General Constitution of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 67 Hayley
Listen to Zhang Juzheng's question.

A slight smile appeared on Ning Jue's face.

"Brother Zhang, you have to know that silver is just a piece of stone or a piece of iron."

Zhang Juzheng looked at Ning Jue blankly.

"Brother Ning...what does this have to do with Haili?"

Ning Jue looked at Zhang Juzheng and said with a sneer: "Dare to ask Brother Zhang, what crime should we be guilty of privately minting copper coins according to the Law of the Ming Dynasty?"

Zhang Juzheng was startled when he heard the words.

"Death by law."

"Then what should be the crime for counterfeiting precious banknotes according to the "Law of the Ming Dynasty?"

Zhang Juzheng was even more confused.

"Brother Ning, isn't it written on the banknote that forgers will be killed."

It's not that Zhang Juzheng doesn't know these things, but Zhang Juzheng doesn't know how this matter has anything to do with the sea ban.

Ning Jue looked at Zhang Juzheng meaningfully, then took out a piece of silver taels from his sleeve, and placed it in front of Zhang Juzheng.

"Uncle, Daming, almost no silver is produced!"

"Zhang Mozhi..." Before Zhang Juzheng finished speaking, he froze in place, and then stared at the silver in Ning Jue's hand with some suffocation.

Daming does not produce silver!
"Brother Ning, what's the difference between this Haili and the private minting of copper coins and the private distribution of precious banknotes?"

"Should be beheaded! Should be killed! Do these people have a little bit of life in their eyes? Are they worthy of reading sage books?"

Zhang Juzheng held the piece of silver tightly, as if he wanted to crush the piece of silver into powder.

Thousands of words in my heart finally merged into one sentence.

"Crazy ministers and thieves!"

It wasn't until this moment that Zhang Juzheng understood where Haili really was.

It's not how much silver you can earn every year at sea.

It was Daming's lack of silver.

Most of the silver circulating in the Ming market came from overseas, and the way of inflow was the boatloads of tea, porcelain, and silk.

Who controls this maritime trade route.

Whoever controls the inflow of big white silver.

Zhang Juzheng didn't know what money was.

But long before the Ming Dynasty, there were enough samples and precedents to clearly explain the disadvantages of privately minting copper coins and issuing precious banknotes indiscriminately.

Zhang Juzheng even felt that the question he asked just now was really stupid.

I was actually asking how old Haili was.

How can this profit be righted at the market price?
For Ning Jue, this question is equivalent to asking why there are people rushing to rob the money printing machine.

Is this worth the money?
Zhang Juzheng's chest heaved violently and hit the table with a "bang".

"Shouldn't go to the sea in the southeast, which is banned like your father! These gangsters and thieves still have a little bit of country and society in their eyes!"

From Zhang Juzheng's point of view, Daming's sea ban is actually optional.

Now I know the real Hailey.

Zhang Juzheng inevitably turned to the Forbidden Sea faction.

Since someone covets the artifact because of Haili, then Haili should be eliminated altogether.

Ning Jue shook his head helplessly.

"I can't help it."

"As soon as this benefit is opened, I don't know how many people in the south of the Yangtze River live exclusively by reeling silk and raising silkworms. I don't know how many people in Jiangxi live by burning kilns. If there is no Haili, how can these places support tens of millions of people? Sit back and watch them starve to death?"

The moment when the southeastern population breeds begins.

There is no room for maneuver in all this.

Zhang Juzheng was stunned on the spot, and he couldn't help clenching his fists tightly.

It wasn't until this moment that Zhang Juzheng realized what the southeastern provinces were fighting for.

If this sea continues to be banned.

The day of subjugation.

For the high-ranking officials in the temple of Ming Dynasty, this sea seems to be open or not.

It's never really a multiple choice question.

It's a question of judgment.

One wrong step, and everything will be lost.

Zhang Juzheng, who realized the seriousness of the problem, couldn't even sit still.

He started pacing directly in the courtyard of Ning Jue's house.

It's a pity that no matter how Zhang Juzheng deduces and thinks about it, Kaihai is an unavoidable hurdle.

Zhang Juzheng didn't know what Ming would face after crossing this threshold.

But if you stop before this threshold, it is obvious.

Looking at Zhang Juzheng's appearance, Ning Jue couldn't help but smiled wryly and said, "Uncle, do you know why Ning wants to go to sea?"

Zhang Juzheng was silent at first, and then slowly opened his mouth after a long time.

"Zhang only regrets that Shiwu failed to enter Xi'an with brother Ning, but the matter has come to this point, you and I can't just stand by and watch."

Ning Jue shook his head in relief.

"Uncle, there is still a change in this matter."

"Ke Haiban is the ancestral precept of Emperor Taizu Gao. Changing the law of the ancestors is not easy."

"The only thing that defeats the law of the ancestors is the law of the ancestors."

Zhang Juzheng hurriedly cupped his hands: "Brother Ning, please express that Zhang is willing to help Brother Ning."

A stern look suddenly appeared on Ning Jue's face.

Then he picked up a piece of firewood and drew a horizontal line on the ground. After the black line divided a stone brick into two, Ning Jue drew two black dots almost equidistant from the middle of the black line.

"Look, uncle, if the two sides of the black line are Daming and Grassland, where do uncle think these two points are?"

Zhang Juzheng almost blurted out.

"Dongshengwei and Daning City?!"

"good."

"From west to east, it is called Oara."

"From Dongsheng to Daning, it is called Tatar."

"From Daning to the east, it is called Jurchen."

"Now that the northern captives are flourishing day by day, I would like to see that this group of people dare not even abolish the law of their ancestors, but dare to abandon their land!"

Zhang Juzheng's brows gradually wrinkled.

"Brother Ning, what do you mean by rebuilding Dongsheng?"

"That's right, what happens in the southeast must be broken in the northwest!"

Ning Jue wanted to go back.

But Ning Jue didn't want to stay completely out of the matter of opening the sea.

Since he won't be able to die for a while, Ning Jue doesn't resist being a big Ming catfish, completely messing up the game of chess.

"But Brother Ning, what does this Dongsheng matter have to do with Haijin?"

Ning Jue snorted coldly: "Settling the score!"

"What's more, we need to calculate the big account. To rebuild Dongsheng City, how much food and fodder will be needed, how much money will be needed, how much war horses will be needed, and so on."

"In short, it's a big account that the court will never give up!"

Zhang Juzheng's eyes lit up.

"Brother Ning said, if things go on like this, since the imperial court wants to rebuild Dongsheng, it must open up new sources of income."

"Not bad!"

What Ning Jue wants is this sum of money that the court can't get even if killed.

People always try their best to find food only when they are hungry.

Zhang Juzheng's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Dongsheng goes deep into the desert. If Dongsheng is rebuilt, it will cost more than tens of millions of dollars!"

"Even if the imperial court doesn't eat or drink, they can't come up with so much silver."

"Wonderful!"

Zhang Juzheng, once a high-spirited young man, now looks like a crazy prodigal.

I'm afraid that the money spent on rebuilding Dongshengwei is not enough.

Break, and then stand up!
"Brother Ning, do you want to...?"

Before Zhang Juzheng finished speaking, Ning Jue watched Zhang Juzheng squeeze out four words one by one.

"Let's discuss the Hetao again!"

Zhang Juzheng groaned when he heard the words.

"Let's talk again... Let's discuss the Hetao again?!"

Zhang Juzheng's body shook suddenly, but Xia Yan's figure was all in his mind.

"Brother Ning, what do you mean... the discussion of Hetao is like this!?"

(End of this chapter)