Chapter 276: Silver ingots are not money, silver coins are

There are many means of lowly Confucianism, and they always use some small tricks to achieve their own ends.

For example, to sow discord, and to use the truth to sow discord, a thing, there are three factors of A, B, and C, and the Cheap Confucians often selectively only say A, and then cover up B, which is indeed the truth, but ignoring the two conditions of B, C, will definitely come to a wrong conclusion, and then trigger public opinion, sow discord, and achieve their own goals.

Suppress the two good news for a day or two, especially only send the good news of Ningwei, and postpone the good news of Ying Chang for a day or two, highlighting Qi Jiguang's recklessness and greed for merit in entering Yingchang, and completely ignoring the necessity of the Ming Dynasty to the important place of Daxianbei Mountain Road, the cost of attacking strategic places, the right time, place and people, and so on, and mourn Qi Jiguang's great victory.

Fortunately, Liang Menglong and Liu Yingjie are both Zhang Dang, and now Zhang Ju is being the ancestor of Xishan Shenyin, and Zhang Dang should now be regarded as the imperial party.

This year, the lights of Aoshan Mountain were three days earlier than usual, and soon, the news of the great victory spread throughout Gyeonggi like wings, and the people's hearts were extremely excited and rejoicing.

For the people of Jingshi, they can empathize with the great victory outside the Saiwai. Daningwei, Huiningwei, Daxianbeishan Mountain Road, Yingchang, etc., are all very distant and unfamiliar places for the people of Gyeonggi, but this does not prevent them from empathizing with Qi Jiguang's victory.

The north is suffering from the harm of Hulu, this is the pain of the people of Gyeonggi, twice into the Kou, many parties are still living in the present, although I don't know where it is, what exactly has been won, but the emperor celebrates with such fanfare, that is the good news, Li Chengliang out of Sekeping Gule Village, Jingshi has people set off firecrackers to celebrate.

Zhu Yijun entered a busy December, before the New Year he was really busy, from the first day of the new year to the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve, not a day was idle, and it was all the kind of extremely tight schedule, these schedules did not include those sacrifices that did not require the emperor to attend, after all, Daming had three high priests of the national dynasty Xu Wenbi, the British Duke Zhang Rong, and the Duke of Chengguo Zhu Yingzhen.

The main work of the emperor was to inspect Yongding, Yongsheng Woolen Factory, Xishan Coal Bureau, Daming Imperial Gewu Academy, Daming Martial Arts School, Daming Maritime Academy, Beiya Weaving Bureau, Baoyuan Bureau, Baoyuan Bureau, Soldier Bureau, Daxing County Nanhaizi, Nursing Institute and other places.

Baoyuan Treasure Banknote War Bureau undertakes the printing of the Ming Money Law, and the War Bureau is subordinate to the Internal Department, and the Bao Money Bureau is the Yamen of the Ministry of Households, and the Baoyuan Bureau is the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry, turning the silver of the Ming Dynasty into silver coins and publishing them all over the world.

Zhu Yijun also has to go to Nanhaizi, Daxing County, twenty miles south of the capital, which is the gathering area of the family members of the deceased Duntai Yuanhou, from the beginning of the Jingtai period to the present, the families of the deceased Duntai Yuanhou are settled here, which is the specific embodiment of the Ming Dynasty's pension policy, and it is also the southern camp of the Ming Jingshi, condolences to the family, and Zhu Yijun must personally go to explore after the military horse.

After the inspection, it was to meet with foreign officials, including governors, governors, county magistrates, county governors, county lieutenants, local elders, common people, artisan households, etc., this year, Zhu Yijun met with foreign officials Zhang Xueyan, the governor of Liaodong, and Hou Yu Zhao, the governor of Liaodong, and the county magistrate was the magistrate and county Cheng of the newly established three counties in Luopang, Guangdong, the old men came from Jiangxi and Liangguang this time, and the people were still concentrated in Henan, and the craftsmen were mainly Nanya and Songjiangfu shipyards.

After Ling Yunyi pacified the rebellion of the Yao people in Luopan Mountain, he changed the land and returned to the stream, banned all the local Tusi, and replaced it with the county magistrate sent by the imperial court, which was the first magistrate of the three counties of Luopang, Zhu Yijun carefully explained to them, mainly to prevent the Yao people from rebelling again, to find life for the Yao people, to settle the land herdsmen and so on.

The elders of Liangguang and Jiangxi are grateful for entering Beijing, Jiangxi is grateful for the support of the imperial court in the locust plague at the beginning of the year, and Liangguang is grateful to the imperial court for its outstanding achievements in pacifying the Japanese and the Dangkou since the beginning of the Wanli year.

Jiangxi and Liangguang elders want to replace the powerful and gentry giants in the two places, and jointly express their sincere thanks to the emperor, and thank the emperor for transferring the two killing gods Ling Yunyi and Pan Jitao away! Even Yin Zhengmao, who demolished the door and moved the bed, was not unacceptable, and it was far better than these two killing gods.

The people of Henan have many grievances, Zhang Juzheng is not in the court, and the Ming Gongma Ziqiang of the Ministry of Rites still implements the old rules, and still selects the people of Henan to enter Beijing to see the court to avenge their grievances.

The craftsmen of the Nanya and Songjiang shipyards came to Beijing with appeals, they were staunch supporters of the opening of the sea, and they hoped to expand production.

With the prosperity of maritime trade, the scale of the original shipyard has been unable to meet the market demand, part of the demand has been transferred to the Minfang, which has a problem, the technology of the Minfang is limited, the products are uneven, the price does not have any rules and references, the risk of the sea trade began to expand, the Songjiang Governor, the Yingtian Governor, the Songjiang General Chen Lan and so on have the same attitude.

Nanya, Songjiang, Fujian, the three major shipyards, greatly affected by the imperial court policy, need to expand and expand production capacity, to meet the increasing market demand, the most important thing is to reduce the risk of sea trade, now the Ming sea trade, is still in a state of embryonic state, need to be careful.

Before Zhu Yijun's New Year, it was called a favor, so busy that Wang Yaozhuo didn't see him a few times in a month, Wang Yaozhuo still lives in Xiyuan, and Wang Yaozhuo, the quasi-queen of the middle palace, also had to sigh, even if there is a harem, it is difficult to say that there is a competition for favor, competition for favor, then there must be an emperor, you want to see it, I want to see it, but how can there be an emperor in this harem?

Hou Yuzhao, who was loyal to the monarchy, entered Beijing, Zhu Yijun once said that he would let him return to Beijing for the New Year, Hou Yuzhao was not there during this time, the official performance of the court, and even a person with a bottom line, Zhu Yijun asked Hou Yuzhao to return to Beijing, mainly about Daningwei and Huiningwei's cultivation, the land here is barren and the hydrology is complex, and Hou Yuzhao needs to give the emperor a detailed description of the plan.

Hou Yuzhao, Zhang Xueyan, and Wang Guoguang waited for the announcement in the Guanghan Hall of Baoqi Division.

"Isn't Your Majesty's palace repaired? Are you not satisfied with the new palace of the Great Priest Koxiu? Hou Yuzhao expressed his doubts.

What is the situation of Your Majesty's residence in Xiyuan? Wang Chonggu was tired and tired, and the news that he slept in the Emperor's Palace spread out, but the emperor was stunned by Hou Yuzhao, and Wang Chonggu's pressure was too great, and finally completed the construction of the palace before December, without delaying the emperor's wedding.

According to the Ministry of Rites, the marriage date was selected in December of the fifth year of Wanli, but the emperor was fifteen and less than sixteen years old, which did not conform to the laws of the ancestors, and was finally set as March of the sixth year of Wanli.

Wang Chonggu exhausted his mind and did not let the emperor get married on the foundation, but the emperor still lived in Baoqisi.

"That's not it, Your Majesty thinks Xiyuan Feng Shui is good." Wang Guoguang said with mixed tastes.

The emperor refused to move the palace for a long time, and returned to the Qianqing Palace from the Guanghan Palace, Wang Chonggu panicked, and asked the reason, and the emperor gave a good reason for feng shui.

Xiyuan Feng Shui is a fart!

Since Emperor Jiajing lived in Xiyuan, the Ming Dynasty has not been smooth anywhere.

"Ahh Hou Yuzhao knew that the emperor was just looking for a reason to be perfunctory, and the biggest advantage of living in Xiyuan was safety.

"Zhang Siwei, stupid too." Zhang Xueyan chose to be straightforward and scolded Zhang Siwei for being stupid.

The emperor lives in Xiyuan, isn't it that after the fire burned down the palace, His Majesty had to live in Xiyuan? Your Majesty can't live in Cining Palace, because Empress Dowager Li moved out of Qianqing Palace to return to government, and the emperor lives in Cining Palace, so Empress Dowager Li's return to government will be in vain.

Forcing the fifteen-year-old emperor to this point, this is a fool's behavior, the game of monarchy and vassals, since ancient times, such as Zhang Siwei's assassination of the king and the burning of the palace, it is not uncommon, this is a stupid act that completely intensifies the contradiction, and all dynasties have done this to completely control the government, such as Cao Cao killed the queen of Emperor Han Xian, Queen Fu, the cause of the matter is that Queen Fu wants to help Emperor Han Xian kill Cao Cao.

If Zhang Juzheng thinks that the little emperor will burn down the palace, it will be a contradiction between the monarch and the minister, what kind of thing are you, Zhang Siwei? Moths attached to the Jin Party.

"Xuangechen Wang Guoguang, Hubu Shangshu Zhang Xueyan, and Liaodong Patrol Marquis Yu Zhao to see you." Xiao Huangmen hung his voice, and reminded the three emperors to invite them into the palace in a high-pitched voice.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, is Your Majesty safe?" The three of them saluted respectfully.

"Sit, Sit." Zhu Yijun waved his hand and motioned for the three of them to sit down and speak.

Zhang Xueyan is already a secretary of the household department, and Wang Guoguang has to take care of the household department when he enters the cabinet, so that Zhang Xueyan can control the affairs of the ministry, Zhang Xueyan is the Jin Party, and Wang Guoguang is also the Jin Party, but they are all traitors to the Jin Party, and in history, they have been identified by Zhang Siwei and others as traitors to the Jin Party.

"Your Majesty, the minister has "Article Chen Qingzhang Returns to the Field and Resettles the Sparse", the minister asks His Majesty to issue a decree to set the regulations of Qingzhang, to clarify Qi Hao's right gentry Zhuangtian, check the overflow, leakage, and deceit all things, and pass the world. As soon as Zhang Xueyan sat down, he presented a book of notes, as the Duke of Ming, as a courtier, he could bypass the cabinet to play, because he could see the emperor and face the secret.

"Zhang Shangshu said cautiously, this matter of repairing the province in the palace, Zhang Shangshu is not in the Beijing Division, so there is no need to say it!" Wang Guoguang coughed, and in front of the emperor, he reminded Zhang Xueyan that if you don't understand, don't talk nonsense!

The last person who persuaded the emperor to repair the province is now extremely annoyed in Xishan Yicheng Bofu!

The emperor still used to persuade the province? It's better to persuade extravagance.

It is also a common practice for Zhang Xueyan to persuade the emperor to repair the province, because His Majesty the Emperor's wedding is imminent, and there is a suspicion of spending a lot of money, so he just follows the routine to do things, but he didn't expect to be reprimanded by Wang Guoguang in person.

Wang Guoguang is not good to say in front of the emperor, and then persuade the province to repair, the palace backfill should be filled with construction waste, and even the pillars should be filled with construction waste, where is the face of the country? In order to save money, the emperor didn't even look at the lights of Aoshan, just to save the reward for the artist, this money is really a lot, and the lights of Aoshan every year cost more than 100,000 taels according to the custom.

Cultivate a fart and frugality, and then cultivate frugality, the face of the court is gone, let Li Yashi, Sanniangzi and other foreign envoys know, isn't it a surprise to friends?

The home of the Ming Emperor actually cut corners to such a point? Wang Guoguang felt ashamed, he, the big Situ, did so well, the dynasty was rich!

This wedding, the emperor ordered to repair the province, was refuted by the Ministry of Rites, the reason is that the province is not provincial, the emperor's wedding is frugal enough, before the palace bought 70,000 taels of silver, reduced to 10,000 taels, the grace of the music class from 60,000 silver, cut to 5,000 taels, take the big wedding banquet as an example, the previous standard was five taels a table, as a result, the emperor directly wanted to save the big banquet, how can this work?

The Ministry of Rites directly sued the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces! Repair the province again, this Ministry of Rites Shangshu who loves to do who does!

Zhu Yijun carefully checked the sparse, Zhang Xueyan's main content of the sparse is still to set the Qingzhang regulations, which are used throughout the country, that is, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan-Guizhou, Guangxi, Liaodong, Jiangxi and other places that have not been cleared before to fully implement the order of returning the Qingzhang to the field.

This was the signal for a general offensive on the fields.

"The last time I saw Mr., I talked to Mr. about returning the field to the field, and Mr. meant that he was not in a hurry, and he was still mainly in Nanya and Zhejiang, and the rest of the places were slowly plotting it, and the matter of returning the field to the field was too big, and it was not appropriate to be in a hurry." Zhu Yijun closed Zhang Xueyan's recital, and Zhang Juzheng's attitude towards returning the land to the land that passed through the country was much more cautious than Zhu Yijun.

In the original timeline, Zhang Xueyan's investigation of the acres of land in the country began in the sixth year of Wanli, because Zhang Juzheng at that time had already realized that with the growth of Emperor Wanli, the implementation of the new policy must be accelerated, and the opposition in the court and China was extremely strong, and Emperor Wanli's attitude towards the new policy was also dispensable.

If the New Deal loses the support of the emperor, it will definitely fail, and in the original historical line, Zhang Juzheng's eagerness for quick success and quick profit and his eagerness are completely because he wants to make a boat, so that the influence of the New Deal can penetrate into the corners of the Ming Dynasty and preserve the achievements of the New Deal.

Zhang Juzheng's new policy was relatively moderate in the first five years, but in the second five years, there was always a sense of urgency, and a government decree was hurriedly implemented without being fully tested in the localities.

There is no doubt that in an empire, in a country where the system is designed with an emperor as the center, without the support of the emperor, Zhang Juzheng's new law in history will end up being short-lived and failing.

Now Zhang Juzheng is very opposed to rushing for quick success and quick profit, and he feels that the emperor is radical.

According to his expectations, in 50 years, to complete these things, the Ming Dynasty will be able to achieve ZTE, and can form a stable long-term strategy, overnight, the results achieved are not as good as slowly drawing.

The emperor was only ten years old when he ascended the throne, and he was only sixty after fifty years, and he was completely able to get things done.

Taking Yunnan as an example, now Yunnan has to face the rise of Mang Yinglong of the Donghu Dynasty, at this time, go to Yunnan to return the fields, especially the acres of land in the Qianguo Mansion, so how can Yunnan deal with Mang Yinglong? The Qianguo Mansion has been encroached on for a long time, and the statistics during the Jiajing period exceeded 20,000 hectares, that is, more than 2 million mu, and the grain and grass in Yunnan were supported by the Qianguo Mansion.

Taking Guizhou as an example, the acres of land in Guizhou are completely controlled by the lineage toast, and it makes no sense to return the fields to the fields and not clear the heads of these toasts.

The development of the region is uneven, whether a policy has the conditions for implementation, it is necessary to analyze specific matters on a case-by-case basis, both Guangxi and Guangxi are Lingnan, and the development situation of Guangxi and Guangdong is completely different; Guangxi is so poor that it eats soil, Guangdong is rich enough to flow oil, Guangxi is full of Tusi, and Guangdong is full of county officials.

"Is the gentleman against it?" Zhang Xueyan was stunned, the last time he wrote a letter to Zhang Juzheng was in the fourth year of Wanli, at that time, Zhang Juzheng's plan was still to clear his head as soon as possible.

"Zhang Shangshu, Beiya, Shandong, Henan, Nanya, Zhejiang, Huguang, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong are also determined to be cleared and are already doing it, only Liaodong, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi will not be implemented for the time being, and this scope is already very large." Zhu Yijun once again reiterated Zhang Juzheng's opposition, what he opposed was that all the people were clear, the contradiction between man and land was more abrupt, and the annexation had reached the point where there was no merger, and the imperial court must come forward to mediate the contradiction between man and land.

"The three most difficult places are Shandong, Henan, and Jiangxi." Wang Guoguang further explained the difficulties of Qingzhang now.

In fact, Nanya is the most difficult, just because Nanya has been tossed several rounds, Qingzhang's decree is finally implemented, and the main industry, also from the land to the sea, the whole process takes a long time to land, the current practice is effective, it is bound to listen to the words of the imperial court, timely transformation, and earn more, Songjiang Sun, Sun Kehong, Sun Keyi two brothers this living signboard, to Nanya Qingzhang to reduce a lot of resistance.

Now it is Shandong's turn to become the boss.

There is a Yan Shenggong in Shandong, and there are many vassal kings in Henan, these two places are difficult to clean up, why is Jiangxi also on the list?

Because there are many academies in Jiangxi, more precisely, there are many scholars.

The imperial court is a place to regulate social contradictions, and in the underdeveloped areas where the contradictions between man and land are not so sharp, it is necessary to be cautious and cautious, because these places are really too fragile, unlike Nanya, which is bound to be bold and right, like leek stubble, cut round after round, inexhaustible.

Zhang Xueyan originally wanted to do something big when he entered the court, he communicated with Zhang Juzheng, and originally thought that the national Qingzhang would become his first political achievement after becoming a minister of the Ming Dynasty, but the result was not at all, Mr. denied it, and the emperor was persuaded.

Zhang Xueyan was a little disappointed, but these places with sharp contradictions are also difficult to gnaw bones, and it is a great achievement to do a good job, the emperor made it clear, these places are difficult, Shandong has changed the governor twice, Ling Yunyi has gone, Zhang Xueyan is busy, and it will be difficult.

Taking Shandong as an example, if the 3,000 guest soldiers led by Ling Yunyi were unable to start, then the emperor would issue an order to quell the rebellion, send troops to Yanzhou, and personally ask Yan Shenggong what he meant, and give Yan Shenggong a physical head.

"Your Majesty, the minister's actions in Liaodong are actually not complicated, they are the military garrison at the beginning of the country." Hou Yuzhao began to talk about the reclamation of Liaodong.

If you want to tell the little emperor about the world, you have to give him a specific case that you can refer to, instead of drawing a big pie with empty mouths and white teeth, the big pie is too big to do, and if you can't do it, you will die.

What Hou Yuzhao said is also true, in fact, the cultivation he engaged in is not a new tactic, it is a military garrison that integrates cultivation and warfare.

Liaodong is vast and sparsely populated, in that place, it takes half a day to see people on horseback, and there may be horse bandits, or it may be merchants, but Liaodong is by no means a barren place where birds don't, you can farm, you can live, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is the territory of farming, and the places where you can farm are the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Now that the land in Liaodong is more fertile than the Central Plains, it has become easier to cultivate.

"Then there will be an escape." Zhu Yijun said with a little worry that there will be a merger problem in the reclaimed fields, and Zhu Yijun is extremely worried about tun farming.

"Your Majesty, the military cantonment guards on the border side rarely escape, because there are foreign criminals, so they have to report to the regiment for warmth, and there are fewer deserters in the Jiubian army cantonment guards, because the meat eaters on the border don't dare to be too harsh, otherwise the thieves are coming, who will help them keep those acres of real estate?" Hou Yuzhao put forward a very novel idea.

He didn't think that the escape center was a bad thing, and the soldiers and civilians of the military garrison in Liaodong had really escaped, either indicating that the Ming Dynasty could no longer hold this place, or that this place had become stable.

The inability to hold is a comprehensive contraction, which is the trend of the times, not the contradiction between the border military and the people and the meat eaters, but the decline in the overall national strength of the Ming Dynasty, and the local stability has become stable, indicating that the contradiction between the Ming Dynasty and the Northern Captives has been close to the state of resolution.

The soldiers and civilians of the Nine Border Army Cantonment Guard Station did not flee the station, for the simple reason that this place was unstable and that there was an external threat, so they had to join together.

The phenomenon of desertion from the guards in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty is very serious, that is, the newly built military garrisons in the Jiajing period in order to prevent the Japanese from being guarded, as the Japanese troubles gradually stopped, they were corrupted again, and the system of the military garrisons itself is a kind of emergency military management state of instability in the country, not long-term peace and stability.

Zhu Yijun listened to Hou Yuzhao's rhetoric in detail, and he found that Hou Yuzhao's attainments in contradictory theory were very profound, and he looked at the problem not one-sidedly.

"Well, that's good." Zhu Yijun thinks what Hou Yuzhao said makes sense.

The border side does not have the conditions for the annexation of the gentry, and the sense of smell of the powerful right is very keen, and they will subconsciously avoid unstable assets, such as sea trade is not as stable as the land, even if the sea trade makes more money, the court uses a whip to pull it behind, uses the lure as a bait, and uses a group of emerging wealthy businessmen such as the Songjiang Sun family as an example, but if there is a choice, the right will still choose land rent.

Wang Guoguang took out a book and handed it to Feng Bao, who handed it to His Majesty.

"Money law?" Zhu Yijun opened the recital and finished reading Wang Guoguang's recital.

"Your Majesty, the ministers thought that the meat eaters of the Ming Dynasty buried the silver in the pigsty and refused to spend it, not that they must be short-sighted, but that the silver in their hands could not perform the duties of currency normally." Wang Guoguang began to explain his notes in detail, starting with the silver in the pigsty.

"Tell me more." Zhu Yijun said with great interest, Wang Guoguang has entered the cabinet, and there is no political declaration, obviously, he is going to start making promises now, and fulfill his promises.

"The minister has two things for His Majesty to see." After Wang Guoguang asked for his life, the little yellow door presented the props that Wang Guoguang had prepared long ago to the royal front.

"Two silver coins." Zhu Yijun looked at the two silver coins on the plate and was very sure that this was the silver coin minted by the Ming Military Bureau, which was very exquisite.

"Your Majesty, there is a fake one in this, it is a lead-tin-copper alloy and then gilt silver, containing silver, but not much." Wang Guoguang has solved the mystery.

Zhu Yijun picked up two silver coins and said in surprise: "Fake?!" ”

He blew the two silver coins hard, all of them made a sound, and knocked on them, and after distinguishing them for a long time, he didn't recognize which one was fake, and he said with confusion: "Feng Daban, which one of these is fake?" ”

"This one." Feng Bao distinguished it slightly, then took out one and put it in front of His Majesty.

"How did Feng Dajue know?" This time it was Wang Guoguang's turn to be shocked, because the one Feng Bao picked out without any doubts was a fake.

Feng Bao said with a smile: "The two silver coins are the same weight, and they can also be blown, but the sound of silver, our family can still distinguish it, and there is a pleasant sound after it is really blown, which cannot be expressed, but it is very pleasant." ”

"Feng Dajue is amazing, Wang admires it!" Wang Guoguang said in amazement.

Zhu Yijun blew it again, distinguished it, and immediately noticed the difference, indeed, the real piece, there was a pleasant sound.

He shuffled the two silver coins at random, and even he didn't know which one was true and which one was fake, and then blew it again, and determined that it was true and false, and the sound of real money and silver was indeed pleasant.

Wang Guoguang was speechless and choked, wanting to cry without tears.

What kind of sin did Zhang Juzheng do, His Majesty the Emperor, who was born a noble man and the supreme emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is so keen on silver.

The moment the real and fake silver coins were minted, even the old officials of the Baoyuan Bureau were distinguished for a long time, and finally from the sound of percussion and the fineness, His Majesty the Emperor played a little, and under Feng Bao's reminder, he could keenly perceive the real one, this kind of sensitivity to silver, made Wang Guoguang breathtaking!

And then Wang Guoguang had a doubt, maybe His Majesty's stingy endowment was not Zhang Juzheng's excessive requirements, but innate?

"Your Majesty, the silver in the hands of the Ming meat eaters is unable to properly perform the duties of currency, and the minister still has two silver ingots, their proportions are the same, both are fifty taels, and there is no difference at all." Wang Guoguang continued to explain his reasons.

Specific gravity, Zhang Juzheng's invention, indicates the density, under the same volume, heavier than water or lighter than water, for example, the specific gravity of silver is 10.5, and the specific gravity of lead is 11.3, and the specific gravity of copper is 8.9.

This is the reason why Wang Guoguang's silver cannot fulfill its monetary duties, because silver ingots are easy to counterfeit in large transactions.

"This piece is fake." Zhu Yijun weighed the two silver ingots, carefully distinguished them, and said with great certainty.

"Huh?" Wang Guoguang's eyes widened again.

It was indeed a fake, because there was a tiny flaw on the fake one, and the silver ingot was even the same as the honeycomb at the bottom, but His Majesty still recognized the real one at a glance.

"This piece is really, there is a pleasant feeling in the hand, it can't be expressed, it is pleasure." Zhu Yijun is very sure that judging the truth or falsehood depends entirely on intuition, as for why, he said he didn't understand.

Wang Guoguang saw that it was not difficult for the emperor at all, and directly asked people to serve a large plate of fake silver ingots, and the emperor relied on intuition to distinguish, which was a natural sensitivity to gold and silver, but the phenomenon of silver ingot fraud was extremely serious, and Wang Guoguang made a large plate and presented it to the emperor.

Wang Guoguang said with great confidence: "This one is the inlay method, the copper is solidified inside the silver ingot when casting, and the appearance is wrapped in silver, and the appearance is no different from the real silver ingot, but the specific gravity of copper and silver is different, and the feel is obviously much lighter, but if it is a copper lead core inside, and the proportion is appropriate, it can be difficult to judge by the feeling of falling hands." ”

"This one is the lead pouring method, the casting is all copper casting, leaving a wax core, and the lead is covered with silver, which can also be fake and real."

"This one is a copper-lead method, and the surface is a blue-black color, which is very easy to identify."

"These fake silver ingots, as many as cow hair, seriously hinder the circulation of goods."

"So, silver, or more precisely silver ingots, cannot perform its monetary function, and needs to be rolled into silver coins."

Although he encountered the fact that the emperor was naturally keen on gold and silver, Wang Guoguang still announced his political promise.

He wants to turn the silver of the Ming Dynasty into currency, let the currency of the Ming Dynasty flow, only the flow of money, the flow of commodities, a pool of stagnant Ming, in order to release its vitality!

Ask for a monthly pass, woo!!!!!!!!!!!!

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