Ming Dynasty: The Rampant Crown Prince

Clear.

The afternoon sun shines through the dense layers of leaves, and the ground is covered with large and small spots of light.

"Your Highness, Fang Haiyang, vice academician of Tai Hospital, asks to see you.

Qiu Zhizhong came in to report.

"Pass in.

Zhu Cihong changed into civilian clothes, walked to the steps at the entrance of Jingren Palace and stood still, holding an ingot of fifty taels of silver in his hand, Zhang Huaibin stood with a saber on eighteen rides behind him, and Sun Hao's three hundred brocade captains in the courtyard were side by side.

Weichen Fang Haiyang saw and carried His Highness.

Fang Haiyang stood at the door and saw this, his body paused slightly, the booklet in his hand tightened, and walked in.

"Let's go together, this palace is going to leave the palace.

When Zhu Cihong saw Fang Haiyang appear, he raised his feet and walked down towards the outside of the palace.

"Your Highness, the scientific examination of the Tai Hospital has ended, a total of two hundred and seventy Tai Doctors have been selected, the Tai Hospital in the capital has been open for three days, the people are still waiting and watching on the first day, and they dare not step in, but on the second and third days, the business is okay, and each has five or six hundred taels of income.

Fang Haiyang said, handed the booklet to Zhu Cihong, and said: "It is also the first time that the people's door is open to the public, and we are very curious, because our consultation fees and the cost of medicinal materials are lower than those of other pharmacies, and the doctor's fee is lower.

"The Tai Hospital is royal, and it is not expensive to suck blood, there is curiosity, trust and peace of mind, after all, such a big Tai Hospital is here, so many Tai Doctors are here, nothing can run away."

Zhu Cihong took the booklet and looked at it, and said slowly and leisurely: "Doctors study medicine all their lives, in order to hang the pot to help the world, run the hospital well, and after a month, report the account book again, and then see if there are branches in other places." "

Wechen obeys.

Fang Haiyang bent down and said.

After leaving the palace, Zhu Cihong rushed all the way to the Ministry of Industry, he thought about it, first made the silver coins, and then found a place to issue them, try it, and so on after the people got used to it, and then officially issued it in various places, opened the Ming Dynasty, unified currency circulation, style, measurement, weight.

Ministry of Industry.

As soon as Zhu Cihong walked in, a group of officials were shocked, and they came over to salute one after another, all the way into the main hall, and just sat on the main seat, a middle-aged man in a crimson official uniform ran in.

This person is about forty years old, with dark skin, a slender body but not thin, and on the whole, he has no temperament of a scholar, a bit like a person who has worked hard.

"Hou Jie, the squire of the Ministry of Ministers, see His Royal Highness the Prince. When

Hou Jie heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince actually came to the Ministry of Engineering in person, he immediately put down what he was doing and ran over, not daring to slack off in the slightest, and at the same time he was a little panicked.

"Excuse me, sit down.

Zhu Cihong smiled kindly and pointed to the chairs on both sides.

"Your Highness.

Hou Jie sat down with half of his buttocks, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, looking at this, His Royal Highness is not here to ask for guilt, there should be something to tell the Ministry of Industry to do.

"Your Highness is here, but if you have something to explain, just send someone to give instructions, and you don't need His Highness to come over in person.

He glanced at Zhu Cihong, and in the face of that kind smile, he couldn't see at all that there were hundreds of ministers who died at the hands of His Royal Highness the Prince.

"There is indeed something.

Zhu Cihong took out a piece of silver from his arms and put it on the table, and said with a smile: "You go and call the official in charge of minting coins." "

Come on, go to the household department and pass Ni Yuanlu over." So

saying, he picked up the paper, then took the brush, and drew the pattern of the silver coin, which was probably the same as that of the big silver head, but with a slight change.

"The Minister of Ministers, Lang Nakaya Hongwen, saw and carried His Highness. Soon

, officials in their mid-thirties and dressed in blue official uniforms walked in.

Zhu Cihong raised his hand, signaled the other party to be polite, wrote and painted with a brush in his hand, and did not raise his head to speak, and the two did not dare to say anything when they saw this, so they stood aside and waited.

Hou Jie watched His Royal Highness the Crown Prince put pen to paper and summoned the official in charge of coinage, it should be to mint coins, his eyes flashed, this should be an opportunity, as long as he does things for His Royal Highness, then his heart is a little more steady, so even if he walks into some with His Highness.

"Minister Ni Yuanlu see His Royal Highness.

After a while, Ni Yuanlu walked in with a puzzled face, thinking, His Royal Highness asked him not to go directly to the household department, what to do in the Ministry of Industry.

"Alright, we're all here.

Zhu Cihong drew the last stroke, blew the ink on the paper, and then motioned for the three to sit down.

"This palace wants to mint coins, so I specially summoned you to discuss it together.

Hearing this, Ni Yuanlu was nothing, but the officials of the Ministry of Industry were surprised, especially the official in blue, his hanging heart finally let go, and he was a little moved: His Royal Highness is so kind that he actually wants to discuss with them.

"Your Highness, I forgive you for speaking out.

Ni Yuanlu sat on the chair, touched his beard, and said: "Now that the Ming copper coins are saturated, there is no need to do this, and the treasury is not lacking copper coins, if you want to meet the needs of the treasury, the copper coins to be minted can be said to be an astronomical amount, and it will also lead to the depreciation of copper coins, and it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources to mine copper mines, please think twice."

As he spoke, he stood up and bowed his hand, and said, "Moreover, the treasury does not have so much money to carry out the great work."

Zhu Cihong motioned for Ni Yuanlu to sit down again, there was no displeasure on his face, but there was still a smile on the corner of his mouth, although he needed an obedient minister now, but it was not a minister who would only be blindly obedient, and would only cater to and not do practical things.

"The main palace does not want to mint copper coins for use, but to mint silver coins.

Zhu Cihong said and handed the paper on the table to Ni Yuanlu.

Ni Yuanlu took the paper and looked at it, and after a while, he understood what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince meant, and then spoke.

"Your Royal Highness, this idea is good, although since the beginning of the Wanli period, silver has been the main currency, but the hard currency of the people is still mainly food, and once the silver coin is minted, it will also consume a lot of manpower and material resources, and the silver will also be lost in the process of casting, and it will ......"

Ni Yuanlu said this, subconsciously glanced at His Royal Highness the Prince, and did not continue.

"It will also harm the interests of many people, right?" Of

course, Zhu Cihong knew that there was a greasy in this, that is, fire consumption, every time the imperial court taxed, the silver collected was of extremely high purity, but the folk broken silver was mixed, and it had to be re-smelted and cast, and at this time, there was fire consumption.

Often ten taels of silver, the fire consumes three percent, and the rest is only seven taels, and at this time, the local government will increase the fire and consume silver, from which corruption and profit, and finally squeeze the people.

Ni Yuanlu didn't dare to answer this, and he didn't know how to answer it, but the meaning of it was conveyed to His Highness, and most importantly, His Highness also understood the meaning.

"It takes so much fire and manpower and material resources every year, wouldn't it be more laborious and costly, and it will also raise a group of vampires to lie on the people and suck blood.

Zhu Cihong saw that Ni Yuanlu didn't speak, of course he knew that the other party didn't dare to offend officials from all over the country, so many governors, governors, political envoys, and envoys were all red-clothed officials, among whom there were parties, connections, and all kinds of intricate relationships.

But Zhu Cihong doesn't care about these, whoever dares to oppose it, who dares to make ghosts from it, will be suppressed, this reform is revised, and now the Ming Dynasty is full of holes, it is this group of moths that eats it, this insecticide must be sprayed down and cleaned up.

"Moreover, it is not too much for the common people to have a silver ingot in their homes, and when the time comes, the silver in the treasury will not be cut up by the people, and the color will be mixed again, which is not conducive to circulation, and it cannot be exchanged for copper coins at an equivalent price, so that the government can make profits from it. (The report is the equivalent exchange, 1,000 copper coins for one or two miscellaneous silver, but there is no 1,000 copper for the people, and then the miscellaneous silver is handed over to the treasury, smelted again, and the fire consumption silver is collected from the people again, and the cycle is endless.)

"Therefore, the palace intends to make silver coins for issuance, unified circulation, unified measurement, unified style, unified weight, so that the people will spend it much more conveniently, and it will also save the annual re-smelting, fire consumption, and can also eliminate a large number of corrupt officials, what do you think?"

After Zhu Cihong finished speaking, he looked at the three people below, with a smile on his face, but in his heart he was looking at their attitude, who dared to say a word, he was immediately dismissed, and he was replaced by someone who said good words to do things, he Zhu Cihong was really not afraid that no one was available, and he was not afraid of these so-called Qingliu literati going on strike.