Win the Ding 1617

If it weren't for the disparity in power between the two sides, I'm afraid that the first free fighting group competition in the court of the Longwu Dynasty would start with the sound of the gong.The Donglin Gentleman Jiangnan Group team, which is dominated by civil servants, is only about 120% of the military attache Xungui Nanyue Army Group's team.Compared with the number of troops, it is a serious disadvantage.In terms of combat effectiveness, I have pity on the gentlemen of Donglin, except for reading the scriptures of the sages and studying Zhu Zi's Annotations, all of them are deaf to the outside world and only read the books of the sages. In addition to discussing poetry and songs in the book, there is no distraction at all.

How is it like the officials of the Southern Guangdong Army who are warriors and nobles on the opposite side?Send troops and horses every day to punch, kick, play guns and sticks to beat your muscles and bones?There is even an official from the Qin Law School, who was originally from a thief!After struggling for many years among the mountains of knives and arrows, and then tempered by the so-called six arts of a gentleman advocated by the traitor Li Shouhan, what kind of activities such as horseback riding and archery have become the necessary skills of a gentleman in my generation?

Thinking of my majestic officials, every time when the crowd is in full swing, I gather the awe-inspiring righteousness of the gentlemen, and with the great courage of dozens of people besieging one person, I face the vicious and powerful power of the other party without any fear. They swarmed up, punched and kicked, eradicated traitors for Daming, and eradicated evil in the court.

(Okay, okay. The unkind author has already seen the bricks in your hand. In human terms, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty are just a bunch of cheap-mouthed guys. They lack the courage and fighting power to fight one-on-one. Every time It is all relying on the number of people, dozens of people beat one person, beat people to death in the hall alive, and then, proudly write in their own statements, diaries, and even history books, a certain On a certain day in a certain month of the year, the gentlemen of the Ming Dynasty used dozens of people to fight against the powerful and treacherous minister so-and-so and beat him up. Huh? The unkind author seems to have seen something bad again. The next **Why is the history of the Anti-Japanese War so similar to those written by these adults and gentlemen? Until the so-called 38th year of the Republic of China, Qiangu’s perfect New Year’s speech was still being said. It’s a pity, a beautiful article, a group of good intentions, It was misunderstood by a Hunan librarian who didn't know good and bad. He actually commented: "You must know that the government's military, political, and economic power today exceeds that of the Communist Party by several times or even dozens of times. times." Oh my god, how can such a great power not frighten people to death? Let's put political and economic power aside and ignore them. As far as "military power" is concerned, the People's Liberation Army Now there are more than 300 million people. If the "excess" number is doubled, it will be more than 600 million people, and ten times will be more than 3000 million people. How much is "tens of times"? Let's count it as twenty times, and there will be more than 6000 million people People, it’s no wonder that President Jiang wants to say that he “has a certainty of victory”. Why is he asking for peace? It’s not impossible to fight. With more than 6000 million people suppressed, there is no party or other party in the world that can survive What? Of course, they all turned into dust. From this we can see that the sum is not for anything else, it is completely "pleading for the life of the people". Does it look like it? If you have such a powerful force, why are you asking for peace? You want to go back to your hometown in Zhejiang What about going to the grave to go fishing with a sliding pole? Just continue to issue arrest warrants and issue sea arrest documents to arrest Hunan librarians. To please a small group of people for the benefit of China. People who do this kind of thing, as the saying goes, are either ghosts or stupid.)

Fortunately, the original state of the two sides' spitting was stopped by the bosses of their respective groups.

In Huang Daozhou's view, the starting point and direction of attack of this group of guys is really too low-level.

When the emperor was in the midst of his prosperity, he attacked whether the issuance of new money would harm the business and the people. It should be noted that since the reform of Shang Yang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's implementation of the salt and iron monopoly, when will the identity of the merchant be valued in this land?Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many businessmen funding academies to urge their children to study and take the imperial examination.In order to change their political status.nuisance?Give me a break!Compared with the legitimacy of Zhengshuo, the emperor, what is the small loss of a few businessmen?

Moreover, the so-called disturbing theory is even more untenable.For example, the workshop under Li Shouhan minted a large number of Tongbao, and used it as military pay and salary. Everyone took it to the market to buy things and paid wages. How many times Ziqiang's Longwu Tongbao, he is naturally willing to accept it.The money of his own year is very popular in the market, and this matter has reached the ears of Emperor Longwu, isn't he Longyan Joyful?You say disturbing the people, who is disturbing?If Liang Guogong's minions in charge of public security in the city catch those merchants who privately minted coins and submit their confessions to the imperial court, then we will see how it will end!Those guys collected the good money, melted and cast copper, and then cast it into copper ware to obtain dozens of times the huge profits.Or add a large amount of lead and tin to copper, and cast it into private money for arbitrage.

Now, these two channels are blocked by Li Shouhan.

"Your Majesty, the minister ordered Xingyuan Yousi to write an article, intending to order merchants and government offices everywhere to purchase goods and pay Longwu Tongbao and silver dollars. When collecting taxes, only Yongle, Jiajing, Xuande, Hongguang, Longwu and Xiandi Chongzhen will be collected after 13 years. The ministers and supervisors ordered the Tongbao issued by Yousi. The rest of the coins of various years are not allowed to be used for circulation."

This is blocking the way for private money to be used and circulated in the market.As for the other channel, the copper is smelted to make copper wares for sale, hey, don't forget, Li Shouhan's sailors all use thin copper skin to cover the bottom to prevent shellfish from attaching to the bottom of the boat.The reason why these people are able to make a profit is because there is a lack of copper mines in the interior, and copperware is in demand.However, our Liang Guogong has the Bodhisattva Copper Mine and the Luzon Copper Mine in his hands, and this kind of metal is the most indispensable.Do you want to cast copperware to sell in the market?Okay, after you have worked hard and sneakily casted the copper ware, you find that similar copper ware is better than you, and the price is lower than yours, that is, the cost is equivalent to the cost of buying raw copper and labor, plus The sum of [-] to [-]% of the profits.How can the production of small workshops survive the industrial chain?

"Aiqing's move is very good, very appropriate." Comparing Tongbao of his own year with the Tongbao of Yongle Lord and Jiajing Lord, no matter what, this flattery is very appropriate, making Emperor Longwu feel like drinking wine . "The market is stable, the people live and work in peace, and my heart will be at ease."

"Your Majesty, this is a measure to replace the issuance of Tongbao, and the minister of silver dollar exchange also has a regulation."

Nanzhong silver dollars are all [-]% in fineness, and the surface of the silver dollar is marked. If it is found that it is not [-]%, it is a proper fake.Even if it's [-]%, [-]%, or [-]%, it won't work.Therefore, one silver dollar is one or two full grain silver.This point, not only in the territory under the rule of Emperor Longwu, but also in the area controlled by the Qing army, the silver dollars from Nanzhong were also happy to be collected by the Qing soldiers.Even in Europa, thousands of miles away, the red-haired barbarians have always used gold coins as their main currency. The silver dollar currency has gradually expanded its market share, and its status in people's hearts has been greatly improved.The reason is also very simple, the same is to buy things, this currency can buy more and better things.

Whether it is the silver dollar or Tongbao of the Southern Guangdong Army, the currency issued, credit and market recognition are all based on its own strong industrial and agricultural production capacity and strong military strength.

Therefore, the samples of silver dollars placed on Emperor Longwu's case are also new favorites that will be put on the market soon.

"One piece of silver dollar, according to the manufacturing specification, the fineness of the silver inside is above [-]. Therefore, one piece of silver dollar is equivalent to one or two culls of full grain silver."

Kuping is full of grain silver, that is, pure silver.This point, Zhu Yujian is still very clear.Moreover, he has a personal experience of the market acceptance of silver dollars in Fengyang's high walls.It is also a gift to the guarding eunuchs. There is a big difference in the expression of 100 silver dollars and 100 taels of silver.

The difference lies in the exchange link.

"One silver dollar is exchanged for one or two Kuping full grain silver."

This exchange ratio immediately made all the civil servants and eunuchs below Emperor Longwu gasp.

The civil and military officials and eunuchs present, including Emperor Longwu, knew that this silver dollar was known in the market, and there was a lot of silver in it.Moreover, the casting is exquisite and the pattern is complex, which cannot be imitated or counterfeited.Therefore, where there are silver coins circulating on the market, the business of "cutters" and silversmiths who specialize in breaking silver is much deserted.However, such a silver dollar is exchanged for one or two pieces of Kupingwen silver?

"The best pure plain silver contains only [-]% of the silver, but this one silver dollar is [-]%. In this way, there is at least a six-cent profit. I have to quickly change the silver at home into silver dollars, and then go to the Nanman's shop exchanged it for money orders! Who knew that Fuzhou City could be held or not! If it was the same as Nanjing and Hangzhou, I would simply go to Guangzhou. Anyway, that is one of your old lairs, Li Shouhan, you always You can't hand over your own territory to the Qing soldiers, can you? If you cut off the north and south, cut off Wuling, and become your king of Nanyue, we will also be a rich man in Wuyang City."

Several ministers quickly calculated their accounts in their hearts.

However, Emperor Longwu's thoughts were different from these people.For one silver dollar, Liang Guogong will take six cents of silver. There are mountains and seas of silver in the market and towns!If they were all exchanged for silver dollars, the price difference would be a huge number.

"In this way, wouldn't the Qing family have to spend a lot of money?"

He was quite worried.Although he also knew that this regulation of exchanging silver dollars for cash had already been implemented during the period of Emperor Hongguang, and it was quite effective in Nanzhili and Zhejiang.However, after all, the time is short and the number of exchanges is limited. If it is carried out under my rule for a long time, will the general be able to bear it?

Zhu Yujian, the emperor of Longwu, has a good evaluation in history books. "Shanghai is frugal, hurts the country, forgives meat and wine, wears big clothes, more than ten people in the harem are all old women, and they are as good as hobbies. They are very good at reading, and they have a wide range of allusions. They can write thousands of words for the text." And , Mr. Gu Cheng's "History of Southern Ming Dynasty" also spoke highly of him, but after all, he only received the education of the feudal era, without modern financial knowledge.

The concept of seigniorage was not in his mind.

The Longwu silver dollar "cast" by Li Shouhan is exquisite in appearance, high in silver content, and is branded as pure silver to the outside world, but it is almost the same.A piece of silver dollar is converted into about eight coins containing pure silver, while the fineness of fineness of Jiangnan's fine silk silver is mostly around [-]%!The conversion ratio is one silver dollar to one or two kuping full-grained silver, that is, one silver dollar is actually used as one or two kuping full-grained silver!But if it is other folk silver, such as Yuansi, Guozi and other scattered silver with poor quality, it is estimated that it will cost one or two and a half.After deducting fire consumption and transportation damage, Li Shouhan and the Nanyue Army made a lot of profits from this alone.

Looking at the silver dollar in his hand, on the front is a five-clawed golden dragon above the auspicious clouds, on the back is the words "Longwu Tongbao" written in regular script, and the word "One Yuan" is written in a slightly larger font in the middle.A line of small characters under the one circle was cast in the first year of Longwu in the Ming Dynasty.The surroundings of the silver dollars are also edged to prevent people from scraping the silver for profit.

All the people present held such silver coins in their hands, and many of them secretly speculated in their hearts, how could so many words be written and patterns engraved on this small silver coin, which was less than two knuckles?

This silver dollar is manufactured in the style and size of several well-known silver dollars that were cast in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China and circulated in the market with a relatively high degree of recognition, such as Mexican Yingyang, Yuan Datou, and Guangxu Yuanbao.39mm in diameter and 24mm in thickness.In the 17th century, Li Shouhan was the only one with this kind of casting technology in the world.

In the hands of everyone, such a small silver dollar exudes the lovely light that is unique to newly minted coins.However, they didn't realize that such a small silver dollar was a sharp weapon of the Duke of Liang, Li Shouhan.

No matter whether you are under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, or in the territory of Dashun and Daxi, or as a submissive citizen under the flag of the Japanese shogun, or in the farther Europe, Tianfang, Dashi, Tianzhu, as long as you have Where commodities circulate, you cannot escape this silver dollar.He will charge your seigniorage.

"Your Majesty, as long as we can recover the country and the country for the Ming Dynasty, so that the soldiers in the front will not be afraid of hunger and cold, and the soldiers can strengthen their armor and soldiers, then what's the problem? What's more, the wealth of the ministers is all owned by my Son of Heaven." Give!"

Li Shouhan stood up and said such a set of words, which evaded Emperor Longwu's question and solved everyone's doubts. "Hmph! That's good! You, Liang Fan, have dominated the maritime trade and collected taxes arbitrarily all these years, and you have already earned a sea of ​​gold and silver. It's okay to let you spend a little money on this matter!" Some civil servants gritted their teeth and muttered silently. They are expecting that the more these silver dollars can be exchanged, the better, and the farther they can be circulated, the better, so that this disgusting guy in front of them can make a fortune!

Li Shouhan's words were high-sounding, impassioned, and powerful.Is the so-called ""?However, these words made Li Peilin, who was standing in the queue of officials of the Southern Guangdong Army, very displeased.

"My lord, your country is the country of the Southern Guangdong Army, but it is not the country of his old Zhu's family. Besides, this country is the result of our hard work and hard work in the barren land. Forged by the blood and sweat of countless soldiers and common people, it must not belong to his old Zhu family!"

"Your Majesty, although I don't know much about money and food, I know that goods are like wheels, and money is like water. Today, Liang Guogong uses his family wealth as the country to cast ingots and Tongbao, which can be exchanged from all directions. I made a rough estimate. One or two, just in the south of the Yangtze River, there will be at least billions of trillions of silver coins in circulation. What's more, there are also places such as Huguang, Guangdong, Guangdong, Zhejiang, etc., and there are even Hongmaoyi people in the West and Japanese people in Dongying. With so much money, why worry about insufficient military pay?!"

Huang Daozhou saw that Li Shouhan had always occupied the initiative in the court, so he stood up and tried to turn the limelight back.Only by taking the initiative, can he take out the ideas he has been planning for a long time.You, Li Shouhan, have said so much and done so much, aren't you trying to regain Daming?Then, to regain the country and the country, we must fight, and we must have soldiers and horses if we want to fight.Then I call on the gentry and students from all over the country to call up volunteer soldiers, dispatch them to the imperial court, distribute food and equipment, and give official positions, you can't refuse.You can't say that you minted so many coins because you Liang Guogong has too much money and no place to put it, right?

"I saw the military newspaper. A few days ago, in Songjiang Mansion, Hangzhou Mansion and other places, the soldiers and horses under the commander-in-chief fought against the Qing soldiers. Although the soldiers were brave, they killed thieves and served the country, and the bloody battle did not retreat, but the Qing soldiers were powerful. According to reports Even General Li Huabao led the troops with Mao Shishi and brandished a knife, and was able to resist the decline. This is all due to the fact that there are not enough soldiers and horses!"

"Seeing this, I was so worried that I couldn't sleep at night. After tossing and turning, I finally came up with a plan. I will offer it to His Majesty today, hoping to beg for it. I boldly assert that if this plan is approved by Your Majesty, loyal people and people everywhere will raise their arms and breathe. You can form a division between them, and the court has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses at its fingertips. The court has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in its hands out of thin air, so why worry about not being able to drive out the barbarians and recover the country!"

"Oh! Today is a good day. The general offered Tongbao and Yuanbao as a source of salary. I don't want Mr. Shoufu, but he also has a strategy. Let's hear it!" Emperor Longwu was very interested, and he nodded his head to signal Huang Daozhou go on.

In the queue, Li Peilin also signaled the officials of the Southern Guangdong Army to listen carefully and listen carefully!

Therefore, Huang Daozhou talked eloquently, calling on officials and gentlemen from all over the country, um, and village sages, as long as they are influential people in the local area, to get up and train armed forces, and the court will pay officials according to the strength of soldiers and horses. The plan issued to the equipment was taken out.

"Xianggong has been an official for decades, and it is still the opinion of a scholar."

Before Emperor Longwu could make a statement, a taunt rang out in everyone's ears.