Chapter 214 Chongming the beautiful sun
Piao Tianwen After discussing the war, the king and his ministers thought that today's court meeting should end here, but Gu Junen came out to start the remarks:
"Report to Your Majesty, I have a memorial. Your Majesty, although I have cast Dashun Tongbao copper coins, the transactions on the market include both Dashun Tongbao and silver. Recently, the gold and silver coins of the Nanming have also become popular on the market. I am so arrogant that I actually circulate the Nanming gold and silver coins. One of them hurts me and Dashun's decent, and the other is cheaper. The silver coins of the Nanming contain less than 90% of the silver coins. The Nanming made my gold and silver flow continuously to Nanjing with these gold and silver coins. At least half a century of profit was taken, which is equivalent to drawing taxes, which is heavier than the commercial tax that was drawn in the previous Ming Dynasty. Therefore, I think that first, the circulation of gold and silver coins of the Nanming should be strictly prohibited, and second, the gold and silver coins of my Dashun should be quickly launched."[]
When Gu Junen saw this, a discerning person saw that it was probably Niu Jinxing's instruction. The relationship between the Shaanxi Bank, which exchanged gold and silver coins, and the Shaanxi generals of the Dashun Dynasty, seemed a bit complicated. Niu Jinxing was unwilling to offend the Shaanxi Gang, but this matter should not be ignored. Of course, the response strategy can only be solved once and for all. In this regard, there are many sensible people among the Dashun ministers. For example, Jin Zhijun always mentioned it to Niu Jinxing, and Gu Junen today, and these people are obviously happy to see it.
Li Yan had a lot of contact with the Prince of Ming Dynasty. He had already inquired about how to make exquisite gold and silver coins. He had a clear idea in his mind and said:
"Your Majesty has this intention for issuing Dashun gold and silver coins. I was ordered by Your Majesty to understand how the gold and silver coins were made. After asking, I found out that the gold and silver coins are very different from the minting of copper coins. Nanjing uses the most advanced large stamping machine to make this gold and silver coins. Now this machine is not sold to the public and cannot be bought for much money. It is said that this machine can be sold to Dashun after a year. Therefore, only after buying a machine a year later can Dashun gold and silver coins be created."
Li Zicheng is not a fool, and of course he attaches great importance to the fact that he is minting money and coins. As soon as gold and silver coins appear on the market, they immediately attracted Li Zicheng's attention. Li Zicheng also knew that Niu Jinxing was not only in the Ming Dynasty, but also in the Japanese. Niu Jinxing had already discussed with the Japanese, but Niu Jinxing was not good at giving a personal message, so Gu Junen was pushed out. Niu Jinxing had taboos, but Li Guo did not have these taboos. The Japanese tried their best to sell it, so naturally he put a lot of effort into Li Guo, who is Li Zicheng's nephew. Li Guo's only standard for purchasing from the South Ming Dynasty or from Japan is to compare price, quality and delivery time. Therefore, Li Guo said:
"Report to your Majesty, I heard that Japan also has similar machines. According to the Japanese, they can use their stamping machines to make gold and silver coins, and even the gold and silver coins made are better than those of the Nanming. In my opinion, Nanming deliberately did not sell such machines to me. I will buy them according to Japan. I cannot let the gold and silver coins of Nanming spread in my Dashun, and I cannot let Nanming make my Dashun money in vain."
Liu Zongmin immediately said:
"The Japanese things are good, but they are useless. I am worried that the machines I bought may be like Japanese machine guns. If you can't hit a few times, the barrel will have to be replaced. Don't be cheated by the Japanese."
Liu Zongmin was deeply impressed by the Japanese machine guns. First, he suffered a great loss in the Shanhaiguan War. Then the Japanese came to him. Dashun bought the Japanese machine gun as he wished, but the machine gun he bought was a bit tricky. If he fired, he would scrap a barrel and exchange it for another barrel for another one for another. Dashun was rich, and Liu Zongmin didn't care much. He still bought a large amount of machine guns without any ambiguity. But the Japanese couldn't sell so many machine guns. In addition to buying arms, Liu Zongmin never had any savings for his own expenses, but when it comes to spending money in other aspects, Liu Zongmin always expressed his authority, and Liu Zongmin always despises the Japanese.
Li Zicheng was very generous to his subordinates. No wonder, when Li Zicheng had only eighteen cavalry left, the situation could only be described as a miserable situation. After Sun Chuanting returned, he once beat Li Zicheng to the point of no fight back. At that time, in order to win people's hearts, Li Zicheng made various promises, nothing more than a wish to be appointed as an official, how to share wealth and honor, so once he became emperor, he felt that he was a bit too big. However, he is still surrounded by powerful enemies, and is definitely not the opportunity to kill meritorious officials and destroy the Great Wall by himself. Therefore, facing the arrogant Liu Zongmin and his old subordinate in Shaanxi, Li Zicheng had to let it go.
After entering Beijing, Li Zicheng basically fulfilled his wishes, allowing the heroes to fulfill their dream of getting promoted and wealth. However, people's hearts are difficult to satisfy. Being an official will always be too low, and making money will never be enough. After all, the officials of the Dashun Dynasty cannot be over-received, but the Dashun Dynasty is not short of money, so these heroes make a big fuss about enjoyment. However, there are always various things for people to enjoy in Nanjing, such as four-wheeled carriages. At first, it was an ordinary style, later it was an intermediate style, then it was a high-end style, and finally it was a luxury style.
Dear officials who have made meritorious services have been changing new cars. After the cement glass in Nanjing was launched in Beijing, each company began a round of decoration craze. In addition, there are watch soaps and soaps. As long as the luxury new products from Nanjing were launched in Beijing, the first one was the first to be sought after by these upstarts with generous hands. For a time, the Chongming craze was triggered in Beijing. All products from the Ming Dynasty, as long as they were luxury, were all sought after by the Dashun officialdom. Take the top wine that has recently landed in Beijing. Every hero has at least a hundred bottles in the mansion.
This is Chongming. In addition to Chongming, the Japanese products later entered Beijing and were also sought after. Many people became obsessed with Japanese goods. Japanese goods, like Nanjing goods, are also money-consuming things. Li Zicheng also felt that such extravagance and waste was not the case, and he became vigilant, but Li Zicheng's advice did not work. The articles against Chongming and Smile Japan published in the "Ta Kung Pao" not only failed, but also incited the "Chongming and Smile Japan".
Liu Zongmin has always hated Japanese pirates deeply, so Liu Zongmin belongs to a faction that only respects Ming and does not favor Japanese. Li Yan also hates Japanese pirates, and of course he will never favor Japanese. Li Yan only admires Ming in his heart, but is not as intoxicated as Liu Zongmin in consuming luxury goods produced in Nanjing. Niu Jinxing received the Japanese money, and at the same time, based on political considerations, he was the initiator of the "Japan-controlling Ming" strategy, so he was called the Japanese-fashioned faction by Liu Zongmin. In this way, Song Xiance and Gu Junen can also vaguely belong to the Japanese-fashioned faction.
Seeing Liu Zongmin’s questioning, Song Xiance hurriedly said:
"I think that the gold and silver coins made by Japanese machines are quite similar to those made by the Ming Dynasty. Since this is the case, there is nothing wrong with buying Japanese machines. Of course, we don't have to just focus on Japanese machines. We can let the Ming Dynasty know that the Japanese are going to sell us machines. If the Ming Dynasty loses its reliance, it may relax restrictions and sell machines to me. In this way, we can choose between the two companies, and the price will be much easier to negotiate."
When Liu Zongmin heard this, he thought to himself that the military advisor had a good plan, and said:
"What the military advisor said is good, at least they dare not ask for a price everywhere. However, I think it is better to buy it from Nanjing or from Nanjing."
Here at Liu Zongmin, Shaanxi Bank did not give gifts for free, nor did the ringing bells and pocket watches given by the prince for free. This Chongming faction has always been more respectful to Nanjing things.
Li Guo interrupted:
"It's not like the things in Nanjing and the things in the Japanese that are good. The rocket launchers in Nanjing are good, and the machine guns of the Japanese are also good. In short, each has its own advantages. The military advisor said it well. If you compare it more, you will never suffer any loss. If you buy it from Japan, you will also give Nanming some color to let Chongzhen understand that I, Dashun, did not have to buy it from Nanjing, and I think it's also a strategy."
I heard that Li Guo said that Japanese machine guns were good, but Gao Yigong couldn't help it, so he said:
"I don't think Japanese machine guns are very good. I heard that the new machine guns of the Ming army in Liaodong were unveiled. They are said to be much better than Japanese machine guns and will not scrap the barrel at any time."
At this time, a civil servant named Yu Wenhai openly said:
"I think that even if the Japanese things are not stronger than those of the Southern Ming, they are at least not worse than those of the Southern Ming. Is there an iron bird in the Southern Ming Dynasty? Is there a large iron ship?"
This guy is a hardcore supporter who follows Niu Jinxing. How could he not know what Niu Jinxing meant? Therefore, he jumped out to promote Japanese goods.
When Liu Tichun heard this guy praising Japanese goods, he was a little arrogant. He was responsible for intelligence and knew very good about Wen Hai, a guy who loved to praise bulls and star stinky feet. This surnamed Yu was just a flatterer with a very unbearable character. Liu Tichun was also a person who only admired Ming and did not favor Japanese. Of course, in this era, everyone was once proud of living in Middle-earth Ming Dynasty. In the eyes of the Middle-earth people, Japan was just a tribute country of Ming Dynasty. In fact, in terms of national strength, the Ming Dynasty also had something to be proud of, and the Ming Dynasty's GDP ranks high in the world.
The top spot accounts for more than 45% of the world's GDP. Some people even say that the Ming Dynasty GDP in the early years of Wanli accounted for 80% of the world's GDP. So, there were not many people in the Dashun Dynasty who thought that Japan was of great significance, and most people didn't take Japan seriously at all. As for Japan, they bullied Korea at most. In general, the heroes of the Dashun rebellion were mostly Chongming people, and their original ideal was to replace the Ming Dynasty. However, after the Qing army defeated the Dashun army with Japanese firearms in the Battle of Shanhaiguan, some people in Dashun valued the Japanese.
Faced with the guy named Yu's charming behavior, Liu Tichun immediately retorted:
"It's good for the Japanese to have big iron ships, and it's good for the iron birds. However, the iron birds were defeated by the Ming army last year! Now there is only one iron bird left, and he doesn't dare to face the Ming army's rocket launcher. Besides, the Japanese's large iron ship was actually crippled by Zhang Xianzhong! Of course, Zhang Xianzhong got the Ming army's undersea dragon ship. What does this mean? This means that the Japanese's large iron ship cannot beat the Ming army's undersea dragon ship. Look, what's so great about the Japanese! No matter how good the little Japanese things are, they cannot be better than those of the Southern Ming."
Gao Yigong also said:
"That's right, do the Japanese have armored cars? No! I'm going to tell me that the little Japanese didn't know what luck he had, so he created some evil things. The little Japanese has limited skills, so it's not good to use it. It's unreliable to rely on the Japanese."
There are some debates about which kind of firearms are mainly used in the Dashun Dynasty. Although Ming-style firearms have always dominated the mainstream, there are many people who advocate using Japanese firearms. To be good at using them and skillfully, of course, it is Ming-style firearms. However, after the Shanhaiguan defeat, the Japanese have recently taken the initiative to show their favor, both selling firearms and making technology, and have also scored a lot in the political circle of the Dashun Army. The civil servants led by Niu Jinxing of the Dashun Dynasty always said that they would compete with the Ming Dynasty. Based on political considerations, the future competition with the Ming Dynasty will inevitably be a tit-for-tat competition. From this point of view, only
If Japan's advanced firearms and firearm production technology were introduced naturally, it should be given priority. Song Xiance attached more importance to the introduction of firearm production technology, and spared no effort. Over time, due to differences of opinion, it was divided into Chongming faction and Japanese faction, each with his own opinions and did not buy into each other. They did not know that the same was true for Chinese football in later generations. A group of people said they wanted to learn South American football, while a group of people said they wanted to learn European football. As a result, they learned a four-dimensional character. The firearms of Dashunchao also had a little bit of four-dimensional character, including Ming style, Japanese style, imitation of Ming style and imitation of Japanese style. How could the word "chaos" be great! There is no standardized standard at all.
Of course, when dealing with the Ming Dynasty, kickbacks are indispensable, and this is also the unspoken rule in the Dashun army. These proud generals of Dashun are very arrogant and feel at ease to get kickbacks from the Ming Dynasty, but they are a little disdainful to get kickbacks from the Japanese, which is also a clumsy and strange thing.
Li Zicheng turned a blind eye to Dashun's current open and secret struggles. The ministers fought, and he was just in charge. In the Dashun court, a group of heroes remained unchanged from bad habits and were used to it casually. He did not pay much attention to etiquette when speaking. Li Zicheng did not think it was offended. However, Li Zicheng still had great ambitions and would never want to be suppressed by Nanming all the time. Therefore, he cared much more about Japan's political bargaining chips than Liu Zongmin. In his heart, Li Zicheng agreed with Niu Jinxing's strategy of using the Japanese to control Ming. Of course, Li Zicheng did not want to be regarded as a charmer by Liu Zongmin, so he took an impartial attitude and said calmly:
"Dear friends express their opinions. Although there are differences, they are all for my great support. I am very pleased. In my opinion, the firearms of the South Ming have their own strengths, and the firearms of Japan have their own strengths. I can choose the elders of the two sides of the two sides for my use. There is no need to be more favorable to the other. I am used to using the firearms made by the South Ming in the army, and this is understandable for the firearms of the South Ming. However, some of the firearms of the Japanese are more than the Ming munitions, which is true, right!"
Niu Jinxing was greatly inspired by Li Zicheng's words. Most people also felt the tendency of Emperor Dashun. Hao Yaoqi originally thought that the Japanese machine guns were good, and he thought that other Japanese products were also good. He really had a strong sense of charm. Seeing the emperor's statement like this, he immediately expressed his opinion:
"I think your Majesty is right. From my perspective, some of the Japanese things are indeed better than those of the Nanming. Take the Japanese erotic paintings I saw yesterday, which are much better than those of the Nanming paintings."
The saying of Hao Yaoqi immediately caused laughter in the hall. Even Li Zicheng couldn't help laughing, thinking, Hao Yaoqi is really not afraid of being evil and showing off his ugly appearance. Li Zicheng also saw the Japanese paintings yesterday, and they were indeed lifelike, just like a real person printed on paper. Liu Zongmin also laughed, and after laughing, he thought, maybe the painting he got yesterday was made by the Japanese. Wei Yaode knew that he hated those who charmed the Japanese and deliberately kept it a secret. Well, it must be like this. Of course, the monarch and ministers of the Dashun Dynasty did not know anything. The computers of Japanese travelers brought various AVs and nude photos of the 21st century, and even some people's computers.
There is also a color-dividing software. It is impossible to say that the Japanese have a unique persistence in "color". They trace the origin. In history, they inherited the "**" culture of the Ming Dynasty. When this culture came to Japan, the word "love" was automatically ignored, leaving only one color word. For example, Japan cannot produce "Jin Ping Mei". However, the Japanese AV in the 21st century was unattainable. After the unremitting efforts of this time traveler, they finally simulated the original version of the four-color printing technology, printing the erectus to the extreme of this era. Of course, the Japanese color erectus has color distortion, but compared with the five-color overprinting of the Ming Dynasty, it is a different place.
Chapter completed!