East Palace.

"Humble Wu Qiang, meet His Royal Highness Taisun!"

Wu Qiang, a thousand households with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, respectfully bowed and bowed.

Wu Qiang is the righteous son of Zhu Shou, the Marquis of Zhu, since the last time the household issued a fortune, mixed with some treasure money, he was angry and flipped the table, and was sentenced to ten years by the Criminal Department.

Today, Zhu Yunxi specially ordered the Criminal Department to release him.

A thousand households, in the capital where the generals are gathered, is not conspicuous.

According to the statistics of the 25th anniversary of Hongwu, there were 2,747 military attachés and 206,280 military attachés in Beijing.

Just throw a brick on Jingshi Street, and you can hit a thousand households.

Wu Qiang was able to enter the East Palace to visit the emperor's grandson and thank him, all because of the relationship between his father-in-law Zhu Shou.

Zhu Shou, the Marquis of Jianjia, said solemnly: "Wu Qiang, in the future, your life will be the emperor's grandson, do you know?" ”

"My son knows, the sword mountain and the sea of fire, the matter of His Royal Highness Taisun's words, Wu Qiang will never frown!"

The man's face was resolute, as if he had decided to die.

"Hmm!" Zhu Yunxi spoke: "Wu Qiang, I heard that you are very skilled, and your ability is fierce, I don't know if it's true or not?" ”

Zhu Shou on the side said with a smile: "His Royal Highness Taisun doesn't know that Wu Qiang once fought a tiger alone in Hangzhou, known as Tiger Qianhu!" ”

During the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, there were often tigers in Hangzhou.

The West Lake is full of mountains, suitable for South China tigers to inhabit, and tigers often come from Jiangxi and Anhui through the remaining veins of Tianmu Mountain.

Since the third lunar month of the third year of the third year of Song Zhenzong's Jingde, tigers have entered the city of Hangzhou, West Lake and the suburbs at least eleven times, and even reached the downtown area.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, nine tigers also entered the Chaoshan on the outskirts of Hangzhou, and the monks on the mountain set traps and captured seven tigers successively.

Speaking of tigers, Wu Qiang said proudly: "Bian Yuanheng beat the tiger, why can't I?" ”

Bian Yuanheng was a general under Zhang Shicheng, who once killed the tiger with his bare hands.

This matter was known to Shi Nai'an and written into "Water Margin", which became the plot of Wu Song Jingyanggang fighting the tiger.

Bian Yuanheng is still alive, Zhu Yuanzhang summoned him to serve in the army, he didn't come, he was assigned by Lao Zhu Fa to Shanhaiguan to fill the army, and now he is still shelving to build the Great Wall.

Wu Qiang is tall and mighty, with wide eyebrows, a high nose and a wide mouth.

looks rough, but the facial features are good, which meets the requirements of the prince's close attendants.

The people around the emperor not only have a good background, but also have to be handsome.

Zhu Yunxi said: "Wu Qiang, you can guard Lonely!" ”

Zhu Shou was startled and reminded Wu Qiang in a low voice: "What is the stupid boy doing? Don't you kneel down to thank Emperor Xie for the great grace of the grandson? ”

can be guarded by the prince's side, and the future is bright.

Wu Qiang bowed again with a sullen head: "Emperor Xie's grandson!" ”

Zhu Yunxi is optimistic about Wu Qiang because he dared to say in front of all the officials that he had never eaten empty salaries in front of all the officials.

This person is straight, bold, and after the founding hero, he is suitable for the East Palace.

Those in higher positions are most worried about their own safety.

There are two groups of security in the East Palace, one of which is the Jinyi Guard personally selected by Zhu Yuanzhang, and is led by Fu Rang, the son of Ying Guogong.

The second is Li Bin, who was personally appointed by Zhu Yunxi.

Li Bin is the person he rescued single-handedly, and his loyalty goes without saying.

Now that Li Bin has been transferred to the Jichuan Weishui Army, and he will have to go to the West after a while, Zhu Yunxi has been looking for new candidates.

Wu Qiang was imprisoned for treasure money.

This morning, Zhu Yunxi sent Xie Jin to the Criminal Department to release him, but was stopped by Yang Jing, the secretary of the household department.

Yang Shangshu said the law of the country seriously, and discussed with Xie Jin for most of the hour, refusing to let go.

Later, Zhu Yunxi sent Li Zhigang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to go.

Soon Wu Qiang was released, without a quarter of an hour.

If you do the same thing, the results of two people are completely different.

This made Xie Jin very depressed, and he once suspected that his compulsion was not enough, or that Yang Jing had prejudices against him.

Actually, no, it's simply that he doesn't know what officialdom does.

This incident made Zhu Yunxi understand a truth.

Those who are in high positions should know people well!

The long mouth can be used to convey words.

The sinister ones can be used to do dirty work.

The strong ones can protect the security.

Noble people can decorate fame.

Everyone has their own use.

What the superior has to do is to make good use of them.

Yang Jing, the secretary of the Criminal Department, seems to be noble and fair, but in fact, he also has a little Jiujiu in his heart.

Li Zhigang grasped this very well.

He speaks nicely, just right, and is very comfortable.

Although the reason for releasing Wu Qiang is very far-fetched.

"Wu Qiang was imprisoned for treasure money, Zhao Mian was the secretary of the household department at that time, and now the emperor's grandson is renovating the treasure money in the household department, so he naturally wants to be pardoned and innocent."

Li Zhigang said again: "The Criminal Department didn't release people, do you think Zhao Mian did the right thing?" Or do you think the emperor's grandson's policy is wrong? I don't think Yang Butang is this kind of person......"

Yang Jing felt that what Li Zhigang said was right, and he was just right to sell personal favors.

Under the leadership of Zhu Yunxi, the crown prince's grandson, under the guidance of Shangshu Yuxin of the Ministry of Households, and the joint efforts of the officials of the Treasure Banknote Promotion Division, a new page has been opened.

Based on the new historical position, Zhu Yunxi grasped the general trend of development, led the trend of the times, and built the Baoqian Lifting Division into the central bank of Daming.

First of all, he ordered the household department to suspend the issuance of Daming treasure banknotes.

Pausing is not stopping.

In order to stabilize the confidence of the treasure banknote in the market, he issued a decree: the treasure banknote can be exchanged for gold, silver and copper coins at the same value, and the specific implementation time is the first day of the first month of the 28th year of Hongwu.

That is, about a year and a half later.

The reason given was that it would take time for the imperial court to build silver coffers in various places for the people of all parts of the country to exchange for treasure money.

In fact, the imperial court has no money to exchange treasure money for the people for the time being.

Once the decree was immediately enforced, it was certain that within a few days, a large number of people would exchange gold and silver for treasure money.

But how can the treasury have so much money?

The news was released in advance to stabilize the value of the treasure banknote.

There must be people who buy treasure money on a large scale and hoard them first.

With this harvest, the value continues to rise.

Even if some people don't believe it, they will keep the treasure money, thinking that they will wait two years to see it.

Now the treasure banknotes, which are worth only one percent of the face value, are really exchanged for gold, silver and copper coins at the same value, as the court said, and the equivalent value has changed tenfold after two years.

Let's believe in the imperial court once, there is nothing to lose anyway.

The people were waiting, but Zhu Yunxi couldn't sit still.

The imperial court wants to take advantage of this period to make money hard!

Where to earn?

Sea trade!

Zhu Yuanzhang has agreed to open the sea.

In Suzhou Prefecture, Taicang Prefecture, Hangzhou Zhejiang, Ningbo Zhejiang, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, Quanzhou, Fujian, Guangzhou, a total of six ports have set up municipal shipping divisions.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang specifically pointed out: Taicang Liujiagang is too close to the capital, and he is afraid that the Japanese and Hongyi traitors will do illegal things.

Therefore, it was decided that Taicang Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, was only allowed to enter and leave the imperial court trade fleet, and the people were not allowed to approach foreign ships.

Lao Zhu's decision, Zhu Yunxi did not intend to refute it.

It is already a great time to let the old man open the sea, and he can't ask too much, so as not to mess up.

But the wealthy businessmen in Suzhou will definitely not let it.

The heart said that we are looking forward to opening the sea, but you are not allowed to go to the sea in Suzhou?

What's going on?

What about scamming money?

To this end, Zhu Yunxi came up with a workaround: to open and relax Jiangfu Shanghai County.

Shanghai County is right next door to Taicang Prefecture.

At this time, Shanghai County was still a small county in the middle of nowhere.

However, the Yuan Dynasty government once set up a city department here, which was later revoked.

Shanghai's geographical location is very advantageous, located in the center of the coastline of Chinese mainland, the throat of the Yangtze River into the sea.

It is the intersection of the Yangtze River as the horizontal axis from west to east and the coastline as the vertical axis from north to south.

The climate is also excellent, with alternating winter and summer monsoons, and the seasons change distinctly.

Unique!

There are few better ports in the world than Shanghai.

As a port, with a little support from the imperial court, it took off.

Zhu Yunxi replaced Taicang Prefecture with Shanghai County and became a private trade port in Zhili.

The first is to appease the wealthy businessmen of Suzhou.

The second is to use wealthy businessmen to build the world's largest port.

The place has been granted to you, it is impossible for the imperial court to spend money, and if you want to do maritime trade, you can only build it yourself.

Zhu Yunxi believes that the businessmen of Suzhou will complete the construction of the port in the shortest possible time.

In the near future, Shanghai County will even be built into a global maritime trade center.