Based on such historical events, it was the one that led him to settle in the Central Plains.

To put it bluntly, Huang Taiji is in Zhou Xian's heart, and he is a Tartar who stands out in the north.

He wants to emulate Zhou Xian's strategy to enrich the country and strengthen the army?

Does he understand the use of funds and the benign return?

It's one thing to be willing to spend money, but it's another thing to be able to turn the money into national strength.

Here the Ming Dynasty has survived, and Zhou Xian can consolidate and enhance the national strength by killing corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

He Huang Taiji is now catching up with foreign expansion.

How dare he kill some corrupt officials?

Therefore, in the end, Huang Taiji is very likely to become the most powerful capitalist in the north.

The generals under his command and the 80,000 people who have been blessed have become the ultimate oligarchs.

At that time, Huang Taiji, who was caught in an internal crisis, is likely to go farther and farther on the road of following the trend, and it will become darker and darker.

Until he broke a good hand.

"You go down first, early tomorrow morning, convene a hundred officials to discuss the court."

"Yes." Hou Lianhui turned around and left the Qianqing Palace.

But it wasn't long before he turned back.

This time, he had a piece of silver in his hand.

"Master Pony."

"Huh?"

"Master Ma, officials in the court have found adulterated mercury in the silver vault."

The so-called mercury is silver mixed with water at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty in history had an essential difference between official silver and private bank.

An ingot of official silver is ten taels.

Made of sterling silver.

A folk ingot of silver is also ten taels.

It is made of silver mixed with lead ore.

One tael of official silver can be exchanged for two taels of civilian silver.

Now Hou Lianhui said that officials in the court and central government found water in the silver treasury.

This startled Zhou Xian, who was nervous.

After all, the tax money of the government needs to be truthfully reported to the imperial court after it is put into the treasury.

Then those official banks should be uniformly distributed and paid to the military salaries of the border troops, or for the needs of state affairs.

But if there is a doped people's silver.

What does this mean?

It shows that someone has manipulated the amount.

After all, the value of 1,000 taels of official silver and 1,000 taels of minyin is not the same.

The difference in purchasing power is even more than two.

Zhou Xian thought for the first time that someone had sucked up the silver that originally belonged to the silver treasury in various places, and then embezzled the people's silver to fill the amount.

That......

The consequences of this problem are serious.

Because once the problem is found, it means that in the silver treasury in Daming, the value of the actual deposit and the real deposit of silver is seriously reduced.

This does not include the fact that officials in the local tax and banking administration departments themselves have falsely reported the amount of the understatement.

At this time, Hou Lianhui took out the private bank and the official bank, and put them in front of Zhou Xian to compare them carefully.

You don't need to look at it at all, the two are exactly the same size, but the weight is different.

Can the weight of sterling silver be the same as that of ginseng lead?

For such a thing, Zhou Xian did not show excessive anger.

Because at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is not surprising that anything strange happened......

But to crack down on those adulterated or directly fake ministers, a one-size-fits-all plan from the source has been put on the agenda by Zhou Xian from this moment.

Zhou Xian said: "Go and pass on Xu Rongbing and Lord Song, and call Zhou Guangkai over." ”

"Yes!"

Hou Lianhui left in a hurry.

A moment later, Xu Rongbing, Song Yingxing, and Zhou Guangkai had already arrived.

Zhou Xian was sitting in the Horse Mansion, and Zhu Yujiao made good tea for the three ministers, and then slowly retreated.

All three were flattered.

Stand up and bow in the direction Her Royal Highness the Princess left.

Zhou Xian put away his gaze and went straight to the point: "Hou Lianhui, take out the inferior silver you found out." ”

Hou Lian will take out the ingot of silver.

Xu Rongbing took a look, shook his head and said, "Master Chitose, I'm afraid this is not even a qualified Minyin." ”

"That's right, it's bad silver." Zhou Xian didn't hide it, and said calmly: "This kind of silver must have been filled in all fields of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"It's just that I want to press not to check now, and to find a list here today, just to find a solution in advance, and then conduct a large-scale inventory."

Hearing Zhou Xian say this, the expressions of the three ministers present became more and more solemn.

They are all economical.

Very sensitive to silver.

Now that this inferior silver has appeared in the imperial palace, it has already shown that it is harmful to all aspects of the people.

Zhou Guangkai pursed his lips and pondered for a moment, and immediately said: "Chitose, this matter must be strictly investigated. ”

"From the point of view of the lower officials, this kind of inferior silver is estimated to be all over the world."

"If it continues to develop, it will cause a catastrophe to my Ming economy."

Zhou Xian nodded and said, "I thought of the two-end block. The first is to block the source of inferior silver, and secondly, to improve the identification traces of official silver and private silver, and to promote anti-counterfeiting silver, so as to eliminate those inferior silver flowing in the people. ”

Zhou Xian's two-end blockade is indeed a good way.

But helplessly, the purchasing power brought by the silver that went to the people must be digested by the imperial court.

In the final analysis, this matter is not good for oneself because it is harmful to others.

"Xu Aiqing."

"The lower official is here."

"You put aside the matter at hand for the time being, make a new set of anti-counterfeiting marks as soon as possible, and then the official silver of the Ming Dynasty and the silver of the people will be branded with anti-counterfeiting marks."

"Can you do this?"

Xu Rongbing frowned slightly, and said, "Chitose, the lower officials can do it, but it takes time." ”

"How long will it take you?"

"If the officials work overtime, it will take half a month."

"I'll give you a month, you still have to pay attention to rest, and Lord Song will study with you, how about it?"

"That's very good, then the next official will go and prepare."

"Well, you just open your imagination to get involved, and if you encounter any trouble in practice, I will solve it for you."

"Yes!"

Zhou Xian asked again: "In your opinion, what is the cost and time of refining this kind of inferior silver now?" ”

"Chitose Lord, this ......"

Zhou Guangkai paused and said: "According to the following officials, this kind of inferior silver has shrunk by more than half compared to official silver, and the production time, if there is an assembly line, can produce tens of thousands of taels a day." ”

Zhou Xian didn't say a word after hearing this.

Tens of thousands of taels.

Such illegal deeds can create tens of thousands of taels in a day.

Wouldn't it create several times the value of a few back and forth flows among the people?

The point is that this is inferior fake silver, which has no authority.

This kind of thing circulates in the market, that is, it invisibly encroaches on the heritage of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, Zhou Xian also thought of the most critical point.

That is, the production of silver taels, no matter which dynasty in history, is the top secret of the state.

The talents inside have also signed the agreement.

And the production of inferior silver taels, although the material content is not equal.

However, the craftsmanship of the production is still in line with the set of the imperial court.

Does that mean?

Daming's Banking Regulatory Division has begun to rot?

Even the inferior silver was made by them to be shoddy and fool the court?