In the imperial palace of the capital, Emperor Hongzhi was in his study to review the music.

In the past two years, his small life has been very comfortable, the country and the people are safe, the wind and rain are smooth, and the key is that the internal and external troubles have been swept away.

Not only do you have money to spend and have military power, but now the imperial court also has silver, the treasury is full, and there is so much silver that you don't know how to spend it.

All walks of life are thriving, and the development of all parts of the Ming Dynasty is also very rapid, even if there is a flood and drought locust plague or something in some places, a lot of silver is sprinkled, and a large amount of grain is constantly transported over, and there is nothing left.

"Silver is such a good thing~"

Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but sigh after reading the song.

Shaanxi has experienced another major drought this year, and there has not been a drop of rain in many places for several months, and the earth has dried up and there is no harvest.

If it was in the past, the imperial court had no silver, and could only mobilize grain to help the victims in the past, and often the food had not yet arrived, and Shaanxi might have been in chaos.

The phenomenon of starvation and eating may occur.

At that time, it is inevitable that there will be a lot of mountain kings, peasant uprisings, etc., in short, it may take two or three years of turmoil before it can slowly stop.

But now it's different.

Despite such a major drought, judging from the situation reported from all sides, everything is very stable in Shaanxi, and the imperial court has silver on its side, and the silver is allocated in time.

The grain transported by the imperial court, the grain purchased from the grain merchants, and the Ming Morning Post called on everyone to donate money and materials to support Shaanxi.

The court has money, so it's different to do things, even if there is corruption, but there is always something that can fall on the heads of the people below.

What's more, the money used for disaster relief is basically used to buy food and transport it to the disaster areas for disaster relief, and the situation of corruption has also improved.

The Ming Morning Post also played a certain supervisory role, and there were many people in the Ming Morning Post who remembered to go deep into the disaster area to collect news materials, and if any local officials embezzled the money or food for disaster relief, they would also report it, and they would definitely die soon without a place to be buried, which also made many people restrain a lot.

Secondly, Daming is building cement roads, and there are also planned cement roads in Shaanxi, which require a large number of manpower, and also recruit a lot of victims who just have nothing to do because of drought.

Let them have something to do, work to do, food to eat, and money to take, and naturally settle down.

The construction of the highway also made the speed of the imperial court's disaster relief very fast, with the cement road, the four-wheeled carriage was very fast to transport a large amount of grain to Shaanxi.

In the past, it may take ten days and half a month, and only half of the ten catties of grain may be able to be transported, but now it is different, two or three days is enough, and ten catties of grain will be transported enough for you.

In addition, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan are now also key places for the imperial court to move people out, and last year 100,000 people were relocated to Liaodong, plus the people who migrated overseas, and went to the Beijing and Tianjin areas to find work.

Hundreds of thousands of people migrated out of Shaanxi last year alone, which also greatly reduced the pressure on Shaanxi.

Under the effect of many conditions, the drought in Shaanxi, which should have given Emperor Hongzhi a headache, nothing happened, everything was in order here in Shaanxi, and the victims in various places were eating good rice and white noodles at home with peace of mind, and they lived a good life, so that many people said that this was a year of famine.

Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but sigh.

Silver is a good thing.

Even though he was the emperor, he had to sigh like this.

Think about the hard days in the past, and then think about the present, Emperor Hongzhi has a deep understanding.

In the past, there was a famine, and the court was poor, not to mention the silver, it was good to have food relief in the past, and it was not enough to allocate a few tens of thousands of taels of silver to go down.

Now, this time the imperial court directly allocated 500,000 taels, Emperor Hongzhi took out 500,000 taels of silver from the inside, and the Ming Morning Post claimed to have donated money and grain from all walks of life, and made up more than 300,000 taels of silver, adding up to more than 1 million taels of silver.

Coupled with the large amount of grain allocated, such a huge amount of silver and grain was thrown down, and the victims of the disaster in Shaanxi could not eat it even if they sat at home for a year.

This is silver, and it is easy to do things with money.

"Cement kilometers will continue to be repaired, anyway, now there is money, Shaanxi has just had a drought, then repair more, to the road to Sichuan, to Henan, work for relief, let them go to repair roads, repair reservoirs."

"With the cement road, it's convenient to do everything, and it's too much faster to transport grain."

"Not only here in Shaanxi, but also everywhere in Daming, the more you repair, the better."

Emperor Hongzhi came to the huge map, and he couldn't help but nod his head when he looked at the red line on the map.

Now I can appreciate the benefits of road construction.

"The immigrants from Shaanxi will continue to move out, and it happens to be another year of famine, so they will move more, move to Liaodong, and move to Xianglin, Jiaozhi, and Nanyang."

"It just so happens that there are fewer people in these places, and the more people you move out, the better."

Soon, Emperor Hongzhi looked at the two newly acquired provinces on the Nanyang side, and immediately nodded.

There are a lot of good places, and I'm worried about the small population of these places, so I just happened to move you people out.

"When will Liu Jin, this stinky boy, come back, is he going to stay here in Nanyang until the New Year?"

Soon, Emperor Hongzhi thought of Liu Jin, and a smile appeared on his face.

"It's okay, let him squeeze some more silver here in Nanyang and come back, with silver, my Ming can be more prosperous, as for the rest, it doesn't matter anymore."

Emperor Hongzhi is now completely shameless, does it matter if he has silver in his face?

Can the skin be used as silver?

So what Liu Jin did on the Nanyang side integrated the mind of Emperor Hongzhi.

Silver is the most important thing, with silver can you do great things, whether it is army construction, disaster relief, infrastructure construction, Emperor Hongzhi can do it freely.

Just when Emperor Hongzhi was looking at the huge map and pondering, a small yellow door hurriedly came over, handed over a secret letter to Xiao Jing's hand, and hurriedly said it.

"Your Majesty~Your Majesty~"

After hearing this, Xiao Jing couldn't help but widen his eyes, and then hurried to find Emperor Hongzhi.

"What's the matter?"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Xiao Jing and asked.

"Your Majesty, a great event, a great event, a fleet has returned from the Golden Continent, bringing a great good thing to Your Majesty."

Xiao Jing said with a smile on his face, and then he also dismantled the superstition and respectfully handed it over to Emperor Hongzhi.

This superstition was sent to the capital overnight by Caisonghu.

"Yes~ Finally someone is back?"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he immediately laughed, and he looked very quick to take the superstition.

This superstition was a secret letter brought back by the secret guards sent to the Golden Continent by the Jinyi Guard, and reported in detail all the things that happened on the Golden Continent.

Emperor Hongzhi allowed the behavior of Tianjin's ocean-going trading company, but it did not mean that he would not be monitored, Jinyiwei was everywhere, in fact, nothing could escape the eyes of Emperor Hongzhi.

"The major trading houses have made a fortune, and thousands of gold and silver mines of all sizes have been found in various parts of the Golden Continent, and they are constantly mining gold and silver mines, and dozens of ships that came back this time are full of gold and silver."

"Tian Erniu built a lot of colonial strongholds on this side of the Golden Continent, and even sent troops to conquer the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire, and the conquest of the Aztec Kingdom alone obtained more than 50 million taels of gold and silver at one time?"

Seeing this, Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but open his mouth wide.

"Fifty million taels of silver worth of silver?"

Emperor Hongzhi was a little incredulous, but after reading it carefully, he couldn't help but reddened his eyes.

"Fifty million taels~"

"If it's the Inca Empire, wouldn't this be a gold and silver with hundreds of millions of taels of silver?"

Emperor Hongji's breathing intensified.

Even though he was already very rich and a Ninety-Five Supreme, when he saw the content of this superstition, his whole person couldn't help but be excited and tremble.

Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gold and silver.

Pyramids were made out of gold and silver.

Only 10,000 people easily conquered the two great countries of the Golden Continent and asked them to compensate for gold and silver, and the key is that every year after that, the people of these two countries will use gold and silver to build pyramids to atone for their sins.

So ignorant, so ignorant, so simple.

This made Emperor Hongzhi can't help but sigh for a long time, this is also too easy and simple.

"This Tian Erniu is really a talent, 10,000 people easily conquered two great kingdoms and obtained such a huge wealth, he must be rewarded heavily when he comes back."

Emperor Hongzhi smiled from ear to ear, he and the crown prince Zhu Houzhao were the major shareholders of Tianjin Ocean Trading Company, and this time he had obtained such a huge fortune, he was already calculating how much he could enter his own pocket.

"The Europeans have even reached the east coast of the Golden Continent~"

"We really live on the same ball, from the Ming Dynasty all the way to the west to reach Europe, this all the way to the east, and we have really come into contact with Europeans."

After a long time, Emperor Hongzhi's excitement calmed down slightly, and then he began to carefully read the content of superstitions.

The content of the superstition is very detailed, not only explaining the situation of the Ming Dynasty on the Golden Continent in detail, but also mentioning that this time, the descendants of Yin Shang and the Spaniards of Europe arrived in the Ming Dynasty with the fleet.