I am the king of the dead

Platinum, in fact, is tin, and the addition of tin is entirely for the purpose of solidification and anti-oxidation, and also to keep the printing teeth from being worn out.

Zhu Qiyu picked up the silver coin and blew it lightly. It buzzed and flicked lightly, which was quite crisp and vibrating.

Xing'an took another small balance, put it on the table, and said with a smile: "This coin is one tael."

Yu Qian said that he wanted to mint coins, Zhu Qiyu directly took out the finished product, put it on the table, and signaled to everyone in Ting Wenwu to look at the silver coins he minted.

The silver coin is about one inch and three cents in size and about five cents thick. The pattern on the front is two crossed ears of wheat, with one or two capitalized in the middle, and the back is made by the Beijing Mint in the first year of Jingtai, seven cents per cent.

Xing'an gave the silver coins in the box to many ministers, and asked them to hold them in their hands and look at them for a long time.

The Bingzhan Bureau presses the medals every day and presses out the experience. After Zhu Qiyu communicated with Li Yongchang, the eunuch of the Bingzhan Bureau, casting a few samples, it couldn't be easier.

Zhu Qiyu took out another piece of white money and said: "Everyone, this is a fake, made of platinum, the same size, but it weighs five coins."

"Blow it once, but you can't make a sound." Zhu Qiyu blew once, but he didn't move at all. He flicked it a few times, but his voice was dull.

Xing'an took out counterfeit coins again and distributed them to many ministers of the Ming Dynasty. They knocked, and the sound was much duller, and they blew it, but it didn't make a buzzing sound.

Zhu Qiyu picked up a new counterfeit coin and said with a smile: "This one is [-]% silver. Although the sound is extremely clear and the weight is close to one or two taels, it still won't buzz when you blow it."

For anti-counterfeiting, Zhu Qiyu has put a lot of thought into how to prevent the bad coins that privately cast counterfeit money from driving out the good ones.

The patterns on this coin are extremely exquisite. Although the two ears of wheat and the chi teeth are not deep, they are quite heavy. Seventy percent silver is already the lower limit.

Even if you have the strength to steal the casting, you have to think about whether it is cost-effective.

Fire consumption is not a small number.

The Bingzhan Bureau produced a large number of medals for meritorious service, and accumulated a lot of crafts for making round silver medals. This craft is a technological leader.

He said with a rather serious face: "The crime of stealing all kinds of money will be death, and the family will be exiled to Yongning Temple."

Zhu Qiyu's monetary policy is a national policy that has been prepared for a long time.

Folding color is imperative. Salt quotation involves salt and grain. Although it is valuable, excessive distribution is a disaster for the country and the people. The Ming Dynasty needs currency, and the ban on using gold and silver was relaxed. It was indeed relaxed, but it was relaxed a little.

The powerful family of the Ming Dynasty, sailing on the sea all the year round, will inevitably bring a lot of silver. As Ren Yuanxiang said, silver cannot be obtained through trade, and it is not a capital of the country, but silver cannot fall into the powerful family and be buried under the pigsty , need to circulate.

How to circulate?

Naturally, coins are needed.

In this way, even if the world is folded and the silver is transported to the capital, the world's real goods need to be exchanged for silver dollars in the capital.

Ren Yuanxiang looked at the silver coin and kept blowing it. Since he dared to attack the color-folding method at the court meeting, he naturally had a deep understanding of the disadvantages of the color-folding method.

Li Binyan, the imperial censor of Youqian Capital, said with some doubts: "Your Majesty, I am stupid, why don't you just open a manufacturing bureau in Nanzhili, and directly melt silver and mint coins in the south?"

"This way of tossing the silver to the capital, and then minting coins, the merchants of the world will do it with silver coins. Isn't this a waste of people's power?"

Zhu Qiyu looked at Li Binyan and didn't say much, all the ministers looked at Li Binyan, the scene was very quiet for a while, Li Binyan patted his head in embarrassment.

He didn't quite understand his question, why didn't everyone answer it.

In fact, the question is not difficult to answer, because Li Binyan's thinking is very simple, and it is the same as Zhu Yuanzhang's question.

In the early days of the Guo Dynasty and the early years of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang also had this idea, which was called Bu Fu.

Since the local money and food have to be sent to the local area, why not just stay in the local area, and then write a note and report it to the court, wouldn't it be good?

Later, after the big case of Hu Weiyong, Zhu Yuanzhang realized why the imperial court received most of the money and food from the court in the past dynasties, and put a small part in the local area.

You put it in the local area, and the local government grabs money and food, and it will run counter to your court.

In fact, it is a dispute between land tax and national tax.

No one is willing to explain Li Binyan's doubts in the Wenhua Palace. Isn't this speaking ill of the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty in front of His Majesty?

Zhu Qiyu clapped his hands and said: "Even if it is Zhese, the current scale is already very large. 400 million shimiliang will be sold to Beijing at a discount of one million silver taels. It is already too much. It is not suitable to expand for the time being."

"I ordered the eunuchs of the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, and the Bingzhan Bureau to supervise the matter of making imperial silver coins. If the people have silver, they can go to the Baoyuan Bureau to exchange for silver coins."

The Baoyuan Bureau was the place where Ming issued copper plates, but it had already been corrupted and overstaffed, and the furnace was not opened for a few days. The power of Ming to mint coins had long been usurped.

Since when?

At least during the Yongle period, there were still a large number of Yongle Tongbao.

Li Yongchang, the admiral of the lecture hall and the eunuch of the military battle bureau, immediately said: "Your Majesty, [-]% of the fire consumption should be owned by the internal funds."

The fire consumption here refers to the consumption of the collected silver after being minted into silver coins.

Only [-]% of Zhu Qiyu's silver coins are silver, and the remaining [-]% are counted as fire consumption.

With this move, Zhu Qiyu intends to make a copy of Huo Hua Gui Gong, and what he seeks is fairness.

This amount of silver is the profit of the coinage.

Xing'an looked puzzled, this was not the same as what he said originally.

Jin Lian, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, immediately became unhappy, stood up and said, "Your Majesty, isn't the fire consumption of [-]% too much for this Taicang silver coin?"

"The fire consumption of local Zheshi is only [-]% to [-]%. For the battle of war, it is [-]%!"

Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said to Li Yongchang: "Look, the outer court is not happy with [-]% fire consumption."

Jin Lian immediately shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, this is the national treasury. The Taicang silver collected is all gold flower silver, not variegated silver. This is [-]% of the war, no! It's too much." .”

There are five eunuchs, the eunuch Bingbi, the supervisor of ceremonies, and the eunuch who is the admiral, and immediately started a verbal battle with the minister of the household department, the servant, and the minister, and the quarrel was in full swing.

Zhu Qiyu watched from the sidelines without saying a word, waiting for them to quarrel.

The court meeting in the Wenhua Palace is a place for quarrels. The public says that the public is right, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is right. The quarrel is in full swing. If the correcting officer is not standing next to him, I am afraid that he will kick his nose in the face, stepping on the table and pointing at the other party's nose insulted.

This is a major event involving the whereabouts of 30 taels of silver.

For 30 taels of silver, you can buy 30 tile heads. After the battle of Xuanfu, you won less than [-] taels of silver!

After being noisy for a long time, it finally calmed down. Jin Lian was no match for the eunuchs in charge of ceremonies.

This group of people are eloquent, yin and yang, and they are rushing to the point.

For example, Cheng Jing put on a hat of treason and went out, all over the world, could it be that the king's land, this silver is His Majesty's silver, but it is managed by the Ministry of Households, and His Majesty only wants fire consumption, not all of it!

For example, Li Yongchang directly deducted a hat of embezzlement of state funds, and this Taicang silver is the silver of Ming Dynasty. After the coinage, if the fire consumption does not go to the internal funds, does it give you the state funds?What do you want to do?

This quarrel is a comparison of hats, and the eunuchs like the Supervisor of Rituals have no taboos when they buckle their hats. They are not censors, they are not impeachment, they just buckle up, and they don't have to be responsible.

Hu Wei and Wang Zhi, the masters, almost fell asleep with their eyes closed, without saying a word.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate was in the middle of the fight, Wang Wen was an upright scholar, and he and Jin Lian couldn't quarrel with these eunuchs.

Yu Qian sat up straight and coughed, and the Wenhua Palace finally fell silent.

Everyone still has to give Yu Shaobao's face.

Yu Qian bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, can you reduce the fire consumption to [-]%? [-]% is really too much."

Especially the courtiers all know that His Majesty has the final say on this matter, and the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Supervisor of Rituals don't count.

The relaxation of the ban on the use of gold and silver is His Majesty's violation of the decision made by his ancestors. His Majesty has assumed the responsibility, so it is natural for His Majesty to determine the specific whereabouts of the silver that was consumed.

Zhu Qiyu took a deep breath and said: "Silver is expensive, platinum and copper are cheap, but platinum and copper are also valuable. The [-]% fire consumption is really not a small amount."

"How about this, one liang of silver, three qian of fire consumption, one konny to Taicang, one konny to Bingzhanju, and one konny to the internal shipping warehouse."

Yu Qian glanced at Li Yongchang's face, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, platinum and copper are still much lower than silver. After all, it is gold flower silver, which is full of fineness. Your Majesty, can you lower it a little bit? It’s hard for the household department.”

Zhu Qiyu thought about it seriously, shook his head and said, "I know it's hard for you, but it's hard for me too, it's hard."

This distribution rule was decided by Zhu Qiyu after a long time of consideration, and Yu Qian couldn't give it to him because of his face.

Seeing His Majesty's insistence, Yu Qian tilted his head and discussed with Jin Lian for a while, then nodded and said, "Your Majesty is wise."

In fact, the quarrel between the Outer Court and the Internal Affairs Department mainly focused on whether the [-]% return to the army was too much.

As for His Majesty's [-]%, no one would argue about it. The fault is that life is too comfortable. Generally, no one would argue about it.

Zhu Qiyu set the distribution principle, [-]% goes to the Bingzhan Bureau, [-]% goes to Taicang, and [-]% goes to the internal shipping warehouse.

Li Yongchang wanted to say more, but Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said: "Okay, Jin Lian is virtuous and upright, and for every nine silver coins that come out, one more one will come out. Now, there are more than [-] silver coins to make It is also convenient to withdraw the salary of Beijing officials.”

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Okay, the second tax in Xiaqiu is about Zhese court discussion, just stop here, according to the old system."

The Ming Dynasty’s supervision of silver was a failure from the very beginning. From the prohibition of gold and silver, the Daming treasure banknotes, the method of opening the middle salt, and the one-whip method, the Ming Dynasty has never formed a consistent method of managing the country’s financial affairs.

This lack of management, and thus complete loss of control over money and credit.

This means that the Ministry of Household Affairs, when performing its duties, lacks the necessary means of adjustment.

After the currency and credit are out of control, it greatly hinders the collection and distribution of taxes.

In fact, since the Chenghua period, the imperial court of the Ming Dynasty has discovered the disadvantage of being unable to control the currency, but it has not been able to effectively solve it.

During the more than [-] years of the Ming Dynasty, the conversion of tax and service into silver in the Ming Dynasty was a protracted and irregular process.

From now on, everything changes.

Zhu Qiyu is about to start minting coins, and his new monetary policy has officially begun to be implemented.

"Let's go to the next item." Xing'an held a painting in his hand and was about to open it, then a small yellow door hurried in and whispered a few times in Xing'an's ear.

Xing'an's complexion changed several times, and after asking Zhu Qiyu for instructions in a low voice, he walked out of the Wenhua Palace.

When Xing'an walked in again, he was holding a plate covered with a red cloth.

"What?" Zhu Qiyu asked with a frown.

This is not the program Zhu Qiyu set.

Added drama suddenly?

Chapter 191 I allow them to rebel, but they must pay taxes!

Xing'an was called out by the eunuchs of the Compassionate Ning Palace, and Empress Dowager Sun sent someone to deliver a box with a seal inside.

Xing'an had never seen this golden seal before.

Zhu Qiyu picked up the gold seal, turned it over, and looked at the sun.

Many courtiers are baffled, why is His Majesty suddenly holding a golden seal?

Although it was engraved in the dark, Zhu Qiyu still recognized the words on it, the treasure of King Xiang, the entire gold seal, the tortoise button, is five inches and two inches square and one inch and a half inches thick, which is not very big.

Zhu Qiyu remembered that before she ascended the throne, Empress Dowager Sun had invited King Xiang Jinyin into the palace, but in the end she decided on the basic style of Prince Zhu Jianshen and Elder Lord Zhu Qiyu.

This seal was probably the trump card in the hands of the Empress Dowager Sun, who finally went crazy with the emperor, but at this time, she took it out.

It became a card in the emperor's hand.

Although the courtiers couldn't see what was on the seal, they understood the etiquette system, and only princes could use the gold seal.

Zhu Qiyu somewhat understood what Empress Dowager Sun meant, that is, the group of children in Prince Ji's Mansion, everyone should stay still and grow up well.

She will not offend the emperor, and she also asks the emperor not to kill chickens and monkeys, but to kill them all.

"Am I such a stingy person?" Zhu Qiyu put the golden seal back into the sandalwood box, handed it to Xing'an and said, "Put it back to Tai'an Palace later."

"Your Majesty." Yu Qian asked on behalf of the courtiers. This is not the emperor's private matter, and the emperor is selfless.

During the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, passed away, and Empress Lu came to the court to proclaim the rule.

Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty Liu Heng went to Weiqiao, Taiwei Zhou Bo asked Liu Hengping to retreat to the left and right, and Lieutenant Song Chang said loudly: "If you have something to do, you can report it to the Taiwei."If what you say is public, what you say is public, if what you say is private, the king is selfless!

Since then, the emperors of all dynasties have no private affairs, which means that the king is selfless.

Yu Qian obviously noticed that this golden seal of unknown origin appeared in this Wenhua Palace at this time, it was absolutely not by accident.

"The treasure of King Xiang." Zhu Qiyu explained, the golden seal of King Xiang can't fish, let alone make nests, so it doesn't matter if you say it.

Many courtiers, you look at me, I look at you, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

A few days ago, His Majesty asked Xing'an to visit Prince Ji's Mansion, after which Zhu Jianshen was alive and kicking. Today, the Queen Mother brought out the King Xiang's golden seal that Her Majesty had invited before she supervised the country, which can be regarded as a settlement to some extent.

In fact, since the death of King Jili, all the courtiers have a stone in their hearts. If the Queen Mother makes a scene, His Majesty gets angry, and His Majesty wins, then the wisdom will be lost, Your Majesty will be defeated, and the world will wither.

Fortunately, this scene did not happen.

The Emperor of Ming Dynasty and the Empress Dowager of Ming Dynasty reached a certain level of reconciliation because of the group of children in Prince Ji's Mansion.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Everyone, let's continue the court discussion. Yesterday, Yu Shaobao submitted a memorial. I drew a picture overnight. The painting is not strong enough, which made everyone laugh."

"Xing'an, show everyone."

Although the original King Yi was not good at painting, he still knew a little bit. After all, Zhu Zhanji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, was good at fine brushwork and Danqing, and his famous works were passed down to later generations.