Besides, the salt introduction handed over to Zuo Ling this time is one million citations.

This amount did make Zuo Ling a little scared, although she didn't understand the market of the salt industry, but she also knew that only the salt merchant giants in Yangzhou could come up with so much salt at once.

At that time, salt was a hard currency, no less than silver in the field of circulation, and you could exchange it for silver at the money bank with salt and silver, which was similar to the role of silver tickets.

Besides, this time he has a million salt leads, in fact, they are only worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the sources are in several ways, one is that Zhang Juzheng got it from the household department, saying that this time the sixth guard of Jinyi is out of the plug, and he needs to receive a part of the salt in excess of the quota, and the soldiers always have to eat salt.

The household also knows that this is clearly asking for money, but the household itself does not have so much salt, only printing, which is similar to the Ming treasure banknote, not enough wine to print. Salt caused more, the problem is also very serious, will cause inflation, during the Ming Xianzong period, there was a large amount of salt over-issued, the result caused serious problems, the main thing is that the treasury revenue has shrunk sharply, after all, salt is to be purchased with silver, and there is no corresponding silver in this part of the over-printed.

In general, the Ming Dynasty's control over salt is still very effective, and I once thought that if the imperial court could control the Ming treasure banknote so effectively, the Ming treasure banknote would not be abolished, so that the court would not have to rely on silver so much. The greatest use of silver is still an indispensable intermediary in the field of circulation, and if it is really successful to replace it with paper money, silver is just a commodity.

This problem has been perfectly solved in later generations, and no country uses gold and silver as currency, all of which use paper money. Gold and silver are only used as reserve currencies.

Of course, there is no need to think about this problem, the court has many people, and it has not solved this problem, so he naturally can't think of any good solutions.

In addition to the household department, and he got hundreds of thousands of salt quotations from Zhang Whale, his request was reasonable: I took 10,000 people to the fortress, and the imperial court had to give some subsidies, and besides, I had to buy things for the emperor and the palace, and I had to exchange the salt for some cash first.

Zhang Whale was so angry that he only rolled his eyes, and in the end he was still slaughtered, who doesn't know that salt is a good thing, that is real money.

He went back to ask for instructions from above, but he didn't expect that the above was also happy, and directly made up for millions of salt citations, and the emperor naturally knew that hundreds of thousands of quotations were not a small amount, and without the emperor's approval, the household department did not dare to print and distribute it privately.

Therefore, the salt quotation can be regarded as a kind of paper money, which is issued with the salt of the imperial court as collateral, and you will definitely get the full amount of salt if you buy it with silver or grain. This is actually the same reason that the state uses gold and silver as collateral to issue banknotes.

The Daming treasure banknote was originally a paper money issued with the grain of the national grain depot, that is, Taicang, as collateral, but unfortunately Zhu Yuanzhang was a layman in the economy, blindly relying on high-pressure policies to forcibly issue, and after his death, the Daming treasure banknote was basically abolished.

Besides, a big reason for getting so much salt is for Zhuo Maolin, Zhuo Maolin is the leader of the salt gang, specializing in selling illicit salt, and now there is salt to him, of course, he is directly giving him real money, and he doesn't have to take any risks.

However, he didn't expect Zhang Juzheng to be so generous, and he asked for hundreds of thousands of citations in the household department at once, and his brain was hot for a while, regardless of the idea of the emperor again, he also got it.

These salt introductions need to be sold before arriving at Xuanfu, after all, when they arrive outside the Saiwai, the Tatars do not approve of the salt introduction of the imperial court, they want the real thing - table salt.

Salt can not only buy salt, in the bulk of the transaction can completely replace silver, many people like salt to more than silver, after all, salt is bought with silver, salt is included in silver, directly get salt is not only to get silver, but also to get the quota of salt.

Moreover, after explaining the source of the salt to Zuo Ling, Zuo Ling smiled bitterly: "You can be careful, the imperial court has given you such generous conditions, if something goes wrong with this mission, the emperor will skin you when he comes back." ”

Besides, he sneered in his heart: I went out this time, and I wanted to shed my skin, and the emperor didn't look at this, so he could be so generous?

Of course, a large number of salt must also be brought out, and these are prepared for the 3,000 people who are ready to lurk, and after they get the salt, they can sell it through the channels of the salt gang, and half of the silver they get will be given to the salt gang, and half will be used as funds for the lurking personnel.

The list goes on and on, or else it wouldn't be like a dead dog.

He is only feeling strongly uneasy about the series of supplies that the emperor gave him when he was the crown prince, does the emperor have the heart to test something, or in order to save money, he will not build another one for him, and directly use the ready-made substitute?

It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang conquered the capital of the Yuan Dynasty in Xu Da, which is now Beijing, after the class returned to the court, Zhu Yuanzhang led the minister to give him a celebration banquet, in the original Zhu Yuanzhang lived in the mansion of King Wu, after Xu Da was drunk, Zhu Yuanzhang and others left, leaving Xu Da in the mansion of King Wu.

After Xu Da woke up, someone told him that the emperor had rewarded him with King Wu's mansion.

Xu Da was so frightened that all the alcohol turned into cold sweat, and he immediately ran out and slept on the street.

After Zhu Yuanzhang's spies who stayed here went back to report, Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied, and built a Guogong Mansion for Xu Da in Dagongfang. If Xu Da really wanted this mansion, it is estimated that he would not have to wait until Zhu Yuanzhang gave him a roast goose to die.

Of course, whether Xu Da really died on the roast goose sent by Zhu Yuanzhang, and expressed serious doubts, one is that Wei Guogong directly denied this statement, which can also be explained by the ancestors who did not want to get into trouble, and second, as a miracle doctor, he couldn't find out what kind of disease the roast goose could be associated with when he checked the herbs, and he would die if he ate it, which was probably a story made up by literati who did not understand medical pharmacology.

But Xu Da's rejection of King Wu's mansion is indeed true, and Zhu Yuanzhang came to a conclusion from this that Xu Da has no ambition, nor is he arrogant, and he is a good courtier who does not forget his original intention.

However, what is it possible for the emperor to test himself? Trying to find out your background?

As for his life experience, he is not very clear, but he knows that he is the recognized son of the Qinwang faction, and he does not dare to confirm what this son means, anyway, the water is too deep, and he doesn't want to poke his head in.

However, as the recognized leader of the Qinwang faction, it is enough for the court to be jealous and even want to eliminate, regardless of whether there is a sense of belonging to the Qinwang faction, or even not recognizing his identity in the Qinwang faction, these cannot dispel the suspicion of the court and the emperor.

He even did not hesitate to defile himself and became the head of the discredited Jinyi Guard. Even so, is it still impossible to obscure?

According to his original wish, he would never have anything to do with Jinyiwei, let alone become the head of Jinyiwei. Ever since the emperor had given him the royal horse and the prince's special guard of honor for the expedition, he felt that this was not a favor, but a temptation, which of course had no reason or evidence, but was just an instinctive feeling.

Now he is appointed to be a prince-level minister, and he is rewarded with python robes and jade belts, and he is rewarded with the emperor's clothes and daily necessities when he is the crown prince, which really makes him feel terrified and uneasy.

The emperor doesn't want to get rid of himself by the hand of the Tatars, right?

He suddenly thought of this, and he was startled.

It's not impossible, if the emperor finds out his identity, or just mistakenly thinks so, it is really possible to send himself to death, and then wipe out the people of the White Lotus Sect and the Tatar Mission who infiltrated Beijing, as for those officials sent by the imperial court, they can only be regarded as victims, anyway, there are many officials in the imperial court, and there are hundreds of waiting for the waiting for the real shortage of alternate officials.

The most difficult thing to guess in this world is the imperial heart, and the most ruthless is also the imperial heart.

Last time, Lian Daning said that he was walking a tightrope, but in fact, he said it lightly, and now he has no tightrope to walk.

His current situation is to stand on the top of the peak, one step in front is the endless abyss, and behind is the guillotine in the emperor's hand.

He can only hold on like this, and he has been holding on, and because of this, he didn't think that there was much danger in going to the outside of the city to secretly test the military situation, and the biggest danger was in this capital.

The way he envisioned for himself was to live on the coast, where after all, the emperor was far away, and the imperial court's rule over the coast was weakened a lot by the local heroes, so he could survive in the cracks, and when his capital was enough, he set sail and went overseas, which was the real freedom.

After thinking about it for a long time, he came back to his senses and didn't think much about it.

It's useless to think about these things, as long as the emperor's butcher's knife hasn't been cut off, he is still alive, and it's not too late to think about these things when that day comes, there is no endless road, he believes this.

He asked people to take the clothes and send them to Li Xiangjun, what Li Xiangjun wanted to pretend to be was a female official, and the three maids were palace maids, and then selected a few maiko to become palace maids, and formed a team of female officials and eight palace maids.

"My lord, you won't have to find someone to pretend to be a eunuch, right?" Ji Chang looked a little frightened.

"If you need it, it's you, do you like it? If you like to wait until you come back, I'll castrate you, and become a real eunuch. Besides, he laughed.

"No, I don't like it, I'd better find someone else." Ji Chang was so frightened that his legs were weak, and the cold wind was swishing under his crotch.

Besides, the emperor didn't ask people to become eunuchs because they were indeed not princes, they were impersonated, and eunuchs could only be owned by members of the royal family, that is to say, only the emperor, the crown prince, the prince, and the prince of the county were qualified to use eunuchs, and the rest of the people were not good even if they were at the national level.

On the third day, besides, he got up early, freshened up, put on the royal python robe and jade belt, wore a free scarf on his head, and pedaled on his feet Chaoyun shoes, looking exactly like a prince coaxed by a cow.