Just when the Nanjing New Army and the Jinyiwei paid military pay, and silver dollars and gold coins began to enter the market to circulate, Huang Degong and Gao Jie's two towns in Jiangbei (the original Jiangbei four towns, Liu Liangzuo had been killed, and Liu Zeqing defected and defected to the Qing Dynasty) also paid military pay. Like the Nanjing New Army and the Jinyiwei paid military pay, both silver dollars and gold coins were paid.

Chen Zilong, who was sent to negotiate military pay with Zuo Liangyu, had already arrived in Wuchang. He heard that the court sent him to discuss military pay with him, Zuo Liangyu did not dare to neglect and held a more grand reception ceremony.

Chen Zilong saw Zuo Liangyu, and after some bargaining, he finally lowered the military pay of 2 million taels of silver offered by Zuo Liangyu to 1.2 million taels of silver.

"One and two million taels?" Hearing the military pay amounts received by Chen Zilong, Zhu Cixuan said angrily, "The left thief has a wealthy land in Huguang. Originally, the fertile land of the King of Chu belonged to him. He had basically intercepted the taxes of Huguang. He still had the face to ask me for so much money? In my opinion, it would be too much for him to give 120,000 taels of money!"

"Your Majesty!" Zhao Peng, who was next to him, "One.2 million taels should be given to the left thief. This is a delayed strategy. I will give him military pay this year. We will train our soldiers next year. Do we need to give him more? Your Majesty, now that our army has not yet been trained, we should bear it first. What's more, we just happened to take advantage of the opportunity of flying Zuo Liangyu to send our coins to the Huguang area, so that the gentry, military and civilians in Huguang all know the silver dollars and gold coins of our Royal Silver Crown. Wouldn't this be used by Zuo Liangyu to help us advertise?"

"Advertisement? What does it mean?" Zhu Cixuan said in confusion.

"It means to be widely publicized. Because there are not many people in Huguang area that know our Ming silver number at present, we will take this opportunity to inform the people in Huguang area about this matter, which will open up the sales of our gold and silver coins in Huguang. After the soldiers under the left thief use the military pay we give, they will inevitably spend that kind of coins, which will allow our coins to enter circulation in Huguang." Zhao Peng explained to Zhu Cixuan.

"Although the coins were minted by our own silver number, they were all real money and silver after all. I was really unwilling to take them out to feed the left thief!" Zhu Cixuan sighed.

Zhao Peng smiled and said, "Your Majesty, as long as the coins of our Daming Silver Number are circulated in the market, and in secret, Chencang issued paper money by issuing small silver notes, we will have as much money as the silver we want, and we still care about this one. In my opinion, this one one and two million taels will temporarily stabilize the left thief and it will be very cost-effective to get us a year."

In the end, Zhu Cilang agreed to allocate 1.2 million taels of military pay to Zuo Liangyu. Three days later, the batch of military pay was loaded on a ship, and went upstream along the Yangtze River to Wuchang.

In the fleet, in addition to one of the silver ships that transported military pay to Zuo Liangyu, more than a dozen other ships were just ships that transported cannons, bird guns, cold weapons, armor and other weapons. Those ships were just ships that were heading to Xiangyang for trade with Li Zicheng.

There are still many empty spaces for ships transporting arms. After arriving in Wuchang, these ships will purchase grain on the spot. After loading the ship, they will be sent to Xiangyang with the arms. They will sell the grain and arms to Li Zicheng together.

When the ships that trade with Li Zicheng return to Nanjing, the ship will be filled with gold and silver. These gold and silver will be delivered to Nanjing and will enter the inner warehouse, and then handed over to the mint to mint to make gold and silver coins circulate on the market.

As Zhao Peng expected, after the batch of silver coins were distributed to Zuo Liangyu's soldiers, they were immediately taken to spend by Zuo Jun soldiers, so the coins flowed into the market in Huguang.

In the Huguang market, the gold and silver coins have the same reputation as in the Jiangnan market. The coins with exquisite workmanship and full of materials and easy to use were quickly recognized by the market. Gradually, people became accustomed to using such coins that do not require identification and weighing, which can save a lot of trouble for merchants and customers.

Of course, with the large circulation of coins in the market, many criminals who minted counterfeit coins also appeared. These criminals used a small amount of silver to counterfeit silver dollars, and a small amount of gold to counterfeit gold coins, in order to make huge profits. When counterfeit coins appeared in the market, Jinyiwei quickly set his sights on this matter.

The counterfeit currency cases in many places have been announced to be solved one after another. Constables from various government offices have dispatched one after another. A large number of criminals who minted counterfeit currency were arrested and then sent to prison.

Criminating counterfeit coins has been a serious crime in all dynasties. After these criminals were arrested, local officials immediately tried the counterfeit coins. Those who minted counterfeit coins were confiscated and sent to the guillotine.

The coins circulating on the market were alive. Soon after, not only did the Ming Dynasty's controlled areas circulate a large number of coins minted by the Ming Dynasty's Royal Silver, but even Li Zicheng's controlled areas, Zhang Xianzhong's controlled areas, the Qing Dynasty's controlled areas, and even North Korea and Japan began to appear in large quantities of coins minted by the Ming Dynasty's Royal Trading.

Outside the courtyard where the Royal Silver House of the Ming Dynasty was located, a shop with the words "Auction House" on the plaque was opened. After the plaque on another building was unveiled, the words "Jubaolou" were written on it. In addition to these two largest buildings, there is also a small shop that is not very eye-catching, with a plaque of "Da Ming Daily" hanging on it.

Although the store is not big, the words "Daming Daily" make this small shop quite famous.

At the early morning of the morning, that is, at three o'clock in the morning, the Daming Daily opened. In the yard behind the daily store, there was a row of small houses, and rows of workers sat in the house. The workers arranged lead movable type into the page in order, then covered with a piece of wax paper, and then pressed the wax paper and movable type with a special machine, so that the words were engraved on the wax paper.

Then the wax paper was spread on the roller of a hand-crank printing machine. The worker shook the hand-crank printing machine and as the paper was sent into the hand-crank printing machine one by one, it turned into newspapers with the words "Da Ming Daily".

At 5 o'clock in the morning, the newspaper was filled with refugee children from the north.

The door of the courtyard opened and children flocked into the courtyard.

A Jinyiwei opened his voice and said to the children: "Everyone put their own way or household registration certificates in the newspaper, and then take one hundred newspapers to sell them. One newspaper is sold for two copper coins. If you sell two newspapers, you can get a commission of one copper coins. In the evening, bring the unsold newspapers and the copper coins obtained from selling newspapers to return to the social networking service, and then get your way or household registration certificates."

The children lined up, and someone sent a stack of newspapers to them alone, and asked them to go and sell newspapers around the streets.

"Da Ming Daily! It is published today, with a lot of content. You can know what happened in the north and south, you can know the battle between the thieves and Jiannu in the north! There are also serial novels." The newspaper boys walked around the streets and began to sell newspapers hard.

These days, there are not many ordinary people who can read. However, in Nanjing, there are still many people who can read. Most of the people who buy newspapers are gentry and scholars, as well as restaurants and teahouse owners, and customers who buy newspapers. Especially the owners of teahouses, they can hand them over to the storyteller, who can tell the contents of the newspaper to the illiterate ordinary people.

In front of the Imperial College in Nanjing, Zheng Sen and several prison students heard the shouts outside and hurriedly walked out.

"How much does a newspaper cost?" Zheng Sen asked.

"Two copper coins per piece." The newspaper boy replied timidly.

"Give me one." Zheng Sen handed over two copper plates.
Chapter completed!