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

Even as refugees and beggars, they had heard something about the imperial court's plan to issue a new currency, but they had never thought that this matter had anything to do with them!
When they were begging or fleeing, they would often hear passers-by discussing this matter.

Now that the new currency has been officially issued, the imperial court has not forgotten them. It will issue them new currency and also ask them to exchange it for gold in the silver cabinet!
You know, because they had no money, they never dared to step into the silver cabinet. In their impression, these silver cabinets were prepared for those wealthy families.

They also heard about the news about the Silver Cabinet from others. This Silver Cabinet is much better than a money house. Not only does it not charge you for your deposit in the Silver Cabinet, but it also pays you interest regularly. Although the interest is not much, it allows your money to grow slowly. This alone is very attractive. Moreover, if you have an account in the Silver Cabinet and have deposits, you can even open a credit payment service!
You don’t need to bring any money when you go out. You just need to bring your own special seal. When you want to pay, you can stamp your seal on the special payment receipt and pay. This has become a symbol of many rich people.

The homeless beggars also yearn for the silver cabinet, but unfortunately they have no money and even have difficulty surviving.

Now the imperial court is going to help them achieve it.

"Okay, I won't say more. Just remember that the relief money the court gives you won't always be there. This will be an important opportunity for you to live a happy life again. If you miss it, you will have more hard times in the future! It is because you are the people of the Ming Dynasty that you have this opportunity!"

“The next step is registration and distribution of relief funds!”

As soon as the inspector said this, people immediately started lining up to register. After completing the registration, every beggar and vagrant could receive five taels of silver worth of new currency relief at the gate of the yamen!

Don't underestimate these five taels of silver. If used only on food and other things, it is enough for a person to survive for a year. This has also been calculated by the Ministry of Revenue. One year is enough to change a person's situation.

Looking at the five taels of silver in their hands, some beggars and refugees were so moved that they started crying.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Thank you, Prince Consort Ouyang!"

"Thank you, Ming Dynasty!"

Many beggars and vagrants bowed and saluted before the government offices, and some even knelt down and kowtowed.

You have to know that some of these refugees and beggars are almost starving to death, and most of them see no hope. They can live a clean and upright life, so who would be willing to lie in the quagmire all the time?

Many beggars and vagrants who had money went to the silver box shop not far away. They wanted to confirm whether what the supervisory officials said was true.

Soon a beggar ran out and said excitedly: "I got gold. Look, everyone, this is gold!"

Everyone was attracted by the voice, and their eyes fell on the gold in the beggar's hand. Although the gold in the beggar's hand was very small, so small that it was almost invisible, it was gold!
You can actually buy gold directly with the new currency.

If you can buy gold, what else can’t you buy?!
At this moment, everyone believed that the new currency in their hands was of the same value as gold.

As more and more beggars and refugees exchanged their money for gold, everyone believed it completely. After this was confirmed, not many people went to exchange it for gold. After all, although gold is the most valuable, it cannot be eaten!

So these homeless beggars who got the new currency went to the streets to spend it.

At first, seeing these homeless beggars using the new currency to make purchases, the vendors and restaurant owners were a little worried. But Boss Li, the scholar vendor, the thin man and other vendors had seen with their own eyes the homeless beggars buying gold with the new currency, and recently many dignitaries had also used the new currency to make purchases. Coupled with the continuous reports in the newspapers, everyone's concerns about the new currency were all gone.

Directly accept the new currency handed over by the homeless beggars, and sell goods to them!

This situation not only occurred in Taiyuan Prefecture, but was happening throughout the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty. The new currency was successfully injected into the Ming Dynasty's economic market and occupied the currency market at an extremely fast speed. Later, it was reported that gold and silver would no longer be legal tender in the future, which further accelerated the speed at which everyone exchanged the new currency!

The Ming Central Bank issued various policies and opened branches across the country in an effort to promote the new currency.

People are becoming more and more accepting of the new currency, and everyone has felt the convenience of the new currency. It is impossible for the exquisite currency to be counterfeit. It comes in all denominations, is easy to use and make change, and is lighter in weight!
These advantages are far better than gold and silver.

In just half a year, the new currency accounted for more than half of the Ming Dynasty's currency, and then the repurchase of treasure notes began.
While the new currency was being promoted normally, Ouyang Lun also had his own things to do, which was to supervise the construction of trains. The Beijing-Pingcheng Railway had been under construction for about a year, and the prototype of the train was also under construction.

In fact, in the past year or so, the prototype of the train has been repaired for several versions, and the related technology has become more and more sophisticated. In order to be able to build the train smoothly, the court built a special train construction factory on the outskirts of the capital!

This train construction factory is very close to the starting point of the railway. Later, a railway will be laid to the railway station in Beijing. That is to say, once the entire railway is connected, the trains from the construction factory can directly enter the station for formal operation, which saves a lot of transportation time. The middle section of the railway also becomes the road for the trial operation of the prototype train.

It can be said to kill two birds with one stone!
Building a train is naturally a very busy task, but Ouyang Lun is already very familiar with everything related to trains, and the person in charge and employees of the construction factory are all talents trained by the Ouyang Lun Institute of Science and Technology. Building trains is not a difficult task for them, so Ouyang Lun only needs to inspect the construction factory every two days, and then give classes to the workers in the construction factory to solve the practical difficulties in the production process.

As for the rest of the time, Ouyang Lun naturally chose to rest. Of course, he still had to pretend to be very busy on the surface. Only in this way could he prevent Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao, father and son, from offending him!
After Zhou Bao took charge of the Securities and Futures Commission, he became very busy. He first recruited people everywhere, and after recruiting enough people, he began to make plans across the country, vowing to build the Securities and Futures Commission into the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty's economy.

Ouyang Lun would still ask about the affairs of the Central Bank to some extent, but he never cared about the affairs of the China Securities Regulatory Commission. He left it all to Zhou Bao. It was not because he trusted Zhou Bao that much, but Zhou Bao used to do this kind of work, so he didn't need to worry about it at all.

If he had that much time, he might as well take more rest.

The Huaixi Party, on the other hand, was extremely angry for many reasons, the main one being the issue of the new currency. When the issue of the Ming Dynasty's currency was being discussed, Li Shanchang and other officials of the Huaixi Party were opposed to it.

The result was that he was severely scolded by Ouyang Lun, which was a humiliation and a slap in the face to Li Shanchang and the Huaixi Party. Especially after the news of Li Shanchang being beaten and being left out in the cold in the Ministry of Revenue spread, the officials of the Huaixi Party became even angrier.

Regardless of the reason, Ouyang Lun treated Li Shanchang like this, which meant that he did not take the Huaixi Party seriously!

Although they were angry, these Huaixi Party officials had no way to deal with Ouyang Lun. After all, Ouyang Lun's connections were there, including the retired Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the Emperor Zhu Biao, and the Empress Dowager Ma. Looking around, except for the Huaixi Party, everyone had a good relationship with Ouyang Lun and wanted to protect him!
Anyone who dares to touch Ouyang Lun must want to die.

Seeing that Ouyang Lun's status in the Ming Dynasty was getting higher and higher and more and more stable, the officials of the Huaixi Party fell into a state of entanglement between anger and fear!
The bold ones shouted that they wanted to assassinate Ouyang Lun and put an end to it all, while the more cautious ones suggested keeping a low profile and waiting for the right time. Li Shanchang was naturally well aware of Ouyang Lun's power. In this situation, he must not confront Ouyang Lun head-on, so he had been consoling and suppressing some voices within the Huaixi Party. This was also the reason why the Huaixi Party had not taken action against Ouyang Lun and the Prince Consort Party.

However, in secret, Duke of Liang Lan Yu had his own ideas. During this period, Lan Yu behaved very low-key. Not only did he rarely make comments against Ouyang Lun and the Prince Consort's party, even in the court, Lan Yu would not speak if he could.

But if you think that Lan Yu has become a better person, you are totally wrong.

In a manor outside the capital.

This manor looks very ordinary from the outside, and it is registered with the government as belonging to just an ordinary merchant, but the interior decoration is extremely luxurious, even the mansions of the dukes in the city cannot compare to it. It can be said to be comparable to the imperial palace!

At this moment, Lan Yu was sitting in the first seat like the host, surrounded by beauties. There were dancers in revealing clothes dancing in the hall, and the table was piled with wine and delicious food.

"Godfather, I offer you a toast!"

The young man sitting below raised his glass and said to Lan Yu.

The other men also raised their glasses, "Godfather, your children toast to you!!"

"it is good!"

Lan Yu nodded with satisfaction. "You are all my good adopted sons, but the situation outside is tense, so you must keep your mouth shut and never reveal your identities!"

That's right!

Lan Yu was having a party with his adopted son.

Although in name, all of Lan Yu's most important adopted sons were killed and Lan Yu also severed ties with the rest of his adopted sons, in fact, Lan Yu still had a group of adopted sons hiding in secret!
Ever since that incident, Lan Yu has become extra cautious. No one except him knew about the existence of these adopted sons, including Li Shanchang!
Lan Yu could be said to have seen through Li Shanchang long ago and believed that he was not trustworthy at all. Last time, in order to save himself, Lan Yu decisively abandoned him. His adopted sons were also beheaded, which was related to Li Shanchang.

If the Huaixi Party did not still need Li Shanchang to maintain its existence, Lan Yu would have wanted to take action against Li Shanchang.

Moreover, in Lan Yu's opinion, Li Shanchang had been frightened by Ouyang Lun and only wanted to maintain the current situation of the Huaixi Party. He did not dare to really oppose Ouyang Lun.

Therefore, if he wants to deal with Ouyang Lun, he must rely on himself and his loyal adopted sons.

"Please rest assured, foster father. We will keep our mouths shut for your plan!"

"As long as my foster father gives the order, I will lead my soldiers into the clan residence and kill Ouyang Lun!"

"Then my brother's tragic death was all because of Ouyang Lun, and I must avenge him!"

Hearing the indignation of his adopted sons, Lan Yu was very satisfied. He drank all the wine in his glass and said, "My children, I am very happy that you have such a heart!"

"We must not act too hastily in dealing with Ouyang Lun! He is insidious and cunning, so we must plan carefully. The clan affairs office is in the palace. If you bring your assassins in, even if you really kill Ouyang Lun, if the emperor or the emperor-elect blames us, we won't be able to escape. Wouldn't that be a waste of time for others?"

"My father has his own plans."

Lan Yu said confidently.

Just at this moment, one of his men ran in.

"My Lord, there is news!"

"Oh! Tell me!"

Lan Yu was so excited that he quickly put down his wine glass and asked hurriedly.

Lan Yu knew very well that in the current situation, the possibility of defeating Ouyang Lun within the court was slim, so the only option was to look for opportunities from outside!
war!

Only war can allow him to regain control of the military power and keep the army firmly in his own hands. As long as he has the military power, everything will be easy to handle!

However, the areas surrounding the Ming Dynasty are still relatively peaceful. There was some trouble in the south some time ago, but it was quickly settled. There will be no more trouble in the south in the short term. Even if there is trouble, the retired emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and the emperor Zhu Biao will most likely not send him to deal with it, but will send Feng Sheng. After all, Feng Sheng has more experience in fighting in the south than him.

As for the eastern coastal areas and the Japanese pirate islands, there is even less hope. The Ming Dynasty's naval fleet is now extremely powerful. Those little dwarfs on the Japanese pirate islands are more submissive than each other, and they don't show any signs of rebellion. Of course, this is also mainly due to the Ming Dynasty's ruling methods over the Japanese pirate islands.

Complete iron-blooded suppression!

The Japanese pirates were so scared that they were terrified!
Lan Yu received a lot of information, and these iron-blooded measures were all ordered by Ouyang Lun.

Lan Yu never expected that Ouyang Lun looked smiling, but his methods were so bloody, he simply did not treat the Japanese pirate dwarf as a human being. Although Lan Yu did not like the Japanese pirate dwarf very much, he could not help but smack his lips after learning about the Japanese pirate dwarf's life!
Let’s put it this way, since the Ming Dynasty occupied the Wokou Island, the population of the Wokou has dropped by more than half!
Among those disappeared people, most of them died unnatural deaths!
While Lan Yu was thinking about this, this subordinate also reported, "Duke, in the north." (End of this chapter)