Lin Fucheng gave Zhu Yijun a big surprise, this time he came to Taibai Lou really just by the way, I heard that Wan Shihe was also there, so he came in to see the excitement, he went to Yanxing Building to check the accounts, this issue of Suiyuan Chidao and Suiyuan Mining ticket subscription has ended, all the cash has been escorted to the state treasury, ready to be used in the Suiyuan Chidao and Shengzhou, Womagang mines that will start construction after the year.

Lin Fucheng is a real freedom fighter, he not only frees himself, but also makes the Ming people free together.

"And what about profits tax! This is not the gathering of the imperial court and what is it, silver, red copper, coinage, are not allowed to come out of my Ming Dynasty, you, the person who sacrifices and flatters, only know that you sing praises for the honor, and dare to shout like this! A Hanlin of the Hanlin Academy shouted loudly.

Zhu Yijun frowned and looked at that Han Lin, this person has a bit of a male duck voice, and his voice is not good, and his words are also ugly.

What does it mean to sing the praises of merit? Climb and bite!

In Lin Fucheng's words, does it have anything to do with him, the emperor?

"Silver, red copper, coinage, do you lack your family's few taels of silver when the imperial court?" Lin Fucheng sneered and said: "The imperial court is really short of money, and it is to issue bonds directly, don't you see that some time ago, the special treasury bonds of 10 million silver didn't even splash?" Is it true that the meat eaters of the Ming Dynasty are all rat-eyed people?! ”

"The court's intention is just not to let the silver out of the customs, you go out of the customs with the goods, who will stop you! For what? It is the silver that flows into the Ming Dynasty that circulates it, and it is all for free trade! ”

Hanlin Xiao Youliang waved his sleeves vigorously, slapped the table and stood up, pointed at Lin Fucheng and said loudly: "Do you want to listen to what you say, these words are just bullshit!" The court competes with the people for profit, levies heavy taxes on the people, and is extremely harsh, how can the word freedom come from! You are still a great Confucian of the Songjiang School! ”

Lin Fucheng said quite calmly: "Look, you are in a hurry. ”

"Don't be dirty, insulting, but also a serious jinshi, make people laugh."

Zhu Yijun looked at Wan Shihe, Wan Shihe looked at Wang Qian, Wang Qian looked at the emperor, the three of them stared at each other, each other was a little embarrassed, the profit tax, since the head of the Ministry of Household Industry proposed this matter, I never thought that anyone would associate this profits tax with free trade.

Does it really matter if you can't hit these eight poles?

"Xiao Hanlin, let me ask you." Lin Fucheng asked with a smile: "You say, why did Taixi's galleon travel tens of thousands of miles to cross the ocean, endure the wrath and tsunami, and also come to my Daming City Shipping Division and give away the silver in exchange for silk, porcelain, tea, ships and other things?" ”

Xiao Youliang thought about it again and again and said: "The world is profitable, naturally for the sake of interests, and more importantly, I have him or not, and he can only work so hard if he wants to." ”

"That's true, you're right, just because Daming has it, and Hongmao doesn't have it, so I will carry heavy silver into Ming." Lin Fucheng looked around and said, "This is the advantage, and where does this advantage come from?" From the asset. ”

"Daming has sufficient and profitable goods, which is the value of assets."

"No matter how the Ming Dynasty waged war with Hongmaofan in Luzon, in the Cebu Islands, in Mindanao, in the Yuanxun Islands, in the Old Port, and in the Strait of Malacca, they were reluctant to stop trading with the Ming Dynasty, so they could only endure the interest and the harsh terms of the imperial court, and continue to trade, which is the benefit of the world."

"I have him or not, this advantage, not out of thin air, is the advantage of relying on the industry to pile up, Ming silk weaving for thousands of years, countless weavers' ingenuity, condensed the commodity advantages of silk, mulberry, silkworm seeds, overseas is not not not taken away, even before, Taixi businessmen bought my Ming raw silk, their own weaving and dyeing, but after the opening of the sea, Hongmao Fan can only buy finished forging."

"Why? Don't they know that the finished product is more profitable? Why don't you raise silkworms yourself, grow mulberry trees yourself, produce silk by yourself, and weave silk fabrics yourself? ”

"It's not that they don't want to, they think about it day and night but can't do it."

"Because of two words, scale!"

Zhu Yijun raised his eyebrows, slightly surprised, although he heard something new, but the connection between profits tax and free trade was not reflected at all.

Lin Fucheng digressed.

"Don't talk about him left and right! There is nothing wrong with what you said about the profits tax we are talking about, but what does it have to do with the profits tax? Xiao Youliang shouted loudly, obviously, what Lin Fucheng said is not necessarily related to the profits tax.

Lin Fucheng's face turned red, and he replied loudly: "The scale of thousands of years is vertical!" The weaving bureau is all over the Ming Dynasty, and its scale is horizontal! The vertical scale and the horizontal scale are the same way! ”

"Only the circulation of silver in the hinterland of Daming can ensure the scale of all walks of life, only to ensure the scale of the industry, in order to make technological progress, to reduce costs, to maintain the advantage of commodities, only to maintain the advantage, I can trade freely!" You can stand in a dominant position and take all the fanyi under the universe! ”

"Trade that is not good for my Ming Dynasty is not free trade!"

Lin Fucheng's logic is extremely meticulous, his freedom said, from the individual to the entire Ming people, then the personal interests will be expanded to the interests of the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming Dynasty must maintain the scale of the industry, in order to obtain the advantage of commodities, this advantage is not only I have you, will not be easily replaced by others, but also low cost, will not be defeated by dumping.

The scale of industry is protected, employment is guaranteed, and basic personal freedom is guaranteed, and there is no need to establish strong personal dependence production relations such as tenants, householders, eunuchs, and outer rooms.

This is Lin Fucheng's free trade, and any trade that is not good for the Ming Dynasty is not free trade.

"Master Lin understands free trade." Zhu Yijun leaned back in the chair and said to Wang Qian with certainty.

Wang Qian said sincerely: "If Master Lin quits the literary world, I am against it. ”

In the process of moving forward, people will always encounter a lot of problems, in fact, it is difficult to find answers to these problems from the knowledge learned and past experience, but the memetic pollution contradiction theory provides an extremely contradictory way to look at the problem, so that the confusion in the heart has a dredging place.

Lin Fucheng watched thousands of sails racing in Songjiang Mansion, going north along the canal, traveling thousands of miles to see the world, the world is cold, the problem in his heart, the past methods can no longer be solved, and he is puzzled, at this time, the contradiction said that this invisible sledgehammer struck violently on his ideological steel seal.

"The profits tax is to stop the outflow of silver, not to stop the outflow of goods, do you have any problems?" Lin Fucheng looked at Xiao Youliang and asked.

Xiao Youliang thought about it again and again, and finally shook his head and said, "No." ”

The official of the Ministry of Rites, Dazong Bo Wanshihe, did not hide his thoughts, he was swaggering to the Taibai Building to watch the excitement, speculating and speculating, it doesn't matter if he loses the debate, he will leave a very bad impression on the Dazong Bo.

If you can't stalk and mess around, you can only admit defeat.

"That, that, this profits tax, even if you say it is reasonable! But recently, the imperial court decided to open a banknote lottery branch in Chidao! What does this have to do with freedom! You bark wildly in the people's newspapers, whitewash and gather, and you should be punished for your crimes! Since ancient times, only mountain bandits will: I opened this road, I planted this tree, if you want to cross this road, leave to buy road wealth. Another Confucian stood up and questioned loudly.

Reasonable!

Zhu Yijun also believes that the establishment of Chidao fees and banknote customs and sub-bureaus is undoubtedly a roadblock robbery, but it cannot be ignored, which is related to the establishment and exploration of the commercial tax system of the Ming Dynasty, so it must be collected if it is scolded, and for this reason, Wang Chonggu, Wang Guoguang, and Wang Daokun are also scolded together.

Lin Fucheng smiled, but he didn't speak, looked at the Confucian and said, "Who are you?" ”

"Wang Dexin of the Zhangqiu Wang Clan, the sixth place in the second class in the eighth year of Wanli! Hallym Temple. Confucian Wang Dexin replied unequivocally.

"It seems that he doesn't listen to things outside the window, and only reads the books of sages, do you know how this Taibai Building under our feet became the first golden cave in Beiya? It was Yanxing Building before. Lin Fucheng asked another irrelevant question, which made Wang Dexin look confused.

Wang Dexin opened his mouth and replied: "That Yanxing Building is no longer a place to play, it is more of a trading house." ”

"That's it." Lin Fucheng said calmly: "There are people who do the head-killing business, and no one asks about the loss-making business, that's the truth, it is said that it is unprofitable to die, it is not profitable, it is unprofitable, why does Yan Xinglou subscribe to the ticket of Suiyuan Galloping Road, why is it necessary to rob Haoyou?" ”

The Matsue school of freedom was opposed to burying silver in a pigsty because silver was not free.

The theory of freedom is where it needs to be replenished, and the pigsty does not need silver, and when the silver does not flow, the invisible big hand of market self-regulation will fail; At this time, it is necessary for the court to intervene with a visible hand.

And what liberals hate most is the visible big hand of the imperial court, excessive interference.

And the favorite thing of the Ming Dynasty is to save silver, hide it, and lie down on the silver to sleep, this kind of conservative and more radical freedom is opposite.

"Speaking of which, it's just that set of circulation theories." Wang Dexin sneered and waved his hand, thinking that there was something high, but it was just a rehash of the same old tune, what is the point of this?

Lin Fucheng looked at Wang Dexin, shook his head and said, "You still don't understand what I mean." ”

"I want to hear about it!" Wang Dexin raised his head with his chest straight, today he can't teach Lin Fucheng a lesson, and he can't lose a defeat, if even Lin Fucheng can't be convinced, let alone convince the court Ming Gong, the attack on the court Ming Gong is for no reason.

"Do you know how many years it will take for these newly built galloping roads in the Ming Dynasty to return to their original costs?" Lin Fucheng squinted his eyes slightly and asked with a smile.

Wang Dexin's brows were twisted into pimples, he shook his head and said: "I don't know, I haven't abandoned Confucianism and business, how do I know." ”

"Fifty years." Lin Fucheng stretched out a hand and said: "When Suiyuan Chidao issued tickets, it warned all speculators that this is not a short-term profitable project, and even profitability is impossible. ”

"Fifty years, life is not necessarily that long."

Wang Dexin stretched his brows and said with a little disdain: "Then why do the luxury households want to subscribe? It's not that there are ministers in the court, forcing these luxury households to pledge! Yin Zhengmao and Ling Yunyi were in Liangguang, tearing down the door and moving the bed, killing people like hemp, forcing the gentry of Liangguang to pledge donations to pay the army, all this money was greedy by Yin Zhengmao! ”

"It's the same as today's luxury households, just like that!"

Zhu Yijun thought of something funny when he heard this, the gentlemen of Liangguang begged Ling Yunyi to go back! Ling Yunyi also gave a happy look, Wang Jiaping, who is good at playing dumb riddles, really made the gentry scalp numb.

"So if you don't listen to anything outside the window, and only read the books of the sages, should you be the father of the Ming Gong who covers the extravagance? Say what they want them to do? The only way to take away the power of life and death is His Majesty's non-punishment, and taking their money is no different from killing them. Lin Fucheng sat up straight and said, "Those luxury households in Xitu City, will they listen to the three party leaders?" Or will you listen to Your Majesty? ”

"They will only listen to the sound of silver clashing."

"The luxury household will settle accounts, I asked Yao Guangqi of the Yao family in Wuzhong, why did the Yao family subscribe to this deal?"

"Yao Guangqi told me, the first is long-term, as long as the Ming Dynasty survives, the Chidao will always be used, and the second is that in the future, the Daming steam engine is now less than three horsepower, the waste is huge, whistling black smoke billowing, but it is not always three horsepower, when it becomes ten horsepower day and night galloping, everyone will be amazed at the changes it brings to the circulation of goods."

"What about when it has a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, or even a hundred thousand horsepower? And how much cargo will it tow, flowing day and night? ”

"Therefore, the recovery of the principal in fifty years is based on the current horsepower, if the horsepower of the steam engine gradually increases, the faster the growth rate! The cost of recovering the principal will be faster, and the profit will be faster. ”

"The ticket for the five-masted ship is ten years at most, and the Ming Dynasty is here, and the gallop is there."

"Do you understand?"

Lin Fucheng couldn't figure out this problem at the beginning, the expansion of Yanxinglou, especially the ticket subscription of Suiyuan Chidao, was also robbed, which no one expected, and even Xitucheng and Jin merchants almost added their fists and kicks in order to grab tickets.

It's really weird.

But after Lin Fucheng figured out the logic, he also had to say that these families have been passed down for hundreds of years, not without reason, and not everyone is a mouse.

To sum up, that is the future, even if you can't earn it back, it doesn't matter, anyway, part of the money raised is the dividends of ship tickets.

Even if it is really bloodless, it doesn't matter, because since His Majesty enabled Hai Rui, this Ming Divine Sword was in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the way to send money to Ming Gong was completely broken, and the government was bribed, and there was no way to give it to Ming Gong, covering up luxury households was somewhat panicked, even if it was a loss, it could be regarded as cooperating with His Majesty and Ming Gong's decree.

In the future, when His Majesty kills pigs, he will more or less remember everyone's loyalty to the monarch and the country, leave a decent face for himself, and leave a way back for the nine clans.

This is the third reason, and the biggest reason, of course, Yao Guangqi did not explain to Lin Fucheng that the powerful right has the troubles of the powerful right, and the scholars have the troubles of the scholars.

"I see." Wang Dexin thought about it again and again, was defeated, and chose to admit defeat, he had already argued once, and then entangled, Sven swept the ground.

His sophistry is the sophistry that Lin Fucheng said about the circulation of silver, in fact, the question of 'blocking the road and robbing' he raised, Lin Fucheng can completely apply the circulation of silver to explain, but Lin Fucheng did not, and when he unloaded his arm, he still beat him Wang Dexin was defeated.

If you use the circulation of silver to think about the problem of "blocking the road and robbing", you will find it a matter of course, the essence of silver circulation is the circulation of commodities, and this is also the inevitable transformation of the Ming from the small peasant economy to the commodity economy, and it is necessary to build more and more roads in order to communicate the commodities between the Ming Dynasty, so that the circulation of commodities is more frequent, and the economic transformation is promoted.

The realization of this strategy is really about free trade, and Lin Fucheng did not bully others, but answered from another angle.

Wang Dexin will be rude if he entangles again.

"Soot!" Another Confucian scholar stood up and said loudly: "The Ministry of Industry said it well, but it turned out that this year is not yet winter, and it is already full of soot. ”

This question is very acute and bold, because the name is pointed to the Ministry of Industry and Wang Daokun, which is actually a very direct accusation.

"Don't you drink hot water? Don't you eat cooked food? Lin Fucheng frowned and said, "Coal is the firewood that opens the door. ”

"Coal is meat, steel is bone, people are blood, and the Xishan Coal Bureau of the coal and steel joint venture is the muscle, the hope of the Ming Dynasty, and the only opportunity to break through in the predicament."

"The only opportunity." Lin Fucheng reconfirmed.

Only by transforming into a commodity economy can we establish new production relations and truly transform the relationship of strong personal dependence into a free employment relationship, and the Xishan Coal Bureau, a joint venture of coal and steel, is the only opportunity.

All systems are based on the current reality, not out of thin air, fabricated out of thin air, otherwise, no matter how ingenious the design, it will be an ideal country into reality and lead reality to the abyss, which has been proven by history countless times.

"Master Lin, why is this the only opportunity?" Zhu Yijun wondered how Lin Fucheng got this argument from the aspect of freedom.

"Where do you start?" Lin Fucheng's expression was particularly embarrassed, he looked at everyone and said in a low voice: "The Xishan Coal Bureau wants to pump water, no matter how you do it, you can only pump water to about three zhang, and the head cannot exceed three zhang. Later, Dr. Jiao Hong, a doctor of Gewu in Gewu Academy, discovered that air pressure is inversely proportional to volume; The director of the institute, King Toku, invented the pressure cooker. ”

"The Xishan Coal Bureau needed thousands of horses to pull the reels and animal winches to pull them to drain the water, and then finally there was a reciprocating steam engine."

"Since the second year of Wanli Minbao on the pumping machine, it has been eight years, the steam engine from scratch, the reciprocating steam engine finally came out, even His Royal Highness King Germany insisted on the high-pressure steam turbine route, but His Royal Highness never denied the route of the duplex steam engine in the past, and even gave great support."

"Why is the Xishan Coal Bureau, a joint venture between coal and steel, the only opportunity to break the situation? Because the steam engine is a miracle, it is the most reliable power for the Ming Dynasty to advance, and I can't imagine a more reliable power. ”

Lin Fucheng thought about it for a long time, and when it came to the coal output of the Xishan Coal Bureau, the output of steel, the woolen official factory, and the steam drying of the shipyard, he actually couldn't say what he wanted to express, but Zhu Yijun understood.

Lin Fucheng is a theory of productive forces, and he believes that when productivity is reached, all people will be free, that is, everyone can be unfettered.

And the steam engine is the most important thing to realize his ideal country, the revolution of productive forces.

His doctrine is logically completely self-consistent.

Zhu Yijun nodded, motioning for Lin Fucheng to continue his performance, he highly recognized Lin Fucheng's point of view, Daming is slowly entering the era of productivity revolution, and the steam machine is booming on the basis of coal and steel joint ventures.

Yes, after material abundance, more people will be educated, more talents will be cultivated, and then more technological progress will be obtained, and material will be more abundant, which will be a virtuous circle.

Zhu Yijun has come to this point, and it took ten years, under the assistance of Zhang Juzheng, Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, Tan Lun, Wang Guoguang and even Wang Chonggu, he stumbled to this point.

"Whew, it's good that there is a Lin Fucheng." Wan Shihe sat on the seat of the Tianzi box, and didn't care much about the tongue battle group in the audience, because Lin Fucheng would not lose.

Lin Fucheng was embarrassed for a few months, it was indeed difficult, but he still finished reading those difficult books, and even visited the Xishan Coal Bureau and the Maoshan Official Factory with practical investigations, combined with his experience of traveling thousands of miles, and became a great Confucian who lectured in the Legislature.

"Is there pressure on Uncle Zong? Recently, the DPRK and China have all attacked Da Situ and Da Sikong. Zhu Yijun looked at Wan Shihe and asked with a smile.

Wan Shihe shook his head and said: "That's not it, this time the debate, if the minister makes a move, it will not be beautiful." ”

Don't challenge Wan Shihe in sweeping the water and washing the ground, Wan Shihe has not yet made a move, once he makes a move, he will definitely calm down the turmoil, but Wan Shihe, who has already been labeled as the emperor, may backfire, and the people cannot discuss it openly, so they will join forces in private, which is even more dangerous at that time.

But now, the Songjiang Free School is charging ahead, and this is a contest of popular public opinion, and the imperial court can handle this matter more easily.

This is the result that Wan Shihe wants to see the most.

"Your Majesty, there is a matter, the Ministry of Industry has gone to the Taoist Song Shu, saying that it is going to change the glass of the Hegong, but Your Majesty has given it a no." Wan Shihe instead talked about an incident in the court, and Wang Daokun asked Wan Shihe what His Majesty meant by vetoing this proposal.

Wang Daokun was trapped in the public opinion of the wind power, and he did not dare to rashly face the saint or ask the music, because he didn't know what the emperor meant; Second, there is a suspicion of sheltering Xingjin, a traitorous minister who has been attacked, plus a lucky jin, then Wang Daokun will become a marginal person like Guo Chaobin in the court.

The Holy Dependents are a killing move that will only be activated when they are forced to do so, and after Wang Daokun returned to Beijing, it was all a trouble for His Majesty.

Therefore, Wang Daokun can only find Wan Shihe, the hardcore imperial party Wan Shihe, is the golden oil in the court, maybe he can be used at any time.

"It's too expensive." Zhu Yijun shook his head and said: "It was completely completed in July of the seventh year of Wanli, and the Guantong and the palace are colorful and gorgeous, no different from the Heavenly Palace. It's not appropriate, Mr. knows, I'm afraid I'm going to persuade me to be frugal again. ”

Wan Shihe immediately said: "Mr. Yuanfu has not advised His Majesty to be frugal for six years, and this time Tonghe Palace changed the glass and glazed tiles, which was led by Mr. Gong, which is related to my face, and I ask Your Majesty to consider it." ”

"It's too expensive."

Wan Shihe still insisted, bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, it is less than five thousand taels in total. ”

"It's almost a thousand horses, why should you exchange them?" Zhu Yijun didn't understand why Wan Shihe was so insistent.

"Your Majesty's billions of dollars are admired, and the world thinks it will do it, and if Your Majesty doesn't use it, the world can't use it." Wan Shihe finally said this, the new glass is a new process, such a good thing, the Ming Emperor didn't use it, no matter who used it below, it was a crime of trespassing.

Under the framework of the Ming monarch and ministers, since the emperor's Tonghe Palace and the imperial palace are equipped with glass, the best must be used in etiquette.

This time it was indeed a new process, and the craftsmen of the glass factory affiliated to the Ministry of Industry sat down to create a new furnace to separate the raw glass materials that have been magnetically separated from the smoke and fire of coal burning, and mass-produced flat glass, and the Ministry of Industry used rubber strips to make the glass more sealed.

Good sealing equals better heat retention, which is good for opening up north.

"In this case, let's change it." Zhu Yijun said with a painful face, five thousand taels of silver, twenty-five thousand catties of pork.

Wan Shihe said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Da Situ said that the state funds paid this money. ”

"Sooner on." Zhu Yijun's complexion immediately returned to flatness, he had already said that someone would pay for it, he had already agreed, and he used it to play Tai Chi back and forth?

Wang Qian saw that His Majesty was in a good mood, and thought again and again and said: "Your Majesty, can you only repair the Chi Dao by the imperial court?" After all, the imperial court has limited manpower, so it is better to delegate power to various localities and buy them into merchants, how about the merchants to raise funds to build? ”

Suiyuan Chidao carried out ticket subscription, but the management and ownership were firmly controlled by the imperial court, and everyone was in the shipowner plan, and the shipowners could not directly interfere in the operation.

Wang Qian meant that the imperial court was not omnipotent after all, on the one hand, it was necessary to limit redundant personnel to resist bloating, and on the other hand, it was better to delegate all power to the local government except for the main roads, so that the local governments could buy merchants and speed up the construction of galloping roads.

"Wang Yushi, have you asked your father about this idea?" When Wan Shihe heard this, the corners of his mouth twitched and asked.

Wang Qian said inexplicably: "No." ”

"It's a shame that you didn't ask, if you asked, we won't be able to see Wang Yushi." Zhu Yijun spread out his two hands, looked at Wan Shihe and said with a smile.

"Hahaha!" Wan Shihe, Zhu Yijun, Feng Bao and Zhang Hong all smiled happily.

Wang Qian's proposal looks beautiful, but when it is implemented, it will be the end of the division of the feudal town.

(End of chapter)