Liu Maodao said: "The empress and the wise king have made special decrees and strictly restrained them. I dare not relax and they are not allowed to collude with others.

Because of this, I, I, am extra careful. After all, the virtuous king and his empress are banished to the mortal world, and they will not issue such an order without any reason. The small merits I have accomplished are all due to the virtuous king, and they do not deserve your majesty's praise.

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Zhu Youxiao was stunned. It turned out that the wise brother and the queen had made such a decree. This envoy really had a problem!

He then laughed loudly: "Liu Qing, don't belittle yourself. You can keenly detect problems from a decree and investigate it. This attitude of being capable and willing to do things is worthy of everyone to imitate!"

"Liu Qing, I really didn't know that the queen and the wise king had issued such a decree. As you said, there must be something fishy about this matter. When you go back, check it out carefully for me. If necessary,

, you can use all means, be sure to get to the bottom of it!"

Liu Mao was once again praised by the emperor and was extremely proud and happy.

He knelt down with great joy.

"My minister, if you obey the order, you will definitely bring good news to your majesty, and you will also be given a reasonable reason to send troops to invade the Japanese pirates!"

Zhu Youxiao secretly praised Liu Mao for being such a talented person with a clear mind!

"Pingsheng!"

Zhu Youxiao said: "I highly appreciate ministers like Zuo Qing, Yang Qing, and Liu Qing who are brave enough to do their jobs. I hope you will follow the example of these three!"

Zuo Guangdou and Yang Lian were also in a relationship with Yourong.

Zhu Youxiao said: "Zuo Qing, Yang Qing's proposal just now is very much in line with my wishes. You two will draft this solemn statement and submit it later!"

"In order to commend Zuo Qing, Yang Qing, and Liu Qing for their good advice for the country, two five-yuan banknotes, totaling ten taels of silver, will be awarded as encouragement."

Zhu Youxiao took out six five-yuan notes and asked Song Jin to give them to him.

All the ministers were a little confused.

Treasure money? Is this thing still useful?

What does yuan mean? Two five yuan are equal to ten taels of silver. Is one yuan equivalent to one tael of silver?

Everyone's eyes turned to the treasure note in Song Jin's hand, which was obviously different in color from the treasure note.

Zuo Guangdou, Yang Lian and Liu Mao also knelt down excitedly to receive the reward.

No matter what this treasure is, at least it is an honor.

When the three of them received the reward respectfully and stood up to express their gratitude, they couldn't wait to look at the two treasure notes in their hands.

At this glance, the three people's eyes widened!

I saw that in the middle of this five-yuan banknote, there were colorful portraits of the emperor, the queen, and the wise king, and the images were lifelike, as if three living people were standing in the banknote.

The title book has the words "Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty".

There are five yuan written on the book in the upper left corner.

On the right side are the Chinese characters for five yuan and the Thai and Western numeral five.

On the back is a background image of the magnificent Forbidden City.

The three of them looked at it repeatedly, and the more they looked, the more shocked they became.

The minister next to him was also extremely surprised after secretly seeing it.

Zhu Youxiao was amused in his heart, as if nothing happened, he continued: "My dear friends, do you have anything else to report?"

Li Banghua came out: "Your Majesty, I now also know why the wise king refused to agree to the name of the imperial army yesterday, because the Japanese pirates used this name to cause endless killings to our country!"

"However, I still insist on my suggestion that Your Majesty be directly in charge of the new army. When the Ming Dynasty is determined to reform, in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Your Majesty must have a strong army at hand! As for the name, I think it can be slightly modified.

"

"For example, the infantry is collectively called the Ming Empire Army, the cavalry is the Ming Empire Cavalry, and the navy is the Ming Empire Navy."

Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Imperial Army, haha, that's a good word! The army of the empire where the sun and moon never set is naturally the imperial army! Li Qing's words make sense, and it's accurate! If you come, I'll reward you with ten silver coins!"

Zhu Youxiao scattered another ten silver coins and passed.

The exquisite silver dollar shocked Li Banghua again.

The rest of the people were also surprised.

It’s both treasure banknotes and silver coins. Does your Majesty want to reform the currency system?

Shao Fuzhong, the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, came out: "Your Majesty, do you want to reform the currency system?"

Zhu Youxiao smiled: "I do have this plan. Originally, I planned to put this matter at the end. Now that Shao Qing asked, I will tell you!"

"Before I speak, please feel free to tell me what are the advantages and disadvantages of our Ming Dynasty coins."

Shao Fuzhong said: "The minister's household department supervises the minting of coins by Baoyuan Bureau, and it is up to the minister to make the first move."

Zhu Youxiao nodded.

Shao Fuzhong said: "Currently, our dynasty mainly uses copper coins and official silver as the main currencies. The exchange ratio of silver and copper coins changes from time to time. It is generally the ratio of one tael of silver to one thousand copper coins."

"As far as I know, copper coins are mostly used by ordinary people in the market. Generally, merchants or those who use large amounts of money use silver as the main currency and gold as the supplement."

"Due to the lack of copper in our dynasty, copper coins have been in a state of tension, and most of them are made from old money, with different fineness. This also leads to different amounts of copper coins of different fineness that can be exchanged for silver. In addition, taxes are paid in silver.

That’s right, so our government mainly uses silver.”

"In addition, neighboring countries, such as Japan, Goryeo, Annan, etc., exchanged a large amount of copper coins for use in their own countries, which made our country's copper coins even more insufficient. In some places, barter was even used, or cloth was used as currency."

"The shortage of copper coins has also led to the large-scale use of broken silver, which is extremely inconvenient in transactions. On the one hand, the fineness of the silver needs to be verified, and the silver must be accurately weighed and the fire consumption calculated!"

"As for treasure banknotes, due to various reasons, they have now declined, their face value has seriously depreciated, and they are rejected by almost everyone. They have existed in name only."

"The above is my humble opinion."

Ni Yuanlu, the left minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, said: "I believe that whether it is copper coins or Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes, there is a very serious problem, that is, the issuance of countless coins, especially treasure banknotes, because the printing cost is low, our government continues to

Over-issuance has accelerated the depreciation of treasure banknotes!"

"Secondly, there are endless counterfeits, and bad coins drive out good coins. For copper coins, first of all, they are of different colors and weights. The content of copper is getting lower and lower. There are even iron coins in Bashu, and there are many private minters.

, resulting in extremely confusing copper coins, which is also the main reason why the Ming Dynasty used silver as its main trading currency."

"As for treasure banknotes, they were issued excessively and were counterfeited a lot. However, this situation no longer exists because the value of treasure banknotes is too low, making them unprofitable."

Zhu Youxiao nodded slightly.

Yang Liandao: "Your Majesty, I see that these five-yuan banknotes are beautifully printed and should be extremely difficult to imitate. The imitation that Master Ni is worried about can be eliminated."

Li Banghua also said: "Your Majesty, I see that this silver coin is extremely beautifully made. Each coin is exactly the same, and it is difficult to imitate it. I think it can be issued."

Zhu Youxiao laughed: "These treasure banknotes and silver coins were cast by the wise king using the technology of the immortal world. The secrets are by no means superficial. Let me talk about the silver coins first!"

"Song Jin, please send all these silver coins and treasure banknotes down, a set of treasure banknotes and a silver coin for each person.

Zhu Youxiao signaled to Song Jin to let him understand what a set was.
Chapter completed!