After the rise of the official textile industry, Emperor Zhu Youxiao also made a fortune.

In addition to the expenses used for internal and external expenses of the court, there is still a lot of silver left to enter the inner treasury.

Zhu Youxiao therefore had the idea of ​​opening a Royal Bank.

However, there are still too few people around Zhu Youxiao who know how to manage money houses.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty had not yet fully entered the era of commodity economy, and the usury that was carried out by the public was still just small loans, and the main loan group was ordinary people;

The main participants in business activities are still powerful and gentry. These people are not short of money and naturally do not need loans;

So the financial demand is not large;

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty did not have a strict official currency, and silver coins were still being implemented;

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not directly issue an order to open a bank.

But Zhu Youxiao didn't plan to just put so much silver in the warehouse.

On the one hand, Zhu Youxiao asked Liu Ruoyu, who was in charge of his own treasury, to exchange the silver coins he received for gold, and recast the gold coins that he had made into the statue of Taizu and store them.

On the other hand, Zhu Youxiao decided that his emperor had to take the initiative to stimulate consumption and promote productivity.

This naturally requires Zhu Youxiao to spend money and cannot be an emperor who is too frugal, so that more silver coins can be flowed to the hands of ordinary people who are still short of silver coins, preparing for the subsequent reform of the tax system.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao decided that he had to cultivate one or two of his hobbies, which was not only to entertain his body and mind, but also to use this hobby to promote the circulation of silver coins.

Zhu Youxiao remembers that many emperors in history had various hobbies.

Zhu Zhanji likes to fight crickets.

Even Emperor Hongzhi, who was very obedient in the eyes of civil officials, liked to study medicine.

Zhu Houzhao likes to build zoos and fight wars.

Zhu Houcon likes to refine alchemy.

"What kind of hobbies are suitable for yourself? Just like Qianlong, collect antique calligraphy and paintings, then post a few chapters on it, or travel, and write a few words at the scenic spots and historical sites. It means that I have been here, so I can check it out?"

Zhu Youxiao was thinking about this all morning.

"Report to Your Majesty, the Shipbuilding Bureau has reported that the first brig warship has been launched and has successfully sailed to Lushun. I would like to submit a letter to ask Your Majesty to give it a name."

At this time, Fang Congzhe suddenly reported something to Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao suddenly had an idea and said excitedly: "Very good! I immediately ordered the Ministry of War to purchase sail battleships from the Shipbuilding Bureau and allocate them to the Naval Division of the King Wei Town in Lushun for use. The funds were allocated by the Ministry of Revenue. The funds should not be too small. The Shipbuilding Bureau could continue to build ships. In addition, the treasury allocated 1 million yuan of silver coins to the Shipbuilding Bureau, of which 100,000 was used to reward all those who had made meritorious services and 900,000 were used to develop better performance warships. As for the first warship launched, it was named "Qi Jiguang" to remember its meritorious services, and encouraged the navy officers and soldiers to reshape the style of the good general Qi Jiguang and make new contributions to the Ming Dynasty!"

"yes!"

Fang Congzhe did not expect that His Majesty the Emperor would be so generous in this shipbuilding, and he actually took out millions of yuan in treasury to allow the Shipbuilding Bureau to develop a new warship.

Recently, Zhu Youxiao issued an edict to reform the units of silver coins in the Ming Dynasty, and issued an edict to call the silver coins in the world as "Yuan".

Therefore, the silver dollar scale mentioned by Zhu Youxiao is in units of yuan.

However, the difference between one million silver dollars and one million taels of silver is not very big, and it is still a huge sum of money. Therefore, Fang Congzhecai was surprised by the emperor's behavior of allocating such huge sums to the Shipbuilding Bureau to develop a new warship.

But the emperor allocated the treasury, so Fang Congzhe couldn't say anything. He could only be the emperor likes warships.

After just learning that the Shipbuilding Administration had launched the first sail battleship, Zhu Youxiao decided to make warships one of his emperor's hobbies.

Zhu Youxiao decided to spend the surplus money of his emperor on the research and development of these strange techniques. Building warships is one of them, and there will be other research and development in the future.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao decided to continue to build a large-scale project so that it would become one of his hobbies.

He did not intend to cultivate the hobby of Qianlong.

Because continuing to spend money and tricks can support a large group of scientific researchers and craftsmen, and building a large number of workers can also support a lot of workers.

Only by spending money and doing extraordinary skills and erotic construction can Zhu Youxiao make the purpose of circulating silver coins into more people.

"The Ministry of Works will build a garden dedicated to my summer vacation in the capital. The garden is called Damingyuan. The Ganqing Palace is too small, not spacious enough, and has no waterscape to absorb heat. When it comes to summer, it will be hot and hard to bear. I need a quiet place that is easier to meet the ministers, handle official duties, and cool off the heat and cool down. I will pay this money by myself."

Zhu Youxiao had been the emperor in the Ming Dynasty for two years, and he had to admit that the Ganqing Palace was indeed not a very suitable imperial palace for living.

Because the Ganqing Palace is indeed not big, there is no green scenery, and it is even more hot after summer. Even if there are ice cubes to cool off, there are no green trees, and the garden where the lake water meets the boat is comfortable.

Otherwise, those emperors who had some self-control in history would not choose to live in other places outside the Ganqing Palace, which is not unrelated to this.

The Qing emperor even built gardens directly.

Zhu Youxiao naturally also wants to improve his living and working environment.

By the way, it will also stimulate domestic demand.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao issued an order to build a garden at this time.

Fang Congzhe, the chief minister, naturally would not go against Zhu Youxiao's will, so he agreed immediately and began to draft an order.

This is also a benefit for the emperor after he has money. If you want to improve your residence, you don’t have to look at the faces of the civil servants anymore.

But Zhu Youxiao's actions will naturally make many so-called decent civil servants and sects feel dissatisfied.

"Fang Thief and others said that the emperor was violent but not stupid. From my perspective, the emperor was not only cruel but also extremely stupid. He took away the profits of the gentry in Jiangnan, and did not light taxes and taxes, but only focused on satisfying personal preferences. He even allocated millions of treasurys to build ships. This was simply a waste of national treasury! He also used the silver plundered from Jiangnan to build gardens. What kind of a promising wise ruler is this?!"

"Before, he directly waved his pen and acted as a lowly person in the forest. He compiled mixed books and rewarded tens of thousands of silver coins and even awarded officials with titles. It can be seen that our emperor is not a master who loves to do serious business! He encouraged lowly persons to write books that are difficult to enter the elegant hall and called him a great man, but exiled the real great scholar to Liaodong to dig the land and plant potatoes. Such a cruel and foolish monarch has never been seen before!"

The civil servants who were dissatisfied with Zhu Youxiao were talking about this behind their backs, but now they only dared to talk about it behind their backs, and they dared not say anything on the surface.

Just as the Qing emperors built gardens in history and they could only praise them as wise masters.

In the Ming Dynasty, on the surface, these civil servants and officials still had to praise Zhu Youxiao as the first saint of all ages against their will.

"I just like to see you who are dissatisfied with me but can't do anything to me."

Zhu Youxiao also learned through the East Factory that many ministers had to praise him secretly, and he naturally knew that many civil servants were definitely reluctant, so he smiled and whispered a few words in his heart.
Chapter completed!