First Prince of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 419
It's just that no matter how difficult things are, they have to be done one by one. As more and more officials are transferred by the court to fill the vacancies, Zhu Biao's work becomes more and more comfortable, and the young and strong victims also start to replace them with work. endowed.

After finding out that they could eat more food and get copper coins at the end of the month, their enthusiasm for work became more prominent, and they worked hard to build water conservancy and canals and other hard work.

Quan Xu had already returned to Jinyiwei Base with 10 taels of silver and those suitable orphans. Zhu Biaoben planned to return to Beijing when he was almost done. After all, his father, queen, mother, and wife had sent letters to urge him.

It's just that he can't get out of his birth, and too many things have not been settled. Zhu Biao can't bear the suffering of the people in Shaanxi and Gansu. He stayed in Pingliang Prefecture for more than a month.

Seeing the transition from summer to autumn, and the heavy rain in Shaanxi and Gansu for two consecutive days, Zhu Biao was finally ready to leave for Beijing, accompanied by only half of the government's military guards and soldiers dispatched by Cao Liangchen.

The chiefs of the guards in several major state capitals were wiped out, so Zhu Biao naturally arranged for his confidants to fill them in. Tang Shizhong and others were naturally perfect. After all, it was the personal guards of the Zhu family who could be trusted.

What's more, these state capitals are located on the main road of the Silk Road, and the current shipping risk is too high. It is still necessary to connect Central Asia and India by restarting the Silk Road on the road.

The Silk Road began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. It was not until the Northern Song Dynasty that the actual territory was greatly reduced. The imperial court failed to control the Hexi Corridor. In the Southern Song Dynasty, it was even more unable to set foot in the Northwest China. The decline of the Silk Road became increasingly obvious.

However, during the Mongol and Yuan Dynasties, Mongolia launched three expeditions to the west and south, which greatly expanded its territory. Together with the establishment of post roads and the restoration of the Eurasian transportation network, the long-distance trafficking of international merchants in the vast area of ​​Eurasia flourished again.

In the early years, Zhu Biao consulted the records of the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, there were European merchants, merchants from West Asia and Central Asia, and Chinese Semu merchants who were engaged in caravan trade on the long east-west land road. The undisputed status of the center of trade.

Merchants from Europe, Central and West Asia generally brought a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, medicine, exotic animals, spices, bamboo cloth and other commodities to China or sold them along the way. What they bought were mainly Chinese satin, embroidery, gold Brocade, silk, tea, porcelain, medicinal materials and other commodities.

Until the end of the Yuan Dynasty, wars raged. At the same time, there were frequent riots in the Western Regions, Central Asia and other places, and business was hit hard. Therefore, in recent years, there have been very few caravans, and Lao Zhu doesn’t pay much attention to these things. It can even be said that he rejects everything. alien race.

But Zhu Biao knows that it is not enough to blindly close the country, and the benefits of economic prosperity to the country are self-evident. Counting the time, Italy has already begun the Renaissance. What is the Renaissance? Feudal New Culture Movement.

Time does not wait, the savages of the Han and Tang Dynasties are now starting to move forward, and the Ming Dynasty cannot lag behind, and now more than half of the four years of Hongwu have passed, Zhu Biao has been steady in the past four years, and the results are now outstanding.

Northern Mongolia is now in civil strife and fragmented, with Li Wenzhong and Chang Yuchun disrupting the situation, at least for a few years they have no intention of going south to commit crimes.

The Western imperial court adopted a policy of multi-feudal and multi-establishment to suppress the Pazhu regime, so that it could not fully integrate the political and religious forces of Uzbekistan. Under internal and external troubles, they could only live in peace and stability. There is too much poverty and the plateau climate. , Daming really doesn't need to attack, the loss outweighs the gain.

The same is true for Yunnan and Guizhou in the south. Unlike the rich and prosperous Bashu, it now consumes a lot of resources and still needs to be governed. So that Daming needn't be in a hurry.

The Japanese pirates on the eastern coast are also going well. Last time I received news from Tang Ding that they had created a great reputation in the East China Sea, and they also recruited many Japanese wanderers, and they are going to plunder Iyo Island in Japan... …

Since the recovery of the land of abundance in Bashu, the last piece of the puzzle for the development of the Ming Dynasty has been assembled. Four years after the founding of the country, people's livelihood in Jiangnan and other places has been restored, Suzhou, Hangzhou and Yangzhou have returned to the appearance of paradise on earth, and the economy has developed rapidly.

After returning to Beijing, Zhu Biao will also start to promote economic development. As his direct descendant, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River will naturally have to bear more. After this trip, Zhu Biao has discovered that there is no need to worry about capital getting out of control.

Because of the different national conditions, China has been an official position since ancient times, or the perception of assets is different from other countries. Being rich in China never means a noble status, it can only mean that you are a fat sheep.

In Rome and Athens, if you can pay enough taxes, you are a noble citizen and have all the rights, but in China, if you pay enough taxes, you are still a merchant and lowly businessman, with strict restrictions on food, drink and clothing.

Fan Li restored the country and exterminated Wu for King Goujian of Yue, and then resigned from office to start a business after becoming famous. Although many businessmen are now regarded as the ancestors, because of his status as a merchant, his historical achievements are almost ignored by official history.

Another example is Lu Buwei. Although he is rich as an enemy, he still has to invest in Qin's proton to win other people to enter the circle of nobles.

Since ancient times, China has never lacked wealthy merchants, but they have never been the protagonists of history, not even supporting roles, and their waists cannot stand up.

Therefore, the pursuit of merchants after becoming rich is not to seek more wealth, but to complete the class transformation, from merchants to gentry, from gentry to officials. The Jiangnan gentry is an obvious example. They are rich in the world, but they are still willing to disperse He spent all his wealth and worshiped under the gate of the East Palace.

Coupled with Zhu Biao's understanding of future generations, capitalism is impossible to prevail in China, which does not conform to the national conditions. This is a unified dynasty, accustomed to the central leadership of the local government, and the imperial court occupies the best part of all walks of life. Agriculture and business are just a part of him.

What's more, Zhu Biao will not let them be unscrupulous, and will not let them intervene in industries that can be related to the lifeline of the country. The salt and iron gunboats will be managed by a special department of the imperial court, and merchants are not allowed to intervene. They can get rich, but they Can't hold power.

Silk, tea, porcelain, medicinal materials, jade, brocade, etc. It doesn't matter. Of course, if you have the ability to occupy territories other than Ming Dynasty, you can do whatever you want. However, developing a country is not so easy.

In the future, with the opening of the era of great voyages, the imperial court will inevitably bite off the fattest few bites to ensure the necessary resources for future development, and the rest will be dedicated to the hunting grounds for ambitious people. Wouldn't it be fun to be king in Xinjiang?
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