"This little devil is really shameless!" Zhang Tao listened to Jiang Tian's report and sincerely sighed at the nature of the Japanese.

"They have always been this virtue, the key is that we don't have the ability to take back the Ryukyus by force now, that's why they dare to be so arrogant, for the sake of the smooth implementation of the plan, will we admit it this time?"

Zhang Tao sneered: "What do you think? They begged us, why should I suffer? ”

"But ......" Jiang Tian scratched his head, "If we don't support these oppositionists, we won't be able to balance the Tokugawa shogunate, unless we can pull out a fleet now." ”

"Fleet...... It's not for nothing! Zhang Tao said with certainty: "Zheng Sen's kid is still idle and has nothing to do, just let him bully the Japanese." ”

Jiang Tian looked at his senior with straight eyes, as if he had heard some ulterior secret.

In fact, when Zheng Sen was still an angry youth, he was familiar with Zhang Tao, after all, the two were of similar age, and they were also worried about the country and the people, and they didn't know what to do, but Zhang Tao was already famous all over the world at that time, if he hadn't been squeezed out by Guan Ningjun and civilian officials, he wouldn't have gone to Nanjing to relax, and Zheng Sen went to Nanjing to study because of his father. Can these two people not spark when they meet each other? As a result, they went from drinking buddies to comrades, and of course they weren't that kind of comrades.

Later, Beijing fell and Chongzhen hanged himself, Zhang Tao sneaked into the north to rescue the princess and the prince, and established the Southern Ming Provisional Government in Nanjing. But later Zhang Tao did not agree, even when the Nanjing battle was the most dangerous, he firmly believed that he would win, but he didn't know how long it would take, so in order to facilitate the unification of the country after the war, it was necessary to divide and disintegrate the Zheng family. So he secretly persuaded Zheng Sen to go home and cultivate his own power, preparing to expel the Dutch on Dayuan Island, the reason was to prevent the repetition of the old events of the Southern Song Dynasty and find a way for himself to retreat overseas. The young Zheng Sen did not doubt him, so he hurried back and organized a fleet to liberate Taiwan at any time. Later, the battle situation gradually became clear, especially when the Zheng family borrowed a ship to go on the Northern Expedition, and Zheng Zhilong, who was a bit of a hero, had the idea of retiring. Later, the contradiction between the civil officials and the soldiers in the court became more and more acute, and the Zheng family didn't know who to support, anyway, whoever allowed himself to go to sea to make money and collect tolls would support whom, as a result, Zheng Sen, who had long been brainwashed by the righteousness of the country and the nation, resolutely led the troops out of Taiwan, and the old thing Zheng Zhilong also saved the mind of retaining part of the strength and betting on both sides did not stop it. In fact, he didn't know that his precious son had already discussed with the generalissimo at the time, and on the surface, he supported the Ming family in fact to act as a pawn for New China. In order to show his position, he even published an impassioned essay when he led the fleet to the effect that Zhang Tao should not disregard the old favor of the first emperor and usurp the country.

"So he, Zheng Sen, is your big undercover agent?" Jiang Tian was a little dumbfounded when he heard this,

Zhang Tao shook his head: "Not quite right, at least I failed to persuade him to give up Confucianism, this kid always thinks that some monks have recited the scriptures crookedly, and it has nothing to do with the Buddha's teachings." But I can't figure out that this world has long been not respected by China, and in the face of a group of robbers with strong ships and cannons, Confucian society can no longer cope. ”

In fact, Jiang Tian also knows how strong this historical inertia is, if it weren't for Zhang Tao's prestige back then, how could his dignified Zheng family son listen to your patriotic education. Although he was also very patriotic in history, he loved the Ming Dynasty, not China in a broad sense, and he also hated killing his mother when he resisted the Qing Dynasty. At this point, he does not have the mercenary intentions of an old pirate like Zheng Zhilong, but he is also less flexible. However, Jiang Tian was able to react immediately, it was not that Zhang Tao did not strangle Zheng Chenggong's reputation, nor did he not do it because the navy was not ready, nor did he have nothing to fear because he detained the entire Zheng family. In fact, this is the original agreement of the two patriotic young people, to use their respective ideas to save the motherland, even if it is superficially the same situation, in fact, it is to expand China's overseas living space in the future. Even if it is only a part of the remnant fleet, it may not be able to pose a threat to the Dutch, but it is not a problem to destroy the Satsuma Domain, and he Zheng Chenggong is a separatist force, even if he eats the Ryukyus, it has nothing to do with the Central Plains, let alone drive out the Japanese, even if you destroy the Ryukyu royal family, it doesn't matter, and the Central Plains Shangbang will definitely help you avenge it in a few decades. But if the king's descendants are not found at that time...... Then you will return to the arms of the suzerain! The specific process can refer to Zhu Di's expedition to Annan.

This is a serial plan, that is, there is no need to worry about the counteroffensive in history, and you can also bring the ugly hat to the Zheng family, for the sake of the righteousness and the face of the country, Zheng Sen will definitely be duty-bound, of course, he must have given a lot of benefits in private. For example, covert economic support and trade exchanges were used to support the Zheng family to gain a foothold in Taiwan, and then to travel around the world. In fact, three hundred years later, this is indeed the case, after the Zheng family formally surrendered to the Central Plains, all the islands they occupied were assigned to the territory of China, so three hundred years later, in international history, Chinese historians can confidently accuse European countries of brutal colonial history. For the fact that he also occupies a large number of overseas territories, he can easily solve it with the phrase "annexation". This may seem ridiculous, but it is necessary for any era to be right.

Looking back, Jiang Tian finally knew Zhang Tao's layout, but waited for the news to pass to the country surnamed Zhu, and then the Zheng family organized a fleet to set off, and in order to avoid being hit by a typhoon, why would there be action after autumn, so how to reply to the Japanese now?

"This is simple, you just say that I don't like their quibbles, who is the general of Japan makes no difference to China, if you talk about it again, you will not be allowed to trade!"

"If we break the treaty just after signing it, can we have some international credibility?"

"You're talking to the devil about credibility?"

"At least the current devils can't invade China, who can believe the reason why you hate them? And since we want to open up, there will only be more and more countries coming to sign the treaty, and when we can't unify the whole earth, we have to leave a good reputation, right? ”

Jiang Tian's big white words are very clear, this world is different from the world they are familiar with, don't look at European countries as a group of robbers, but after all, people are also serious countries, and this country is so delicate between countries. They can obviously fight each other for hundreds of years, but when they encounter the problem of infidels, they are surprisingly grouped, if you always play fairy jumping, provoke this group of stunned young people who have just begun to develop, you can really form a group to fight with you, and the huge productivity of the Central Plains needs these countries to digest, otherwise how should the textile and ceramic industry in the south of the Yangtze River live? If industrialization is carried out in the future, to whom will those possible manufactured goods be sold? The general trend in the next 100 years can only be that they bully the natives everywhere, and then use the stolen money to buy high-end industrial products from us, to put it bluntly, they will scavenge the blood and sweat of others for us, just like the current Spaniards.

"So what do you say?"

Jiang Tian thought for a while, and said a little hesitantly: "It's better to delay it for a while, and then reluctantly agree, but in order to ensure the face of the imperial court, let them write a confession, even if they give them more benefits, such as giving them some swords or something, and when Zheng Sen takes the Ryukyus, this Satsuma clan will not be a concern." ”

After deciding on the Ryukyu issue, although Zhang Tao was a little unwilling, he could only do so: "Navy, navy, if I have a navy, I will still worry about the world!" But this navy is too expensive, and I now know why the allowance of those water rats back then was higher than that of Lao Tzu's army! ”

Only Jiang Tian can understand this, this problem also plagued the dynasty back then, if there was a navy that has always been strong, a lot of bullshit things will not happen. However, at that time, China did not have enough technology and money to build a strong navy because it was in ruins, and it had to guard against the invasion of its northern neighbors at any time. In this time and space, although there is also a lack of stable finances and cutting-edge shipbuilding technology, the situation is much better than in another life, so the main difficulty now lies in shipbuilding and training professionals.

Jiang Tian remembered his financial reform plan, and said with some amusement: "Money is not a problem, as long as the new currency begins to circulate, the silver in the world will roll in, not to mention building the first navy in Asia, even if it is enough to conquer the world." ”

Zhang Tao, who knew the inside story, nodded, if it weren't for Jiang Tian's invention of the stamping machine, although it was relatively primitive, it still solved the problem of large-scale low-cost coinage, making it possible to implement currency reform, although the silver content of the new currency was higher than that of European silver coins, but because of the extremely difficult to replicate the manufacturing technology, those who made counterfeit money could not imitate it, so that the problem of currency quality that has been plaguing the Central Plains has been solved. Moreover, because the state mandated the purchasing power of silver coins, it made it unprofitable to melt down the currency to mint other utensils, and it was also possible to stabilize the amount of money issued. The next step is to use the new currency to carry out tax reform, whether it is to pay taxes, pay wages or state orders, all of them are settled in silver coins, and businessmen will naturally change to the new currency for convenience, so that the original fire consumption problem will disappear completely, and the gray income that started from Zhang Juzheng is gone, in fact, it reduces the tax burden of the people, and there is no need to engage in any fire consumption to return to the public. However, at the beginning, because the issuance was too small, there must not be too many silver coins on the market, so if the landlords and old fortunes used cash silver when paying taxes, they had to convert the fire consumption, and the merchants used the scattered silver to exchange the huàn silver coins when they also had to calculate the fire consumption, and when the people's silver deposits were to reduce losses, they would inevitably concentrate a large number of silver in the state, and if all the silver in the 10,000-ton meter was exchanged for silver coins, the fire consumption conversion alone could make the treasury full of silver. At the same time, the settlement of a qiē in standard currency can also promote the circulation of private materials, making it possible for capital to operate, so that money can really circulate, instead of becoming a silver lump buried in the courtyard of local wealth like the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Tao was also promoting this kind of change before he found Jiang Tian, but the process was more tortuous and slow, and the method he adopted was first to stabilize prices, so that the average purchasing power of the common people could be restored to the pre-war level, but under the reality that most of the land in the main grain producing areas was annexed, he could only take the way of buying grain from overseas, and he was limited to his own insufficient transportation capacity and could not purchase enough to crush the large landlords, so he only barely maintained the price of grain. As a result, there was a situation where those who found fault and offended themselves were distributed to their families, in order to break the land monopoly without arousing too much vigilance from the landlords. Now he is not afraid, as long as he can get another batch of grain from Japan nearby, he is confident that the national grain price will be lowered to 126 to 128, this price is enough to make the landlords in Jiangnan vomit blood, even if you don't have to pay taxes, but if you can't sell the grain, you can't get the money back, and the money you get back will shrink if your assets shrink if the money you get back is less, the tenants will move on their own if they rent land, there are many terra nullius in the north and they don't have to pay taxes, who do the Jiangnan landlords who have lost their population advantage rely on to plant the thousands of acres of land? When these guys can't hold on, the state will come forward to buy the land, or guide them to plant mulberry and silkworms, return farmland to forests, and develop towards a more advanced planting industry. Then gradually reduce grain imports and protect yeoman farmers. This set of macro-control measures was enough to destroy the small-scale peasant economy that had lasted for thousands of years, and to promote population movements to destroy clan rule in the countryside. It's just that this set of measures takes a long time, and there must be enough policy continuity and inheritance, otherwise it is easy to mess up.

Zhang Tao, who was still a little happy, shook his head again: "Without more than ten years, it will be impossible to restore the productive forces north of the Yangtze River, and it is conservatively estimated that it will take 20 years to see the results, and after 50 years, the industrial revolution can be regarded as rapid progress." ”

Jiang Tian also knew that this was the most optimistic estimate, and it was also the most optimistic imagination in the case of cultivating grassroots officials from now on, after all, you have banned all the gentry below the county level, and there must be administrative personnel to fill it, right? However, the huge territory determines that this is not an overnight thing, even if you ignore the sparsely populated north, the number of officials required in the Jiangnan provinces alone is enough to cover the total number of registered officials in the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, among China's accumulated shortcomings, in addition to the land annexation, there is also the problem of officials not being able to govern clearly, Zhu Yuanzhang is poor and crazy, except for county-level officials, he no longer sets up a lower level of formal official positions, and the management of the grass-roots level is controlled by the master and various almost hereditary officials. I think that when Hai Rui was fighting against these people, he relied on perseverance to do everything by himself, so that he could be regarded as keeping his name. Can other officials have such a masochistic spirit? Therefore, Zhang Tao began to decentralize power from the central government, set up a bunch of departments that looked like empty shells, and only waited for the grassroots to gradually enrich, and then declared war on those vested interests who hollowed out the country.

Leaving the imperial study, the officials outside still looked at Jiang Tian with strange eyes, not for anything else, because Jiang Tian actually passed several officials in a row and was received in advance. In fact, he also saw Xizi and Jiang Tian muttering, and they all guessed that the dead eunuch did something wrong, in fact, how did they know that there was no need for any small actions, as long as Jiang Tian asked to see Zhang Tao Unless there was urgent official business, he would definitely summon him as soon as possible, because this emperor knew that Jiang Tian, who was hiding aside to develop science and technology, was definitely looking for himself, which was discovered from the time he made the plan to make a strategy for Japan, and this person who seemed to be boastful in politics was actually very strategic, So he gradually came into contact with some state secrets, and now it was time for Jiang Tian to play a more important role.

Jiang Tian did not go home directly, and after conspiring with Zhang Tao for a long time, he decided to change the plan, since he wanted to launch the hidden Zheng family to annex the Ryukyus, then expanding his own shipping strength became a top priority, and the development of the shipbuilding industry is inseparable from huge investment, so the minting industry can not stay in the experimental stage. The roots of each of these plans are stuck in the word money, and it is necessary to start accelerating the reserves of the new currency in anticipation of the upcoming reforms. At present, the only one who has mastered the capacity of industrial production is the Academy of Sciences.

Song Yingxing looked at this model of absenteeism, and didn't know what to say. Since Jiang Tian came to his academy, almost all of the main research results are related to him, so what can he do if he is absent? Compared with King Ji, Song Yingxing is still relatively content, after all, this kid has never been to the Zongren Mansion except for the first appearance.

"You said you were going to make a hydraulic press with all your might?" Old man Song smashed it, although he was a technical official, he didn't know anything about politics, even if he couldn't understand the whole plan, at least he knew that making a new currency was the key to a huge plan.

Jiang Tian nodded eagerly: "Yes!" Relying only on the current primitive human stamping machine, the efficiency is still too low, if you choose a large river near the construction of a water conservancy press, it can improve efficiency and work day and night. ”

Relying on the water flow to drive the waterwheel, drive the transmission to obtain a variety of power output and the role of the relay, the processing efficiency will be a revolutionary leap, unless the steam engine appears, it will be incomparable productivity for a long time.

"However, your mirror factory is not finished yet, how can you have the spare energy to do this?"

"Mirrors are just playthings after all, and everything but the big glass factory is suspended."

Song Yingxing was actually waiting for him to say this, half of the shares of the mirror factory were owned by the emperor, so he couldn't stop work casually, but if Jiang Tian said so, even if the emperor was unhappy one day, he wouldn't blame himself. I have to say that the old man's heart and eyes are all used here. He didn't know the secret recipe of the mirror, so he didn't expect Jiang Tian to care about the industrial production of mirrors at all, and now this kind of small batch of zuò can be sold at a sky-high price. So it doesn't matter when the factory is built.

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