An have this reason, not to mention the beginning of my Ming outside all foreign barbarians, just say that the wealth of his country can not enter my Ming’s treasury, you are how people! He has no one in his country!An can listen to orders with you!”Li Mo sprayed at the very end of Zhu Pingan’s words.
In fact, Li Mo’s meaning translated down is, people’s country stupid ah, white money to you, you Zhu Pingan also do not take a piss to look in the mirror, look at your own what virtue!
“That is, I **** on the country, the state of etiquette, can not be indiscriminately added to the sword of other countries. In addition, my Great Ming is currently the northern captives and southern Japan, divided! How can we re-invigorate the war!”An official behind Li Mo also stood out to wave the flag for Li Mo, joining the queue to denounce Zhu Pingan.
“He dares! Soldiers are the major events of the country, the place of death and life, the way of survival, and must not be ignored! If he dares to bring my Ming into the fire of war at will and fall into the land of doom, I will kill this fang with my own hands.”Li Mo was blowing his moustache and glaring at the time he heard this, and spoke without any regard for Zhu Pingan’s feelings.
This fang, this fang, said this beast ah!
Li Mo spoke excessively, opening his mouth to the little thief and closing his mouth to the beast, even though this person was characterised in history as a loyal and righteous minister, Zhu Pingan was still very upset to hear Li Mo speak in such a manner, this kind of person was very stubborn, so stubborn that he couldn’t accept opinions that were contrary to his.
However, after all, this person is still from the family and the country, in addition, at this time Li Mo official minister of the Ministry of the Ministry of Justice, his own small arm can not break people’s thighs, Zhu Pingan also held back.
“Tsk, look at our boss man this fire, why can’t we let the other scholar finish his sentence.”Yan Shi Fan squinted his one eye at Li Mo and sneered sarcastically.
“Hmph, let’s see what flowers he can say.”Li Mo flung his sleeve forcefully.
Zhu Pingan bowed to Li Mo and the others before speaking, after the salute Zhu Pingan took out two books from his sleeve and showed them one by one to the crowd, then presented the books to Emperor Jiajing and sent them up by the little yellow door.
“It was when I looked at the two books that I came up with this idea, this first book is the ‘Records of the Western Fans (II)’, which was authored by Gong Zhen, the entourage of the Three Treasures eunuch Zheng He when he travelled to the West, and in that book there are two interesting accounts. The first one is like this: Gong Zhen sailed with the flotilla to the Japanese country of Ying Ying, that is, now in the southeastern coast of the Ming Dynasty, after receiving the tribute from the Japanese chiefs, Gong Zhen and others were in the Japanese country to replenish the fresh water and fruits and vegetables food. One of the crew members in charge of purchasing went to a butcher to buy mutton, which required a total of 30 taels of silver. At that time, the crew only brought 20 taels of silver and the rest was gold. Seeing this, the butcher said: 30 taels of silver. If the silver is not enough, the gold can be, 6 taels of gold can be. The crew looked sideways and returned to gather enough silver to pay for the mutton. Will this statement with the crowd, all laugh at the butcher’s treachery.”
Only after Emperor Jiajing fetched the two books did Zhu Pingan begin to speak without haste, as if he were telling a story.
“The Japanese are treacherous, 30 taels of silver is equal to 3 taels of gold, but the Japanese butchers want 6 taels of gold, they are really greedy to the extreme. Shameless to the extreme!”Some officials listened to this story told by Zhu Pingan and shook their heads in indignation as they criticised the Japanese for their cunning.
“The Japanese butchers are greedy and stupid, one tael of gold is equal to two tael of silver, this little child also knows. Stupid and not knowing it, but instead trying to use it to plot against the people of my Daming, it’s really laughable.”Someone laughed and shook his head, and also received the approval of many people.
“The second interesting account is similar to this one, but this time it was the Japanese sheik who sent someone to pay tribute to the treasure ship, and during the tribute, a civilian official in the Japanese sheik took a fancy to a piece of silk. Need silver 5 two, the Japanese officials paid 1 two gold to take the silk, long gone. The person in charge of the flotilla hurriedly chased after him to retrieve the 5 taels of silver, but the Japanese official was too fast. Failed to catch up. During the voyage, the person in charge of the ship was still remembering.”Zhu Pingan slowly spoke.
Buzz.
The crowd burst into laughter, how are all Japanese like this ah, the butcher stupidly couldn’t tell the difference between one tael of gold equaling ten tael of silver, how come the Japanese officials are still so sloppy! Really foreign barbarians, do not understand the culture!
“Zhu Zihou. You do not talk about the people do not increase the endowment and the treasury doubled the method, but instead is to talk about these irrelevant things why, think we like that Japanese traitors like a fool?”One of the officials behind Li Mo listened to these two irrelevant travelogues spoken by Zhu Pingan, and could not help but stand up and accuse Zhu Pingan.
“My lord, don’t be anxious, what Ping An is talking about is the method of multiplying the state treasury without increasing the people’s tax.”Zhu Pingan smiled faintly.
What?
What kind of method of doubling the national treasury is this, it is not just about two irrelevant travelogues, it is not just a silly butcher and a sloppy official! Is it to make money from this stupid butcher and a sloppy official, joking, is to drain them dry is only three melon two dates! It will not help!
The officials burst into contemptuous voices, especially the one who opened his mouth just now even more so, all bursting out in laughter.
“Zhu Zihou, are you joking?”Li Mo held back his anger, almost yelling.
“Pingan how dare you joke in this golden hall, what I said is exactly the way to multiply the treasury, maybe these two travelogues are not obvious, then I will talk about the other book, the other book I saw was the record of Honglu Temple, which recorded the record of the tribute of the Japanese East Japan twenty years ago, which recorded such a thing, after the tribute offering of the Japanese East Japan, the Honglu Temple in accordance with the decree of the ambassadors rewarded the envoys with goldOne hundred taels, the Japanese envoy requested that the gold be replaced with the equivalent value of 500 taels of silver on the grounds that there were too many people for the gold to be distributed.”Zhu Pingan shook his head and then told another recorded story.
What ah, still can’t understand ah, what kind of treasury multiplication method is this!
Many officials still didn’t understand what Zhu Pingan was talking about, these three accounts had nothing to do with multiplying the treasury.
“Zi Hou, are you saying that the exchange of gold and silver in Japan is one tael of gold for five tael of silver?”Yan Shifan was the first to react, then his face was full of joy, both eyes were glowing, as if he had seen a shortcut to becoming rich.
“Yan大人所言正是，下官多方查证，基本可以确定倭国黄金白银兑换比，与我大明相差甚大。 In my Daming ten taels of silver can be exchanged for one or two pieces of gold, while in the Japanese country ten taels of silver can be exchanged for two or two pieces of gold, which is exactly twice as much.”Zhu Pingan nodded his head before exposing this conclusion in an affirmative tone.
The reason why Zhu Pingan said this was because he wanted to implant the germ of the financial war into the hearts of the people, and with the benefits he wanted to draw the people’s attention abroad, hoping to subconsciously make the people of Daming open their eyes to the world.
What, the Japanese gold and silver exchange ratio is 1:5, how there is such a strange exchange ratio ah, the officials in the hall surprised, this is the first time they heard of this kind of thing. Gold and silver exchange ratio difference is so big, change hands is twice the gold ah, no need to say more Zhu Pingan crowd can plainly perceive the huge business opportunities, modern Chinese big mother can be in Wall Street are established in the heck of prestige.
“How much gold can the Japanese have?”An official asked.
“During the Mongol Yuan period there was a Xifan called Marco Polo who came to the Central Plains by ship from the sea, and in one of his travelogues he referred to the Japanese as Zipangu, which translates as the Land of Gold, and in the travelogue it is written that the Japanese each possessed countless quantities of gold, and that the roofs of the palaces were covered with pure gold, and the floor was paved with gold that was as thick as the breadth of two fingers. Many of the rooms were furnished with small tables of very thick pure gold, and the windows were decorated with gold. It is said that one temple in Japan has a ten-foot-high Buddha cast entirely of gold, and in the travelogue the Japanese are called the Silver Archipelago, and it is said that the silver mines of the Japanese are innumerable, and that there are open-air rolling mountains stooping down to the silver sands that can be taken.”
Zhu Pingan exaggeratedly described the contents of a travelogue based on Marco Polo’s oral narration, which was not the later one of Marco Polo’s travelogue, but another travelogue that was narrated orally during the Yuan Dynasty, which was in a corner of the Book Depository, and which Zhu Pingan had turned up the day before yesterday when he was sorting out his books.
As for authenticity?
Oh, what the heck, but history does record that Japan this period of gold and silver mines is the period of proliferation, Japan is now the Warring States period is supported by gold and silver mines.
