Nowadays, the conclusion about going to the West is to slowly accumulate silver taels year by year, and through the annual surplus to build ships, in order to accumulate a large fleet.

The monarchs of the Ming Dynasty seem to be quite confident in this.

I feel that as long as there is nothing to do every year, it will not take two or three years to save it, but Xia Yuan knows that next year, the year after next will not be as peaceful as this year, earthquakes, droughts, and frost disasters will come one after another.

Looking at it this way, I don't know how long it will take for the Ming Dynasty to really start the matter of going to the West.

It's not even far away.

Therefore, if you want to make the West as soon as possible, the first thing to do is to make money and silver.

And where to get millions of silver, change the law, and do business, these are not achieved overnight, and there is no way to get a large amount of silver in the short term.

The quickest way, of course, is to rob, to plunder by force.

Anyone who knows anything about the financial history of the 17th century knows that one-third of the world's silver came from the Wa Kingdom at that time, and most of this came from a place called Iwami Silver Mine, which was the place where Xia Yuan's circle was necessary.

How much silver does this mine produce each year?

Hundreds of tons, according to records, the highest year produced 200 tons of silver, such a high-light period of mining, lasted for hundreds of years.

According to the calculation of hundreds of tons a year, the annual output of silver is converted into taels, which is more than three million taels.

Plus the rest of the silver mines, that's tens of millions of taels.

This is still the relatively backward mining and refining technology of the Wa Kingdom itself, if the mining and silver refining technology of the Ming Dynasty is used, and then a large number of people are driven to mine regardless of the cost, this number should be doubled.

As long as he sends troops to fight down, not only to get a large amount of silver, but more importantly, he wants to use it to train his troops.

After the baptism of landing warfare, these soldiers will definitely play an important role in the future voyage to the West.

Xia Yuan lit the lamp and boiled oil in the past two days, and read it hard in the memory in his head, and it took a lot of brain cells to finally draw this map of the country.

I don't know how much hair I lost because of this.

As a result, when it came to the mouth of Emperor Hongzhi, it was only a few silver mines.

Can this be endured?

Xia Yuan really wanted to pierce the emperor's face and let him realize the reality that he was a poor man.

"Your Majesty, if you take down these silver mines, the silver taels needed to go to the West will only need to be mined for one year, and there will be a large amount of surplus."

Zhu Youzhu frowned again when he heard this, just said that he was crazy, but he just thought that this kid was unrealistic, but now, he felt that this kid was really crazy.

After a rough estimate, the silver taels needed to go to the West must be at least five or six million taels, that is, these silver mines must extract at least seven million taels of silver a year, so that there can be a large amount of surplus.

Is it possible that several silver mines mine seven million taels of silver a year?

As soon as this thought came to mind, the answer was given, and he vetoed it, absolutely impossible.

After all, all of my silver mines in the Ming Dynasty are added together, and they are only 100,000 taels a year.

Zhu Youzhu didn't say anything, just stared at him vigorously, Xia Yuan thought that the emperor was stunned by this number, but he didn't want Emperor Hongzhi to turn his head suddenly, looked at Xiao Jing and asked, "Xiao Companion, how much is my silver class in a year?" ”

"Emperor, it's about 50,000 taels a year."

"How much silver can be mined from those silver mines each year."

Xiao Jing thought about it for a while, and said with a smile: "If you go back to the emperor, you can have more over the years, and you can have a hundred thousand taels every year." ”

“.”

At the end of the conversation, Emperor Hongzhi turned his head and glanced at Xia Yuan, although he didn't speak, but the look in his eyes and expression were clearly saying, you kid is too young to understand silver mines, not that with silver mines, millions of taels of silver can be mined every year.

This is a silver mine, not a silver mountain.

"Your Majesty, the silver mines of the Wa Kingdom are different from the silver mines of my Daming."

"What's the difference?"

"Your Majesty, the minister takes the liberty of asking a question first, do you think that my Daming silver mine is the largest and most abundant in the world?"

Hearing such a question, Emperor Hongzhi said without thinking about it: "That's nature." ”

Xiao Jing also said on the side: "Master Xia is confused, I am rich in the world, how can this silver mine not be the most?" ”

“.”

Xia Yuan already knew what the problem was, there was a silver mine in Huaxia, as he guessed when he asked him just now, with the national self-confidence of today's Ming Dynasty, the self-identity of the Heavenly Empire, and the lack of external cognition.

The emperors and eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, including the officials below, as well as the military and civilians, must naturally think that the silver mines of the Ming Dynasty are the largest and most abundant in the world.

And this largest and largest silver mine can only mine 100,000 taels per year, so how many silver mines in the small Wa country can be mined?

Tens of thousands of taels are not more than the sky.

But in fact, the silver reserves of the Ming Dynasty, or Huaxia, are not necessarily the smallest among the countries in the world, and they are definitely very small.

As we all know, China has been a country lacking gold and silver since ancient times, not only that, but also a special lack of copper.

The bullets of later generations were made of copper in other countries, and steel in China.

Is it better to be made of steel?

No, copper is better, much better than steel, but the problem is that Huaxia can't afford to make copper, and copper is not enough.

In this way, the Chinese dynasties basically used copper as the main currency, and silver was used very little, because compared to silver, copper is a lot.

Copper, which is already very scarce, can be much more than silver, and you can see how scarce Huaxia's silver reserves are by looking at the leopard in the tube.

"Your Majesty, although my Ming Dynasty is strong and rich all over the world, the silver mines of the Ming Dynasty are actually very few compared to the rest of the countries, and the few are pitiful."

Xia Yuan organized the language, trying to make the emperor break through the false blind confidence and recognize the reality of the bones, "Silver, it doesn't mean that whoever has strong national strength has large silver ore reserves. ”

"Take sweet potatoes and those crops as an example, I have a lot of treasures and a lot of land, but there are no sweet potatoes, no grains, and even the rice in Zhancheng was obtained from Annan in the Song Dynasty.

Annan is just a small state, and it is not worth mentioning compared to my Ming Dynasty, but people have Zhancheng rice, but we don't. That overseas land is lonely in the depths of the ocean, not known to the world, its life is barbaric, but there are sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes and other crops, I still don't have it, these can explain the problem. ”

Zhu Youzhu thought for a while, and said: "Listening to you say this, it does seem arrogant, my Ming Dynasty's silver mines are very few, and the silver mines of the Japanese Kingdom are very few. ”

Speaking of this, he paused slightly, and then said: "But if my country of the Ming Dynasty starts a war for a few silver mines, how is it different from a country of brutal chaos? Scholars must not be recruited without teaching, the Lord must not raise teachers out of anger, the rise and fall of the world is in my body, the world is peaceful this year, and the people have a little respite, how can I start a war and ignore the army and the people? ”

Xia Yuan was full of energy in his heart, don't look at what he said now, what is the country of the state, the state of etiquette, you can't start a war lightly and ignore the people, it's all a horse-riding calf, it's just that the interests are not big enough.

"Your Majesty, this silver mine of the Wa Kingdom. For example, the silver mine that must be marked by the minister with a circle, this silver mine can mine at least millions of taels of silver every year, and if all the silver reserves in the mine are mined, it will be at least hundreds of millions of taels of silver. ”

"How much!?"

(End of chapter)