General Constitution of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 222 Murder Case
The prince went back to the north and several edicts from the Garrison Office were issued.

Clearly conveyed a signal to the "nobles" in Jiangnan.

The new law will be suspended.

Even though the wharf is still being widened, merchant ships still have navy wharves available, and even Jiajing did not mention the forbidden sea again.

But as long as the new law is stopped, it means that silver regains the ability to "only rise but not fall", which in turn leads to the resurgence of silver prices.

According to Lu Bing and Mai Fu's predictions, the rise of silver prices should be a relatively slow process, at least not in one step. The reason for reaching this conclusion is that they ignored an important factor.

--lever.

The charm of leverage is that it greatly speeds up the circulation of money, so that one tael of silver can play the role of two taels, three taels, or even ten taels of silver.

But if you prosper with this, you will die with it.

Once the capital chain is broken, the destructive power of every tael of silver will be multiplied accordingly.

In short, after the signal that the new law was suspended had just been disseminated and the "nobles" had just forcibly withdrawn their first funds, the bubble that had blown up in Jiangnan was about to burst for the first time.
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Late at night in the outskirts of Jinling.

Two fast horses were galloping down the street, and immediately sat two young men in dude clothes, and behind them, there was a team of horses biting tightly.

"I am from the Sun family in the south of the city. I beg the folks to go home and let me know my father. Come to Zhoujiazhuang to save me quickly. Sun will never forget his kindness in saving my life!"

The two young men immediately shouted loudly, and there were many houses with lights on in the village not far away, but no one came out to check.

But the horse team behind him suddenly pulled out a dark guy.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" Three loud bangs exploded behind the two of them.

The two young men on the horse were so frightened that they burst into tears immediately.

"Big brothers, don't force me anymore, let me wait a little longer!"

"I don't want to force you! But I want my money! Money! Money! If you don't give it to me, tomorrow my creditors will have to chase me like this!"

"Damn, are you stopping?!"

After all, the big man who was chasing after him drew out a feathered arrow, and then stretched his bowstring towards the two of them.

Just when the pursuers were about to release their arrows, the two young men bumped into a carriage heading from Jinling.

"Boom!" After a loud noise, all that was left in front of the chasing soldiers was a mess.

"Brother, I'm out of breath."

Looking at the two corpses in front of him, the big man's face darkened, and he growled, "Drag the corpses, and go back to ask his father for money."

Weaving fields and porcelain kilns blooming everywhere have generated huge demand for loans.

They need huge cash flows to keep going.

At this time, some bold young people came up with the idea of ​​this deal.

They first borrowed the surplus money from fellow villagers, and then through their hands, lent it to nearby weaving farms and porcelain kilns to grab the interest difference. Many of them even came from poor families, so they jumped up and became perennial A dandy boy with "millions of dollars" hanging around in Jinling City.

They have money overnight that they can't spend in three lifetimes.

Xiangcheliangju, beautiful concubine mansion.

The vibrant Jiangnan became more prosperous because of them. Many of them even spent a lot of money on the banks of the Qinhuai River just to win the song diva, so much so that they forgot how many things 100 taels of silver could buy in the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that this big dream, after all, it's time to wake up.

The tide is receding, and the number of homicide cases accumulated in Yingtian Mansion has increased several times overnight, while on the other side, in the villages on the outskirts of the city, the brigade's Tiwei and subordinate officials are forcing the gentry of each village to replant wheat.

Only when the prince returning from the north passed by on the streets of Jinling, did Jinling regain some tranquility, but the sound of crying in the homes of the people in the alleys still reached Zhu Zaixun's ears.

"Changhe weaving field... Dudu Lu, Jiangnan is so sloppy, isn't father afraid of losing the hearts of the people?"

Lu Bing shook his head towards the outside of the city and said, "Your Highness's words are absurd. The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River have never been so loyal as they are today."

When it was time to leave the city, countless gentry came to Yanziji spontaneously and knelt down to send Zhu Zailong's car back north.

Although their shouts of long live were deafening, Zhu Zaishun could still see the red firecracker skins scattered along the river and the joy on their faces.

It cannot be pretended.

The more turbulent it is, the more people will miss the days when chickens and dogs heard each other, and the people did not communicate with each other until old age and death.

And all these turmoil were attributed to the new law by these people. If the father stopped the new law, it would be to bring order out of the chaos, which should be gratifying.

It's just that the businessmen in Jiangnan didn't sit still, just like a drowning person will always struggle hard.

It's instinctive even if struggling puts them at a disadvantage.

The crown prince traveled to the north, and the nobles and even his own gentry took away the silver. The price of silver increased day by day, but Jiangnan once again ushered in a short period of peace.

The price of calm is more frenzied borrowing.

Only this time, these "young dudes" set their sights on those poor relatives and neighbors with only three or four coins.

If you are timid and afraid of getting into trouble, then you will make great profits, and if you make more profits, you will become more courageous.

As long as the accumulation is small, even if it will be bombed sooner or later, it will not be bombed now, and even a lot of money will be deliberately wasted to maintain the appearance of these "young dudes". Heart, for him to fight for some breathing time.
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On the canal, there is an endless stream of merchant ships, which is obviously much more prosperous than when Zhu Zaihen went south.

Lu Bing swaggered and sat on the bow, looking at the fleet thoughtfully.

"Before the reform, the scholar-bureaucrats tried their best to stop it. After the reform, the elders Yan and Xu took the lead in changing rice to cotton. Gentlemen, is this new law a bad government? So there is today."

There were only six people sitting in the cabin, including Ning Jue and Zhu Zaihan. Zhu Zaihan's face was full of disappointment.

He could also guess some of his father's thoughts. If he hadn't really had no way out, he wouldn't have abolished the new law so hastily.

Knowing that the Yan family and the Xu family are taking advantage of the new law to make profits, they changed it back and forth, but in the end they want to hand over the power to Yan Song and Xu Jie, not to mention Jiajing, even Zhu Zaiyu didn't want to agree.

Zhang Juzheng said consolingly: "Your Highness, why should you belittle yourself? Even when Taizu Emperor Gao was here, there were villains who slandered me, so why should you worry about it?"

"However, when Emperor Taizu Gao was here, he followed the law with his words, and the important affairs of the family and the country were decided with one word. In this dynasty, the monarchy will fall to the side." Zhu Zaiyu said disappointedly.

Ning Jue laughed when he heard this and said: "Taizu Gao Emperor said that the law should be followed? If it is true that the law should be followed by the words, how could the four major cases of Hongwu come about."

"Not to mention Taizu, which emperor in the past has truly followed his words?"

"The First Emperor wiped out Liuhe and unified the world. But if the First Emperor could really decide everything with one word, how could he destroy half of Chu and destroy the prime minister of Qin and turn him into the King of Chu? Even the First Empress had no name. It has not been left in the history books.”

"The princes of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Qi Xunhou outside the Qin and Han Dynasties, the aristocratic families of the Northern and Southern Sui and Tang Dynasties, and in the Song Dynasty they used scholar-bureaucrats to rule the world, and then in this dynasty, it was already a great prosperity to rule the scholar-bureaucrats with ministers."

"Your Highness, the crown prince's power is probably more conceited than that of the emperors in the Han Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties."

"It's not the powerful ministers of the Duguo dynasty, but the emperors of all dynasties have always been like this. It's just that in most cases, the emperors have won."

Zhu Zaizhen frowned thoughtfully, but Zhang Juzheng stood up and opened the window in front of him.

"Your Highness, the new law is not dead yet."

Zhu Zaiyu was startled when he heard this.

"Where did you say that, sir?"

As soon as the words fell, Ning Jue saw a trace of enthusiasm flash across Zhang Juzheng's face.

"Businessmen will not let it go, and the people who have already entered the city will not let it go."

"So what if they don't want to let it go?" Zhu Zaishun looked at Zhang Juzheng.

"Repeat the old tricks. If you ask for it from the officials but fail, then you will ask the people down. You can either eat the people to enrich yourself, or force the people to be self-respecting. The new law is temporary, but Jiangnan has not caused too much trouble. Does your Highness think it is normal? No In half a year, there will be chaos in the south of the Yangtze River, and the only one who can stop this chaos is the New Law!" Zhang Juzheng looked very clear.

"The people in the south of the Yangtze River are about to suffer another catastrophe." Zhu Zaiyu said in a low voice.

"My Ming Dynasty has accumulated evils for a long time, and it can't be cured by blindly taking strong medicine."

"Can it be cured?" Ning Jue asked suddenly.

Zhang Juzheng looked at Ning Jue in astonishment: "Brother Ning, why did you say that? This Jiangnan is the place where our Ming Dynasty has the most wealth. There is chaos in the south of the Yangtze River. How can you ignore it?"

"It's true that Jiangnan is a place of wealth and endowment in Ming Dynasty, but there is only a corner of Jiangnan in Ming Dynasty? If Jiangnan is really as important to Daming as Shuda said, the emperor would not be able to stop the new law in Jiangnan. In fact, it is my gentry from the other ten provinces of Daming. It gave the emperor the confidence to suspend the new law and restrict Jiangnan."

"If you can stop it today, you can still suppress it tomorrow."

Zhang Juzheng stared at the merchant ships on the canal by the window, gritted his teeth and said in a low voice: "Brother Yining saw it, is it true that my trip to the south of the Yangtze River was really a waste of time?"

"Of course it won't be in vain. The merchants in Jiangnan or Ming Dynasty have already tasted the sweetness of the new law, and they will not give up as expected, but as long as the imperial court no longer bans the sea, this little seedling will remain dormant. .”

"How long will you be dormant?"

"When the country is destroyed and the family is destroyed, the world is in chaos. When the gentry who are dormant in the world can no longer give the emperor the confidence to stop them, in the end they will still suffer from the people for another hundred years." Speaking of this, Ning Jue's face showed a bit of cruelty. Angry: "It's because he can't bear to spend those two pieces of money!"

"Brother Ning, you... What do you mean? That's the Son of Heaven." Zhang Juzheng, who sensed that something was wrong with Ning Jue, said.

"Can the emperor disregard the life and death of the common people?"

Zhang Juzheng looked at Zhu Zaixun in horror.

"Your Highness, you can't let Brother Ning talk nonsense..."

Before Zhang Juzheng finished speaking, Zhu Zaihen said: "Mr. Zhang, I think what Master Ning said makes sense."

"Even the Son of Heaven can't disregard the life and death of the people, and he can't let his father be in a daze any longer!"

Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong couldn't help feeling cold when they heard the words.

Why did these two get together!
"Then what do His Highness and Brother Ning plan to do?" Zhang Juzheng looked at the two with a wry smile.

Zhu Zaiyu and Ning Jue also spoke at the same time.

"Death advice."

"Fuck him."

There was a deathly silence in the cabin.

(End of this chapter)