Chapter 110: Food and Silver

But no matter how it is repaired, it is just a walk around in the framework of Emperor Taizu.

Now Yang Ding's suggestion is actually to reshape the grain transportation system of the Ming Dynasty. Even if a whip law is not implemented, the original tax of the Ming Dynasty will run according to this duty, which is also a matter of the people's power of the province.

And it greatly strengthens the control of the center.

Zhu Qizhen won the battle of the tile thorn, mainly relying on salt tax, tea tax, and customs duty. But there is not much land tax for real control.

It's not that the field tax is not important, the field tax and the forced labor attached to the field tax are the greatest wealth of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen replaced Cao Yun by sea, and the real transportation to Beijing did not exceed 8 million stones, even if the Ming Dynasty paid taxes and now exceeded 50 million stones, the real transportation to Beijing is only 10 million stones.

Where is the rest?

Either it is converted into silver, as if the household department gives one million gold and silver to the palace every year, which is the Jiangnan grain tax into silver.

In addition, it is distributed on the nodes of Daming according to this large network.

Of course, with Daming's current management capabilities, the management of these nodes is simply out of control. This is the congenital stubborn disease on the financial system of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, one of the financial reforms was that after all the money was converted into silver, except for the retained part, it would be supported in Beijing.

This greatly increased the central power of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Zhu Qizhen also understands this.

However, he also understands that it is difficult to transport grain in this era. The Manchu Qing Dynasty was able to do this on the basis of a whip law.

Zhu Qizhen felt that the national granary reserve did not need to be concentrated in Beijing, and it was impossible.

The warehouses listed by Yang Ding are generally arranged along the line of the canal and the line of the Yangtze River.

It is easy to transport food by land and water. If something happens, it will also be included in the rations.

And through such a rectification, the grain controlled by the imperial court in its hands is enough, and it is no longer 20 million stone in Jingcang.

Zhu Qizhen naturally approved Yang Ding's performance.

These warehouses are being built one after another, as for the management of the warehouse and how to decentralize the power of the local government, what still needs to be slowly run-in, but the overall theme will not change.

The food problem is being solved by Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Qizhen also had to face the problem of silver dollars.

Especially this year, the silver shortage has begun to subside. But it still moved Zhu Qizhen anxiously.

Liu Dingzhi's methods are all methods of treating the symptoms, and they are not even counting the methods of treating the symptoms, which can be said to be expedient. And the silver shortage, or money shortage, since the Tang and Song dynasties, I don't know how many times.

Even the Jiaozi of the Song Dynasty, in a sense, was a solution to the problem of money shortage, but it was just messed up.

So, Zhu Qizhen is right

This primitive banking industry is very interesting. Perhaps it is impossible for the imperial court to issue paper money. However, getting a transaction voucher similar to a silver ticket may alleviate the money shortage.

Zhu Qizhen silently knocked on Wang Yue's information. fell into contemplation for a while, and I didn't know what Wang Yue had done, should I intervene?

Is it to let the people develop freely, or to get a national bank?

At this time, Wynne came quietly and said, "Xian Kuima asks to see you." ”

Huai En is also very discerning, Zhu Qizhen wants to see people, naturally there are endless people, ordinary officials go back to Beijing to report on their work, and they can only meet the emperor for several days.

Only the ministers of the Privy Council and the Cabinet of the Six Ministries are qualified to ask for a meeting. It stands to reason that Xian Jing is just a colt, and there is no such treatment.

But Zhu Qizhen looked at Xian Jing differently, and the people around him could see it. Naturally, Wynne did not dare to be a villain.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Let him come." ”

After Xian Jing came, it was needless to say that he would bow immediately.

Zhu Qizhen asked him to sit down and said, "What's the matter?" ”

Xian Jing said, "Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Qizhen glanced at him and said, "Call Father." ”

There was a slight tremor in Xian Jing's voice, and he said, "Yes, Father." The son-in-law came today because there are two things to report, the first thing is that the share capital of Foshan Iron Works has been found, and the son-in-law is expected to go south to Foshan after the spring next year. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Let's go with Chongqing." ”

Xian Jing was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, father." ”

Generally, the princess is in the capital division, and the concubine is similar to the concubine. And Zhu Qizhen asked the princess of Chongqing to follow Xian Jing south to Foshan, and the attitude could not be more clear.

Zhu Qizhen, as a father, certainly wants to support his daughter. Let the daughter be the head of the family at home, but happiness has always been a very subjective thing.

In this kind of Confucian values, measured by the feminism of later generations, although Zhu Qizhen can be the master of the Chongqing princess, but is the Chongqing princess really happy?

Come to think of it, the princess of Chongqing is a princess after all, and Xian Jing did not dare to slack off after eating the bear's heart and leopard gall. A little weakness is also a solution.

Xian Jing immediately said: "Another matter, the little son-in-law is not sure, come to ask the godfather." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "What's the matter? ”

Xian Jing said: "Back to the merchant Mark Shun to offer 200,000 taels of silver, please son-in-law to make the decision for him, the son-in-law does not know, although this money is temporarily included in the share capital, but what to do, please ask Your Majesty to show me." ”

Zhu Qizhen pondered for a moment and said, "Ma Shun, where do you seem to have heard this name?" ”

Wynne immediately said: "Your Majesty, the old slave has heard that Mark Shun's original name is Pyrma Heima. He served in the Tile Thorn Mission, and when he was also first, he traveled back and forth to Beijing several times. ”

"It seems that the old slave doesn't know what other official positions he has held in the tile spur

, but there should be an archive on Jinyiwei's side. ”

Zhu Qizhen nodded and said, "I see." ”

There has never been a separation between economics and politics.

It is impossible for a businessman who can take out 200,000 taels in one breath to come out for no reason.

It turned out to be someone from the Tile Spur side.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen didn't think that the relationship between this Makshun and the Wattling regime was very close, even in the early days.

The Gainva regime is characterized by an alliance of arms, and a businessman is nothing more than a layman.

Now that the thorn is weakened, Mark Shun knows how to choose.

However, Xian Jing was taken aback and said: "The little son-in-law never knew that he had such a foundation, otherwise he would not use his money at all." ”

If Xian Jing didn't know that there was some connection between Mark Shun and the tile spur, it was definitely fake.

After all, although Xian Jing didn't know the details of Ma Shun, he knew about Ma Shun's business, that is, the Silk Road, and the trade between the tile and the Ming Dynasty.

Seven or eight out of ten of the camel caravans walking in the Western Regions are from the Ma family.

Of course, this also has something to do with the current situation in the Western Regions.

For hundreds of years in the Western Regions, Islam has been deeply rooted in this area. Although not all of the Mongols believed in returning home, a large number of soldiers and Han Chinese moved in.

But in many places, it is not enough to shake the status of the Hui merchants.

The Ma family can do business between the tile spur and the Ming Dynasty, and it would be fake to say that he has no backer in the tile spur. But it's one thing to have a backer, it's another thing to be an official who used to be a spur himself.

Zhu Qizhen said: "It's okay, what does he want to do?" ”

Xian Jing said: "He just asked him to give these to His Majesty." ”

Huaien took it and presented it to Zhu Qizhen with both hands.

Zhu Qizhen opened it and saw that it was all Shi Heng's black material, what kind of robbery caravans, extortion of lasso, and unauthorized establishment of checkpoints, unauthorized expansion, and among the tribes of Yili, widely collected Yizi and so on.

Zhu Qizhen sneered and said, "What is the crime of separating the monarch and ministers?" Do you know? ”

Xian Jing immediately knelt on the ground and said, "The minister knows, but the minister doesn't dare to deceive Your Majesty." The minister didn't know that the Ma family had anything to do with the tile spur before, and if he had known that this was the case, he would have given the minister a few guts, and the minister would not have dared to hand this for him. ”

Zhu Qizhen looked at Xian Jing and said secretly in his heart: "The lord who wants money and doesn't want to die." Zhu Qizhen didn't believe it. It is estimated that even if Xian Jing knew the inside story of this matter, Xian Jing would help.

After all, just by raising his hand and raising his foot, there are 200,000 taels of silver.

It's a book of profits.

Xian Jing is suddenly a talent, but it seems that the pattern is a little small, and he is encircled in the business world, you must know that in this era, no matter how much Zhu Qizhen is raised, businessmen are not in the stream.