Chapter 132 A spark can start a prairie fire

The navy, a powerful force in the hands of Zhu Houzhao, is far more powerful than later generations. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Different from the mixed fish and dragons of later generations, although the quality of the naval army in the Zhengde period was still uneven, it had a unified profession - rogue literati.

You must know that no matter what era you are poor and rich in martial arts, and only those who are poor think about reading to change their fate, anyway, there are only a few textbooks of the Four Books and Five Classics, and you can save some money to buy them all.

So even if many people are admitted to Xiucai and their social status has improved slightly, they are still poor.

The improvement of social status often brings an increase in expenses, after all, cats don't go the way of mice, wolves don't play with dogs, don't show off their talents or something to marry a daughter-in-law on their birthdays, and naturally it is no longer good to carry two catties of pig's head meat to go.

The fame of Xiucai is just a fame, high or low, and there are many places to spend money and no place to make extra money.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao directly allocated 100,000 taels of silver, and asked the Jinyi guards to find some talented and poor talents who could not open the pot, and began to buy a large number of people at the price of one or two silver articles to support Yang Shen's remarks.

Of course, there must be those who are of high character and refuse to comply. However, Zhu Houzhao has a way to deal with such people, since he doesn't like silver, he uses Yang Shen's scientific examination papers, from the children's examination to the real question papers of the palace examination.

With such a secret, Zhu Houzhao believes that this group of people who can be admitted to Xiucai will never give up. Even the answer sheet of the three yuan, let them listen to it is enough to boil their blood.

The champion is not a bull. Forced, even the three yuan is invincible!

With the addition of the swing army, Yang Shen's pressure was much less.

At the same time, with his further understanding of the germination of capitalism and his further integration with the current social form, Yang Shen's articles gradually gained recognition from some great Confucians.

Of course, his main audience is still businessmen who are in the middle and lower ranks. The new picture painted by Yang Shen is that everyone has money to earn and everyone has books to read.

And Zhu Houzhao's support behind him made him even more confident. Because Zhu Houzhao told him that with the increase of ships at sea, Daming could become a major industrial exporter.

Don't look at the porcelain bowl or the potty of urine that you raise goldfish is not worth much, but in the hands of Western barbarians, it will immediately be worth a hundred times and become a holy weapon that can only be worshipped to the gods.

At this point, Zhu Houzhao was still full of confidence when he spoke. As a later generation, he is deeply aware of what Western gods and goddesses used in some famous Western paintings to eat together.

The soup is filled with a vase or a commode, the fruit is washed with a pen, and the holy water is offered in a porcelain cup for raising goldfish.

I have to say that the weird aesthetics of the Western barbarians are enough to make Yang Shen stunned.

In any case, it is difficult for the subtle Chinese who are attached to the landscape, advocating spiritual cultivation and habitually leaving blank spaces on their paintings, to understand the beauty of Van Gogh's paintings that occupy the entire paper.

has money to take, and can let his name be published in the newspaper so that more people know that there is such a number one among the scholars, and these sailors hired by Zhu Houzhao naturally spare no effort.

He was even gradually impressed by Yang Shen's wanton style, and began to seriously study Yang Shen's articles from the beginning to follow the general changes, and began to learn capitalist ideas little by little.

Later, every time Yang Shen published an article, more people would immediately understand different meanings from the article, and extract a certain classic sentence from it for deep analysis.

Eventually, there was a terrifying power that blossomed everywhere.

After the controversy lasted for two months, Zhu Houzhao's army, under the leadership of Yang Shen, finally gained the upper hand across the country.

He succeeded in winning the support of the middle and lower classes and progressive scholars.

By this time, businessmen began to consciously pay their taxes, putting the interests of the state above the interests of officials.

Of course, the phenomenon of official involvement in shopping malls cannot be avoided after all.

It is recognized that the officials of the Ming Dynasty are low, of course, if they only feed their wives and children, it is enough, but how can they be officials without two long-term followers, a few sedan chair men, at least a few girls, so that the silver is not enough, it is certain.

Zhu Houzhao himself also wants to eat big fish and meat every day, and he also knows that those who are officials want to eat well, live well, sleep well, and are understandable.

Therefore, on this basis, Zhu Houzhao connected three strict orders.

First, officials are allowed to do business, but they must pay commercial taxes.

Second, officials are not allowed to engage in business and must not abuse their powers, and once the defendant is verified, he will be severely punished. The criminal was beheaded, his wife and children were exiled, and his property was confiscated.

Third, the relatives of officials may do business, but they must not take advantage of the situation to oppress others, and once discovered, they will not be severely punished, see Article 2.

These three stern orders spread throughout the country in the blink of an eye, and at the same time, Zhu Houzhao published news in the newspaper and expanded the Jinyi guard to closely monitor it.

Put the secret things directly on the table, and the threat is self-evident.

From summer to autumn in the blink of an eye, it can be said that this autumn is really the autumn of harvest, and Yang Shen's subordinates are fruitful.

In addition to the thousands of sailors invited by Zhu Houzhao, Yang Shen finally captured a great Confucian.

"Those who are good at enriching the country must first manage the people's wealth, and those who manage the country's finances are secondary!" Such an argument was quickly turned out of the pile of old papers as Yang Shen advanced step by step.

How about Phu Quoc? The people must be enriched first! How to enrich the people? It is necessary to make the people rich!

The people of the world work for the peasants and the merchants are rich, so why not let those who have the ability to do business do business.

In this era, the commodity economy began to have its own voice at noon.

I want to be rich in trees, have more children and raise more pigs. Under Zhu Houzhao's appeal, the people of the Ming Dynasty quickly mobilized, planting mulberry trees who can spin yarn, and burning porcelain.

As long as they can produce it, Zhu Houzhao will guarantee them that they can sell it.

Because the fleet that went to sea finally brought back good news after a full year. The truckloads that were pulled over were all exchanged for white silver.

When the pathfinder returned, there was only one sentence, and the people of the island country were poor and only had silver left.

Zhu Houzhao pouted unexpectedly, a place the size of a projectile, there is nothing except silver mines, the property is barren, and it would be good to have clothes to wear. At that time, in the island country, ten taels of silver were not as valuable as ten taels of meat.

At the same time, it is not surprising to Zhu Houzhao that the two boats of Tianzhu Shenshui produced in his own industry were exchanged for three boatloads of silver in the island country, and this was still in short supply, until later he had to directly raise the price of the sky-high Shenshui, which was already fifty taels and one bottles, to one hundred and fifty taels and one bottles.

The islanders, as expected, have no other talent except for Papapa!

When tens of millions of taels of silver were transported from Shanghai along the coastline all the way to Dengzhou, the eyes of the officials of the household department were red.

But Zhu Hou ignored them, and after paying the tariff of two million taels of silver, he put the rest of the silver into his own private warehouse.

The household officials blushed and looked for the emperor's theory, but they were all blocked by Zhu Houzhao's understatement: "The customs duties and taxes have been paid, and the rest are pure silver." Want money? Collect taxes at customs! ”

If the previous controversy was a spark of a star, the silver that was used as a ship was drawn and published in the newspaper undoubtedly became the fuel for ignition.

The spark of the spark has the potential to burn the prairie in the blink of an eye! (To be continued.) )