Chapter 135: Where is Da Ming's Silver?

Yang Pu didn't know, this was Zhu Qizhen's choice question for him.

Either they will be innocent of the ceremony, and obediently begin to let a large number of elderly officials pay tribute. Either that's a matter of giving a personal touch. Just dispose of the gift to one person.

Yang Pu said: "The old minister understands that Shi Li's illness should be told to the court as soon as possible, and let the court send someone to take over. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Just do it." ”

The word of origin is the scholar of the gift. All the fame he has gained has been exploited, which is similar to expelling party membership and stripping political rights for life.

This is also the meaning of the question.

Before any high-ranking official is executed, there is this one.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Uncle Huichang is not strict in governing his family, handing over the bandits and seizing the title. As for the following party, let the three law divisions interrogate and never tolerate it. ”

Zhu Qizhen did this, but also to give the civil officials a face. One step.

For Hui Changbo, I am afraid that the punishment of taking the title is more serious than killing him, the reason is very simple, killing him, but killing him alone, but taking the title is to take away the title of the Sun family's hereditary recklessness.

For the Sun family, from then on, the family came down a step.

In fact, Zhu Qizhen has always had thoughts about this matter.

Qian Wan'er knows the general situation and does not ask for her father's title. But man does not suffer from widowhood, but from injustice. Why does the Sun family have a queen and have a title, and the Qian family also has a queen, so there is no title?

Zhu Qizhen can block for a while, and he can block for a lifetime.

Therefore, he had long wanted to deprive the Sun family of his title.

It's not that Zhu Qizhen was jealous of the Sun family's refusal to help him. Instead, he wants to maintain the holy divinity of the Ming title system, and he is not a meritorious knight. And any title, in terms of treatment, can compete with the first-class officials.

Only the Holy Spirit of the title is scarce, and when the reward is awarded, can the generals below feel precious, otherwise marrying a daughter can be compared with the merits of other people's battlefield battles, doesn't this mean that iron-blooded military merit is not as good as nepotism.

Zhu Qizhen, who was preparing to fight with the tile thorns, had been unhappy with the three words of Hui Changbo for a long time.

Look at the two titles awarded by Zhu Qizhen after he ascended the throne, one is Jiang Gui, the Bo of Dingxi, and the other is Fang Jin, the Bo of Weining. Jiang Gui has served the imperial court for decades, and the white-haired veteran You Battlefield fights for his life, winning more with less, which is why Ding Xibo is determined, and Fang Jin is the father and son for two generations to conquer Luchuan, Fang Zheng is even more unyielding, rushing to the elephant array and dying, this is Wei Ningbo Fang Jin, this Wei Ningbo is not so much to reward Fang Jin's efforts to think about Ren Fa, but to reward Fang Zheng's loyalty to the Ming Dynasty.

Huichang Bo is just a small official of the Ministry of Works. How can he be deserved? Juxtaposed with these two. Now Zhu Qizhen is just doing it easily.

After Yang Pu listened, this

only to breathe a sigh of relief. I secretly said in my heart: "This time, I will be much easier." Yang Pu said: "The minister obeys the order." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "That's all for this, Mr. go back and urge the Criminal Department, Marble, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, let them hurry up." Now let's talk about the problem of the silver. ”

Yang Pu said: "Most of this matter is Zhou Chen's responsibility, and the minister thinks that he should be announced to come in and speak." ”

Zhu Qizhen nodded, and said to Zhang Huan beside him, "Please come in Zhou Shangshu." ”

Zhang Huan nodded and went down immediately.

But in a moment, Zhou Chen arrived. After a salute, Zhou Chen sat down cautiously. First of all, let's talk about the 12 million taels of silver. Zhou Chen said: "Your Majesty, there are only 200,000 taels of silver in the Taicang Silver Treasury, and there is no silver in the imperial court. ”

Zhu Qizhen hesitated.

Zhou Chen didn't do nothing during this period of time.

He integrated all the warehouses of the imperial court in Beijing.

First of all, it is divided into two warehouse systems, one is the inner carrier warehouse, that is, the inner warehouse. One is the Tai Warehouse, that is, the household department. Treasury so to speak.

In the city of Beijing, large and small warehouses are innumerable, even if they are warehouses in the palace, they are directly lined up with more than a dozen words in A, B, C, D. The heavenly stems are not enough.

Therefore, what Zhou Chen did was not to pound the things in these warehouses back and forth. It's just a re-alignment of the relationship.

There is a squire who is in charge of all the warehouses.

From the previous emperor could manage everything, to the emperor could directly manage the internal carrier warehouse, and he had to go through the household department to manage the warehouse.

It's just a matter of establishing the previous unspoken rules.

The biggest feat is to finalize the Taicang Silver Warehouse, and among all the warehouses, only this warehouse is newly established.

Someone is going to ask?

There was no Taicang silver treasury before, where did Daming's silver go?

It is in the inner carrier.

This is also the reason why the Empress Dowager was able to save more than 30 million taels of silver for Zhu Qizhen under reasonable circumstances. Because most of the silver in the Ming Dynasty is here.

The legal tender of the Ming Dynasty is the treasure banknote, although everyone knows that the treasure money can not be used, but in the previous regulations, gold and silver are like pearls, which are naturally divided into the inner treasury system.

For example, gold, silver, and jewelry, all kinds of treasures are classified into the interior.

There is no treasury under the household. In the past, the household department used other names to store silver. After all, there are policies and countermeasures, and the imperial court can't really use silver, but Liu Zhongshi, the head of the household, is a diehard loyalist of the empress dowager.

So, the situation can be imagined.

And Zhou Chen's move to establish the Taicang Treasury today may not be a silent protest against the Empress Dowager's previous behavior.

Zhu Qizhen thought

After thinking about it, he said, "Just according to Zhou Qing's wishes." ”

After all, the Empress Dowager is worried that the young lord is coming to the court, and the people below have other thoughts, although they delegate power in political affairs and personnel, but they secretly pinch the finances tightly.

Anyway, everything that is not urgent, except for necessary government affairs, all kinds of things that cost money are stopped. The imperial court didn't have to spend so much silver.

But now, things are different.

Zhu Qizhen wants to do things, and a healthy Ming finance is very important. Now the Ming Dynasty has a serious imbalance between internal and external finances.

And Zhou Chen, this person is not a strong order, Zhu Qizhen really wants silver, Zhou Chen will only obediently prepare the silver and personally escort it into the inner treasury.

I can't say anything, if I don't want money, if I want to die.

What is the difference between placing it in the household and placing it in the inner library?

And Wang Zhen has some small actions, Zhu Qizhen may not know. Let Wang Zhen rub the oil again?

Zhou Chen breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Zhou Chen in essence, he didn't want to fight against Zhu Qizhen, but he wanted to establish the Ming Dynasty's finances on the silver standard, so it was unimaginable if the household department did not have a special treasury.

Although he is slippery, in essence, all his tricks are for the sake of doing things, not the other way around. Inside his outer softness, there is also inner rigidity.

Zhou Chen hurriedly said, "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Okay, how are the silver and copper coins prepared?" ”

Zhou Chen immediately said: "The minister thinks that it is done, and the sample money is outside the palace." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Submit it." ”

Immediately, a eunuch carried two mahogany lacquer plates, on which a layer of red cloth was laid, and on top of the red cloth, there was a copper coin and a silver coin respectively.

This copper coin is exactly the same as the silver coin in style, both round on the outside and square on the inside.

One says that the orthodox treasure is a copper coin, and the other says that the orthodox treasure is a silver coin.

Zhu Qizhen looked at it, weighed it twice, and then motioned to Yang Pu to take a look, Yang Pu also weighed it, and said: "This copper coin has long had certain rules, but this silver coin, but how to say it?" ”

Although copper coins were rarely minted during the orthodox years, there was still a little scale of orthodox Tongbao circulating in the world, and Yang Pu had seen it a long time ago, that is, Zhu Qizhen had never touched the money, and he felt that it was strange.

Yang Pu's goal was to put money on the silver money from the beginning.

Zhou Chen said: "According to His Majesty's will, seven cents of silver is mixed with other things to exercise. One is worth a tael. ”

Yang Pu said: "In this way, the money interest is three points? ”

Zhou Chen said: "Less than three points, the Household Baoyuan Bureau still needs money." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "The only deficiency is that there are square holes in the copper coins, but they are used to run through them with a thin rope, and they are always thousands. And how many people are there today, can there be a thousand two families? Extremely useless. ”