Chapter 840 Tonghe Palace Treasury
Qi Jiguang was much luckier than Yue Fei. Qi Jiguang met Zhang Juzheng. He could pacify the Japanese, completely eliminate the Japanese traitors, and resist the Northern Barbarians, which made the Northern Barbarians unable to go south for fifteen years to disturb the Ming Dynasty. Yue Fei was completely different.
One is Qin Hui and Zhao Gou, one is prime minister and the other is emperor, trying every means to hold back.
Yue Fei fought desperately in front, and Qin Hui shouted from behind: You can't win, if you win, it will affect the peace talks!
Yue Fei had already reached Zhuxian Town and almost beat the Jin people to death. Qin Hui shouted from behind: You can't fight, you can't stay alone for a long time!
Zhao Gou wins the dog with one lie down! You won’t even lie down!
Yue Fei was a martial saint in the Ming Dynasty, and folk worship was very common. Even the portrait of Yue Fei was found as soon as the Dongchang entered the door, which was a kind of universal worship.
Zhu Yijun and Zhu Ci are a poem he wrote himself, which is about Yue Fei and Qi Jiguang.
Trust and loyal to the sun and the moon, and loyalty to serve the country has not stopped;
In front of the Fengbo Pavilion, I sigh at the storm, and I will plan for the Jiuzhou forever.
Yue Fei's loyalty and loyalty can be seen. Welcoming the two saints was a slogan shouted by Zhao Gou himself. Taking Kaifeng Prefecture and regaining the capital was also an imperial edict issued by Zhao Gou;
He never forgot the loyalty that his mother carved on his back and did not dare to slacken. He cleaned up the old mountains and rivers in the four northern expeditions, recovered lost land, and reshaped mountains and rivers;
In the 13th year of Wanli, the emperor visited Yu Qian's tomb and Yue Wang's tomb on Hangzhou Prefecture. Standing at Fengbo Pavilion, he lamented the storm of social interaction between the two Song dynasties. If there was no Fengbo Pavilion (the location of Dali Temple in the Southern Song Dynasty) at that time, wouldn't there be no Hu people who have been pickled for nearly a hundred years?
Today, Qi Jiguang wants to continue attacking because of his ambition and ambition when he was young. It is not my intention to be a marquis, but I hope the sea will be peaceful.
If the Japanese people do not continue to attack and develop and plunge into a nail that can interfere with the situation in Japan at any time, the Japanese disaster may make a comeback. This plan is for the long-term stability of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yijun is setting a tone for this matter. If the front line thinks it is necessary to fight, then fight. Don’t point fingers behind everyone.
The Ming Dynasty could not learn from the Song Dynasty, and Zhu Yijun wanted to be Zhao Gou, and Zhang Juzheng was not Qin Hui.
"This is how the barbarians are. The only thing they can understand is their fists." Zhu Yijun quoted Wan Shihe's words again and expressed his attitude.
He was not worried that Qi Jiguang would lose, because Qi Jiguang is very steady now. He can win if he can, and if he can't win, he will fight again if he can't win. Anyway, His Majesty doesn't urge him.
A very detailed combat plan was submitted, which divided the attack waves into three waves, generally speaking: the Ming Dynasty Jingzhang kicked the door, the Liaodong army cleared the remnants, and the Korean army was responsible for security.
The direction of the attack was also in many cities along the northern coast of Japan. We headed north, from Nagato City to Izumo City to Songjiang City.
The most noteworthy one here is Ishimi Mida, namely Yida, Hamada and Ota. These three places are part of the Yoshida Plain in Japan. They are the main grain and silver production areas of Nagato, Ishimi and Izumo. Ishimi Gin Mountain is located between Hamada and Ota.
Ishimi Yinshan is also the largest Yinshan in Japan.
According to Qi Jiguang's plan to advance together by sea and land, all the northern coastal cities can be captured within half a year to a year, and then these port cities can be used as attacking fortresses to interfere in the situation in Japan at any time.
Zhu Yijun agreed to this plan, but the reason was actually very simple. After 15 years of Zhenwu, he always had to give an explanation to the world.
The capture of Tuman Khan, Altan Khan, and the attack on Liaodong were an explanation for the northerners, while the battle to aid Korea and destroy the Japanese was an explanation for the southerners.
The Emperor of Ming Dynasty took the land taxes and taxes of the people of the world. He did not build a large scale of construction or enjoy the luxury of enjoyment. He used them all in places where they needed it and did not disappoint the trust and entrust the people of the world.
Obviously, the south, especially the southeast, the powerful, local gentry, and poor people were very satisfied with the answer to Zhenwu in the past fifteen years.
The powerful and heroic worker keeps reporting to pay donations, even if it is a symbolic collection of silver, it is still a sense of participation. This time there is really no conspiracy, just wanting a sense of participation;
The local gentry clicked his own field certificate and finally had a stable sleep without worrying about the resurgence of the Japanese disease;
The poor and hardworking laborers ran around and told each other, and every household set off firecrackers to celebrate the hard-won peace.
Gao Qiyu once told Oda City that it was the Ming Dynasty that it was the Ming Dynasty that suppressed the anger of the people, rather than the Ming Dynasty that did so many immoral things without hiding the people.
Yu Dayou once told the emperor that the security of the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty was never on the fortress on land, but on the sea. Now that Yu Dayou has passed away for many years, Zhu Yijun can tell Yu Dayou calmly that the Ming Dynasty was clearing out the old nests occupied by Japanese pirates.
Some people die, but they will live forever.
The opening of the order inspection in the 16th year of Wanli was very lively. Although there was no public trial this time, it still had the custom of Master You, mainly for an atmosphere. This year, the wine industry from Guizhou began to emerge. The wine from Maotai Town appeared in the capital of the Ming Dynasty and participated in the competition for the world's number one fine wine.
Shu Yan went to Guizhou, and Qin merchants gathered in Maotai.
Moutai Town winemaking can be traced back to the pre-Qin period, with a very superior geographical location. It is located on the banks of the Chishui River and is the throat of the water and land transportation of Sichuan and Guizhou. It has been an important wharf for Sichuan and salt to enter Guizhou since ancient times. Merchants have gathered for thousands of years. By the Ming Dynasty, Maotai Town had become the most important winemaking place in the southwest region.
But unfortunately, Maotai Town’s wine failed to win the championship in one fell swoop, and this year it is still the first place in Shanghai County’s Shenxian Wine and Beiya’s Kuaiqu Wine.
Behind this is the competition between the two comprehensive science and technology colleges of the north and the south. These two colleges are still leading the country in microbial engineering. After all, there are only these two places, and there are doctors who specialize in bacteria cultivation, and the competition is very fierce.
In the end, it was Beiya’s Kuaiqu wine that won the title of No. 1 wine in the world with its slight advantage.
The competition within the Ming Dynasty was very fierce. In the past two years, the key direction of the Southern Institute, which is Songjiang Institute of Technology (Qian Maritime Academy), is still the cultivation of penicillium, which is mainly to increase the yield of old brine, that is, increase the yield of penicillin.
In terms of wine, Songjiang Institute of Technology mainly uses strong liquor. Shenxian wine distilled many times to obtain alcohol with a concentration of more than 75%. This wine is mainly used for disinfection. The main purpose of alcohol is the disinfection of medical equipment, and it is also used as a highly strong liquor and as a nautical liquor.
The research direction of Songjiang Institute of Technology is mainly for navigation direction, so it is not surprising that it is slightly inferior in flavor.
The wine of the Ming Dynasty gradually became a kind of goods and was sold in the world. Highly strong liquors were blended in the local area, and various strange juices, egg whites, milk, coffee and other substances that suit local tastes were mixed.
Zhu Yijun once again criticized the world's number one wine and earned 100,000 silver dollars in advertising fees from this grand celebration.
In the lively atmosphere of the capital, the Taixi sailboat arrived at Songjiang Prefecture. Envoys from various countries arrived at the capital of the Ming Dynasty on a hydrofoil sailboat, preparing to enter the palace to meet.
As the permanent Spanish envoy to the Ming Dynasty, Legashi met an envoy from Spain.
Last year, the stupid, greedy and young Jose Louis lost too much gold and silver at the Yanxinglou Trading Store. After returning to Tessie, he was imprisoned by the angry His Highness Felipe and asked Jose's family to pay enough gold and silver to make up for the losses caused by gambling.
Felipe didn't know much about the Ming Dynasty trading bank, but the gold bonds he issued had never been cashed out. He knew very well about the background of such trading bank.
Traders may make money, but trading banks will definitely not lose money.
This year, the Spanish envoy was Pedro Fernandez, who had visited the Ming Dynasty once before. Pedro was a nobleman of the Mesta Association, an association composed of shepherds and played an important position in Spain's long reconquest movement.
Before becoming the empire of the sun never set, Spain was always a 'country on the back of the sheep'.
"This year's silver is only 2 million taels of silver, but this year's gold is only 250,000 taels." With the ambition, the proportion of sailing ship trade gradually decreased in the Ming Dynasty's maritime trade and fell down again.
"Is there any problem?" Pedro asked with a smile on his white ring collar.
Li Yashi took off his glasses, took out his pen and wrote several formulas on the paper, saying, "The 250,000 taels of gold is now worth only 1.75 million taels of silver. That is to say, you can only buy 3.75 million taels of silver, not what you think is 6 million taels of silver."
"The ratio of gold and silver in the Ming Dynasty was around 1:16, but at the beginning of this year, due to some things, the ratio of gold and silver fell to 1:5. With the signing of the "Kyoto Treaty" by the Ming Dynasty, the ratio of gold and silver increased to 1:7 again. This ratio is still turbulent, but it has stabilized."
Pedro's face changed drastically, and he asked with a frown: "I have heard about the Ming Dynasty signing the Kyoto Treaty. In Songjiang Prefecture, the silver mountains in Japan were occupied by the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty obtained more silver, and silver could only be exchanged for less gold in the market."
"What made the price of gold slide from high prices to 1:5?"
Le Yashi found a mansion report and placed it in front of Pedro. He said helplessly: "The Ming Dynasty established the Governor's Office overseas. Two ships of golden sand will arrive in the Ming Dynasty every year. The estimated gold output this year can reach 500,000 taels. It will take less than a few years for the Ming Dynasty to increase gold."
"Governor General's Office of Jinchi?" Pedro looked at Di Bao and the translated Latin language. He knew a little bit of Sinology. Since Di Bao's original was there, it means that Li Yashi did not lie to him.
After reading the mansion report, Pedro said with a serious expression: "Does there any information from the Governor General's Office?"
"No." Li Yashi spread his hands and said, "The Ming Dynasty court has never publicly explored needle maps, astronomical maps, and sea charts. You know, the sea is boundless, without these things, even if you tell you the approximate direction, you will only be trapped in the endless sea and swallowed by the waves."
"I'm not afraid of death, but I can't get to these confidential things."
"This year the Cabinet passed a confidentiality bill, which strictly kept the production technologies such as coal mining, coke, steel, shipbuilding, steam engines, breeding chickens, fungi species, and planting."
The ban on technology outflow law passed by the Ming Dynasty cabinet is actually a confidentiality bill. The Ming Dynasty did not have particularly strict management of these things before, but now it is very strict.
"If you catch it, behead your head." Li Ya compared her hand around her neck, feeling helpless.
There are conservatives in the court. They are unwilling to be open and inclusive. It is impossible to open source. Now it is the revival of Wanli, not the prosperous era of Kaiyuan.
"This is really, it's so regretful." Pedro proposed to exchange technology for markets in the last visit. Before the confidentiality bill, this can be discussed. Now that there is a confidentiality bill, this is a problem that cannot be discussed because it is illegal.
Even the mining technology will not be shared with the Ming Dynasty.
"Before the Ming Dynasty, it did not collect gold, but later it began to collect and store gold, but I saw that the Ming Dynasty's gold was not a currency. What should the Ming Dynasty do if it wanted so much gold?" Pedro was a little unable to understand the Ming Dynasty's approach.
Gold is useless. If gold is useful, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty would not only collect silver, because the amount of gold is too small to be used as a currency, so most of the gold is used in jewelry.
The consumption of jewelry is too small compared to currency, so the Ming Dynasty did not have enough motivation to collect and store gold.
The currency of the Ming Dynasty was still silver coins and Wanli Tongbao. What was the Ming Dynasty going to do to store these gold?
Li Yashi sat upright and said, "The Emperor of Ming Dynasty is preparing to build a huge vault. This vault is located in Tonghe Palace, covering an area of about 11 acres and is composed of concrete, granite and steel. The gate built by the military battle alone weighs more than 40,000 kilograms, which is expensive. Even if it is blown up with gunpowder, it is difficult to explode."
"The lock of the gate is carefully designed by the Gewu Academy and requires four locks." "The emperor controlled all the keys, and the cabinet chief, the director of the Gewu Academy, the general officer of the Beijing camp, and the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue each have one. The door is opened once a year, and only enters and does not leave."
"Under the witness of the four ministers, the cast gold bars were put into it. Each gold bar weighed 25 kilograms, and there were gold stamps from craftsmen, military battles, ministry of residence, and treasury on the gold."
Pedro was stunned for a long time and his face became even more confused. He asked in confusion: "You still haven't answered my question. What is the Ming Dynasty's gold storage? Do you hide it?"
"Distribute the Ming Dynasty treasure money." Li Yashi said with a breath of breath: "The Ming Dynasty was very poor and poor before. After the national treasury was separated during the Jiajing period, he still begged for each other and borrowed money from each other. Later, there was no silver for the national treasury and the treasury."
"If the national treasury is not money, you can write an IOU and get gold from Your Majesty, which is the gold in the Tonghe Palace treasury. However, Your Majesty does not give gold, but gives treasure money, which is equivalent to giving gold. In this way, the quantity of treasure money of the Ming Dynasty anchors the amount of gold in the Tonghe Palace."
"Anyone who gets the treasure banknote can go to the Baoyuan Bureau to exchange silver or Wanli Tongbao of value. Gold is only a guarantee of His Majesty's credibility."
Pedro said in surprise: "This... the Emperor of Ming Dynasty still needs gold as collateral for sending treasure money? Does His Highness Felipe's gold bond have gold? Don't you know whether there is gold for His Royal Highness Felipe's gold bonds. Do you use it as money?"
It is not clear whether Felipe has so many gold bonds. Even Pedro, the noble and court secretary, is not very clear. When everyone believes that he sometimes, it can be regarded as the gold real.
Li Yashi said with emotion: "You are right. Your Majesty has just sent a general to defeat Japan and gained ownership of Japan's minerals. With His Majesty's reputation, Your Majesty can even issue money even if he has nothing."
"Really, if Your Majesty says that his treasury is very poor, and set up a deposit to collect gold and silver from all over the world into the warehouse, give bonds, and agree to return it for many years, I will definitely hand over all my gold and silver to Your Majesty."
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"You can also issue money without gold. I, a foreign barbarian, recognize it."
Li Yashi felt that His Majesty was sometimes very bold, sometimes very careful, and he was a little too careful.
It's really a bit too much to work hard to repair such a vault.
As a real emperor, His Majesty’s power is infinite, just issuing money, how big a thing is it?
No one dared to oppose the gold and silver collected from all over the world. If he really objected, he could just send the Beijing camp to send the opposition to heaven.
Li Ya actually understood the emperor's idea very well, because Hongwu Baochao completely overdrawn the credibility of the Ming emperor and the court. In order to prevent the old incidents from happening, His Majesty the Emperor was so cautious about the bill, which was naturally a blessing for all the people in the world.
However, the Ming Dynasty is short of money and currency at the moment. The emperor is so cautious that the Ming Dynasty's economic vitality cannot be fully released. Now the Ming Dynasty's economy is dancing with shackles. Even so, the Ming Dynasty is still the supreme country of the Celestial Empire.
Li Yashi once communicated deeply with the commander of Fandu Liu Ji. The Ming Dynasty's economic vitality is now completely limited by His Majesty's prudence. The Ming Dynasty issued banknotes in Japan, allowing the place where the treasure banknotes were used along the coast of Japan was extremely prosperous; the Ming Dynasty issued banknotes in Luzon, and the economic vitality of the Southeast Asian countries was even higher than that of the Ming Dynasty.
The merchants of the Ming Dynasty recognized the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes, especially the overseas treasure banknotes issued by Luzon. They did not count the Yunnan copper and Womagang gold, silver copper and iron ore. There were twelve copper towns and Han towns in Luzon. No one suspected that His Majesty could not accept it.
The core of Baochao is credibility, confidence, confidence in the Ming Dynasty. If you believe that Baochao is valuable, Baochao is really valuable.
Your Majesty is in his prime at the age of twenty-six, and his Spring and Autumn Period is in full swing. Your Majesty's diligence is well known, and no one will doubt that the Ming Dynasty will slide downward in His Majesty's hands.
Regarding the issue of money, the former Situ Wang Guoguang and the current Situ Zhang Xueyan have communicated with His Majesty many times, but His Majesty has never been willing to repair the treasury before replacing the treasury.
Your Majesty means that real money and silver are the confidence.
Li Ya truly identified this phenomenon as a high morality that the Ming Dynasty was too shameless in doing things.
High morality is a disadvantage in colonization, but for the people of the Ming Dynasty, high morality is a huge advantage. The people of the Ming Dynasty may have been used to it, but as a foreigner, Li Ya was very clear that it is very rare to be a wise saint like Your Majesty.
If we don’t talk about those uncivilized places overseas, we will only be the monarchs of Taixi, who have just taken human form.
Li Yashi further added: "The Ministry of Revenue has previously issued a treasure banknote anchoring. In fact, the Daming Bao Bank does not have to be anchored to gold, but can anchor various assets of the Ming Dynasty, such as the Daming official factory, the Daming overseas plantation and other assets, which can also be anchored."
Pedro leaned against the back of the chair, looking up at the beam of the room, remembering the pain of being tortured by the gold bonds.
I have to use gold bonds, but every morning I wake up, Pedro has to worry about the depreciation of gold bonds, and it will indeed depreciate.
"As a Thai, I have to admit that being born in the Ming Dynasty may be a lucky thing." Pedro sighed deeply. It was too reliable for the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to do facts!
His Majesty the Emperor has such a vast territory, loyal and brave soldiers, stable power, and strong national strength, and is still cautious in doing things.
On the other hand, Felipe is a little unscrupulous.
"Entertainment Li, can you briefly explain why there are such big differences between the East and the West?" Pedro didn't understand why Tessi did not have an emperor like His Majesty.
Li Yashi smiled and said, "Well, in the East, a wise saint like Your Majesty is also a minority among the few."
In the past two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, only three were truly considered wise rulers, and two were at the beginning of the country. In the past sixty years, the situation in the Ming Dynasty was getting worse and worse, and even the Northern Barbarians, who were not even an iron pot, could no longer suppress them.
"That's fine." Pedro could only comfort himself like this. After all, at the Hai Trade table, only the Ming Dynasty and Spain were sitting on the dining table, and the rest were still on the menu. Because Portugal defected to the Ming Dynasty, he sat on the children's table from the menu.
The Ming Dynasty and Spain have a direct competitive relationship in maritime trade.
"The recent chaos in France is a bit worrying." Pedro said with great concern: "Marione has received a lot of sponsorship. These French nobles are all hoping that Marione can obtain the concession of the Ming Emperor to allow Ming goods to be distributed in the port of Le Havre, which she occupied, that is, the City of Great Light."
"The armor, horses, swords, flags and entourages of the Knights are increasing rapidly, but the King of France is addicted to male favorites and has no response to this."
"The Emperor of Ming Dynasty should not allow the Ming Dynasty merchant ship to go to Da Guangming City to collect goods. After all, the Portuguese King Antonio was enthroned by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty."
France and Spain have fought for many years. The bad situation in France now has a lot to do with Spain. Felipe does not want to see a relatively united France, otherwise the French will become stronger again and put Spain in danger.
If France unites again, it will be a greater danger than England.
Le Yashi sighed, took out a mansion report, and handed it to Pedro and said, "The Ming Emperor has allowed the Ming merchant ships to go to Le Havre Port, which is what you call Da Guangming City to collect cargo."
After reading the mansion report, Pedro said in shock and angrily: "The last time the Ming Dynasty allowed the Netherlands to obtain salt, it disrupted His Highness's arrangement! Now this allows merchant ships to collect cargo in Daguangming City."
"Are you not afraid of losing the friendship of Your Highness when the Ming Dynasty did this? Are you not afraid of losing the silver from the rich silver mine!"
"The Ming Dynasty's hand was stretched out too long. If we interfered in the Ming Dynasty in Annan, Japan, Luzon, and Malacca in such a way that it caused trouble for the Ming Dynasty, how would the Ming Dynasty react!"
Pedro couldn't stand this humiliation!
Daming simply did not take Spain seriously. It is absolutely unbearable to intervene in Thailand's affairs and must fight back.
Leather looked at Pedro and said solemnly: "No matter whether you can accept it or not, for the Ming Dynasty, Spain's friendship is actually not that important, just like the Governor Yin Zhengmao and the Governor Yin attacked Luzon and defeated our Governor's Office."
"The Ming Dynasty has its own way of behavior and logic, and will not be disturbed by external voices."
"The Ming Dynasty used the Ming Dynasty's goods to interfere in Thailand, but how did Spain interfere in the countries of the South China Sea? Do violence, firearms, and diseases interfere?"
The surprise of friendly countries is just a way of correcting mistakes by the Ming Dynasty. As for whether they are really surprised, the Ming Dynasty actually doesn't care.
If Spain wants to interfere in many small countries in the South China Sea, even if it can successfully pass through the Strait of Malacca and establish good relations with these small countries, what can we use to make these small countries oppose the Ming Dynasty? At present, Taisie's goods have no attraction to these small countries.
On the contrary, the old stories of Luzon have made all small foreign countries and countries be wary of the red-haired fan.
Legashi looked at Pedro's angry look and signaled him to sit down and speak.
"At the time when the Malacca Kingdom, the Kingdom of Malacca, was defeated, the Ming Dynasty sent envoys to Malacca City to ask the colonists to leave and return the throne of kings to the descendants of the king. Didn't we obey? The red-haired fan in Haojing and Shuangyu even occupied the territory of the Ming Dynasty."
"In exchanges between countries, interests are the first priority, and it is a bit naive to say things like friendship."
The Ming Dynasty would not distinguish between the Red Hair Fan, and distinguish between the Red Hair Fan and the Spanish. The Ming Dynasty and the Red Hair Fan began to conflict since the Hongzhi period. Because of the two things: the Japanese invasion of Shuangyu and the area of Haojing, the Ming Dynasty had no good feelings for the Red Hair Fan.
When the Ming Dynasty needed a large sailing trade, it had already launched an attack on Luzon.
"If this continues, wouldn't Spain become a tribute country? Your Highness will not allow such a thing to happen!" Pedro gritted his teeth and emphasized that Spain cannot become a vassal of the Ming Dynasty!
Leather did not answer, but looked out the window. No matter how Felipe denied it, in fact, Portugal and Spain now fully meet the definition of a tribute country. They deny it in their mouths, but their bodies are still very honest.
It was a long time later that Le Yashi replied, "Your Majesty said that only with goods can there be currency, and that's true."
At this time, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty was conducting the groundbreaking ceremony of the Tonghe Palace Treasury. The chief assistant Zhang Juzheng, the head of Dinggong Dajian, Wang Chonggu, the Minister of Revenue Zhang Xueyan, and the Minister of Works Wang Daokun witnessed this historical moment.
Zhu Yijun shoveled a shovel of soil to lay the foundation, and then said to Yuan Fucius: "In the fifteenth year of Wanli, the treasury deposited 1.2 million taels of gold, and the gold bars were 25 kilograms per piece, totaling 3,000 pieces. The vault was built for five years. After the construction was completed, I will put the gold bars in it."
Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but whisper, "This is Your Majesty's gold."
"So I have four keys, and each of my ministers only has one." Zhu Yijun affirmed Zhang Juzheng's remarks. It was indeed the gold of the emperor himself, but it was also the gold of the Ming Dynasty.
(This chapter ends)