Daming Zhu Di: Father, why aren't you dead? !

Chapter 55 The Last Practical Observation Class: Died in Chongzhen

financial? !
Everyone looked at the two characters on the rice paper and fell into deep thought for an instant.

For the position of emperor, the quality and skill requirements are actually very simple.

From the beginning to the end, there is only one knowledge, that is the Emperor Art, and the survival skills practiced from birth to death are also very single, that is the way of controlling people.

Because in the eyes of the emperor, he doesn't need to understand the business below, he just needs to be able to employ people.

But in fact, if the essence of the matter cannot be found out, it is very easy to be fooled. As the highest decision-maker of this country, one carelessness will drive the giant ship of the country into the abyss.

"Old Zhu, let me ask you."

"What is the core point of the patriarchal nobility system that I talked about with you yesterday?"

Ji Boying looked at Lao Zhu, and spoke in a poignant manner.

"The core is money!"

Old Zhu just opened his mouth to answer, but little Zhu Si has already answered successfully.

"very good."

Having received the affirmation from the immortal master, before little Zhu could be complacent, Old Zhu's fierce light flashed, making him tremble with fear.

Dare to steal Dad's limelight? !
Afterwards, Ji Boying looked at old Zhu Di.

"Bingyi."

Old Zhu Di paused for a moment before realizing that "Bingyi" refers to himself.

"Why did all the ministers object to your third Northern Expedition?"

Old Zhu Di tilted his head and glanced at Fatty Yongle.

"No money."

Fatty Yongle shrank his neck, pretending he didn't know anything.

"Ding Yi."

Then Ji Boying looked at Fatty Hong Xi.

"Hey, Ding Yi is here."

Fatty Hong Xi is obviously very up-to-date, and has gradually accepted his student number.

"You said that the people's hearts were lost, why did the people's hearts lose?"

"It's because there's not enough to eat, and because the people don't have enough to live on. All of this stems from the imperial court's taxation and exploitation. Regardless of the factor of corrupt officials, why did the imperial court increase the tax?"

Hongxi Xiaozhu (Zhu Zhanji) next to him spoke in response.

"No money."

Expansion of territory requires money, development of people's livelihood requires money, prosperity and ceremonies require money, as big as the operation of a dynasty, as small as three meals a day for the grassroots, all of which are inseparable from "money".

"A penny is hard for a hero, and it is the same for a dynasty."

"The Ming Dynasty died in Chongzhen. Although there were many reasons for the country's death, one of the core reasons was that the court had no money and was in deficit."

There are many rumors about Chongzhen's small treasury in later generations. This kind of compilation of unofficial history is as good as it is, and it is not credible.

How could a mad critic who had changed seventeen chief assistants in 17 years and was able to chop off his wife and children before he died, how could he wait to die in a small treasury.

There are two versions of this vault.

One is to say that this small treasury is made up for the sake of black Chongzhen, and there is no such thing at all.

The other is that the treasury was buried under the Forbidden City by Wanli, and even Chongzhen himself did not know that there was such a small treasury in the Forbidden City.

'Dead in Chongzhen. '

These four words fell into the ears of everyone, no less than a thunderclap.

The incumbent emperors such as Lao Zhu and Lao Zhu Di were all furious when they heard it, and they wished to fly to the Chongzhen Dynasty immediately.

Ji Boying stood on the three-foot podium, with his hands behind his back, and changed his body, looking quite like a fairy.

He naturally saw everyone's expressions.

Only when you become a teacher can you know how self-deceiving the students' small actions under the podium are.

"No need to be angry, at least not now."

"The last lesson of the practical observation class is to go to the Chongzhen Dynasty. If you have anything you want to say or do, you can discuss it with Emperor Chongzhen himself."

Hearing this, Old Zhu snorted, and slapped the armrest of the Grand Master's chair with a slap.

"When we go to the Chongzhen Dynasty, we will definitely whip seven or eight hundred whips on this unworthy descendant who has subjugated the country."

"Yes, whip him!"

"The emperor is right!"

"........."

Although other people are also eager to fight, but with Lao Zhu around, the execution of the family law will naturally be up to the old ancestor.

"Okay, be quiet."

Ji Boying spoke lightly.

"Listen carefully and continue to return to our topic."

"There are many reasons for the downfall of a dynasty in the final analysis."

"Qin, Han, Jin, Tang, Song."

"But no matter what the trigger for the final collapse of these unified dynasties is, one of the main factors is absolutely unavoidable, and that is the national financial collapse at the end of the dynasty."

"As the saying goes, prosperity comes from the prosperity of wealth, and death comes from the decline of wealth."

Ji Boying swept across the crowd.

"Let me ask you, why is Qin strong and why is it defeated?"

After a moment of silence, Zhu Biao spoke first.

"Qin prospered under the laws of Shang Jun, and died under harsh government and hard labor."

The other emperors and princes nodded in agreement with this answer, not only because of Zhu Biao's identity as the second child of Hongwu, but also because the answer was correct, because that's what was taught in the books.

Ji Boying pressed his hand and signaled Zhu Biao to sit down.

"Too superficial."

"The core of the so-called Shangjun reform lies in three points."

"[-]. Expand the tax base, use the private ownership of land of 'abandon well fields, open rice paddies' to stimulate people's enthusiasm for farming and increase food production;"

[-]. Crack down on the nobles, quickly disintegrate the old nobles with the military rank system, directly collect taxes from the people, and prevent the taxes from being intercepted by the nobles. This is the most important reason for the success of Shang Yang's reform;

[-]. Implementing state-run policies, the state controls the sale and purchase of natural resources and materials to earn high profits.

After such reforms, taxes were continuously sent to the treasury, and Qin's financial revenue increased twenty-fold in ten years, and Qin had the capital to launch a large-scale war. "

After finishing speaking, Ji Boying glanced at Lao Zhu and the others, and their eyes lit up. Even Xuande and Zhu Zhanji became energetic. They had never heard such a deep analysis of the Qin Dynasty from a financial point of view.

"And Qin's defeat."

"Qin destroyed the six kingdoms with a financial strategy of supporting war with war. Every large-scale military strike was invested with all the country's financial resources. By taxing the occupied areas and plundering government wealth, the empire's financial balance was maintained and the army's logistics was guaranteed."

"And after destroying the six kingdoms, they successively mobilized 50 troops, took five years to pacify South Vietnam, and then used 30 troops to expel the Huns to the north and pay Hetao."

"Here comes the problem."

problem?

The emperors all frowned, what's the problem?
Regarding Qin Huang's martial arts strategy, even the old Zhu Di, a generation of heroes who doubled the territory for the Ming Dynasty, would be ashamed of themselves.

"South Vietnam and Hetao are different from the richness of the six countries. The population and land that can be used to pay taxes are too small. They can't make up for the war expenditure at all, and they can't guarantee the financial balance. Coupled with the short-term increase in the number of domestic bureaucrats after the unification of the world and the hard labor of millions of laborers, the finances began to become unbalanced. Once unbalanced, they naturally embarked on the road of tax increases. The agricultural tax alone quickly increased to a terrifying [-]%. Seriously, the empire collapsed in the end."

The underlying logic is actually quite simple.

This is like a company that is expanding rapidly. It seems to make a lot of money, but in fact the money it earns is spent by changing hands. Suddenly, the chain of funds breaks, and the only thing left is to go to the bank for a loan.

Lao Zhu and the others were terrified when they heard this.

Ji Boying looked at the surprised expressions of the emperors and princes, and the corner of his mouth slightly raised.

"so."

"What I want to teach you in this lesson is only two words."

He raised his hand to pick up the pen that Lianxiang presented, and wrote two more words after the word "financial".

"Make money".

As soon as the word came out, the eyes of the emperors lit up.

It's not just ordinary people who like money, the emperor likes it even more.

As far as Lao Zhu is concerned, only with money can the country's strength be quickly restored.

For Zhu Di, only with money can he continue the Northern Expedition and completely kill the Mongolian Tartars.

As for Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji, only with money can the country be stabilized and the people's livelihood pushed to its peak.

"Brother."

"There is one thing we don't understand."

Lao Zhu frowned, interrupting Ji Boying in a rare way.

"You said."

Ji Boying looked at Lao Zhu.

"It's easy for us to make money. We just need to print more money. Money is just paper. It's not up to us how much to print."

　Brothers, I saw your complaints.

　　Sigh, it can’t be like this, think about it, the great gods have to lay out dozens of sheets and tens of thousands of words to write a mosquito-swatting plot. We are much more honest than him, and this is not water. The main line of our book is to advance step by step. I understand the eagerness of my brothers, but writing a book has to be done step by step. You don’t want the lines of this book to be messy.

　　I read books and drink tea every day, and I am not in a hurry, my brothers will have everything they want to read.

　　What's more, we have never updated one, we have at least two updates, and we will explode after it is put on the shelves!
　　Brothers, don't abandon the book. When I saw these two words, my glass heart burst into tears.

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(End of this chapter)