After Yan Dong came and went, Zhu Biao turned his attention to Zhao Yong and others: "You guys go down too, and restrain yourselves not to cause trouble at this time. The children at home should also watch more closely. If they are not willing to discipline them, then send them to Jinwu Guard."
Or the Imperial Guards."
Several marquises happily agreed. The Twelve Guards Guards are the emperor's personal guards. They usually do not recruit soldiers from outside. It is rare for His Highness to show mercy, so they will not let go of this opportunity.
The princes all retired with great satisfaction. Zhu Biao looked at their backs and said nothing. Although the prince apparently did not have the power to command the twelve above, the prince Zhu Biao was different from others after all.
With Zhu Yuanzhang's connivance, Prince Zhu Biao's order had great authority. As long as it did not conflict with the emperor's order, he could get his wish.
Zhu Biao had already been prepared to allow noble sons to join the army and guard. Allowing these idle dandies to hang out in brothels and gambling houses all day long would be the source of disaster. It would be better to train them under his nose.
It's hard to say what the future holds, but at least the noble children of his two generations have to grow up even if they are not successful, and they can't even imagine living a decadent and extravagant little life.
When Chen Youzong saw that the rest of the people had left, he reported: "The matters ordered by His Highness have been arranged. All the craftsmen in Jiangnan who are proficient in making paper tickets have arrived as soon as possible, including his family members and apprentices."
Zhu Biao nodded when he heard this. It was rare to have so much silver in his hands, so he naturally wanted to prepare to issue banknotes. The court actually had this intention. After all, there were banknotes in both the Song and Yuan dynasties. It was clear that the advantages outweighed the disadvantages.
Moreover, after four years of large-scale casting of Hongwu Tongbao, Zhu Biao looked at the Baoyuan Bureau's accounts and found that approximately 200 million coins were minted every year. This led to a sharp consumption of the court's copper reserves. The quality of the court's recent Tongbao was getting lower and lower.
China has always been a country lacking in metal mines such as gold, silver and copper.
Moreover, many problems of copper coins are difficult to solve, such as copper mines are scarce and difficult to develop, the cost of casting is high, it wastes people and money, and the problem of private minting is serious and has been banned repeatedly.
The same is true for silver and gold. They are rare and valuable, but they are not suitable as currency in circulation. They are also inconvenient to carry and have various problems such as varying purity.
After Zhu Biao got this batch of silver, the first thing he thought of was to use gold and silver as the basis and replace copper coins with paper money. Of course, this had to be a step-by-step process. After all, the great voyage had not yet begun, and the Ming Dynasty's gold and silver reserves were not
adequate.
After the Song and Yuan dynasties, the common people and gentry of the Democratic People's Republic of China began to distrust the credibility of the imperial court. The long-term lack of restraint in printing led to inflation of banknotes, which was not as stable as gold and silver in maintaining value.
This is also the problem of all dynasties, even the Ming and Qing Dynasties in history. There was no concept of establishing a financial system at all. They were just issuing banknotes to squeeze people's wealth.
The imperial court itself did not recognize or recycle the treasure banknotes issued by the imperial court. Moreover, the imperial court had no concept of reserves and no corresponding inflation response mechanism. It was impossible for this to not collapse.
To be honest, the production of banknotes is a last resort. In the current social environment where people are severely tied to the land, social industrial mobility is difficult, and commerce has not yet developed, paper currency is used as the mainstream currency.
It's just a not-so-smart approach.
However, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was not much room for choice, especially the corrupt situation faced by the founding of the Ming Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty indeed caused terrible harm to the grassroots.
Last year, the imperial court suppressed Buddhism on a large scale, partly because of the need to melt Buddha statues and Buddhist utensils to obtain copper. It must be said that no matter in prosperous and troubled times, Buddhism is indeed prosperous and has never been stingy in using precious materials to melt and cast religious utensils.
Zhu Biao and Chen Youzong discussed for a while. Both of them knew little about this. Fortunately, there was still enough time to allow some officials to study the paper currency policy formulated in the early Yuan Dynasty.
After Chen Youzong went down, Zhu Biao pinched his brows with a headache. In fact, he was not very sure. After all, he had never studied finance, so he was just crossing the river by feeling the stones.
However, there are cases of success and failure in the Song and Yuan Dynasties that can be used as a reference. After some time, some professional officials should be able to be trained. At that time, be more cautious. Even if you suffer some losses, you must give priority to protecting the credibility of the court.
After a while, Liu Jin led Liu An and Chen Rongyan in. After bowing and kneeling respectfully, Liu Jin reported: "Sir, the slaves have been counted according to the account books. There are no omissions. They have all been loaded into cars and transported to the gate of the palace. I don't know if they are moving into the East Palace or not.
…”
Zhu Biao ordered: "Move all the silver into Neibo, and move the rest into the East Palace treasury."
Liu An accepted the promise and left. Chen Rongyan in the main hall was a little nervous. The prince in court clothes was indeed different from what he had seen in the past. He was majestic and intimidating.
Chen Rongyan told Chen Rong that Zhu Biao was not needed at the moment, so after a few words of comfort, he asked him to manage several Huangzhuang shops in and around the capital so that he could be used at any time in the future.
Moreover, the officials who are currently in charge of Huangzhuang are mediocre. They have not made any progress at all. During the holidays, they know how to use wild boars, rabbits, golden pheasants to fool things. I heard that a few days ago, Lao Zhu was furious, and women were admitted to the teaching workshop and men were admitted to Fengyang...
By the time Chen Rongyan left with all his thanks, the sunlight that originally only shone at the threshold had already crept into the hall, and before he knew it, the whole morning had almost passed.
As soon as I got up to move around, I saw the three kings of Jin, Chu and Qi running in crying. It seemed that they had been waiting outside the palace for a long time and were a little impatient.
"Brother, we have been standing at the door for more than two hours. Why are you so busy when you just came back?"
"My eldest brother has lost a lot of weight. It seems that the most beautiful man in the capital is me."
"Brother..."
"Brother..."
Zhu Biao looked at the three brothers who were bluffing and had a headache. He ignored their messy questions and looked at them with his hands behind his hands and said: "Why are there no rules at all after leaving the palace! Do you want to move back?"
"Forehead…"
The three of them looked at each other and stopped talking. They tidied up their loose clothes in a tacit understanding, and then knelt down neatly and neatly: "My brother, I see His Highness the Crown Prince, and I respectfully welcome your brother back to the palace!"
Zhu Biao nodded happily, walked down the steps with his hands behind his hands, and walked around the three brothers for a few times before smiling and saying: "Get up."
After the three brothers got up, they looked at their eldest brother's face and knew that nothing was wrong. They immediately started making noise again. Zhu Biao stopped stopping and started talking and laughing with his brothers.
The second and third children are not too young, and their marriages have already been decided. Their wives are from the honorary clan. For example, the second child's wife is the daughter of Wei Guogong Deng Yu, and the third child's wife is the daughter of Yongping Marquis Xie Cheng.
Needless to say about the fourth child, it can be seen that the power of the nobles is currently strong, and even Zhu Yuanzhang has to win over him and marry the prince to show his favor.