Chapter 147: Gao Gong: I'm going underground to ask the First Emperor! Jiajing: I've come up to see you! (Ask for a commuter pass!) )
'Why don't you just open the sea ban completely?' ’
Jiajing Immortal also had a straight look, and he actually had the same question in his heart.
Since sooner or later the sea will be fully opened anyway, why not simply open it all from the beginning, but to do such a pass, which is even more troublesome.
Ji Boying glanced at Jiajing, his brows furrowed slightly.
Hu Zongxian will have doubts, that is because Hu Zongxian has not taken classes, and you Jiajing Immortal is different.
If it weren't for the fact that this was in front of Jiajing's courtiers, Ji Boying would have already started scolding.
This Jiajing immortal didn't listen carefully to the lecture at first glance.
Previously, Ji Boying asked Ah Biao to give the second batch of students a brief review of the knowledge points of the previous class content, even if Ah Biao did not speak very carefully, even if Ah Biao had no teaching talent, but more or less should mention the content of 'silver poisoning'.
And as long as you listen to this paragraph, you can understand a little bit.
Dare to love this immortal, I didn't listen to a word, and I just cared about cultivating the immortal art of what kind of bullshit 'water basin fire'.
After Ji Boying glanced at Jiajing, he fell on Hu Zongxian.
"Once the sea ban is fully opened, the former smuggling gangs will instantly become legal commerce, and their existence will greatly affect the commercial tax revenue of the sea trade."
"Before the sea is fully opened, we must first wipe out all these smuggling syndicates."
Ji Boying will not forget that these powerful people who got rich by opening the sea, in addition to mastering the absolute right to speak on overseas trade, actually succeeded in canceling the commercial tax of Chongzhen, a kid, in a flicker, and instead added three salaries in the year of natural disasters, and went to collect land taxes from the people.
I really don't know whether to say that these people are fooling the Dafa Niu Cup, or if there is something wrong with Chongzhen's brain.
Smuggling, the word has existed since the Ming Dynasty imposed a ban on the sea, but it has always been very sporadic in the early years, after all, it will be some years before the Age of Discovery.
Since the Koji period, large-scale smuggling activities have suddenly become active.
In an era, who can see the most profitable business? Which part of the people can find the tuyere in the first place?
It must be those powerful people who are above the temple, and the powerful merchants under them.
This has never changed throughout the ages.
By the time ordinary people knew about this outlet, many pigs had already flown into the sky.
With such a money-making business, you can also think of what these powerful people will do next, so naturally they will join the vigorous smuggling army and work hard to make a fortune.
Count the large smugglers on the southeast coast, one is counted as one, and the promoters behind them are all a certain bigwig in the Ming court, the most typical is Liu Daxia's family smuggling group.
Holding the chart, that's called a smooth sail.
"As for the other reasons, you don't need to know."
"You just need to know what you're going to do next."
Talking about silver poisoning again, Ji Boying will naturally not be stupid enough to waste time on this kind of thing, and Hu Zongxian, as an executor, does not need to understand the whole picture.
"Remember, here are a few things you're going to do next."
Ji Boying looked at Hu Zongxian.
For Wang Zhi, Qi Jiguang, and Hu Zongxian, Ji Boying has a very clear division of labor.
Wang Zhi was responsible for opening up the market and engaging in overseas silver, Qi Jiguang was responsible for military escort and military expansion, while Hu Zongxian was responsible for all logistics and building a commercial and trade system between the Ming Dynasty and overseas in the rear.
"First, set up an overseas treasury, and in the future, all the silver that Wang Zhi transported through commerce and trade will be deposited in this overseas treasury."
"Second, it is responsible for collecting the people's goods, handing them over to Wang Zhi for unified customs clearance, and returning to the people."
"Third, in the coastal generation, the pilot issuance of silver treasure banknotes, through the sea trade obtained silver taels, in the form of silver treasure notes and silver simultaneously issued to the people, and gradually increase the proportion of silver treasure banknotes in it."
Before Jiajing, the Ming could occupy the supremacy of the global currency by forcibly plundering silver.
After all, occupying several major silver-producing areas in the world is equivalent to holding a money printing machine in your hand, and you don't have to worry about the right to currency being taken away.
However, after the Jiajing and Jiajing eras, it was very difficult to occupy the silver-producing land again.
Of course, it's not impossible.
After participating in the Age of Discovery, the Ming Dynasty's national strength has risen sharply and it has a strong fleet, it can consider attacking the Japanese State or going to South America to rob Spain of the Potosí silver mine, and you can get a piece of the pie.
However, to be on the safe side.
It is still necessary to put a layer of skin on these overseas inflows of silver, so as to ensure that the country's monetary rights are firmly held in their hands.
"Fourth, strictly maintain the legitimacy of the silver treasure banknote, but in all pilot areas, if there is a person who does not recognize the silver banknote, he will be punished with a serious crime, and even beheaded."
"Fifth, when the internal troubles are cleared, the pilot is successful, and the silver treasure is gradually recognized by the people, the imperial court will fully announce the opening of the sea, and the imperial court will set up the General Administration of Customs, and you, Hu Zongxian, will be promoted to the first director of the General Affairs Department of the General Administration of Customs, with the same position as the six books."
Speaking of this, Hu Zongxian's heart was shocked.
His current official position is the governor of Zhejiang, and he seems to be a feudal official, with a grade of no less than six Shangshu, but he is a Beijing official and he is a local official, and his future is different, and his right to speak is not at the same level.
Only by becoming a Beijing official can you continue to climb one step higher and truly enter the center of the empire.
Although Hu Zongxian has never heard of what kind of yamen the General Administration of Customs is, since the immortal master said that this thing is the same as the six Shangshu, it will definitely not change!
Suddenly, Lao Hu's mood was surging, and the motivation to work hard came again.
That's the power of flatbread.
"Sixth, after the full opening of the sea, foreign merchants in the Ming Dynasty trade is only allowed to trade in silver banknotes, if you want to purchase, you need to exchange silver for silver money at the customs, if you want to sell, you can only collect silver money from the people."
"At this point, you must remember that those who dare to commit crimes will have all their net worth confiscated, expelled from the Ming business system, and will never be allowed to enter."
Ji Boying made this set, in fact, it is a simplified, rough version of the monetary policy that integrates offshore currency and national currency, after all, the too complex monetary system is not suitable in this era, and in the trade of the Age of Discovery, the Ming Dynasty will be in a strong position of trade surplus, and there is no need to engage in any offshore currency.
This point from the history of Longqing after the opening of the sea, in just a few decades, nearly half of the world's silver has been sucked into the Ming Dynasty can prove that the best-selling nature of Daming products is beyond doubt.
If you want to buy my Ming things, you have to exchange my Ming banknotes.
Don't change? Then get out.
Love to buy or not to buy, don't buy and pull down, good goods are not afraid to sell, only this one, there is no other branch.
Once it joins the Age of Discovery, in terms of product strength, only the Ming Dynasty sanctions block other people's shares, and it is categorically impossible to be sanctioned.
The core purpose of all this is only one, that is, to ensure that the currency rights of the Ming Dynasty are in their own hands, so as to prevent the loss of their own currency rights if they cannot seize the world-class silver mines, and other countries block the silver out of the country.
As for the previous Daming treasure banknote, this thing has long become waste paper, the folk have long been out of circulation, and in fact has been completely replaced by silver, the folk have spontaneously completed the essence of the banknote, there is no need to mention it, let alone recycle and so on.
After listening, Hu Zongxian obviously looked a little blind.
"You don't need to understand, you just do it."
Ji Boying glanced at Hu Zongxian, who was a little confused, after all, the theory of this thing was indeed a bit advanced, and even Lao Zhu and the others, who had taken so many classes, probably didn't understand it very well.
"What are you doing? Can't hear what the master is saying? ”
Jiajing Immortal drank sharply.
Hu Zongxian was suddenly agitated and hurriedly bowed.
"Hu Zongxian obeyed! You must follow the decree of the immortal master and do it all! ”
"Hmm."
"There is one thing you must pay special attention to in the execution, before the imperial court announces the opening of the sea, when the government collects goods and returns money from the people, you must strictly check the defects, and there must be no oppression of the small people by the officials."
"In the pilot area, we must cultivate the people's trust in the government and the trust in the banknotes."
Hearing this, Hu Zongxian took a deep breath.
"Yes."
For Lao Hu, this is his opportunity to enter the center of power in one step, how can he let it go, even if he gives up this old life, he has to do things beautifully.
Then, Hu Zongxian and Qi Jiguang were very knowledgeable and saluted, and then withdrew from the luxurious cabin.
"Come with me to meet Longqing."
Ji Boying glanced at Jiajing Immortal.
'Longqing? ’
Jiajing smiled, with a confident face.
"Master rest assured, the disciple strictly follows the teachings of the master, in the past six years, he has been close to the boy in Zaikun, and let Zhang Fujing teach him personally, especially in terms of women, this kid has adhered to his body and mind for six years, and has not surpassed the thunder pool."
"I replaced all the women in his Yuwang Mansion with eunuchs."
Hear out.
Ji Boying was stunned for a moment, all changed? !
Good guy, it's really my father.
First of all, the Longqing he planned to see in his words was not Zhu Zaikun of Jiajing Time and Space, but Emperor Longqing of Longqing Time and Space.
Although Longqing has opened the sea, but has not yet formed a large-scale overseas trade, which can be seen from Longqing's financial revenue, the financial surge after the opening of the sea is in the early years of Wanli.
Therefore, it is still too late to implement some remedial policies, and there is still an opportunity to withdraw monetary rights.
Therefore, Ji Boying plans to take advantage of the situation to go to Longqing time and space, explain the matter of currency rights to Longqing and Zhang Juzheng clearly, and let them start to do it immediately, and it is not too late to make amends.
Secondly, Ji Boying couldn't help frowning when he listened to Jiajing Immortal's feminine sanctions against the young Zhu Zaikun.
This Jiajing Immortal's approach reminded Ji Boying of his experience as an Internet addicted teenager when he was young, the more you don't let me play, the more I want to play, and I also play secretly in a different way.
You bind my hands, but you can't hold my heart.
When I am free, I will sit in the Internet café five times in a row, and I will not sleep for three days and three nights.
Internet addiction is a thing that lasts a few nights at most, and after playing, it will be played, and when you are older, you will look down on it.
However, playing a game and playing a shot are not analogous.
A man may get tired of playing games, but playing shooting, as long as there are no physical hardware problems, will probably be a lifelong hobby, after all, the assembly performance of each firearm, the ignition triggers the shooting experience, and even each different shooting posture has different fun for the gunman.
At this time, the young man Zhu Zaikun must be thinking: You can tie up my jer, but you can't tie my heart, and when I am free, I will have three days and three nights in a row, playing with guns all over the world.
"You shouldn't imprison him like this, it's counterproductive."
Ji Boying frowned and said in a condensed voice.
"Mistaken?"
Jiajing was stunned, in his opinion, Zhu Zaikun in another time and space must be a teenager who is used to indulgence and lacks education.
"After you go back, give him a normal wife and concubine."
"Well, on the scale of ordinary people, you can take a few more."
"Remember, containment is never the way to solve the problem, unblocking is the key."
(Young Zhu Zaikun: (_) Thanks to the immortal master, I finally don't have to do it anymore)
Ji Boying let out a long sigh.
The job of extending Guozuo is really fucking hard to fight, and even this kind of shit has to be mentioned by yourself.
"The disciple probably understood."
Jiajing nodded.
He actually didn't think about it, what the master said to do, then how to do it.
"Let's go."
As soon as Ji Boying spoke, the figures of the two disappeared into the luxurious cabin.
At this time, Hu Zongxian and Qi Jiguang, who had already gotten off the boat and were standing on the dock to blow the wind, and Xu Wei, who was playing soy sauce on the side the whole time, all three of them had an unreal face.
"Governor Hu, am I really promoted again?"
Qi Jiguang was a little stunned, he still felt a little mysterious, he saw the emperor inexplicably, he saw the immortal master inexplicably, and he was promoted inexplicably.
He didn't know how to explain to his wife when he went back.
"Let's go back first, if you and I don't see hell, there should be a holy decree in a few days."
After that, Lao Hu patted Qi Jiguang's shoulder.
"Twenty-six-year-old chief military officer, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there has never been such a precedent, the future of the virtuous brother is promising, and the future is immeasurable."
This is officialdom, and the titles have changed.
…………………………
Longqing time and space.
The moon has risen above the treetops.
Shuntian Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.
Zhu Zaikun was standing on the edge of the couch, frowning and tangled.
'To eat, or not to eat. ’
'To play, or not to play?' ’
Seven glamorous orchids, with deep eyes and blue eyes, skin like congealed fat, from their bodies to their faces, there is no place that is not loved, and there is no place that is not ecstatic, kneeling side by side by the dragon royal side, waiting for someone destined to come to load.
Just once, just one last time. ’
'I'm wet with rain and dew, as long as I'm fast enough, the immortal master won't be able to find out. ’
Looking up at the sky outside, Emperor Longqing comforted himself.
Then, Zhu Zaikun took a deep breath and took out a pill the size of a honey date from his sleeve, which was the eunuch Meng Chong, the eunuch of the palm seal of the celebrant supervisor, asked Wang Jiusi to give him the newly refined Yin Yang Great Tonic Pill, claiming to eat three pills a day, enough for a hundred days, and Jing Yuan could not be dispersed overnight.
Zhu Zaikun stuffed the pill into his mouth, didn't chew it, and swallowed it directly.
The pill entered the body, and Zhu Zaikun suddenly felt that he was possessed.
Just as he was about to show his might.
From outside the Qianqing Palace, a noise came.
"Gao Ge Lao, you can't enter, you can't enter...!"
"Get out!"
No matter how the eunuchs outside stopped it, they couldn't stop the two figures from stepping into the Qianqing Palace.
Of course, one of them was forcibly pulled in.
I saw a high-arched old man in his sixties with a fierce face, dragging Zhang Juzheng into the Qianqing Palace.
And the reason why Gao Gong is so angry is also simple.
Just now, a holy decree was issued to the cabinet.
The content is concise and clear, Zhang Juzheng replaced Gao Gong as the first assistant of the cabinet, and Gao Gong became the second assistant of the cabinet.
This is completely intolerable for Gao Gong, who has always been used to domineering, so in a fit of anger, he directly dragged Zhang Juzheng to see the emperor, and it was useless for anyone to stop him.
Brother Zhang Shuai was also very helpless, thinking that this is not something you can solve with the emperor, I was chosen by the gods!
"You ......"
Zhu Zaikun, who originally planned to send seven consecutive hairs quickly, looked at his most beloved Mr. Gao, his face turned red, it was obvious that the effect of this medicine had worked, and he thought to himself that you, the old man, would not come sooner or later, but he wanted to come at this time.
You're going to suffocate me!
"Your Majesty, when the old minister entered the cabinet, he Zhang Juzheng was just a small national supervisor."
"When he was the first assistant, he was at the bottom of the cabinet."
"Over the years in the cabinet, the old minister has been doing his best for the country all the time, worrying about state affairs for His Majesty, and doing his best."
"Your Majesty's holy decree today, you must give an explanation to the old minister, otherwise, otherwise..."
Bang...!
There was a thunderclap.
At this moment, the high arch is even more looking up to the sky and sighing, and the old tears are horizontal.
"Even the heavens are arching injustice for me, and thunder is crying out for me!"
Gao Gong was angry, pointing to the pillar next to him.
"If you don't give me an explanation today, I will die here, go underground and ask the emperor!"
Mr. Gao's voice just fell.
"No need to go underground, I've come up to see you."
A familiar voice fell into Mr. Gao's ears.
(End of chapter)