It's definitely going to end.

Although every time he encountered something that made Shi Mo feel very embarrassed, he always felt that time passed so slowly, but in fact, these things would always pass.

It will always end.

Time is ticking all the time.

Under Zhu Zining's repeated insistence, Shi Mo's plan was still realized as he wished.

There is no way to disagree, although those people have always insisted, but Zhu Zining has been biting it, and with the limited time, everyone has to agree.

There are many reasons why Shi Mo wanted to find Zhu Zining to help him.

It's not just civil servants who discriminate against the Jinyi Guard.

There's a lot at stake.

For example, the non-cooperation of officials.

Other departments are in violation.

In short, Shi Mo had to find someone to help him, at least, in case things got worse, someone could help him talk, so as to prove that he had worked hard.

It's not dereliction of duty, it's indiscriminate.

The contradictions between Jin Yiwei and these civil officials have long existed, and even the contradictions in society have existed.

This society does not refer to all ordinary people.

It's the merchants.

In the previous life, the Ming Dynasty was the first dynasty to appear in the bud of capitalism, and commerce was very developed.

There are fans of the Song Dynasty who trumpet that the Song Dynasty was the richest dynasty in all Chinese dynasties.

The person who says this is absolutely mushy in his head, or just an idiot who doesn't understand economics.

There are even some bricks who call beasts and directly preach that the economy of the Song Dynasty is ten times that of the Ming Dynasty.

Hehe, I'm not afraid of bragging.

Let's just say a very simple fact, the Song Dynasty has always been very short of currency, t Song Dynasty used copper coins, but there is still a shortage of money, insufficient issuance, and it is not convenient to carry, so the earliest paper money also appeared, Jiaozi.

But what about the Ming Dynasty?

The earliest use of paper money in the Ming Dynasty was paper money.

Daming treasure banknotes.

It's also very good.

Don't accuse the Ming Dynasty of printing treasure money indiscriminately, depreciating the value of paper money, harming the interests of the common people, and disrupting the market order.

You can't blame the people of that era for this.

Because of the brainwashing of Confucianism, who values business?

Coins are even more difficult for scholars to talk about.

Hypocrisy.

At that time, the Chinese people did not have the concept of finance.

How many years has the Jiaozi of the Song Dynasty been issued, and in the end, it is not impossible?

The Ming Dynasty's Ming treasure banknotes also had purchasing power until the Zhengde period, and they were still available in short.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, because of the development of commerce, the Ming Dynasty absorbed a large amount of silver, so much so that it later simply used silver as the official currency.

Did the Song Dynasty go?

No way.

Where did the Song Dynasty get so much silver?

You must know that silver, also known as white gold.

China has been a poor country since ancient times.

In other words, silver production is very small.

Less than gold.

In the earliest days, silver was worth more than gold in China.

In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Han Dynasty, if someone holds a piece of silver, I don't know how much gold they can exchange for.

Think about those historical stories, the ancients bribed people with gold.

For example, the sentence that Mozi said with the public loss class.

Please give 10 gold.

He can produce gold, but not necessarily silver.

But in the Ming Dynasty, silver became the universal currency.

It can be seen that the wealth of the Ming Dynasty at this time.

You must know that there were already 200 million people in the late Ming Dynasty.

During the Song Dynasty, the population at the most time was 100 million.

That's probably the people from the north.

Well, the slaves of the North Side.

Because at that time, the Jin soldiers went south, and many Han people were abandoned.

From this point, it can be seen that the Song Dynasty had very little silver.

After all, they don't even have enough silver for less than 100 million people.

As we all know, doing business requires a market.

The population of the Ming Dynasty was at least 100 million more than that of the Song Dynasty.

That's the equivalent of a market of 100 million more people, and not only that, but it's also much more productive.

It must be known that if the population is 100 million, then the productivity will definitely increase.

Capacity is not at the same level.

At the same time, the Ming Dynasty had a large land area, a variety of specialties, and a larger range of trade.

Not only that, but the Ming Dynasty was tough on the outside world and had always firmly occupied the initiative in trade.

No need to ask for help.

Don't worry that those barbarians will lower the price and blackmail themselves.

So the Ming merchants made more money, but they were also more violent and black-hearted.

We're talking about border trade.

Trade between the Ming Dynasty and the Mongols.

But what about the Song Dynasty?

The Alliance of the Abyss.

actually took the initiative to send money, it is conceivable that the Song Dynasty could make money when doing business (I don't know why, China's foreign trade has been making money since ancient times. But certainly not as much as the Ming Dynasty people.

Although it is a seller's market, this seller lacks confidence, is timid and afraid of things, and does not dare to cut the price fiercely.

So there's certainly not much money to be made.

But the Ming Dynasty was different.

Mingren really dared to cut down the price.

Desperate for money.

Finally, let's compare the times we live in.

An Age of Exploration (Ming Dynasty).

One is the Middle Ages (Song Dynasty)

During the Ming Dynasty, the world already had the prototype of the so-called world market.

And what about the Song Dynasty?

Although the Southern Song Dynasty opened up the Maritime Silk Road, and even the shipments were very large, and there were special sea lanes, but that was it.

The market is not big enough.

Take movies, for example.

At the beginning of the 20000 years, it was remarkable that a movie could get tens of millions of box office, and there were no more than three people with a box office of 100 million in the country, which can be described as one of the few, and each box office of 100 million was a big director.

But what about ten years from now?

There are also people who have reached the box office of one billion.

Although the number of people who have reached the box office of 100 million is not all over the street, there are already a lot of them.

That's the market.

During the Ming Dynasty, it was in the Age of Discovery, and the total market volume became larger.

A large amount of silver emerged along the coast of the Ming Dynasty.

Where did all this money come from?

It's all traded.

It was all obtained by the Ming Dynasty and Spain through trade.

This silver was the wealth that the Spaniards received from the Americas, Africa, etc.

The Spaniards did not use them to expand their power, but chose to do business with the Ming Empire.

Imported silk, tea, porcelain, etc., so all this gold and silver flowed into the Ming Empire.

It can be said that although the Ming Empire did not keep up with the Europeans to colonize and expand everywhere, the benefits obtained in the Age of Discovery were not less.

Even, because of the Ming Empire, it indirectly changed the situation in Europe.

Think about it, if the Spaniards did not do business with the Ming Empire, but used that wealth to expand, would the later Spain lose its hegemony and be replaced by the British?

After all, they are the first empire on which the sun never sets!

In addition, let's talk about the Ming Empire's maritime ban policy.

The Ming Empire's sea ban is clear.

And the Manchu Qing is definitely not the same.

There is no such thing as a piece of paper that cannot be put into the sea.

That's what the Manchus did.

Da Ming didn't dare to stipulate this.

After all, the people in the coastal areas are also their own people, and they don't let their families go to the sea, so what do they eat?

Do you want them to wait until they die?

The reason why the Ming Dynasty was banned from the sea at the beginning was actually because of pirates, after all, just look at the map.

In the area east of the Ming Dynasty, the coastline is called a long.

At that time, the Yuan Dynasty had just been driven to the Mongolian steppe, and the surrounding situation was also very chaotic.

A large number of Japanese refugees came to Daming to work as pirates.

These pirates are also mixed with many coastal refugees and poor people, and they should be given a combination of inside and outside, and the pirates can completely rob the coastal villages and towns, and then run away before the officers and soldiers arrive.

Therefore, for the sake of the stability of the coastal areas and the safety of the people, the Ming Dynasty officially decided to ban the sea.

The purpose of this maritime ban is defensive and to ensure national security.

Instead of banning business, it is self-contained.

There is no real ban on foreign trade.

It's still tradeable.

However, private foreign trade is no longer allowed.

Official contact is required before trade.

But then, this rule has long since become a formality.

Smuggling by sea began.

The government also turned a blind eye.

Because these smugglers are not small.

After all, playing maritime trade, you really can't play without capital.

At that time, Japan fell into the Warring States period.

Can you imagine?

At its peak, Japan divided seventy-seven princes.

A thousand daimyo (i.e., princes) were considered very powerful at that time.

Therefore, the fight is indispensable.

As a result, Japan is very short of all kinds of materials.

Iron, copper, gunpowder, cloth, grain—

Nothing is missing.

Because of years of war, Japan really lacks everything.

It can be said that at that time, no matter what was being transported on the ship, it could be sold in Japan.

Except for silver.

Silver was the least valuable in Japan at the time.

Why?

Because Japan is really rich.

Japan is only that big.

But the production of silver is very high.

There are several silver mountains and silver islands.

That's right, there is a silver mountain on the island.

Cow or not?

It can be said that the Japanese at that time were so poor that they had only silver left.

So the smuggling trade in the Ming Dynasty was unusually developed.

This is also why there were so many pirates in the Ming Dynasty in history.

Because it's really profitable!

Although the maritime trade of the Song Dynasty was developed, did the Song Dynasty have so many pirates who were so strong that they could go down in history?

No.

The smuggling trade in the Ming Dynasty was so developed that Jiangnan became the most developed place in the world at that time, and Jiangnan was definitely the economic center of the world at that time.

Suhu is ripe, and the world is full.

This is the saying in the early Ming Dynasty.

But when it came to the end of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty has begun to enter the era of Huguangshu and the world's feet.

Suzhou and Hangzhou don't grow grain anymore.

Because it doesn't make money.

They began to grow cash crops.

For example, tea, for example, tobacco.

Akito was very fond of smoking tobacco.

They don't know that it's harmful to the body when smoking.

On the contrary, they believe that tobacco is good for the body.

It's the same as tea.

First of all, tobacco can refresh the mind, and secondly, tobacco can repel those mosquitoes, in short, many scholars and scholars like tobacco very much.

This kind of behavior of planting cash crops in pursuit of economic interests and not growing grain indirectly bought the foreshadowing for the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

Later, when the Xiaoice River period came, the north was almost frozen soil, and there were natural disasters for many years, and the south did not grow food in pursuit of profit.

Now it's all right.

Food is scarce, and those who have food are hoarding it.

It can be said that the Ming Dynasty in the previous life was destroyed in the hands of the budding capitalism.

In other words, the Xiaoice River period is really unfortunate, and it did not let the Ming Dynasty begin to complete the transformation.

It can be said that the Ming Dynasty fell at the hands of merchants.

The Jin merchants in the north sold weapons and grain to the nomads, while the merchants in the south fornicated with the Japanese invaders.

It's all about chasing profits.

These businessmen will support spokespeople at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

They select down-and-out but smart, well-studied teenagers to sponsor them to complete their studies and to sponsor them for the imperial examinations.

After passing the exam, they married their nieces and daughters to each other, or gave money, in short, tied together to form an interest group.

This has led to very bad effects.

That is, the commercial tax in the Ming Dynasty was always so low, and even many people did not pay it, and many people with lofty ideals wanted to collect the commercial tax, but there was no way, and they couldn't collect it.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, private individuals could actually open mines.

Not only that, but a lot of people don't pay taxes.

The tax collectors sent by the imperial court will collect taxes, and they will even encounter tax resistance.

Or armed resistance to taxes.

In this time and space, in the year of the Apocalypse, the Traveler Apocalypse made the Jinyi Guard start to act.

Jin Yiwei has one more responsibility.

That's collecting taxes.

And then one more benefit.

That is, you can get 10% of the tax collected.

Then Jin Yiwei went crazy.

Jinyiwei has changed from a relatively pure spy agency to the American tax office that was impressive in Shi Mo's previous life.

The one that has its own army to assist in the collection of taxes.

The institution that was arrested and put in prison because of the gang boss's tax evasion.

It is also because of this that Jinyiwei is completely disgusted by the public.

Good guy, it's just falling into the eye of money.

There is a saying in the United States.

There are two things that cannot be avoided in this country.

One is death.

One is to pay taxes.

Taxes are unavoidable.

It's the same in Daming.

Shi Mo had maliciously thought that the reason why Jin Yiwei did such a good job in intelligence was probably for more convenient and better taxation.

Prevent tax evasion and leakage.

Since Jinyiwei had a new position, the scale has expanded, and the entire department has been reborn.

The combat effectiveness of the well-funded Jinyiwei and the poor Jinyiwei who went to the street to collect protection money were not the same thing.

However, it is precisely because of this that the contradiction between Jinyiwei and the civilian clique is even more polarized.

Half of the civil servants were southerners, and a large part of the southerners were supported by businessmen.

Even if it wasn't supported by businessmen, it was close to those big businessmen.

The word township party should never be underestimated.

It stands for connection.

It also represents a group.

Therefore, the position of Jinyiwei and civil officials is simply incompatible.

Polarization is extremely serious, and it belongs to the kind of kind that is absolutely impossible to reconcile.

The kind that never dies.

It was also for this reason that Shi Mo invited Zhu Zining here.

This is the South.

Shi Mo is a brocade guard.

And these people are all local officials.

Although there are a lot of northerners in it.

But there are also a lot of southerners.

To this day, the contradiction between the two has not been resolved.

(End of chapter)