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

Chapter 136 Open trade and plunder overseas
"No." Qin Yu said, "Businessmen are of great significance to the country."

"What's the point?" Zhu Yuanzhang, like a studious student, humbly asked Qin Yu for advice.

"Let's take a simple example." Qin Yu said, "If watermelons are planted in a large area in the north, because there are too many people planting them, tens of thousands of kilograms of watermelons are rotten in the ground and no one buys them. Therefore, that batch of watermelons will not be bought. The value is zero. Even negative, because rotten watermelons are not easy to deal with."

"That's when the merchant appeared."

"Businessmen transport watermelons to the hot south. If a catty of watermelons sells for one or two silvers, I mean that if the price details don't have to fight with me, tens of thousands of catties of watermelons can be sold for tens of thousands of silvers."

"At this time, the value of the merchants is fully reflected. Through their business activities, the original worthless things have been converted into the social value of tens of thousands of taels of silver."

"It makes sense!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded after hearing this.

"Not bad." Queen Ma said.

The example Qin Yu gave is simple and easy to understand, as long as you are not a fool, you can understand it.

Zhu Yuanzhang was secretly surprised when he heard it: Someone should be able to come up with such a simple truth.But why did the people of all dynasties not understand it?It is strange that even the saints do not understand.

In ancient times, no one paid much attention to commerce. In the Qing Dynasty, there were emperors who closed the country.

"The truth Mr. Qin said is so simple, but the emperors of all dynasties did not see the importance of businessmen. Could it be that the ancient emperors were all stupid? Shengming is like Tang Taizong, and Han Wudi is like this?" Zhu Yuanzhang still couldn't hold back and asked. road.

"This question... I haven't thought about it." Qin Yu thought for a while, and said, "Probably because..."

"So it is." Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly realized.

"So it is." Queen Ma said.

"Simply put, merchants play the role of resource allocation in society, which can maximize the utilization of social resources and maximize value." Qin Yudao, "Business activities can make the best use of everything produced by society. If the things produced cannot be used rationally, production means no production, but a waste of social resources.”

"For example, there is too much grain produced in a certain place, and it cannot be transferred to other places for use. If it rots in the barn, it means that the land does not produce so much grain."

"Let's compare a society to the outside world. Farmers are a bit like those plant producers, and the managers who don't produce are consumers, so businessmen are a bit like decomposers."

"Decomposers constantly reflect their own decomposition in the ecosystem, gradually decomposing complex organic substances into inorganic substances that plants can absorb."

"The decomposer is the bridge between the producer and the consumer, and the merchant is also the bridge between the people and the management. The decomposing enzyme is the same thing - money."

Neither of them understood Qin Yu's last metaphor.
All eyes widened: It's too profound!
Although they didn't understand it, they still understood the importance of merchants.

Businessmen, in fact, do not make any contribution to society as they imagined before.

"It seems that it was wrong to emphasize agriculture and suppress business in the past dynasties." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"You only know now." Qin Yu said, "It seems that your level of ancient history is not very good." He thought that the backwardness of Lujia Village led to his backwardness of cognition. If anyone outside, he knew that the ancient times were heavy agriculture and suppressed agriculture. quotient is incorrect.

"I'm not talented, I have to ask Mr. Qin for more advice in the future." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"I don't dare to ask for advice, everyone is just talking and playing, to pass the boring time." Qin Yu said.

"Just now we talked about expanding overseas markets..." Zhu Yuanzhang reminded.

"Yes, in ancient times, expanding overseas markets can greatly alleviate the problem of overpopulation and food shortage." Qin Yudao, "Let merchants buy food from abroad and sell silk, porcelain and other products, so that the society will be revitalized. Not only has it increased life and cultural exchanges with other countries in the world, but also imported high-yield sweet potatoes from Luzon Island.”

"Sweet potato is a high-yield and nutritious crop. With this, people are not afraid of running out of food."

"The feudal dynasties that were closed to the country were a pool of stagnant water. Sooner or later, the stagnant waters would become moldy and smelly. But the dynasties that opened up trade were living waters, allowing clear springs to flow in and stale water to flow out."

"Obviously, only living water can support living fish."

"Mr. Qin is so right!" Zhu Yuanzhang said, "It is not simple to be able to explain all historical issues in such an easy-to-understand manner."

"This should be the so-called Dao to Simplify. Mr. Qin has already done it." Queen Ma sighed, "Although the Dao is Simplified, some people just don't understand it."

"However, there are downsides to the simplicity of the road." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"What's wrong?" Queen Ma asked strangely.

"That's why you can't scare those people who are half a bucket of water. Let them understand at once. They will subconsciously think that it is so simple. I also understand that Mr. Qin is actually nothing special." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"What are you doing with these second-hand goods?" Queen Ma said.

"Since ancient times, there are many people who think they are right." Qin Yu said lightly, "They only take things that sound very high and even they don't understand, but they don't actually make much sense."

"In addition, it takes a long time for open trade to take effect, which is a bit soothing." Qin Yudao, "There is a faster and more direct way than open trade."

"I want to know a faster and more direct way." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"That is to plunder overseas wealth." Qin Yu said, "Didn't I draw you a world map last time? You should see that the world is very big. Huaxia only accounts for less than one-tenth of the world, and the rest Nine-tenths of the land of China... Hehe, that contains extremely rich resources. If the ancient dynasties of China can plunder a lot of resources from overseas and come back..."

"You can get rich in an instant."

"Don't talk about feeding the population that was soaring at that time, even if it increases tenfold, it will be enough to feed."

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up when he heard it, and we like to do things like robbing things the most.As the founding monarch, basically everyone was a 'Wu Di', not a 'Renzong'.

"Overseas land contains rich gold mines, silver mines, iron mines, and copper mines; overseas countries have pearls, agates, and corals; and oil and natural gas..."

"Transport all these precious metals and important resources to the Central Plains Dynasty, and store them all. The stock accounts for more than 90.00% of the world's total, leaving only a little bit for them."

"Once you have all the wealth in the world, you can use it to buy food from neighboring countries and around the world."

(End of this chapter)