"How so? How could the imperial court still have so much silver? Isn't this a place where silver is used everywhere? ”

Zhu Youzhen's doubts are not unreasonable, and now Daming can be said to be nothing else, spending first-class money.

Among them, the most expensive people are the first of course, the Great Tomorrow Tiger Army's expenditure on the battle against Houjin in Liaodong, after all, the cannon sounds, the gold is ten thousand taels, and on the other hand, the big spenders are now all over the official roads that are being repaired in the Ming Dynasty.

As one of the key factors influencing development, the erosion of the Ming Dynasty's transportation network is unacceptable to Zhu Youzhen in any case.

Therefore, on the one hand, it is to relieve the pressure of a large number of landless peasants, and on the other hand, of course, it is also to promote closer connections and exchanges between various localities.

So the century project with Jingshi as the core and radiating all the Daming networks was started.

Not to mention more miscellaneous expenses, Zhu Youzhen really can't imagine the amount in Bi Ziyan's mouth.

Unexpectedly, Bi Ziyan said with a smile on his face: "Your Majesty, there will definitely not be a lie in what the minister said, it stands to reason that there should not be so much silver in the Ming royal treasury, and nearly 200 million taels of the two hundred and sixty-four million taels of silver are contributed by the Ming Royal Bank." ”

"Daming Royal Bank?" Zhu Youzhen really couldn't imagine how the Daming Royal Bank, which still exists in theory even the collection, savings and lending business, could bring in an income of nearly 200 million taels of silver, and his face was puzzled, so he only listened to Bi Ziyan answer again.

"Your Majesty, have you ever forgotten the income from the Ming coinage?"

Bi Ziyan was still smiling, bowing slightly, and responded humbly.

"Minting? Daming Longyuan? ”

"Exactly! Your Majesty, what the minister is going to say next is that the Ming Dragon Yuan minting income, up to now, the Ming Dragon Yuan has minted 310 million yuan in cash, and plans to mint 770 million coins, counting the labor, fire consumption and lead costs, isn't it nearly 200 million taels of silver? ”

Zhu Youzhen was a little puzzled, and said: "I can understand the coinage coin, this is a coin?" ”

"Your Majesty, now the Ming Dynasty goods are all over the world, a large amount of overseas trade has brought a large amount of silver, and in order to better facilitate trade, the ministers and the Royal Taxation Bureau have encouraged all overseas merchants who come to Daming to do business to store the silver in the Ming Royal Bank."

"When the silver arrives at the Daming Royal Bank, it will instantly become a dragon dollar, not only that, because the quality of the silver coins made by overseas countries and my Daming Dragon Yuan is very different, a large number of overseas merchants are more willing to exchange all the silver coins in their hands for Daming Dragon Yuan..."

"Back and forth, the account stored in the Daming Gold Bank has become the income of the proposed coinage?"

Hiss...

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but gasp.

It is no wonder that when Zhu Youzhen originally proposed that he could collect and store in the private pilot, Bi Ziyan's enthusiasm was not high.

It turned out that the root of everything was here, if it weren't for pulling it to the palace today to ask, Zhu Youzhen didn't know that in the process of collecting and storing merchants, the Daming Royal Bank could profit so much just by virtue of this slight difference between the dragon yuan and the silver.

Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth and said: "Why is there so much silver overseas? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, in fact, there are a lot of this silver from the Dutch East India Company, because many of the settlement methods between Daming and the Dutch East India Company are settled by bonds, so this alone has saved me a lot of silver."

"And there's another piece..."

Seeing that Bi Ziyan's complexion changed slightly, Zhu Youzhen's heart also sank.

I secretly said in my heart: "Sure enough... There's still bad news waiting for you, too.."

"Say, there's no problem that I can't face now."

Only then did Bi Ziyan speak: "A large part of it is because of the trade between the Ming Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom."

"Wakoku!? The trade between the Ming Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom is also so lucrative today? ”

Unexpectedly, Bi Ziyan continued, "As far as the minister knows, there is now a news circulating overseas that the Tokugawa Shogunate of the Wa Kingdom has discovered a silver mountain in the territory of the Wa Kingdom, and this silver mine alone can produce hundreds of thousands of taels of silver per month, and if the Tokugawa Shogunate is short of money, it can even produce one million taels per month!" ”

Zhu Youzhen was stunned.

Memories suddenly came out like a valve that had been opened, and memories of Iwami Ginzan from the previous life rushed out.

Iwami Silver Mountain is not the highest monthly output of one million taels as Bi Ziyan said, and in history, the entire Wa Kingdom fought for the ownership of this silver mountain, which can be said to be inextricably matched, and finally fell into the family of the Tokugawa shogunate, who had just been born.

The highest annual output used to reach 38 million taels of silver, not to mention that this was only a year's production.

And this silver mountain has been around for decades, and this alone is enough to imagine how rich the Wa Kingdom is today, originally due to the strict restrictions of the Ming Dynasty, the trade between the two countries was relatively small.

Today, the Ming Dynasty has completely liberalized many restrictions on overseas trade.

As long as you agree that Daming collects taxes on you, then you are an individual, you have a boat, and you can come to Daming to trade with enough silver.

This opened the door to a new world for the Wa Kingdom, which was now in dire need of all kinds of materials, and a large number of ships set sail from the Wa Kingdom overnight, the key of which was the Tokugawa Shogunate, which was now rich because of Iwami Ginzan.

"This is a good thing, why is Aiqing still so embarrassed."

Bi Ziyan opened his mouth and said: "This Japanese country is really a small barbarian country, so close to my Ming Dynasty, but it does not follow the education at all, and I always do not abide by the rules in the Ming trade, and there are often so-called Japanese warriors who do evil in my Ming Dynasty, and they still do their own thing after they have been arrested, and they do not repent..."

Unexpectedly, Zhu Youzhen waved his hand and said.

"Those who commit adultery and criminals will be dealt with in accordance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and they should be killed and punished! It will not be tolerated, but for the silver of the Japanese kingdom .. You should understand what I mean, now that the Ming Dynasty is in ruins, it is the time when there is a shortage of silver, and the Wa Kingdom can bring such a huge amount of silver."

On the surface, Zhu Youzhen seems to be condoning this behavior.

However, deep down, Zhu Youzhen had already made this calculation about Iwami Silver Mountain.

If Da Ming can take this stone silver mountain as his own, then it will be more than a little bit of help to Da Ming.

After all, it is located in a remote area, and it is impossible for Daming to have any controlled mining, as long as it can be obtained, it must be hollowed out, dug dry, and dug clean.

Just how to get your hands on it..

Zhu Youzhen immediately thought of the Daming Shandong Naval Division in Penglai, Shandong Province, and the steam warship shipyard under construction.

Wait...

Let this group of Japanese countries, and let the Tokugawa shogunate help me save money again...