The Ming Dynasty started with caution

Yan Chengjin shook his head: "No, what I want to say is that the amount of silver circulating in the banknote customs is huge, Your Majesty, please think twice."

After the establishment of the customs affiliation, it will be difficult to reform it.

If someone accepts bribes in the customs and flees overseas, he cannot be pursued under the current conditions.

Emperor Hongzhi fell into deep thought. If he had to say who he trusted most in the court, besides the three people in the cabinet, it was Yan Chengjin.

This boy dare not be greedy for silver.

And the Censorate has the function of supervision, and there is also an Economic Department to control the economy.

Emperor Hongzhi knew that this boy had something to say, so he pretended to be serious: "Does Mr. Yan want to advise?"

"I can supervise the overseas banknotes. The Censorate in charge of me has the Supervision Department, the Arrest Department and the Economic Department, especially the Economic Department, which can adjust tariffs."

If he cannot enter the cabinet, this situation also needs to be considered.

If he cannot enter the cabinet, Yan Chengjin plans to expand the Censorate into the Ministry of Personnel.

"Your Majesty, you can't. The banknotes should belong to the Ministry of Revenue!" Ma Wensheng said.

Xie Qian also agreed: "The Ministry of Revenue governs overseas banknotes, and the Censorate is responsible for supervision. The two are not in conflict."

"I agree!" Liu Jian said.

Emperor Hongzhi nodded. The Censorate is a supervisory government. If it extends its hand to finance, it will inevitably embezzle.

"Let's do it this way. Pass on my decree to open overseas banknotes and place them under the Ministry of Revenue."

Yan Chengjin was a little disappointed. The officials wanted to check his power, so they would naturally try their best to stop him.

Han Wen looked at Emperor Hongzhi and was a little embarrassed: "Your Majesty, the cost of building overseas banknotes?"

"From my treasury." Emperor Hongzhi felt a little painful and asked: "How much silver do you want?"

"One million and five hundred thousand taels of silver!"

Han Wen gritted his teeth and said that His Majesty finally opened his mouth and asked for more.

"Why does Han Qing's family need so much silver?" Emperor Hongzhi asked gloomily.

Yan Chengjin felt a little sorry for Han Wen. This cautious gesture was like a son asking his father for money.

Han Wen said: "Yan Chengjin and I have carefully calculated it. Your Majesty, please look at the accounts and the map of the banknotes."

The map marked the banknotes to be established, such as the Alashan Customs, which was aimed at the countries in the Western Regions.

The Yunnan banknotes were used to collect taxes from Annan, Siam and other southwestern countries.

What shocked Emperor Hongzhi was that Yan Chengjin not only marked the banknotes in just one day, but also calculated the accounts.

"Does the Liangxiang Chamber of Commerce still have money? Can the Ministry of Revenue write an IOU first?"

Yan Chengjin refused all freeloading: "Liangxiang is working hard to build ships and has no money."

It seems that it can only be paid from my treasury. Emperor Hongzhi thought again: "It's been a year, Mr. Yan, when can the overseas silver be retrieved?"

It won't sink, right?

After all, it is normal to lose contact in the deep sea.

Especially in the waters between the Ming Dynasty and the island countries, typhoons will form on the sea in summer, overturning passing ships.

The island nation called it the divine wind that protects the country, and many fleets that tried to invade the island nation stopped here.

Yan Chengjin had such an idea, but he didn't expose it: "Li Zhaofan not only has to fight against the Japanese, but also has to explore silver mines. I think it won't be too simple."

"But why didn't Li Zhaoxian come back?" Emperor Hongzhi was puzzled.

Yes, if Li Zhaofan had a reason.

Why didn't Li Zhaoxian come back? This time, it was almost more than a year and three months.

Mangala Kingdom paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and silver mines were mined at will. It only took one year to go back and forth to the Ming Dynasty, but Li Zhaoxian failed to transport the silver back.

There was only one possibility, the ship sank, and all the officials looked at Li Dongyang and secretly regretted it.

"I don't know, I don't know." Yan Chengjin said.

Li Dongyang looked dead, but he kept silent. Seeing this, Emperor Hongzhi didn't mention it again.

After the court was dismissed, Emperor Hongzhi left, and all the officials walked out of the hall one after another.

Yan Chengjin wanted to go back to the Censorate, but Li Dongyang stopped him with anger on his face.

"What's the matter, Lord Li?"

"If Zhaoxian and Zhaofan don't come back within three months, I will marry Qing'e to you." Li Dongyang was so heartbroken that he couldn't breathe. Yan Chengjin was really lucky!

Yan Chengjin asked suspiciously: "Why?"

In the past, Li Dongyang would never agree to it. If Li Zhaoxian and Li Zhaofan didn't come back in this life, Li Dongyang would hate him for the rest of his life.

Now he agreed. If he had known earlier, he would have married the Li brothers...

Li Dongyang glared at him: "I will marry my beloved daughter to you, and you still doubt my intentions?"

If he doesn't come back in a year, you should have guessed the ending.

Qing'e declined the marriage proposal and only had feelings for Yan Chengjin because she had no children.

Yan Chengjin stopped Li Dongyang and didn't let him leave: "Words are not enough, why don't you ask your Majesty to be a witness, or ask your Majesty to issue an order." Unexpectedly, such a happy event would come.

Li Dongyang was like Guan Erye in a cage, with an angry face, and left with a wave of his sleeves.

...

Island country, a corner of the island.

Dozens of large ships, iron chains tightly linked together, the salty sea breeze blew, and many figures could be seen from the forest.

The rammed earth house and the trampled paths showed that the soldiers had been camping here for a while.

Li Zhaofan wore black armor and a red waist knife on his left body.

There were many Japanese ships in the island country, one after another, all wanting to rob their large ships and recruit people as slaves.

What's more terrible is that the island country has been fighting all year round, and food is extremely scarce, so there is not much food to rob.

"Lord Li, there are Japanese ships!" The spy ran to report.

Li Zhaofan looked through the telescope and saw yellow sails appearing on the sea, heading towards here.

"Remove the iron chains! All troops board the ships and prepare for battle!"

The soldiers threw away their hoes and shovels and rushed back to the barracks to get swords, shields and shields.

The trumpeter blew the horn, and the drummers carried the drums onto the big ship. Twenty keel warships were like ducks, flexibly spreading out in all directions.

They formed a line formation and faced the enemy ships coming from afar.

On the keel warships, there was a quota of one hundred households, twenty sword and shield players and oarsmen, one trumpeter, two helmsmen, and seven artillerymen.

Li Zhaofan boarded the seat ship,

The seat ship was actually the central army camp among the five armies.

In front of it were five middle ships guarding it, and in front of them were fifteen warships guarding the middle ships, which were the main force of the battle.

The entire fleet was divided into three columns in total.

"Sir Li, it's the Japanese pirates, and it seems there are pirates, they have united!" The patrol ship came back to report.

There was no gunpowder, so we could only rely on swords and swords.

Li Zhaofan became nervous. If Wang Shouren were here, he would go to the enemy ship to persuade them, but he was not good at attacking the enemy's heart.

After thinking for a moment, he ordered: "The keel warships disperse, listen to my orders, and fire rockets when you see the signal!"

The rockets were tied with kerosene, which could burn most of the enemy's ships.

Hearing the horn, the keel warships dispersed again, and on the sparkling sea, they floated towards the enemy ships like bamboo leaves.

...

Island country, quiet forest.

White smoke floated out of the simple huts, rising straight up to ten feet, and was blown away by the wind.

Zhang Heling was ragged and leaning on a wooden cane. He remembered saying goodbye to his brother here. The silver mine was still there, but he didn't know if his brother was still there?

"Brother? Brother is back."

Walking into the village, the villagers looked at him curiously.

Zhang Yanling heard the voice and hurriedly put his son down and ran over happily: "Brother?"

There were three women standing behind Zhang Yanling, holding the hands of two children. Among them, two women had stomachs as big as watermelons.

Zhang Heling was dumbfounded: "Who, who is this?!"