My Daming New Empire

Now, not only the yamen servants of the transshipment department did not let them go, but hundreds of men, women and children from the Zhao family came, all kinds of small boats blocked the canal, and their boats couldn't leave even if they wanted to.

Seeing Zhao Cheng's body being carried over on the pier, and the weeping women of the Zhao family, Wan Tao smiled secretly, but on the surface he pretended to be distressed and said: "It's not that I don't want to help, it's just that in the current situation, I can't help you." for."

Even if Fang Bin is the Secretary of the Ministry of War, Wan Tao is the grandson of the army, and he will not take risks just to curry favor with Fang Bin.

Seeing a convoy coming from the shore, Wan Tao said with a smile: "I'm afraid it's not because the prefect of Han and the prefect of Yao have arrived. Please forgive me. I was going to greet them."

Zhenjiang Shuizhai is located in Zhenjiang Prefecture. Although the military expenditure is directly allocated by the bank, many places require the support of the local government.

Although Wan Tao's level was higher than theirs, he didn't dare to neglect them.

Fang Bao was in a state of confusion, Wan Tao had been here for a long time, and although he took good care of them, he just shied away and didn't really want to help them.

Now he regards the prefect of Zhenjiang and the magistrate of Dantu County as his saviors, and hastily said: "Your Majesty and Commander will go to meet you together."

Han Zhuo, the magistrate of Zhenjiang, and Yao Shanzhi, the magistrate of Dantu County, have been worried recently.His Royal Highness Taisun issued the Taisun Order, requiring the whole world to reset checkpoints and prohibit the transfer of large amounts of gold and silver.

With this grandson's order, the whole world is boiling over, especially those big families are dissatisfied.

The only way to prevent gold and silver from being transferred privately is through the imperial court. Wouldn't the imperial court know the details of each family?In the future, the imperial court will know how many families each family has, so how can it be done?

However, the emperor's personal conquest took away many nobles and generals, and most of the nobles left today are the grandson's cronies.

Those merchants were dissatisfied, but they had no strength to resist. As for the civil servants, they still had disagreements among themselves.

Like Yao Shanzhi, he himself was born in the Yao family in Changshu. His family has a great business. The Yao family is one of the largest silk merchants in Changshu. There are many large transactions. He is a person who firmly opposes the implementation of this policy.

But Han Zhuo was born in a small family in Hebei, and his family had no surplus property, so he naturally supported such a policy.

But no matter whether they are supporters or opponents, they dare not stand in a hurry now, because what kind of attitude Taisun has needs to be observed again.

Whether it is Taizu or the current emperor Zhu Di, they are all bloodthirsty people.How could these ministers dare to object to a river of blood that could be killed if things went wrong.

Both Han Zhuo and Yao Shanzhi were still looking forward to Zhu Zhanji's order because it was difficult to promote, and finally fell through.

Because the southeast coast and the Central Plains are better, those remote areas in the southwest and northwest are almost foreign countries, and it is almost impossible to prevent large-scale gold and silver transactions.

They also expect the order to be resisted and eventually rescinded.

However, because of this incident, something happened on their territory, and they couldn't make peace with it.

What made them even more anxious was that the Qiantang Fang family was also involved.

In the 22nd year of Hongwu, Fang Bin was promoted from an imperial student to a doctor of the Ministry of Justice. Fang Bin has been an official for 35 years. During these 35 years, the Qiantang Fang family has developed rapidly relying on Qiantang, a land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River.

They planted tea, raised silkworms, and planted mulberry trees, and became well-known wealthy households throughout the south of the Yangtze River.

But Fang Bin was still not satisfied, and became the most money-greedy official in the entire Yongle Dynasty these years.

Although Liu Guan, the censor of Zuodu, is also greedy for money, he is not as greedy as him.

Aside from other things, the two ships of gold and silver alone probably cost 10 taels. Now that the civil and military courts are full, who has such a big family background?

However, the official affairs are kept secret, whether the emperor knows about it or not, they don't know, but they absolutely dare not poke it.

Otherwise, they are challenging the unspoken rules of the entire officialdom, and if something happens in the future, absolutely no one will give them help in a timely manner, they will only make things worse.

How to solve this matter, Han Zhuo actually has a certain plan.Now that the Zhao family is dead, it is nothing more than money.

This Fang's family has a big business and a little gold and silver, so naturally they don't care.

Han Zhuo and Yao Shanzhi had communicated on the way. He pretended to be innocent, while Yao Shanzhi, who was from Jiangnan, pretended to be red-faced, forcing Fang's family to take out gold and silver to appease Zhao's family.

So, when he met Fang Bao, he didn't say a word, just snorted, and just went to get close to Wan Tao and the two, and then went to appease the Zhao family together.

On Yao Shanzhi's side, he said to Fang Bao with a smile: "Lord Fang is far away in the northwest now, butler Fang transported so much gold and silver at once, it is inevitable that it will attract attention..."

(I caught a cold today, and my head is dizzy. Let me add so much, I will continue.)

Chapter 81 Disturbance ([-]-character chapter for subscription)

In feudal society, due to backward transportation methods and backward financial means, the emperor was never afraid of corruption.

Because no matter how much money is embezzled by anyone, the money is still in this country.

The emperor regards the world as his own, as long as you don't do too much, and don't use the money to invite fame and rebel, it's not a big problem.

Because ministers, like relatives, have close and distant relatives, whether you earn more or he earns more is not the key.

But if you want to use this money to make a name for yourself like Abu in later generations, then you are courting death.

It is well known that Fang Bin loves money, so does Zhu Di not know?

If Zhu Di really didn't know anything, then Jin Yiwei and the people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate could all go home.

But why didn't Zhu Di care?

There are two main reasons for this. One is that Fang Bin has not fallen out of favor and can do things.For the emperor, a minister who can do things is much better than an incompetent person.

Another reason is raising pigs. The wealth of the world is scattered everywhere. A corrupt official came to make money. In the end, the money returned to the emperor.

Just like the Heshen of the later generations, no matter how much money you make, I can just find an excuse to copy the house and wipe out the family, and in the end you are still in vain.

As for the legal thinking and equality thinking of later generations, there is no market in this era.

Even ordinary people are bullied by officials and nobles, they take it for granted.It's not that they were driven into a desperate situation, they didn't even dare to file a complaint.

But in their hearts, they also want to be superior and abandon this as their goal.

This desire promotes the development of the entire society and forms the law of development of the entire society, or the rules of this era.

Now that Zhu Di is marching west, Fang Bin is the Minister of the Ministry of War, and Zhu Zhanji has no intention of dealing with him.

Now the focus of the entire Ming Dynasty is to serve the Western Expedition, and the stability of the Ministry of War is above all else.That's why he aimed at Liu Guan, the censor of Zuodu.

But he didn't expect that Fang Bin would now take the initiative to show up and cause a storm.Forced him not to do anything.

And knowing that the Fang family had transported two ships of gold and silver from the capital back to their hometown, Zhu Zhanji called Yang Zhangde into the palace and scolded him severely.

This is not a few thousand taels of silver, but tens of thousands of taels of silver, but gold and silver coins worth 13 silver coins.Even if there are some gold coins inside, there are not many, most of them are silver coins.

In order to increase the hardness of the gold coins, Daming added some alloys to the gold coins to make the gold coins not easy to wear and tear.

Today, gold coins have never been considered a currency in circulation, because the purchasing power of gold coins is too strong.

Gold is still mainly in circulation as a precious metal. Most families buy gold not for consumption, but for making jewelry.

At such times, most people are reluctant to mint gold into gold coins, because this will reduce the purity.