Please ask me to be the emperor

It is said that Zhang Shun had already selected a low-level official and a few soldiers and went to Nanjing to meet the "Prince" Zhu Yousong.

Who is this low-level official?

It turned out that he was sent to Han Ruyu from the seventh-grade military department.

As his name suggests, Han Ruyu is very similar to Han Yu in the Tang Dynasty. He abides by his duties and is upright. He has impeached other generals many times and is hated by others.

Therefore, when the "hot potato" Zhang Shun appeared, others could not avoid it, so they recommended Han Ruyu.

Originally, Zhang Shun had no intention of actually inviting the "Prince" Zhu Yousong back, and was even more worried that his brother would be killed by the Donglin Party members.

He just glanced at it briefly before letting Han Ruyu go.

As a result, no one expected that Han Ru became more stubborn and wanted to welcome the "Prince" back.

However, the distance from Beijing to Nanjing is 2,550 miles, and even traveling on horseback would take more than a month, so let’s forget about it for now.

Let's say that Zhang Shun found this excuse to buy himself two months of time, and he became more and more aggressive, urging Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, Geng Zhongming and others to torture the temple officials and Jin Yiwei.

"Your Majesty, Cao Huachun's family has confiscated a mansion, three courtyards, thirty-seven singers and thin horses, one hundred and twenty-seven servants and maids, coral treasures worth one million and fifty thousand taels, and 320,000 taels of silver. ." Princess Zhu Huiti of Le'an reported to Zhang Shunhui.

"No, he is just a eunuch, why would he buy a singer or a thin horse?" Zhang Shun was puzzled.

"Use it for practice!" When Zhu Huiti mentioned this, he couldn't help but gritted his teeth and replied.

It turns out that some eunuchs become increasingly perverted after losing their normal functions as men.

Therefore, when they become rich, they like to purchase some girls and abuse them to vent their anger.

"Why don't you just stay? You're so lustful," Zhu Huiti hesitated and suggested.

Zhang Yan, Zhou Yufeng and Tian Xiuying covered their faces when they heard this. They are indeed pampered princesses, and they can say such nonsense.

"Uh." Zhang Shun shook his head after hearing this and said helplessly, "Forget it, let these people keep the rewards for meritorious soldiers!"

Are you kidding me? Cao Huachun assassinated the king and killed him. This is a lesson learned from the past. How can I let some unknown person get close to me again?

"Besides, you're being serious!" Zhu Huiti glanced at Zhang Shun with disdain and said.

Zhang Yan was really afraid that Zhang Shun would go along with the situation, so she quickly interrupted: "By the way, Your Highness, Fatty Zhang came to report this morning that a total of 1.07 million shi of grain was found in the Tongzhou granary."

"Oh?" Sure enough, Zhang Shun's mind was no longer on women when he got down to business.

"There are 1.13 million shi in the capital, plus 1.07 million shi in Tongzhou, for a total of 2.2 million shi. This is a lot of food!"

To Zhang Shun's surprise, he originally thought that after the "food war", the northern region would be severely short of food. He never expected that there were still 2.2 million shi of food left in the Taicang granary.

"These are all taxes accumulated in previous years, and it is said that there are also rotten old grains!" Zhou Yufeng frowned and explained.

"Huh?" Zhang Shun was stunned when he heard this, and he immediately didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

The core of the problem in the Ming Dynasty was the lack of food, but they never thought that Chongzhen was sitting on the treasure mountain without knowing it.

It turns out that when the Ministry of Household Affairs established Taicang, the Taicang bank could not make ends meet, but the Taicang grain depot never had a shortage.

However, no one in the Ming Dynasty realized that the core of the economic problem between the north and the south in the late Ming Dynasty was the imbalance of money and food.

Among them, the south has developed agriculture and commerce, but because it is far away from Jiubian, it is inconvenient to transport food, but it has more silver.

In the north, droughts, locust plagues, and military disasters have repeatedly occurred, and agricultural production has been greatly damaged.

However, because the land is close to nine sides and there are few folds, a large amount of grain must be paid as tax.

Since then, the North has more money and less food, while the South has less money and more food.

As a result, economic activities in both the North and the South were greatly damaged.

"Your Highness, what's wrong?" Seeing Zhang Shun's expression, the four girls couldn't help but wonder.

Zhang Shun then expressed his opinion, and sure enough, the four women were stunned.

"Your Highness, do you mean that because there is a shortage of food in the north, money is worthless; and in the south, there is a shortage of money, so food is worthless?" The four women were all smart people. After hearing this, they thought for a long time and then they immediately came to their senses.

"Then the money we collected is worthless?" Suddenly, the fourth woman felt that the abacus in her hand was no longer good.

"Who said it's not valuable anymore?" Zhang Shun couldn't help but laugh, "Money is still valuable, the key is how to spend it!"

"The king takes this money, firstly, to distribute rewards and calm people's hearts; secondly, he can use it to stabilize prices and adjust the price difference between money and food."

"How can we keep prices under control?" The girls were stunned when they heard this and couldn't help but ask.

"If you have less money, put money in it; if you have more money, put it in food!" Zhang Shun chuckled and couldn't help but explain.

"Why did you change the original color to the original color? It was not the beginning of the country. There was more food and less money, and it couldn't last long. That's why the original color was changed to the original color!"

The original color generally refers to the physical objects collected by the court, while the discounted color refers to the converted silver coins.

At the beginning, the Ming court had strong control, so it was able to adjust between collecting physical goods and money, so it was able to maintain economic stability.

However, after the end of the dynasty, except for the control ability of the imperial court.

The most important reason is that people in this era do not have a deep understanding of the proportion of money and food.

Sun Chengzong and Sun Chuanting were partially aware of this problem, and took measures to cultivate farmland and invite farmers to carry out reforms respectively, which alleviated the money and grain conflict in the north to a certain extent.

However, because these two men only focused on the superficial problem of "food shortage", they did not solve the fundamental problem of the economy in the late Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, with the military defeat of the two men, the reform completely failed.

Zhang Shun is different. As a person in his previous life, Zhang Shun was limited to the problem of "food shortage" at first, but with the economic knowledge he learned in his previous life, he soon realized the problem of the imbalance of money and food in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the policy of "replacing wages with food" was adopted to adjust the ratio between the two, and achieved great success.

However, after the rebels occupied most of the northern area, the issue of the proportion of money and food resurfaced in front of Zhang Shun.

"Listen, we sisters finally understand!" The four girls quickly raised the question, "But we only control money now and don't have much food. What should we do?"

Zhang Shun mastered a large amount of silver through the "Three Major Cases" this time, but the food is still not enough. What should he do?

"It doesn't matter. One is that we already have two million shi of grain in our hands. When Hong Chengchou takes Linqing, he will probably be able to get hundreds of thousands of shi of grain. For the time being, there is no problem!" Zhang Shun said with a smile.

"But, for us, the most critical thing is the collection of summer and autumn grains!"

After the rebels cleared out a large number of nobles, civil servants and eunuchs, whether Zhang Shun's new regime could collect taxes was the key to the success or failure of the rebels.

"Then can they listen to His Highness?" The four women frowned and asked.

"No problem, they don't have to listen to us, but they always have to listen to some people!" Zhang Shun laughed.

"who?"

"The Metropolitan Procuratorate!"

In the Ming Dynasty, the Metropolitan Procuratorate developed from the Yushitai. It consisted of thirteen supervisory censors, patrolling prefectures and counties, and specializing in the inspection, impeachment and other matters of officials.