The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 6 Hard Currency
"Slave Wei Zhongxian, see the emperor."

After Wei Zhongxian saw the ceremony, he didn't hear the emperor asking him to get up, so he looked up suspiciously.

Meeting Li Yunze's playful eyes, my heart suddenly 'thumped', with an ominous premonition.

Before he could say anything more, Li Yunze directly raised his hand and smashed the teacup on the gold brick, and the door of the imperial study was immediately closed.

Luo Yangxing rushed out with a group of Jin Yiwei, holding steel knives and surrounded him.

Jiu Qiansui turned pale with shock, and shouted tremblingly, "My lord, my lord! This servant is loyal to my lord~~~"

Li Yunze didn't talk nonsense, and raised his hand vigorously without hesitation.

Luo Yangxing grinned ferociously, and when he raised the steel knife, he lifted the knife with his hand and dropped it.

Lowering his eyelids to suppress the nausea in his heart, Li Yunze, who refused the villain's death because of talking too much, took a deep breath.

"I have to do something. You are blocking my way by fighting for power with me. In order to prevent Middle-earth from falling into the hands of alien races, I can only ask you to go on the way."

Wei Zhongxian is a powerful eunuch, there is no doubt about it.

He gathered the forces suppressed by the Donglin Party from all sides in the DPRK and China, and attacked the Donglin Party vigorously, which was inadvertently meeting the needs of righteousness.

This righteousness is to attack the Donglin Party.

The Donglin Party represents the border smuggling groups of gentry and local tyrants, pirate sea lords and budding capitalists.

These forces don't care about Ming, Dashun, or Qing, as long as they can satisfy their interests, even if it is wild boar skin and blood-stained gold and silver jewelry as shopping money, it's fine.

The local gentry and local tyrants from all over the country are local emperors. They never pay taxes on the tens of thousands of acres of land under their names.

The most typical representatives of border smuggling groups are the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi Merchants.

Don't look at TV dramas in the modern world, how benevolent and trustworthy they are filmed, in fact, the capital of their fortune is the blood of millions of people.

Smuggled ironware, food, cloth and other materials urgently needed by the wild boar skins, in exchange for blood-stained gold and silver, and even got a name as an imperial merchant, really cute.

At the end of Ming Dynasty, Daming's sea power was very developed.

All kinds of sea merchants and pirates are like countless crucian carp crossing the river.

Their ships are everywhere on the seas of East Asia, and overseas trade is in full swing.

But the problem is that they don't pay taxes except that Shibosi can collect some money for the emperor's internal funds.

Tariffs are a very important source of tax revenue, but unfortunately under the protection of the Donglin Party, the imperial court could not receive it.

The Donglin Party even fooled the emperor into abolishing the Shibo Department, and didn't even want to give that little money from the income.

As for the budding capitalists, they are mainly those big businessmen who make silk fabrics, tea and ceramics, and even set up shops in various places.

What they hate the most is the tax collection checkpoints in various places, and most of these checkpoints are guarding eunuchs who collect money for the emperor.

The most famous sentence of the Donglin Party protecting them is "do not compete with the people for profit." '

With just such a sentence, the business tax has become a joke, like the tea tax is only a dozen taels of silver.

These people earn a lot of money, but the court has no money to do things.

Daming, who has no money, is really unreasonable if he does not perish under the toss of natural and man-made disasters.

Of course, the Donglin Party wasn't so bad in the beginning.

They were also passionate and full of vigor in the early days.

It's a pity that the Donglin Party with real ideals basically died later, and those who joined in the later period were all the ones with "itchy scalp and too cold water".

In this case, anyone who travels through the end of the Ming Dynasty will attack the Donglin Party.

Although Wei Zhongxian was fighting for power with the Donglin Party in essence, it was an objective blow to the Donglin Party, which made many people feel good about it.

But now for Li Yunze, he needs time urgently to save Daming.

After all, there are only two years left for Huang Taiji, who has completely torn off the last fig leaf of Ming Dynasty, to enter the customs.

It is impossible for Li Yunze to slowly torment Wei Zhongxian for more than a year, finally drive him away, and then face Huang Taiji's army directly in a few months.

For the people of Ming Dynasty to no longer be slaughtered wantonly, blood flowed everywhere.

Li Yunze decided to send Nine Thousand Years on the road as quickly as possible, and take back the power of the court to prepare for it.

From the very beginning, he never thought about letting Wei Zhongxian go home for the elderly, or putting him in prison for interrogation or something.

This nine-thousand-year-old is powerful and ambitious, and Li Yunze is unwilling to give him any chance to turn things around.

Suppressing the disgust in my heart, I picked up the imperial edict on the imperial case and threw it to Luo Yangxing, "Do something."

It is not enough to clean up Wei Zhongxian, his party members must also be wiped out, so as to minimize losses and turmoil.

Outside the Forbidden City, Luo Sigong led Jin Yiwei to do things, while inside the Forbidden City was done by Luo Yangxing.

When news came from Wang Chengen that he had successfully taken over the Yuma Supervisor, Li Yunze knew that the overall situation had been settled.

The rest is the follow-up work.

This night, the entire capital city passed through in trembling and uneasiness.

It was not until the next day that the hundreds of officials and nobles who were anxiously waiting for the news finally got the definite news.

The new emperor, who had already shown the image of a faint king, actually moved nine thousand years old overnight by doing it silently!
All of a sudden, everyone in the eunuch party was in mourning, but the suppressed Donglin party cheered and shouted that the sage is alive.

They even mobilized hundreds of Tai students to petition the Forbidden City, asking the emperor to severely punish the eunuchs.

This is an important feature of the Donglin Party. It packs itself in a very positive way and acts on the moral high ground everywhere, which is always beneficial.

Scholars from all over the Ming Dynasty have either joined the Donglin Party, or have been influenced by the Internet celebrity Donglin Party of this era, and they stand on their side whether intentionally or not.

The Donglin Party, which controls public opinion, is very influential.

When the whole city was in turmoil, Li Yunze was getting angry.

He knew very well that if he wanted to salvage Daming who had fallen into the mud, it was not enough to be famous, but he also needed to be profitable.

If you can do whatever you want simply by relying on the name of the emperor, then Daming will not perish.

When natural disasters come, there must be money and food to relieve the disaster.

When soldiers and horses fight, they must be fed and rewarded with money and food.

It takes money and food to win people's hearts and do things for oneself, and it also needs money and food to do projects and construction.

There is no money and food, only fame, and Zhu Youjian, who hangs himself on the southeast branch, is the most vivid commentary.

After killing Wei Zhongxian, the first thing Li Yunze did was to ask Wang Chengen to quickly check the internal funds.

If you don't check, you don't know. After checking, he is so angry that he is about to have a heart attack.

There are only tens of thousands of taels of silver left in the internal funds.

"My little cutie!" Looking at the empty inner money, Li Yunze's forehead flared up, "Where's the money?!"

Where did the income of several million taels a year go?

The eunuchs in charge of internal funds were already trembling with fear.

Without the slightest hesitation, they directly threw the blame on Jiu Qiansui, "Eunuch Wei took them all away."

According to the history books, when Wei Zhongxian was seized, tens of millions of taels of family property were confiscated, which is also true.

But Li Yunze is not Zhu Youjian, he knows far more things than Zhu Youjian.

Pointing at the eunuchs in charge of internal funds, he told Wang Chengen, "You take the troops from Dongchang and Jinyiwei to steal their property."

Stealing money by the guards of the treasury is already a matter of course in this era.

In the Forbidden City, guarding internal funds is already recognized as a fat job, and it takes countless contributions from all parties to get in.

Believe it or not, anyway, Li Yunze didn't believe that these eunuchs spent all their savings or even borrowed money to manage the internal funds, in order to fulfill their duty and guard the small treasury for the emperor.

Seeing Wang Chengen dragging the eunuchs crying for mercy out for interrogation, what Li Yunze was thinking about was Cao Huachun.

"East Factory Admiral Cao Huachun, Eunuch Cao is doing business, tsk tsk~~~"

To do this kind of thing, it is best to let Cao Huachun come forward, there is no doubt that it is a famous scene.

It's a pity that the messenger who transferred Eunuch Cao back to Beijing didn't take long to leave, and it would take at least half a month for Cao Huachun to come back, even if he rushed on the horse.

Li Yunze really couldn't wait that long.

In terms of interrogation, Dongchang and Jinyiwei are both professional.

It didn't take too long, and millions of taels of cash were confiscated from the homes of the eunuchs guarding the internal funds, not including the fields, antiques, calligraphy and painting houses, etc.

Li Yunze only said to these oil-stealing rats, "All of them will be dealt with by Wei Ni."

The eunuch party needs a joint trial by the three divisions, and the operation is performed after the conviction is convicted. This is to respect the law of the Ming Dynasty.

But the eunuchs in the palace don't need them, they are all the emperor's domestic slaves, and what to do with them is just a matter of one word.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty earned a few million taels a year in internal funds, and the palace expenses reached a peak of a million taels a year.

Even if money is often used to subsidize the imperial court, after so many generations of emperors, the accumulation must be a huge number.

Li Yunze would not believe it if Wei Zhongxian took them away.

The eunuchs who had guarded the internal funds in the previous dynasties must be strictly investigated.

At this moment, Li Yunze hoped that Cao Huachun and Eunuch Cao would come back soon.

Jin Yiwei and Dongchang fanzi were very busy, Wei Zhongxian fell, and brought down a large eunuch party.

Li Yunze gave a lot of lists by referring to history books, and these people, like Wei Zhongxian, had their homes ransacked.

A large amount of cash and gold were seized.

All the silver was sent to internal coffers, because silver is not worth the money in the modern world.

Gold is the common hard currency in all parallel worlds.

In the modern world, the office of Li Yunze's leather bag company.

Li Yunze, who was sitting on a chair, lit a cigarette, and silently looked at the shining gold in front of him.

Here is a full 1 taels of gold, converted to a full 373 kilograms.

All are remelted gold bricks without the slightest mark.

"It's too much of a loss for the pawn shop, at least one-third of the loss." Li Yunze thought hard, "This is the hard-earned money of the people of Ming Dynasty, at least we have to bring them back enough supplies in return."

Of course, he came here to exchange money in such a hurry, not for his own enjoyment, but purely because natural and man-made disasters are getting more and more serious.

The drought in various places is becoming more and more serious. The reduction in food production has caused the people who cannot survive to become rogues. In addition, there are more and more natural disasters every year. Li Yunze now urgently needs a large amount of supplies to give Daming blood transfusions.

It is clearly written in the history books that this round of drought lasted from the first year of Chongzhen to the fourth year of Chongzhen. During this period, various derivative disasters were mixed, such as the typhoon in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which lost nearly [-] people.

In the fifth year of Chongzhen, heavy rains caused floods in various places, and rivers burst their embankments and destroyed countless places.

Then from the sixth year of Chongzhen, there was another round of drought, mixed with various disasters until the Ming Dynasty perished.

Li Yunze is in urgent need of supplies, a lot of supplies.

Under the terrifying productivity of the modern world, of course there is no shortage of materials, but buying these materials requires money.

If the gold is sent to the pawn shop, the loss will be too great.

"Go to the bank!" Li Yunze reached out and snuffed out the cigarette in the ashtray, got up and began to carry the gold bricks to the rented car. "This is gold, it's hard currency wherever you go."

After driving to a famous bank, Li Yunze, who put on sunglasses and a hat, strode in.

"Look for your manager." Facing the reception staff, Li Yunze was full of bearing, "I have a big business to discuss."

When customers come to the door, the attitude of the bank is very correct.

Li Yunze was invited into the VIP room, and a business manager received him.

"Don't ask anything." Li Yunze interrupted the manager's greetings by raising his hand, "I said, just respond."

"Does your bank accept precious metal deposit service?"

"of course."

"How is the price calculated?"

"Based on the average international gold price of the day, calculated after converting the exchange rate."

"Whether customer privacy can be guaranteed."

"Sir, you can set up an offshore company and open a precious metal holding account in the name of the company. The finances go through the company's accounts and do not involve private individuals."

Li Yunze nodded in satisfaction, and reached out to the business manager, "Give me a business card, and wait for my call."

Banks do not collect gold directly, their business in this area is called precious metal depository or something.

To put it simply, gold is stored in the bank. When money is needed, the money is transferred to the corresponding account according to the price exchange rate, and the gold held on behalf of the bank will reduce the corresponding part of the money and become the bank's.

Li Yunze acted very quickly. In this city with a very developed financial system, he found a specialized service company and spent a sum of money to open several offshore companies.

After opening the account and everything, Li Yunze took his business card and called the business manager.

"Come here to receive the goods."

(End of this chapter)