Chapter 488: Economic Regulation

After careful consideration, Zhengde finally agreed to Zhou Chong's grassland strategy plan, after all, no matter what aspect, Zhou Chong's plan is more practical than his idea of building a cavalry, and the most important thing is that the final effect is much stronger than his own plan, if the three steps of the entire plan can be fully implemented, then the entire Mongolian steppe will become a part of the Ming Dynasty, and there will be no need to worry about the border trouble in the north in the future.

Zhou Zhong in the city of Beijing also soon received the news that Zhengde agreed to his plan, which made him very happy, Zhengde's idea of building cavalry was only to prepare for a military attack on the Mongols, but such a blow could not be sustained, and the effect was limited. However, Zhou's plan was a dual invasion of military and economic, and the combination of the two methods would have a far greater effect than one plus one, and it could also better control the grassland and prevent the other side from rebelling again.

After getting Zhengde's reply, Zhou Zhong immediately convened the cabinet to discuss the matter, in fact, his plan had already been discussed by Yang Ting and them before, although the cabinet was divided into two factions, but it was only internal, and they were still able to reach an agreement externally, if someone dared to delay official affairs due to personal grievances, then Zhou Zhong would definitely be the first to deal with the other party.

For Zhengde to be able to understand the righteousness so deeply this time, several cabinet scholars also feel very gratified, especially the first assistant of the cabinet Yang Tinghe, when Zhengde was the prince in the past, he was Zhengde's teacher, but unfortunately his teacher taught the emperor in the Ming Dynasty to be what he is now, which makes Yang Tinghe sometimes feel a little self-blamed, this time Zhengde's choice finally made him feel that his hard work was not in vain, at least Zhengde can understand what it means to be important to state affairs.

However, after Zhengde agreed, the cabinet was needed to implement this plan, and in Zhou Zhong's plan, the first step was to mobilize troops to clean up the two major forces of Duoyan Sanwei and Jurchen in Liaodong. In addition, the third step of economic invasion of the grassland also needs to be carried out simultaneously, that is, it is necessary to encourage the private sector to invest in the construction of wool textile workshops and canneries in the northwest and eastern Liaodong, and only when these two industries develop will there be a huge demand for wool and mutton on the grassland.

The military cleanup of Liaodong. Naturally, it will be handed over to the Ministry of War to deal with. So Wang Qiong took this matter over, and the treasury of Daming has been sufficient in recent years. The armament of the army has also been replaced, especially those soldiers who are good at fighting in the border army, and their combat effectiveness has been greatly increased, and these troops are present. It is not difficult to clean up Liaodong.

In addition, what made Wang Qiong even happier was that the Ming army only needed to deal with the capricious Duoyan Sanwei, as for the Jurchens, there was another army to deal with, and Wang Qiong was still worried about the belonging of this army, after all, Liaodong was also considered the territory of the Ming Dynasty, so naturally other armies could not be allowed to enter. However, when Zhou Zhong told him about Li Anliang in detail, and Li Anliang has devoted himself to training troops in the Wa Kingdom in recent years, and now he has trained a servant army of 50,000 people, which is said to be very powerful. It can just be used to attack the Jurchens, and there is no need to worry about how many of these Japanese servants die, and there will naturally be other Japanese people to supplement it in the future.

Wang Qiong was naturally very willing to do a war without the Ming army, so he sent an order to Li Anliang of the Wa State in the name of the Ministry of War, ordering him to gather troops to prepare for crossing the sea, and the Ministry of War would soon organize a military ship to go to the Wa State and transport the servant army to Liaodong.

In addition, Wang Qiong also issued orders to the commanders of Ningxia, Datong, Xuanfu and other places, asking them to send 5,000 people to Liaodong to join the army of the Liaodong Guard to prepare for the attack on Duoyan Sanwei, and Wang Qiong has the confidence to win, because Duoyan Sanwei was originally a wall grass, and the reason why he fell to the little prince of Tatar in the past was because the little prince was too strong and even unified the grassland again, but now the little prince of Tatar has been defeated by the Ming Dynasty several times in a row, and it is estimated that he will no longer have the strength to go south. So as long as Da Ming puts on a tough posture this time, Duoyan Sanwei is likely to surrender without a fight.

However, in the process of Wang Qiong's transfer of troops, there was an accident, originally he wanted to mobilize the army to Liaodong, commanded by the Liaodong army to attack Duoyan Sanwei, but in Xuanfu Zhengde had to personally command, which made Wang Qiong also very helpless, although Zhengde stepped forward to defeat the little prince of Tatar, but there was a certain element of luck, if it were not for a few days of fog, I am afraid that the Datong army would have been defeated by the little prince of Tatar, and it was impossible to hold on until Zhengde's rescuers arrived, Therefore, Wang Qiong did not believe too much in Zhengde's military command talent.

However, Zhou Zhong is very optimistic about Zhengde, after all, there is no natural talent in the world, Zhengde used to like martial arts, his stomach was full of military books and strategies, and he himself was also very talented in military affairs, as long as he was given a little time to digest and absorb the art of war in his stomach on the battlefield, even if he could not become a generation of famous monarchs in the future, but maybe he could become a generation of famous generals.

In addition to the transfer of troops, Wang Qiong was also busy closely cooperating with the Ministry of Household and other relevant departments, after all, whether it was attacking the Jurchens or Duoyan Sanwei, a large amount of grain, grass and materials needed to be mobilized, and the quantity was extremely large.

In contrast, Wang Qiong's military aspect is relatively simple, and the rest of the economic invasion of the grassland is the real trouble, although this matter has the support of the cabinet, but it is not so easy to let the merchants of the Ming Dynasty obediently go to the northwest and Liaodong to invest in the construction of wool textile workshops and canning workshops, after all, this kind of thing needs your affection and willingness, if the imperial court uses force, not only can not achieve the desired effect, but even cause the opposite effect.

For this kind of economic regulation and control, the Ming cabinet does not have much experience, after all, the entire Ming Dynasty used to be dominated by agricultural economy, and the industry and commerce in various places were operated independently, although the government sometimes intervened, but most of them used crude administrative means, and did not know what economic regulation and control was.

Although Zhou Zhong didn't know much about the economy in later generations, he had never eaten pork and always seen pigs run, not to mention that various media in later generations were shouting about economic regulation and control every day, even if Zhou Chong didn't care about it, he would inadvertently absorb some knowledge in this area, so for these economic means, he was more experienced than those in the cabinet, so in the end, Zhou Chong was personally responsible for this matter, which made Zhou Chong, who wanted to rest for a while, only lament.

If you want to make the wool textile industry and the canning industry develop, you must let those businessmen see the benefits, only enough interests, can attract more people to invest money in these two industries, even if the northwest and Liaodong and other places are not too peaceful, but driven by interests, those businessmen will automatically ignore the risks.

Zhou Zhong was very clear about the mentality of the merchants, and he also knew that if he wanted the merchants to see the benefits in the wool textile and canning industry, it was useless to rely on the court's words, and the other party must be allowed to see the real monetary benefits, and it was not easy for those merchants to obtain these benefits, after all, what was too easy to obtain would always make people doubt its value.

So in this case, Zhou Zhong did not rush to publicize the matter of wool weaving and canning, but first funded by the imperial court, in Ningxia, Datong, Xuanfu and other places respectively built wool textile workshops and canning workshops, in addition to the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce under the name of Zhao Wangfu, and Zhengde's inner government, also built these two factories in Xuanfu, and began to buy a large number of wool and various meats from the herdsmen on the grassland.

Merchants are the most well-informed people in the world, and any changes in information about commerce will attract the attention of those who are interested, and as for the big moves of the imperial court, the inner government and the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, it naturally attracts the attention of many people, especially their purchase of wool and meat, which makes everyone feel puzzled.

At this time, it is summer, the weather is very hot, in this weather, a large amount of meat on the grassland must be purchased in this weather, it must spend a lot of salt to pickle, but now the price of salt in Daming is not cheap, if it is used to marinate a large amount of salted meat, I am afraid that it will lose money in the end. As for wool, not to mention, this thing is originally useless on the grassland, and it is not much different from garbage, and now the three parties of the imperial court are vigorously buying it, and it is simply throwing money into the water!

This is just the inner government of the imperial court and Zhengde, and some people may speculate that this may be the imperial court's move to the grassland, or even to win over the tribes on the grassland, so they will make such a loss-making move. But now even the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce has joined in, this chamber of commerce has become the largest maritime chamber of commerce in the Ming Dynasty by taking advantage of the sea trade, and it has been developing in the Ming Dynasty in recent years.

There has never been a shortage of smart people in this world, especially the number of smart people among the merchants, they noticed that the imperial court's purchase of wool and meat was abnormal, and immediately launched all channels to inquire about the news, as a result, under Zhou Chong's deliberate release of water, the news of wool textile and canned food production was finally heard by people with good intentions, and even a few people with hands and eyes to the sky, actually obtained the core technology of wool textile and canned production.

Daming's silk and cotton cloth are the best-selling products of the sea trade, but although the silk is exquisite, but the output is limited, although the cotton has great potential, but limited by the cotton output, so the output has also reached a limit, and now there is one more wool woven cloth, which is for all businessmen, it is tantamount to another way of wealth, not to mention the canned food, as long as it is produced, there is no worry about selling, after all, although the Ming Dynasty is a lot richer, but the price of meat is high, If the cheap meat from the grassland can be transported to the Ming Dynasty, the benefits can be seen even by the blind.

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I'm really sorry.,I forgot to pass the second chapter yesterday.,I opened it today and found out.,Make it up today.。