First Minister of Ming Dynasty Chapter 234

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"Mr. Li, Mr. Zhang, what's the current situation, is our treasury full?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked with joy.

Li Shanchang quickly stood up, "If you go back to the top, 90% of the summer grain has already been put into storage. According to the current calculation, the government's stockpile of grain is more than 1.5 million stone... This is after deducting the 350,000 stone sold to Liu Futong, and The 200,000 stone sold to Fang Guozhen and Chen Youding. When the autumn grain is put into storage, the situation will only improve. As for the grain bank, I don't know how much stock there is."

Zhang Ximeng has always been in charge of the food bank. He quickly stood up and said with a smile: "My lord, Li Xiang, I think we can put the matter of the food bank aside for now. At present, we have issued a total of five million treasure banknotes. The situation is good. As far as I know, some people in Suzhou and other places have started to use our treasured banknotes.”

When it comes to bank money, Li Shanchang, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Ximeng are not in the same dimension.

Lao Zhu frowned and said, "Mr. Zhang, just say, is this a good thing or a bad thing?"

Zhang Ximeng smiled and said, "Don't worry, my lord, I really need to talk about this matter slowly... Zhang Shicheng, a private salt dealer, does have something. When he was in Gaoyou, he tried to make copper coins. After winning Suzhou, he took the Buddha statue in Chengtian Temple. They were all melted. In addition, they collected a lot of gold, silver and bronze utensils, and then cast Tianyou Tongbao. Zhang Shicheng replaced Yuanting's treasure notes with cast copper coins. It stabilized prices and facilitated market transactions and business exchanges. Now Su The prosperous business and trade of Hangzhou Erzhou also gave Zhang Shicheng a lot of taxes, otherwise, Zhang Shicheng would not be able to live so peacefully!"

Zhang Ximeng paused for a while, and then said: "In terms of currency, Zhang Shicheng's copper coins are actually simpler than our treasured banknotes."

Old Zhu pondered: "Mr. Zhang, what do you mean, what kind of God-bless Tongbao is better than our treasured banknotes? Then, can we also learn from Zhang Shicheng and issue copper coins?"

Zhang Ximeng waved his hand and said with a smile, "My lord, we don't have so many gold, silver and copper materials. Not to mention that the money is well designed, it may not be a good thing."

Zhu Yuanzhang scratched his head. He was a farmer, and he really didn't understand currency and finance. He was only interested in Zhang Shicheng's methods. This guy has melted the Buddha statue in Chengtian Temple. We can do it!

Don't forget, we have been in the temple for nearly five years, and we have long since looked at those golden Buddha statues, which are not pleasing to the eye.

However, Zhang Ximeng obviously did not intend to do so.

"My lord, Zhang Shicheng asked us to buy grain, but we didn't agree. But I expected that he would definitely let merchants come to buy from us. After all, we have the most grain in the world today. In fact, as long as the grain trade is stipulated, we must use our The treasured banknotes, forcing Suzhou merchants to take their copper coins and exchange them for our treasured banknotes.”

Old Zhu pondered for a while, "Is this all right? Didn't that fox Zhang Shicheng say that salt is exchanged for food?"

Zhang Ximeng said with a smile: "My lord, if you are bartering and communicating with each other, no matter how you do it, Zhang Shicheng will not be hurt. But if we exchange treasure money for his copper coins and take out some of his copper coins, At that time, our treasured banknotes will flow into the Suzhou market. At that time, our banknotes will be used to buy their silk salt.”

Zhu Yuanzhang was still thinking, but Li Shanchang came to his senses and realized that this idea was brilliant!

"Zhang Xiang, what do you mean... We paid treasure notes and paper, but we could get copper coins, salt, and silk from Zhang Shicheng?"

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Zhang Ximeng smiled and nodded, "That's right, but it's not necessarily the case that ours is paper, because once we really treat the treasured banknotes as paper, so we send them indiscriminately, then the treasured banknotes will collapse completely just like the Yuanting ones. At that time, Zhang Shicheng can rely on his Heavenly Blessing Tongbao to harvest us."

Zhang Ximeng said to Lao Zhu: "My lord, this is what I said is not about the quality of the currency, but the source of currency credit. As long as the lord is more credible, stronger in force, and tougher than Zhang Shicheng... No matter how much Zhang Shicheng struggles, he will We can't play with us. After all, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, not to mention Zhang Shicheng is not a clever woman!"

Li Shanchang touched his palms and laughed, "Wonderful! Zhang Shicheng is indeed not a clever woman, his ability is far worse than that of Zhang Xiangke!"

Zhang Ximeng said humbly: "Li Xiangxuan praised... In fact, we can take advantage of Zhang Shicheng with currency, and behind it is that our soldiers and horses can defeat Lao Zhang. If he dares to fight with us, he will only lose more. Our strength is there, as long as Zhang Shicheng brings his troops over and defeats us, Treasure Banknotes will immediately be inferior to waste paper! If you have strength, you don't need it, and if you don't have strength, that's two completely different things!"

Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Shanchang listened... Gradually, the two of them also realized that in the end, playing with money is just writing fancy gadgets, and what really matters is strength.

But they also know that these little tricks cannot be ignored. After all, they can take a layer of skin off Zhang Shicheng's body quietly, so why not do it?

What's more, you can use the benefits you have earned from Zhang Shicheng to deal with the biggest enemy... Tian Wan!

What a beautiful thing this is!

"Originally, we planned to use troops against the sky after the autumn, but recently there have been news that Ni Wenjun, Zhao Pusheng, and his subordinate Chen Youliang have attacked the city and captured the entire territory of Fuzhou, and they want to get involved in Shaowu. , Ruizhou and other places, if we don't give him a head-on, they won't take us seriously!"

Lao Zhu was murderous, and it was obvious that he couldn't take it any longer for Tian Wan.

The appearance of Zhang Ximeng, without a doubt, greatly accelerated the expansion of Zhu Yuanzhang's forces.

But it is also undeniable that everyone is linked to each other, it is impossible for Lao Zhu to develop rapidly, and others are indifferent.

First of all, let's talk about Liu Futong, because the Zhu family's army played the banner of restoring China, and he, the “Orthodox of the Great Song Dynasty”, naturally had to work harder on the northern expedition to recover Yanyun as soon as possible.

Therefore, it can be clearly seen that Liu Futong's northern expedition accelerated, and he even bought grain from Zhu's army for this reason.

In addition, Zhang Ximeng set up a prisoner of war camp and captured so many high-ranking officials of Dayuan. Although no one from other teams has copied it, the morale of Yuanting's army has collapsed very seriously.

Including Tianwan, the progress of the siege of the city was greatly accelerated, Zhao Pusheng took Xiangyang Road lightly, and Wang Fengguo easily took Xinzhou.

The entire Huguang, except for the Tusi Miao Village in the southwest, was almost all included in the Tianwan territory. Ming Yuzhen also successfully entered Bashu, and made a drastic attack on the city.

In Jiangxi and other places, Ni Wenjun, Chen Youliang and others are also making rapid progress.

Although these people cannot fully imitate Zhu Jiajun's measures, they can still do it according to cats and tigers, win people's hearts, and cut off some malpractices.

Therefore, it can be seen that the momentum of Tianwan is quite fierce.

Two equally fast-growing beasts are about to collide!

"Mr. Li, the military supplies are ready recently, and we will prepare to send troops. Jinling, you will be responsible for the supply of military supplies, but you must not make mistakes." Li Shanchang nodded quickly, "Please rest assured, I will do my best... It's just related. For things like treasure notes, I'm afraid that I will trouble Zhang Xiangcai."

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed, "Who said no... We have no wine and no meat, we can't live without Mr. Zhang in the army. This is the first time we have a formal contest with Tian Wan, and we must be surrounded by elite soldiers and strong generals. Let Xu Da lead the army and be the vanguard. Yuchun and Hu Dahai are his deputy. Mr. Zhang and Mr. Zhu are all with us, the counselor of the military aircraft."

Lao Zhu put up a quite luxurious lineup, Xu Da, Hu Dahai, Chang Yuchun, these three were in charge of the striker, they were absolutely brilliant and unparalleled in combat power.

Even if he encounters Zhang Dingbian again, it is estimated that Lao Zhang will suffer.

And Zhu Yuanzhang was in the middle of the army, and he brought Zhang Ximeng and Zhu Sheng with him. One of them has an excellent vision and the other is scheming. They are also a perfect match. It is no exaggeration to say that Zhu Yuanzhang showed all his strength.

In addition, Lao Zhu also brought Zhu Wenzheng, Hua Yun, Fei Ju, Lu Zhongheng, Tang Shengzong and others to gather the stars, and the stars were brilliant.

Zhu Yuanzhang dispatched troops here, but this time, the most surprising thing is not which fierce generals are sent, how many fierce people... but Ma's side, it only took less than ten days, a total of 50,000 sets of big red The mandarin duck battle jackets were all sent to the army and handed over to the soldiers.

The soldiers who got these jackets were startled... It was delivered so quickly, wouldn't it be shoddy?

After they checked, they found that almost every piece was a first-class product with excellent workmanship.

Among them are several battle jackets, in the collar, cuffs, placket, etc., UU reading www. uukanshu.com just sewed four threads, and the stitches were so dense that they couldn't be pulled open.

This needlework is absolutely amazing!

There is no doubt that Ma's was a huge success and had a good start.

And at this moment, there are tens of thousands of women in Jinling City, who are enjoying the joy of harvest... For example, Han Xiuniang, she stayed up for a few nights to make three sets of battle jackets. Treasure notes.

This amount of money is not much, but in the past, the husband had to work as a porter for ten days to earn it.

Making clothes for the military requires good craftsmanship, but it does make money!

After receiving the money, Han Xiuniang bought a piece of mutton and stewed it at home. When it was time for dinner, there was a big dish on the table.

As the daughter-in-law of the long house, Han Xiuniang has to raise two children, and every time she eats, she will feed the two children at the same time.

Over there, the in-laws, the husband, and the younger brother-in-law are qualified to sit at the table to eat. It's not a special rule by anyone, it's just that over time, it becomes a habit, and the daughter-in-law will have to eat at the end, even if there are no guests.

"Sister-in-law, you are willing to spend money, this mutton is good!"

The uncle was so happy that he stretched out his chopsticks and was about to pick it up. He couldn't wait to try it.

"lay down!"

The old man suddenly scolded in a low voice, which made the uncle stunned. At this time, the old man whispered to his wife: "The eldest daughter-in-law has worked hard for several days, let her come and sit!"

The old lady pondered for a while, nodded hurriedly, turned her head and pulled Han Xiuniang over, and sat down with her.

Then the old man looked at the family and said solemnly: "Listen, from now on, just sit like this and eat!"

Han Xiuniang's face flushed slightly, she nodded quickly, and gently agreed.

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