I am the king of the dead

What is a respectful heart?

The various performances of Xing'an and Yu Qian are respectful.

They kept Zhu Qiyu's words in mind all the time, instead of following the decree like Gu Yao and the censors, they still went their own way and violated the imperial decree, that is, they had no respect at all.

Zhu Qiyu took the small gold ingot and said: "Get up and talk, it's not a big deal. Prince Ji's illness is cured, and then pick a gold ingot twice as big from the inner storage, and return it to him together with this small ingot."

"You take it first."

Only then did Xing'an stand up slowly, took the gold ingot in his hand, put it solemnly in his sleeve, and heaved a long sigh of relief.

Companion to a king is like companion to a tiger, although His Majesty loves people, but it must be counted as a person in front of His Majesty.

At least now His Majesty treats eunuchs and extravagant officials as human beings.

Last time, His Majesty rewarded him with 1000 taels of silver for his supervision of the official residence, but he hasn't spent it yet, he is too busy and has no time at all.

In the position of Xing'an, one has to be careful and careful in everything. How many people below are staring at his position. His Majesty is not the orthodox emperor, and he relies heavily on the eunuchs in everything.

Zhu Qiyu continued to study Yu Qian's investigation report. This memorial was very well written, and it seemed that he had been preparing for a long time.

Zhu Qiyu also needs to make more preparations for the court meeting.

"You have to pay more attention to the queen mother's attitude towards the son's illness." Zhu Qiyu said suddenly.

Xing'an bowed his head and said, "Yes."

After the Empress Dowager Sun was beheaded by His Majesty's sword in Zhu Qizhen, she has been diligent in worshiping the Buddha, as if she didn't ask anything.

But I still knew that Zhu Jianshen was ill, and he had a fever for several days but did not recover.

"Your Majesty sent Xing'an Dadang to Prince Ji's mansion, Princess Ji and Xing'an Dadang said a few words." A maidservant outside the auditorium said in a low voice.

The sound of chanting scriptures and the sound of the wooden fish paused, and Empress Dowager Sun said in a low voice, "I know."

Chapter 189 Fair, fair, still fair!

Is Zhu Jianshen's illness complicated?

It's actually not complicated. From Lu Zicai's point of view, Zhu Jianshen's illness was nothing more than a common cold.

Wind-cold, wind-heat, deficiency of qi, and seasonality, Zhu Jianshen is just a cold caused by deficiency of qi. In fact, when he was in Nangong before, the root cause of the disease was that he didn’t even light a charcoal in the winter, and Qian’s family was frozen out. Sores, Zhu Jianshen's two-year-old child, couldn't bear it.

"Didn't we have willow juice soaked in vinegar recently? Why don't we use it?" Xin Kejing asked with some doubts.

Willow juice can clear heat and detoxify, dispel wind and cold, and it is a good medicine for reducing fever. Xin Kejing and Lu Zicai have recently tested the method of this willow juice on many Ling Chi prisoners.

Willow juice is excellent for removing heat, but it will cause severe stomach pain. In severe cases, stomach rumination and heartburn are extremely difficult, and one can only live with rice porridge.

In the past, if it wasn't for severe fever, willow juice would never be used lightly.

Lu Zicai and Xin Kejing have figured out the principle of willow juice burning the stomach.

It's actually very simple, if you drink willow juice, it will rot the stomach. They have seen with their own eyes that Ling Chi's prisoner survived, and if he poured willow juice, his stomach would even be burnt through.

This is just one of the results they have obtained in the Tai Hospital these days.

But as long as the willow juice is soaked in vinegar for half a day and then taken, it will not corrode the stomach. Some people have already started using it at Huimin Pharmacy, and the effect is excellent.

But Lu Zicai shook his head and said, "You can't use willow juice for a cold, have you forgotten that person the day before yesterday?"

"Vomiting, diarrhea and lack of consciousness, and then convulsions, and finally passed out, woke up, but became a little confused."

"If this medicine is not for life-saving, use it with caution." Lu Zi shook his head and said, "My son's illness is far from enough to use willow juice. The doctor is benevolent. We are treating a doctor, not killing people."

Lu Zicai continued to take care of Zhu Jianshen, and wiped Zhu Jianshen's body with warm water. After the fever subsided, he took the pulse seriously and wrote down the prescription. For the child, he used the medicine very mildly. Wei and Huoxiang only seek to clear the heat and relieve the exterior.

Not to mention strong medicines such as willow juice, he has never used forsythia, raw gypsum, and rehmannia glutinosa, highlighting a stable one.

Under Lu Zicai's careful care, Zhu Jianshen's high fever gradually subsided, and after taking the medicine, his breathing gradually stabilized.

In the early morning of the next day, when Lu Zicai arrived at Prince Ji's Mansion again, Zhu Jianshen was already able to get out of bed.

Lu Zicai wrote another prescription, looked at the rice porridge on the table, clear soup with little water, and said: "It's better to eat some meat, what your majesty said is right, eat some meat to strengthen the blood. Just some rice porridge, don't feed it." people."

Before that, Lu Zicai saw a doctor for Zhu Jianshen. At that time, Zhu Jianshen was still in Nangong, and his stomach was a little distended at that time. The Zhou family only let Zhu Jianshen drink millet porridge. This was also reported by Zhu Jianshen before the emperor.

In the end, it was Princess Ji Qian who was reprimanded by His Majesty.

Lu Zicai reminded him once to eat a little meat.

"Oh, I got it, I got it." Mrs. Zhou nodded hurriedly, and ordered the maids to add some side dishes, especially some wild onions, and ordered to cook the chicken tender soup before Lu Zi was satisfied.

Boiled chicken is to cut the chicken, blanch it in boiling water, and then put it in a casserole to stew the soup.

Served with red dates, goji berries, sliced ​​ginger and shiitake mushrooms, the whole chicken is stewed until it is soft and boneless.

Seeing that Zhu Jianshen's illness gradually recovered.

All the people who knew about it breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately let go of the heart they were holding.

Right now, the children of Prince Ji's Mansion are the fragile string between the Empress Dowager and Her Majesty. Once the string is broken, the Ming dynasty will immediately become confusing.

But Zhu Jianshen's tutors in the palace started to teach Zhu Jianshen again, so this matter is over.

Of course, as everyone knows, His Majesty sent Xing'an to Prince Ji's Mansion, and the disease recovered.

The court meeting was also held as scheduled, with 26 people attending the meeting, and three of them were absent.

Zhu Qiyu sat down firmly, there are three things to do today.

The first thing is the collection of the second tax in summer and autumn, and the second thing is the relaxation of the ban on the use of gold and silver as explained by Zhu Qiyu.

The second tax in summer and autumn mainly discusses the color conversion, which is the conversion of physical objects into silver taels. This is similar to what was discussed at the Salt and Iron Conference. In the final analysis, it is still currency.

Daming longed for a long-term stable currency to support the increasingly large business activities.

The third thing is Yu Qian's memorandum, some matters of farm law.

In fact, the three things to be done are fair, fair, or frankly fair!

"See Your Majesty, is Your Majesty bowing to you?" The 26 people in the court bowed their heads and saluted.

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand and said, "I bow down, sit down."

The atmosphere of the court meeting was generally much more relaxed than that of the court meeting, and there were no taboos about the content of the discussion. Unfortunately, all the governors of the five armies' governor's mansion, except Zhang Mao, were absent again.

The failure of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to go to the court dates back to May of the second year of Zhengtong, when he was impeached at Honghe Temple: 240 people including the Taishi British Duke Zhang Fu did not attend the court for no reason, and they were brought together in the law.

Why did the British prince not go to court with the governor's mansion of the five armies?

All the memorials of Xunchen were rejected, and the court and court meetings were impeached every day. In the end, Zhang Fu couldn't make normal court and court meetings at all.

Therefore, there has been a lack of Xunchen from the Dudufu of the Five Armies on the table for 12 years. Today Zhang Fu’s concubine Zhang Mao is sitting here at the age of nine. He doesn’t understand anything, but he is the last of the old Xun The cabin rocks.

The British government and the Qian State government have always been the biggest names of the ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Hong took the place of giving banquets for offering wine in the lecture hall, and there were three missing in the governor's mansion of the five armies.

Jin Lian, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the summer tax does not exceed August, and the autumn tax does not exceed February. Your Majesty ascends the throne and amnesties the world. There are also two taxes for Fujian, Gyeonggi, and Datong."

"In the first year of Zhengtong, the imperial edict: rice and wheat are worth one stone, and the silver is converted into two cents and five cents. In Nanji, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi, there are more than four million stones of rice and wheat, and more than one million yuan in silver. Shipping warehouse. It is called Jinhuayin, and it will be distributed all over the world.”

"Orthodox 14-year autumn tax, put into the treasury in February this year, the income is 110 taels of silver."

Folding color and silver is the core of Zhang Juzheng's whip method, but Zhang Juzheng did not achieve it overnight. In fact, as early as the Song Dynasty, there was a folding wire.

Ren Yuanxiang immediately stood up and said, "Your Majesty, forgive me."

"In Yichen's opinion, the disadvantages of taxes and servitude are nothing more than that of off-color, why?"

"Since the founding of the people, there are only three things that have been obtained from the people. Mencius called them corn, cloth, and labor. The same is true for rent and mediocrity in the early Tang Dynasty. There are ancient quotas for these three, and there are modern quotas today. If you want to add to it, you can’t do it. Those who seek profit will cleverly establish it as the law of everything to fool the world.”

"There are five evils in folding color, and five good things in correct color. Silver is used for color folding, and silver is not inherent in the light, and it is difficult to transport it. This is one evil."

"Light treasures are easy to hide, and they are easy for officials to invade and bully. This is the second evil."

"Silver is not available through trade, and there are three evils when there are too many people."

"Silver is not controlled at the top, it is like the mansion of springs, and it is not produced at the bottom. It is like cloth and silk for clothing, and bean and millet for food, but the emphasis is on silver, so that the rich and cunning can take advantage of it, and the four evils and also."

"Although there is a lot of silver, it is not the country's own product. Once there is a emptiness in Beijing, it will cause five harms."

……

Ren Yuanxiang's speech was very long, Zhu Qiyu listened carefully to what he said, and what he said was very reasonable, at least from the four aspects of phenomenon, problem, reason and plan, it was very clear.

"Very good, please sit down." Zhu Qiyu signaled Ren Yuanxiang to sit down.

Ren Yuanxiang, who belongs to the scholar-bureaucrat class, can stand on the standpoint of the common people to see the problem, and can see and expose the disasters brought to the poor people by extorting money from taxes and servitude, which is commendable.

The meaning of Ren Yuanxiang's words is very clear. The common people don't have money, but the common people have food. If the food is sold, it will give the local government an opportunity to manipulate it.

Ren Yuanxiang used Quanzhou as an example. Quanzhou did this in the ninth and tenth years of Zhengtong.

In the first year, silk is used to make money, and in the second year, grain is used to make money.

In the first year, the mulberry fields in Quanzhou were flooded, and the price of silk was extremely high, but in Quanzhou, silk was used to fold silver.

In the next year, the people resumed the mulberry field, but the price of grain went up again. Quanzhou did not sell silk, but grain.

With this kind of folding method, the common people suffer unspeakably. Who can bear it if they plant grain and silk this year, and next year they plant silk and rice?

Li Binyan, the imperial censor of Youqian capital, said: "As for the reserve of Taicang, Ning Hongfu cannot be short-changed. Once it fails, how can he point it out? I think Ren Ge's words are reasonable."

However, Jin Lian shook his head and said, "It would cost three times as much to send a stone of grain to the capital, and the people would not be able to afford it. It can be seen that the method of folding colors is still convenient for the people. It is also a great harm to the country to use the method of folding colors instead of folding them."

In the Wenhua Hall, there was always a lot of discussion, Zhu Qiyu knocked on the table to signal everyone to be quiet.

He concluded: "The business of the Ming Dynasty was prosperous, and the Taizu was benevolent and virtuous in the world. He did not pay taxes for merchants, and [-] of [-] merchants was taxed. Low taxes will bring peace to the world."

"The development of Ming Dynasty's production to the extent it is today, will change from payment in kind to payment in currency, which is already the general trend."

"But the biggest problem right now is that there is not enough currency in the Ming Dynasty, and silver is expensive and things are cheap, but the ban on gold and silver imposed by Emperor Gao of the Great Ancestor still exists."

Folding color is a good way, but if there is too little silver and too much material, it will hurt the people.

Zhang Juzheng made a whip method, which was extremely effective and made the Ming court rich. In the tenth year of Wanli, Taicang had 900 million shi of grain and 400 million taels of silver.

Emperor Wanli ruled in person, abolished Zhang Juzheng's one whip method, and changed it to Zhengse tax and labor, and problems immediately occurred.

In the 13th year of Wanli, Taicang stored millet, which was old and rotten. Beijing and the military did not eat it. They sold it to bartenders for only two or three dollars.

The capital's silver and goods are cheap, and commerce and trade have almost stagnated, but when Emperor Wanli wanted to restore a whip method, he couldn't push it anyway.

During the reign of Chongzhen, silver became cheap and goods were expensive, and the price of food was extremely high. The whole Ming Dynasty suffered unspeakably.

Without a stable monetary policy, it was the biggest bloodbath for the giant Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Qiyu killed Zhu Qizhen and blocked a bloody mouth, but the main artery was still bleeding.

Yu Qian stood up and said: "Your Majesty, when I talked about the Juxian Pavilion in the Martial Arts Hall, I thought it was quite rewarding. The Yan Yin is a big deal, and if there is a slight fluctuation, it means that the people are not living."

"It is also imperative to loosen the ban on gold and silver. If you have money but have no outlines, it is inconvenient for people to use it. I think that the Ming Dynasty should mint coins."

What is an article without outline, which is inconvenient to use?

What Yu Qian meant was that the coins should be stamped on the front and back, and the outline should be used as a casting ruler to determine the weight before the common people can use it.

The ban on gold and silver is still not abolished, but gold and silver things are cast into coins, and the front and back are stamped and cast into teeth. If the weight of the silver is sufficient, it is easy to use.

The ministers were discussing for a while, and most of them knew that His Majesty held several salt and iron meetings in the lecture hall, and the first result of this salt and iron meeting appeared.

Many courtiers were talking about it. After all, it was a violation of the ancestor's decision. Everyone was discussing in a low voice.

Seeing everyone's discussion, Xing'an walked out, and returned to Wenhua Palace not long after.

He held a square box covered with red cloth in his hand, and placed it in front of His Majesty.

This action caught the attention of many courtiers, and everyone slowly stopped discussing and looked at the red cloth.

Chapter 1 Fire consumption is [-]%, how to distribute it?

It has a long history that the Ming Dynasty is giving off colors. Since the Hongwu period, banknotes and silver have been folded from time to time. This is the inevitable result of the spiraling history.

But the Daming treasure banknotes are really hard to describe, and in the end they can only be converted into silver.

Xing'an brought a plate covered with a red cloth, which aroused everyone's curiosity.

Zhu Qiyu sat up straight and said: "I have been thinking about the salt and iron discussion a few days ago, and it is imperative to relax the ban on gold and silver."

"Since it is imperative, there must be a regulation, so I minted a few of these silver coins to show everyone how good they are."

"This silver coin is [-]% silver, [-]% platinum, and [-]% copper."