Yu Wenwen often speaks surprisingly, but generally because he is in a good mood and is limited to private conversations, Yang Ji is no longer surprised, so he was not frightened by what the other party said, "self-judgment to apologize for the crime", he made up his mind and continued to analyze the pros and cons of the trial trial of the Chinese method. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

How to successfully implement the Kaizhong Law, the key is whether the businessmen involved in the Kaizhong can withdraw salt in time with salt introduction, Yang Ji has already raised the key question, how to solve the problem of the related households is up to Yu Wenwen himself, but he still reminded the other party again to pay attention to the priority of the matter.

"If the king decides to try to open the Chinese method to repair the Zhenyang Gorge plank road, the lower officials will definitely go all out to share the king's worries, and please don't put too much energy on Lingnan."

"What do you mean, do you want the widow to face the reality, the reality is so bleak, and the widow is also very embarrassed!"

"King, the reality is a little bleak, but you can't avoid it, you can't get over that hurdle, everything is just a flash in the pan."

"You don't come to this set, don't open the topic!" Yu Wenwen didn't fall for it at all, he was now in an extremely active state of thinking, so any behavior that Yang Ji wanted to divert his attention would be in vain.

"Since it comes to the opening of the Chinese law, the widow thinks of a question, since the opening of the Chinese law of the Ming Dynasty, since it solved the food problem for the border army, why was it abolished in the middle of the period?"

"Great King, Xia Guan has said before that the Kaizhong Law originally stipulated that only merchants could participate, but later the restrictions were relaxed from the Yongle period, and everyone from the princes and nobles to the common people could participate, and the powerful took advantage of this to hoard a large amount of salt for profit."

"These powerful people can bypass Kaizhong and obtain salt from other channels, and they can also pay the full amount of salt in the salt field, resulting in ordinary merchants engaged in Kaizhong not being able to pay salt for years or even decades."

"Doing business is about the flow of funds, businessmen with salt that can't pay for salt, there is no way to return the funds, where is the money to traffic grain to the border in the coming year, plus the delay in the withdrawal of salt, so the interest in participating in the opening of the law is decreasing, and over time, the opening of the law will be difficult to continue."

"In the Hongzhi period, the little Mongolian prince (Dayan Khan) Koubian, the war broke out, the border army was in urgent need of grain and grass, and the imperial court specially approved Kaizhong to solve the problem of grain and grass, but there was not enough food to implement..."

Unconsciously, Yang Ji brought the "imperial court" into the Ming court, he said that in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the cause of the reform of the law in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, since the Hongwu year of the implementation of the law in the middle of the law, to the Hongzhi years has been full of ills and difficult to continue, so the then head of the household Ye Qi put forward a reform proposal.

Changing the grain to silver, the merchants did not need to raise grain and grass to exchange for salt, but only needed to pay silver to exchange for salt, and the imperial court had silver and could buy grain and send it to the borderlands.

As soon as this reform was implemented, businessmen all over the world wept with joy and enthusiastically participated in the opening of the Central Committee, and the revenue of the state treasury soared by 1 million taels of silver that year.

At that time, the treasury revenue, deducting grain and other physical goods, silver income was only more than 2 million taels, the reform of opening the Chinese law, all of a sudden increased the silver income by fifty percent, the reform of the household department Shangshu Ye Qi, can be said to be remarkable.

However, Yu Wenwen didn't see it that way, because he knew what this so-called reform was all about.

"Ye Shangshu's reform of the Chinese law has achieved remarkable results, so do you think this Ye Shangshu is stupid or bad?"

Yang Ji was silent for a moment and sighed: "Ye Shangshu is afraid that he has colluded with the salt merchants, and this reform will damage the public and private interests, and the opening of the Chinese law has been seriously damaged since then, and it can no longer be restored." ”

Yuwen Wen sneered and took over the conversation: "Yes, Emperor Hongwu implemented the Kaizhong Law in order to solve the problem of lack of food in the border army, so the most important thing in the Kaizhong Law is to exchange grain for salt. ”

"The government wanted to open the middle school because of the lack of grain, but after the reform into the opening of the middle school, the merchants saved trouble, and although the government had silver, the grain output did not change in the slightest, and the result would only be that the price of grain would skyrocket several times, and the situation of grain shortage in the border areas would still not be solved."

"After the reform of China and France, the price of grain in the border areas skyrocketed several times, and the increase of one million taels of silver in the national treasury was a drop in the bucket to raise food for the border army! With such a reform, the promoters are either stupid or bad! ”

Seeing Yuwen Wen's indignant appearance, Yang Ji felt a little inexplicable, he felt that the pros and cons of opening the Chinese law did not have much to do with the current situation, why did Yuwen Wen care so much?

At the beginning, it was clearly said that it was to raise funds to repair the plank road, and then pulled out the opening of the Chinese law, and now the people who are carrying out the reform of the opening of the Chinese law are either stupid or bad, isn't this off topic?

"Don't think that the widow is digressing by saying so much." Yu Wenwen began to get to the point, "The opening of the Chinese law is implemented to solve the food problem of the border army, so in addition to using it to raise food and materials to repair the plank road, the widow can also use it to develop Lingnan." ”

Speaking of this, Yang Ji finally knew what kind of idea Yuwen Wen was playing: "Does the king have to implement Shangtun?" ”

"That's right! If the people are forcibly relocated to settle down in the Wuling Mountains in order to develop Lingnan, it is no different from forcing their entire families to die. ”

"At that time, the crowd was excited, either there was a fox barking outside the camp at night, or the fish caught up opened the stomach and found that there were strips of cloth, anyway, the government dared to relocate the people on a large scale to develop Lingnan, and sooner or later a civil uprising broke out, so the widow wanted to change the way to promote development, that is, Shangtun."

Yu Wenwen's eyes flashed, and he was a little excited, just like a warrior who had taken medicine and was about to run naked: "Thanks to you for proposing the opening of the Chinese law, so that the widow can be empowered, if the government promotes Shangtun in Lingnan by implementing the opening of the Chinese law, isn't this a disguised promotion of the local development of Lingnan?" ”

The Shangtun mentioned by Yu Wenwen was a positive influence after the implementation of the Kaizhong Law in the early Ming Dynasty, that is, the merchants who carried out the Kaizhong did not stupidly traffic grain to the border areas over long distances, but recruited displaced people to open up wasteland and farm near the border army station, and directly exchanged the harvested grain for salt.

This practice saves the cost of long-distance grain trafficking, and also solves the food problem for the border army, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone, because it is the behavior of the merchants themselves to lead the tuntian, and is called "Shangtun".

Why are merchants so fearless of hardships to go to the border merchants? Because it is profitable, as long as it is exchanged for salt to attract salt, it will be a huge profit after resale, and the so-called "murderous business is done by someone, but no one does loss-making business", as long as it can make money, the enthusiasm of businessmen will be mobilized.

In another way, if Yuwen Wen implemented the method of opening up the Chinese in Lingnan, using the salt produced in the coastal salt farms to attract merchants to recruit people to open up the wasteland in Lingnan, through such spontaneous business behavior, he could indirectly promote the development of Lingbiaozhou County, especially the surrounding areas of Guangzhou.

If there is land, there will be food, and with food, more troops can be fed, and the degree of development will increase, and the more suitable places will be for Lingnan to live, so after a few years of continuous development, more and more people will migrate to settle in Lingbiao.

The food supply is sufficient, and the soldiers are sufficient, then the garrison in Lingnan will increase significantly, and at that time, some chieftains and cave masters will not dare to take action even if they have ideas, as long as the situation in the area of Lingnan and Guangzhou is stable, then even Jiaozhou will be stabilized.

Seeing Yu Wenwen's wishful thinking, Yang Ji lost no time in pouring cold water: "King, I'm afraid that this matter will not be decided by the king, and once it is implemented, there will be a lot of constraints, and the term of office of the lower officials will not be long, in case there is a mistake in forcibly getting on the horse..."

"Do more wrong, do less wrong, don't do it will not be wrong, do you want to be a clear stream, come to a 'usually talk about the heart, when in danger, say that the water is too cold'?"

"What's wrong with a short tenure? Who said to force the horse? Set the rules and regulations first, make a good start and make a good plan, so that the successor Xiao Guicao can do it immediately, this matter will not be effective for more than ten years, and the widow is not in a hurry, so don't worry. ”

Yu Wenwen was full of confidence, he felt that Yang Ji's worries were not unreasonable, but this was not a reason for his timidity, if he really messed up, there was a good saying: I will carry the black pot, and I will send you to death!

"What did you say before? It's really going to be messed up, the widow is cheeky and spits on himself in the court, if you can't get over your conscience, just cut yourself and apologize for your crimes! ”