After the rise of the government-run textile industry, Emperor Zhu Youxiao himself also made a lot of money.In addition to the expenses used inside and outside the imperial court, there is still a lot of silver left directly into the inner treasury.As a result, Zhu Youxiao had the idea of opening a royal bank.However, there are still too few people around Zhu Youxiao who understand the operation of the bank.In addition, the Ming Dynasty has not yet fully entered the era of commodity economy, and the usury of the private sector is still only a small loan, and the main loan group is ordinary people; The main participants in commercial activities are still the powerful gentry, who are not short of money and naturally do not need loans; So the financial demand is not large; Moreover, the Ming Dynasty does not have an official currency in the strict sense, and silver coins are still being implemented; Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not directly order to open a bank because of this.But with so much silver, Zhu Youxiao didn't plan to put it in the inner treasury like this.On the one hand, Zhu Youxiao asked Liu Ruoyu, who was in charge of his own internal affairs, to exchange the silver and silver coins he received for gold, and recast them into gold coins for the statue of Taizu and store them.On the other hand, Zhu Youxiao decided that he, the emperor, had to take the initiative to stimulate consumption and promote productivity.And this naturally requires Zhu Youxiao to spend money, and he can't be too frugal emperor, so that more silver coins can flow into the hands of the common people who are still short of silver coins, and prepare for the later reform of the tax system.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao decided that he had to cultivate one or two hobbies of his own, not only for entertainment, but also to use this hobby to promote the circulation of silver coins.Zhu Youxiao remembered that many emperors in history had various hobbies.Zhu Zhanji likes to fight crickets.Even Emperor Hongji, who was very obedient in the eyes of officials, liked to study medicine.Zhu Houzhao likes to build zoos and fight.Zhu Houxi likes alchemy."
What hobbies are appropriate for you to cultivate?"
Like Qianlong, I have nothing to collect antique calligraphy and paintings, and then poke a few chapters on them, or take a tour, and have nothing to inscribe a few words at the places of interest and historic sites, indicating that I have traveled here, so make a card?
”Zhu Youxiao had been thinking about this all morning."
Your Majesty, the Harbour Administration Bureau has reported that the first brig sail battleship has been launched, and has successfully sailed to Lushun, and I hereby ask Your Majesty to give it its name."
At this time, Fang Congzhe suddenly reported something to Zhu Youxiao.Zhu Youxiao suddenly had an idea, and said excitedly: "Very good!
In addition, one million silver coins were allocated to the Harbour Bureau, of which 100,000 were to reward all the meritorious personnel of the Harbour Bureau, and 900,000 yuan were used to develop warships with better performance.
Make new contributions to the Ming Dynasty!
”"Yes!"
Fang Congzhe didn't expect His Majesty the Emperor to be so generous in this shipbuilding, and he actually spent millions of yuan in order to let the Harbour Administration Bureau develop new warships.Recently, Zhu Youxiao has issued an order to reform the unit of the Ming silver coin, and the silver coin is called "yuan" after the edict is issued to the world.Therefore, the scale of the silver dollar mentioned by Zhu Youxiao is now in yuan.However, the difference between one million silver dollars and one million taels of silver is not big, and it is still a huge amount of money, so Fang Congzhecai expressed his surprise at the emperor's behavior of allocating such a huge amount of money to the Harbour Administration Bureau to develop new warships.But the emperor allocated internal money, and Fang Congzhe couldn't say anything, he could only be the emperor and liked warships.As soon as he learned that the first sail battleship had been launched by the Harbour Bureau, Zhu Youxiao decided to make warships one of his hobbies as the emperor.Zhu Youxiao decided to continue to spend his surplus money as the emperor on the research and development of these strange skills, building warships is one of them, and there will be other aspects of research and development in the future.In addition, Zhu Youxiao still decided to continue to build a large number of buildings and make it a hobby of his own.He didn't plan to cultivate Qianlong's hobby.Because if you continue to spend money on strange tricks, you can feed a large number of scientific researchers and craftsmen, and you can also support many workers by building a large number of buildings.Only by spending money, engaging in strange tricks, and engaging in construction can it be in line with Zhu Youxiao's purpose of letting the silver coins circulate to more people."
The Ministry of Decree and Industry, build a garden dedicated to my summer vacation in the capital, the garden is called Daming Garden, the Qianqing Palace is too small, not spacious enough, and there is no water feature to absorb heat, as soon as the summer day comes, it will be very hot, I need a more convenient place to meet the ministers, handle official business and cool off the heat, this silver is from me myself."
Zhu Youxiao has been the emperor of Daming for two years, and he has to admit that the Qianqing Palace is indeed not a very suitable imperial dormitory to live in.Because the Qianqing Palace is indeed not big, there is no green scenery, and in the summer, it is even more scorching heat, even if there are ice cubes to cool off, but there is no green tree, lake water to live in the garden.Otherwise, those emperors in history who had a little self-determination ability would not have chosen to live in other places outside the Qianqing Palace, which has nothing to do with this.The Manchu emperors even built gardens directly.Zhu Youxiao naturally wants to improve his living and working environment.By the way, it also boosts domestic demand.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao issued a will to build a garden at this time.Fang Congzhe, the first assistant, naturally would not go against Zhu Youxiao's will, so he immediately agreed and began to draft the will.This can be regarded as a benefit of the emperor after he has money, and if he wants to improve his residence, he doesn't have to look at the faces of the officials.But Zhu Youxiao's doing so will naturally make many so-called decent courtiers and doctors feel dissatisfied."
Fang Thief and others said that the Son of Heaven was violent but not faint, in the old man's view, the Son of Heaven was not only cruel but also extremely stupid, and took away the Haili of my Jiangnan gentry, and did not take it lightly, but only cared about satisfying personal preferences, and even allocated millions of domestic funds to build ships, which is simply a waste of national funds!
also used the silver scavenged from the south of the Yangtze River to build a garden, what kind of large-scale construction is this kind of Ming Jun?!
”"Before, he directly waved his pen and gave tens of thousands of silver coins to those who were self-employed and lowly in our Shilin, and who compiled miscellaneous books and books to please the grass mustard, and even gave officials and knights, it can already be seen that our Son of Heaven is not a master who loves to do business!
Encourage the sluts to write books that are difficult to get into the elegant hall, and call them everyone, but exile the real Confucianism to Liaodong to dig the ground and plant potatoes, such a cruel and faint king, unprecedented!
”The officials who were dissatisfied with Zhu Youxiao were talking about it behind their backs, but now they only dared to talk about it behind their backs, and they didn't dare to say anything on the surface.Just as the Manchu emperors in history built gardens on a large scale, they could only praise him as the master.The current Ming Dynasty, on the bright side, these ministers and doctors still have to praise Zhu Youxiao as the first saint of the ages against their will."
I like to see you guys who are dissatisfied with me but can't do anything to me."
Zhu Youxiao also learned through Dongchang that many ministers had to praise themselves behind their backs, and he naturally knew that many officials must be reluctant, so he smiled and scolded a few words.However, there are also ministers who sincerely believe that Zhu Youxiao is a holy monarch.