Although Shaanxi has suffered a disaster this year, the immigrants from Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces have had a good year this year, and Zhu Youxiao is different from the past, as long as those who are willing to emigrate, he will issue silver dollars first. For the people who participated in the immigration, immigration is definitely a physical work, and Zhu Youxiao wanted to recuperate before they emigrated. For the first time, these poor people had money in their hands for the New Year.

"The immigration of Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces has begun, and the future of the development of Taiwan and Qiongzhou is promising. Zhu Youxiao asked.

"The minister thinks that the two places are wild lands, and there is no need to set up new vassals." Wang Shaohui said.

"The minister thinks this move is very good, since Your Majesty has increased the switch, the development of Taiwan is obvious to all, last year Taiwan's annual income has exceeded 10,000 taels, and although Qiongzhou has not changed much, but once it is promoted to a feudal division, plus millions of immigrants, Qiongzhou will not be weaker than Taiwan." Wei Guangwei said supportively.

"Even if the immigration is completed, the population of one place is only one or two million, and it is really a bit of a fuss to set up two places as vassals." Wang Shaohui retorted.

"I want to promote the two places to vassals, one is for economic reasons, and the other is for war considerations, Taiwan and Qiongzhou are the choke points, and the location is extremely important, once these two places are lost, overseas trade will be greatly affected, and once other countries seize the sea, the empire is in danger. The future of the empire must belong to the sea, and the power of the sea determines the power of the country, and whoever can effectively control the sea will become a world power! The empire is destined to be the overlord of the world, the co-master of the world. Zhu Youxiao explained.

Zhu Youxiao said a lot of things impassionedly, and all the cabinet ministers also understood that Zhu Youxiao seemed to be sure to promote Taiwan and Qiongzhou to the political envoys.

"We also followed the old rules and voted to agree to promote Taiwan and Qiongzhou to the rank of political envoys." Zhu Youxiao saw that everyone stopped talking, did not support or oppose, and did not know what he was thinking, so he decided to solve the problem by voting.

Wei Guangwei was still the first to raise his hand in support, and Lin Yaoyu was the second to raise his hand to show support, and the other three did not raise their hands.

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao said again: "The opponent raised his hand." ”

This time, only Wang Shaohui raised his hand. Zhu Youxiao smiled and said: "Counting me, three to one, then this matter is decided, Taiwan officially becomes the political envoy of Taiwan, and Qiongzhou Mansion officially becomes the political envoy of Hainan." ”

"Your Majesty, for the two newly established feudal divisions, the governor and the three divisions, can there be candidates?" Han Yi asked.

"I thought that Zhou Chaorui could be the governor of Hainan Province, and Gu Dazhang could be the governor of Taiwan Province." Zhu Youxiao said.

"The minister seconded the proposal." This time, Wang Shaohui said first.

"The minister seconded the proposal." Wei Guangwei continued.

Zhou Chaorui and Gu Dazhang were both members of the Donglin Party, and the Donglin Party members in the court served as governors one after another, which greatly weakened the power of the Donglin Party in the court. Wang Shaohui and Wei Guangwei were both at odds with the Donglin Party, so they were naturally the first to stand up and support Zhu Youxiao.

Regarding Zhu Youxiao's appointment, Han Yi knew that opposition was useless, and Han Yi no longer had any hope of whether to vote, Zhu Youxiao already had three votes, so he had to ask: "After Zhou Chaorui and Gu Dazhang become governors, who will serve as Zhongshu Sheren and Libu Langzhong?" ”

"Gu Dashao can be appointed as a scholar in the middle school, and Zhu Tongmeng can be appointed as a Langzhong in the Ministry of Rites." Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and said.

Gu Dashao is Gu Dazhang's twin brother and belongs to half of the Donglin Party, while Zhu Tongmeng was forced to join the Eunuch Party because he had offended the Donglin Party. Zhu Tongmeng is most famous for the inscription on the door panel of his house: "The adopted son is as strong as me, what do you want money for!" The adopted son is not as good as me, what do you want money for! ”

Regarding Zhu Youxiao's arrangement, the ministers present had no opinion. But Zhu Youxiao wanted to seal three imperial concubines at a time, and everyone couldn't forget it immediately, Qiao Yunsheng took the opportunity to say again: "Your Majesty, it's an unprecedented thing to seal three imperial concubines at once, and I hope Your Majesty will think twice." ”

"Why do we need to discuss the matter of the boat that has already been completed? I am also a golden mouth, I am a good word, how can I say that I will take it back, and there is no need to discuss this matter anymore. Zhu Youxiao said impatiently.

"I only hope that Your Majesty will think twice before acting in the future." Qiao Yunsheng said again helplessly.

"I understand that there will be no next time." Zhu Youxiao said.

Zhu Youxiao didn't want to be entangled in this matter, so he changed the topic and said: "I suggested to Hui Shiyang some time ago that he should make money again, what do you think?" ”

Hui Shiyang, a member of the Donglin Party, is now Shaoqing of Dali Temple. This person has no national integrity at all, and the representative of the traitor, Li Zicheng, surrendered to Li Zicheng when he entered Beijing, and surrendered to the Manchu Qing when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs. mentioned the name Hui Shiyang, Zhu Youxiao felt very uncomfortable. If it weren't for Zhu Youxiao's desire to issue banknotes, he wouldn't want to mention this person's name.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the matter of banknotes needs to be cautious." Han Yi suggested.

"Han Aiqing is reasonable, I think this matter can be tried in Shanxi first, the matter of banknotes is temporarily responsible for the Tianjia, Shanxi is a place of banknotes and silver, pay taxes only need to pay banknotes, daily people who are not willing to use the new treasure banknotes, can go to the Imperial Bank in exchange for equivalent copper or silver coins, the printing of banknotes can be handed over to the money bureau to be responsible, and the issuance of the matter is handed over to the Imperial Bank to be responsible." Zhu Youxiao said.

The Ming and Qing dynasties have tried to replace the circulation of gold, silver and copper coins with paper money, but they have failed, and the reasons for the failure are nothing more than two: the first is that the paper money issued has no standard gold and is not cashed, and the country lacks statistical means, and how much currency is needed in the market depends on feeling; The second is the indiscriminate issuance of paper money, the state prints money when it is short of money, so that the amount of money in circulation is much higher than the value of the commodity, resulting in the depreciation of paper money and the loss of credit.

Zhu Youxiao learned the lessons of the past and avoided such a situation from the very beginning; in the short term, he wanted to establish a system of the silver standard, and when the currency issuance matured, he would gradually change to the system of the gold standard. An obvious advantage of the implementation of the standard gold system is that even if it is not possible to count specific economic data now, the state can issue currency according to the total amount of silver to ensure that the currency will not be issued indiscriminately.

"Your Majesty, what should I do with the treasure banknotes that were issued before?" Wei Guangwei asked.

"The previous treasure banknotes have become waste paper, and they can only be invalidated, and the only ones that will be issued in the future will be the newly issued treasure banknotes of the empire." Zhu Youxiao said disdainfully. If you use the treasure banknotes that have been turned into waste paper again, then you don't need to get the banknotes issued.

"I understand." Wei Guangwei said regretfully.

(End of chapter)