Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 576 Fighting the Economic War
Chongzhen was about to go crazy with joy.

Holding the little princess whose vernix has not faded and her face is still wrinkled, Chongzhen clearly felt the magical feeling of first-class blood connection, which was completely different from the feeling given to him by the three brothers Zhu Cihong, Zhu Cijiong, and Zhu Cizheng. Yes, it seemed that only at this moment did he really feel what it was like to be a father.

Ran Sanniang was disappointed at first, she hoped to give birth to the sixth prince.

But seeing the unconcealable ecstasy in Chongzhen's eyes, Ran Sanniang still felt very relieved, the princess is the princess, at least this means that she has gained a firm foothold in Daming's harem.

"Concubine Ran, thank you for your hard work." Chongzhen did not forget to thank Ran Sanniang.

"The concubine failed to give birth to the prince, and it would be fine if the Long Live Lord didn't blame the concubine."

Ran Sanniang didn't know whether she was happy or wronged, she pouted her small mouth and started to sob.

"Hey, why are you still crying on such a happy day?" Chongzhen held his daughter's baby in one hand, freeed his right hand to wipe away Ran Sanniang's tears, and said with a smile, "Look at how handsome our daughter is. She must be a one-in-a-million beauty, and I don't know whose kid will be the best in the end."

At this time, Chongzhen was like an old father.

Ran Sanniang was immediately amused, her daughter was just born, she thought so far.

But Ran Sanniang clearly felt Chongzhen's preference for his daughter.

Ran Sanniang held back her laughter and asked again: "Long Live Lord, what name do you want to name your daughter?"

"I have to think about this." Chongzhen turned his gaze out of the window, looked at the lush and towering trees on Qingliang Mountain, and immediately thought of the Jinxiu rivers and mountains of Daming, and said immediately, "Zhu Jinxiu, it's called Zhu Jinxiu."

"Zhu Jinxiu?" Ran Sanniang murmured a few times, feeling that the name was quite good.

Chongzhen said again: "As for the title, it must be Jiangning."

Jiangning is Nanjing, and the title of Princess Jiangning is simply perfect.

And it is an exaggeration to give the title of princess right after birth.

"Wang Daban, convey my will." Chongzhen felt that it was not enough, and put the infant Jiangning Princess back to Ran Sanniang's pillow, stood up and said loudly, "Ran Concubine gave birth to Princess Jiangning for Daming, I want to pardon the world, including The heinous death row and the rebellious army used as labor, all the criminals..."

Amnesty?Wang Chengen and the eunuchs were a little dazed.

Don't Long Live Lord hate these ostentations the most?There is no amnesty for the birth of the eldest grandson of the emperor.

After a short pause, Chongzhen said again: "Everyone who commits crimes... will be rewarded with a good meal."

One meal?Long live Lord, it turns out that the amnesty world you are talking about is this amnesty world.

"All my farmers in Ming Dynasty will be exempted from grain tax for one year this year, and those who were originally tax-exempt will be exempted for an extra year."

"There are also all the workshops in the eight prefectures and one prefecture in the south of the Yangtze River. All the workers have to take a bath for one day, and their salaries are still paid."

Gao Qiqian and the others are even more confused, amnesty is not enough for the world, do you want to rest?And it's a paid rest?Long live, you are too partial to Princess Jiangning, right?
"Oh, and all the scholars in the Ministry of Internal Affairs will receive an extra month's salary in June, and all the servants in the palace will also receive an extra month's salary! As for you guys..."

After saying this, Chongzhen said again: "Gao Banban and Lu Banban will each reward 1000 yuan!"

"Thank you, Lord Long Live, for your generous reward." Gao Qiqian and Lu Jiude were immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly knelt down to thank him.

Compared with the usual rewards of five yuan and ten yuan in the past, Long Live Lord rewarded 1000 yuan this time, which is really a huge sum of money.

Chongzhen finally said to Wang Chengen: "Wang Daban, you have taken good care of Concubine Ran for more than half a year, and Princess Jiangning can be born smoothly, I appreciate your love."

"Long live lord, I'm really annoyed old slave." Wang Chengen hurriedly knelt down.

"Get up." Chongzhen novice helped Wang Chengen, and said with a smile, "I will make you Duke Wu right now!"

"Wu Guogong!" Gao Qiqian couldn't help but exclaimed about his background, this incident made such a fuss, Lao Wang has now been promoted to the Duke of the State?Duke?At this moment, Gao Qiqian was so jealous that he was about to go crazy, the first eunuch of Ming Dynasty, Duke Guo.

Lao Gao, I’m still just a prince, Lao Wang, how did you become the Duke of the state?

Long live you don't bring such a thing, you agreed to make me the eunuch king.

Wang Chengen was also taken aback, and quickly declined: "Long live, how can this be done."

"I said yes, so I will." Chongzhen did not allow Wang Chengen to refuse. The reason why Wang Chengen was made the Duke of the State was mainly to set a benchmark for the eunuchs. If you don't cause trouble and are always loyal to me, you may be promoted to the Duke of the State like Wang Chengen.

When Chongzhen talked about this, Wang Chengen could only be granted the title.

After thanking him, Wang Chengen arranged for the young eunuch to deliver a decree to amnesty the world.

Soon another little eunuch reported: "Long Live Lord, Uncle Kang Guo and Zhang Yuanwailang came to see him."

"Kang Wanwan?" Chongzhen was in a very good mood at the moment, and said with a smile, "Lead them to the flower hall and wait."

After a while, Kang Wanwan and Zhang Han entered the palace flower hall under the guidance of the servants. After waiting for a long time, Chongzhen also came in wearing a Yanju suit, and the two quickly knelt down to congratulate Chongzhen.

Chongzhen waved his hands and asked with a smile: "You must have other things, right?"

"Your Majesty is holy." Kang Wanwan said, "That's right. In the last half month, the prices of slave goods that flowed into our Daming through Shandong and Henan, such as pearls, ginseng, furs, horses and camels, have all increased in price."

"The prices have all increased?" Chongzhen's eyes lit up, because this was a signal.

The war between Daming and Jiannu was a war, but the folk trade has not stopped.

It doesn't even need to be transshipped through pseudo-shun, but directly trades in Shandong and Henan.

On Jiannu's side, the trade is basically controlled by the eight major Shanxi merchants, but on the Daming side, the merchants involved in the trade were more complicated at the beginning, so it was difficult to obtain bargaining power.

At that stage, the eight Shanxi merchants of Jiannu obviously took the initiative. They could buy cotton cloth, silk, salt, tea, and grain from Jiangnan at low prices, while Dongzhu, ginseng, fur, etc. of Jiannu could be sold at high prices. .

But the good times don't last long, and this stage will only last more than a year or less than two years.

Chongzhen quickly completed the holding of Jiangnan Industry and Commerce through the Industrial and Commercial Bank, and established the Daming General Chamber of Commerce a few months later, and then realized the integration of Daming Industry and Commerce through the General Chamber of Commerce. Since then, the eight major Shanxi merchants who built slaves He lost his bargaining power against Daming and became a weaker party.

However, Daming did not take the opportunity to drive up prices.

It even lowered the prices of cotton cloth, iron materials, salt, oil and other goods.

Of course, Chongzhen had no good intentions. This was to complete the economic control of Jiannu, or economic colonization, that is, to make Jiannu become an economic colony of Ming Dynasty.

Daming has this ability.

Because Daming's industry and commerce has completed scale.

The biggest advantage of scale is lower costs.

Even if there is no steam power, even if it is still in the stage of handicraft industry, large-scale handicraft industry still has an overwhelming advantage over family workshop-style handicraft industry.

Therefore, Jiannu's family workshop has no way to compete with Daming.

Up to now, Jiannu's cotton spinning, iron smelting, salt, porcelain, oil and other industries have been basically destroyed, and they are all maintained by trade with Daming.

However, the trade between the two sides is fairly fair.

Now the eight Shanxi merchants who built slaves suddenly raised their prices, which is very unusual.

Chongzhen asked again: "Have you calculated how much money has flowed into Daming from Jiannu in recent years?"

Zhang Han replied: "The exact number cannot be counted, but the approximate number is clear. In recent years, the amount of silver that has flowed from Jiannu to Daming through various channels is about 3000 million."

"3000 million?" Chongzhen frowned, "This is not right, the treasury of slavery should not have bottomed out yet."

As a time traveler, Chongzhen knew Jiannu's family background. The family background accumulated before entering the customs plus the silver robbed from Beijing and the Dashun army after entering the customs must be at least 7000 million taels.

Now 3000 million have flowed into Daming, and there are still at least 2000 million in the slave treasury.

As for the remaining more than 2000 million taels, it must have been scattered in the hands of the rich and powerful.

With a clan of thousands of slaves and more than 30 banner people, there must be 2000 million taels of silver in the family.

Kang Wanwan said: "Even if the Jiannu treasury has not bottomed out, there is not much left. Cutting off the trade route at this time, even if it can't make Jiannu break out of civil strife, at least it will be enough for them to be busy for a while."

Zhang Han went on to say: "Most of the key Jiannu has already noticed something is wrong."

"Yes, what Zhang Qing said is correct." Chongzhen nodded and said, "Jiannu has probably sensed that something is wrong, so this is the last time window. If you miss this time, it will be difficult to cause Jiannu to cause turmoil again."

Chongzhen was also ruthless, and he really did everything he could to attack Jiannu.

In addition to the continuous consumption of Dagukou and Gaizhouwei, an economic war has also been waged.

What's more ruthless is that as early as three years ago, Chongzhen was already planning ahead for this economic war.

Immediately Chongzhen said: "Let's get started. From today onwards, not a single strand of it can flow into Jiannu! Anyone who dares to violate the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and still secretly communicates with Jiannu will be kicked out of the Daming General Chamber of Commerce. Members of the Chamber of Commerce are not allowed to do business with it, oh yes, there is one item that can still be sold to Jian Nu."

"What kind of goods?" Kang Wanwan and Zhang Han couldn't help being stunned when they heard the words.

Chongzhen laughed and said, "It's Huzhou light gauze soaked in alkaline water."

"This kind of lake yarn, we can provide as much as Jiannu wants."

"Of course, the price has to be the old price, 100 yuan for a piece of Hu yarn."

Kang Wanwan and Zhang Han also laughed when they heard the words, Jiannu must have been tricked by this wave.

It cost 100 million taels of silver to buy 1 pieces of light yarn soaked in alkaline water from Huzhou.

After these lake yarns were soaked in alkaline water, there was not much abnormality, so the merchants who built slaves could not see the clues at all, but after a few months, they would deteriorate and become brittle.

[Note: The internal affairs are almost finished]

[The next step is to fight Jian Nu]

(End of this chapter)