The development of domestic commerce and capital in the Ming Dynasty made the goods of the Ming Dynasty require a large number of markets.

If this kind of thing had been put in the past, the imperial court might not have bothered, because it was difficult for the voice of the merchants to be conveyed to the imperial court, but now it is different, as the Ming Dynasty encouraged commerce and prompted some enlightened gentry to devote themselves to commerce, their voices became louder, and there was a relationship of interests between the officials and the merchants in the court, and the interests of the merchants were their vital interests, so the imperial court had to pay attention to it and help them solve their troubles.

Now the situation of the people in the Ming Dynasty changing to cash crops is very common, some large clans even tens of thousands of acres of land at the same time to plant cotton, so many people plant cotton, plant mulberry seedlings, so many workshops hire workers to weave, and the goods made are piled up, someone has to buy.

If no one buys, the workshop goes bankrupt, the workshop workers lose their jobs, and the gentry who grow the cotton fields will lose their money, which will cause a huge social crisis and unrest.

At the beginning of Wang Yan's encouragement of commerce, the first batch of people who devoted themselves to business basically made a fortune, and the Chinese people immediately flocked to it when they saw that others had made money, and they had lost their rationality, and workshops sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

The production of the workshop expanded rapidly, and the workshop owners blindly expanded, thinking that as long as the cloth was woven, they could make money, but they did not know that the production had expanded, but the market had not changed, and no one might buy what was woven at a high price, and once no one bought it, then problems and crises came.

The Ming Dynasty had a large population and a strong production capacity, and the prices of porcelain, cotton, silk, books, and other materials produced increased rapidly.

If there was no new market to digest these things, it would inevitably cause a large number of merchants and landlords to go bankrupt, then Wang Yan's reforms would immediately fail, and the social reform of the Ming Dynasty would be terminated and revert to the previous agrarian society.

Wang Yan is now in a carriage running at full speed, he can't stop, and he must find a new market for the merchants.

After receiving feedback from below, he consulted with others and decided to seek a solution from three directions: internally, in Japan, and in the South Seas.

The Ming Dynasty had a population of more than 50 million and a huge market, but the traditional self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy had not completely disintegrated, and the agricultural society was still the main body of the Ming Dynasty.

If you want to expand the market, you have to drag more people into the wave of social transformation, which is cruel, but it has to be done.

Nanyang and Japan are external markets, and if they can make a breakthrough, they can find more sales places for Daming's goods, and at the same time transport more materials and raw materials back to Daming.

At this time, the merchants and enlightened gentry of the Ming Dynasty had begun to have a certain aggressiveness.

This time, the Ming Dynasty took the initiative to adopt a hostile attitude towards Spain and sent envoys to Japan, but the main reason was because of the help of merchants, who promoted and influenced the national policy of the imperial court, which can be said to be an unprecedented thing.

The reason why Wang Yan reacted so quickly and did not wait for the large-scale bankruptcy of the handicraft workshop to react was to thank Wude for its timely feedback.

Wude is the largest money bank in the Ming Dynasty, many merchants in order to facilitate transactions, will store silver in Wude, and even the tax silver of the imperial court is entrusted to Wude to transport, which makes Wude a large amount of silver stored in the treasury.

In addition to lending silver to the imperial court, Qian Zhuang also lent money to private workshops, and even lent other money houses to let them lend, and it was precisely because of their urging that workshops in various places sprung up.

After all, the money of the money is not the money of the bank, but the merchants and gentry deposit, the money bank to borrow the money to lay eggs, the heart is also relatively empty, if the money lent out can not be recovered, and the business comes to withdraw the silver, then the money bank has the risk of bankruptcy.

Therefore, the money dealer was very vigilant, and when he found that the market had changed, and he lent a lot of money, he found that many of the things produced by the workshop were not sold, or the value of the goods had shrunk, and he immediately became nervous.

The loan that was expected to be recovered was delayed, and there was a shortage of silver in the bank, so Wude urged the Ming court, the largest debtor, to pay the arrears, and the court found the risks and huge problems in the market as soon as it investigated.

At present, in this social change, the forces involved, including the major merchants, handicraft workshops in various places, as well as the landlords and gentry who provide raw materials, tens of thousands of tenants and workshop workers, and the Wude No., these forces are linked one by one, and if the reform fails, it will be an explosion and all will be finished.

Wang Yan naturally could not let the Wude go bankrupt, and the ministers of the central government were also driven by various forces to ask the imperial court to open up new markets.

Of course, there were many voices of opposition among them, some of them were motivated by moral considerations, believing that Spain had no grievances with our dynasty, while our dynasty took the liberty of adopting a hostile attitude and wanted to seize the Luzon region, which was very unjust and was not done by the Heavenly Dynasty, and there were also those who would affect their maritime merchants who occupied the Japanese market because of the revision of the treaty with Japan, but this was not as loud as the voice of the Chu Party.

Wude is Wang Yan's core interests, those workshops must not fail, which is the same reason that housing prices cannot fall in later generations, and the closure of workshops will cause Wude to go bankrupt.

The Wude must not fall, and if you want the Wude to not fall, you have to find a market for those workshops that have borrowed money, so that they can sell their things and make money, so that the silver of the Wude can be recovered.

At this time, the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Jin State had stopped, and after Dolgon saw that the Ming army had withdrawn from Hanzhong, he also took it when he saw it, and went south to Xuzhou and Luoyang to ride the Qing army, and returned to the north, preparing to strike at Western Mongolia again.

Seeing that the war could not be fought for the time being, the Ming Dynasty also focused on internal affairs.

The mission to Japan, led by Qian Bingji, the head of the Ministry of Rites, carried the letter of the Ming Dynasty and a handwritten letter from Wang Yan to the shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna, and they set sail directly to Japan from Nanjing via the Ryukyus on two sea ships.

Historically, Japan still wanted to trade with China, and even fought for tribute, and then the Wako Rebellion was also related to the cessation of normal Sino-Japanese exploration and trade.

As for the current Tokugawa shogunate, at the beginning of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu was eager to resume trade with the Ming Dynasty, and he made overtures not only through Korea, but also through the Ryukyus, but both Korea and the Ryukyus had their own intentions.

Korea has an enmity with Japan, so it naturally ignores Japan, and Ryukyu is a second-lane dealer in the middle of tomorrow's trade, and if the Ming Dynasty resumes trade with Japan, it will be a loss of its own interests for the Ryukyus, and it will not try its best to help.

Later, Tokugawa Ieyasu also ordered Honda Masasumi and Hasegawa Fujihiro to write letters respectively, entrusting Zhou Xingru, a merchant of Yingtianfu who had come to Japan to trade with Japan, to bring to Chen Zizhen, the governor of Fujian.

In his letter, Honda said that Ieyasu had always wanted peace with the Ming Dynasty, and that when the Fujian merchant ships sailed to Nagasaki next year, he would uphold the will of the Ming Emperor and send them to the Ming Dynasty.

Hasegawa Fujihiro also said in the letter that if the Ming Dynasty sent a letter to Kanhe, he would personally serve as a special envoy to the Ming Dynasty to rebuild the old two countries, go back and forth every year, and trade with each other, but the Ming Dynasty did not reply.

After Wang Yanguang recovered Nanjing, Zeng Dayue declared the influence of the army, and Japan did not catch up, but after that, Japanese shogunate personnel came to Nanjing, and Wang Yan granted permission to resume the exploration trade.

This time, Wang Yan wanted to further expand trade, and he expected that the Tokugawa shogunate would most likely agree.

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