One of the important reasons why the Zheng family was able to survive with the foundation accumulated over the decades was that the Pirate Alliance did not allow other forces to interfere in Fuzhou's maritime affairs, they could fight and kill each other, but they did not allow others to take a piece of the pie. This time, the monarch's organization was the main body of the attack on the Zheng family, but it failed to go ashore to enter Fuzhou, because it didn't want to break this balance.

The imperial court's authority in Fuzhou was limited, and there was an unwritten tacit understanding with the Zheng family and other eight alliances, the imperial court did not care about their smuggling and trafficking at sea, and they did not harass the imperial court's merchant ships, but only collected a part of the tolls.

The imperial court can only pinch its nose and admit the fait accompli, otherwise the sea passage will be cut off, and the imperial court's finances will largely rely on overseas silver, otherwise there will be a silver shortage in the field of currency circulation, and then there will be a money shortage, and then the rice shortage and the silk shortage will form a chain reaction. Currency is the foundation of a country's finances, once the circulation is unbalanced, rice, silk and other physical currencies will be hoarded by people, from which to make huge profits, the shortage of daily necessities, especially food, will soon lead to the political turmoil of the imperial court.

Later generations often blame the Ming and Qing dynasties for using silver as the main currency in circulation, and there are few silver mines in China, but this is not the choice of the imperial court, but the natural formation of the currency market, and the imperial court is powerless to reverse this situation.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, the main currency in circulation was copper coins, when the imperial court mined mines, and then minted copper coins, due to the lack of copper production, a large number of iron coins were also minted, but it was still not enough to use, so it had to use a large number of physical currency, mainly rice, silk silk, cloth, salt, etc., which belonged to real money and silver in the market.

Until the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui and Tang dynasties, silk silk still has a strong currency function, at that time the emperor gave ministers, but also often gave silk silk, the so-called silk is also. The bundle silk is the complete silk silk of the loom up and down the machine, uncut, like a knife of paper, if it is cut, it becomes what people often say four, eight, sixteen and thirty-two.

Five generations later, Zen monks began to use tea to refresh the mind, thus tea into people's daily life, originally tea was only used as a Chinese herbal medicine, but under the vigorous advocacy of Zen monks, it became a drink that scholars and even the general public liked, and later nomads because of carnivorous, need strong tea to help digestion, slowly became a habit, tea, salt, iron have become indispensable things in the life of nomads, the Central Plains regime began to use tea, salt, Iron was exchanged for the horses of the nomads, and the Ancient Tea Horse Road was born, and tea became one of the physical currencies.

In the Ming Dynasty, the salt quotation given to the salt merchant represented money, and a quotation represented how many catties of salt, and the salt merchant had to pay money to the household to buy the salt quotation, which was actually a manifestation of physical currency.

In the private market, salt is also a very strong currency, which can be exchanged for almost everything, of course, you have to be careful when using it, if someone puts a hat on the smuggled salt, your head will have to be moved.

The founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang came up with a clever plan, using paper money to replace all currency, and there will be no shortage of paper to print the Ming treasure banknotes. To this end, he adopted the most tough implementation measures, and those who dared not accept the Daming treasure banknotes or did not use the Daming treasure banknotes were beheaded. Most of the officials of the imperial court, from the first to the eighth grade, also used Daming treasure money to pay salaries, and a small part used rice and salt, which were the most basic necessities to maintain these officials. This is the color folding system of the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty, which is very complicated here, limited by space, and will not be described in detail.

It's a pity that no matter how tough and stern Zhu Yuanzhang is, he still can't withstand the power of the currency market, and slowly everyone chooses various ways to abandon the Daming treasure banknotes, even if the most basic physical currency is used, and even the simplest material transactions, the Daming treasure banknotes will depreciate day by day, and in the era of Renzong and Xuanzong, the Daming treasure banknotes will also end up with Chairman Jiang's golden yuan coupons.

The golden yuan coupon asked for half a life of the Jiang regime, but it only made a currency of the Ming Dynasty invalid, not how much stronger the Ming Dynasty banknote is than the golden yuan bill, but the Ming Dynasty in the Hongwu, Yongle Dynasty is still as solid as a rock, there is no internal worries, there is no major external trouble, although Yongle seven peace south, six sweep the north of the desert, are fighting a battle of disparity between strength and weakness, the Ming Dynasty only has a temporary financial difficulties, and there is no phenomenon of fatigue in the world during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

After the Ming Dynasty and the Xuan Dynasty, the flow of silver continued to increase, because the imperial court began to trade with the Ottoman Empire and European countries in large quantities, exchanging Chinese porcelain, silk, and tea for European silver, and of course, there were more expensive rarities such as gold and diamonds. It was these large inflows of silver that supported the currency circulation market of the Ming Empire, and China gained the reputation of a porcelain kingdom.

Not only does China have little silver, but it also doesn't have many gold mines. Most of the world's gold and diamonds come from Africa, South Africa's gold content is generally more than 90 percent, and some of them can be processed into various gold jewelry products without purification, not to mention diamonds, African diamonds have always been the main source of the world's diamond market, but unfortunately they were all occupied by the British Empire.

Fortunately, China also used its own advantages, with porcelain, tea, silk in exchange for most of the silver in Europe, diamonds are naturally a lot, it is not a loss, in China more ordinary porcelain and tea to Europe has become expensive, only the royal family, nobles can afford to buy, the British royal family and nobles all drink tea, but the average person can only drink coffee, just because tea is too expensive. They like to add sugar to tea, but also because the tea trafficked to Europe at that time is the same as the one sold to the nomads outside the Saiwai, all of which are tea bricks made of tea powder, which are bitter and astringent, and can only be sweetened, and later although the best black tea is also trafficked to Europe, this bad habit has been formed, they can only drink bitter and astringent strong tea, and cannot taste the various sweetness of tea.

As for the Russians drinking tea, it was learned from the Mongols, who were originally slaves conquered by the Mongols. Jin Yong's "Dragon Babu" in the Tianshan Tong's cruel control of his subordinates, is the conquered Russian Golden Horde treatment of Russian nobles, when they came to pay tribute, they were beaten with a leather whip, stepped on the face with leather boots, and humiliated severely, these nobles were happy and happy, and they could continue to live again, if they didn't beat you or scold you, it means that they are not satisfied with your tribute, and go back and wait for the entire ethnic group to be trampled into pulp by the Mongolian iron horsemen.

Of course, at that time there was no whole nation of Russia, but only large and small peoples near Muscovy, and here it is only for the convenience of calling it that. But the later Russian nation was formed after slowly annexing the surrounding large and small ethnic groups based on Moscow, and finally formed the Tsarist Empire as brutal and ferocious as the Mongols, but unfortunately the world is no longer the era of Genghis Khan, and the Tsarist Empire will not be able to reproduce the glory of Genghis Khan's empire. It is said that the most basic ethnic group in the composition of the Russian nation is still the Rus' nation, which was called the Rakshasa in the Qing Dynasty and russia in English.

At that time, the Mongols were regarded as a nightmare by Europe, and called them God's leather whips. Genghis Khan has become an eternal shadow in the minds of Europeans, but he has become the object of their eternal worship, which may be the answer to the saying: since you can't resist being raped, then enjoy it.

The attitude of Europeans towards Genghis Khan is like this, and it is completely opposite to the Chinese, and the Chinese's evaluation of Genghis Khan is one sentence: only know how to bend the bow and shoot the eagle.

That means that there is no culture in skills.

During World War II, Hitler dreamed of becoming Genghis Khan on the European land, and the Japanese wanted to be Genghis Khan on the sea, but unfortunately they were just dreams.

It's far away, back to the point.

Zhou Dingcheng and Xiaojun told the adventures of the two of them, and they were dumbfounded when they heard it.

These two guys followed the Zheng family all the way to Fuzhou, and finally sneaked into the Zheng family's ancestral house and ransacked the Zheng family's warehouse.

"Don't say we're greedy, we didn't want to do this, it's just that I have two opponents who also followed the Zheng family's people into Fuzhou, and we just wanted to get rid of those two guys. Xiaojun himself was a little embarrassed.

"That is, if it weren't for those two people, we wouldn't have taken this risk, in fact, with Brother Xiaojun here, Fuzhou is not a dangerous place at all, we casually wander in, and casually sneak out. Zhou Dingcheng grinned.

"You actually took someone's warehouse and swallowed so many things?" and couldn't believe his ears.

"No, we really don't like ordinary things, we haven't moved several rows of gold bars and silver ingots, don't you and Lord Zhou like famous paintings and antiques, so we will start with these." Jun smiled.

"What about Brother Zheng Haomiao?" he asked.

"Of course we went back to our hometown, didn't you say to let them go, and we didn't do anything. Besides, they are under the protection of your people, and it is not convenient for us to do it. Xiaojun complained.

Besides, he understands that the people that Xiao Jun is so protective of naturally refer to those overseas forces who have asked him for instructions, and they protect the Zheng brothers only so that the treaty with the pirate alliance can be implemented, and he is not very clear about the inside story.

"Besides, brother, you are going to get married tomorrow, and I have nothing to respect, these things were brought from Zheng Haomiao, borrow flowers and offer Buddha. Xiao Jun took out a large purse from his arms, and when he opened it, he saw a thick stack of silver tickets.

"What is this?" and looked at the large stack of silver tickets and was stunned.

"Silver tickets, don't you know them? The whole 1,350,000 taels are all from Qiantong and Sitong Qianzhuang. Jun smiled.

"You got it, or you keep it, and I don't lack money. "Besides, don't excuse yourself.

"Don't, this is for you, otherwise what do I want to do with these burdens, you don't lack silver, I don't lack anything, if I want to make money, I can grab the wealth in the world. Jun grinned.