Chapter 344: A Day Doomed to Be Unquiet (2)

July 22.

Afternoon.

Several nobles are looking for fun, and Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, is one of them.

A group of kabuki dressed in light clothes, twisting their waists and sending their hips to perform, red clothes and white waves, rippling with bursts of fragrant wind, indescribable yin.

Zhu Chunchen and some nobles were fascinated.

A housekeeper-like person hurriedly walked in and whispered a few words in Zhu Chunchen's ear.

Zhu Chunchen's slightly ** expression immediately changed.

"Scattered, scattered......" Cheng Guogong immediately dispersed the performing kabuki.

Several other nobles were also obsessed with it, and when they saw that the master's house suddenly dispersed singing and dancing, they were very unhappy one by one, and they looked like they had something to say, and they knew that there was new news.

"Guogong, but there is news?" A noble asked.

Cheng Guogong smiled and said: "The latest news I heard outside, this time Your Majesty transported silver, indeed transported a lot, the market rumors are three or four million, six or seven million silver coins, in fact, it is a full five million silver coins, this news, it is from the Baoyuan Bureau, it should be credible, hehe, it is said that Your Majesty turned over ten carriages this time, broke a lot of boxes, and was picked up hundreds of thousands of silver coins, hehe, the palace just got the news, it can't be wrong." ”

Since Liulizhai spread the reputation of Jinshan, Chengguo Gong can't eat well, sleep well, Liulizhai is a golden mountain, he knows, he has always wanted to get Liulizhai in his hands, however, the emperor is too strong, get the emperor's industry, Zhu Chunchen still doesn't want to put his head into it, so, he gradually gave up this thought, but, I heard that this time the emperor wants to sell Liulizhai's shares, his thoughts, hooked up again, to make it ticklish, so, the emperor's affairs, more and more concerned, especially the emperor's silver money, More and more heart. He wants to judge whether the emperor is short of money or not, so as to judge whether Liulizhai is really going to be sold, or whether it is worth buying.

"Tut, I said, this thing is unusual, how far do you say the Baoyuan Bureau is in the bank? Or in the inner city, how could this be knocked over into ten carriages? Throwing hundreds of thousands of silver coins? This thing, that is, it will only happen here in my current majesty, and there is nowhere to spend a lot of money, so this thing will happen From ancient times to the present, have you heard that the emperor was robbed of hundreds of thousands of silver in the inner city? A noble joked.

"Also, this thing shows that Your Majesty has a lot of silver in his hand and has no place to spend it, so he specially sent some money to the people, which shows that His Majesty has a lot of silver in his hand, and it shows that His Majesty is not short of silver coins." Another noble also joked.

"That's it, I said, Guogong, don't think about it, Your Majesty is not short of money at all, to sell Liulizhai this matter, I'm afraid that Your Majesty originally wanted to sell, but reluctantly, and don't sell it, and now the outflow of stocks, I'm afraid that Your Majesty is still facing the nobles in the palace, giving a little money, and Your Majesty is not short of silver in his hands, why do you want to sell Liulizhai? Even if it is sold for tens of millions of taels of silver, but, after all, it is sitting on a mountain of empty food, and the money has become dead money, but it will not be spent. Ten years, twenty years later, this Liulizhai is obvious, it is worth more than 10 million taels of silver, hehe, to say a big disrespectful word, if it were me, I would not sell, now His Majesty is not short of silver, will make money, but, I have been the emperor of the Ming Dynasty for more than ten generations, and there is such a son of heaven, in previous years, the son of heaven was not a tight life? Your Majesty, can he not think about it for his children and grandchildren? Ten years have passed in a flash...... "An older Xungui according to his own life experience, persuaded Zhu Chunchen not to always think about buying Liulizhai stocks, this matter, in Xungui, is not news, Zhu Chunchen wants to buy Liulizhai stocks, but he is not sure whether it is cost-effective or not, His Majesty sells it or not, and he does not dare to ask the emperor, so he inquired everywhere about the news, what is going on with this stock.

Zhu Chunchen these days, but I haven't slept well, Liulizhai is a golden mountain, everyone knows, he Zhu Chunchen is even more greedy, he still has some weight in Xungui, he began to study this thing, the right way, the side or something, anyway, it took a lot, just to set out the news of Liulizhai, let him ask the emperor himself, he didn't have the courage, now this son of heaven, although young, but, did do a lot of big things, that majesty, it is up, Zhu Chunchen said to ask His Majesty, I was afraid that the emperor would bother him for such trivial things, but I didn't have the guts. ,

Zhu Chunchen was quite happy, but as soon as he heard the words of the crowd, the drum in his heart beat again, seven up and eight times, and he had no idea.

"Alas, the prince is actually afraid that he is false in this matter, Your Majesty has no money to spend, and we will buy his stocks with Liuli Zhai......" This is what Zhu Chunchen is most afraid of, he doesn't want to give the emperor flowers for nothing. If the emperor is a poor bastard, it means that the emperor is an idiot and can't get silver, Zhu Chunchen feels that he has to stay away from the emperor, maybe the emperor will ask him to donate silver that day; However, if the emperor is not bad for money and will make money, then it is another matter, he Zhu Chunchen has to paste it and follow the emperor to mix some silver flowers. People's psychology is so strange, and the psychology of Chinese people buying up and not buying down is also an old tradition.

As soon as the nobles heard Cheng Guogong say this, they immediately "educated" them.

The one who spoke a little more maturely smiled and said: "Guogong, this is not reliable, whoever is short of silver, Your Majesty will not be short of silver, you go out now and casually pull a person and ask, saying that Your Majesty has no silver, do you think he believes it?" Have you ever seen an emperor who could take out 10 million taels of silver for disaster relief? Have you ever seen the Lord who pays back his military salary, four million taels at a time? No, it's only now that His Majesty has such a big hand, to be honest, I can't even look down on Your Majesty, Your Majesty's heart, pretending to have the world, I want to get some money, it's very easy, rich all over the world, it's not blowing...... It's not like I'm waiting for these bitter haha......"

Other nobles immediately followed up and defended the emperor one after another, and now, even the most die-hard people believe that the emperor is not short of money, and if he has no money to find the emperor, the emperor will take the silver out, this matter has been tried and tested repeatedly, and there was a joke before, Donglin's gang of people, designed to "frame" the emperor, so that the emperor was exempted from a year's white grain, thinking that he took advantage of the emperor, thinking that he had played the emperor, and secretly set up a banquet to celebrate for several days, saying that the emperor was not sensible, and as a result, it was not a few days in the blink of an eye, The emperor came up with the matter of tens of millions of taels of silver for disaster relief, and the gang of people in Donglin never mentioned it again, and this matter has also become a joke in the officialdom.

"Alas......, forget it, don't talk about it, don't talk about it, I have a headache ......, let's talk about something else......" Zhu Chunchen said to the nobles who were dizzy, and hurriedly said to forgive.

"What else do you say, what else is worth talking about today besides this silver coin loss? Hehe, if you want me to say, it's better to talk about the hundreds of thousands of silver coins that were lost, what will Your Majesty do, whether you lose it and lose it, or let Jinyiwei go and recover it. A nobleman immediately suggested.

Everyone is also interested, throwing hundreds of thousands of silver coins at a time, these silver coins have nearly exceeded the belongings of many people here, so this matter has a lot of attraction to everyone.

"Ahem, do you need to talk about this? Obviously, you must move the Jinyiwei, what is the Jinyiwei for? When those fart people saw Jinyiwei coming to ask, they were not so frightened that they took out the silver coins, and the hundreds of thousands of silver coins they lost were going back in a blink of an eye, who ate the leopard's gall and wanted to take a trip in the Zhenfu Division? ”

"This matter, I don't think it maybe, Jinyiwei now, it seems that he is also talking about 'civilization', unlike before, he took people at every turn, isn't it Jinyiwei's escort today? Didn't you lose your money? Hehe, to put it mildly, now this dog is toothless" A noble didn't care about Jinyiwei, and compared Jinyiwei to a dog.

"Alas...... you can't say that......" was immediately persuaded again.

Zhu Chunchen's heart is still up and down, although everyone wants to say something else, but his heart is still on this stock. A man muttered to himself: "It's not bad money, it's not bad money......

Someone saw Zhu Chunchen alone in a daze, as if he was still talking about something, and asked, "Guogong, are you still talking about the stock?" ”

"Alas, it's not ,......" Zhu Chunchen immediately denied it, thought about it, and then said: "...... Hey...... I heard that there was a new news recently, do you know? Zhu Chunchen remembered something and immediately used it to divert his gaze.

"Oh, what's the good news for the Prince?" The crowd asked.

"I heard that now, some people specialize in exchanging silver coins in the Baoyuan Bureau, and then sell them to Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, and even Huguang, I heard that there is a huge profit ...... here, you don't know if you have heard of it?" Zhu Chunchen is very sensitive to the news of money, and he likes the news of drilling money the most.

"This thing? They called a group of businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, specializing in exchanging the collected scattered silver for silver coins in the Baoyuan Bureau, which, it is said, has several portions of interest, however, we nobles want to play this, I'm afraid that we can't play, no capital, this thing, to have a large capital, more than a dozen, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, can't make money at all......" A well-informed person broke the news. ,

"Oh, and that? Why can only Donglin's gang and the merchants of Jiangsu and Zhejiang have fun? Why can't we be a noble? Zhu Chunchen immediately asked, he was most concerned about the news of making money.

"Ahem...... Guogong, don't think about this, others play, that time is millions of taels of silver, there are no millions of taels of silver to turnover, this thing, can't play, we are nobles, look at the surface bright, in fact, compared with those people, even if it is nothing, it is not as thick as others' little fingers." The well-informed Xungui continued to break the news and complained.

"So how does this work?" Zhu Chunchen immediately got to the bottom of it.

"What's so hard about that? Who doesn't love silver coins these days? Who doesn't use it? Not to mention the exquisiteness of the casting, it is also as heavy, the key is that it can be blown, which makes it a must, and can also be used to pay taxes, so now, it is more valuable than scattered sterling silver, scattered silver, one is the fineness needs to be estimated, the other is to weigh, cut and cut, weigh and cut, troublesome, use also drop the price, so now, silver coins are very popular, three is, you use scattered silver to pay taxes, but also to collect fire consumption, with this silver coin, it is said that there is no fire consumption......"

"This country knows the key ......" Cheng Guogong interrupted when he saw this person talking nonsense.

"......, the key is also here, there are only two places in the world to mint coins in the north and south, so if you want to make silver coins, you must go to these two places to exchange, Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, Henan, these places, how many scattered silver have to be exchanged for silver coins? Those bunches aren't good......" the man cursed as he spoke.

"I said, what the hell are you saying the key, how to make money by pouring silver coins." Zhu Chunchen was anxious and asked.

"Ahem, look at my memory, inverting silver coins to make money, in fact, it is also simple, in the field to collect other people's scattered silver, because the scattered silver is not good, and it is scattered, so, when valuing, it will be slightly underestimated, especially the scattered silver of some poor ghosts, it is even more underestimated, when the treasure source bureau is exchanged for silver, the valuation is normal, not the loss of the treasure source bureau is, among them, the treasure source bureau should be removed, and the rest is the ...... of those things."

"However, how do you think that it is okay to use loose silver, why do you have to exchange it for silver coins? Although the scattered silver is not beautiful and undecent, it can be used, right? Cheng Guogong asked puzzled.

"Hehe, this Guogong doesn't understand, don't say anything else, just talk about this tax, there are university questions, before paying silver, the government has to melt the scattered silver into silver ingots, so as to deal with the above, now, all make silver coins, naturally there is no need to melt, this fire consumption is naturally not paid, this fire consumption is at least twenty percent, four or five percent is also commonplace, but this is exchanged for silver coins, fire consumption at most one percent, or even a few points, you say, this is not a lot of money? So, those people saw the opportunity and started ......"

Zhu Chunchen still didn't understand too much, and asked: "However, this fire consumption is famous, and it is the private money of the officials of the government and the yamen, if they don't pay the fire consumption, then what do those officials eat and drink?" Although silver coins can be taxed and not fired, the magistrate is afraid that he will not let go easily," Zhu Chunchen asked puzzled.

"Oh..., Guogong doesn't understand, this fire consumption, there have always been some people, you can pay less, or not pay, now, with the silver coin, naturally it will not be sneaky anymore, after all, it is not a glorious thing, besides, those people in the court are making money in it, and the magistrates below can still do it? Do you still want this black gauze hat? ”

"This is also ......, then those hall officials, I'm afraid ......" Zhu Chunchen seemed to understand.

"Hey, Guogong is still afraid that they won't eat? Didn't the official scrape off a layer of land and lose fire, so he wasn't an official? ”

"That's ......, and it's their business, if you don't talk about it, you don't have to,...... So why don't we try it? This is a good opportunity, what they can do, why can't we do it? Zhu Chunchen proposed.

The man immediately hung his head and said: "Guogong still eliminated this thought, this business, often one hundred thousand taels of silver, turnover is extremely fast, only to make money, to rely on our noble belongings, that is, to put the pants, can not make up so much money, others are millions of taels of silver, can make a few profits, relying on a large amount, fast turnover, if we make a share of some money, that can't make anything, we and those businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there is no comparison ......, alas, those things ......, It's not a thing" As soon as this person talked about the businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he hated it so much. The businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang robbed them of too many jobs, but they couldn't do serious business with others, and their crooked tricks didn't work very well. ,

Speaking of this, these nobles, their faces are not very good-looking, now, just relying on the little bit of income in the ground, it is not possible to live a good life, only by pouring a little business, can you make a little more money, but, in business, always suppressed by the gang of businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, when it comes to their people, these nobles, all feel unlucky.

A group of people were still in the mood for trouble, and a butler-like man rushed in.

"Guogong, it's a big deal, it's a big deal......" The butler shouted without caring about what was indecent.

"What's wrong? Such a fuss......" Zhu Chunchen was already in a bad mood, and his face was even worse and reprimanded.

"Yes, yes, yes, Guogong, something really happened, there was just news from the palace, Shaanxi is going to rebel, His Majesty is summoning important ministers to the platform to discuss matters......" This housekeeper was originally waiting for news from the palace, waiting for the matter of the silver coin, how to deal with it, Cheng Guogong wanted to see the emperor's actions to speculate whether the emperor was blackmailing him, and I knew that what this housekeeper was waiting for was not the matter of silver coins, but the news of Shaanxi's rebellion, and immediately rushed over.

"Shaanxi wants to rebel? Really? Cheng Guogong also asked in surprise. Although there is often news of rebellion, but Shaanxi is now a sensitive place, the local emperor threw in 10 million taels of silver, not to mention, even the henchmen were sent to sit in the town, but also sent a new army, it can be said that the emperor has a lot of money there, that is to say, once the rebellion, that place is a powder keg, the scale will be quite large, and now I heard that there is going to be a rebellion, I am really a little surprised.

"Returning to China, it's absolutely true, it is said that there are people in series, tomorrow, that is, on the day of the summer vacation, we will jointly raise the flag to rebel, and we will come everywhere......" The housekeeper told the news he heard.

"You mean, there will be a rebellion tomorrow? This ......, what's going on? "Not only does Cheng Guogong feel strange, but the other nobles are all inexplicable, if they know when to rebel, is this still called rebellion?

"Returning to the country, yes, according to the news that came back, it was the news that a person named Wu Sangui from His Majesty's new army sent back from Baishui, Shaanxi, because it should be reliable, Your Majesty is now convening important ministers to discuss matters on the platform."

All the nobles were shocked, and what was shocked was not the rebellion itself, but that it was incredible, even the large-scale rebellion could let the emperor know in advance, and I have to say that the legend of the help of gods and men in that dream became more and more godly.