Chapter 106, Governor Duanmurui

Many scholars have said that the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the interruption of the inflow of silver. There were connections such and such. The fundamental reason for the Ryu-Pian War was also the reason for the continuous outflow of silver.

This problem cannot be eradicated as long as the Ming Dynasty uses silver for one day.

Unless the Ming Dynasty can discover a large silver mine.

Moreover, even if there is a large silver mine, it will be a problem that can cure the symptoms but not the root cause.

However, the Ming Dynasty now has a ready-made silver mine, that is Japan.

The Japanese issue has become very important because of the shortage of money.

Liu Dingzhi pondered for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, I heard that the Japanese pseudo-emperor was on the way to Beijing. The Japanese Ashikaga family might not be able to shock Japan, and what he promised might not be accurate. I think it should increase the Japanese garrison."

Liu Dingzhi also understood this problem very well. Without enough gold and silver in Japan, the economy of the Ming Dynasty would easily have problems. Once the silver shortage is short, all industries will wither and even let the people return to barter. This is the case, so what else can we talk about?

On this realistic issue, Liu Dingzhi ignored any morality and did not directly suggest annexation of Japan, so he had room for nothing.

As for why he believed that Japan had a large amount of gold and silver, there was a precedent for the Sado Silver Mine. After all, the Sado Silver Mine handed over the silver treasury every year between one million taels and two million taels. In addition, the gold that has begun to be mined, Sado Island contributed more than one province's finances to the Ming Dynasty every year.

Many provinces may not have this amount of taxes.

This forced Liu Dingzhi to believe Zhu Qizhen's information. In addition, although no large silver mine was found in his information channels, there were rumors that Japan has produced a lot of gold and silver since ancient times.

It made him more convinced of this.

Zhu Qizhen pondered for a moment.

To be honest, he regretted it at this moment.

He regretted bringing the Emperor over.

Of course, he brought the Emperor over, but in fact he was afraid that Japan would not be in chaos. Only when Japan was in civil turmoil and the Ming Dynasty annexed Japan would cost less.

The Ming Dynasty, which was the Ashikaga shogunate who relied more on.

But now it's different.

It is more important to stabilize the Ming silver price than to occupy Japan's forward interests.

If the Japanese wanted to honestly mine silver mines for the Ming Dynasty, they needed a relatively stable Japanese shogunate. Just as the reason why Western powers wanted the Qing government to exist was more.

But now everything has been done.

Zhu Qizhen regretted it and had no choice.

He thought for a while and said, "No. It's enough for a Japanese battalion to maintain the Ashikaga shogunate. No matter how many it is, it may not be useful, and it may even have a counterproductive effect."

"This is not the way to pay the Japanese silver."

Zhu Qizhen said: "Where is Duanmurui now?"

Liu Dingzhi thought for a while and said, "It should be in Haixi, as the governor of Haixi."

After Duanmurui was transferred from the Shaofu, he was almost always on the spot. After all, he was not a professional, and it was already quite good to be a third-rank official.

It is impossible to take a step forward.

His future career was just a round-trip mobilization in various provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

After the battle with Wasai, Haixi Province urgently needed its status.

This is inevitable.

During the war with Wasai, the Ming Dynasty always had to support it outside the Northeast Pass. Naturally, it was necessary to strengthen it as much as it should, even if it was spent money.

However, after Watsai arrived in Central Asia and the threat of war was completely lifted, people found that the connection with Haixi was too inconvenient.

Either take a mountain road from Liaodong or a sea road.

Looking at the map, it seems that Haixi Province is closer to the core of the Ming Dynasty and is closer to Haidong Province than Haidong Province, but in fact, it is often possible to reach Haixi through Haidong. Either it is from northeast Liaodong and bypass Changbai Mountain to reach Haixi. That road is not easy to walk.

Among people's meaning, Haixi is almost a forgotten corner of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, there are only hundreds of thousands of people in Haixi, most of them are Koreans, Jurchens, and not even too many Han people.

If Zhu Qizhen hadn't called this place a province. Haixi Province would not be as good as a province in the mainland.

Such an official position is a very hard job in the officialdom. Naturally, no one is willing to take it.

Only those without foundation like Duanmurui would be sent to the post of governor and to do the work of a prefect.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Transfer him back and stationed in Japan. As for what title you have, the sir can arrange it."

Liu Dingzhi said: "Yes. It's just a matter of Japan?"

Obtaining the right to mine in Japan is two different things than transporting Japan's silver mines to the Ming Dynasty. There are too many things to do.

Zhu Qizhen said: "I have my own arrangements for this matter."

What arrangements?

Of course it was arms sales.

Since it is so difficult to maintain the Ashikaga shogunate, I might as well change my ideas. Didn’t the Japanese want to fight? The Ming Dynasty helped them and let them fight happily.

The cost of the Ming Dynasty-style weapons created by Shaofu has been very low. You only need to add one or two zeros, so naturally there will be Japanese people who pay for it.

What don't pay?

Then let the person who destroyed him pay the bill.

As a result, Japanese silver naturally flowed into the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty did not send people to preside over the silver mines themselves. Of course, Zhu Qizhen was also worried that Japan's silver mines had poor technical skills, so he also sent some experts from the Shaofu to inspect one or two.

As for whether this will make Japan stronger.

Zhu Qizhen was not worried at all.

First of all, the Ming Dynasty's troops in Japan, coupled with the escort of King Nagasaki, had already stationed troops in the east and west of the sea, and within a month or two, tens of thousands of troops could be mobilized to enter the North Korea.

As a result, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese people today is absolutely impossible to withstand these tens of thousands of troops.

Secondly, even if Japan had an Oda Nobunaga in advance, unified the state and no navy were enough to threaten the Ming Dynasty. After Japan was unified, it was basically just an Annan.

However, the Ming Dynasty could also calmly dispatch troops and eliminate Japan.

The most important thing is that all this takes time. With the degree of division in Japan now, nothing will emerge in a unified way within decades.

During the Warring States Period in Japan, there was a war. I believe that with the support of the Ming Dynasty, their fighting would only be even more tragic.

This is also why the King of the Yellow Emperor used several generations of talents to annex Japan, which was that the Japanese Warring States Period formed a ball of paste and became the Ming Dynasty's money bag.

Even the princes of the Ming Dynasty cannot move easily.

In the future, the Ming Dynasty discovered that there were gold and silver in other places. After contacting Western colonists, Japan's status was no longer so important, so it was politically tilted to unify Japan with the King of the Kings.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty's central government's gold and silver privileges in Japan continued to his end.

These are all later stories.

Although Liu Dingzhi didn't know what Zhu Qizhen was thinking, he didn't ask again. Liu Dingzhi always lacked confidence in Zhu Qizhen and could not argue with other ministers as a rule.

Immediately, Zhu Qizhen dealt with several more things.

The most urgent thing should be the drought in Huguang.

There was no rain or snow in Huguang all winter, that is, after spring, a severe drought was inevitable. Liu Dingzhi had already begun to allocate disaster relief supplies.

Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but sigh when he saw this.

In the past few years, God has given him face, and Zhu Qizhen cannot forget the previous disasters. I just hope that this time the drought in Huguang will end here.

Otherwise, the fun would be great.

There is also the wedding of the Chongqing princess, which is at the end of the year.

This is also a grand event in the capital.

After all, Zhu Qizhen, the first daughter he married now, specially took out 100,000 taels as a dowry.

It’s not that Zhu Qizhen doesn’t want to give too much. First, he gives too much, leaving a heavy shadow for the future emperors. Many ancestral systems are left like this, and second, Zhu Qizhen really has no money.

Because of the four princes' country recently, Zhu Qizhen always has to give his sons a lot of money. Even though Zhu Qizhen's inner treasury is supported by the Shaofu, it is a bit unbearable to spend millions of taels in one go in the second half of this year.

Moreover, 100,000 taels are already a lot, which is enough for the Chongqing princess to live her whole life. Although in the royal family, Queen Qian is still very thrifty in educating her children.

This grand event was not only a royal event, but also a grand event for the Ming Dynasty merchants. Especially those big merchants came. Once the Xian family was in the same circle, they were in the same circle. They had a friendship before, and they had heard of it without friendship.
Chapter completed!