Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 784: The Ministry of Household Affairs launches official camp to exchange Shandong merchants for transporting military rations

If you want the throne to be stable, you must strive to maintain the sanctity of imperial power.

Zhu Qiyu was not as lucky as Zhu Zhanji. He established an unshakable legal system as a "good saint grandson" early on.

No matter how beautified his throne is, the way it was obtained is controversial.

Therefore, Zhu Qiyu is taking the path of becoming a saint through strength. He can have tactical failures, but he will never allow strategic failures.

Only by being invincible can you maintain your sacred aura.

With the sacred halo, only the young people can hide their presence, and the people of the world can feel awe.

The specific strategy now is to rely on the defense lines built over the past century in the Ming Dynasty and the defense lines specially repaired by the Jingtai Dynasty to hold back the enemy.

The advantage of the Mongolian cavalry is its high mobility. On a front line of thousands of miles, it is impossible to defend and pursue.

However, Mongolia's disadvantage is that its war potential is not strong and it cannot support long-term operations.

This sentence is particularly suitable for Meng Yuan.

……

Penglai City, Dengzhou Prefecture.

Cui Gong, the political envoy to the left in Shandong, was negotiating a deal with Tian Huiqing, a big businessman: "Three hundred thousand shi of grain will be shipped to Gaizhou within two months. The imperial court is offering 150,000 taels."

When Tian Huiqing heard this, he looked troubled: "One hundred and fifty thousand taels and three hundred thousand shi of grain are really a bit short. Even if the transportation cost is not taken into account, this is a loss-making business for me."

Cui Gong chuckled. Although Tian Huiqing was a veritable imperial businessman, and the people standing behind him were all people with great hands and eyes, but as a parent official who was loved by the people of Shandong and a key cultivation target of Jian in the emperor's heart, Cui Gong still had to do his best to serve the emperor. The court saves money.

After taking over Japan, Yue Zheng, the governor of Shandong, was promoted to governor-general, and Lu Yu, the former governor of the left, took over as governor of Shandong.

Cui Gong also changed his position from right chief envoy to left chief envoy. Recently, Lu Yu has been busy traveling between Japan, North Korea, and Jeju Island. Cui Gong has the final say on matters in Shandong.

Cui Gong had known that Tian Huiqing was dissatisfied with the price, so he added: "You can borrow the opportunity to go to the south to raise food, and bring porcelain and cotton and silk with you. After transporting the food to Gaizhou, you can buy mountain ginseng from Liaodong. Then go to Japan to sell.

The imperial court had not yet officially opened the Oriental trade to the private sector. I, the Chief Envoy of Shandong Province, will vouch for you, so that you can travel unimpeded along the way.

Just from buying and selling, the money you make is no less than 300,000 shi of military rations. "

When Tian Huiqing heard this, he immediately agreed. Because merchants were required to transport military supplies to the court at a loss, the court allowed merchants to resell goods along the way and earn the difference. This was the emperor's idea. Tian Huiqing has known about this for a long time. One shipment of grain can earn at least 58,000 yuan.

Both parties reached an agreement and signed the document. Then Cui Gong took out a money order and a secret letter: "This is a money order of one hundred thousand taels. You can withdraw it at the official warehouse of the Ministry of Revenue in Beijing, Nanjing, and Penglai City.

After the food is shipped, I will give you the remaining fifty thousand taels.

This secret letter contained an eight-digit password, which was handwritten by the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. No one except the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue knew the specific number.

Make sure that the seal is correct, memorize the numerical password when you get home, and keep the envelope in a safe place or burn it.

After receiving the money order in your hand, the head of the official warehouse of the Ministry of Revenue will use the special mark on the money order and the secret book in his hand to calculate the export order.

The money order can be collected only if it is correct and the password calculated by the principal matches the password you said. "

"Is this a money order?"

Tian Huiqing took it and looked at it carefully. He had heard that the Ministry of Revenue was going to conduct exchange, but he didn't expect to see it at last.

Cui Gong smiled and said: "This is the first money order issued by the Ministry of Revenue, which can be exchanged for silver. As you know, the prince is also the king of Qi, and the emperor gave Shandong to the prince to practice with the East Palace team.

Therefore, the exchange business of the Ministry of Accounts was the first to be launched in Shandong.

What the Holy Emperor and the Prince meant was that it should be managed by the Ministry of Household officials and connected to the world.

After the Ministry of Accounts spreads its business across the country, there will be no need to carry a silver cart around when doing business. "

Tian Huiqing held the money order and sighed in his heart: If the official exchange can be done, it will be great.

Connecting the world requires capital and credibility guarantees that ordinary businessmen cannot support. They can only rely on the power of the imperial court to survive for a long time.

When it is really realized, when doing business in the future, you only need to put a money order and you can go to Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong to do business. Even when doing business in Annan or Old Port, it is possible to exchange money by draft.

In the past, when doing business, loading hundreds of thousands of taels of silver on a ship was really scary. I couldn't sleep at night, I had to guard against pirates, and I had to guard against my own men seeking wealth and death.

Being able to connect the world in the future will definitely be a good thing for the country and the people.

After sending Tian Huiqing away, Cui Gong continued busy planning to transport troops to Gaizhou.

Shandong has been hit by disasters in the past two years, which has severely damaged its vitality. Therefore, Cui Gong also very much agreed with the emperor's strategy of hiring merchants to transport grain.

Raising 300,000 shi of military rations from the people of Shandong would put a huge burden on the people.

Now it's fine. I'll give Tian Huiqing 150,000 taels. As for where he can go to get food, it's up to him. No matter whether he steals or robs, he only needs to transport the grain to Gaizhou within two months.

Moreover, the money order was issued by the Ministry of Accounts and the money was allocated by the court, so Cui Gong did not need to worry.

The cost Cui Gong paid was to transfer five warships from the Shandong Navy to escort Tian Huiqing.

With the current strength of the pirates on the Eastern trade line, five new warships were smashed to pieces by just a collision.

……

The second day of April.

Lingyu Palace, Dongpo Snow Hall.

Zhu Wenfang took the crown princess, Duke Dingguo took his wife, He Yi took Xu Wan, Qiao Feng took Xu Ting, as well as King Zhu Wenjing of Han, Duke Mu Cong of Guizhou, and Guo Liang, the prince of Wudinghou.

In addition, there are Pei Dang, Huang Qi, Ruan Zhu, Mrs. An He from the Queen Mother's family, and four second-grade ladies from Zhu Wenfang's family.

Nineteen people came into Lingyu Palace at once, which was unprecedented.

As Zhu Qiyu walked towards Dongpo with his concubines, he lamented sadly: "The chickens, ducks, geese, fish and crabs we raised with great difficulty are all gone. Just wait to be tortured by them."

Lin Xiangyu consoled her, "It's good to have people around. It's much better than when we first started. There are just a few people, big cats and kittens, and it can't be lively even if we want to."

Zhu Qiyu opened up the old score: "Because of this, I want to send away all the women who don't want to sleep with me, but you still have to stop me.

Now I understand, should there be as few women around me as possible? "

Su Xi agreed: "If I had known that staying in bed was such a wonderful thing, I would have sent the other sisters out anyway, and the five of us would be enough.

At that time, I was stupid. Except for Ningxiang who was infatuated with her husband and enjoyed it, the rest of them thought that sleeping with her husband was extremely humble and disrespectful.

Looking at it now, I really regret it. "

The other four women remained silent and expressed their acquiescence. Five women sharing one man is infinitely better than fifteen women sharing one man.

A few people came to Dongpo Xuetang talking and laughing, and Xu Ting came to greet them from afar, saluted quickly, and ran straight into Linglong's arms.

Linglong had no choice but to let the white fox out of her arms.

Xu Ting hugged the white fox and praised repeatedly: "Oh, it's so soft, well-behaved and cute. Where did my brother get it? If there are more, I'll give one to my sister."

Zhu Qiyu smiled fondly and said: "The people below just offered it a few days ago, but I stopped them and they still insisted on sending it.

If you like it, I'll ask them to bring two more to you later. "

Ningxiang asked: "Where are the prince, the king of Han, and uncle Guo, where have they gone?"

Xu Ting smiled and said: "They went to catch chickens and fish. I ordered them to do harm to the chickens, ducks, geese and fish raised by my brother."

The instigator admitted it without any hesitation.

Zhu Qiyu loved this little sister from Duke Dingguo's palace and just laughed it off.

(End of this chapter)