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Xiyi's threat did not have any impact in Beijing, and even the major newspapers and magazines did not mention it. The emperor didn't even bother to take it to the court to discuss with the minister, but directly gave Liu Yunsheng, the governor of Nanyang, who had just arrived in Nanyang, to give him full authority to deal with the matter.

"If Xiyi dares to take the initiative to provoke, he will fight back harshly."

Liu Jun authorized Liu Yunsheng to act cheaply in Nanyang, and had the right to respond to the war, and he could send troops to counterattack without requesting the imperial court.

After giving this will, Liu Jun put this matter aside, as the New Year approached, there were many various affairs, and Liu Jun had to spare a lot of time every day to summon the local governors and general soldiers who entered Beijing.

"If Xiyi really starts a war with us in Nanyang, it will cause great trouble to our export trade. If it takes a long time, it will even have a chain effect on the imperial court economy. ”

Li Chunjiang, the governor of Sanjiang, was wearing a purple robe and jade belt, sitting in front of the emperor, and he said worriedly. The imperial court's trade surplus last year was more than 100 million silver dollars, which is a huge number, which means that there are countless people in the Han Dynasty who are now trusting exports. Foreign trade merchants, maritime shipping merchants, as well as those farmers, workers, and merchants who produce and process foreign trade goods, as well as many related transportation industries, shipbuilding industries, etc., and even those who invest in export-related industries such as financial industries, banks, banks, and even individual investors.

If the sea export route is blocked, countless people in the export industry will be affected and suffer huge losses. This will be a fatal blow to the emerging Dahan industry and commerce.

"Don't worry, there are only some colonists of the Three Kingdoms in Nanyang, and they do not represent the Three Kingdoms. Their strength in the South Seas was also very limited, and all the armed forces of the three countries in the Far East combined, including merchant ships, could raise a maximum of 100 ships. All the mercenaries combined, there are not enough 10,000 men. With such a little strength, it is still far away from the mainland of the Three Kingdoms, what do you say they will use to blockade us in the South Seas and fight with us?"

Liu Jun poured a cup of tea for Li Chunjiang, "For the conflict in Nanyang, the imperial court actually expected it, after pacifying Japan, several major fleets adjusted their defense areas, and Liu Yunsheng became the new governor of Nanyang." It's all in response to the arrival of this day. ”

"Can't this be resolved through negotiation?" Li Chunjiang asked: Victory cannot always be 100 percent guaranteed in war. Although the Han navy is very strong, after all, the South China Sea is far away.

Just like the use of troops by the Han in Burma, no good progress has been made so far.

Zheng Zhilong, the founding marquis with a huge net worth of more than 50 million silver dollars, has been the governor of Central South China until now, but he has repeatedly failed to open the situation.

Up to now, Zheng Zhilong is only controlling the new development of Sanxuan and Liuwei, and it is difficult to go further. Poor roads, difficult transportation, unsuitable water and soil, and epidemics. The indigenous rebellion is infrequent, the rainy season is unpredictable, and the climate is unpredictable......

In short, Zheng Zhilong is anxious.

Small countries in central and southern China, such as Donghu, Nanyue, and Nanzhang, have established an anti-Han alliance. Even many of the natives who originally knelt down to greet the king's master turned to rebellion again.

Many officials in the imperial court impeached Zheng Zhilong, believing that Zheng Zhilong was incompetent, after all, when Zheng Zhilong took office. The situation is still very gratifying, but he has been in office for a year, and there has been no progress at all.

He's in the South-Central. It is all about building roads, building roads, building roads, and then it is to appease the natives, set up official offices, build hospitals, build schools, and engage in trade, it is said that Zheng Zhilong has benefited from it, he introduced a large number of merchants to Zhongnan, purchased various medicinal materials in the hands of the natives, and also hired the natives to mine and log, making a lot of money.

Although there are many impeachment notes, the emperor has not replaced Zheng Zhilong until now.

The emperor meant that although Zheng Zhilong did not make progress on the land in Zhongnan for a year, he stabilized the two provinces of Laos and Dali, controlled the Sanxuan and Liuwei regions, and even held it firmly in the face of several counterattacks from Donghu, and did not lose. The current situation in Central and South China is caused by various factors such as climate and transportation.

Having said that, some important ministers such as Li Chunjiang also found that Zhongnan was indeed more troublesome than expected. This also makes many people no longer blindly superstitious about the military strength of the Han Dynasty, in the mountains and mountains like Zhongnan, in those primitive jungle-like places, the soldiers of the Han Dynasty face more difficulties than imagined.

Therefore, Li Chunjiang and the others did not have much confidence in starting a war with several Xiyi countries in Nanyang, which was thousands of miles away. They are not afraid that they will not be able to fight, but that they are afraid that the war will last too long. Especially even if the imperial court can win the battle of the South Seas, but these Xiyi still control the Indian Ocean route, the Pacific route, the Han merchant ships want to go to the Americas, Africa, India, the Persian Gulf, to Europe, they can't always sail at sea, they have to dock for supplies, if they don't open the port to the Han merchant ships, and refuse to supply supplies, the Han merchant ships can't sail to the ocean at all.

In the end, it will affect the export trade, and it will affect the economy of the Han Dynasty.

The Sanjiang Province ruled by Li Chunjiang controlled the three regions of Anhui, Jiangsu, and Jiangxi in later generations, but the two provinces of Anhui and Jiangsu in later generations were demarcated by east and west, while the two provinces are now demarcated by the north and south across the river. But the place is still these places, and the Sanjiang District, which is composed of these three provinces, is also the fastest economic development of the imperial court.

The development of commodity economy and entrepot trade has greatly increased the population engaged in commerce and transportation in Sanjiang District, and also made a large number of people in Sanjiang District engaged in the cultivation of cash crops and the processing and manufacturing of commodities.

The changes in the structure of agricultural production, the gradual formation of the market mechanism, and the sharp increase in the number of people doing business are all based on an economic pattern that is guided by foreign trade and centered on entrepot trade.

Once there is a problem in the export trade, then the economy of Sanjiang District will have great problems and even collapse.

Jiangnan Province in Sanjiang District has now developed into the most important textile industry base in Dahan, with 45 million pieces of cloth produced last year.

Silk and cloth have become the most important products in the south of the Yangtze River, and the area of mulberry and cotton has greatly exceeded the area of grain planting.

"This year, Jiangnan Province in Sanjiang District alone has produced 45 million pieces of cotton cloth, of which 40 million pieces are sold to other provinces, including 15 million horses in Northeast China and Beijing, 10 million horses in Guangzhou, 10 million horses in Guangzhou, 10 million horses for overseas exports, and the rest in Zhejiang and Fujian. Among them, the price of each horse sold in China is six jiao, and the value of the goods is 21 million silver. The price of each horse sold for export is seven corners of silver. The price is seven million. The sales value of cotton cloth in a province is 28 million silver, which is an important source of tax revenue for Jiangnan Province. ”

Li Chunjiang settled accounts for the emperor and explained the importance of export sales.

"In the south of the Yangtze River, although there is price protection for growing grain, there are only two pieces of rice per load, and one mu of land is intensively cultivated, and the output value per mu is only five or six silver dollars. However, there are many places in the south of the Yangtze River where there is little land and are not suitable for rice planting, and the income from rice planting in those places is not as good as half of that of fertile land, and the income from rice planting per mu is only about two yuan, if the input is removed. The income is lower, but the price of cotton in Jiangnan is four yuan per quintal, and one mu of cotton can get 80 catties of lint in a normal year, which is converted into three pieces of silver and two jiao, and the cotton planting in these places far exceeds the income from growing grain. ”

"And the income from mulberry planting is significantly higher than that from rice planting." Li Chunjiang served as the governor of Sanjiang, and he did not only rely on the relationship with the emperor, Bai was very serious about being a feudal official, and he knew the production situation under his rule in detail. When it comes to planting rice, cotton, and mulberry, all kinds of data come out of the mouth. It's all well-documented.

"Because there are few fields and many people in the south of the Yangtze River, and the land is more fertile when the weather is good, the land is not more extensive than in the north, but intensive farming. In Gangnam. Planting rice per mu requires about eleven and a half workers, and fertilizer must be used, and the general river mud, grass and wood ash and the like are no longer enough, and you have to spend money to buy manure and soybean cake fertilizer. One acre of land has to use fertilizer, mainly 160 catties of soybean cake, plus seeds, farm tools and other inputs, a total of about four and a half silver dollars have to be invested. The average grain yield per mu of paddy field is about 450 catties. Calculated at about three silver dollars per quintal of grain, the output value per mu is nearly six silver dollars. ”

"Six yuan per mu is harvested, and four and a half yuan per mu are removed, and one and a half yuan can be profited. Planting ten acres, but the income is fifteen yuan, even if the double cropping rice is promoted now, but the fertilizer has to increase a lot of input. ”

"But if you change to plant mulberry, then you need to invest 48 labor per mu, 750 catties of soybean cake, plus other mulberry seedlings, farm tools, etc., the total input is seven yuan per mu, the input is much higher than planting rice, but the output value of mulberry per mu can reach 20 yuan, in addition to the inputs, you can also make a profit of 12 yuan three, which is eight times the income of planting rice."

"If each male can plant four acres of mulberry, or eight acres of rice, then the profit of planting rice is 12 yuan, and the planting of mulberry is nearly 50 yuan, and planting mulberry is still more than four times that of rice. In particular, there is little land in the south of the Yangtze River, and a considerable part of the land for planting mulberry can be transformed from the land that is not suitable for planting rice, and the economic aspect is higher and more obvious, this year Sanjiang District is still promoting mulberry fish ponds, base mulberry species, pond fish storage, mulberry leaves to feed silkworms, and then feed fish with silkworm feces, and fertilizer mulberry in pond mud. It makes the yield of mulberry planting higher. ”

With these detailed data in comparison, the people of Jiangnan are of course more willing to plant mulberry than rice.

Moreover, planting mulberry is better than planting rice, that is, after planting mulberry and raising silkworms, the cocoon reeling silk can be sold again, and even reprocessed into silk fabrics, which makes mulberry and silkworm cultivation have further added value and higher returns.

Liu Jun nodded when he heard it, Li Chunjiang's words were not empty words, they were said very thoroughly and supported by data.

Planting mulberry can have four times the income of rice planting, why do people still plant rice? On the other hand, the final output of mulberry cultivation and silkworm breeding is raw silk and silk fabrics, and among the bulk commodities exported by the imperial court this year, raw silk and silk fabrics account for a large part of the value of export commodities.

If exports are blocked, then the domestic market will definitely not be able to absorb all the production capacity, and the result will be overcapacity, unsalable businessmen, and lower prices.

It turns out that planting mulberry is four times the income of growing rice, it may be doubled, or even lower, and the income of mulberry farmers is reduced, not only the tax revenue that the government can receive is reduced, but also the consumption of mulberry farmers will also be reduced, which will make the sales of other commodities also decrease.

At present, three relatively concentrated crop distribution areas have been formed in Sanjiang District.

In the coastal area of the Yangtze River, cotton is mainly planted and part of the rice is planted at the same time, which has become a cotton rice production area, and the eastern part of Hangzhou in Fujian and Zhejiang regions also belongs to this type. The main cotton and rice producing areas are concentrated in Songjiang, Taicang, Suchang and other places. In these areas, cotton fields account for more than 60 or even 70 percent of the cultivated area, while rice fields account for only 3 to 40 percent.

The second area is the mulberry rice production area dominated by mulberry, mainly in the southern Suzhou area of Jiangnan Province, as well as Huzhou and Jiaxing in Fujian and Zhejiang regions. The proportion of mulberry fields still accounts for more than 60% of the cultivated land.

The third production area is a rice-based rice production area, which is mainly concentrated in the narrow strip between the northeast of the canal and the coastal sandy land, Susong Changzhou and other places.

Sanjiang and Fujian and Zhejiang two districts, now is the grain inflow area, every year from the Central Plains, Huguang and other places to import tens of millions of stone of grain, in addition to the mulberry and cotton, these two districts also have a great demand for fertilizer, every year from the outside to use millions of stones of soybean cake for field fertilizer.

Secondly, oil is mainly imported from other provinces.

However, the amount of silk and silk fabrics, cotton cloth, cane sugar, etc., exported by these two regions every year is huge, and a large part of them is exported.

"I am very aware of the importance of trade to the Han Dynasty, trade can bring a lot of taxes, bring wealth to the people, but also bring a huge trade surplus to the country, earn back a lot of real money, and then you can buy a lot of cheap raw materials and primary processed goods outside, so that our people can enjoy a better life." Speaking of this, Liu Jun paused, "However, we can't rely on begging for this kind of life, if anyone wants to snatch this piece of fat from our mouth, we won't give them a piece, but should directly swing a knife and chop off his hand." ”

"Rest assured, I'm not the kind of person who is a martial artist, but I'm not afraid of war either. If this trade war really starts, it will definitely come and go quickly, and we will use this war to make those Xiyi completely sober up. ”

"I have no objection to talking to Xiyi, but in the current situation, before talking, I will fight with them first, and when the battle is over, we will sit down and talk, at that time, they can see the situation clearly, instead of blindly being arrogant and only thinking about how to deceive and blackmail."

Liu Jun is not worried that this war will expand indefinitely, the Han needs trade, but the Anglo-Dutch countries need trade even more, especially the Anglo-Dutch East India Company, they are colonial companies for the purpose of making money, and if they really start a full-scale war, they will only lose both.

After they were taught a good lesson and understood the difference in strength between the two sides, Liu Jun believed that they would sit down and talk about it again, and after Dahan proposed some new trade cooperation agreements, these people would be willing to talk.

Of course, in the trade cooperation agreement at that time, the big Han would throw a few bones at them when they ate a large piece of meat, and let them share a little benefit.

Ps. chasing more children's shoes, are there any free appreciation tickets and starting coins~ The countdown to the 515 red envelope list is over, I'll pull a ticket, ask for an increase and appreciation vote, and finally rush a handful! (To be continued.) )