sinovels Chapter 470 Silver!silver!
Chapter 470 Silver!silver!
After the matter was written, there were hundreds of memorials formed with pen and ink, and Emperor Xianzong "had to" summon Prince Shengren.
Wu Youwei didn't know what they talked about, anyway, by the time he thought of this Prince Shengren, he had already been "back" to Japan along with the Japanese envoys and was escorted by Ming's navy.
There are a lot of things to do in the first month. After all kinds of excitement, it will be the second day of February. Once the "dragon raises its head" day is over, it will be a formal life, and we can no longer play happily.
In February Jiayin, the tomb of the founder of the country was ordered to be repaired. Without the latter, one person was placed to guard the tomb. This person was basically a disabled soldier. He was paid 30 taels of silver every year, as well as one hundred catties of rice and two hundred catties of white flour. The subsidy of [-] catties of salt and [-] catties of sugar was paid by the Ministry of Households separately; and ten bolts of fine cotton cloth were paid from the private treasury of Emperor Xianzong.
In this way, some disabled soldiers can also be accommodated.
More people in the army moved closer to the court.
Wu Youwei continued to be the little prince's tutor, but Emperor Xianzong didn't know what he was thinking. Whenever the big court meeting required the little prince to attend, he, as the lecturer of the East Palace, had to follow.
But he hates going to court!
"Why?" The little prince was puzzled: "Those whose rank is lower than the fourth rank are not eligible to go to court?"
According to the regulations, officials of the fourth rank and above can participate in the ordinary court meeting. After all, the emperor is alone, with limited energy, and the number of teams to handle matters is also limited. It is impossible for a person to be an official to be eligible to go to court.
The Dachaohui is different, officials from the fifth rank and above can participate.
Don't think that the span of the two grades is not high, and the addition of civil and military skills is also a lot!
So Wu Youwei, as a scholar of Zuochunfang University, was "forced" to go to every court meeting. In fact, he was not interested in politics. He liked teaching and educating people. With a high salary, he could teach future generations a lesson. Emperor, how comfortable are you?
But Zao Chao...he really doesn't like it!
"Wake up so early, Your Highness, don't you think that the best enjoyment in life is to sleep in?" Wu Youwei asked the little prince, "Sleep until you wake up naturally."
"Think about it!" The little prince leaned on his chin with one hand and said, "But, didn't you say, 'If a young man doesn't work hard, the old man will be sad and sad?"
"That's right!" Wu Youwei stretched out his hand and patted the little prince's head: "Today I will teach His Highness one more sentence: an inch of time is an inch of gold, and an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time."
This sentence comes from "Zeng Guang Xian Wen", but it is said that it was written in the Wanli period, and now he does not know if anyone will know this sentence.
"Huh?" The little prince's eyes widened.
Wu Youwei smiled and explained the meaning of this sentence to him.
However, the little prince's attention was focused on gold: "I heard that there are many gold mines in the south?"
"It's not that I heard, but there are really many gold mines." Wu Youwei said: "In fact, there are more than just gold mines."
Because there are silver mines, copper mines, iron mines, and so on.
The island is rich in minerals, and now Da Ming is focusing more and more on the sea to the south.
"What about Japan?" The little prince said, "I heard that the life of the Japanese ruler is particularly bad."
After thinking for a while, Wu Youwei told him about Japan's current national conditions and Japan's many rich silver mines.
Little did they know that Emperor Xianzong was standing at the door of the study, kneeling on the ground and serving the court ladies and eunuchs, but no one dared to breathe a sigh of relief.
After Wu Youwei talked about the situation in Japan, he said to the little prince: "Your Highness, the Japanese people are ambitious, and their own internal turmoil has not been quelled. The boat crossed the sea and came to my Ming Dynasty to burn, kill and loot, my Ming Dynasty is the suzerain country? Not their backyard granary!"
The little prince was also very angry: "Japan...does it still dare to be called the emperor?"
Looking at things from a different perspective, Wu Youwei has a deep memory of the war of aggression against China because he came from later generations, and he even reminded himself all the time that he never used Japanese products in later generations.
However, the little prince felt that it could be seen from his name that the Japanese ruler had no respect for the Ming emperor at all. He had already remembered, and Japan had only heard of it in the past two years, but he had known Annan since he was a child. Because Annan paid tribute to spices every year, the benzoin that was lit when he fell asleep in his room was Annan's tribute.
But Japan... He really doesn't have much impression.
But ever since my little uncle went to the south, he has always heard the word "Japanese pirates".
"Let's make chaos in Japan, but it shouldn't implicate my Ming Dynasty." Wu Youwei narrowed his eyes: "Actually, it would be great if my Ming Dynasty can occupy Japan, where silver is produced!"
In fact, the Ming Dynasty at this time, if it continues to develop, will not be far away from capitalism within a hundred years.
Because the output of Daming Iron was the sum of the whole of Europe at that time, one-third of the world's silver flowed to Daming due to trade, and industrial output accounted for 60°/ of the world's total.In the so-called Qianlong heyday, the output only accounted for 6% of the world's total.
No wonder Matteo Ricci, a missionary of the Ming Dynasty, recorded China in this way: "The material production here is extremely rich, and there is everything. The sugar is whiter than Europe, and the cloth is more beautiful than Europe... People's clothes are gorgeous and elegant. Pianpian, the people are happy, courteous, and elegant in conversation. H and Qianlong visited the UK
Macartney, the special envoy, said: "There is staggering poverty everywhere... many people have no clothes to wear... the army is as shabby as a beggar".
And Daming is the dynasty with the most complete charity organization among all dynasties.
China in the Ming Dynasty was a bit like Japan in the later generations. If it could invent itself, it invented it by itself.
Just like the "Shenji Battalion" in the capital of Ming Dynasty at this time, each battalion has 5000 people, with 3600 thunderbolt cannons, 200 Dalian pearl cannons, and 400 hand guns. This is the closest to modern military equipment!
In addition to the equipped grenades, mines, grenades, etc., as well as mountain artillery, there is also an improved version of the ZTE heavy artillery named "Chenghua Cannon" that is lighter and has a longer range.
Although the development of Ming Dynasty seemed to be very good, the irreconcilable economic and cultural advances and political and military corruption brought Daming to the end, and a more backward culture entered the relatively civilized Central Plains. , Time miraculously turned back, scientists disappeared, and advanced firearms were buried in the long river of history.
The musket was reprimanded as a "strange skill and obscenity" and was abolished. In the "Yaksa War", Kangxi only kept two trigger-fired arquebus guns captured by the Qing army, and ordered the Qing army to ban the use of this new type of musket. It is "the bow, arrow and spear given by the predecessors must not be interrupted".
This kind of deceitful behavior was called "one emperor through the ages" by later generations!
By the time of the Opium War, the Qing soldiers armed with broadswords and spears were completely unfamiliar with firearms, and even regarded them as evil things, thinking that they could be broken with blood.
How foolish!
At that time, the silver in the late Ming society mainly came from Japan and South America.
"Tiangong Kaiwu" by Song Yingxing in the late Ming Dynasty is called "the encyclopedia of Chinese crafts in the 17th century". There is an illustration called "Silver Coins Made in Japan" in which it talks about the crafts of making silver coins in the Ryukyu countries.
In fact, in Song Yingxing's era, people came into contact with foreign silver coins, in addition to silver from Japan and Ryukyu, more silver came from Peru and Mexico.
From the 60th century to the 1460s, silver production in Central Europe increased dramatically.From 1530 to 5.00, in today's Saxony in eastern Germany, Bohemia in central and western Czech Republic, Hungary, and Tyrol in Austria, the output of silver increased by about [-]%, about [-] tons per year.
Silver mining in Japan grew rapidly in the late 16th century.
It is estimated that from 1560 to 1600, Japan exported about 750 kg to 750 kg of silver each year.
Because of the [-]% to [-]% profit, a large number of Chinese and Japanese merchants, as well as the Portuguese, brought Japanese silver to China through the waterway between Macau and Nagasaki.
Silver in America was discovered in the 16s.
In 1545, the Spaniards discovered a very rich silver mine in Potosi, Upper Peru (now Bolivia).
In 1548, the Spaniards discovered silver mines in Zacatecas, Mexico.
After 1570, the silver mined in these new continents began to enter the international circulation field continuously.
It is now 1479, they are not far behind, and Ming still has a chance.
When the little prince heard that there were so many gold mines waiting to be mined in Japan, his eyes were as bright as stars: "Really? Sir, are there really so many?"
"Really!" Wu Youwei nodded, "It's just that they don't know."
Japan is now in a mess of its own people, how can there be time to think about how to mine silver?Otherwise, they wouldn't have traveled across the sea to Daming to rob, and they would just take the money to buy things in Daming, Daming would love it!
And the Emperor Xianzong outside the door had the same eyes as his son!
Japan's state-owned silver mine has a lot of storage!
Needless to say, it must have been discovered by Wu Youwei's mysterious masters when they traveled around the world. It's not that no one in Daming went to Japan.
It's just that Japan is too chaotic, and the people's customs are not good. They went to see it and came back, and didn't pay attention to that small country.
Then Wu Youwei said again: "Fortunately, the current emperor is Shengming, your father is very discerning, sent troops to Jinghai, and took over many pirate nests, but he didn't find any pirates..."
Wu Youwei once again praised Emperor Xianzong, the so-called "you must know what you know, but listen to what is behind your back." Wu Youwei didn't know if there were any spies of Emperor Xianzong among the people serving, or in other words, they were all Xianzong's spies. The emperor's eyeliner.
So every time he talked about some sensitive topics, he would habitually bring up Emperor Xianzong, pull the tiger's skin to pull the banner, he used it very smoothly, praised Emperor Xianzong, and strengthened the students' admiration for their father. It is normal to worship one's father's son, but it is not normal to look down on one's father's son!
Especially for the profession of prince, he must be "filial".
Sure enough, the little prince admired his father more and more: "Gu also thinks that father is very discerning."
Wu Youwei praised Emperor Xianzong like a flower, and he was simply "a famous emperor through the ages".
Emperor Xianzong stood and listened to a class, that is, an hour, Wu Youwei also said that his mouth was dry, and the little prince was so excited that his tongue was also dry.
After hearing what they said, Emperor Xianzong whispered to Eunuch Wynn: "Tell them, don't talk about what I've been here today."
"Yes, my lord." This is what Wynn Taijia is best at. Keep your mouth shut!
A servant who doesn't shut the door with his mouth can't get around the nobleman.
However, when Emperor Xianzong returned to the imperial study, he was in a good mood. Not only did he know about the Japanese state-owned silver, but also the attitude of his son and courtiers towards him.
I am also a Mingjun!
So Emperor Xianzong, who became Mingjun, rewarded the East Palace with a hundred bolts of silk and satin. The reason for the reward was that His Highness the Crown Prince was pure and filial.
This is a very high compliment for a crown prince.
In addition, Wu Youwei, a scholar of Zuochunfang University, was rewarded with a set of four treasures of the imperial study, a copy of the imperial imperial edict, and was awarded the rank of four imperial officials.
This is an official position of Wen San rank, but it is a fourth-rank official position.
Wu Youwei was puzzled after receiving the imperial edict, what did he do?
Who cares what he did?It's enough to get promoted and get rich. The family is very happy, and all relatives and friends send people to congratulate him, but because it is spring and it is the busy time of farming, there is no celebration.
On the contrary, during the Ching Ming Festival in March, Wu Youwei opened an ancestral hall to worship his ancestors, and told his cheap parents that he was promoted again.
In summer, April, and Bingwu, Nanji was exempted from taxation and grain.
Renzi, the next son-in-law, Captain Ma Cheng, is in Jinyi Guard Prison.