"My God, our family didn't expect these unscrupulous merchants to be so rich. This is more silver than the emperor's inner treasury!"

Because of his careful work, Li Yongzhen, the eunuch in the Silijian, was asked by Zhu Youxiao to be responsible for the general service of liquidating the confiscated Shanxi merchants' property, and to command the accounts of the Nei Shutang.

And so, Li Yongzhen couldn't help but sigh after looking at the silver all over the cellar in front of the cellar.

Li Yongzhen immediately ordered, "Check it now!"

"yes!"

The eunuchs who followed Li Yongzhen to do business immediately began to search and collect the gold, silver and jewelry.

For a moment, Li Yongzhen also saw a bunch of untreated jewelry. After he looked carefully, he found that many jewelry was still covered with blood.

Then, Li Yongzhen took the gem ring that had a piece of finger bone left because he couldn't pull it out and then wiped it off the dust and became shocked: "I don't know if it was the ring of the Han people who were chopped away by someone's hand and it fell here. These Shanxi merchants still committed those evil."

Li Yongzhen left the cellar and put some bloody jewelry and the gem ring with a piece of finger bones in front of Xu Xianchun: "Xu Zhenfu, look, these evils are probably gold and silver jewelry that have been plundered from the people, and then fell into the hands of these profiteers, and they have not had time to deal with it."

Xu Xianchun took a look at this and glanced at Fan Ming, who was trembling: "Where do these jewelry come from?"

Fan Ming replied tremblingly: "It was the Mongolian and Jurchens who broke the city and plundered from the Han people. Then they wanted to exchange salt, tea and other items with us, and they fell into our hands."

Xu Xianchun stepped on it, stepped on Fan Ming's bloody hand, and gritted his teeth and said, "Damn, you profitable money, are you profitable businessmen still in your heart!"

"Ah! It hurts! It hurts! Master Yi, please spare your life!"

Fan Ming cried and begged.

Xu Xianchun let go and ordered his subordinates to look at Fan Ming and others. He continued to take the people to confiscate other Shanxi merchants.

Fan Ming continued to sob and cry.

Fan Yongdou watched his Fan family's gold, silver and jewelry be carried out in boxes, and shouted in his heart angrily: "It's a pity that my Fan family's foundation has fallen into the hands of the court!"

Next.

Other Shanxi merchants involved in smuggling and smuggling were also confiscated.

And the amount of confiscated property is difficult to count for a while.

Even Xu Xianchun and Qin Liangyu had to stay here for more than a month.

at the same time.

These Shanxi merchants suspected of smuggling and smuggling enemies have also been confiscated by factory and security personnel who have already prepared, and are also being counted and escorted back to Beijing.

"The emperor, according to the report of Xu Xianchun and Li Yongzhen, and the reports of factory and guards dispatched in other places, it is estimated that the confiscated property of these Shanxi merchants is no less than 50 million taels. I really didn't expect that these Shanxi merchants would have so much wealth, but now it seems that the treasury is more abundant than before. In addition, the silver that has been copied from Zhang Heming and Wang Zuo and other corrupt ministers will be no longer worried about the money in the future."

Wei Zhongxian reported to Zhu Youxiao with a smile.

Zhu Youxiao was not surprised after hearing this.

Because in Zhu Youxiao's view, the Ming Dynasty's commercial tax was so low and there were many people exempted. In addition, the Shanxi merchants colluded with ministers in the court to smuggle military supplies in the nine borders for so many years, so it was nothing that the Shanxi merchants were cheated out of tens of millions of taels of silver.

Moreover, as far as Zhu Youxiao knows, this is quite small. If it develops as in history, the Shanxi merchants will become more and more daring to make money as the Jiannu power grows. At that time, the Shanxi merchants will accumulate more and more money than this.

"This is my money! Let them not take me seriously!"

Zhu Youxiao only said one sentence about Wei Zhongxian's words and said:

"However, these tens of millions of taels of silver are just one-time inputs. The Ming Dynasty is now spending a lot, and a lot of these silvers are originally owed to the border army, so they will be spent sooner or later. The most important thing is to have continuous inputs. We cannot learn from these landlords, put away the money and hide it in the cellar after they are put away, so that they can circulate, stabilize prices, and increase income!

If you ask the Jinyiwei to inquire about the grain prices of foreign countries such as North Korea, Siam, as well as iron ore and livestock equivalents. If you are cheaper than in China, buy some back. These silvers are kept as silver. They cannot be turned into disaster relief food to defend the enemy. If there are too many, it will become worthless. Therefore, you have to spend it and become more useful. I want to set up a Royal Foreign Trade Bureau, which is listed as one of the inner courts. You and Liu Ruoyu each recommend a eunuch to take charge of this bureau. Apply to me to use some of the treasury to purchase various important products outside, especially grain, ore, and wood."

As far as Zhu Youxiao knew, because the silver in the Ming Dynasty increased, prices were rising.

In other words, the economy of the Ming Empire has been inflated.

In this case, the court actually needs to use the increased silver to import the goods needed by the Ming Dynasty, thereby realizing the real benefits brought by the increase in silver.

For example, as the population increased in the Ming Dynasty, the fields did not increase in large quantities, so the contradiction between food demand became increasingly greater, and silver was needed to exchange more food.

In the past, it was because a large amount of silver was in the hands of gentry landlords, and these gentry landlords liked to hide silver underground or buy land, which aggravated the inversion.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not have much silver capital before to improve the economic environment of the Ming Dynasty and bring more food to the people in the country.

But now that Zhu Youxiao has this first silver capital, he naturally has to do this, and by the way, he can also bring himself some foreign trade income.

"I obey the order!"

Wei Zhongxian and Liu Ruoyu replied.

"In addition, the follow-up matters after confiscating Shanxi merchants this time must be arranged. Although these unscrupulous merchants smuggled and sold the country, they did reduce the frequency of the Mongols nuisance of border towns by trade with the Mongols. Now our Ming Dynasty's enemy is the Donglu, so trade with the Mongols cannot be stopped. In addition, we have to control the Mongolian tribes by trade with the Mongols, so that the Mongolian tribes should not be reversed, so we should avoid the Mongolian tribes from falling to the East Gate and plunder our Ming Dynasty with the East Gate!

However, this trade cannot be done by private merchants. The private merchants only care about making money and have no interests in the court. They plan to set up Maritime Bureaus in each town on the Jiubian towns, with Jinyiwei or Neiwen as the management, and specialize in trade with the Mongolians;

Instructions, send all the accounts of the Shanxi merchants after they were seized to the palace, and then be sure to know the trade volume with Mongolia and the trade volume with Jurchens through the trade between the Shanxi merchants over the years;

And through this trade volume, the trade volume of Mongolian tribes was controlled to a level that could allow the Mongolians to survive through trade but could not obtain a large amount of excess food and other important military supplies through trade and sold to the Jurchens;

This can be considered as controlling the Meng tribes to expand!

This is also a means and my real purpose. The court officials thought that I copied Shanxi merchants just to get money, so they thought it too simple."

Zhu Youxiao said, "Go and do it quickly!"

"The emperor is wise! Let's do it now."
Chapter completed!