If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Chapter 199: Pulling out sleeves

The emperor lost his temper, and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty naturally had to find ways to solve the problem. However, it was not easy to solve the problem of money and food for the Northern Expedition. Everyone discussed for a long time, but could not come up with an appropriate plan.

In desperation, the emperor could only announce his resignation and let all the civil and military officials in the dynasty go back and find a solution.

The emperor himself returned to the harem still angry and filled with boredom.

Why didn't Zhu Di know that the Ming Dynasty was indeed unable to march north? As long as it endured for a year and a half and the government's finances recovered, it would be able to raise money and food, recruit troops, and defeat the Mongols in a hurry.

But Zhu Di just couldn't bear it for a year and a half.

Today, the national power of the Ming Dynasty is booming, and the Japanese country that has just been conquered has allowed the country to obtain a large amount of silver. As long as the benefits gained from conquering the Japanese can be absorbed, the national power of the Ming Dynasty can reach another level.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was very powerful in terms of military strength, social development, and overall economic level.

Otherwise, it would not be said that it could support Zhu Di's five Northern Expeditions and Zheng He's seven voyages to the West. Each of these two was very expensive.

As for the administration of officials, generally speaking, the court that was cleaned up by two generations of emperors, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, was pretty good.

At least during this period, both civil servants and military officers were capable of doing practical things and willing to do their jobs bravely.

After all, this was the early Ming Dynasty. The founding of the country and the crisis gave these civil servants and generals room to rise. The Northern Expedition was also an opportunity to make meritorious deeds. Everyone could see hope and was naturally willing to climb up.

Even the biggest economic problem, the excessive issuance of treasure banknotes, was not a big problem because the Ming Dynasty collected taxes in kind.

At least in the early Ming Dynasty, the excessive issuance and rapid depreciation of treasure banknotes were not serious problems. As long as the court was willing to deal with this problem, it could still be solved.

Therefore, in Zhu Di's opinion, his Yongle Dynasty was stronger than the Hongwu Dynasty.

With the success of Zhu Zhanquan's conquest of Japan and the successful return of silver, the problem of treasure banknotes restricting the imperial court will also be successfully resolved.

Next, Ming Dynasty will be like a ship with full sails. The country will prosper and even reach another level.

If this is really possible, then even if Zhu Di closes his eyes and goes to the ground to see Zhu Yuanzhang, he will have enough confidence to say to his father: "It was a mistake for you not to choose me as emperor back then."

But now, the Mongols' army marching south has undoubtedly disrupted Zhu Di's plan.

For Zhu Di, the intolerance is partly due to his personality. He tolerated his father and nephew in the first half of his life, but will he still tolerate the Mongols in the second half of his life?Zhu Di couldn't bear it, and Daming could support him not to bear it.

Of course, the price for Ming Dynasty to support Zhu Di and not tolerate it was a bit high, and Zhu Di didn't want to pay this price.

On the other hand, it was because the Ming Dynasty endured this moment and paid the price that the people north of the Great Wall were bullied and ravaged by the Mongols.

The reason why Zhu Di personally commanded the army in the eighth year of Yongle, besides wanting the shame of annihilating the entire army in Yi Xue Qiu Fu, his biggest purpose was to stabilize the northern border so that the Mongols would never dare to provoke the Ming Dynasty again. The territory was stabilized so that future generations would no longer have to fight.So Zhu Di didn't want to delay, whether it was running the country or fighting a war, Zhu Di didn't want to delay.

He hopes that his generation will do more, eat the hardships that need to be endured, and fight the battles that need to be fought, so that future generations will no longer have to endure these hardships and fight these battles.

Just when Zhu Di was thinking that if he could conquer the territory of Northern Xinjiang, his descendants would be defeated for a few more years even if they were defeated, Zhu Zhanquan came to Qianqing Palace to ask for an audience.

Of course, Zhu Di would not miss Zhu Zhanyu, but after letting Zhu Zhanyu come in, Zhu Di still didn't give him a good look. He just looked at him with lingering anger and snorted: "What are you doing here, that stinky boy?" ?”

"I'm here to relieve grandpa's worries." Zhu Zhanchun didn't smile playfully, but just picked up his sleeves with a smile.

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Zhanyu and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Relieve grandpa's worries? What grandpa is worried about now is the money and food for the Northern Expedition. Can you take out 200 million taels of silver from your sleeve?"

The so-called 200 million taels of silver was exactly the amount of money that the Ministry of Revenue had calculated during the previous court meeting if the court wanted to conquer the north.

Moreover, the 200 million taels of silver must be real money, not hard-to-wipe money, nor can it be offset in kind.

After all, there is a difference in the food you can buy with one tael of cash and with the same value of treasure banknotes. What these 200 million taels of silver can do is definitely better than the equivalent of 200 taels of silver. The treasure banknotes of ten thousand cars of silver are much more.

And if you use treasure banknotes, you also need to consider how much impact so many treasure banknotes flowing into the market will have on the already rapidly depreciating treasure banknotes.

As for money orders, the Ministry of Revenue had previously considered issuing multiple money orders to pay for the costs of the Northern Expedition.

There is of course no problem in paying with money orders. The credit of money orders can be said to be quite good now. Even if the imperial court does issue an extra 200 million money orders this time, it can still be digested under the current strong market demand for money orders. .

But this hole cannot be opened, because once it is opened, it cannot be blocked.

This is the consensus reached in the court. As for the reason why this consensus was reached, it is very simple because Xia Yuanji used the Qi Luck Compass to deduce the possible impact of overissuance of bills of exchange.

The result is that there is indeed no problem in a short period of time, but the subsequent impact is far worse than what would have happened if the court did not immediately march north and endured it for a year.

In addition to the fact that the court's attempt to borrow money orders to reform the banknote law would fail, it would also further consume the people's public support and trust in the court.

Before quantification, none of the officials in the court would think that such a trivial matter would harm the people's hearts, or that the common people could know these things. They always felt that the common people were stupid people who needed to be educated and herded, otherwise If so, why is there the word 'herdsman'?
But after the Qi Luck Compass quantifies and intuitively displays the people's hearts and minds in the world and the destiny of the country, no matter how stupid these officials in the court are, they will not directly take actions that harm the destiny of the country and the people.

Just kidding, forget it if you don’t know. This is damaging the national destiny and the people’s support in front of all the civil and military officials in the court and the emperor. Do you think you have too many nine ethnic groups and want to reduce the number of people who eat at home?

So even though they knew such a way to solve the problem, the court still did not regard this plan as the first choice, but as a last resort option.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Di was very curious about what Zhu Zhanchen could take out of his sleeves.

(End of this chapter)