I am the king of the dead

After escaping from prison, Li Sanyuan made friends with bandits in the mountains and forests, made friends with the government officials, received heavy bribes, and finally became the leader of the outsiders.

It is a common practice for shopkeepers in Baxian County to pay three taels of silver per year. Li Sanyuan also secretly set up regulations outside the city gate, arbitrarily collected taxes, and repeatedly robbed women and girls in the street, causing a lot of murder.

In the wicked feudal society, it is not uncommon for such bullies to appear.

"Restricted personnel, pass the regular examination? Of course, the masters of Yinzhuang in each prefecture and county should be dispatched as ninth-rank Beijing officials." Li Binyan said tentatively.

Yu Qian nodded and said, "Good."

After the first case was settled, Daming conducted an inspection of the number of government servants in various counties, limited the number of people, and conducted regular school examinations. Only then did this problem be alleviated.

Only then did Li Binyan continue: "The third one is the private sector such as the People's Credit Bureau, money shops, banks, and exchange shops. Are they allowed to operate exchange, lending, supply, and issuing meeting tickets?"

When Zhu Qiyu heard Li Binyan say this, he was also happy, shook his head and said, "It's just that I don't allow them to operate, so they won't do it?"

Since the private printing, piracy, and misprinting of banknotes in the Ming Dynasty, and the corruption of the banknote law, the Daming has already substantially relaxed the ban on gold and silver. Because of the Baoyuan Bureau, the furnace has not been used for a long time to mint money, and 2000 million coins are minted a year. Leading to a huge amount of private money.

Copper coins are of different weights and colors, and the price comparison between Tongbao, private money, and flying money is very different. There are many types of coins, such as gold backs and spiral edges. And so came into being and developed rapidly.

In the 13th year of Zhengtong, King Jili once issued an order to prohibit the sale of copper coins, but the owners of the money shops made a private agreement to close the money market, so that the price of goods soared, and the people complained, forcing King Jili to take back the order.

One size fits all is a typical lazy government. Zhu Qiyu has been using imperial silver coins and Jingtai Tongbao big and small coins to sort out all kinds of chaos in currency.

In fact, the Ministry of Household Affairs requested more than once to approve the establishment of a money shop, which is the legal beginning of the money shop. The wealthy households in the town will act as the bankers, and they will buy silver coins from the government to facilitate transactions according to their funds.

Li Binyan's meaning is roughly the same as that of the household department.

Yu Qian has no objection, he is especially good at the system of the state, and the existence of folk money shops is beneficial to the development of Ming's Yinzhuang. Absolute power will inevitably lead to absolute corruption. This is a complementary relationship.

Li Binyan's three strategies are a good way to alleviate the redundancy of the Daming bank.

The salt and iron meeting was just a discussion, and to come up with an executable plan, it still needed Daming to cooperate with labor relief and the leveling and hardening of official roads and post roads.

Zhu Qiyu sat up straight, and said seriously: "Nicolaoz, the envoy from the far west, and Hu Yi, Minister of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, discussed the Roman currency when they sat down and talked about it."

Rome, the only country in the West that can be called an empire that no longer exists.

"Caesar obtained the power to make gold and silver coins from the Senate, and then Octavian perfected it. In the Temple of Jupiter in the Roman Forum, gold, silver and copper coins can be settled and accepted."

"The long street leading to the Great Temple is covered with pure gold floor tiles. Everyone who has been to the Great Temple marveled at the strength and wealth of the empire, and handed over the gold and silver in their hands to the Great Temple for safekeeping. .”

Zhu Qiyu felt that Nikolaoz was bragging. According to Nikolaoz's description, the long street leading to the Great Temple was nearly eight miles long and three feet wide. How heavy should the gold bricks covering this road be?

Until the beginning of the nineteenth century, the total weight of gold in the world did not exceed [-] tons.

Of course, Zhu Qiyu prefers that Nikolaoz used exaggerated techniques to express the logic of Roman currency. After all, Nikolaoz has never been to Rome, and his capital is Constantinople.

The Great Temple of Rome absorbed gold and silver, and then used the absorbed gold and silver to mint silver dinars and copper aspens.

This is similar to Daming's Baoyuan Bureau absorbing reserves.

Zhu Qiyu took a deep breath and continued: "The emperor Trajan of Rome reduced the silver content of the silver dinar from [-]% to [-]%, and then the Roman emperor Mark Aurelius lowered the silver content of the silver coin to [-]%. From [-]% to [-]%."

"If it goes down further, it really won't blow."

The main anti-counterfeiting method of Daming silver coins is physical anti-counterfeiting. The silver content of [-]% is the minimum standard for blowing silver coins.

"Severus broke the lower limit of [-]% silver content and reduced the silver content of silver coins to [-]%. The silver coins that can no longer be anti-counterfeiting finally ushered in the corruption of money laws."

"Caracalla corrected Severu's mistake, but he doubled the weight of the dinar silver coin. The silver content of each silver coin has not changed compared to before. The silver content is about [-]%. fool all the Romans."

"In the period of Galinus, the silver coins were simply turned into silver-plated. The shiny silver coating could not even be maintained for half a year, and it would quickly lose its luster. Even the provinces of Rome no longer recognized dinars. Silver coins."

Zhu Qiyu chattered endlessly, talking about the history of Roman currency development at length. The entire development process is a process in which the silver content of silver coins is constantly decreasing.

And every time Nicolaus talked about the dinar silver coins in Rome, he lamented and denounced the greed of the Roman emperor.

"Using currency in exchange is a social custom. After all, bartering is too much trouble."

"At the end of the Western Roman Empire, everyone thought the silver dinar was valuable because they expected everyone else to think the silver dinar was valuable too."

"Exchanging valuable commodities for silver dinars with only one layer of silver plating is because everyone believes that there will be more stupid fools who will accept silver-plated silver dinars."

"When the first wise man rejected the dinar silver coin, the bubble burst, and the dinar silver coin was abandoned by people, just like the Western Roman Empire was abandoned by the Roman people, and disappeared in the long river of history among."

"After Nicholas came to Daming, he couldn't understand why Daming didn't even need silver-plated silver coins. He only needed a piece of waste paper to exchange for commodities in the hands of the people."

"And the corruption of the banknote law does not seem to have affected the stability of Daming."

"It's amazing, Nikolaoz was looking for this kind of answer, and he had two answers."

"The first reason is that Ming's demand for currency is infinite. Even if it is precious banknotes, if there is no large-scale overprinting, everyone will accept precious banknotes."

"The second reason is that Ming has the most industrious people, and the wealth they created is enough to offset the bad effects of the corruption of banknotes."

"It is true."

After talking so much, Zhu Qiyu finally came to see Tu Qiong, he stood up and said: "Da Ming has the most hardworking and down-to-earth people. Zhuang, become a sharp knife that strips the people."

"If, I said if, one day, Daming's silver coins can no longer be blown, it will be time for Daming to perish."

Zhu Qiyu's words are very heavy, it is like setting a line. Once this line is crossed, it means that the money law of the Ming Dynasty has been corrupted, and it also means that the Ming Dynasty is about to lose its way.

Daming Yinzhuang is about to be pushed to the whole country with the hardening of the roads of work-for-relief and official road post roads. At this time, Zhu Qiyu set a bottom line of [-]% silver for Daming's banks.

"Your Majesty is wise." Yu Qian originally wanted to say something, but in the end there was only one universal sentence.

The ministers could only say in harmony: "Your Majesty is wise!"

Chapter 687 Kang Guogong

A policy is designed with good intentions at the beginning, but in the process of implementation, it gradually loses its original intention.

In the end, it was a mess of chicken feathers.

At the beginning of the design of Qingmiao, it was to let the farmers of the Song Dynasty get rid of the green rice money. This kind of money was specially given to the people at a high interest rate when Huang Qing was not receiving it. In order to harvest the people's sickle, interest rates are raised at will, and each household is forced to apportion.

At the Salt and Iron Conference of the Yinzhuang Law, Ming Dynasty determined the three basic principles of the Yinzhuang Law, rigid cash, strict reserve system, and a clear-cut direction, which is to let merchants use it for business.

His original intention was that he did not want Daming's Yin Zhuang Law to become a sharp knife for the imperial court to strip. He could guarantee that when he was alive, Daming's Yin Zhuang Law would maintain its basic background.

As for after death?

Zhu Qiyu is not immortal.

Zhu Qiyu left the salt and iron meeting, stood in the wind pavilion and water pavilion in the other garden, looking at the clear water with bamboo and trees in front of him.

"It's raining." Zhu Qiyu stretched out his hand, letting the raindrops from the sky fall on his hands. There were bursts of thunder, and the cold wind whizzed past. The light rain turned into a violent storm in an instant.

After a quarter of an hour of heavy rain, it began to clear up, and a rainbow hung in the sky, which aroused the amazement of passers-by.

"Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue, and purple, who will dance in the air?" Zhu Qiyu muttered to himself looking at the rainbow in the sky.

Xing'an said with a serious expression: "Your Majesty, Wang Fu, the counselor of Kang Guo, has come with a letter of credence."

Zhu Qiyu's eyes were fixed, he took the letter of credence, read it for a while, and then heaved a sigh of relief.

He thought that Wang Fu, who had thick eyebrows and big eyes, had already betrayed Daming because of Kang's power.

Actually not.

This letter of credence was indeed written by Wang Fu himself, and delivered to the court by the envoy of Ming Dynasty Chen Xunzhuan, but the content was not from Wang Fu himself, but from Yexian, whom he had not met for a long time.

The letter of credence probably hopes to restore the tributary relationship and establish a closer and closer vassal relationship with Daming.

"This is really shameless!" Zhu Qiyu handed over the book of credence to Xing'an for future history revision.

In this letter of credence, it is also hoped that Daming canonize Wang Fu as Kang Guogong.

First, there was King Jingshun of Daming. This was the decree issued by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, King Jili. After the Battle of Tumubao, Daming and Wala became hostile, and this king was naturally deprived.

But the golden seal of King Jingshun is still in Ye Xian's hands.

The meaning behind the words in this Guoshu is that this King Jingshun, he is also determined first, and it will not matter if the Emperor Ming comes, unless the golden seal is taken away from him!

Canonizing the king as Kang Guogong is to confirm the basic structure of Kang Guo, and he is still the king first, and the Kang Guogong is restored as a minister.

Yexian's second son, Ashi Timur, was so underwhelming that he had no prestige among the Oirats.

But Ashitimur did not live up to it, but Ashitimur was able to have children, and now the power is in Wang Fu's hands, but if Ashitimur's son is up to date in the future, after all, the Twelve Battalions of Oara are still there, basically The disk is still there.

Also promise a generous gift first, as long as the Ming emperor is willing to canonize Wang Fu as Kang Guogong, he is willing to hand over Luntai City as a gift.

In the past, the condition of the Kingdom of Kang was to help the army to sell Luntai City to Daming, but now the condition of the Kingdom of Kang is to make the king the Duke of Kang and hand over the city of Luntai.

Zhu Qiyu frowned and said: "Yexian is really smart, except when his head is lost, he is not very rational."

In the battle of the capital, if we first manage the Kyushu outside the mountains, we first pull out the two important towns of Datong and Xuanfu, and then slowly plan, Daming and Wala will fall into a long-term tug-of-war.

Moreover, Genghis Khan in history used this kind of tug-of-war to make the Kingdom of Jin lose everything.

It was also a military adventure to enter through the Bauhinia Pass and attack the capital. It was a huge victory for the civil fort, and it was dazzled.

"Then is this a seal or not? His Highness King Xiang dare not make a decision." Xing'an asked in a low voice.

Zhu Qiyu stood with his hands behind his back and asked, "What does Wang Fu mean?"

Xing'an quickly replied: "Wang Fu is not interested."

"He didn't pass through the pier and Yuan Hou Ye did not receive or send messages back." Xing'an added hastily.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile on his face: "It's the best news if he doesn't send any news. If we are Wang Fu, we really made up our minds to be the Duke of Kang in Samarkand, so naturally we will write a letter back. Claim this title."

"At least in Wang Fu's heart, he is still a courtier of Daming."

Everything is decided according to the holy will, which is the meaning expressed by Wang Fu not to send news back through the pier Yuanhou.

Zhu Qiyu thought for a while and said: "Wang Fu has been undercover for so long, and the Oirats are not all idiots. I am afraid that someone has already guessed Wang Fu's identity. Let Wenyuan Pavilion draw up a decree and grant it."

The Khan of the Turpan Khanate is also a militant, that is, Xia Zhiyi is cooperating with the Daming Frontier Army and is encroaching on the Hami Kingdom. Zhu Qiyu is very willing to give this imperial decree to save the lives of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, Wang Fu may be exposed, and if Daming stands for him as soon as possible, he will be a little safer.

Daming's Pigeon Road was already very mature, Zhu Qiyu's decree reached the capital the next day, and then Enfeng's edict was sent to Kangguo along the official road post road.

This process takes two months.

At this time, in the Samarkand Lan Palace, there has never been an appearance. It is rumored that Yexian, who is in ill health, rarely summoned Wang Fu, the counselor, 12 households in the Wala camp, and thousands of Xue soldiers in the main hall of the Lan Palace. The counselors of households and tribes discuss matters in the main hall.

He also shrank on the throne first, and said indignantly: "It's just a young boy, I can defeat his elder brother and capture King Jili, but can't I beat his younger brother?!"

"This is not Helin, this is Luntai City in the Western Regions! The Ming army has traveled thousands of miles, even if they can't defeat it, can't they even defend the city?"

Yexian has always maintained his contempt and arrogance towards the Ming emperor. He once defeated the most elite Beijing camp of the Ming Dynasty, and even captured an emperor. This is his pride.

Boyan Timur was ashamed, but he didn't expose Yexian's last stubbornness and stubbornness.

It's not that he hasn't fought against the Emperor of Ming Dynasty before, and if he can't beat him, he can't beat him.

The Battle of the Capital, the Battle of Xuanfu, the Battle of Jining, the Battle of Shuofang, and the Battle of Hetao, but if Oirat wins once, will the four Oirats drag their families with them and move westward like fleeing famine?

What is the emperor's temper?

Wala besieged the capital, and with the character of the great emperor, the humiliation of being besieged by Wala in the capital as soon as he ascended the throne must be a serious soldier, ready to besiege Helin at any time, and sweep the entire Wala Liting.

It depends on the actions of the great emperor, it is a good thing that Wala took advantage of the Nan Ya's arrogance to make a fool of himself, otherwise, whether he can run or not depends on the face of the great emperor.

Boyan Timur bowed his head and said: "Dashi, Luntai City is inevitable for Daming, but for our Kang country, it is tasteless. It's tasteless to eat, and it's a pity to abandon it. It's better to give up as soon as possible. That's good." Concentrate on going west."

"Right now, the Ottoman Kingdom and the Timurid Kingdom are secreting the music, we still have to be careful!"

Wan Hu Heshuo glanced at Wang Fu, stood up and said, "Da Shi, I also think that Boyan's words are reasonable. Although my country of Kang is not afraid of them joining forces, it is better to make preparations early."

Also, he didn't intend to really fight with Da Ming in Luntai City, he was just talking.

He squinted at Wang Fu first, and said, "Why didn't Wang Zizheng say a word?"

"The minister and Boyan have discussed about Luntai City; Osman and Timur's joining forces before. What Boyan means is what I mean." Wang Fu replied neither humble nor overbearing.

He also made a little noise with a nasal voice first: "Mmm."

After Lan Gong was silent for a long time, Yexian continued: "Ashi Nayi gave birth to a boy for Wang Zizheng, weighing six catties and six taels?"

"Yes, mother and child are safe." Wang Fu nodded and said.

Ye Xian finally sat up straight, and said loudly, "Congratulations, Wang Zizheng!"

The ministers of the Lan Palace said in unison: "Congratulations to Wang Zhizheng!"

The unanimous congratulations made Yexian's face even more ugly. Yexian's appearance this time was neither to deal with the affairs of Luntai City, nor to deal with the joint forces of Ottoman and Timur Kingdom.

Instead, tell everyone that he is the king of Kang!

Ashinayi, the daughter of Chuyuebu Teqin Ashina Hehuo, Yexian’s second son Ashi Taiji killed the Chuyuebu’s son Honghu, and Wang Fuge’s second son Ashi Timur In ordinary times, the wife who stays by my side.

Later, Ashinayi became pregnant.