Zhu Di laughed and said that Taizu said well, the dignity of the royal family is the first, and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty bowed his head to the yellow and white things, wouldn't that be a strange talk about ancient and modern China and foreign countries.

Wang Wenle said in his heart: "It's shameless, just because you and Taizu are indiscriminately issuing banknotes to plunder the people's wealth, and you are embarrassed to say that you don't bow your head for gold and silver, you are exactly the same as those people who learn, it is natural to take black money secretly, as long as the word money is stained in the open, it is like the hand of the chaste martyr has been touched, and you have to look for death and life. Who makes us stupid, can't settle accounts, but can settle accounts, what can you do if it discriminately distributes money? In Daming, we still have some influence, and we just took this opportunity to solve the matter of treasure money. ”

Taizu said that if it was possible to keep this net as much as possible, but once he was a son of heaven and a courtier, he didn't force it, just do his best. Then Wang Wenle said solemnly: "Your Majesty, the minister has some personal views on this matter, and I ask the emperor to atone for what he said wrong." ”

Zhu Di said curiously: "Tell me, speak out boldly, I forgive you for your innocence!" ”

Wang Wenle saluted and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, this netizen thinks that it is more appropriate to hand it over to the prince than to hand it over to Lord Sai. There are three reasons, one is that the prince knows the truth of all these things, so the prince will do his best to maintain this net; Because Sai Da doesn't know the reason for this, Sai Da will do his best but not try his best to maintain this net, which is also the most important reason. The second is that the primary purpose of this net is to make money, because Jinyiwei itself has its own responsibilities, the eunuch is full-time and Jinyiwei is part-time, and the minister thinks that the eunuch is more suitable than Jinyiwei. The third is that the money earned is made for the emperor, and it is also the emperor's inner treasury, whether it is from the confidentiality, from the beginning of the handover of each link to the storage, all are eunuchs to do, of course, it is a better choice. ”

Zhu Di smiled and said to Wang Zhong: "Wang Zhong, do you think what Wenle said is reasonable?" ”

Wang Zhong saluted and said: "Your Majesty, the old slave doesn't understand so many truths, the old slave only knows that the emperor is the heaven of the old slave, and the loyalty of the old slave is only to the emperor." ”

Zhu Di said in a comfortable mood: "Wenle, you are very right, I heard you say this today and also have the intention to hand over this net to Wang Zhong to do, since there are such great interests in this, and there is the secret of Taizu in it, I can only use Wang Zhong to completely feel at ease, then Wang Zhong You began to prepare for this matter, the eunuchs used must carefully select loyal and reliable people, set up merchant houses and warehouses in various parts of the world to collect the market of goods, book in demand goods, transfer goods and silver money, etc., but the identity of the merchant hall must be secret, This sign is claimed to be a ...... On behalf of me, my name is ...... Let's go to the East Detective Factory. ”

Wang Zhong saluted according to the rules and thanked him without mentioning it. Wang Wenle said that the east factory was born two years ahead of schedule, and it is estimated that since the accident of Ji Gang, Zhu Di is no longer very confident in Jinyiwei, but it takes time to prepare a new organization, and the preparation period continues to observe Jinyiwei, survival of the fittest, four years later, the East Factory was still established, there is only one reason, Jinyiwei is not as easy as the East Factory. Now although the East Factory was established in advance, but the function has changed, they want to establish the world's largest business intelligence operation agency, which will use up most of the organization's energy, as for the collection of other intelligence, it is understandable, this is actually ahead of the consciousness, which country in the future does not have an intelligence agency.

"Your Majesty, that is, after the ministers open up the trade routes, they can be extended to overseas countries, one of which is to seek more benefits, and the other is to collect information on various military, political, and cultural aspects in their countries, as well as the attitude of various factions in China towards our Ming Dynasty, so that the emperor can have a full understanding of the overseas countries, and the support and suppression are clear and clear.

I only heard Zhu Di say in an excited tone: "Wenle, I am very pleased. Very good, follow Taizu's instructions for major events on weekdays, and make your own decisions about small things, after all, it is impossible to rely on Taizu for everything, I was also worried that you didn't know how to act low-key and cause unnecessary trouble and spoil Taizu's big things, but now you have been able to do it at a young age, I am very happy and impressed with you. I believe in you, so I don't want to send a eunuch to hinder you, you have my brocade guards by your side, they just need to tell me what you are doing and what you are doing, I just hope that you can implement the plan as soon as possible and smoothly. Let me see your good news as soon as possible. ”

After Wang Wenle thanked Zhu Di for his praise, he said that the third is that the emperor wants to keep my Ming Dynasty's ceramic technology, silk technology and roasted tea technology confidential. The emperor also knew that these three specialties were all profiteering goods with complex processes and extremely low costs. Like the fishing nets, the goods are worthless, but the craftsmen are valuable. In particular, the cost of this porcelain is almost zero, and each ship can also use porcelain as ballast, a porcelain bowl is only ten copper coins, transported to North Korea is two hundred copper coins, transported to Japan and the Ryukyus is four hundred copper coins, transported to Nanyang six hundred to eight hundred copper coins, transported to India on one or two five dollars of silver, and we can exchange a porcelain bowl in India for four hundred pounds of pepper, after shipping back to the Ming Dynasty, the market price is about fifteen taels and one catty, we calculate according to ten taels of silver a catty, and more are counted as the cost of expenditure and loss, So there was a net profit of four thousand taels of silver......

Your Majesty, Taizu said that the secret recipe of this process is the most valuable, and it is much more secure than us printing treasure money to make money. Speaking of treasure money, Taizu also said that at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, we had to spend money everywhere, but the treasury was empty, and Taizu had no choice but to make this decision. Now that my country is rich and strong, but the people are still poor, why not? Because there is no control over the issuance of this treasure banknote, this year's consistent treasure banknote is worth one or two silver, next year's consistent treasure banknote is only worth nine dollars, and the people's one penny of silver was taken away by us, and the year after next this consistent treasure banknote is only eight dollars of silver, and the people's one penny of silver was taken away by us, more than ten years later, this treasure banknote has always been only five Wen, and the people's one or two pieces of silver we took away nine hundred and ninety-five Wen, that is to say, there are more than 100 taels of treasure money today, and the well-off family with more than ten taels of silver has shrunk to only a few taels after more than ten years, so there is a saying that the country is rich and the people are poor. The way to govern the country must first enrich the people, and the people are poor and the wealth of the country is accumulated by plundering the people's wealth, otherwise where does this money come from? Therefore, Taizu said that now my Ming Dynasty is not as good as before, the country has become rich, so why continue to grab silver from the hands of the people, the treasure money can be rested, if it continues, the desire is difficult to fill, and eventually the people will be sucked up all the wealth, the result is that my Ming seems to be strong, but in fact it is weak and vulnerable. There is also a very important consequence, that is, the treasure banknotes issued by our Ming Dynasty are not honest, and even the face of the emperor and the court is damaged.

Taizu said that in the following hundreds of years, gold and silver transactions were still the mainstay, and a large number of currencies similar to this treasure banknotes would be used in large quantities after a few hundred years, and Taizu was learning and considering how to use and stabilize this currency in later generations, and it was better to stop issuing treasure banknotes and reuse gold and silver transactions before Taizu came up with a practical solution.

Therefore, this is also a reason why Taizu wants to make huge profits through overseas trade to fill the deficit and recycle treasure banknotes, no longer issue new banknotes, the value of treasure banknotes will be stabilized, and then slowly recover old banknotes through several channels through market prices, such as silver on behalf of service, or use the goods we brought back from overseas treasure banknotes and cash to accept receipts, at this time we can not announce the opening of gold and silver transactions, but use a tacit way, with the recycling of treasure banknotes on the market will become less and less, When you don't have to worry about depreciation, you can relax the control of gold and silver. Taizu said that this is a hole dug by the emperors of your father and son, unless the descendants are stronger than the two of you, otherwise it cannot be left to the future generations to fill, and if we can't fill them, we can't fill them, so it will become a disaster for my Ming Dynasty for many years.

Then Zhu Di asked why there were these problems after the large circulation of treasure banknotes? Why don't copper coins have this problem? Wang Wenle taught Zhu Di a very superficial lesson on the relationship between currency and inflation, wealth and currency, not because he was worried that Zhu Di would not be able to digest this knowledge, but because Wang Wenle's knowledge in this area is also idiot. But Zhu Di immediately understood, his estimation of this harm is seriously insufficient, but the matter has reached this point that it is impossible to solve it immediately, but the stop issuing treasure banknotes can be implemented immediately, so Zhu Di ordered Wang Zhong to go to the treasure banknote lifting department to pass the decree after the completion of the matter, stop printing treasure banknotes, the printed treasure banknotes were destroyed by Wang Zhong and Sai Hazhi Jinyiwei, and at the same time write off the accounts according to the amount, the treasure banknote lifting department will be responsible for the destruction and write-off of the treasure banknotes in the future, and begin to record the amount of destruction, all the tools and workshops for printing treasure banknotes are all sealed.

He also ordered Wang Zhong to double the salary of all craftsmen who were on duty in the official kilns, weaving bureaus, and tea factories, and exempted from all hard labor.

Then Zhu Di said to Wang Wenle that there is still how to deal with shift craftsmen, Rong Zhen thought about it and said, I thought about expanding the scale of production and recruiting a large number of craftsmen to participate in the work is a good way to solve the problem of shift craftsmen, and there is no other good way.

Wang Wenle thanked the emperor for the grace of the craftsmen and said: "Taizu said that if it is completely solved, even if it is solved, after the Ming Dynasty re-banned the sea, this production thing will be unmarketable, and after the inventory is saturated, the craftsmen will naturally stop working and be unemployed, and they will not get paid, and the craftsmen still need to support themselves.