please make me king

Chapter 1522
It is said that Zhang Shun ordered a low-level official and several soldiers to go to Nanjing to meet the "Prince" Zhu Yousong.

Who is this low-level official?

It turned out that it was Han Ruyu who was given to Han Ruyu from the Ministry of War of the seventh rank.

As his name suggests, Han Ruyu is quite like the Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty. He is dedicated to his duties and is upright. He has impeached other generals many times and is hated by others.

Therefore, when Zhang Shun's "hot potato" came out, the others couldn't avoid it, so they recommended Han Ruyu.

Originally, Zhang Shun didn't intend to really invite the "Prince" Zhu Yousong back, and he was even more worried that his brother would be killed by the Donglin Party members for nothing.

He just glanced at it briefly, then let Han Ruyu go.

In the end, no one expected that Han Ruyu would really want to welcome the "Prince" back with all his heart.

However, from Beijing to Nanjing, the foot journey is 550 miles, and even riding a horse would take more than a month of work, let's put it aside for the time being.

Let’s say that Zhang Shun found this excuse and won two months of hard work for himself. He intensified and urged Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, and Geng Zhongming to torture the eunuchs and Jin Yiwei.

"Your Majesty, Cao Huachun's family confiscated a mansion, three houses, 37 singers and thin horses, 120 seven servants and maids, coral treasures worth 5 million taels, and 32 taels of silver now." Princess Zhu Hui of Le'an Ti reported to Zhang Shunhui.

"No, he's a eunuch, why buy singers and skinny horses?" Zhang Shun was puzzled.

"Use it to practice!" Mentioning this, Zhu Huiti couldn't help but gritted his teeth and replied.

It turned out that after some eunuchs lost their normal functions as men, their hearts became more and more perverted.

Therefore, when they get rich, they like to buy some girls to abuse and vent their resentment.

"Either...or you might as well stay, you're so lustful" Zhu Huiti hesitated a little and couldn't help suggesting.

Zhang Yan, Zhou Yufeng and Tian Xiuying covered their faces when they heard the words, they were indeed pampered princesses, and they could speak such nonsense.

"Uh..." Zhang Shun shook his head when he heard the words, and said helplessly, "Forget it, let these people keep the rewards for the meritorious soldiers!"

Are you kidding me, Cao Huachun assassinated the king and killed him, it's a lesson learned from the past, how can this king let people who don't know why get close to him again?
"And, prudish!" Zhu Huiti said with a disdainful glance at Zhang Shun.

That Zhang Yan was really afraid that Zhang Shun would "follow the tide" to respond, so she quickly interjected: "By the way, Your Highness, Fatty Zhang came to report this morning, and found a total of [-] million shi of grain in the Tongzhou granary."

"Oh?" Sure enough, Zhang Shun's mind was no longer on women when it came to serious matters.

"There are a total of 110 million shi in the capital, plus 220 million shi in Tongzhou, a total of [-] million shi. This is a lot of food!"

To Zhang Shun's surprise, he thought that after the "grain war", there would be a serious food shortage in the northern region, but he never expected that there were still 220 million shi of grain in the Taicang granary.

"These are taxes accumulated in previous years, and it is said that there is still rotten old grain!" Zhou Yufeng frowned and explained.

"Huh?" Zhang Shun was taken aback when he heard the words, and couldn't laugh or cry.

The core of the problem on the Nine Frontiers of the Ming Dynasty was the lack of food, but it never occurred to Chongzhen to sit on Baoshan without knowing it.

It turned out that since the Ministry of Households established the Taicang warehouse, the Taicang bank was unable to make ends meet, but the Taicang grain depot was never in short supply.

However, no one in the Ming Dynasty realized that the core of the economic problems between the north and the south in the late Ming Dynasty was the imbalance between money and food.

Among them, agriculture and commerce are developed in the south, but due to the distance from the Nine Frontiers, grain transportation is inconvenient, but there are more silver.

However, the north suffered from repeated droughts, locust plagues, and military disasters, and agricultural production was greatly damaged.

However, because the land is close to the nine sides, there are fewer folds, and a large amount of grain has to be paid as taxes.

In this way, the north has more money and less food, while the south has less money and more food.

As a result, the economic activities of both the North and the South were greatly damaged.

"Your Highness, what's the matter?" Seeing Zhang Shun's expression, the four girls couldn't help but be puzzled.

Then Zhang Shun said his opinion, and sure enough, the four girls were also stunned.

"Your Highness, do you mean that silver is worthless because of the lack of food in the north, and food is not worth much because of the lack of money in the south?" The four girls are all smart people. After hearing this, they thought for a while, and immediately realized it.

"Then the money we collect is worthless?" Suddenly, the four women felt that the abacus in their hands was not worth it.

"Who says it's worthless?" Zhang Shun couldn't help laughing, "Money is still valuable, the key is how to spend it!"

"This king takes the money, one is to distribute rewards to calm people's hearts; the other is to stabilize prices and adjust the price difference between money and food."

"Stable prices, how can you stabilize prices?" The girls were stunned when they heard the words, and couldn't help asking.

"If you have less money, put money, if you have more money, put food!" Zhang Shun couldn't help explaining with a chuckle.

"Why do you think it changed from true color to folding color back then? It wasn't the beginning of the country, there was too much food and money, and it couldn't last long, so this is why changing the original color into folding color!"

The true color generally refers to the real objects collected by the court, while the folded color refers to the converted silver money.

At the beginning, the Ming court had strong control power, so it was able to adjust between expropriation in kind and money, so it was able to maintain a stable economy.

However, after the end of the dynasty, apart from the imperial court's control ability.

Another most important reason is that people in this era have not been able to deeply understand the problem of the ratio between money and food.

Sun Chengzong and Sun Chuanting were partially aware of this problem, and adopted the measures of garrisoning land and inviting tunning to carry out reforms, which alleviated the contradiction between money and food in the north to a certain extent.

However, because these two people only focused on the superficial problem of "shortage of food", they did not solve the fundamental problem of the economy in the late Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, with the military failure of the two, the reform failed completely.

Zhang Shun was different. As a person from the previous life, although Zhang Shun was limited to the problem of "lack of food" at the beginning, he quickly realized the problem of the imbalance between money and food in the Ming Dynasty based on the knowledge of economics he had learned in the previous life.

Therefore, the policy of "substituting food for salary" was adopted to adjust the ratio between the two, and achieved greater success.

However, after the rebels occupied most of the north, the question of the ratio of money to food resurfaced in front of Zhang Shun.

"Listen, we sisters understand it!" The four girls quickly asked the question between them, "But now we only have money, and we don't have much food. What should we do?"

Zhang Shun got a lot of silver through the "three major cases" this time, but the food is still not enough, what should we do?
"It's okay. One is that we already have 200 million shi of grain in our hands. When Hong Chengchou occupies Linqing, it is estimated that he can get hundreds of thousands of shi of grain. For the time being, this is no problem!" Zhang Shun laughed.

"However, for us, the most important thing is the collection of summer grain and autumn grain!"

After the rebel army cleaned up a large number of dignitaries, civil officials, and eunuchs, whether Zhang Shun's new regime could collect taxes was the key to the success or failure of the rebel army.

"Then can they listen to His Highness?" The fourth daughter frowned and asked involuntarily.

"No problem, they don't need to listen to us, but they will always listen to some people!" Zhang Shun laughed.

"Who?"

"The Metropolitan Procuratorate!"

In the Ming Dynasty, the Metropolitan Procuratorate was developed from the Yushitai, and there were thirteen supervisory censors under it, patrolling prefectures and counties, specializing in the investigation and impeachment of officials.

(End of this chapter)