Liu Yu slowly opened his eyes that were about to fall asleep, and said in his heart that this was useless nonsense.

If we can really reform internally, with a quarter of the world's population and the strongest handicraft productivity on the planet at this time, as long as the internal solution is solved, the world will be invincible.

The problem is that it can't be done.

We can only take the wrong path, start from the outside, start anew, and cultivate a group of maritime merchants who are "full of martial virtues", rather than a group of merchants who sit on the ground and sell goods. Dare to risk fifty percent of the mortality rate to play sailing, dare to have the courage of Ban Chao to destroy the country with more than 30 people.

Cultivating virtue, cultivating virtue, how to cultivate it? If you cultivate morality, you can repair a North American pressure relief valve of the industrial revolution, you can repair a market that can accommodate the industrialization of a province, and you can repair a steam engine.

Now let's not talk about anything else, let's just talk about Jiangsu Province, if the initial industrialization is completed, how can we find such a big market in the world?

When the time comes, if you don't go out, stay at home, small farmers go bankrupt, people are everywhere, and 40 or 50 million people die, who has such a great ability to bear it?

If it weren't for the American pressure relief valve, the British would have exploded long ago; If it weren't for the Indian market, that little bit of industry, France, the Netherlands, and Prussia would all be mercantilist and high tariffs, waiting for involution.

But these things can't be discussed, and they can't understand them, these things are heretical opinions in the court, and even if the Celestial Empire wants to change, it can only find rationality from the pile of old papers, not some completely incompatible political economy.

Master's book is not political economy, but moral ethics.

The economic base determines the superstructure, and moral standards depend on the productive forces and relations of production. The economic foundation of the West, except for France, which had a lot of small farmers at this time, who would be interested in this set?

Besides, why should these classics compete with the Catholic Church that takes the bottom line?

In their own homes like Guangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian, there are no pants left that are about to lose, and some people rely on the bottom route to fight against clan power and husband power, if it were not for the imperial court's direct ban on religion...... In terms of brainwashing ability, even the religion in India can't compare, and the standard nest is horizontal. The White Horse Temple was repaired to Luoyang.

I thought that I would change my image in the future, not so sharp, and I held back the anger in my heart and kept silent.

But the trees want to be quiet and the wind does not stop.

The emperor didn't say anything when he saw Liu Yu, but took the initiative to mention it.

"What is your opinion on this matter, Eagle?"

Liu Yu heard the emperor call like this, and scolded in his heart, "What do you want me to say about this?"

said that he would fight Nanyang, but he couldn't say anything about this matter now, and everyone who knew about it was sealed and couldn't leak it.

If we don't fight the South Seas, diplomacy is really useless.

Obviously, the emperor also knew in his heart that if he didn't talk about Nanyang, the reason would definitely not be argued. Thinking that Liu Yu was clever, and knew that Liu Yu could not say that he was going to fight Nanyang, he thought about letting Liu Yu come out to block the wind.

The emperor called him, and he couldn't help it, so he had to stand up.

"When Chen heard about Han Wu just now, he couldn't help but think of another thing. If this dynasty is like the Han Wu era, it is better to say that the British and Dutch countries are like the Han Wu era. ”

"Speaking of Han Wu, the minister thinks of one person."

Just now, a group of people scolded him for Zhang Qian and Ban Chao, and Liu Yu didn't squeak. At this time, the old events of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty were brought up, and the emperor and courtiers were curious.

"Who?"

"Sang Hong sheep."

"Huh?"

The emperor was stunned, and the ministers were also stunned, what did he do with Sang Hongyang?

A few people with big brains who had seen how Liu Yu dared to say anything in the court before when he was young, and his heart was even more puffy, and he said in his heart: Tisang Hongyang, isn't it......

Liu Yu quietly took out some silk silks with various numbers recorded from his sleeve and glanced at them a few times.

"Your Majesty, the Sanghong sheep salt and iron franchise is the capital of Emperor Wu to open the border. Looking at the Western system, there are many methods of mulberry and sheep. ”

"For example, the East India Company franchise shall not be privately owned. If there is a private sector, it will be seized and killed. Is this a policy for Sanghong sheep salt and iron monopoly? ”

"Its Sanghong sheep policy has made its country earn millions every year, so that it can open up the border and expand the land."

"On the other hand, in this dynasty, where is there a trace of the appearance of the Han Dynasty? This dynasty is still far from the Han Dynasty. ”

"The minister has asked someone to collect the amount of goods in the customs of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong in Western countries, which is very interesting, please read it."

With the emperor's permission, Liu Yu read out the statistics of his Tuo Tianping.

"Take the fourteenth year of Taixing as an example."

"In the fourteenth year of Taixing, the customs of Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, and Western ships brought goods as follows."

"Tea, Inguel, 5437 quintals; Denmark, 7,980 quintals; Sweden, 3,280 quintals; France, 3,320 quintals; Netherlands, 5,681 quintals. The rest of Portugal goes to Macau, which does not count; The Spaniards are not counted. Those that are not recorded in the account or smuggled are not counted. ”

"Porcelain, calculated in boxes, a box is about 500 catties, about 500 pieces."

"Total: English, 320 boxes; law, 150 boxes; Denmark, 260 boxes; Sweden, which had no porcelain that year, also took 80 boxes; Netherlands, 180 boxes. Portugal and Spain don't know, and smuggling is not counted. ”

"Silk ...... Silk...... Rhubarb ......"

After reading the statistics of the customs, Liu Yu said again: "Not counting porcelain, silk, silk, cloth, rhubarb, etc., only tea." ”

"Britain, France, Switzerland, Denmark, and the Netherlands, a total of 25,700 quintals. The total of Spain and Portugal is 5,000 quintals, about 30,000 quintals. ”

"A load of 100 catties, a pound of the worst Wuyi tea, in Europa can earn 2 dollars of silver, and pay another 3 dollars of silver tax. If the total is five pieces of silver, one load will be worth 50 taels. ”

"Tea alone, with the method of Sanghong sheep, Western countries can earn nearly two million taels of silver."

"Porcelain, silk, rhubarb, etc. are not counted. Qi Guogong went to Europe, passing through Rakshasa on the way, and he also knew that the rhubarb of Rakshasa was also a government-run franchise and was not allowed to be sold privately. ”

"The remaining porcelain, silk and other things are equal to tea, and Westerners can earn nearly 10 million years with the method of mulberry and sheep."

"This is a specialty of the Celestial Empire. Let's talk about the spice monopoly of the Nanyang Dutch. It is also the law of Sanghong sheep, which is privately operated, and the local Javanese people cut off their hands, cut off their heads, and crack their cars; Privately-owned nationals, confiscated, sunk, and confiscated. ”

"I didn't get it in the past few years, but there was a copy of the first year of Taixing, and something happened to happen in Europe before that year, and there was a one called the Nanhai Chamber of Commerce, something happened, and there were too many involved, and the accounts of that year were public."

Among them, cloves, 800,000 catties, the price of cloves that year was 4 guilders per catty, and one guilder was about 8 yuan of silver. Locally, if the salt is in the production area and transported to the Netherlands ten times the profit, it will be counted as a profit of 2 million taels. ”

"Nutmeg, 300,000 catties. The price per catty is 2 florins, which is about two taels of gold, which is counted as 2 taels of silver. The profit is 600,000 taels. ”

"Pepper, pepper is cheap, about 10 catties can earn a tael of silver. But the amount is too much, and the Netherlands transported a total of 7.7 million catties of pepper in the first year of Taixing. The profit is 800,000 taels. ”

"Such as cane sugar, sumac, etc. are not counted. Westerners now love coffee again, and the Nanyang countries have begun to grow coffee, which is also about one million taels a year. ”

"For the Japanese trade, they all take goods from the Celestial Empire and re-export them to the Japanese Kingdom, with an annual profit of about 800,000 taels."

"For the trade with Persia, there have been things in Persia in recent years, so it has decreased greatly, but there are also nearly one million taels."

"In the 14th year of Chongzhen in the previous dynasty, the total amount was reported once, equivalent to a total of 48 million pounds in assets, equivalent to 150,000 taels of silver. The profit of that year was about 40%, deducting warships, artillery, garrisons, etc., and the annual income was about 25 million taels. ”

"After that, although Japan closed the country, Persia went to war, Britain and France smuggled spices, Portugal's Brazilian cloves took away spices, and the price of cane sugar was reduced, etc., the annual income was more than 15 million taels."

"It's just a Dutch country. Relying on the art of Sang Hongyang, the monopoly franchise, the annual income is more than 15 million taels, and the company owes 90 million pounds of about 270 million taels of silver. ”

"This dynasty...... What's so embarrassing to compare with Han Wu? ”

"That's why I said that these adults often use the past and the present to ridicule the present, and say that the Han and Wuhan martial arts are only afraid that compared with the Han martial arts, they are not as good as the British and Dutch. I don't even have the art of Sang Hong sheep, how can I compare to Han Wu? ”

"I think this dynasty is obviously Wenjing."

After talking about this set of data, Liu Yu said in his heart, "You are also worthy of touching porcelain Hanwu? Yinghe, which one plays the art of Sang Hong Sheep and doesn't know better than you?

Sang Hong Yang plays with salt and iron, and it becomes spices, sugar, coffee, tea, silk porcelain, isn't it?

I don't dare to say anything else, the British private merchant ships dare to cross the Cape of Good Hope, and they are really going to be sunk and the goods are confiscated, the company is six, and the royal family is four, and it is not easy to find the king.

If Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Sang Hongyang and a group of people were in charge, they would be embarrassed to make an edict against themselves if they did not make 100 million taels of income a year.

Where did you come from with a big face, embarrassed to touch the porcelain Han Wu era? In terms of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's diplomatic vision, he could let the Dutch occupy the South Seas without even a little reaction?

But he wasn't meant to say that.

There are words in this, those who understand naturally understand, and those who don't understand think that Liu Yu is really arguing for "Han Wu" or "Wenjing".

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has a bad reputation in history, at least not at this time, similar to Qin Shi Huang. In the eyes of the literati, Wei Qing was a slave, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was a tyrant.

But Wenjing, it's much better. If it were Song Renzong, it would be even better.

At this time, using the example of Yinghe to say that the Celestial Empire is far from the policy of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there is no need to worry at all, but in fact, I don't want to talk about this.

The few people in the court who knew that Liu Yu was going to do something to Nanyang understood that this set of data was for the emperor.

For he does not speak of England or France, but of the Netherlands.

This is clearly to lure the emperor and tell the emperor how much profit he has in Nanyang.

Afraid of competing with the people? It's okay, anyway, the people can't get out of Malacca, and they can't get the spices that the Dutch monopolize.

Not counting sugar and coffee, only counting spices, only counting the spices sold to Europe, this is nearly six or seven million taels, the data is detailed and clear, this is not fighting, what are you waiting for?

Liu Yu is like a mirror in his heart, how can there be any monarch and minister co-governance? Since Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister, whether it is the cabinet or the Tianyou Palace, it is all the secretariat.

The emperors are all the sons of heaven and the prime ministers. The emperor does not go to court, and the cabinet handles political affairs, which is only the power and responsibility of the secretary to act as the leader.

The same is true of the setup of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the end, it was the emperor who had the final say.

Just look at how much the emperor is willing to pay for this - the degree of being scolded.

At the beginning, Liu Yu said that Nanyang was worth several taxes in Henan Province, and now the data has been clearly reported to the emperor, as long as the emperor's brain is not bad, he should be clear that this matter must be done.

To do it, you have to set up a foreign ministry, because Liu Yu said that the Anglo-Dutch alliance said that the Netherlands has 600,000 warships...... and that the Dutch East India Company now owes £90 million.

At best, this is a time of weakness, and befriending France and avoiding Britain from entering the war can be decided in one fell swoop.

At worst, debt is also a skill. You Dashun treasury owes 270 million taels of silver? It's enough to go to zero, and the debt is so much that it hasn't been crossed, which shows that the strength is strong, and it may be difficult to do it without borrowing the power of France to "raze and raze".

When the emperor heard this, he said in his heart, you are slippery, this is for me, as for what Han Wu or Wenjing, it is not nonsense.

If I have the intention of collecting a monopoly on foreign trade, it is to compete with the people for profit; If it takes away the South Seas, it will not be in the interests of the people, and as long as it does not monopolize in the country, there will be a lot less scolding.

When the time comes, some internal funds will be left and some will be divided into households, and this mouth will be blocked. That's what you mean by making new bread and not dividing old bread?

Thinking of this, I looked at Liu Yu again, and said in my heart that this fruit has grown up. I thought that today's court discussion would say crazy words again, and mad dogs bite everywhere, it seems that this person who is going to get married will have someone who cares about it in the future, and there are more things on his back, so he is stable and honest.

That's good, I'm not afraid that you have the ability, but I'm afraid that you don't care much.