Wang Chonggu returned home from the side hall of Wenhua Palace, and sat in the main hall with his brows furrowed, a little distracted.

"Father, isn't Your Majesty to blame?" Wang Qian was very worried about this disaster, and he was anxious until his father came back, and immediately went to inquire.

Wang Chonggu ignored his son's inquiry, still distracted, he was thinking about a question.

"Father?"

"Son, did you say that Your Majesty knew from the beginning that the price of worsted wool would skyrocket?" Wang Chonggu raised a terrible question, and he actually had the answer in his heart, that is, His Majesty had long known that worsted wool would definitely become like this.

His Majesty's discussion of this issue began with the use value of worsted wool.

Worsted wool is a rare fabric, and satin, are the top luxury, that is, woolen official factory a year is only 5,000 horses, it is destined to be rare, and the coloring is strong, the color is smooth, the wool is slender, comfortable to wear, the wool is made of garments crisp, not easy to wrinkle, wear-resistant, excellent warmth and many other advantages, in addition to easy to be eaten by insects, it is a superior product.

Symbols of wealth and status are the most easily sought after by people, and it is natural for them to be sought after by the powerful and right.

At the beginning, whether worsted woolen was directly banned from sale like satin, Wang Chonggu asked His Majesty what he meant, and His Majesty said that the priority was to ensure that the palace was used, and that the people were allowed to use it.

There are not many worsted woolen fabrics in this house, and I am embarrassed to say that I am powerful?

In the case of the theory of supply and demand, worsted woolen tweed has been ignored for use value, and it has become an inevitability to be coaxed by speculators, from popular to fanatical, and His Majesty seems to be deliberately conniving at this kind of coaxing, which makes Wang Chonggu shudder.

If His Majesty had thought of today a long time ago, it would have been really terrifying.

"Father means that this is a bureau deliberately set up by His Majesty?" Wang Qian swallowed his throat and said in horror.

"I guess I'm thinking too much." Wang Chonggu waved his hand weakly, he didn't want to guess the holy will with malice, but according to past experience, the price of worsted wool was expected by His Majesty.

Wang Chonggu's guess is correct, when Zhu Yijun appeared from worsted wool, he discussed with Zhang Juzheng why satin should be banned, and even folk use was regarded as encroachment, even so, worsted wool still flowed into the market.

On December 28, the fourth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng and the little emperor had a fierce quarrel in the side hall of the Wenhua Palace, and the content of the quarrel was related to the price of worsted wool.

Zhang Juzheng's opinion is to immediately restrict it, completely prohibit it from flowing into the community, and the use of it by the people will be defined as trespassing, so that there will be no poison caused by strange goods, and Zhang Juzheng has done his best to keep the powerful and powerful in the hands of the emperor.

Zhu Yijun disagreed with Zhang Juzheng's idea, insisted on his own opinion, and continued to sell in this way, in order to seek huge profits, accumulate profits, find out the silver buried in the pigsty by the landlords, and let the silver join the market circulation to regulate the money shortage of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty, or the money shortage of the Central Plains Dynasty, is a fact that has existed widely since ancient times.

Since the Han Dynasty, there are a large number of flying money, iron money was used, to the time of the Song Dynasty, even if the two Song Dynasty cast copper and iron coins a year 5 billion, still can not meet the needs of regular circulation, had to start issuing money leads, Jiaozi, to Hu Yuan, in order to solve the money shortage, treasure money officially appeared, and then quickly bankrupt.

Treasure banknotes, a piece of paper can represent one or two silver, this is completely plundering, so the price of treasure banknotes has been falling since the beginning of issuance, and when the price of treasure banknotes is wasted paper, new treasure banknotes will be replaced, replaced, and continue to be issued, even so, every time Hu Yuan's emperor uses this clumsy means, he can cheat money.

During the Hongwu period, the Ming treasure banknote has become waste paper, but the Ming Dynasty still firmly issued two hundred years of treasure money, and the money will not be minted, and there is no gold, silver and copper, how to mint money.

After the Ming treasure banknote became a waste paper, in fact, the currency of the Ming Dynasty was the salt citation, but with the complete destruction of the salt introduction system by the two relatives of the Xiaozong Dynasty, the value of the salt quotation fell sharply, even so, the salt quotation still has the use value and exchange value, and it is the substantive paper money of the Ming Dynasty.

In the eyes of the little emperor, the powerful right is a silver mine, digging out their silver and entering the world for circulation, it is inevitable, if you go to raid the house, you can only make the hao right bankrupt, but with deception, they can be deceived and in debt.

And worsted wool has become a good tool for accumulating silver.

The inflow of silver from overseas alone is still too slow, and it is still necessary to open a mine, a humanoid silver mine that is about to be proud.

Zhang Juzheng finally chose to compromise and agreed to His Majesty's mining method, because the Ming Dynasty really needs silver, and after Qingzhang, returning the field, and Chading, it is necessary to implement a whip law, and the core power of a whip law is silver, how to make silver circulate, instead of piling up under the pigsty, is the problem that Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant, must face.

His Majesty's means are dishonorable, but useful.

"They said that I was tyrannical, in this way, everyone is good, I have also preserved my reputation, and I don't have to be afraid of Tianwei to do things." Zhu Yijun stood up and said with a smile: "Sir, let's go and see the excitement?" ”

"Look?" Zhang Juzheng found that the little emperor really liked to watch the excitement.

Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Sir, come with me." ”

Worsted woolen wool needs to be traded in a trading place, and the wealthy businessmen of the Ming Dynasty chose this place in Yanxing Building, and on the way to see the excitement, Zhu Yijun also asked Zhang Hong to call Wang Chonggu to come over to see the excitement.

When Wang Chonggu stood in front of Yanxing Tower, he clearly knew that it was not him or Wang Qian who was in charge at all, but Emperor Daming.

The pattern of Yanxing Building is different from other places, as soon as you enter the building, the people are full of voices, and you can see a long counter, and within the counter, there are more than a dozen small houses, constantly running.

Worsted woolen trading, need to go through the counter of the identification means is weighing, mainly to check its weight, after the identification, each foot of cloth should be on a piece of white paper for identification, the same seam under the seal, only the paper and the seal on the cloth can match, is the worsted wool that can be traded in Yanxing Building.

Behind the counter, there is a board hanging, the board is written on the purchase price, the sale price and the quantity for sale, if you want to sell worsted wool, you can register at the counter, and then the number on the appraisal is listed, the listed price is the price of the owner.

All these services are not free, three thousandths of the transaction amount will be extracted, and this service fee will maintain the operation of Yanxing Building, and it is also the tax of the imperial court, which will be divided into half of the national funds.

This is completely a deal of the imperial bank, why should it be divided into the state funds? Doesn't the more silver the emperor controls, the more power he wields? Wouldn't such a tax and the court's share break one of your own legs? It's just stupid!

Zhu Yijun is just to cheer up Daming.

He can collect silver into his own hands, but he can't send the silver to the hands of the poor coolies, under the political correctness of Zhang Juzheng's creation of the bitter power and the rescue of the head of the Qian, the imperial court can send the silver to the hands of the poor coolies through wonders and great construction, so the silver must be distributed to the state treasury.

Wang Chonggu looked at the busy counter, dizzy for a while, and sure enough, as he expected, the emperor was the biggest trader, because the biggest consumer of worsted wool in the official woolen factory was His Majesty himself, and His Majesty had the most worsted wool in his hands.

Zhu Yijun took Zhang Juzheng and Wang Chonggu to the private room on the second floor.

The second floor of Yanxing Building has also been renovated, and a famous prostitute in Jiangnan is playing and singing, if Luo Bingliang is here, he will find that this woman is the Oiran on Sun Keyi's painting boat, and Sun Keyi sent this Oiran to Jingshi to make money.

Singing clothes meeting, in fact, is the auction, from the ninth year of Tang Gaozu's martial arts, from the temple to deal with the belongings of the deceased monks extended from the auction has become more and more sound, Song Huizong Chongning two years, Zen Yuan Qing rules on the description of the process of singing clothes, posters, pre-sale goods exhibition, estimation of singing, drawing points, etc., has been very perfect.

And Zhu Yijun took Zhang Juzheng and Wang Chonggu to see the excitement, that is, the singing and clothing party, or bulk trade, the second floor sells not the bulk goods on the first floor, but the horses.

The sound of silk and bamboo gradually stopped, everyone began to sit down, Oiran stood up, came to the front of the stage, and said with a smile: "Everyone, gathered here today, are all people who are destined, the owner of Yanxing Building has found all kinds of rare treasures in the world, for you to taste, the most precious thing today, is the 137 pounds of ambergris, but the most eye-catching is worsted wool." ”

"How many big cloths are there in Yanxing Building?"

Oiran walked to a card, pulled down the red silk cloth to reveal the numbers inside, and said with a smile, "Fifteen hundred." ”

After this number was announced, it caused everyone to exclaim, you must know that even if the wool that flows into the market, there are very few whole horses, all of which are calculated in rulers, and this horse is fifty feet, 1,500 horses, according to the nuclear price of eight taels and two coins, it is 615,000 taels, and other rare treasures are not counted, just the same as a big cloth, which has exceeded Qi Jiguang's military expenses for a year of training in Jizhen.

Wang Chonggu asked in a low voice with some doubts: "Your Majesty, the minister is puzzled, why did Your Majesty release so many at once?" ”

Wang Qian held 600 horses and smashed the plate, but before he smashed it, the emperor directly took out 1,500 horses, which would definitely have an impact on the price.

Zhu Yijun said with great certainty: "I am smashing the plate, I hope that the powerful people of the Ming Dynasty will be more sober, there will be no pies in the sky, and there will be no wealth in the sky, so much money, even if it is to build a handicraft workshop, it is better than buying these." ”

Zhang Juzheng finally sighed and said: "Your Majesty, is it possible, they actually know that this is a big gamble, but they are just gambling, and they are not the last one to take over?" It's like being in a casino and thinking you won't be the unlucky one. ”

"Then we can't help it, we've smashed the plate, and they still won't come to their senses." Zhu Yijun shook his head and said.

Oiran waited until the voices gradually quieted down, then he showed an extremely quiet smile and said: "Even if you don't go to the grassland to do business, I have heard others say that the water and grass on the grassland are not abundant, and they are constantly fighting each other, so we must maintain a certain number of horses for each other's attack. ”

"Someone has to ask, why don't you shepherd sheep in the hinterland of Daming and get wool? Because there is not enough land for farming in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, let alone raising sheep. ”

"This is doomed, the amount of wool, the amount of worsted wool is limited, and very little, even the noble palace nobles can not take it as they want."

Oiran is telling a story according to the word, talking about scarcity, there are so many aquatic plants, there are so many wool, there are so many worsted wool, and the more lacking, the more precious it is.

Zhu Yijun sat on the Taishi chair, and suddenly said loudly: "Singing clothes, you can't graze, then you can also grow pasture grass to raise sheep, why is the number limited?" ”

Oiran was annoyed, who is tearing down the stage!

But in the private room, there is no one to be seen, but this question must be answered.

"One side of the water and soil to raise one side of the people, but also to raise a side of lamb, the hinterland of the sheep, its fur can only be used for woollen spinning, can not be used for worsted, even if it is the wool from the grassland, which is used for worsted spinning is very few." Oiran was annoyed, but answered the question with a smile on her face.

"I see." Zhu Yijun recognized this answer.

Antonio brought a kind of forage seed called corn grass, which is a kind of high-quality forage, and one acre of land can cut more than 10,000 catties of forage every year, but this thing, the growth environment is north, and it needs a lot of irrigation, irrigation, which is a big problem in these years.

Oiran breathed a sigh of relief, and continued: "Big cloth, in fact, is a kind of silk coin, no one can control its quantity, that is, the official factory that weaves it, you also need to see God's face, this year's grassland drought, the number of sheep has decreased sharply, then the big cloth is scarce, if the grassland is smooth, the number of sheep is more, the wool of weaving worsted increases, but the output of the official factory is so little." ”

"And Dabu is being widely recognized."

"From the moment the big cloth appeared, the price of the big cloth has risen from seven coins of silver to eight taels of silver, and it will continue to rise, in addition to being used to make ready-to-wear, it can also be used for large transactions..."

Oiran is still blowing worsted wool, that is, large cloth.

And Zhu Yijun shook his head, and the Oiran was telling a story.

tells the Spring and Autumn dream that everyone can get rich, and tricks the powerful people sitting in the audience into fighting.

"Sir, I don't deceive." Zhu Yijun looked at the people outside the box, their eyes had become eager, when the price of wool was high, everyone was blinded by huge profits, like a gambler who lost a red eye, always thinking that he was the one who won.

The wool factory is already an extremely profitable industry, but its profit margin is only three and a half percent, but from seven dollars per foot to eight taels per foot, it only took ten days, if the money is put into it, it only takes ten days, it can be increased tenfold, what a terrible wealth myth?

"Now, start bidding, five hundred taels per piece of cloth." Oiran finally finished telling the story and began the bidding process, a piece of cloth fifty feet, the starting price is ten silver per foot, much more expensive than the outside selling, but here is about the sale of horses, not about the ruler, which is destined to be higher than the outside price.

The gentry are betting that prices will soar.

"Five hundred and twenty-one horses, I want five hundred!" A slightly rich man stood up and shouted with a hideous face.

The crazy bidding began, Zhu Yijun looked at this scene, looking at the crazy appearance of those people, he could only shake his head, he actually arranged a few supports, in case no one buys, he will also let people shout the price, the left hand to the right hand, just post.

But the childcare arranged by the little emperor did not work at all, and this scene did not need to be warmed up at all.

1,500 horses of worsted cloth were sold for 820,000 taels of silver, which completely exceeded Zhu Yijun's expectations, with an average of more than 11 taels of silver per square foot, which means that the powerful people believe that the price of worsted will rise by more than 11 taels.

The auction in the back is boring, ambergris is not for sale, it is to show Yan Xinglou's ability to reach the sky with his hands and eyes, this piece of ambergris will be processed and sold in Huangzhuang at a price of two or fifty silver each, and Zhu Yijun also bought a good thing.

Qiu Yingben's "Qingming Riverside Picture", this is Qiu Ying's imitation of Zhang Zeduan's painting structure of the Qingming Riverside Map, based on the Ming Dynasty Suzhou City, a painting painted on the outskirts of Hongqiao - outside the city - inside the city, and Qiu Ying added the palace part, Zhu Yijun spent 1,500 taels of silver to get this thing.

Zhang Zeduan's "Qingming Riverside Map" was stored in the interior, during the Jiajing period, Yan Song obtained the original, Yan Song fell and was raided, and entered the palace, Zhu Yijun also went to see the original.

Oiran began to toast one by one, thanking the powerful for their sponsorship, she smiled very sincerely, laughing from the bottom of her heart, this auction, Oiran earned enough money to redeem herself at one time.

Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng communicated about the official post road of Daningwei, from Daningwei to Jingshi, the post road should be comprehensively hardened, and in order to transport goods more conveniently, Zhu Yijun believes that a horse-drawn carriage track with concrete sleepers and railroad tracks can be built.

The horse-drawn carriage track is not a rare thing, this thing was called Chidao in the Qin Dynasty.

The reason for building such a road is naturally for military needs, but also for economic needs, the expansion of the wool official factory, the surge in the use of white clay, and the wool of the barbarian tribes also needs this road to reach the Beijing Division.

"The wooden track does not last long, it is easy to break, and it can not be repaired very long, plus the influence of the terrain, at most it is a few miles long, that is, from Xishan to Jinggi, this time from the Ming Jingshi to the Daningwei This gallop is supervised by the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Guo Chaobin." Zhu Yijun thought about it and decided to repair.

This kind of gallop is very expensive, but expensive is not the disadvantage of the gallop, it is the shyness of the Ming bag, it doesn't matter if it is not repaired, the right is to accumulate experience, anyway, the cost of the gallop from the Beijing division to the Daning Wei is sponsored by the Beijing division and the powerful right.

"If you want to send the silver to the hands of the small people, to the hands of craftsmen, to the hands of potters, blacksmiths, lime masons, and woodmen, then this galloping road to Liaodong, if it can be fully penetrated, it will be the greatest luck of the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Yijun once again clarified the purpose of building this galloping road, exploring the logic of redistribution in the Ming Dynasty, and creating a class that supports the New Deal.

"If this path works, it will work." Zhu Yijun finally said a very strange sentence in conclusion, this road is naturally the Beijing-Liaochi Road, and it is also the Tongtian Avenue of the New Deal of the Ming Dynasty.

"The World is Trapped in Mergers and Rescues Hooligans" is Wang Chonggu's recital, and Zhu Yijun highly agrees.

Zhu Yijun's methods are ruthless, and they are also ruthless.

Oiran quickly toasted to Zhu Yijun's private room, but when she entered, it was already empty, Zhu Yijun finished watching the excitement, and after talking about things, he naturally left, as for Oiran, if they met, Feng Bao should throw people to the Yongsheng woolen factory to settle down.

There's no need to be so troublesome, just don't see it.

In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhu Yijun met Chen Siliu, who was the Chen Siliu in the story told by Wang Chonggu in the 50,000-word recital.

Chen Siliu is already twenty-two years old, his figure is not tall, that is, he is about the same height as the little emperor who is about fifteen years old, very thin, dark skin, when he saw the emperor, he knelt on the ground and did not dare to get up, and finally was picked up, sat on the stool, and then stammered what he wanted to say.

The mining of Xishan coal kiln is very hard, it is necessary to go down the mine, the depth of the well is more than 20 zhang, but it is not an open-pit coal mine, not to mention the kind of coal under one zhang in England, the Xishan coal kiln of the Ming Dynasty is all kiln wells, the lowest is also 20 zhang deep, mining disasters occur from time to time, water penetration, collapse, explosion is also common, Chen Siliu does not understand why His Majesty the Emperor received him.

But Chen Siliu can answer the questions asked by His Majesty, and His Majesty asks a few people, whether they have found a mother-in-law, how many children they have, whether they have pulled two feet of cloth to make new clothes during the New Year, etc., are all ordinary questions, and Chen Siliu answered truthfully, not daring to have any deception.

Chen Siliu's story is the core story of "Rescue Hooligans", and Chen Siliu smiled and said that when he cut five catties of meat for the New Year this year, Zhu Yijun and Chen Siliu both smiled brightly.

After Chen Siliu left, he met with peasant households from all over the world, including one of the landless peasant households resettled by Wang Chonggu in the northwest, Daning Weixintun farming peasants, Shaanxi farming peasants, etc., Zhu Yijun asked them about farming, but the natural nobleman said the truth about farming, which made all the peasant households extremely surprised.

After the peasant households left, it was the generals and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, from Jiubian, also from the Beijing camp, these generals and soldiers, talked about their lives in detail, the program of the reorganization of the soldiers in the Beijing camp was to save the head of the Qian, and the soldiers of the border military town mainly told the hardships of life.

Thanks to Wang Guoguang's in-kind military salary, the border guard town was finally able to stop fighting hungry, even if the money given was not enough, he could grow some sweet potatoes to live, and if he could eat, he could keep it, this was what Qi Jiguang said when he first faced the saint, and the soldiers were extremely grateful for the physical money.

After the general and the soldiers left, Zhu Yijun finally saw the foreign official.

This year's foreign official is Shi Maohua, the governor of Shaanxi, Shi Maohua strongly expressed the beautiful vision of the reset, and expressed his concern about not relapsing, if the three sides encounter a major drought for many years, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty will be overturned, because Shaanxi has less grain and more soldiers, and the drought has been severe for many years, and it is bound to be a civil unrest.

Zhu Yijun made it clear that the repetition must be reset, but now is not the time.

Shi Maohua asked to go to Baoqi Division to see, not to see where the emperor lived, but to see sweet potatoes, to be exact, potatoes, Shaanxi is not suitable for growing sweet potatoes, but it is very suitable for growing potatoes, Shi Maohua to His Majesty's relatives and farmers, grateful to Ling, Shaanxi did not snow last winter, this spring is cold, drought for thousands of miles, if you don't hoard a little potato, I'm afraid there will be a big mess.

Shi Maohua looked at Baoqi Division, and finally said goodbye to His Majesty with satisfaction.

After meeting with craftsmen, farmers, soldiers, and foreign officials, Zhu Yijun took his seven shop windows to Taimiao to worship his ancestors, and made a debriefing report on what he had done this year.

The biggest thing to do was to liquidate the ethnic party headed by Zhang Siwei and prevent the further deterioration of the townization of the northwest domain.

Zhu Yijun babbled for a long time, especially the book "Placement of Hooligans", and the emperor also specially asked people to copy a copy and burn it to the ancestors.

On the last day of the fourth year of Wanli, Honglu Siqing went to the Tao to ask for Zhishi's recital and sent it to the palace.

Zhu Yijun took this notebook and said helplessly: "Didn't the big priest already send a letter to the northwest and ask the third lady to send his cousin and child back?" The third lady also agreed, does the third lady want to miss the appointment? ”

"I have already entered the customs and will be able to go to Beijing in the next year." Zhang Hong hurriedly replied.

"Let's talk about it in a few years." Zhu Yijun is still reluctant to deal with Chen Xuexue, after all, Chen Xuexue is really easy to use, and when we talk about it after the Chinese New Year, Zhu Yijun came up with a procrastination trick to deal with it.

But obviously, the officials did not intend to drag the emperor, on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, just after the end of the holiday, the officials of the science and technology said that they floated into the cabinet like snowflakes.

Zhang Juzheng posted a floating ticket in the middle of the song, thinking that this matter can be punished to a certain extent, in order to calm the public opinion of the wind force, and it is appropriate to fine him for half a year.

Zhu Yijun rejected Zhang Juzheng's proposal, still insisted on his own opinion, did not do anything to deal with it, and did not allow Chen Xuexue's Zhishi to play sparsely, and ran away with Chen Xuexue's concubine with his son, thinking that it was going home to visit relatives, and insisted on his own opinion.

Zhang Juzheng wanted to compromise and ease this contradiction, but Zhu Yijun refused to let him take a step and wanted to intensify this contradiction.

Originally, according to Zhu Yijun's expectations, the officials should almost be subdued, give the emperor a little bit of power, Zhu Yijun waited for the battle, but did not wait for the courtiers to subdue, Chen Xue's matter, it seems to have become a trivial matter, the focus of attention of the officials, immediately looked at the worsted wool that had risen to 11 taels of silver a foot.

As soon as the worsted wool market opened, the price began to soar again at a terrifying rate to a high of 11 taels.

The request of the officials coincides with Zhang Juzheng's thoughts, all of which are asking the emperor to set the worsted wool tweed as a royal exclusive use, and ban the trade of worsted wool. This person's heart is so resentful, and the world is poor.

Even if the emperor is good at gathering, the ministers of prosperity will strip the people of their wealth, the people will be resentful, the world will be poor, and the emperor will lose the hearts of the people.

This is indeed the case.

Ask for a monthly pass, woo!!!

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