I am the king of the dead

Chapter 56 The Emperor of Ming Dynasty has to stand up!

"Your Majesty's visit late at night, is it a military emergency?" Jin Lian didn't sleep, he worked overtime in the yamen of the Ministry of Housing.

At first, the war was tense and worried, but he led the capital camp south to suppress the rebellion on the front foot, and then led the defense of the capital on the back foot, and it was suspected that his hands were too long.

Second, there are too many accounts, he sorted it out for a long time, and finally made it clear.

Daming's national treasury account is not so much a muddled account as it is a bad account. It is too difficult to figure out.

Zhu Qiyu explained his intentions in the future. He really wanted to know how Emperor Yongle left such a huge legacy despite his extreme military force.

Jin Lian said blankly: "There is so much money in the inner treasure."

"Don't you know?" Zhu Qiyu also looked at Jin Lian dully, and the two of them looked at each other.

Originally came to find the answer, there is another confused person in this world.

After thinking about it, Zhu Qiyu and Jin Lian decided to go to Daming's inner purse, which is the inner shipping warehouse.

Knocking on the Emperor's Gate in the middle of the night is a taboo thing for any vassal king, but Zhu Qiyu is the emperor, and Jin Yiwei immediately opened the Meridian Gate after seeing the emperor who never lived in the palace.

Before Zhu Qiyu stood in the inner shipping warehouse, he always thought that there was only one inner warehouse. When he arrived at the place, he realized that there were a total of ten inner warehouses.

Inner shipping warehouse for storing gold and silver, satin, precious jade, tooth angle and feather respectively, wide storage warehouse for storing sulfur and saltpeter, A font warehouse for cloth and paint, etc.

And now in front of him is the inner carrier warehouse. The door is opened with a creaking sound. The warehouse is dark. Xing'an holds the lamp and lights up a few lights. The warehouse has a smell similar to mold, but soon the left side The pattern of silver nuggets on the right side of the gold nugget appeared in front of Zhu Qiyu.

More than 20 taels of gold, more than 300 million taels of silver, as well as precious stones and jade articles, reflected the faint candle light, lighting up the entire warehouse.

On the long shelves, there are displays that cannot be seen at a glance. These rare treasures and ivory are real objects other than gold and silver.

At this point, Zhu Qiyu deeply understands what is called "golden and green", which is really bright and blinding.

After Jin Lian checked it carefully, he asked Jin Yiwei and the eunuch of the inner carrier to count the silver coins that were sent to the outside of Zhangyi Gate, and then slowly exited the gate of the inner vault.

The Nekumen slowly closed, but Jin Lian's complexion was abnormally heavy, and he bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, this minister probably understands this matter, but it's a long story, shouldn't you go to Zhangyi Gate to reward the three armies first? "

"Then talk while walking." Zhu Qiyu didn't care where the conversation took place, he just wanted to find out why Zhu Di was so rich.

No matter what you want to do, you have to have money in your hands.

"During the reign of Hongwu, I had a ban on the sea." Jin Lian and Zhu Qiyu took the same car and went to Zhangyi Gate.

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said, "At that time, Zhang Shicheng was defeated and fled to Nanyang, so Emperor Taizu ordered the board not to go into the sea, and then pirates and pirates raged.

Jin Lian sighed and said, "However, this does not mean that Daming does not communicate with overseas. In fact, since the reign of Hongwu, various vassal states have paid tribute non-stop. After that, I am rewarded tenfold by Daming."

"But in addition to the tribute, the merchant ships of the feudal countries frequently carried spices and other items to trade with me in the Ming Dynasty. At the most frequent time, there were three or five tributes a year, such as Malacca and other places. commerce."

Zhu Qiyu was stunned, he actually always believed that Daming's sea ban was based on political considerations.

For example, Zhang Shicheng was defeated and the remaining forces fled to Nanyang, but he only realized when he heard Jin Lian explain the tribute.

He didn't know if what he thought was correct, and continued: "Do you mean that, in fact, the countries of the South Seas have been doing trade with my Ming court through the way of tribute?"

"Yes." Jin Lian said with emotion: "Emperor Taizong Wen's seven voyages to the West were actually mainly trade. For this reason, Emperor Wen specially established the Shibo Division."

"Zheng He brought the navy to Nanyang, selling porcelain, paper, iron, tea, etc., and buying back cardamom, agarwood, hematoxylin, pepper, etc., really two ends are buying low and selling high, naturally earning money full of pots.”

"It's not surprising that so much gold and silver were left behind during the Yongle years."

Zhu Qiyu took a deep breath and said in a low voice: "Then the courtiers wrote every day, saying that going to the West is a waste of money and labor, and it should be abolished. The Ming court has not gone to the West for more than ten years."

Jin Lian took out a list from his arms, handed it to Zhu Qiyu and said with emotion: "Here is a bill, please read it, Your Majesty."

"In Nanyang, cardamom is [-] cents a pound, agarwood is [-] cents a pound, hematoxylum is [-] cents a pound, and pepper is [-] cents a pound."

"In Daming, cardamom is five taels a catty, agarwood is 30 taels a catty, sumac is half a tael a catty, and pepper is [-] taels a catty."

"As for the folk kiln porcelain in Daming, a white flower porcelain plate is [-] pieces, and a wine sea is [-] pieces. If you don't have money, you can use spices in exchange."

Zhu Qiyu silently looked at the list in his hand and put it in his sleeve.

"Then why do the courtiers still instigate the strengthening of the sea ban, and they are not allowed to go south. When was the last time Daming went south to the Wanli Seawall?" Zhu Qiyu seemed to be asking himself.

Jin Lian whispered: "In the fifth year of Xuande, the first emperor ordered Zheng He to go to the West for the seventh time to promote the country's prestige. In the ninth year of Xuande, Nanjing guard eunuch Wang Jinghong brought Hanizhehan, the old king's younger brother of the king of Sumatra, back to the capital."

"At that time, the king of Sumatra was old, and Hanizhehan wanted to be a brother and a brother, and the first emperor ordered the son of the old king to succeed him."

"This is the last time."

Oh, during the Orthodox years, all things going south to the West were completely stopped.

This is very reasonable. It is not unusual for Zhu Qizhen to do anything.

Zhu Qiyu took a deep breath and looked at the moon and stars outside the window. At the end of Ming Dynasty, he seemed to be poor.

Jin Lian suddenly bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, I have something to say, I have to say it."

In fact, Jin Lian's previous sentence of burning Tongzhou grain made Zhu Qiyu very dissatisfied with him. How can good grain be burned?

Although the misunderstanding was resolved later, Zhu Qiyu did not take this matter to speak.

But after all, Jin Lian left a very bad impression on the new emperor, so now he speaks as little as he can.

"Speak, it's fine." Zhu Qiyu nodded and said.

Jin Lian said with piercing eyes, "Your Majesty! Zheng He made seven voyages to the Western Ocean to promote martial arts, clean up pirates, and open up trade routes! Such a huge, stable, and prosperous maritime tributary system has stopped."

"But after the official business was stopped, my Daming cardamom, agarwood, pepper and other things did not skyrocket, nor did the supply exceed demand, but it was very stable."

"That must be someone who is running the trade route left by the predecessors and making profits in the middle."

"The trade route left by Emperor Taizong Wen was usurped by others, and someone in the court was speaking for them, blocking the official business route."

"And the Japanese pirates have repeatedly defeated and won, but they are like Lili grassland, and the spring breeze blows and reborn. The minister thinks that there must be some involvement."

After Jin Lian finished speaking, he silently stopped talking, and the official camp stopped, which was naturally due to the frequent exchanges of private merchant ships.

And the Japanese pirates Daming has been suppressing, but the more they are suppressed, the more rampant they are. Who is standing behind the Japanese pirates?

This is Kim Lian's question, not impeachment.

This is a question for Your Majesty to think about.

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said, "The sea trade route left by Emperor Taizongwen did not collapse after he stopped going to the West, but some people ate a mouthful of lard."

Translation and translation is the myth of making wealth.

It's so simple, someone in the hall is speaking for these lard-eating guys.

Zhu Qiyu looked back at the palace, and at the closed internal shipping warehouse. At the very least, Daming could not die of poverty.

Emperor Daming had no money in his hands, just like the magistrates and magistrates in various places, in order to complete the taxation, he had to ask the local gentry, and he was naturally not hard-hearted.

Why is Huo Xuan, the prefect of Datong, able to stand up?
When Shi Heng was in Datong, he made up part of the taxes, so of course Huo Xuan didn't have to look at the faces of the gentry.

Emperor Daming had no money, how could he be able to support it?

Zhu Qiyu suddenly thought of Emperor Jiajing, Zhu Houcong, who had quarreled with courtiers on and off for five or six years for 200 million taicang silver, but failed to win. In the end, he only got 20 taels, and was pointed at by Hai Rui and scolded: Jiajing Jiajing, every house is clean.

Zhu Qiyu repeatedly thought about how Daming Sea Trade should be revitalized again.

A purse is like a man's balls, you have to hold it yourself to feel at ease.

(End of this chapter)