Chapter 954: The Imperial Shop, Minting and Envoy to Liaodong
With the new ideas and new tricks provided by Gao Jingfei, the imperial store of the Ming Emperor became the hottest new trend in the Ming Dynasty in the seventeenth century.
In particular, these items made by the royal supervision are still commodities that circulate in the market, rather than the things given by the emperor in the past, which cannot be bought and sold, which makes the rich people have no scruples. Eight Chinese Net
Even the officials, nobles and wealthy merchants who were unwilling to reveal their family backgrounds could send agents to buy on their behalf, so in just a few months, the new emperor's store had already added hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to the emperor's treasury.
Through another proposal by Gao Jingfei, Wei Zhongxian personally supervised the Baoquan Bureau to mint all the gold and silver in the inner palace in the form of gold and silver coins, which were used as silver coins for the emperor to reward his subjects and the inner palace.
Because the style of this batch of gold and silver coins is exquisite, the size of the currency is complete and convenient to use, especially the silver two is the main unofficial currency of the people in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the new silver coins do not have to be cut with silver two change as in the past, and there are anti-theft measures, so soon this kind of silver coin has been sought after by the people, and more officials have written to the emperor to ask the emperor to let the household department mint the national treasury silver as a silver coin, as the currency of the Ming Dynasty issued and circulated.
After all, this thing is not a treasure banknote like waste paper, but genuine gold and silver, and the silver content is more than eighty or fifty, which is more valuable than many inferior silver taels of seventy or even sixty percent.
The Emperor of the Apocalypse was naturally happy in his heart, but he still pretended to be reluctant and reluctantly agreed after several letters from his courtiers. After a few years on the throne, he also understood the urine nature of these civil officials, and it was not a business to rush, and he promised too happily, but these big turbans would be suspicious, and then they would change their attitude the next day.
And as long as they are not so willing, after seeking the emperor's consent, these civil officials will finalize the matter as soon as possible, for fear that the emperor will regret it.
After the treasury and the silver in the treasury were minted into silver coins, the emperor received more than 200,000 yuan in the minting profits of millions of taels of silver from these batches alone, and together with the silver earned from the trading of the imperial store, the income was as high as one million taels.
This is still a mere income of less than half a year, and this amount is nearly ten times the annual income of the previous imperial store. Although the mining tax and commercial tax received by the emperor ordered the factory guard to be more than this amount, this is a windfall, and it can flow for a long time, how can it not make the emperor's master and servant happy?
In fact, it's not that the imperial store doesn't make money, but that the original imperial store has a group of internal servants who are up and down, and the goods are not particularly tight, so of course the income is low.
But after Gao Jingfei's guidance, the goods were sold at a high price, and the eunuchs and young eunuchs led by Wei Zhongxian were staring at the new emperor store during this time, and they were very concerned about the income of new products, so not many people dared to make money excessively, and the income of the emperor in disguise was naturally high.
In the second half of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, in addition to instructing the emperor and Wei Zhongxian to make money, Gao Jingfei also went to Liaodong before August, accompanied by eunuchs and brocade guards sent by the emperor.
This trip was on the surface of the emperor rewarding the Liaodong soldiers, after all, the emperor made money, so he was generous, and directly issued 300,000 silver coins, and did not hand over the money and food to the civilian officials or military generals, but adopted Gao Jingfei's suggestion to send it directly to the soldiers stationed in Liaodong.
Although this move made a group of officials resentful, it was praised by all the soldiers.
After all, in the past, when the military salary came into their hands, at least more than 50% of it would be deducted, which was much better than the soldiers in other areas of the Nine Sides.
That is, the Liaodong side during the war was able to give enough money and food, but this was only in the literal sense, at most seventy percent, after all, the military salary was issued from the household department, and when it was issued by the military department, it had already been rubbed twice.
can have seventy percent, most of them are still the big guys above who have spoken, so that the relationship below is more convergent.
And even the head of the cabinet didn't dare to let the people below not rub the oil, otherwise they would be angry!
Of course, prompting the emperor to send the waiter Lao Jun was not Gao Jingfei's main purpose, because Zhu Youxiao and Wei Zhongxian already trusted him very much, not only because he could make money for the emperor, but also because the magic weapon he gave to the emperor during this time successively found three imperial doctors and chamberlains who tried to poison the emperor, which can be said to have saved the emperor's life.
Therefore, when I heard Gao Jingfei say that there was a change in Liaodong, even if the emperor gave him a gold medal order and arrows, and there was a holy decree to act cheaply, although it was only the emperor's decree, and there was no cabinet signature, but with the relationship between Sun Chengzong and the emperor, he should not disobey it.
And with the approval of Inspector Sun, the supreme civil and military leader in Liaodong, Gao Jingfei felt that he could rely on the emperor's orders to carry out his deployment.
Throughout the end of July, Gao Jingfei did not do anything related to military and political affairs in Liaodong, but he couldn't see the hard work of the people, so he took the initiative to use spells to help Sun Chengzong build the walls of various defense lines.
With the help of Gao Jingfei's magical spell of turning earth into walls and mud into stone, the defense line of the large and small Ling River in Liaodong and the fortresses of various cities has become at least ten times stronger than in history at this time.
The average height, thickness and circumference of the city wall far exceed the historical records, after all, Gao Jingfei's Genbu forbidden method of using earth and stone is as easy as a child building sand castles and playing with mud, and expanding a city is only a matter of a few hours, and most of the time is spent on design.
This made all the civil and military officials in Liaodong, as well as the soldiers and ordinary people, regard Gao Jingfei, a more alternative Taoist who was mixed in the imperial court angel team, as a god.
In particular, the common people have many tablets, portraits and statues to worship.
To them, this is the real gods!
Of course, there is no problem in saying this, with Gao Jingfei's current Taoism, not to mention that he can also incarnate into a god template, he is the incarnation of the Yuan Shen Ren Immortal, which is also worthy of the word immortal.
What's more, these powers of faith can also be transformed into the purest power through the altars of the heavens, without fear of the poison of the incense in the beliefs of all beings like other immortal cultivators.
In this way, the time lasted until August, until a certain Liaodong student came to report the news, Gao Jingfei asked the civil and military officials led by Sun Chengzong, the governor of Liaodong, to drive to Ningyuan City together to inquire about Liu Boqi, a Liaodong student.
Although Sun Chengzong and the other civil and military forces wondered why this Taoist angel did this, because of the emperor's face and the other party's high ability, they all gathered in Ningyuan City on this day.
"Qin Zhenren? Do you want to pass that Liu Boqi up? ”
Seeing Sun Chengzong, who was sitting at the top, speak, Gao Jingfei, who was sitting at the bottom left, nodded and said:
"It's all up to the superintendent."
The Ming Dynasty respected the left, because of this trip to Liaodong, as an angel, the eunuch who sat on the top right was instructed by the emperor and Wei Zhongxian successively to take everything to Qin Daoren, so he showed respect for Gao Jingfei everywhere, and also let the officials of Liaodong understand who is the one who has the right to speak in the angel team.
Seeing that this person still gave him face like that, Sun Chengzong was satisfied in his heart.
Originally, he was a little suspicious that the emperor would send a Taoist over, after all, not to mention the dynasties in history, even in the history of the Ming Dynasty, there were several demon monks and demon Taoist disorders, and he was afraid that the emperor, like his ancestors, would also be bewitched by this demon way.
But it turns out that this Taoist not only has real skills, but also makes great contributions to his plan and the Ming defense line, and rarely asks about the military and political affairs of Liaodong, which makes him very satisfied as the number one, otherwise he would not agree to this trip to Shanhaiguan.
When Liu Boqi came up to the hall and saw so many big officials sitting on it, he couldn't help but tremble for a while.
"Who's down there?"
"Liao, Liaodong student Liu Boqiao visited Inspector Sun......"
Seeing this person's pretended calm appearance, Sun Chengzong was not the kind of literati who was stupid in reading, with his decades of experience in his life in the sea, he immediately understood in his heart that this person was only afraid that there was a problem, and at the same time, he roughly guessed the reason why Qin Daoren would invite everyone to come over.
"Brother Shen!"
"Hmm!"
Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.
But it doesn't matter who it is.
There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.
on this.
Shen Changqing is used to it.
Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.
Arguably.
In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.
When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.
When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.
The Demon Suppression Division is huge.
The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.
Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.
Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.
Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.
Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.
Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.
Have memories of the predecessor.
He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.
It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.
Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.
At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.
Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.
Access to the attic.
The environment has changed in vain.
A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.
The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.