When the strong man was intimidating the scholar viciously, he heard that Chu Guogong was coming, and he was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground, from beginning to end, he was bullying the old and weak, and he was really at a loss, not to mention that his sister was the prefect's concubine, even if it was the main room, which angered Chu Guogong, I am afraid he would not be able to eat and walk around.

Wang Yan walked into the inner circle, and the old farmer hurriedly knelt aside, "The grass people salute the national prince!" \u000bWang Yan glanced at the strong man who was kneeling and kowtowing on the side, not daring to speak, then moved his gaze to the old farmer and asked, "What is the name of the old man, and where is he from?" "\u000b" Hui Guogong, the grass people called Zhao Jiaren, the people of eastern Guangdong, after the Qing soldiers attacked back and forth, the grass people and their families fled to Guangzhou with the sheep. \u000bWang Yan asked gently, "How many sheep do you have now?" Will the family be able to live? ”

"Cao Ming originally had more than 30 of them, but when he fled, he lost more than 10 of them, and now there are still 10 of them. When the grass people heard that the Son of Heaven had arrived in Guangzhou, they thought that since the emperor had arrived in Guangdong, their hometown must have been safe, so they were ready to sell a sheep and exchange some copper coins to return to their hometown. Now the government supports the people of eastern Guangdong to return to their hometowns, and as long as they return to their hometowns, they will definitely survive. \u000b Wang Yan nodded, took out five taels of silver, handed it to the old man, and said with a smile: "Accept the money, the governor of the sheep wants it, return to eastern Guangdong to live a good life, and the governor will tell you a good news in advance, when today's son Shengming, the princes of the court have passed a resolution, the court will no longer increase agricultural taxes, and the previous three salaries will be abolished as soon as possible." ”

When the old farmer heard this, he kowtowed and thanked him again and again, and the people around him also talked about it.

At this time, Wang Yan was looking at it, the strong man who had completely lost his fierce momentum was just a fierce and introverted person, and he felt bored in his heart, he snorted coldly, "I originally thought you were Zhenguanxi, but now it seems that I look down on you." ”

The strong man was snorted coldly by Wang Yan, so frightened that he almost and urine, kowtowing like pounding garlic, "Guogong atons for his sins, the little one knows that he is wrong, he will never dare again, Guogong will spare me this time, I will never dare again!" \u000b Wang Yan didn't have time to entangle with him, although this person was hateful, but he didn't break the law, but he bullied the weak in the name of the prefect of Guangzhou but had to guard against it, Wang Yan immediately said coldly to his soldiers: "Send him to the Guangzhou government and hand him over to the prefect to deal with." ”

Wang Yan's move is also a knock on the prefect of Guangzhou, if he doesn't know the virtue of his concubine's brother, it is to give him a wake-up call, let him manage his relatives, if he has more protection before, it is equivalent to sounding a warning bell for him.

The two pro-soldiers immediately stepped forward and dragged the strong man away, one left and one right.

At this time, Wang Yan waved his hand and signaled the lively crowd to disperse, but stopped the scholar and said, "What is Gongsheng's name?" Where are the people? ”

"Late-born Chen Yonghua, the word Fufu, a native of Zhangzhou, Fujian, his father Chen Ding, Chongzhen's sixteenth year of Kui Weike Jinshi." The scholar saluted with some excitement.

Wang Yan raised his eyebrows when he heard this, he was not named Sun Shan, but he had been in Beijing for a long time, and he happened to have some intersection with Chen Ding, so he said happily: "It turned out to be the son of Brother Ming Jing, where is Brother Ming Jing now?" Fufu is here to see the township test? ”

Chen Yonghua was gloomy for a while when he heard this, and said sadly: "Guogong doesn't know, my father committed suicide when the Qing soldiers entered Fujian, but the late life really came to participate in the township test this time, but the late life is ashamed of the father, a few days ago, the list was released, and the late birth fell to Sun Shan, and he was not selected." ”

Wang Yan's body was shocked, he didn't expect Chen Ding to commit suicide, he couldn't help but feel sad in his heart, at this time he adjusted his emotions and patted Chen Yonghua's shoulder, "Brother Ming Jing's integrity is admirable, it is inevitable that he will leave a legacy in history, Fufu does not have to be sad, as for the matter of falling off the list, he can fight again in the coming year." If Fufu has no other arrangements, I can recommend Fufu to study in Guozijian for a period of time, what does Fufu think? ”

When Chen Yonghua heard this, his face showed joy, his hometown was occupied by Qing soldiers, his father committed suicide, and his family property was taken away, and his hometown would definitely not be able to go back.

Originally, he escaped from his home and was going to go to the nearest place to vote for Zheng Chenggong, but when the news of the opening of Enke by the imperial court came, he changed his mind and came to Guangzhou to see the imperial examination, but he did not expect to pass the examination.

Now that he is exhausted, and when he doesn't know what to do in the future, Wang Yan wants to recommend him to enter Taixue, and he naturally agrees immediately, "The late student is willing to enter the Guozijian to study." ”

Wang Yan nodded and said, "It's getting late now, I still have some things to ask Fufu, why don't you come to my house tonight?" \u000bChen Yonghua nodded, Wang Yan asked the guards to give him a horse, then turned over on the horse and left the mansion.

Back at the house, the soldiers went back to the barracks, and Wang Yan took Chen Yonghua to dine together, and after eating, he took him to the study, and said with a heavy face: "Just now in the market, Fufu said that money is expensive and silver is cheap, and one or two silver can only be exchanged for seven hundred yuan, what's the matter?" ”

The Central Plains lacked silver, and there was not much copper, and all dynasties relied on imports from Japan.

Under normal circumstances, one tael of silver is equal to a thousand wen money, but since Zhang Juzheng's reform, the imperial court is no longer collecting goods, and the state tax is changed to silver, and the peasants can only exchange money for grain and silk, and then go to the silver village to exchange for silver.

This stimulates the circulation of the economy, but also improves the status of silver, coupled with the use of silver in national expenditures and bulk transactions, resulting in less silver among the people, but the people need silver to pay taxes, so it often causes the situation that silver is expensive and cheap, that is, it is said that one or two silver can be exchanged for a thousand wen, in fact, one tael of silver can be exchanged for more than a thousand wen.

Wang Yan knew about the situation of silver being expensive and cheap, but it was the first time he had seen the phenomenon of silver being cheap and expensive.

Guangdong and Fujian, in the Ming Dynasty, because the arable land was relatively small, to feed so many people, it was necessary to find another way, so there were more people who went abroad to do trade, and there were already a large number of Han people in Nanyang in the Ming Dynasty.

It is because of the flow of population and the frequency of trade that the young Chen Yonghua is more sensitive to these problems, and he almost didn't think much about it, so he replied: "The land of Guangnan has now become the only export of foreign trade of the Ming Dynasty, and a large number of materials are transported from here to Nanyang in exchange for a large amount of silver inflow. ”

"Rare is expensive!" Wang Yan was able to see through it a little, and his face suddenly changed, "Isn't that equal to the value of silver, which is decreasing?" ”

If the current silver is exchanged for one tael for 700 wen, wouldn't it mean that Wang Yan's current assets have shrunk by three percent.

Chen Yonghua said: "In fact, the problem is a little more complicated, a large amount of silver inflow at the same time, a large number of materials are flowing out, on the one hand, the value of silver is decreasing, on the other hand, because of the outflow of materials in the Ming Dynasty, and the price of goods will rise, which will definitely cause some problems." ”

Wang Yan seemed to understand a little, "Is this one of the reasons why the imperial court banned the sea in the first place?" Is there a solution to such a problem? ”

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