These years of being the queen mother!

On January 11, the 23th year of Taichang, Zhu Cilin issued an order to lay off 89 redundant staff in Nanjing.Among them, the second is the head of the official department, the fifth is the ambassador of the household department, the second is the head of the military department, the second is the ambassador of the Huitong Pavilion, the first is the minister of the Ministry of Industry, the third is the head, the seventh is the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the first is Zhaomo, the first is the experience of the general administration department, and the left and right temples of Dali Temple One for each, one for Kongmu of the Imperial Academy, one for the director of Zhan Shifu, one for the teaching assistant of Guozijian, two for the office of Guanglu Temple, one for the deputy of the Department of Pedestrians, one for the experience of the Zongrenfu, and one for the ambassador of the Herbal Medicine Bureau.

On February 28, the Japanese Shogunate, with the help of the Anglican Church, launched a general attack on the rebel army, and Japan fell into the chaos of the civil war again.Unlike the chaos caused by the last civil war, the Japanese shogunate did not win the victory as it did in history, but fought with the rebels to lose both because of the intervention of would-be fishermen.

The reason why the Anglican Church chose to help the Japanese shogunate was because it wanted to be a fisherman, but it did not expect that the Dutch, who were also entrenched in Kitakyushu, would secretly intervene, causing the shogunate and the rebels to lose both sides.

But man is not as good as God, the Church of England did not find a bargain, and neither did the Dutch. Instead, the current emperor of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cilin, who was watching the play and was full of calculations, got a profit.

This guy, when the British and the Dutch were tearing their skins apart and arguing about how to completely annex Japan, the little fox-like Zhu Cilin bought it permanently from the Japanese shogunate at a price of 3000 million silver. He went down to Kagoshima, claiming that the scenery was beautiful there, and Empress Dowager Yang loved it very much. As a son of man and the king of a country, he decided to buy Kagoshima and build a royal garden on it for the leisure of Empress Dowager Yang in order to show his filial piety. Live from time to time.

Is Zhu Cilin really just showing filial piety? The British and Dutch sides don’t know. They only know that after paying to buy Kagoshima, the Japanese shogunate’s attitude suddenly became tough and only agreed to make Nagasaki the only international trade center in Japan. port.

Britain and Holland suddenly suffered internal injuries. They wanted to teach the ignorant Japanese a lesson, and they were afraid that the Ming emperor, who was too lazy to watch the excitement, would take advantage of it, so he could only hold his breath and temporarily admit that this is basically nothing like before the civil war started. things that change.

Next, perhaps having tasted the sweetness, Zhu Cilin thought it would be very interesting to spend some money to enclose land all over the world in the name of honoring his mother, so he worked with the New Sweden Company on the banks of the Delaware River in the North American continent, from the local Indians. When Zhu Cilin bought a piece of land and established Fort Christina here, later known as Wilmington, Delaware, Zhu Cilin followed closely and bought the Mexican waters.

As for why it is not Pennsylvania, which borders the Delaware River in the north, or New Jersey and Maryland, but the Gulf of Mexico, which is full of swamps, shallows, and mangroves, I have to ask Queen Mother Yang.

Empress Dowager Yang, who came from later generations, knew that the amount of oil and natural gas stored in the Gulf of Mexico was frighteningly large, so taking advantage of the fact that European countries were planning to carve up North America, and also wanted to get a share of it, Empress Dowager Yang proposed to Zhu Cilin to buy it from the local indigenous people. In the lower Gulf of Mexico, according to the current process, it will definitely enter the industrial age ahead of schedule, and the industrial age also means that industrial machines will gradually replace manual labor. Queen Mother Yang, who is only proficient in history, does not know that the transition from the steam age to the widespread use of oil What steps are needed in the era of technology that can be used, but at least firmly controlling the materials in the hands is the last word.Empress Dowager Yang believes that according to Zhu Cilin's newly developed hobby of enclosing land, by showing respect to her elders, the world's oil and gas reserves that are rich in gold, silver and minerals, or known as "industrial blood" will be inserted. On the flag of Ming Dynasty.

Tsk, it's a good idea to buy land and build a royal garden under the pretext of the whole world, isn't it!Empress Dowager Yang looked back at the giant world map hanging on the wall of the main hall of Qianqing Palace, and smiled happily.

The Gulf of Mexico is in hand, so where to buy land next!Is it called California, which is full of gold and silver, or the Asia-Pacific region and the Middle East, which are equally rich in oil production.

——Empress Dowager Yang thought for a while, then turned to ask Zhu Cilin who was sitting at the desk and carefully reviewing the memorial.

"Of course gold and silver are more important. But queen mother, why is California really rich in gold? Don't you be deceived by the maritime merchant who told the news." Just like the news of huge wealth hidden in the Gulf of Mexico is What the Daming Marine Merchant told, that there are vast gold mines in California and the underground oil reserves in the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, was also reported by the loyal Daming Marine Merchant privately by the Empress Dowager Yang.

Since the whole world is in the nautical age at this time, and the steam engine has not yet been seen, no one knows the importance of oil at all. The reason why Zhu Cilin followed the advice of Queen Mother Yang to buy the Gulf of Mexico was not only the proposal from Queen Mother Yang, but also the price. Because it was very cheap, adhering to the principle of being a bastard if you don’t take advantage of the cheap, Zhu Cilin bought the Gulf of Mexico waters from the local natives with a nonchalant attitude.

Zhu Cilin, who felt that he was really filial, threw away his vermilion pen, and spoke to Empress Dowager Yang in a very serious tone. "Although I have some doubts about the accuracy of this news, but my mother wants to spend money to buy California, which is said to be full of gold, and my son will firmly pay for it. Let's use it as an enclosure to build an external stronghold."

"Sanlang, you are really filial!"

Regarding Zhu Cilin who doubted the veracity of the news, but still firmly wanted to pull the land of "California" into her arms, Queen Mother Yang didn't know whether to cry or laugh, so she shook her head and ordered someone to inform Xia Shi to let him come back again. Contact local Indians.Buy Lower California from the Indians.

Not to mention how Xia Shi, who is proficient and in charge of royal business affairs, coerced and lured him to buy California from the local Indians. Taichang was 11 years old. Waterlogging, hail, none of them came.Moreover, under the precepts and deeds of the emperor Zhu Cilin, there was also a wave of buying land and building houses abroad among the people of Daming. According to the investigation of the Daming Factory Guard, until the 14th year of Taichang, when Zhu Cilin got married and took charge of the government, in just three years, the businessmen of Daming It has transformed from a short-sighted "profiteer" who only knows how to suck blood from within to a capitalist who encloses land everywhere and engages in colonization.This change at the speed of light made Empress Dowager Yang speechless, as if in a dream.

Long story short, let's talk about the 11th year of Taichang.

In May of the 11th year of Taichang, Liu Zhifeng, Minister of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, wrote: All prisoners in the world are recorded in the first trial every five years, and criminals from the clan inside the high wall will not be interrogated for a long time.Zhu Cixi agreed on the same day.

At the end of May, Xu Ye, who entered the household department as an imperial scholar, made a statement at the court meeting that in order to facilitate foreign trade, he proposed to mint silver coins and gold coins.Empress Dowager Yang and Zhu Cilin thought Xu Ye's proposal was very good, so they let the officials of the six ministries speak freely to discuss the weight of silver and gold coins and the ratio of gold and silver content.

Shi Fenglai, minister of the household department and chief assistant of the cabinet, was the first to list: "Penglai port, Yuegang and other recently opened ports have successively received gold and silver coins minted by European countries. The officials of the household department once weighed each coin. Although the gold and silver coins weigh a lot, they contain impurities, which are not comparable to the minting of gold and silver ingots by the Ministry of Household Affairs. In my opinion, it is better to cast one tael for each gold and silver coin, and the gold and silver content remains the same as before."

After hearing the words of the Minister of the Household Department, Xu Ye, who is currently the head of the Household Department, has a different opinion.Just listen to him come out and say so. "Master Shi's words, I think it's inappropriate. Foreign gold and silver coins are in yuan, and their weight is equivalent to my Ming Dynasty's five-coin gold and silver ingots, but the gold and silver content is definitely not as good as my Daming's one tael of gold and silver. Yuanbao. Therefore, even if gold and silver coins are to be minted to facilitate trade, their weight and gold and silver content should be kept at the same level as gold and silver coins from various European countries.” His mother really wants to launch gold and silver trade coins according to Shi Fenglai’s words, and he will definitely lose money. Foreign businessmen who earn the price difference are happy to die.

Empress Dowager Yang also felt that Shi Fenglai, an old fool, had made a bad idea, so she signaled Zhu Cilin to do as Xu Ye said, and ordered the Ministry of Households to mint gold and silver trade coins that were as important as European countries and had the same gold and silver content.Furthermore, in order to be in line with the international standards, the gold and silver trade coins minted by the Empress Dowager Yang are the same size as the gold and silver coins of European countries. Points, two points, five points, one dollar.

"As for the copper coins of the common people, wait for the gold and silver coins to be minted, and exchange them according to the ratio of 1000 Wen and three yuan silver coins."

At this time, one tael of gold can be exchanged for 10 taels of silver, and ten taels of silver can be exchanged for ten copper coins, which are usually equal to 1000 Wen.Normally, one thousand Wen can only be exchanged for one silver coin, but because the content of the gold and silver coins to be minted this time is the same as that of European countries, which is not very good, in order to avoid the people from suffering, Empress Dowager Yang said that one thousand Wen can be exchanged for three Yuan silver coins .

After all, after the issuance of gold and silver coins, silver coins will inevitably become the mainstream currency of the people.As for gold coins, it is estimated that only foreign trade can be used on a large scale, so the ratio of silver to gold remains unchanged.Just like one tael of gold is exchanged for ten taels of silver, ten one-yuan silver coins can still only be exchanged for one one-yuan gold coin.

After the imperial decree was issued, the Ministry of Households did not rush to mint gold and silver coins, but waited for the Ministry of Rites to design the pattern and shape of the Ming gold and silver coins!Regarding this matter, the officials of the Ministry of Rites took a very positive attitude. After working overtime for three days, they designed more than 100 styles of gold and silver coins, drew them on paper, and presented them together for the decision-makers of the Ming Empire Zhu Cilin and Queen Mother Yang to choose.

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