The eldest grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty!

Faced with his wife's insistence, Li Jinglong had no choice but to agree in the end.

For so many years, Ding has never interfered with Li Jinglong's affairs, except this matter.

In fact, Li Jinglong is not unwilling to take his brother-in-law to the West, but he has just been appointed and is at the cusp of the crisis, so he wants to set an example first.

There are too many people staring at it, and almost every honored family has conveyed their intentions overtly and secretly. Anyone can imagine such a large scale and how much benefit it will produce.

It's fine if it's someone else, but now the grandson is in charge, and he has never seen a grandson doing business at a loss.

All the well-known chambers of commerce in Ming Dynasty have their bases in the capital.

When the big event of sailing to the west came out, those who were qualified immediately got together.

Nanjing Restaurant.

It's not so much a restaurant, but it's not just a place to eat and sleep.

It was newly built a year ago and opened in Hongwu at the beginning of 29. It is the largest in the entire capital and is located at the junction of the inner and outer cities.

When the restaurant was built, the mansions of many officials were involved, and they were directly demolished. Even if no one said anything about the background behind it, no one could guess it.

High consumption is not accessible to ordinary people at all.

The consumption of a meal may be the income of the people for several months or even the previous year.

The front yard is just for consumption, and the back yard has [-] rooms of various types. The cheapest one costs [-] guanbao notes for one night, and only members can book it.

To become a member, the first thing is to recharge Wanguan Baochao.

This threshold is enough to stop most people.

After spending this money, the ostentation is naturally not small.

In this backyard, there is a separate security department to maintain order and security, and the patrols are all yamen servants.

There are people serving at twelve hours, even if you wake up in the middle of the night and want to eat some pastries, there are people waiting to make them right away.

There was no gongs or drums when it opened, but on the day of opening, [-] rooms in the backyard were already scrambled to occupy.

You must know that the ten most expensive rooms here are all 880 eight-pass treasure bills per night.

That's it, the start is a monthly subscription, and there is no daily calculation at all.

That is to say, these ten wing rooms alone can bring in more than 300 million guanbao banknotes in income every year.

At first, when Zhu Yuanzhang heard the grandson talking about this number, he really couldn't speak for a long time.

"Let's just say that Dasun's big restaurant can earn 3000 to [-] million Guanbao notes a year?" Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't believe it.

Even though I was numb before, I still feel very shocked now.

Even if it's housing, it's no different from stealing money.

The eldest grandson can grab it directly and let him stay for one night.

Did our Daming really have so many people taken advantage of?

Zhu Yuanzhang feels that he has doubts about life now.

At that time, he racked his brains to increase income and reduce expenditure in order to collect tax revenue and save money in the national treasury. After working for more than 20 years, the previous revenue was only as high as a restaurant.

This made Zhu Yuanzhang feel very bad all of a sudden, his feelings were all for nothing before?

Zhu Ying explained: "You can't look at it this way. The economy is different now. After the sea trade started, these merchants who participated in the sea trade have earned a lot of wealth in a short period of time."

"All kinds of products of our Ming Dynasty are absolutely best-selling overseas. As long as they can be transported on board, there is no need to worry about not being sold, and because many goods are now produced on a large scale in factories, the cost is gradually increasing. lower, making profits bigger."

"Furthermore, after these merchants sell our Daming goods overseas, they can resell them for high profits. After all, they can sell as much as they want. It's not easy to control, it all depends on their own ability."

"Our Daming navy protects the safety of the waterway, and now the Japanese pirates have all disappeared. The safe waterway has brought greater prosperity to maritime trade. As long as they are involved in maritime trade, almost all have a very stable income."

"According to the report below, ordinary chambers of commerce can earn thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of silver every month, and those large chambers of commerce with their own merchant ships are even more outrageous. I heard that the largest merchant ships can earn 10 taels of silver per trip. "

"Not only Nanyang, but also more silver in Japan. Several uncles in Japan have at least three or four medium-sized silver mines in their hands. The silver processed every day is already comparable to our printing of precious banknotes."

Silver ore and gold ore deposits are the real hard currency in the world. After smelting and processing, they can be used directly.

The four vassal kings of the current Wa kingdom have become a symbol of divine pride.

And these large amounts of silver naturally flowed into the market economy of Ming Dynasty in a large amount in the end.

According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, precious banknotes are the current official currency, and private transactions of silver are illegal, so a large amount of silver is deposited in the royal bank and exchanged for precious banknotes.

The Department of Banknote Lifting is currently recruiting a large number of people. Due to the large amount of silver exchange, the Department of Banknote Lifting has been unable to keep up with the lying down, and can only continue to expand its scale.

The economy developed so fast that Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he was a little behind the times, so he was naturally very pleasantly surprised overall.

"We think we can open more restaurants like this."

"Not only in the capital, but also in various cities along the coast, restaurants similar to this can be opened, which is a lot of money."

Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously that he feels that Yu Daming is really like picking up money now, and he can get a lot of money if he does something afterwards.

After finishing speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang added: "Now our Ming Dynasty has more and more money and more people, but the number of peasant households is constantly decreasing."

"High-yielding crops can bring a lot of food, but there is an upper limit for the population that these food can carry. If there is any natural disaster, it may be a disaster for the people of Ming Dynasty."

"A few years ago, we issued a decree to change agriculture into mulberry in many areas. Nowadays, silk and cotton fields are selling well, and more and more people are unwilling to grow food. This is not a good phenomenon. In this regard, Dasun wants to Find a way to deal with it.”

"Otherwise, these prosperous scenes in front of us are like a mirror image that will be broken at the touch of a finger."

Zhu Yuanzhang instructed and said that he was well aware of how exaggerated the population growth of Daming is now. Some time ago, when he walked around the capital, he found that every household was raising children, and most of them had more than one or two.

The appearance of these Ming newborns means that it will not take long for the population to explode.

The weather is getting colder every year.

Under the cover of high-yield crops, the production of rice and wheat has been continuously decreasing, but this phenomenon is not obvious because high-yield crops are planted and harvested in large quantities.

Zhu Yuanzhang has always been very concerned about this area. He knows that food is the foundation of Ming Dynasty and the foundation of the country.

Catering to the development of commerce, the prices of silk and cotton are constantly rising. Planting ten mu of land is not as good as one mu of mulberry. People naturally prefer to plant mulberry fields rather than rice fields.

Zhu Yuanzhang realized that in the long run, there must be a big problem.

Zhu Ying said: "In fact, my grandson has already noticed this problem. More and more farmers have tried their best to get out of the village and stop doing the work of digging food in the soil."

"For this problem, it is difficult to effectively change the current development of Daming and Ming Dynasty, so the grandson can only find food from the outside world and solve the problem by population."

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent for a moment and asked, "How many people are there now?"

Zhu Ying hesitated for a moment: "Today, there are more than 200 million people in the statistics."

After Zhu Yuanzhang listened to it, he paused for a moment without speaking, and then sighed after a long time: "This is a temporary solution, not a permanent solution. In the long run, it must be a hidden danger, but now we can only do this."

Zhu Yuanzhang is very clear that there is still an illegal industry in the Ming Dynasty, which is not currently strictly restricted by the government, and even Dasun is secretly doing it.

The contradiction in the Ming Dynasty lies in the land economy, and food is the foundation of the country. No matter how much money there is, it cannot be used as food. If there is a natural disaster or famine, there will be big problems.

High-yield crops are good, but there is still no way to keep them under severe drought and flood.

Natural disasters are natural disasters, and nothing can grow.

Therefore, the country must have enough food reserves to deal with various crises.

The rapid growth of population means huge consumption.

Going against the laws of history, in an environment like the Little Ice Age, to stimulate population growth and seize the world market first.

For Zhu Ying, or for Daming, it is more of an opportunity than a challenge.

If it is not handled properly, then the current prosperity of Ming Dynasty is very likely to be a flash in the pan during Zhu Ying's rule, and it may not take too long for it to return to the previous track.

Of course, this is not the result Zhu Ying wanted.

Therefore, human trafficking began to prevail.

Overseas population has been continuously resold to Daming, which has even spawned a large number of manor owners.

The reason why it is called the manor owner rather than the landlord is because these lands are controlled by Zhu Ying and leased to those aristocratic families.

The source of income of these aristocratic families, in addition to sea trade, also involves the introduction of a large number of people.

Very early on, or when the Daming Mansion newspaper became popular, Zhu Ying was already laying the groundwork.

He used the capital's mansion newspaper and the word-of-mouth propaganda of merchants on the sea to continuously spread the prosperity of Ming Dynasty, thereby attracting a large number of overseas residents to migrate to Daming.

At the same time, a large amount of gold and silver was secretly allocated for the population transactions of some chambers of commerce.

These bought overseas residents are generally in good health. After they arrive in Daming, someone will bring them to the manor to plant various crops.

And they have not entered the Daming household registration, and even most of them have no possibility of entering the Daming household registration in this life.

Only those with some technical talents or great contributions can get the Daming household registration.

These are the more than 200 million people that Zhu Ying mentioned.

Using the historical name, it can even be called Kunlun slave.

In the Nanjing restaurant at this time, a large number of business leaders gathered together to discuss about joining the ranks of Ming Dynasty's voyage to the West.

It doesn't mean to be incorporated into the government's fleet, but to follow the government's fleet.

Even if you follow, you need to compete for qualifications, not just anyone.

"This voyage to the West must be the largest scale since ancient times. With my current navy in Ming Dynasty, I dare say that at least this number of treasure ships will travel."

The shopkeeper of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce stretched out his palm and said.

Suddenly someone exclaimed: "Five hundred treasure ships, this is too exaggerated, how many small countries can be destroyed by this, I am afraid that tens of thousands of soldiers will set off with them."

The situation overseas, apart from the Ming government, is best known to the maritime merchants.

Not to mention the five hundred treasure ships, there are fifty ships, which are absolutely top-notch existences in the South Seas and West Seas.

The five-hundred-thousand treasure ship is not enough to kill chickens with a sledgehammer, but it is completely anti-aircraft guns to kill mosquitoes.

The Four Seas Chamber of Commerce dared to use the Four Seas as its name, and the natural background and background were sufficient. Among other things, just being able to meet Uncle Zhang alone was already a status symbol.

Hearing such a certain number from the Universal Chamber of Commerce, everyone's eyes turned red.

"Five hundred treasure ships, how much cargo does it have to carry? They are going to be completely dumped in Nanyang and the West. I'm afraid there are hundreds of millions of treasures worth it."

"If we can get a little bit of it, that's... that's it."

The shopkeeper of the chamber of commerce couldn't help but make a sound.

It was just immediately suppressed by someone: "This time I'm going directly to the West Ocean, such a long distance, I have to go there by a big ship."

"And that is to say, this trip overseas for several years, even if there is no additional requirement for food, then the slaves in Kunlun"

"Presumptuous, how dare you talk nonsense!!!" The person in front hadn't finished speaking, and immediately a shopkeeper of a large chamber of commerce stood up and reprimanded him angrily.

The shopkeeper in front of him suddenly realized that he had made a slip of the tongue, and slapped his mouth again and again: "It's my nonsense, it's my nonsense."

The transaction of Kunlun slaves involves the slave trade, which is strictly prohibited in Ming Dynasty.

However, in the unspoken rules of maritime trade, if one wants to be eligible to follow the waterway of the Daming Navy, there are additional requirements for the introduction of food and population.

If it fails to meet the conditions, it will encounter various fines from the Customs Taxation Department.

But this matter cannot be said on the bright side. Although everyone knows who is behind the manipulation, if it is said from the mouth, it will be punished, and it will be punished.

In this area, as long as there are any rumors and rumors, the designated department will be subject to strict investigation by the Secretary of Public Security and Jin Yiwei, and often they will be investigated to the end.

Even if it is honorable, it will not get any benefit, because there are not a few people who have been dismissed or even sentenced to hard labor because of this matter.

The lessons learned from the past are there, who dares to discuss this matter.

Besides, where is this place? This is the Nanjing Grand Restaurant in the capital, and there are patrolling government servants everywhere, and a mistake in a word will cause a catastrophe.