Shenyang in the summer of the sixteenth year of Yongli, compared to the sultry heat in the south of the Yangtze River, it is a little cooler here, but compared to the prosperity of the south of the Yangtze River, this Shenyang city is really a little deserted - a large area of bombed ruins in the city, which has been re-cleaned and piled up in the open space, although it has been a month, but there are still many officers and soldiers in the city there to clean up the ruins after the war.

Clearing the ruins is not complicated, it is nothing more than knocking down the broken walls and then stacking the masonry in the open space for future reconstruction. And in the process, it is common to find many corpses buried in the rubble, because of the pungent stench of these corpses in the middle of summer.

Even with a mask, the choking stench still comes to the nostrils, but for this stench, the big guy has long been used to all this.

"Vomit ......"

Suddenly, the sound of vomiting on the side made Wang Shujie turn his head, only to see Sun Mingying holding his head there and vomiting, this kid is a recruit who was just replenished three days ago, although there have been almost no casualties since entering Liaodong, but there are still casualties, since there are casualties, new recruits need to be replenished.

In fact, Sun Mingying is not a recruit, he is a supplementary soldier, and he also acts with the large army, but even so, in the eyes of the big guy, he is just a recruit, after all, he has never been on the battlefield.

"Hey, don't be coquettish, you kid, if you come a few days earlier, then you will vomit, you don't know the smell at that time, that's called taste."

As soon as Lao Li Tou's voice on the side fell, Wang Shujie echoed.

"Mingying, you didn't come earlier, when you first came, there were corpses in this city, the corpses you saw in the first two days were as hard as a stick, and the skin color was waxy yellow, and then the corpses that were pulled out became bloated, the flesh was all sauce purple, black water flowed out of your clothes, and everywhere there were corpses, there were pools of blood flowing everywhere, at that time, when you went to this station, the stench could make you breathless. The corpses and the blood were crawling with swarms of green-headed flies, and as you hit them, they sparked a buzzing sound of flies. At that time, there were many corpses in the ruins that had not been dug up, and the smell of corpses was not to mention......"

When carrying the smell, Wang Shujie even took a breath.

"Compared to that, not to mention how comfortable it is!"

It's good to get used to it.

When they said this, Sun Mingying could only nod his head again and again.

"Who, who knew that the smell here was so strong......"

At that moment, suddenly there was a shout from there.

"Discover a cellar!"

Where there is a cellar, there is silver, and there are also corpses, and the silver is hidden in the cellar, and as for the man, he is also suffocated in the cellar.

"Lose his mother, the brothers there are now prosperous, and that is a bonus of fifty taels of silver!"

Listening to the joy over there, Lao Li Tou couldn't help but envy his comrades-in-arms over there, according to the regulations, the troops who found the silver in the cellar could be rewarded, and the reward was not much, although it was only fifty taels, and it was not sent to their hands, all the reward money was sent directly to the family members in the rear, but even so, it was an extra windfall for them.

Just as they were envying their comrades over there, a piece of news came from there.

"Obediently, you don't know, there are millions of taels of silver hidden in that cellar!"

Millions of taels!

Almost everyone was attracted by the news, and they looked at the open space surrounded by the army on tiptoe, and through the gap between the people, Wang Shujie saw that large boxes were lifted from the cellar.

The news of the discovery of a large amount of hidden silver was quickly sent from the construction site to one of the few intact buildings in the city, Prince Li's Mansion, which was almost undamaged because of its proximity to the palace, because during the siege and shelling of the city by the Loyal and Righteous Army, because it deliberately avoided the Manchu Palace in Shenyang, so the palace was almost not damaged by any artillery fire, and the Prince Li on the side was naturally stained.

Now this prince's mansion has naturally become the line of King Huai, after Zhu Mingzhong came to Shenyang, he has been living in this palace, Zhu Mingzhong, who was talking to Fang Yizhi, was stunned when he heard that he found it hidden.

"How much?"

"The preliminary inventory is expected to be no less than five million taels! There are also more than 200 boxes of antique jade and other things, and more than a dozen boxes of calligraphy and paintings. ”

Five million taels!

When he was thinking about this number, what came to Zhu Mingzhong's mind was another number.

"So that means that now, we have more than 20,000 taels of silver in Shenyang!"

"Yes, the property confiscated and surrendered in the city and seized in the palaces of the kings confiscated a total of more than 197.56 million taels, plus these five million taels, it has exceeded 20,000 taels."

Twenty thousand taels!

That's 200 million taels!

At this time, Zhu Mingzhong's mind was repeatedly tumbling over this number, although he was used to seeing the world, but when faced with such a number, he was still in extreme shock. After all, this number is too staggering.

Two hundred million taels!

This is only silver, and at the same time, there are more than 3.2 million taels of gold seized.

How did the nobles get the gold and silver? Obviously, they could not have accumulated the silver on their own.

There was only one way for them to get the money, and that was to scavenge it by all means.

"How much has been caught in Prince Yu's mansion?"

Suddenly, Zhu Mingzhong looked up at Fang Yizhi and asked.

"Back to the king, there are 12 silver cellars in the palace of Prince Yu, and more than 19,650,000 taels of silver, more than 60,000 taels of gold, and ......."

When Fang Yizhi was talking about the other belongings he had seized, Zhu Mingzhong just said sullenly.

"Jiashen Nian Duoduo entered the pass from Dolgon with the general of Dingguo and defeated Li Zicheng's army. The swirling division broke Yangzhou, went down to the south of the Yangtze River, Jin and Shuodeyu Prince, Yangzhou 10th, Jiading 3 Tu, Jiangyin 81st, from its south, that along the way slaughtered my Han family more than 10 million? Now I am equal to Shengjing's income, it seems that there are hundreds of millions, we seem to have made a windfall, but who knows, these silver coins are all plundered by the Han people who killed me, look at the silver coins of a hundred taels of ingots, a thousand taels of collars, and the ingots are all Han blood ......"

Holding the handle of the circle chair with both hands, Zhu Mingzhong looked completely dumbfounded.

"When Jiading slaughtered the city, every time the soldiers met a person, they called the barbarian to offer treasures, and they took their waist to wrap their waists, and the meaning was full of relief. When encountering other soldiers, they will be extorted as before. There is not much to offer, and he slashes three times. If everything is exhausted, it will kill ......"

Looking at the appearance of the king's eyes, Fang Yizhi's heart also set off a burst of anger, after all, he had experienced all this, he had witnessed all this. Although Zhu Mingzhong has always said to the outside world that he was the person who leaked the knife in Jiading back then, in fact, he did not experience the massacre, and the memory of the Manchu massacre often only stays in the written record, and that kind of empathy is just a kind of empathy, but all this Fang Yizhi has experienced and witnessed, his relatives and friends do not know how many people died under the butcher's knife of the Qing army, and now listening to the king's words about these old things, how can he not be angry?

When he was furious, he only heard the king continue there.

"One or two silver, one life, this captive kills my people, how can it be hundreds of millions of ......"

Raising his head, Zhu Mingzhong's eyes narrowed, and he said in a cold voice.

"Kill!"

Although he didn't say who to kill, there was no need to ask at all at this time. Anyone could tell who he was referring to.

"The King?"

Fang Yizhi looked at the king in some surprise, hadn't he already decided to let those people live?

"None of them will be left!"

Without too many words, as if he was talking about something not worth mentioning, Zhu Mingzhong's tone seemed extremely calm, and after saying these four words, he pondered for a while and then said.

"All the gold and silver property obtained from Shenyang will be stored in the government and sealed, and they will be used for military expenses to pursue the Qing captives in other days, as long as there is still a captive in the world, Lone will never collect troops!"

Time will not make people forget, not to mention that all this has only passed less than 20 years, and I don't know how many Chinese people have died under the butcher's knife of the Qing army, no one will forget all this, at least no one will forget it now.

Avenge!

The wishes of all the people in this country are also the only way to comfort the dead.

Nothing else, just for revenge!

When the king said this, Fang Yizhi only nodded slightly.

"As it should be!"

But while approving, he added.

"My lord, in the opinion of the ministers, although this batch of silver money is used for military expenses, there are more important places where these silver need to be used now than the military expenses that are sealed for other days."

Looking at the king who had gradually regained his senses, Fang Yizhi tried to persuade him.

"Oh?"

Glancing at Fang Yizhi, Zhu Mingzhong was a little curious, what did he mean.

"Does the king know how many silver dollar coupons have been issued in Jiangbei now?"

Although he was not in charge of banking and other matters, because he often talked about state affairs with Fu Shan and others, and served as a courtier by the king's side for nearly a year, Fang Yizhi naturally knew some secrets that outsiders could not know.

"Huh?"

Zhu Mingzhong just looked at Fang Yizhi in surprise.

Since last year, the silver dollar coupons can be exchanged for silver yuan bills of the same amount at the bank, and they can be used as circulation currency together with one or two Jiangbei silver dollars and fixed amount promissory notes, which circulate in the market, but the fixed amount of the promissory notes are often more than 100 yuan, and the maximum denomination of the silver yuan coupon is only 10 yuan.

"More than 10,000 yuan!"

10,000 yuan!

With a slight raising of his eyebrows, Zhu Mingzhong vaguely realized what Fang Yizhi wanted to say - too many banknotes were issued!

Whether it is the original rice coupon or the later fixed amount promissory note, people are most worried about whether it will depreciate, just like the Daming treasure banknote of the year, because of the excessive issuance and continuous depreciation, and finally had to be abolished for the rejection of the market. It is precisely because of this that a large number of banknotes circulated, not only did Jiangbei's high-level officials feel at ease, but they even felt worried, fearing that one day the banknotes would depreciate, and then they could no longer be as "relaxed" as they are now, after all, Jiangbei's government expenses were often paid for with paper money.

"The credit of Jiangbei silver dollar bonds has always been very strong, not only has the official one-to-one exchange rate, but in some places, the exchange of silver taels for Jiangbei silver dollar bills will cost one to half a premium."

Facing Fang Yizhi's question, Zhu Mingzhong said in an extremely positive tone.

"At least in the next few years, the credit of silver dollar bills does not need to be considered, now every year Jiangbei through trade, the flow of silver into Jiangbei is not less than 10 million, these silver is the guarantee for our issuance of silver dollar bills, the current Jianghuai Bank deposit silver is not less than 50 million taels, the issuance of 100 million yuan of banknotes, there is no problem......

With a reserve of 50 million, there is no problem at all with the issuance of 100 million banknotes, of course, in addition to silver dollar bills, there are tens of millions of fixed cashier's notes circulating in the market, but the market can accept the circulation of these banknotes.

"Moreover, the reason why banks issue so many banknotes is not because of the needs of the government, but because of the needs of the market! Because the market needs silver! ”

The market needs silver!

The king's answer made Fang Yizhi stunned, and he immediately thought of what Fu Qingzhu said when he was chatting.

"At present, the four seas are becoming more and more impoverished...... As for today, silver is becoming scarce and unusable. ”

"Silver is scarce and unusable...... In this case, it is necessary to implement the money law! ”

Looking at the king, Fang Yizhi seemed to understand why the king wanted to seal up the silver, and the purpose of sealing the cash silver was to implement the banknote law and make paper money available in the world, at least paper money as the main thing, supplemented by silver coins.

"The king, the minister understands!"

Nodding, Zhu Mingzhong didn't explain anything, but took out another report.

"Secret, there has just been news from Shandong that Li Ziyuan's granary in Luoyang has been seized by the Qing captives."

Handing the information to Fang Mizhi, Zhu Mingzhong said mockingly.

"Now the grain stored in the army, if it is not obtained from the confiscation of Qizhuang Zhuangtou around the capital, I am afraid that the grain would have been cut out long ago, and the price of grain in Beijing is getting higher and higher, in order to win the hearts of the people, it has to sell grain to stabilize the price of grain, so that its grain storage is only enough for two months at most! It's a real cocoon! ”

With a hint of mockery in his tone, Zhu Mingzhong sneered.

"When she chose to let the tiger return to the mountain, I am afraid that she never thought that the Manchu Qing would go south and take away his grain, and now what will his hundreds of thousands of troops eat? What do the people in Jingshi eat? ”

"King, then we ...... now"

Fang Yizhi looked at the king, he had already guessed what the king wanted to say.

"We're just going to watch the show now!"

Zhu Mingzhong's words were not loud, and his tone was also very calm.

"He now seems to have taken the capital, and there are hundreds of thousands of mouths to eat in the capital. This time I'm going to have to see how he fills his mouth! ”

Looking up at Fang Yizhi, a smile appeared on Zhu Mingzhong's face.

"But this matter is a good thing for the Northeast, its grain can't be transported, and the people in the capital will definitely have to eat, if they don't want to starve to death, then they will ......."

Staring at Fang Yizhi, Zhu Mingzhong smiled.

"The Northeast may be a good choice, we can recruit immigrants here in Shanhaiguan, but not a single grain from Jiangbei can enter Beijing!"