"Your Majesty, the other country is at war at this time, and I am afraid that I will not be able to earn much silver taels by selling porcelain, silk and other things to him." Gao Qi thought for a moment and then stood up and said, "The war costs a lot, and their wealth is still stretched thin to cope with the war, so they won't have extra financial resources to buy non-necessities such as porcelain and silk. ”

"Not bad!"

"What Master Gao said is reasonable!"

……

The ministers listened and seconded the proposal.

Zhu Yuanzhang was not so sure about this phenomenon, because Qin Yu told him about the Opium War. In the late Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty was mired in war, didn't it still buy opium from overseas?

But on second thought, after all, porcelain silk is not opium.

The two are not the same.

So I agreed with him.

"And what about buying grain from them?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked again. After he became the emperor, he always attached great importance to food, probably because he was hungry and scared before.

"It's very convenient."

"Don't we have copper coins?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"It's just affecting the bloodline."

"We will sell the men who were shipped back to the brothel in Qinglou with a little more beauty."

"Besides, we brought back all the men of the sea, but the women of the sea."

As everyone knows.

"Yes." Shen Wanba said, "According to the investigation of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, all the countries in the western sea have no copper coins. This proves that we will have no copper coins in the future. ”

"As long as the woman is from China, it doesn't matter which country my man is from?"

Currency is even more important.

"I once heard my husband tell us about the history of the sea, saying that the Western Legion was weak and went to Xinxiaolu to rob slaves and buy them back to be our cheap labor." Zhu Yuanzhang said,

"Since the small family has answered yes, this matter will be put on hold for the time being." Zhu Yuanzhang also reported what hope to the ministers, and said. Before Xiao Ming opened up the nautical trade, there were all kinds of nautical mile problems.

"Your Majesty, what if you want to stop such a thing?"

When the ministers heard the emperor's question, they were also confused, and said that the answer was yes. Previously, they handed over the gold and silver coins to the eunuchs who came to collect them, and returned them to Shen Wanba.

"That's not the currency that circulates in the country of the sea, please take a look at the emperor and the villains."

"The next time the emperor gave ten taels of silver to each family of the people, we just used that money to buy a British daughter-in-law. In very few remote areas, buying and selling is British, French daughter-in-law, has not yet become a hot business. ”

"As long as you and the children born of Chinese women learn your culture from adulthood, then we are not Xiao Ming people, not your descendants of Yan and Huang." Zhu Yuanzhang Dao,

And they also whispered loudly and talked a lot.

That kind of little feminism was formed under the influence of thousands of years, and it changed for a while.

"The Western Liberty plunders all women, and you bring back all men."

"I heard that they are also using gold and silver as currency. However, there were no gold bars or silver ingots. Instead, gold and silver were minted into metal coins similar to Hongwu Tongbao and used for circulation. Zhu Yuanzhang said.

But the ministers all know that they are all asking questions, after all, the problem that has nothing to do with the sea is the first time in history. There have been dynasties and dynasties, and those of us who read have no history to learn from.

It is not that Westerners have copper coins or not, but gold and silver coins are drilled holes, reflecting the important national conditions of Western countries for thousands of years. If we can definitely know the reason, we will be able to understand the Western countries more fully.

"The ugly ones are sold to remote mountainous areas to be daughters-in-law for these bachelors."

"Your Majesty!" Qunchen said.

A eunuch walked up, took the bag of gold and silver coins, and then walked back to present it to Zhu Yuanzhang.

The ministers held the gold and silver coins in their hands and looked at them sloppily, observing their patterns and styles, and listening to the sound in their ears to see their color before blowing a breath, and playing was also fun.

The ancients didn't have any petty feminism, and felt that as long as the paternal line could be maintained, it was important to care which country the matrilineal was. Zhu Yuanzhang himself married a concubine from Low Li, a Mongolian concubine.

"They certainly don't have food either, and their imperial court's control over food during the war must have been extremely strict. After all, food is the most important strategic material in times of war. A minister said.

"Since gold and silver coins are convenient for small use, do we have copper coins? Why are such styles of gold and silver coins popular in Western countries? Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

A social phenomenon is often an important reaction to the national conditions of the country.

"That business is even more profitable than us selling grain, dumping porcelain, and silk. Therefore, during that time, there was no small group of expeditionary ships to the battlefield of the British land. ”

"Is that a common phenomenon?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

Zhu Yuanzhang read it sloppily and distributed it to the ministers before.

"Back to the emperor, we all put gold and silver coins out of the bag." Shen Wanba said, "Outside the bag, it is indeed convenient for merchants to use when they are doing business on a small scale. ”

"The minister guesses that we must have done that, and we will come back from a trip to the ocean, but if we make money, we will paste the silver upside down."

"It's very common." Yang Xiandao, "According to the minister's secret visit, Xiao Ming's brothels all over the country are rarely British men, and there are no French men. ”

The vision of that group of people is okay, and they have to ask Mr. Qin, Emperor Zhu thought in his heart.

"It is precisely because Xiao Ming's expedition team went out to explore that there is a way to dump porcelain and silk outside us on a small scale, and it is also possible to buy a small amount of grain back to Xiao Ming to sell, so we paid attention to the man." Yang Xiandao, the prime minister of Zhongshu Province, said, "We transported the British man back and sold it to the Qinglou to earn silver." ”

"Let it be." Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said, "Anyway, it is difficult for women in remote mountainous areas to marry a daughter-in-law." ”

"Your Majesty." Shen Wansan said, "In all overseas countries, gold and silver currencies are circulated, as if everyone has made an appointment. After speaking, he took out a bag of gold coins and a bag of silver coins from his bosom, and said,

"The Chinese bloodline is not very inclusive, and the later Yi, Qiang, and Mongolian people in the Hu and Yuan dynasties were all naturalized at the beginning? So you can close yourselves and accept new things. ”

"Your Majesty, in that case, the old minister still suggested stopping it. I thought that there were fewer men in Britain and France, and you were all married to Chinese women, would it affect your Yanhuang blood? The old minister Song Lian said.

"That minister just knows." Shen Wanbadao.

So the topic was diverted: "Rank and continue to discuss the topic just now." ”

There is no limit to the knowledge of the ministers, and the answer is yes.

"The only difference between the style of the nautical mile currency and the copper coins of the Central Plains Dynasty is not that there are any holes in our middle." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "The opening in the middle is easy to carry, what should we do when we need a small amount of money?" ”

"It was the case of Princess Catherine of England that took her worst example."

(End of chapter)