As the New Year approaches, the busy Yushitai can finally take a break.
Gu Chen also caught the fish and was thinking about how to arrange the annual leave.
Officials in the Ming Dynasty had seven days of annual leave.
Yes, you heard it right, this holiday is not as long as modern times.
I definitely can't go home in such a short time, so I guess I can only stay in the capital, watch the lantern festival, and go to the temple fair with my wife.
Why not write a letter back and ask your brother-in-law and sister-in-law to bring their nephew to the capital to celebrate the New Year?
They have never left Nanchang Mansion since they were young, so it would be nice to come to Yingtian Mansion for a walk and see the outside world.
With this in mind, he wrote a letter directly and asked someone to deliver it back.
"Guang Xi, you should use civilian post to deliver letters home, not official post."
The best master in history, Han Yike reminded him dutifully.
"Yes, sir." Gu Chen naturally understood and said seriously: "Xiaguan uses a civilian post, but he would never dare to use an official post."
It just hurt Lao Zhu's eyes, but now he doesn't dare to catch lice on the tiger's head.
"Yes, very good." Han Yi could see that he was sensible, and he was also very happy: "Yesterday, His Majesty summoned the ministers and wanted to print money like the Song Dynasty."
"It is forbidden for gold and silver to be circulated among the people, but because the Chinese New Year is coming, we have put it aside for the time being and will discuss this matter after the new year begins."
"We all feel that this move may not work. We would like to advise His Majesty to think twice before taking action. Don't be idle during the New Year. Write a letter of advice and hand it over at the beginning of the New Year."
As the highest-ranking censor of the Ming Dynasty, Lao Han had to ask his disciples to follow suit even if it didn't count. Gu Chen couldn't help but feel like crying.
"Can we still let people have a good year?"
In fact, what can I say about the Ming Dynasty Baochao? It is indeed a good thing, and it is beneficial to the economic development of the early Ming Dynasty.
After Zhu Di came to power, he relied on treasure money to support five personal expeditions and six voyages to the West. Unfortunately, Zhu Di excessively printed treasure money in the early years, so the value was greatly reduced.
He didn't intend to persuade, but he intended to help Lao Zhu improve the matter.
Do you know why the old man prints money?
Because in order to fight the Yuan army, all the heavy metals of copper were used in the war, which resulted in not enough copper coins and not enough gold and silver.
But the soldiers need to eat, and the ministers need salary, so why don't they need money?
Therefore, banknotes must be printed, but they must not be printed casually.
Historical records show that the Ming Dynasty printed money for seven months every year.
The quantity far exceeds that of gold, silver and copper. Do you think it can avoid depreciation?
In order to succeed in this path, the following conditions must be met.
1. Anti-counterfeiting work must be done well, otherwise wouldn’t everyone be able to print money and everyone would become a millionaire? What’s the point?
2. Strictly control the quantity of treasure banknotes. There must be a reserve of gold, silver, and copper. This means that as many banknotes as there are gold, silver, and copper are printed.
This way, there will be no devaluation.
Oh, you think there is too little gold, silver, and copper?
There are mountains of gold and silver in Japan next door. As long as you can remove that and the anti-counterfeiting function of the treasure banknotes is good, you can print them at will.
Use the treasure banknotes to trade with other countries, and then keep the real gold and silver in the treasury.
It would be difficult for Ming Dynasty to think about whether he was rich or not.
Gu Chen lit the lamp, wrote and crossed it out, revised it over and over again a dozen times before it was completed, and then carefully transcribed it onto the notepad.
"The winter vacation homework is done, and we can have fun for a few days."
He stretched out and was about to go back to the house to sleep, but he saw the maid Xiao Taozi sitting at the door and dozing off. Gu Chen went up to wake her up.
"It's so cold. Go back and rest. Come back tomorrow morning."
This little girl is only thirteen or fourteen years old, so she looks very pitiful.
"Master..." After Xiao Taozi woke up, she quickly rejected her uncle's kindness: "No need, master, it is your duty today."
If the masters want to drink water at night or go out to pay homage, they will definitely need someone to wait on them.
In fact, she could sleep in the house, but wasn't Gu Chen a modern person?
When he thought about the extra person, he and his wife were in the same room.
Well, he can't.
"Go back to sleep." Gu Chen looked at the sky and felt that it would definitely snow tonight: "It's unlucky to be sick during the Chinese New Year."
He didn't believe this, but he said it deliberately in order to let people go back to his room to sleep, and Xiao Taozi agreed.
"Uncle, please leave me."
Who doesn't want to go back to bed in the winter? At worst, she can get up early tomorrow.
Su Wanying was not asleep yet, and she heard the conversation between her husband and the maid and did not stop it.
Anyway, my husband won't be in court tomorrow, so he will most likely sleep in.
Since there is no need for others, why should they endure it?
"According to the letter from my brother and sister-in-law, which will probably arrive the day after tomorrow, I have already packed up the house. Can my husband go and take a look?"
When I first wanted to marry Gu Chen, I saw that he had no father or mother.
Although they may not have the support of their parents, they don't have to be controlled by the parents-in-law. The couple can live their own lives, which is refreshing.
As for her brother and sister-in-law, she would naturally not say anything about staying with them for a few days occasionally.
"As a wife, you can rest assured when doing things for your husband." This house was originally a dowry for the daughter-in-law, so it was natural for her to arrange it: "It's so cold, I don't know if my brother and sister-in-law have a hotel."
The two of them are used to thrifting, but don't be too cold because they don't want to stay in an inn. The adults can make do with it, but the children can't stand it.
"Yes, it's very cold." Su Wanying handed her husband a cup of hot tea and said playfully: "I heard that the imperial court allocated a lot of money and food to help the victims."
"Ms. sir, you said that when the new year starts, your censor station will be busy again."
If the imperial court gives money and food to the people below, there will be officials below who cannot control their corruption. As long as there are grievances among the people, the Yushitai will be busy.
"No matter how busy I am, I'm just writing notes to keep my mouth shut."
Gu Chen didn't want to take a long vacation and discuss work matters, so he changed the subject.
"Let's make a mutton pot and eat it at noon tomorrow."
When the weather gets cold, mutton-boiled meat is the most warming thing and is also his favorite.
"Eh." Su Wanying, the shabu-shabu master, also liked it. She smiled and said, "Early tomorrow morning, I will send someone to the sesame sauce shop in the east of the city to buy sauce."
"His mutton shabu-shabu with sesame sauce is the best. No other restaurant can compare with it. I heard that even the queen in the palace would send people to his house to buy it."
His family's business is super good. A sesame paste seller lives in a big house of more than 400 square meters in the capital and has several wives.
So, with three hundred and sixty lines, you can get the top prize in every line. As long as your technical level is excellent, you don't have to worry about not getting ahead.
Just like Gu Chen's Liulifang, it has only been open for less than a month and it has already made hundreds of taels, thinking that the Ming Dynasty Treasure Bank is about to start.
He became even more determined and must find a way to get Lao Zhu to adopt his memorial. After all, he didn't want to earn a lot of waste paper.
