Daming: I became Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest son

Hearing what Zhu Tao said, Zhu Yuanzhang felt a little worried again.

"Tao'er, in fact, although Yanjing is very good, there are also disadvantages. The north is too close to Mongolia, and the west is too close to Oara Mongolia. Once Juyongguan or Badaling are breached, the emperor will become a prisoner directly. .”

Zhu Tao said: "In fact, this can raise the emperor's sense of urgency, so that the emperor will always be tense and dare not neglect his administration. It is not a bad thing. Some people say that this is the reason why the emperor guards the country and the king dies. .”

Zhu Yuanzhang slapped the table hard and stood up.

"Bullshit, what do you mean the emperor guards the gate?"

"That is to say, the eyes are close to the nomadic tribes in the north, just on the edge of the country gate. This is a compliment to the emperor."

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted.

"Fart! Does a capable emperor need to be a gatekeeper? He needs to continue to develop and forge ahead. Every time he conquers, he turns the original gate of the country into the current hinterland. The Yanjing you see now seems to be my Ming Dynasty. After the Northern Expedition, he will only be the hinterland of my Ming Dynasty. If Daming wants to have a future, he must not hold the purpose of guarding the country, otherwise, the original hinterland will gradually be lost due to the incompetence of the subsequent monarch, and become national.

Zhu Tao didn't know what to say at this time, after all, these were beyond his control, but these words still shocked him a lot, so he smiled and said yes.

"Father, I'm an angry youth, and you're an angry one. As I said before, those important figures naturally worry about national affairs. What are we father and son arguing about? Let's make money happily."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at him and asked, "Why, Tao'er, do you have an idea to make money again?"

Zhu Tao smiled.

"Now that Daming Bank has been established, it can also do some business with the help of post stations in various places. My child wants to do some money order business."

"Money order business?"

"If I earn money in Hainan, it will take a lot of time and effort to transport it to Yingtian, and the road is not safe. If I set up an exchange point in Hainan, exchange the silver into silver notes, and then get the exchange in Yingtianfu. Points, and then exchange it into cash, and collect some interest from the middle, do you think it will make money?"

Zhu Yuanzhang opened his eyes wide.

"This is a good idea, but this business cannot be done by us. It must be handed over to Daming Bank. The imperial court will not let the design of bank notes be left to private individuals."

Zhu Tao shook his head, and suddenly regretted that he was so cheap, why did he suggest that the imperial court set up the Daming Bank, and now all the imperial court's money is allocated by the bank.

Those courtiers' land sales and business transactions cannot be transferred without going through the bank, and there are fewer corruptions, but their own way of making money has also been cut off because of this.

Alas, this is like shooting yourself in the foot with a stone.

At this time, someone suddenly sent today's residence newspaper. Now Zhujiazhuang is the government of Fuguo in name and has the right to receive the residence newspaper. Zhu Yuanzhang saw the most eye-catching news.

"There is a severe drought in the Northwest, and there is a shortage of food. There is an urgent need for competent officials to go to the disaster relief. Moreover, the price of food is soaring every day."

Zhu Yuanzhang came to Zhu Tao's study with the three chief assistants. This time he had a purpose. First, he was chatting with Zhu Tao to see if he could dig another treasure from him.

Secondly, he also knew that ever since Zhu Biao went to Shaanxi, he always carried a telegraph with him, so that some new news would be sent to Zhu Tao at any time, so as to contribute to Shen Waner's Daming Evening News.

In fact, he also wanted to take advantage of this convenience to understand the actual situation in Shaanxi. This telegram is simply too powerful, faster than the current six-hundred-mile express document.

At this moment, the voice of Didi Dudu came, Zhu Tao recorded the telegram draft with a serious face, and the translator next to him translated the content of the telegram according to the "Eight-tone Character Meaning" provided by Zhu Tao.

When Zhu Yuanzhang got the first draft of the telegram, his eyebrows twitched into a pimple. It turned out that this was a memorandum sent to the court by Zhu Biao, the chief envoy of Shaanxi Province.

The report said: Now there is a catastrophe in northern Shaanxi, and there are countless victims. The people are short of food, and the people are in dire straits.

The three chief assistants looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, and the meaning in their eyes was obvious. Should we go back to the cabinet immediately and hold a cabinet meeting to deal with this matter?
Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said, "The imperial court must wait for the official report to arrive before making a decision. Tao'er, how do you think about this matter? If you have any good suggestions, I will definitely bring them to the imperial court for you. "

Disasters have occurred frequently this year, and Daming has already been stretched.

Although only the northwest province was affected by the disaster, it involved a wide range of areas, and it was difficult to transfer food from other provinces for a while, not to mention the hoarding of some profiteers and the collusion between officials and gentry.

Hearing these questions from his father, Zhu Tao also had a particularly headache.

Although it is said that the promotion of potatoes began in autumn, it is not a matter of overnight if this thing wants to see results.

Although there is food in the land of fish and rice in the distance, when it is transported to the place where the disaster broke out, the price of food has risen dozens of times, and these things have to be guarded against.

Hearing Zhu Tao's analysis, Zhu Yuanzhang frowned: "Can't the imperial court order officials and businessmen to sell grain at a par price?"

Zhu Tao shook his head.

"Even if the imperial court can make up the price difference for those merchants and ask them to release grain at a low price, will the merchants be mercenary in nature, will they eat at both ends? One end is receiving the imperial court's subsidy, and the other end sells grain at a high price. Once you issue an order for parity, People are evading it on the grounds that the inventory has bottomed out, what should you do then?"

Zhu Yuanzhang slapped the table viciously.

"Whoever dares to do that, I have peeled his skin!"

Zhu Tao was so scared that he stood up quickly and comforted his father.

"Father, what's the use of being so excited? You are just a vain duke of a rich country. According to the court system, once you become a duke, you can't participate in the affairs of the court. It will be attacked by hundreds of civil and military officials."

Only then did Zhu Yuanzhang realize that he was not the emperor in the temple now, so he took a breath and said.

"Actually, father, the Duke of Fuguo, mainly manages the national economy and the people's livelihood. There is a famine in the northwest, and it is within my management scope. Although I can't make orders on behalf of the imperial court, I can also give some disaster relief suggestions to the chief envoys of the provinces. First call Stabilize the situation in Shaanxi, and then wait for the imperial decree to open the warehouse to release grain."

Only then did Zhu Tao heave a sigh of relief: "Actually, this matter can be solved without using the food in the official warehouse, and only using the private economy."

"Tell me first."

"The imperial court first allocated a part of the silver brought by the trade, sent it to Xi'an, and then asked the Shaanxi governor to announce that Shaanxi has experienced high grain prices, and the grain price can reach five times the par price. It will be collected for two days first, and anyone who comes will not be rejected. Tell them to get the news out."

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyebrows were twisted into a knot.

"We harvest five times the par price, so will it be six times or even ten times when we sell it? Will it spark a civil uprising?"

"These two can only be collected by officials and businessmen, and the collected grain can be sold to the common people at a fair price. For those poor people who can't afford three meals, they can give priority to relief."