After the rise of the government-run textile industry, Emperor Zhu Youxiao himself also made a lot of money.
In addition to being used for internal and external expenses of the imperial court, there is still a lot of silver left that goes directly into the inner treasury.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao had the idea of opening a Royal Bank.
However, there are still too few people around Zhu Youxiao who understand bank management.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty has not yet fully entered the era of commodity economy, and the popular loan sharking among the people is still only small loans, and the main borrowers are ordinary people;
The main participants in business activities are still the powerful gentry. These people are not short of money and naturally do not need loans;
So the financial demand is not big yet;
Moreover, the Ming Dynasty did not have an official currency in the strict sense, and silver coins were still being implemented;
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not directly issue an order to open a bank.
But with so much silver, Zhu Youxiao didn't intend to just keep it in the inner treasury.
On the one hand, Zhu Youxiao asked Liu Ruoyu, who was in charge of his own internal funds, to exchange the silver coins he received into gold, recast them into gold coins with Taizu statues, and store them.
On the other hand, Zhu Youxiao decided that as an emperor, he must take the initiative to stimulate consumption and promote productivity.
This naturally requires Zhu Youxiao to spend money and not be an emperor who is too frugal, thus allowing more silver coins to flow into the hands of the people who are currently short of silver coins to prepare for the subsequent reform of the tax system.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao decided to develop one or two hobbies of his own, both to entertain his body and mind, and to use this hobby to promote the circulation of silver coins.
Zhu Youxiao remembered that many emperors in history had various hobbies.
Zhu Zhanji likes to fight crickets.
Even Emperor Hongzhi, who was very obedient in the eyes of civil servants, also liked to study medicine.
Zhu Houzhao liked to build zoos and fight wars.
Zhu Houcong likes to make elixirs.
"What kind of hobby is suitable for you to cultivate? Like Qianlong, you can collect antique calligraphy and paintings, and then stamp a few stamps on them. Or you can go on a trip and stamp a few words on places of interest to indicate that I have visited here, so I put a stamp on it. ?”
Zhu Youxiao has been thinking about this all morning.
"Your Majesty, the Shipping Bureau has come to report that the first two-masted sail warship has been launched and has successfully sailed to Lushun. I would like to express my special request for your Majesty's name."
At this time, Fang Congzhe suddenly reported something to Zhu Youxiao.
Zhu Youxiao suddenly had an idea and said excitedly: "Very good! Immediately give the order to the Ministry of War to purchase sailing battleships from the Ship Administration Bureau and allocate them to the Guards Naval Division Camp in Lushun for use. The money will be provided by The Ministry of Accounts allocates funds, and the amount should not be too small, so that the Shipping Bureau can continue to build more ships. In addition, one million silver coins are allocated to the Shipping Bureau from internal funds, of which 100,000 yuan is used to reward all meritorious personnel in the Shipping Bureau. One hundred thousand was used to develop warships with better performance. As for the first warship launched, it was named "Qi Jiguang" to commemorate its merits and encourage the navy officers and soldiers to reshape the style of the good general Qi Jiguang and make new contributions to the Ming Dynasty. !”
"yes!"
Fang Congzhe didn't expect that His Majesty the Emperor would be so generous in this shipbuilding project, that he would spend millions of dollars in internal funds to allow the Shipbuilding Bureau to develop new warships.
Recently, Zhu Youxiao has decreed to reform the unit of Ming silver coins, and issued an edict that from now on the world will call silver coins "yuan".
Therefore, the scale of silver coins mentioned by Zhu Youxiao is now measured in yuan.
However, there is not much difference between one million silver dollars and one million taels of silver, and it is still a huge sum of money. Therefore, Fang Congzhe expressed surprise that the emperor allocated such a huge sum of money to the Shipping Bureau to develop new warships.
But the emperor allocated internal funds, and Fang Congzhe couldn't say anything. He could only pretend that the emperor liked battleships.
After just learning that the Shipping Bureau had launched the first sailing battleship, Zhu Youxiao decided to make battleship building one of his hobbies as an emperor.
Zhu Youxiao decided to continue to spend his spare money as an emperor on the research and development of these strange technologies. Building battleships was one of them, and there would be other research and development in the future.
In addition, Zhu Youxiao decided to continue the construction work and make it a hobby of his.
He had no intention of cultivating Qianlong's hobbies.
Because continuing to spend money on fancy technologies can support a large number of scientific researchers and craftsmen, and large-scale construction projects can also support many workers.
Only spending money on fancy techniques and construction can meet Zhu Youxiao's purpose of circulating silver coins into the hands of more people.
"I ordered the Ministry of Industry to build a garden specifically for me to escape the summer heat in the capital. The garden is called Daming Garden. The Qianqing Palace is too small, not spacious enough, and there is no water feature to absorb heat. When summer comes, the heat is unbearable. I need a more convenient place. It is a quiet place to receive ministers, handle official business, and cool off in the summer heat. I paid for it myself."
Zhu Youxiao had been emperor in the Ming Dynasty for two years, and he had to admit that Qianqing Palace was indeed not a very suitable imperial palace for living.
Because the Qianqing Palace is indeed not big, and there is no green scenery, and after summer, it is extremely hot. Even if there are ice cubes to cool off, it is not as comfortable as a garden lined with green trees and a lake.
Otherwise, those emperors in history who had some ability to make decisions on their own would not choose to live in other places outside the Qianqing Palace. This has something to do with it.
The Manchu and Qing emperors even built large gardens directly.
Zhu Youxiao naturally also wants to improve his living and working environment.
By the way, it will also boost domestic demand.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao made the decision to build a garden at this time.
Fang Congzhe, the first assistant, naturally would not violate Zhu Youxiao's will, so he immediately agreed and began to draft the order.
This can be regarded as a benefit after the emperor is rich. If he wants to improve his residence, he no longer has to look at the faces of the civil servants.
But what Zhu Youxiao did will naturally make many so-called upright civil servants and officials dissatisfied.
"The Fang thief and others said that the emperor is violent but not stupid. In my opinion, the emperor is not only cruel but also extremely stupid. He took away the wealth of the Jiangnan gentry and did not do it lightly. Instead, he only cared about satisfying his personal preferences and allocated hundreds of millions of dollars. Spending ten thousand yuan to build a ship is a waste of national money! And the money collected from the south of the Yangtze River is used to build a garden. How can such a large-scale construction project be regarded as a promising and wise king?!"
"Before, with a stroke of his pen, he gave generous rewards of tens of thousands of silver coins to those literati among us scholars who were humbled and compiled miscellaneous books and stories to please them, and he even awarded officials and titles. This can already be seen. Our emperor is not a lord who likes to do business! He encourages lowly scholars to write books that are not worthy of elegance, and calls them everyone, but exiles the real scholars to dig fields and grow potatoes in Liaodong. Such a cruel and foolish emperor, Unprecedented in all eternity!”
The civil servants who were dissatisfied with Zhu Youxiao were talking like this behind their backs, but now they only dared to talk behind their backs and did not dare to say anything openly.
Just like in history, the Manchu and Qing emperors built gardens on a large scale but they could only praise him as the Lord of Ming Dynasty.
In today's Ming Dynasty, on the bright side, these civil servants and officials still have to praise Zhu Youxiao as the most holy king of all time against their will.
"I just like to see you who are very dissatisfied with me but can't do anything to me."
Zhu Youxiao also learned through Dongchang that many ministers had to praise him behind his back, and he naturally knew that many civil servants must be reluctant, so he smiled and cursed a few times.
However, there are also ministers who sincerely believe that Zhu Youxiao belongs to the Holy King.
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