whether they could continue talking depended on Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude.

In fact, all the cabinet ministers present, including Zhu Biao, knew very well that the first big challenge in solving the currency problem was Zhu Yuanzhang!
As long as Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't agree, the matter cannot be resolved.

Thinking of this, Ouyang Lun suddenly looked up to Zhu Biao. He had been wondering why Zhu Yuanzhang also came today. It seemed that Zhu Yuanzhang knew about this matter through the Jinyiwei. Now it seems that Zhu Biao deliberately let Zhu Yuanzhang know and then asked Zhu Yuanzhang to come.

Of course, there is also a high possibility that it is a coincidence.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang also spoke.

"Well, that does make sense." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, "It is indeed time to solve the problem of treasure notes."

After saying this, Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately glanced at Ouyang Lun.

When Zhu Yuanzhang said this, it was equivalent to admitting that his Baochao policy was on the verge of failure, and he also agreed to the court's changes to the Baochao policy. Of course, no one dared to blame Zhu Yuanzhang.

It’s not that there are no people, for example, Ouyang Lun is one of them!
But Zhu Yuanzhang had thought it through at this moment. If Ouyang Lun dared to accuse him, or use this as an excuse to cause trouble, he would accuse Ouyang Lun of the credit seal and the check. At worst, they would start to quarrel!
Anyway, he has now retired from the throne and become the emperor emeritus. Even if he and Ouyang Lun fight in front of all the cabinet ministers today, it will not be a disgrace to Zhu Yuanzhang!

It was precisely because of this mentality that Zhu Yuanzhang was not afraid at all.

Zhu Biao was very happy in his heart. When he was thinking about how to solve the currency problem today, Zhu Biao suddenly realized that if he wanted to completely solve the currency problem of the Ming Dynasty, his father Zhu Yuanzhang was a point that he absolutely could not avoid. If he directly cancelled the Baochao, it would be equivalent to denying Zhu Yuanzhang's political achievements. If Zhu Yuanzhang had passed away, it would be easy to deal with. Naturally, no officials would object to such a small matter, but his father Zhu Yuanzhang was still alive and well.

If he took action directly, it would inevitably make his father Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang think too much, so Zhu Biao was very happy that Zhu Yuanzhang came to the Ministry of Revenue with him today to discuss the matter.

Judging from the current results, his goal has been achieved. Although he was very happy in his heart, Zhu Biao did not show it on his face. If his father Zhu Yuanzhang saw him smiling, he would definitely realize that he was being plotted against by his son.

Thinking of this, Zhu Biao did not dare to delay any longer and immediately said, "My Lords, what Lord Wu just said is generally accepted by me and my father. Now the problem is in front of us. Now you can tell me your solutions!"

As soon as Zhu Biao finished speaking, the other cabinet ministers fell directly on the massage bed like deflated balls, one by one, in silence!
Even Li Shanchang, who could only sit, looked at his nose and his heart, without saying a word!
What did they come here for today? Of course, they came to enjoy and watch the fun. As veterans, they naturally knew that if they spoke up at this time, it would be equivalent to taking over the matter, which would be difficult to resolve! !

Forehead.
This made Zhu Biao very embarrassed and somewhat at a loss. (End of this chapter)