Red Mansion Jia Lan: Do you want to run away tonight to visit your relatives? Chapter 108: Liaoyu Village in Shengfutang, discussing national affairs and opening up the sea
Chapter 108: Liaoyu Village in Shengfutang, discussing national affairs and opening up the sea
Jia Lan racked his brains and couldn't remember any entanglement between the Jia family and Sheng Hong.
In my impression, the Sheng family has little contact with the old lady of the Sheng family in the Yongping Marquis Mansion. They only send each other gifts during festivals. For example, when Jia Lan won the election this time, the other party only asked the butler to send congratulatory gifts.
"What do you think of the sea ban?" Sheng Hong slowly put down the tea bowl in his hand and asked Jia Lan unexpectedly.
Sea ban? Jia Lan was stunned, apparently unable to react to Sheng Hong’s jumping topic.
However, he soon caught something in his mind and suddenly realized.
My Lord, the Master, has served successively from Fujian!
[Could it be that the people in the 12th room in the south secretly offended Sheng Hong?]
Jia Lan secretly speculated that although he still couldn't come up with anything, he finally had a direction for thinking.
"Students are bold and secretly believe that opening up the sea ban may have mixed benefits for the country, but for our Chinese nation, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages!"
Sheng Hong said "Oh" and raised his hand with interest and waved his sleeves, signaling Jia Lan to continue speaking.
"I dare to ask the teacher, although the country has a sea ban, can this sea be closed? Now that the sea is banned, how can the livelihood of the coastal people still be secure? Take Fujian as an example, eight mountains, one water and one farmland, if it is really rough
If you can't go to the sea, what will the people eat?"
The fact is that even in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there was no "retreat" in the true sense. At most, it was "restricted". The so-called "reclusive" conclusion is entirely because the West has absolute dominance in academic terms and is open to the outside world.
- The closed, civilized-barbaric binary model is used to comment on the foreign policies of East Asian countries, consciously or unconsciously turning the 'Western-centrism' perspective into the perspective of Asian countries' evaluation of themselves, which in turn affects the self-esteem of Asian countries, especially East Asian countries.
Cognition.
The governments of the Ming and Qing Dynasties implemented active trade policies. For example, during the Longqing reign of Emperor Mu Zong of the Ming Dynasty, the maritime ban was relaxed, gradually forming a huge trade network from the interior to the border to North Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia.
After the mid-Qing Dynasty, trade with the East and Southeast Asia was carried out with Guangzhou as the center.
Don't underestimate this port, it drives almost half of China's economy.
After research, there is a fairly mature trade route that buys silk, tea, porcelain and other goods from Jiangzuo, goes along Jiangxi to Guangnan to sell and trade, and then buys ironware from Foshan and returns.
Unlike its embarrassing status in later generations, Jiangxi at that time was a veritable waterway and very wealthy.
Even the hero who crashed into Yoshino was a tea merchant who followed this trade route.
The so-called "retreat" is more of a passive defense in response to the West.
The scholar-bureaucrats relied on the sea as the Great Wall, thinking that "the sky does not change and the Tao does not change." Unexpectedly, science and technology are changing with each passing day, and the natural chasm in the past has become a smooth road.
If it’s just for one life, it’s okay to continue to follow the old ways, but if it’s for several generations, it’s a century-old plan, and seclusion is definitely not advisable!
After hearing Jia Lan's words, Sheng Hong couldn't help but his eyes lit up, and there was a trace of surprise in his eyes that was difficult to conceal.
Like Liang Zhuoru, he did not expect that among the nobles far away in Shenjing, there would be an alien like Jia Lan!
After being surprised, he smiled slightly and showed disdain: "The sea ban policy can be regarded as an ancestral law. How dare you talk nonsense?!"
"Teacher, the sea ban is not an ancient system. Both the former Song Dynasty and the former Yuan Dynasty had flourishing maritime trade. The former Song Dynasty relied on sea trade to maintain half of the country for hundreds of years. Only the former Ming Dynasty spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, and soldiers and civilians died.
Even if you try to get a rare treasure and return it, what good will it do to the country? The reason is to ban sea trade.
It is ridiculous for people today to follow the bad policies of the previous Ming Dynasty!"
Sheng Hong burst into laughter.
"That's right! I thought your policy writing was good, but I didn't expect you to have such unique insights into maritime bans!"
But seeing Sheng Hong's expression slow down, he took a sip of tea slowly, then picked up a piece of mung bean cake and brought it to his mouth. Suddenly he stopped again, looked at Jia Lan and asked with a smile: "Do you know why I was transferred to Shun this time?"
Tianfu?"
Jia Lan's eyes flashed. Although he had some guesses in his heart, he still said he didn't know.
"Hahaha, you are still so cautious..." Sheng Hong laughed, pointed at Jia Lan, and said to himself: "My move to Shuntian Mansion this time is mainly due to the protection of the Holy Lord."
"Protect?" Jia Lan asked confused.
"Yes, it's protection." Sheng Hong nodded and asked, "Do you know who will succeed me as the right political advisor in Fujian?"
Jia Lan shook his head.
Sheng Hong smiled mysteriously: "Speaking of which, this person is also destined to you. His surname is Jia and his name is Yucun. He is also a relative of your Jia family."
What?!
Jia Lan was shocked. Jia Yucun actually appeared in Fujian?
Wait! Thinking of Sheng Hong's attitude before, Jia Lan calmed down and asked tentatively: "What are the political differences between Jia Yucun and the teacher?"
"Disagreement? There is no such thing..." Sheng Hong shook his head, with a bit of sneer on his lips: "Your family is completely different from yours. He is a pure person. He is an official just to make money. He is completely
Don’t care about the life and death of the people under your rule.”
This is very Jia Yucun, Jia Lan thought to himself.
Jia Lan, the person who started the game in Red Mansions, has never met him, but judging from his several appearances in the original work, he is completely a man who relies on his talent and is greedy for cruelty, and he is definitely not a grateful and virtuous person.
Could it be that Shenghong showed kindness to this person and was later attacked?
The more Jia Lan thought about it, the more he thought it was so, and then he asked cautiously, and Sheng Hong burst out laughing after hearing it.
"You look too high on Jia Yucun, and you look down on me too much!"
Listening to Sheng Hong's narration, Jia Lan learned that his master had served in several places in Fujian and witnessed the harsh geographical conditions there. In the early days, he tried his best to organize the construction of water conservancy projects. In the end, he found that just hollowing out the mountains would be enough.
We can’t feed that many people.
But there is also a saying: "It's not that I am very good, it all depends on the support of my peers." In those years, there was a severe drought in the world, and Fujian was no exception. Several roads caused civil unrest due to famine, but Shenghong quietly built several small water conservancy projects.
To make Zhixia one of the few decent places in the local area, this achievement is not simple.
When he took up the post of vassal, Sheng Hong had already realized that in order to solve the livelihood problems of the people in Fujian, he had to open up the sea.
At this time, due to lack of financial resources and the urgent need for new financial resources, Quanzhou and Fuzhou were specially granted permission to relax the maritime ban.
The people in Fujian all applauded and applauded, and the profits and taxes increased by more than 100,000 taels that year. This was because they missed the windy season after opening the sea. The next year, Fujian sailors went north along Ryukyu to Japan and made huge profits.
A full 350,000 taels were paid to the national treasury for the whole year!
It can be seen that Fujian is a place with great potential. As long as it is managed properly, the output can be quite generous.
Some people have made statistics in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and compiled the rankings based on the land tax, salt tax, and land and sea tariffs. Fujian ranked only after Guangdong, and Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan combined paid slightly less money.
But all these achievements made by Shenghong were taken away by Jia Yucun after he left office!
"Jiayu Village has not officially banned the sea again. It just sells the customs and defense routes needed to go to sea by the feudal lord. The annual turnover is more than before. However, he can hide it from others but not from me..." Jia Lan had an idea: "He took money to stand up for certain forces so that he could monopolize overseas trade?"
"Not bad, not bad!" Sheng Hong took a sip of hot soup as if it was winter and felt comfortable all over, looking at Jia Lan with a smile.