As a result, a year later, he came to Daming again and wanted to buy silk with treasure money. By that time, the value of the treasure money had depreciated, and the merchant had lost a large amount of money. This also led to the fact that later overseas merchants only accepted gold and silver transactions.

"If you want to earn money from overseas businessmen by printing money, you must first ensure that the credibility of Hongwu Bao banknotes is strong enough. The credibility of Hongwu treasure banknotes comes from the amount of gold, silver and copper in the imperial court's inventory. "Shen Wansandao.

"Look, the rank looked down on Shen Wansan before." Zhu Yuanzhang already appreciated Shen Wan Thirty Points at this time, "If he hadn't told us these truths, you wouldn't even be able to stabilize Hongwu Bao's money." ”

"Not to mention earning overseas money, even the circulation within Daming is unstable." His eyes lit up, "When the time comes, if you can make money by printing money, wouldn't it be a white wolf with empty gloves?" ”

It seems that we must hurry up and bring back more gold and silver from overseas countries.

When the world recognizes the Hongwu treasure banknote, then you can empty the gloves and white wolf.

When the ministers heard this, they despised Shen Wansan, which alleviated a little.

But I still look down on him, after all, in the minds of this group of people, everything is inferior, only reading is high. Even if Shen Wansan can make money again, it's not full of copper smell?

A profiteer is a profiteer, and he can't get on the stage, and it's really a shame for a scholar to be an official in the same dynasty with this kind of person!

And Shen Wansan was very excited, the emperor let him be in the limelight in front of the ministers today. His previous idea of proving his worth was finally realized.

Even if he is looked down upon by those scholars, he has contributed to the court anyway.

"Previously, we had shown the Rank a map of the world, so that the Rank knew how big the world was." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "There is a serious shortage of copper, iron, gold and silver in China, so we decided to send some fleets overseas to see where there are copper, gold and silver mines." ”

"Then they were all brought back, and copper and iron were used to forge firearms, and gold and silver were used to stabilize the treasure money."

"Your Majesty's move is very kind!" The crowd said.

Previously, the Ming Dynasty sent troops to occupy Goryeo, which had already made the ministers taste the sweetness. Therefore, this time, they no longer hindered the emperor's move to explore gold and silver mines overseas.

No one said that Huaxia needs to be benevolent and benevolent, and cannot plunder other people's things.

The Renaissance of the Ming Dynasty has been vigorously unfolding for a period of time, and Confucianism has gradually been transformed. The popularity of online articles such as "Breaking the Sky" has made the ministers and the people pay more attention to the individual unconsciously.

Their thinking has been greatly affected.

The online articles are all centered on the protagonist, and everything is for the protagonist to serve. It's all about personal love and hatred, and there is no loyalty and patriotism in it.

The thoughts of the Chinese people have been imprisoned for thousands of years by benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, and loyalty, and only these online articles that are all about the protagonist can be broken. The love and hatred in "Breaking the Sky" is even stronger, it is a medicine.

The thinking was changed unconsciously, and the ministers no longer opposed the decision-making of the imperial court, and the role of the Renaissance was still very large.

If it had been changed, there would have been a large number of people standing up against it.

The role of the Renaissance is not great, but very large!

……

"If we can find a large area of gold, silver, copper, and iron ore overseas this time, and the rice in Goryeo will be ripe again in the coming year, we have decided to increase the number of officials in various ministries." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

It still uses the old routine of the expedition to Goryeo, and if you win, you will pay everyone.

"In the past, the income of officials in various ministries was 900 stones, from 750 stones for ...... first grade," Zhu Yuanzhang said, "In the coming year, it can be increased to 3,000 stones for one product, from 2,000 ......stones for one product."

Directly tripled their salaries!

The low salary given to officials during Zhu Yuanzhang's period was not because he liked to abuse officials, but because the court had no money. And he couldn't bear to exploit the people, so he could only let the life of being an official be a little tighter.

And now that he has used Qin Yu's strategy, he has earned a lot of treasury silver for the imperial court, and the imperial court is no longer so poor. In addition, the development of the southwest is very good, and there is no need for the imperial court to allocate funds for construction.

If the rice of Goryeo is ripe in the coming year, it can be used to the Central Plains, and the imperial court will not lack food and money. In addition, if he found gold mines from overseas, he was ready to increase the income of civil and military officials.

First, it can make the life of the civil and military officials better, and second, it can make the court unite as one.

"Emperor Xie!" Liu Bowen and others were overjoyed when they heard this.

From now on, they no longer need to live on the ancestral property of their hometown.

In the past, it was because the imperial court gave him too low a salary, which caused Liu Bowen's family to make ends meet, and at the end of the year, he couldn't even afford to eat, and finally had to let the clansmen in his hometown help him, and even went to the street to sell calligraphy and paintings to make money and buy rice.

It was unthinkable before to be a senior official in Beijing and rely on his family for relief.

And because Zhu Yuanzhang was a farmer before, the small-scale peasant mentality made him feel that the money he gave to the officials was completely enough for them to eat and wear, and there was even a surplus. As everyone knows, the food and clothing of officials in the court is only a small expense, and entertainment is the bulk of the money.

For example, if an official wants to celebrate his birthday, the court will not even give them a gift.

Zhu Yuanzhang is not unaware of this, he just wants all officials to be clean officials with clean sleeves, and only know how to be public servants of the people wholeheartedly. When he used to be a peasant, his ideal official was like this.

His ideas are too idealistic.

It is impossible for everyone in the court to be Yu Qian, and everyone is Hai Rui.

A group of honest civil officials smiled, and although Li Shanchang and others thanked them on the surface, they really looked down on the little money that the emperor added to them. If they had only lived on their income, they would have starved to death.

However, they were more than happy to see the emperor go overseas to explore the gold mines, and once they did, they would also get benefits.

The increase in income is only on the surface, and there are many ways for these powerful people to benefit secretly. For example, they can ask the emperor to let their people go there to mine gold.

"Since everyone agrees, then the ministers, who can recommend a person to go to sea for us." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

The ministers were silent, according to the conditions, Shen Wansan is undoubtedly the best candidate, but he wants to be in charge of the Ministry of Commerce, I am afraid he will not be separated. And this kind of people who are familiar with overseas, they basically have little contact.

"The minister can recommend one person for the emperor." Shen Wansan said, "This person's name is Maha, this person has been to the holy city of great food, and he can take on this responsibility. ”

"Okay, just use him." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "In addition to the entourage who went to sea, we should also bring a team of elite sergeants to ensure the safety of the crew." The ships going to sea must be big, and they must not insult the prestige of our Ming Dynasty. ”

"There should be a lot of elite sergeants, and all of them are equipped with firearms, so that small overseas countries can see the strength of our country. Let them not dare to harass our southeast of the Ming Dynasty every year like the Japanese Kou. ”