Chapter 10: Sitting up in a Dying Sickness
Zhang Anshi’s words did make Zhu Di slightly relieved, it’s good if he can’t die.
Zhu Di steeply remembered the things in the school, he pretended to be light and said, “I heard that Zhang Yoking yoking in the school all day nonsense, by the way, and Zhu Yong and …… a called Zhang Anshi, you are both their friends, these can be false?”
Sure enough, good things don’t go unnoticed, but bad things spread a thousand miles!
Zhang Anshi said, “This is all blackmail, our fellow students occasionally play around with each other is there, but to say that nonsense, this from where to mention? They are all after loyalty and courage, the so-called old son heroes and children, but I don’t know where there are such rumors outside.”
Zhu Di rode on his horse, noncommittal, apparently not necessarily believing Zhang Anshi’s words, “Whose descendant are you?”
“This ……” Zhang Anshi was silent for a moment, “I dare not say.”
“Why?”
“Afraid you’ll tell my dad.”
Zhu Di haha laughed: “If I want to make things difficult for you, I will arrest you now and go to Yingtianfu, so that your father can come to collect the people, it seems that you bastard and that Zhang Yoking, Zhang Anshi a few are not good birds, all are raccoons of the same hill.”
Zhang Anshi: “……”
Zhu Di then said, “Like you and others, this group of people who have no regard for the law, there is always someone under this sky who can cure you.”
Zhang Anshi, on the other hand, was full of concern and said, “I have things to do, so I won’t nag you.”
Zhu Di eyed Zhang Anshi, his face slightly loosened up a few times, his hallowed son of heaven, it seemed that he didn’t want to get into trouble with a brat.
Zhang Anshi see Zhu Di slightly hesitant look, but anxious, and then this stalemate, let Zhang Fu notice can be bad, the command of the same know, can not care Zhang Anshi is what the Prince brother-in-law, so the heart of a cross, will be from the sleeve to pull out ah pull out a few two broken silver to: “also, meet is also a fate, it is rare to meet, this point of silver, please all the stout to go to eat a cup of tea. ”
Who expected Zhu to see that broken silver, his face suddenly changed.
He suddenly shouted in a stern voice, “How did you come by the broken silver?”
Zhang Anshi said suspiciously, “My sister gave it to me, saying that when a man goes out, he can’t be without money for defense.”
Zhu Di’s face but more and more cold: “I’m not talking about this, you this doll do not know, Taizu high emperor in the time, had issued a decree, that is, so-called: ‘by the price of goods plentiful and expensive, banknote law is not good. It is the Oracle Ministry of the household so that all the Secretary of the civil money to the official, according to the number of change banknotes, regardless of the more copper money’.”
Zhu Di paused, and then said: “Today’s Emperor in accordance with the ancestral training of Emperor Gao of the Great Ancestors, these days and the invention of the imperial decree, all deliveries start and finish, are required to treasure money, not more copper, silver?”
It was fine if he didn’t say it, but when he did, Zhang Anshi remembered.
In the early Ming Dynasty, there was indeed a period of time when the government forced the use of paper banknotes, or ‘Da Ming Bao Cai’, issued by the court, for trading purposes.
Only banknotes to the Hongwu twenty years, because of the indiscriminate issuance, and began to depreciate, after the Hongwu twenty years, the situation has worsened, for example, in the Hongwu twenty years, a stone of rice can be purchased with only a consistent banknote, but now in the second year of the Yongle, a stone of rice has become a ten-country banknote, a district of more than a dozen years, the value of the banknote depreciation of ten times.
Zhu Di, the current emperor, was in the name of the pacification into the city of Nanjing, in addition to saying that his nephew, Emperor Jianwen, there are bad people around, there is also a righteous name, that is to say that the then emperor Zhu Yunwen overthrew the ancestral teachings of the Great Ancestor Gao Emperor, but he Zhu Di is not the same, Zhu Di most love their own father, is the defender of the ancestral law, so this new emperor in the stable after the throne, a thought, my father was not forbidden to the circulation of silver money? The new emperor, after sitting on the throne, thought, my father did not prohibit the circulation of silver money in the first place?
Then as the son of the most loving Tai Zu Gao Emperor, Zhu Di was of course determined to carry out this decree, and so within just one month, three consecutive decrees were issued, banning silver money and forcing the world’s scholars, peasants, and businessmen to use treasury bills for the purpose of purchasing and delivering commodities.
Zhang Anshi couldn’t help but be happy when he thought of this.
And Zhu Di at this time tiger eyes violently one, the old man is the emperor, the mouth contains the constitution of heaven, the words out of the law, the decree has been issued, in front of this young man actually dared to act against the decree, this is not to Yao Guangxiao scolded the bald ass?
“What are you laughing at?”
Zhang Anshi said, ”Is this …… such a decree? Uh …… crap, then I have to hurry up and exchange my family’s treasure money for gold and silver. Otherwise it’s going to be a big loss.”
Zhu Di’s eyes dropped and he couldn’t help but say, “What did you say?”
Zhang Anshi said seriously, “You and I meet is also considered fate, I this heart is good, can not see people stupid to eat boring loss, I see that after this decree, the price of treasure banknotes and plummeted, if we say no longer change into gold and silver, not three or five days, the family has treasure banknotes, I am afraid that the crotch of the pants to lose all the remaining.”
Zhu Di said angrily, “Do you not follow the emperor’s will as well?”
“The emperor’s will naturally no one dares to disobey, but the emperor’s will, but also can not sway the market, the original is not strong under the decree is also good, now once the decree, but to be bad, I see …… the value of the treasure banknote must plummet, these things to say you do not understand, I have experience. ”
Zhang Anshi is not bragging, the people of Daming are actually still considered simple, have not seen the world, and he has been a man for two lives, what big storms have not seen? What French currency, what Zimbabwe, or the Weimar German period of the mark, which one has not seen?
When Zhu Di heard this, he couldn’t help but laugh, “You, a little child, also dare to believe what you say and talk about state affairs.”
He showed his face, but then he laughed again, if the party was just showing sarcasm, but now the laugh was a bit more derisive.
Zhu Di shook his head, and thought to himself, I am with such a brat in this nonsense what.
So with a big wave, “Let’s go.”
Zhang Anshi was instantly fit as a fiddle and disappeared without a trace in a flash.
He just couldn’t help but mutter in his mind about who this person was and his temper.
Good thing Zhang Anshi didn’t take it to heart, he was thinking about whether he should hurry to convert some of the Zhang family’s treasured banknotes into silver, but he soon relieved himself.
On the one hand, in fact, he is not rich, although the Eastern Palace every now and then there are rewards, but after all, now his own brother-in-law is not yet in charge, the rewards are very limited.
On the other hand, he was the Crown Prince’s brother-in-law, and when the Emperor issued an edict at this time to strictly prohibit the trading of silver and money, he took the lead in exchanging a large amount of silver, which was not a pitfall for his own brother-in-law?
Hold yourself together.
Never pit your brother-in-law against you.
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At this time, Zhu Di crossed into Zhang Yoking’s bedroom.
Zhang Yoking was letting out a pig-killing howl, “It hurts, it hurts, my waist is broken.”
Zhu frowned, arrow step forward, lifted the quilt: “Wasn’t the beating on the buttocks? Not to mention how can you break your waist with a whip?”
Only Zhang Yoking’s head lolled as if he had fainted.
Zhang Fu, who was standing on the side, his face, which was originally cold, had more than a few moments of anger at this time, and said, “His Majesty is here, do you still want to fool around?”
Zhang Yoking didn’t respond.
Zhu pressed his hand and signaled Zhang Fu, “Don’t scare him.”
Zhang Fu at this time, is also still young, but the face always looks serious, more than the same age people feel composed.
He was on duty at the Five Armies Governor’s Office, and when he heard that his brother had gotten into trouble again, he rushed back, and when His Majesty came here again with his carriage, he saluted and said, “Your Majesty, my humble brother has acted inappropriately, and I implore Your Majesty …….”
Zhu Di breathed out, “He disobeyed the discipline, I have punished him, well, you don’t scare him.”
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Zhu hmmmed and said noncommittally, “Let the imperial physician take a look at the injuries first.”
At this point, several of the accompanying imperial physicians became busy.
Zhu Di with his hands behind his back, walked a few steps in this bedroom, his eyes fell on a porcelain vase on the bed collapsed side of a few: “What is this?”
The servants of the Zhang family have actually long been scared out of their wits, none of them dare to raise their heads, only the long follower of Zhang Yoking said expectantly, “This …… is the medicine sent by the young master s friend.”
Zhu Di nodded, suddenly said: “His friend, can be called Guo De Gan? I just saw him climbing out of the wall.”
The servant’s jaw dropped in shock.
At this time the medical miracle occurred, was lying on the bed motionless Zhang Yoking suddenly startled, immediately grabbed the answer: “Yes, called Guo De Gan.”
Zhang Yoking is righteousness, he can not betray the big brother, fools can see, can go over the wall, but also refused to self-reporting guy, non-big brother, big brother is like this, do things never refused to leave a name.