Chapter 159: King Yan's Ambition

Consciously sacrificing economic interests for the sake of political interests is the instinct of many ancient Chinese politicians. Money isn't the most important thing, and efficiency isn't the most important thing. The overall situation and stability are the most important.

In a way, that's right.

After all, in a country of China's size, it is extremely stupid to bet on such a thing as national fortune.

In fact, China is not without the foundation of the industrial revolution, many people evaluate that at least three times in ancient China had all the conditions for the industrial revolution, that is, the heyday of the Western Han Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty.

But China has all passed by industrialization.

Among them, it is because of China's path dependence and the disease of a large country that an ideological and economic system with agriculture as the center of gravity has been formed. It deepened the difficulty of industrialization.

It's like now, Yan Wang doesn't know that it is difficult to establish an industrial system, and it is also difficult to maintain it. It can even be said that if there is not enough market and orders, and there is not enough profit driven, He Xi is now establishing this business, just like Zheng He going to the West, and future generations can only sigh the greatness of the ancients from the pile of old papers.

And there is nothing static in the world, no matter what it is, it is either advancing or retreating. What a technological reform or something that is being promoted today? Once there is no demand, no self-evolving economic profit drive, it will not take many years to shrink.

Wait for He Xi's generation to die. It is estimated that I can only go to some Yongle canons and Siku books to find traces.

Is this refundable?

If King Yan is today, He Xi is destined not to be King Yan's fellow traveler.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked: "Fourth, you tell me the truth, if I pass on this world to you, what are you going to do?" ”

King Yan's heart was pounding, his face was red, as if he was drunk, Shaoyou's emotions were out of control, he was silent for a moment, and said: "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu in the north, conquered Korea in the east, and served Baiyue in the south. If my son is fortunate enough to be his father, he will be the Xiongnu in the north, the Western Regions, the Annan in the south, the Nanyang, and the Xiping Wusizang, so that the world is all Ming concubines, and even go deep into the ocean, and go east out of the Americas, so that the world is the world of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Yan Wang's eyes were blazing, which was exactly what he was talking about.

He didn't want to give up the Mobei War because there was a war. It would be better if he could realize the ambition of King Yan, and if he could become the emperor. You can achieve more ambitions.

King Yan himself is good at martial arts, but the reason why he has such an idea is actually the influence of He Xi.

Under He Xi's management, Daming has a good finance. If you save a lot of money-consuming projects. It is estimated that the income of the next year will be as much as 40 or 50 million taels, although it is not as good as the heyday of the Song Dynasty, but it is already quite good, even better than the best time of the Ming Dynasty's finances, and the upward trend of the Ming Dynasty's finances is still obvious.

Even in the future, the annual income of fifty or sixty million taels, exceeding the best time of the Northern Song Dynasty, is not a problem.

Money is heroic courage.

Since he has money, King Yan naturally wants to make a big one.

Of course, there is also He Xi's literacy of King Yan, so that King Yan knows that the outside world is so big. Yanwang naturally wants to make some contributions to China's territory.

Zhu Yuanzhang heard King Yan say this, but he shook his head and said: "The country is easy to change, and the nature is difficult to change. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang looks at the current King of Yan, and there is not much difference between him and the Yongle Emperor in history. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang's evaluation of King Yan is not much different, that is, there is more than one general, and the king of ten thousand times is insufficient.

Because Yanwang has never understood one thing, for China, the biggest problem is at home, not outside.

It is not an exaggeration that China is the natural hegemon of the known world in the case of underdeveloped transportation in ancient times.

Just like in later generations, the U.S. election has always been the focus of the whole world, why? This is because the United States, as the world hegemon, has always affected the world in its domestic affairs. And this principle is the same in Daming.

Zhu Yuanzhang actually did not oppose the expansion of King Yan. even agreed, after all, Zhu Yuanzhang knew better than King Yan that the arrival of the Age of Discovery, in Zhu Yuanzhang's view, the Age of Exploration was a new enclosure movement.

Daming naturally wants to participate.

However, this is not about expanding for the sake of expanding. Expansion for the sake of expansion will inevitably lead to the end of reckless militarism.

And if the land that has been beaten down is not supported by national strength in the future, it is very likely that it will have to be spit out. In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, King Yan's idea is not as important as the division of overseas vassals that He Xi proposed to Zhu Yuanzhang at the beginning.

Because of the national policy of vassaldom overseas, the land of the Ming Dynasty's overseas expansion will not be easily lost.

King Yan listened to Zhu Yuanzhang's words, and said worriedly: "Father, is there anything wrong with the son?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "If you have time to see your father-in-law, you will know." A true general never loved war, but feared it. ”

Fear of war does not mean that you are afraid of going to war, but you are afraid of war itself, war is actually the most distorted existence of human nature, no matter how noble the name, it is always extremely cruel on the battlefield.

If you don't, you won't survive.

A general who truly understands war will be afraid of this kind of behavior, afraid of the extreme and uncontrollable war. Anything can happen in football, let alone war, which is the fairest and most competitive game in the world.

Even the victorious generals dare not guarantee that they will win the next battle. m.

Xu Da followed Zhu Yuanzhang to rise from the end of the micro, he can understand the defeat, and he knows what kind of price he will pay after the defeat, but King Yan is not, as King Yan, he didn't start from a pawn at all, he was a senior officer from the beginning, even if King Yan shared the joys and hardships with the soldiers many times, but the war that King Yan understood and the war that the soldiers understood were actually very different.

Zhu Yuanzhang listened to King Yan's thoughts and heard a lot of emotions. Worry and fear are not heard? It seems that King Yan never thought of a big defeat.

Yes, Zhu Yuanzhang also knows that with the national strength and military strength of the Ming Dynasty, as long as they are not too wasteful generals, they will not be defeated, and at most they will suffer small setbacks. However, for the sake of the general, he cannot have such thoughts.

It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang's approach made King Yan a little confused.

I don't know what Zhu Yuanzhang means.

Yes, promised him a place? Or not?

How to say that he was allowed to save a place. It doesn't seem to be said. But if not, let him contact Xu Da. Although Xu Da is the father-in-law of King Yan, in fact, Xu Da has never kept his distance from his son-in-law. The friendship between the two families is just to send people to give gifts during the New Year's holidays. More is very little.

It's not that King Yan doesn't want to get close to the Xu family, but that Xu Da refuses to be thousands of miles away.

After all, Xu Da is in a place of suspicion, and it is not good for anyone to get too close to King Yan. But now King Yan has the opportunity to meet Xu Da by order, if Xu Da is pulled into his camp, half of the battle for the storage position will be won.

Zhu Yuanzhang actually had no decision in his heart.

King Yan is actually good, not bad compared to the crown prince.

The crown prince was proficient in internal affairs, had a better understanding of the internal problems of the Ming Dynasty, and had a higher prestige. But he is not resolute enough, at least not as resolute as King Yan. If the crown prince is in the position of the king of Yan in history, it is impossible to succeed.

But it doesn't mean that the crown prince is weaker than King Yan.

If Zhu Yuanzhang unifies the prince's political views, that is, he slowly plots and pushes forward the law little by little, the prince will be better than King Yan. But there is really a crisis, and at the critical juncture of life or death, the prince is not as good as King Yan.

It's just that what Zhu Yuanzhang wants is a prince who supports the change from the heart, and today's King Yan does not have this string from the heart, and his perspective on the change is no different from looking at the various reforms since Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, and he can't understand the importance of the change.

King Yan can be a good emperor, above the level. But it may not be an emperor who can implement reforms.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's case, it's just an alternative.

In this way, King Yan didn't get an answer from Zhu Yuanzhang, so he could only leave in a daze. King Yan went directly to the Duke of Wei's mansion, hoping that the Duke of Wei would give an answer.

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