Money is an extremely sensitive topic for the imperial court.

Money is needed for wars, money for disaster relief, money for rewards, and money for running schools.

Zuo Pingzhang's question was too sensitive, and it suddenly made everyone fall into deep thought.

With an annual income of 30 million, the world's silver deposit must be at least 30 times more.

If half of this silver had been imported from outside, it would have been four hundred million taels. From the opening of Longqing to the year of Jiashen, in 80 years, the average annual income of silver is 5 million taels.

However, the tax was not seen.

It's a simple math problem that everyone present can do.

Whether it's two out of ten or one out of ten, it's not right.

Obviously, this is a place where money can be cut out, even if it can cut out 500,000 taels of taxes every year, it can also relieve a lot of financial pressure.

Almost instantly, some of the words that Liu Yu had said before instantly resounded in Li Gan's mind.

I don't care about it on weekdays, but at this time, when I am introduced by this topic, it is extremely clear.

Qi Guogong relayed the tariff issue that Liu Yu had said during the negotiations with Rakshasa in the recital.

Raw silk, porcelain, and tea are all needed by Westerners but cannot produce them themselves, so they can be taxed, even if they pay three-tenths of the tax, Westerners will come to buy them, and three-tenths of the cost of trade is not a problem at all compared to the profits from shipping back.

The taxation of foreign goods must consider whether it will have an impact on the craftsmen of the dynasty.

Thinking of what Liu Yu said before, about the royal family's participation in the trade with Mongolia and Rakshasa again, Li Gan, who was crazy about money, had already turned several times in his mind.

The royal family monopolizes trade, which is a competition with the people, but if the Westerners import so much silver every year, if they can control it, won't it increase by millions of dollars every year?

The temptation is too great.

However, as soon as this thought turned, Li Gan also knew the problem here.

It's easy to think, but it's bound to be completely out of shape when it comes to implementation.

And what if the tariff is charged?

Now the amount of customs duties per year is not much at all.

However, the trade of Westerners is indeed frequent and rich, so doesn't that mean that the smuggling of tax evasion is serious?

Originally, it was a policy discussion about the Western Regions, and Liu Yu just wanted to use it to exert a little influence on the "view of the world", who would have thought that this short 300 words would make Li Gan and others think of money.

This question is too sensitive, Li Gan thought that it was best not to mention it at this time, so he said: "This policy is about the Western Regions, so don't think about this first." Let's move on, this is just a catchphrase. Whether it is true or not, to be evaluated, the palace will ask the right and then discuss. ”

Avoiding it, the rest of the people obeyed and continued to look down.

Sure enough, as Li Gan said, these 300 words are just an introduction, and after these 300 words, it leads to the next question.

The changes in trade routes, the abandonment of the great powers in the Western Regions, the development of Western silver mines, and the advancement of seagoing technology have all made the Western Regions, which was profitable in the Han and Tang dynasties, become a complete loss of money today.

The former Western Regions is no longer the current Western Regions, if Dashun compares itself to the Han and Tang Dynasties, then the Western Regions of Dashun should be in the South Seas.

Geographically, the Western Regions, because of factors such as the Quasibu, Rakshasas, Britain and France, and the Green Religion, are more like the Liaodong of the previous dynasty.

The Western Regions of the Han and Tang Dynasties were profitable. So to operate, and to be happy to operate.

Liaodong in the previous dynasty had negative returns, but if it was not operated, the former dynasty would have a big disaster, and this experience could not but be learned.

Therefore, the geographical Western Regions must be operated, and it must be operated at a loss.

Where does the money come from?

Can we do what Wang Anshi said, and use the country enough without endowment?

This brings us to the first question.

If the dynasty has pacified the quasi-department, the snow-capped mountains are no longer the Tubo they once were, the ploughs in Liaodong are basically Han people, the southwest is just changing the land and returning to the stream, the Khalkha Mongolia has been completely finished, and the Rakshasa country cannot use too many troops in the northeast, so where is the threat of the dynasty?

There is only the east left, although the lessons of the previous dynasties, the northern Xinjiang and the west are the threats, but the times have changed, and then thinking like this is to carve the boat for the sword.

The only possible threat to the dynasty is the east.

Either Japan.

Either that, or the Western countries.

If you want to eliminate the threat of this dynasty, you need a navy.

If we have a navy and do not run the South Seas, wouldn't that be the same as having fertile soil and agriculture and good seeds, but not planting?

This leads to the second question, which is that there is a threat to the east.

After the two questions were introduced, the question was first rounded back to money.

If Guangdong is Chang'an in the Han and Tang Dynasties, commodities come and go, Hu people live together, and trade is prosperous, then Nanyang should be the capital of Anxi.

It's good to be able to collect money while sitting at home.

But Liu Yu attached a chart below, using all kinds of prices collected from the missionaries to tell everyone that sitting at home to collect money, the money was earned by the second-way dealers, and there was no middleman to make the difference, so as to make a lot of money.

In the words of "The Biography of Goods and Colonies": 100 miles do not sell wood, and thousands of miles do not sell wood.

The Rakshasa people take the dry road, and come here thousands of miles away to sell tea and rhubarb, so you can know how much profit there is.

During the Han and Tang dynasties, countries such as Dashi and Daxia were extremely rich, and Westerners were still wild and had no money, so the trade in the Western Regions during the Han and Tang dynasties could make money and be profitable.

But now the clanging of the poor countries such as the Great Eclipse, and the countries of Western Europe are now full of gold and silver, so as an analogy, Nanyang, which directly traded with Westerners, was the economic status of the Western Regions of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

At the same time, Annan and other places, since the time of Zhao Tuo, have been divided and merged with the national dynasty. The previous dynasty fought once, but soon gave up again, the rainforest was everywhere, and the march was difficult.

If there is a navy, troop transport or coastal landing, and mobile support by water transportation, if the country is rich in the future and there is a change in Annam, Annam can be completely recovered.

Annam, Siam and other places are all rice-producing fields. If there is a navy, rice can be transported at any time, there will be no famine along the coast, and the increasing price of rice in Jiangnan can be alleviated.

The navy and the operation of the South Seas as the Western Regions are two sides of the same coin.

If the navigation is strong, it can bypass the second-tier dealers and directly transport silk, porcelain, etc. to Western countries, and obtain higher profits, which is enough to cover the cost of opening up the frontier.

If the navy is strong, neither Japan nor the Western powers will be able to threaten the east.

No matter how ambitious Japan is, if the navy is not victorious, there will be no more Wanli aid to Korea.

Even if the Westerners have ambitions, their country is 40,000 miles away, and the navy of the dynasty does not need to be the same as the Western countries, but only needs to be able to defeat the power of the Western countries in the South Seas, which is enough to control.

It seems that the Westerners had a great influence in the South Seas, such as Luzon, Batavia, Manraka and other former vassal states, which have been controlled by the Westerners.

However, Westerners also have contradictions with each other, and these contradictions can be exploited.

In addition, in places such as Luzon and Batavia, there are also many Han immigrants, and they are manipulated by Westerners to instigate conflicts with the locals.

These immigrants were repeatedly oppressed, and once the navy of the country and the DPRK became strong, they immediately became a "righteous army".

The experience of Westerners can be borrowed, building cities and dominating, since Westerners are thousands of miles apart, but only three or five thousand soldiers can control Luzon and other places, and the national dynasty has a lot of immigrants to the sea, two or three hundred thousand in Luzon, one hundred or sixty thousand in Batavia, why can't they control the local area?

The Helan Kingdom controls the spices and makes millions of profits every year, and if it can control the spices of the South Seas, the dynasty will be able to make millions of profits.

If you can go to Europa, you can make a profit of four or five million yuan on raw silk, tea, porcelain, etc.

The merchants of this dynasty sit on the ground to collect money, so they have no intention or ability to go to Europa, and if they can be transshipped to Europa for sale, this is not a competition with the people.

It seems that the sailor loses money, but in fact, once he controls the South Seas, it is like the Han and Tang Dynasties controlling the Western Regions, with increased wealth, millions of annual taxes, and tens of millions of trades.

Moreover, if there is a strong navy, then the matter of going to the South Seas to survive is not something that the dynasty is worried about.

As long as the navy is strong, those people can't learn from Zhao Tuo, their strength does not allow it, and they want to rebel to have money and power.

Those who go to the South Seas to survive and have money are inevitably closely related to silk and tea trade, and they will not use rebellion to cut off their financial routes.

The immigrants in Nanyang, if they do not have the support of the national dynasty behind them, are easily slaughtered by the large number of local aborigines, so the immigrants there must be oriented to the national dynasty.

The people's hearts are wanted, and there is a threat from the sailor, even if there are ambitious people who want to follow Zhao Tuo's example, it will be in vain.

After discussing the three perspectives of money, trade, and external threats, the follow-up content is a much more violent theory.

Since ancient times, the rise and fall of dynasties have been two or three hundred years.

The reason for this is that the population is multiplied, and the land is not increased, and there are serious annexations at the end of the dynasty.

If you want to solve this problem, there are those who treat the symptoms and those who treat the root cause.

Treat the symptoms and inhibit mergers, but this is only the difference between early death and late death.

Those who cure the root cause should develop practical learning, increase production, and at the same time widely immigrate, follow the wisdom of Zhou feudalism, immigrate to Nanyang, slave work, and reduce the contradiction between man and land.

By controlling Nanyang and increasing the revenue of the treasury, the imperial court was able to raise a strong army.

Even if there is a civil uprising, it can be suppressed.

controlled Nanyang, Nuergan and other places, and could follow the Song Dynasty system.

Once there is a disaster, of course, it is necessary to provide disaster relief, but also the young and strong people among the victims should be recruited into the Xiang army and sent to Nuergan, Nanyang and other places.

It can not only open up the South Seas, but also Nuergan.

On the other hand, if all the young and strong are recruited away, even if someone takes the lead in the uprising, only some old and weak are left, and it will not be successful.

The initial immigrants are mainly young and strong. The old and the weak...... If you have money, you will give it, but if you don't have it...... It's just a brutal and bloody truth.

As more and more immigrants are immigrated, the cost of immigration is gradually reduced, and it may be necessary to integrate into the official immigration of the box army initially.

After gradually opening up, there will be more and more spontaneous immigrants who can no longer survive, and they can continue to live for a few more years.

Nanyang has three crops a year, and it is basically unlikely that they will starve to death.

It also produces more rice, and controlling the South Seas is equivalent to controlling the grain, and the sailors can also transport grain along the sea route, and can also slowly eliminate the canal, saving a huge amount of expenses, and at the same time reducing the burden on the people of Jianghuai.

Shaanxi, Jin and other places, reclamation of Mongolia; Hebei and Shandong enter Liaodong; Henan and Shandong went away to do slaves; Jiangnan goes to Nanyang.

At the same time, Westerners have always rumored that there is still a fertile place south of the South Seas. According to the calculation of geography, there are four distinct seasons, but winter and summer are the opposite of the national dynasty, and the vast is not less than ten thousand miles. If we can control the South Seas, we can also settle millions of people there in the future; But if you can't control Nanyang, you will definitely be Westerners in the future.

All of the above is why Nanyang is regarded as the Western Regions of the Kingdom and the Tang Dynasty, which can benefit from the wealth and goods of the Western Regions of the Han and Tang Dynasties; It can be obtained to expand the territory of the week; It can alleviate the worries of the daily cost of grain and rice in the south of the Yangtze River; It can solve the danger of annexation and rebellion among displaced people; It can prevent the danger of enemy attacks in the sea and frontier......