Chapter 536: A Gaijin’s Merit

Zhu Di saw Zhang Anshi’s surprised look.

At this point, he also realized that the party appeared to be a little too excited.

He fixed his mind and said, “Secretary Zhang, the generals and soldiers on the ship are not yet able to disembark, let alone leave the ship to return home, they have been drifting overseas for such a long time, how hard they have worked. Because of this, the court side should hurry up and take over the fleet so that they can disembark and return home as soon as possible.”

Zhang Anshi said, “I understand.”

It must be said that Zheng He is a very stable person. He ordered people to stay on the ship, isolating the dock and the ship’s generals from the news, because this wealth is too big, there is no guarantee that there will not be someone coveted, if you let other people to count, Zheng He obviously can not be trusted.

The best way is to report to Zhu Di overnight, and His Majesty’s side sends trusted people to take over the fleet of ships at a rapid pace to ensure the safety of the gold and silver.

And Zhu Di ordered Zhang Anshi to go and sit on the town, apparently also out of trust in Zhang Anshi.

To put it bluntly, this is the sort of thing that sometimes even the son can’t be trusted, especially with two debt collectors far away in Annam and Java.

Zhu Di pondered for a moment and then said, “Qiu Qingjia.”

Qiu Fu at this time the heart has been slightly put down some, the good news is that the son is still alive, the bad news is that the person is still floating in the miles away.

Hearing His Majesty’s name, Qiu Fu hurriedly collected himself and said, “I am here.”

Zhu Di looked deeply at Qiu Fu, “Qiu Qingjia is the deputy, go with Zhang Qing to the point of inspection.”

Qiu Fu immediately understood Zhu Di’s mind, this gold and silver, and his son related, this time he came in a hurry, want to inquire a little bit of his son’s news, only after all, there is some disappointment, he is not good health in the past few years, and almost did not serve on any important errands.

This time, Zhu Di also hoped that Qiu Fu could do what he could, and to show Zhu Di’s trust in him as an old brother.

Qiu Fu said, “I obey the decree.”

The matter was urgent, and Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu led the way.

Zhu Di, however, had ordered his ministers to retire.

But Zhu Di, on the contrary, more anxious, brought a large sum of gold and silver, how much is this gold and silver, he has no idea in his heart.

On the contrary, the Wen Yuan Pavilion was bustling with activity.

Because of this new Wen Yuan Ge, a special bookstore is now set up.

Of course, the name of the bookstore, but the university scholar and the house people occasionally come to drink tea place, after all,…… can not be in the Wen Yuan Ge brightly and squarely get a lounge or teahouse also or canteen it.

Here on the shelves, many books are shelved, but of course, the decoration is a bit more significant.

The large, comfortable sofa is covered with specially treated cowhide.

When you have time, sit down here, tea at one end, all of a sudden, this university scholar’s style came out.

Whenever sitting here, I’m afraid that many bachelors and sheriffs can’t help but think, at first Taizu high emperor, how is it so stingy? At least is the Wen Yuan Pavilion of the Bachelor, but have to give a that sinister environment, let a person stay.

“Gold and silver?” At this moment, Hu Guang’s expression was a bit exaggerated as he said, “This time, Eunuch Zheng made such a big fuss, so it seems like he harvested quite a lot.”

The other three university professors, all smiled and said nothing.

Hu Guang couldn’t help but whine, “What? All of you gentlemen like to purse your lips, rather like if you are an official, you have to put up such a front.”

“Cough ……” Yang Rong coughed and said, “Lord Hu is joking.”

Hu Guang, however, said, “I will not ask you today, but I will ask Lord Xie today! Duke Xie, you’ve been to sea, you’ve seen a lot, tell me, how much wealth does this bring?”

Xie Jin frowned, thought very seriously, and murmured, “It’s hard to say.”

Hu Guang said, “Why is it bad to say?”

Xie Jin said: “Overseas natives, gold and silver is there, but …… if you say affluence …… since it is far from my Ming. But Eunuch Zheng this person’s temperament, Xie Mou also know, he is extremely stable, if there is no grain silver hundreds of millions of taels, he will not be so concerned.”

“Tens of millions of taels.” Hu Guang sucked in a breath of cool air, followed by a tsk-tsk-tsk sound.

Xie Jin then said: “There may be more. But ah, although there are so many gold and silver, and what is the use? Now to repair the railroad, every year his majesty is 50 million or even 70 million taels of silver expenses. Of course, with this amount of silver, it can also finally give His Majesty a respite, which is considered a good thing.”

Hu Guang couldn’t help but say, “It’s strange to say that at first the court was a tael of silver that it couldn’t wait to be divided into three petals to spend. Now well, the present day expenses are truly appalling.”

Xie Jin was calmly said, “The world has changed, can not use the former thinking to figure out this.”

Hu Guang raised his eyebrows in thought, then nodded silently.

Although this set, as if and the Confucian spirit he learned some not quite matching, but can not help …… he is also a beneficiary, at least he is lying on the couch, with a salary that allows him to be clothed and fed.

…………

Compared to the leisure and comfort of several bachelors in the Wen Yuan Pavilion, the other Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu duo are not so comfortable.

They arrived at the harbor of Songjiangkou with more than a thousand men and horses at night and with great speed.

Zhang Anshi was considered experienced in dealing with this kind of thing, and as soon as he arrived with his men, he immediately blocked the several piers where the flotilla was located.

Immediately afterward, he boarded a ship with Qiu Fu and went to meet Zheng He.

There was almost a roar of joy on the ship at the sight of someone coming.

It is important to realize that the real pain for sailors may not be the stormy seas encountered at sea.

Rather, it is clear that they have arrived at the land, and when they look at it, their homeland is right in front of them, but they still have to obediently stay on the ship, and they can’t take a step beyond the minefield.

Now it’s good that the imperial court’s admiral is here, which means that they can finally disembark.

Zheng He was clad in a scarlet cloak and a pale yellow Chinchilla fish suit, and when blown by the sea breeze, his cloak was hunting as he and Zhang Anshi and Qufu greeted each other.

Seeing Qiu Fu’s worried look, Zheng He, however, revealed a smile and added, “Duke Qi, congratulations.”

Qufu froze, this way, the mood is really complicated, he has actually accepted the fact that his son is mediocre, after all …… all, he used to think that his son is honest, and then gradually found that his son this is not honest, it is simply a bit stupid.

Also the son of a duke, Zhu Yong and Zhang Yoking, these people, will not be carried miles away by Zhang Anshi in a hurry.

Since he boarded the ship, he saw that many of the people were in the shape of a withered man, their bodies were dry, thin and dark, and on this dark complexion there were yellow spots brought on by malnutrition.

So in his mind, the image of Chuson starving into skin and bones immediately came to mind.

Qufu was too old to take such excitement and only felt his heart clogging.

Immediately after that, it was time for delivery.

Delivery is a very complex thing, in addition to explain the matters of attention, there …… is Zheng He took out the chart book, here …… records the voyage of the Jianwen, local customs, and hydrographic information, of course, there are also fleet deaths, because of what? And death, or merit rewarded personnel and so on.

Down to the West Ocean, is not just a fleet of ships to go out for a walk so simple, it is of pioneering significance, and the chart book, is the most valuable priceless treasure.

Then came the main event. Zheng He led Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu to the bilge of the flagship.

As soon as the bilge was opened, the horse lamp shone, and suddenly, the faces of Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu were mapped with golden light.

“Crap.” Zhang Anshi couldn’t help but say in shock, “You guys grabbed so much?”

It was really too much of a surprise, but as soon as these words came out, Zhang Anshi immediately felt that he had misspoken and hurriedly shut his mouth.

Qiu Fu obviously also has not seen so much gold and silver, actually directly surprised to say.

Zheng He seemed to have expected it, smiled and said, “All the boats are fully loaded, next, we have to thank Your Highness and Duke Qi, we should also get off the boat to take a rest.”

Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu didn’t know if they had listened to Zheng He’s words, but the two of them had their eyes staring at the golden thing for a long time, and they couldn’t take their eyes off of it for a while.

Shocked as he was, however, Zhang Anshi was a man of action, and soon a team of accountants were invited on board.

There were both dozens of teachers and students drawn from the Arithmetic Academy and the accountants of the Sushumi Merchant’s House.

Everyone was stunned at the sight of the situation and could not speak for a long time.

Immediately afterward, the discussion began.

At least they were all experts in arithmetic, and under everyone’s collective wisdom, a doctor of arithmetic came forward and saluted Zhang Anshi, “Your Highness, if you weigh them one by one, such a large amount of gold and silver, but I don’t know how long it will take to calculate. Therefore, we have carefully discussed and finally formulated a method that can calculate the amount of gold and silver within three to five days.”

Zhang Anshi was shocked, “Three to five days?”

This doctor then said: “With Cao Chong weighing method can be used, both with a standard boat, loaded full, calculate its draft, draw a scale, after the weight of this boat gold and silver, then …… will continue to load the gold and silver on the boat to see how many boats, and then according to the number of boats, to multiply a boat The number of gold and silver in a boat can be multiplied according to the number of boats. Of course, with such an algorithm, the error may be two or three hundredths.”

“Two or three hundredths of an error?” Zhang Anshi murmured, and after he thought about it, he said, “Use this method first, to come up with an approximate number, and then after all this gold and silver is in the treasury, just have it slowly refined.”

“Here.”

So the crowd got busy.

It’s a big job.

Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu, on the other hand, were idle. They were Qinzhi, who came to sit in on the town and were not responsible for specific matters.

Zhang Anshi hid in the command cabin of the flagship and magically took out a book, looking at it with great interest.

Qufu at this time also began to come back to the taste, realized that his son may this time …… when really a great merit, so all of a sudden a lot of excitement.

He wanted to seek Zhang Anshi to talk, but Zhang Anshi was concerned about burying his head in a book, immediately, he accosted: “Xian Nephew, what are you reading?”

Zhang Anshi said without lifting his head, “Fengtian Jingnanji.”

Qiu Fu froze, couldn’t help but come to his senses, and immediately said, “Can there be me in there?”

“Yes, there is.” Zhang Anshi said, “Who doesn’t know that you, General Qiu, are a great contributor in the pacification of the country, so how can you be missing General Qiu?”

Qiu Fu became more and more energized, so he said, “Come on, let’s have a look, old man, let’s have a look.”

Zhang Anshi body shape a beat, finally raised his head to look at Qiu Fu, but some stumbling: “This …… this is not good …… bar …… this is idle book ……”

“How is the Bongtian Pacification an idle book?” Qufu stared wide-eyed.

Zhang Anshi was dumbfounded for a moment and was so helpless that he had to offer the book.

Qiu Fu is happy to take the book, casually turn over, into the eyes is a line of words: ‘Jianwen often serve YIN medicine, blood boiling, the first imperial old woman, can not be, binding sows YIN, this is all Qi Huang two thieves of the evils of the same.’

Churchford saw this paragraph and was abruptly silenced by the dry.

He slowly closed the book, seemingly uninterested in finding his own deeds in this book anymore, and instead took a deep breath, shoved the book back to Zhang Anshi, and said, “Old man is less literate, and can’t read very well.”

Zhang Anshi also looked a little embarrassed, and could not help but say, “Unscrupulous readers are just like that, Shibe need not take it to heart.”

After five days on the ship, finally, the results came in.

The doctor came and reported, “Your Highness, the number is out.”

Zhang Anshi’s mood at this time was not without some tension, so he eagerly said, “How many.”

This doctor said, “Because gold and silver are available, there …… are even quite a few other jewels, but in order to facilitate the calculation, so …… students people, etc., collectively according to the market price, will be discounted silver processing. Of course the students people and so on also take into account, a large number of gold appeared, but also will inevitably bring the price of gold to a certain degree of decline, so also on this factor, adjusted.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Worthy of being a doctor of arithmetic academy, what all let you think of, well, do not talk about these false, how much discount silver.”

The Doctor looked up at Zhang Anshi, his voice slightly trembling, “One hundred and ninety million taels.”

Zhang Anshi: “……”

Churchford: “……”

It was only after half a minute that the once again shocked Zhang Anshi found his voice and said, “Are you sure?”

This Doctor immediately nodded, “It can be determined, but of course, errors are inevitable.”

Zhang Anshi frowned up, he only knew that Venice and some other commercial city states have money, after all, accumulated wealth for hundreds of years, control of all of Europe’s taxes, usury and trade.

But I didn’t expect to be so rich.

Zhang Anshi couldn’t help but say, “Immediately organize the accounts, and after that, you will continue to stay here, while this king and Duke Qi will enter the capital with all due haste.”

Zhang Anshi’s voice trembled a little.

This time, it’s a big fish to catch.

Zhang Anshi casually turned over the atlas and looked at it carefully for a while before he couldn’t help but say, “I didn’t think that they had even gotten a large amount of silver from the Roman side.”

“Rome?” Churchford couldn’t help but say.

Zhang Anshi said, “Uncle, this Rome, just …… like our temple, understand?”

Qiu Fu, however, was disappointed and said, “The temple can have a few silver dollars.”

Zhang Anshi, on the other hand, laughed and said, ”You’re looking down on their temple too much, a Templar Order under this temple has six million pounds of income every year from real estate and also donations from believers. Do you know what concept this is? This income, is several times the silver tax revenue before my Daming did not have a new policy.”

“And as for this Venice, its wealth is no less than that of the Knights Templar, and even much more. But I still want to break my head also can not understand, just a short time, how can so many real money to get out. According to reason, those merchants are all very shrewd and are all misers in general, how could they easily give in?”

Qiu Fu rubbed his hands together excitedly and said, “Alright, hurry up and go see His Majesty.”

Zhang Anshi did not dare to slow down, immediately departed for Beijing.

At this time, Zhu Di, is waiting for the news with bated breath, heard Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu into the capital, but disappointed.

It s only a few days work, and it s back, counting so fast, so that …… may not really be a few dollars.

Zhu Di ascended to his seat in the Wen Lou, and all the bachelors of the Wen Yuan Pavilion as well as the ministers of various ministries also came.

Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu entered the Wen Building and first bowed in a disciplined manner.

The answer is about to be revealed, Zhu Di at this time, on the contrary, not in a hurry, only smiled and said, “The Secretary does not have to be polite.”

Only then did Zhang Anshi say, “Your Majesty, I and the Duke of Qi have calculated the number and have come here to resume the decree.”

Zhu Di nodded and said, “Well, what is the number?”

Zhang Anshi said, “A rough estimate is one hundred and ninety million taels of grain silver.”

As these words fell, the hall suddenly seemed as if even breathing had come to a sudden halt.

That’s a pretty scary number.

So much so that many people can’t help but start counting up in their minds, this one hundred and ninety million dollars, in the end what is a concept.

Zhang Anshi had expected the crowd’s reaction, wasn’t it the same when he first heard it?

At this time, he smiled and said, “Of course, it is only a rough estimate, there will be a fluctuation of two or three hundred, after all, the time is urgent, the specific number, but also have to wait for the treasury.”

Chu: “……”

The ministers began to carefully observe Zhu Di’s reaction.

Zhang Anshi see Zhu Di does not talk, then said: “a few months of work, can get these gold and silver, I also never thought, to really talk about, but also thanks to Qiu Song. Qiu Song work, crisp and clean, really three days, teach people to be impressed.”

Chu: “……”

Zhang Anshi saw that Zhu Di remained silent, so he simply stopped talking.

Qufu was even more nervous, not daring to utter a single breath.

Zhu suddenly snapped, “One hundred and ninety million taels?”

Zhang Anshi said, “Your Majesty, this is the rough account, please look at it.”

Zhu Di waved his hand, “I don’t want to see any accounts, I only want this number.”

Zhang Anshi had to say, “Your Majesty, that is indeed the number.”

Zhu Di took a deep breath, before saying, “Just a trip to the sea, can teach the world three years of the railroad’s repair?”

Zhang Anshi said, “Theoretically …… it seems like it might be.”

Zhu Di murmured in a low voice: “No wonder I look at Qiu Song that kid, a look of deep hiding, it turns out that it is actually great wisdom like stupidity …… No wonder …… It’s no wonder… …”

Yee Lostha coughed and was too busy to turn her face away in fear.

The group of ministers began to whisper, at this time, they reacted, no longer care about the ministerial etiquette, at this time there is too much desire to express, even whispered and began to discuss.

Zhu Di, however, turned a deaf ear to this.

He then said, “Reward immediately, be heavily rewarded. Qiu Song is the first merit, grant him a ducal vassal land, and give the Qiu family a vassal land ……”

Qiu Fu heard, perhaps for days of saddle horse labor, or a moment, suddenly received a great stimulus, but all of a sudden, dizzy, people have been shaken.

…………

It’s so bad, two days of fever, sore throat, afraid to eat, miserable.