amaotonovel Chapter 536 Unparalleled Merit
Chapter 536 Unparalleled Merit
Chapter 536 Unparalleled Merit
Zhu Di was surprised to see Zhang Anshi.
At this time, I also realized that I was a little too excited just now.
He gathered himself together and said: "Zhang Qing, the soldiers on the ship are still unable to disembark, let alone return to their hometowns. They have been wandering overseas for such a long time, and they have worked so hard. Because of this, the imperial court should hurry up the ship Only when the team takes over can they land and return to their hometowns as soon as possible."
Zhang Anshi said: "I understand."
It has to be said that Zheng He is a very steady person.He ordered people to stay on the ship and cut off news from the wharf and the officers and men on board, because the wealth was so huge that it was hard to guarantee that no one would covet it. If other people were to count it, Zheng He would obviously not be able to trust it.
The best way is to report to Zhu Di overnight, and His Majesty will send trustworthy people to quickly take over the fleet to ensure the safety of the gold and silver.
And Zhu Di ordered Zhang Anshi to sit in the township, obviously out of trust in Zhang Anshi.
To put it bluntly, sometimes even my son can't believe such things, especially the two debt collectors far away in Annan and Java.
Zhu Di pondered for a moment, then said: "Qiu Qing's family."
At this time, Qiu Fu's heart has also relaxed a little. The good news is that his son is still alive, but the bad news is that he is still floating thousands of miles away.
Hearing His Majesty's roll call, Qiu Fu hurriedly calmed down and said, "The minister is here."
Zhu Di took a deep look at Qiu Fu: "Qiu Qing's family is deputy, let's go to check with Zhang Qing."
Qiu Fu immediately understood what Zhu Di was thinking. The gold and silver were related to his son. Did not hold any important errands.
This time, Zhu Di also hoped that Qiu Fu could do what he could, which also showed Zhu Di's trust in his old brother.
Qiu Fu said: "I obey the order."
Matters were urgent, Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu led away.
But Zhu Di has also ordered the ministers to resign.
However, Zhu Di became even more anxious and brought a large amount of gold and silver. He didn't know how much gold and silver there was.
In Wenyuan Pavilion, however, it was lively.
Because of this new Wenyuan Pavilion, a special study is now set up.
Of course, it's called the study, but it's a place where academicians and housekeepers occasionally come to drink tea. After all... we can't openly set up a lounge, tea room, or cafeteria in Wenyuan Pavilion.
There are many books on the bookshelf here. Of course, the significance of decoration is greater.
The comfortable big sofa is covered with specially treated cowhide.
When you are free, sit here, drink a cup of tea, and all of a sudden, the style of this great scholar comes out.
Whenever I sit here, I am afraid that many scholars and scholars can't help but think, why did Emperor Taizu Gao be so picky?Anyway, he is also a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, but he insists on giving such a dangerous environment to make people stay.
"Gold and silver?" At this time, Hu Guang's expression was a little exaggerated: "This time, Eunuch Zheng made such a big splash, it seems that he has gained a lot."
The other three bachelors all smiled and remained silent.
Hu Guang couldn't help complaining: "Why? The princes like to keep their mouths shut. It seems that they have to put on such airs when they become officials."
"Ahem..." Yang Rong coughed and said, "Mr. Hu was joking."
Hu Guang said: "I don't ask you today, I ask Mr. Xie today! Mr. Xie, you have gone out to sea and have a lot of experience. Tell me, how much wealth will you bring?"
Xie Jin frowned, thought about it seriously, and said in a deep voice, "It's hard to say."
Hu Guangdao: "Why is it hard to say?"
Xie Jin said: "Natives overseas have gold and silver, but...if we talk about wealth...it is far from my Daming. But Mr. Zheng's temperament, Xie also knows that he is extremely rich. Prudent, if he didn't have hundreds of millions of taels of silver, he wouldn't care so much."
"Ten million taels." Hu Guang took a breath, and then made a sound of tsk tsk.
Xie Jin continued: "There may be more. But, even though there are so many gold and silver, what is the use? Now to build this railway, His Majesty spends 5000 million or even 7000 million taels of silver every year. Of course, With this sum of money, His Majesty can finally breathe a sigh of relief, which is a good thing."
Hu Guang couldn't help but said: "It's strange to say that at the beginning, the imperial court wanted to divide one tael of silver into three petal flowers. Now it's fine, and the current expenditure is really appalling."
Xie Jin said calmly: "The world has changed, and we can't think about it with the old thinking."
Hu Guang raised his eyebrows and thought, then nodded silently.
Although this set seems to be somewhat incompatible with the Confucian spirit he has learned, but he can't stand it...he is also a beneficiary. Anyway, he is lying on the sofa and has a salary that allows him to live comfortably.
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Compared with the leisure and ease of several bachelors in Wenyuan Pavilion, the other Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu are not so comfortable.
They took more than 1000 horses overnight and arrived at Songjiangkou Port in a hurry.
Zhang Anshi was experienced in dealing with this kind of thing. As soon as he arrived with his people, he immediately blocked several docks where the fleet was located.
Immediately afterwards, they boarded a boat with Qiu Fu to meet Zheng He.
Seeing someone coming, there was almost thunderous cheers on the boat.
You must know that for sailors, the real pain is not necessarily the encounter of wind and waves at sea.
But it is clear that he has arrived on land, and looking around, his homeland is in front of him, but he still has to stay on the boat obediently, not taking a step beyond the thunder pool.
Well now, the imperial court's imperial envoys have arrived, which means that they can finally go ashore.
Zheng He was wearing a scarlet cloak and a light yellow imperial fish suit. The cloak fluttered when the sea breeze blew, and he greeted each other with Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu.
Seeing Qiu Fu's worried expression, Zheng He smiled and added, "Congratulations, Duke Qi."
Qiu Fu was taken aback for a moment. He had really complicated feelings along the way. He had actually accepted the fact that his son was mediocre. After all... he used to think that his son was honest, but later he gradually realized that his son was not honest, but rather stupid.
The sons of the duke, Zhu Yong and Zhang Fu, would not be carried away thousands of miles away by Zhang Anshi excitedly.
What's more, since boarding the boat, I saw that many people looked haggard, thin and dark, with yellow spots caused by malnutrition on this dark complexion.
So in his mind, the image of Qiu Song starved to skin and bones immediately came to mind.
Qiu Fu was old and couldn't stand such a stimulus, he just felt his heart was suffocating.
Immediately afterwards, the delivery took place.
The delivery is a very complicated matter. In addition to explaining the matters to be noticed, there is also... Zheng He took out the charts and records. Here... it records the Jianwen of the voyage, the customs and customs of various places, and the hydrological information. Of course, There are also those who died in the fleet, why they died, or those who were rewarded for their meritorious service, etc.
Going to the Western Ocean is not just a simple trip for the fleet, it is of pioneering significance, and the sea charts are the most valuable and priceless treasure.
Then came the main event, Zheng He led Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu to the bilge of the flagship.
As soon as the bilge was opened and the lantern was illuminated, suddenly, the faces of Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu were shone with golden light.
"Damn it." Zhang Anshi couldn't help being shocked and said: "You robbed so much?"
It was too surprising, but as soon as the words came out, Zhang Anshi immediately felt that he had made a slip of the tongue, and quickly shut his mouth.
Qiu Fu had obviously never seen so much gold and silver, and was so surprised that he couldn't speak.
Zheng He seemed to have expected it a long time ago, smiled and said: "All the ships are fully loaded, and next, there will be His Highness Lao and Duke Qi. We should also get off the ship and take a rest."
Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu didn't know if they had listened to Zheng He's words, but their eyes were fixed on the golden object for a long time, and they couldn't move their eyes away for a while.
But the shock was the shock, Zhang Anshi was a man of action, and soon, a team of accountants were invited on board.
There are dozens of teachers and students from the Mathematics School, as well as the accountant of Qixia Commercial Bank.
When everyone saw this posture, they were all frightened and couldn't speak for a long time.
Immediately afterwards, the discussion began.
At any rate, they are all masters of mathematics. After everyone brainstormed, a doctor from the school of mathematics came forward and saluted Zhang Anshi: "His Royal Highness, if we weigh one by one, so much gold and silver, but I don't know that it will take until the year of the monkey. So We discussed it carefully, and finally came up with a method that can calculate the amount of gold and silver within three to five days."
Zhang Anshi was shocked: "Three or five days?"
The doctor then said: "Using Cao Chong's method of weighing images is enough. If a standard boat is fully loaded, calculate its draft, draw a scale, and get the weight of this boat of gold and silver, then...then... Constantly load gold and silver onto small boats, see how many boats there are, and then use the number of gold and silver in a boat according to the number of boats. Of course, there may be two to three hundredths of errors in this calculation.”
"An error of two or three out of a hundred?" Zhang Anshi murmured, he thought for a while, and then said: "Use this method first to get an approximate amount, and after the gold and silver are put into the treasury, let someone do the calculation slowly. "
"Here."
So, everyone was busy.
This is a big project.
But Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu were free.They are imperial envoys, they are here to sit in town, and they are not responsible for specific affairs.
Zhang Anshi hid in the command cabin of the flagship, magically took out a book, and read it with relish.
At this time, Qiu Fu also began to reflect on his memory, realizing that his son might really have made a great contribution this time, so he was suddenly excited.
He wanted to talk to Zhang Anshi, but Zhang Anshi just buried his head in his book, and immediately accosted him, "Nephew, what book are you reading?"
Zhang Anshi said without raising his head, "Feng Tianjing is hard to remember."
Qiu Fu was taken aback for a moment, but couldn't help regaining his energy, and said immediately, "Is there me in there?"
"Yes, yes." Zhang Anshi said: "Who doesn't know, General Qiu, you are a great hero in Jingnan, how can you miss General Qiu?"
Qiu Fu became more energetic, and said, "Come on, I have a look, I have a look."
Zhang Anshi paused, and finally raised his head to look at Qiu Fu, but he hesitated: "This... this is not good... right... this is a free book..."
"Feng Tianjing is difficult, why is it an idle book?" Qiu Fu's eyes widened.
Zhang Anshi was dumbfounded for a moment, feeling very helpless, so he had no choice but to present the book.
Qiu Fu took the book happily, flipped through it, and saw a line of words: "Jianwen often takes Yin medicine, his blood boils, first guard against the old woman, no, bind the sow to have sex, this is all Qi Huang Er The crime of thieves is also. '
Seeing this passage, Qiu Fu was suddenly silenced.
He slowly closed the book, as if he was not interested in finding his own deeds in this book. Instead, he took a deep breath, stuffed the book back to Zhang Anshi, and said, "This old man has little literacy, so I can't read very well."
Zhang Anshi also looked a little embarrassed, and couldn't help saying: "Unscrupulous scholars are like this, Shi Bo don't need to take it to heart."
After staying on the boat for five days, finally, the results came out.
The doctor came to report: "Your Highness, the number is out."
Zhang Anshi couldn't help but feel a little nervous at this time, so he said eagerly: "How many."
The doctor said: "Because there are gold and silver, and... there are even a lot of other jewelry, but for the convenience of calculation, so... students, etc., all of them will be converted into silver according to the market price. Of course, students I also considered that the appearance of a large amount of gold will inevitably bring about a certain degree of decline in the price of gold, so this factor has also been adjusted.”
Zhang Anshi said: "As expected of a doctor in the School of Mathematical Sciences, you have thought of everything, well, let's not talk about these nonsense, how much is the silver price."
The doctor looked up at Zhang Anshi, his voice trembling slightly: "9000 million taels."
Zhang Anshi: "..."
Qiu Fu: "..."
After a while, Zhang Anshi, who was shocked again, found his own voice and said, "Are you sure?"
The doctor immediately nodded and said: "It is certain, of course, errors are inevitable."
Zhang Anshi frowned. He only knew that Venice and some other commercial city-states were rich. After all, they had accumulated wealth for hundreds of years and controlled the taxation, usury and trade of the whole of Europe.
But I didn't expect to be so rich.
Zhang Anshi couldn't help but said: "Immediately sort out the accounts, and after that, you continue to stay here. This king and Duke Qi will enter Beijing as soon as possible."
Zhang Anshi's voice trembled a little.
This time, it can be regarded as catching a big fish.
Zhang Anshi casually flipped through the pictures, looked at them carefully for a while, and then couldn't help but said: "I never thought, they actually got a lot of money from Rome."
"Rome?" Qiu Fu couldn't help asking.
Zhang Anshi said: "Uncle Shi, this Rome is just... like our temple, do you understand?"
Qiu Fu said disappointedly: "How much money can the temple have?"
Zhang Anshi smiled and said: "You look down on their temple too much. A Knights Templar under this temple has an annual income of 600 million pounds from real estate and donations from believers. Do you know what this concept is? ? This income is several times that of my bank tax income before the new policy in Ming Dynasty."
"As for this Venice, its wealth is not lower than that of the Knights Templar, and even much more. However, I still can't figure out how to get so much real money in a short period of time. It came out. Logically speaking, those businessmen are all very shrewd, and they are all miser-like people, how could they give in so easily?"
Qiu Fu rubbed his hands excitedly and said, "Okay, hurry up and see Your Majesty."
Zhang Anshi didn't dare to neglect, and immediately set off for Beijing.
At this time, Zhu Di was eagerly waiting for the news, but he was disappointed when he heard that Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu were going to Beijing.
It's only been a few days of work, and I'm back. The calculation is so fast. In this way... Maybe I really don't have much money.
Zhu Di was seated in the Wenlou, and all the scholars from Wenyuan Pavilion and the ministries of various ministries also came.
Zhang Anshi and Qiu Fu entered Wenlou, and first saluted politely.
The answer is about to be revealed, Zhu Di was not in a hurry at this time, and just smiled and said: "The Qing family doesn't need to be too polite."
Only then did Zhang Anshi say: "Your Majesty, the minister and Qi Guogong have calculated the number, and I am here to reply."
Zhu Di nodded and said, "Well, what is the number?"
Zhang Anshidao: "A rough estimate is 9000 million taels of silver."
After these words fell, the hall suddenly seemed to stop breathing.
This number is very scary.
So many people can't help but start to count in their hearts, what is the concept of this 9000 million.
Zhang Anshi had expected everyone's reaction long ago, wasn't it the same when he heard it for the first time?
At this time, he smiled and said: "Of course, it's just a rough estimate, there will be a fluctuation of two to three hundred. After all, time is urgent, and the specific number has to wait until it is put into storage."
Zhu Di: "..."
The ministers began to carefully observe Zhu Di's reaction.
Zhang Anshi saw that Zhu Di didn't respond, so he said again: "After several months of hard work, I can get all these gold and silver. I never thought that I would be able to talk about it. It is thanks to Qiu Song. Qiu Song is straightforward and neat in his work. He is really a gentleman." Three days, teach people to look at each other with admiration."
Zhu Di: "..."
Seeing that Zhu Di was still silent, Zhang Anshi simply stopped talking.
Qiu Fu was even more nervous, not daring to vent his breath.
Zhu Di suddenly said: "One hundred and ninety million taels?"
Zhang Anshi said: "Your Majesty, this is an approximate account, please read it over."
Zhu Di waved his hand: "I don't want to look at any accounts, I only want this number."
Zhang Anshi had no choice but to say: "Your Majesty, it is indeed this number."
Zhu Di took a deep breath and said, "Just a trip to the sea can teach the world how to repair railways for three years?"
Zhang Anshi said: "Theoretically...it seems to be the case."
Zhu Di murmured in a low voice: "No wonder I see that boy Qiu Song, who is hiding everything, turns out to be wise and stupid... No wonder... That's no wonder..."
Yi Shiha coughed and turned his face away in fright.
The officials began to whisper, at this moment, they realized that they could no longer care about the appearance of the minister, and they had too much desire to express themselves, so they began to discuss in a low voice.
Zhu Di turned a deaf ear to this.
He immediately said: "Reward immediately, and reward heavily. Qiu Song is the first meritorious service. Give him a duke's land, and give the Qiu family a piece of land..."
After Qiu Fu heard this, maybe it was because of the exhaustion of the pommel horse for several days, or because he was suddenly greatly stimulated, and suddenly he became dizzy and dizzy, and he was already on the verge of falling.
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It was so uncomfortable, I had a fever for two days, my throat was so sore that I couldn't eat anything, it was miserable.
(End of this chapter)