Chapter 18: Chung Yeung Festival – One of the treasures

Then this matter will be over for the time being, after all, today is the holiday. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Lao Zhu began to ask the little grandchildren about their homework again. Everyone has also resumed the state of chatting in twos and threes, after all, today is a holiday, not a special time for political discussions. But there are a lot of people who are absent-minded.

Yun Wei is one of them. Yun Xi originally thought that he had been the eldest son for a long time before, and now that he had someone to help him in the household department, he would definitely do a better job than Yun Xi. But now it seems that Yun Xi not only did a good job, found out the existing problems, but also proposed a very feasible solution, which is much better than what he did in the household department.

After all, Yun Wei is also a teenager, with hot blood and impulsiveness, at this time, the hot blood surged above his head, squeezed away the others, walked near Lao Zhu, and saw that Lao Zhu was instructing Ji Huan (the son of King Jin) in his homework, and stopped and stood aside.

Of course, Lao Zhu saw Yun Wei coming over, and he squeezed along the way, which surprised the general people who noticed it.

But Lao Zhu is certainly not an ordinary person, so he will not be surprised. Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it for a while, and he understood that Yun Wei was stimulated. It seems that Yun Wei is also going to put forward the disadvantages of the household department and then propose a solution, but I don't know what Yun Wei will propose.

Yun Wei waited for Zhu Yuanzhang to finish guiding Ji Huan's homework, saluted and said, "Grandpa Huang, my grandson has a problem found in the household department and wants to tell Grandpa Huang." ”

In fact, Yun Xi's actions are very inappropriate, today is the Double Ninth Festival, not the right time to discuss the government, Yun Xi just now was said by Lao Zhu when he asked, not on his own initiative. But how could Lao Zhu refuse the child's request! In particular, Yun Xi just said one of his opinions, so he motioned for Yun Xi to continue. A lot of people listened with their ears up.

Yun Wei said: "My grandson is in the household department, and these days he is responsible for managing the distribution of money to the officials of the various banknotes in the capital, and when he inspected the banknotes, he found that there are not many people and merchants who use the treasure banknotes issued by my Ming Dynasty, and they use copper coins more, and a few use silver, gold, etc. in violation of regulations. Talking with the banknote officials, they said that there are not many people who use the Daming treasure banknote now, and the use of treasure money to buy things is expensive, and the money can always be exchanged for four treasure banknotes. The system of treasure money needs to be improved. ”

Lao Zhu remained silent and said, "Then how do you think it should be changed?" ”

Yun Wei continued: "Sun Er consulted the historical materials of the previous generations and found that in the Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties, this banknote could be exchanged for silver and copper coins, but this dynasty was not, which naturally made the common people reluctant to use treasure money; In addition, during the Song Dynasty and other periods, most banknotes in the world could use banknotes to pay taxes, and only a few banknotes in this dynasty could, which naturally led to fewer merchants using treasure money. Therefore, in order to restore the credibility and usage of treasure banknotes, it is necessary to allow treasure banknotes to be exchanged for silver money, and to allow treasure banknotes to pay taxes in most banknotes in the world, even if only half of the tax is allowed to be paid in the Song Dynasty. Please consider it. ”

Yun Xi was happy when he heard Yun Xi mention banknotes, he studied accounting, and his university courses also included finance, taxation, etc., not to mention how awesome it was, but definitely better than everyone now. And he also knew that Zhu Yuanzhang just wanted to use treasure money to implicitly exploit the common people, oh, mainly businessmen, how could he agree with Yun Wei's suggestion.

Sure enough, Lao Zhu's face showed displeasure, and he said in his heart: The purpose of my issuance of treasure banknotes is to be able to take their money without the people paying attention to it (in modern times, it is commonly known as seigniorage, and if you hold the currency of several countries, you will pay seigniorage tax to several countries), how can you agree to allow the exchange of silver money. However, he also knows about the depreciation of paper money and wants to solve it. But it's definitely not the way to get burned.

In fact, Yun Wei found out about this problem in August and planned to mention it to Lao Zhu; But Huang Zicheng understood Zhu Yuanzhang's purpose, so he tried his best to dissuade Yun Wei from raising this issue. But today, Yun Wei was really enthusiastic, and he had no other questions to ask, so he brought it up. But as soon as he finished speaking, Yun Wei regretted it. At this time, I was extremely remorseful.

Yun Xi was actually very interested in finance, including treasure money, and in his opinion, the financial policy of the Ming Dynasty was a yellow indescribable thing. He had a vague reform plan in mind, because he had not listed them one by one because of the time constraints (and because he was not in a hurry), but he had a clear idea about the currency issue. However, Yun Xi looked around, it didn't seem to be the right time to say it, saying it was tantamount to a direct slap in the face, and it was necessary to be harmonious. Yun Hee was entangled.

However, what is afraid of what. Lao Zhu listened to Yun Wei's words, and he didn't know how to answer, so he couldn't tell Yun Wen that your grandfather was going to exploit the common people. Although this kind of elder generation has always been ruthless in doing bad things, they don't want their children to know their bad side. This is the case with Lao Zhu now. And Yun Wei is still an honest child, if he tells him, he goes out to tell Huang Zicheng what to do (Lao Zhu already knows that the two of them are fine), then his reputation will be ruined. Zhu Yuanzhang was struggling, and when he looked up and saw Yun Xi's equally tangled look, he subconsciously asked Yun Xi to relieve him, and said, "Yun Xi, get up and tell me what you think of Yun Xi's statement?" ”

Yun Xixin said that it was about my, why did he point to me in a daze, but he still stood up and said: "Back to the emperor's grandfather's words, my grandson thinks, well, of course the second brother's words are reasonable, but, well, well, oh, but the purpose of the emperor's grandfather to issue treasure banknotes is to let the vast number of working people do not have to carry heavy silver money back and forth, but now the majority of working people do not understand the country's painstaking efforts, if they use all the treasure money to pay taxes or exchange it for silver, won't they be able to realize the good intentions of the imperial grandfather, Therefore, it is better not to implement the second brother's method. ”

Lao Zhu didn't care if what Yun Xi said made sense, so he said, "Well, so be it." He hurriedly ended the topic and asked about the child's homework. The other older ones saw that Lao Zhu was unwilling to answer, so they also returned to a state of nonsense.

Yun Wei hasn't reacted yet! As soon as he figured out that Yun Xi seemed to be illogical, he found that this topic had become a thing of the past. In addition, he also saw that this matter seemed to have something else (in fact, it was just that Lao Zhu was embarrassed), Zhu Yuanzhang was unwilling to answer, so he put it down.

Then when the atmosphere recovered a little, Lao Zhu wanted to see the literary style, so he asked everyone to compose poems, with Chongyang as the theme. If there is no restriction on the topic, Yun Xi can immediately make (copy) more than ten poems, and the first capital is a classic that can be passed down to future generations (in fact, it is circulated by later generations). But the title is limited to Chongyang, and there is only one poem with the theme of Chongyang that Yun Xi knows that has not yet been written, that is, Grandpa Mao's "Chongyang for many years, and now Chongyang, and the yellow flowers on the battlefield are extraordinarily fragrant", but it is not suitable, so when it was Yun Xi's turn, Yun Xi said very honorably: "Grandpa Huanghuang, grandson can't do it." Lao Zhu scolded with a smile: "Didn't I write a poem to mourn Ying'er (Mu Ying) a few days ago, why can't I do it today?" It's lazy at first glance. ”

Yun Xi replied: "Grandpa Huang, this article was made in heaven, and it was obtained by chance, and that day God read the poem through my mouth to mourn Uncle Mu." God is also spending Chongyang at home today, so naturally there is no way to borrow my mouth into a poem. ”

Lao Zhu laughed and scolded Yun Xi again, and it passed.

In fact, other people's poetry standards are not very good, of course it is okay to cheat in advance on such a festival, but Lao Zhu is not stupid, if there is no guarantee that he can cheat again and again in the future, then there is no point in cheating this time. However, those out-of-town sons rarely see Lao Zhu, and even if they meet, they can't always test poetry, and there are also people who find someone to make a poem that is a little higher than their actual level.

But then again, there are still some of Lao Zhu's sons who are famous for their literary talents, Shu Xiucai Zhu Chun, but he is not there. The only poem that is good is not there, which makes Lao Zhu himself depressed, and feels that he should not be allowed to write poetry in the first place.

Then at noon, everyone dispersed after lunch. In the afternoon, it was everyone's free movement again, and the Zhu army either alone or dispersed in groups of three or five. Lao Zhu hasn't seen a lot of folds yet, in order not to see the folds and see tomorrow, Lao Zhu has to deal with them quickly.