After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 135 The Importance of Merchants

When the soldiers have nothing to do, they will drink and make trouble.Fish and meat villagers harm the common people, and these people are old subordinates who follow the general to death. The punishment of the general should not be too severe, otherwise the soldiers in the future will not be easy to lead.

People follow you to fight in the north and south, and make a mistake and kill them?
Throughout the ages, generals have generally regarded soldiers as brothers.

But Hua Yunlong was different. After he conquered Goryeo, he garrisoned in Goryeo, and the Emperor Tiangao was far away.Although he is only a duke of the country, he is actually equivalent to the king of Koryo who dominates.

Moreover, the soldiers under his command married Korean women and had children, and all of them got a good home.

Soldiers will also be grateful to their general Hua Yunlong.

This is also the best way to place soldiers who follow them through life and death.

Therefore, as a general, everyone envies Hua Yunlong.

As soon as the civil servants heard the words, they stopped talking.

I felt that the emperor's move was a little too hasty.

If you want to start a war again to expand the territory, you must at least let the country recuperate for a period of time.Although Hua Yunlong didn't spend much money on this external expedition, it still cost a lot of money after all.

Moreover, the Liaoyang area has been exempted from taxes for three years. Where will the vacancies be filled?
And now it is necessary to exempt taxes from other places. If things go on like this, there will be problems with the national treasury.

Many parts of the country are still under construction and are not very rich.

To put it simply, the minister of civil and military affairs felt that the emperor was a little floating.

However, the emperor was on the rise, and Hua Yunlong had just won the Goryeo victory, and the ministers did not dare to object.

On the other hand, Zhu Yuanzhang had his own ideas. There was no battle between the military generals in the DPRK and the soldiers under them.Doing nothing every day, relying on the court to support and idle in the military camp, it is better to let them go to war as soon as possible.

Just like Hua Yunlong, he placed arrogant soldiers in the newly developed territory of Daming.

"Your Majesty, the ministers still have something to report." At this time, Li Shan said: "After hearing the treatment of the people in the Liaoyang area, the people are very envious, and they also want to start wars in their own areas."

"The people of our country have almost become a fighting nation."

"The folks are fond of martial arts, and many young people want to learn martial arts well and expand their territory for the country. After all, once they reach a country, they can marry foreign wives, and they can also get more fields than domestic ones."

"There are even a lot of people in Dadu trying to do everything possible to migrate to Liaoyang." Hu Weiyong said, "Some people migrate to the southwest, and some migrate to Liaoyang. Over time, the people in the Central Plains and the South have decreased on a large scale. , is not conducive to the development of these two places.”

"This is probably some... small drawbacks of His Majesty's strategy." Liu Bowen said.

"The migration of the people is of their own free will." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Officials in the Central Plains and the South can only find their own way. If the conditions you provide are good, the people will naturally not migrate."

His thinking at this time is that you are afraid that all the people will move out, so please let us implement the practice of stalling into the mu in the south, and the gentry will work as one to pay for the grain.

However, when the ministers heard the words, there was only a moment of silence.

After all, if these two new policies are to be implemented, their interests will suffer the most.However, if it is not implemented, the people will all migrate away, and their land may not even be employed by the tenant farmers.

There are no people for them to exploit, and no matter how much land they have, they can only be left uncultivated, and they can't farm by themselves.

With fewer people, they had to raise the wages of the tenant farmers, and sometimes they could not even recruit people.

The status of the tenant farmers continued to improve.

"Okay, retreat." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

Those officials who do not take the initiative to ask themselves to implement the New Deal will prove that the time has not come.

Zhu Yuanzhang reviewed the past.Since the discovery of Qin Yu, a peerless talent, Daming has ushered in a new situation.Internally, the bandit troubles were pacified, the new policy was implemented in terms of production, the gentry worked as a messenger in the tax system, and the cultural renaissance was implemented.

Externally, they conquered Goryeo, expanded the territory of Ming Dynasty, and then occupied Qiongzhou, Beigang, and Tubo.

It can be said that the earth-shaking changes have taken place.

And all the changes were brought by Qin Yu to Daming.

The basis for implementing these policies is money, and the large amount of money in the treasury is also earned through Qin Yu's strategy.And now the silver in the treasury is obviously not enough, and the leeks of those rich merchants can't be cut all the time.

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Lujia Village.

"Mr. Qin." On this day, Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma came again to discuss the issue with Qin Yu: "Mr. Qin, remember what you said last time, the dynasty is going to decline. With the passage of time and the increase of the population, the food produced by the land will be reduced. Limited, can't feed so many people?"

"Not bad." Qin Yu said, shaking his folding fan.

"Then how to solve this problem?" Queen Ma asked.

"At the level of ancient times, it is unrealistic to greatly increase the yield of food crops. For example, high-yield hybrid rice cannot be cultivated. Once hybrid rice is cultivated, and sweet potatoes are introduced from overseas, people can It's not a problem to have enough to eat." Qin Yu said, "However, at the level of ancient times, it is feasible to vigorously develop overseas markets."

"Explore overseas markets?" Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised.

"It is to vigorously develop the commercial economy and do business with overseas." Qin Yu said, "In ancient times, most people emphasized agriculture and suppressed business. This is the most wrong idea."

Worst idea?Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma fell silent.

"Huaxia has been a farming economy since ancient times, which led people to think that merchants do not produce grain but just buy and sell it, which has no real effect on society. Those thinkers in ancient times, such as Confucius, Mencius, Shang Yang and others also thought so, and they were influenced by these 'sages'. 'The influence of thought, almost all ancient emperors, felt that merchants were useless to the state."

"Not bad." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded secretly after hearing this.

Qin Yu's remarks fully explained the reasons why the ancients emphasized agriculture and suppressed business.

"Moreover, businessmen, through reasonable management, often get much more income than farming themselves. Many people feel unbalanced in their hearts, thinking that businessmen do not produce grain, but instead earn more than farmers who produce grain, which is unreasonable at all. Therefore, the ancient ruling class often attacked merchants. It is said that scholars, peasants, industry and commerce, merchants are the lowest, and merchants are all cunning villains who buy low and sell high."

"Isn't that so?" Queen Ma asked. "What is the benefit to the country if the businessman is not involved in production?"

Both of them, like all the ancients, were loyal supporters of the theory of merchant futility.Therefore, in history, Zhu Yuanzhang would only ban the sea later, and only then would Shen Wansan's house be searched.

(End of this chapter)