Compared with Yang Yiqing, who accompanied muscular men from all over the country to play the Ming Dynasty Games, Yang Tinghe's life was undoubtedly much easier.
Prime Minister Yang has been very proud of himself recently. First, he asked his first wife, the yellow-faced woman, to be appointed to the first rank. There was no other way, but who made him still the Shaobao and the crown prince's Taibao. Without the Three Gongs, it cannot be regarded as an official residence of the first rank. Although it has been said that he has been appointed to the first rank since ancient times.
It's like what Madam said, but it's still much better than the reputation of the second-grade outer chamber.
In fact, these are not the key. The Wuchen Science Examination has ended, and Yang Shen lived up to expectations and won the first place in Huiyuan. Among the top ten "Yuankui", the four young masters from the Jiao, Liu, and Han families,
Naturally, he was among them. In the official history, Dai Dabin, who was supposed to be the second in the examination and the most popular in the imperial examination, fell to the fifteenth place and became the "Kui Kui".
There was no fixed number of places for the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty. The minimum number was 32, and the largest number was 472 in Yongle Bingxu. After Chenghua Yiwei, 300 people were admitted. If
If there are edicts and the like, fifty or one hundred people can be added, but it cannot become a routine.
The fifty additional people this time were the young men from various factions who were brought in by Mr. Liu, so the Wuchen Branch was also called the "Young Master Branch" by later generations.
After the Young Master Examination is over, you have to wait until the first day of March, which is the first day of the third lunar month, before the palace examination, also known as the Imperial Examination, can be held.
Yang Shen and the Han brothers were family friends and close friends, so they were invited to their home to receive face-to-face teachings from Prime Minister Yang.
Prime Minister Yang disdains cheating. Can a scholar's affairs be called cheating? This is called taking advantage of each other's strengths to make up for their weaknesses.
"The emperor is surrounded by traitors." As usual, Prime Minister Yang gave a political education class first, and the three young masters had no choice but to listen. "A few days ago, there was another Westerner. It was rumored that he came from thousands of miles away.
Franji, although his country is far inferior to our country, it is still considered to have strong ships and powerful artillery, and it is rampant in the country of Tianzhu."
At this point, he deliberately stopped talking and looked at the reactions of his three nephews. Yang Shen was smiling, Han Bangqi was thoughtful, and Han Bangjing was serious about speaking, and said with a smile: "Rudu,
What’s your opinion?”
Rudu is the name of Han Bangjing. According to Zhu Xi's family rites, men between the ages of fifteen and twenty can be given the crown ceremony. Therefore, men in the Ming Dynasty can have the name after they are fifteen years old.
Han Bangjing said solemnly: "This is a traitor who has brought harm to the country. If I am the censor, I should report to the Holy One to punish this traitor and rectify the ancestors and establish the law."
Han Rudu, who had just turned twenty, was indeed a loyal and upright person. If he had been born in the era of Zhu Di and Zhu Laosi, he would have been the kind of loyal minister and martyr who was punished by the ten clans.
Yang Tinghe smiled slightly and did not comment. Instead, he looked at Han Bangqi and motioned for him to express his opinion.
The twenty-nine-year-old Donghai Company's board of directors thought about it for a while, and then answered honestly: "I hope Shi Bo will show me."
Although he was not as brilliant as the master of Guan Xue a few years later, Han Bangqi had followed Zhu Shou for more than half a year. Since he could not see Zhu Shou's intentions at all, the emperor must have a deeper meaning.
If the emperor wanted to reuse Savi, he would not have allowed this Westerner to serve as the Secretary of the Honglu Temple. That was a job to welcome and deliver people, specializing in making jokes. If he was given the job of Savi, a Ming Dynasty mandarin official, he could not understand clearly.
Isn’t this guy the most ridiculous guy in the world?
If the emperor didn't want to reuse Savi, why would he let him accompany him all the time? I heard that the two were still discussing gold coins, silver coins and other matters. This matter was full of weirdness. Han Bangqi knew that his political skills were not enough and he could not guess the emperor's tricks.
Policy.
"What about you?" Yang Tinghe looked at his son.
Literati in the Ming Dynasty mostly got to know each other through slaps in the face. For example, Yang Yiqing hit Yang Shen, and Zhongshan wolf Li Mengyang hit Xu Zhenqing. The one who got hit had to honestly admit that the other person was the leader, and they became good friends from then on...
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At this moment, Yang Tinghe is helping his son slap the Han brothers in the face. It should be noted that the most important interpersonal relationship among the Ming Dynasty bureaucrats is that of the same year. Most political allies are brothers from the same department.
Only an uneducated and uneducated old eunuch like Liu Jin would take fellow villagers seriously.
For the vast number of gay friends in the same year, who gets a better rank in the exam may depend on connections and luck, but who has higher talents can be figured out by just chatting with each other.
Do you really think that a time-traveler who copies poems right out of the gate won't be asked to write a mediocre version?
Yang Shen naturally understood what his father meant and said to the point: "The emperor is just raising eagles."
Yang Yongxiu is very knowledgeable. Among the skills of raising eagles, the most important thing is to boil the eagle. Because of the ferocious habits of the eagle, he will not let the eagle sleep after it is first captured. For several days or ten days in a row, the wild nature of the eagle will gradually be eliminated.
This is called boiling eagle.
Savi is a foreigner. He can even say shameless things like colonization. His habits can no longer be described as ferocious. If he is not beaten, this Portuguese will either be killed by the bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty or exiled overseas.
, and became a giant thief.
Although Zhu Shou is an otaku, he has also heard a famous saying: If you love someone, let him become a civil servant, because that is heaven; if you hate someone, send him to be a civil servant, because that is hell.
The bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty was a dangerous place second only to the imperial palace. Let Savi see the talent and style of the Ming Dynasty civil servants. In less than half a month, he could be trained to be honest. Let him
Understand, the so-called heavenly kingdom is really not just talk.
Yang Tinghe smiled faintly and reprimanded: "Don't speculate on God's will. You should strictly abide by the duties of a minister in everything."
Yang Shen quickly stood up and knelt down to apologize.
The Han brothers were surprised when they saw the Yang family and his son perform a play. They couldn't help but admire Yang Yongxiu's talent. He was indeed the most talented man in the Ming Dynasty. He could guess the emperor's thoughts accurately.
However, Han Bangjing still had some doubts and said, "Shibo, what if the Naka family refuses to change despite repeated admonitions?"
Yang Tinghe shook his head: "The Naka family can come from thousands of miles away and come to the sea. His ambition can be said to be a hero among people, and his intelligence is also the best choice. There are hundreds of millions of people in our dynasty, who are better than others.
, I don’t know the geometry, why should I be afraid?”
After hearing these words, Han Bangqi, who was standing aside, suddenly realized and nodded in admiration: Jiang is indeed hot enough because he is old. Compared with Prime Minister Yang, the three of them are just three children, and that
Kassavi is even more like a naked baby.
Yang Tinghe seemed to have said nothing, but if he thought about it carefully, he understood what he meant.
What does superiority mean? It’s not about talent or knowledge, it’s about official position!
In the series of policies recently discussed by Zhu Shou and Sa Wei, they relied on the relationship between the three of them as close ministers of the emperor to occupy the best position and grab the best benefits.
Moreover, they are all tribute scholars. After a few days, when the imperial examination is over, they will be the newly minted Jinshi masters. They are the core pillars of the Ming Dynasty and the elite of the ruling group.
Different people have different visions. Compared with the three of them, Savi is not even worthy of carrying a shoe. Not to mention it will be a disaster, the three of them can kill this Westerner with just a move of their little fingers.
Power is the only invincible thing in this world.
Yang Shen also understood this truth, but after he finished the examination, he had been following Zhu Shou for the past few days. The clearer he became about the secrets, the less clear he was about what the emperor was doing. Now he just took it out for his father to clarify: "Then
I don’t know how to explain the issue of gold and silver coins?”
Yang Shen was a great talent, but he was not a great economic power. Although his ability to govern the country cannot be said to be bad, it certainly cannot be said to be excellent...
Yang Tinghe naturally understood his son's worries, but he was also very disappointed with his son. He sighed and replied: "It's just another treasure note."
"I want to print my portrait on the gold and silver coins, which will last forever!" While Yang Tinghe was educating his nephew, Zhu Shou stood in the interrogation hall of the Bank, looking at the money model in front of him, he was so happy that he patted Liu hard.
The boss's shoulders.
Liu Jin quickly knelt down and said repeatedly: "Your Majesty, you must not do it. You are afraid that lawless people will use the art of being tired of winning!"
Zhu Shou's idea was very simple. The money mold in front of him was the first gold dollar and the first silver dollar in the Ming Dynasty. They both weighed one tael.
These are two epoch-making coins. Before that, the currencies in circulation in the Ming Dynasty were all kinds of copper coins, including many bad coins. The copper coin system of the Ming Dynasty was very complicated, with issues such as size, weight, quality, etc.
, to name a few, you can write a small paper of more than 100,000 words.
In overseas trade, everyone is accustomed to using silver to settle accounts. Most Ming Dynasty copper coins are not equivalents in trade, but commodities!
This is a very strange phenomenon, especially in transactions with Japan. All kinds of bad money in the Ming Dynasty became bulk traded commodities. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the transaction volume was second only to textiles.
Zhu Shou had a deep understanding of these situations from the Donghai Company's memorials. After asking Luo Xiang for his opinion, and combining it with the Portuguese currency system he got from Savi, he ordered the Silver Making Bureau to cast Zhengde gold coins and Zhengde silver coins.
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The Silver Bureau is one of the eight bureaus. Its main task is to create gold and silver ornaments, only for the emperor's rewards. It is as famous as the Baochao Department among the four departments, and is rated as the two most useless departments in the Ming Dynasty. It is known as the eunuch's cold palace.
, the best retirement resort.
At first, there was one official fifth-rank ambassador and one deputy fifth-rank ambassador. However, Zhu Shou suddenly issued an order recently to set up one eunuch to hold the seal and one eunuch to supervise. There are also several ambassadors, managers, book-writers, book-writers, supervisors, etc.
, the scale has expanded more than ten times than before.
In addition, the eunuch in charge of the banking bureau also serves as the eunuch in charge of the Baochao Department. The person who took up this newly minted golden position was one of Zhu Shou's most trusted three little tigers, Su Jinsu Company, the eunuch of the ceremonial department.
Of course, it would be outrageous for Boss Liu and Admiral Zhang not to want to get involved in such an important position, so the two of them formed a partnership to divide the positions of ambassador and other positions, and by the way, they also solved the bank's start-up capital problem.
"The old slave is willing to donate all the proceeds from the renovation of the imperial village to the bank!" Liu Eunuch said with great righteousness.
Gu Da used Gu Du Gong to vomit out a mouthful of old blood: Liu Jin, who is a bitch, took more than fifty hectares of official land, one-third of it went into the inner treasury, and one-third was used for up and down management. How many hectares did I get in total?
Just give it all away.
Liu Jin looked at him and sneered: I asked you to come and compete with Old Liu for food!
It was impossible not to donate, so Mr. Gu had no choice but to cut off the flesh and decided in his mind that if Lao Liu was an expert factory, I would not be afraid that it would become yellow, so I would take his surname as Liu.
The expert factory has been under construction since last year and is now beginning to take shape. According to Boss Liu, it will be open for business around August this year.
Needless to say, what I do for a living is to serve His Majesty the Emperor and to deal with some corrupt officials who have no foresight.
The art of being tired of winning in the mouth of Mr. Liu is to win when you are tired, which is what we usually call: I curse you to have no children, or I curse you to give birth to a son without children. In short, man is determined to conquer nature, and nature and man are inferior.
A kind of performance.
This kind of curse also existed in the Ming Dynasty, and people especially liked to use people's hair, portraits, etc. as objects of curse.
Therefore, it can be imagined that Zhu Shou's desire to have his face printed on the imperial coins was purely selfish.
Seeing that the emperor was not happy, Admiral Zhang Yongzhang, who had been following him, immediately knelt down and said: "Little ancestor, why don't you print the fingerprint of your middle finger to represent the emperor's herdsman's wishes."