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Chapter 150 International Jin Yiwei! The fat sheep of Shibosi have arrived~
"Channing."

"How many people are there in the current Jinyi Guards?"

After Li Shan left, Zhu Houzhao called Qian Ning again.

"To tell you your Majesty, there are currently more than 6,300 Jinyi Guards."

"Ok?"

Zhu Houzhao's brows jumped and he asked again: "What I'm saying is that those you can transfer and those who are actually on the job are not free of charge!"

How could there be so many people? Zhu Houzhao would feel uneasy if there were more people.

How could Qian Ning be so capable and control so many people in just over a month?

"Your Majesty, if we calculate it this way, there are about three hundred people available for the humble job. There are about five hundred people working here in Aurous Hill. If we include some non-staff personnel, there are about one thousand three hundred or four hundred people."

This is only reasonable.

"What happened to Gao Quan today? What did Li Dongyang do in Yangzhou and who did he meet?"

Zhu Houzhao asked again.

"After Li Dongyang arrived in Yangzhou, he basically stayed behind closed doors to recuperate and hardly saw anyone else. However, some of the officials they were traveling with had secretly entered Jinling and were received by Gao Quan."

"Your Majesty, this is the record of their meeting."

Chan Ning produced a record with great political acumen.

"So, Gao Quan did all this himself?"

This is right. According to my understanding of Li Dongyang, he is not such an impulsive person. I am afraid that the officials accompanying him may not be able to hold back.

Zhu Houzhao didn't read the record.

"I don't dare to speculate based on my humble position."

How could Qian Ning dare to express his opinions randomly when it came to the dispute between the North and South cabinets?

"Row."

Zhu Houzhao did not embarrass him and changed the topic: "You know how to do the things I have arranged for today's meeting, right?"

"I know. Your Majesty, the humble post has been arranged, so everyone should pay attention to the matters arranged by Your Majesty." Qian Ning is obviously very good at things.

"What are your thoughts on the development of Jinyiwei?"

Zhu Houzhao asked again abruptly.

"This……"

Qian Ning was a little surprised. He didn't know what Zhu Houzhao felt. How should he answer this topic.

"Can you tell me about the issue of our Jin Yiwei?"

Zhu Houzhao guided him that he now needs independent thinking and some spiritual talents. Qian Ning did a good job at his job, but he lacked a little creativity.

Of course, you can't blame him. Jin Yiwei was almost dismissed during Hongzhi's reign. He was able to recover his ability and business level so quickly because he saw the hope he gave.

"Our problem..."

Qian Ning's back was sweating. It wasn't because His Majesty discovered that some of their things were irregular. Is this a knock or a reminder?

"Your Majesty, our problem is that the number of people is too small. The speed of gathering intelligence is still far from your Majesty's request. There is still some gap... and the other thing is that maybe when everyone is taking action, My hands and feet are unclean..."

Qian Ning became hesitant, his voice became lower and lower as he spoke, and he felt more and more enigmatic about Zhu Houzhao.

"That's it?" Seeing that Qian Ning was nervous, maybe he had a misunderstanding, Zhu Houzhao didn't correct him. This was also a way to beat his subordinates.

"Your Majesty, this is a humble position. This humble position is unexpected!"

Qian Ning immediately knelt down and said, "You are humble and stupid, so please be reprimanded by your majesty."

How dare he say any more.

"Oh, Qian Ning, you are indeed still far from what I want from you. Well, I will give you some advice. For example, this pen..."

Zhu Houzhao picked up a brush and said, "Can you start from above and get the information I want?"

"Ah? Your Majesty... Pen, information? Your Majesty, you are in a humble position. Your Majesty is humble and stupid. Your Majesty doesn't know what kind of information you need?"

Qian Ning almost had a short-circuit. The question Zhu Houzhao asked was too difficult. He had no direction at all.

"Haha, do you still need my advice? You are the commander of the Jinyi Guards. In addition to gathering information for me, you also have the responsibility of protecting me. This pen... when did it come? Was it here originally, or was it already here? I only got it when I came here? Who put this pen here? Where did it come from? Why do we use this pen instead of someone else’s?”

"Also, did we make this pen ourselves, or..."

"Also, let's analyze it from a historical perspective. We use this pen to process memorials... What pen did the previous emperor use? What pen did the emperor of the Song Dynasty use? The Tang Dynasty... the Han Dynasty, and even Qin Shihuang, did he use a pen to process memorials?"

"Don't go that far. What kind of pen did the emperors of the Ming Dynasty like to use? Taizong...could they just use this pen?"

"Then a little further... I use this pen to process memorials in the intertwining, Japanese, and even foreign countries... Do you Jin Yiwei know?"

With this divergence of Zhu Houzhao's thinking, he indeed found that there are too many places that can be extended with just a pen.

Just to extend it a bit, if Jin Yiwei can do it, cross horizontally at the moment, and know what pens all the royal kings in the world can use, then he can barely meet his requirements.

Everyone in Cleveland can talk about the origin, development, styles, locks of different countries, and current locks from a simple lock...

The Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty were originally engaged in intelligence collection, and they couldn't even figure out the origin of a mere pen.

There is obviously a big gap between that and the intelligence collection in the United States.

"Ah, Your Majesty, this... this..."

Qian Ning was completely frightened by the scenes described by Zhu Houzhao.

This topic was too big, but when he thought about it carefully, based on the emperor's request, they did still have a lot of work to do.

"The humble position is guilty! Your Majesty, the humble position must be changed!"

He quickly put away his surprise and decisively admitted his mistake. Whether it can be done or not is one thing, but the attitude is another. Jinyiwei's business needs to be strengthened.

"Okay. Try your best to work hard in this area. You have done a good job in supervising the officials, but... the guards I need can not only supervise the officials. You should try to get them to supervise the kings and royal families all over the world. This It’s a direction to work towards.”

Zhu Houzhao's pattern has opened up, and now he is naturally not satisfied with just focusing on one-third of an acre of land in China. I feel like there is no point in monitoring these little things.

Monitor the royal family around the world! How brilliant is that Jin Yiwei?

"You must work hard for your humble job!" Qian Ning was shocked by this pie.

"Also...Jinyiwei also needs to be reorganized. Currently, your development direction is to monitor the whole world...but you must also do a good job in specific business. On the one hand, you must continue to monitor officials and focus on monitoring people. On the other hand, you, Jin Yiwei, have to temporarily monitor the money at Jinling Bank. You also know about other banks across the country... What if the situation in Jinling also happens?"

"So, you have to add one more key task in the near future. I give you one month to find out how many banks there are in the seven provinces in the Jiangnan area, and how much money each bank has. You have a three-month deadline to find out the situation of banks across the country. Silver reserves."

Zhu Houzhao gave him a clear task.

"Ah, Your Majesty, to monitor the money in the country, we...our current manpower." Qian Ning was sweating again.

"If you don't have enough manpower, you can recruit. The number of fixed personnel should be stabilized to 2,000 first, and you can expand the number of non-staff personnel to 5,000."

"In this case, I will give you a secret order. Go to Wei Bin and get one million treasure notes first. You should know the value of the treasure notes... I might as well tell you that I will increase the price of the treasure notes next! One million treasure notes Chao, let’s see how much silver you can get from Jinling, and use it as your expenses!”

"In short, you Jin Yiwei are far behind my requirements! If you can't keep up with me... I don't mind restarting the West Factory, the East Factory..."

Qian Ning received this series of tasks with trepidation. For a moment, he didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing for Jin Yiwei.

……

"Steel."

"intelligence."

"Banks, the appreciation of precious notes."

"The true establishment of the Jinling Cabinet...the two-cabinet system."

"There should be nothing missing."

After Qian Ning left, Zhu Houzhao sorted out the arrangements and couldn't help but rub his temples, feeling a little tired. He can't just be the boss of these things, he has to arrange the arrangements himself. Fortunately, now that he has a cabinet and courtiers who barely resist him, the fatigue on the other hand is relatively less.

"By the way, there are two more things."

Zhu Houzhao quickly thought that there were two other things that he had not arranged in place.

"Liu Jin!"

"Little is here!"

"How much money do you have?"

He called Liu Jin again.

"Ah, Your Majesty, I don't have much money!" Liu Jin was completely confused.

"Don't play tricks with me. Can you get three hundred thousand taels?" Zhu Houzhao was not so polite to Liu Jin.

"Three hundred thousand taels of silver... Your Majesty, please be as small as possible." Liu Jin's head got bigger.

"Nothing is possible! I don't want your 300,000 taels of silver. I'll give you a task. I need you to invest all 300,000 taels of silver in treasure banknotes! Today, I want you to use one before dark ends. For the price of one hundred and ten thousand taels, you can get one million taels of treasure money from Daming Bank. No, you can eat as much as you want. It depends on how many treasure coins you can collect from the 300,000 taels of silver!"

Zhu Houzhao is preparing to take over as the banker and personally increase the price of banknotes!
"Ah, Your Majesty...this..." Liu Jin was dumbfounded.

"Any questions?"

"no no!"

Liu Jin didn't dare to refute, he could only bleed from inside.

"By the way, call Tang Bohu and the others here, and I'll ask them to revise The Romance of America again!"

Zhu Houzhao continued to arrange unfinished business.

……

While he continued to arrange and coordinate various matters, the matters discussed at the Jinling Great Court finally spread in a short period of time, making Jinling excited again.

"Going to the West?"

"What, Your Majesty wants to sail to the West?"

In a restaurant at Jinling Pier, Liu Haiyuan from the Quanzhou Shipping Department and several colleagues had just taken a boat day and night and finally arrived at Jinling.

Before the meal was even served, they heard something shocking among the hotly discussed topics.

"That's right... Hey, you guys are outsiders and don't know, today's court meeting! It's wonderful! His Majesty announced several major events in succession! Among them, the biggest one is the voyage to the West! "

"I heard that Your Majesty wanted to report the glorious deeds of the Three Treasures Eunuchs to the West during the Yongle period in the name of Taizong's descendants to Taizu!"

"He has ordered, it seems that in eight days... Jinling's first expedition team will go to sea!"

The restaurant is naturally the place with the widest source of information, not to mention the fact that there are also outsiders who are looking for attention. The guests in the restaurant immediately told me the seven major events that happened in the morning meeting and what everyone heard. The reaction to the matter has been described.

"President...Vice President..."

"The president is King Xing, and vice president Huang Bao, where did he come from..."

"Doesn't this mean that our Ming Dynasty will have two cabinets!?"

"Isn't Your Majesty afraid that the two pavilions will confront each other and cause a split in our Ming Dynasty?"

Of course, Liu Haiyuan and the others also heard other things, and they suddenly became more politically acumen.

"What? Ming Dynasty split?"

"I'm afraid you may be thinking too much!"

"Where are the two cabinets? Where His Majesty is, there is a cabinet! That cabinet in the capital, hey... just wait until we retire here in Jinling!"

"What has their cabinet done over the years?"

"The president of our cabinet... If the president and the vice president hadn't turned the tide two days ago, would everyone still have their money back?"

"And what did the Beijing Cabinet do?"

"By the way, let's not talk anymore! Everyone, do you have any treasure banknotes? Today our shopkeeper announced that you can get a 30% discount when you pay with treasure banknotes!"

"Thirty percent! I'm afraid the girls in Qinhuaihe heard the sound of your shopkeeper's abacus!"

"I bet that the price of treasure banknotes tonight will reach a new high! I have found out the inside information. Although His Majesty will issue an additional two million yuan of treasure banknotes, he also announced that all of them will be burned on the anniversary of his death in five days! "

"If the vassal prince and the others don't accept the treasure money, I'm afraid they will be extremely unfilial!"

"Today I bet that the price of the treasure banknote will definitely reach 82 to 10,000 guan!"

"..."

Soon, the topic in the restaurant shifted to speculating on treasure money. After all, the seven things announced by Zhu Houzhao are just more talk for everyone. What is closely related to them and their own interests is the appreciation of current treasure notes.

This topic has touched upon the knowledge blind spots of these Municipal Shipping Department officials.

They were confused for a time.

"Brother Haiyuan...we...were we here too late? I can't understand the direction of the wind in Jinling! Liu Shangshu didn't tell you?"

Amid the discussion, an official from the Municipal Shipping Department couldn't help but look at Liu Haiyuan.

After all, Liu Haiyuan's father was Liu Daxia, an important minister in the court. To them, he was a top boss.

"About this matter... my father didn't send me a letter, or the letter is still on the way. Who, who would have thought that His Majesty would be able to arrive in Aurous Hill all of a sudden..."

"Let me think about it...who is my father's disciple here in Jinling..."

"Yes...Lin Han, I remember that Lin Han seemed to have obtained the title of Minister of the Jinling Guards through my father!"

"It seems we have to go see him, otherwise... what they said is too confusing."

Liu Haiyuan had no intention of eating at the moment. After thinking for a long time, he finally thought of their connections in Jinling.

They had no choice but to think that the north was the center of power. They were not familiar with Jinling and these officials who had been ignored before.

Even Huang Bao was even more unfamiliar to them.

"Okay, let's go, let's go..." Other officials of the Municipal Shipping Department could not sit still and were ready to leave immediately.

"Everyone! Hurry! Daming Bank announced that... it will start exchanging treasure banknotes today! Two million guan plus the one million guan that His Majesty has graciously offered! Today there are three million guan of treasure banknote exchange quota! If you are quick, you will have it, but if you are slow, you will not be able to exchange it. ah!"

However, just as they were about to leave, a man suddenly rushed in from the door of the restaurant and excitedly announced the news.

In an instant...

"Let's go! Let's go! That's money!"

"Twenty-two hundred thousand guan of treasure banknotes, as long as you buy it and resell it, you can double it and buy 721,000 guan!"

"This is picking up money!"

"Boss, keep the accounts first!"

With a crash, the guests in the restaurant rushed out of the restaurant. In an instant... there were not many people left in the restaurant, which directly caused Liu Haiyuan and a group of officials from the Shipping Department to be stunned again.

"Shopkeeper, what happened?"

Liu Haiyuan couldn't help but ask the restaurant manager.

"What else can I do... pick up the money?"

The restaurant owner was quite speechless and said: "I can't explain it to you at the moment. You can go to Xihua Gate to see the situation and you will know..."

"Pick up money..."

The officials of the Municipal Shipping Department were stunned again and looked at Liu Haiyuan: "Brother Haiyuan, should we visit first...or should we follow and watch the excitement first?"

"Let's go and see the fun."

Liu Haiyuan didn't even think about it and was ready to take a closer look. How did the people of Jinling pick up money? Is it true that they went out to sea to pick up more money?
(End of this chapter)