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Chapter 38 The undercurrent is floating! The value of treasure banknotes increases!
"Can it really be exchanged for silver?"

Jinling, Prince Ning's Mansion, Prince Ning Zhu Chenhao and a middle-aged man wearing Taoist robes, holding old treasure notes, looked at each other.

"Yes, Your Majesty, Taizu's treasure banknotes can really be exchanged for silver! Especially a large number of treasure banknotes from the same year, ten thousand guan of treasure banknotes, can actually be exchanged for ten taels of silver."

"Now, the entire Jinling is frantically collecting Hongwu treasure notes and Yongle treasure notes. But it has been too long. It is not easy to keep these things, and the quantity is very small."

"This means that ten thousand guan of treasure notes in the black market can even be exchanged for fifteen taels of silver."

"In addition, His Majesty has announced that whoever can provide one million Guan Hongwu treasure banknotes at once will be able to see the beauty of the sky..."

"Now, not only in Jinling, but also in neighboring Fengyang, Xuzhou and other places, many people are crazy about raising the price to collect treasure banknotes...the price of treasure banknotes is almost the same every day."

This subordinate talked about what he had seen and heard, but Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao became more and more confused.

He is thirty-one years old this year, only fifteen years older than Zhu Houzhao, but he is the same generation as Zhu Jianshen and Zhu Houzhao's grandfather.

He just arrived in Jinling yesterday and was among the vassal kings invited by Zhu Houzhao.

"Mr. Muzhai, tell me, what do I, the great-nephew emperor, want to do?"

"Do you really worship Taizu?"

"And let us live in Prince Ning's Mansion..."

"And, collect Taizu's treasure money..."

"In addition, it is suspected that he will return to Jinling..."

After his men retreated, King Ning couldn't help but turn around and look at the Taoist priest. When the Taoist priest saw him, he said he had a white hat for him.

Being familiar with Zhu Di's rebellion, he understood immediately and became his aide.

To be honest, he really couldn't understand Zhu Houzhao's series of operations.

Not only could he not understand it, but neither could Mr. Muzhai. The entire Jinling and all the people waiting for Zhu Houzhao to take action were deterred from taking rash actions by his recent series of policies on worship.

"My lord, to be honest, even if the prime minister in black, Yao Guangxiao, is here, he may not be able to understand your majesty's actions."

"Although Pindao targets Yao Guangxiao, but...this is really the first time I have seen..."

Mr. Muzhai pretended to be deeply stroking his beard and shook his head for most of the day.

"However, Your Highness, Pindao thinks this is an opportunity!"

"Didn't the prince always want to restore the escort team?"

"Now if the prince collects millions of treasure notes for your majesty, wouldn't it be possible to meet with your majesty? At that time... it will probably be more convenient for the prince to make this request to your majesty face to face than for us to send the message through Liu Jin."

"Now His Majesty has also stayed away from the cabinet, and has also taken action to gather the vassal kings..."

"It's a good opportunity..."

Mr. Mu Zhai still has a brush, always keeping their rebellion goals in mind, and finding a way for King Ning out of this fog.

"This……"

"Yes!"

"Yes! Who cares what my great-nephew emperor wants to do?"

"The more absurd he is, the better, so we can plan for big things!"

"Mr. Muzhai is worthy of being my king's sleeping dragon! After the event is completed, I will definitely reward Mr. Muzhai generously!"

Prince Ning was immediately overjoyed and slapped the Taoist priest heavily.

"Your Majesty, this is a matter that belongs to a poor Taoist."

Mr. Muzhai was not proud, but said cautiously: "Your Majesty, we have to hurry up. As more and more vassal kings come, and various forces in Jinling are intertwined, even... people from the cabinet are on the way, this matter must be done as soon as possible! We just need With His Majesty’s consent, we can form a guard!”

"Yes! This must be done quickly!"

Prince Ning immediately became energetic, and then called for people again: "Come here, collect the treasure banknotes! Aren't the treasure banknotes in the black market twenty taels and ten thousand guan? Then pass on the news to the king, it will be thirty taels directly! I want to pay for it Your Majesty, first collect Hongwu treasure banknotes! No, all kinds of treasure banknotes!"

The face value of the 10,000 guan banknote is worth 10,000 taels of silver. Now, if you only need to spend thousands of taels of silver to buy a pile of waste paper, you can meet Zhu Houzhao and achieve your goal. Naturally, Prince Ning will not feel bad. This small amount of money contributed to the further appreciation of Hongwu's banknotes.

……

"Something's wrong..." "Something's wrong..."

"Isn't your Majesty's behavior a replica of the White Deer Coin created by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty?"

"The various feudal lords are also collecting Hongwu's treasure banknotes? Now the ten thousand banknotes are worth twenty taels..."

"Isn't their move exactly the same as when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty forced the vassal king to sell white deer coins?"

"Is this okay?"

At the same time, Zheng Ji, the Minister of Household Affairs, was completely confused at this time. He was watching the price of Hongwu Baobao, which was originally worthless, increase one by one in just a few days. This behavior directly caused the price to rise. He was startled.

Because he heard from this move, especially the move by vassal kings like King Ning, that they were collecting treasure banknotes.

It directly reminded him of the actions of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Only then did he understand why Zhu Houzhao inquired about Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

This is exactly what Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did to make money.

"Hmm...that's not right either! These Hongwu treasure notes didn't come from His Majesty's hands...the money from the Hongwu notes doesn't seem to be in His Majesty's hands. This doesn't count as making money."

But soon, Zheng Ji noticed that although the value of the treasure notes increased, the final money did not flow to Zhu Houzhao's hands.

This made him confused.

"People from the cabinet, please come quickly. His Majesty's actions are really incomprehensible."

Unable to figure it out, Zheng Ji stopped thinking. Times were changing too fast and he couldn't keep up with Zhu Houzhao's rhythm. He just expected the people in the cabinet to arrive quickly. He was so busy these days that he was a little exhausted both physically and mentally.

"But, what is the reason..."

"Why are Hongwu's banknotes so valuable now... They can even match the value of Xuande's banknotes."

Returning to the report on the value of treasure banknotes these days, Zheng Ji looked at the records and combined with the current appreciation of treasure banknotes, he had another doubt.

……

"What does His Majesty the Emperor want to do?"

"Let the people from our Municipal Shipping Department report on their work and talk about the results of the ban on seas over the years?"

"Is he aware of the sea trade?"

At the same time, in another place, officials from the municipal shipping departments along the coast felt guilty after receiving Zhu Houzhao's imperial edict.

"I don't know, I don't know..."

"Compared with this, isn't it more terrifying when the emperor arrives at Jinling?"

"How do those people in the cabinet do their jobs? We spend millions of dollars every year in vain? How can we let a mere fifteen-year-old emperor go from the capital to Jinling if he can't stand it?"

"If Liu Wentai takes action against such an uncontrollable emperor again, I'll kill him!"

"Get a smaller, obedient emperor!"

A group of interest groups sat together. Due to poor information, they were even more frightened when they knew that the imperial edict was coming from Jinling than if they were asked to go to Jinling to report on their duties.

Jinling is too close to the coast!
The closer they are to the center of power, the more profits they make will be shared, which is even more uncomfortable than killing them.

"Anyway, do you want to go to Jinling?"

"This is an imperial edict! There are eunuchs waiting outside..."

"What are you going for? What if you can't come back? What if it's the emperor's trap of catching a turtle in a urn?"

"I think the Japanese pirates are coming!"

"When the Japanese pirates came, they accidentally killed the eunuch. Is this a reasonable reason?"

"When the Japanese pirates come, we won't be able to go to Jinling. Is that reasonable?"

A group of people's minds were wandering. Regarding Zhu Houzhao's imperial edict, they did not think about obeying it, but tried every means to obey it and disobey it.

(End of this chapter)