It's another year after year, and the sacrifices in the palace year after year, according to the system, Yan Song can't enter the palace anymore.

Yan Song still quietly came to the West Garden.

"Minister Yan Song, please see Your Majesty."

Jiajing in the fine house said a little lazily: "Elder Yan Ge doesn't need to be polite, if it weren't for something important, Elder Yan Ge would never enter the palace at such a time." ”

Huang Jin brought a round stool for Yan Song.

Yan Song lowered his head and sat down, and then he took out the book from his sleeve and said, "Your Majesty, this is the warrant that the prince handed over to the cabinet before. ”

"It is said that next summer, it will be implemented in Daming."

"The old minister has already drafted a ticket with Xu Zisheng, but the old minister thinks that this matter still needs to be consulted by His Majesty."

Yan Song knew that Zhu Zaili's warrant could be sent to the cabinet, which meant that it was not only the prince's meaning, but also Jiajing's meaning.

But Yan Song still came, and some things can't be done by tacit understanding alone, let alone such a big thing.

"But something happened to the prince in Nanjing?"

"His Royal Highness is a heroic quality, wise and decisive, there is no chaos, but after such a stirring in Xishan, there is still the matter of Litian in front of it, Nangi has not yet made trouble, and the rest of the provinces have also heard the wind."

"Yan Ge always wants to say that the price of food has risen, right?"

"Your Majesty's holy opinion, there is no need to go far, even if it is a capital master, the price of rice is far different from that of the perennial."

The rise in food prices is not because all the gentry know about Xishan.

After all, in this era, news closure is the norm, and more gentry in small places only learned from the mouths of the sects in Litian that they were going to carry out the whipping law next year.

These gentlemen, who are full of food and have nothing to do on weekdays, and can only calculate the tenant farmers, can naturally see at a glance that the centralized sale of grain by all peasant households after the whip method is a good time to make money.

The operation of buying grain in advance to save ammunition and smashing it out when the summer grain is converted into silver, and smashing the price of grain down, as long as there is a gentleman within a radius of several hundred miles who understands it, he will call his friends and act together.

The more gentry participated, the lower the price of grain during the summer harvest, and the more the big guys earned.

Yan Song looked at Jiajing cautiously, and then said in a low voice: "According to what the minister has seen, this matter may not be the power of the ordinary first and second families. ”

What really worries Yan Song is that Jiajing made a strategic miscalculation.

"If they really have such ability, my Ming Dynasty will die in the country."

Hearing Jiajing say this, Yan Song's hanging heart was completely relaxed.

"Your Majesty is decisive."

only do what you should do, and after reminding Jiajing, Yan Songxuan even got up and said goodbye.

At the same time, Yan Song also completely believed in his judgment.

Yan Shifan must be locked up at home.

After Yan Song left, Huang Jin said from Jiajing's ear: "Emperor, I'm afraid that the people in the city are going to make trouble." ”

"What are they doing?"

"They...... I suspect that the capital teacher is expensive. ”

Jiajing casually put down the notebook signed by Gao Gong, and then said with a smile: "Don't you just want food?" ”

"I will help them again, and I will urgently inform the provinces that the price of grain is too high for 800 miles, open a warehouse as usual, and sell grain at a flat price, including Jingshi."

"Whoa."

——

When the people in the city welcomed the New Year, the dissatisfaction in the hearts of the people who entered Beijing to catch the exam became more and more high.

In the twenty-ninth year of Jiajing, the first order issued by the cabinet was Zhu Zaili's warrant.

The last big stone hanging over the heads of the hundred officials and the gentry of the world completely fell to the ground.

Just after that order was issued, the price of food in Jingshi rose again.

Wuju practiced martial arts day and night, but there was no reaction, but the people of Wenju couldn't hold on.

Many people gathered outside the Guozi Prison, lying on the ground and reading books.

When Guozi Siye Lin Tingji heard the news, he ordered his servants to rush to Guozijian with wine and food.

When everyone heard that it was the Lin family's wine and food, they got up from the ground and ate a few bites.

Lin Tingji stood outside the Guozi Prison and said bitterly: "According to the ancestral system, the family is poor, and the county should apportion Lijia to serve in the county, and the people of the county will be evenly divided into the entangled in Beijing, why did you fall here?" ”

"Sijiao, Fan Wenzheng Gong said that the world is worried and worried, and now the people in the city have no land, and they can't eat without this high-priced grain.

When you take the exam in Beijing, you generally find your own place to live.

If you are really difficult, you can go to the Temple of Literature or Guozijian for help.

There was a man in the crowd outside the prison holding a book, munching on bread and reading a book.

Among the hungry people with Venus eyes, those who eat normally have become outliers.

Lin Tingji stepped forward.

"Then why don't the people hunger with the people?"

Hearing Lin Tingji's words, the man got up and said, "Teaching the priest, the student has been dull since he was a child, and he really can't understand it. ”

"What do you understand?"

"Today rice is expensive, and the kings are hungry with the people."

"He is cheap in rice, and if he is cheap in grain, he will hurt the peasants, will the princes be poor with the people?"

As soon as these words came out, the sound of the collision of dishes and chopsticks outside the Guozi Prison came to an abrupt end.

Everyone's eyes were focused on this middle-aged man.

Alien will always be rejected.

The lifter who was sitting next to the middle-aged lifter also took the initiative to draw a clear line with the middle-aged lifter.

"Hai Gangfeng, when did the Sage Book tell you this? At this time, the imperial court should sell the grain in the warehouse at a low price to avoid the hunger and cold of the people, and then make up for today's deficit when the grain is cheap, so as to raise the price of grain and leave the people rich. ”

Hai Jui didn't say a word.

Lin Tingji said, "Hai...... Gangfeng, I think what you said in the same year makes sense, don't you think so? ”

Hai Rui was asked by Lin Tingji.

The anger in his heart could no longer be concealed, and he arched his hand towards Lin Tingji and said: "Back to the priest, the reason why Emperor Taizu Gao set up a wide range of warehouses is that the words are clear and clear, is to make up for the harvest year and provide disaster relief in the disaster year. ”

"Since there are no natural disasters this year, then the price of grain is a man-made disaster, what is the use of opening a warehouse to sell grain?"

"Even if you open a warehouse and sell cheap grain, it is nothing more than giving silverfish an opportunity to take advantage of it, and take this opportunity to empty the warehouse of the imperial court!"

Lin Tingji's face sank.

"What are you talking about?"

"Don't the priests know who is hoarding grain in the world? If the grain is sold at this time, isn't it just the heart of the traitor, and the storage of the imperial court is used to cry out for the summer harvest to lower the price of grain? ”

On the way to Beijing, Hai Rui saw clearly that the current grain price is high, and that is because the people who buy grain now are not ordinary people at all, but gentry from all over the country.

If the imperial court really lowered the price of grain, it was nothing more than helping the gentry reduce the cost of grain hoarding.

This is the counterattack of the gentry of the world against Li Tian.

Now the grain released by the imperial court to stabilize the price of grain will finally be smashed out in one go during the summer harvest.

Thinking of this, Hai Rui couldn't help but shake his head and sneered: "When they drop the price of grain, the imperial court will follow to replenish the stock, so what's the difference between sharing the spoils directly with the thief?" ”

There was silence outside the prison.

In just a few words, Hai Rui made most of the same year remember his name thoroughly.

Only Lin Tingji stood in place, his face became a little strange and muttered: "Like, too similar." ”

Just put a Ning Jue outside.

Here comes another Haigang Peak.

This god doesn't want this court to stop!

Hai Rui's voice did not fall.

Everyone outside the prison clearly heard the sound of gongs coming from the streets.

"Your Majesty's edict, all provinces and Beijing will open warehouses and release grain at the same time to relieve the people's hunger!"

All the people outside the Guozi Prison celebrated with their crowns.

Only Hai Rui's face became more and more ugly.

——

Just when Jingshi raised a bullet crown to celebrate, congratulating justice on the victory over evil again.

In an acropolis in Jizhou Town, more than 100 chimneys have already risen black smoke.

The Central Plains was short of silver in ancient times, so the ancestral dragon swept the Liuhe and cast square hole money for civil use.

By the time of the Two Song Dynasty, the prosperous commodity economy of the Two Song Dynasty completely hollowed out the last batch of copper-rich mines in Jiangxi, so the people lacked currency, so they gave birth to a currency called "Jiaozi".

In the Yuan and Ming dynasties, they all thought of replacing money with money.

The reason for this is nothing more than the lack of silver and copper.

But it is not difficult to find that under the input of silver at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing court, which was the last to take over, suddenly had no shortage of silver.

The most outrageous thing is that the Qing court did not lack copper coins.

Because it is very simple, in the thirteenth year of Ming orthodoxy, Wang Zhen insisted on sending troops south to conquer Luchuan, killing all the writing, language, and civilization of Luchuan to extinction, completely changing the pattern of Tusi in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty.

Then a large number of Han people poured into Yunnan, followed by the most direct consequence is that Yunnan copper was born, to the Qing Dynasty, the peak annual output of Yunnan copper was 13 million catties, only Wumeng (that is, the later Zhaotong) copper produced accounted for sixty percent of the world's copper production, but because of the money ban and the threat of the southwest Tusi, the Ming Dynasty has never mined Yunnan copper on a large scale.

And all this, by the time of the Jiajing Dynasty, had undergone a distinct change.

In the seventh year of Jiajing, there was a Ming Dynasty, the most thorough sinicization, the so-called most virtuous southwest Tusi, Wang Shizhen's eyes in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, 17 families with a property of more than 500,000 taels of Tusi An Wanquan borrowed his brother's Shizhi Shuixi to comfort the envoy.

From the seventh year of Jiajing to the forty-first year of Jiajing, which was the only window period for mining Yunnan copper in the Ming Dynasty.

Because An Wanquan has a large number of industries in Shuzhong and Huguang, which are under the direct control of the imperial court.

A coppersmith wiped the sweat from his forehead and ran to the front of the high arch.

"Tell me, let the brothers rest, I haven't closed my eyes for two days and two nights."

The heat of the day and night made the coppersmith's face red.

A wooden box full of Jiajing Tongbao was moved to the front of the high arch.

Gao Gong's eyes didn't blink.

Still staring at the copper furnaces in front of him with a solemn face, he whispered: "People don't stop the furnaces, if there is a shortage of people, go to the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army to find the town and uncle, within three months, the copper coins that Your Majesty wants to mint must be delivered on schedule!" ”

The coppersmiths breathed a sigh of relief, and after singing in a low voice, they led the people down to rest.

In the West Garden, Jiajing, who is wrapped in a big coat, ascends to the top and looks at the southeast.

It is not only Jizhou, but also Jiangnan.

"I've never said that the whip law must be taxed as silver."

(End of chapter)