Chapter 216: The Wealth of Nations and the Currency War

This is indeed a new way of thinking.

But how does it sound a little black-hearted?

Although, no matter how old they are, these weapons are better than the weapons of various countries, and there is no doubt that the steel process alone will throw off several streets from various countries.

However, I always felt that something was wrong.

Many officials in the Ministry of Commerce, after thinking about it for a long time, finally understood why they felt this way.

Profiteer!

It's just against morality!

In the end, the matter was heard by Fan Hongji, the right prime minister, and he immediately made a decision to do so, on the grounds that he got what he paid for, and one was willing to fight and the other was willing to suffer, and there was nothing to burden in his heart.

As a result, the officials of the Ministry of Commerce could only sigh secretly in amazement, it has only been a few years, and the Prime Minister has changed!

Quite in the style of His Majesty.

On the second day, an excerpt was passed into the Zichen Palace.

Yang Mu opened it and looked at it, was slightly stunned, and then saw that the name of Fan Hongji was the name, laughed, and approved a quasi-word in the dragon flying phoenix dance.

It's so appetizing!

Those eliminated weapons are completely useless in Cangguo, at most they are recycled to make agricultural tools, if they can be maintained a little and then sold to other countries, it is simply a waste utilization.

Immediately, he felt more and more that Ge Lie, the soldier of the military department, was a character with character.

Immediately afterwards, he asked Qin Changfeng, the secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, to enter the palace, and then handed over a book.

"A Study of the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations?"

Qin Changfeng took the book in his hand and glanced at it quickly, feeling nervous in his heart.

It is impossible for His Majesty the Emperor to give him a useless book for no reason.

There must be some deep meaning!

After flipping through a few pages, he felt that the content mentioned in the book was so profound that he couldn't understand the meaning at first glance.

"Just read it here, if there is anything you don't understand, I can solve it." Yang Mu and Yan Yuese.

"Wechen obeys."

Qin Changfeng hurriedly saluted, and then held the book and read it carefully.

"It is not gold and silver, or currency, that make up the wealth of a country, but all the necessities and conveniences that people can consume. This is the nature of the national wealth, which can be obtained both through domestic production and through the exchange of international trade, and this is the reason for the increase in national wealth. ”

"The prosperity of the people is all the necessities and conveniences of life, or material possessions, not gold, silver, or money. The sign of the prosperity of the country is the increase of material wealth, not the increase of money, and the sign of the prosperity of the people is the sufficiency of daily necessities and conveniences, not the sufficiency of money. ”

"Exchange the surplus of the product of labor that you cannot consume for the surplus of the product of the labor of others that you need." This exchange is the exchange of surplus material goods, and the purpose of the exchange is for material wealth, not for making money. Although labour is the true measure of the exchange value of all commodities, the value of all commodities is not usually assessed by labour. ”

"The principle of foreign trade is that everything is for the development of its own industry, everything is for the purpose of increasing its own products, and in foreign trade, the two major means by which the country gets rich are to restrict imports and encourage exports."

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Qin Changfeng was fascinated.

As the secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, when the Dacang coin came out, there was a doubt why His Majesty spared no effort to implement the Dacang coin.

Because in his opinion, as long as he earns more money and more and more silver, the country will be stronger.

It doesn't seem necessary to issue a set of banknotes.

And because of this, it has created a lot of trouble for domestic and foreign transactions.

However, when he saw this set of theories, he seemed to understand.

Although, don't understand why.

However, the book given to him by His Majesty the Emperor, and what is written in it, is certainly not groundless.

This can be seen from the books that His Majesty has repeatedly taken out over the past few years, all of which are amazing works.

Just when he was thinking that he must eat this book thoroughly when he goes back, he saw Yang Mu take out another book and throw it in front of him.

Currency wars?

Qin Changfeng picked up the book and flipped through it carefully.

Compared to the previous book, this one is more esoteric.

It's also weird.

There are a lot of incomprehensible names on it.

Rothschild?

Fed?

What is this?

Fortunately, in the preface, His Majesty has already explained that these cases all took place in ancient times, and it was an extremely glorious civilization, inclusive, with many different cultures, and it is not strange to have any strange names.

Yang Mu kept looking at Qin Changfeng and watched him slowly flip through it.

In fact, he has been preparing these two books for a long time.

He has been copying since the Confederacy.

Of course, not all of them are copied, because I have studied some economics in my previous life, so I can be concise and concise in language, otherwise I will copy it, and I will have to be tired to death.

The content is streamlined, naturally not so professional, and due to adaptability, he has also deleted a lot of content, especially esoteric and heterogeneous, all of which have been removed.

Anyway, it's completely enough to show Qin Changfeng,

The Wealth of Nations is a work of macroeconomics, which sums up the experience of the development of capitalism in various countries on the earth, and on the basis of criticizing and absorbing the relevant important economic theories of the time, it gives a more systematic description of the entire process of national economic movement.

"Currency Wars" tells the story of the international economic and financial group and its spokesperson in the history of world finance, and aims to warn people to be wary of potential financial attacks.

These two deleted economic works can be used as the enlightenment of Cangguo's economics.

Yang Mu understands very well that if you want to fight a currency war and a trade war, then it is far from enough to rely on your own planning.

It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, Yang Mu is to teach the Ministry of Commerce some basic economic principles and common sense, and in the future foreign trade, it will be more like a fish in water.

"Remember, these two books must be kept safely, and after reading them, they will be sent to me, and they are not allowed to be copied privately. Yang Mu said.

"Wechen will die, and I will never dare to divulge half a word!" Qin Changfeng swore by it.

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After Qin Changfeng retired, Yang Mu thought that it was time to do something else.

For example, add some blockage to the state of Chu.

During this time, the arrogance of the Chu State can be regarded as arrogant.

Annexed most of the Wu Kingdom, eliminated the century-old enemy, and then looked around, except for the Yun Kingdom and the Mang Kingdom, which were slightly larger, the rest were all small countries.

It can be said that it is firmly in the position of the first power.

Dugu seeks defeat!

As a result, the emperor of Chu also began to get nervous, and at the instigation of the domestic nobles, he invited more than a dozen countries to carry out a small-scale alliance.

Although the small alliance did not have any influence, more than a dozen small countries only sent envoys, and no emperor of any country participated in the alliance.

However, it works well.

One after another, some countries began to make pilgrimages to Chu and seek refuge.

You can't let it go on like that!

The small states in the southeastern corner of Cang and Chu are now bordered by the land of Wangji, and in a sense, they are potential subjects in common with the two countries.

It is impossible to go to war, and it will not be possible to go to war for several years.

Only by making a fuss about diplomatic relations and trade can we maintain the momentum and balance between the two countries.

Yang Mu decided to put a big move.