In the end, Zheng Chenggong still had to agree to Zhu Jie's proposal and sell the shipyard to the royal family at a price of 1.3 million taels of silver, however, 1.3 million taels of silver, although Zhu Jie's in-laws can take it out, but they also want the sea to fall, how could Zheng Chenggong do such a thing, what is the difference between this and forcing the emperor to smash the pot and sell iron? Let's let the emperor give it slowly, and in five years, the silver will be paid to the Zheng family.

However, even so, Huang Zongxi still felt a huge pressure, in addition to the shipyard, the navy has other affairs, in the past, the salary of the Fujian Navy Division, just equivalent to other military towns, one or two taels of silver per month, now merged into the Navy, but it has directly doubled more than doubled, every month this part of the military salary alone The imperial court will take out nearly seventy or eighty thousand taels of silver, this is not counting, in addition to this, it is necessary to reinstall artillery for the naval warships handed over by the Fujian Navy Division, at least hundreds of artillery pieces, tens of thousands of shells, also need two or three hundred thousand taels of silver, as well as muskets, 20,000 soldiers of the Fujian Navy Division, plus 10,000 army battalions, at least nearly 20,000 flintlock muskets and 2,000 boxes, these silver together, I am afraid that it will exceed 600,000 taels, and the shipyard in Fujian will be expanded, together, close to one million taels of silver.

Even when Qin Mufeng went south, he brought a lot of silver to Cha Xuan, but it was definitely not enough.

"Your Majesty, you look at it, anyway, there is really no way for the ministers to move, and the ways that should be thought of have been exhausted, but there is really no extra silver in the treasury, you just made Weichen into jerky and sold it, and I am afraid that I will not be able to raise so much silver this year......"

Huang Zongxi wanted to cry without tears, and stood in front of Zhu Jie and said in a bitter voice.

Zhu Jie rubbed his temples vigorously, looked at several other scholars, and asked, "What about you, don't just stand, tell me, is there any way?" ”

Xu Yifan smiled bitterly and said: "There is no way, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, your Majesty, Lord Huang is a genius in financial management, even he is helpless, where is there any good way for the ministers?" Otherwise, you can contribute the money you have within......"

Zhu Jie's face turned dark, and he said dissatisfiedly: "Yifan, can you say this?" This is someone who withstood the pressure of the family and left me to take care of my wife and children, and you also want to squeeze it out for me? There are no doors! I can't think of a way, I won't let you out of the palace, you don't even have food, when will there be a way, when will you give you food! ”

Everyone sighed, there was really no idea, the Ming Dynasty's financial resources were exhausted, if it weren't for Song Jiaxing's troops and chased back the millions of taels of silver that the Manchurians had snatched, now the imperial court would have been unable to open the pot for a long time, and Huang Zongxi had no talent to show his talents.

"Or, Your Majesty, we will change the fineness of the coinage and increase the lead content in the copper coins, so that we can save a lot of silver every year......"

Li Yan on the side said in a low voice.

Sun Chuanting's face on the side changed greatly, and he shouted urgently: "Lord Li, you are doing this to bring disaster to the country and the people!" Rashly changing the copper coin casting method is easy to provoke the people to revolt, and even, once the people do not agree, it will be smashed in the hands of the imperial court, not to mention open source, and it will be useless when the time comes! Look at the treasure banknotes issued by the imperial court, how many people still use them now? Some people even use it to glue the windows directly! ”

Li Yan's face turned red, and he smiled embarrassedly: "Hehe, Lord Baigu, isn't this official forced by the emperor to have no choice......

"There's no way, we can't rush to the doctor! This is going to happen, the people have just settled down, we can't afford any storms, we must be cautious! ”

Sun Chuanting's face softened a little, it was obvious that the emperor planned to let Li Yan take over his class in the future, and it was not good to save face for Li Yan.

"Hmm......"

Zhu Jie suddenly stood up and muttered: "This is a good idea, reform the currency system, feasible, very feasible, haha, Li Yan, you woke up the dreamer with a word......

Li Yan's face turned pale instantly, and he stammered: "Emperor, Emperor, you, do you really, really plan to use this strategy?" W-How can this work? What Master Sun said is not unreasonable, this innovative currency system is too risky......"

Sun Chuanting was even more anxious, and said urgently: "Your Majesty, this matter must not be allowed, at least, within a few years, before the government and the opposition are completely stabilized, we must not act rashly......"

Zhu Jie waved his hand and said with a smile: "Bai Gu, at this time, at that time, you must know that the failure of the dynasty to issue treasure banknotes was because the court lacked talents who knew how to apply the doctrine of applying the world, but the treasure banknotes were issued indiscriminately, and after the issuance, they did not know how to recycle them, and let the treasure banknotes flood among the people, it was naturally going to fail." However, this time the currency system innovation is different, and we have a strong backing to support it! And I don't plan to transform copper coins, but directly cancel copper coins, and in the future, Daming will only have two currencies, that is, gold and silver! ”

Now it's not just Li Yan and Sun Chuanting, but even Xu Yifan and Huang Zongxi on the side are blinded, cancel the copper coin, I'm a good one, what is the emperor going to do? It's crazy to lose your heart......

Li Yan knelt directly on the ground, and said urgently: "Your Majesty, you must not, Yang Zhonghua, since the three emperors and five emperors ruled the world, they have been using copper coins as currency, and the number of copper coins circulating among the people is too much, once we abolish it, it will kill the common people; Moreover, the imperial court uses gold and silver two currencies, and our imperial court does not have so much gold and silver support, and there are too few gold and silver mines in the country, which are simply not enough to support such a big change, once the change fails, the minister will die and cannot redeem it, even if the minister is killed a hundred times, it will not be able to recover the bad luck brought to the court......"

Even Li Yan was frightened, which of the others could still keep his composure?

Zhu Jie waved his hand and replied in a deep voice: "Okay, you don't have to persuade anymore, if you have that time, you might as well come and study how to implement the currency reform, I am not without a target, the implementation of the new currency is imperative, once successful, then the Ming Dynasty will no longer have to worry about the treasury of the imperial court, and I am more than ninety percent sure that the currency reform can be successfully completed!" ”

More than 90% sure!

The people here are all people who have dealt with Zhu Jie for a long time, and their personal friendship is very deep, but whenever Zhu Jie says something he is sure of, he has never been disappointed, does the emperor really have such great confidence?

"Your Majesty, where did you get so much confidence? You should tell the ministers, otherwise, the ministers would rather kneel to death in the Qianqing Palace than let you carry out the currency reform! ”

(End of chapter)