"Yang Zhan? Where did you get this pepper?! ”

Zhu Gaoxu saw a familiar food in the vegetable basket, that is, chili peppers that should have been introduced in the late Ming Dynasty.

However, at the moment it is very small, only a centimeter or two, and it is sun-dried.

As a person who likes to eat spicy food, he feels more kind when he sees chili peppers at this moment than when he sees his fellow countrymen.

"Chili?"

Yang Zhan, who was burying his head in the fire, looked up suspiciously, and after seeing the red chili pepper in Zhu Gaoxu's hand, he scolded:

"This is Wang Xuan's hun guy brought from his hometown, I said that people in Jiangnan and Beiping don't eat wild peppers, this guy prefers this bite, let him cook by himself a little, don't be difficult for His Highness."

When Zhu Gaoxu heard Yang Zhan call the chili pepper a wild pepper, he couldn't help but feel puzzled, and looked sideways at Wang Xuan.

That Wang Xuan was like a child who had done something wrong, scratched his head, and replied in an urn voice:

"Your Highness, we came out of the mountains, and when the fog is in that place, it is humid, so we have to eat some spicy food."

"If you don't like it, let's eat it ourselves in the future, and we're almost done anyway......"

"Like! How could you not like it! Zhu Gaoxu, who was not spicy or happy, gritted his teeth and said:

"I'll just take this bite, you found this thing from Yunnan, let your family send some more, don't ...... I'll scatter its seeds in the wasteland of the backyard wall! ”

"Huh?" Hearing that Zhu Gaoxu likes to eat wild peppers, Yang Zhan was taken aback, and then felt a little uncomfortable.

He was born in Jiangnan and doesn't like spicy spices that much.

It's just that he made a mistake with his front foot, and with his back foot, he saw Zhu Gaoxu take a bite of the wild pepper, and he was dumbfounded.

"This spiciness...... Not bad. ”

Tasting the spiciness of the wild pepper in his mouth, Zhu Gaoxu nodded with satisfaction, feeling that it was about the same as the spiciness of the pepper.

Seeing him like this, Wang Xuan also explained with a smile:

"This is the wild pepper that my father and Xipinghou saw on the side of the road when they went to the south to fight, but no one ate it, so my father felt good after taking a bite, so he took it home."

"It's just that this thing can't be raised, I'm afraid Your Highness will be disappointed."

Wang Xuan sighed, and Zhu Gaoxu also looked at the few wild peppers in his hand with a heartache: "No matter, you try it first." ”

Zhu Gaoxu didn't know in advance that there was this kind of wild chili pepper in the Indochina Peninsula and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, although it was not so spicy and small, but in order to satisfy his appetite, he still wanted Wang Xuan to try it.

Thinking about it, Zhu Gaoxu handed over the seeds to Wang Xuan, who was happy next to him, and began to chop vegetables and prepare them himself.

When the beef was almost blanched, he took out the beef and let it cool, let Yang Zhan wash the pot, took out the oil pot and poured one or two oils, and saw that Yang Zhan's flesh hurt.

You must know that oil is still expensive at this time, and ordinary people eat oil basically just by rolling it on the pot and then pouring it back, but when it comes to Zhu Gaoxu, it is the same as not asking for money.

Zhu Gaoxu got up the pot and boiled the oil, and spent a quarter of an hour preparing three dishes, while Yang Zhan was looking at the rice.

By the time Zhu Gaoxu finished the last cabbage soup, the three dishes and one soup had already been placed on the stone table in the front yard, and the rice was already ripe.

Yang Zhan brought out a pot of rice, and Wang Xuan came back from work, washed his hands and took out the dishes and chopsticks.

When Zhu Gaoxu sat down, what appeared in front of him was stir-fried cabbage, stir-fried beef with wild peppers, and fried river fish, tofu and cabbage soup.

"Let's move the chopsticks."

Zhu Gaoxu was busy reading the book of soldiers after eating, so he moved quickly, and the two of them also moved their chopsticks when they saw this.

It was only halfway through the meal that Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly asked, "Can civilians eat our food today?" ”

"If you have land at home, and you are still working in Nanjing, you should be able to eat this fish and vegetables, and the beef is absolutely uneaten, but Your Highness, what you make is quite delicious, better than the chef of Songjiang Mansion."

Yang Zhan explained while eating, and did not forget to pat his ass.

Zhu Gaoxu was not happy after hearing this, but nodded as if he didn't understand, which can be regarded as understanding the life of the people in the Jiangnan area.

Hearing this, Wang Xuan shook his head and said: "That's Jiangnan, if it's the north and southwest, the food will naturally not be so rich." ”

"When I was in Yunnan, the Han people who migrated to the past could still eat cabbage, and the local barbarians ate a brown rice with some wild vegetables and water."

"That's really not good......" Listening to Wang Xuan's words, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but be glad that he had crossed over to Lao Zhu's house.

If he crosses over to the Shaomin in the southwest, then I am afraid that he will really have to live the life of Wang Xuan's mouth.

"From tomorrow, the two of you will learn martial arts as before, and then go out to buy vegetables after practicing."

Zhu Gaoxu explained, and then got up and returned to the study.

When he arrived in the study, he saw the money on the table, and then walked out with the money and threw it to Yang Zhan: "You will take care of the money from now on." ”

"So much?!" Yang Zhan took the money worth thirty yuan, and his face was happy.

However, after he was happy, he still took the treasure money and reminded: "Your Highness, this money may not be spent." ”

"Can't get the flowers out?" Zhu Gaoxu frowned, and Yang Zhan also explained:

"This treasure money is fine in other places, but it is a little difficult to spend in Nanzhili and Jiangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang."

Yang Zhan answered Zhu Gaoxu first, and then explained in detail.

Since the issuance of the Ming treasure banknote, although Zhu Yuanzhang has stipulated that the banknote can be converted into one tael of silver, or one thousand copper coins, but unfortunately from the eight years of Hongwu Daming Central Bank to issue treasure banknotes, the treasure banknotes have fallen into a dead cycle of continuous depreciation.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang himself has also traveled some policies to recover damaged treasure banknotes, the number of treasure banknotes recovered is far less than the number of issues issued, which leads to the fact that this thing does not have much credit.

At present, the consistent treasure money has to be spent, and it can be spent, but at present, the consistent money can buy four stone rice, and the purchase with treasure money has to be four times.

In other words, these twenty treasure banknotes, converted into money, can only be counted as five or six at most.

"Understood......" Zhu Gaoxu nodded helplessly, feeling a little headache.

In fact, with a large amount of gold and silver buried in the land by the ancient nobles, and the copper in the Hongwu period was also used to make firearms, so the early Ming Dynasty fell into the problem of money shortage.

Zhu Gaoxu remembers well, if the Ming Dynasty operates this shortcoming, it can enter the era of paper money.

But the problem is that this kind of economic problem is difficult to solve even in later generations, because the real value of this kind of paper money lies in the fact that there must be a rare metal currency or grain deposit that exists in reality according to a certain ratio behind it as a guarantee for the value of paper money, that is, its reserves.

But the problem is that the Ming Dynasty did not have so many reserves, so it was very difficult to run the system of treasure money.

Zhu Yuanzhang is crazy about printing money here, but he only changes it and doesn't accept it, and the treasure money that pours into the market has increased, and the things produced are still so little, so this system will naturally collapse.

Zhu Gaochu could not demand Zhu Yuanzhang according to the economic standards of future generations, and Zhu Gaochu also felt that Zhu Yuanzhang should know the results of the indiscriminate issuance of treasure money.

But the problem is that the Ming Dynasty does not have enough metal to make reserves, so this system itself is a system for harvesting a large number of the middle class of the people.

"Emperor, ......"

Zhu Gaoxu sighed, turned around and returned to the study and began to study the military book left by Xu Da.

Although Xu Da's military book is a little rough, and there are some blows about Xu Da's command of the war during the period, it is indeed a good read for Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu devoted himself to the content of the military book, and he knew very well that only by learning to lead troops to fight could he better protect himself in the future.

While he was studying, the one in the Forbidden City also encountered a tricky thing......