Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Zheng Zhilong sighed: "This is as much gold and silver as the mountains and the sea!"

Zheng Sen murmured: "If there was such a huge profit in the early days of the country, then the imperial court would still ban the sea?"

"Haha, good question!"

Zheng Zhibao raised his head, lifted his chin, and sneered: "Baby, this is our understanding, not your father's words!"

"Let me ask you, was gold and silver ever in circulation in the early days of the People's Republic of China?"

Zheng Sen shook his head: "In the early days of the country, I imitated the old system of the previous dynasty. Gold and silver could only be used to settle bulk goods between aristocratic families. The government only recognized copper coins, and the common people also used copper coins!"

In the early Ming Dynasty, only copper coins and treasure banknotes were circulated. After the middle period, silver gradually began to circulate.

Zheng Zhibao raised the corner of his mouth and asked again: "Do you know the bad things those brats over there in Guangfo do in Nanyang?"

Zheng Sen was a little confused when Zheng Zhibao asked about two completely unrelated things.

He thought for a long time before tentatively replying: "Could it be that the fifth father was talking about the maritime merchants in Guangfo and Chaoshan areas sending low-quality copper coins mixed with a large amount of lead to Nanyang to be used as the currency of the three hundred countries in Nanyang? "

"Exactly!"

Zheng Zhibao laughed: "Your kid is not stupid, he was just fooled into being stupid!"

“Since the Song Dynasty, our Han people’s money has been the legal tender of neighboring countries. Every country only recognizes our money, and many countries even do not create money at all and use our copper coins directly.

But we are short of copper! "

"During the Southern Song Dynasty, bad money mixed with more than half of the lead would attract Nanyang countries to rob it!"

……

The merchants of the Guangdong and Guangxi generations in the Ming Dynasty did what the bad guys would love to do 800 years later.

These clan-based pirate groups produced a large number of inferior coins and issued them in Southeast Asia.

This money is commonly known as small money, lead money, private money, etc.

There was so much indiscriminate issuance that the price of goods in Nanyang soared. From two strings of money to exchange for one European silver coin, it has reached the point where two to three thousand strings can be exchanged for one silver coin.

The maritime merchant families in Guangdong and Guangxi, especially in Guangzhou, Foshan and Chaoshan, used this method to accumulate a lot of wealth and control a lot of power, which was the predecessor of Lanfang and other countries in later generations.

Lanfang Company is composed of 4 companies including Samsung, Shanxin, Laoputou and Xinputou.

The reason why it is called a company instead of a country is because of the braided emperor's words, "The empire abandons its people."

The Lanfang Company was not destroyed by the Dutch until 1888. A year before the founding of the Republic of China, the Dutch officially announced the cancellation of Lanfang...

From the destruction of Lanfang to the establishment of the Republic of China, there was only a short period of 23 years...

……

Zheng Zhibao sighed and wanted to scold this stupid nephew.

However, no matter how stupid his nephew is, he still has to teach him.

He had no choice but to break the truth apart, crush it into pieces, and tell it to Zheng Sen with heartbreak:

"Zheng Sanbao brought back a large amount of gold and silver, and Chengzu used it in exchange for supplies from wealthy families to support the imperial court's successive wars.

At the same time, in order to stabilize the Southeast Asian countries, Chengzu rewarded a large number of copper coins. "

Zheng Zhibao followed the temptation: "My dear, let me ask you, how did this family steal supplies from the people?"

Zheng Sen knew this, and he replied without thinking:

"Although the imperial court prohibits private coinage, as long as the private money minted is made with copper feet, the imperial court generally does not pursue it.

Not everyone has the ability to cast this copper coin. People don't have the strength to make it, but they can't live without it. After all, they need it for food, clothing, housing and transportation.

The wealthy families minted a large amount of copper coins, traded with the common people by buying low and selling high, and finally made away the wealth that belonged to the common people. "

……

China is a copper-deficient country, with a severe shortage of copper mines in all dynasties.

From the third generation to the end of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial courts of all dynasties explicitly prohibited people from making money privately.

However, as long as sufficient materials are used, there will be no official investigation.

Most of the copper coins that survived in later generations were minted privately.

It's kind of like the gold of hereafter.

As long as I can get it back, the court will take it all.

……

Zheng Zhibao took a deep breath: "Yes! The crux is right here!"

“The things the imperial court took from the West and exchanged for gold and silver were materials, produced by government-run workshops and did not require any capital;

At most, a few lists of names acknowledging the status of Western kings and a prince's robes are all added.

When he returned, he took back a large amount of gold and silver. This money was then exchanged by the imperial court for supplies in the hands of the family.

But what the aristocratic family received was gold and silver that they could not profit from from the common people...

The imperial court only needs to build a few ships, and it can easily exchange the profits that belong to the aristocratic families. Once or twice, they are forced by the imperial power and the aristocratic families don't say anything. If it happens more times, you think the aristocratic families still have nothing to say. Will you do it? "

Zheng Sen still couldn't understand the crux of the matter. He said in surprise: "They can also mint copper coins. Then won't the profits created by the common people return to the hands of the aristocratic families?"

"madness!"

Zheng Zhibao was furious.

"Our family dare not claim to dominate Fujian. At least half of Fujian belongs to our family, right?"

Zheng Sen nodded.

Not to mention Fujian, even Yizhou, except for a few Dutch strongholds, belongs to his family!

"Has a copper mine ever been discovered in such a large territory like ours?" Zheng Zhibao said coldly: "Why do you think this is?"

Zheng Sen shook his head: "China has lacked copper mines in every dynasty."

"Then it's over. Copper mines are insufficient, copper coins are getting less and less, and aristocratic families have fewer and fewer tentacles to earn people's wealth. Naturally, they have objections!"

Zheng Sen thought about it carefully, isn't it?

Gold and silver cannot be used, and copper coins are becoming less and less...

"If you can understand this, then it's over!"

Zheng Zhibao took a long breath and took out all the few stocks in his mind!

This kid is not easy to fool!

It’s really bad for children to be too inquisitive and hard to convince...

"Grandpa Cheng's methods are so good! Going around in circles like this will make the whole family vomit blood.

The imperial court wasted no time and took away the foundation of the wealthy family. The lack of copper mines prevented them from making large amounts of private money, which caused the wealthy family's assets to shrink continuously. "

"During Lord Chenghua's reign, the imperial court was engaged in successive wars. Emperor Xianzong wanted to go to the West again to solve the imperial court's expense problem..."

"Ugh!"

The man was as fierce as Zhang Fei, his eyes were red:

"Straight bitch! The stupid Liu Daxia actually hid "Zheng He's Mission to Water"!

"This is the precious wealth accumulated by our ancestors!"

He licked the corner of his mouth: "As long as our family gets this, we will be able to build a powerful maritime country immediately!

You know, there is not only shipbuilding information, but also hydrological information that requires human lives to be grinded out! "

"Later, Wang Zhi (another great eunuch after Zheng He) saw the war in Annan, so he wanted to conquer Annan again and regain the lost territory, but Liu Daxia hid it and refused to do so!"

"It's just such a person who enriches his own pockets and doesn't care about the imperial court's goods, and he is unexpectedly promoted to the high position of the Third Lord's Taibao!"

"This man knew that he was in the wrong. When he was about to die, he asked his descendants not to whitewash him. He said: There is no way for others to be beautiful so that they can go to the ground with shame."