Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 106 Daming Tongbao, Issue New Money

After surrendering Li Guo, Li Cunming immediately got up and drove back to Luan Nanjing, traveling in a hurry.For the emperor's decision, Yan Ermei and other ministers were quite puzzled.

Yan Ermei said: "Your Majesty, why don't you take the opportunity to send troops northward from Chengtian Mansion to threaten Xi'an and other places? Or take advantage of the Manchu and Qing troops deployed in the northwest region, our dynasty has great potential in Shandong and Henan, why does Your Majesty hold back the troops?"

Li Cunming explained: "Military Master, I understand what you mean. You want to slow down the pace of the Qing soldiers, relieve Zhang Xianzhong's pressure, and create a situation where the three kingdoms stand together, right?"

"Your Majesty does have this idea."

"The situation is different, and the strategic countermeasures are different." Li Cunming needed the unity of the emperor and his subjects, and explained patiently, "Zhang Xianzhong is not Li Zicheng, and Daxi is not Dashun. After the demise of Dashun, the foundation of the three kingdoms no longer exists. , there is no need to go all the way to the dark."

"The ancients said that before the world was in chaos, Shu would be in chaos first. The world has been settled and Shu has yet to be settled. The situation in Sichuan and Shu is very complicated. It is different from the Central Plains. Let alone the steep and closed terrain. It is only said that there are many various forces entrenched in Shu now. , besides the Daxi Army, there is also the Thirteen Family of Yaohuang, a mixed bag of fish and dragons."

"Zhang Xianzhong has been in Sichuan for more than two years, but he still has not been able to completely occupy all the places. On the contrary, the territory is getting smaller and smaller. This shows the complexity of the situation in Central Sichuan. We can't help Zhang Xianzhong. His defeat will happen sooner or later. Why waste energy on doing it What about useless things?"

"But as long as the Ming Dynasty stabilizes the Yunnan-Guizhou area and manages important cities such as Xiangyang and Kaifeng well, so that the Qing soldiers can enter Shu without any breakthroughs, the Tartars will fall into the quagmire and cannot extricate themselves. I am waiting for the opportunity. This opportunity may It will appear in Shandong, it may appear in Datong, and it may appear in Beijing."

Yan Ermei reacted instantly, clapped her hands and said: "I understand, Your Majesty is waiting for civil strife in Manqing!"

"But where did the civil strife in the Manchu Qing Dynasty come from?" Jiang Dejing asked.

"Three points depend on God's will, and seven points depend on man's will!" Li Cunming looked up at the sky and said no more.

The courtiers were accustomed to the emperor's unpredictable and strategizing style, so they stopped asking more questions and returned to Nanjing with Luanjia.

Li Cunming rested overnight in Kunning Palace, got up on time at Yinshi the next day, and was going to meet the minister at the Department of General Affairs.

Empress Zhou combed Li Cunming's hair, and said softly: "Your Majesty, you just came back from Fengyang, and you are exhausted. You should rest or have to rest."

Li Cunming looked at the glass mirror and said with a smile: "Queen, you see that I am so full of life, do you need to rest?"

Empress Zhou remembered that when the night was lingering, the emperor was so majestic, she couldn't help but blush, bit her lips lightly and said: "Your Majesty, I feel that you have really changed a lot in the past year or so, your black hair has regenerated, and your wrinkles have disappeared. The concubine is much older, and time is not forgiving!"

"In my heart, you will always be only 15 years old. When you were 15 years old, you married me and went through many ups and downs with me. I will remember it all in my heart." Li Cunming took the queen's hand and rubbed it.

Then he stood up, bit the queen's earlobe and said: "You are not old at all, you are still young, and you can give me ten or eight more princes!"

"Ah, how can there be so many concubines?" Queen Zhou's face was like a peach blossom, her eyes blurred and limp in Li Cunming's arms.

After a while, he chuckled, looked up at Li Cunming, blinked and said: "There is one person who is young and young, she will definitely be able to bear many children for the emperor, if the emperor is interested, the courtiers and concubines can match them up."

"You mean Chen Yuanyuan, right?" Li Cunming smiled.

"Don't the emperor want to?"

"I'm not interested in a flower with thorns!"

Thinking of Chen Yuanyuan rolling his eyes and talking eccentrically and arrogantly, Li Cunming hurriedly shook his head and waved his hands.

Seeing the emperor walking out of the palace gate, Empress Zhou smiled and said to herself: "It's not that the enemies don't get together, the emperor and Chen Yuanyuan are afraid that things will last forever!"

He picked up a beautiful glass bottle, called a court lady, and said: "This is the perfume developed by Ben Gong and Concubine Yuan, you take it to Chen Yuanyuan from the medical school. Tell her, if you have nothing to do, come and talk to Ben Gong. "

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When Li Cunming arrived at the Department of General Affairs, the courtiers had been waiting for a long time.He sat down, let the little eunuch bring hot tea and pastries, and distributed them to the ministers, and discussed matters while eating breakfast.

Li Cunming asked: "Jiang Shangshu, have copper coins been made yet?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, a batch has already been produced. This is the mother's coin, please take a look at it." Jiang Dejing hurriedly got up and took out a copper coin wrapped in a handkerchief.

Li Cunming took it over and took a closer look, and saw that the copper coins were heavy, heavy, bright in color, and the yellow and orange ones were really pretty.There are four words on the copper coin, "Daming Tongbao", read directly in regular script, with handsome and dignified fonts, and galloping horse patterns on the back.

Jiang Dejing introduced: "Since the founding of our dynasty, the emperors of all dynasties have to cast new coins, and the Jiajing and Longqing dynasties are the best. The newly minted copper coins this time adopt the old system of the Jiajing and Longqing dynasties. Two coins of copper is a lot of weight."

Li Cunming nodded and said: "That's very good! What is money? Money is a bastard! But people can't do without money. What the court has to do is to ensure the credibility of the currency issued. First of all, it has to work hard on the weight and quality. , not to be crudely made, and then to ensure the legal status of the currency, with authority, no one is allowed to desecrate it, let alone forgery by private individuals, once it is discovered that someone has minted copper coins privately, all the families will be executed!"

"From now on, domestic silver and copper coins will be used together, gradually reducing the dependence on silver. And only one type of copper coin is cast, which is 'Daming Tongbao'. The rest of the messy templates are all cancelled, and the copper coins cast by the previous dynasty have to be recycled."

After the first batch of "Daming Tongbao" was cast, the imperial court issued a decree to issue them.It will be a long process for the new money to be fully circulated and gain the trust of the people.

Li Cunming first used the new money to distribute salaries to officials, and let them take the lead in using them.Then he ordered Cao Huachun to open several money houses in Nanjing City, issued a list to buy old money, and called on the common people to exchange old money or silver taels for new money.

Due to the chaotic currency system of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, the copper coins minted in the past dynasties were rough and low-quality, thin and miscellaneous, and some were even like sand, which would shatter when pinched by hand, and lost the trust of the people long ago.

During the reign of Chongzhen, the copper coins were full of mud and sand, their shapes were complicated and chaotic, and because of the lack of food and payment, they were cast indiscriminately, and they were not recognized by the people.

The common people are not very interested in "Daming Tongbao", not to mention exchanging it with silver, and they are even reluctant to replace it with old money, for fear of repeating the same mistakes in the past.

There were few people in the bank, so Cao Huachun truthfully reported the situation to Li Cunming.Li Cunming rubbed his temples, and secretly sighed: "Chongzhen, Chongzhen, how much blame do I have to blame for you?"

Immediately summoned the ministers and said: "What we are doing now is to unify the form of copper coins. After the copper coins are issued, it is very difficult to win the trust of the people. Do you have a way?"

Yan Ermei stroked his beard and said, "I may be able to learn from the story of Shang Yang's move to establish trust during his reform."

Li Cunming thought for a while and said with a smile, "I have an idea!"

(End of this chapter)