Time flies like a white horse, and in a blink of an eye, it is the golden autumn and October of the fifteenth year of Wanli, with the first snow falling on the Forbidden City, and the secret report from the Wa Kingdom was also delivered to the Forbidden City with snowflakes.

Zhu Yijun thus learned the news that Iwami Yinshan had been obtained, and knew that this time the imperial court had obtained more than 8 million taels of silver, plus more than 9 million taels from the seizure of the treasury of various cities of the Wa Kingdom, and 2 million taels of compensation from Xianshi Xiujiu, a total of nearly 20 million taels.

Zhu Yijun was overjoyed and hurriedly summoned Shen Shixing and other ruling ministers.

"Sure enough, the chess is out of the game, and Shuozhou Bo did not disappoint me, and he is about to bring back nearly 20 million taels of silver."

Zhu Yijun said that he asked Zhang Yue to report the recital to the ruling ministers.

Shen Shixing was stunned after seeing it.

Naturally, they would not believe that what Ma Gui said was false, after all, there was no child's play in military and political affairs, and if Ma Gui and Xing Jue, the governor of Dongying, deceived the emperor and bad the country's politics in secret music, they were undoubtedly ignoring their nine clans.

In addition to being stunned, Shen Shixing and the others were also surprised.

"Just these nearly 20 million taels of silver, according to the silver dollar to about ninety percent of the silver, and then throw away the road freight and wages, it is not a problem to mint 18 million taels of silver, so that the 15 million taels of silver dollars invested in the past can be earned, and then it is interest, it is still earned, plus the recent increase in foreign income from all over the country, the money of the imperial treasury can be earned, and at the same time, it can also make the private silver dollar fall back to the point that the imperial court needs."

Shen Shixing spoke first at this time.

Zhang Xueyan said at this time: "Your Majesty, since you have this silver, in the opinion of a foolish minister, you should reprimand the existing silver in the treasury of Taicang and other countries, and distribute it to the city through various projects and welfare charities, first bring down the price of silver dollars, and try to keep as many workshops and workshops that are not yet bankrupt and still persisting, and keep some trade." ”

Zhu Yijun nodded: "Accurate!" ”

Liu Yingjie also said at this time: "In this case, Yuchen thinks that he can also order the governors of various places to send troops to escort the silver dollars from the local treasury into Beijing and invest them in the market, so as to further increase the number of silver dollars on the market, after all, when the silver is transported to Beijing and minted into silver dollars, it will take a year and a half, but the situation of the whole country is that it can not wait any longer, and if it waits any longer, I really don't know how many industries will go bankrupt and how many people will become unemployed vagrants." ”

"In addition, because the minister knew that the imperial court would fight with the Japanese sooner or later, he had already transferred this year's military salary in advance in Liaodong Dusi, Jizhou, Datong, Xuanfu and other places, in order to avoid the occurrence of today's imperial court depositing silver to save the people's livelihood and releasing a large number of silver dollars, resulting in insufficient military salaries and even the situation that the border army was instigated by traitors and mutinied on the grounds that the military salaries had not been paid for a long time.

"Qing's words are the words of Lao Cheng to seek the country, and it should be accurate!"

Zhu Yijun said with a smile.

The Ming Dynasty's conscription Ding Yin belonged to the local tax and was not handed over to the central court, in order to facilitate local disaster relief and crisis response, and at the same time reduce transportation consumption.

Therefore, there is still silver in the treasury of various parts of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the local treasury is not all deposited silver, because Zhu Yijun did not forcibly require a whip in all places, and still allowed the local governor to choose whether to pay grain or silver to serve according to the actual situation.

But there must still be a lot of silver deposits.

Therefore, Liu Yingjie only suggested that the silver deposits in the treasury of various regions should be used to save the market.

"Your Majesty, in the opinion of a foolish minister, the matter of stealing a large amount of silver from the land should be concealed, so as to help the imperial court to reduce the disadvantages of the country's annexation for more than 200 years, and prolong the prosperous era!"

At this time, Hai Rui, the secretary of the ministry, put forward his own views and said: "Because even if the wealthy families in the world abide by the law and do not take it by force, they can still take and annex the wealth of the world, so the government can not completely prevent its annexation in many cases, nor can it completely divide its property among the people, otherwise it will definitely bleed thousands of miles, and now it is a good opportunity, all of them are greedy, and share their production among the people." ”

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

Wang Xijue followed up at this time.

"The minister also seconded it!"

Shen Shixing also chimed in.

"The minister also seconded it!"

……

For a while, the ruling ministers agreed.

Because it is not their family that is in the trap anyway, and this will not only help the country solve the problem of annexation, but also weaken the right trend of other powerful people, so why not?

"Then it will be played by Haiqing, and everything will be reported after I approve it."

Zhu Yijun said a word.

"Yes!"

As a result, because of the nearly 20 million taels of silver copied by Dongyi, the imperial court continued to increase investment in infrastructure and welfare charity.

More silver dollars began to flow into the market.

No matter how many high-quality assets the powerful bureaucrats sell at a low price, they will not be able to hold back the floods of silver dollars that will flood into the market, so that the price of silver dollars will really not rise, and many powerful bureaucrats will also feel quite depressed.

"The land is almost sold out, why hasn't the price of silver dollars changed much?"

"More than 100 of my stores are selling almost well, why hasn't it gone up much."

Many powerful bureaucrats find it strange because of this.

Soon.

Yang Yuting found clues when he was auditing the household department, and learned that the cabinet had asked the household department to take out all the silver dollars at the bottom of the treasury box, and was still adjusting the silver dollars in the treasury, and also paid military salaries in advance.

Zhu Yijun directly chose not to report this.

Yang Yuting's report also made Gu Xiancheng know about the matter through his friends in the Department of General Affairs, and couldn't help but say: "No wonder this is the case, this is the last struggle of Shenwu County and other traitorous parties!" We can't give up at this time, and we should continue to hoard silver. ”

Gu Xiancheng said to Gu Yuncheng: "Sell all the remaining fields by our Taihu Lake, even if it is one or two silver and one acre!" ”

"Good!"

Gu Yuncheng agreed, and now the rich people in the world are hoarding silver and selling land, so he doesn't feel that his brother is doing something wrong.

Like the Gu family, many of the old party's elite bureaucrats are still insisting on selling off high-quality assets, convinced that the imperial court is fighting against the odds.

As the news spread that the silver dollars from the local treasury were escorted into Beijing, they were even more convinced that the ruling power was being strong.

Gu Xiancheng even smiled at Gu Yuncheng, Wang Zhixiang and others: "In this case, it is certain that at least until next year, not only will the treasury run out of money, but I am afraid that even the treasury will have no money, so Shenwu County and others will be in prison sooner or later. ”

"Could they have another way, such as getting a lot of silver by bullying the barbarians outside?"

Wang Zhixiang talked about another possibility at this time.

Gu Xiancheng didn't completely lose his mind because of the battle, so he pondered for a moment, and said: "There is such a possibility, hold on until the end of the year, if the court can still stabilize the price of silver dollars after the New Year, then we can only stop!" It shows that Shenwu County and others really have the ability. ”

"However, we can't just insist during this time, we have to work hard to impeach them for disorderly government, after all, the advantage is now on our side, and it is against the rules to govern! If we use all the state funds below the red line to embezzle the Daxing project, wantonly embezzle the feudal treasury, and ignore the localities, we can all be impeached, and Your Majesty has no reason not to allow us to supervise the administration because we are for the country and the people. ”

Shen Shixing and other ruling ministers also gathered in the compound of the official residence on this day, and talked about the current sale of assets by many powerful and bureaucratic officials.

Shen Shixing couldn't help laughing and said: "I didn't expect the treacherous people in the world to hate us to such an extent, and they hated us so much that they lost their benevolence and wisdom. ”

"After all, if you really raid our homes, you will get a lot."

Qi Jiguang said with a smile.

"Now it seems that Your Majesty should have known that the Japanese have a great silver mountain, no wonder Your Majesty will not stay overnight every time he reads the Japanese affairs book."

Wang Xijue said at this time.

Zhang Xueyan said: "It seems that Your Majesty really knows the will of heaven, and the will of heaven is really the will of the saint." ”

"yes!"

Shen Shixing echoed with a smile, and said: "However, they don't know that the imperial court has hole cards, and many small people don't know either, in order to avoid the spread of panic and cause real turmoil, at the end of the year, please ask Your Majesty to spread the report of the war against the Japanese, so that everyone can have a good year." ”

Everyone bowed their heads.

(End of chapter)