Chapter 426 Treasure Island
"This is reasonable. Not to mention that in the early days of our Ming Dynasty, all outsiders became barbarians. I only said that the wealth of other countries could not enter the treasury of our Ming Dynasty. Who are you? There is no one in other countries. Huh! Encore will obey your orders!" Li Mo started to sneer as soon as Zhu Ping'an finished speaking.
In fact, the translation of Li Mo's meaning is that this country is stupid. It gives you money in vain, and you, Zhu Ping'an, don't take a piss and look in the mirror to see what kind of virtue you have!
"That is, our Ming Dynasty, a country of etiquette, cannot use weapons randomly against other countries. In addition, our Ming Dynasty is currently robbing the Japanese from the north and the south, and we have no ability to divide ourselves! How can we start another war!" Li An official behind Mo also stood up to cheer for Li Mo and joined the queue to denounce Zhu Pingan.
"He dares! The military is a major event for the country, the place of life and death, and the way of survival. We must not ignore it! If he dares to lead our Ming Dynasty into the flames of war at will and fall into a place of eternal destruction, I will kill him with my own hands. ." Li Mo was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't care about Zhu Pingan's feelings at all.
This wolf, this wolf, is talking about this beast!
Li Mo spoke very excessively. He was a thief who opened his mouth and a beast when he kept his mouth shut. Although this person was characterized as a loyal and upright minister in history, Zhu Ping'an was still very unhappy when he heard Li Mo's remarks. Such a person Very stubborn, so stubborn that he cannot accept opinions that are contrary to his.
However, after all, this person still set out from his home country. In addition, at this time, Li Mo was an official in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and his little arm could not break the other person's thigh, so Zhu Pingan restrained himself.
"Tsk, tsk, look at how angry our boss can't let the number one scholar finish his sentence." Yan Shifan squinted at Li Mo with one eye and sneered.
"Hmph, let's see what kind of flowers he can name." Li Mo shook his sleeves vigorously.
Before speaking, Zhu Pingan bowed his hands to Li Mo and others. After the salute, Zhu Pingan took out two books from his sleeves, showed them to everyone one by one, and then presented the books to Emperor Jiajing. Xiao Huang The door was delivered.
“I came up with this idea when I read two classics. The first classic is "Historical Records of the Western World (II)", which was written by the Sanbao eunuch Zheng He during his voyages to the West. Written by Gong Zhen, the accompanying person, there are two paragraphs in this classic The first thing that means the record is as follows: Gong Zhen sailed with the fleet to the Japanese country of Japan, which is now the Japanese pirates' den on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty. After accepting tribute from the Japanese chiefs, Gong Zhen and others went to the Japanese country. When replenishing fresh water and fruits and vegetables One day, a crew member in charge went to a butcher to buy mutton and needed 30 taels of silver. The crew only brought 20 taels of silver, and the rest was gold. Seeing this, the butcher said: 30 taels of silver. If the silver is not enough, gold can also be used. , 6 taels of gold is enough The crew looked sideways and returned to gather enough silver to pay for the mutton. They all laughed at the butcher's traitor. "
After Emperor Jiajing got the two books, Zhu Ping'an began to take his time. It's like telling a story.
"The Japanese are treacherous. 30 taels of silver is equivalent to 3 taels of gold, but the Japanese butcher wants 6 taels of gold. It is really greedy and shameless!" After hearing the story told by Zhu Pingan, an official shook his head and was indignant. Criticize the cunning of the Japanese.
"Japanese butchers are greedy and stupid. One tael of gold is equal to two taels of silver. This kid also knows it. He is stupid and doesn't know it, but he tries to plot against our Ming people. It's really ridiculous." Someone smiled and shook his head. Tao, and also won the approval of many people.
"The second interesting record is similar to this record, but this time the Japanese chief sent people to the treasure ship to pay tribute. During the tribute, one of the Japanese chiefs' civilian officials took a fancy to a piece of silk and needed 5 taels of silver. The Japanese chief The official paid 1 tael of gold and took it away. He took the silk and sailed away. The officer in charge of the fleet hurriedly chased him to retrieve the five taels of silver, but unfortunately the Japanese official moved too fast and could not catch up. "Zhu Pingan was worried." He spoke slowly.
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Everyone laughed, why are Japanese people like this? The butcher was stupid and couldn’t tell the truth that one tael of gold equals ten taels of silver. Why are Japanese officials so careless! They are really barbarians, not civilized!
"Zhu Zihou, you don't talk about the method of doubling the national treasury without adding taxes to the people. Instead, you talk about how to do these insignificant things. Do you think I am as stupid as that Japanese bandit?" Li Mo After listening to Zhu Pingan's two inconsequential travel notes, an official behind him couldn't help but stand up and accuse Zhu Pingan.
"Don't be anxious, sir. Ping'an is talking about the method of doubling the national treasury without adding taxes to the people." Zhu Ping'an smiled slightly.
What?
What kind of method is this for doubling the treasury? Isn’t it just two irrelevant travel notes? Isn’t it just a stupid butcher and a sloppy official! Are you saying that you want to make money from this stupid butcher and this sloppy official? Just kidding, even if you squeeze them dry, it will only be worth three melons and two dates! It doesn’t help!
There was a burst of contempt from the officials, especially the official who spoke just now, and they all laughed out loud.
"Zhu Zihou, are you kidding me?" Li Mo suppressed his anger and almost shouted.
"How dare Ping An make a joke in this Golden Palace? What I am talking about is exactly the method of doubling the national treasury. Maybe it is not obvious from these two travel notes, so I will tell you about another book. What I saw Another book is the records of Honglu Temple, which records the tribute paid by the Japanese state to Japan twenty years ago. It is recorded in this incident that after the Japanese Dynasty donated a gift to the Japanese Dynasty, Honglu Temple rewarded the envoy one hundred taels of gold in accordance with the decree. The Japanese envoy requested that the gold be replaced with silver of equivalent value on the grounds that there were many people and it was inconvenient to distribute the gold. 500 taels." Zhu Pingan shook his head and then told another story.
What? I still don’t understand. What kind of method is this for doubling the treasury?
Many officials still don’t understand what Zhu Pingan is talking about. These three records have something to do with the doubling of the national treasury.
"Zihou, are you saying that the exchange of gold and silver in Japan is one tael of gold for five taels of silver?" Yan Shifan was the first to react, and then his face was filled with joy, and his eyes were shining, as if he was watching Here comes a shortcut to getting rich.
"It is exactly what Mr. Yan said. I have verified it with various sources and can basically confirm that the gold and silver exchange ratio of Japan is very different from that of our Ming Dynasty. In our country, ten taels of silver can be exchanged for one tael of gold, while in Japan Twelve taels of silver can be exchanged for two taels of gold, which is twice as much." Zhu Pingan nodded, and then revealed this conclusion in a positive tone.
The reason why Zhu Ping'an said this is to implant the seeds of financial war into everyone's hearts, and use interests to draw everyone's attention abroad, hoping to subtly open the eyes of Ming people to the world.
What, the gold and silver exchange ratio of the Japanese country is actually 1:5. Why is there such a strange exchange ratio? The officials in the hall were surprised. This was the first time they had heard of this kind of thing. The exchange ratio of gold and silver is so different that if it changes hands, it will be twice as much gold. It doesn’t need Zhu Ping’an to say more, but everyone can easily realize the huge business opportunities. Modern Chinese aunts can even establish their illustrious reputation on Wall Street. .
“How much gold can Japan have?” an official asked.
“During the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, a Tibetan man named Marco Polo came to the Central Plains by boat from the sea. In a travel note, he called the Japanese country Zipangu, which translates to the Kingdom of Gold. He recorded in his travel notes that , saying that every Japanese Everyone has countless gold. The roof of the palace is covered with pure gold, and the gold on the floor is as thick as two fingers. There are thick pure gold tables and windows in many rooms. It is also decorated with gold. It is said that there is a temple in Japan. The ten-foot-tall Buddha is entirely made of gold. In his travel notes, Japan was also called the Silver Islands, saying that there were countless silver mines in the country, and there were continuous mountains in the open air and silver sand that could be obtained by leaning over. "
Zhu. Ping An exaggeratedly described it according to Ma The contents of a travel diary narrated by Marco Polo. This travel diary is not the later travel diary of Marco Polo, but another travel diary that was narrated during the Yuan Dynasty. This travel diary is in a corner of the library. Zhu Pingan found it when he was sorting out books the day before yesterday.
As for authenticity?
Haha, who cares, but history does record that gold and silver mines were abundant during this period in Japan. Japan's current Warring States Period is supported by gold and silver mines.
This chapter was completed last night and will be updated tonight.
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