Li Yan blurted out: "Samo Silver Mountain! ”

Shi Fenglai stroked his beard and smiled: "Yes, it is the Samo Silver Mountain, such a good thing is left to the Japanese country, it is simply a tyrannical thing." According to the temperament of His Majesty the Emperor, how can he be willing not to hold it in his own hands?

Taking a step back, even if you don't have this Sama silver, I'm afraid that Your Majesty will take the Wa Kingdom first, and then the Nanyang feudal lords or those barbarians in the West. ”

Li Yan hesitated: "Not necessarily, right?" ”

Shi Fenglai said curiously: "Tell me about it?" ”

After sorting out his thoughts, Li Yan replied: "The so-called Sama Silver Mountain has been depleted day by day, and now there is not much silver produced, even the Wa Kingdom, and it will also fall into a situation of lack of silver, otherwise why would the Tokugawa Shogunate close the country?"

It can be seen that it is better to conquer the Nanyang countries first, after all, the Nanyang countries have produced grain, and the Ming Dynasty has had a lot of natural disasters in recent years, and the Nanyang can also be used to reserve grain. ”

Shi Fenglai smiled: "What you said is not wrong. However, according to the news obtained by the teacher, since the 30th year of Wanli, although the output of this Samo Silver Mountain has been decreasing year by year, the output of copper in it has increased. ”

After Shi Feng said that there was more copper, Li Yan basically understood what was going on.

Is there a shortage of silver in the Ming Dynasty?

On the surface, there must be a shortage of silver, but in fact, there has never been a shortage of silver in the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that the silver is not in the treasury, but in the hands of the private merchants.

If it weren't for the fact that the lesson given to these wealthy businessmen by the time of the strong man was too profound, I am afraid that some people would have been thinking about lending usury to the imperial court.

And after Emperor Chongzhen collected the commercial tax in a bright and bright manner, the mere silver was naturally no longer a problem for the imperial court.

is like Guo Yunhou, the secretary of the household department, although he shouts that the treasury is empty all day long, but in fact, anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is shouted to the emperor, in case His Majesty the emperor slaps the bag and does something again.

The real situation is that the silver in the treasury is not to mention piled up, at least a war of this scale in Liaodong is easy to play a few times, and it is not really empty enough to run mice like it was during the Apocalypse.

In this case, if there is no silver mine in the Wa country, it is naturally not attractive to the Ming Dynasty - when the world's silver is constantly pouring into the Ming Dynasty, silver is still something rare?

But copper is different.

The consequence of the fact that silver is not rare is that copper is beginning to be scarce, not to mention that many places need to use such a good thing as copper, and the lack of copper coins alone is enough to make anyone feel a headache.

As for the slogan that Emperor Chongzhen shouted in the first year of Chongzhen to make paper money instead of gold and silver, so far it has only seen a little bit of light, and it is estimated that it will take ten or twenty years to be truly completely replaced.

It's even a lifetime series.

After all, Song has a Jiaozi, and Daming also has treasure money, but the treasure money is not good.

Since the founding of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of Taizu Gao, the Ming Dynasty has always faced a problem - lack of copper.

The lack of copper is a big problem, more of a headache than the lack of silver.

Zhu Yuanzhang's total is not right, the old Zhao family and the old Tie family are also short of copper, but they have played such good things as Jiaozi and Zhongtong Jiaojiao, there is no reason why they can't play like this.

So the treasure banknote this good thing came into being, Ming Hongwu seven years promulgated the "money law", set up the treasure banknote lifting division, and then set up papermaking, banknote printing two bureaus and treasure banknotes, line with two libraries. It was issued the following year under the name of Nanjing, Zhongshu Province.

In the 22nd year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty issued five kinds of small banknotes, namely Shiwen, Ershiwen, Sanshiwen, Shiwen, and Wu Shiwen, with a smaller ticket size.

After Zhu Laosi came to power, he saw that this thing had a trick, and he could exchange gold, silver, copper and other good things back with some paper, so he simply forbade the people to buy and sell gold and silver, and only treasure money and copper coins could be used.

The consequence of playing like this was that it was really cool at that time, especially when the country was just founded, the reputation of the imperial court among the people was still leveraged, so this thing could still be recognized by the people.

But there is a big problem, that is, Zhu Chongba and Zhu Laosi belong to the emperor immediately, and they are quite unreliable in terms of economics, and the indiscriminate printing and distribution of treasure banknotes has become a predictable thing.

By the ninth year of orthodoxy, the price of rice had risen to 100 yuan in treasure money, and even the treasure money that officials were unwilling to accept could basically be declared to be used to wipe their butts.

By the time of Zhengde, the treasure banknotes had been abolished and no longer issued.

The result of the abolition of the treasure money is that the people are once again short of copper, not only the lack of copper among the people, but also the lack of this thing in the official.

Now that he suddenly found that there is such a good place to produce copper in the Wa State, can Emperor Chongzhen let the Wa State go?

And even if the issue of copper is not considered, assuming that the Ming army can grab enough copper from all over the world for His Majesty the Great Sage Emperor in their hearts, then the factor of the ocean cannot be ignored by Emperor Chongzhen.

There are no more forces on land that can threaten the Ming Dynasty, and the strongest Jiannu has been moved north of Nuergan, and the rest should consider the problem of the sea.

After all, Penghu and Daliuqiu have been occupied by the Hongmaoyi people, and the equipment of the Hongmaoyi people seems to be quite advanced, and Daming has also bought some with them to come back for "research".

In addition, over the years, Jinyiwei has not stopped, and he has gone around to get some red-haired Yi people who can speak human words back to Daming and then disappeared inexplicably, these reasons together are enough for Shi Feng to judge that Emperor Chongzhen's goal is to engage in those Xiyi.

And to engage in Xiyi, the Wa State is a good bridgehead - you can't ignore its geographical location because of the Wa State's proximity to the north.

The Wa Kingdom, the Ryukyus, the Great Ryukyu, and the Nanyang Islands combined, this is the best forward base, which can keep the war out of the Ming Dynasty, and this geographical location is not well studied, so it can only be said that those people in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies are waste.

Obviously, those guys in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies are now stimulated by military exploits, and they are wondering where to do things every day, how can they let go of such a good position in the Wa Kingdom.

As for the Mughal side that was originally planned, Shi Fenglai didn't pay much attention to it.

Originally, although the matter of the Ming Dynasty selling Fushou paste to Jiannu was in a state of secrecy, Shi Fenglai, as the deputy assistant of the original Ming cabinet, and the current large-scale sales in the Wa Kingdom, were also clear about the situation in Liaodong.

At present, Jiannu is forced to move north, and the Fushou paste that was originally sold to Jiannu has not been distributed to the Wa Kingdom, so where is it?

Obviously, it was either sold to those red-haired Xiyi or sold to the Mughals.

As for the way, Shi Fenglai obviously didn't think that Jinyiwei, who could even figure out the situation of Samo Yinshan in the Wa Kingdom, would have no way to sell these things.

When the Mughals are as obsessed with such a good thing as the Jiannu, and then want to kill them, the price they pay will be unbelievable.

Combined with the fact that the Samo Silver Mountain of the Wa Kingdom was now producing a large amount of copper, Shi Fenglai was sure enough to conclude that Emperor Chongzhen would target the Wa Kingdom.

Even if it is not, if he returns to Beijing this time to report on his work, he can persuade His Majesty the Emperor to set his sights on the Wa Kingdom, right?

Thinking of returning to Beijing to report on his work, Shi Fenglai said to Li Yan with a dark face: "Speaking of which, this time you are at a loss, and you are sent to that place in Java, so it is better to stay in the Wa country." ”

Li Yan looked at it very openly: "Presumably Your Majesty has some other arrangements, right?" ”

Shi Fenglai said: "It is estimated that the death of the British Duke has touched Your Majesty too much, and I want to let the teacher go back to recuperate, and Wen Tiren is estimated to be the same." The way in the future depends on you and the little guy named Shen Hao. ”

Emperor Chongzhen, who was far away in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, was indeed as Shi Fenglai expected, and was thinking about whether to attack the Wa Kingdom.

The reason is also as Shi Fenglai expected, the first island chain is a good thing, and it must be controlled in your own hands, and there is the Iwami Silver Mountain in the Wa Kingdom, which is now called Sama Silver Mountain, such a good place to produce copper.

Emperor Chongzhen summed up how to re-raise the credibility of the treasure banknote, or how to ensure the credibility of the reissued banknotes.

The best way to guarantee the credibility of newly issued paper money is to issue as much gold and silver as the treasury has, and then use bad money to drive out good money and drive silver and copper money out of the market.

But there are Jiaozi played by the old Zhao family, Zhongtong Jiaojiao and Zhongtong Yuanbao banknotes played by Temujin's family, and Daming Bao banknotes played by Daming, and the credit of the banknotes has long been wiped out.

I can't understand why those big guys want to play with paper money as soon as they travel back, this thing is so fun?

Is it really true that Zhang Xiaohua said that "making economists to be carpenters will not have any impact on the economy"?

From the beginning of the crossing, in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, he did not hesitate to kill the ticket number of the whole country, in order to plan this thing.

If it weren't for the fact that he had a factory guard in his hands and later got the military power, the impact of this incident is estimated to be able to hang himself on the old crooked neck tree in the coal mountain more than ten years in advance.

As for now, I already have enough strength, so I can naturally promote this matter.

The key point of the headache is still the word credit.

How do you guarantee the value of this thing?

The face value of the issue is 100 yuan, theoretically speaking, it can be used as a hundred taels of silver, but if the credit of this thing cannot be guaranteed, it is estimated that it is no different from the banknotes issued by President Jiang, and in the end, don't even make it worse than Zimbabwean currency, that is really funny.

And how do you ensure the circulation of this thing? Do you want to force the people to use it?

Except for the Temujin family, no one else really did it.

And the first evil consequence of forced circulation is that it will affect the face value of this thing - infinite depreciation, until finally when it is too hard to wipe the butt, this thing can stop circulating again.

These two points are also the reasons why so many smart people in history have not circulated paper money.

As for the anti-counterfeiting technology that other traversers are most concerned about, Emperor Chongzhen doesn't care much - the anti-counterfeiting technology of the ticket number, coupled with the anti-counterfeiting technology he knows, is estimated to be difficult to forge.

And under the high pressure of Jinyiwei, if anyone dares to forge banknotes, then he can only send them to the nine clans on the road.

But this matter, Wen Tiren and Guo Yunhou were brought together to discuss, and no result was discussed.

Fame is a thing that is easy to stink, but it is difficult to get good, and if you want to stink and then become good, it is even more difficult.

Emperor Chongzhen even thought about recycling and exchanging all the treasure banknotes issued from the Hongwu period to the Zhengde period - the waste paper that had been out of circulation was recovered and exchanged, and the royal reputation was always there, right?

But Wen Tiren's next sentence shattered Emperor Chongzhen's assumptions: "Dare to ask Your Majesty, from the time of Emperor Taizu Gao to the period of Zhengde, how many treasure banknotes have been issued by the imperial court?" How many are still alive? How to prevent counterfeit treasure money from mixing in and exchange? ”

And Wen Tiren's question is obviously more than that: "Even if the newly issued treasure banknotes guarantee credit, how to prevent others from forging?" Once someone takes a risk, and the people get the counterfeit money without knowing it, what should they do? ”

Guo Yunhou also once again exerted his old character: "Your Majesty, the silver in the treasury is not enough to support the exchange of these many treasure banknotes, even if all the taxes in the next three to five years are added, it may not be able to be exchanged." Your Majesty, please think twice. ”

Emperor Chongzhen was also numb.

Originally, I wanted to get this thing done, but just one credit guarantee problem stuck all the ways behind.

But give up and go back to the old way of playing with silver and copper plates, and Emperor Chongzhen is unwilling to do anything about the so-called bank outlets that have been tossing since the seventh year of the Apocalypse and are now all over the states and counties of the Ming Dynasty?

After all, since the first year of Chongzhen, these outlets have been undertaking the great business of lending under the management of the Ministry of Households.

In short, these messy problems make people want to die.

In line with the idea that an artist who does not shake the pot is not a qualified product manager, Emperor Chongzhen simply asked: "What do the two Aiqing think?" ”

Facing the pot thrown over by Emperor Chongzhen, Wen Tiren wanted to bare all his beard to show that he had taken it, but he didn't catch it, and Guo Yunhou had the same idea.

But there is no way, Emperor Chongzhen is the emperor, so he can be willful and can throw the pot at will, but Wen Tiren and Guo Yunhou have to give this pot to the next.

After thinking about it for a while, Wen Tiren said: "Your Majesty forgives the sin, the minister doesn't have a good way for a while, why don't you discuss with the ministers after returning to the cabinet?" ”

Nodding, Emperor Chongzhen said: "After Wen Aiqing goes back, he will discuss with the cabinet and several ministers, and go back to write to me." ”

After Wen Tiren and Guo Yunhou retreated, Emperor Chongzhen pulled his thoughts back from the banknotes.

It's time to see the bold Li Qizi's little girl.