"The two of them are right, but now for the silver ticket. There are still many people who do not understand, I hope that after the two of them go back, do more publicity, and when the time is ripe, we will go to the south to develop, not only in Ningbo' Mansion to open a branch, we also have to open a branch in major cities, in the future you will find that the use of silver tickets is a convenient and fast good thing. ”

"My lord, don't worry about this, after the two of us brothers go back, we will definitely do more publicity, especially those merchants who often go to Nanyang, I will also tell him the benefits of the silver ticket, if you go to the south to set up a branch, you must go to see our two brothers." Let us also do our best to be a landlord. ”

"Okay, thank you Xian Kunzhong, if you have the opportunity to go to Ning 'Bo' in the future, you will definitely go to disturb you, and the propaganda over there will depend on the two of you."

After a polite gesture, the two of them took their leave and left, leaving us their address in Ningbo.

"Lord Lan, these two brothers are not simple, they can see through the benefits of this silver ticket, if only they were in the capital, they can also give us more publicity."

"Lord Liu, they are better in the south, build momentum for us in advance, and when our semicolon passes, it can be carried out quickly, okay, let's not talk about this now, do we have anything else to do in the near future."

"Lord Lan, Xia Guan has something to remind your lords, since we are going to the south to develop, we have to recruit a group of students from the south, and now we are recruiting almost all of them from the north, and when we go to the south in the future, I am afraid that we are not used to the living habits over there, as well as the customs and customs over there. Therefore, Xia Guan suggested that we should prepare in advance and go to Guozijian to select a group of students from the south to come over, so as to prepare in advance for our future development and employment. This is what Xing Zhiwei said.

"Okay, it's decided, for a period of time, you will go to the Guozijian to select students, and I will go to the excerpt to ask for an order."

As for my coming to the study, I made a detailed discussion on the long-term development of the silver number, and also made a specific return on the operation of the silver number in the early stage. There is also the problem of students, these people are the key, I also suggest that the emperor open a "door" classroom in the "door" of the national superintendent to train this talent, if they all come to us for training, Lang will not be able to master the skills well after taking time.

This time, I did not go directly to the palace to send the excerpts, but through normal channels, I went to the cabinet first, and the cabinet was then transferred to the celebrant supervisor, and after the celebrant watched, it was transferred to the emperor, although it took more than three days to reach the emperor, but the advantage of this is that those imperial historians in the province said that I was a fortunate minister.

The excerpt stopped in Mu Zong's hands for a day, and on the morning of the fourth day, someone from the palace came to pass the decree, let me and Liu Taoran, and the two of us enter the palace to see the driver. I often go to see the emperor, but Liu Taoran is different, I met the emperor once in total, or at my wedding, there were so many officials at that time, and it is not certain whether Mu Zong has an impression of him. Now the emperor said that even he was summoned together, which really made Liu Taoran happy, first asked me what etiquette was, and finally asked me what the emperor would say when he summoned us.

I also took the trouble to teach him some etiquette for seeing the emperor, as well as what to say and how to do. The emperor summoned us, unless he just read my excerpt and wanted to ask us, I also showed Liu Taoran a copy of my excerpt, so that he knew it in his heart and could deal with the emperor's question.

In the afternoon, Liu Taoran and I had lunch in advance, and then came to Donghua 'gate' outside to wait for the emperor's summons, this is also a procedure, we arrived at Donghua 'gate', first go to the 'gate' to talk to the eunuch on duty at the 'door', the eunuch is in the inside, came to the Qianqing Palace, and told the eunuch on duty that we ask to see, and the eunuch will go inside to ask the emperor when to summon.

The eunuch who was waiting to go in came back, saying that the emperor had summoned us immediately, and Liu Taoran and I, under the leadership of the eunuch, came to the big 'gate' of the Qianqing Palace.

The eunuch at the entrance of the 'gate' went in to report, and then came out and took the two of us to the palace, Mu Zong was still sitting behind the dragon chair and looking at the excerpt, and I knew at a glance that the excerpt was on me.

After the salute, Mu Zong asked us to calm down, this time there was no sitting, maybe Mu Zong wanted to maintain a majesty in front of Liu Taoran, but I was used to sitting, and suddenly I didn't have this courtesy, and I still felt weird in my heart.

"Two Aiqing, I summoned you today for the sake of Lord Lan's excerpt, I read it once, and I feel good, but I don't know many details in it, so let you come over, I want to listen to you tell me in person."

"Weichen and the others listen to the emperor's questions."

The two of us answered together, which is also a good point for us to rehearse before.

"You said that you want to open a semicolon, this Lan Daren has also told me before, but I feel that now that you have just opened up the situation in the capital, and suddenly go outside to open a semicolon, are you a little anxious, and there is also this Guozijian to set up this course alone, will the students oppose it."

"Emperor Qi, now our silver number is developing well, Weichen and Lan Daren and Xing Da feel that while the iron is hot, push our silver number out, the largest employer of the silver number is a businessman, if we are only in the capital, they just take the silver ticket, and there is no place to exchange it when we go back, so we are in a hurry, and we want to open the branch outside as soon as possible. As for the students on the side of the Guozijian, as long as the Lord Long Live gives them proper treatment, they will not object, after all, the purpose of their study is to contribute to the imperial court, although our silver number is to 'deal' with merchants, but it is also an official errand, they can also accept us, after all, merchants are also my people of the Ming Dynasty. We scholars can't discriminate against them, as long as Long Live Lord attaches importance to them, how can they disagree. ”

These words were said by Liu Taoran, and I also gave him this opportunity in order to make him shine in front of the emperor.

Mu Zong nodded after hearing this and said: "Yes, what Aiqing said is very right, in the past few years, I have made this money and food very painful, and now I have a silver number, and I have a big heart disease, and you have worked hard." If there are any other good suggestions, you can put them forward together, and I will listen to them here, and if there are any difficulties and obstacles, I will also say them, and if I can solve them, I will solve them, and if I can't solve them, let the cabinet handle them. ”

"Long live the lord, as long as this silver trumpet is popularized, we will not be short of money and food after the Ming Dynasty. Weichen also has a suggestion that in the future, the military salaries and salaries of officials in various places can be issued on behalf of our silver number, which can quickly improve the popularity of our silver tickets, and also save the imperial court the pain of transporting military salaries everywhere, which is not the best of both worlds. "I also said some of the ideas that I had thought about a long time ago.

"Your method is good, and it also saves a lot of transportation effort for the imperial court, but the taxes in various places still have to be transported, so how about 'handing' you even the taxes together."

This is a very good thing, I mentioned it in the excerpt in the past, but Mu Zong has never agreed, if this tax is 'paid' to us, then our silver ticket can go to the whole country, and this official background is great.

"Thank you for your trust, it's just that our silver number is in the local area, if this tax is also 'paid' to us, we will have to 'deal' with the officials in charge of taxation in the provinces, and there are many problems such as the 'color' of silver and fire consumption that need to be solved. Long live the lord, wait for Weichen to go back, come up with a feasible plan, and then give it to the long live lord. ”

During the Ming Dynasty, the casting of silver ingots was not cast by the state bureau, and the silver ingots used to pay taxes were mainly cast by silversmiths from all over the country.

Theoretically speaking, the state of the Ming Dynasty voluntarily gave up the right to mint silver taels, so that there was a situation where all silver holders could mint it by themselves, that is, everyone had the right to mint money. This dispersion of the coinage power will inevitably lead to inconsistencies in the color, weight, and shape of the silver in circulation.

The lack of a coinage system has increased the cost of circulation using silver currency, which has brought cumbersome and technical difficulties in 'operation', such as weighing and identifying 'color', etc., which has provided deception in commercial trade and increased the opportunity for people to counterfeit money. The defects of the monetary system increase the procedures for tax collection, and the more hands and feet, the easier it is for disadvantages to breed. If silver is in the form of silver bills, many problems can be reduced, and the silver bills are circulated according to the amount, which can save the trouble of weighing, and the fire consumption of scattered silver is not to be considered, and the possibility of embezzlement in the name of "fire consumption" in the taxation of silver will also be reduced.

If we collect taxes on our behalf, it will also make those corrupt officials who survive by burning money dissatisfied, which is very detrimental to the development of our silver number, and we must do this thing well. It really needs the support of the emperor and the approval of most officials. If the tax should be levied in the form of a silver ticket, there is a big problem here, that is, to exchange the silver ticket, in the face of a large number of scattered silver of different colors, how should we deal with the silver number, and the fire generated by it will be reimbursed there, and what to do with the losses caused, and who will pay for it.

So we have to come up with a proper strategy, so that the emperor is satisfied, the officials are satisfied, and the people who pay taxes are also satisfied, it is indeed a difficult problem, and it is impossible to have a happy situation, the only way is that we suffer a loss, so that the people can benefit, but if we lose too much, the silver number will not be able to bear it, this is a big problem, and we must discuss it well after we go back.

Emperor Mu Zong is also reasonable, in the face of this question, no one can give a quick answer, we should go back to discuss and then come back to report, so Mu Zong did not disagree.

Finally, I encouraged a few of us to do it boldly, not afraid of problems, but afraid of being too bland.