Zhu Hongyi looked at the five big and three thick, in fact, there was a fine thickness, and after a little pondering, he knew what Zhu Hongsan meant, and saw that Zhang Huangyan was still unhappy before he said the words that reprimanded him just now.

Zhu Hongyi sighed secretly in his heart, this Zhang Huangyan is still shorter than training, and he doesn't know the importance of having a relationship with himself, as long as the prince does not fall in the future, he Zhang Huangyan will be able to live a lifetime.

Although Zhu Hongsan was very important to the crown prince Zhu Hai, in order to prevent a sudden situation, he also left a whetstone for the prince, that is, Zhu Huai, the king of Chu. If the prince can't satisfy Zhu Hongsan, then Zhu Huai is a substitute.

Zhang Huangyan didn't know that his identity had quietly changed, and after this incident, he was still distressed that Qian Qianyi, the chief military aircraft of the Military Aircraft Department, who had been very good to him, suddenly spoke coldly to himself, and Ma Mingyuan, who didn't speak much before, suddenly became enthusiastic about himself, and it was really the second monk who was puzzled, and this matter was not solved for Zhang Huangyan until Chen Zilong of Zhaoqing came to Guangzhou, but this is all later.

Zhu Hongsan was overjoyed when he saw Zhang Huangyan's sad face, and asked Zhang Cheng to send the two father and daughter to Zhang Huangyan's house, and then settled the bill and went out to continue wandering.

This barbecue cost twelve taels of silver, which is not cheap. Even if Guangzhou now has a large population and soaring prices, the rice transported from Annan is only three taels of silver and one stone, and these twelve taels of silver are four hundred catties of rice, which is enough for a family to eat for three or four years.

Zhang Huangyan's family is very rich, and now as a fifth-grade official, he also has more than 160 taels of money per month, so he doesn't feel anything about 12 taels of silver. But Zhu Hongsan knows that just a year ago, the rice in Guangzhou was still two taels and one stone, but now it has grown to three taels, which has risen by one-third. What's more, this year's bumper rice harvest in Annam and Luzon, coupled with the bumper harvest of sweet potatoes and corn in various parts of Guangdong, the grain supply has exceeded demand, so the price of rice has risen, and Zhu Hongsan estimates that the price has doubled compared with last year.

The reason is simple, that is, a large inflow of silver, which has caused high prices. In fact, in later economics, appropriate inflation can stimulate economic development, but exceeding a certain range will trigger an economic crisis. As for the solution, it is simple, it is to burn excess banknotes, lower prices, and reduce inflation. However, the Ming Dynasty was a strange dynasty, and silver was not an officially recognized currency, and the official currency was copper coins. However, with the great development of the commodity economy in the Jiajing period, it was impossible to carry hundreds of catties of copper coins at the same time of trading, and then high value-added precious metals appeared on the stage.

However, the imperial court never used silver as currency, so the people did not have a unified value to use silver, and for fair trade, they could only use weight to unify the value, which caused a large inflow of silver from South America. Silver dollars were shipped from South America, where the purchasing power of these silver dollars was very limited, but in China there was no reasonable exchange rate mechanism, so the value could only be measured by weight. The purchasing power of a Mexican silver dollar in the Ming Dynasty was eight times that of South America, so it is not surprising that what the Ming Dynasty produced in exchange for a large amount of unusable silver.

It wouldn't have been much if it had been before, because China was too big and inflation was diluted to an acceptable level, but not anymore. In addition to Guangdong, the whole country is in turmoil, and the silver inflow chain in South America has been broken, and relative to the stability of Guangdong, it has become the main direction of silver inflow. When the silver that should have been digested by the whole country entered Guangdong Province, prices increased so rapidly.

However, the problem facing Guangdong now is that the imperial court cannot control the inflow of silver, and after a large amount of silver enters, part of it is buried underground by the people and stored, and part of it enters the market for circulation, and the imperial court has no good way to deal with these silver. The silver circulated in the market for a while before it finally entered the pockets of the central court in the form of taxes, so that the court completely lost its control over the economy.

Therefore, as early as when he first arrived in Guangzhou, Zhu Hongsan wrote a booklet on how the bank would operate in the future and handed it to Ma Mingyuan for him to do. In fact, Zhu Hongsan is also very superficial about how the bank operates, he just listened to some lectures in later generations, and understood some economic laws superficially, but he has been shocked by Ma Mingyuan in this way, and the things in the booklet have been verified by Ma Mingyuan in recent years, which makes him admire Zhu Hongsan even more, and he deeply feels that the people who can be emperors are really different from ordinary people.

In fact, the preparation of the bank and the issuance of silver coins were prepared as early as last year, but I did not expect to get stuck at the cabinet meeting. The reason is very simple, as soon as the silver coins are out of the people's collection, all the silver loses the role of currency, and if it wants to circulate, it must be exchanged through the bank. In order to be beautiful and generous, Zhu Hongsan's silver coins were minted with a certain proportion of copper, tin and other alloys, which made the silver coins more suitable for circulation in terms of strength and hardness. One yuan of silver coins corresponds to one tael of silver, but the silver contains only nine coins, so that the people will lose one penny for every one or two silver exchanges. What's more, a large number of businessmen in the people are now inextricably linked with the families and clans in Guangdong, so naturally Ma Mingyuan's book "Asking the Bank to Issue Silver Coins" was boycotted by all the Guangdong faction headed by Chen Zizhuang.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the shopkeeper cutting silver with silver scissors, and thought that he would just follow the momentum of Jiangxi and Fujian and settle the bank's matter.

After eating and drinking, Zhu Hongsan took people out and then wandered around the street. This meal cost a lot, but it didn't even cost a dime a dozen to Zhu Hongsan. Now all the heavy industries and primary industries in Guangdong are owned by Zhu Hongsan, and there is a lot of state-owned enterprises in later generations, but Zhu Hongsan is the emperor, and these industries also belong to the state. Chen Zizhuang and other scholars and doctors have repeatedly asked Zhu Hongsan to hand over these industries to the state, and he can be a pig breeding emperor with peace of mind. But Zhu Hongsan knows that Chongzhen has no money to use in the end, so can he still hand over these properties to them? It has been dragged with various excuses.

Nancheng Street in Guangzhou is nine miles long, and it used to be just a country road. In the later period of Jiajing, the commercial development increased, and the merchants here in the south city increased, and this street became the main road. Before Zhu Hongsan occupied Guangzhou, it was a completely natural development. The southern city of Guangzhou is also similar to the commercial streets of other cities, full of sewage, merchants on both sides of the street encroach on the streets, and the side ditches are not cleaned.

As a modern person, Zhu Hongsan occupied Guangzhou and made great efforts to develop the southern city. After many special orders to rectify Nancheng, under the cleaning up of the urban management team and the displaced people, Nancheng Street finally has some appearance, at least you can see the blue sky in the street. The last time Nancheng was treated was in May this year, the Guangzhou government invested 100,000 taels of silver to widen the road, re-paved the stone slabs, and cleaned up the surrounding businesses, some polluting such as blacksmith shops and so on were driven to the Xicheng side, and now the Nancheng is completely similar to the Lijiang commercial street in later generations.

Zhang Huangyan and the emperor walked on the street, looking at the orderly pedestrians, and the merchants with bright and clean windows couldn't help but sigh.

"The prefect of Guangzhou is really a capable official, and he can govern the southern city so neatly!"

Listening to Zhang Huangyan's praise of the prefect of Guangzhou, Zhu Hongsan pouted. It's not that he is the commander-in-chief in the back, and he can't do it according to the level of these stinky old nine to tear each other down. However, that Yu Shilong did have some means, and this time he asked him to go to Zhejiang in the hope of doing something good.

At this time, Zhang Cheng also sent Zhang Huangyan's concubine back to the house, and just returned to Zhu Hongsan's side, listening to Zhang Huangyan praise the magistrate, Zhang Cheng also interjected and said: "Third master, it's really like what Mr. Zhang said, Guangzhou is the most prosperous place I have ever seen, and it is also the cleanest place. The villain was born in Nanchang and grew up in Nanchang, and Nanchang and Guangzhou are much inferior! ”

Zhu Hongsan smiled secretly in his heart, Zhang Cheng, you are a gangster, you have never been to Nanchang fifty miles away, and you dare to say that Guangzhou is the cleanest place you have ever seen. If you want to shoot Zhang Huangyan's sycophant, you don't need to shoot it so bluntly!

However, Zhang Huangyan heard that someone echoed him, and he nodded again and again in agreement with Zhang Cheng's statement. Zhang Huangyan has traveled to many places, except for the Confucius Temple in Nanjing, there is probably no place that can be compared with the southern city of Guangzhou.

Zhu Hongsan led the three of them away for a while, feeling that it was not interesting. Of course, the current commercial street is not as colorful as that of later generations, and there are only a few things sold, which is really boring. Zhu Hongsan was just about to say go home, when he found a group of people in front of him coming towards him. Zhu Hongsanyi saw that it was a group of Spanish missionaries who had been sent to Guangzhou after being captured in Luzon. Immediately attracted by the majestic city of Guangzhou, and the climate of Guangzhou was colder than that of Luzon, much like that of their native Spain, most of the prisoners of war remained, and only some officials were ransomed.

When these missionaries saw the huge population of Guangzhou, they immediately felt a sense of mission to spread the gospel, and all the more than 100 missionaries and nuns stayed behind, vowing to spread Catholicism in the Ming Dynasty.

Now Guangzhou is an international metropolis, there are everyone, even African blacks can be seen from time to time, the Han people have always been generous to these foreign religions, and really let these missionaries develop, after several years in Guangzhou developed thousands of believers. The Ming Dynasty was different from the Qing Dynasty in later generations, and the intellectuals of the Ming Dynasty were very progressive and tolerant of homosexuals and infidels. Xu Guangqi, a Catholic, was a scholar of the Ministry of Rites of the Chongzhen Dynasty, a scholar of Wenyuange, and a deputy assistant to the cabinet, which was completely unthinkable in the late Qing Dynasty.

The inclusiveness of the Ming Dynasty coupled with the well-informed people of Guangzhou, in recent years, really made the Spanish missionaries make a lot of movement, through the missionary collection and the Spanish donations, a Catholic cathedral was built outside the west city of Guangzhou, and the diocesan bishop, priest and other positions were appointed.

Today, a group of Catholic missionaries came out to preach, but they didn't expect to be bumped into by Zhu Hongsan.