In his previous life, Zhu Zhanji had great influence in many countries, especially Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa. Because the economy of these countries is almost controlled by Zhu Zhanji, his words are more effective than the words of a government in these countries.

The history of world colonization has transitioned from the armed plunder of Spain, to the colonial development of Britain, and finally to the economic control of the United States, in three different stages in the past few hundred years.

Although it cannot be said that the US way is necessarily more advanced than the British way, nor can it be said that the British way is necessarily more advanced than the Spanish way, Zhu Zhanji has tasted the sweetness of economic control.

For the Uliangha tribes, it is impossible to grab anything, and the waste of force against them is not worth the loss, but they cannot be allowed to develop freely.

So at this time, economic control is the most appropriate.

The best way to control them is to use economic means to tie the interests of the Wuliangha tribes with the interests of the Ming Dynasty, gradually weaken the root cause of their survival, and finally make them unable to survive without the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, even if they were allowed to betray, they could not betray.

Zhu Zhanji's strategy was to hand over the coal mines to them, let them organize people to dig the mines, teach them coking, and then sell them to the Ming Dynasty.

Whether it is coal mining, coking, or transportation, it requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

And the added value created by these jobs is not high, when the pricing power is controlled by the Ming Dynasty, only leaving them with a small profit, they can serve the Ming wholeheartedly.

As long as the profits from coal digging were a little higher than grazing, or even just equal, the nobles of the Uliangha would naturally drive their slaves and commoners to work in the mines.

The arrival of capital has always been bloody, and the nobles of Uryanha will naturally squeeze the surplus value of the workers in order to make more money.

The wicked let the nobles of Uliangha do it, and when the time came, the Ming only needed a little demagogy to turn these miners into his most loyal believers.

And when they spend all their labor digging coal and coking, the scale of grazing will naturally be much reduced. It only takes a few decades, and after a generation or two, their pattern of life has completely changed.

At that time, they could only dig coal and sell it to Daming, and then exchange it for living materials, so they could no longer do without Daming.

Although Zhu Di is a rare Ming Jun, he has never had a sense of business, and he can't think of another way to control all the people on the grassland peacefully.

If you add the grassland alliance flag system mentioned by Zhu Zhanji at the beginning, and the implementation of the Ding reduction system, Zhu Di does not believe that these Wuliangha people will be half-hearted, and dare to be half-hearted.

He had never taught Zhu Zhanji about this, so he was also very curious about how Zhu Zhanji would think of using this way to control the grassland.

However, even if he is Zhu Zhanji's grandfather, Zhu Zhanji will not tell him the truth, but just coping with the past with more eyes and more thoughts.

This also made Zhu Di believe that he was born to know.

When he set off from Kaiping Qiantunwei, Zhu Di had already determined the supply of coal with the Wuliangha ministries.

When the leaders of the various tribes of Wuliangha heard that they could exchange those worthless charcoal for various daily necessities with simple processing, they were even more active than Zhu Di.

They will also calculate that once they calculate that a worker can buy one or two sheep with the coal they dig in a day, and the harvest will be guaranteed in drought and flood, and they are eager to start work now.

When Zhu Zhanji and the others left the grassland, they met some anxious tribal leaders, who took their serfs and subordinates to Kaiping Qiantun to guard here.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Zhanji couldn't help laughing. "Grandpa Huang, if you want these nomads to settle down, you don't necessarily have to use force!"

Zhu Di couldn't help laughing and said: "A hundred years later, I'm afraid there will be no more Wuliangha tribes, and all of them will become Ming people." ”

"They'll be proud of it. The grassland in the future is destined to be the prosperity of those who follow me and the death of those who disobey me. ”

Zhu Di paid attention to his surroundings and said indifferently: "There are some things that we can do secretly, don't say it." Back to the Ming Dynasty, those rotten Confucians will stare at us again, and if they don't conform to the benevolence and righteousness of the saints like this, we still have to say less. ”

Zhu Zhanji clamped the horse's belly between his legs, and the horsewhip in his hand patted the horse's buttocks, and the Arabian horse under his crotch jumped out quickly. "Grandpa Huang, that's your business, grandson, I'm still a child who doesn't care about anything!"

Zhu Di looked at his back and couldn't help laughing.

On the seventh day of the eighth month, the army arrived in Zhangbei, and after the statistics of this time, the military exploits of the various military guards were also counted.

The army will assemble in Zhangbei for the last time, and then be rewarded for meritorious deeds.

To Zhu Zhanji's surprise, as soon as he arrived in Zhangbei, Zhu Zhanji hadn't even sat down on his buttocks, so Zhuang Jing asked for a meeting through Yang Zhangde.

In a few days, he will return to Beiping, and he can't even wait for these few days, which means that something unexpected must have happened.

"Let him in."

Yang Zhangde came out of the big tent, and after a while, he took Zhuang Jing into the big tent. Liu Wan, the little eunuch who followed them, was still holding a large stack of bamboo-patterned paper used by Da Ming to write reports.

These intelligence materials handed over will be handled by these little eunuchs before they are handed over to Zhu Zhanji.

This is not to let these eunuchs get involved in political affairs, but just to let them check whether the information sent has been poisoned. Before Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, Daming did not have the habit of letting eunuchs read and write.

Like Zheng He and Wang Yan, they are all literary and capable of lifting the pen to calm the world, and martial arts can go to the horse to determine the world. This is because they have followed Zhu Di since they were children, and they were cultivated by Zhu Di as a confidant during Zhu Di's submersion period, so they have good talents.

As for the eunuchs in the Tianfu Palace, except for a few who can only be literate with permission, most of them are actually illiterate in big characters.

Zhuang Jing bowed and clasped his fists and saluted: "See His Royal Highness Taisun!" ”

Zhu Zhanji sat behind the copywriter and asked: "In a few days, I will return to Beiping, what is the need for Zhuang Yishi to make a special trip to Zhangbei?" ”

Zhuang Jing's purpose in coming to Zhangbei from Beiping was to communicate with Zhu Zhanji first, and he didn't dare to conceal it: "There are two things that need to be returned to His Highness when he comes to Zhangbei from his humble position. The first is to send the list of the world's wealthy businessmen who came later, and the second is because of His Royal Highness King Zhao. ”

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"Since His Royal Highness's northern expedition, His Royal Highness King Zhao has repeatedly inquired about the relationship between Jinyiwei and His Royal Highness, although we try our best to cover it up, but His Royal Highness King Zhao also has his own channels in all walks of life, knowing that His Royal Highness is investigating the details of the world's wealthy businessmen, and knowing that His Royal Highness intends to support the foreign maritime trade of Daming Commerce. His Royal Highness relied on the sea trade to make a lot of profits, and took out nearly five million taels of silver to support His Majesty's northern expedition, which shocked the world and made everyone see the benefits brought by the sea trade. Therefore, King Zhao also intended to be involved in maritime trade, and he was afraid that His Highness would inform His Highness after returning to Beiping, so he would have less time to mediate, so he informed His Highness in advance, hoping that His Highness could prepare as soon as possible. ”

Zhu Zhanji gave Zhu Di one million taels of silver for the first time, which was not eye-catching, but the second time he took out a fortune of nearly four million taels of silver, which had a great impact.

Although he didn't specifically publicize it, Zhu Di suddenly used millions of taels of silver for the war, whether it was the inner treasury or the relevant people in the household department, they all knew about it.

Especially in this northern expedition, countless grains and grasses were mobilized in the later period. Now that the 300,000 army is stationed in the hinterland of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Di did not let the household transfer the silver, he paid these expenses first, and let everyone know that Zhu Zhanji took out 5 million taels of military funds.

Wealth touches people's hearts.

Money often unmakes the men who make it.

The world is bustling, all for profit; The world is crowded, all for profit.

There may be people in this world who don't love money, but those people are definitely from big families, there is no shortage of money, and the number is very small.

Although Zhu Gaosui is the king of Zhao, the prince has a limited amount of money, and in order to support the tens of thousands of people who follow the Zhao palace, there is no surplus food at home.

Nowadays, Daming's foreign trade is monopolized by internal supervision, and everyone has no right to foreign trade, so they can only trade through internal supervision.

The actual monopolist is not the inner prison, but the royal family.

In the past, he didn't know the profits of sea trade, and he might not be tempted, but now he sees that Zhu Zhanji has earned four or five million taels of silver in four years, and it would be strange if he was not moved.

Who is the royal family? It's not just Zhu Di's family, it's not just Zhu Zhanji, it's all the kings of the world, as long as they have this qualification, who can not be moved!

Therefore, Zhu Gaosui's actions did not surprise Zhu Zhanji, he smiled and said: "Zhuang Yi thinks that what should Gu do?" ”

Zhuang Jing perked up and said loudly: "Everyone knows that His Highness is deeply loved by His Majesty, and he supports His Majesty's northern expedition with the profits of sea trade, which is a great move of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the great cause of His Highness to consolidate His Majesty's love." Wei Chen thought that His Royal Highness should persuade His Majesty to monopolize the power of maritime trade by himself. ”

Zhu Zhanji laughed and said: "I already know your intentions, but you don't know my intentions." Although the profits of sea trade are abundant, they are not what I care about. If Uncle Zhao is interested in developing maritime trade, I will only be happy about it. My own strength is limited, and the benefits of the Ming Dynasty and the whole country are what I pursue. ”

Zhuang Jing peeked at Zhu Zhanji's expression, and said in disbelief: "Your Highness, if the Daming Sea Trade is under the jurisdiction of Your Highness, even Your Majesty will have to rely on Your Highness, please think twice." ”

Zhu Zhanji stood up, bypassed the copywriting and walked in front of Zhuang Jing. "I'm glad you think about me, but you don't understand what I'm after. What I care about is not the benefits of sea trade, but the establishment of the rules of Daming sea trade. As long as the rules are established by me and everyone follows my rules, all profits will not exceed my control. ”

Zhuang Jing was a little puzzled, he didn't understand why Zhu Zhanji didn't care about making a profit of more than one million taels a year, but what rules he cared about.

Giving it to others is something that his backward economic thinking simply cannot understand.

Zhu Zhanji asked again: "Do you know what the rules are?" ”