I am the king of the dead

Tang Yunyan's face was a little blushing, she pursed her lips, her skin was as clear as the morning glow reflected on the snow, and as clear as a hibiscus just out of the water, she was a little surprised, then she walked forward slowly, and said timidly: "See Your Majesty, Your Majesty's Blessings."

"I am safe." Zhu Qiyu nodded calmly again.

Last time at the big banquet, I only took a glance at it from a distance, and only saw the eyes that were as bright as stars, and half of a beautiful face that was astonished as a heavenly man, but when I came closer, I found that she was indeed a beauty.

Walking like a light cloud coming out of Yuanxiu, voicing like a white stone passing through a secluded spring.

This temperament, at first glance, is that the family is restless.

Zhu Qiyu also understands why there is such a word as confidante.

He was sure, too, that he could have children.

Zhu Qiyu stood up and said: "Don't read the following ones, just these two, circle around, I still have something to do, Xing'an, you take it to meet the Queen Mother Sun, and then take it to Tai'an Palace to meet the mother."

"I still have to go to Baoyuan Bureau to have a look."

"Farewell to Your Majesty." The two pretty ladies were stunned for a long time, their eyes filled with astonishment. They heard that His Majesty acted swiftly and resolutely, but they did not expect it to be so swiftly and resolutely!

Hu Yichang heaved a sigh of relief, His Majesty finally settled the matter.

When Zhu Qiyu left Yeting, he got on his horse and went straight to Baoyuan Bureau.

Baoyuan Bureau, affiliated to the Ministry of Industry, is Daming's coin-minting institution, but the coins minted by Baoyuan Bureau are copper coins.

According to the prohibition of gold and silver according to the ancestral precepts of the Ming Dynasty, the Baoyuan Bureau cannot use gold and silver coins, so they mint copper coins every day.

In order to promote the Daming Banknotes, in the 26th year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty ordered the closure of Baoyuan bureaus in various places, and the large-scale coin casting stopped.

There are only two Baoyuan bureaus left, Yingtianfu and Shuntianfu.

Before the 26th year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty cast copper coins twice, totaling more than 4 million pieces, equivalent to about 20 taels of silver.

The Ministry of Planning is also slowly playing a role. They calculated that according to the initial budget of the number of people in Daming, Daming needs to cast 20 billion to 30 billion copper plates every year to ensure the use of Daming. That is to say, each person needs 50 new copper plates to be able to use.

Because in the Northern Song Dynasty, 30 billion copper coins were minted every year.

However, Nanjing and Beijing Baoyuan bureaus add up to less than 2000 million copper coins annually, which is about 3 taels of silver.

What is this concept?

In the fourth year of Jingtai, that is, in 1453, the day Constantinople was renamed Istanbul, Japan paid tribute to Daming and exchanged silver, women, minerals, etc. for more than [-] million copper coins from Daming.

The Japanese paid tribute every ten years, and the copper coins made by the Baoyuan Bureau of the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty combined, and the copper coins cast by the Ming Dynasty went directly to half.

This is just the Wa country. There are 27 tributary countries in Ming Dynasty and [-] non-expropriation countries.

A large number of Ming copper coins flowed out, and Yongle Tongbao became a substantial currency throughout South Asia and Southeast Asia.

This is where Daming is outrageous. Almost all courtiers feel that sea trade has caused a large loss of brass in the country, and sea trade should be banned.

Zhu Qiyu couldn't figure it out at all, how did Daming hold the right to mint coins, so how could he turn his financial affairs into such a corrupt look!

He brought Tiqi to the Baoyuan Bureau, which was sparsely populated. Obviously, Wang Bingfu, the head of the Baoyuan Bureau, did not expect His Majesty to come.

The chubby chief, sitting on the rattan recliner in the yard, wobbled and said slowly, "I have nothing to do today, come back tomorrow."

Apparently Chen Bingfu thought that someone was coming to work, but Baoyuan Bureau had nothing to do today, so he asked the person to leave on the grounds that there was nothing to do today.

King Louis XVI of France wrote in his diary: Nothing happened today, then the Bastille was breached, and Louis XVI was buried on the guillotine designed by himself.

It's not a good excuse to have nothing to do today.

"What did you say?" Zhu Qiyu looked at the yard. Behind the yard of Baoyuan Bureau was the workshop, which was all idle now. He wandered around for a long time, but Wang Bingfu was still motionless, and continued to sway on the reclining chair with his eyes closed.

Under the oak tree, hanging on the treetop, there is a birdcage, a teapot, a teacup, and a cattail fan, fanned gently, this day is extremely comfortable.

Such a trip is a whole day.

Zhu Qiyu can imagine that this guy looks like this every day.

After so many rounds in the Baoyuan Bureau, Wang Bingfu still didn't care at all, and continued to shake the rocking chair.

"I've said it all! You have nothing to do today, and you still insist...!" Wang Bingfu sat up suddenly, a little anxious, and spoke quickly, he swallowed half of what he had said.

His eyes were wide open, looking at the color of His Majesty's ordinary clothes, the Twelve Chapters of the Son of Heaven, and the five golden dragon patterns before and after, he turned his head a little dull.

Just like that, Twelve Tiqi stood quietly in the yard without saying a word.

A gust of wind blew by, and a fallen leaf swirled and fell in front of Wang Bingfu, and he didn't move.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty...Your Majesty! See Your Majesty! Is Your Majesty blessed?" Wang Bingfu's knees were weak, and he knelt down and saluted tremblingly!

Why does His Majesty appear and disappear every day!

I actually strolled to this Baoyuan bureau today!

Zhu Qiyu sneered and said: "I am safe, but you are uneasy."

He thinks he is a diligent emperor, what is Chen Xun talking about every day?

He said that His Majesty is an example for the people of the world, and he should lead by example, but he just came to Baoyuan Bureau suddenly today to have a look, and he saw what it means to be superfluous.

This is not only superfluous, it is simply dereliction of duty with Daming's salary.

Kuai Xiang, the head of the Construction Department of the Ministry of Industry, was busy all day for the Shijing factory, soaking in the construction site, and hadn't returned home for several months. The head of the Baoyuan Bureau drank tea all day.

They are all from the Ministry of Industry, but the same rice can support all kinds of people.

"Let's resign tomorrow." Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said.

The Baoyuan Bureau of Ming Dynasty has been corrupted for a long time, even if Wang Bingfu can't do anything, there is indeed a certain reason for this state. If there is copper in the workshop of Baoyuan Bureau, he will hit two hammers, and if there is no copper, he will rest.

Except for the head of the Baoyuan Bureau, the rest are all hired servants, and even the stove heads of the copper furnaces in the Baoyuan Bureau are all hired in silver.

Zhu Qiyu intends to give Baoyuan Bureau a new look.

This place can't continue to be so rotten. If it continues to be so rotten in a place that has the right to mint coins in Southeast Asia, how can Daming get better?

Chapter 194 Not Fine Minting Means Not Minting Coins

In the Ming Dynasty, there was an Emperor Jiajing who practiced immortality, but Hai Rui scolded him severely, Jiajing Jiajing, and his house was clean.

But when Emperor Jiajing first came to the throne, he was not a king who ignored things for the next 20 years and only wanted to live forever.

Emperor Jiajing was the last king of the Ming Dynasty, who tried to save the rotten economic system and currency system of the Ming Dynasty.

In the sixth year of Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing ordered to start casting copper coins again, despite efforts to improve the casting process and increase the weight of each coin.

But Jiajing's new monetary policy still failed.

The big coins he made were very heavy, and the value of copper coins was once restored to its original level.

But soon, his new currency, the Big Copper Coin, was dragged away before it was released from the Baoyuan Bureau, melted and recast, and turned into thin coins.

Who took away the big copper coins and turned them into thin coins?

Nature is the home of power.

The family members of these powerful families, upon hearing the news, immediately entangled a group of rogues, beggars, bandits, and coerced merchants and common people. Ratio, forcing people to hand over silver in exchange for thin money that is not worth bad money.

What happened in the end?

Nine out of ten merchants in the capital were closed, commerce and trade were blocked, and the price of grain in the capital soared from four coins to seven taels.

The new monetary policy failed.

Jiajing was furious. In the eighth year of Jiajing, he promulgated the "Decree on the Dispossession of Foreign Relatives and Lords", saying: Qi Wanzhou's relatives are not allowed to have the same teeth as Khan Ma Yuxun, and wantonly dismissed his relatives and enshrined them as nobles.Started to attack the Shiyao Haoyou's family.

Zhu Qiyu is completely different from Jiajing, he has Jingying, Jiajing does not, he has Yu Qian, Jiajing only has Yan Song, and Hai Rui...

It's a pity that Hai Rui is an official, which is a big flaw in the officialdom of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Qiyu didn't intend to do it overnight. For today, he has been preparing for it since he accepted the beggars and entered the Beijing camp.

His new monetary policy started with silver coins, not copper coins.

This is a scythe, and the target of harvest is the house of the rich and powerful.

Relaxing the ban on gold and silver, but firmly grasping the right to interpret the ban on gold and silver in his own hands.

Wang Bingfu knelt on the ground tremblingly and said: "Your Majesty let the minister express his feelings. It is not that the minister does not do anything, but that the minister has nothing to do. The stoves make noise with the minister every day. They want to open the furnace to make money, but the minister is also powerless. what."

"There is no copper on this one, and there is no old copper on the other. People come to the door every day and ask if there is any copper money to exchange, but so do the ministers. It is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice."

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said, "I know, so your head is still there. If it weren't for that, you would already be at Caishikou by now."

He changed the subject and continued: "The Bureau of Military Warfare has been selling money recently. I think you have heard about it. Let me know what you think."

Wang Bingfu knelt on the ground, bowed his head and ears, trembling, he knew that this was an opportunity, and also knew that if he didn't speak well, his head might fall to the ground.

He raised his head, as if there was light in his eyes, completely different from the lazy look just now.

Wang Bingfu took a deep breath and said: "Your Majesty, since you listened to His Majesty's request to relax the ban on the use of gold and silver, I thought that we should collect silver from all over the world to mint coins, and Baoyuan Bureau would naturally have a living. I also thought about it for a long time, and I didn't know what to say. Is it reasonable?"

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said, "Speak."

Wang Bingfu's forehead was covered with sweat, but he didn't lower his head, and continued: "Your Majesty, silver is not an asset of our country, and silver is not inherent in Ming Dynasty. Since the maritime trade in the former Song Dynasty, silver has gradually increased."

"Emperor Taizong Wen had great martial arts skills. He went south to the Western Ocean and realized that the silver is abundant. But in the final analysis, there is still more silver in the folks, and there are fewer silver in Taicang and the inner warehouse."

Is it the court with more money, or the folks with more money?

Naturally, the folks have a lot of money.

What Wang Bingfu said is true. Shen Wansan, who built the city wall for Nanjing City, wanted to get rich. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, he was the richest businessman in Ming Dynasty. His family had more than ten million taels of silver. The entire city wall of Nanjing City was built by Shen Wansan. of.

The smuggling activities in Ming Dynasty probably date back to the former Song Dynasty.

Daming has a lot of silver, but it is not in the internal coffers, let alone in Taicang, but in the country of Daming, but buried deep in the pigsty of the powerful family.

Wang Bingfu saw that His Majesty had not spoken, so he continued: "I have been in charge of the Baoyuan Bureau for seventeen years. I am well aware of the disadvantages of the Ming currency. The silver is stored in the world, but the court cannot get it. Your Majesty casts silver coins. Dare to be the first in the world. A move above."

"I think that Baoyuan Bureau should be used as an example to collect silver from all over the world, mint money, and then promote it to the world."

Zhu Qiyu nodded, teasing the bird hanging on the tree with his hands behind his back: "Continue talking."

Wang Bingfu became bolder: "The common people and merchants have been deprived of money for a long time. Every day, they wear a small weight on the left side of their waists, and on the right side, they hold scissors. When doing transactions, they are weighed by more or less scissors."

"But Your Majesty, the titles of these people are not exactly the same, the silver color is different, there are variegated colors, and there are gold flowers, and there are a lot of quarrels. Every day, the most important things that Shun Tian Fu Cheng does are these people. Chicken bits and pieces."

"If there is a coin with outline articles, it will be popular all over the world, and it will naturally be sought after by common people and merchants!"

"If the people are allowed to go to the Baoyuan Bureau to exchange broken silver for silver coins, then the silver in the world will no longer be buried deep in the ground, but circulated in the world."

"Your Majesty's military campaign, this Ming silver coin is a steelyard for our Ming Dynasty!"

"I affirm! Your Majesty's strategy is actually a strategy to enrich the country and strengthen the people."

"Bold minister! If your Majesty's policy cannot accept the silver of the world, it is just water without a source and a tree without roots, and it will not last long."

Zhu Qiyu stopped teasing the bird and looked at Wang Bingfu kneeling on the ground.

This is the official of the Ming Dynasty, even if he is the head of the idle yamen gate of the Baoyuan Bureau, he understands everything.

But the bureaucrats are always unwilling to do anything, and they are unwilling to do it well.

Zhu Qiyu must be severely punished every day!Holding up the emperor's ancestor's instruction, holding a knife behind him, and staring at these bureaucrats with eagle-eyed eyes, they are willing to work.

What an oddity.

Zhu Qiyu took out a piece of silver from his sleeve, threw it in front of Wang Bingfu and said, "How many silver coins can I exchange for this silver?"

Wang Bingfu picked up the silver ingot and weighed it, looked left and right and said, "It can be exchanged for two silver coins. The silver is about [-]% fine, and the alchemy flowers of various colors cost one cent and four cents in fire, and the silver coin in Jinhua costs six cents in fire."

Zhu Qiyu picked up the silver ingot, and it was indeed like what Wang Bingfu said, the silver ingot was almost fine.

He spent a long time fiddling in the Tai'an Palace, and he didn't know how long it took before he figured out the fire consumption and how many silver coins to exchange.

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said: "I will go to Fusi Yamen in Beizhen by myself and get thirty court sticks. I will leave this job to you."

"If you do it well, you will be rewarded. If you don't do it well, Yongning Temple will be your home."

Wang Bingfu took a deep breath, kowtowed his head suddenly and said, "Your minister must be so heartbroken that you will live up to the grace of God!"

Wang Bingfu was a craftsman himself, and his father was the head of the Baoyuan Bureau. He gradually rose to the position of the head of the Baoyuan Bureau and received the imperial salary.

He also thought about being the head of the Baoyuan Bureau, how, how, how to let the Baoyuan Bureau play its original role.

But he had absolutely no idea what to do, or how to do it.

In the 14th year of Zhengtong, even Zhang Fu, the Great British Duke of the Ming Dynasty in Ping Annan, had to live by the face of Wang Zhen's little eunuch Xining. A woman in the family was beaten to the point of abortion and died, and Zhang Fu cried to the sky.

Xining was forgiven, and the offender only needed to be beaten with a few sticks, and the matter was over.

But fortunately, His Majesty is a person who can make up his mind, and he is also very good at it.