Zhu Zhen looked at Zhu Zhen with a smile. Although he stayed in the Central Plains and was unwilling to go to the frontier, he supported other brothers to go.
He was about to say a few more words of support to Zhu Zhen when he suddenly thought of something and said: "If you go to Hanzhou, how will your family arrange it? Hanzhou is very simple and lacks medical treatment, so it is not suitable for children to go there.
"Furthermore," Zhu Xi lowered his voice: "If you are willing to go to Hanzhou, will your three guards, Ma, be willing to go?"
"How dare they not..." Zhu Zhen suddenly stopped mid-sentence. The former problem could be solved, as long as he left his children in the capital temporarily; but the latter problem was not so easy to solve.
That is the Hanzhou Continent, which is 20,000 miles away in the east and has no land connections. It is not the Western Regions, which is seven or eight thousand miles away from the Central Plains but is connected by land. It is not also the Nanyang, which is five or six thousand miles away but very rich by sea. It is by boat.
It only lasted a few months, and we had to risk the boat capsizing, and the roads we passed were basically deserted places.
When he arrived, he would not be able to live a much better life than at home like he had in the Western Regions or Nanyang. He paid a private visit to Fang Mingqian and got the exact news from him. The natives of Hanzhou Continent
They all make a living by hunting and fishing. They don’t even know how to plant land. The soldiers have to work hard to open up wasteland. They are also farming. Why don’t they choose to stay in the country or go to places like Nanyang? How dare you force it?
If they migrate, they may not dare to rebel.
Zhu Zhen thought for a while but couldn't think of a solution. He turned to the side and saw Zhu Zhen who was looking at him with a smile. As if he had grasped a life-saving straw, he said: "Fifth brother, do you have a solution?
"
"I didn't think of a way, but when the official family came to my house for a banquet, they seemed to have mentioned it a little bit." Zhu Xi said with a smile.
Zhu Zhen immediately wanted to ask what the solution was, but at this moment, a voice came from the door: "Your Majesty is here!" Zhu Zhen immediately stood up with Zhu Zhen, turned to face the door and said, "I have seen the official!
"
"I've met the official/emperor brother!" everyone present saluted and said.
"Get up." Yunxi smiled as usual and asked Xiyao to take Min'er to the women's side. He whispered to Wen Yuan, Wen Qi and others to sit down in their seats, and walked to his own room alone.
He smiled at everyone on his seat and said, "This is a family gathering, so there is no need to be formal."
"Thank you, official/brother." Everyone agreed, and Zhu Gaoxu was about to sit down, but was immediately pulled by Zhu Youdou. He stood up immediately, but looked at Zhu Youdou in confusion. Not only
It was him, and several county princes also sat down, but they were either pulled up by those next to them, or they stood up again when they saw that no one sat down.
"Haha, there is stew. It's rare that you haven't been to the capital in three years and you still remember this rule." Yunxi said with a smile.
He immediately explained to Gao Xu and others who were a little confused: "Starting from the New Year's Eve banquet at the end of the third year of Jianye, I made a rule that the seats are randomly drawn and arranged. I can no longer choose the seats by myself."
"So many rules." Gao Xu murmured softly. He immediately guessed Yunxi's intention, because he himself had used such methods to encourage civil and military officials who moved from the Central Plains to communicate more with the local people in Su Fan. But he
I still don't like this method very much.
However, he still went to line up to draw numbers honestly.
After everyone was seated, as in previous years, the next program was the 'Spring Festival Gala'. Although this year is already the fourth year since the end of the third year of Jianye, it is still novel to most people, and everyone watched it with gusto.
With.
Yunxi sat on the main seat and watched for a while, then quietly sat next to Zhu Youdou, chatted with him casually for a few words, and then said: "Youdou, I have something to tell you."
"What's the matter?"
"Write a drama to make people think that there are mountains of gold and seas of gold in Hanzhou."
"Let people think that there are mountains of gold and seas of gold in the Hanzhou continent?" Zhu Youdou's voice was a little loud, which attracted the people next to him to look over, although they quickly turned their heads back after seeing Yunxi.
"Brother Emperor, why do you want to write such an opera?" Zhu Youdun asked in a low voice.
"You are stewed," Yunxi looked at the two actors on the stage who were performing cross talk, and said with a soft smile: "You are very smart, you should be able to guess it."
"But it's hard for my brother to understand." Youdou no longer pretended to be stupid: "Brother, are you going to give up the gold and silver of the entire Hanzhou continent to attract people who are bold enough to go there?"
"Indeed." Yunxi replied with a normal expression.
Yes, Yunxi asked Zhu Youdun to write such a drama. The purpose was to stimulate a gold rush and make countless daring people eager to get rich overnight run to Hanzhou Continent so that Hanzhou Continent could obtain gold at a faster speed.
development.
"But," Zhu Youdou said in an eager tone: "Such a lot of gold and silver should originally belong to the Ming Dynasty. The gold and silver that belongs to our Zhu family should be divided among those mud-legged people?"
Zhu Youdun was very dissatisfied. In his opinion, those gold and silver were real money, money that could deplete the Ming Dynasty's treasury. Even if no taxes were collected for several years, it could keep the court running. A small part of it would be given to the accompanying soldiers.
That was all, but he was very reluctant to give out all the money.
"If you want to deceive them all into Hanzhou Continent, that's even more impossible. Guan Jia, you are the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and you can't go back on your words for this matter."
"You will never regret it, brother." Yunxi continued: "There are some shortcomings in your understanding of money or wealth. Do you still remember the few sentences I wrote in the book "Finance"?
?And the examples recorded in history books that I listed."
"Of course my brother remembers it, but those are just special cases."
"The current Hanzhou continent is a special case." Yunxi said: "What is the current Hanzhou continent? There are only savages, several types of vegetables and fruits that have never been seen before, animals that are different from those in the Ming Dynasty, land that has never been cultivated, and cloth, linen, and silk.
, and there is no trace at all.”
At this point, Yunxi paused. Because the civilization in the south would soon be discovered, or had already been discovered, but he decided to hide it. He raised his water glass and took a sip, and continued: "In a place like this, gold and silver
It is of little use. There are very few things that can be bought with gold and silver, and with so much gold and silver, they can only bring the gold and silver back to the Ming Dynasty. And as long as these gold and silver come to the Ming Dynasty, the gold and silver of the Ming Dynasty will increase.
, it will be beneficial to Ming Dynasty."
The specific economic model is difficult to explain to Zhu Youdun. Gold and silver, or currency itself, are not wealth, they are just general equivalents. Because gold and silver are small in size, they are easy to carry and become currency, but they themselves do not have any impact on people.
To any use, you cannot eat it when you are hungry, drink it when you are thirsty, or wear it when you are cold.
What is wealth? It is something that can be useful to people. It is food, cloth, linen and silk, various utensils made of ceramics, wood, bricks and stones, cattle, sheep, pigs and horses.
It can be clearly seen from the above examples that wealth is difficult, especially in ancient times, to grow rapidly, but gold and silver as general equivalents can grow rapidly, such as the discovery of the gold and silver mine on Hanzhou Road this time. As
If the amount of gold and silver of general equivalent suddenly increases in a certain place, but wealth does not increase rapidly, huge inflation will occur and prices will rise.
Rising prices will have two effects. First, due to inflationary pressure, money in your hands will become less and less valuable, so people, especially urban residents, will be more inclined to spend their money rather than save it.
Most people will not buy a lot of worthless things to go home because of the depreciation of money. Instead, they will buy goods such as cloth, linen, and silk. This will lead to an increase in the demand for these goods and make businessmen pay more attention to production.
These are invested, thereby increasing goods, or wealth.
Second, when prices rise, it is difficult for people who farm in the countryside to increase their wealth as quickly as businessmen in the city. Because the yield per mu of land is difficult to change, and the area of land that one person can take care of is also limited.
Even if the price of food and handicrafts rises simultaneously, businessmen in the city can increase their wealth at a faster rate by opening handicraft factories, while farmers and landlords in the countryside can only rely on the rising prices of food.
And in fact, people who became rich overnight because they brought back gold and silver from Hanzhou Road, even if they also increase their food consumption, are more likely to do extravagant consumption and squander it. The new demand for handicraft products will exceed that of food.
The new demand will cause the price of handicraft products to rise faster than that of food, and the wealth of merchants and craftsmen will increase more than that of landlords.
Of course the landlords will be dissatisfied with this. Under normal circumstances, they have only two choices. The first is to invest in industry and commerce, and the second is to increase land rent. But now that the Ming Dynasty has fewer people and more land, increasing land rent is not feasible. They either have to watch themselves
The money hidden underground is becoming less and less valuable, or the money should be invested in industry and commerce.
The wealth of those who stubbornly refuse to invest money in industry and commerce will soon become insignificant, and industry and commerce will be greatly developed. In this way, the entire country's economy can develop, and even capitalism can develop.
Of course, the above process is relatively ideal, especially in a centralized country like China. The large-scale development of industry and commerce will affect the stability of the country, and the landlord class, which is dominated by nobles, will not be willing to look at the money in their hands.
Devaluation will definitely promote restrictions on industry and commerce. But now that Yunxi is the emperor, and he is still relatively powerful and young, he believes that he can protect the fragile industry and commerce and the fragile bourgeoisie until they
Able to deal with wind and rain independently.
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Thanks to book friend Yi Jian 68 for the reward.
By the way, the entire logic of this paragraph is not easy to write. I checked some information, but there may be errors. Please forgive me, book friends.