The Dengzhou Navy Division Battalion contained and controlled the Bohai Sea, specifically to prepare for the defense of the Japanese.

Nowadays, in recent years, with the increasing number of merchant ships at sea, the sailors of the Ming Dynasty have become more and more important, especially the large amount of grain and salary in the south, which needs to be transported to Beiping by sea, and often needs to be escorted by Dengzhou sailors.

Originally, it was only under the jurisdiction of the governor of Dengzhou, and the Dengzhou Navy Division added 7,000 households and was promoted to Dengzhou Wei.

Zhu Xiongying and the others ate on the reef and returned to the land together.

Dengzhou local civil officials, military generals, all went to meet the prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Biao also on behalf of the Son of Heaven Zhu Yuanzhang one by one condolences, everyone in the port to raise the national flag, after singing the national anthem, routine commendation.

Today's Ming Dynasty, raising the national flag and singing the national anthem has become a major issue.

Even merchant ships at sea need to fly the five-clawed red dragon flag of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Xiongying and Zhu Tan, looking for a secluded path, walked around the Dengzhou Guard, it was April at this time, and the Dengzhou Guardhouse was still extremely cold because of the sea.

The sea breeze blew people's cheeks, Zhu Xiongying wrapped them tightly, looked at the bare islands and reefs, and asked, "Our generals of the Dengzhou Guard, is the firewood enough to burn?" ”

Firewood, rice, oil and salt, firewood in ancient times was a big deal.

Take, for example, the guards in the north.

Why did Zhu Xiongying try his best to get them mint leaves, herb leaves, and dried Houttuynia cordata?

It's not because firewood is rare in the Northland.

Although the soldiers of the border guard station planted a lot of trees, but it is still not enough to burn, the climate in the border area is arid and rainless, firewood is rare, how can the soldiers usually have firewood to make tea to drink, mostly like the Mongols of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, with cow dung and other fuel.

As a result, their living conditions are even worse.

Now I can't help but feel a little worried when I see the small islands and reefs around the Dengzhou Health Station, almost all of them are bare, and I can't even see a tree.

In this era, many people made a living by collecting firewood, woodcutters, hunters in the mountains, if they had no money, they could collect firewood and carry burdens to the city to sell, which could be used as a means of livelihood.

Zhu Tan sighed: "The firewood is not enough to burn. ”

He pinched the corner of his clothes, hesitated a little, and sighed: "In the palace before, clothes came to reach out for food to open their mouths, and I never felt that the hardships of the people were like this. ”

Zhu Xiongying smiled: "Uncle Ten, didn't you also go to Fengyang to experience the people's livelihood?" ”

Zhu Tan shook his head.

He squatted down, sat on the reef by the sea, patted the stones beside him, and asked Zhu Xiongying to do the same, the uncle and nephew were much calmer after two years of precipitation.

Zhu Tan looked at the dog climbing the reef in the direction of Penglai not far away, and sighed: "Fengyang's official, only give us what we want to see, if you want to see the truth, you have to come to these places." ”

"But those officials, how can they let our vassal king run around outside."

Zhu Tan's words made Zhu Xiongying also silent, and he glanced at Zhu Tan strangely.

In just two years, the absurd, uninhibited, wanton and arrogant tenth uncle in the second middle school with the unique stubbornness of the rebellious period of youth has changed his taste, and he actually began to sigh that life is short.

Zhu Xiongying was relieved: "Uncle Ten, I am really happy that you can have this insight." ”

While the two were talking, not far away, several peasant boys who were collecting firewood for the soldiers of the guard post for a living looked at them.

One of them was a tall and thin boy, with fine eyebrows and burning eyes.

Although he was dressed in linen clothes, barefoot, and carrying a load of firewood, his cheeks were also spent, but in a group of firewood boys, he was extremely outstanding.

"Ji Gang, what are you looking at?"

The boy's fellow countryman, Mu Su, is also a sturdy Shandong guy, and the two teenagers are catching the sea on the beach on the side, looking for something to eat.

The marine environment of this era is still very good, there are often conchs, eight bands (octopus), crabs, clams, kelp and the like rushing ashore on the seaside, and several firewood teenagers come to sell firewood to the families of the officers and soldiers of the Dengzhou Navy Division on weekdays, and they are also catching the sea here.

Because there are many people here, the rice fields that are discharged by people and animals are poured directly into the sea, so that there are many creatures coming from the sea.

The clams on the beach alone are larger than in other places.

The young man named Ji Gang frowned, stared at Zhu Xiongying and Zhu Tan not far away, and said, "Brother Su, those two young masters seem to be the big officials who came. ”

"Oh?"

The boy named Mu Su is a fellow villager of Ji Gang.

Ji Gang's eyes flickered.

"I heard from the officials and masters of the Dengzhou Navy Division, this is our Ming prince!"

"Huh!?"

Mu Su was surprised.

He was startled, and looked at Zhu Xiongying and Zhu Tan not far away, as well as Zheng He, Zhou Kuan, the maidservant Ziying, and the black-clothed monk Yao Guangxiao behind them, and couldn't help pulling Ji Gang.

"Ji Gang, let's go quickly, if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really here, aren't these Hou Ye or something, we can't afford to mess with them."

Ji Gang was a little hesitant, but he pursed his lips and shook his head.

He showed a resolute expression in his eyes, and said: "Brother Su, we, the civilians of good families, if we want to fight for a background and earn the silver dollars and Daming treasure money, there are two ways, either go to sea to fight for life, or go to the army." ”

"There is also a saying about joining the army."

"If we are water throwers, most of us will start as small soldiers of the Fire Head Army, and we have no future."

"If you can trust me, follow me to ask these two young masters, maybe we can fight for a career!"

Mu Su was taken aback.

He trembled when he spoke, and stammered: "You are crazy, how dare we civilians go to stop the official's fight, in case the official blames us and arrests us and cuts us down......"

Ji Gang comforted him a few more words and said, "Don't worry, we're smart." ”

He squinted at Zhu Xiongying and Zhu Tan in the distance, and said, "Look at those two young masters, although they are wearing gorgeous clothes, they are not particular at all, they are similar to us countrymen, sitting on the stone pier, I feel that if we go to kneel down and beg to take us in, they will probably accept us." ”

gave Mu Su a look, Ji Gang carried the firewood and walked towards Zhu Xiongying and them.

Mu Su and several other teenagers around him felt that Ji Gang was crazy, and Mu Su didn't dare to go, but when he saw Ji Gang going farther and farther, he hesitated for a moment, and finally followed Ji Gang's footsteps.

The maid Ziying was originally Li Shanchang's personal maid.

Two years ago, Li Shanchang personally sent her into the palace and became Zhu Xiongying's personal maid, specifically for Zhu Xiongying to take care of the intelligence affairs of the National Security Division.

Now two years have passed, she has developed into a generous and generous, round and jade, plump and full.

It's just that she has always been squeezed out by Zheng He, Zhou Kuan, and even Yao Guangxiao, the great monk who was included in the National Security Department first, not to mention that there is a maid Yuhe who serves Zhu Xiongying closely, so during this time, Ziying has been trying to find ways to invite pets.

There's no way, like a folk, a woman of her age would have been married a long time ago.

His Royal Highness, the eldest grandson of the Ming Emperor whom he is serving now, doesn't seem to like women so much, never touches himself, and doesn't dare to look at himself every time he sees him.

As a spy of Jinyiwei, Ziying was afraid that she would be married out of the palace by Zhu Xiongying.

At this moment, seeing Ji Gang's eyes staring directly at Zhu Xiongying and Zhu Tan, Ziying instantly felt that something was wrong.

She hurriedly rushed forward and blocked in front of Zhu Xiongying: "Your Highness, be careful!" There are thieves! ”

The surrounding guards, as well as Zheng He and others, were startled and hurriedly took action, Zheng He and Zhou Kuan acted the fastest, directly holding Ji Gang down, holding his hands and feet and pressing him to the ground, and his fellow villager Mu Su also pressed on the ground.

Because this is the Dengzhou Navy Division's station, there are a lot of officers and generals, so the guards are far away, and in addition, Zheng He, Zhou Kuan, Ziying, and Yao Guangxiao, who followed Zhu Xiongying's side, are all martial arts, and they will never be attacked.

It's just that this incident still scared everyone into a cold sweat.

Zhu Xiongying shrank behind everyone, and saw that the two teenagers were just farmers collecting firewood, and one of them was shouting hard about wrongdoing, so he couldn't help patting Ziying Xiangxiang's shoulder.

"Ziying, you girl, how can you be naughty."

"Look at these two teenagers, they are obviously from nearby farmers, how can they be thieves."

"Next time, you're not allowed to trick or treat."

Zhu Tan looked at Zhu Xiongying, a handsome maid, and couldn't help but recover a little bit of her domineering look, and said, "Xiongying, you are still too young, you don't understand." ”

"Boys like to be naughty when they grow up, and girls love to be mischievous when they grow up."

Ziying's cheeks instantly flushed.

She squeezed her palms shyly and said to Zhu Xiongying: "Your Highness, Ziying saw this peasant boy staring at you and was afraid that he would do something bad to you, so she ......."

"It's fine!"

Zhu Xiongying waved his hand.

"With my tenth uncle here, there will be no villains, but you have to be careful, my tenth uncle used to like to shoot girls with a gun the most, and the maids in his palace were all beaten by him with a gun, wow, once he used a ten-eyed gun, shot ten times, and almost shot a person's life!"

Zhu Tan said angrily: "Big nephew, you expose me again!" ”

Zhu Xiongying laughed and said, "Uncle Ten, what are you afraid of, it's short, it's not like we haven't seen it......"

"You!"

……

The uncle and nephew stopped laughing, someone had already tied up Ji Gang and Mu Su here, Zhou Kuan bowed and said: "Young master, we have already checked, there are only firewood knives in the firewood of the two of them, and there are no other sharp weapons, as for why they came, it was because this young man said that he wanted to join the army." ”

"Oh?"

Zhu Xiongying and Zhu Tan glanced at each other.

Zhu Xiongying waved his hand and instructed the people around him to remove the cloth from Ji Gang and Mu Su's mouths and let the two of them talk.

"You two want to join the army, why don't you just go to Dengzhou Sailor?"

Zheng He ordered someone to bring the bench and let Zhu Xiongying and Zhu Tan sit down.

Ji Gang twisted his arm first, kowtowed to Zhu Xiongying and Zhu Tan, and kowtowed three times each, and then said loudly: "Your Highness knows that the two of us are originally from Linyi Su'an, and we came to Dengzhou to ask for a living. ”

Zhu Xiongye and Zhu Tan glanced at each other and laughed.

Zhu Xiongying deliberately snorted coldly with a straight face, and said: "You are sincere, seeing that the two of me are wearing fancy clothes to vote, if the two of us are dressed in tatters, I will definitely not come to vote!?" ”

Ji Gang shook his head into a rattle.

He pointed at Zhu Tan and said: "This highness is not a mortal at first glance, although he is wearing a military uniform, but the skin is fine and tender, and his face is not as dark as the navy of the Dengzhou Navy Division, the navy here is begging for a living at sea all the year round, his lips are chapped and purple, and his skin is black like ink spit out by a long worm, but this highness is not, white and pure, handsome and elegant, although he is dressed plainly, he is definitely not a mortal." ”

"As for you, you are slender and sturdy, you walk, like a practitioner, there is a foundation of kung fu under your feet, I have also learned to ride a bow horse with the old army in the village since I was a child, I know some kung fu, look at the posture of your walking, you must have learned the introductory martial arts, and now you can have the money to learn the introductory martial arts, and then look at your dragon and tiger step, how can you be an ordinary person?"

"Even if you two don't wear fancy clothes, I'm going to take refuge!"

Ji Gang said loudly.

Zhu Tan gritted his teeth, hissed, and wondered: "Is this king's domineering aura so obvious?" ”

Zhu Xiongying glanced at Zhu Tan as if he was looking at an idiot.

Zhu Tan didn't hesitate, looked at Memo Xuan, who was standing on the side respectfully, and asked, "Tie Xuan, is this king the kind of young master who looks like a young master from a family in Yanei?" ”

Tie Hyun nodded.

Zhu Tan was a little speechless for a moment, and then he understood a little bit of taste, although many naval non-commissioned officers didn't know his identity, but looking at his appearance, he was not an ordinary good family, no wonder he was complimented to him, and he felt a little sullen when he thought of this.

Zhu Xiongyingxin said that this peasant boy still has a little bit of eyes.

He smiled and put on a straight face, and snorted: "Boy, you are still a little anxious, do you know who this is next to me, this His Royal Highness is known as the little overlord of Yingtian Huo, and he is called the girl killer Lu Yanei, he is in Yingtian, and he shot hundreds of young women with muskets, and several young girls were shot dozens of times by him with firearms, and they were beaten into a sieve alive!" ”

"The young girl who died at his hands has not eight thousand, but ten thousand, are you afraid!?"

Zhu Xiongying made a terrifying expression and deliberately made a loud noise.

"As for me, I just don't see Zhu Undefeated in my life, so it's useless to call a hero, the Ming Jinyi Wei Guoan Division commands, and Zhu Undefeated is a disciple."

"Since you want to join the army, you should have heard of my Jinyi Weiguo Security Division's prestige?"

In some places, Jinyiwei is the spokesperson of the canine tooth and eagle claw, which can stop the night cry of children, which is to scare Ji Gang.

Unexpectedly, Ji Gang was overjoyed when he heard it.

His eyes lit up, and he kowtowed a few times on the ground, and shouted: "It turned out to be Zhu Undefeated Command Disciple of the National Security Division, Your Highness, you must accept me, our people in Linyi are all thanks to the kindness of the National Security Division, otherwise, I am still farming in Linyi!" ”

"Oh?"

Zhu Xiongying became interested at this time.

"What do you mean by that?"

That Ji Gang stood up and said: "Our Shandong generation of ordinary people, originally there is no land to plant, because the landlords of the former Yuan Dynasty, have occupied the fertile land, the first two years, we Daming engaged in the emperor's private partnership to open shops, but also engaged in Juntian, many people have divided the land and have land, the landlords did not want to do business with the royal family in the early days, who knows, the trade is getting bigger and bigger, and they have done it on the other side of the Goryeo country, such as our Linyi big radish, Zhuge vegetables, Chinese cabbage, sold to Goryeo in winter, are all hot goods. ”

"The business is developed, we are short of long-term and short-term workers everywhere in Shandong, and the restaurants are also booming, and the old men of the Jinyi Wei Guoan Division have relaxed the restrictions on Huang Celu, and now we are people in many places in Shandong, if they can't eat enough to farm, they will go out to work, and they all inherit the kindness of the National Security Division!"

Ji Gang's words made Yao Guangxiao, Zhu Xiongying, and Ziying, who were holding the intelligence of the National Security Division, all moved.

The economy is a book.

As long as this bill is revitalized, people and goods will circulate.

Just like Ji Gang said, Daming has made great progress in the circulation of personnel and goods.

This is all because Daming Royal Bank is doing business in various places, and the country has absorbed a large amount of gold and silver from depositors, and the golden signboard of Daming Royal Bank is getting stronger and stronger.

In the past two years, because the first batch of immigrant bonds from Jiangxi, Shanxi, and Guangdong have matured, the nobles and wealthy businessmen who initially purchased the immigrant bonds have received the dividends of the national bonds and tasted the sweetness, and the national security department no longer needs to "convince people with reason" in the national security department.

The treasury bonds that were sold at the beginning were all bought and sold by force, and those nobles and wealthy businessmen all complained, thinking that the Ming court was robbing.

The most scolded is, of course, the Ming Dynasty......

Because of the bank, it also bears the name of a Daming Royal Bank.

Although, most of the income of the Daming Royal Bank was advanced to government spending.

Benefit, let the Ming government get it, scolded, let the Zhu Ming royal family suffer.

In the past two years, in addition to the surrounding countries, because of the Ming Dynasty's monetary policy, deflation has occurred, and physical items have been purchased by the Ming Dynasty in large quantities, and then the wealthy people in the upper class, large landlords, and nobles have a bunch of Daming treasure money in their hands.

The rich people of the Ming Dynasty are the same......

Take salt as an example.

In the past, the salt tax of 10,000 taels of silver required at least two or three hundred people to escort it, otherwise it was very unsafe, and the silver had to be burned, poured into the holes dug in the wood, made into a silver sheath, and flowed down the river.

Just escorting is a very troublesome thing.

Now, 10,000 taels of silver, converted into Daming treasure banknotes, is about more than 2,100 yuan, less than 2,200 yuan, directly carry the Ming treasure banknotes, find a place with the Ming Royal Bank, exchange silver dollars, exchange copper coins.

This is the benefit of the Ming treasure banknote, which uses the gold standard as the base gold to hold the currency up.

Initially, because of the fear that the gold and silver storage of the Ming Royal Bank was insufficient, it would be maliciously run by some big businessmen with ulterior motives, and maliciously exchange gold, silver and copper coins, resulting in the depreciation of the Daming treasure banknotes and worthless.

First, they sucked all the gold and silver in their hands into the Daming Royal Bank to make reserves for gold and silver.

Second, if they have a brain pump, use gold and silver to run on the Daming Royal Bank, and deliberately depreciate the Daming treasure banknotes, it will be simple......

You come to run, thinking that the withdrawal is too much, I don't give you gold and silver, I don't give you Daming silver dollars, I give you Daming treasure banknotes......

The big businessmen are not stupid.

If this is really done, it is they who will suffer, anyway, the Daming treasure banknotes can continue to be printed, but they were "invited" to deposit the gold and silver in the Daming Royal Bank, but it is real gold and silver.

In this way, under the forced buying and selling, the gold and silver deposited for one year matured and received interest.

I bought a year's immigration bonds, and they also matured, and the nobles, royalty, and big businessmen also got the interest on the bonds.

Merchants and nobles found that the bonds of this country and the deposit of gold and silver in the Ming Royal Bank were much more stable than doing business and doing business......

Drought and flood protection.

As long as Daming Guozuo is strong, Daming Royal Bank will always exist, and their money will naturally be more valuable, and they can also earn interest.

Therefore, last year, that is, in the sixteenth year of Hongwu, when the bonds of the immigrant countries were issued again, the big businessmen and nobles no longer needed the Jinyi Wei Guoan Division to come to the door to reason, they would take the initiative to line up at the door of the Daming Bank to buy the national bonds of the Ming Dynasty, and those who could not grab the national bonds were bitter, because the national bonds were the most secure way to invest and manage their finances!

also shouted the slogan of buying treasury bonds and protecting Daming!

There is no need to ask the bank, a large number of middle-class landlords, small landlords, and ordinary people have silver money that can be deposited in the Daming Royal Bank.

The interest rate is high in the long term and low in the short term.

The deposit is gold and silver, and when you take it out, you can choose silver dollars, copper coins, or Daming treasure banknotes.

The bank staff in the post station are naturally selling the slack and convenient Daming treasure banknotes.

In this way, the Daming treasure banknotes are getting stronger and stronger, and the storage capacity of the Daming Royal Bank is getting higher and higher, and they have now released nearly 20 million taels of silver bonds, equivalent to Daming silver dollars, nearly 42 million yuan.

Although, compared with the wealthy Great Song Dynasty, this is not very surprising.

But for Da Ming at this moment, this is really nectar from heaven......

The deposit of the Daming Royal Bank, according to the statistics of banks all over the country, there are more than 20 million taels, regardless of the current or dead period, this is because although the banking business has been recognized by most of them, but after all, it has only been more than two years, and there are still some rich people who believe in their own money cellars.

In a few years, the amount of deposits in the Daming Royal Bank, and the treasury bonds released by the Daming Royal Bank, will only increase.

The newly absorbed fixed deposits can be used as interest on treasury bonds to pay the maturity of treasury bonds.

And gold and silver in kind, you can buy a lot of things and prosper the currency market.

Those handed over to the people, or those taken out by the common people, will receive interest on the national bonds, and the silver money taken out will be mostly paid in treasure banknotes, and treasure money can be printed in large quantities as long as it is kept within a reasonable range and guaranteed to be within the safe range of inflation.

Once there is inflation, the signs that the treasure money is worthless are also simple.

Annam, Goryeo, Chagatai Khanate, Northern Yuan, Wa, Luzon these places were used as dumping places for all kinds of caravans, handicraft products, silk, tea, ceramics, glass, mirrors, lacquerware, and cloth raw materials of the Ming Dynasty, playing the role of a sponge, dumping a large number of products in exchange for more raw materials.

At the same time, it also increased the sale of medium and long-term bonds, and limited the amount, which must be purchased with Daming treasure banknotes, and then increased the interest rate of Daming Royal Bank, especially for long-term deposits.

In this way, the excess treasure banknotes issued by the Daming Royal Bank can be recovered.

As long as the Daming Royal Bank is firmly in the hands and relies on the industrious hands and wisdom of the people of the Ming Dynasty, sooner or later, the surrounding Northern Yuan, Chagatai Khanate, Goryeo, Japan, Annam and other places will become the siphon sponge of the huge financial and economic market of the Ming Dynasty and the regulator of the Ming market.

Zhu Xiongying listened to Ji Gang's words and smiled, the young man is really good at talking, and he can pick what he likes to talk about.

This time I came to Beiping, there is also a problem, that is, the economic volume of the south has basically been explored to a certain extent in the past two years, and the market needs to be broadened, otherwise the south, especially in places like Nanzhili and Yingtianfu, will start to inflation.

The grain is cheap and hurts the peasants.

The people of Nanzhili have a lot of land seeds, and after equalizing the fields, the grain output has increased, and the trained rice grains have made the grain less scarce, and the people in Nanzhili are not so enthusiastic about farming.

Ordinary people began to turn their attention to business, which is somewhat similar to Shandong and other places now.

This is the pros and cons of letting go of Huang Ce's path.

Daming needs a regulating valve to balance the distribution of massive materials to ensure that the economy of various regions in the south will not expand, and there will be no getting richer and richer in the south and poorer and poorer in the north.

Thinking of this, Zhu Xiongying smiled: "What's your name?" ”

Ji Gang hurriedly said: "My name is Ji Gang!" ”

Zhu Xiongying frowned, how could this name be so familiar, he thought about it carefully, and remembered, this person was in the era of his previous life, when the fourth uncle Yan Wang Zhu Di was in trouble, he passed by Linyi to stay, and met the son of a good family who joined the army.

Later, it was he who served as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and the notorious Dongchang in later generations also had a lot to do with him.

What this son did the most, of course, was to help Zhu Di clean up the old Jianwen ministers, the power was once too huge, Zhu Di felt that the power of Jinyiwei was a little out of control, so he set up the East Factory to supervise Jinyiwei.

Thinking of this, Zhu Xiongying grinned, his eyes flickering: "Since this is the case, then you will worship under this master." ”

Zhu Xiongying pointed at Yao Guangxiao.

Ji Gang frowned, glanced at Yao Guangxiao, and saw that Yao Guangxiao's tiger face was not angry and arrogant, and his eyes were bright, not a mortal, but he was extremely murderous, he didn't like it very much, and hesitated: "Your Highness, can you let me follow you and be your personal soldier!?" ”

Yao Guangxiao laughed and shook his head slightly.

Zhu Xiongying also laughed.

"You kid, you offended the abbot and still want to leave!?"

"Do you know who he is, he is Yao Guangxiao, the commander of my Jinyi Wei Guoan Division, Yao Guangxiao, who is about to be promoted to the commander of Jinyi Wei Beipingwei, you will follow him and wait for him, and listen to his dispatch."

"I see that you are a little bold, there is just an errand to go to Goryeo Kingdom handed over to you to do, and Commander Yao will tell you when you go back!"

Ji Gang had no choice but to nod.

He boldly said to Zhu Xiongying: "My fellow villager Musu, who has been studying since he was a child, came out to chop firewood for a living because of his poor family, and I hope His Royal Highness will let him return home." ”

Yao Guangxiao's eyes widened, and he sighed: "This son thinks that the poor monk is small and does not want his fellow villagers to suffer." ”

Zhu Xiongying laughed.

"It's not so easy to offend the abbot and want to leave!"

"You're in big trouble this time, the abbot is careful."

"Be careful, he asked the eighteen bronze men of Shaolin Temple to clean you up."

"Oh, have you seen this young lady, her name is Ziying, she offended Abbot Yao Guangxiao when she was three years old, and now she is eighteen years old, her chest is angry, and she hasn't been able to get her free body yet!"

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