Zhu Hu looked at Zhu Zhen with a smile. Although he was reluctant to go to the frontier in the Central Plains, he supported other brothers to go.

He was about to say a few more words of support to Zhu Zhen, when he suddenly thought of something and said, "If you go to Hanzhou, how will your family arrange it?" Hanzhou's side is very simple, lacking in medical care and medicine, but it is not suitable for children to go: and," Zhu Hu lowered his voice: "You are willing to go to Hanzhou, and your Sanwei man Ma Ke is willing to go?" ”

"How dare they not ......" Zhu Zhen suddenly stopped halfway through his words. The former problem can be solved, he just left his children in the capital for the time being; But the latter problem is not so easy to solve.

It was the Hanzhou continent, which was 20,000 miles away from the east and had no land connection, not the Western Regions, which was seven or eight thousand miles away from the Central Plains but connected by land, nor the Nanyang, which was five or six thousand miles away by sea but very rich, but it took several months to go by boat, and there was the risk of capsizing, and the roads were basically deserted.

When you arrive in a place, you can't live a much better life than you can in China as if you were in the Western Regions or the South Seas. He visited Fang Mingqian once in private, and got the exact news from his mouth that the natives of the Hanzhou Continent still make a living by hunting and fishing, and they can't even plant land, and the soldiers have to work hard to open up the wasteland. It's the same farming, why don't they choose to stay in China or go to a place like Nanyang? If you dare to force you to relocate, they may not dare to rebel.

Zhu Zhen thought for a while and didn't think of a solution, and when he saw Zhu Zhen who was looking at him with a smile, as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw, he said, "Fifth brother, do you have a way?" ”

"I didn't think of a way either, but when the official family came to my house for a banquet before, it seemed to have mentioned a few words." Zhu Hu said with a smile.

Zhu Zhen immediately wanted to ask what the solution was, but at this time, a voice suddenly came from the door: "Your Majesty has arrived!" Zhu Zhen immediately stood up with Zhu Zhen, turned to face the door and said, "I've seen the official family!" ”

"I've seen the official family/royal brother!" Everyone present saluted.

"Get up." Yun Xi smiled as usual and asked them all to be flat, let Xi Yao take Min'er to the side of the female dependent, and whispered to Wen Yuan, Wen Qi and others to sit on the seats, and walked to their separate seats and smiled at everyone: "It's all a family party, no need to be formal." ”

"Thank you, official/royal brother." Everyone agreed, and Zhu Gaoxu was about to sit down, but he was immediately dragged by Zhu Youstew. He immediately stood up, but looked at Zhu Youstew with great puzzlement. Not only him, but several county kings also sat down, but they were either pulled up by the people next to him, or they stood up again when they saw that everyone didn't sit down.

"Haha, there is stew, it's rare that you haven't been to the capital for three years, and you still remember this rule." Yun Xi smiled.

He then explained to the somewhat confused Gao Xu and the others: "Since the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet at the end of the third year of Jianye, I have set the rules, the seats are randomly drawn and arranged, and I can no longer choose my own position. ”

"So many rules." Gao Xu muttered softly. He immediately guessed Yun Xi's intentions, because he himself had used such a method to urge the civil and military officials who had moved from the Central Plains to communicate more with the locals of the Su Domain. But he still didn't like it himself.

But he still honestly went to the queue to draw numbers.

After everyone is seated, as in previous years, the next program will be the 'Spring Festival Gala'. Although this year is the fourth year since the end of the third year of Jianye, it is also a novelty for most people, and everyone looks at it with relish.

Yun Xi sat on the main seat and watched for a while, quietly sat next to Zhu Youstew, chatted casually with him for a few words, and then ordered: "There is stew, I have something to tell you." ”

"What?"

"Write an opera to make people think that there are mountains of gold and silver in the Hanzhou continent."

"Let people think that there are mountains of gold and silver in the Han continent?" Zhu Youstew's voice was a little loud, which attracted everyone next to him to look over, although he quickly turned his head back after seeing Yun Xi.

"Brother Huang, why did you write such an opera?" Zhu Youstew asked in a low voice.

"There is stew," Yun Xi looked at the two actors on the stage who were performing cross talk hard, and said with a soft smile: "You are very smart, you should be able to guess." ”

"But the younger brother is incomprehensible," You Stew no longer pretended to be stupid: "Brother Huang, you are going to give up the gold and silver of the entire Han Continent to attract people who are brave enough to go over there?" ”

"That's true." Yun Xi replied as usual.

Yes, Yun Xi asked Zhu Youwei to write such an opera, the purpose of which was to stimulate a gold rush and make countless bold and reckless people who were eager to get rich overnight run to the Hanzhou Continent, so that the Hanzhou Continent could be developed at a faster speed.

"But," Zhu Youstew said in an eager tone: "So much gold and silver, it should have belonged to the Ming Imperial Court, and the gold and silver belonging to our Zhu family were distributed to those mud legs?" ”

Zhu Youstew was very dissatisfied. In his opinion, those gold and silver are real money, the money that can make the Ming Dynasty's treasury burst, even if it does not collect taxes for a few years, it can maintain the operation of the imperial court, and a small part of it is just a little given to the accompanying soldiers, but he is very reluctant to divide all the money.

"If you want to trick them all into going to the Han Continent, you can't do it. Official, you are the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Chrysostom Yuyan, you can't regret this matter. ”

"There is stew, and my brother will never regret it." Yoon-hee continued, "There is something lacking in your understanding of money or wealth. Do you remember those words I wrote in my book "Finance"? and the examples I have given in the history books. ”

"Of course my brother remembers, but those are exceptions."

"Now the Hanzhou Continent is a special case." Yun Xi said: "What is there in the Han Continent now? There are only wild people, several kinds of vegetables and fruits that have never been seen, animals different from the Ming Dynasty, land that has never been cultivated, and as for cloth and silk, there is no trace. ”

Speaking of this, Yun Xi paused. Because the civilization to the south would soon be discovered, or rather, had already been discovered, but he decided to hide it. He raised his glass and took a sip of it, and continued: "Gold and silver are of little use in a place like this. There were very few things that could be bought with gold and silver, and there was so much gold and silver, they could only bring gold and silver back to the Ming Dynasty. And as long as these gold and silver come to Daming, let Daming's gold and silver increase, it will be beneficial to Daming. ”

The specific economic model is difficult for Yun Xi to explain to Zhu Youzhuang. Gold and silver, or money, are not wealth in themselves, they are just general equivalents. Gold and silver became money because of their small size and easy to carry, but they themselves did not serve any purpose for people, you should not eat them when you were hungry, you should not drink them when you were thirsty, and you should not wear them when you were cold.

What is wealth, it is something that can be useful to people, it is food, it is cloth and silk, it is all kinds of utensils made of ceramics, it is wood, masonry, cattle, sheep, pigs and horses.

Through the above examples, it can be clearly seen that wealth is very difficult, especially in ancient times, it is difficult to grow rapidly, but as a general equivalent, gold and silver can grow quickly, such as the discovery of the gold and silver mine on Hanzhou Road. If gold and silver, which are the general equivalents, suddenly increase in large quantities in a certain place, and wealth does not increase rapidly, there will be a huge inflation, and prices will rise.

Rising prices have two effects. First, money will become less and less valuable in your hands due to inflationary pressures, so people, especially city dwellers, will be more inclined to spend their money rather than save it. And most people don't buy a lot of worthless things to go home just because the money has depreciated, but buy goods such as cloth, linen and silk. This leads to an increase in demand for these goods, which causes merchants to invest in their production, thereby increasing goods, or wealth.

Second, when prices are rising, it is difficult for people in the countryside to increase their wealth as quickly as businessmen in the cities. Because it is very difficult to change the yield per mu of land, and the area of land that a person can take care of is also limited, even if the price of grain rises in tandem with the price of handicrafts, the merchants in the cities can increase their wealth at a relatively rapid rate by opening handicraft factories, while the peasants and landlords in the countryside can only rely on the rising prices of grain.

And in fact, those who became rich overnight because they brought back gold and silver from the Hanzhou Road, even if they also increased their food consumption, they would do more so to consume extravagantly and squander, so that the new demand for handicraft products would exceed the new demand for grain, so that the price of handicraft products would rise more than the increase in grain, and the wealth of merchants and craftsmen would increase more than that of the landlords.

The landlords, of course, would be unhappy with this. Under normal circumstances, they have only two options, the first is to also invest in industry and commerce, and the second is to increase the ground rent. But now that the Ming people have fewer and more land, it is not feasible to increase the land rent, and they either see that the money they hide under the ground is becoming less and less valuable, or they also invest the money in industry and commerce.

The wealth of those who stubbornly refuse to invest money in industry and commerce will soon become insignificant, and industry and commerce will develop greatly, so that the economy of the whole country can develop, and even capitalism can develop.

Of course, the above process is idealistic, especially in a centralized country like China, where the large-scale development of industry and commerce will affect the stability of the country, and the landlord class, which is dominated by nobles, will not be willing to watch the depreciation of the money in their hands, and will certainly try their best to promote restrictions on industry and commerce. But now that Yun Hee is emperor, and he is still relatively powerful and young, he believes that he can shelter the fragile industry and commerce, the fragile bourgeoisie, until they can deal with the storm on their own.

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