Wang Yan's actions in political affairs made the Tang and Lu kings already feel uneasy, and this time they threw out the need to reform the military, which made the two kings a little unbearable.

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, the two princes, who had received news from various quarters, decided to have a meeting before the year.

The two kings of Tang and Lu have always been political enemies, which was impossible before, but the fact is that the two princes can only come together in order to contain Wang Yan.

Nanjing City is calm on the surface, but in fact, there are secret agents all over the city, and there are secret agents in front and behind the two palaces, so the two kings did not choose to meet in the palace, but the Tang King was the east, and chose a restaurant under his name.

The two of them were in the private room on the top floor of the restaurant, and the entire floor was enclosed, and there were guards guarding the stairs.

At this time, in the room, King Lu was seated, with wine and food on the table beside him, and King Tang was standing by the window, looking at the vendors on the street.

As the New Year approaches, the streets are not deserted, but are becoming more and more prosperous, not only with more and more vendors, but also with more and more varieties of goods.

Tang Wang listened to the busy and happy shouts of people on the streets of Nanjing, and watched the people walking through the shops and stalls with smiles on their faces to choose New Year's goods, and his feelings were very complicated.

These were completely different scenes from when they first entered Nanjing, and when he closed his eyes slightly, all kinds of noisy sounds gathered outside.

"In all fairness, in the past two years, the King of Chu has still done a good job, and he can be called a once-in-a-century talent, and his ability is not under Zhang Taiyue. The imperial court paid off 10 million taels of debts last year, and this year in order to provide disaster relief and move into Taiwan, the imperial court borrowed another 4 million yuan to develop Taiwan. ”

Lu Throne picked up the wine glass at the table and took a sip, his words were praising Wang Yan, but his tone was full of sourness.

At the end of the year, it must be the time when prices soar, which is the result of a large amount of silver inflow, a large amount of material outflow, and the imperial court's debts, deliberately creating inflation to transfer fiscal pressure, etc., but at the end of this year, with the imperial court operating Nanyang and trading with the West, a large number of Nanyang products flowed into China, and the imperial court achieved a balance between income and expenditure, and people's incomes increased, but prices did not rise, which naturally made the people happy.

King Tang closed his eyes and listened to the sound outside the window, listened to King Lu's words, but opened his eyes and said: "King Chu is a rare talent, but it is not my royal blessing. ”

When King Lu heard him say this, he couldn't help but raise his head, poured a cup of Shaoxing powder wine into his stomach, and listened to King Tang continue, "Just talking about loans, how much benefit did he get from Wude?" Now the imperial court uses the five virtue votes to issue the five virtue votes to the officials, and the people also like to use the five virtue votes, and the treasure money of the imperial court, the salt is worthless, Wang Yan is using the money of the court to fatten the pockets of the wealthy families such as Wang, He, Chen, and Feng. ”

The Ming Dynasty also had official banknotes, the first of which was treasure money, but the Zhu family was too ugly to eat, and it was stipulated that there was always one or two silvers, but in fact there was no reserve, and there were too many prints, which was basically equal to Ming robbery, and the reputation quickly went bankrupt and became worthless.

After the bankruptcy of the treasure banknote, the Ming Dynasty made a salt guide, allowing merchants to send materials to the border towns instead of the imperial court, and then the court gave salt guides and let the merchants go to Lianghuai to pick up salt.

I have to say that this is a very thoughtful policy, the imperial court reduced the loss caused by transportation, and the merchants obtained the salt introduction, and the salt introduction is obviously much higher than the treasure banknote, because the salt introduction is behind the salt mortgage, which is equivalent to the monetary reserve fund, so the salt introduction is reliable and strong, and in fact it has become the hard currency and currency in the circulation of commodities in the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that although the policy of salt introduction is good, it lacks supervision, and in the end it was smashed by the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty had a limited amount of salt production, and it could be exchanged for so much salt every year, but the emperor found that this salt could be exchanged for materials, so he couldn't stop it, from the beginning to send materials to the border pass to the salt lead, to send things to the palace, and also to the salt lead, especially when the Jiajing Emperor, the salt lead was quickly overissued, and many merchants queued up for more than 20 years to get the salt, resulting in many people going bankrupt.

How much can reflect the folk state at that time, there is a plot in "Golden Vase Plum", saying that a merchant died, leaving his son with a few salt citations, hoping to exchange for salt in the future. People didn't wait until they died, it can be seen that the salt introduction policy has basically collapsed, and only the collusion of officials and businessmen and the insertion of the queue can get the salt, so the reputation of the salt introduction was also crippled by the Ming Dynasty.

To say that China is vast and rich, the imperial court wants to borrow money for development, it should be very easy, but the imperial court in the folk has not much credibility at all, and when Wang Yan borrowed silver from the people, the businessmen heard that the imperial court borrowed money, and they all put their heads like rattles, and finally Wang Yan could only use minerals as collateral to borrow from the private in the name of Wude.

Later, Wang Yan entered the imperial court, and also thought about restoring the credibility of the imperial court on paper money, but this must clean up the old accounts, he found that it was too difficult, the Ming Dynasty's finances could not afford it at all, and at this time he found that Wude was simply a golden egg existence, and a huge power group had been formed behind it, and he also intended to use Wude to control the business of the Ming Dynasty, so he acquiesced to the Wude ticket instead of treasure banknotes and salt introduction, and helped Wude votes to further expand and grow.

Tang Wang said that Wang Yan used the Wude number for personal gain, but in fact, he was not wronged, but this private interest was not obtained by his family, but was shared in the hands of many people, including Wuzhong officers.

Naturally, these people who have benefited from it do not want to see anyone destroy the Five Virtues.

The Wude is equivalent to the golden rooster in the hands of this group of people, and they naturally will not allow anyone to destroy the credibility of the Wude vote because of selfish desires.

In this way, they actually played a certain regulatory role, and there were other ticket number competitions on the market, so Wude paid great attention to its own reputation, so it gradually gained the recognition of the people, and the people recognized it, and the government naturally recognized it.

In fact, the economic model of the Ming Dynasty was not as backward as later generations thought, or from the description in the Ming Dynasty, when Ximen Qing died, in addition to distributing the family property, but also to the subordinate shopkeepers, as well as business partners, it can be seen that the commerce of the Ming Dynasty has modern characteristics.

"The matter of the five German votes is indeed cheaper for them, and they can exchange paper for money, if they don't strengthen control, there will inevitably be chaos in the future! This Wude number must be controlled in the imperial court, no, it must be controlled in the hands of the royal family! King Lu put the wine glass on the table and said hatefully.

Tang Wang walked back and sat down, "Wang Yan is now a director, basically does not discuss with us, but directly goes to the cabinet and the council hall to communicate with the ministers, this is to deliberately edge you and me, and deal with problems within their civil official group, King Lu wants to move the Wude, I'm afraid it is not easy!" ”

King Lu frowned slightly, he also felt Wang Yan's actions in political affairs, and now many ministers of the Zhejiang Party have nothing to discuss with him, but he is more worried about Wang Yan's proposal for military reform this time than political affairs.