Chapter 3 The general trend of the world

Since he spoke on his first birthday, Zhang Taiji has had more opportunities to speak. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info as soon as I have time, I pestered Zhang Baili to ask questions, of course, the questions should not be too mature, I can only knock on the side and ask myself the information I want to know in a child's innocent tone, so it takes a lot of time, and it took more than a year to have a basic understanding of the current situation.

Fortunately, Zhang Taiji is only three years old, and he can't do anything specific, so he can only plan the future in his heart according to the actual situation he has learned.

Zhang Baili also likes to tell his son some things, after all, he is also full of poetry and books, and he has passed the test for fame. I have been studying hard for more than ten years but I can't get ahead, and I am very complaining about being reduced to running a businessman....... (The status of merchants in ancient times was not as high as that of scholars)! There was a lot of dissatisfaction with the current situation. It's hard to have someone to talk to, and no matter whether Zhang Taiji understands it or not, Balabala says a lot.... He thought in his heart that Zhang Taiji didn't understand. In fact, Zhang Taiji can understand. And more than he knew、!!

Through Zhang Baili's narration, Zhang Taiji understands that he is now in time and space, and is the Yuan Dynasty and Emperor Yuan Shun in Chinese history. The Yuan Dynasty was the first semi-feudal and semi-slave dynasty in Chinese history established by an ethnic minority (Mongol) and ruled the whole territory of China. As a conqueror, it can be said that the Mongol iron cavalry swept across the Eurasian continent, conquering an area unprecedented in size; As rulers, the Mongols ruled China for only 100 years, which was much worse than the Manchu Qing Dynasty's rule of China for nearly 300 years. In addition to the major problem of chaotic and frequent internal strife in the Yuan Dynasty, there was also a fatal problem: the rulers in the early stage only knew how to win the world immediately, but did not know how to rule the world from the horse, and those emperors in the later period were even more unable to touch the edge immediately, and artificially divided the hierarchy, and the national contradictions were difficult to reconcile. Therefore, the rule of the Yuan Dynasty was full of problems and uprisings from the very beginning.......

It is now the third year of the Yuan Dynasty, and according to the normal historical trajectory, Emperor Yuan Shun was the last emperor of the Yuan Dynasty to rule the whole country, and at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, corruption and exploitation became more and more serious. The government sells official positions and bribes public banks. There are no surprises in the tricks of the officials. "The beginning of the visit said to see the money, nothing in vain to say to spend money, every festival said to chase the festival money, birthday money, in charge of things and ask for regular money, send welcome money, hook chase said to send money, talk about official money. Find more money and say that you can get it, in addition to the beauty of Texas, it is said that it is a good place, and it is said that it is a good cave to make up for the job", and even the officials who visit the government and clean government are also "to the state and county, each with the treasury to check the money and call the silver, and the same city road". By the time of Emperor Yuan Shun (Yuan Huizong), all corruption had reached its extreme, and the dominance of Mongolian nobles and lamas, the corruption of officials, and the arbitrariness of landlords were increasing day by day.

The Mongolian royal family, headed by Emperor Yuan Shun, was also "scandalous and filthy, and it was heard outside". The rule of the Yuan dynasty was already on the path of collapse. Parallel to the brutal corruption and exploitation, there have been serious natural disasters one after another.......... Then there will be chaos in the world, and the heroes will rise up and launch a vigorous uprising to overthrow the rule of the Yuan Dynasty.

Zhang Taiji probably remembered that these uprisings lasted for many years before they succeeded. If you are too young, it is also a big question whether history will develop in the same direction. How to go on the road in the future needs to be seriously considered, it is to participate in the uprising and chase the Central Plains; It's definitely not okay to do business and trade and get rich in the world, or sit back and watch the situation stay out of the matter..... That's too sorry for God to give me a chance to be born again. In short, you just can't waste this life. The geese have left a voice, and the people have left a name! …… If it is said that everyone is an emperor when they cross over, at least the power of the king and the prince is overwhelming....... Zhang Taiji felt that he should do his best to obey the destiny of heaven and just go with the flow. Zhang Taiji was reborn, yes, but he didn't pick up any rings, and a white-bearded old man popped out of it, forcing himself to learn the exercises against the sky......! There's no clairvoyance, mind reading, or superpowers. …… Well...... At least not yet, there are no .......

If you have hundreds of years of knowledge, you will be able to do whatever you want?! That must be overthinking! You must know that history is full of accidents and uncertainties~~ Don't underestimate the heroes of the world! The wisdom of the ancients is no worse than that of Zhang Taiji, a reborn person.

The Han family lives in Jiaozhou and is a large local family. The Zhang family was also a wealthy family, originally a descendant of Jinan Gong Zhang Rong, a native of Jinan Licheng, who moved to Jiaozhou for three generations and did not produce great talents, and Zhang Baili was also talented when he was young. It's a pity that it's not at the right time! When the courtier, Boyan, was an out-and-out "narrow nationalist", he terminated the imperial examination and stopped all official studies. It is said that Boyan was also whimsical and thought that there were too many Han people in the world, so he had to kill all the surnames Zhang, Wang, Liu, Li, and Zhao to be quiet. This idea of the "glorious tradition" of the era of the slaughter of the city was so cruel that it was not only vetoed by Emperor Yuan Shun, but even the Mongolian nobles were resolutely opposed, and Boyan had to give up. Zhang Baili, a Han person, wants to be in this political environment, just like the Tang and Song dynasties, "no one asks about the cold window for ten years, and the title of the gold list is known to the world." "It's a fool's dream.....

Jiaozhou is a newly established state during the reign of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, under the jurisdiction of Jiaoxi (now Jiaozhou City), Jimo, Gaomi three counties, Jiaozhou is located in Jiaoxi County.

The Han family has many industries in Jiaoxi, including pharmacies, grain shops, inns, granges, etc. The Han family did not rely on these industries to start their business, and the Han family really relied on maritime trade.

The once glorious Banqiao Town of the Song Dynasty, after more than 100 years of the Jin Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, although there is no official city and field, it is still an important non-governmental maritime trade port in northern China. Not only is a large number of "southern goods" sold here, but also many private merchant ships from Korea and Japan are attracted to trade here.

The Yuan Dynasty called merchants engaged in maritime trade as foreign merchants, and merchant ships sailing on the sea as foreign ships.

Both the Zhang and Han families initially held related positions on the ships of the big ship merchants, and carried some of their goods to the sea to trade. and then partner with others as a "human companion" to rely on the big shippers with ships, form a first-class alliance, guarantee each other, and go to sea to trade.

Going to sea to trade is risky and profitable. The old Zhang family had bad luck, and Zhang Baili's father never came back after going to sea once, and there was no news, no money, and no money. The Zhang family almost collapsed after such a blow. Fortunately, Mr. Han helped him get through the difficulty! Because Zhang Baili and Han Yue'e had a marriage contract, they simply took Zhang Baili, who was still a teenager, to the Han family for him to study (at that time, the imperial examination was not banned, but there were very few Han places)...... When Zhang Baili and Han Yue'e got married, after the imperial examination was hopeless, they handed over all the business to Zhang Baili to take care of.

Now Zhang Baili already has two of his own ships. God has blessed the Han family in the past few years. Every time the ship goes to sea, it is smooth sailing, and when it returns, it makes a lot of money, and the profit is very rich.

It would be too exaggerated to say that the Han family is rich and rivals the country! But there are also piles of gold and jade at home, and there are countless family businesses. tenants attached to the Han family grange; the shopkeeper of pharmacies and inns; sailors, boatmen; There were hundreds of servants in the house, maids, old mothers, and bookkeepers. can be regarded as a big family, in the era of Zhang Taiji's rebirth, how can you evaluate an outstanding township entrepreneur, a representative of the people's congress or something!