My Daming New Empire

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However, he was even more afraid that the emperor would reach out and completely destroy the bank's reputation.

After the disintegration of the dynasty, he summoned officials above the head of the household department to review Zhu Zhanji's proposal.

This bank needs to be built, but it must not allow the emperor to directly intervene.The countermeasure they studied was to cut off the connection between the bank and the royal family.

But Zhu Zhanji also said that only Daming Bank can control the transfer of gold and silver, which gave the emperor a chance to intervene in the new bank, which is a difficult problem to solve.

Through Daming Bank, the emperor can directly extract gold and silver from the new bank!

On the contrary, the Ministry of Households supports the establishment of checkpoints in the state capitals of Daming to prohibit the circulation of private gold and silver.

As the court's pocketbook, they certainly hope to collect as much tax as possible.

The more funds they have, the greater their influence.

But for Jian Yi, he could already see the impact of Zhu Zhanji's move.By controlling the circulation of gold and silver, the wealth of the world is controlled by the three banks, which is of decisive help to the rule of the imperial court.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help admiring His Royal Highness Taisun's foresight.

As a native of Sichuan, although the Jian family occupied a lot of fertile land in Ba County, they did not set foot in business. At most, they only sold some forest wood and local products in their hometown.

Therefore, restricting the circulation of gold and silver has no effect on him personally.

Who is affected?It is mainly merchants and officials who focus on business in the southeast of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong.

Nowadays, the development of overseas trade is in full swing. If you want to go to sea, the customs tax is inevitable, because if you don’t pay the tax, the goods have no chance of exporting.

But if the goods are not exported, no merchant is willing to pay the tax once, even if the tax amount is not high.

When Zhu Zhanji's words at the court meeting were spread, the whole capital was boiling, because the merchants in the capital would not be affected in a small way.

However, looking at the officials in the imperial court today, almost none of them are from the southeast.

Expanding the scope to Zhu Zhanji's close ministers, Jin Chun is from Jiangsu, and Yang Rong is from Fujian.

Today's imperial court is not a future generation, the southeast officials occupy the vast majority, and now they have no chance to stand out, so although many people find it difficult to accept Zhu Zhanji's order, no one can directly oppose it.

For the people in the capital, what is most concerned about now is not the imperial court's restrictions on the circulation of gold and silver, but the return of gold and silver from the truckloads of gold and silver at the Daming Bank headquarters outside Chengtianmen.

Zhu Zhanji was not ruthless, and the nobles still had a fluke mentality, but when he got serious, the nobles began to feel guilty.

After the Great Court Meeting on April [-]th, from the second day onwards, the carriages transporting the money of the dignitaries who returned the money completely blocked the main street in front of the headquarters of the Daming Bank.

The staff of the bank were exhausted one by one, transferring the heavy gold and silver to the cellar.

The cartloads of gold and silver really attracted a lot of people to watch the excitement, and even some smart traders carried tea stalls and went there to do business, and the business was pretty good.

For a little gold and silver, it would be the greatest punishment for all nobles if they were stripped of their titles.

What they are proud of is their titles. If they lose their titles, not to mention the annual salary, they will start to decline just by losing their privileges.

Therefore, no one dares to take chances and always think that the law does not blame the public.

Of course, there are still some nobles who can't afford to pay back now, because they participated in the Nanyang trade, and before the Nanyang fleet returned, they have no money to return.

They are the most impatient now. Although Zhu Zhanji has given more than a month to repay the loan, if the fleet cannot return smoothly, it will be over.

So now they would rather go to borrow money first and pay back the money, and dare not miss the repayment deadline.

The people in the capital are watching the excitement, so they don't care about the imperial court restricting the circulation of large amounts of gold and silver. Those things have nothing to do with ordinary people like them, and they can't afford large amounts of gold and silver at all.

The merchants who can produce so much gold and silver have not yet colluded with the civil servants.None of the main officials of the imperial court came from the southeast, and they couldn't get close if they wanted to.

Therefore, they are destined to be sacrificed.

Yang Rong is a very smart person. On April [-]th, before Fujian received any news, he had already decided to leave the capital and go to Peiping.

He was originally planning to set off with Xue Lu, but Xue Lu had to wait for the first batch of young troops to finish training before they could set off, so he had to go first.

Staying in the capital, he was very afraid of people from his hometown, and it would be difficult for him to beg in front of him.

Yang Rong set off from the capital and took a sea boat to Beiping to sit in town.

And Liu Wan also carried a guard of honor, starting from the capital, heading to Henan along the canal, and heading to Zhangde Mansion from the ancient canal.

This time, Liu Wan not only brought a guard of honor of as many as 33 people, but also specially brought two maids from the palace, one of whom was Cai Yuheng, his former savior.

He is now a big celebrity next to Zhu Zhanji, and Cai Yuheng is just a personal maid next to Zhuang Fengyi, not even the middle class.

Zhuang Fengyi was overjoyed when she found out about the relationship between her maid and Liu Wan. Liu Wan asked her for someone, and she agreed without thinking.

Although Cai Yuheng can be considered a young lady at home, but when she enters the palace, she is just a rootless weed.

Ever since she reunited with Liu Wan, she had no memory of Liu Wan.She also understood Liu Wan's feelings for her, but she still couldn't make up her mind.

There are quite a few eunuchs and court ladies who form a pairing in the palace, like Liu Wan, who was a young eunuch who was in the same year and who was a celebrity around His Highness, ordinary court ladies would not be able to rely on them.

Yuheng didn't want to whet Liu Wan's appetite, but she had never considered such a thing before.

These days, she sewed a purse and casual clothes for Liu Wan.When Liu Wan was not on errands, he always liked to wear the clothes she sewed, and let Yuheng wash all his dirty clothes when he was out of town.

More and more people knew about their relationship, and many people's attitude towards her became better and better.

Liu Wan is not just a young eunuch, his master is Jin Kuo, one of the twelve great eunuchs, and his senior brother is Sun Lin, the admiral of the Advisory Department.Although the influence in the palace is not as good as that of Wang Yan and Zheng He, they are now in the limelight.

Yuheng was protected by Liu Wan, which was more effective than Zhuang Fengyi, a humble concubine.

When boarding the ship, Liu Wan, as an imperial envoy, arranged Yuheng's cabin next to his own.

That night, Liu Wan entered Yuheng's cabin. Although Yuheng was thin-skinned, he didn't drive him out.In the dead of night, he half pushed and half let out a long sigh, and nestled in Liu Wan's arms.

Although he couldn't really achieve good things, Liu Wan also completed the transformation from a boy to a man psychologically.

Liu Wan also used the various skills learned from the erotic pictures on Yuheng one by one, allowing Yuheng to experience the joy of being a woman.

Holding Yuheng's delicate body in his arms, he panted heavily, and said softly: "Yuheng, don't worry, I will put you in the first batch of the list to go out of the palace as soon as His Highness releases you. Whether you continue to follow me in the future Whether it's me or marrying someone else, I will let you live a good life."

It was the first time Yuheng heard that court ladies like them could still be released. She was exhausted and drowsy, but now she was refreshed. "Didn't it be said that the maids who enter the palace will die of old age?"

Liu Wan shook his head and said, "Your Highness is already preparing for reform. There will be fewer and fewer eunuchs in the future, and the maids will only serve in the palace for a few years before they will be released to marry him."

Yuheng fell silent. The news gave her a glimmer of hope, but she was afraid that this was just a dream.

What's more, in a few years, she will be almost thirty, even if she leaves the palace, how can she find a good family?

Or, after leaving the palace, still follow Liu Wan, let him buy a small courtyard for himself in the capital, and adopt a junior from the clan to support him?

Those still seem like a long way off!