[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

There are many ideal monks in this world. This is normal. Although they cultivate the purity of the six sense organs, monks are still human beings. Human beings always have such and such strange goals and ideas.

Of course, the ideal of most serious monks is to benefit the world. If it is a little more serious, it is to promote Buddhism, obtain the scriptures, or pursue the truth. There are also some unscrupulous monks who want to use their status as monks to seek benefits, etc. However, most of the latter was screened out after several Buddhist examinations by Emperor Hongwu. Generally speaking, today's monks and Taoists are relatively authentic, at least they have real talents and knowledge and passed their jobs.

But occasionally some strange people appear among them, such as Dao Yan.

Monk Daoyan's real name is Yao Guangxiao, and his family has practiced medicine for generations. When he came here, he should have inherited his father's career, but at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, disasters and wars, in order to fill his stomach, Monk Daoyan shaved and became a monk at the age of 14 .

At that time, he didn't know that just four years ago, a boy who was seven years older than him also made the same decision, and that person was Zhu Yuanzhang.

However, although they made the same choice, the fate trajectories of Monk Daoyan and Zhu Yuanzhang are completely different.Dao Yan, who was a medical student, had a good foundation in literacy, so after he entered Buddhism, he was given resources. Later, he worshiped Xi Yingzhen, the leader of Taoism in the south of the Yangtze River, as his teacher, and became a rare talent who is proficient in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.

As an illiterate Zhu Yuanzhang, in the first few years after his ordination, he was just an ordinary little novice living in a temple. At that time, a little novice like him was worthless at all, and he couldn't do dirty work. Said that there is no guarantee of life, and the hard-working Emperor Hongwu also suffered from the bankruptcy of the temple. In the end, he couldn't even become a novice monk, so he could only be reduced to a beggar along the way.

I have to say that this is also a joke of fate.

Two teenagers with similar starting points, the one who was humble in the dust at the beginning rose all the way and became the Ninth Five-Year Master, while the one who made great progress all the way was lost in the chaos of war for half his life, and finally had to take the monkhood exam set up by the other party. However, he had no choice but to get a monk's title in the Tianjie Temple only by relying on a friend's recommendation.

Monk Daoyan is only seven years younger than Emperor Hongwu. Considering his wealth and age, this job can only be said to be ordinary.Today, Emperor Hongwu has a successful career and a happy family, and even lived a life of letting himself go after retirement, while Daoyan and monk Daoyan are working hard to sell Amway to King Yan.

If anyone who is familiar with history sees this scene, he will shake his head and sigh: Is this the inertia of history?This pair of eternal wonders... the monarch and his ministers still met.

In history, Monk Daoyan has been serving in the capital. He was Queen Ma who passed away in Hongwu 15. Emperor Hongwu sent it to King Yan in order to guide his sons to chant scriptures and pray for his wife. Now, Queen Ma is still alive and well. Naturally, this meeting of the meteorite hitting the earth was gone, but for some reason, Monk Daoyan left the post he had struggled for for many years and came to Zhu Di's side.

It's just that this time, he didn't seem to encourage His Royal Highness King Yan to rebel against his elder brother, but directly pointed out that King Yan's future lies overseas.

And the reason he used to convince King Yan was also very simple and rude.

"The former emperor is His Highness's father, today is His Highness's eldest brother, and the crown prince is His Highness's nephew. They are all blood relatives to His Highness, and they have a close relationship. But your children, your children's children, will not be so close in the future."

Monk Daoyan twirled the beads, turning a blind eye to King Yan's expression of looking at his stomach with a hesitant look on his face. He said very calmly: "Even though I intend to cultivate the relationship between the future son and the emperor's heir, your highness is Do you really believe in such a short-lived and fragile friendship?"

There is no father and son in the Tian family, and the relationship between father and son can be said to be turned over, not to mention the childhood brotherhood that is separated by a room.

The childhood relationship is indeed precious and beautiful enough, but it is based on the fact that there is no conflict of interest between them.That emotion is like a sprout planted in his heart, pure and incomparable, but not strong enough to resist wind and rain and temptation, and most importantly, his old father has more than 20 children.

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Zhu Di also came here at that time. He is still a brother, and there are only a few who play well, let alone cousins, cousins, and even the generational difference that will inevitably appear in the future.

Although in Zhu Di's heart, his father was all kinds of wise and powerful, but he felt from the bottom of his heart that this matter...was really unreliable.

The previous generations were fine, but after two or three generations, as long as the border is stabilized, there will inevitably be a struggle for power between the two sides.

"So, Your Highness doesn't want to take precautions?"

"Your so-called precaution is to let Gutong lead the troops to sail?" Zhu Di still finds it a little inconceivable after thinking about it.Frankly speaking, when Zhu Di heard the words of the great monk for the first time, he thought that the monk was sent by the capital to quietly remove his military power.

But after thinking about it, he felt that his eldest brother was not this kind of person, and his eldest nephew was not yet a weak crown. No matter how impatient he was, he would not start planning so early, so he relaxed a little.

No wonder Zhu Di was thinking wildly, these days the risks on the ocean are much greater than those on land.

The ocean is really too wide, even if the giant ship sent by the Ming Dynasty can cope with the ocean and its complex and changeable climate, it can't do a better job than a fallen leaf.

In the past, most of Ming's ships sailed along the coastline. The biggest advantage of being on the coast is that they can completely avoid entering the harbor at critical moments, and it is also more convenient for rescue and damage.But even so, one or two large ships are still wrecked off the coast every year.

This is still the case in the near ocean, but if it is a long-distance voyage, it will be even more dangerous.

Daming’s envoy team would pay homage to Mazu before each trip, and the date of the trip was also carefully planned by Qin Tianjian. There were various types of ship-holding utensils such as water-avoiding beasts and water-avoiding beads on the boat. The name should be given some auspicious names such as Shunfeng and Shunliu.

As for eating fish, you can't turn over and eat it. You must finish eating one side and lift the skeleton to eat the other side. Women are not allowed to board the boat and other superstitious behaviors, let alone too much.

When people are at sea, no one will judge whether you are rich or poor, and you will be treated equally.Not to mention the changing weather at sea, and all kinds of ferocious sea beasts. It is said that the southern fleet once encountered a deep-sea giant beast that was bigger than the ship. The giant beast may be the legendary Kun, which passed downstream from the ship at that time. The appearance of the boat made the whole crew have nightmares for several months.

As for why Zhu Di knew this...Nowadays, with the huge benefits brought by ocean trade, shipping has become a popular vocabulary in Ming Dynasty, and stories related to the ocean, exotic customs and culture have also filled people's gossip.

...The main reason is that Daming has been engaged in cultural construction in the past two years, and entertainment books such as story books and tabloids have suddenly decreased a lot. People who have lost one form of entertainment will naturally find another. Now everyone's new entertainment trend is Geography is coming.

There is no demand for writing style in travel notes, nor does it require too much storytelling, and there is no requirement for literary foundation. It can be said that as long as you can write and have been to that place, you can write. The market entry threshold is comparable to others. The style is much lower, and the money comes quickly.

And writing travel notes is a kind of low-key show off. If you want to travel across provinces these days, the single-way toll expenses are almost a month for an ordinary family, let alone those customized items.

For publishers, the length of travel notes is generally not too long, and because the storyline and coherence are relatively not so strong, even if an author writes a long article, it can be split and pushed in separate journals, so the cost is also low. It will not be too high, and there is more room for testing the market.

Of course, the most important thing is that the higher-ups seem to like to read their travel notes. Every half-day, the officials will send people to purchase a batch of the latest travel notes.

What are you waiting for?Hurry up and write faster!

And this trend of writing travel notes was brought about by Luo Guanzhong.

When Mr. Luo was young, he went to many places for the publication of "Three Kingdoms", and he went to all of them. Naturally, he also went to visit those famous scenic spots, and then revised and revised the manuscript according to the actual situation.

It's just that when he looked at those places where famous mountains and great rivers gathered people, although he was moved by the beautiful scenery, most of his mind was occupied by the sadness of being unappreciated, so when he looked at the mountains and rivers, he always felt a little sad.

But it's different now, he is now the most famous author of Daming's storybook.Although the story book still does not occupy the mainstream in the literary market, after all, the old man also has the first endorsement family of the Ming Dynasty as his backstage, and those sour voices can't reach his old man's ears.

After the old man compiled and published his husband Shi Naian's posthumous work "Water Margin", he let go of all the pressure. With the sponsorship of the crown prince, he traveled between the mountains and the sea again while he was still able to walk. lap.

With a different mentality, the thoughts are naturally different, and the person who catches the eye also brings Fengyue, so he played with style and characteristic.

What about crossing the Yangtze River at night to see the Red Cliff, what about walking the Shu Road to explore Zhuge, what about sleeping on the river and talking with the predecessors, what about eating jujubes from wild jujubes, touching oranges from Soochow, and eating shredded bamboo shoots from Bashu. What he wrote in the travel notes can make people red-eyed.

Especially Mu Xiaobai who is in the overtime hell, he couldn't be more envious and jealous!

After trying to skip work twice and being noticed by his old father and causing a sudden increase in workload, Mu Bai became angry.

He decided to take revenge!

——He published the old man's travel notes and distributed them to the vast number of social animals.

I can't be the only one hurt by this kind of thing, let's all come together! !

But what Mu Bai didn't expect was that although there are many social animals in this world, there are more idlers.

Just after travel novels gradually became everyone's entertainment, the tourism industry in Ming Dynasty also gradually rose.

When the Ming Dynasty was founded 30 years ago, the government suddenly discovered that the population flow rate was much faster than in previous years.

These days, if you leave your place of household registration, you need to go to the government to open a way.Due to the uncertainty of road safety and expenses, generally speaking, residents will not leave their place of household registration unless they need to rush for exams, weddings, weddings, etc. There are more and more people going to several provinces that have not had a high hit rate in previous years.

These people are all Amway who have eaten travel notes to travel!

When it is discovered that the people have such a tendency, the government's first reaction is to block it.

Any dynasty will feel a headache about population flow.For the feudal dynasty, as long as everyone can stay in the place where he should stay safely, then the stability of the dynasty will be completed by [-]%.The remaining [-]% ​​is divided into half and half, half for foreigners and half for natural disasters. From this, it can be seen that the local officials have a headache when they discover this movement of the people.

However, after reporting the situation, the people above said that as long as the safety is ensured and the docking is done well, there is no need to interfere with other things, which makes everyone very puzzled.

Such behavior really deviates from what they have learned, but Mu Bai is very calm about it.

In his view, tourism is a benchmark for social development and people's living standards.

Traveling costs money and effort, and the things you can get are relatively hidden. It is almost at the same level as buying happiness with a thousand dollars, which can be called a luxury.Therefore, when some people set their sights on this industry with high expenditure and low return, it proves that the economic level of the people has reached the level of basic food and clothing.

Of course, these people must be a minority. In the agricultural era, it is basically impossible to make the whole people rich. The limitation of productivity and production level cannot be broken by changing a few emperors, unless there is a large-scale reform of industry and agriculture, such as Fertilizers and large agricultural machinery.

Don't look at the fact that many people in modern times are yelling that chemical fertilizers are unhealthy, and the fruits and vegetables produced by chemical fertilizers are tasteless, but without chemical fertilizers, at least half of the world's population will starve to death.Naturally, there is no chemical fertilizer in Daming today, but it has the foundation of its development, which is oil.

Petroleum is an important raw material for chemical fertilizers. After discovering kerosene for lighting, gasoline for incendiary weapons, and asphalt for paving roads, more and more people became interested in petroleum. It won't be too far away. Once the chemical fertilizers are sprinkled into the fields, Ming Dynasty will inevitably usher in a population explosion.

As more and more people are liberated from the farmland, how to absorb and stabilize these people and how to allow them to survive naturally in society has become a difficult problem.

The tourism and service industries are just the most convenient means to solve this problem.

But it’s too far to talk about these things now, and Mu Bai doesn’t like high-risk industries like tourism very much. He still prefers hard-working industries.But it has to be admitted that these tourists have indeed created a lot of wealth for Daming.

The biggest financial problem of Ming Dynasty today is not the lack of money, but the lack of metals that can cast copper coins.Huaxia’s copper production is not very high, and most of them are ores buried deep in the ground. However, they also encountered the living custom of bringing copper coins into the ground and the neighbors who thought that the currency in the Central Plains would preserve their value, so they tried their best to collect Huaxia’s copper coins. The number is naturally decreasing.

How little copper coins are there?When it was less than the beginning of the Ming Dynasty in Hongwu, it had to use the big killer of "paper money".

Throughout the dynasties, the currency has always been copper coins and then paper money. The former can effectively stabilize prices, while the latter is mostly due to lack of money and has to engage in early consumption. There are not many dynasties that have been killed by this monetary policy, but they started like the Ming Dynasty. There are only a few people who just brushed the banknotes.

No way, Daming really lacks copper mines.Emperor Hongwu's road to recovery is one of the few in history...even the only one that attacked from south to north, and finally won the whole country, so Daming also encountered problems that other dynasties rarely encountered ——There are no mines at the beginning.

How miserable are they?Until the tenth year of Hongwu, there was still a place for Song ancient coins in the folk currency.

Therefore, this is also the reason why Emperor Hongwu wanted to regain Yunnan anyway-Yunnan has a lot of copper mines.But if things go on like this, it will repeat the same endless cycle of currency as the Song Dynasty, especially after the Ming Dynasty opened the sea.Therefore, Mubai used Hongwu Tongbao as the main currency when the shipping market was first opened.

Emperor Hongwu was not economically sensitive. He did not consider issues such as exchange and reserve funds when he established Tongbao, but out of intuition, he was very strict about the purchasing power of banknotes, which was indeed effective in maintaining Tong Bao's dignity and status.

It’s just that according to Ming’s regulations, gold and silver can only be exchanged for Tongbao, but not the other way around, so Tongbao is quite tricky in actual use.After Mu Bai became the prince, he immediately listed the currency exchange ratio and promulgated it to the world.

After collecting a lot of wool from Japan and North Korea, the gold and silver reserves of the Ming Dynasty increased day by day. Although it was not yet to the extent that it could be included in currency as in the Qing Dynasty, it was enough to be used as reserve gold.

With the existence of reserve funds and exchange mechanisms established in every state and county, Daming Tongbao, a currency that is convenient to carry, has gradually been recognized by foreign friends... Well, it’s just because it’s not waterproof, and it’s only because it’s not waterproof. At that time, most foreign merchants would use it up, exchange it for commodities or directly exchange it for gold and silver, but no matter what, today's Tongbao has gained a firm foothold in the currency industry and has been well received by the people.

Ah, by the way, for the sake of anti-counterfeiting, today's Tongbao can be circulated at most three times, and every time it is used, holes must be punched in the banknotes.

But the use of paper money will also bring a trouble, that is, the government's logistics expenditure.

Official escort is required to transport Tongbao and coins, and this will lead to unbalanced economic development. Some states and counties are underdeveloped in commerce and trade, so it only needs to be replenished and exchanged once every few months. It is short, so it is better for social development to have a balanced development.

However, due to geographical restrictions, some places are really not suitable for business development, so the tourism industry has filled this part of the gap.

When are people most willing to spend money?That's definitely the time to travel.

There are not a few urban beauties who usually spend 15 yuan on a plastic raincoat for a rafting trip in the street. The city beauties who usually pick up the rain and put a garbage bag on the street are quite a few. Ni didn't roll his eyes a few times when he faced the sky-high price set meal, not to mention the small scenic spots in scenic spots that are more expensive than long-distance buses, roast sausage with flour bigger than meat, and instant noodles that sell twice as much.

In short, these are all money, and it is the money that the people are willing to use to invest in other places.

Coins are just scrap iron if they exist with individuals, and they are currency only when they flow.From Mubai’s point of view, he is very supportive of the development of the tourism industry, as long as they don’t forget about the farmland, he even promulgated many policies to protect the rights and interests of tourists from being infringed, and even encouraged publishers to imply travel writers They leave ratings for restaurants and hotels all over the country, and after the investigation, the official review and recommendation list will be issued to prevent foreign guests from accidentally staying in black shops.

The local officials naturally knew the elegant meaning after hearing the strings. After realizing that Shangfeng valued this industry, they also contributed to provide various fancy services for tourists from other places.

Under this kind of market atmosphere, travel agencies that take care of everything you don’t need to worry about have also emerged at the historic moment, and the increase in tourists has also promoted the development of travel notes, which in turn has driven more tourists, and the market has gradually entered a virtuous circle. up.

Although there are many scenic spots in the world, not everyone wants to be a follower. There are always some mavericks who want to be the leader, but the famous mountains and rivers have been excavated, and the temples and Taoist temples have also been brushed. Cultural trips ... They even went through the crown prince's scientific research journey (Mu Bai:?), what else is there to write?

So, under the quiet instigation of interested people, they contacted foreign businessmen who stayed in Daming.

Most of these businessmen are the stewards of big families from various countries who stayed in Daming. Over the years, Daming's products have begun to take the route of positioning and exporting - ordinary porcelain cups can't satisfy you?Do you want the one with your family crest painted on it?Otherwise, it would be fine to paint your profile picture on it.

Ordinary hanging pictures don't look good?How about we enlarge it into wallpaper?Take it home and stick it on the wall, it is definitely the only one in the world.

In short, as long as the customer wants it, there is nothing that the craftsmen of Daming cannot do.However, private ordering takes longer and requires smooth communication of information, so more and more foreign businessmen stay in Daming.

Of course, most of them are mainly unwilling to go back.

Just kidding, in Daming they eat well, drink well, wear well, the streets are clean and safe, and they can keep up with fashion, why do they want to go back?Going back is nothing more than returning home to show off a wave of existence, but let them go back to live for a long time... Don't be funny, isn't the fresh air and clean streets of Daming fragrant?

Apart from the fact that in Daming, these foreigners had to clock in and take a shower, there was really no other discomfort.Oh yes, there is another disadvantage, the cost of living is a bit high.

There is no way, they always want to try all kinds of new things, and these new things are naturally not cheap, so relying on the salary of the leader is not enough.Therefore, when travel writers came to the door, the two hit it off immediately, and the foreign businessmen were also willing to brag about their hometown, to promote the beauty and specialties of their hometown, um, especially the latter, they are professional A businessman always puts business first.

Therefore, under such circumstances, it is not surprising that the travel notes written about overseas affairs will appear in Zhu Di's hands, right?

But in the final analysis, whether it is delicious or fun, it is not very attractive to Zhu Di. He may see something new, but the well-informed Daming King Yan will not take these things too seriously.

The main thing that kept his eyes on the crude nautical charts that appeared as illustrations in those travel books was profit.

Does such a place with vast land, sparse population and good climate really exist?

Is this kind of place that can be said to be a national war with a fight of 200 people serious?

This kind of person running alone in an open space can become king as long as he is willing to pay taxes... Damn, this is too much!

Zhu Di, King of Yan, had an earthquake in his pupils.

The author has something to say: JUDY: I am not here to conquer you, I just want to let you gain insight.

JUDY: Goodbye to my father, my son is about to go on a long voyage, and when we meet again next time, my son may even take down the world of his great-grandson.

JUDY: Gu is going to conquer the ocean!

Emperor Hongwu: Don't you dare, boy, it would be boring to keep farming with you.

Princes: The world is so big, let's go together!

The place where you can be king if you are willing to pay taxes...is Singapore. Back then, Singapore was still a barren land. Someone came to say that this place was very auspicious. After paying taxes to its rulers, he became king ==