General Constitution of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 186
Tao produces one, one produces two, two produces three, and three produces all things.

This festival is held every six months, but it doesn't mean that the result is destined to change every six months.

The Son of Heaven uses half a year as the base, and can choose the same currency for one or two years, or change every six months.

Fan merchants, aristocratic families, scholar-bureaucrats, merchants and even ordinary people have a lot of opportunities to gamble with the imperial court.

They may win, but the court will never lose.

The whip method is like a fruit planted by the joint efforts of more than ten generations in the 270 years of the Ming Dynasty.

The shell that wraps this fruit is called Tan Ding Ru Mu.

The real core of whipping lies in currency.

Since the eldest son's expedition to the west and the start of the wave of global precious metals pouring into East Asia, the largest empire in East Asia has produced a life-saving golden elixir.

Although there is no subjective intention in treasure banknotes and money bans, they have all become the foreshadowing for the birth of whipping in an objective sense.

As long as the whip method is used well, this ancient empire can hope to turn the hostess again.

But the final result of the whipping method is to stop at the stalls and the mu. In "Han Feizi", this kind of story is called "buying the bamboo for the pearl".

As the ceremony gradually draws to a close.

Staring at the two red trays in front of Jiajing, Yan Song stepped forward and said loudly: "Yan Song, the chief assistant of the minister and cabinet, has something to play!"

Jiajing, who sat back on the Luanjia again, stared at Yan Song, and said a word lightly.

"Play."

"In the seventh year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu Gao made the banknote law. Money and banknotes were in parallel. Times have changed. Both the banknote law and the money law have been corrupted for some reason. The old ministers are bold and please abolish the banknote law!"

Jiajing's eyes trembled, and he lowered his head slightly sadly and said: "I cannot uphold the family law of my ancestors, and it is unfilial for me to abolish it hastily."

Yan Song knelt down and bowed again.

"I beg your majesty to abolish this banknote law for the livelihood of the people in the country and the country."

If Jiajing doesn't allow it again, Yan Song will ask again.

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"For the people of the world, I bear the name of unfilial piety on my shoulders."

"Your Majesty Shengming."

After the Xuande Furnace, the technology of extracting metal zinc, that is, the Japanese lead recorded in "Tiangong Kaiwu" in the Ming Dynasty became more and more mature.

Jiajing Tongbao is a milestone copper coin since Zulong unified coin casting.

Since Jiajing, brass was used to cast coins, mixed with zinc. These two main raw materials have greatly increased the difficulty of folk private casting.

In the original history, this was the last time Jiajing personally made a major resignation to the government after the Gengxu Revolution, that is, ordered the Ministry of Industry to cast No. 900 coins of the former dynasty and [-] million ingots of Jiajing Tongbao. Went to Shuixi to comfort An Wanquan and his family were slaughtered by his nephew and Xinxue disciple An Guoheng, and after Yan Song fell from power, they were finally sealed off by Xu Jie with "Five Disadvantages of Casting Money".

Under the Fengtian Gate, Xu Jie, who lowered his head, twitched his throat slightly.

Without waiting for Xu Jie to open his mouth, Jiajing immediately opened his mouth and said, "Mr. Yan Ge, I heard that the folks are cheap, and the common people lose their jobs because they don't have money?"

Yan Song understood immediately.

"It's true, but Your Majesty will implement this new law and abolish the banknote law. If the price of grain cannot be equalized, you will be the leader of the ministers, so as to reassure the people!"

Yan Song quickly issued a military order.

Just after Yan Song finished speaking, Jiajing and Yan Song looked at Xu Jie at the same time, with smiles on their faces, and Xu Jie's heart was bristling when he laughed.

Yan Song put all the heads on, how could Xu Jie speak if he didn't follow him.

Even Xu Jie went all out and bet on the head to stir things up.

Now that the general trend of food prices has been fixed, there is no other way to do it. Xu Jie has no ability to stop the world's gentry from donating a head for nothing.

Under the watchful eyes of Yan Song and Jiajing Junchen.

Xu Jie's body trembled slightly, and then fell to his knees with a "plop".

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

The price of food in the world has become the biggest time bomb of Ming Dynasty.

Either tax this summer as copper.

Either be the chief criminal of Ming Dynasty and wait to be beheaded.

For Xu Jie and the officials behind Xu Jie, gold and silver are precious, and the people who eat are even more expensive.

The food price that was originally used by the nobles to put pressure on the court was dropped on the nobles themselves.

Along with the urgent edicts of eight hundred miles, they were transferred to the two capitals and 13 provinces.

The price of silver in various places changed overnight, and it plummeted overnight.

The most important pillar supporting the high price of silver was smashed down.

Instead, there will be a steady stream of copper coins from Jizhou, and boxes of yellow Jiajing Tongbao will be scattered among the people through the Nine Borders military pay and the re-established shipyards at various docks in the south of the Yangtze River.

Many bewildered gentry turned to copper coins with their family property, but the price of copper coins did not take off as they imagined, but rose slightly, and was flattened by the sudden influx of copper coins into the market.

Judging from the books, the imperial treasury does not have much money, but the matter that the imperial court needs to spend money has been solved in sevens and eighties.

With the military pay in Jiubian, the expenditure of Jiangnan shipbuilding has been settled, and even the Longevity Palace in Jiajing has started. On the common people's side, the grain price is still sold at the normal price, and then the land tax is paid.

Although using copper coins and grain as a reference, the prices of copper coins and grain did not fluctuate much.

However, taking copper coins and silver as a reference, in the case of a large number of overissued copper coins, the copper coins not only did not fall, but rose sharply.

in short.

Silver, as a currency, implodes.

What the common people and the imperial court ate were Baiyin's corpses.

And this is only the first step in harvesting. When the land taxes from various places are converted into copper coins and shipped to the court, the court will buy silver at a low price, turning the floating losses of the gentry into real losses.

Of course, the gentry can also choose not to cut flesh.

Then you always have to pay land taxes and business taxes, and you need to use something to fool the people below to do things.

It is not the ordinary people who need money the most, but the gentry and scholar-bureaucrats.

When the gentry were mourning, an inconspicuous order was issued by the cabinet.

Jin Xueyan, the right minister of Jiangxi, was promoted to the right servant of the household department to assist the headquarters.

Xie Yuangong, who had become an old fritter in the officialdom, never imagined that the memorabilia he played when he was young and vigorous when he first entered the imperial court was because a young man named Ning Jue was 15 years old. Today, years later, has had such a profound impact on Daming.

And his sentence "A husband who is silver can't wear clothes when he's cold, and can't eat when he's hungry."

One drink and one cut, is it pre-determined, orchid cause and fruit, all have a reason.
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When Jiajing announced to the mainland, the news that the tax was compiled as copper reached Xiaoling.

The entire Xiaoling Mausoleum fell into deathly silence.

Those who knew that the capital had come to issue an edict, but those who didn't know thought that Zhu Yuanzhang had come out for a walk.

Everyone seemed to have seen a ghost.

Zhu Zaixun's throat twitched slightly, he licked his lips and said, "Mr. Zhang, Father really seems to have tricked us all."

Looking at Mai Fu proclaiming the decree, Ning Jue came back to his senses and slapped himself twice without hesitation.

"Brother Ning, don't do this."

"I *him*, is there really someone in this world who can lose money when he is an emperor?!"

Zhang Juzheng grabbed Ning Jue and persuaded him: "Brother Ning, no matter what, the result is always good."

After only a few glances, Zhang Juzheng understood that the use of whipping in this way was completely equivalent to making a continuous bloodletting wound on everyone's necks.

Someday the imperial court will run out of money, just lie down and take a few sips.

Panting heavily, Ning Jue broke free with a blushing face and Zhang Juzheng sat slumped aside and said.

"I hope it's good."

Zhang Juzheng and Zhu Zaishun looked at each other, and looked at Ning Jue with some doubts.

"Master Ning, Gu really can't see anything wrong with it!"

At this moment, Ning Jue raised his head with difficulty, and looked at the two people in front of him.

"Yes, the imperial court minted two copper coins and distributed the military salaries of Nine Sides, and the common people did not suffer much loss."

"Then I would like to ask you two, who has lost the most?"

Zhu Zaiyu almost blurted out.

"Then of course whoever has the most money will lose the most."

"Yeah, can people who have so much money be fucking stupid? They won't just wait for the court to suck their blood!"

Zhu Zaiyan stood up abruptly, looked at Ning Jue vigilantly and asked, "Master Ning means that they are going to rebel?!"

"Rebellion? If they have the guts to rebel, they still have to wait until today?"

Ning Jue stood up with difficulty, and took out the few copper coins she had on her from her bosom.

"The whipping method of the imperial court controlled all the silver and copper coins in the imperial court's hands."

"Silver, copper coins, and how many things you can buy are all matters that His Majesty can decide with a pat on the head."

"If you were gentry, what would you do?"

Zhang Juzheng frowned and said: "Brother Ning, you mean that something similar to what happened when Emperor Taizu Gao issued the treasured banknotes for the first time?"

Regardless of whether Zhu Yuanzhang issued indiscriminately or not, the final outcome of the treasure banknotes must be withdrawn from circulation.

Because the main positive significance of issuing banknotes is that it can keep the economy healthy for a long time.

But no matter how benign inflation is, it means that the precious currency has been depreciating.

The people have no brains, and they can’t use money a few times a year, so why are they so full that they put away gold and silver that will definitely not depreciate or even appreciate in value, and use a kind of broken paper that is destined to depreciate.

Paper currency must require a considerable degree of commodity economy in order to maintain its own survival.

Even the commodity economy of the Song Dynasty was only halfway through the threshold.

The decline and demise of the Daming Banknotes did not affect the peak national power in the early Ming Dynasty. The fundamental reason was that it was only a unilateral depreciation of the Daming Banknotes, which had little impact on the people who mainly bartered.

Because that is not inflation at all, but more like a deformed liquidity crisis that is limited to the princes and generals.

Listening to Zhang Juzheng's words, Ning Jue shook his head.

"Abolishing the treasure banknotes, there is still gold and silver. Now even gold and silver are gone. Uncle, do you think it will still be just like when Emperor Taizu Gao was?"

"The gentlemen of the world need a substitute."

"Or more than one alternative."

"For this substitute, what they need is something that can transcend the shackles of the statute of limitations and is not subject to the whipping of the court."

"And the quantity of this substitute must be very large, at least it must be able to meet the needs of the gentry to avoid shrinking their family property!"

Copper coins and silver, which are general equivalents, are under such strong control by the imperial court.

For those aristocratic families with billions of dollars, ups and downs are no longer important. The final choice of those aristocratic families will inevitably be how to avoid such roller coaster changes in order to seek stability.

Currency reduction has almost become an inevitable choice.

Zhu Zaiyu raised his head in astonishment.

"Yam, linen, cotton, cotton, silk, china, paper!"

"There's a general term for this kind of thing."

"What's the general name?"

"commodity."

The big sound is loud, the elephant is invisible.

Jiajing, who was stuffed with too much money, never imagined what a terrifying behemoth he would release with his own hands when he carefully selected the currency in Fengtianmen.

That cub possessed Tao Shixian and other aristocratic families in the southeast.

He is about to use this to completely break through the last seal sealed on himself.

That plant has already seen its shape, but has not yet gained its potential.

To break through.

　1. In the 14th year of Jiajing, Jin Xueyan, a Jinshi who observed politics, entered the court for the first time: "My ministers have heard that the rich families in the south of the Yangtze River have accumulated silver to several hundred thousand taels, and the accumulation of the emperor's Tianfu is only more than one million taels. If the bank is alone And the money is gone, but it is only comparable to the accumulation of dozens of miles of rich houses. If the emperor tries to use his power to revitalize it, then those rich, wise, brave, and handsome people will run around in my power." Played Please advocate suppressing silver and casting money in order to "people master the power of wealth and honor." During the Longqing period, Jin Xueyan played again: "Money is wasteful, and silver benefits go alone. If you go alone, you will hide deep and silver will be expensive, goods will be cheap, and you will lose color." It is more and more difficult to do it, the rich and the right take advantage of their low income, and when it is expensive to sell it, the more silver is accumulated in the rich and the right, the less it is in the world, and it will last for decades, and the minister does not know what to do." Death.

　　2. The stone inscription "Mr. Yangming's Beloved Place" in Xiuwen Yangming Cave and the stone inscription "Yangming Wanyi Wo" in Xiuwen are all inscribed by An Guoheng.

　　
　
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