It seems that God especially likes to torture Zhu Yuanzhang and does not want him to live a comfortable life.

Many disasters occurred all over the Ming Dynasty.

Locust plague, drought, and flood plague, as if they had agreed, suddenly.

At the same time, in most areas of the Ming Dynasty, the temperature dropped sharply and was extremely cold, just like the severe winter.

This is not a good sign for the affected refugees.

In the morning court, the court at this moment has become like a bustling vegetable market.

Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the dragon chaise and pressed his hands on his temple, feeling a headache.

Now it is necessary to provide disaster relief, but there is no silver in the treasury.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang could create treasure money without restrictions, the current treasure money basically cannot buy much food.

In today's Ming Dynasty, Baochao's purchasing power has been extremely shrinking.

In the eighth year of Hongwu, the first set of paper money in the Ming Dynasty was officially released under the leadership of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Each piece is about 34 cm long and about 20 cm wide, with face values ​​such as "Yi Guan" and "Five Hundred Wen" written in the middle.

On the outside is a circle of dragon-patterned flower railings, and on the back are printed with eight large seal characters "Da Ming Baochao, the world is the best".

Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes are always equal to one tael of silver and one thousand copper coins, and can also be exchanged for one stone of rice.

Zhu Yuanzhang read a lot, but he was blank about business. From historical books, he learned that Jiaozi of the Northern Song Dynasty and silk banknotes and silver banknotes of the Yuan Dynasty.

So he also made a Daming treasure banknote.

However, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, due to the small amount of regular taxes, the financial income has not been very good.

The issuance of paper money requires reserves. Simply put, if you issue the usual treasure money, you must have one or two taels of silver in the treasury, so that the treasure money will not depreciate.

Zhu Yuanzhang had no idea of ​​reserves in his mind. In addition, in the early Ming Dynasty, there were many places to use money, so Zhu Yuanzhang was simply addicted to printing treasure money.

Since the issuance of the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes, Zhu Yuanzhang has issued more than 5 million ingots of treasure banknotes every year.

The year before yesterday, in the 23rd year of Hongwu, there was also a wave of disasters everywhere. Zhu Yuanzhang printed crazily, and more than 15 million ingots were issued for treasure banknotes.

The Ming Dynasty treasury was poor, and if the annual income was good, it would be possible to survive.

This is also the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang blocked the officials' salaries so much.

It was just that a large amount of treasure money flowed into the market, which directly caused inflation, copper coins, and silver, and began to show real purchasing power.

Now, one or two silver taels of rice can be purchased for nearly three stones of rice, but if you buy it with treasure money, you need ten cents of money.

As of now, it has almost depreciated ten times.

Obviously, if the reserve problem is not solved, the Daming Baochao will only depreciate more and more severely.

After the morning court, Zhu Yuanzhang returned to the imperial study room and did not handle the memorial as soon as possible.

The memorials that were piled up like mountains were almost all disasters everywhere.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the treasure banknote of the Ming Dynasty, could be printed directly, but the grain could not be printed.

But now the ministers cannot afford their salaries, so where can they get food to save disasters?

At present, Zhu Yuanzhang counted the number of people suffering from disasters, which reached more than 100,000, and this number was intensifying.

This gave Zhu Yuanzhang a headache. Although he raised a batch of food everywhere, he was just a drop in the bucket to the current situation.

"Your Majesty, Duke of Song is asking for a meeting." Just as Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking deeply, Jiang Yan reported.

"Didn't we let him teach Dasun? Why did we come back today? Let him come in." Zhu Yuanzhang was a little surprised when he heard Feng Sheng coming, but he thought it might be that Dasun might have something to do with him.

"Your Majesty, happy events, great events." Feng Sheng rushed into the door and said loudly. His voice was very excited.

"Oh, what joy is this!" Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang asked with some excitement. He didn't have to think about it and knew that it was definitely related to Dasun.

"Your Majesty, I and Mr. Zhu have been talking to Mr. Zhu yesterday until late at night since His Majesty left. Mr. Zhu's remarks really make me admire him."

Feng Sheng's face was a little flushed when he talked about yesterday, but his dark circles were a little heavy, so he obviously did not sleep well.

"What did you talk to our eldest grandson? You are so excited. Tell us quickly." Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up when he heard Feng Sheng's words.

The previous fatigue disappeared and he said to Feng Sheng curiously.

Feng Sheng's voice was a little excited and hurriedly said, "I have been talking to Mr. Zhu for a long time. I discovered one thing, that is, Mr. Zhu doesn't know much about the Four Books and Five Classics, poetry, songs and essays."

"But I have a very thorough understanding of people's livelihood, business, military and military affairs, and I even have amazing words every time."

"Especially regarding disaster relief in the Ming Dynasty, Mr. Zhu's views are more unique and different, but when you think about it carefully, they have profound truths."

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard the word "disaster relief", his eyes lit up. The so-called "sleepy" comes to send a pillow. The emergency disaster is the most troublesome thing for Zhu Yuanzhang at the moment.

The occurrence of the disaster was obviously not a day, but the disaster had just broken out in the morning.

"Let me tell me how Dasun dealt with the disaster." Zhu Yuanzhang urged and asked.

He did not expect Dasun to give a proper solution, but wanted to hear Dasun's opinion on such matters.

After all, Dasun inherited the throne in the future, and these things must be handled by him.

"After talking to Mr. Zhu, I have compiled a book of questions overnight. Please take a look at your Majesty." Feng Sheng took out more than ten pieces of paper from his arms and handed it to Zhu Yuanzhang and said.

Zhu Yuanzhang took it and looked carefully.

The first thing that comes to mind is the four big words "work for relief".

Zhu Yuanzhang is not unfamiliar with the practice of using labor for relief. Since the Spring and Autumn Period, many dynasties have used this method.

But obviously, Zhu An’s work-for-relief is not that simple.

In history, labor-for-relief was the court paying money to provide refugees with something to do, which meant the same as disaster relief.

But what Zhu An proposed here is completely different.

He believes that the current food in the Ming Dynasty is enough for civilians to live in, even if it is affected by disasters.

A large amount of food is not in the hands of the civilians, but in the hands of the landlords.

The so-called rich people smell wine and meat, and there are bones that are frozen to death on the road. If the local powerful people are willing to take out food, the disaster can be overcome smoothly.

Zhu An proposed a concept here: If you want to be rich, build roads first.

The official roads of the Ming Dynasty were basically followed by the Yuan Dynasty, and even the Song Dynasty and Tang Dynasty before.

Official roads are generally built with rammed earth, which is very easy to damage and often require maintenance.

There are more places, not even official roads.

Zhu An proposed a new concept here, contracting system.

The meaning is to let the local powerful people accept refugees and then provide food to build official roads.

After the construction of the official road is completed, the tariffs on the official road will be returned to the local powerful people in batches to allow them to obtain profits.

In this way, the refugee problem caused by the disaster can be alleviated.

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished reading it, his eyebrows were deeply frowning. This strategy seemed feasible, and he also believed that many powerful people would actively participate.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang was a little reluctant to hand over the taxes of the Ming Dynasty to others in this way.

Feng Sheng naturally understood His Majesty's concerns about this strategy. After observing his words and expressions, he found that His Majesty did not refuse immediately, and was obviously still considering it.

Then he spoke, "This strategy was proposed by Mr. Zhu. If Your Majesty has any thoughts, why not talk to Mr. Zhu in detail directly?"

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