As soon as Emperor Xuande finished saying the word 'silver', he suddenly realized that Lao Zhu's face was wrong, and hurriedly added.

"I have decreed that the people shall not use silver for trading, and those who use one penny of silver for trading will be fined thousands of dollars, and the stolen officials will receive one or two pieces of silver, and ten thousand dollars of money will be chased."

The meaning of this is obvious.

Ancestor, I listen to you, but those people who are disobedient are those who want to beat or scold, and I can't blame you!

However, this will of Emperor Xuande is actually the same as the next one, depreciating thousands of times, and no one wants paper to wipe your buttocks, you can punish if you want it, who cares?

"Even if it is imperial power, it can't resist the laws of the market."

Ji Boying summed everything up lightly in one sentence, and then looked at everyone.

"You are all the sons and princes of the Ming Dynasty who created an enterprising period, and in your time, some things are still too late."

As soon as the words came out, the eleven Zhu all held their breath and listened, all of them pricked up their ears to listen, for fear of missing a word or a half, they knew that Ji Boying and Ji Immortal Master were going to start teaching the true meaning and mysteries.

And this is also the reason why Ji Boying divided the Ming Dynasty into three periods according to the timeline, some of the things he is talking about now will not work at all for those dynasties in the future of the timeline, or it is too late.

You can only change the textbook.

"The law of the market chose silver, which means that the Ming Dynasty was forced to choose silver."

'Da Ming was forced to choose silver? ’

This sentence exploded in the hearts of Lao Zhu and Lao Zhu Di and others, and they always felt that there was a dark cloud permeating the sky above the Ming Dynasty, and at this time, this dark cloud split a dawn under the thunder words of the immortal master.

"Immortal Master, is there any difference between actively choosing and being forced to choose? Why is there a risk of losing the country if forced to choose? ”

The first good student of the Zhu family, Ah Biao asked.

"That's a good question."

Ji Boying smiled, he liked this kind of good student who followed the teacher's train of thought.

"It's all about time."

'Time? ’

Everyone's hearts trembled again, and they didn't speak in amazement, but just listened intently.

"Da Ming was forced to choose the time of silver."

"Ah Biao, let me ask you, when the Ming Dynasty is forced to accept silver as a circulating currency, which point will become important?"

Zhu Biao's expression tightened, and Lao Zhu, Lao Zhu Di and others also looked at Zhu Biao one after another, expecting this good student of the old Zhu family to give them a long face.

With the crazy rotation of the brain kernel CPU, Zhu Biao flashed with inspiration, his eyes showed essence, and he took a deep breath and said.

"Total amount of silver!"

"Good!"

Ji Boying clapped his hands in praise.

His teaching people to fish is not as good as teaching people to fish, and in Zhu Biao's body, it obviously has an effect.

"At the time when Da Ming was forced to choose silver, this land..."

Ji Boying paused and coughed dryly, the concept of the earth will have the opportunity to instill this group of people surnamed Zhu in the future.

"The Age of Discovery, the world, has come."

The Age of Discovery?!

Lao Zhu is numb again, and one of the ancestral systems he set is the forbidden sea...

At this moment, Lao Zhu began to doubt his life a little, could it be that the ancestral system he set was all wrong? !

Lao Zhu Di's eyes lit up when he heard it, his Yongle Dynasty Zheng He went to the West six times, and he already knew the prosperity of the world, but his trip to the West was just an official act, although he made money, but it was also used by Lao Zhu Di himself.

"The Ming Dynasty accepted silver as the mainstream currency, but the amount of self-produced silver was too low, at this point in time to meet the Age of Discovery, in order to ease the finances, had to introduce a large amount of overseas silver, the Ming Dynasty has since become the world's largest silver importer in this era."

"It can be said that it was overseas silver that gave Daming a new life."

"However, dialectics tells us that everything in the world has two sides, and there are advantages and disadvantages that go hand in hand."

"Although the large import of overseas silver temporarily relieved the financial pressure of the Ming Dynasty, the direct consequence was the complete loss of the Ming Dynasty's control over the domestic currency, and the opportunity for the wealthy nobles to collude with overseas giants and embezzle national wealth."

"By the time of the Chongzhen period, the world's major countries that controlled the export of silver realized the importance of silver to their own economies, and began to curb the outflow of silver, and the silver that could be imported into the Ming Dynasty was sharply reduced to less than 20% of the original in just ten years."

"Silver is in short supply, the people are panicking, and the families are all filling their pockets, on the one hand, there is less silver flowing from overseas, and on the other hand, there is less silver circulating in China, and under the double oppression, it has caused a serious silver shortage."

"At this time, the imperial court has already lost the control of the currency, and even the road of over-issuing currency to drink and quench thirst cannot be taken, the only way is to raise taxes, seven consecutive tax increases, and want to extract silver from the hands of the people to continue their lives, each time they are added, the rebel army grows once, and the stronger the rebel army, the more the court needs silver to quell the chaos, so a vicious circle."

"Therefore, one of the causes of death after the fall of the Ming Dynasty: silver poisoning."

After finishing speaking, Ji Boying took the herbal tea presented by Xiyu and drank it all.

For a science and engineering major, Ji Boying already feels that it is very good to be able to talk about the problem to this extent.

The emperors and princes in the audience all looked surprised when they heard it, and their expressions were solemn, because they suddenly found that even if they seemed to understand, even if they seemed to know these problems, they couldn't think of a way to solve them!

"Brother, silver poisoning, doesn't it mean that silver is bad?"

"That's... No, okay? ”

Lao Zhu asked a question that he himself felt a little stupid.

Ji Boying put down the teacup.

"Nope."

"In these centuries, silver was the world's currency, and that's the world trend."

"Lao Zhu, haven't you understood yet?"

Ji Boying got up, took two steps forward, and approached Lao Zhu slightly.

"Haven't you understood what the core of what I just said?"

Two more steps closer.

"This..."

Lao Zhu rubbed his big hands, looking a little nervous, after so many years, for the first time, he felt at a loss, and he didn't blink his eyelids when he did Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang.

"You guys are really the worst class I've ever taught!"

Ji Boying flicked his sleeves and snorted coldly.

This old Zhu, the cold sweat on his forehead came down, and the emperors and princes on the seats also had very good faces, and it was the first time in their lives that they felt so embarrassed.

"Enlightened!"

"I'm enlightened!"

At this moment, Zhu Biao, a good student, stood up with joy as if he had realized enlightenment in Yangming Longchang a hundred years later.

Suddenly, all the eyes of large, medium and small Zhu looked at him, this is the only face of their old Zhu family!

"Ah Biao, you come on."

Zhu Biao took a deep breath and suppressed the joy on his face.

"There's nothing wrong with silver, what's wrong is that Daming's silver is too little!"

Hearing this, Ji Boying smiled.

The true meaning and sense of accomplishment of teaching is reflected in this.

"Very good answer!"

Ji Boying smiled like a teacher, cast an affirmative look at Ah Biao, and then motioned for him to sit down.

"What we just said about making money is making silver."

"Immortal Master, my Da Ming Silver Class is so much every year, even if you want a little more silver, there is no way."

Hong Xi frowned and said, everyone else also had the same question, where to get silver?

"Who said it was going to be done in Daming?"

"Where do you go then?"

Lao Zhu subconsciously spoke.

Ji Boying rolled up his sleeves and sat back on the Taishi chair, Erlang's legs were cocked.

"Far away, close at hand."

Xiao Zhu Si was stunned when he heard this, and then scratched the back of his head and smiled a little embarrassed.

"Immortal Master, what... It's not good that so many of us you, right? ”

Ji Boying: ???