Rise From the Humble

  Chapter 426 Treasure Island

"An has this reason, not to mention that at the beginning of my Ming Dynasty, all the outsiders were transformed into barbarians, but only said that the wealth of other countries can enter the treasury of our Ming Dynasty. What kind of people are you! There is no one in other countries! An Ke obeys your orders!" Li As soon as Mo Zai Zhu Ping'an finished speaking, he sprayed up.

  In fact, Li Mo’s meaning is translated as, the country is stupid, give you money for nothing, and you, Zhu Ping’an, don’t take a pee and look in the mirror to see what virtue you have!

"That is to say, I am the Shang Kingdom, a country of etiquette, and I can't add weapons to other countries. In addition, my Ming Dynasty is currently captive from the north and the Japanese from the south, and I have no skills at all! How can we start a war again!" an official behind Li Mo also said. He stood up and shouted for Li Mo, and joined the queue to denounce Zhu Pingan.

"He dares! The important affairs of the soldiers, the place of life and death, the way of survival, must be investigated! If he dares to lead me, Da Ming, into the flames of war at will, and fall into a place where there will be no redemption, this old man will kill this dog with his hands." Li Mo listened. At that time, he blew his beard and stared, and he didn't care about Zhu Pingan's feelings at all when he spoke.

  This dog, this dog, is talking about this beast!

Li Mo speaks too much, he opens his mouth like a thief, but shuts his mouth like a beast. Although this person has been characterized as a loyal minister and a righteous minister in history, Zhu Pingan is still very upset when he hears Li Mo's remarks. This kind of person is very stubborn, so stubborn that he can't Accept opinions contrary to his.

  However, after all, this person still started from his home country. In addition, at this time, Li Mo was the official secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and his small arm could not break his thigh, so Zhu Pingan held back.

   "Tsk tsk, look at how angry our boss is, why can't he let the number one scholar finish his sentence." Yan Shifan looked at Li Mo with one eye sideways, and sneered ironically.

   "Hmph, let's see what he can come up with." Li Mo flicked his sleeve vigorously.

Before speaking, Zhu Pingan bowed his hands to Li Mo and others. After the salute, Zhu Pingan took out two books from his sleeves, showed them to everyone one by one, and then presented the books to Emperor Jiajing. The door was sent up.

"I came up with this idea when I was looking at two classics. The first one is "Western Fan Guozhi (2, which was written by Gong Zhen, the entourage of Zheng He, the **** of Sanbao, when he went to the West. , there are two interesting records in this classic, the first of which is as follows: Gong Zhen was sailing with the fleet to the Japanese country of Japan, which is now in the den of Japanese pirates on the southeast coast of our Ming Dynasty, and was receiving tribute from the Japanese chieftain Later, when Gong Zhen and others were supplying fresh water, fruits and vegetables in the country of Wa, the crew members in charge of buying went to a butcher to buy mutton, and they needed a total of 30 taels of silver. The crew only brought 20 taels of silver, and the rest was gold. The butcher said: 30 taels of silver, if the silver is not enough, gold is fine, 6 taels of gold is enough. The crew looked sideways and went back to collect enough silver to pay for the mutton. Tell everyone this and laugh at the butcher's treachery."

   After Emperor Jiajing got the two books, Zhu Pingan began to speak without haste, as if he was telling a story.

   "The Japanese are treacherous, 30 taels of silver is equal to 3 taels of gold, but the Japanese butcher wants 6 taels of gold, it is extremely greedy and shameless!" Some officials shook their heads and criticized the cunning of the Japanese indignantly after hearing this story told by Zhu Ping'an.

"The Japanese butchers are greedy and stupid. One tael of gold is equal to two silvers. This kid also knows it. He is stupid and doesn't know it, but he tries to plot against the people of Ming Dynasty. It's ridiculous." Someone shook his head with a smile and said, also gained a lot people's approval.

"The second interesting record is similar to this record, but this time it was the Wa chieftain who sent people to pay tribute on a treasure ship. During the tribute, a civil official in the Wa chieftain took a fancy to a piece of silk and needed 5 taels of silver. The official paid 1 tael of gold to take the silk and walked away. The person in charge of the fleet hurriedly chased after him to retrieve the 5 taels of silver, but the Japanese official walked too fast and failed to catch up. During the voyage, the person in charge The personnel are still thinking about it." Zhu Pingan said slowly.

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  Everyone burst into laughter, why are the Wa people like this? The butcher can’t tell the truth that one tael of gold is equal to ten taels of silver. Why are the Wa officials so sloppy! What a barbarian, uninformed!

"Zhu Zihou, you don't talk about the method of doubling the national treasury without increasing taxes, but why do you talk about these insignificant things? Do you think I'm a fool like that pirate?" An official behind Li Mo listened Zhu Ping'an's two insignificant travel notes couldn't help but stand up and criticize Zhu Ping'an.

   "Don't worry, my lord. What Ping'an talks about is how to double the national treasury without increasing taxes." Zhu Ping'an smiled slightly.

What?

   What kind of method is this to double the national treasury? Isn’t it just two irrelevant travel notes? Isn’t it just a stupid butcher and a sloppy official! Could it be that they want to make money from this stupid butcher and a sloppy official? Just kidding, even if they are squeezed dry, it will be nothing but three melons! Doesn't help!

   There was a burst of contempt from the officials, especially the one who spoke just now, and they all laughed out loud.

   "Zhu Zihou, are you joking?" Li Mo held back his anger and almost roared.

"How dare Ping An make fun of this golden palace? What I'm talking about is the method of multiplying the national treasury. Maybe these two travel notes are not obvious, so I will talk about another book. The other book I saw is Hong Kong. The records of the Lusi Temple, which records the records of the tribute to Dongying from the Japanese Kingdom 20 years ago, include such an incident. On the grounds that there are too many people and it is inconvenient to distribute the gold, I request that the gold be replaced by 500 taels of silver." Zhu Pingan shook his head, and then told another recorded story.

  What, I still don’t understand, what kind of way to double the national treasury!

  Many officials still don't understand what Zhu Ping'an is talking about. These three records have something to do with the doubling of the national treasury.

"Zihou, are you saying that the exchange of Japanese gold and silver is one tael of gold for five taels of silver?" Yan Shifan was the first to react, and then his face was full of joy, both eyes were shining, as if he saw a shortcut to get rich .

"Master Yan's words are exactly right. After many investigations by the lower officials, we can basically determine the gold and silver exchange ratio in Japan, which is very different from that in our Ming Dynasty. In our Ming Dynasty, ten taels of silver can be exchanged for one tael of gold, while in Japan, ten taels of silver can be exchanged." Two taels of gold is twice as much." Zhu Ping'an nodded, and then revealed this conclusion with an affirmative tone.

  The reason why Zhu Ping'an said this is because he wanted to implant the seeds of the financial war into everyone's hearts, and used his interests to draw everyone's attention abroad, hoping to subtly let the people of Ming Dynasty open their eyes to see the world.

  What, the exchange ratio of gold and silver in Japan is 1:5. Why is there such a strange exchange ratio? The officials in the hall were very surprised. This is the first time they have heard of such a thing. The exchange ratio between gold and silver is so different that it is twice as much gold if you change hands. You don’t need Zhu Ping’an to say that everyone can simply perceive the huge business opportunities in it. Modern Chinese aunts can even establish a great reputation on Wall Street. .

   "How much gold does Wa have?" an official asked.

"During the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, a Xifan named Marco Polo came to the Central Plains by boat from the sea. He called the Wa Kingdom Zipangu in a travel note, which translates to the country of gold. It is recorded in the travel notes that everyone in the Wa people There is countless gold, the roof of the palace is covered with pure gold, and the gold on the floor is as thick as the width of two fingers. In many rooms, there are very thick small tables of pure gold, and the windows are also covered with gold. Gold decoration. It is said that there is a temple in Japan with a ten-foot-high Buddha completely cast from gold. In the travel notes, the country of Japan is also called the Silver Islands. It is said that there are countless silver mines in the country of Japan, and there are continuous mountains in the open air. sand."

Zhu Pingan exaggeratedly described the content of a travel note based on Marco Polo's oral narration. This travel note is not the later Marco Polo's travel note, but another travel note narrated in the Yuan Dynasty. A corner of Zangshu Pavilion was found by Zhu Pingan when he was sorting out the books the day before yesterday.

   As for authenticity?

  Hehe, who cares, but it is recorded in history that gold mines and silver mines were frequently occurring in this period in Japan, and Japan’s current Warring States Period was supported by gold and silver mines.

   This chapter was added last night, and it will be updated this evening.

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