"The Japanese are warlike, they have a samurai system, emphasizing loyalty, if they are not eliminated, I am afraid that it will cause endless harm to our Ming Dynasty, you must use the soldiers of your grain bureau to eliminate this system, and the Korean Chengping for too long, and do not know the danger, and even arrogantly say that my Liaodong is their homeland, and should also be taught a lesson, Luzon Java and other natives oppress my Han people, all of them will be taught a lesson!"

"Not only that, these people who are not my people are ignorant and warlike, they don't produce, they are not good for them and us, we have to civilize them, turn them into peasants, let them farm and cultivate the land, get rid of their anger, make them stupid, don't think about what princely nobles they are, what nobles they are in big places! Implement the road guidance system, as long as the people who are captured by your grain industry bureau, let them stay in the fields honestly, organize their households into the inside, and implement the lijia system to open Confucian schools! ”

"In short, the study of overseas tuntian, the development of farming, and the establishment of factories and the development of hundreds of industries in the territory are the established national policies agreed upon by me and the cabinet, and your grain industry bureau has a huge responsibility in this national policy, and it must be completed well!"

"Of course, the key goal is to increase food for Daming, if you win, you will grab people and land to grow yourself, engage in self-government, and if you can't win, you will buy it with silver, how to use it, you can arrange it yourself!"

Li Chongsi would not have thought that the Ming Emperor Zhu Houzhao would say these words to him now, and he would let him one day in the future, holding a gun in one hand and a hoe in the other, and then asking the local natives whether they want to die or live, shooting if they want to die, and taking the hoe and farming honestly if they want to live, and because of this, they have turned the wild and backward areas into Confucian societies based on agricultural civilization.

Zhu Houzhao's current purpose is indeed to carry out agricultural civilization outside the Ming Dynasty and industrial civilization within the borders, and to use the shock to dump the industrial products of the Ming Dynasty abroad, and import agricultural products from abroad into the country, so that the prosperity of the people of the Ming Dynasty can be improved, and even get rid of the days of relying on heaven and earth for food.

Of course.

It is not difficult to allow indigenous people to farm land, but it is still difficult to develop industry and commerce within the country.

Because.

As a self-sufficient agrarian society, the Ming Dynasty had almost no commercial activities, and there was no whip system yet, and even taxes were paid in kind such as grain, cloth, etc.

Fortunately, due to the progress of industrialization in the Ming Dynasty, especially after the mechanization of the textile industry, the cloth produced by the family cannot be compared with the large-scale production of the cloth in the factory in terms of quality and production cost, resulting in a sharp drop in the price of cloth, and the people generally prefer to pay for the cloth themselves than take the initiative to produce.

This has led to an increase in the volume of currency transactions.

In addition, the number of domestic factories increased, and the number of construction projects also increased, and the peasants began to gradually become workers, and the products of their labor in their hands changed from grain and cloth to silver, which also led to an increase in the volume of money transactions.

"All the people in the world are now living by earning money, but the power to mint silver money can not be controlled by the imperial court, this is very terrible, since the opening of the sea, more and more silver enters the territory of the Ming Dynasty every year, once these silver become money, it will make everything more expensive, and now the reform of the money law needs to be implemented immediately!"

Zhu Houzhao said this to the cabinet, the Ministry of Households, the Royal Bank, and other officials at the court meeting.

"What Your Majesty said is very true, the previous dynasties used iron money to mint money, and those who used copper money, iron money is too heavy, but copper money is easy to mint privately, and it is easy to make coins with pure silver privately, and treasure money was issued in the early years of the dynasty, but now it has been abandoned by the people!"

Wang Qiong said.

Zhu Houzhao nodded: "After the court meeting is over, I will issue an edict that the treasure banknotes will no longer be issued to avoid hurting the people again." ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!" The ministers were busy and said yes.

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and continued: "A few days ago, I went to the Ordnance Bureau to inspect, they have been able to refine a thing called zinc, they use condensation gas to control the temperature, and finally get this kind of thing, this kind of thing can be combined with copper to form brass, and can also be combined with copper and silver to form a silver-copper-zinc alloy, I think it is best to use this alloy to mint new coins, mainly silver, so that it is not easy to be imitated!" ”

"In this case, private individuals can no longer mint coins, and they can naturally unify the currency of the world!" Liu Yu also agreed.

"Since this is the case, you will start to deal with this matter, the Baoquan Bureau will be changed to the Daming Central Bank, Xu Jing is in charge of this bank, this bank is specifically responsible for issuing the world's currency, and only the Daming Central Bank is allowed to issue currency, and any other yamen or even private issuance must be severely punished A determine the specific new money pattern and the first batch of issuance, and then make specific discussions!"

After Zhu Houzhao said, Xu Jing and the others hurriedly said yes, thinking in their hearts that His Majesty was also wise and did not let the Royal Bank issue new coins, which means that this bank, which does not fully represent the imperial court, cannot make profits for itself by issuing a large number of coins.

In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the reform of the Daming Money Law, Xu Jing finally resigned from the World Investment Bank, began to take charge of the Daming Central Bank, and personally transferred craftsmen from the Ordnance Bureau to make a batch of new money samples with the craftsmen of the Baoquan Bureau.

Zhu Houzhao only printed his own portrait on the silver dollar, and did not let people print Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait, which is also to avoid creating a consciousness in the world, thinking that he is still an emperor who attaches more importance to the ancestral system, and only printing his own portrait is to tell the world who the real great emperor of the Ming Dynasty is.

The Central Bank of Daming spent half a year producing the first silver dollars.

These banks are determined by estimating the amount of currency based on the incoming and outgoing currencies of the Royal Bank and the World Investment Bank, and they also have gold reserves at the same price, so there is no need to worry about price fluctuations caused by the issuance of gold.

Just after August 15 of the 12th year of Zhengde, Zhu Houzhao issued an edict to the world, from the 13th year of Zhengde, the world is no longer allowed to use silver as currency, and the newly minted silver dollar is the only legal tender, and requires the people of the world to go to various banks to exchange it quickly, and requires that except for the field can still collect grain, other taxes are only collected in silver dollars.

Beginning on August 15 of the 12th year of Zhengde, the Royal Bank, which was mainly responsible for industrial and commercial lending, began to lend money to merchants and nobles in silver coins.

The World Investment Bank, which is mainly responsible for construction investment, began to lend money in silver to the infrastructure bureau, the local government, and even the foreign vassals.

Besides.

Hundreds of officials and even vassal kings Lu rice and silver dollars were distributed, and grain, cloth, pepper, treasure money and other miscellaneous things were no longer put together, and they were divided into different colors.

The unified monetary system made sense, making the commercial activities of the Ming Dynasty much cheaper and more conducive to the circulation of goods.

Of course, compared to paper money, it is still not very convenient to trade with silver dollars, especially for bulk goods trading, which can not always carry thousands of pounds of silver dollars.

But the Ming Dynasty is not yet able to issue paper money, because from the Yuan Dynasty to the present Ming Dynasty, the imperial court has broken the paper money, resulting in both officials and ordinary people are extremely distrustful of paper money, and would rather trust the bills that are common within several commercial banks.

"Yesterday, the minister stayed in the Yuxiang Pavilion at night, spent three yuan of silver, got a widow to serve, its peaks and peaks are tall and tall like Mount Tai from Pingchuan, the old roots of the minister almost want to be squeezed off and become the minister!"

Although Zhu Houzhao now said that he has asked a lot of officials to transfer to the cabinet and other departments, he still allows a group of officials of the Zhongjun Society to secretly play himself, report to him about new things in addition to his own work, and also facilitate himself to have another pair of eyes to carefully inspect the world in addition to the West Factory.

Now the letter that Zhu Houzhao sees is from Qin Jin, the governor of Huguang.

Qin Jin is a humorous person, and even bold, since he conveyed some meat jokes to Zhu Houzhao for the first time in the secret music and was not reprimanded by Zhu Houzhao, he has become more and more bold, and he has made all the things about his prostitution to Zhu Houzhao.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing after seeing Qin Jin's recital, and only replied with a pen: "Next time I try, use sterling silver to meet the girl, are people willing to squeeze you old roots?" ”

A few months later, Qin Jin, the governor of Huguang, recited: "Since the silver dollar has passed through the world, because the silver dollar has been issued in small quantities, and the silver on the market has gradually increased, private individuals will only mint silver and will not mint silver dollars, so that the silver dollar is expensive, and the silver is cheap. ”

After Zhu Houzhao saw Qin Jin's recital, he couldn't help laughing: "It seems that the silver dollar has been recognized by the people, and it is rare that this woman who is in the dust of the fence tile also trusts the silver dollar, and remember to give more reward money when you go next time!" ”

Thereupon.

A few months later, Qin Jin replied again: "The minister has been ordered to reward three silver dollars, the Oiran is overjoyed, the clothes are wide and greedy, and the jade dew of the minister is eaten!" ”

"It's ridiculous, it's really getting bold!"

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but laugh and scold, and at this time, the queen who accompanied her looked over: "Your Majesty is talking about who is bold?" ”

"Huguang Qin Jin, I will also give you three silver dollars, is the concubine willing?"

Zhu Houzhao said and gave the song to the queen to take a look, and after the queen saw it, her face turned crimson, and she said angrily: "Your Majesty, you actually compare the concubine with the woman in the dust!" ”

"Then I won't give you silver dollars, you can come by yourself," Zhu Houzhao said.

The queen had no choice but to bury the mantis' head.

Zhu Houzhao enjoyed the warmth brought by his wife, still holding on to a trace of reason, and lifted the Zhu pen to continue on Qin Jin's secret music, and replied: "Now that the patent law has been passed all over the world, I can also apply for a patent for the method of women's sheath made by Qingqing!" ”

Zhu Houzhao said that the patent bill has indeed begun to be implemented, in the past, craftsmen with core technology will hide their secrets, will not give secret skills to others, or even only willing to family inheritance, and there is no patent law has a lot to do with the fact that there is no patent law, after all, as a craftsman can only rely on his own core skills to support his family, once someone steals the learning, the gains outweigh the losses, but with the patent law, this problem can be avoided.

Moreover, this can also greatly promote the enthusiasm of the people to promote scientific creation, and make people realize that there is also a way to get rich in academics.

Of course, to encourage scientific and technological innovation in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao is not only a way to establish a patent law, but now, the first winner of the highest scientific and technological award of the royal is also about to be released.

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