Chapter five hundred and thirtieth six: Unparalleled Merit
Zhu Di saw Zhang Anshi's surprised look.
At this time, I also realized that I seemed a little too excited just now.
He calmed down and said: "Zhang Qing, the soldiers on the ship are not allowed to get off the ship yet, let alone return home. They have been wandering overseas for so long and how hard it is. Because of this, the imperial court should hurry up and get the ship back."
Only when the team takes over can they disembark and return home as soon as possible."
Zhang Anshi said: "I understand."
It has to be said that Zheng He was a very prudent person. He ordered his people to stay on the ship, cutting off news about the dock and the soldiers on the ship. This was because the wealth was so huge that there was no guarantee that no one would covet it. If others were to count it,
, Zheng He obviously couldn’t believe it either.
The best way is to report to Zhu Di overnight, and your Majesty will send trustworthy people to take over the fleet quickly to ensure the safety of the gold and silver.
Zhu Di ordered Zhang Anshi to take charge, obviously out of his trust in Zhang Anshi.
To put it bluntly, sometimes even my son cannot believe such things, especially the two debt collectors in Annan and Java.
Zhu Di pondered for a moment and then said: "Qiu Qing's family."
Qiu Fu felt a little relieved at this time. The good news is that his son is still alive, but the bad news is that he is still floating thousands of miles away.
Upon hearing His Majesty's roll call, Qiu Fu quickly put away his mood and said: "I am here."
Zhu Di took a deep look at Qiu Fu and said, "Qiu Qing's family is the deputy. Let's go with Zhang Qing for inspection."
Qiu Fu immediately understood what Zhu Di was thinking. This gold and silver was related to his son. This time he came excitedly to get some news about his son, but in the end he was still a little disappointed. He had been in poor health in recent years and almost
I have never held any important errands.
This time, Zhu Di also hoped that Qiu Fu could do something within his ability, which also showed Zhu Di's trust in his old brother.
Qiu Fu said: "I obey the order."
The matter was urgent, so Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu took the order and left.
However, Zhu Di also ordered the ministers to resign.
However, Zhu Di became even more anxious and brought a large sum of gold and silver. He was not sure how much gold and silver there was.
On the other hand, the Wenyuan Pavilion was lively.
Because of this new Wenyuan Pavilion, a special study room is now set up.
Of course, it's called a study, but it's a place where bachelors and laymen occasionally come to drink tea. After all... you can't just open a lounge, tea room, or canteen in Wenyuan Pavilion.
There are many books on the bookshelf here. Of course, the decoration is of greater significance.
The large, comfortable sofa is covered with specially treated cowhide.
When I got some free time, I sat down here with a cup of tea. Suddenly, I felt like a great bachelor.
Whenever I sit here, I'm afraid many bachelors and scholars can't help but think, why was Emperor Taizu Gao so picky? After all, he was also a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, but he had to give up to such a sinister person.
The environment makes people stay.
"Gold and silver?" At this time, Hu Guang's expression was a little exaggerated: "This time Eunuch Zheng is so grand, it seems that he has gained a lot."
The other three bachelors all smiled and said nothing.
Hu Guang couldn't help but complain: "What? All the princes like to keep their lips silent, as if they have to put on such airs after becoming an official."
"Ahem..." Yang Rong coughed and said, "Mr. Hu is joking."
Hu Guang said: "I won't ask you today, but I will ask Mr. Xie today! Mr. Xie, you have gone to sea and are well-informed. Tell me, how much wealth will this bring?"
Jie Jin frowned, thought about it seriously, and muttered, "It's hard to say."
Hu Guangdao: "Why is it difficult to say?"
Xie Jin said: "The natives overseas have gold and silver, but... if we talk about wealth... they are far behind our Ming Dynasty. But Eunuch Zheng's temperament, Xie also knows that he is extremely wealthy.
Steady, if he didn't have hundreds of millions of taels of silver, he wouldn't care so much."
"Ten million taels." Hu Guang took a breath and then made a tut-tut sound.
Xie Jin continued: "There may be more. But, even though there is so much gold and silver, what is the use? To build this railway now, His Majesty spends 50 million or even 70 million taels of silver every year.
Of course, with this money, it will finally give His Majesty some relief, which is a good thing."
Hu Guang couldn't help but said: "It's strange to say that at the beginning, the imperial court only had one tael of silver and wished it could be divided into three petals. Now it's better. Today's expenses are really shocking."
Xie Jin said calmly and calmly: "The world has changed. We can't think about this matter with the thinking of the past."
Hu Guang raised his eyebrows and thought, then nodded silently.
Although this set seemed a little inconsistent with the Confucian spirit he had learned, he couldn't stand it... He was also a beneficiary. At least he was lying on the sofa and had a salary that allowed him to live comfortably.
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Compared with the leisure and ease of several bachelors in Wenyuan Pavilion, Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu were not so comfortable.
They took more than a thousand troops overnight and quickly arrived at Songjiangkou Port.
Zhang Anshi was experienced in dealing with this kind of thing. As soon as he arrived with his people, he immediately blocked several docks where the fleet was located.
Immediately afterwards, he and Qiu Fu boarded the ship to meet Zheng He.
As soon as they saw someone coming, there was almost a roar of joy on the boat.
You know, for sailors, the real pain is not necessarily the storm at sea.
Instead, we have clearly arrived on land. Looking around, our homeland is right in front of us, but we still have to stay on the boat obediently and cannot take a step beyond the thunder pond.
Well now, the imperial envoy from the imperial court has arrived, which means that they can finally land ashore.
Zheng He was wearing a scarlet cloak and a pale yellow fish suit. When the sea breeze blew, the cloak rustled. He, Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu greeted each other.
Seeing Qiu Fu's worried look, Zheng He smiled and added: "Congratulations, Duke Qi."
Qiu Fu was stunned. He had been feeling really complicated all this time. He had actually accepted the fact that his son was mediocre. After all... he used to think that his son was honest, but later he gradually realized that his son was not honest, but just a little stupid.
Zhu Yong and Zhang Fu, who are also the sons of the Duke, would not be carried away thousands of miles away by Zhang Anshi in such a hurry.
What's more, since I boarded the ship, I saw that many people were in shape, with skinny and dark bodies. The dark skin also had yellow spots caused by malnutrition.
So in his mind, the image of Qiu Song starving to the point of skin and bones immediately came to mind.
Qiu Fu was getting older and couldn't stand such stimulation. He just felt heartbroken and unbearable.
Immediately afterwards, the delivery takes place.
Delivery is a very complicated matter. In addition to explaining the things to pay attention to, there is also... Zheng He took out the nautical chart, which... recorded the documents of the voyage, the customs of various places, and hydrological information. Of course,
There are also people who died in the fleet, why they died, or people who were rewarded for their meritorious services, etc.
The voyage to the Western Ocean is not just a fleet trip, it is of pioneering significance, and the maritime charts are the most valuable and priceless treasure.
Then came the main event, Zheng He led Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fuchi to the bottom of the flagship.
As soon as the cabin was opened and the lantern was illuminated, the faces of Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu were suddenly illuminated with golden light.
"Holy shit." Zhang Anshi couldn't help but said in shock: "You robbed so many?"
He was really too surprised, but as soon as he said this, Zhang Anshi immediately felt that he had made a mistake and quickly shut his mouth.
Qiu Fu had obviously never seen so much gold and silver before, and he was so surprised that he was speechless.
Zheng He seemed to have expected this, and smiled and said: "All the ships are fully loaded. Next, His Highness Lao and Duke Qi will be here. It's time for us to get off the ship and take a rest."
Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu didn't know whether they listened to Zheng He's words, but their eyes were fixed on the golden thing for a long time, and they couldn't move their eyes away for a while.
But it was a shock. Zhang Anshi was a man of action. Soon, a team of accountants were invited on board.
There are dozens of teachers and students transferred from the Arithmetic School, as well as the accounting office of Qixia Trading Company.
When everyone saw this posture, they were all frightened and were speechless for a long time.
Immediately afterwards, the discussion began.
After all, they are all masters of arithmetic. After everyone brainstormed, a doctor from the arithmetic school stepped forward, saluted Zhang Anshi and said: "Your Highness, if we were to weigh each one, so much gold and silver would not be counted until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse. So.
We discussed it carefully and finally formulated a method that can calculate the amount of gold and silver within three to five days."
Zhang Anshi was shocked: "Thirty-five days?"
The doctor said: "Just use Cao Chong's weighing method. Take a standard boat, load it fully, calculate its draft, draw the scale, and get the weight of this boat of gold and silver, then...
Continuously load gold and silver into the boats, see how many boats there are, and then calculate the number of gold and silver in one boat based on the number of boats. Of course, the error of this algorithm may be 23%."
"An error of 23% of a hundred?" Zhang Anshi murmured, he thought for a moment and then said: "Use this method first to get a rough number, and then after the gold and silver are put into the warehouse, let someone slowly calculate it.
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"Here."
So everyone got busy.
This is a big project.
Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu, on the other hand, were free. They were imperial envoys and were here to take charge and were not responsible for specific affairs.
Zhang Anshi hid in the command cabin of the flagship, magically took out a book, and read it with relish.
At this time, Qiu Fu also began to come to his senses and realized that his son might really make a great contribution this time, so he suddenly became very excited.
He wanted to talk to Zhang Anshi, but Zhang Anshi was immersed in reading. He immediately struck up a conversation and said, "My dear nephew, what are you reading?"
Zhang Anshi said without raising his head: "Fengtian Jing is hard to remember."
Qiu Fu was stunned, couldn't help but get excited, and immediately asked: "Is there me in there?"
"Yes, yes." Zhang Anshi said: "Who doesn't know that you, General Qiu, are the great contributors to the peace crisis? How could General Qiu be missing?"
Qiu Fu became more and more energetic and said: "Come, let me take a look, I will take a look."
Zhang Anshi paused for a moment, and finally looked up at Qiu Fu, but hesitantly said: "This... this is not good... right... this is Xianshu..."
"Fengtian Jingnan, how can it be an idle book?" Qiu Fu's eyes widened.
Zhang Anshi was speechless for a moment and felt helpless, so he had no choice but to offer the book.
Qiu Fu happily took out the book, flipped through it, and what caught his eye was a line of words: "Jianwen often takes YIN medicine, and his blood is boiling. First, he should restrain the old woman. If not, tie the sow to YIN. All these are the same as Huang Er."
The crime of a thief.'
When Qiu Fu saw this paragraph, he was suddenly silenced.
He closed the book slowly, as if he was no longer interested in finding his own deeds in the book. Instead, he took a deep breath, stuffed the book back into Zhang Anshi, and said, "I am illiterate and can't understand very well."
Zhang Anshi also looked a little embarrassed and couldn't help but said: "Unscrupulous scholars are just like this, Shibo, don't take it to heart."
After five days on the boat, the results finally came out.
The doctor came to report: "Your Highness, the number is out."
Zhang Anshi couldn't help but feel a little nervous at this time, so he said eagerly: "How many."
The doctor said: "Because there are gold and silver, and... there are even many other jewelry, but for the convenience of calculation, so... the students will all convert them into silver according to the market price. Of course, the students will
We also considered that the emergence of a large amount of gold would inevitably lead to a certain degree of decline in gold prices, so we also made adjustments to this factor."
Zhang Anshi said: "As expected of a doctor from the School of Arithmetic, he has made you think of everything. Okay, let's not talk about these nonsense, how much can we get in silver?"
The doctor raised his head and glanced at Zhang Anshi. His voice trembled slightly: "One hundred and ninety million taels."
Zhang Anshi: "..."
Qiu Fu: "..."
After a while, Zhang Anshi was shocked again and found his voice: "Are you sure?"
The doctor immediately nodded and said: "It's certain, of course, errors are inevitable."
Zhang Anshi frowned. He only knew that Venice and some other commercial city-states were rich. After all, they had accumulated wealth for hundreds of years and controlled taxation, usury, and trade across Europe.
But I didn't expect to be so rich.
Zhang Anshi couldn't help but said: "Please sort out the accounts immediately, and then you will continue to stay here. I and Duke Qi will enter the capital as soon as possible."
Zhang Anshi's voice was a little trembling.
This time, I caught a big fish.
Zhang Anshi flipped through the pictures casually, looked at them carefully for a while, and then couldn't help but said: "I never thought that they actually made a lot of money from Rome."
"Rome?" Qiu Fu couldn't help but ask.
Zhang Anshi said: "Shibo, this Rome is... just like our temple, do you understand?"
Qiu Fu was disappointed and said: "How much money can the temple have?"
Zhang Anshi smiled and said: "You look down on their temple too much. The Knights Templar under this temple earn six million pounds every year from real estate and donations from believers. Do you know what this is?
? This income is several times the income from silver tax before the New Deal in Ming Dynasty."
"As for Venice, its wealth is not inferior to that of the Knights Templar, and is even much greater. But I still rack my brain and can't figure out how it was possible to acquire so much real money in such a short period of time.
Come out. Logically speaking, those businessmen are all very shrewd and they are all misers, so how could they give in so easily?"
Qiu Fu rubbed his hands excitedly and said, "Okay, hurry up and see your Majesty."
Zhang Anshi did not dare to neglect and immediately set off for Beijing.
At this time, Zhu Di was eagerly waiting for news, but when he heard that Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu came to Beijing, he became disappointed.
It's only been a few days since I came back. The calculation was so fast. Speaking of which... I probably didn't have much money.
Zhu Di was enthroned in the Wen Tower, and all the scholars from the Wenyuan Pavilion and the ministries of various ministries also came.
Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu entered the Wenlou and first bowed politely.
The answer was about to be revealed. At this time, Zhu Di was not in a hurry. He just smiled and said, "There is no need for you to be polite."
Zhang Anshi then said: "Your Majesty, I and the Duke of Qi have calculated the number and have come here to reply."
Zhu Di nodded and said, "Well, what's the number?"
Zhang Anshi said: "A rough estimate is 190 million taels of silver."
After saying these words, the whole hall suddenly seemed to have stopped breathing.
This number is quite terrifying.
So many people couldn't help but start to calculate, what exactly is this 190 million concept?
Zhang Anshi had already anticipated everyone's reaction. Wasn't it the same when he heard it for the first time?
At this time, he smiled and said: "Of course, it is just a rough estimate, there will be a fluctuation of 23%. After all, time is urgent, and the specific number will have to wait until it is put into storage."
Zhu Di: "..."
The ministers began to carefully observe Zhu Di's reaction.
When Zhang Anshi saw that Zhu Di didn't talk to him, he added: "It took me a few months to get this gold and silver. I never thought that it would be thanks to Qiu Song. Qiu Song does things neatly and neatly. He is really a distinguished scholar."
In three days, it will impress people with admiration."
Zhu Di: "..."
Seeing that Zhu Di was still silent, Zhang Anshi simply stopped talking.
Qiu Fu was even more nervous and did not dare to express his anger.
Zhu Di suddenly said: "One hundred and ninety million taels?"
Zhang Anshi said: "Your Majesty, this is a rough account. Please take a look at it."
Zhu Di waved his hand: "I don't want to see any accounts, I just want this number."
Zhang Anshi could only say: "Your Majesty, this is indeed the number."
Zhu Di took a deep breath and then said: "Just one trip to the sea, can it teach the world how to build railways in three years?"
Zhu Di murmured in a low voice: "No wonder I saw that boy Qiu Song, he looked like he was hiding everything, but he turned out to be as wise as a fool... No wonder... No wonder..."
Yi Shiha coughed and turned his face away in fear.
The ministers began to whisper. At this time, they reacted and no longer cared about the ministers' etiquette. At this time, they had too much desire to express themselves and started talking in low voices.
Zhu Di turned a deaf ear to this.
He immediately said: "Reward immediately, I want a big reward. Qiu Song is the first to do so, give him a duke's vassal land, and give the Qiu family a vassal land..."
After Qiu Fu heard this, he felt that maybe it was due to the fatigue of the saddle horse for many days, or maybe he suddenly received a great stimulation, and suddenly he felt dizzy and was already on the verge of falling.
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It was so uncomfortable. I had a fever for two days and my throat was so sore that I didn’t dare to eat. It was miserable.