The lights in the dormitory were dim, and the doctors and eunuchs had already withdrawn, and only Chen Ju remained by Wanli's side. The old eunuch sat on the embroidered pier, closed his eyes, and did not know what he was thinking.

Suddenly, there was a thin sound on the dragon bed, and the old eunuch hurriedly opened his eyes as if he was a conditioned reflex, and stepped to the side of the bed.

"Lord, you're awake!"

Wanli opened his eyes and looked at the roof of the shed.

"What about Wang Hailin?"

"Lord Qiqi, he went to investigate the case, and I heard that many businessmen who ran errands for the palace were arrested."

"Call him, I want to ask" Wanli sneered.

Chen Ju hurriedly said: "Master, it must not be, you have just woken up, your body is still weak, if you are angry, the slaves and maids will die hard!" ”

The old prisoner knelt in front of him and cried, serving his own people for decades!

Wanli smiled bitterly: "If you don't let you find it, you won't look for it." Investigating the case? What is there to check, as a factory company, I can't even figure out this little thing? Unless he didn't want to figure it out in the first place! ”

From the tone of voice, it can be heard that Wanli is already angry.

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is in front of you, Chen Ju and Wang Hailin have been fighting openly and secretly for many years, Wanli finally hates Wang Hailin, as long as he burns the fire again, maybe......

When the words reached the tip of his tongue, the old eunuch held back and didn't say much. Just keep your head down and don't say a word.

Wanli turned his head sideways, glanced at it, and smiled slightly: "Chen Ju, why don't you let me take Wang Hailin and check him well." ”

"Lord. Wang Gonggong has been working hard for many years and serving the Lord wholeheartedly, but because of a small case in Liaodong, he won the inner court Bingpen, and the slave maid thought it was inappropriate! ”

Wanli sighed and said with a smile: "I have really followed me for so many years and understand the overall situation!" ”

"Slaves and maids dare not be praised by their masters."

Wanli's face suddenly changed, and he sneered: "Chen Ju, do you think I am really praising you?" Don't think I don't know, say, you spoke for Zhang Ke and asked me to investigate Liaodong, are you hiding your selfishness? Thinking of taking the opportunity to deal with Wang Hailin? ”

It is said that a companion is like a companion tiger, especially a sick tiger like Wanli, who is injured and strict, is even more sensitive. Just now, he was still scolding Wang Hailin, but now he is suspicious of Chen Ju, and his face changes faster than turning a book.

Fortunately, the old eunuch was experienced, and hurriedly said: "Master, the old slave only wants to serve the master wholeheartedly, and doesn't want to bring down anyone!" It's just that the old slave doesn't want to watch a group of rats ruin your country again, and he can't bear to deceive the master again, so please see the master! ”

The old eunuch knelt in front of him, crying bitterly, the old tears were all over the place, even Wanli's heart softened, he groaned for half a minute, and sighed: "Hurry up, the people around me belong to you who have served me for the longest time, and they are also the most sincere, you tell me about the affairs of Liaodong as it is......"

"Lord, did you call Grandpa Wang over......?"

"Not necessarily!" Wanli smiled slightly: "You are the head of the inner court, and Gan'er is in Liaodong, if you don't know the situation in Liaodong, I will let you go to guard the imperial mausoleum!" ”

Chen Ju hurriedly said: "Master, the old slave does know some about the situation in Liaodong. ”

"Well, it just so happens that I've slept enough, so you can talk about it."

Chen Ju hurriedly nodded and told Zhang Feng's case as it was, and Wanli listened carefully.

"I really didn't expect that my Ming businessman would become the helper of the old slave, corrupting the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and destroying the embankment of thousands of miles in the anthill. Wanli was furious and said, "In this case, why is Wang Hailin still hesitating, as if he is afraid of letting me know?" ”

"This ......"

"Speak, there's nothing you can't say!"

"Yes, lord, the Zhu family involved in the case is an imperial businessman, they help the palace with errands, I heard that they smuggled, also to pay tribute to the things in the palace. The slave maid thought that Wang Gonggong was worried that some people who didn't know the truth were talking nonsense and insulting Shengming! ”

Wanli smiled slightly: "Hmph, worry about whether it is useful, I can't control the mouths of people in the world, let alone you!" Don't think that my palace is monolithic, there are so many Han generals around, as well as the prison maids who are waiting, all of them are silent, maybe it is someone, what I say, what happened in the palace, I can't hide it! Believe it or not, tomorrow someone will talk about me fainting today while I was playing right! ”

Chen Ju hurriedly kowtowed again and again, crying and said: "Long live the lord, the old slave will sue the sù below, whoever dares to talk too much will be beheaded immediately, and the loan will never be forgiven." ”

Wanli shook his hand weakly: "No need, let them say go, I can't ignore the chaos in Liaodong, I can't be a fool!" ”

Wanli gritted his teeth, and flames erupted from his eyes. After nearly fifty years of mastering the Ming Dynasty, his heart was full of pride, but the battle of Salhu shattered the aura of Wanli, like a quenched knife pierced his heart, bleeding all the time.

Chen Ju gritted his teeth, kowtowed and said: "Lord Qiqi, according to Zhang Ye's report, Liaodong colluded up and down, there are officials, military generals, businessmen, and inner courts, this case involves all aspects, I am afraid that if we investigate it, we will kill and clean up the officialdom of Liaodong!" ”

Rao is Wanli was ready, but after listening to Chen Ju's words, he still closed his eyes in pain, and his head grew bigger for a while. If you go back a few years, maybe you still have the energy to completely rectify it, but now you are terminally ill, do you still have that ability!

Especially Liaodong has rotted to the root, and there are old slaves eyeing it, if the officialdom is really chaotic, it may not be a blessing for the Ming Dynasty!

Liaodong is a mess, and the more I think about it, the more headaches I get.

Thinking about it, Wanli suddenly said: "Chen Ju, there is so much implication behind this case, according to your sex, most of you will be pressed down like Wang Hailin!" Why did you bring it up again, did you accept other people's benefits? ”

Wanli originally asked casually, but how did he know that Chen Ju nodded without hesitation: "The old slave did receive benefits." ”

"Hahaha, the gift has been delivered to my chief manager, so tell me how much silver I gave you?"

"Countless!"

"You're my manager, how much money haven't you seen? Countless!? You're not ashamed! ”

Chen Ju smiled and took out a letter from his arms and held it in his palm.

"Long live the lord, although the slave has seen a lot of silver, the slave has never seen a cornucopia!"

"Cornucopia!? Don't play dumb riddles with me, let's talk about it. ”

"Please allow the old slave to read a letter to the master."

Chen Ju took out the letter from the envelope and began to read it. At first, Wanli closed his eyes and listened, but later, he felt that Chen Ju was not addicted to it, so he grabbed it directly and looked at it carefully.

This letter is written by Zhang Ke, there are two main contents in it, the first is the problem of silver inflow, Zhang Ke briefly introduced since the Longqing switch, more than 50 years, before and after the flow of hundreds of millions of silver into the Ming Dynasty, Western merchants with a whole ship of gold and silver to the Ming Dynasty in exchange for silk, porcelain.

Foreign trade has also been said by others, nothing surprising, but the next second point is an eye-opener for Wanli. Zhang Ke used a large space to introduce the problem of cashing out.

The Ming Dynasty stipulated that the ratio of gold and silver was ten to one, but in practice, due to the large silver gap, the price of silver soared, and even reached the ratio of six to one and five to one. The price of silver in Europe during the same period was almost half that of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, European merchants transported the silver mined from the Americas to Daming and exchanged it for gold, which doubled the profit one way! This is also the reason why silver flowed in and gold flowed out after the Longqing switch.

Foreigners rely on cashing out to make money easily, and Wanli is red-eyed and hot-hearted, can Daming also make this money!

Zhang Ke perfectly answered Wanli's puzzle later, and the key to the problem is still in Japan, a small island country that once produced a large amount of silver and gold, accounting for one-tenth of the world's share, and is also one of the sources of silver in China.

The ratio of gold and silver to huàn in Japan is even more outrageous than that in China, basically about five to one, that is to say, taking Chinese silver to Japan to exchange huàn gold, there is a profit of more than 20 points, which is quite considerable for ordinary businessmen!

However, Zhang Ke was a solid and wealthy man, and he gave Wanli a better idea, it turned out that the Japanese shogunate stipulated that the price of gold and silver was about one to ten. It's just that some powerful feudal lords, sitting on mountains of gold and silver, don't care about this regulation at all. What's more, there is also the deposit of gold and silver in the black market, and many Western businessmen also go to Japan to cash out and make profits.

Zhang Ke's thought of making money was to take a sum of silver to the hands of the feudal lord and exchange it for gold, and then use the gold to exchange it for silver in the shogunate, and then use the silver to exchange it for gold......

And so on, as long as you take out a little capital, you will use Japanese money to hollow out Japan, and at the same time provide a steady stream of gold and silver to the Ming Dynasty!

"Genius, genius!" After Wanli finished reading this plan, he was so excited that he was about to cry! The mood could not be calm for a long time, and the name Zhang Ke was completely remembered by Wanli.

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