Su He put on ordinary uniforms and was put on makeup by Xuanwuwei masters.
Accompanied by Zhuque Guard commander Zhou Fangzhi and general political envoy Zheng Ziliang, he walked out of the palace from Donghua Gate.
They rode a carriage and walked out of the Forbidden City from Dong'an Gate.
Su He looked at Zhou Fangzhi, who was sitting in the corner of the carriage and had lost all his beard and had a fake beard.
"Zhou Aiqing, are you still used to being in the palace during this period?"
Zhou Fangzhi understood what His Majesty meant. He was asking about his feelings as a eunuch.
As an officer, he suddenly became a eunuch, which was a huge gap in status.
I was not used to it at first, but now I have adapted to this identity.
Zhou Fangzhi said respectfully: "Your Majesty, Wei Chen is twenty-five years old this year and has two sons and three daughters.
Wei Chen already has a son and a daughter, so he has nothing to regret.
I was injured in my lower body, and many of my colleagues have passed away.
Now I can watch my children grow up safely and experience the wonderful life of the Dahua Dynasty. I am already much happier than others.
Young wives, they don't want to continue living.
I also divorced them without delaying their search for a new home.
I will not be affected by external rumors and will serve His Majesty seriously."
Su He listened to Zhou Fangzhi's words and found that his current character was pretty good.
He should have both sons and daughters, and his character is not as twisted as other eunuchs.
He doesn't have much power, and he doesn't have the capital to act arbitrarily.
"Fang Aiqing, you are responsible for managing the eunuchs in the palace.
The older eunuchs were asked to live in a village outside the capital to live out their lives.
The royal family will provide money to make them worry-free in their later years.
These people have served the royal family all their lives and cannot be left miserable in their later years.
Even the eunuchs who served the Ming Dynasty now belong to the people of Dahua, allowing them to enjoy their old age in peace.
There are many orphans in the orphanage, and eunuchs are allowed to adopt orphans and provide for themselves until they die."
When Zhou Fangzhi heard this, he said excitedly: "On behalf of these eunuchs, I would like to thank Your Majesty for your kindness."
Zhou Fangzhi had always looked down on eunuchs before.
He believed that all eunuchs were traitors who brought harm to the country.
Until he became a eunuch and communicated with the eunuchs in the palace, these eunuchs subverted his ideas.
What is a eunuch? A eunuch is a dog raised by the emperor.
As the master, the emperor could kill the eunuch with just one word.
Emperor Chongzhen was a vassal king with no foundation.
After he ascends the throne, he can easily kill the eunuch Wei Zhongxian.
In the Dahua Dynasty, eunuchs no longer held important power, and their number was extremely rare.
Without power, there will be no additional income.
Now with your majesty's order, the eunuchs don't have to worry about the bleak future.
His Majesty also allows eunuchs to adopt orphans, which also allows them to have no worries in their later years and have something to rely on in their hearts.
As the carriage walked out of Dong'an Gate, Su He looked out the window at the scene in the capital.
As the founding emperor, he was not a bird in a cage.
Su He could run around all over the country, but he didn't take any action because he didn't want to waste people and money.
Now that the emperor is traveling far away, it is too expensive. The money can be used to build several battleships. The cost of traveling is too much.
Once railroad tracks and trains are manufactured, traveling far away will save a lot of money.
Su He looked at the scene outside the Forbidden City.
This was his first time to take a serious look at the urban life in the capital.
He rode a carriage and walked through the market.
Su He saw many monks coming out to ask for silver coins from merchants and people.
He looked at the behavior of these monks with a look of displeasure on his face.
"Zheng Ziliang, pass on my oral instructions to Song Kangnian, the Minister of Rites.
There are too many Buddhist temples in the capital.”
Zheng Ziliang, the general envoy sitting in the corner of the carriage, immediately wrote down his Majesty's words.
He knew that after this sentence reached the Ministry of Rites, it would cause great turmoil in the religious field of the capital.
Many temples will not be able to survive from now on.
There are indeed many temples in the capital, and Zheng Ziliang often travels around the capital.
Every square in the capital, as a residential area for the common people, has one or two temples.
There are more temples outside the capital. In Zhengdongfang and Xuannanfang, seven or eight temples are gathered together.
The carriage arrived at its destination, Huanghuafang. Su He's main purpose today was to inspect the business environment in the city.
Zheng Ziliang introduced the situation of Huanghuafang.
"Your Majesty, this is the seat of the Federation of Industry and Commerce.
Businessmen communicate more frequently in Huanghuafang, and the information here is relatively developed."
Su He looked out of Huanghuafang through the carriage's glass, where there was a huge flow of people.
He also saw the figure of Xuanwu Wei.
They pretended to be ordinary people and surrounded the carriage to protect the safety of Suhe.
“When viewing the capital from the car, you can’t see clearly through a layer of glass.
We got out of the car to watch. As a familiar face, Zheng Aiqing put on a mask and a big-brimmed hat so as not to be recognized.
Zhou Aiqing, please pay attention to the title, I am a businessman from Shaanxi who came to the capital to do business."
Su He got off the carriage and got closer to the people.
He came to the outside of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which was a three-story wooden building.
There are many shops outside and the streets are crowded with people.
Su He and the others approached the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and found themselves in a restaurant next to them.
It's not lunch time now, and the restaurant is overcrowded.
The restaurant waiter saw Su He who was wearing a relatively simple dress.
He came over and said respectfully: "Sir, the private rooms in our restaurant are full, if you don't mind.
Just in the lobby, share a table with others.
This restaurant only accepts gold coins, silver coins and copper coins.
Broken silver and various banknotes will not be accepted."
Su He glanced at the situation in the lobby.
He came to a table with only two people.
The two men were speaking in Chu dialect, which Su He could only tell was probably a dialect from around Wuchang, but he couldn't understand a word they said.
"Brothers, I am a businessman from Shaanxi and I have just come to the capital to do business.
The lobby is full now, can I share a table?"
Mi Lingfang responded in Mandarin: "Everyone here is a guest, so just sit here!"
Judging from your accent, it does sound like Shaanxi.
It is easier for you Shaanxi people to do business, not as difficult as it is for us Chu merchants."
Zhou Fangzhi acted as a servant. He took the hot water next to him, took out the tea leaves he brought, and brewed a few cups of tea.
Su He handed each of the two businessmen a cup of tea.
He asked curiously: "What's going on?
When doing business, how can we distinguish between regions?"
Zhao Baoyang smelled the tea that was handed over, and the smell was refreshing. This was very expensive tea.
This kind of tea is not available in the Zhao family. The young man opposite has a very unusual status.
When Zhao Baoyang heard Su He's words, he laughed and said politely:
"Little brother, you are too naive.
At first glance, it seems that he just came out of home. He has never done business before. Why don't he do business based on the region now?
With the Shaofu auction technology, the group of people from the Hanzhong Chamber of Commerce can get the news in advance.
Sometimes auctions cannot compete normally and you have to give others a face.
There was a technology that I liked, and the other party auctioned it off for only one silver coin higher than the reserve price.
But I have to spend an extra thirty thousand taels of silver to buy it from this man."
When Su He heard what happened to the businessman, he was not surprised at all and asked: "I did just come out to do business, and my family's fields were taken over by the government.
The elder was so angry that he was bedridden, so I had to come to the capital to see if there was any good business.
Brother, the problem you are encountering is blatant corruption and bribery.
Why don't you go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to report? Now the Metropolitan Procuratorate has opened a channel for people to report officials.
As long as the report is genuine, the Metropolitan Procuratorate will definitely accept it."
Zhao Baoyang smiled and said: "Little brother, you are naive, so naive.
I dare to say this in the restaurant. This matter is no longer a secret. Everyone in the capital knows about it. Does the Metropolitan Procuratorate know about it?
If I really go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to report it, it will offend the entire officialdom.
I won't be able to move forward at that time, so I might as well spend more money.
This is to use money to clear the way and buy peace.
For businessmen like us who have no foundation, if we can spend our money to buy things, that is already very good.
I'm afraid that after spending a lot of money, the other party will turn against us and deny us, and even send us to jail with a backhand.
Now among the officials of the new imperial court, I have never heard of anyone being so vicious."
Mi Lingfang sighed and said: "It's a good thing to collect money, but I'm afraid that if I don't accept the money, I'll ask for something else.
Nowadays, some officials raise rabbits.
I also need to send a bunny, and I don’t know the other person’s taste, so it’s too difficult to choose.
Nowadays, the price of brothel rabbits has skyrocketed, and famous people are worth tens of thousands of taels of silver coins."
Su He didn't understand it at first and thought some officials liked to eat braised rabbit heads.
This dish is quite delicious, but it’s not too picky as the spicy flavor is popular nowadays.
Some officials in Sichuan prefer to eat spicy braised rabbit heads.
After Su He heard what the businessman said, he understood what the little rabbit meant.
Su He asked in shock: "It's really strange that Dahua officials like this."
Mi Lingfang slapped his thigh and said: "Your Majesty prohibits women in brothels from doing business. If you are caught, you will be dismissed from office.
People like brothels can only change their goals and let little boys come out to do business.
The world is really in decline, it’s better that the brothels can operate normally.”
When Su He heard this situation, he frowned.
These people can really take advantage of the loopholes. Brothels prohibit women from operating, so these people found a group of rabbit masters.
The officialdom is about to undergo a major clean-up, and we must not allow people like this to ruin the atmosphere of the officialdom.
The two people opposite started talking in local dialects again.
Su He ordered a few bottles of good wine and listened to the chats of the businessmen in the restaurant.
The contents of these businessmen's conversations were all kinds of strange, but they had one thing in common: they were all in urgent need of silver coins.
Su He pushed the liquor he ordered to the merchant in front of him.
"Brother, let me ask you a question. Are your merchants very short of silver coins?"
When Mi Lingfang heard these words, his chatterbox opened up.
"Short, very short of silver coins, especially a large amount of silver coins.
I was looking for the bank official, and I knew he liked little rabbits.
Now I am asking what kind of little rabbit he likes.
Don't send it to the wrong person, the money will be spent and the matter will not be completed.
Our situation is similar to yours, little brother.
It's just that we saw an opportunity quickly and helped the army capture the city. Instead of causing trouble for our family, we were rewarded by the court.
We are gentry from Hanyang, and our family fields were redeemed by the government.
The government directly gave us the bank's deposit certificate.
We know that industry is more profitable, and we plan to use this money to invest in industry.
There are many opportunities in the capital, so Brother Zhao and I came here with all our family property.
Unexpectedly, I could only do business with the government through bank transfers with bank deposit certificates.
When doing business with other people, unless there is a guarantee from someone from the Chamber of Commerce, you can only pay in cash.
There is a shortage of silver coins in the market now, so all purchases require cash payment, and merchants are unwilling to accept transfers."
When Zheng Ziliang heard this, he simply explained: "I have heard rumors, and it is actually not the bank's fault. The main reason is that there is too little money.
From what we heard, Guangdong has sea trade support and there are plenty of silver coins.
In the northern region, silver coins are now extremely scarce.
The bank also has to guarantee the exchange of small silver coins of less than one thousand taels.
They are very strict about exchanging large amounts of silver coins."
After hearing this, Zhao Baoyang nodded and said, "Little brother, this should be your butler.
He is the one who really does business, and he knows so clearly.
There is a shortage of silver coins in the market now. Some big businessmen have relied on their reputation to issue some silver notes and circulate them in their own chambers of commerce.
Our Chu merchants have not yet formed a chamber of commerce, and now they are subject to restrictions everywhere."
When Su He heard this, he understood why there was a shortage of silver coins in the market.
According to simple economic knowledge, as the total amount of goods in the market increases, corresponding additional currency must be issued, otherwise there will be a currency shortage.
Today's currency is gold, silver, copper and other metal currencies.
With the development of industrialization, industrialization has provided a large number of commodities, resulting in a sharp increase in the supply of commodities in the market in a short period of time.
The Ming Dynasty was mainly a small-scale peasant society, and the commodity economy was underdeveloped.
Even so, Ming's money was very unbalanced in various regions.
The southeastern region has an abundance of silver, while the southwest and northwest regions have a shortage of silver.
Now that the industrial scale has increased, the amount of money has not increased significantly, which has caused this phenomenon to occur, which is not conducive to the normal flow of goods.
There is already a money shortage.
There are already chambers of commerce issuing banknotes to cope with the money shortage. This trend must be curbed.
Banknotes, a type of credit currency, must be issued by the government.
The court's short-term emergency solution was to issue banknotes.
The amount cannot be too large, and the credibility of the banknotes must be maintained.
Now that metal currency is unshakable, the fundamental solution is to obtain a large amount of silver.
There are several large silver mines in Mongolia, but mining is difficult, and it takes time to explore. Water from afar cannot quench the thirst of those near you.
When doing business with the outside world, European merchants have a large amount of silver coins, but now the scale is too small to solve the problem.
Now the way to get a lot of money quickly is to send troops to grab money.
Su He thought that in the areas surrounding China, only the Japanese country to the east was rich in silver.
As long as we send out the navy to grab a wave, the current problem can be alleviated.
Su He originally planned to wait until Liaodong was conquered and the Jiannu slaves were completely eliminated before expanding outside.
To solve the problem of Jiannu, we only need the Northern Fleet to maintain the security of the Bohai Sea.
The current situation requires the East China Sea Fleet to be dispatched.
The navy spends huge sums of money to build warships and cannot let warships sit idle in ports.
Su He finished his meal and got back on the carriage.
He calmly ordered: "Zheng Aiqing, please pass on my oral instructions.
Tell Su Yan, the Minister of Punishment, to investigate the brothels in the capital.
Not only (female branch) women, but also men (female branch) are not allowed to appear in brothels.
He couldn't solve the problem, so he went to Saibei to herd sheep.
An order was sent to Li Yuanzheng, the censor of Zuodu, to ask the Metropolitan Procuratorate to strictly investigate the abuse of power for personal gain and the sexual intercourse between officials (female branches).
An order was sent to the Governor's Office to ask Feng Sanqiu, the governor of the East China Sea Fleet, to come to Beijing to meet the emperor.
Instruct the cabinet to hold a royal meeting tomorrow to discuss the issue of money shortage and the issuance of banknotes."
Su He issued several orders in succession to solve the money shortage problem seen today.
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