"Your Highness, can you tell your ministers what you want to do?"

At the end of the court, Zhu Zhangui returned to the study room with the support of his father.

As soon as the two of them sat down and didn't have a few words, Yang Shiqi asked to come in.

The first thing this old man said when he came in was to ask Zhu Zhangui what kind of result he wanted to be satisfied.

Zhu Zhangui raised his eyebrows and looked at Yang Shiqi with a serious expression.

"What does Master Yang mean by this, what do I want to do, shouldn't you ask them what they want to do?"

"Your Highness, forgive your rudeness!"

"Isn't the treasure money a trap you set up?"

Zhu Zhangui's face turned cold suddenly, and his eyes saw Yang Shiqi flash a trace of murderous intent.

Zhu Chubby, who had been paying attention to his son's expression, hurriedly slapped the table and roared:

"Yang Shiqi, what you said is a bit excessive!"

For Yang Shiqi, Zhu Fatpang values it very much, and plans to reuse it later, but he doesn't want the other party to be planted in his son's hands like this.

Zhu Zhangui glanced at his father, and under the gesture of his eyes, he said lightly to Yang Shiqi.

"I don't understand the trap in Master Yang's mouth."

"Am I lying, is the imperial court buying the treasure money at a price of 2:1, and now all the banks are buying it, am I lying?"

Yang Shiqi opened his mouth, a little speechless for a while.

It seems that this is indeed the case.

The purchase price set by the imperial court was 2:1, which was exactly the same as the news obtained by the second generation, and there was no fraud at all.

The imperial court did not deliberately quote a price, and those guys were fooled, and they completely stepped into this pit voluntarily.

Moreover, the imperial court also issued repeated orders to prohibit private individuals from buying treasure banknotes privately.

On the bright side, those second-generation people really broke the law.

"It's good to be a gentleman, and what kind of entrepreneurial struggle is to be done!"

"If they are engaged in a serious industry, I will definitely support them, and even if they don't have money, I can lend them without interest!"

"But look at what they did, they are digging the roots of the imperial court, and they want to move the imperial court's money to their own house!"

"The court is bleeding, what is the price of 2:1 for treasure money? In order to keep the people from suffering, to appease the people's resentment against the treasure banknotes, and to let the people regain their trust in the currency issued by the imperial court."

"But what about these guys, they took this opportunity to move the money from the court back to their house."

Zhu Zhangui's scolding made Yang Shiqi bow his head in shame.

The policy of the imperial court can be said to be digging up its own flesh and blood to replenish the people, and this kind of policy for the people may not have encountered such a policy in the past 800 years.

But there are some moths, who feel that this is an opportunity to make money, and want to take the opportunity to fish the court fiercely.

If the imperial court did not issue a follow-up serious order, these people would collect treasure money to earn the imperial court's money, and the imperial court would have nothing to say.

But the problem is that the emperor has already issued an order in the follow-up, but these people still ignore it, which is indeed a bit ignorant of the laws of the court.

Looking at Yang Shiqi, who was silent, Zhu Zhangui picked up the tea cup next to him and said calmly.

"There is still a war going on in the north, and you, as the secretary of the military department, should focus on the north instead of caring about these things that have nothing to do with you."

Yang Shiqi opened his mouth, and under Zhu Fatpang's continuous eyes, he reluctantly hugged his fists and retreated.

Looking at Yang Shiqi who walked out of the upper study, Zhu Zhangui began to think in his heart that it was time to transfer Yu Qian back. Zhu Zhangui was always a little uneasy about handing over such an important yamen of the Ministry of War to a person who had a problem with him.

"Son, don't think about it, in fact, Yang Shiqi is still very capable, but his thoughts are a little different from yours!"

Knowing the son is more than the father.

The thoughts expressed in Zhu Zhangui's eyes were seen by Zhu Chupang at a glance.

Thinking that Yang Shiqi has served himself for so many years, Zhu Fat Jue

You should still be persuaded.

It's a pity that Zhu Zhangui didn't listen.

"Yang Shiqi doesn't know much about military affairs, and the position of the secretary of the military department is a little inappropriate, I think it's good for him to concentrate on being in charge of the cabinet!"

The corners of Zhu Chubby's mouth twitched.

Get... What I just said was in vain.

However, he didn't say much about this, and acquiesced to Zhu Zhangui's idea.

When the child is older, he has his own ideas, and his body is not as good as a year, and it is difficult to say whether he can survive the old man, and if the child wants to choose the person he wants, he will choose it, and he will support him in the back.

"I'm also curious, how are you going to arrange those people, you don't really plan to kill them, do you?"

Zhu Zhangui, who was thinking about who to take Yang Shiqi's place, shook his head with a smile when he heard this.

"How could I kill them all, I wasn't even going to kill one!"

Now Zhu Chupang became interested.

The sun came out in the west, and his son didn't want to kill anyone.

Just now, he was still thinking about whether he should stop Zhu Zhangui if he planned to go on a killing spree.

But he didn't expect that his son, who was very similar to his grandfather, would be so kind and not kill people.

It's weird.

"Dad, what kind of eyes are you looking at?"

Noticing his father's surprised eyes, Zhu Zhangui asked suspiciously.

"This is not like your style, how can you come back from a walk in the north, and become a great good man with no blood on your hands."

Zhu Zhangui rolled his eyes angrily, "Could it be that in your eyes, I am a tyrannical and murderous person?"

Zhu Chupang smiled, "It's really a bit like telling the truth, when you stinky boy killed someone, he was like my grandfather, and that look was scary."

"There have been many times when I have looked at you, just like I saw that your grandfather was still alive, and I was awakened by fear when I slept and dreamed at night!"

Zhu Zhangui: "......"

"Okay, tell me what you're going to do?"

Zhu Zhangui pursed his lips speechlessly and said his thoughts.

"Actually, my initial idea was to find the leader and kill a batch of the remaining warnings, and then confiscate all the treasure money they collected, and all the people were driven to the artisan camp to work hard for a few years to atone for their sins!"

"It's your uncle who leads the way! If we cut it, we won't be able to explain it to your mother!" Zhu Chupang kindly reminded.

Zhu Zhangui spread his hands.

"That's why I changed the punishment!"

"How?" Zhu Fatpang became more interested.

"My idea is this, first lock them up for a few days to scare them, confiscate all the treasure money they bought, and then set a time for labor reform according to the amount of treasure money collected!"

"As for the money they owe to the bank, I decided to have their families pay it back at a price of 2:1."

"No, isn't this our family losing money!" Hearing this price, Zhu Fatpang quit.

The family finally saved this bit of family money, and gave the people money, and Zhu Chupang also admitted it.

As Zhu Zhangui said, the old Zhu family must admit the wrong things, even if the royal family eats chaff vegetables, it can't lose the people.

But these second-generation people are different, Zhu Fatpang is not willing to give them money.

"Can you just listen to what I've to say?" Interrupted by his father, Zhu Zhangui hurriedly reminded him.

"You say, you say."

Zhu Chupang hurriedly shut up and made a gesture of deafness.

"I'm not going to let them repay half of the loan, but let them repay half of the loan, and then exchange the other half for our newly minted currency."

"That way, we will not only be able to get the money back, but we will also be able to use the new currency!"

After listening to this, Zhu Fatpang's eyes gradually lit up.

That's a good idea.

Not only can the loan be returned, but it can also allow a new type of money to circulate.

these officials

, a small bourgeois family, but the main consumer force of the Ming Dynasty.

As long as these people are the first to use the new currency, the people at the bottom can only accept the new currency, whether they want it or not.

In the future, as long as the imperial court maintains the value of the new currency, the currency of the Ming Dynasty will be officially stabilized.

As long as the imperial court does not mess around, there will be no risk of the collapse of monetary credibility in the future.

In the afternoon, the courtiers gathered again.

It's just that the state of the courtiers is divided into two kinds, one is the mental exhaustion of a busy morning, and the other is the physical exhaustion.

Those who are mentally exhausted are those who have not participated in the treasure money affair, and those who are physically exhausted have just returned from Jinyi Guard's prison.

According to Zhu Zhangui's subordinates.

These guys are ruthless.

ran to Jinyiwei and rushed directly into the edict prison, and found his own nephew, which was a wild hammer.

It's called a ruthless one.

Those who use whips are whipped with whips, and those who are smashed with torture instruments are smashed with torture instruments.

The second generation is like a sandbag, lying on the ground and screaming, and the murderous picture makes many old brocade guards feel furious.

It's brutal.

It is said that a lot of blood rushed to the beams of the house, and Zhang Kejian, the only one who was not beaten, was so frightened that he peed his pants again.

"Have you clarified the matter?"

Thinking of the scene at that time, a smile appeared on the corner of Zhu Zhangui's mouth, and he looked at Liu Shilang, whose expression was like a dead father.

Liu Shilang nodded with a bitter face.

When he beat his own son, he had already asked clearly.

did borrow 100,000 taels, which was mortgaged by his own property, and if he didn't really can't borrow it, this bastard even plans to borrow another one.

Hearing this sentence at that time, if it weren't for Jinyiwei's desperate pulling, Liu Shilang would have hammered this rebel to death.

The so-called repayment of debts is a matter of course.

This is the case for ordinary people, not to mention the money owed to the imperial court.

The black pen and white words are written there, and he can't rely on it even if he wants to.

And what made him even more depressed was that the treasure money bought by his son's gang of bastards was also seized by the imperial court brocade guards.

In the words of the Jinyiwei, your sons and nephews have already confessed, and these treasures are stolen money and will be confiscated.

The money was not earned, and he still owed a lot of debts, and the more Liu Shilang thought about it, the more angry he became.

I knew that this bastard was such a bad father, and when he was born, he should have drowned in that dung pit.

"Now that we know, let's talk about how to deal with it!"

Seeing Liu Shilang and the others nodding, Zhu Zhangui leaned back slightly, with a sympathetic look on his face, and proposed to discuss how to deal with it.

"Your Highness, those treasures..."

"That's the stolen money that has been confiscated."

Before Liu Shilang finished speaking, Zhu Zhangui understood what the other party wanted to fight. It's nothing more than trying to use those treasure money to pay off their son's debt to the bank.

I want to wipe the account with a pile of waste paper, what are you kidding, just because the bank is a good person.

"But Your Highness, those treasure money...", Liu Shilang and the others were a little unwilling.

Those treasure money were bought by their own bastards with real money, and if they didn't owe a lot of foreign debts, the court would just take them.

But now those bastards still owe a lot of foreign debts, and if they don't take these treasure money, they will have to pay for it themselves.

Other people's Liu Shilang doesn't know.

can ask his family to take out 100,000 taels of silver, which is forcing the whole family to ask for food.

So no matter what you say, even if you can't pay off your debts, you have to forgive some of them, otherwise their family will really go bankrupt.

He has an old lady and a lot of wives and concubines, and when he has no money, what does he use to feed so many people.

Others are thinking the same way.

On the way to the court, they had already discussed.

These bastards

The money owed to the bank cannot be relied on, after all, most of the money in the bank is provided by the emperor's grandson and the household department.

The imperial grandson didn't mention it first, if anyone dared to owe money to the household department, Xia Yuanji's bastard would definitely dare to block the door and scold the street.

So they have to take a little bit of this money, but how much they pay depends on their own earnings.

"You don't have to think much about the treasure money, the emperor has repeatedly ordered that the people are forbidden to exchange treasure money."

"These children in your family, knowing that there is such a holy decree, are blatantly buying treasure money, this is not to put the court in their eyes, not to put the emperor in their eyes. If it weren't for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's hard work to intercede for you, you would not be discussing with me how to deal with things now, but going home to hold a funeral with your sons and nephews."

In order to make these guys no longer have the idea of playing treasure money, Zhu Zhangui directly blocked the words.

All of them were human spirits.

They heard the meaning from Zhu Zhangui's words.

The emperor planned to take back the treasure money and exchange it for the life of their son.

But the life is saved, but there are still punishments that should be given in the later stage, and the specific punishment depends on their performance.

Thinking about this, they breathed a sigh of relief.

If there is no money or something, you can make it again, and if the child's life is gone, then it will really be gone.

The whole family is waiting, and if the child's life cannot be saved, they don't know how to go back to face the family.

"Your Highness, about the loan?"

The main thing is settled, and the next thing is to deal with those loans.

Liu Shilang and others wondered if they could reduce the loan money a little.

What do these people think, how can Zhu Zhangui not know, looking at everyone with a straight face and saying coldly.

"It's only natural to repay debts, if you don't think it's appropriate, I can ask Xia Yuanji to come back and talk to you."

The faces of the people darkened.

Xia Yuanji still forgot it, that guy was a group of people with a black heart when facing money.

In the end, the two sides engaged in verbal swords, secretly clashed, fiddled with their minds, and finally decided on the result.

The families of the prisoners will be exchanged for new currency at a ratio of 2:1 to the outside world to declare their support for the national government.

The reason why I found this reason is nothing more than to look better on my face.

Zhu Zhangui didn't bother to take care of these people's ghost thoughts.

As long as the money can be returned and the new currency can be issued, everything else is a minor problem.

There is no need to mention the matter of the treasure banknote, it was directly confiscated by Zhu Zhangui in the name of the old man.

The officials didn't say anything, after all, the money was to buy their own children's lives.

Finally, there is the punishment for those who buy treasure money without permission.

After deliberation among the people, it was decided to send everyone to the artisan camp to help the artisans build the railroad and open up the wasteland.

The time limit can be determined according to the number of banknotes purchased.

10,000 treasure banknotes are punished for one year, and less than 10,000 is rounded.

Also in order to demonstrate the benevolence of the imperial court, the families of prisoners could purchase new currency with gold and silver to reduce their sentences.

If you buy 10,000 new currency, you can reduce your sentence by one year.

At the same time, at the end, he also added that all those who have meritorious fame will be eliminated, and those who have official positions will be dismissed, and from now on, such people will never be hired by the imperial court.

Knowing the law and breaking the law, the crime is added to the first degree.

As an official of the imperial court and a meritorious literati, if he dares to be greedy for the court's money today, he will be able to pull the flag and rebel tomorrow.

When the final result was decided, many people looked at Zhu Zhangui as if they were looking at a black-hearted businessman.

is worthy of being the grandson of the emperor who started in business, and there are a set of means to make money in business.

So many people across the country have been arrested, and the money for repaying loans and commuting sentences can almost make up for the money that the imperial court exchanged for treasure money from the people.

That's it.

The imperial court withdrew the treasure money, issued new currency, obtained a group of laborers in vain, and warned the officials

The family has enriched the people at the bottom, and they have not lost much money.

This method of killing six birds with one stone is really clever.

The next step was to write the edict of the Ministry of Rites, and the yamen of each ministry was stamped with a big seal, and Zhu Zhangui lifted the jade seal that the old man asked him to bring back, and buckled it heavily on it, and the edict officially took effect.

"Tut-tut, good boy, you have the ability to fight, and this trick is not bad!"

Evening East Palace.

As the court meeting dispersed, Zhu Fatpang, who was in a very good mood, stopped dealing with the wrinkles, and returned to the East Palace with his son, ready to have a few drinks to celebrate the imminent issuance of the new currency of the imperial court.

Except for the two of them and Zhu Chubby's personal eunuch, the entire East Palace was quiet everywhere.

When the Zhang family went to Beiping, they took all the people in the East Palace away, leaving only a few close favorites of Zhu Fatpang to take care of Zhu Fatpang.

Zhang planned not to come back after he went.

After all, it has only been two years since the capital was moved, and it is too troublesome for a large family to run back and forth.

Since the family left, this is the first time Zhu Fatpang has come back.

There is no way, the grandson and concubine were all taken away by his daughter-in-law, and it was not interesting for him to come back and stay in the empty East Palace, so he has been living in the Shang study.

The eldest grandson is at home with him, but the problem is that the eldest grandson lives in the new school and only comes back once every 10 days.

The two didn't want to stay in the empty East Palace, so they made do with it in the Shang study.

In the garden of the East Palace, the two of you sat opposite each other by a fire, Zhu Fatpang originally wanted the imperial dining room to prepare some side dishes, and the father and son ate and ate well, chatted and drank a few cups.

But Zhu Zhangui hated the taste of the dishes in the imperial dining room, so he directly refused his father, then set up the stove, took some canned food, and the two of them sat next to the fire, chatting while eating canned food.

"Did you hear from Fujian that Zheng He had returned?"

Handing a can of boiled braised pork to Zhu Fatpang, Zhu Zhangui asked about Zheng He's news.

According to the agreement between the two, Zheng He should have come back in the spring of last year.

But now that such a long time has passed, there is not even a shadow on Zheng He's side.

Zhu Zhangui is now a little worried about whether Zheng He, who was going to the deep sea for the first time, encountered some trouble and had an unknown accident.

The last time they went to sea, they walked close to the coastline and did not go deeper.

The only time the Ming navy traveled across the sea was the one that went to the Wa Kingdom.

That time, I was lucky, I didn't encounter any strong winds, and the navy arrived safely in the country.

But Zheng He is different.

They have been walking for several years, and in the face of various harsh environments throughout the year, Zhu Zhangui is very worried about them, afraid that Zheng He, a sea navigator, will be accidentally buried in the sea.

The two fought side by side at sea for many years, and Zhu Zhangui was still young at that time. The two say that they are partners, but in fact, in Zhu Zhangui's heart, Zheng He is more like a brother who takes care of him meticulously.

Zhu Chubby, who was eating braised canned food, shook his head.

"No news received, hopefully they won't be in trouble."

After speaking, the two fell into silence, both thinking about where Zheng He had gone, why had no news come back for so long?