Zhu Qiyu hoped that during his reign, the Ming Dynasty could realize the transformation from a small peasant economy to a commodity economy.

In the process of this transformation, a large amount of currency is needed to support transactions, and the currency's liquidity must also be ensured. Otherwise, the current situation will occur, and the Ming Dynasty will enter the winter sequence.

The liquidity of currency is not a financial phenomenon that can be directly observed, but there was a peculiar phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty, which was observed by the Ming court, that is, the price of salt in the Ming Dynasty.

When the price of salt currency continues to rise, it means that the quantity of money in the Ming Dynasty is insufficient, and salt currency is needed to compensate; if the salt currency remains in a stable price range, it means that the supply of currency in the Ming Dynasty is normal, and salt currency is not needed to compensate; if the price of salt currency continues to fall,

, it means that the currency is over-issued and the currency injection needs to be controlled.

The Salt Yin of the Ming Dynasty, as a barometer of the health of the currency of the Ming Dynasty, was an important basis for Jin Lian, the Minister of Household Affairs, to persuade the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to issue banknotes.

In the process of the transformation of the small-scale peasant economy, Ming Dynasty needed to continuously improve productivity to complete the commodity production of the commodity economy.

For example, the catfish effect of the Ming Dynasty, which was dominated by official factories, and the pilot farm laws implemented by the Ming Dynasty in many southern provinces, are important strategies to implement the Ming Dynasty's public ownership economy as the main body, and are the main ways to stimulate the productivity of the Ming Dynasty.

On the other hand, Zhu Qiyu vigorously promoted education, divided studies into subjects, established ten major calendar bureaus, and officially led inventions and creations. There are already many kinds of machinery such as flying shuttles, multi-spindle spinning wheels, hydraulic screw machines, hydraulic looms, etc.; he also vigorously promoted degrees.

Bypass to implement pre-standardization for mass production.

In the process of transformation of the small-scale peasant economy, the Ming Dynasty had to transform from small-scale apprenticeship workshops to free labor relations for large-scale production.

Then we need to liberate the people of the Ming Dynasty from the shackles of the land, participate in employment, and participate in large-scale production.

These are the responsibilities that Zhu Qiyu will bear in the process of transformation of the small-scale peasant economy in the Ming Dynasty.

Relief for work was the main means for the Ming Dynasty to intervene in the economy. It was a good opportunity, but this opportunity was very expensive.

How expensive is it?

Hundreds of millions of silver coins.

After such an expensive cost, what will Daming get?

Zhu Qiyu fulfilled his promise, following the legacy of his ancestors, and built the Ming Dynasty's official roads and post roads from the military and imperial power lifeline into the Ming Dynasty's economic artery. This was a powerful force for the stability of his own imperial power.

support.

Due to the large-scale work-for-relief program in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's imperial planning and provincial audits, dispatches from the Ministry of Works, and official planning, etc., gave the Ming Dynasty a complete set of methods and practical experience in guiding the work-for-relief program. This practical experience is extremely valuable.

, which can bring enough reference experience for the winter sequences that will appear in the future.

Due to the massive demand brought about by the acceleration of commodity circulation, Ming Dynasty will steadily increase a large number of workshops in the long term. Under the survival of the fittest, Ming Dynasty's productivity will increase rapidly under natural selection.

The most important thing is that Ming Dynasty will form a new internal economic cycle, an internal economic cycle that takes from the people and uses it for the people.

The people of the Ming Dynasty used labor to create value. This value was expressed in the form of silver coins and returned to the Ming Dynasty's national funds through taxes, official duties, corvees, etc. The state officials then distributed these silver coins according to their work income in the form of work relief.

Realize the redistribution of wealth.

This is the complete "Keynesianism" and the charm of the state as the main body to intervene in the economy.

This process is tortuous, difficult, expensive, and equally profitable. Ming Dynasty was able to complete the transformation from a small peasant economy to a commodity economy.

This is the only thing Zhu Qiyu must do.

As for where the money comes from, it is naturally due to the Ming Dynasty's powerful power.

How much money do ordinary people have in their hands? It is better to embarrass 10,000 poor households than to take advantage of the big ones.

Zhu Qiyu returned to the martial arts hall after the military parade and said to Xing'an: "Ninety-percent of the powerful and right-wing families in the Ming Dynasty made their fortunes by embezzling the national funds of the Ming Dynasty, and the remaining ten percent made their fortunes by poaching the old Zhu family.

, and all have typical predatory bandit behavior."

"And after they plundered the wealth, they buried it in their own pig pens, or simply transformed themselves into Japanese people like the Kong family, and the Ming court became beyond their reach."

"The Xiongnu, Turks, Xianbei, Khitan, Mongols, and Jurchens, these bandits who plundered the granaries of the people on the border of the Ming Dynasty as usual, are no different from these powerful and powerful families."

"What exactly did the powerful and powerful family embezzle?"

"What they embezzled was the value and wealth collectively created by all the people of Ming Dynasty after the founding of Ming Dynasty, as well as the large-scale official factories and shipyards."

"This is why the powerful families of the Ming Dynasty look ugly. They are exactly the same as the slave chiefs who plundered the Ming Dynasty."

"Your Majesty is wise." Zhu Qiyu's words were recorded in Xing'an's heart.

Xing'an has always been a little confused as to why His Majesty always suffers from a powerful and powerful family. Now that he hears it, he finally understands.

Reasonable.

The powerful and powerful people are thieves and thieves. They have poached the corners of the Ming Dynasty and the old Zhu family. As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, as the great Zongzheng of the old Zhu family, and as the father of all the people of the Ming Dynasty, he is naturally qualified to ask them

Debt collection.

"So let Sun Bingfu increase Baoyuan Bureau's savings. I will consume at least nearly 100 million silver coins in the next five years. Then Baoyuan Bureau needs to absorb more than 70 million taels of silver in these five years." Zhu Qiyu

He told Xing'an his decision.

The Ming Dynasty needs to absorb nearly 100 million taels of silver in the next five years. Taking into account the leniency of the enemy, the Ming Dynasty's silver ratio, etc., the Baoyuan Bureau must absorb at least more than 100 million taels of silver in order to satisfy His Majesty's gluttonous appetite.

Xing'an knew exactly that what your Majesty did was fundamentally different from that of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty who recruited more than two million people to build the Grand Canal. The difference was that for what your Majesty did, you would be paid for your labor and treated very well.

good.

Moreover, under the winter season, relief through work is urgent.

"Your Majesty, Liu Qi outside Chaoyang Gate is now unemployed." Xing'an mentioned a person's name, Liu Qi.

Liu Qi met His Majesty by chance in front of Mipu with her child for the first time. Liu Qi mistakenly thought that His Majesty was a high-ranking official who bought a child.

This was not uncommon in the capital city of the Ming Dynasty. Although there were many beggars in the almshouses, most of them had defects in five or three deficiencies, and the healthier children were all lined up to be adopted.

Then when His Majesty went south, he met Liu Qi again in Nanjing City. Liu Qi had received a mission from the Ministry of Works and escorted a large amount of Jingtai Tongbao to Nanya to stabilize prices and exchange them for old money.

When His Majesty returned home in triumph, Liu Qi also made a pilgrimage outside Chaoyang Gate, and only then did he know that the person was His Majesty. Later, His Majesty even drank a pot of tea with Liu Qi outside Chaoyang Gate. Liu Qi's first child died, but Liu Qi

Qi bought a flat-bottomed canoe and planned to get a new wife.

In the past few years, Liu Qi's canal boats have been quite profitable, but as winter approaches, Liu Qi's canal boats lose one day every day they are parked. They need to pay for docking at the dock, pay members' money to the Cao gang, and also pay a lot of money to the Cao gang.

The barge craftsmen were paid for their labor, and Liu Qi sold the barge again.

Why did Xing'an mention such a thing?

Because in his opinion, the choice of immediately lowering the minimum standard of labor remuneration and arbitrarily interfering in the financial affairs of the Ming Dynasty was urgent and must be done.

Even peasants like Liu Qi, who had certain means of labor, had already sold their means of labor to make a living. If we don't take action, Ming Dynasty's financial affairs will probably collapse completely if it continues for a while.

By that time, civil unrest broke out everywhere, and the Ming Dynasty immediately became unstable.

Three inches of Qi are used in a thousand ways, and everything is impermanent in one day.

Three inches refers to the heart, because the heart of an adult is about three inches in length, width and height.

One day is unpredictable, and many times it means death.

When people are alive, they make all kinds of calculations, make all kinds of plans, and spend countless efforts on doing things. Once something unexpected happens one day, everything will come to an end.

People are like this, and so is a country. Its prosperity is also rapid, and its demise is also sudden.

Zhu Qiyu nodded. Since the Ming Dynasty knew for sure that the Ming Dynasty winter had arrived in October of the seventh year of Jingtai, and had a special discussion at the Salt and Iron Conference, it has been making preparations for work-for-relief. The first phase of investment has begun.

Edicts have been sent to all parties and the establishment of an official cement factory has already begun.

"When will the list be released this spring?" Zhu Qiyu has already approved the top three, the second one from Jinshi, and the third from the same Jinshi. There are a total of 350 Jinshi lists. The list should be released in the next few days.

Xing'an bowed his head and said, "The results will be released tomorrow."

On February 23rd, the eighth year of Jingtai's reign, the morning bell rang, and the capital of the Ming Dynasty woke up in the morning sun. Countless people filed out of the shops and rushed outside the Donghua Gate.

The night is fading.

The Ministry of Rites kept the lights on last night, finalizing the list and writing the yellow list, which will be posted when the morning bell rings.

There are four pieces of yellow paper stuck vertically at the top of the list, with the list of successful candidates written in thick ink.

The new list of ceremonial palaces moved the capital, and everyone in Jiumo walked around to see it.

The crowds were surging, and there were so many spectators. Not only did people come to watch the rankings, but there were also many people joining in the fun, and there were also a lot of people who wanted to catch their son-in-law under the rankings.

In the fifth year of Jingtai's reign, students from the Imperial College broke through the thorn fence outside Donghua Gate from the east, almost knocking down the wall where the announcements were posted.

This time when the ranking is released, there is a half-person-high wall surrounding the ranking wall. It is made of cement and will never be broken through again.

Outside Donghua Gate, on the side of the moat, there is a building called the Ching Jing Building, also known as the Zhuangyuan Building. It has the main hall and the Spring and Autumn Building, connected by corridors, and the overall layout is in the shape of "work".

The top of the singing building is a cross-shaped hilltop, surrounded by peacock blue glazed railings with reliefs of swimming dragons and peony patterns, which are dazzling under the warm spring sun.

Many candidates gathered downstairs to sing the sutras, waiting nervously for the clerks to call the roll call upstairs. After all, they were still taking a fluke, fearing that they might miss it outside the Donghua Gate.

There was a clerk who went up to the second floor and kept chanting names in a high and low tone. Whoever's name was sung, someone would go up the stairs. Often at this time, all the students would look at the people who came up the stairs with envy.

The person who goes up the stairs is the one who wins the ranking.

Even if he was born in the same place as a Jinshi in the third place, he is still the best among tens of thousands of students.

After going upstairs, after checking everyone's identity, they came to the long table and wrote the wedding invitation with golden dye. This wedding invitation will be sent to their hometown, and the academic officer will receive it and send it back home, shining on the lintel!

It was exactly that time: after the spread of paper in the capital, overseas gold filled in the surname.

The number one scholar in Jinke was named Li Chun. He was from Huarong, Yuezhou Prefecture, Huguang. It was the Huarong Road that Cao Cao took. He was thirty-four years old. After he wrote his name, he also wrote on the wedding invitation,

Dao: The number one scholar is determined by nature, so I sent Chang'e to tell me my name!

How high-spirited and high-spirited!
To be continued...