Taoism has nothing to do with fertilizer, but because of Zhu Houxi, he has a forcibly relationship now.

Fertilizer is not to think about, the technical threshold is quite high. But Jin Kela's own attempt to mix many things into his fertilizer had a good effect, which provided Zhu Houxi with new ideas.

This primitive compound fertilizer, if several effective ingredients are determined under the "inspiration" of Zhu Houxi, then a lot of things can be done in the name of seeking those raw materials and preparing those raw materials.

Hollowing out the experience of alchemy Taoist priests in doing "heating reaction experiments", and then cultivating newcomers with the scientific method of quantitative analysis in the way of accepting apprentices, this is only afraid of being faster - no way, Zhu Houxi can't be a chemistry teacher.

We do not seek to engage in a complete discipline system, but to study the preparation of some non-industrial fertilizer raw materials for practical purposes.

In addition, the struvite stone is also on the agenda. The reason why Zhang Lun and the others were dragged to do this matter was naturally to use Zhu Houxi's inconspicuous unit in this reform - the Shipping Bureau.

The benefits of overseas should always be seen by more people.

The smugglers have seen it a long time ago, but what they see is money.

And the important ministers of the court are not short of money, they want status and fame.

Combined with the power of overseas struvite and Jin Kela's original compound fertilizer, if anyone really makes the people of Daming can eat their stomachs, what kind of reputation and sense of accomplishment is that?

For them, this is the real "benefit" overseas!

……

Xue Lun, the Marquis of Yangwu, lived in Sichuan two years ago, and although he did not participate in the suppression of the rebellion in Huguang after that, his contribution was not small.

is also old, this military meeting to determine the provincial capital commander of the candidates, Xue Lun handed in the resignation in advance - five years after Jiajing, there should be a large number of new people personally promoted by the emperor to take the position, such as Cheng Anbo Guo Zan who also made contributions in Sichuan, such as Ji Weimin, a guerrilla general of the Shenji Battalion who made outstanding achievements in the first war of counterinsurgency and was newly named Jianingbo.

He knows how to advance and retreat.

What's more, it is not without areas that have made great achievements.

But it won't be him Xue Lun himself, but his son Xue Han.

Now, he is earnestly instructing his son in the palace: "Cui Shence's letter has arrived, and His Majesty has approved my resignation. I'm waiting for Jianing Bo in Chengdu, and you go to Hangzhou first. Remember, ask Mr. Pan for advice. ”

On the side, Pan Min, an old staff member who had followed him for many years, looked solemn.

"Father, why did you want me to go to the shipping bureau to train? In addition to a general manager of shading, the shipping bureau is now only incorporated into the Zhejiang general manager, and it is right to go to the river transportation bureau if you want to go. ”

"The son of the world is wrong to say this." Pan Min immediately said, "What the prince wants to see is that although the Shipping Bureau still has a branch in Tianjin, the General Administration has moved to Hangzhou. The left guard and right guard of the Nanjing Navy Army, the left and right guards of the Longjiang River, Guangyang, Jiangyin, Yingtian, plus the five guards of Huai'an, Dahe, Gaoyou, Yangzhou, and Changhuai, plus the general of the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division of the Cao Army, the soldiers of this shipping bureau are for the people, and in fact, the troops of many local guards in the south of the Yangtze River have been evacuated. More importantly, Yang Getai, Jiang Getai, and Yan Dutai, which one is not carrying a heavy responsibility to go to Jiangnan? ”

Xue Han was still young and couldn't figure it out for a while.

"Wherever you go, do good! Since you are not good at military affairs, and you are not willing to just trade like the British public, the Maritime Bureau is the best place to go! The River Transport Bureau is just the enterprise that His Majesty said, and this shipping bureau wants to prevent Japanese invaders, but it is also a military and a businessman! ”

Because of his merits, although Cui Yuan did not divulge any secrets about the participation of the Great Wall of the South Sea, he still helped Zhu Houxi to order Xue Lun: In the future, there will be great merit at sea!

Xue Lun's great-grandfather, Xue Lu, was the first Marquis of Yangwu, and posthumously pursued Zhongwu.

Now, His Majesty has posthumously given Yu Qian the nickname of "Loyal Martial Arts" in the new dynasty, and he deserves to enjoy the Taimiao.

Xue Lun still has the heart to make meritorious contributions, but he is already old.

reprimanded his son with a straight face, and Xue Lun said, "Remember! When I went to Hangzhou, I asked Mr. Pan for advice, listened to Yan Dutai's plans, and listened to President Ma's orders! Maritime Authority, it's not as simple as you think! ”

Xue Han didn't know how easy it could be, but the first month had already passed for a long time, and it was time for him to set off.

He really wanted to stay in Sichuan with Guo Zhan, his father Yu Yin was still there, and Xue Han was the easiest to accumulate qualifications in Sichuan.

To put it mildly, if you become a knight in the future, you may be able to be the main general of either side.

Now, he is somehow going to a company.

It is still the Cao Army, which can only supervise grain and cannot fight at all.

Xue Han thought so, but in Hangzhou, the establishment of the Shipping Bureau touched the hearts of many people.

The reason is a bit simple: after the Caojun was reformed into the River Transport Bureau and the Shipping Bureau, the River Transport Bureau only supervised the transportation of Jiangbei grain and the things purchased by the palace and the imperial court into Beijing, but the Shipping Bureau was not only responsible for the shipping of grain from Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Guangxi provinces to Beijing and Jizhou, but also carried the part of the goods of the Emperor Ming Ji through sea transshipment.

Although Huang Mingji also has its own special transfer for land transportation.

And what is the Emperor's Record? It is now the only legal enterprise in Daming that can do maritime trade after the abolition of Zhejiang City.

What's even more impressive is that after Yan Song returned from the national policy meeting in the capital, why did he go to Ningbo for nearly ten days, and took Ma Cheng, the president of the Shipping Bureau, the former commander of the Shandong Metropolitan and the head of the Shandong General Manager of the Caojun Army?

Ningbo, that's where the original Zhejiang City Bosi is located!

What they didn't know was that Yan Song and Ma Cheng were looking at an inconspicuous and even a little incomprehensible matter.

But because it was confessed by the emperor himself, Yan Song and Ma Cheng did not dare to be contemptuous.

Now, the two walked around and returned to Hangzhou, with several boxes in front of them.

"I don't know if this is what His Majesty is looking for."

In the box, there are grayish-white or grayish-brown stones that look rather rough.

Ma Cheng belongs to the "guilty meritorious service", and now the president of the shipping bureau, the emperor's order in the first month of the month is really a bit heavy: finding and buying a large number of this kind of stone from overseas will be a strategic task behind the shipping bureau.

"You can't be wrong, right? Stravo ...... As the name suggests, it should be this kind of thing. ”

After meeting the national policy meeting, Yan Song did not immediately set off to Zhejiang, and after Zhu Houxi saw Jin Qila at that time, he thought of struvite and mentioned it to Yan Song, because he remembered that there were many islands in the sea of Zhejiang, and he might be able to find one to do some experiments first.

"If this is really the ......" Yan Song frowned, "Your Majesty's will, if this thing really has a miraculous effect on my Ming crops, the amount required in the future will be huge!" Listen to His Majesty, this thing is mostly produced on the vast sea island, because the birds are looking for islands to settle down on the sea, and it takes years to become this stone. Since it is mostly produced on overseas islands, it is a little difficult to find a large amount of this struvite stone......"

Produced on the island, it means that the manpower required for mining and transshipment have become a big problem.

And this thing is just a stone, and if it is not in large quantities, it is not worth much. If it is expensive, how can it achieve the effect of high-quality and inexpensive fertilizer as the emperor said?

At all times, cost is something that must be considered. Since His Majesty wants to see if it can benefit tens of millions of farmers in the future like iron hoes, iron plows, iron rakes, etc., it should be cheaper.

The background of Yan Song's visit to Zhejiang was that there was a Japanese tribute incident in Zhejiang, and the emperor wanted to lay off the Zhejiang City Bosi first, and Zhejiang needed to be stable.

He has been stable in Zhejiang for more than two years. During this time, Zhang Fujing went to Shandong from Guangdong to help the emperor run the Confucian family, what did Yan Song do in Zhejiang?

Naturally, there is no fault, but it is not a great achievement.

But now, although Zhu Houxi just asked him to find some struvite to experiment, with Yan Song's brain, he clearly saw the opportunity.

Although the new law will encourage commerce, Daming is still agricultural-oriented. Otherwise, why would the dignified Son of Heaven personally pay attention to the matter of fertilizer?

If this is done, all the people of the Ming Dynasty will praise it.

The goal: cheap and easy to use fertilizer.

Yan Song pondered for a while, and his brows gradually relaxed: "Passing on this order, the governments should not wait until the election of the township sages is completed before reporting it." Now that the provinces and counties are candidates, the governor wants a list! ”

After that, he spread out the paper and prepared to send it to Beijing along with the struvite stones he found.

……

One foot high, one inch wide. Dragon lace, cyan paper made of mulberry stems, there is a single word in the middle, under which is a string of copper coins, and then below there are words such as "the household plays the quasi-printing of the Ming treasure banknote......

This is the Ming treasure banknote.

Next to it, there is the copper coin Tongbao. From Hongwu Tongbao to Hongzhi Tongbao, the texture visible to the naked eye has become more and more different.

In addition, it is a variety of copper coins minted by the people, as well as various broken silver, silver ingots, and silver ingots.

To this day, the Ming Dynasty official is not allowed to circulate silver, and even the legal status of copper coins is not as high as the treasure banknotes, but the treasure banknotes are basically not used, except for many taxes are still rigidly implemented to fold the banknotes, and some of the money is also issued in the banknotes.

"In this way, the biggest trouble with demonetization is that the gentry and wealthy households involved in the taxation are the pressure of money and food brought about by the officials' full amount of money, and the recognition of the status of silver in accordance with the actual situation today will bring a lot of pressure to the ordinary people?"

After reading their proposed strategy for one night, Zhu Houxi asked questions in the State Hall.

In the past, grain was paid in kind, and many taxes were also paid in kind. However, some practical situations are also taken into account, and there are also banknotes and silver discounts.

The rations of officials, clansmen, and relatives were gradually basically distributed in banknotes.

Treasure money is worthless, why do people with status want this? On the contrary, the local people who have to pay taxes are willing to think of some treasure money to fold and hand it over.

Daming treasure banknotes have ridiculous liquidity, but now it involves those who are rich and powerful.

On the contrary, the new law wants to reform taxation and forced labor, and only use the bank after the unification of the department, but it will bring some inconvenience to the people.

There are not many copper plates, and if you want to hand over the silver, you are afraid that you will have to find a way to sell something.

The trouble also includes: the Ming Dynasty is now short of copper and silver.

This will only lead to the fact that ordinary people need to find money to pay their taxes, and they will have to sell more to make up for it.

"The ministers thought that there were two ways. First, make and print new banknotes, and exchange the old for the new. In this way, if the imperial court wants to rebuild the people's confidence in the treasure bank, as His Majesty said, it needs to bear more pressure for the time being. If you want to establish a letter, one needs to be allowed to convert more banknotes to tax in a few years, and the other is as His Majesty said, Huang Ming Ji Department Store and other stores need to collect money and sell things, and Tong Su is not deceived and bears his own losses. ”

Fei Hong: They have taken many lessons from Zhu Houxi, and they have understood and recognized that the essence of money is credit, and it is necessary to be able to ensure that transactions can be made at any time.

Now the Daming treasure banknote is no longer saved, can you regain confidence by changing the shell?

"Second, the quasi-silver pass, the Baoyuan Bureau cast Jiajing Tongbao and Jiajing silver ingots, and Xu officials and people exchanged banknotes for silver. In this method, the amount of silver and copper required is probably very large, and the fire consumption and cost are a large amount of silver. I am afraid that the people will not be able to redeem these official treasures and silver ingots. When the next year begins to pay taxes and silver, there must be something rich and expensive. ”

In any case, the ass of Daming Bao has to be wiped.

If you lose it directly or admit it, there will be no need to establish monetary trust later.

If you want to take over, it is a huge financial pressure: even if you exchange it according to the current real proportion, it is already a terrible number for Daming to unconsciously "over-issue" for so many years. Who knows how much treasure money will suddenly pop up among the people after the news is announced?

Also take into account how easy it was to print counterfeit banknotes in this era.

Zhu Houxi could only say: "In the final analysis, the imperial court does not have so many copper and silver reserves in its hands, and it cannot absorb the treasure money that exists today, so it is impossible to talk about prohibiting private minting in the future." ”

"Most of the things that are privately cast are half public and half private. There are too many pieces of silver in the place, and it is not easy to send them, so they are often melted and cast into ingots and engraved with words for inspection. When smelting, by the way, some copper coins, silver ingots, and ingots are also melted. There are also bronze and silver utensils used by the people......"

"In this way, there are a lot of problems with those two methods, at least for now, there are a lot of problems." Zhu Houxi knows better than them the destructive power of really messing up the monetary system, and after staring at Fei Hong and the others, he said, "This is not a year or two, and force will not work." ”

Although Zhu Houxi gave this big topic, Fei Hong and others are now very eager to achieve some feats.

"I thought, do five things first. First, the imperial court collects money, but the amount of pressure it can bear each year must be calculated, and then the proportion of convertible banknotes and taxes should be determined. Second, we will make every effort to store silver and copper to meet the needs of the time. Third, first only cast Jiajing Tongbao, and took the opportunity of implementation to re-establish a group of people who privately minted copper coins. Fourth, so that the Baoyuan Bureau to improve the casting process, Jiajing Tongbao material, quality, the future of money anti-counterfeiting, many things can no longer be done so-so. Fifth, when the copper coin is minted this time, the silver coin can be minted. I mean, like a treasure, one piece is how much silver, and there is no need to weigh it. It's just that the subsequent casting and wear need to be taken into account. ”

Zhu Houxi gave his own thoughts, and then said: "First let the people only recognize the money cast by the imperial court, cut off the local smelting silver ingot ingots and add space to do hands and feet when collecting fire consumption and weighing, and in the future, when the emperor Mingji and many officials, civil and commercial banks are more likely to be banned by the commercial law, and then try new banknotes." In the past, when discussing the new law strategy, I and I agreed that the money law had to be put last. What we need to do now is just to prepare, not to have results in three or five years. ”

Fei Hong was silent, although he also felt so, but he really planned to take back the Ming treasure banknotes that Daming now had in the world at least in the past three years at the lowest cost.

Now it seems that there is still no hurry.

The rebellion has been quelled, and the prime minister has delegated power and rewarded the world with the title of grace, and the emperor is not in a hurry.

His focus now is on the long-term focus on the technical aspects of the method.

That's why we have shirked important state affairs such as discussing money laws for the sake of fertilizers?

"I also have to report it, and there is a lot of discussion among the people, thinking that this year will definitely abolish banknotes, and only silver and money will be made." Zhu Houxi solemnly instructed them, "Don't make the people panic. In the matter of collecting money, the eighteen enterprises are more effective. They collect money, fold money and pay taxes, then this account is only a matter between me and the government, and the household department does not have too many physical losses. ”

“…… Aren't most of them going to lose money this year? ”

Fei Hong thought to himself, then this is you, the emperor, mainly carrying losses. If a company like Huang Mingji sells goods and collects money, it loses actually useful goods.

Zhu Houxi laughed: "Tactical losses, don't get in the way, it's not a big problem for the time being." Besides, when those treasure money are in their hands, they can really get the most good money when it comes time to make and print new money and new money. At that time, it will be a capital crime for people to privately mint and counterfeit money, but silver money will be scarce, and there will be more opportunities to deal with these enterprises. With money in hand, they will be very good. ”

There are no formal banks yet, but when the time comes for the issuance of new money, won't these eighteen companies become one of the best channels for liquidity?

And how much leverage can you use with the largest amount of good money? How many industries will have a discourse effect?

On the first undecided matter discussed by the ministers of the first state after the beginning of the year, they once again felt that the emperor understood this more deeply.

He's always liked to kill multiple birds with one stone!

(End of chapter)