Zhu Yuanzhang strode in and said with a smile: "Eldest grandson, you spoke well!" ”

"Grandpa!"

Huang Xiongying said with a smile: "My grandson is just teaching my younger brother to complete his schoolwork, so I said it casually. ”

"Hey! Let's see, even if there are six books, there is no one who dares to say it, and will say it! Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile.

"Grandpa, you are tormenting your grandson, how can your grandson compare with the six books!"

Huang Xiongying smiled, and didn't want to dwell on this issue, but looked at the person he had never seen behind the old man, and asked, "Grandpa, who is this?" ”

"Oh, this is your Grandpa Song!"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and pointed to Feng Sheng behind him.

Feng Sheng's whole person was stunned, and his heart was full of turbulent waves.

This young man is called the emperor's grandfather, and the emperor calls him the eldest grandson, and in an instant, more than ten years ago, the emperor held his most beloved eldest grandson Zhu Xiongying with the happy appearance of more than ten years ago.

It's like a world away.

The young man in front of him, between his eyebrows, can vaguely see the appearance of the prince back then, if he is on the road, he would never dare to recognize him, but now that the emperor is shouting like this, he has to accept it.

And when he saw the Third Highness following the young man, Feng Sheng was even more sure that this young man should be Zhu Xiongying, the emperor's grandson who had been dead for ten years.

He didn't know why a man who had been dead for ten years would reappear.

But he knew that if the young man in front of him was the emperor's grandson, it would mean that many things in the Ming Dynasty would have to be changed.

At the same time, he also understands why the emperor doesn't directly introduce his name, which is related to what the emperor instructed along the way, that is, don't reveal your identity, he is Song Guogong, and it is appropriate to call Grandpa Song.

"Hello Grandpa Song!"

Huang Xiongying made a gesture to Feng Sheng.

Although Feng Sheng was already in his sixtieth year, his reaction was still quite fast, and he hurriedly helped Huang Xiongying up: "Son, don't be polite!" ”

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang wrinkled his nose: "Well, it's so fragrant, eldest grandson, you are having lunch!" ”

Huang Xiongying smiled and said, "Grandpa, I didn't know you brought so many people here, you sit first, and I'll go and ask Lao Xu to cook two more dishes now." ”

Saying that, Huang Xiongying turned around and went to the kitchen to tell Lao Xu to go, but Xiaobao was still not used to seeing people, so he also went with him.

"Minister, I've seen Your Highness!"

Huang Xiongying was not there, so Feng Sheng and Fu Youde took the opportunity to salute Zhu Yunxi.

"The two princes don't have to be polite!"

Zhu Yunxi was much calmer than before, and responded with a smile.

If it had been before, Zhu Yunxi would probably have a blushing face, and he would have to tie a knot when he spoke.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw it in his eyes, and his face was full of gratification.

After sitting down again, Feng Sheng hesitated again and again, and finally couldn't help but ask Zhu Yuanzhang:

"Your Majesty, that Huang Gongzi is really ......"

Before Feng Sheng finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

It really is!

Feng Sheng's breathing stagnated slightly, and the emperor said that it must be, which Feng Sheng never doubted, especially on the key issue of the heir.

"It was the emperor's grandson who helped solve the disaster relief problem not long ago? And this time, let the king of Qi go to suppress Kou, and it is also the emperor's grandson......"

Feng Sheng thought a lot for a while.

After Zhu Yuanzhang nodded affirmatively, Feng Sheng looked shocked.

"That'...... The old man already knew? ”

Feng Sheng glanced at Fu Youde, who was calm and composed.

Fu Youde stroked his beard and smiled without saying a word, but there was a bit of pride on his face.

Old boy, you are a proud fart, and you are not your grandson!

Feng Sheng couldn't help but slander.

At this time, I only heard Zhu Yuanzhang smile and said: "Zongyi, I brought you here this time because our eldest grandson said that he has a good set of formations, aren't you the best at these?" We want you to help you observe and observe. ”

"Minister, thank you, Emperor!"

Feng Sheng replied respectfully, his face full of gratitude.

This was a trivial matter, but Feng Sheng was grateful, because today's Feng Sheng is no longer the high-spirited Song Guogong at the beginning.

Five years ago, that is, in the twentieth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Feng Sheng to be the general of the conquest, the commander of the army, and the conquest of the Yuan Taiwei Naha, after returning from the victory, some people reported that he hid many good horses, and sent people to drink wine to Naha's wife in turn, in order to seek a big pearl, the prince died only two days before he forcibly married his daughter, so he lost the heart of surrender and attachment, and lost Pu Ying's 3,000 cavalry and other crimes.

His son-in-law Chang Mao also took the opportunity to attack him for his mistakes because of conflicts with him during the war.

As a result, Long Yan was furious, and not only were the generals who returned from the great victory not rewarded, but his general seal was confiscated, and since then, he has not commanded a large army.

So at this time, Feng Sheng's position was actually very awkward.

And this time, the emperor actually took him to meet the emperor's grandson, who had not yet disclosed his identity, and asked him to help observe the formation, what is this? It's trust!

Can Feng Shengyan not be grateful?

The crown prince and the emperor's grandson are young and ignorant, and the emperor is old, so he will inevitably be very suspicious, and the smart Feng Sheng has figured out a lot since he was punished, so in the past few years, he has clamped his tail.

However, at this moment, he keenly felt that the whole situation seemed to have taken a turn for the better......

Just as he was thinking about it, Huang Xiongying had already asked Lao Xu to add a few dishes and a few pairs of chopsticks.

"A few grandfathers, eat!"

Huang Xiongying greeted.

Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have returned to his home, and he picked up the dishes and chopsticks with a smile and ate them.

"Gongzi Xie!"

Seeing the emperor move the chopsticks, Feng Sheng and Fu Youde also moved the chopsticks, but they didn't forget to thank Huang Xiongying.

"Brother Jiang, let's eat together!"

Huang Xiongying looked at Jiang Zhen who was standing at the door with a smile and shouted.

"Huh? No...... No! ”

Jiang Zhen was stunned, and hurriedly shook his head like a rattle, and replied, "Small...... The little one has already eaten it just now, so I won't disturb the son and the master to eat, hehe......"

Thinking of the last time he ate in a restaurant, Jiang Zhen still has palpitations.

He discovered that eating with the emperor is actually a kind of realm.

Like him, just being on an equal footing with the emperor began to feel dizzy, let alone eating, it was a kind of torture.

Why? The realm has not yet arrived!

Jiang Zhen also began to understand a little why some princes were afraid of the emperor to death.

Take Tan Wang Zhu Zi as an example, because Yu Hu, the younger brother of Tan Wang's princess in Hu Weiyong's case, was involved in it, the emperor just asked him to summon Tan Wang into the palace to understand the situation, but Tan Wang was so frightened that he took the princess to self-immolate and die, even though the old emperor never used a knife against any of his descendants in his life.

It can be seen that the old emperor is mighty!

So since the last time he had dinner, Jiang Zhen has even more respect for the emperor's grandson......

Huang Xiongying was not too difficult, and returned to his seat and sat down.

"Eldest grandson, we just heard you talk about the four major policies that led to the demise of Meng Yuan, nation, land, taxation, and currency, right?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said while taking a big bite of food: "Then do you think there are any problems in our Daming compared to Meng Yuan in these four major policies?" ”

Listening to Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Fu Youde and Feng Sheng unconsciously stopped their chopsticks and looked at Huang Xiongying together.

This question is much more complex and far-reaching than the schoolwork problem mentioned by Zhu Yunxi before.

Because these are all basic national policies!

Any one of them will have a profound impact on the entire Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang also looked at Huang Xiongying quietly, he hoped that his eldest grandson could give him a different answer, instead of clichés.

Huang Xiongying glanced at the old man and said with a wry smile: "Grandpa, you are really embarrassed for your grandson, this is a major issue of national politics, how dare your grandson comment on it?" ”

"Whew! Just think of it as a family affair between the two of us, you can say whatever you want, if you say something wrong, grandpa won't blame you! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand with an encouraging look.

"Hmm."

Huang Xiongying nodded, pondered for a moment, and said slowly: "Our Ming Dynasty is a multi-ethnic dynasty, and most of those ethnic minorities are gathered in the border areas, so our Ming Dynasty is facing multiple problems such as a large number of ethnic minorities and different ethnic cultural customs. ”

"But in this regard, our Daming has done a very good job, targeting the ethnic minorities in the northeast, north, northwest and southwest, in handling ethnic relations and implementing ethnic policies, we have adopted a strategy that has both similarities and differences, in short, we have maintained a peaceful and stable situation, and my grandson thinks it is very successful!"

After listening, Zhu Yuanzhang showed a mouthful of big white teeth, and said to Fu Youde and Feng Sheng beside him with a proud face: "Listen, listen, how good our eldest grandson said, it deserves to be ...... It's our eldest grandson, haha-"

Fu Youde and Feng Sheng also hurriedly nodded yes.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Huang Xiongying with a smile, he liked to listen to his eldest grandson praise himself.

"What else?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked forward to it.

Huang Xiongying continued: "As for the monetary policy, although our Daming is better than Meng Yuan, my grandson thinks that the problems in this are still quite big. ”

"Oh?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's smiling face stiffened slightly, and said, "Let's talk about it, say it boldly." ”

Huang Xiongying nodded, said: "The origin of paper money has been many years, from the Northern Song Dynasty, Sichuan issued paper money Jiaozi, to the Mengyuan Dynasty, paper money is in circulation all over the world, but the rulers of the Song and Yuan dynasties issued money excessively, especially in the last years of the Mengyuan Dynasty, so that the paper money is even more discredited to the people. ”

"In the eighth year of Hongwu, Emperor Hongwu restored the paper money system in order to make the people's transactions more smooth, printed the Ming treasure banknotes, made the people pass, and at the same time prohibited the people's gold and silver transactions, established a unified national banknote law, and implemented a currency circulation system based on treasure banknotes and parallel banknotes."

"This is an excellent system and has brought good results, but there are great hidden dangers buried in it."

Having said that, several people present looked at Huang Xiongying with bated breath.

Huang Xiongying continued: "There is no plan for the publication of the Ming treasure banknotes, mainly through the form of the emperor's reward, court expenses and relief, as the main distribution channel, but the emperor's reward, relief, or foreign tributaries, there is no control, and the number of prints is completely based on the financial needs of the state. ”

What are the consequences of this? Treasure money will be overflowing, and the credibility will be lower and lower. ”

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slowly, revealing a thoughtful look.

"In addition, there is a loophole in the printing of treasure banknotes, that is, only in and out, the imperial court only cares about putting treasure money into the people, but when the actual tax is collected, it only collects a small amount of new banknotes or does not collect money at all, so what is the stability of treasure banknotes? Where is the credibility? ”

"The stability and credibility of treasure banknotes are getting lower and lower, and even when the state collects taxes, who is willing to collect and store them?"

"If you are an ordinary person, do you want to have ten taels of silver in your hand, or ten taels of treasure banknotes?"

Huang Xiongying's series of rhetorical questions directly stopped Zhu Yuanzhang.

This point Zhu Yuanzhang is not unaware of, because in the years since the publication of treasure banknotes, there has begun to be a large depreciation phenomenon, and in the eighteenth year of Hongwu, he also stopped printing, because he was also afraid that the price of treasure banknotes would continue to fall.

In the ninth year of Hongwu, the quasi-treasure banknote was consistent, and in the eighteenth year of Hongwu, each banknote ran through five hundred Wendai rice and one stone, that is to say, the treasure banknote fell by sixty percent in less than ten years.

And Fu Youde and Feng Sheng didn't dare to breathe, and openly denied the old emperor's policy, I am afraid that this is the one in front of me in this world.

Long.

Zhu Yuanzhang swallowed his saliva, moistened his dry throat, and said slowly:

"Eldest grandson, you also listen to us and tell us what we think!"

"The imperial court issued treasure money, it was a helpless move, at the beginning of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, a hundred wastes to be revived, the previous Meng Yuan did not look at the collapse of the fast, but it also ran fast, before the defeat of the Mobei, all the valuable things were swept away, especially the gold and silver of the northern treasury, almost no one left, they ran happily, but the Ming Dynasty was difficult!"

"The old emperor Hongwu is also in view of the lessons of Meng Yuan, casting two copper coins of Dazhong Tongbao and Hongwu Tongbao as currency, but where did we get the copper in Daming? There is a shortage of people for farming, how can anyone open a mine? Without copper, what is used to mint money? ”

"But our Ming Dynasty is waiting for money everywhere, and everything is in a hurry to use money, if the matter of money is not solved, the newly opened Ming Dynasty will either die poor or chaotic!"

"Do you know how many people the old emperor Hongwu saved with this Daming treasure banknote? In the most intense years of the war against the Northern Yuan, the military expenditure of the Ming Dynasty, the supply of materials, money and food, almost all of which were paid for by treasure money, which supported the Ming Dynasty to chase the Yuan and chase the north, and finally played a peaceful environment! ”

"Also, in the twenty-five years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, more than 5,000 water conservancy dams have been built alone, more than 40,000 pond weirs have been repaired, and all kinds of large and small livelihood construction are countless.

"Do you know all of this?"

After listening to the old man's words, Huang Xiongying was deeply shocked.

As a time-traveler from later generations, he has richer knowledge and more advanced vision, and he can judge history from the perspective of later generations.

For the people of this era, Huang Xiongying has always adhered to a heart of awe.

Especially the old man, who has benefited him a lot as a traverser several times.

Including this time.

For this Daming treasure banknote that carries such great significance, Huang Xiongying realized that his thoughts were dry, simple and rude, and the question he said was of course right, but he ignored the significance of the Daming treasure banknote for this Ming Dynasty, which is notoriously difficult in all aspects.

And the problems he just said could not be unaware of Emperor Hongwu, who knew how to save the country by printing paper money.

At this moment, he also had to sigh with emotion: "Emperor Hongwu Shengming, his grandson has been taught!" ”

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang did not show a smug look on his face this time, because he also knew that the problems that Huang Xiongying said just now existed.

"Of course, treasure money has the role of treasure money, but the problem is indeed as you just said, we have also discussed it with the old emperor Hongwu, but there is no good way, eldest grandson, what do you think about the problem of treasure money?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said and looked at Huang Xiongying quietly, he knew that this problem was indeed too difficult.

The treasure money promotion department has discussed countless times, and he and the ministers have also discussed the problem of treasure money countless times, and spent countless efforts, but they have not been able to completely solve the problem of treasure money.

Sure enough, Huang Xiongying also frowned and thought about it.

If it had been before, he would have used the so-called economic theories of later generations to talk about it, but now he knows that if he doesn't think from the perspective of the environment in which he lives, everything is just on paper.

Those theories may sound plausible, but they are difficult to implement.

"Well, this question is really too difficult, don't think about it if you can't think of it, it's already great to be able to see these problems! You must know that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, including the old emperor Hongwu, have no choice. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Huang Xiongying, who was frowning and thinking, knowing this problem, he was really embarrassed by his eldest grandson.

But at this moment, I saw Huang Xiongying shaking his head and said slowly: "Sun Er thinks that no way is also a good way!" ”

(End of chapter)