"Oh, this is the junior brother's, I didn't make things clear. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoMexico is a large overseas country that is rich in silver. Li Yingyuan drew a rough map of the world on the ground, and then pointed it out to Xie Xun.

"In this world, silver is abundant from Mexico, and then it first flows into the Taixi countries by sea, and then from the Taixi countries, and then through the Nanyang countries, into my Daming.

Therefore, once the production of silver in Mexico is reduced, it will lead to the loss of silver stocks in the Taixi countries, and eventually lead to a serious reduction in the amount of silver flowing into our Ming Dynasty, which is manifested in a serious shortage of silver money and the phenomenon of high silver prices.

Originally, this was nothing, but my Ming Dynasty collected taxes in silver, and the price of silver doubled, which is actually equivalent to doubling the tax revenue, which naturally greatly increased the burden on taxpayers.

The most terrible thing is that this silver shortage resonates with the cold climate. Originally, the climate was cold and agriculture was damaged, but if the tax burden was not reduced, the burden on the people would be doubled; at the same time, if there was a shortage of silver, the burden on the people would be doubled, that is to say, it would reach four times the original burden, and the peasants in the northwest frequently rebelled. ”

Li Yingyuan tried his best to explain in detail, but Xie Xun still couldn't understand it, staring at the map on the ground, looking unclear.

"However, I remember that my Ming Dynasty produces silver, how can it be transported from tens of thousands of miles away, thousands of miles away, according to what you said?" Xie Xun asked.

"Oh, that's the most common delusion. We have always said that there is nothing that we don't have, but this is just an illusion.

Speaking of this silver alone, the output of my own silver mine is actually not much, and the annual output is only a few hundred thousand taels. And our annual trade volume of the entire Ming Dynasty is at least hundreds of millions of taels, and these hundreds of thousands of taels are not enough for daily consumption.

Therefore, we in the Ming Dynasty must rely on imported silver to maintain normal trade. I have read some books in the Kingdom of Taixi, and they estimate that my Ming Dynasty imports about 5 million taels of silver from Nanyang and Japan every year, which is the biggest way for me to obtain silver.

Once such a silver input is suddenly interrupted, it will lead to a shortage of silver money and various problems. Li Yingyuan explained.

Xie Xun rubbed his temples, feeling that he seemed to have fallen into some kind of huge scam, but he couldn't see where the deception point of this scam was, which was also the first time in his decades of career in the world.

"Well, let's talk about the military, I think I can understand that. Xie Xun thought for a while and said.

"The military problem is actually very simple, which is to abolish the military household system and replace it with a military system similar to that of England.

There are too many problems with the current military household system, and the simplest thing is that soldiers must be soldiers for generations, and they are not allowed to make other livelihoods, and they are also linked to the land and cannot leave their own land.

There are many disadvantages of this, and the simplest is the rigidity of the inner class. For example, if there is a hundred households with meritorious service who want to improve, but they can't be promoted.

Because he has changed from 100 households to 1,000 households, then what should be done with the land of the original 1,000 households, and if the land is rewarded to these 100 households, it will infringe on the private property rights of the original 1,000 households; if the land is not rewarded to 100 households, then a thousand households will only listen to the words of the original 1,000 households, and will not follow the new 1,000 households.

Civilian officials can still move up and down, but it is dozens of times more difficult for officers in the army to be promoted up and down than civilian officials, and in the long run, meritorious service cannot be rewarded, and the entire army does not have the slightest enterprising spirit.

I think I'm a big Ming, those local big families can quickly surpass the army composed of generations of military families by recruiting some strong men for training, which is already very revealing. Therefore, it is necessary to reform from the military household system to the military system within the army.

Even if you learn from General Qi in the past, it is much better to directly recruit workers to form a new army than to use military households now. ”

"In other words, do you think the entire military system of the Ming Dynasty should be reformed?" Xie Xun finally understood.

"The military system of the Ming Dynasty must be reformed. Of course, it is best to change all walks of life in the Ming Dynasty, from the imperial examination system to the salt industry, the iron industry, the military household, etc., there are too many places that need to be changed.

In the final analysis, the biggest problem is that the entire imperial court is in the wrong direction.

In my view, the direction of the imperial court is to earn more money, that is, to obtain more resources, to make the people richer, and to make the army stronger;

But my Ming Dynasty's direction of governance is how to make it easier for the court to control the world, how to make the rulers more comfortable, and for this reason, he does not hesitate to let the people not make money, and he does not hesitate to make the people hungry, which can be said to be the opposite of the north.

Originally, I planned to write a 100,000-word general outline of governance, and then write a general outline of reform of more than 100,000 words in all walks of life according to the 360 lines under heaven. It's just that time is pressing, so it's just a matter of writing a simple article about Ping Yingce first. Senior brother, what do you think of what I said?" asked Li Yingyuan.

"I think... I was speechless. Senior brother, I want to write a huge book of 36 million words, and I can't find any reason to oppose it.

By the way, ask more, do you think of all these strange things yourself?" Xie Xun didn't know how to express his feelings, and finally asked.

"What is weird, most of this is what I came up with after reading through the books of Daming and Tessie. Of course, many of them are chatted with some scholars of the English army, and they have a lot of unique insights into my current problems, which are very worth discussing.

Especially the Dr. Shepud, who I worked with, was a top student at Cambridge and a Ph.D., and he read a lot of books and could read a lot of questions very clearly. ”

"Cambridge's, how is the swordsmanship?"

"Cambridge is the name of a school in England, which is equivalent to my Ming Dynasty's Guozijian, and he himself doesn't know much swordsmanship. ”

"Well... But, junior brother, are you really okay as a flat-headed ordinary person thinking about these big things in the world all day long?"

"Senior brother, don't forget the saying that the people of the world are responsible. What's more, I am still a Ming Jinyi Guard, and Song Guerrilla also promised to be a hundred households when he went back.

Baihu is in charge of more than a hundred people, at least he is also a lieutenant or captain. As an officer above the rank of lieutenant, it's normal for me to think about this, right?"

"I think Jinyi Wei Baihu should still think about how to blackmail the ordinary people, drink and play money to take concubines, so that it is more normal. After Xie Xun finished speaking, Li Yingyuan didn't know how to answer.

"This, senior brother, what kind of people do you usually come into contact with, how can you have such a big prejudice against my Ming officer?" Li Yingyuan asked cautiously.

"I'd like to ask you, junior brother, what Jinyi Guard officers do you usually come into contact with, and you would have such optimistic thoughts?" Xie Xun asked.

"Oh, it's just Hai Dagui alone. I don't think this person has any ability, he doesn't know anything, and his luck is even worse, but it's not as unbearable as my senior brother said.

You see that his family is so poor, how does it look like the kind of fish and meat in the country that his senior brother said?" Li Yingyuan said.

"This, well, I admit that I met two strange people in the Daming brocade guard. Xie Xun shook his head, as if he had encountered something incredible.

Hai Dagui was recruited by the Song guerrilla as a Jinyi guard at the beginning, and he felt that he had become an official at the beginning, and he was very happy.

When I returned to Dinghai, I remembered that this was the world of Fusang people, and I was inextricably linked with the Japanese Kou, so I was scared into a cold sweat, and I never dared to mention to others that I had anything to do with Jinyiwei, and even my wife and children were hidden.

It's just that with Hai Dagui's experience, he doesn't understand that if he wants to show his chariot and horse and show his identity as a small banner of Jinyiwei, those Fusang people may not be embarrassed by him, but will focus on him.