Chapter 156: He Xi's Planning

He Xi has been thinking about the future, many things, overturning his ideas again and again, and rebuilding his ideas again and again.

Adhering to the idea of letting Daming enter modernization, it has never changed. But what exactly is to be done? He Xi of a period has an idea of a period. This in itself is also a process of thinking, a process of progress.

He Xi spends no less time on this every day.

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang asked, and He Xi answered fluently.

He Xi said: "Your Majesty, in the opinion of the minister, pay attention to three major things, the first is to find a market for the factory in Beijing. And this market should be divided into two categories, one is domestic and the other is foreign. ”

"The simplest foreign trade is foreign trade, and I am already preparing for this. For example, the requirements for merchants going to sea are reduced, so that small and medium-sized businessmen can take a boat to go to sea. And send expeditions to find more markets overseas. ”

"Send an official fleet to Tianzhu, to Africa, to Europe, to strengthen foreign contacts, and let Daming's goods be sold. Even at the expense of war. ”

"In China, I haven't figured out how to do it yet, but there are some places where I have figured out a lot."

He Xi then told Zhu Yuanzhang about the changes he was preparing to make to Hebei's agriculture. Find ways to sell the most advanced agricultural tools to the people, and build water conservancy projects, so that the people can expand the cultivated area and become an important consumer group.

So as to digest the production capacity of Beijing and Liaodong.

The reason why He Xi puts the market first. There's a reason for that.

There is no other reason, the reason why He Xi was able to pull up a group of people is of course because of He Xi's academic attainments and prestige, but in fact, these reputations are not useless, but they are not very useful, and the reason why so many people really support him is that He Xi can bring them to make money.

Therefore, He Xi must let the economy develop. Let those who follow him taste the dividends of the times and development. They only continued to follow, and if they were to lose everything, there was no need to think that these people would definitely turn into opponents of He Xi.

And the factories that have been trained by He Xi are much more efficient than handicraft workshops. Some handicrafts that can be called works of art are not as good, but in the pre-industrial era, it was an era of material shortages, and there was no need to worry about not needing it. Purchasing power to worry about.

Yes, purchasing power.

Most of the people in the Ming Dynasty are abjectly poor, whether they can eat enough is a problem, there is no money to sell superfluous things, even the production tools are the same.

Moreover, the few people who have the ability to consume also consume things that are different from the commodities produced by industry, so don't look at the industrial system as if it has been established. But if it is sustained, it is also a question that needs to be considered.

Expanding foreign trade is what He Xi can think of. Domestic trade is just one supplement.

Of course, there is a point here, He Xi didn't say it, but Zhu Yuanzhang also knew it.

He Xi is afraid.

In fact, as mentioned above, if you really want to count, the 60 million population of the Ming Dynasty is the largest single market in this era. If industrial products can completely occupy the domestic market of Daming, then it should not be a big problem to support the industrial system of Liaodong and Beijing.

But He Xi didn't dare to do so.

He Xi is not afraid of taking some corrupt people, but afraid of the huge disaster brought about by the disintegration and disintegration of the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy under the impact of industrial products. After all, many of the problems that arose in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China were actually attributed to this one reason.

As long as foreigners make money on the land of China, they don't need to clean up the situation. Therefore, the old society of all evils was formed, and the extreme poverty of the people was formed. You must know that the people of ancient China were not all as poor as the rural areas before liberation.

Even after liberation, for a long time, the per capita consumption of grain was not comparable to that of the Song Dynasty.

In terms of agricultural production, agricultural technological innovation has never stopped. However, the grain yield per mu in the Qing Dynasty was more than that of the Song Dynasty, and the countryside should have been richer than in history, but the countryside before liberation was generally bankrupt. Life has been very hard.

What will be the consequences if industrial products are rashly dumped across the country? He Xi didn't know.

That is to run other non-industrial areas in China as economic colonies, and after a long time, it is possible to make noise everywhere. Therefore, He Xicai wanted to transform the rural areas of Hebei and find a way for the people of Hebei to evolve from a self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy to a professionally managed farm.

This is also the preparation of He Xi for more rural reforms in the future.

After all, in the Ming countryside, the problem is very important. Because the foundation of the scholars and doctors is in the countryside. In the village.

If we don't solve it, we will face more problems in the future.

However, this matter is too big, He Xi can only prepare, and he doesn't even dare to mention it.

It's just that what kind of person Zhu Yuanzhang is, he is not a fool. quickly seized the loophole in He Xi's words, and began to ask, and in a few words, he picked up what He Xi wanted to hide.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "So? Do you think that when the industry develops to a certain extent, or when the industrial system is extended to the whole country, there will be problems in the countryside everywhere? ”

He Xi said: "There will be labor pains. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang sneered and did not speak. But when He Xi heard this, he blushed a little.

He Xi didn't know who invented the word. However, it is very clever and solves the depth of the problem at once, and this kind of technological progress and a series of changes brought about by social reform will naturally make many people be swept up by the torrent of the times and do not know what kind of end.

But what kind of end can't be described as labor pain?

Is there a fatal thro? And it's not about one person's life, it's about the life of a group of people, or even more people.

How fragile and difficult it is for the people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty to withstand pressure, there is no need to look at anything else. Just look at the previous floods, a natural and man-made disaster, and the accumulation of several generations of people will be emptied.

The collapse of the smallholder economy and the formation of a new economic system will certainly bring many people to the clouds, but many more may have to sink into the ground. The damage caused by this is by no means comparable to a natural disaster or a man-made disaster. m.

Such a thing is said to be a labor pain. It's really the art of words.

Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a moment in his heart and said, "Is such a thing inevitable?" ”

He Xi said: "It is inevitable. However, if you think about it slowly, maybe things won't be so serious. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Xu Xu Tuzhi? You think that those people below you will have the mind of slowly drawing, and the group of nobles behind you can hold back the mind of not making money. You are in the secretary and supervisor, did you observe the recital about the private salt? ”

He Xi was stunned for a moment and said, "The minister hasn't seen it." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Then go and see." The salt tax has continued to fall in recent years, and it is becoming less and less, and even Yangzhou has allowed salt merchants to raise manpower to protect salt. And locally? The proportion of private salt is significantly higher. The people are willing to eat illicit salt, so it is even more difficult to catch the illicit salt dealers. ”

He Xi knew why with his toes?

Naturally, the output of the Liaodong Salt Factory is too high, although it can only be sold overseas, in terms of cost, the salt drying method has the advantages of boiling salt that cannot be ignored. Under such circumstances, it is natural that some people are willing to take risks and find ways to smuggle salt into the country.

Even He Xi was a little suspicious that it was Lan Yu or a certain nobleman behind this matter.

Therefore, He Xi already knows the answer.

Now He Xi has repeatedly ordered that he is not allowed to sell the salt of Liaodong to China, and at this time, he can get a large amount of salt and send it to China, what kind of person is it, he is one of the nobles behind He Xi. This doesn't have to happen anymore, and now these people are already starting to be disobedient.

This made He Xi very uncomfortable in his heart, these nobles could not become the backbone of He Xi's faction, he had to organize his own lineage separately.

As for those who oppose He Xi, they will never stop their pace, especially this time, it is very likely that they will change all the faces of the countryside, and they are digging the foundation of the scholars.

Some people died, but not completely......