My Ming Dynasty, I have the final say

Chapter 17 Mutual Arrangements
As the young emperor of the Ming Dynasty "hunted" Nanhaizi and Liu Yishen was imprisoned, the news that Zhang Wenda, the censor of Zuodu, was reprimanded spread in Shuntian Mansion.

The issue regarding Xiong Tingbi’s stay in Liaodong has dropped sharply.

There is no way, compared with the emperor, Xiong Tingbi's small Liaodong economic strategy is really insignificant.

At this point, Zhu Youxiao also achieved his purpose of absorbing firepower for Xiong Tingbi.

Coupled with the fact that Wei Jinzhong and Xu Xianchun led Dongchang and Jinyiwei to clean up Wang An's gang members and investigate the affairs of Feng and Gu, there was a sudden tremor in the capital.

Even the gatherings of officials in the capital no longer dare to be as open and aboveboard as before.

At the residence of Cabinet Assistant Minister Han Hanxu, now that Liu Yishen has been imprisoned, everyone in Donglin can only gather at the home of another Donglin boss.

In a dark secret room, a flickering candle barely illuminated the scene inside.

"Gentlemen, what should we do? The disaster of destroying our Ming Dynasty is right in front of us."

With a sad and sad look on his face, Zuodu Yushi Zhang Wenda, who had just been reprimanded yesterday, looked at the Donglin backbones in the room.

"Shenzong is unwise. We have been waiting for Emperor Daxing to ascend the throne for more than twenty years. Unexpectedly, Emperor Daxing did not ascend the throne for more than a month, and abandoned us and other important ministers and good ministers, leaving only a child to inherit the great treasure. Today's emperor is young and far away. A virtuous minister will kiss a villain, a treacherous minister will sin against a loyal minister. How can I, the Ming Dynasty, be so miserable?"

"Ugh."

Hearing Zhang Wenda's words, Han Xu also sighed, but he couldn't agree with Zhang Wenda's words.

Although he was not involved in who was behind Liu Yishen, he still had some idea.

Colluding with border military towns and businessmen, and smuggling contraband arms, he knew these things before he became a cabinet minister.

"Gentlemen, how do you persuade the emperor to come back at this time? I have heard that the soldiers trained by Xu Guangqi have uneven armor and lack of weapons. However, given time, they will become an elite force. From this This shows how capable Xu Guangqi is in training troops."

Putting down the tea bowl in his hand, Han Xuruo pointedly said.

"In time, if he is allowed to train elite soldiers, he may be the next Hu Zongxian."

"This..."

Hearing Han Xu's words, Zhang Heming, the left minister of the Ministry of War, pondered for a while.

When talking about the confidants of Emperor Shizong Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, Yan Song will definitely come to mind.

Jiajing has two magic weapons in the court, one is Yan Song and the other is Hu Zongxian.

Yan Song was appointed as the Minister of Household Affairs and held the money bag for Jiajing.

Hu Zongxian was appointed Minister of War and held the gun for Jiajing.

Hu Zongxian's favorite general is Qi Jiguang, the famous anti-Japanese general among Yu Long and Qi Hu.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to get involved among the new recruits."

"Ah~"

Hearing this, Han Xu waved his hands and said.

"Last year Shenzong ordered Xu Guangqi to train troops, and all the armor, weapons, and food were paid by your Ministry of War, Ministry of Household Affairs, and Guanglu Temple, but you basically withheld them. Now for the soldiers in Nanhaizi, the military salary is either donated by big households or Xu Guangqi My own salary field. I heard that yesterday the emperor allocated 20 taels of silver from the internal funds to Xu Guangqi, and now 5 taels have been transported to Nanhaizi."

"You want me to find a way to withhold the money from my money?"

Hearing this, Zhang Wenda looked at Han Xu with an unkind expression.

Is this man surnamed Han crazy? How dare he deduct money from his own money?

Does he think his brain is not used enough?

"No, no, no." Hearing this, Han Xu smiled slightly.

"Private possession of armor, powerful crossbows, and fire guns is tantamount to treason. Some of these things cannot be bought with money. The Ministry of War only wants to raise armor and weapons for Liaodong and will not provide armor and weapons to Xu Guangqi's soldiers. , even if they are elite soldiers, it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice."

"wonderful!"

After hearing Han Xu's words, Donglin Party members immediately cheered.

"Mr. Han is still wise. In this way, even if the emperor has trained an elite army, in the end, the Ministry of War will still have the final say and will not lose control."

"Han Gong's great plan."

When Zhang Heming heard Han Xu's plan, he couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

When the courtiers were discussing how to arrange Zhu Youxiao, what was Zhu Youxiao doing?

Drawing pictures, drawings of what he had in mind for silver coins.

The problem of money shortage in all dynasties in the Central Plains is that there are not enough copper coins minted, which leads to all kinds of weird coins. Starting from Liu Bei's casting of five large coins, it became ten coins, one hundred coins, mud coins, and tile coins. From Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes, all kinds of currencies that you can think of and unexpected have been produced.

But there was only one thing missing: silver coins.

Of course, what we are talking about here are silver coins that can be spent, not silver coins used for burials, rewards, and blessings.

Governments in all dynasties have minted coins, mainly silver coins.

Take the Northern Song Dynasty as an example. At its peak, 30 billion copper coins were minted a year.

Why are there not enough copper coins?Not one country is casting it, but many other countries are using it.All over East and Southeast Asia, copper coins minted by the Central Plains countries were used.

In terms of dominance, the copper coins minted by the Central Plains countries are even more domineering than the current rice banknotes. The bald eagle forces you to use the rice banknotes.

The Central Plains Copper Coin is for you to use.

Speaking of the Ming Dynasty alone, in the fourth year of Jingtai (1453), the Japanese people next door went to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty and exchanged silver, women, minerals and other items for more than [-] million copper coins from the Ming Dynasty.

What is the concept of these 100 million copper coins?

At that time, the total annual minting of Baoyuan Bureau in Nanjing and Beijing was less than 2000 million copper coins. According to the prices at that time, it was converted into 3 taels of silver.

When the Japanese paid tribute every ten years, the total copper coins produced by the Baoyuan Bureau of the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty were reduced to half.

You must know that this is just Japan. During the peak period of the Ming Dynasty, there were 27 tributary countries and [-] non-conquest countries.

A large number of copper coins were exported from the Ming Dynasty. During the Yongle period, which was the most prosperous, Yongle Tongbao became the substantial currency throughout South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Then, the most outrageous thing happened in the Ming Dynasty: almost all courtiers felt that sea trade had caused the loss of a large amount of domestic copper coins, and sea trade should be banned.

Later generations of bald eagles opened the floodgates and released large amounts of rice money every year, forcing the whole world to pay for it.

In the Ming Dynasty, it is difficult for you to understand that the Ming Dynasty holds such a huge coinage power. It is like opening the floodgates every year to mint copper coins to transfer domestic conflicts to the outside world, and it will not lead to economic collapse. This is it.

Holding a Wanli Tongbao in his hand, Zhu Youxiao was thinking in his mind.

Regarding the Ming Dynasty, the chaos of establishing slaves in Liaodong, the betrayal of Shanxi and Jin merchants, and the disobedience of the chieftains caused by the reform of the land in the southwest. To be honest, this can really be said to be a scabies disease. The real problem of the Ming Dynasty lies in the imperial court. Loss of control over the monetary system and collapse of the fiscal system.

The role of Zhang Juzheng's reform in history has been overshadowed.

This reform was tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst - the imperial court lost control of the currency.

Now, the first thing Zhu Youxiao has to do is to take back the right to mint coins!
Currency security is related to national security!
ps: The issue of currency in the late Ming Dynasty is related to the work.

(End of this chapter)