Chapter 499: More Steel, Just to Make Farm Tools
Zhu Yijun knew from beginning to end the evil consequences of complete monopoly, and the sale of a pound of coal in the Northern Song Dynasty for 200 wen was the final form of the Ming official factory, so he affirmed the argument of some absolute liberals, that is, the hand of the Ming court could not be stretched too long and too deep, otherwise the final result would inevitably be the end of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, all trade was monopolized by the imperial court, and the Ming Dynasty was a pool of stagnant water.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun has not resumed the complete official ship and official trade; Therefore, there are five major ocean-going trading houses in the Ming Dynasty to promote the activity of maritime trade; That's why there will be trading banks, and everyone will do shipowner plans; Therefore, there is the expansion of the trading bank, and Suiyuan Chidao and Suiyuan Mining are included in the ticket; That's why there will be the development of the Thousand Islands of the Yuanxu Islands; That's why Lord Pioneer appeared; Therefore, there is only a monopoly on coal and steel, not a monopoly on coal, iron, salt, tea, wine, koji, and alum.
Complete monopoly has proven to be unfeasible, and the Northern Song and Southern Song dynasties have proved the deformity of this complete monopoly operation with two demises.
In a world without competition, there is only infinite rigidity, infinite bloat, infinite peeling, and there is no vitality without competition, which has been widely proven.
But at present, the small-scale peasant economy, the powerful right only knows that at the moment of digging in the soil, it can only be led by the imperial court, so that more powerful people can abandon the output of the field, give up the strong personal dependence on the production relationship, give up the rent-collecting thinking, and devote themselves to the process of the transformation of the Ming Dynasty into a commodity economy, so as to complete the transformation of the small peasant economy.
The establishment of large-scale free wage production relations is a prerequisite for the transformation of the commodity economy.
Paulino Franco's last captain, Antonio asked Paulino Franco to be the captain, but the last time, while crossing the Atlantic, the new captain fell ill with scurvy, his condition deteriorated rapidly, and when he arrived in Villefranche, he unfortunately died.
"Ugly!"
Driven by violence like the English against the Scottish, it was easier and cheaper.
"You don't even understand the word production, and you're still here to point fingers at Daming's new policy, do you also deserve it? Isn't it just to beg for food? Begging for food still doesn't know how to respect the master, can you get food! β
"It's my honor that I learned this little bit of broken Chinese from Minister of State Xu Fan." Sauron's attitude was respectful.
Zhu Yijun sneered and said: "Don't learn the ability to pat from the Ming scholars, you can't compare to them." β
"Although we didn't understand, we were shocked." Zhu Yijun said in a low voice.
Shah Mamat was an envoy of the nobles of the Mughal Kingdom, Le Nga Sit was a Spanish envoy, and Diego de Madeleine was the son of the Marquis de Santa Cruz, the father of the Spanish soldiers, and was also a proton in the Ming Dynasty, and these three people got together because they were all envoys who had been in the Ming Dynasty for a long time, so they had common topics with each other, and they communicated with each other in Chinese to prevent others from understanding what they were discussing.
Sauron opened the travelogue and looked at it for a long time, then closed it and said, "Your Majesty the Emperor, this is indeed not suitable to bring back Tessie. β
The two envoys of the Netherlands were silent, they didn't want to provoke Sauron, this time they came to the Ming Dynasty in the hope of getting the approval of His Majesty the Emperor and breaking through the obstacles to political trade, they didn't want to cause more trouble.
More than once in his travelogues, Le Yasit mentions the chaotic life of the upper class, which is not only because of the variety of mistresses, but also because of the difficult blood relationship, such as the child born to this niece and uncle, who can become the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and indeed the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, that is, Ferdinand II.
This kind of disposition made Sauron call it incredible, the authoritarian Ming Emperor, there was no cruel suppression, it was this kind of appeasement that caused the Ming to be too free.
Zhu Yijun handed the Latin version of the travelogue in his hand to Feng Bao and said: "Sauron, it can't be said that Li Yashi is a traitor to Taixi, he has always loved the land where he was born and raised, but for various reasons, he can't bring it back. β
According to Sauron's understanding of the Ming Dynasty, the output of coal and steel in the Ming Dynasty is still growing at a terrifying growth rate, even if it is far more than the sum of all countries except the Ming Dynasty, but it is still increasing rapidly.
Feng Bao and Zhang Hong glanced at each other, both helpless, the two of them in front of the imperial court, they couldn't tell which sentence of the Ming Emperor was true and which was false, the only thing that was certain was that the Ming Emperor really wanted to sell the ship.
Zhu Yijun shook his head and said: "This is not for sale, Felipe II can try to make it himself." β
Gao Qiyu thought that His Majesty was going to ask some important question after watching it, but it turned out to be gossiping!
Gao Qiyu said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Tessie is like this, Ferdinand's sister Maria Anna is married to her maternal uncle, Archduke Karl II of Austria, so that the son born can become the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire." β
Jiading slave change, this really made friends surprised.
Almost all the envoys expressed their incomprehension of the Ming Dynasty's decree abolishing the status of cheap slaves, which was a decree that would do more harm than good, and all of them were very unanimously very optimistic about the implementation of this decree, which increased the administrative cost at the same time, destroyed the original stability, and had the illusion that the Ming Dynasty was retrograde with the world.
The Latin is longer, mainly mixed with the reflections of the Tessi feudalism of Le Agsil, which has come to an end and needs to be changed, Le Jarsit did not betray, but Spain could not tolerate heresy like him.
I'd rather the order rush the shipyard to run than the shipyard waiting for the order to come.
"Let's maintain the original order size." Sauron was extremely disappointed and said that the fast sailing boat was a good thing, and he took a deep love for the fast sailing ship after a glance at it from a distance in the dock, and he was sure that the fast sailing ship would be a powerful weapon to change the situation in the seas.
And the initiator of this bad idea was the Ming Emperor. (Chapter 415: The Emperor and Zhang Juzheng played a pair.) οΌ
With Felipe II alone, he could not do it.
In George's view, the Ming Dynasty's overseas colonial development needed population, a large number of craftsmen were needed for official factory construction, and military conquests also needed population, and the deed of sale must be abolished for the sake of population, so as to get more free people, and George felt that it was completely unnecessary.
"In the matter of openness and tolerance, His Royal Highness Felipe is far inferior to His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, even if I am a fan and scold the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, as long as what I say is the truth, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty will not blame him too much."
"Do you understand? The secular core of the culture on the side of the Ming Dynasty is completely different from the religious core of the Taixi culture. β
And these people also brought their partners, making the scene even more chaotic and noisy.
Li Yashi was startled, and his heart finally fell back when he mentioned his throat, and he didn't know why, Emperor Daming suddenly broke in, he understood what His Majesty meant, and immediately bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, how can you hide this little thing from Your Majesty, who is as wise as a torch and has a hole in the fire?" β
"Yes, you're a little deferential." Zhu Yijun doesn't mind the words stingy and greedy, because this is the truth, and even words like violent and bloody executioner are not impossible, but Li Yashi's travelogue does not have these things, which is very objective.
Taixi's cocktail party and Daming's banquet, in Zhu Yijun's view, are much the same, both are for socializing, not for eating, but one is a buffet and the other is a separate banquet, it seems that Taixi's wine will be more messy.
With all their efforts to exterminate it, the civil unrest soon spread from Fujian to Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Nanya, and the momentum was greatly boosted, and it was known as the army of millions.
Zhu Yijun's face darkened, and he regretted a little that he had come to see the excitement.
"Funny!"
"Curious, does Tessie now have the ability to build her own five-masted ship?" Zhu Yijun knew that Felipe II had dismantled a five-masted ship, and Felipe had the need to produce his own five-masted ship to face the independence of the Netherlands and the impact of England's-stirring stick on the sea.
"Is that Ferdinand? We heard that his sister married her own uncle, is there such a thing? Zhu Yijun turned his head sideways and asked in a low voice to Gao Qiyu, the young secretary of Honglu Temple.
Two envoys of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, standing behind George, one from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Union of Arras (Belgium), a golden retriever, named Thomas Deville, dressed extremely gorgeously, on such a hot day, and wearing a crimson velvet jacket, the hat is inlaid with four mink furs, like a peacock with the screen open.
There is a saying in the Analects: Take from it, get from it; Take from it, get it from below;
Interpreted in politics, that is, the implementation and practice of a decree will definitely be discounted, and there will be a flexible implementation of compromise with reality, so a Ming Dynasty, all Wang Min, these decrees will definitely become in the process of implementation, but anyone who shows the slightest tendency to approve of the Ming Dynasty will be sent to the mine for mining.
"Did Daming produce so much steel to conquer the world?" Sauron asked, extremely worried.
Recently, the Queen of England executed Mary I, Queen of Scots.
The land of Daming is enough to plant for the time being, and when it is not enough to plant, it is also a land grab.
The reception of the Tongtong Pavilion was divided into a small circle with distinct distinctions, talking in a low voice, Zhu Yijun's appearance did not attract anyone's attention, Zhu Yijun came to a hidden corner, sat down quietly, and looked around.
And the Ming Dynasty was recently led by the nobles to abolish the status of lowly slaves, in Shahmat's view, it was completely redundant, isn't this asking for trouble for himself?
Sauron's words made the topic of the drinking party obviously messy, and turned to the abolition of the Cheap Slave Nationality that Da Ming had recently engaged, and the discussion immediately became enthusiastic.
"Your Majesty, His Highness Felipe wishes to obtain enough woollen woollen and cotton cloth for dumping in England." Sauron was also a little confused, he didn't know Da Ming very well, but it was true that Da Ming liked farming very much, who knew if His Majesty the Emperor was telling the truth or a lie.
On June 14, the tenth year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun's most inconspicuous car came to the house outside the Huitong Pavilion Station, and the Ming Emperor Zhu Yijun jumped off the car with his shirt and pants off, and walked into the house.
"Spanish envoy Sauron, meet Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live." Sauron had been trained in the Ministry of Rites and knew how to do it.
Rui de and Pereira are the envoys of the Governor of Goa, Meneses, and this time they came to Beijing to talk about surrender and the ownership of the Strait of Malacca, and the thirty pounds of artillery transported by the Ming Emperor have arrived at the Old Port Governor's Palace, and it seems that they are planning to take Malacca City in one fell swoop.
Matteo Ricci's mission did not go well, as he was now obsessed with the Tao.
Li Yashi finally couldn't hold back his voice, and said angrily: "You don't understand Da Ming at all, do you think that you have been here once or twice, or what you learned from those travelogues is all that Da Ming is?" For a heavenly kingdom like the Ming Dynasty, this is an inevitable step! It is a great effort to change the relations of production! β
Isn't it begging to be a special envoy to negotiate certainty in trade? Begging doesn't know how to be respectful, pointing, and making a lot of nonsense.
In the end, it was Ningyang Hou Chen Mao and Hubu Shangshu Jin Lian who led 40,000 Beijing camps to the south, suppressed and used them together, and finally completely pacified.
Daming needs more ships to export, to quickly recover costs, to further expand the scale of the shipyard, only with a sufficient scale, in order to promote shipbuilding technology progress, Youlong, Feiyun is proof.
Of course, Li Yashi translated it into Latin, and he translated every one, but the translation could not even leave the Ming Dynasty, and now Sauron blamed him.
Zhu Yijun also knew for the first time that Li Yashi still had a travelogue in Latin, and if he dared to record his rebellious remarks, he would be immediately sentenced to palace punishment!
Just as Zhu Yijun couldn't understand the electoral system and the marriage of close relatives, Sauron couldn't understand why the Ming didn't carry out brutal suppression.
"Your Majesty, the Spanish envoy Sauron is here." Xiao Huangmen hurriedly entered the door to report.
Taixi's group of messengers will never be able to understand the word Shi, because the four words "Hong" and "Heart of the World" are the cultural desert of Taixi, and Taixi does not have the concept of the world.
Li Yashi, starting from Pangu's opening of the world, and the mainstream of Taixi is that God created everything, one is to open up in chaos, and the road is blue to enlighten the mountains and forests, and everything is a gift from God, and God is omnipotent, which is the difference between the core of the two cultures, and there are ghosts that can be brought back.
Gao Qiyu said very approvingly: "When the minister heard about it for the first time, he was also shocked. β
Sauron wondered, what did Li Yashi think of the Jiading slave rebellion, was it the failed policy of the young Ming Emperor?
"It's just a necessary price." Li Yashi said this sentence in Chinese, most of the people present could not understand, he left the cocktail party, Shah Mamaiti spread his hands, and also chose to leave, he did not like state affairs, he preferred to throw silver, and the front door building listened to the commentary.
"No courtesy." Zhu Yijun looked at Sauron's white beard and pointed hat, and said with a smile: "I know you, Xu Fan, the special envoy sent to Taixi, once said something about you. β
This is Daming, and Zhu Yijun has the right to enter anywhere.
Lin Fucheng said that Hou Yu Zhao was ruthless because Hou Yu Zhao was really ruthless.
"It takes at least 200,000 woollen wool and 300,000 cotton cloth every year to do it." Sauron gave what he thought was an astronomical figure.
If the productivity is not enough, forced production will be fruitless, and the mainmast is not something that Felipe II can handle.
"Making farm tools and machinery?" Sauron's face was cloudy, he didn't deceive people like this! What about fools?
The Sword Saint Marcus re-became the captain of the ship and Antonio's envoy to the Ming Dynasty.
There is no doubt that whether it is Tessie or the Mughal Kingdom, as long as you buy a boat, you are a friend.
The Ming Dynasty is establishing a set of theories based on production, explaining the infinite principles of all things and solving problems, and they are unbeatable, these envoys don't know what this means, even if they are in the midst of great changes, they can't help but tremble every time they imagine the future, what the Ming Emperor wants to create is a new world!
Zhu Yijun shook his head and said: "No, just to make farm tools and machinery, Da Ming has no interest in conquering the world, because he can't manage it at all." β
The implementation of any decree will encounter all kinds of difficulties, and the difficulties are like a traveler encountering an unattainable mountain, if the traveler despairs, he will never be able to climb over it, and the moment he turns back, he will never be able to climb over the mountain again.
"Unreasonable!"
After Li Yashi finished speaking, he flicked his sleeves and left the scene angrily, Li Ya really has been in Daming for too long, so long that he is so unfamiliar with these faces, and he has no understanding of Daming's situation, so he judges at will, which is not based on faithfulness.
However, this kind of weapon is only owned by Daming, and it is not sold to the public.
Rui de sat alone in the corner with a gloomy expression, and it was evident that he knew very well that this mission would not go well, that he would not be able to achieve anything.
The envoy of France is a woman, a special envoy of Catherine, the Queen Mother of France, and Gillian Robert, a tall and thin woman, with a slight fierceness in her eyes, according to the contents of the credentials, this woman is the queen mother's close attendant, she looks a little indifferent, standing there quietly, not talking to others.
Zhu Yijun sat in the corner, no one noticed him, because the scene of the reception was really a little chaotic, from the difference in the banquet, you can also see the difference in the road, the Ming banquet is clear in priority, symbolizing autocracy, and Taixi's cocktail party is multi-headed, just like the Holy Roman Empire has seven electors.
Because a large amount of cheap labor was needed to open up the mines, the Ming Jingying captured so many prisoners of war in Suiyuan that the mines were completely digested, and even more was needed.
Lin Fucheng obviously understands that the implementation must compromise with reality, so Hou Yuzhao is really ruthless, perhaps, this is the common characteristic of Ming officials, what they say is better than what they sing, and what they do is more vicious than demons.
Li Yashi stopped, looked at Sauron and asked, "I translated, can His Highness understand?" Even if you can read it, can Your Highness accept it? If I can't understand it and refuse to accept it, why should I translate? β
"How much is enough?" Zhu Yijun's eyes lit up, there is a business to do, it couldn't be better!
This time the size of the envoys was unprecedentedly large, and there were a group of people, such as Sauron, the envoy from the Kingdom of Spain, Ferdinand, the eldest son of the Duke of Bavaria from the Holy Roman Empire, and Cardinal Lanuccio Farnese from the Holy See.
"What did Felipe II send you for? Buying a boat? Zhu Yijun asked curiously, it's good to buy a boat!
The other one is from the Northern League, the Utrecht League (Netherlands), a red-haired fan, whose name is Ain Mullen, who is very plainly dressed, has many furrows on his face, and has two scars, and looks like he has experienced a lot of battles, this surname is interesting, it means mill.
Spain was also the overlord of Ctesi, and the Habsburgs had great influence over Ctessy.
Zhu Yijun looked at Ferdinand, this is a very handsome man, with deep sunken eyes, a tall nose bridge, and hard lines.
The French woman, who looked a little indifferent, also expressed her opinion, thinking that freeing the slaves from the slave owners would do more harm to the Ming Dynasty than any benefit, if there were not enough personnel to manage, it would be better to let the slave owners manage the slaves, which would be more stable, and the use of people in the court to manage would definitely increase administrative costs, and the mutual harm at the bottom would be conducive to stability.
Sauron, the secretary of King Sibaja, was so disgusted by the disobedience and rebellion of the Netherlands that he drank alcohol and fired directly at the two Dutch envoys.
Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "It seems that the envoy doesn't know, I can farm, and I will farm in Baoqisi every year, this is the breeding of the family farming, Daming, I have also participated, I have cultivated many varieties of sweet potato seedlings, and now the pasture grass planted in Suiyuan also has seedlings cultivated by me myself." β
"It's incredible." Shahmamat added that in his opinion, the Ming Dynasty should vigorously promote, reincarnated as a human being, in fact, being a slave for life and life, this is the right way, in this way, the nobles will be nobles for life, just like the Mughal Kingdom.
"Da Ming is really too free!" Sauron drank a little wine and said loudly: "Just like the traitors in the Netherlands, they rebelled in the richest places, and the Ming Emperor actually did not suppress the rebels, but forgave them, it is really too merciful!" β
Today, it is the reception of the envoys of Taixi, and the arrival of the Ming Emperor is not invited and reserved, because this time the emperor really has the mentality of a happy person, to see the excitement, if the identity is exposed, there will be no excitement at all, although there is no invitation, but he still walked into the venue of the reception in a grand manner.
The drinking party slowly dispersed, Zhu Yijun stood up and said, "Gao Shaoqing, you go and call Sauron to Li Yashi's mansion, I will go now!" β
The envoys from England, France, and the Netherlands all came to Daming on Marcus's ship, so they naturally gathered together.
Zhu Yijun frowned and asked, "That's it?" This small business can be communicated directly with the household officials. β
Lin Fucheng's Songjiang School, Zhu Yijun agrees with the limited freedom, many of his views, even if they are naΓ―ve, but as long as someone puts them forward and discusses more, they can naturally make up for it.
"Is that so? It was my negligence. Sauron was slightly dumbfounded, only to know that there was such a story in it, he thought for a while and said, "What about the slavery in Jiading?" You are so protective of the Ming Dynasty, is this a failure of the New Deal? β
Enough extensive woolen wool and cotton cloth to dump on England, completely destroy its fledgling handicraft workshops, destroy the pillar industries of England, and then attack, was Xu Fan's bad idea to Felipe II through Sauron.
Li Yashi smiled, looked at Sauron and said with a sigh, "How do you know that I don't have a translator?" Actually, I translated it, but every time His Highness sent an envoy to the Ming Dynasty, after reading the Latin text, he felt that it was not in accordance with the doctrine and refused to bring it back, so he could only send it back to the Chinese version. β
All the masts, keels, and skeletons of the Dragon and Feiyun are made of all-steel, which is even more impossible to manufacture in terms of the quality and quantity of Taixi's steel.
"I can't." Sauron sighed heavily, looking helpless to the extreme, the young Ming Emperor spoke, he liked to reveal people's scars, which pot is not opened, he thought about it and explained: "Your Majesty, to imitate this kind of large ship, you need not only craftsmen, but also countless materials, as well as the industrial park that provides these materials, not with drawings, can be produced." β
"That guy shouldn't have sent the Chinese version back, it should have been translated." Sauron shook his head.
Zhu Yijun also learned after the opening of the sea that the biggest pain point in the shipbuilding industry is the return of funds, Yanxinglou ship tickets, which favorably solves the difficulty of slow return of funds.
"Damn, let me know that if Liya uses Latin to arrange me, he will die!"
"Do fast sailboats sell?" Sauron asked with a wink, he loved fast sailing too much!
Marcus was surrounded by England's envoy George Weymouth, who had already been there last time, and was a navigator, adventurer, and robber, and England, who had completed his round-the-world voyage, had officially joined the Age of Discovery, so he looked proud.
"It's ridiculous!"
As an emperor, it is really difficult for Zhu Yijun to understand the system of electing emperors and marquises, is the elected emperor really an emperor?
Scholars can't do without Hongyi, and there is a long way to go.
Emperor Daming angrily broke into Li Yashi's mansion, a small courtyard with two entrances and exits, he quickly read the Latin travelogue, and was convinced that the content of Li Yashi's Latin travelogue and Chinese is the same, and the Latin is more about his thinking about the Taixi feudal system.
"It's not as fast as it is planted, so it's better not to rob it."
"That cardinal should not arrange an audience, any conditions he puts forward cannot be accepted by our Daming." Zhu Yijun named the only religious figure present, Cardinal Ranucho, because this bishop came to Daming to represent the Holy See and seek the possibility of missionary work in Daming, and Zhu Yijun strictly forbade this.
"Li Yashi, you have been in Daming for too long." Sauron said helplessly: "You have forgotten that you are the envoy of His Royal Highness Felipe, and the travelogue sent back to Tessie, even written in Chinese, you don't even want to translate it." β
"Xuan."
The other small circle is centered on Antonio's first mate, now Captain Marcus.
Daming did not directly suppress the slaves in Sochi, but chose to appease, promise, open a porridge shed, set up personnel organization and management, and organize it into an engineer battalion, which is taken for granted in the eyes of Daming, because the more and more this truth, has been confirmed in the civil unrest in the orthodox thirteen years of Ye Zongliu and Deng Maoqi and the five provinces.
Zhu Yijun thought that there was a lot of business, but there was only so much in the end.
"Small business?" Sauron asked, dumbfounded.
(End of chapter)