Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

The silver coins that Zheng Hongkui exchanged for two taels of silver from Zhu Youjian could be exchanged for a high price of ten taels of silver on Little Man's side...

Zheng Hongkui bought a boatload of silver coins and got back several boatloads of silver ingots.

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Japan has many volcanoes and rich reserves of silver and gold...

However, due to the lack of mining technology, the currency in circulation in Japan was mainly copper coins from China.

After 1533, the Chinese "ash blowing method" silver refining production process was invented in the Southern Song Dynasty and spread to Japan.

The amount of gold and silver mined, which was originally scarce, began to increase dramatically.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Japan became the largest gold and silver miner in Asia.

Even at that time, the output of the three small islands of Japan was tied for the world's largest gold and silver output with South America.

(At this time, each Japanese vassal occupied only three islands. It was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that Japan completely occupied Hokkaido and became a four-island country. When General Zhang Zizhong scolded the Japanese, he had a very famous term "Three Island Japanese Slaves".)

It was during this period that Ming Dynasty stopped exporting copper coins to Japan due to lack of copper mines and insufficient copper coins.

As a result, stimulated by the huge amount of newly mined silver, the real purchasing power of silver in Japan continues to fall.

At this time, Westerners took gold to Japan to exchange for silver, and then took the silver to Asia to exchange for gold, and both made huge profits.

Zheng Hongkui caught up with the good times.

In world economics, there is a very famous law - "bad money drives out good money".

Refers:

“In the period when precious metals were used as legal tender, that is, under the two-unit currency system of gold and silver, well-made currency would be collected and stored by people.

As a result, all that is circulating in the market is low-quality currency. "

During Japan's large-scale mining of gold and silver, the actual purchasing power of silver prices continued to decline during this special period. The more exquisitely crafted silver coins naturally became the high-quality currency that everyone rushed to store.

In this era, only the Ming Dynasty could make silver coins.

Zheng Hongkui didn't even need to do it himself. He directly packaged the silver coins and sold them to various feudal lords at the price of ten taels of silver each.

Those feudal lords could even achieve an exchange rate of 1:15 with silver coins.

In order to make more profits, Zheng Hongkui did not hesitate to transfer part of the profits and tied the feudal lords to his own chariot.

In this way, he not only quickly disposed of the silver coins in his hand.

He even formed "deep friendships" with various feudal lords that were no less than his own brother...

The fleet behind Zheng Hongkui contained a total of 3000 million taels of silver.

There are even more than 30 taels of gold...

Zheng Hongkui turned his head slightly, looking at Gong Yonggu's men as if they were facing a formidable enemy, he couldn't help but sneered in his heart.

Isn’t it just a tiny piece of golden sand?

Even if there is no loss, only 16 taels of gold can be extracted.

cut!

A piece of cake.

Let’s just get a cargo ship and it’s more than just such a small amount of money!

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Shandong.

Gaoyuan (now Gaoqing) Tianzhen Town.

Zhang Shenghu, the richest man in the town, was put on the execution platform and his head was chopped off.

Blood splashed on Xie Qian's face.

This hero of Lu, who in history put pig hair all over Sun Zhixian and started the Shandong uprising against the Qing Dynasty, wiped it away casually.

Not even a frown.

Several months of military service had made him accustomed to this fishy smell.

He raised Zhang Shenghu's head high and shouted:

"Folks!

This is a rich and heartless piece of shit. It not only hoards it, but also robs us of our fat and blood!

The year of disaster has come, but they are still holding on to the mountains of food and making a fortune from the disaster.

He even wanted to have an affair with the Donglu, intending to offer Shandong to the Tatars of the Qing Dynasty! "

"Today, under the orders of General Huang Zongbing, I will kill this beast to correct our Lu land's determination to resist the Qing Dynasty!

Brothers, fight to the death! "

"Fight to the death!

Fight to the death!

Fight to the death! "

The soldiers roared.

The people who were watching were infected by the heroic spirit of the soldiers, and they raised their arms and roared.

"kill him!"

"kill him!"

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"it is good!"

Xie Qian laughed loudly and threw his head on the ground.

He pointed at the granary at Zhang Shenghu's house and shouted loudly:

"General Huang had orders to exploit the people, and ignored the orders issued by the General Military Mansion to open warehouses and provide relief several times.

Even Mr. Huang said he would buy grain to help the people at a high price of two taels of silver and one stone of wheat, but he was rejected!

Today, I will kill this thief to bring justice to the villagers. "

Xie Qian sighed and said affectionately:

"He, the general, knows that we are suffering from a drought and every family is short of food.

I was specially ordered to kill the traitor and open a warehouse to provide relief.

All the people in Tianjia Town who have no food at home can come to collect food later after the military officials have completed the statistics. "

Xie Qian's words immediately made the people cheer even louder.

"Mr. Huang Renyi, let's kowtow to him!"

A man, skin and bones from hunger, knelt down tremblingly.

Covered in patches, he kowtowed repeatedly.

"Mr. Huang Renyi, the fellow citizens of Tianjia Town, kowtow to you!"

One after another, the people fell to their knees.

Tens of thousands of onlookers all knelt on the ground...

Xie Qian's eyes were red.

He was born and raised here.

He himself is also from Tianjia Town, although in the early days, he was a servant of Han Yuan, the former Li Ke Shizhong, and he had no worries about food and clothing.

But he also knows what happened to the people in recent years.

The drought in Shandong is second only to Shaanxi and Henan!

Even worse, this place was plundered by Jiangnan gentry!

In the 14th year of Chongzhen's reign, those bastards sold an ordinary stone of rice for a high price of one tael of silver per pound!

(Note: "Chinese Monetary History" records that in the 14th year of Chongzhen, one stone of rice in Shandong cost 154 taels of silver.)

Last year, the country experienced drastic changes.

Han Yuan intended to go north and serve the Qing court.

Xie Qian felt deeply ashamed and left.

During those six months, he traveled around various places and got used to the hardships of the people.

Last fall, Huang Degong arrived and issued a call-up order.

Xie Qian immediately took a shot and joined the army.

Different from the original history, Xie Qian would not launch a major uprising until November of next year.

In this time and space, Xie Qian immediately led people to kill Han Yuan's family who was preparing to go to Beijing and seek refuge with the Manchus.

This achievement immediately made Xie Qian a sentinel leading 112 troops.

(Note: The military system of the Ming Dynasty was divided into military households, garrison troops, and camp troops. Under these three different systems, the names of officers at all levels were also different.)

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As long as given the opportunity, ordinary people can live a different life.

What's more, Xie Qian was already shining brightly in history.

This Chinese hero, this Lu Di backbone - under Huang Degong's command, he showed his abilities.

Because he was a servant of Han Yuan, he was familiar with officialdom, and he led his men to attack the city and seize territory. In just a few months, he helped Huang Degong capture most of Qingzhou Prefecture.

No, they hit the border of Jinan Prefecture again.

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