The first assistant of the poor family

Chapter 418
It has to be said that Li Yanwen's prescription did have miraculous effects.

Although Yaoniang's body is still a little weak, it is much better than when Xie Shen saw it outside the Imperial Prison.I believe that the disease can be controlled by continuing to take dozens of prescriptions according to the prescription.

In this era, being able to stably control tuberculosis is already good, and Xie Shen doesn't expect that my mother's disease can be completely cured.

Fortunately, the tuberculosis that my mother suffers from is not contagious, so it can be said that the harm has been minimized.

However, the medicine is three-point poisonous, Xie Shen plans to wait for my mother's condition to stabilize and slowly reduce her dose, and it is better not to take the medicine in the end.

After spending two hours with my mother, Xie Shen returned to the residence.

He didn't intend to hide this matter from Qianqian, Shuiyun, and Erya, but we still have to wait until my mother recovers from her illness.

Qianqian has long been used to her husband leaving early and returning late, so she didn't question him.The husband is busy for the great Ming country and society, and it's worth the busyness.

Xie Shen smiled at Qianqian with some guilt, and went to the study alone to write the memorial.

When he was in the cabinet, he talked eloquently, mostly with enthusiasm.

However, if you think about it carefully, his reform model still has many flaws.

For example, simply replacing tax in kind with taels of silver cannot reduce the burden on the common people.Because the fineness of silver is different, the value will also vary greatly.

The silver with the best color is grain silver, which is very easy to distinguish because of the folds cast on the surface.The value of silver taels known as "low silver" is much lower because of impurities such as lead.

For example, if the government requires the people to pay taxes in silver, but in actual tax collection, it uses some tricks to determine that the people paying the tax are low silver or miscellaneous silver to discount the amount. In the end, the discount is taken into the pockets of the local government.

The large influx of silver in the late Ming Dynasty led to the flood of low-grade and miscellaneous silver, and it was not uncommon for folks to melt silver and cast silver for profit.In order to prevent this from happening, it is necessary to ensure that there is a unified currency.

From the perspective of simplicity, banknotes are naturally the best choice.But this experiment has been done before.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu ordered the production of Baochao, that is, banknotes.The imperial court not only issued treasure banknotes, but also forced the promotion and prohibited private transactions with copper coins.But in the hearts of the people of Ming Dynasty, this so-called legal currency is not recognized at all.

The reason is also very simple. The issuance of banknotes needs to reserve a large amount of gold and silver as a guarantee.The Ming court did not have so much gold and silver.This is tantamount to issuing paper money indiscriminately.

The consequence of excessive issuance of banknotes is depreciation, so that no one among the people is willing to use this currency for settlement.

Later, the government turned a blind eye and closed one eye, and no longer required the people to use precious banknotes.

Paper money is not enough, so we have to find another way.

Xie Shen thought about it for a moment, and felt that issuing silver dollars was a good idea.

The size of the silver dollar is fixed, which can reduce the currency confusion caused by private melting and private casting of silver.

After all, the production method of silver dollar is still technical. For example, craftsmen can print the head of the king on the surface of silver dollar. The marks will be rough.

However, the biggest problem in the promotion of silver dollars is that the Ming court did not have a state-owned bank to issue them.

If the silver dollar cannot be issued on a large scale, it will only be a toy played by the upper class in the end if it goes into the lives of the people, and it will not achieve its due effect.

And once there is a bank to issue, with its advantages of light weight and complete regulation, it will be a matter of time to replace silver ingots.

Creating a bank is obviously more difficult.

After all, this means allowing private capital to circulate on a large scale.

You must know that the bank notes did not rise until the end of the Qing Dynasty.The bank can be regarded as an early bank, and its rise means that the status of merchants has improved. This coincides with Xie Shen's plan, but it will inevitably offend the entire group of officials and gentry.

Landlords and merchants seem to be always in opposition, and both sides are strong and the other is weak, and changes in their status are also reflected in political treatment.

Difficult, really difficult.

Once the bank is established, capital will circulate in large quantities, and the status of merchants will rise sharply, and small and medium landlords will be trapped by money.

The Ming Dynasty was a self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy. Once this balance was broken, it would lead to huge social unrest.Of course, this is not what Xie Shen wants to see, and this requires proper guidance.

If you think about it carefully, every reform will have a far-reaching impact, and it really affects the whole body.

Emperor Zhengde is a king who likes to break the rules, if Xie Shen can't hold back here, the situation will really get out of control.

Xie Shen carefully considered the words for a long time before starting to write. After writing several drafts in a row, he was satisfied with collecting the memorial and preparing to submit it to the emperor the next morning.

Looking at the light and shadows entering the palace from the window, Emperor Zhengde felt a little dazed.

He fought too much last night, and he was so exhausted that he fell into a drowsy sleep until noon.

Jiang Bin is really good at it. The few Persian orchids presented here are very skilled in bed, and his muscles and bones are refreshed and his energy channels are fully unblocked.

Unexpectedly, the relationship between men and women can be so wild, Zhengde can't help but suspect that the women who served him in the past were all Yangzhou skinny horses, which is really meaningless.

"Your Majesty, are you awake?"

Jiang Bin, who was guarding the bedside, saw that Zhengde had woken up, and said courteously, "I have prepared some Hami orchids for Your Majesty today, Your Majesty can try."

Zhengde felt his lower body tremble, waved his hands and said, "No need, no need."

He coughed and said, "I want to rest today, so you don't have to present beauties."

Although Emperor Zhengde was at the age of dragons and tigers, he couldn't bear to count women in turn to fight overnight.

Last night, he was fascinated by several Persian bearded women, and his soul came out of his body.If there are a few more today, he is really afraid that he will faint.

Let's talk about recovering and raising the body first.

"Your Majesty, can we line up to fight today?"

Emperor Zhengde loved martial arts, and recently he played the role of a general in the leopard room.

He was not satisfied with just pretending to be a Ming general. He pretended to be the leader of the Tatars and led a group of "tribes" to "fight" with the "Ming army" commanded by Jiang Bin.

This is of course what Jiang Bin wants to see.He was born as a general, so he has a natural advantage in doing this kind of thing, and he was favored by the emperor in exchange for the respect of Emperor Zhengde.

Favor is a thing that needs to be increased all the time, if it does not increase, it is equivalent to indifference.

Just look at the former favorite ministers Liu Jin and Qian Ning, and you will know that falling out of favor is an instant thing.

Jiang Bin doesn't want to repeat the same mistakes, so he needs to always figure out new things to please the emperor.

Only when the emperor is always happy and talks about him, can Jiang Bin live a stable and comfortable life.

There is no turning back when he has come to this point. If there is something wrong with Zhengde, Jiang Bin will never survive.

(End of this chapter)