"This is the world.

The earth we live on is a giant ball.

This ball is too big, it takes nearly 100,000 miles to go around a circle, compared to this big ball, people are too small, so we look at our sight, it is like being on a flat ground, but it is not impossible to verify, there are still traces on weekdays, such as looking at a sailboat in the distance at sea, the first thing you see is always a sail.

About a hundred years later, the Tessyi people finally proved this with practical actions.

One of their fleets sailed westward, never changing course, and finally returned to port from their east a few years later. ”

Yang Feng said to the globe.

Home-made.

There is no shortage of craftsmen on Yang Wen's battleship, and there are even professional map-drawing ......

He belongs to opening up new routes, of course, he has to draw maps, so all Yang Feng needs is for the craftsman to make a wooden ball, which is nothing more than two oversized wooden bowls buckled together, as long as it can ensure that it is a rough ball shape. Then the map is drawn to find a way to turn a rough map of the world into an image on a globe, and there is no need to care about the details, it is a land outline, with the latitude and longitude lines, this is still very easy to achieve, and then painted in different colors. Especially the real actual control area of the current Ming Dynasty, this is also to be painted, the current Ming Dynasty is north to the Songhua River Basin, not even Heilongjiang can not reach, south to Hainan Island, the South China Sea islands at least not yet.

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To the west is Andingwei, Handongwei, that is, Ruoqiang and Hotan.

Shazhou Wei has not yet been established.

However, the Mongols in Shazhou have already paid tribute.

Hamiwei has not yet been established, and the Wunali who controls it has either surrendered or rebelled before, and was just beaten up by the Ming army last year and paid tribute, so it can't be regarded as an actual control area.

It should be counted as a vassal.

His identity is also King Hameri.

Yang Feng's standard for the actual control area of the Ming Dynasty is the Guard and the Propaganda Division.

The Propaganda Department is also considered to be the actual control area.

Although many of the Xuanwei Division did not have the Ming army, let alone Ming Dynasty officials, but it was just the Tusi, similar to the autonomous region in the feudal territory, the Ming army had the right to military action in the Xuanwei Division, although in fact it may never have been, but there is this power, the two words Xuanwei have made it clear that the former can mobilize the Tusi army, and the latter can send troops into the territory of the Tusi to comfort the labor......

Of course, with artillery for consolation.

In short, the current Ming Dynasty has such a large actual control territory.

"That's what I'm going to do?"

Zhu Yunxi turned the globe and looked at Daming's piece with some dissatisfaction.

"That's just a relaxation of the standards.

For example, Uszangdu commanded the envoys, and the imperial court accepted its tribute, and occasionally sent an envoy over to tell him, but in fact, how people managed, the imperial court did not ask, but they could only do this there, after all, the place was too high, and our people couldn't breathe when they went up.

There are also 800 Dadian and these consolation divisions, and they are only here to pay tribute, so let's make them officials.

Not to mention the actual jurisdiction, even our envoys may not have been there. ”

Yang Feng said.

"These barbarian lands are useless to the country, and if they are to be truly governed, they have to send officials and soldiers, and then they will cost the people and money.

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I am a man who is far away.

As long as they surrender to the Ming, why bother with anything else? ”

Huang Zicheng said on the side.

He didn't even have a seat, so he had to stand there.

In addition, he also disdains to sit in this kind of place full of black smoke and miasma, and look at the women around him who are dressed immorally, especially the most beautiful one, who doesn't know how to hide it at all, just standing with his chest upright, and a large piece under his neck is exposed, which is simply shameless, he is a righteous man and a gentleman, just a few glances.

The same goes for other women.

Well, Ambassador Yang's daughters are dressed more retro......

The ancient restoration of the Tang Dynasty.

After all, the clothes he designed himself must take into account his own aesthetics, so they must be cooler than at this time.

This is already very conservative.

He didn't come up with a full set of modern clothes, but he already respected this era very much.

"Imperial grandson, remember, there is no worthless land in this world, it's just when the value is revealed.

Eight hundred Dadian is our name, and the natives call themselves Lanna, a word that means million rice fields, which are the best rice producing areas, and even in our time, they are important rice exporters, and the fragrant rice there is the best rice. Now the imperial court considers the barbarian land, but its value is not developed, in the case of Mubang and Burma, where there is the best timber for making warships, and later generations of Taixi people occupy there to make warships from its teak, which is unrivaled across the sea. Wusizang is indeed a plateau land, we can't breathe when we go up, but don't forget that the Tang Dynasty was attacked by Tubo Chang'an, such a place is not firmly controlled in the hands, as long as there is another hero, or by those who covet the control of the Ming Dynasty, Shaanxi, Sichuan will never have peace.

Look, there is really no worthless land in this world.

or anointed earth.

Or there are inexhaustible mineral deposits underground.

or special strategic value.

There's always a time for its value to be revealed.

Even if it is for the sake of future generations, we must continue to expand the territory.

The world is so big, how big is the Ming Dynasty, the country is strong and weak, don't take advantage of the strong time to grab more, leave as much land as possible for future generations, and when it is weak, it will be the turn of others to rob you.

Also, don't think about Huairou, Yidi is afraid of power and not Huairou, Huairou can't be exchanged for stability, people just treat you as a fool and have a lot of money, say something good that you don't really have to pay the cost, and then exchange it for rewards. I can clearly say that many of the envoys who paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty were merchants, and they had nothing to do with their monarchs at all, that is, they made their own submissions, took some worthless local products, and exchanged them for rewards and trade in the name of tribute.

They paid tribute to a few horses and some spices, and the Ming Dynasty rewarded more than a hundred times.

Huge profits!

How much money is the spice?

The islands of the South Seas are full of them, just like the weeds we have here.

And the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is 100 times and 1,000 times that of these states, it can be said that the population of a county in the Ming Dynasty may be more than that of the whole country, even if the population of those big countries may not be able to catch up with the land of the south of the Yangtze River.

With such a big advantage, why not directly destroy its country, occupy its land, and enjoy what it has from now on?

You have to learn from Hu Yuan at this point.

Hu Yuan did a good job, grabbed all the land he could grabbed, became a dog if he was willing to surrender, and slaughtered the city and exterminated the clan if he refused to surrender. ”

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Yang Feng continued to bewitch Zhu Yunxi.

"The Ming Dynasty is a state of etiquette, benevolence and righteousness are used to benefit the world, how can it be like Hulu?"

Huang Zicheng said angrily.

"In the past, when I followed others to be serf owners, I called them the great prosperity of the Great Yuan, but now I see that people are cold, and I call them Hulu, I have no conscience!"

Yang Feng sighed.

"Huh?"

Huang Zicheng opened his mouth and stammered.

Of course, Zhu Yunxi was not interested in paying attention to the mood of the companion reading, he was turning the globe, and it was estimated that part of the blood in his body was awakening, and in the end, he also had half of the blood of the Chang family in his body......

The imperial grandson finally left with the globe.

Of course, not for himself, he has to go and dedicate it to his grandfather, and his grandfather will definitely make a few more, and it will be more refined, so in the end he will definitely have one. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang's world map was still not completed, but the eastern part was completed, and now that Yang Feng is back, those who draw maps will soon continue their work.

"I've always wondered, why don't you support the expansion of territory?"

Yang Feng looked at the departing imperial grandson and asked Zhang Xianzong.

"Who's going to pay for the food?"

Zhang Xianzong said very simply.

Yang Feng smiled slightly.

"Everyone knows that it is a good thing to expand the territory, but who will pay for the expansion of the territory? Your Majesty's development of Huining this time can already be said to be a waste of labor and money, and there are indeed only 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and horses in front, and how many people are transporting them in the back? The grain in the south of the Yangtze River had to be transported to Liaodong by sea, and Liaodong had to be transported to Kaiyuan through the Liaohe River, and then continued to be transported from Kaiyuan, and in order to build ships in Jilin, thousands of craftsmen were requisitioned, and the needs of these craftsmen had to be transported over.

From Jiangnan to Jilin, more than 100,000 people are transporting for these tens of thousands of people.

And these more than 100,000 people have to consume more money and food.

It's all the taxes paid by the people.

This is still Huining, there is sea transportation all the way, there is river transportation, transportation is convenient, if to the southwest mountainous area, to the desert land of the Western Regions, then how many people have to transport? If you go to the South Seas, how many ships will be built, how many shipbuilders will be needed, and how many taxes will these craftsmen have to pay to support them?

Expanding the territory?

In a word, of course, it is easy.

But when you really expand your territory, you have to pay for it. ”

Zhang Xianzong continued.

"But the rewards are also huge.

The spices of the South Seas, the trade of the Western Regions, and even these places in Burma have precious stones. ”

Yang Feng said.

"But what does this have to do with the people?"

"What do you have to do with the people of Jiangnan, or what do you have to do with the gentry of Jiangnan?

You might as well make it clearer.

The fundamental reason is that the gentry in Jiangnan did not get any benefits, and His Majesty the Emperor still did not let go of the people's overseas trade, and no matter how much they made from the development of the South Seas, it was all returned to His Majesty the Emperor. Even if the development to the Western Regions can reap benefits, it is also those military generals in the northwest, and the development to the southwest has cheapened the Mu family, but the money and grain are all from the south of the Yangtze River.

No good, you naturally don't support it.

But what if there is?

First of all, although we have many differences, we are unanimous on this issue.

Non-governmental overseas trade should be opened.

But the premise is that you must use treasure money to trade, but if you want to use treasure money to trade, you must force those states to force them, or you have to open up by force first, in the final analysis, if you want to benefit, you have to invest first, solve this problem, in order to promote your emperor to completely open up overseas trade.

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You still have to support him to expand the territory first, anyway, it's useless if you don't support it. ”

Yang Feng said.

"How do you get Your Majesty to liberalize private overseas trade?"

Zhang Xianzong said with some emotion.

He is a native of Fujian, and this is what the Fujian gentry are looking forward to the most.

"Treasure money!

You don't understand that what he really wants to avoid is actually the loss of monetary dominance, right? The more prosperous the overseas trade, the more gold, silver and copper coins accumulated in the hands of the gentry and merchants, and his real purpose was to promote treasure money from beginning to end, and the implementation of treasure money was to control the dominance of currency, but if the number of gold, silver and copper coins was large among the people, then no matter how strictly he guarded against it, he could not prevent the people from using these things for trade.

The developed overseas trade will make it more and more difficult to carry out his treasure banknotes, even the trade in spices is more popular than the treasure banknotes.

It also made him lose control of the currency.

Now he can print money and reward it to the army, who goes to buy what he wants.

Once he lost control of the currency, he could only obtain metal money through taxation, and then he could only compromise with the gentry, because the developed overseas trade would allow the gentry to obtain a huge amount of metal money, simply put, the gentry gained the dominance of the currency.

He had to submit to the will of the gentry.

That's the key. ”

Yang Feng said.

That's how Ming finished!

The collapse of the treasure money made the country lose its monetary dominance.

The Jiangnan and Fujian-Guangdong gentry cliques, which controlled huge amounts of silver in overseas trade, completely controlled the country's currency, and their policy of relying on currency dominance and then controlling the country was ultimately the Donglin Party. Zhu Yuanzhang's mistake from the beginning was to choose treasure money as currency, although he couldn't help it, after all, he really didn't have so many copper coins, and the Song Dynasty had already used iron money. During the Yuan Dynasty, the Semu group and the Mongolian aristocracy continued to loot metal currency, and the Yuan Dynasty had already used treasure money, and Zhu Yuanzhang was just a helpless choice to face reality.

But......

This ancestral system has made it impossible for future generations to change.

Until the fall of the Ming Dynasty, treasure banknotes were legal tender.

Although it has not been used for a long time, it is also legal tender.

Silver is not.

The combination of money and money is the law.

The loss of government authority in the Ming Dynasty was a process of loss of monetary dominance.

In the beginning, when the treasure money was supplemented by the main copper money, it was the era of strong monarchs such as Hongwu Yongle, and the era of the serious depreciation of the treasure banknote and the copper money, it was those emperors who were getting weaker and weaker, because they could not stop the private copper coins, and later when the private copper coins completely replaced the official copper coins, the imperial power could not hold on, and finally could only be suppressed by the civil officials. Then the silver of overseas trade completely kicked out the treasure money like a dimensionality reduction blow, and the remaining copper coins became more and more weak because of more and more silver, and when silver completely dominated the power, it became those emperors after Wanli.

Not only civil officials, but also the local gentry behind the Donglin Party were able to suppress the imperial power.

When Wanli's mine supervisor and tax supervisor were beaten to death by the local gentry like a dog, burned to death and drowned in the river, he couldn't even kill Ge Chengcheng, who was a scapegoat, and a commoner who was executed by the emperor's holy decree was actually under the protection of the local gentry, and had been served in prison like a hero for more than ten years, and then he was actually released.

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It's a magical world.

In the final analysis, Wanli does not have control over the currency.

The gentry of Suzhou have.

Wanli didn't dare to really offend them.

Therefore, it is very simple to want Zhu Yuanzhang to let go of overseas trade, and the gentry support his treasure money.

It's not lip service.

Instead, it really cooperated with him to complete the treasure money of the currency and establish a system that could be continued, so that he did not have to worry about his own currency dominance, and then turned the object of cutting leeks together into those small countries around him......

Or that the monarch and the ministers are embarrassed and traitorous, and they will plague the surroundings together.

Monarchs and ministers build mutual trust.

Together, we will build a long-term monetary system that is acceptable to both sides.