My Daming New Empire

Only the improvement of the business atmosphere of the whole people can promote the growth of Ming Dynasty's national strength.

Moreover, being an adjudicator who sits on the ground and collects money is far more profitable than a merchant who is going in the wind and rain.

Among other things, when the sea ban is lifted, the tariff alone will not know how much money will be charged every year, not to mention the commercial tax.

Therefore, if Zhu Gaosui's interest can be transferred from seizing the heir to doing business and making money, Zhu Zhanji will be happy.

Of course, he would not be more active than Zhu Gaosui from the beginning, and even deliberately made things difficult, at least to let Zhu Gaosui accept his affection.

Although he hasn't thought about how to deal with these royal moths in the future, he will definitely not let the Ming Dynasty bear the food, clothing, housing and transportation of hundreds of thousands of Zhu's family like in the original history.

Although these people are not as corrupt as the millions of bannermen later, they already had sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes in the Qing Dynasty, which basically solved the food shortage problem.

As for the Ming Dynasty, it coincided with the Little Ice Age. Countless farmers couldn't even support themselves, and they had to support hundreds of thousands of Zhu family. This burden was even heavier than that of the Qing Dynasty.

It is best to let them think of making money by themselves.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang does not allow these vassal kings to do business or become officials, in Zhu Zhanji's view, those are all wrong policies that should be overturned.

Although Wang Anshi in the Song Dynasty had some radical and wrong methods, his knowledge was very advanced at that time.

In the Song Dynasty, he had already put forward the declaration that the changes of the sky are not to be feared, the ancestors are not to be law-abiding, and human words are not to be sympathetic.

Having been in this era for more than ten years, although Zhu Zhanji feels that many concepts in this era are relatively rigid, it is not as shown on TV, and the laws established by the ancestors cannot be changed.

When Emperor Jianwen came to power, many of Zhu Yuanzhang's policies were changed, and when Zhu Di came to power, he almost revised the laws of Ming Dynasty.

Those who say that their ancestors are greater than the sky every day are actually just corrupt scholars.

Real literati have actually been constantly studying the gains and losses of history, trying to find a better path of development.

Especially now or the early Ming Dynasty, Confucianism has not yet fully occupied the right to speak, so the resistance to reform is actually not great.

But some things want to change, but it is more difficult than reform, such as concept.

With such an idea, Zhu Zhanji can occupy a leading position in the conversation with Zhu Gaosui.

After exchanging pleasantries for a while, Zhu Gaosui couldn't wait to change the topic to his interested aspects. "It is rumored that during the Northern Expedition, Zhanji took out nearly 500 million taels of silver as military funds?"

Zhu Zhanji nodded. "It is true. For this Northern Expedition, I took out 300 million taels of silver and 20 taels of gold."

Zhu Gaosui never thought that Zhu Zhanji didn't hide anything, and answered his question directly.So he was also stunned for a moment, and he took a breath.

Zhao Shichun saw Zhu Gaosui lost his composure, and quickly said: "His Royal Highness Gao Yi, such a huge amount of wealth is really appalling!"

Only then did Zhu Gaosui come to his senses, and said, "I've never seen so much money in my life."

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "The so-called silver money, one cannot eat and the other cannot wear. We are born in the royal family, and we don't have to worry about food and clothing. What good is more money? Handing these silver coins to the emperor's grandfather can bring back the hearts of the soldiers of the three armies. Fighting the enemy bravely is the right path.”

Zhu Gaosui shook his head and sighed: "You haven't opened a mansion yet, so you don't know the hardships of a penny beating a hero. Like me now, I often cannot make ends meet, and my hair is graying because of money."

Zhu Zhanji said deliberately: "Uncle Wang is the prince's salary, so the Prince Zhao's mansion shouldn't be nervous if it costs a lot?"

The prince's honor guards and guards are all paid by the court, and the annual output of tens of thousands of acres of land is enough to meet consumption.If it's not for the purchase of ordnance, even if you are a little nervous, you can still get by.

However, Zhu Gaosui deceived Zhu Zhanji that he didn't open a mansion, and he didn't understand the suffering of the people, so he complained about it.

It wasn't until seeing that Zhu Zhanji was a little bored, he tentatively asked: "Since Zhanji has a way to get money, Uncle Wang also wants to ask Zhanji for advice today. I paid 5 taels of silver, and I hope that Zhan Ji can take care of his uncle and nephew, and give me some advice on what to do with the money."

Zhu Zhanji was stunned for a moment before he realized that people in this era are still a little naive.Although they want to make money, they are still thinking about what to do and how to do it first.

It's not like in a certain era, just relying on your own identity, you can do empty-handed white wolves.

Although Zhu Gaosui is a prince and a prince, what he thinks about now is what kind of business can make money.

Of course, this kind of innocence is just because he doesn't understand, maybe when he sees a faster and easier way to make money, he will become greedier than anyone else, but at least for now, what he thinks in his heart is to be down-to-earth do business.

Zhu Zhanji did not hide it, and introduced the business he did with Korea and Dongying. Of course, Zhu Zhanji would not talk about the procedure of exchanging money in the middle.

Not only Zhu Gaosui, but anyone who wants to do maritime trade in the future, as long as they pay taxes honestly, they can do it.But the business of exchanging money for money must be controlled by the emperor himself.

Chapter 62 Control

As a civilization developed in an agrarian society, the ancient country of the East has paid the most attention to agricultural production in all dynasties.

After a short period of blooming, Confucian scholarship became the main ideological line of civilization because it was in the interests of the rulers.

A simple Confucian grading system for scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen roughly divided people into several classes, which led to the decline of business and industry.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, merchants prevailed, all craftsmen went their own way, and civilization entered a period of rapid development.

But from around 100 BC, after the Han Dynasty dominated Confucianism, Eastern civilization entered a period of consolidation in the feudal era, or it can be said to be a retrogression period.

In the past 500 years, although the Confucian idea of ​​great unification has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and created the centripetal force of the nation, the society has never progressed.

On the contrary, compared with 500 years ago, many ideas have gone backwards.

Take the merchant class as an example. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there were many big merchants who carried out business among different countries, and many ministers also earned a mountain of wealth as merchants.

However, the merchant class is highly mobile, well-informed, and does not conform to the Confucian policy of obscuring the people. People have become smarter, which is not conducive to management.

Therefore, the merchant class was severely suppressed, and the commercial atmosphere of the whole society, except for a short period of prosperity in the Song Dynasty, was almost always on the decline.

Zhu Zhanji, who came from later generations, is very clear about the huge role that commerce and industry can play in the development of the entire society.

Agricultural development is limited. Spring sowing and autumn harvest are subject to natural climate changes, and there is little room for development.

Even if the hybrid varieties of later generations appear, the rate of return on agriculture will never exceed a hundredfold.

This kind of gain can never be achieved even with the possibility of quantitative change.

But industry and commerce are different. Industry directly surpasses agriculture and directly changes the world through qualitative changes.

However, commercial circulation can directly and effectively utilize various social resources and promote the overall development of society.

If human beings can't even fill their stomachs, other pursuits are of course just a joke.

But when human beings meet their basic survival needs, if they want to develop by leaps and bounds, they can only rely on commerce and industry, and it will never be possible to rely on agriculture.

The development of industry requires the joint efforts of human beings in the whole society. No matter how great a person's ability is, he can only reach the peak in one industry at most.

It is impossible for a person to push the weaving technology to the extreme, and then to make biopharmaceuticals.

Newton and Einstein have been human elites for thousands of years, and they have only reached the top in their own industries.You ask them to study a car engine to see, even if they master the principle, it is impossible to change another industry to promote the development of the industry.

Because, a person's life is limited.A person's life is only about [-] days short, and the time actually spent on research does not exceed [-] days.

It is completely impossible to become an all-rounder within [-] days.