Chapter 417: Pull a hair and move the whole body
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Although my aunt's body is still a little weak, it is much better than when Xie Shen saw her outside the Guozi Prison. I believe that if you continue to eat dozens of pairs according to the prescription, you can control the condition.
In this era, it is good to be able to stabilize and control tuberculosis, and Xie Shen does not expect that my aunt's disease can be completely cured.
Fortunately, the tuberculosis suffered by my fair lady is not contagious, and it can be said that the harm has been minimized.
It's just that the medicine is three points poisonous, Xie Shen plans to wait for my aunt's condition to stabilize and slowly reduce the dose for her, and in the end it is better not to take the medicine.
After two hours with my aunt, Xie Shen returned to the house.
He didn't plan to hide this from Qianqian, Shui Yun, and Erya, but everything had to wait until my aunt's illness was cured.
Qianqian had long been accustomed to her husband's early departure and late return, and did not blame him. The husband is busy for the Daming Jiangshan Society, and it is worth being busy.
Xie Shen smiled at Qianqian with some guilt, and went to the study alone to write a note.
When he was in the cabinet, he talked eloquently, mostly with enthusiasm.
But when you think about it, there are still many flaws in his reform model.
For example, simply replacing taxes in kind with silver taels will not reduce the burden on the common people. Because the fineness of the silver taels is different, the value will also be very different.
The best silver is patterned silver, which is very distinguishable because of the folds on the surface. The value of the silver taels, which are called "low silver", is much lower because they are mixed with impurities such as lead.
For example, if the government requires the people to pay taxes according to the silver, but when the tax is actually urged, it uses some small tricks to determine that the people who pay the tax pay are low silver or miscellaneous silver to discount the amount, and eventually the discount is eaten by the local government.
The influx of late silver has led to the flood of low-grade silver and miscellaneous silver, and it is not uncommon for people to melt silver and cast silver for profit. In order to prevent this from happening, it is necessary to ensure that there is a unified currency.
From the point of view of simplicity, paper money is naturally the best choice. However, this experiment has been done before.
At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu ordered the production of treasure banknotes, that is, paper money. The imperial court not only issued treasure money, but also forcibly promoted and prohibited the use of copper coins by the people. But in the hearts of the people of the Ming Dynasty, this so-called legal tender is not recognized at all.
The reason is also very simple, the issuance of banknotes requires a large amount of gold and silver reserves as a guarantee. And the Ming court did not have so much gold and silver. This is tantamount to indiscriminate issuance of banknotes.
The consequence of the indiscriminate issuance of paper money is that it depreciates so much that no one in the private sector wants to settle in this currency at all.
Later, the government turned a blind eye and no longer required the people to use treasure money.
If paper money doesn't work, you have to find another way.
Xie Shen pondered for a moment and felt that issuing silver dollars was a good idea.
The regulatory size of the silver dollar is certain, which can reduce the monetary confusion caused by private smelting and private minting of silver.
After all, the production method of the silver dollar still has a certain technicality, for example, the craftsman can print the king's head on the surface of the silver dollar, which is difficult for ordinary people to imitate, and the tooth marks around the silver dollar need to be pressed by special molds, and the tooth marks pressed by the people's self-made molds will be shoddy.
However, the biggest problem with the implementation of the silver dollar was that the Ming court did not have a state-owned bank to issue it.
If the silver dollar cannot be issued on a large scale and goes into the lives of the people, it will eventually only be a toy for the upper class to play with, and it will not have the effect it should have.
And once there is a bank to issue it, with its light weight and complete regulation, it is a matter of time before it replaces silver ingots.
Creating a bank is obviously more difficult.
After all, this means allowing private capital to circulate on a large scale.
You must know that it was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that ticket numbers rose. The ticket number can be regarded as an early bank, and its rise means an increase in the status of merchants, which coincides with Xie Shen's plan, but will inevitably offend the entire group of officials and gentry.
The landlord and the merchant seem to be always opposed, and the two sides are weak if you are strong, and the change in their status is also reflected in the political treatment.
It's hard, it's really hard.
Once banks are established, capital flows in large quantities, and the status of merchants rises dramatically, small and medium-sized landlords will fall into a situation where they are trapped by money.
The Ming Dynasty was a self-sufficient, small-scale peasant economy, and if this balance was upset, it would lead to great social upheaval. Of course, this is not what Xie Shen wants to see, which requires proper guidance.
If you think about it, every reform will have a far-reaching impact, and it will really affect the whole body.
Emperor Zhengde is a king who likes to break conventions, if Xie Shen can't hold it here, the situation is really out of control.
Xie Shen pondered the words for a long time before he started writing, and after writing several drafts in a row, he was satisfied with the recitals and prepared to submit them to the Son of Heaven early the next morning.
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Looking at the few rays of light and shadow that came into the palace from the window, Emperor Zhengde only felt a little trance.
He had fought too much last night, and he slept so groggily until noon when he was exhausted.
Jiang Bin really has a hand in this house, and he has worked the bed of several Persian orchids, and he is comfortable and full of qi when he serves.
I couldn't imagine that the things of men and women could be so wild, Zhengde couldn't help but suspect that the women who served him before were all Yangzhou thin horses, which was really boring.
"Your Majesty, are you awake?"
Jiang Bin, who was guarding the bedside, saw that Zhengde was awake, so he said attentively: "The minister has prepared a few Hami orchids for Your Majesty today, Your Majesty can try them." ”
Zhengde only felt that his lower body trembled, and waved his hand and said, "No need, no need." ”
He coughed and said, "I want to rest today, so you don't have to sacrifice beautiful women." ”
Although Emperor Zhengde is the age of the dragon and the tiger, he can't stand the number of women taking turns to fight overnight.
Last night he was smitten by several Persian bearded women, and his soul went out of his body. If he had a few more today, he would have fainted.
It's better to recover your body first and then talk about it.
"Your Majesty, then we can line up to fight today?"
Emperor Zhengde likes martial arts, and recently he played the role of a general in the leopard room.
He was not satisfied with just pretending to be a Ming general, he pretended to be the leader of the Tatars, and led a group of "clansmen" to "fight" with the "Ming army" commanded by Jiang Bin.
This is, of course, what Jiang Bin wants to see. He was born as a military general, and he has a natural advantage in doing this kind of thing, and he has won the weight of Emperor Zhengde in exchange for the favor of the Son of Heaven.
Grace is a thing that needs to be increased at all times, and if it is not enhanced, it is equivalent to being weak.
Just look at the former favorites Liu Jin and Qian Ning, you can see that falling out of favor is a matter of an instant.
Jiang Bin didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past, so he needed to always come up with new things to please the emperor.
Only when the emperor is always happy and talks about him as a person, can Jiang Bin live a stable and comfortable life.
There is no turning back when he comes to this point, if Zhengde has three long and two short, Jiang Bin will never be able to live.
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