What is the concept of hundreds of millions of taels of silver? Now the Ming Dynasty's annual tax revenue will not exceed 3 million taels of silver.
Now, unlike in later generations, there has not yet been a large-scale inflow of silver from the Americas. Silver is still very precious and valuable. In the late Ming Dynasty, when the truth was concealed, the large-scale inflow of silver began to really increase, gradually replacing copper coins.
It became the main currency, but copper coins are still the main currency.
As soon as the figure of hundreds of millions of taels of silver came out, it was like a super bomb, blowing everyone up. Then everyone shook their heads, unable to believe Liu Jin's words.
"I know you may not believe what I say, but the world is so big and full of wonders. An Iwami Silver Mine is nothing. There are places in the world that are more fascinating than this Iwami Silver Mine."
"That's the Golden Continent~"
Liu Jin looked at the people around him, ignored everyone's doubts, and continued to draw on the white cloth with a brush.
"Please see, everyone, east of Japan, this is a very vast ocean, we can call it the Pacific Ocean."
"If we want to reach the Golden Continent, we can go all the way north from the Japanese Kingdom, and then sail eastward from the northernmost point of the continent where we are, and then reach the northern part of the Golden Continent."
Liu Jin drew a route on the map. In later generations, the route was to go north from Japan, reach the Bering Strait, and then go east to Alaska.
"The Golden Continent is a very vast continent. The Golden Continent has a very large area. From north to south, the area is about dozens as big as our Ming Dynasty."
"This is a God-given land. The land is very fertile. There are very vast plains in the central and eastern parts of Golden Continent. You can just sow some seeds and wait for the harvest."
"In addition to the fertile land, Golden Continent, Golden Continent, as you can tell from the name, gold is almost everywhere in Golden Continent. The indigenous people here... well, the barbarians of Golden Continent, they are also very backward, they can't even use iron.
Smelting, they loved gold very much, and built huge golden cities with gold, and the bricks in them were all made of gold."
Liu Jin exaggeratedly described the wealth, vast land, and endless gold of the Golden Continent. He also pointed out that the barbarians of the Golden Continent were very easy to conquer. As long as you go there, you can take the gold as you like.
On the entire second floor, everyone was deeply attracted by the Golden Continent described by Liu Jin. Everyone widened their eyes in disbelief. At the same time, they also understood why Liu Jin said that the Iwami Silver Mine of Japan was not counted.
What, compared to gold, silver is nothing.
There is gold all over the place. It is really an exaggeration to use gold to build cities. But after hearing Liu Jin's description, some people's eyes turned red. They wished they could go to Huangjin Continent right now and rob each golden city.
Light.
"Is there such a place in the world?"
"Golden Island is full of gold. How is this possible?"
The middle-aged man shook his head repeatedly. Liu Jin's words were too exaggerated. They were like a fantasy. They sounded just like the myths and legends passed down from ancient times. They were out of reach and very absurd.
"In addition to the gold all over the Golden Continent and the vast and fertile land that is very conducive to farming, there are also several treasures here in the Golden Continent."
Liu Jin looked at everyone's expressions and showed a satisfied smile. What he wanted was this effect. No matter whether it was useful or not, it was hard to tell if he would draw a big cake for people first. Maybe the butterfly effect would slowly cause a chain reaction.
"How many more treasures are there?"
When everyone heard this, they immediately became more energetic. They wanted to know what else there was in this Golden Continent, and also wanted to know what kind of awesomeness Liu Jin could boast.
"As I said before, this Golden Continent is a land given by God, a place blessed by God."
Liu Jin took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, then looked at everyone and continued.
"Our Ming Dynasty's food crops are mainly rice in the south, and wheat, chestnuts, sorghum, etc. in the north. Do you know how much rice, wheat, and chestnuts can be produced per acre?"
"I'm in the grain business. I know one thing. We mainly grow rice in the south of the Ming Dynasty. Rice can be grown twice a year, early rice and late rice. In high-quality paddy fields, the combined yield of early rice and late rice can be about 5 shi per mu.
, if it is a medium paddy field, the yield is only about 4 shi per mu, and the field work is even less."
"Wheat in the north is also divided into winter wheat and spring wheat. The combined yield is about 4 shi per acre per year. As for the yield of chestnuts, it is almost 2 shi per acre."
After hearing Liu Jin's words, a businessman stood up and answered.
"Thank you very much for this friend."
Liu Jin bowed his hand to the other party to thank him, and the other party responded very politely.
"You may wonder why I talk about our Ming Dynasty's grain output, and what does this grain have to do with the treasures of Golden Continent."
Then Liu Jin continued to mention the Golden Continent again, and everyone once again looked at the area of the Golden Continent painted by Liu Jin on the white cloth.
"The most precious wealth of Golden Continent is not this vast and fertile land, nor the gold that can be seen everywhere. Its most precious wealth is the three crops of Golden Continent."
"These three crops are corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. The yields of rice and wheat in our Daming Dynasty are only four or five stones per mu, but the yields of these three crops in Huangjinzhou can easily reach
With a yield of 20 shi, like potatoes and sweet potatoes, its yield can even exceed 30 shi or 40 shi.”
"Do you think such crops are the most valuable wealth?"
Liu Jin once again dropped a bombshell, throwing out corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes.
"Impossible~ How can there be such high-yielding crops in the world?"
The businessman who had just answered the question and the arrogant middle-aged man stood up and said almost in unison.
"This is absolutely impossible~"
"Yeah, how could there be grain with an output of tens of stones per acre? Is this still grain? Why have we never heard of it?"
"If it were possible to produce tens of dan per mu, there would be no hungry people in the world, everyone would be able to have enough to eat, and there would even be a large amount of food left over."
After everyone else was shocked, they all shook their heads. No one would believe the grain yield of dozens of dan per acre. You must know that although gold is precious and land is precious, the most precious thing is food, because people can live without it.
You can have gold without land, but you can't live without food.
"If there really are such food crops, then these three things are really more valuable than gold!"
The middle-aged man soon seemed to realize his gaffe, and slowly returned to his chair, muttering to himself.