"My uncle also knows that he is very stupid in studying. I guess there is no hope in the imperial examination and he is still in vain.
I heard that the Haifan Division is short of manpower. You are also a sixth-grade Yuanwailang. Can you arrange an errand for my husband? "
Zheng Gaoyuan didn't speak, but his wife spoke directly. And he didn't say anything out of the ordinary, so he said whatever he wanted.
Yu Tai likes to be straightforward like this. He glanced at Zheng Gaoyuan.
"What do you think?" He always asked the rightful owner what he thought.
"Uncle, I listen to Chanjuan. I don't have much ability, and naturally I don't have any ideas. It's good to find a job to support the family. I feel guilty for studying all these years."
Zheng Gaoyuan lowered his eyebrows and said calmly. But his eyes were wandering where Yu Tai couldn't see.
"You came at the right time. I am now responsible for the ship management of the entire Liujia Port. I happen to be short of a follower to take charge. If someone else has one tael a month, I can order one or two half for you.
But the ugly thing is ahead. If you don't do well or make any mistakes, I will let you go at any time. "
Yu Tai said.
Upon hearing that there were two and a half Yueyin, Zheng Gaoyuan nodded quickly. These days, the salary of a county magistrate in the Ming Dynasty is forty-five taels a year. And it's not just money, most of it is converted into rice banknotes, which are deceptive things like treasure banknotes.
Of course, the county magistrate's income does not rely solely on the court.
He gives a scholar eighteen taels a year, which is already very high.
"Uncle, isn't it a treasure note?" Yu Tai's niece Yu Chanjuan asked.
"Don't worry about this. We haven't even given out copper coins. They are all real gold and silver." Yu Taixin said that this little country's father-in-law didn't have much, he just had a lot of money.
In late March and early April, Xu Qin paid a one-time first-quarter tariff of 300,000 taels of silver to the imperial household department.
And it’s real money, with no deductions or real money at all. This is not counting the gifts sent to Zhu Di by genuine and fake envoys from various countries.
In addition to rare animals and plants, and various treasures and playthings, it is equivalent to 150,000 taels of silver. Zhu Di specially built an independent warehouse to store these things.
Calls himself Banku.
What Yu Tai didn't know was that the silver ore and blister copper that Xu Qin transported back from Japan were smelted and purified, resulting in 700,000 taels of silver and 30,000 jins of copper ingots.
Because it was the profits from glass products, he and Zhu Di had 16 cents each. Xu Qin wanted copper to be converted directly into silver.
The Duke of Wei's house suddenly received nearly 400,000 taels of silver.
With the resurgence of the first overseas trade, the merchants involved in the forewarning business all made a lot of money. Although the back-and-forth tax on the forewarning market was high, their profits were even higher.
So now the Enshe market outside Nanjing is very busy, with a large amount of goods being loaded here and ready to go out to sea for the second time.
The more goods that go out to sea, the more taxes will be levied at the market.
Shiploads of silver were shipped to the Ministry of Household Affairs, and officials were no longer paid in kind, but now all in silver. Xia Yuanji felt that his voice was louder now.
Especially when shiploads of sea freight and silver were brought into the palace, he always blamed himself, thinking that he, the Minister of Household Affairs, had a good way of making money.
As the entire Enshe Consulting Field and Haifan Division operated smoothly, Xia Yuanji gradually saw the huge wealth in it.
Nowadays, many people want to put their children and relatives into the Ense Quechang or Haifan Division.
But the embarrassing thing is that the Enshi Forum is His Majesty's territory, and Xu Qin is just in charge of it. The Haifan Department is Xu Qin's territory. The people who scolded Xu Qin at the beginning now want to ignore the past grudges.
But Xu Qin is not the kind of person who laughs at each other and ignores grudges. He is the kind of person who laughs at each other and takes out a knife.
The original setting up of this favor forum was for fear of opposition. Zhu Di and the cabinet opened it under pressure.
Therefore, it is called Enshu Qianchang. The tribute paid by foreign envoys is given to the emperor, and the tax revenue is now given to the Ministry of Household Affairs. The whole court is a beneficiary, and now they are all staring at it like fat pigs, and no one mentions the sea ban anymore.
Only a small part of the gifts received by Zhu Di were pleasing to the eye, and most of them were sold by Xu Qin before leaving Haifansi.
What you get in exchange is real money and silver, which is no less than what the household department receives. What's more, with Xu Qin's share of the glass, his pockets are gradually getting fuller.
Zhu Di sat with the cabinet and studied the impact of the establishment of the court on the Ming Dynasty. Facts prove Yang Shiqi’s foresight.
Now, due to the opening of overseas markets throughout the Ming Dynasty, the planting area of sericulture has increased greatly, and a large amount of wasteland has been reclaimed to plant mulberry and raise sericulture.
A large number of textile workshops have been established in the Jiangnan region, and the money a woman earns is not even less than that of an adult man.
Porcelain was exported in large quantities, and porcelain kilns began to appear on a large scale. It was even difficult to find a porcelain firing master.
Businessmen were more sensitive than anyone else. When they discovered that the exit had been opened, they immediately began to stockpile mulberry fields, kilns, mines, and even craftsmen in advance.
"These are just the beginning. If this continues for decades, there will inevitably be less land and fewer people growing food, businessmen will make more and more money, and many people will no longer work in agriculture. In the long run, the order of the world will inevitably collapse."
Xu Zhigang, the Minister of Rites, said worriedly.
The imperial court has always been based on agriculture, and Li Zhigang's words were prophetic.
“I only saw one, but not the other. You saw sericulture taking over land, and you saw more business and fewer farmers. But you didn’t see that the people of Ming Dynasty had other livelihoods besides farming.
I didn’t see that all these overseas customs were used by my Ming Dynasty. And it's far from that. Don't be afraid even if you arrive, you just need to control the exit. "
Yang Shiqi said calmly, he was not worried at all. Once that situation occurs, you only need to check the market to limit the types of export goods.
"Population and land." Zhu Di sighed.
Xu Qin once mentioned to him that the Ming Dynasty is not overpopulated now. After the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, although it has recovered for decades, it still has a small number of people and a small number of people.
"The overseas demand for Daming goods is endless, and we can adjust Daming's internal production structure through exports. This is what Xu Qin said.
Now we can initially see the impact of the export of silk and porcelain on the interior of the Ming Dynasty. If we export more fine ironware, will it increase domestic iron ore mining and the number of blacksmiths? "
Yang Shiqi said.
"Well, when I mentioned the iron mine, I remembered that the War Bureau and the Ministry of Industry worked with Xu Qin to cast firecrackers and renovate the steel-making furnaces. Now the steelmaking volume per month is four times that of before. The iron ore mine is with me. Not on."
Zhu Di thought of the mountains of steel ingots he saw at the Ministry of Works, and the sad expressions of the master craftsmen who said they were short of iron.
Only with good steel can there be good weapons. The 50,000-tael trial-and-error fund established by Xu Qin allowed those craftsmen to create many weird gadgets.
Some work, some don't. But Zhu Di still approved money regularly. Come up with ten things, and only one of them is useful.
"Then increase the export of ironware and let private businessmen feel that there is money to be made, and they will naturally find ways to smelt iron. The court only needs to collect taxes and buy iron from them."
Yang Shiqi said.
A few old men were finalizing the national export policy for the coming year, and Zhu Zhanji was studying quietly beside him. He felt as if his cousin's shadow was everywhere, and he didn't know how he was doing now.
I met Zhang Fu a few days ago, and this guy actually wanted to find Xu Qin. I heard that his brother had bought him a thousand households and was going to fight with the Japanese pirates under Xu Qin.
It's a pity that I wasn't here when my cousin killed three thousand Japanese pirates. I would also set off firecrackers. Zhu Zhanji thought.
While he was thinking about it, the Secretary of General Affairs sent Xu Qin's memorial. Zhu Di opened it and looked at it for a while.
"The cabinet will stay, and the others can leave first," Zhu Di said.
The six ministers left quickly, and the cabinet headed by Yang Shiqi stayed. Zhu Di handed the memorial to Yang Shiqi to read.
Yang Shiqi knew at a glance that Xu Qin was going to cause trouble again.
This memorial was Xu Qin's request to sell the armor and weapons that had been eliminated by the Ming Dynasty to the envoys of the Japanese Kingdom of Japan. These envoys were representatives of the southern daimyo of the Japanese Kingdom.
This is another sensitive matter, but the cabinet and Zhu Di are used to it. If Xu Qin didn't do something that others wouldn't dare to do, he wouldn't be Xu Qin.
Those obsolete old armors and weapons were all good things when they arrived in Japan.
Although the Japanese knives are very sharp, there are not many large-scale armors and weapons. After all, the national power is scarce, not to mention that it has not yet reached the so-called Warring States Period of Japan.
The number of people who could be used in the civil war between the Northern and Southern Dynasties was only 20,000 to 30,000 people. It was all put together by more than a dozen famous names.
The territory is small to begin with, and it is divided into dozens of territories. The national power can be imagined.
When fighting in the Japanese country, samurai wielded sophisticated Japanese swords and those with armor were considered rich. The commander can wear fine armor, but it's hard to say what ordinary soldiers are wearing.
The average Ashigaru soldier is basically a bamboo spear.
If even ordinary soldiers put on armor and carry iron weapons, their combat effectiveness would not only be doubled.
