"My God, my family didn't expect these traitors to be so rich, and this silver is more than the emperor's inner treasury!"
Li Yongzhen, the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch Suitang, was asked by Zhu Youxiao to be responsible for the general affairs of the liquidation of the confiscated Jin merchants' property, and to lead the account room of the inner study hall.And because of this, Li Yongzhen couldn't help but sigh after looking at the silver in the cellar in front of the cellar at this time.Li Yongzhen immediately commanded as she spoke: "Check it immediately!"
”"Yes!"
The eunuchs who followed Li Yongzhen immediately began to confiscate the gold, silver and jewelry.For a while, Li Yongzhen also saw a bunch of untreated jewelry, and after he looked closely, he found that there were blood stains in many of the jewelry.Then, Li Yongzhen also picked up a gemstone ring with a finger bone because it couldn't be pulled out, wiped off the dust, and then said: "I don't know if it's the ring of the Han family, it was cut off and taken away, and it also fell here, these Jin merchants still did those evils." ”Li Yongzhen left the cellar and brought some bloody jewelry and the gemstone ring with a finger bone left in front of Xu Xianchun: "Xu Zhenfu, look at the sins done by these people, these eighty percent of the gold and silver jewelry was looted from the people, and then fell into the hands of these profiteers, and they haven't had time to deal with it. ”Xu Xianchun also glanced at this, and glanced at Fan Ming, who was trembling: "Where did all these jewelry come from?"
”Fan Mingzhan replied tremblingly: "It was the Mongols and Jurchens who plundered the Han people after breaking the city, and then fell into our hands because they wanted to exchange salt, tea and other things with us. ”Xu Xianchun stepped on Fan Ming's bloody hand, gritted his teeth and said: "Damn, even make this money, do you profiteers still have a heart!"
”"AhhIt hurts!
It hurts!
Master Jue's life!
”Pham Minh cried and pleaded.Xu Xianchun let go of his foot, and after ordering his subordinates to look at Fan Ming and the others, he continued to take people to confiscate other Jin merchants.And Fan Minh continued to whimper and cry.Fan Yongdou watched as his Fan family's gold, silver and jewelry were carried out one by one, and shouted angrily in his heart: "I hate my Fan family's foundation for generations!"
It fell into the hands of the imperial court!
”Next.Other Jin merchants involved in smuggling and collaborating with the enemy were also confiscated.It is also difficult to count the amount of confiscated property.Even Xu Xianchun and Qin Liangyu had to stay here for more than a month.Meanwhile.The hometowns and industries of these Jin merchants suspected of smuggling and collaborating with the enemy have also been confiscated by the factory guards who have been prepared for a long time, and they are also being counted and escorted back to Beijing."
Emperor, according to the reports of Xu Xianchun and Li Yongzhen, plus the reports of the factory guards dispatched from other places at the same time, it is preliminarily estimated that the confiscated property of these Jin merchants should be no less than 50 million taels, and the slaves really didn't expect that these Jin merchants have so much wealth, but because of this, it seems that the internal money is more abundant than before, plus the silver that has to be copied from Zhang Heming and Wang Zuo, these greedy ministers, the emperor will not have to worry about silver in the future."
Wei Zhongxian smiled and reported to Zhu Youxiao.Zhu Youxiao was not surprised after hearing this.Because in Zhu Youxiao's view, the tax of the Ming merchants is so low, and there are many people who are exempt from taxes, plus the Jin merchants smuggle the military supplies of the nine sides by colluding with the ministers of the DPRK and China for so many years every year, so it is nothing that the Jin merchants were copied out of tens of millions of taels of silver.Moreover, as far as Zhu Youxiao knows, this is still quite little, if it develops like in history, the Jin merchants will become more and more daring to make money as the Jiannu power grows bigger, and the Jin merchants will accumulate more silver than this."
This is my money!
Let them not take me seriously!
”Regarding Wei Zhongxian's words, Zhu Youxiao only said one sentence, and said: "However, these tens of millions of taels of silver are just a one-time entry, the Ming Dynasty is now spending a lot, and many of these silver should be owed to the border army, so sooner or later it will be spent, the most important thing is that there must be continuous input, we can't learn from these landlords and old money, and hide the silver in the cellar after putting it away, so that he can circulate it, stabilize prices, and increase income!"
You ask Jinyiwei to inquire about the price of grain in North Korea, Siam and other foreign countries, as well as the equivalent of iron ore and livestock, and purchase some of them that are cheaper than those in China, and keep these silver is silver, and it can't be turned into food for disaster relief and weapons against the enemy, and it will become worthless if there are more, so you have to spend it to become a more useful thing to come back, and I will set up a royal foreign trade bureau, listed as one of the yamen of the inner court, you and Liu Ruoyu will each recommend a eunuch to take charge of this bureau, and apply to me to use part of the internal money to go outside to purchase various important properties, Especially grain, ore, and wood. ”According to Zhu Youxiao's knowledge, because of the increase in silver, prices in Daming have been rising.That is, the economy of the Ming Empire has been inflationary.In fact, this situation requires the imperial court to use the increased silver to import the goods that the Ming Dynasty needs more, so as to realize the real benefits brought by the increase in silver.For example, with the increase in population in the Ming Dynasty, but the fields have not increased significantly, the contradiction in food demand is getting bigger and bigger, and it is necessary to exchange silver for more grain.In the past, it was because a large amount of silver was in the hands of gentry landlords, who liked to hide the silver in the ground or use it to buy fields, thus exacerbating the involution.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not have much silver capital to improve the economic environment of the Ming Dynasty and bring more needed food to the people in China.But now that Zhu Youxiao has this first silver capital, he naturally wants to do this, and by the way, he can also bring himself some foreign trade income."
Slave obeys!"
Wei Zhongxian and Liu Ruoyu replied."
In addition, the follow-up matters after the confiscation of the Jin merchants must also be arranged, although these profiteers smuggled and betrayed the country, but also did reduce the frequency of the Mongols harassing the border towns by trading with the Mongols, and now my Ming enemy's enemy is the Eastern Captives, so the trade with the Mongols cannot be broken, and we have to control the Mongolian tribes through trade with the Mongols, so as to avoid the Mongols from falling to the side of the Eastern Captives, and plundering my Ming Dynasty together with the Eastern Captives!
However, this trade could not be done by the private merchants, who only cared about making money, and had no interests in the interests of the imperial court, and planned to set up a city bureau in each town on the nine sides, which would be managed by the Jinyi Wei or the eunuchs, and be in charge of the trade with the Mongols; Instructed to send all the confiscated account books of the Jin merchants to the palace, and then be sure to know the trade volume with Mongolia and the Jurchens through the trade between the Jin merchants and the Jurchens over the years; And through this amount of trade, the trade volume of the Mongol tribes was controlled to a level that allowed the Mongols to survive through trade, but could not obtain a large amount of surplus grain and other important military supplies through trade, and sold them to the Jurchens; In this way, it can be regarded as controlling the Mongolian tribe to become bigger!
This is also a means, and it is also my real purpose, the courtiers thought that I copied the Jin merchants just to get money, then they also thought that I was too simple. ”Zhu Youxiao said, "Hurry up and do it!"
”"Emperor Shengming!
The slaves and maidservants will do it. ”Wei Zhongxian and Liu Ruoyu suddenly became enlightened for a while, and they also knew that this would bring a lot of benefits to their inner court, after all, whether it was foreign trade or trade with the Mongols, once these were controlled in the hands of the inner court, they would increase the power of the inner court.