"Fresh cabbage, eggplant!"

"Little chicken, take one away for one penny, and you can sell it for more than 20 wen after raising it for three months!"

"The little black dog who cares for the house, take it away with twenty wen!"

"Poultry sold, healthy meat and fat ......"

In the big tree camp, Zhu Gaoxu and Yang Zhan were wandering around with a donkey cart, and they also bought a lot of things.

For Yang Zhan, there is nothing new about all this, but for Zhu Gaoxu, he can be regarded as a further understanding of the life of the people in this era.

The rammed land is flanked by melons and fruits placed on straw mats, and in the imperial court butcher shop not far away, there are strips of bright red meat.

Although the passers-by were dressed in cloth clothes and shoes, they were dressed very modestly, and their hair was washed and bound with cloth towels.

Occasionally, someone leads a cow, a donkey, and a dog to sell, and Zhu Gaoxu will also go up to ask for the price.

As Yang Zhan said, the price of a yellow cow is about seven taels, while the so-called plough ox is a buffalo, and the price is slightly higher, about eight taels or six yuan.

Although most of the people used copper coins when settling accounts, judging from the fact that they used "taels" as a unit, silver has gradually circulated among the people as currency.

The reason why the people don't use it is just because of the ban of the imperial court.

During this period, Zhu Gaoxu could also hear some foot merchants discussing that there was no silver as currency, which made life inconvenient.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu has no way to criticize Zhu Yuanzhang from the perspective of the people, because he comes from later generations and can understand the situation faced by Zhu Yuanzhang from the perspective of God.

Although the later countries had high silver reserves in the world, it was because of the later Mongolia, Xinjiang and Northeast China.

Excluding these places, there are not many provinces in Daming that are easy to mine silver.

Silver has been used in all dynasties, but it has not become a currency circulation, the most important reason is that the quantity is too small to form a circulating currency.

In Zhu Gaoxu's cognition, this change in the situation was also caused by the corruption of the banknote law in the Ming Dynasty.

From the beginning of the Chenghua period, due to the corruption of the banknote law to the extreme, the imperial court began to pay attention to silver mining.

In addition, at this time, Yunnan has been greatly developed because of the continuous immigration of the emperors of the past dynasties for nearly a hundred years, and Yunnan has also begun to become the main source of silver, and more than 100,000 taels of silver can be handed over to the Ming Dynasty every year.

According to the proportion of silver in the Ming Dynasty, the annual silver output of Yunnan Province can reach more than 400,000 taels or more.

Coupled with the continuous mining of silver mines in Jiangxi, Nanzhili, Guangdong and other places, the amount of silver mined in the Ming Dynasty every year was no less than one million taels, which greatly accelerated the process of silver monetization.

Of course, the more important source of silver was the large inflow of silver from the Americas and Japan after the lifting of the ban on the sea in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

At the peak of the East-West trade route, American silver could flow into the Ming Dynasty by one or two million taels per year.

During this period, due to the discovery of the world's largest Iwami silver mine in Japan at this time, it could flow into the Ming Dynasty by more than 2 million taels per year.

The influx of large quantities of silver ensured the stable issuance and circulation of the Ming Dynasty's currency, and at the same time allowed the complete monetization of silver.

It is impossible for Zhu Yuanzhang to know that a large amount of silver will flow into the future of Daming, and it is impossible to know that the easiest silver mine to mine at the moment is in Tottori, Japan, across the sea.

He didn't know, but Zhu Gaoxu knew.

"If I can develop the Iwami silver mine, I am afraid that I can promote the monetization of silver in advance, and I can also use the silver to recover the treasure money to stabilize the treasure banknote, restore the credibility of the imperial court, and prevent inflation from continuing to ......"

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the people who used heavy copper coins to trade, and such a thought rose in his mind.

The Iwami Silver Mine and the gold and silver mines on Sado Island, as long as they are used properly, can provide millions of taels of silver and tens of thousands of taels of gold for the Ming Dynasty every year.

Daming does not need to travel to the Americas to solve the current money shortage and economic problems.

It's a pity that although Zhu Gaoxu knows this, he is powerless to change this situation at the moment.

He didn't believe that his grandfather would believe his words, after all, he was too light in his heart.

Even if his father Zhu Di speaks, it is estimated that Zhu Yuanzhang will not pay attention to it.

The grandfather of his own family is now focused on how to prevent the vassal kings and nobles from making trouble and maintain the orthodox inheritance of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Gaoxu pondered for a moment, and it was not until Yang Zhan had bought all the supplies they needed that they got on the donkey cart and went home.

"Luckily it didn't rain, otherwise I would have been covered in mud today."

Sitting in the front of the car, Yang Zhan joked to himself, and Zhu Gaoxu also thought of the scene after the rammed land was soaked in rain.

Thinking of such a scene, Zhu Gaoxu shook his head: "This is the fourteenth century after all, not the ...... of the future."

Zhu Gaoxu understands that he has to correct his position, if he can't do it right, then whether it is the prince or the prince, or the emperor in the future, there will be no place for him.

"Power is a tool to realize my ideals, if I don't have absolute power, then no matter how right my thoughts are, I still have to look at the ......faces of others," Zhu Gaoxu thought to himself.

Yang Zhan next to him looked at him with a wrong face, and thought that this market town was far from what Zhu Gaoxu imagined, so he didn't dare to speak for a while, not knowing that Zhu Gaoxu's thoughts had reached a place he didn't dare to think.

The two men were silent, except for the rolling of the wheels on the dirt road and the stubborn panting of the donkey.

The silence did not last long, though, for the dull sound of horses' hooves sounded behind them.

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves, Yang Zhan didn't dare to slack off and drove the donkey cart to the side of the road, while Zhu Gaoxu also looked up at the end of the road.

In the distance, it was dusty, and light cavalry in cuirass swept from the end of the road, and the number was not visible at a glance.

The cavalry rode away, and someone recognized Zhu Gaochu on the way, immediately stopped the horse, and said to Zhu Gaochu on horseback:

"Your Highness, has you just returned from the market town?"

"Well, did something happen?" Zhu Gaoxu nodded, and took a look at the light horse that had not yet swept away.

"Daozhou barbarian rebellion, we were called back to the camp and waited for the military order of the Governor's Mansion."

The soldiers replied, and Zhu Gaoxu was also worried when he heard this: "Do you want to go on the expedition?" ”

"Judging from the perennial examples, there should be no need to go on an expedition, but it needs to be assembled for His Majesty's summons." The soldier shook his head and explained in passing.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu also returned the salute and signaled that the soldiers could leave.

When the soldiers saw Zhu Gaoxu salute him back, they couldn't help but be a little surprised, and hurriedly returned the salute and rode away.

After more than ten breaths, this group of cavalry completely swept past Zhu Gaoxu and the others and rushed towards the big church field in the distance.

"It should be the soldiers of the leopard Tao Wei Mu Xiu in front of the palace, and the soldiers of Hezhou Wei are not so tall."

Yang Zhan looked at the backs of the soldiers riding horses and whips, and his eyes were full of envy.

For a military attache like him, whose father is only a hundred households, unless the Ming Dynasty can make the world flooded with horses, it will be very difficult for him to get a military horse given by the imperial court.

Even if it is Zhu Gaoxu, before he is crowned the king of the county, normally speaking, he cannot privately possess military horses.

In the past, in Beiping, they only borrowed military horses, but could not possess them.

However, rules are rules, and if Zhu Gaoxu really wants to take possession, then the officials of the Pastoral Bureau and the Imperial Horse Supervisor will not dare to say anything.

But if Zhu Gaoxu really did that, then he would be tantamount to ruining his reputation for the past three months.

He won't do such a small thing.

"Let's go, it is estimated that the Guogong Mansion has also sent things."

Zhu Gaoxu turned around and got into the donkey cart, and Yang Zhan also hurriedly turned over and drove the donkey cart back to the Dajiao Field......